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Originally posted by Reed N D Dark:

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Originally posted by That JR Thang:
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Finally heard from Steve today! Says he's been having a few health problems, which he did not elaborate on, but that he is staying tuned to the news regarding the fires in Redding.

Thanks.

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Originally posted by That JR Thang:

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Originally posted by Reed N D Dark:

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Originally posted by That JR Thang:
All,
Finally heard from Steve today! Says he's been having a few health problems, which he did not elaborate on, but that he is staying tuned to the news regarding the fires in Redding.

Thanks.

Got an email from Mary Jean today, FINALLY. She is fine...so fine that she got herself a new PURPLE chair! Last year it was a red sofa and now a purple chair. Girl has gone, as granny would say, slap dab crazy!

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Originally posted by Reed N D Dark:

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Originally posted by That JR Thang:

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Originally posted by Reed N D Dark:

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Originally posted by That JR Thang:
All,
Finally heard from Steve today! Says he's been having a few health problems, which he did not elaborate on, but that he is staying tuned to the news regarding the fires in Redding.

Thanks.

Got an email from Mary Jean today, FINALLY. She is fine...so fine that she got herself a new PURPLE chair! Last year it was a red sofa and now a purple chair. Girl has gone, as granny would say, slap dab crazy!

A red hat gal to the core! There’s a poem about that! Glad she’s up to being crazy! And hey if it’s comfortable and it happened to be the best deal why not purple! Ask her if she know purple was reserved for royalty at one time!

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Originally posted by That JR Thang:

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Originally posted by Reed N D Dark:

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Originally posted by That JR Thang:

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Originally posted by Reed N D Dark:

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Originally posted by That JR Thang:
All,
Finally heard from Steve today! Says he's been having a few health problems, which he did not elaborate on, but that he is staying tuned to the news regarding the fires in Redding.

Thanks.

Got an email from Mary Jean today, FINALLY. She is fine...so fine that she got herself a new PURPLE chair! Last year it was a red sofa and now a purple chair. Girl has gone, as granny would say, slap dab crazy!

A red hat gal to the core! There’s a poem about that! Glad she’s up to being crazy! And hey if it’s comfortable and it happened to be the best deal why not purple! Ask her if she know purple was reserved for royalty at one time!

When I am Old

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me,
And I shall spend my pension
on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals,
and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired,
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells,
And run my stick along the public railings,
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people's gardens,
And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat,
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go,
Or only bread and pickle for a week,
And hoard pens and pencils and beer mats
and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry,
And pay our rent and not swear in the street,
And set a good example for the children.
We will have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
So people who know me
are not too shocked and surprised,
When suddenly I am old
and start to wear purple!

by Jenny Joseph

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Originally posted by Reed N D Dark:
Pretty much, are you going to send it?

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Originally posted by That JR Thang:
Spoke to Steve today. He sounded good and has recovered from his nasty experience with some new pain medication.

Still trying to get me to move to OR with him to be near Mary Jean. There are days when I wish I could do that, but...

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Originally posted by Reed N D Dark:

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Originally posted by That JR Thang:
Spoke to Steve today. He sounded good and has recovered from his nasty experience with some new pain medication.

Still trying to get me to move to OR with him to be near Mary Jean. There are days when I wish I could do that, but...

Iirc you would have to make it in at least two airplane rides. Via Houston might work!

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Originally posted by That JR Thang:

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Originally posted by Reed N D Dark:

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Originally posted by That JR Thang:
Spoke to Steve today. He sounded good and has recovered from his nasty experience with some new pain medication.

Still trying to get me to move to OR with him to be near Mary Jean. There are days when I wish I could do that, but...

Iirc you would have to make it in at least two airplane rides. Via Houston might work!

And I would likely never see my family again...hmmm, there are days when that even sounds appealing...

But I could never do it. Me mummy deserves better than that from her oldest daughter.

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Julius Caesar formulated a policy of allowing Jews to follow their traditional religious practices, a policy which was followed, and extended, by Augustus, first emperor of Rome, reigned 27 BC - 14 AD. This gave Judaism the status of a religio licita (permitted religion) throughout the Empire.[5] The financial crisis under Caligula (37–41) has been proposed as the "first open break between Rome and the Jews", even though problems were already evident during the Census of Quirinius in 6 and under Sejanus (before 31).

Julius Caesar seemed to have a nice Cyrus the Great like relationship with the Jews but things seemed to steadily go downhill after that.

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I'm wondering if our mob has lost track of the Biblical Scholar: Dont take Bible literally thread, so am re-posting this reply there back to the pub in the hope you will all pick it up and put ICB to the test (remembering, of course, that ICB represents the entity unifying I, Allan's Conscious Mind and our Brain's Confirmation Bias:

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Originally posted by bluelamp:
Julius Caesar formulated a policy of allowing Jews to follow their traditional religious practices, a policy which was followed, and extended, by Augustus, first emperor of Rome, reigned 27 BC - 14 AD. This gave Judaism the status of a religio licita (permitted religion) throughout the Empire.[5] The financial crisis under Caligula (37–41) has been proposed as the "first open break between Rome and the Jews", even though problems were already evident during the Census of Quirinius in 6 and under Sejanus (before 31).

Julius Caesar seemed to have a nice Cyrus the Great like relationship with the Jews but things seemed to steadily go downhill after that.

Speaking of Cyrus reminds me of that Ultra-Orthodox Brooklynite who insisted Ahura Mazda-worshipping Zarathustrian Cyrus gave thanks to Adonai for his victory over Babylon, whereas Cyrus' own records show he gave thanks to Marduk in Babylon. That sweetly Confirmed our Bias. As we keep saying, everyone but the Jews (and later Christians) had no difficulty whatsoever paying respect to the different deities assigned as Patron Deities to different geographic regions by the Supreme Deity, as El Elyon appointed Adonai to the Jews.

Our world today will never get rid of anti-Jewish anti-Semitism unless and until we know, understand, and accept that it all began because Jews and Jews alone mocked and scorned as superstitions the deities worshipped by the people whose very country those Jews were living in. I have even seen a fifth-generation USA Jew saying the worship of Jesus is idolatry.

As for Sejanus, did you see Patrick Stewart playing that part in Robert Graves' I, Claudius?

MTC

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Jones and his large audience being friends of Trump probably is a reason Jones is getting so much censorship. Martin Luther King Jr. is definitely a better example of a guy using tons of lawyers for a good cause. However, if they are allowed to silence the Jones' and Assange's of the world, they might go after the King's of the world too.

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I saw this and wondered why you didn’t include some Christians thinking one should not worship Jesus, only God. Admittedly that can mess with their understanding of the trinity but I don’t see it as necessarily being a non starter.

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I'm wondering if our mob has lost track of the Biblical Scholar: Dont take Bible literally thread, so am re-posting this reply there back to the pub in the hope you will all pick it up and put ICB to the test (remembering, of course, that ICB represents the entity unifying I, Allan's Conscious Mind and our Brain's Confirmation Bias:
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Speaking of Cyrus reminds me of that Ultra-Orthodox Brooklynite who insisted Ahura Mazda-worshipping Zarathustrian Cyrus gave thanks to Adonai for his victory over Babylon, whereas Cyrus' own records show he gave thanks to Marduk in Babylon. That sweetly Confirmed our Bias. As we keep saying, everyone but the Jews (and later Christians) had no difficulty whatsoever paying respect to the different deities assigned as Patron Deities to different geographic regions by the Supreme Deity, as El Elyon appointed Adonai to the Jews.

Our world today will never get rid of anti-Jewish anti-Semitism unless and until we know, understand, and accept that it all began because Jews and Jews alone mocked and scorned as superstitions the deities worshipped by the people whose very country those Jews were living in. I have even seen a fifth-generation USA Jew saying the worship of Jesus is idolatry.

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This gets me back to my own views on Conspiracy Theory, something I have been following for decades.

First, conspiracies are an integral part of all human life, even inside families as some of us know all too well. As I keep saying, we (reasonably enough) often lose track of the original meanings assigned to created letter-groupings and focus only on the modern definition.

So what was the letter-group "conspire" originally created for?

Con = together

spirare = to breathe.

So the first conspirators were any group of people "breathing together", in other words agreeing on one interpretation of a disputed proposal and setting out to achieve that one result.

Only later did it acquire its sinister connotation.

It does not matter whether one is a member of a knitting circle, a sports club, a school Parents and Teachers' association, a political, banking, oil, pharmaceutical, industrial, military, military-industrial (think Eisenhower) entity, one is a conspirator working with fellow conspirators against conspirators with a different agenda.

For ICB, Conspiracy Theory was a letter-group concept deliberately created to suit political purposes. The good guys work together to achieve good purposes, the bad guys conspire together to achieve bad purposes.

The defined villains, the Illuminati, the Freemasons, thu Jooz, and so on, all have a veneration for education. If they did have any plan it would resemble my understanding of ancient China, where everyone, peasants included, was educated to a certain level where the very best were selected to go on to become Mandarins.

So let's take a look at the Bilderbergers, one target of the likes of Alex Jones.

Who are they?

We do know they come from all of the Western world and no doubt more (23 countries).

What is their purpose?

To divide the world into the haves and the have nots?

Or

Although members do not as a rule discuss what goes on within its conferences, (UK) Labour MP and onetime party deputy leader Denis Healey, a member of the steering committee for more than 30 years, did offer a clear statement of its intentions when quizzed by journalist Jon Ronson for his book Them in 2001.
"To say we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair," he said. "Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn't go on forever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless. So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing [ICB's emphasis]."
https://www.independent.co.uk/...-jones-a8377171.html

Given that ICB is committed to "innocent unless proven guilty", we remain sceptical but certainly not cynical.

Seems the author of that UK Independent site shares my opinion of Alex Jones:

American alt-right "shock jock" Alex Jones has been one of the loudest proponents of such theories, stating on air: "We know you are ruthless. We know you are evil. We respect your dark power".
He appeared on Andrew Neil's Sunday Politics show in 2013 to discuss the Bilderberg Group's meeting at a hotel in Watford, ranting wildly about them as "puppeteers above the major parties" and insisting on their role in the founding of the EU. "A Nazi plan", according to Mr Jones.
He has more recently attended protest camps, sent InfoWars pundit Owen Shroyer to try and invade their 2017 gathering in Chantilly, Virginia, and accused them of plotting to overthrow US president Donald Trump.
That might all sound alarming but is fairly mild by Mr Jones's standards. He also believes Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are demons and that the Pentagon has a secret "gay bomb".

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Originally posted by Allan:

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Originally posted by Reed N D Dark:
I saw this and wondered why you didn’t include some Christians thinking one should not worship Jesus, only God. Admittedly that can mess with their understanding of the trinity but I don’t see it as necessarily being a non starter.

Synchronicity Rules OK

Was thinking about that, too, especially as we found this while researching that post:

http://www.bibletopics.com/biblestudy/154.htm

So who, exactly IS the Bible deity?

Haven't read it all yet and, as the magpies and kookaburras are conspiratorially uniting outside, best I go feed them.

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Originally posted by Allan:
So the first conspirators were any group of people "breathing together", in other words agreeing on one interpretation of a disputed proposal and setting out to achieve that one result.

Only later did it acquire its sinister connotation.

...So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing

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Originally posted by bluelamp:
From Philip R. Davies book "On the Origins of Judaism":
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there is every reason to suppose, given the treatment of Persian kings in the biblical literature, that a tacit recognition of Marduk, Ahuramazda and Yhwh as the same high god was widespread in Judah, and that Second Isaiah gives us a glimpse into the process whereby the creation of the cult of the high god Yhwh was promoted in the temple city of Jerusalem so favoured, it seems, by the Persians. Yhwh became imperial: god of gods, king of kings, Most High, but his REAL capital city was Jerusalem...
Might we go as far as to claim that the cult of Yhwh in the Persian period was Zoroastrianism, localized and grafted onto an indigenous cult?
I think they lost their roots later via Hellenistic Alexandria Jews creating historical fiction that wasn't meant to be taken literally. Polycarp and company kind of created the same problem for Christians.

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I should probably check Youtube for Stewart's work outside of Star Trek. I knew he did Shakespeare roles.

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Originally posted by bluelamp:

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Originally posted by Allan:
So the first conspirators were any group of people "breathing together", in other words agreeing on one interpretation of a disputed proposal and setting out to achieve that one result.

Only later did it acquire its sinister connotation.

...So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing

Yeah my paleochristian group likes pointing out that technically the official explanation for 9-11 is a conspiracy theory since the theory has more than one guy involved. Even with a single world community idea starting out with good intentions, doesn't mean it stays that way. There was a reason the original US colonies were weary about having a centralized government. Somewhere in the timeless dreamtime, Paul is probably quite grumbly about what Polycarp did with Paul's good intentions.