The Kingdom Of God Is Inside You! So Why Do You  Even Now  Woship The Devil?

Why do Christians of our day insist the devil is the  ruler of this earth?

Why do you give Satan such unwarranted power ?

Is it because  you have  lost the  reality of the  historic  church?

Is it because  you have  lost the understanding of the Reign of Christ?

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Sometimes language is not precise enough to make the specific meaning totally clear. Let us use “love” for our illustration. Love may be felt for your spouse, your baby, your work, your morning tea, your favorite shotgun, your heavenly father, or your country.

Clearly loving God is quite a different concept from loving your job. Love for your family is a totally different concept from loving a particular brand of beer. We love all kinds of things and people, but the emotion is not the same. Love by itself has little meaning.
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I realize it, Morbid title for a post. Still,it’s true. We are all on the proverbial sinking ship. We may not realize when it’s going to sink, but eventually it will sink to the bottom. Our days are numbered and then our number gets called and we find ourselves headed to that smashing all-you-can-eat- chinese-buffet in the sky.

So maybe that’s not the same way you picture it, but you have to concede that we are living on borrowed time. I understand that’s a somewhat depressing assertion coming from a motivational speaker. Someone ought to have me author a book for children and the last page would say, “And they all lived happily ever after – except for Farmer Brown who got hit by a truck the next day on his way to the mailbox.”

There are three scenes that I recall with clarity from that film”Titanic” – the part where the musician plays his violin as they sink- the scene where the captain prefer s to go down with his ship – and the previous scene where they show the fancy high-strung people on the top deck swiling fine wine and listening to classical music while they strain under the effort of attempting to impress each other- in parallel with the dirt poor common folk in the lower decks of the ship who are dancing arm-in-arm to the rich thriving beat of the fiddle’s music – their fingers icky, their hair disheveled, their arms flung out in utter abandonment as their wide toothless grins convey the hope that carries them through despair.

I was struck by the schism of those two pictures of humanity and how they symbolize two very opposite ways to live your life. You can live your life stiff and proper, preoccupied with appearances, measuring the value in others by the oppulence of china or thread count in a sheet, measuring every move as if all the world were staring and you so urgently don’t wish to let them see you fall. Or you can live your life desperately happy in spite of your circumstances – looking for every opportunity to fling out your arms and dance.I will admit that there are numerous times in my existance where I find myself upstairs- lured into that world that whispers to you it’s all about scratching your way to the top of the ship. But it’s not too long before I find myself running back down to the belly of the ship to find the simple folk- to link arms with the toothless guy with the huge grin – and just dance.We don’t know when our ship will sink, only that some day it will go under. Will you go down struggling to grab all your fine things? Will you be playing your fiddle until the very last moment? Will you choose to go down with your ship? Or will you spend your time dancing, arm in arm with the simple folk? The choice is up to you. The days are numbered. See you in the belly of the ship.

By Donald Swarbrick.

I have tried in many ways to prove to the doubters of my theory on how light travels through space, and that we cannot go back in time when we study distant galaxies or dying stars we observe in the night sky either by unaided sight or by telescopes like Hubble or telescopes operated by electromagnetic radiation.

Some of us seem to underestimate the power of our own eyes, and do not realise that it only takes a millisecond for our eyes to focus on what is in front of them, and that we can see as far as the stars without help from telescopes or binoculars.

When we use aids like these mentioned they magnify the object we are homing in on, except for the ones that use radio waves, which bounce signals off of the object they focus on.

When Hubble was pointed at black open spaces out in the universe visions appeared, which according to my theory was Hubble reaching out to these lights, or in other words “magnifying” these lights, not so much the light reaching Hubble.
The light Hubble reaches out to are varied with constellations forming, and stars dying, and against all other theorist I believe that instead of going back in time when looking out as far as these visions we are still looking at what is out there now.
What happened out there after the Big Bang is history, and history cannot be retrieved through the more abundant lights we are observing, as we reach farther and farther out into space with our newer inventions.

I have pointed out these theories before, I hear you say, but think on when reading the next part.

Mass cannot travel at the speed of light, the light is produced by heat coming from different forms of mass,(forming galaxies, constellations or dying stars e.g.) and it is only the light that travels through space acting as all light does by spreading and weakening as it journeys out from its source.

Most of this light will carry heat and energy with it on part of its journey, which might be part of the makeup of dark matter as the light fades, leaving behind its energy, but that is another story.

If, as scientist believe, that the light we can see light years away is ONLY light reaching us from some occurrence that happened just after the Big Bang, and that by reaching it we can go back in time, then how can we bounce radar signals off of it?

They are contradicting themselves by saying that the image they are seeing will have taken a different shape or form over the millions of years the light has taken to reach us, and that the images Hubble is sending back is only light coming from an event that happened, not that it is happening now, then tell us they are bouncing radar signals off of objects within these images.

You cannot bounce radar signals off of light, you need “mass” or the source of the light to be there to get a signal that way, which tells me at least, that what they are looking at is happening NOW not light years ago.

Laser light (light amplification by stimulated emissions of radiation.) is used to measure the distance between the earth and the moon, but you need the source of the power that sends the laser ray out towards the moon to be active to achieve this.
If the power source was switched off before the ray reached the moon it would go no farther, disappear, and not carry on to bounce back and record a distance.
If you sent a laser beam out into open space, you can see the beam, but as soon as the source of the power projecting that light is switched off the beam disappears, you cannot follow its projection out into space.
Without its power source it does not exist, and the same principle applies to the light sources we are observing the deeper we reach into space.

I came across an example of how they contradict themselves in this way which I have copied below.

RADIO SIGNAL SENSITIVITY

The upgrade features a new system for focusing radio signals using a system of Gregorian reflectors, a new, more powerful 1 million watt radar transmitter and a 50ft high steel mesh ground screen to reduce ground interference. The facility, operated by Cornell University’s National Astronomy and Ionosphere Centre (NAIC) under co-operative agreement with the NSF, was upgraded with funds from the NSF and NASA at a cost of approximately $27 million.

The upgrade, the second since the facility was built in 1963, allows scientists to do in one hour what previously took 10 hours. The sensitivity was improved by a factor of about 20 for studies of the solar system and by a factor of about three or four for studies of distant galaxies. More radio frequencies are now available with increased sensitivity at all frequencies. Astronomers will be able to ‘observe’ signals farther away, and thus further back in time, than ever before. The telescope’s frequency range, and thus its sensitivity, previously 50MHz to 3,000MHz, is now 10,000MHz.
REFLECTOR DISH AND ANTENNA

Unchanged in the upgrade is Arecibo’s trademark reflector dish. Most radio telescopes use a parabolic antenna that can be steered to any direction. The Arecibo antenna is spherical and remains fixed but the focusing device suspended above the dish can be steered. Thus, signals can be captured from a greater slice of the sky. A radio/radar telescope captures and transmits radiation at radio wavelengths, unlike optical telescopes, which capture light waves. So clouds, haze and even daylight do not interfere with radio astronomy.

The system suspended above the dish to focus the radio waves collected by the 1,000ft diameter (305m) reflector has been radically changed. Now, a new six-storey, 90t dome houses a new reflector system, a combination of two radio mirrors and sensitive receiver systems. It is suspended 450ft above the giant reflector dish. The mirrors focus radio waves coming from distant objects in space or radar signals that are sent out into space and bounce back from the surfaces of the planets and other bodies in the solar system.

Read that and tell me how you can bounce radio waves off of light projecting from something that is supposed to have died light years ago, or fix radio waves on light reaching us now from a constellation that formed light years ago.
The source of the light HAS to be there still or the radio signal would carry on past it if it hadn’t enough “mass” to stop it.

It does pass through the light projected by the source until it reaches the “mass” then it bounces back to the receiver, the light from the source becoming stronger and narrowing nearest the source, acting as all light does, stronger at the source and spreading and weakening as it travels outward.

I am not debating that light travels, nor am I debating the speed of light, only that what we are observing out there is happening NOW not light years ago.
Not only is the light traveling to us, but we are reaching out to that “light source” nullifying any time lapse, and nullifying the notion that we can go back in time.

What Do We Think We Are?
© Tatiana Velitchkov

“We are better than you”. These are the convictions and attitudes that we cherish and treasure as human beings. However, why do we think we are better than others? Largely, such attitudes are brought about by how we are brought up socially, and partly politically; although, it’s the individual’s viewpoint that develop the fundamental perspective of collective social-cultural convictions against others. Apparently, it is these attitudes, paranoia and fear that we have adopted, leading to increased antagonism in the global environment.

Where can we find ourselves back? It’s from the roots of our personal standpoints in regard to how we perceive members of the human society that do not share social-cultural, and, or political commonness. Its through this we shall be able to appreciate others, and ultimately appreciate ourselves best. Or social mind’s eye manifested through our families, education system, religion, sports and creative arts, among others develops the social-cultural views that we possess within us. Communally engaging activities are among the most powerful vehicles of such development that largely shape and put into somebody various notions of our “human being”.

For sure, we are not immune to the external influence, especially from the modern culture. The modern culture that surrounds us brings forth compositional approaches and alternative social methodologies, but still we tend to be tethered around ethnocentrism among other divisiveness. Sadly, this has been cemented by the contemporary media which still tend to hold and show the human divisiveness such as racism, sexism and individualism, among others. The beauty of modern society is in appreciating human diversity. Not seeing yourself as “better than him”, but seeing him different from you. Through this we will be able to make today’s social baggage as an accepted standard of life, and enjoy life. Else, we become what we think we are.

The Philosophy of Philosophy
© Tatiana Velitchkov

Philosophy can not be accurately defined. Any definition that seeks to define philosophy deems to be debatable, and at times controversial. However, in characterizing it according to its distinctive system of beliefs and critique, we can generally say that philosophy is the study of existence, values, beliefs, mind, knowledge and nature. However, philosophy goes beyond that, and the only way to understand it is to understand the philosophy of philosophy. What are the values and morals of philosophy? What does philosophy seek to unravel? What is the ultimate justification of philosophy?

Fundamentally, philosophy seeks to inquire concepts surrounding human being. Although some have translated it as human sciences, it goes beyond that. Perhaps, we can say that philosophy is about critical thinking. According to Wilfred Hodges, English philosophy, as well as the entire Western philosophy, you are not to take things to believe, especially if they seem incontestable and obvious. You have to take a “second order” inquiry rather than base your trust on emotions and perceptions. Although the line between the “second order” thinking and the “first order” thinking may be unclear, the subject matter here is “thinking about thinking” on the basis of the way of human thinking.

Philosophy is distinct from other human sciences in the way it seeks to answer questions of existence and conditions of humankind through logic, natural phenomenon, mysticism (or mythology), aesthetics and relationship between beliefs, truth and justification. On values, philosophy concerns itself on the question of morals or ethics; how is a human being supposed to live? What are the various ethical systems in existence, and how do they influence on the way of thinking? Its central approach in unraveling such phenomenon is through reasoned argument; while as the origin meaning of the study translates (philosophia in Greek) the soul of philosophy is the “Love of Wisdom”.

If you are interested – see this: Heidegger life and Philosophy video 1 of 6

What is Wrong With Altruism?
© Tatiana Velitchkov

What constitutes earnest altruism? “What if you care more about other people’s lives in proportion to their comfort than you care about your own life in proportion to your own comfort?” Asks Vladimir Nesov in “Circular Altruism vs. Personal Preference.” Altruism is ethical good relative to others and pursuit of good in relation to morality; not as a result of emotive hortative or compassion. However what is the distinction between altruism and compassion? And what is wrong with them?

When the urge to do good to others is as a result of pursuit of ones self gratification, then this is not altruism but egoism. As well, if a person is driven to do good by human instinctive feelings rather than powerful sense of moral obligation, then it means that when such feelings are not in him, there will be no earnest altruism. However, absolute altruism, to the extent that the altruist is unconscious of his self compassion is no good as the person tends to good as a duty rather than acts honestly driven by benefit of others.

Perhaps, the best approach to answer the question of altruism is by looking at its origin. According to T.H. Huxley, every major human faith and philosophy surrounds the truth that the best way to conduct yourself is to do to others what you would wish them to do to you. And so, if the choice is honestly to do good, and is based on moral obligation, that the other person need your “good act” just as you would like of them, then there would be no such question of justification to altruism. However, if you do good out of emotive stimulus, (or as a duty), then it means the drive is absent with the absence of moral obligation.

Q&A: Example of Altruism – YouTube video by PaulMcKeever

Understanding Human Happiness
© Tatiana Velitchkov

“A saint that is sad, is a sad saint”, Saint Thomas de Aquino. Happy is an ancient word, this word was used to refer to Fortune, Destiny, and Luck. Happiness is not a product of chemical reactions that take place in the brain. Happiness is not a result of performing good actions. Happiness is not a smile, nor is it pleasure – happiness is destiny. Happiness is understanding.

Happy is an ancient word that was used in the past to refer to Destiny. Destiny in ancient times was also called Fortune, but fortune in those days was termed the road of life. As time moved on slowly, as the ages past, as generations came and left, the meaning of words changed, however the true essence remains. In modern days Fortune means wealth, and destiny means predestination. In modern days, free humans claim, they make their own destiny, they defy ancient rulings and decide to make their own Happiness, in simple words they make their own destiny.

The realization of a desire, which is an inner thought, is also referred in this “modern” times as happiness. If someone desires something and obtains it then he is happy. This identical match between the inner worlds of thought of an individual and the world is the definition of truth. So, happiness is the truth.

Beyond this happiness is a vase, and this vase can be filled by each individual with water drink that pleases him. The word is an empty glass, the word is happiness, the word can be love, the word can be money the glass may be filled with meanings, but the glass is made of happiness. Happiness is an individual private election, happiness is to fill that glass, to the top, to the tears, to the gold, or to the sea. Happiness is whatever you want it to be.

Happiness is a word that when created inferred the meaning of luck. To understand happiness is to understand human nature, and happiness can be many things. Happiness therefore presents itself to the society as a white page to be filled with words of luck. Luck is random, luck is the dice on that number, as I choose 5 you may choose 3 and while you may be happy only when your number strikes, others are just happy to see the dice roll.

Understanding Happiness is something I could very well do, but as understanding happiness could be used for negative ends, so, I will avoid to do it. I do however challenge the reader to understand happiness themselves. To fill the blank pages. For if happiness is a blank page, then true happiness is not to read but to fill it with words.

A discussion of Aristotle’s understanding of happiness – YouTube video

The Mystery of Common Sense
© Tatiana Velitchkov

The mystery of common sense is a mystery that leads the way to the soul and to life. If life is an ocean, then the senses are the rivers that flow to reach that ocean. The five human senses are windowing into the world. The senses act by interpreting the reality of life and the world that surrounds us. This interpretation is coded and then decoded by the mind, or mental functions. The five senses together provide an interpretation of the world, where the five senses meet is the common sense.

While common sense is attributed to the mind, the mind and brain functions only act as painters, of reality. Visual impressions constantly flood our sight, so do sounds, touch, smell, and these rise sensations. The senses work is done through the body, the eyes – sight, construct a cognitive reality of reality, through the mental and mind functions, but what tells us where to go, what to eat, how to cross a street, or survive in nature, or live in the “correct” ways. While behaviors, habits and attitudes, are style and personality, they come from the past experience of learning.

The past meets as well with other information, in the room of the mind in the common sense. Still a decision is to be made with all the information that comes every second, so that humans make an instant decision. Is it common sense that drives them? Common sense is as process of the mind, the five senses, the past and intuitions are processes of cognitive range, being these processes of the body, what remains present through the hours taking decisions is the essence, some called it Pshyque, other called it anima, other call it the Spirit or the Soul.

We may close our eyes, and cover our ears, forget our past and touch nothing, and still common sense or the lack of common sense will show us that there is a world beyond the world we construct.
The Soul sits on the thrown of the mind, and dwells in the rooms of common sense, where the five senses nourish the life as only water does, as the rivers of information represent a window into the kingdom of life.

The mystery of common sense may be solved but yet everything remains even more mysterious, even more immense, and perfectly unanswered. For it is the mystery of unveiling, revealing and crystallizing our true essence and the essence of the world what the mystery of the common sense seeks to do. Know your Soul, take a walk through this sacred park, she is in control, she knows the secret road to all mysteries.

This youtube video – Using Common Sense to Debunk Evolution – CBN.com might be of interest to you

By.Donald Swarbrick.

In my last post I was trying to give an example of how things would have been described by people from these time, and how they used the only items around them to try to explain events they were witnessing but had no concept of what really was going on.

The words and descriptions that were used then would take on a completely different form, as we now know more about the universe, and have built machines that can fly not only inside our atmosphere but go out into space, albeit not too far.

It might come as a shock if another craft from another part of the universe landed here today, but we would understand more about it and be able to describe the event in a more logical way.

What I am trying to say is the events recorded in the Old Testament by Ezekiel would have been more explicit if  they had the knowledge we have today.

I will give you an example by showing you another excerpt from “unfeatheredangels” (Which quotes the bible)  and then have you try and picture what Ezekiel is trying to describe in todays terms.

no feathers flying here

CHAPTER NINE
UNFEARTHERED ANGELS
“Ezekiel”, holds the key to my theory and when we can crack this code, we will know the secrets and mysteries of the skies and of course unfold the truth of our own destiny. If ever anyone was trying to describe aircraft or power packs attached to men, Ezekiel is, giving a more intriguing and believable insight to the crafts from Heaven than any other report we have read, even in comparison to the latest sightings in our era.

Chapter one verse one, (the last two lines,) “The Heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.” If the mother ships were camouflaged by clouds, or the space station was large enough to be observed from earth it would only be a case of the doors of the spaceship or station, being opened creating the illusion of the Heavens opening to an earthling, with God emerging from it on some kind of small craft. That is the scene we should picture today, not some ghostly figure emerging from thin air as we have been led to believe.

A spaceship ten miles long and two miles wide is a massive construction when compared to aircraft on earth, but the planet Heaven as we have established is massive in comparison to earth so it could follow that any human forms, or man-made objects from Heaven would he much larger than earth. Imagine an object of that proportion appearing in our skies at cloud level, its apparition blending in with the clouds and a large hatch opening from underneath allowing a person from within to stand at it, with the interior lights shinning behind him showing him in silhouette.

Is that not the description the Bible gives when God appears from Heaven, and is the Bible’s account of these events not the way a man from two thousand years ago or more would have described such a frightening occurrence? Nobody seemed to pick up on the connection in the Bible between the colossal structures built at the time of the Pharaohs and the fact that God was on and around the earth at that time. The reason for this is that they are too busy looking at the mystical side of things and not the practical side. They don’t seem to want God to be a person who evolved like their selves albeit, in a much larger form, they want to look on him through the same eyes as our less technically advanced ancestors.

The people chosen by God to foretell our destiny (Ezekiel being one) were shown images of events about to happen, some imminent at that time others had not occurred even yet but will happen in the very near future. Ezekiel also had the privilege to see first hand the different types of craft used by God’s crews.
I am going to quote most of chapter one of Ezekiel and translate it in the way it should be translated in this day and age. Starting from verse four “ And I looked, and behold, a great whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud and a fire unfolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst, thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

” VERSE FIVE “Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures, and this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.” SIX “And every one had four faces and every one had four wings.” SEVEN “And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.” EIGHT “And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.

” NINE “Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; and they went every one straight forward.” TEN “As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side; and they had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.” ELEVEN “thus were their faces; and their wings were stretched upwards; two wings of every one were joined to one another, and two covered their bodies.” TWELVE “And they went every one straight forward; whither the spirit was to go, they went and they turned not when they went.

” THIRTEEN “As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps; it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright and out of the fire went forth lightning.” FOURTEEN “And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.” FIFTEEN “Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.” SIXTEEN “The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl; and they four had one likeness; and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.” SEVENTEEN “When they went they went upon their four sides; and they turned not when they went.” EIGHTEEN “As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

” NINETEEN “And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.” TWENTY “Whither soever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.” TWENTY ONE “When those went these went; and when those stood these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.” TWENTY THREE “And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other; every one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side, their bodies.” TWENTY FOUR “And when they went I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host; when they stood they let down their wings.”

It should not take much imagination of people from the twenty first century to see what is really being described in these verses of Ezekiel; it would take more of an imagination now, to interpret them in the way that has been handed down to us, as if they were monsters or creatures unknown to us. Nevertheless here is my version without quoting all the Chapters.

Engines and rotor blades create whirlwinds as I have already mentioned and the cloud and the fire would be one way of describing the exhaust trail they leave especially if you have never see an example of this before. They appeared to look like men because they were men with power packs which would be one of their methods of getting around earth and going between there and their ships or space stations. The four faces and four wings are easily explained when you visualise the small flying machines we use in today’s world.

The very description of the visions in this chapter is exactly how I would expect someone from these times to describe the flying machine attached to the man who flew across the English Channel that I mention in this book. The description of wings in the bible when moving never flap, ( under the firmament were their wings straight) they always make loud noises and cause a draft (whirlwind) and the spirit that was in the living creature and in the wheels mentioned, was the engine or the power source. The creatures appeared and disappeared like a flash of lightning which would be fast, with a trail off the jet engine or power source attached to their bodies. In these times there should be no doubt from anybody what the machines are and there should be no doubting that we are not alone in the universe.

What else could these things be that are being described in Ezekiel other that flying machines, machines that would be described in a very different way today if we seen them with our own eyes.

Your views will be very much appreciated.