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homosexuality has existed as long as people have existed, its in some points in history where men took to young boys and many many other things where men have been with men. women being with women has not ceased nor will it cease in the human spectrum.
It's likely we all have someone within the family spectrum who is homosexual, that's just what exist in life.
My comment as to homosexuality was very clear:
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We now have a society who sensationalize every person within the media of entertainment of every sort who proclaims their broadcasting of choosing homosexuality and attacking anyone who does not applaud.
I don't see where its necessary for people who fill the entertainment sections to get in the media and blast out that they are homosexual. It's their business, I don't see why the whole public has to be saturated with the declaration over and over and over. What is with this need to have a megaphone mentality to blast that information to the public?
I don't care who is sleeping with whom. I also am not thrilled to be bombarded with these incessant media disclosures the minute a person gets some fame or notoriety in the media and entertainment arena, regardless of what is their profession- their sexual activity does not need to be spread about as if they deserve some special praise or something for it. If their field is film, music, sports or whatever, that is the profession that should be addressed, not whom they sleep with. I think many people feel the same way. They don't care who a person is sleeping with, but they are not interested to have it blasted at them over and over and over. Or to be attacked and negatively impacted if they don't applaud and hail it as some great achievement. In many cases, people simply don't care what another does in their sexual lives as long as they are not molesting children or raping others and abusing another in some sexual manner. Other than that, adults do what they want as individuals.
We work with people, have family members and none of us truly know what our friends and associates do in their private lives, nor do we need to know. I've not seen anyone treat people within the family circle any less as to care of them as a person because of their bed mate choice, I've worked with people whom it was well known and they are dealt with as anyone else is, they are either a good worker, a good person and individual. That's what the realism comes down to, not whom they sleep with.
The Bible speaks of homosexuality and it does not favor it. Now one can make what they will of that point and fact. Many homosexuals go to church and many have a variety of roles within churches, those churches understand that God is the judge of man, not man being the judge of man in the final of spiritual judgment under the Biblical premise of God, Religion and Mankind. There will likely never be a time when all society will be cheerful acceptors of homosexual activity, but there should be no one mistreating another because of the choice another has made in regards to being homosexual.
I don't see where there is any aim, point or matter of trying to measure homosexuality against slavery. Slavery was a horrible thing and anywhere it exist it is horrible. Those who enslave others is as much "a beast of a being and lower than those they engage to enslave". No amount of money, public hoopla or parading them in pageantry of any sort is going to elevate their integrity beyond being what is an abusive and dehumanizing enslaver of others.
I don't see where its necessary for people who fill the entertainment sections to get in the media and blast out that they are homosexual. It's their business, I don't see why the whole public has to be saturated with the declaration over and over and over. What is with this need to have a megaphone mentality to blast that information to the public?
It is a short-term overcorrection. A "gay pride", "be loud and proud" thing. People who have fame are seen as having a particular responsibility to gain mainstream acceptance for alternative lifestyles. Of course I'm ignoring the bits that involve shameless self-promotion as a general principle ;-)
Ultimately any one person's sexual orientation is of no more moment or interest than the fact that I'm a leg man ... who cares (at this point, including even me)? It is just another inconsequential factoid. I hope that over time, not only will sexual or gender orientation become unremarkable, but that the exhibitionism inherent in social media will grow tiresome and disgusting to thoughtful people everywhere.
If many grasp what she is saying, it may be a saving grace for a great many who awaken and understand.
We've become to accept anything- our political arena is filled with belligerence and garbage of talk of 'self appointed 'negative promoters", as a base of platform and ideology of magnetic attraction. Others use the slang of religion as the pretense to cover bigotry, bias and segregationist promotion. We have on speaking everything as a slam down against something or someone. We have another who promotes a religious fanaticism, and we have others who want to dismantle and claim to reshape the system, while at the same time playing a put down game about nothing, beyond pandering to the slang gossips so dominant in the opposition party, but pushing the same drama sequence within his claim of pursuit as if to be some purist.
We have become a society lost in the lustful lure and perpetual over sensualized imagery and fame built upon and around it, in the obsessive with the entertainment community and the play it has upon and within the voyeuristic craving of a society who has become vain and filled with lustful self aggrandizing fantasy wrapped in a chase and delusion of pleasures illusions.
We now have a society who sensationalize every person within the media of entertainment of every sort who proclaims their broadcasting of choosing homosexuality and attacking anyone who does not applaud.
Any slim figure women whom they can get before a camera is enticed to not only get as naked as the system will allow, but to promote any act and every faucet of lewdness they can conjure up, and push it as if to try and validate it by the temptations of lustful make up and provocative posing.
It is now at the point of insidiousness where they want now to teach and indoctrinate young kids before they are beyond the toddler age, and long before they come to the pre-puberty stage as if to promote the options of homosexuality, before they can learn of their natural gender and its reality in the spectrum of god given physical designations of male and/or female genitalia, not to mention all that goes into what is the in-depth intricacies made into the essence of what is a man and the essence of what is a woman.
Temptations and lures, contortions and distortions, and the push to chase pleasure as if its a drug. all the time, knowing that pleasure has the power to lead the confused, give refuge to the fearful and to consume the weak. The promotion is 24/7 in continuous rapid cycles and lust-filled presentations.
People have come to chase and ingrained the beauty that is music with the belligerency of lyrical madness and lustful spins into cycles of sadness, despair and desperation's and finding nothing but depressions wrapped in a mass of impressions.
It's all painted in the colors of money, and circled with the wealth and materialism, until no one has nor places value in anything beyond what is first presented with a "dollar sign" in front of it.
Professions have lost the core of its duty, and labels substitute the standard where quality is no longer a concern, but the status of self gratifying ego elation's and spins of blather, colluding every point and fact.
Death is now a common past-time for those caught in the loop, they dish it out with the tip of their finger, wiping out parents, husbands and wives and taking the lives of children and some pursuing the angle to death by mass killings of innocent people whom are unknown to them.
This is the reality we've created in the vanity that thrives upon the pursuit of greed and driven by Avarice seeking to acquire what can never fill the void within themselves.
The mass has lost and many even fight against the mere mention of God, some become anguished and choose to go into a endless spewing of proclaiming there is no God, while others seek by any means to deny, disown and disregard the premise and concept of God.
We can't see the truth because the party atmosphere of the lie, entertains and contains the minds of many, the lure and the illusions, pulls more and more into the delusions, through acts of their own choosing. They will fight against any point where wisdom may be found, and seek instead the fanfare of being entertained hoping to be overwhelmed into a blissfulness as if they've been drugged by the very things they pursue to intoxicate themselves.
The cycles spin faster, the madness is given a continual repetition of sound bits, pushing distortion and instilling a barrage of confounding bits of drama, as the addictive fix, which has become the basis of what is called Media News.
Round tables and half tables and counter top, used to bring out the mouthpieces who think and say anything if it gets the camera point upon their face and the microphone close to their lips. They have no awareness of the damages they invoke nor the havoc they promote, their aim is fame and payment. all the while selling away their soul, and remaining unaware of the sales promotion they hype in doing so.
American's made a choice- When it made the pursuit of money more important than the integrity of the individual and respect for the human being.
People no longer choose a career for the sake to be a contributor and have a spirit which seeks to do good and advance society and promote and bring about compassion and good will. They now choose, based on what is the salary option they are told a particular field yield to them.
I agree- as a whole, America has told God to "get out". He's doing so, and will leave our nation to it's own devices because of that. Once we turn on Israel, that will be the final straw. I'm not worried however, as Jesus said "these things must come to pass.
and so it has been said for centuries... Ms. Graham has no claim to originality.
Past predictions
Predicted date
500 Hippolytus of Rome, Sextus Julius Africanus, Irenaeus These three Christian theologians predicted Jesus would return in the year 500. One prediction was based on the dimensions of Noah's ark.
1000 Jan 1 Pope Sylvester II The Millennium Apocalypse at the end of the Christian Millennium. Various Christian clerics predicted the end of the world on this date. Following the failure of the January 1, 1000 prediction, some theorists proposed that the end would occur 1000 years after Jesus' death (1033), instead of his birth.
1260 Joachim of Fiore The Italian mystic determined that the Millennium would begin between 1200 and 1260.
1370 Jean de Roquetaillade The Antichrist was predicted to come in 1366 and the Millennium would begin in 1368 or 1370.
1504 Sandro Botticelli Believed he was living during the time of the Tribulation, and that the Millennium would begin in three and a half years from 1500.
1524 Feb 20 Johannes Stöffler A planetary alignment in Pisces was seen by this astrologer as a sign of the Millennium.
1524–1526 Thomas Müntzer 1525 would mark the beginning of the Millennium, according to this Anabaptist.
1533 Oct 19 Michael Stifel This mathematician calculated that the Judgement Day would begin at 8:00am on this day.
1673 William Aspinwall This Fifth Monarchist claimed the Millennium would begin by this year.
1694 Johann Jacob Zimmermann Believed that Jesus would return and the world would end this year.
John Mason and Johann Heinrich Alsted Both claimed the Millennium would begin by this year.
1700 Henry Archer Archer counted 1335 years from the end of the reign of Julian the Apostate (the dates of whose reign he was uncertain), taking the 1335 days in Daniel 12:12 as years.
1757 Emanuel Swedenborg Followed the Last Judgment in 1757, which took place in the spiritual world. This was one of many events recounted in his works resulting from visions of Jesus Christ returned. He tells of almost daily interaction with Christ over the course of almost 30 years. His return is not in the flesh, but in His Holy Spirit. "Neither shall they say see here or see there, for behold, the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:20).
1793–1795 Richard Brothers This retired sailor stated the Millennium would begin between 1793 and 1795. He was eventually committed to an insane asylum.
1814 Dec 25 Joanna Southcott This 64-year-old self-described prophet claimed she was pregnant with the Christ child, and that he would be born on Christmas Day, 1814. She died on the day of her prediction, and an autopsy proved she was not pregnant.
1829 Sep 15 George Rapp Founder and leader of the Harmony Society, predicted that on September 15, 1829, the three and one half years of the Sun Woman would end and Christ would begin his reign on earth. Dissension grew when Rapp's predictions went unfulfilled. In March 1832, a third of the group left and some began following a man named Bernhard Müller who claimed to be the Lion of Judah. Nevertheless, most of the group stayed and Rapp continued to lead them until he died on August 7, 1847. His last words to his followers were, "If I did not so fully believe, that the Lord has designated me to place our society before His presence in the land of Canaan, I would consider this my last."
1836 John Wesley Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church, foresaw the Millennium beginning this year. He wrote that Revelation 12:14 referred to the years 1058–1836, "when Christ should come".
1840-1864 Jakob Lorber Austrian musician who wrote during 24 years a vast amount of works later called the New Revelation claimed to be received through an inner voice which belonged to Jesus Christ offered many detailed prophecies concerning the unfolding of the second coming, pointing to a time before the passing of 2000 years after the death of Christ on the cross.
1844 Oct 22 William Miller, Millerites The fact that this failed to happen the way people were expecting was later referred to as the Great Disappointment. Some Millerites continued to set dates; others founded the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Advent Christian Church, which continue to expect a soon Second Coming but no longer set dates for it. Baha'is claim that Miller's prediction of the year 1844 was in fact calculated correctly, and refers to the advent of the Báb.
1847 Aug 7 George Rapp Rapp, the founder of the Harmony Society, preached that Jesus would return in his lifetime, even as he lay dying on August 7, 1847.
1861 Joseph Morris Morris told his followers not to plant crops because he firmly believed that "Christ will come tomorrow."
1863 John Wroe The founder of the Christian Israelite Church calculated that the Millennium would begin this year.
1874 Charles Taze Russell The first president of what is now the Watchtower Society of the Jehovah's Witnesses, calculated 1874 to be the year of Christ's Second Coming, and until his death taught that Christ was invisibly present, and ruling from the heavens from that date prophesied. Russell proclaimed Christ's invisible return in 1874, the resurrection of the saints in 1875, and predicted the end of the "harvest" and a rapture of the saints to heaven for 1878, and the final end of "the day of wrath" in 1914. 1874 was considered the end of 6,000 years of human history and the beginning of judgment by Christ.
1890 Wovoka The founder of the Ghost Dance movement predicted in 1889 that the Millennium would occur in 1890.
1891 Joseph Smith, Mormons In the History of the Church Volume 2, page 182, an eyewitnesses account of Joseph Smith's prophecy in 1835 is recorded as: "President Smith then stated that the meeting had been called, because God had commanded it; and it was made known to him by vision and by the Holy Spirit. He then gave a relation of some of the circumstances attending us while journeying to Zion--our trials, sufferings; and said God had not designed all this for nothing, but He had it in remembrance yet; and it was the will of God that those who went to zion, with a determination to lay down their lives, if necessary, should be ordained to the ministry, and go forth to prune the vineyard for the last time, or the coming of the Lord, which was nigh--even fifty-six years should wind up the scene." Though this was not a prediction from Joseph Smith, he stated, "I believe the coming of the Son of Man will not be any sooner than that time." (D&C 130:14-17)
1901 Catholic Apostolic Church This church, founded in 1831, claimed that Jesus would return by the time the last of its 12 founding members died. The last member died in 1901.
1914 Jehovah's Witnesses The "Second Coming" is important in the doctrine of Jehovah's Witnesses, although they do not use this term. Jehovah's Witnesses believe that Christ's visible (to humans) return will be at Armageddon. They believe that 1914 marked the beginning of Christ's invisible presence (Matt. 24:3 gr. "parousia") as the King of God's Kingdom (Psalm 110; Revelation 12:10), and the beginning of the last days of the human ruled system of society. They believe the signs Christ revealed about his return in Matthew 24, Mark 13, and Luke 21 began to occur starting in 1914. In a parallel Biblical account at Revelation 6, they believe the ride of the symbolic four horsemen began in the same year, and that the first rider on the white horse depicts the Christ. He goes forth to complete his conquest of the earth, while the rule by human leaders continues for a short while until they meet their end at Armageddon by the power of the Christ (Revelation 19:11-21).
1915 John Chilembwe This Baptist educator and leader of a rebellion in Nyasaland predicted the Millennium would begin this year.
1917 to 1930 Sun Myung Moon The followers of Reverend Sun Myung Moon consider Reverend Moon to be the Lord of the Second Advent called by Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday at the age of 15 on a Korean Mountainside. (See Divine Principle)
1930 to 1939 Rudolf Steiner Steiner described the physical incarnation of Christ as a unique event, but predicted that Christ would reappear in the etheric, or lowest spiritual, plane beginning in the 1930s. This would manifest in various ways: as a new spiritual approach to community life and between individuals; in more and more individuals discovering fully conscious access to the etheric plane (clairvoyance); and in Christ's appearance to groups of seekers gathered together.
1935, 1943 1972 & 1975 Herbert W. Armstrong Armstrong, Pastor-General and self-proclaimed "Apostle" of the Radio Church of God, and then the Worldwide Church of God, felt the return of Jesus Christ might be in 1975. Of particular note was the book 1975 in Prophecy! written by Armstrong and published by the Radio Church of God in 1956. Though, never explicitly stating a date in the booklet, the title led people to believe the date was the second coming. It was actively preached in sermons in the 1960s by all of his ministers that his church would "flee" to Petra, Jordan in 1972 and Christ would return 3 1/2 years later.
After the failure to flee in 1972 (and a defection of his ministry) Armstrong was careful not to set specific dates but claimed that Christ would return before he died. He died January 1986.
Armstrong had previously predicted in a 1934 edition of "The Plain Truth" magazine that Christ would return in 1936. After that prediction failed in a 1940 edition of "The Plain Truth" magazine he stated "Christ will come after 3 1/2 years of tribulation in October 43. After those failed predictions and loss of members he moved his operation from Oregon to Pasadena, California.
After Armstrong's death in 1986 his Worldwide Church of God and the empire he created slowly disintegrated, abandoning his beliefs and philosophies and eventually the name. His three college campuses and the majority of his Pasadena headquarter properties were closed and sold. His successors changed the name to Grace Communion International in 2009.
1982 Jun 21 Benjamin Creme The followers of the New Age Theosophical guru Benjamin Creme, like Alice A. Bailey, believe the Second Coming will occur when Maitreya (the being Theosophists identify as being Christ) makes his presence on Earth publicly known—Crème believes Maitreya has been on Earth since 1977, living in secret.
Creme put advertisements in many of the world's major newspapers in early 1982 stating that the Second Coming would occur on Monday, 21 June 1982 (summer solstice in the northern hemisphere), at which time Christ (Maitreya) would announce his Second Coming on worldwide television (this is called the Emergence or Day of Declaration ; this is when, Creme's followers believe, the Maitreya will telepathically overshadow all of humanity when he appears on worldwide television)[24] When this event did not occur, Crème claimed that the "world is not yet ready to receive Maitreya"; his followers continue to believe it will happen "soon".
1988 Edgar C. Whisenant Published a book "88 Reasons Why The Rapture Will Be in 1988.
1994 Sep 6 Harold Camping Camping, general manager of Family Radio and Bible teacher, published a book, 1994?, a prediction of Christ's return was likely pointing to 1994.
1999 to 2009 Jerry Falwell Fundamentalist preacher who predicted in 1999 that the Second Coming would probably be within 10 years.
2000 Ed Dobson This pastor predicted the end would occur in his book The End: Why Jesus Could Return by A.D. 2000.
Timothy Dwight IV This President of Yale University foresaw Christ's Millennium starting by 2000.
Edgar Cayce This psychic predicted the Second Coming would occur this year.
Isaac Newton Newton predicted that Christ's Millennium would begin in the year 2000 in his book Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John.
2000, April 6 James Harmston The leader of the True and Living Church of Jesus Christ of Saints of the Last Days predicted the Second Coming of Christ would occur on this day.
2011 May 21
2011 Oct 21 Harold Camping Main article: 2011 end times prediction Camping claimed that the rapture would be on May 21, 2011 followed by the end of the world on October 21 of the same year. Camping wrote "Adam when?" and claimed the Biblical calendar meshes with the secular and is accurate from 11,013 BC–2011 AD
2011 Sep 29
2012 May 27
2013 May 18
Ronald Weinland Weinland predicted Jesus would return on September 29, 2011. When his prediction failed to come true he moved the date of Jesus return to May 27, 2012.[33] When that prediction failed he then moved the date to May 18, 2013 claiming that "a day with God is as a year" giving himself another year for his prophecy to take place. Weinland was convicted of tax evasion in 2012 and sentenced to 3 1/2 years in federal prison.
2012 Jack Van Impe Televangelist who has, over the years, predicted many specific years and dates for the second coming of Jesus, but has continued to move his prediction later. Many of these dates have already passed, and he recently pointed to 2012 as a possible date for the second coming. Van Impe no longer claims to know the exact date of the Second Coming, but quotes verses which imply that mankind should know when the second coming is near.
2015 Sep 28 Mark Biltz Starting in 2008, Mark Biltz began teaching that Christ's return would correspond with the September 28, 2015 lunar eclipse. His idea, known as the Blood Moon Prophecy, attracted attention from well-known pastor John Hagee (who stopped short of claiming Christ would return on that precise date) and mainstream media such as USA Today.
Future predictions
Predicted date
2020 Jeane Dixon The alleged psychic claimed that Armageddon would take place in 2020 and Jesus would return to defeat the unholy Trinity of the Antichrist, Satan and the False prophet between 2020 and 2037.
2021 F. Kenton Beshore Beshore bases his prediction on the prior suggestion that Jesus could return in 1988, i.e., within one Biblical generation (40 years) of the founding of Israel in 1948. Beshore argues that the prediction was correct, but that the definition of a Biblical generation was incorrect and was actually 70–80 years, placing the Second Coming of Jesus between 2018 and 2028 and the Rapture by 2021 at the latest.
2025 Alice A. Bailey In January 1946, the New Age Theosophical guru prophesied that Christ would return "sometime after AD 2025" (Theosophists identify "Christ" as being identical to a being they call Maitreya) to inaugurate the Age of Aquarius; thus, this event will be, according to Bailey, the New Age equivalent of the Christian concept of the Second Coming.
Alice A. Bailey stated that St. Germain is the manager of the executive council of the Christ (Like C.W. Leadbeater, Alice A. Bailey refers to St. Germain as the Master Rakoczi or the Master R. in her books.). thus, according to Alice A. Bailey, St. Germain's primary task is to prepare the way for the Second Coming.
2028 Kent Hovind
In 2013, Hovind self-published a dissertation which was written whilst in prison, for an Doctor of Ministry degree from the Patriot Bible University.In response to "When is The Lord Coming Back?," Hovind wrote: "During the feast of Trumpets in 2028."
By 2057 Frank J. Tipler In 1994, the physicist and intelligent design advocate Frank J. Tipler published a book called The Physics of Immortality in which he claimed to scientifically prove the existence of God as a consequence of what he calls the Omega Point Theory. In 2007, he published a sequel to "The Physics of Immortality" called The Physics of Christianity which applies the principles of the Omega Point Theory to the Christian religion. In this 2007 book, he asserts in the first chapter that the Second Coming of Christ will occur within 50 years, i.e., by 2057, and will be coincident with what futurist Ray Kurzweil calls the Singularity (which Kurzweil himself predicts will occur by 2045).
I thought he made a good point and detailing all of those predictions was probably necessary, because I mean - how long are "the end is nigh" believers going to keep being fooled again and again about how this is definitely it, those Worst Times they've been craving to herald the end times? Forever? (Actually...apparently, yes, forever.)
Once we turn on Israel, that will be the final straw. I'm not worried however, as Jesus said "these things must come to pass.
I suspect "turning on Israel" is defined very similar to "persecuting Christians".
In this US presidential election cycle we have a VERY Jewish candidate with the temerity to say that while (1) Israel has a right to exist, it (2) overreaches and dehumanizes people in many of its responses to Palestinian provocations, and (3) the only way there can ever be peace is for both sides to commit in principle to respect each other, starting with Israel not appropriating Palestinian territory for its own settlements. And by the way, Netenyahu isn't infallible and it's okay to say when he makes dumb decisions.
My guess is that many Zionist and fundamentalist Christian folks would consider that "turing on Israel" but the truth is that any god worth the label ought to see right past that silly rhetoric.
I thought he made a good point and detailing all of those predictions was probably necessary, because I mean - how long are "the end is nigh" believers going to keep being fooled again and again about how this is definitely it, those Worst Times they've been craving to herald the end times? Forever? (Actually...apparently, yes, forever.)
Maybe he did make good points, but it was too long. I agree that people have been saying "the end is near" forever. I am a Born Again believer, and have no idea when the end will be. Things are getting worse, but only God knows how much worse they will have to get before He's had enough.
From the outside as neither religious nor American it seems like the end times will come when God is upset enough with Americans that he brings it forth. So if it happens will it only be Americans to blame? I do not remember any time that some one serious in Canada said that if we do something God will turn his back on Canada.
I understand that some of this is a result of the shinning light on the hill that the Puritans or some other early religious group viewed the new land but is there anything in the Bible that would indicate that USA is the favorite land or peoples of God now a days?
These are intended to be serious questions in trying to figure out why so many Americas take this God will abandoned America as well as so many end timers seem to come from the States.
Imagine, the history of evolving religious ideologies, they have been morphed and modified over many centuries and still here we are, the earth is still here, the sun is still where it is and the moon has been continual in circling its path.
The oceans have not stopped moving and plants and things have been growing long before we could be aware of what they are.
Many spent a lot of centuries analyzing many things, from the mustard seed to the nature and life of a bird, and still man has created nothing that is greater than what the elements of earth has been able to be utilized to assimilate.
I don't have to wind my dog up for it to be a dog, it simply is, all it needs to do is eat and drink water, and sleep when it wants to; when it does that, then it does what it will do including giving and seeking attention and companionship, it continues its cycles which includes taking a crap, peeing on something and the cycle continues, its quite interesting, because the dog spends a great deal of its time, simply looking at things ...
They've cataloged the anatomy and watched many activities of the dog, but we've not figured out which language it speaks or understand, or if it does or does not have a language universal to all dogs, regardless of the language of its human companion. maybe they are multi-lingual (laugh)..... or have one heck of a translation mechanism built within.
We do know, that by some means, they care for us, look out for us, have regard for the care we give them and they have a variety of feelings, attitudes and dispositions. It's not likely they are chasing dooms day...they just deal with what the day brings as they come to deal with its moments.
When has there been a time when man was not trying to out-wit the creator, what ever you term that to be, in my case I term it to be "God" whom I can't begin to define. Therefore for me to try to out-wit what I can't even define, would make me quite foolish even in the attempt of doing so. where would I start? and how would I even begin to go about such?
For me, I've found it suitable to live, work on appreciations and engage myself with learning how better to appreciate, how to become better to learn my health and how to work with it as time passes and maintain it as best as I can, and to be fully open and thankful to have thoughts, imagination and the will to indulge the usage and inter-activeness of it all. When these things are no more able to function within me, it is likely that one is comatose or dead. what then is left but a body that is lifeless, who can say what and where the spirit goes or what it might do in being what it is. Certainly no being walking the earth this day, can tell us conclusively such things.
Therefore, this goes back to the point I was addressing earlier.
Regarding "Empires" -
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What we live today is not any different than the same of what has been the nature and realism of empires long before this one, and when this one is no longer the leading empire, there will be another, and it too will find what it finds according to the ways of life and standards it adopts and choose.
Every age of mankind has seen the rise and fall of empires and nation, and in the cycle of such, as we as individuals "age' we see changes, we learn over time, virtues and values, we come to know trials and tribulations as a society and we live through the horrors and ills of the vices of mankind.
I'll stick with the premise of God, even being still unable to define or describe or envisage other than to say, God must be within everything - as it all existed long before and still to this date, even without any input from man. it is not likely that man can or will be a determiner of anything as it relates to times continuance.
As strange as it sounds or seems, "everything is always RIGHT NOW!!!" never has man been able to reach back not even one second, nor reach forward not even one second. So, what we get is a continual stream as we live, of "right now" !!! Thankfully we have the ability to remember and learn, that we may be cautious and gain wisdom to help us deal with what is ...
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