First let's start off with an article on ABC news tonight. They found a small swath of manuscript saying that - - well, Jesus says of Mary Magdolane, "She is my wife. She will be my disciple". There is another passage of scripture I read long ago in this same Di Vinci spirit that goes "The disciples wondered why Mary was allowed to mingle freely among them. And Jesus knowing their thoughts said unto them, "Ye should rather ask yourself, Why do I love her more than I love you?" In another little "Ah Ha!" moment consider the following nugget of truth. Jesus said 'Ye are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its savor, how it shall again be made salty again? It is good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under the foot of men". What's "wrong" with this phrase seemingly is that rock salt "losing its saltiness" is a chemical impossibility. Salt is not chewing gum. Sucking on it does not make it lose its flavor. This is a chemical impossability. If we are indeed the salt of the earth as Jesus also says, then it follows that nobody can "lose their salvation" once they have obtained it. (Selah)
A hundred and twenty nine Mexican prisoners broke out of a prison in Dallas by constructing a tunnel, and then bumping off a guard and scaling the fence to freedom. Or perhaps the story was just being carried from Dallas and the prison is actually in Mexico. Maybe this is another error. The government is hunting them down now. I believe the prisoners were part of a larger division in the prison for drug cartel offenders or something. It's amazing how many "tunnels' of all kinds are discovered every day. Hope springs eternal.
The situation in Afghanistan has gotten notibly worse with that car bombing bringing killing all aboard. This development caused an American officer to order a pull back from the latest scheduled offensive which he insists is only a temporary state of affairs. It does bring into question whether the Obama administration will be able to stick to that 2014 withdrawal date we set. The Romney forces would just love it if things got worse. But all the President would have to say to end it right there is, "It might be necessary to postpone our withdrawal date of 2014 a year or so". This would help the President.
Jeopardy tells us that the first moon rover was driven on the moon on July 31st of 1971. This would be on the Apollo XV voyage if I'm counting right, or one launch later than Allan Shepherd was hitting golf balls on the moon. Driving a four wheeled vehicle on another heavenly body than earth is certainly a most momentus event.
Apparently there is a Disneyland right here in the US, in Florida, where they are now serving alcoholic beverages to the public. This is in a Sleeping Beauty resturant where they will be serving French wines and German and Dutch beers. It's just another case in which "the old barriers are falling" and the long standing "wholesome atnosphere of Disneyland" is being eroded away.
Apparently the in thing now for thieves is to steal I Phones. I don't know why Smart Phones in general wouldn't do just as well, but the story said it was I Phones the criminals want to sell on Craig's list and E Bay. They said that one third of all personal assaults where things are taken, is the stealing of I Phones from Old Ladies and young single mothers preeocupied with things like baby strollers. But now the company is fighting back, with technology that will report the I Phone as stolen, and make the I Phone completely useless.
In terms of that recent post in the blog "For the Record" the last paragraph merely states a fact that there are times when the flookish event is the one that indeed does happen, but the important thing to remember is that it IS a flook and cannot be generalized into a principle. Certainly not a principle you base Christian Salvation on. Last night in "Mob Doctor" they had this fourteen year old virgin with her hymen intact who was in fact pregnent. The presiding doctor said it was a case of "Outer-course conception" where penetration does not even need to occur but the ejaculate can be like that Luke Skywalker star ship that shot right through the most vulnerable spot- - and destroyed the death star. I bet you never heard the Imaculate Conception expressed in Star War terms before.
I would like to talk a little more about the Mayan calendar. I am correcting calculations with a later edit. If you sync up the solar year with the Venetian cycle with the lunar-solar synchronization you come up with a grand figure of 19 times 40 which makes 760 years, which takes you to none other than the year 1252. Now knock eight off of this. "Eight" is a number you may use - only once, in a pinch with both Venus and the Moon. (with Venus you can use it all the time) That number is a "five" numerologically, or 752. This calculation therefore takes you to the year 1260. This year astrological calculations for the sun, moon, and Venus would be identical provided you used the abstraction of the Gregorian calendar and used today's system of constelation rendering. Marco Polo was born in the year 1254 and as a young child (the article said six or seven) was taken on a visit to much of Asia including China where in his Book he claims to have met with Kubla Khan. Or at least the adults traveling with Marco Polo did. Later at age 17 Marco Polo embarked on a sourgern in China that lasted 22 years or something and brought back many riches. I guess this is where he said "I have not yet told you half of what I saw". I would assume these riches included typically Chinese items such as fireworks, silk, tea, and their unique metaphysical and religious ideas. But as it was pointed out he failed to mention for instance either chop sticks or foot binding of women. Experts have tried to explain away this omission. Our key here is December of 1260 which would indeed be 752 years ago from this December, and also the coincidence of the solar, the venetian and the lunar cycles in a manner that rarely occurs. The Venus cycles are easy to figure out because they run in forty year cycles. The moon always does its thing in nineteen year cycles. So it would stand to reason that the first inter-steller traveler might be alive now, living as a young boy.
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