Posted on 08/31/2024 3:36:11 PM PDT by CottonBall
Regarding weather manipulation, it seems rather coincidental that a hurricane made it 3 states in with lots of water and winds. This area, I was told, had no natural disasters.
And now Milton, 180 mph winds, right on her heels.
October surprise?
I was waiting for another pandemic, mail in voting, etc, instead.
Yup, cranked up the old needles again. Cooler weather forcing me inside more so it was either start knitting or eat chips lol.
It’s a tough call, CB. I pictured my son’s oldest lab, Archibald. Such a dear, loyal, sweet dog. Then I pictured my BIL, nothing dear or sweet about him lol. But, he’s made in God’s image, and is not beyond redemption, though that’s hard for me to believe sometimes. Are we supposed to let a human die and go to hell, when there’s still a chance he could be saved?
I agree with you on an emotional basis. Heck, I’d let that BIL drown even if I didn’t have to save a dog lol. I am just wondering what we’re supposed to do. It made me think.
I just saw that it’s gaining in intensity. This is the weirdest storm I’ve seen. They say a storm hasn’t come from that area into Florida for 155 years. And if it’s getting stronger, it makes it even more suspicious. Sounds like one of those crazy conspiracy theories that’s going to be proven right, again.
If there’s another storm in October and it heads to Texas, I’m really going to wonder.
Cute. But it’ll never happen.
Sadly, looking back through history, I think you are correct.
I dare say that President Trump is doing what he can to deter as many cheaters as he can from following through with their criminal plans. I applaud him for standing up and fighting.
“Sadly, we still have another year to endure under Turdeau”
Can’t get rid of that mincing poofter, eh?
God, he’s so pathetic!
Poor you, Judy!
We know the feeling!
Recently you were all enjoying a humorous and serious discussion of music
MeanwhileI was busy getting angry and depressed watching the news re the destruction in our mountains
Came upon this on Facebook I liked Freddy Mercury and maybe his most well own work -Bohemian Rhapsody
Didn’t realize is was so complex(at least to unmusical me it seems complex),
The way I’m looking at it is that Canadians are soooooooo much more full of TDS than Americans. We have zero alternative news, so Canadians just walk in lockstep to the State Media. So, because of this, we will need to wake up, and it will take some time for President Trump to take office and getting the country up and humming again, highlighting the criminality of Turdeau even more. After Canadians see what is happening in America, they won’t care about TDS.
The media up here is already calling Polliviere the “Trump of the North”, hoping that the TDS will cause people to hate Polliviere as well. After some time, that will not work.
Why is the song called BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY?...
Why is it, exactly, 5 minutes and 55 seconds?
What is this song, really, about?
Why was the Queen movie released on October 31?
The film was released on October 31 because the single was heard for the first time on October 31, 1975. It is titled like this because a “Rhapsody” is a free piece of music composed in different parts and themes where it seems that no part has any relation to the other. The word “Rhapsody” comes from Greek and means “assembled parts of a song.” The word “bohemian” refers to a region of the Czech Republic called Bohemia, the place where Faust, the protagonist of the play that bears his name written by the playwright and novelist Goethe, was born. In Goethe’s work, Faust was a very intelligent old man who knew everything except the mystery of life. Not understanding it, he decides to poison himself.Just at that moment the church bells ring and he goes out into the street. Back in his room, he finds there is a dog. The animal transforms into a kind of man. It is about the devil Mephistopheles. He promises Fausto to live a full life and not be miserable in exchange for his soul. Fausto agrees, rejuvenates and becomes arrogant. He meets Gretchen and they have a son. His wife and son die. Fausto travels through time and space and feels powerful. As he grows old again he feels miserable again. Since he did not break the pact with the devil, the angels dispute his soul. This work is essential to understanding Bohemian Rhapsody.
The song talks about Freddie Mercury himself. Being a rhapsody we find 7 different parts:
1st and 2nd act A Capella
3rd act Ballad
4th act guitar solo
5th act opera
6th act rock
7th act “coda” or final act
The song talks about a poor boy who questions if this life is real or if it is his distorted imagination that lives another reality. He says that even if he stops living, the wind will continue to blow without his existence. So he makes a deal with the devil and sells his soul.
Upon making this decision, he runs to tell his mother and tells her...
“Mom, I just killed a man. I put a gun to his head and now he’s dead. I have thrown my life away. If I’m not back tomorrow, move on as if nothing matters...” That man who kills is himself, Freddie Mercury himself.
If he does not fulfill the pact with the devil, he will die immediately. He says goodbye to his loved ones and his mother bursts into tears, tears and desperate crying that come from Brian May’s guitar notes. Freddie, scared, shouts “mom, I don’t want to die” and the operatic part begins. Freddie is in an astral plane where he sees himself: “I see a little silhoutte of a man.” “scaramouche, are you going to start a dispute/fight?”
Scaramouche is “skirmish” a dispute between armies with horse riders (4 horsemen of the evil Apocalypse fight against the forces of good for Freddie’s soul) and it goes on to say “Thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening me” too much). This phrase appears in the Bible, exactly in Job 37 when it says... “the thunder and lightning frighten me: my heart pounds in my chest.” His mother, seeing him so scared by the decision her son has made, begs to save him from the pact with Mephistopheles. “He’s just a poor boy...” He forgives his life for this monstrosity. What comes easy, goes easy. Will you let him go? “ Their supplications are heard and the angels descend to fight the forces of evil.” Bismillah (Arabic word meaning “In the name of God”) is the first word that appears in the Muslim holy book, the Quran. So God himself appears and shouts “we will not abandon you, let him go.”
Faced with such a confrontation between the forces of good and evil, Freddie fears for the life of his mother and tells her “Mama mia, mama mia let me go” (mother, let me go). They shout again from the sky that they are not going to abandon him and Freddie shouts “no, no, no, no, no” and says “Beelzebub (the Lord of Darkness) may have put a devil in you mother.” Freddie here pays tribute to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach when he sings...
“Figaro, Magnifico” referencing Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro”, considered the best opera in history, and Bach’s “Magnificat” . He finishes the operatic part and the more rock part breaks in. The devil, angry and betrayed by Freddie by not fulfilling the pact, tells him “Do you think you can insult me like this? Do you think you can come to me and then abandon me? “Do you think you can love me and let me die?”
It is shocking how the lord of evil feels powerless before a human being, before repentance and love. Once the battle is lost, the devil leaves and we reach the last act or “coda” where Freddie is free and that feeling comforts him. He sounds the gong that closes the song. The gong is an instrument used in China and Far East Asia to heal people who are under the effects of evil spirits.
5:55 minutes last. Freddie was into astrology and 555 in numerology is associated with death, not physical, but spiritual, the end of something where angels will safeguard you. 555 is related to God and the divine, an ending that will begin a new stage.
And the song plays on All Saints’ Eve for the first time. A holiday called “Samhain” by the Celts to celebrate the transition and opening to the other world.
The Celts believed that the world of the living and the dead were almost united, and on the day of the dead both worlds were united, allowing the spirits to transit to the other side. Nothing in Bohemian Rhapsody is coincidental.
Everything is very measured, worked and has a meaning that transcends beyond being a simple song. It has been voted worldwide as the best song of all time.
This song represented a radical change in Queen as if she had really made a pact with the devil, she changed their lives forever and made them immortal.
Written by Jorge Palazón, Madrid (Spain).
Maybe our two favorite billionaires?
Musk and 45 !
Heres another this one interred in Lakeview cemetery in Cleveland Oh. One of my fav cemeteries
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John D. Rockfeller
(July 8, 1839–May 23, 1937), the founder of Standard Oil, was once the richest man in the world. He was the world’s first billionaire. He amassed a net worth of at least $1 billion in 1916. When Rockefeller died in 1937, his net worth was estimated to be approximately $340 billion in today’s dollars.
By the age of 25, he had one of the largest oil refineries in the United States. He was 31 when he became the world’s largest oil refiner. At 38, he controlled 90% of the oil refined in the United States. At fifty, John was America’s richest man. As a young man, every action, attitude, and connection was crafted to establish his wealth.
But at the age of 53, he fell unwell. His entire body became wracked with pain, and he lost all his hair. In total anguish, the world’s lone millionaire could buy anything he wanted but could only eat soup and crackers.
According to an associate, “He couldn’t sleep, wouldn’t smile, and nothing in life meant anything to him”. His personal, highly trained physicians indicated that he would die within the year. That year passed painfully slowly. As he approached death, he awoke one morning with the faint understanding that he would not be able to bring any of his fortune with him to the next world.
The man who could dominate the commercial world suddenly realised he had no control over his personal life. He informed his solicitors, accountants, and management that he intended to devote his assets to hospitals, research, and charity work. John D. Rockefeller started his foundation.
The Rockefeller Foundation financed Howard Florey and his colleague Norman Heatley’s penicillin research in 1941. But arguably the most astounding aspect of Rockefeller’s narrative is that when he began to give back a fraction of all he had gained, his body’s chemistry changed dramatically, and he recovered.
He was expected to die at the age of 53, but he survived to reach 98 years old. Rockefeller learnt gratitude and returned the great bulk of his money. This made him whole. It’s one thing to be healed. It is another to become fit. He was a devout Baptist who attended the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio.
Before he died, he wrote in his diary: “God taught me that everything belongs to Him, and I am merely a conduit to carry out His will. My life has been one long, happy holiday since then; full of work and play, I let go of my worries along the road, and God was wonderful to me every day.
Vile evil person ( think Hilary) or a pet
That to me is no choice
The pet and other peoples pets . Load um
Up. Mr or Ms evil will have a bit of time to reflect
“If someone is in the position to save either a wonderful, loyal pet, or a rather vile and unkind human being, what do we do?”
So if like you say he/she is a vile and unkind human I would grab my loving pet and look up and say LORD he is in your hands because I don’t want to die trying to save this evil person.
Now if I would really do that is another question. :-)
I really like this guy. I sure hope you get him in.
The young woman who submitted the tech support message below (about her relationship to her husband) presumably did it as a joke. Then she got a reply that was way too good to keep to herself. The tech support people’s love advice was hilarious and genius!
The query:
Dear Tech Support,
Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slowdown in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.
In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.5 and Personal Atention 6.5, and then installed undesirable programs such as: NBA 5.0, NFL 3.0 and Golf Clubs 4.1. Conversation 8.0 no longer runs, and House cleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system. Please note that I have tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.
What can I do?
Signed: Desperate
♥️
The response (that came weeks later out of the blue)…
Dear Desperate,
First keep in mind, Boyfriend 5.0 is an Entertainment Package, while Husband 1.0 is an Operating System.
Please enter command: I thought you loved me.html and try to download Tears 6.2. Do not forget to install the Guilt 3.0 update. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewelry 2.0 and Flowers 3.5. However, remember, overuse of the Tears application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5, Happy Hour 7.0, or Beer 6.1. Please note that Beer 6.1 is a very bad progrm that will download Snoring Loudly Beta version.
Whatever you do, DO NOT, under any circumstances, install Mother-In-Law 1.0 as it runs a virus in the background that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.
In addition, please do not attempt to re-install the Boyfriend 5.0 program. These are unsupported applications and will crash Husband 1.0.
In summary, Husband 1.0 is a great program, but it does have limited memory and cannot learn new applications quickly. You might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Cooking 3.0.
Good Luck
Tech Support 😆😆😆
“I am just wondering what we’re supposed to do. It made me think.”
I’ve been mowing it over since you asked it. I need your reaction is save the animal. But then I have to wonder how bad was the person, Hitler level bad, Obama level bad, annoying neighbor that plays loud music bad...
Everybody has redeeming qualities.
I don’t remember any Bible stories were someone had that choice to make. So we may never know what we’re supposed to do!
“It would be a gift by the Jewish state to humanity.”
I like him!!
LOL
I’ve been thinking about this. Usually, we don’t have to make this choice. There are frequently ways to accommodate both.
But, humans are made in the image of God. Animals are not. I have to go with the human. Perhaps I would be the means of leading Hitlary to Christ and thereby her salvation. My dogs are already redeemed.
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