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The shock! The horror! A travel ban in a country! Woe the civility of it all! O-M- effing -G stop the presses! Alert the judges! We have to prevent this from happening! Its unconstitutional! Wait its not the USA...nevermind. Move along nothing to see here. /s

In a nutshell you believe your destiny is preordained and you do not have free will?

Ramadan starts May 26 this year and goes until June 25. Then they come back and vote to take another month off the following day.

This in a nutshell is the entire report because anything other than this statement above is just noise right now.

You stated man cannot make up reality. However man creates reality all the time. It is called history. Through history the future is derived. Man chooses which future he takes and thus creates reality. You believe that God gives man free will. That free will allows man to create reality we see today. God just got the ball rolling. Man took it from there.Sometimes he acts like a bumper in a bowling lane to keep man within the lane.

I want to add one last thing here. It is is my understanding and belief there is an energy that connects all things, the name for this goes by many things. Man will label it what he wills, however, throughout the world this touches everyone and everything. In my fictional sci-fi writings, I write about how the wind is a living thing as it alters those it touches. While in my writings this is fictional but I will say this is very real for those who can sense its energy. At certain times this energy grows more prominent andeven those who are not sensitive to it can feel it. This is the convergence of many people coming together to form a single truth. Sometimes this energy is picked up and changed by man, sometimes this energy changes the course of man. One would say, if they were religious, god works through us and guides us, another religion would say it is the will of god, another might say that it is karma acting upon us. Whatever it is it is an energy that touches us all whether we be athiest, agnostic, hold true to our deepest religious convictions. What do we call this energy? Some have labeled it as God, some the Holy Spirit. Others have said it is from Gaia herself. Some would call it magic. These are all labels for the same energy that courses through us and affects us in different ways. In my earlier posts when I debate Muslims I say I am not Christian, partly that is true and partly that is not. Christian is just a label of how this energy affects those with the same beliefs to explain the energy. The wind, to which I write, is the vehicle to which this energy travels. We are all affected by this and it affects us uniquely and at the same time not so unique. What we quibble over is not that there is this energy but how this energy affects us. Jew, Christian, Buddha, Hindu or Muslim, all agree on the energy existing, what they take the energy to be is the quibbling that man takes from it. Labels are labels God is as much a label as is an Owl is a label for a bird. Enlightenment whether it be in Christianity or Bhuddism, or what ever is the religion du jour, is the sensitivity level to this energy. I say this because that is what prophecy is, the sensitivity to this energy an individual has picked up on and can read the thread of that energy. When one searches in the Bible Code, what dictates them to search for that specific topic? What draws them to that specific topic? Heaven and Hell exist as well as purgatory. Ghosts, demons and Angels exist. These existed long before there was Christianity, long before there was Judaism and long before there was man. We try to make sense of them as much as we try to make sense of the energy I speak about. Always remember keep an open mind, an ear to the ground and an eye to the sky. Learning never stops, listening never goes deaf and there will always be man seeking to make sense of the ambiguity of the unknown. I am interested in what more there is to have said about IQD and the Bible Code.

I don't see what I have said as flaws per se. What man touches he either destroys or enhances. In this case the enhancement meant took the route that it would need to be delved into the study full-time and the research would take far more knowledge than I possess. I saw my time better served while keeping an ear to the ground and an eye to the sky. Researching the Bible Code and its results was more time than I had. In the end, I realized man was not t know the future and while I am not one to believe what has preordained for us has been set into stone, for I like to follow the rabbit hole, I do believe we have some choice in the choices we take and paths we set ourselves upon. I enjoy researching probably more than most here but even this research was at a level and depth too deep for even my tastes. Anyone who can tell me they have a result from a the Bible Code and did less than 5 years research on that one result has a false prophecy. Could they be right? Even a broken analog clock is right twice a day and a digital one once a day. Besides this also delves deeper into a realm, not just of Christianity and Judaism, but into a realm that most dismiss even today. One of my earlier posts I said let me check the Quatrains. No one picked up on it. When you delve into the Bible Code you also have to check what also has been prophesied before. You have to cover all of your bases. Prophecy does not exist in a vacuum nor does it exist in isolation. One prophet alone does not corroborate a coming event. Take the Old Testament. How many Prophecies are related to the coming of the Messiah, whether you believe the Messiah has come or not is not the point, the point is who is prophesying the coming and how many of these have been said. If I were to look at the Bible Code in isolation, I would find that the percentage of correct results falls under one-tenth of one-percent of a percent. That is a very small confidence level and it would dismissed even in the scientific community. However, if taken with other prophecies spoken and published by other prophets, whether you believe them to be a prophet or not, the correct result increases, exponentially, the confidence level of the prophecy being correct by 1) the number of times it has been prophesied and 2) the number of sources the prophecy comes from. In the end, I still believe in the Bible Code as it peaks my interest and its a rabbit hole I would follow, the Bible Code is to be used in conjunction with other prophecies to corroborate the individual prophecy but not to be used as the single source of the prophecy. Adam not realizing it touched on what I speak about but he does not realize he did so. He saw the pattern and commented on it. When there are more than one source and all of those sources begin to converge into a single truth, then the prophecy has the highest confidence level of coming true. This, in a roundabout way, which is what I have discussed here today. Don't stop researching the Bible Code because it has validity when combined with other sources of prophecy. Always keep an open mind, an ear to the ground and an eye to the sky. Learning never stops, listening never goes deaf and there will always be prophecy as man will always seek to make sense of the ambiguity of the unknown. In business this is called forecasting. In statistics this is called predictive statistics. In the spiritual realm this is call prophecy. I have traded prophecy for forecasting and predictive statistics.

Some people need to take their own head's out of their asses and listen to why DJT changed his mind from a let the people of Syria decide Al-Assad's fate to making it US policy to change the regime in Syria. DJT admitted that he was unwavering on his stance until what he saw changed his mind. This happens to all of us. Seeing something severe enough can change us and change our thinking. There was no politics involved with the change of DJT's mind, I firmly believe that. I could careless what you believe or don't. I even mock democRATS for using the "it's for the children" to further their political careers. However, when you seeing children gasping for air and dying due to chemical weapons, I don't give a flying rat's ass if you are left or right or even right down the center, this must be dealt with. The incumbency in DJT's eyes fell upon him, not his politics, and the USA to say Chemical Weapons will not and must not be used. Obama's Red Line bullshit was just that bullshit and that bulshit led to the very place we are today. Instead of telling other people to get their heads out of their asses, how about people listen with that lump that is three feet above your own ass to what is actually being said and why. Take off the stupid partisanship blinders, be a freaking American for once and stand up for the innocent. This had nothing to do with any phobia or any political leanings. Quite simple this had everything to do with the inaction of the former pos president and his false threats which promulgated a position of weakness. DJT said unequivocally during his campaign, since you are using campaign rhetoric which never gets used against a president unless they are Pubs, chemical weapon usage would change his mind. Yeah he said he wants to stay the hell out of of Syria and 95% of America agrees. However, the usage of chemical weapons and seeing those who died changed that for him. If you don't understand that, you got smoke coming out of your mouth because someone is blowing smoke up your ass. I could care less how much each Tomahawk cost. How much is a life worth? If they were already on board a ship they already paid for, duh! The cost factor is just another way to interject politics into this where it should not be. War is hell. War costs money. People die. People live. You use chemical weapons, you should be afraid of the USA is going to come after you and pulverize you into the ground from whence you came from.

I studied the Bible Code for years. I did not stop believing in the Code rather I stopped because of all of the extraneous work that had to be done into the verification of the result I received was correct. If in my previous post you felt as if you could casually dismiss what I have said, take a look at this question and the response to this question. An individual asks "Are there unnecessary words in the Torah?' Here is the answer: <quote>I've been taught, often enough that I thought it was universal, that there are no unnecessary words in torah (chumash) — every word is there to teach us something. I've seen plenty of discussions in the g'mara that seem to follow this principle, too, understanding that two similar-seeming verses (or words) are there to teach two different principles because they can't be serving the same purpose. For example, Sanhedrin 64b (summarized in point 3 of this outline, h/t @ba) asks why the torah says three times that one is chayav karet for idolatry and then finds three interpretations. It doesn't say explicitly there that each of the torah's three statements must be "consumed" by a different halacha, but this lesson from the Virtual Beit Midrash (Yeshivat Har Etzion) states the rule explicitly but without citation in a discussion of Kiddushin 72b, discussing a baraita: I have also heard, but don't know where, that a perfect torah would not need to include superfluous words (along the idea of @WAF's comment below), and of course God's torah is perfect. I'm not sure how much weight to give a human interpretation of divine intent. Today I read that this "rule" about unnecessary words is not universally held. What sources are there for each position? Who holds that there are no unnecessary words, and who does not, and on what basis?</quote> I don't expect people to understand the topic only look at what is being said. When you start looking at the behind the scenes of the Bible Code's algorithm, unnecessary words becomes a death knell for your result. One cannot simply run the algorithm, derive a result and say ah on May 21, 2017 such-and-such will happen. Where May 21, 2017 appears in the text is as important as the result itself. Every single word, every single character in the Bible or Torah, right up to and including the result matters. And that is just too much research to be done. This is why I stopped researching the Bible Code. You cannot just run the algorithm and come up with a result without knowing so many other things before you even search for the result. Remember, I said elevator was 8 characters and lift 4. Now think how far off the result will be when superfluous words are added into the mix. Instead of 1980 or even 1880 you might end up with 3122. This is only an example and the above is a real life example of the consternation with the Torah. Only in the original text and in the original language can the Bible Code be run. Once you introduce man's interpretation into the mix, the Bible Code becomes nothing more than entertainment sold on CD-ROM for $9.99.

So if the version of the Bible make no difference then you confuse the Torah with the Bible like many do today. The Old Testament is not the Bible neither is it all of the Torah. Like I recently espoused the Bible is a combination of Old Scripture and New Scripture formed by men at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. Versions do matter especially in the taking of the new Testament into the algorithm. The science behind the Bible Code, too complex for a simple discussion, like i have said before and will reiterate here changes the result when taking the different versions of what we consider the Bible today. The Torah code as you put it is only done in Hebrew. Since you have included the Immaculate Conception, Birth and Resurrection into your search, you must take into account what I have said before as the Torah while prophesied the coming of the Messiah, for the Jews the Messiah has yet to come. Including Jesus into the Bible Code search innately includes the New Testament and disregards the Torah only. This then brings us to the circular argument of why we must take into account the different versions of the Bible when exploring the Bible Code. Only for the mere fact that different version will yield similar to completely different results. For example, if I use the Latin version of the Bible, does not the translation into English of the Latin conflate the actual meaning of what we have found using the Bible Code? We see examples of this everyday from Arabic to English. To most the Torah is written in Hebrew, It wasn't, originally it was written in three languages, Hebrew being one of them, Aramaic another. It is wholly written in Hebrew today as the Bible was wholly written in Latin before being translated in the King's English. The King's English translated into American English etc. The different idiosyncrasies not only in the culture can change the result of the search in the Bible Code. For example, most do not realize the Harry Potter books are written in English but there are two different versions of these. You have the British version and the American version. In America we have an elevator and in Britain they have a lift. To the Bible Code these two words, for example, changes the results based on the algorithm the Bible code uses as elevator is comprised of 8 characters and lift only 4. The Bible Code is a mathematical algorithm in simplest terms and the difference between 8 characters and 4 characters could potentially mean the difference between 1980 and 1880. Different versions do matter. When I say different versions I am also speaking to the different languages and the dialects within those languages as well not just the book content that forms the Bible. While the Torah, today has been standardized, that was not always the case and even that brings about consternation amongst the Rabi in the Jewish faith. The point here is this our beliefs and traditions affect our search and what we use when searching inside the Bible and/or Torah. You and I could use the same Bible Code algorithm, to which I will not get into the different versions of the algorithm used in the Bible Code, and two almost similar Bibles and our results would be almost as different as night and day.

One issue, there is actually strong contention Jesus was not crucified on a Friday; rather he died on a Wednesday and resurrected three days and three nights later, on a Saturday. I actually am in the Wednesday crowd for there is not enough time between the time he was taken down from the cross and entombed to his resurrection on Sunday. Two articles explain the stance: 1) favors Wednesday and 2) favors Friday. These are interesting articles and these differences should be noted when the Bible Code is looked at because the argument stems from how Jesus/Yeshua (definitely not Isa) explains when he will be resurrected. This comes from the tale of Jonas earlier told in the Bible where Jonas was inside the whale Three days and Three nights. Also Leviticus tells us the days of the Holy Sabbaths. John tells us that Mary went to the tomb when it was dark and the stone was removed before she arrived. So there are some discrepancies with the actual day of the week in which he died and was resurrected. However if you go back three days and three nights from how John describes the story, one cannot come to the conclusion Jesus was crucified on Friday as it makes no sense given the other verses found within the Bible. One of the major issues is how we are very much removed from that time in history and how we view the calendar and how they viewed the calendar has very much changed in that time. The reason I am for the Wednesday theory is Good Friday is more a day of convenience for Church goers on Sunday. Take Christmas for example and the controversy surrounding that as it falls in December for most of the christian world but for the orthodoxy Christmas falls in January. This is the day of birth. No one rightly knows so is this too a day of convenience given and mandated by the Holy Roman Catholic Church? If no one actually knows, can it then follow Good friday is also a day of convenience mandated by the Holy Roman Catholic Church? The Bible tells us so. However, we must also realize when dealing with the Bible Code, not just with the Birth, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus, the Bible itself is not wholly formed. Thus we must look at the version of the Bible we are using. Are we using the Catholic version or the Protestant version in which two books appear in the former but not the latter. When dealing with the Bible code, we must not conflate our individual beliefs and what we have been taught with what the Code is showing us. This is difficult at times as you have so eloquently illustrated and the controversies not only surrounding the actual resurrection and the birth but with other controversies surrounding the Biblical times. To postulate the birth one day will yield a different result in the Bible Code if we postulate the birth on a different day. These differing results is why when looking at the Bible Code, we must take into accounts the controversies and their conclusions. Another reason why so many give up on the Bible Code or only run it according to their beliefs and conclusions. There is just not enough time in the world to run through all the different scenarios required to make actual sense out of all the possibilities the Bible Code has. Maybe god wanted it that way and then again, maybe not.

Revaluation 12 is a special book. Critics say that the book is an elusive novel. Others claim it to be a scam. However, in the codex of the book can be found in the great halls of Babylon. Revaluation 12 is made up of chapters or some might venture the chapters are like articles. Currently, the author has only written as far as Chapter 4 but has plans on writing Article 8. The author claims Revaluation 12 will talk about the aftermath of Chapter 8 in which Job takes center stage. Job discusses his trials and tribulations and how the rapture from Chapter 8 moved him and the prophecies of the so-called prophets which came before Chapter 8 spoke in false tongues. Job talks about the patience he endured as the rapture crept upon him and all the nations of the world. Like a stillness in the wind, Job recalls the time when many false prophets proclaimed the coming but soon was all anyone heard. Job with all his incredulity attributes the coming rapture to a spiritual awakening as his world changed. He speaks of long nights of where the yellow glow of the candle fire and the brimstone of his chair he sat upon tore at his very soul. Tomorrow they said, today they said, but always the word from on high was soon. And the word of revaluation was the word. In the beginning and in the end the word will forever be the word, soon. Job a special man recants his journey in Revaluation 12 and we are forever more quoth the raven.

I used to have a program that searched through like 15 different versions in different languages for the Bible Code. One day I entered supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, (hum diddle diddly eh, that's the hardest word you'll ever have to say... yeah try spelling it..without a spell checker on....go on!) I got very interesting results to say the least. Now I am gonna have to check the Quatrains to see if anything shows up.

Shh... don't say that too out loud. Before the ISIS debacle, Article 140 was declared a done deal here. To be implementing the final, final, final, <gasp> final step of Article 140 can't be according to some. Why? You might ask. Because its already implemented.

If it is connected to the internet, it can be externally hacked. If a human created it, a human can break it. Nothing, I repeat nothing, in this world today is completely hack proof. The best thing to do is to set up confidential information on a system that does not connect to the internet. Or go back to paper files. Paper files are much harder to hack but they too can be hacked.

The Iraq National Oil Company (INOC) was founded in 1966 from passage of a law. Since then the INOC has continued to exist in various forms. The 2007 Draft Iraq Oil and Gas Law states it will formally disband the INOC and recreate it with new oil ministries. However what Iraq has today is not a national oil company rather a "...North Oil Company, South Oil Company and Oil Exploration Company, as well as a drilling division and a crude oil division at ministry headquarters. It stipulated that the oil minister will replace the board of directors of INOC wherever the latter is mentioned in all applicable legislations and regulations" More can be found in a September 2009 MEES journal article written by Ruba Husari detailing the history of the INOC from a political perspective.

The Iraq National Oil Company (INOC) was founded in 1966 from passage of a law. Since then the INOC has continued to exist in various forms. The 2007 Draft Iraq Oil and Gas Law states it will formally disband the INOC and recreate it with new oil ministries. More can be found in a September 2009 MEES journal article written by Ruba Husari detailing the history of the INOC from a political perspective.

I am confuzzled. Is the joke a bazillion ZIM or is Bruce the joke? Can someone go out and buy a National Enquirer because inquiring minds want ta know. Ya know. How many zeros in a bazillion anyhow? /s

If you could afford the ACA mandated plan, then the high cost of the deductible put ever accessing the plan into the stratosphere. Just because a ACA may be 300 dollars does not give the full picture. A 300 dollar plan with a 12K dollar deductible per family member is what makes the ACA very unaffordable to the majority of the people. In the end if the deductible is so high that the insurance can never be used it is the same thing as paying for out-of-pocket healthcare. To those who think the VA Healthcare is any better think again. Or that Canada's or Britain's healthcare is any better. The real story behind all of this is what isn't being said. Hospitals and others that provide health care have two menus to choose from. If you choose the insurance menu, you get the insurance price for the services. If you choose the cash and carry price, the cost is so much cheaper. However, with very few people being able to pay out-of-pocket for their healthcare, they have relied on the pre-ACA healthcare model for a long time. This is why the invention of HSAs were so warranted. The only problem with the HSAs was that if the money wasn't used by the end of the year you lost it. This caused problems because one could only save for what they needed that year. If this mandate of losing your money at the end of the year were to be removed, more individuals would be in favor of HSAs provided that they could take advantage of the out-of-pocket price for their healthcare services. Then the only thing remaining would be what would happen upon death to the HSA. While this may seem like a single payer system, it is in addition to the pre-ACA system. They could keep a few things such as the pre-existing stance. However get rid of the stay on until 26 policy. If by 22 they have not either joined the military or graduated from school with a bachelor degree then they need to be out working provided we get rid of the H1=B Visa crap as well. And yes Victoria, Healthcare for all is a fantasy, if that means we have to pay for everyone's healthcare, including our own.

Once it is proven, they can't disprove it therefore no defense is necessary. However, they will defend the corrupt individuals until it is proven. Stupid is as stupid does.

Going to say something like this: