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how do you not feel ashamed of your paras? /gen /pos , genuinely curious cause i'm so afraid of actually having a para that the line between attraction and intrusive thoughts is blurred

For me, it's a part of unwinding my fundamentalist christian upbringing.

I was taught to be entirely sexless before marriage. No sexual thoughts, acts, feelings. It was a sin. The sex education from my parents was a book about STDs and how having sex before marriage was a sin. I had no idea what masturbation was until I was around 17. I was told that sex is painful and a chore, and you have to do it for your husband without any sort of attraction. Romantic attraction got pulled into that by extension, as people from churches I went to have cut off contact with me after becoming attracted to me, and I saw people who were in high school courting (not dating, but it was also called "dating with purpose" because the aim is to marry young and often have as many kids as possible in an attempt to breed out nonbelievers via numbers) while I was in middle school. That is what purity culture is. It hides neglect and abuse in the name of keeping others "holy," and is the big reason why it is likely that I still cannot use tampons as an adult, am clueless about my own anatomy, cannot say certain words, and may even have my vaginal muscles tighten because of the trauma it has caused me as my body tries to keep anything going in out because of the trauma I have experienced. It's not a quirky fandom thing about media.

I've been deconverting for about four years now. All those years of suppression are being deconstructed and slowly lifted. It took me until last year to finally buy a vibrator and to acknowledge that pleasure is okay to experience and doesn't make me wasted goods to experience on my own. My hypersexuality has gotten more manageable with that as a management tool, along with being with someone who does not pressure me into sexual behavior or avoiding sexual behavior. As I heal from sexual trauma and start to see sex as something that can be enjoyed and not inherently immoral, that impacts how I see my intrusive thoughts too.

Intrusive thoughts when I was younger to me were any unwanted thoughts. With undiagnosed ADHD, controlling my thoughts was hell, even if they weren't intrusive. I'd imagine the white-bread version of Jesus (Because, surprise, surprise, no one said he was jewish and even those that did did not acknowledge he was 99.9% likely to not be white) blocking any thoughts I had of sex and attraction because of how distressing they were due to my faith. Now, I look back on that and cannot help but feel bad because those thoughts and feelings were not inherently bad. I was taught that they were, and it stunted my ability to handle those feelings in ways that were healthy.

I do think that my paraphilias being recognized as my experiences as an adult helps a lot in not feeling as much shame as I would have when I was younger. That isn't to say that I never experienced them. My masochism and appreciation of blood was found in middle school, but I didn't realize it was deviant because I never told anyone or felt as if I could express desire or urges at all in any capacity. It was pretty much my upbringing that shamed them out of me so now that I know I experience them it is harder to deal with. At the time, too, there was the whole belief of "sexual trauma makes you a predator" that I heavily internalized.

I started slowly with recovery. The little things. It wasn't a sin to like how I looked. It didn't make me vain inherently. I didn't need to pray or read my bible if it didn't make me feel safe. My emotions are not moral or immoral to experience. It snowballed from there to tackling bigger things like how subjective morality is and that a book from ages ago is a lot more morally grey than I was taught. That I was mislead about other religions and especially judaism. What a closed practice/religion was, and that in high school when I was forced to partake in passover, what I was doing was actually not okay for me, someone who is not jewish at all, to do. That deconstruction heavily overlapped with me walking away from the alt-right as well.

It's all very connected to me. I'm still making progress every day. Sometimes I slip. I lose ground and have to work on it more. But it's not a linear process that is overnight.

It is a pretty individual thing, especially since I know my case might not be the most normal baseline because of my upbringing. Start with what works for you.

#the blackbox askbox #pro para #anti radqueer #fluffy para #recoverypunk #ex fundie #hypersexuality

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7/29/2022 DAB Chronological Transcription

Isaiah 49-53

Welcome to Daily Audio Bible Chronological. I'm Jill and today is the 29th day of July. And you can hear that smile. I know you guys don't get it. It's the spaghetti music- it just reminds me of eating spaghetti in Italy. It's- it makes me happy. That's all you need to know. Welcome. So glad to be here with you as we wind down this month together. And boy did this month five by, or is it just me? I guess we must really be having fun here because it truly seems like we just got here and now we are saying hasta la vista...I don't even know if those are right. They just came to mind. Let's read the Bible shall we? Today we're reading Isaiah chapter 49 through 53 and we're reading the Contemporary English version this week. Just a couple more days in this translation and then we will start a brand new one. Isaiah chapter 49.

Prayer:

Father, we thank you for your word once again today. Thank you for the reminder of the mercy that you show to us even when we don't deserve it but we will take it because we undoubtedly need it. And I pray that as we hear these words read today, we once again are reminded of who you are. The power that you hold and that living in the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. We revere who you are, your presence, your power, your Majesty, and may we never lose the awe and the wonder of who you are. I pray this now in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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Community Prayer Line:

Hey my beautiful DABC fam this is Kingdom Seeker Daniel. Family I wanted to lift up a couple DABCers and then ask for your prayers, so let's pray. Lord, I come on behalf of our sister Tahsti in Kansas as her 3 year old son has had surgery and is in recovery. God we're asking that you allow him to recover well- he would make a full recovery. And that his mouth would heal perfectly. Thank you for the progress of allowing his parents to wash his mouth with a rag. Thank you for that progress moving in the right direction. Will you continue to be with the family and comfort Mom and Dad's heart to know that you've got their son and that all is coming around as you would have it to be. In Jesus' Name. Then for our sister One Penny Saved from South West Missouri, you are absolutely right sis. It is ok to not be ok and when we're not ok that's when Jesus steps in and he makes things ok in his time. So you just lean back in his bosom and let him hold you in this trying time. Father, comfort our sister's heart and let her know that you make all things beautiful in your time. In Jesus' Name. Family I got a text from my former boss back in Chicago asking for prayer about his son and daughter. Will you please pray for their marriage?They had a pretty serious eruption in the marriage and things are very tense and he's concerned about the grandchildren involved. So it's Brandon and Cathleen Capel. Please pray for their marriage. Thank you family. Love you guys.

Hi everyone, it's Christy in Kentucky, Saved By Grace. I wanted to let you know that I am joining with you and the rest of our DAB family for praying for Carson's family as they mourn the loss of this precious young man. Lady Bray I pray for you for wisdom to know when to speak and when to be quiet. Oh girl, I understand that. Marla in Wisconsin, you have received the wisdom that you have prayed for regarding your job. Joy, I wanna apologize to you sister. I called you Sue. I do not know why, please forgive me. And if there is a Sue out there that is grieving let me know because I do not know where that name came from. Trusting in a Merciful God, I am praying for that couple. I am praying that they had a healthy, healthy baby. And Simone in Houston we celebrate with you in passing that exam and we are praying with you to find the job that the Lord has waiting for you. Marie in Dubai we are praying for your brother and the court case which was the 19th. Praying for favor in that outcome. And Under Construction, we are praising God that Irene got a job and we are praying for her son who was at the time in the hospital. I am praying also for Adrienne in TX yes that extreme heat, no rain. My goodness. Lord, please send rain where it needs to rain. I love you guys. I pray each of you are having a most blessed and lovely day today.

Hi this is Victoria Soldier just calling in to pray for some of the DABers. I just wanted to pray for Walking in Truth and continue to encourage her. And also I want to pray for the lady with the 7 kids. I'm just so glad that God worked a miracle and directed you and that you didn't do what you had planned...like Solomon said...he said you can make the plan, but God does the direction. Thank you Lord for blessing my precious sister. Lord I just pray that you continue to open doors for her. Continue to bless her in your mighty and special way. Lord, in the name of Jesus we bless those precious kids...Father, only you can work the miracle. You are the way, the truth and the life. You have your way, Lord. You are the resurrection and the life. We ask you to have your way in the life of your people. And Lord we give you the glory, we give you the honor and the praise in Jesus' Name. Have a good day DABers. Love you.

My name is Pat, I'm from Missouri. I called to request prayer for my son, Arthur. He's in his mid 30's and when he was in his late teens he decided he just didn't believe in Jesus or the Bible. He's got a family now and I pray that he and his family would all come to know the Lord as their Savior and Lord. Thank you very much. God bless you all. Bye bye.

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11/18/2023 DAB Transcript

Ezekiel 37:1-38:23, James 1:19-2:17, Psalm 117:1-2, Proverbs 28:1

Today is the 18th day of November, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian, it’s great to be here with you today as we step forward, as we reach the conclusion of another one of our weeks together and continue the journey forward. Which leads us back into the book of Ezekiel, and then in the New Testament, we have buckled up yesterday, we’re in the book of James. And so, we’re getting some straight talk from the New Testament, and we'll get there in a minute. But first Ezekiel chapters 37 and 38.

Prayer:

Father, we thank You for Your word. We thank You for the guidance that it brings to us, the illumination on the steps that we take, and the choices that we make. We thank You for Your guidance in our lives through every day of this year. And we are preparing to turn into the busiest part of the year and so, we’re holding on to You and holding onto each other and He will hold onto us. So, come, Holy Spirit, plant all that we've read in this week into our lives, into the fertile soil of our hearts, and may it yield the fruit of the spirit in our lives. And we look forward longingly to all that You have yet to speak to us through the Scriptures this year. Come, Holy Spirit, lead us forward we ask in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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And that's it for today, I'm Brian, I love you and I'll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Prayer and Encouragements:

Hello, I’m calling, excuse me, to pray for Courtney, who called in today on November 13th. And she has been diagnosed with ALS in April. She has three children, and she knows that she is a child of God. But she is praying for more time with her children from the diagnosis of two to five years with ALS. I just want you to know Courtney, my sister, that I will be praying for you and that your faith is amazing. And it’s touched me so deeply to hear how much you believe. And that you know that God will take care of your children. I just pray for you and ask God to heal you with His mighty hands, which we know He can do. And I just wanted to thank you for calling in, asking for prayer. And know that I will be praying for you, Courtney. Thank you for calling and showing us your faith in Jesus.

Hey guys, long time, first time. This is Serene Ghost. Calling in tonight because I need some heavy-duty prayer backup. The short version is my wife is a alcoholic in recovery but she is in a dry drunk phase. For those of you who are familiar, you know what I’m talking about. And her and I have been in marriage counseling for the last few months and during that time she has had I guess, two affairs. I don’t know what to call them. Thank God no sex was involved but one of was a little physical and I just found out tonight that there was, that there’s a third one. I caught her in a lie. She was in another state at some guy’s house. I love my wife and as much as my heart is broken, I forgive her. And I would just ask that you guys pray for her because she’s very broken and very sick and very lost right now. Somewhere in there is my sweet wife. We have our next counseling meeting tomorrow. I’m only getting a few hours of sleep tonight. But if you could join me in prayer for her. Father, I ask for Your protection for my wife. I pray that You surround her with hedge of thorns, that she be kept sacred and held apart from anything and anyone who would try to come between You and her, as well as her and I. That she be kept safe from the enemies lies and temptations. That You would show her where true value comes from. That she is deeply loved by her heavenly Father and devoted husband. In Jesus name.

Hello DAB family and blessings to the Hardin Family. I am calling today for Cory from Colorado who received an ALS diagnosis. And I wanted you to know, Cory, that I am standing with you and so many others are. And it is privilege to be able to do it because I know that God is going to meet every single need that you have. He is Jehovah Raffa. He is our peace. He’s Jehovah Shalom. He is Jehovah Jira and He is so gracious and so loving and so merciful, that I have no doubt in my mind that miracles, signs and wonders are gonna follow you. That you’re gonna have supernatural favor with whoever needs to provide service to you during this time. I also believe that God, as you stated, He’s gonna allow you to see your kids grow up. And I just, I believe that for you and ask for that from the Lord. I ask also that the confidence that you have in Him will grow throughout this time. You stated that you know where you’re going and that just, when I heard that it just really refreshed me as I walk through the things that I’m walking through. Because you know, to know that end, always gives us encouragement, it actually increases our faith as we walk with the Lord through our momentary trials and tribulations. However, I do wanna let you know that on those moments, where it’s moment by moment, with our faith walk and emotions are filling when they come, that you have an army of people that are praying for you. And you have a lady in Georgia who, you just captured my heart. And actually the entire DAB family has. So, I just speak life unto you. I speak healing.

Today’s November 14th and this is Magnify Him in Madison. Just leaving a message to encourage People on the Water. I heard, from Indiana, I heard your call today regarding your mental health and the mental health of your girlfriend. And I just, from the very start, when I first heard you call in a few years ago, and you were about 18 at the time, trying to figure out what to do with your life. I was just deeply impressed by you and just felt something, felt that you had the Holy Spirit, a strong sense of the Holy Spirit and for that age. So, I call now to encourage you in this time that you’re struggling. I do feel strongly that God has a plan for you, something special, something better than what’s going on right now for you. So, I pray that you’re able to hold on, persevere, push through. Something deep inside tells me that you are something special and that something big and positive, some type of positive impact you will have on this world. So, I just wanna call to encourage you. I’ll be praying for you. And another person I hadn’t heard from for a while is Cody in Utah. And I’ve been wondering, he’s another young person that would call in. I’ve been wondering how you’ve been doing as well. So, Cody, if you’re out there, please reach out. But People on the Water, I love you, we love you, God loves you, more importantly. Stay strong.

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KNOWING YOUR BIBLE

November 6, 2022: Dear Friends, Welcome to KNOWING YOUR BIBLE, a weekly blog that helps in learning and understanding the Bible. As has been discussed in previous blogs, the Bible is God’s Holy Word to all who read or listen as the Bible is being read. To help in learning and understanding the Bible, several series on specific topics have been written in this blog that provide knowledge and guidance for those that strive to learn the Bible.

How to read and study the Bible can be somewhat confusing as one strives to learn the Bible. The Bible has 39 books in the Old Testament and 27 books in the New Testament, for a total of 66 books. Each book has one or more authors, with all the books having been written several years, or several hundreds of years apart. Many, especially new Bible readers, have difficulty in understanding how the Bible books are related. For instance, as an example, how does a book in the New Testament, for instance, Ephesians, relate to the book of Hosea in the Old Testament?

A series of blogs were written from April 24 to July 10, 2022, that provide the guidance and direction that is needed to learn how to know and study the Bible. The series covers several topics including how to learn and know the names and locations of the Bible books (This helps in knowing how to search for specific Bible verses to read and study); how the Bible books are organized; the timeline of when the events written about in the books occurred or when the book was written; and specific geographic sites that transverse through the books that allow for a better understanding of how the books of the Bible are related. Return to these blogs listed above by going to the website, keegan books.com, to learn how to study and learn the Bible.

Our current series which was written beginning on August 7th, 2022, has focused on learning about important people and events in the Old Testament and the New Testament of the Bible. The discussion in the last 3 weeks has centered on the New Testament with the focus on Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is considered the most important person in the entire Bible. His birth, life, death by crucifixion, and resurrection, are recorded in the Gospel books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, in the New Testament. Return to the last 3 blogs to review and contemplate on Jesus, our Lord and Savior.

Important people and events written in the other books of the New Testament will be written about in the future weeks. This week’s focus is on the book of Acts. Acts was written by the physician Luke who also wrote the gospel book of Luke. Acts is the “History” book of the New Testament. Because of the importance of the book, some time will be spent in the next few weeks, reading and studying portions of the book. Specific people and events written will be highlighted. All Bible verses are from the New Revised Standard (NSR) Version of the Bible.

MAY GOD BLESS YOUR BIBLE STUDY THIS WEEK.!

BIBLE VERSES: Read the chapters listed: Chapter 1-The ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven. Chapter 2: The day of Pentecost, the coming and presence of the Holy Spirit into the world. Chapters 2, 3 and 4: The disciple, Peter preaching about Jesus Christ. The disciple Peter’s ministry and the beginning of Christianity in the world. Chapter 6-7: The story of Stephen and his ministry; his being stoned to death by the Romans led by Saul, later to be called Paul. The study of the book of Acts will be continued next week. Thank you for your Prayers for my son Pat. Please pray this week for my son Pat’s recovery from cardiac bypass surgery. He is slowly recovering and needs your prayers. Your prayers are very much appreciated.

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Can Pope Francis create a paradigm shift?

“Among the clergy, Francis receives his greatest support from older priests, who are dying off, rather than younger ones who are the future of the church... Finding young candidates for the priesthood, meanwhile, who support Francis and want to be celibate is like looking for Catholic unicorns.”

Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ, makes this blunt assessment in his column for Religious News Service. It’s a pretty good line. The main point of the article is that the Pope has waited too long to start the #LeftCatholicRevolution, to start suppressing and marginalizing conservative and traditionalist members of the hierarchy, and the Pope’s recent stint in the hospital has Fr. Reese worried that the Revolution won’t come at all before he dies.

Now I am not on Reese’s team, nor am I rooting for it. But I think that his article misses exactly how the Revolution he wants could ever take place. The problem with Francis’ papacy has been that it has been too much about episcopal appointments and legislation changes and rules and exercises of authority on the one hand, and broad PR gestures on the other. What we don’t see, however, are ideas and arguments. While his previous two predecessors were very much about ideas and arguments, at a high level.

There’s a media narrative that Pope Francis just wants to recreate the Church of the 1970s, from when his generation in the Jesuits came of age and liberals ran the Church (into the ground, some would say), and all the stuffiness of the Church from before Vatican II gave way to a less doctrinal, more cheerful spirit, complete with welcoming banners in the sanctuary. Less worrying about truth, more compassion, openness, and love--especially for the poor.

I think that’s how many Catholic Boomers remember the 1970s. But in reality, the power behind all those felt banners wasn’t the greeters at the door who smiled intensely in a welcoming way. The power behind the movements in the Church that Fr. Reese liked came from a bunch of theologians who argued for a different way of being Catholic, with new ideas and a lot of scholarship behind those ideas. The reason why the more committed younger people in the Church today no longer hold to those ideas is...because of better ideas that came later to replace those 1970s ideas.

Thomas Kuhn explains that a paradigm shift happens when a conceptual framework (what he calls a paradigm) starts to have problems explaining reality. People come up with questions and puzzles that the predominant ways of thinking cannot handle, and these unsolved puzzles pile up. Then a new theory comes along which 1) can offer an explanation of everything that the old framework could explain, and 2) can answer the new puzzles that the old framework couldn’t, and 3) proposes new directions for studying reality that turn out to be promising. When that happens, people adopt the new paradigm, and stop thinking in the old.

Post-Vatican II theologians such as Hans Kung and Edward Schillebeeckx and Leonardo Boff helped to create a paradigm shift in theology, one which asked new questions and proposed radical answers, and which on various fronts took over the Church. Spirituality became more Freudian, more therapeutic and sentimental (in accord with the spirit of 1970s culture), and less interested in disciplining the passions. The universal call to holiness was interpreted to mean that everyone pretty much goes to heaven, especially the laity, and so the theological concept of holiness needed to be redefined until it wasn’t just for a small group of elite saints. In the new paradigm, traditional practices such as missionary work, going to confession, and embracing celibacy, just stopped making sense (if we’re all going to heaven anyway...). This was the new paradigm that became ascendant in the Church, and thoroughly dominant in the Jesuits, at the time Pope Francis came of age.

It turned out that the paradigm was a disaster for the Church by every traditional metric. The faithful and the priests influenced by it largely stopped coming to Mass or left the priesthood. But the intellectual paradigm built by the theologians was still predominant, still being passed on in pontifical universities and seminaries and Catholic graduate schools, well into the 1990s.

It was replaced by a new paradigm, a creative traditionalism in which the leading lights were also in a position to make institutional changes. But the paradugn shift wasn’t simply because John Paul II was pope and he appointed Josef Ratzinger to head the doctrinal office; rather, their successor paradigm answered the puzzles of the previous paradigm. Laborem Exercens and Sollicitudo Rei Socialis were answers to the questions raised by Boff’s liberation theology. The Theology of the Body was an answer to the arguments of theologians who embraced the sexual revolution. On issues of priestly celibacy, or how to interpret the bible, or sacramental theology and praxis, or the role of reason in the faith, or whether to continue missionary work, or the vocation to religious life, or the nature of confession--and much more--St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI made arguments that took the issues raised by the 1970s theologians and brought them to a new level. They made arguments that paid attention to the traditions of the Church, and deployed them in new and creative ways to solve new problems or to approach old problems with new tools. And they created a paradigm that seemed to work, that seemed to set the Church on the path to recovery and perhaps even strength. Under the new paradigm, the Church was attracting large numbers of converts, including Protestant pastors and theologians. It was intellectually and spiritually convincing. It helped to make sense of the world.

In order to change the Church from the Wojtylan paradigm, it’s not enough to appoint some 1970s retreads to high ecclesiastical office who impose their old paradigm by fiat. Because, as Fr. Reese points out, old people die sooner, and their power dissipates soon after they die. But neither is the answer to appoint lots of retreads, as he seems to want. If people are convinced by the Wojtylan paradigm--especially if all the priests and younger bishops are convinced by it--they won’t stop being convinced by it because of a motu proprio. The goal of the #LeftCatholicRevolution should be to provoke a paradigm shift, to come up with even better arguments than those of the two previous popes, to convince people to think in their new way because the new way solves the puzzles, and makes sense of reality, in ways that the Wojtylan paradigm does not. Because right now, the Wojtylan paradigm still seems to work, especially for those who embrace it thoroughly. And the 1970s paradigm still has no convincing answers to the problems that caused it to collapse in the first place.

I think there’s no better evidence of the superiority of the Wojtylan paradigm than Fr. Reese’s observation that today’s version of his preferred 1970s paradigm is no better than the original at convincing young men to offer their lives to Christ in the priesthood. You can’t say that clericalism is the largest problem in the Church, and then believably invite people to be clerics. John Paul II called young people to be heroes; #LeftCatholicRevolution calls them to be part of the problem. That’s not just a flaw in the messaging, it’s a flaw in the thinking. A flaw in the paradigm.

I don’t want to predict that when Pope Francis does die, his successor will automatically be John Paul III. But I do believe that #LeftCatholicRevolution can only be achieved if it gets a lot smarter, if it develops a more convincing account of reality than the Wojtylan paradigm, so as to create a paradigm shift. If not, then Fr. Reese will have to wait for a cavalry of unicorns to take over the Church.

#pope francis #john paul II #pope benedict xvi #Thomas Kuhn #Catholic theology #how to change a paradigm

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2020 RETROSPECTIVE / AMERICAN RIVER, A TRAPPIST CITY EXTENSION ANTHOLOGY

One of my stay-at-home projects for 2020, was making comprehensive, anthology-style mixes for artists that have been important in my life and musical growth over the last 5-10 years. I wanted to try to compile all or most of a musician’s songs (or simply all my favorites) during the months that I find myself listening to them the most. I followed some loose themes (seasonal, religion, life & death, light & darkness, times of day, states of mind, storytelling, moods) as to how to divide their career and body of work. WHEW!

After Typhoon in January, came Toms River, New Jersey’s Joe Michelini. The driving force at the heart of River City Extension and now American Trappist. I’m pretty sure I bought River City’s debut full-length The Unmistakeable Man at Twist & Shout Records in 2011, around the same time I was super into flannel-dude-folk, because I remember buying Gregory Alan Isakov and Frightened Rabbit (more on both of them as the year progresses haha) as well! Oh well. That album was a constant companion to me through some dark times in my mid 20′s. Then Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Your Anger made #2 on my very first albums of the year list in 2012! Fun fact, those two (pretty popular) albums are nowhere to be found on Spotify so the playlist linked down below is severely lacking. 2015′s Deliverance was their farewell album as a group, but they had already slimmed down (a la Typhoon’s Offerings slimming from 13 to 8) to five members. Deliverance practically dances with upbeat, complex folk-y jams, equal parts Elton John, Vampire Weekend, & Bright Eyes, tinged with east coast emo, a true songwriters album. I never got to see River City Extension live (pretty sure I missed a Marquis Theater show some time back in 2012 cuz I was trying to save $15 dammit) but their death bloomed into Michelini’s current project, American Trappist. The American Trappist mythology is dark & deep & very very fruitful. Michelini has released by my count five EPs and three full length albums as American Trappist, all containing threads to each other, bits & pieces of songs intertwining, reworked & reheard, echoing each other’s importance. Most of them have ended up on my end of the year favorites list. In 2016 I called his three EPs “Brooding electro-thump,” “humorous romantic jazz,” and “Powerfully positive with heartfelt enthusiasm.” and in 2018 I called Tentanda Via “Depressing & uplifting boardwalk rock&roll,” “a coming-of-age album full of deeper, wiser unravelings,” and a “mid 30′s rock opus full of songs about learning to live with yourself and learning how to make yourself better!’ WOW!

In the early stages of the COVID pandemic, Michelini had been teasing another new one from the goddamn Trappist and we were all feeling some sort of desperation. He posted on the Trappist Instagram about needing new shoelaces and being willing to trade a copy of the new record. Just like that I had a super exclusive, advance promo copy of The Gate in exchange for a brand new pair of bright red shoelaces!

You’ll be reading about The Gate on my 2020 favorites list (coming reeeeal soooon!), but it cements itself solidly in the Michelini catalog, points towards exciting new directions, and even threads back to the older stuff with “Moses (Revisited).” Goddamn I love this band!

My Michelini mix is currently loosely titled “American River, A Trappist City Extension”. The art is mostly made up of RCE & AT CD’s, but colors & logos were provided by cutting up beer labels from Lady Justice Brewing, an early Covid To-Go favorite! Tracklist for all five of my CDs follows. The Spotify link is just all the available songs combined as a lot of it’s not available on there. Search youtube for the rest.

Thanks to Joe Michelini and all the band members past & present of River City Extension & American Trappist!

LISTEN HERE

VOL. 1

introduction / ballad of oregon / ohio / point of surrender / no bibles / losing my grip / death wish / white blackmail / soot / nobody’s gonna get my soul / active recovery / other reasons / ...rides again / something’s gotta give / (i had thought about this in ) march / yer so bad (tom petty cover) / the gate / friends & family (cassette acoustic version) / fireworks (revisited) / letter to lainie...

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VOL. 2

glastonbury / jackie / getting even (live from asbury park yacht club) / the real thing / you only enter the graveyard / demon host (timber timbre cover) / other reasons (live from weathervane) / all night diner (live from weathervane) / no bibles (live from weathervane) / ohio (cassette acoustic version) / e.c.c.b. / man of conviction / welcome to pittsburgh / false prophet / nothing short of faithful / heaven (canadian goth-folk/noise rock edition / strange days / if you need me back in brooklyn / holy cross...

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VOL. 3

the unmistakable man / friends & family / fireworks / our new intelligence / don’t get in / other other reasons / leann / indian summer / something salty, something sweet / satan’s kingdom / too tired to drink / holy moses / i’ll have to say i love you in a song (jim croce cover) / q.c. / ...rides again (from quarantine) / independence day / the devil is real / getting even / ballad of oregon (cassette acoustic version) / waiting on a fix...

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VOL 4

nautical sabbatical / adrianne / down, down, down / you only enter the graveyard (last dance at the apocalypse prom) / there & back again / if i still own a bible / clever & quickness / elephant / mexico / sour in the rye / the worst kind / heaven / on the river toms / fear of nothing / unfresh dirtwolf / natural causes / all night diner / moses (revisited) / waiting for a fix (cassette acoustic version) / it’s no ha-ha-ha / everything west of home/brooklyn (reprise)...

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VOL. 5

the fall & the need to be free / golden tongue (thanatopsis) / today, i feel like i’m evolving / waiting in the airport / pleasure mtn / south for the winter / vanessa’s song or don’t let the sun go down on your anger / you only enter the graveyard (live from weathervane) / getting even (live from weathervane) / i’m not there / 21 days / standing outside a southern riot / i wouldn’t worry / spunk / slander / up in the air / after dark / the afterglow / nebraska (bruce springsteen cover cassette version)...

#river city extension #american trappist #joe michelini

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officialyourdailyinspiration · 1 year

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Jesus' Mother and Brothers

For whoever does the will of My Father who is in the heavens, he is My brother and sister and mother. — Matthew 12:50 | Recovery Version (REC) The Recovery Version of the Holy Bible © 2009 Living Stream Ministry. All rights reserved. Cross References: Matthew 12:49; Matthew 13:1; John 15:14

#obedience #Jesus' will #Jesus' mother and brothers #Matthew 12:50 #Gospel of Matthew #New Testament #Recovery Version of the Holy Bible #REC #Living Stream Ministry

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there-may-yet-be-a-possibility · 5 years

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Persona 5 OC: Kikyo Fujioka

Kikyo is still under construction, but she may show up on occasion either in drabbles or as an example for headcanon-related stuff.

plus she’s just precious and i love her

【Ｂａｓｉｃｓ】

ℕ𝕒𝕞𝕖: Kikyo “Kiki” Fujioka | Dove

𝔸𝕘𝕖: May be written between the ages 16 - 25

𝔾𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣: Female [She/Her]

ℍ𝕖𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥: 5′3 [Teen] | 5′6 [Adult]

𝔹𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕙𝕕𝕒𝕪: April 18th

𝔹𝕝𝕠𝕠𝕕 𝕥𝕪𝕡𝕖: Type A

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ℕ𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪: Japanese/British [Dual Citizenship]

𝕊𝕖𝕩𝕦𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕪: Bisexual

𝕊𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕝: Shijun Academy

𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣: 2nd Year

𝔽𝕒𝕧𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕖/𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕥 𝕗𝕒𝕧𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕖 𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕤:

Favorite: Literature

Least: History

𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕤: Kikyo’s an A-B student, with a handful of Cs in the classes she especially struggles in.

ℂ𝕝𝕦𝕓𝕤: Archery Club | Literature Club

𝕌𝕟𝕚𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕞: Black blazer tied around her waist (until it gets cold), a pink open-shoulder tunic with extended sleeves, a knee-length version of the uniform's skirt, dark purple ankle-length leggings and black boots.

𝕁𝕠𝕓: Student | Flower Shop Employee (Part-Time) | Freelance Writer

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【Ａｐｐｅｒａｎｃｅ】

ℍ𝕒𝕚𝕣: Deep dark brown, upper-back length hair with fluffy bangs and tufts of hair along the sides. Thick and full of volume. Usually has a flower hair clip in her hair, and her hair is tied back with a bright pink hair ribbon.

𝔼𝕪𝕖𝕤: Soft dark brown, oval-shaped eyes. Often very expressive.

𝔹𝕦𝕚𝕝𝕕: Hourglass Body shape, somewhat chubby and curvy. D-Cup Breasts. Slightly toned arms and legs, slender shoulders, wide hips. No thigh gap.

ℕ𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕗𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕤: Soft brown skin with dark freckles all over her body.

𝕊𝕔𝕒𝕣𝕤/𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕠𝕠𝕤: Self-harm scars on her wrists, forearms, and thighs. The ones on her wrists/forearms are forarms are jagged, from glass. The ones on her thighs are crude nail-clawing scars. | Stretch marks on her stomach, thighs and hips.

𝕊𝕥𝕪𝕝𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤:Generally dresses very comfortable. Style tends to be cute but down to earth, prefering earthy or pastel colors.

ℙ𝕙𝕪𝕤𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕙: In shape. Somewhat overweight, but not unhealthy. Visually impaired.

𝕄𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕒𝕝 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕙: Suffers from a variety of mental conditions.

Autism.

Anxiety Disorder. Medicated.

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【 M i n d 】

🄸🄽🅃🄴🄻🄻🄸🄶🄴🄽🄲🄴

3/5

🄶🅄🅃🅂

1/5

🄿🅁🄾🄵🄸🄲🄸🄴🄽🄲🅈

5/5

🄲🄷🄰🅁🄼

4/5

🄺🄸🄽🄳🄽🄴🅂🅂

5/5

ℙ𝕠𝕤𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕚𝕥𝕤: Kind, compassionate, sweet, positive, supportive, passionate, forgiving, understanding, courageous.

ℕ𝕖𝕦𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕝 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕚𝕥𝕤: Intelligent, clever, witty, quiet, sneaky, sly.

ℕ𝕖𝕘𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕚𝕥𝕤: Stubborn, emotional, anxious, picky, finicky, sensitive, nosey/eavesdrops.

𝔻𝕖𝕤𝕚𝕣𝕖𝕤: Love and happiness.

𝔽𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕤: Crowds, tight spaces, arguments, loud noises.

ℍ𝕠𝕓𝕓𝕚𝕖𝕤: Writing, collecting [feathers, leaves, stones, etc], drawing, exercise, cooking/baking, singing, gaming, community service, Bible study.

𝕋𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤: Cooking/Baking, creative arts, archery, singing/dancing, decorating, floral arrangement.

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【 C o g n i t i o n 】

𝔸ℝℂ𝔸ℕ𝔸: Empress

𝔸𝕗𝕗𝕚𝕝𝕚𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟: Phantom Thieves

ℂ𝕠𝕕𝕖 𝕟𝕒𝕞𝕖: Dove

ℙ𝕙𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕞 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕖𝕗 𝕠𝕦𝕥𝕗𝕚𝕥: The only inaccurate detail is that the crown is replaced with her mask. [The maker I used doesn’t have any masks.]

𝕄𝕒𝕤𝕜:

𝕄𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕖: Weilds a European shortsword. Can dual-weild two swords.

𝔾𝕦𝕟: Unlike her teammates, she doesn’t use a gun. She instead uses a bow-and-arrow.

ℙ𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕒: Mother Nature. An ethereal, goddess-like being that embodies the essence of nature itself.

𝔸𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖: A female figure made entirely of tree-bark, with hair of vines, seaweed, flower stems and petals, with a semi-revealing dress made of ice and snow, fire burning from splits and cracks in her bark-like skin, eyes glowing and occasionally sparking and an ethereal mist surrounding her.

𝔸𝕗𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕖𝕤: While she has access to a variety of different elemental abilities, Mother Nature - as an extension of Kikyo - specializes in Recovery and Bless magic.

𝔸𝕨𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘: Her awakening her Persona came with her growth in her faith. Kikyo is a passionate Christian, but being young, she went to a common extreme of the faith: harmful pacifism. Letting people take advantage of you, showing forgiveness to those who did unforgivable things... unconditional love was something she took very literally and very seriously. But upon finding out that the priest at her church was stealing money from the poor, manipulating and abusing her fellow church-goers, and even sin-shamed her very religious older sister into self-destructive behavior. Through the Phantom Thieves, she discovered that the holy image was a rouse the priest used specifically to control other people and lord power over them. Enraged and betrayed, her rebel’s spirit was awoken as she learned the true meaning of “righteous anger”.

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【 F a m i l y 】

𝕄𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣: Makiku Fujioka. An older, very religious woman. Kind and soft, but often very neurotic and a big worrier. Tends to baby Kikyo.

𝔽𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣: Oliver Griffin. Divorced from Makiku and currently deceased.

𝕊𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤: Aimi Fujioka. Older sister, 25.

𝔸𝕦𝕟𝕥: Unknown

𝕌𝕟𝕔𝕝𝕖: Unknown

𝔾𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕕𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤: Unknown

ℂ𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕤: Unknown

𝕊𝕚𝕘𝕟𝕚𝕗𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕆𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣: Akira Kurusu

𝔹𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝔽𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕕: Other than her service dog Amadeus and her emotional support cat Mimu, this category is unknown.

【 B a c k s t o r y 】

[Backstory is currently under construction]

【 C R E D I T: Spooks

#Persona 5 OC #Kikyo Fujioka

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talen77703 · 5 years

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By: Insect King

AKA The True Namers, the Baal Chem

In the Beginning was YHVH and He created all life.

The Holy Tetragrammaton has puzzled religious thinkers and mystical speculators about its simplicity, complexity, and its promise for climbing closer in our understanding of Him. Each letter was an engine of creation which pointed in different directions but was the whole. Although it was a sacred duty to meditate upon these things, there where hucksters who also worshiped the power of God but sought to manipulate it. Through rearranging the order of words so the combinations could unlock power, create magick.

These sorcerers were the Baal Shem; the thieves of knowledge and blasphemers with the ability to decode and remake all creation. They were true adepts of their time, recognizable in their attitude and execution of their magick.

As the years waned and cultures grew, interest in sorcery changed, new things were accepted and old ideas lost their flexibility. And so did the Baal Shem, with their ever ready YHVH words of power. Their rules went into the cold storage of old books written by magickally dry occultists. And so they were passed down, flittered about in discussions, and occasionally studied.

But old, powerful ideas do not die easy, they can spontaneously resurrect when the correct grail is found, the hollow idea which can be filled with the liquid of pure imagination and will. And so with one student of ancient occult, it happened, he saw the book and magazine lying side by side, open to the right pages.

On one page was YHVH, the other, AGCT. And then everything just fell into place like a puzzle assembling in reverse motion. Religious philosophy and genetic science were one and the same.

It wasn’t a complete cohesion, some puzzle pieces where in backwards, or the wrong way around. He would have to keep looking at the larger pattern, before finding the small inconsistencies. Of course changing one tiny piece altered the larger pattern, so it is hard work and the gains are few but one day it will be completed, and God’s face will be seen.

AGCT is the Tetragrammaton, the True Genome, the Unpronounceable Name of God. Our individual genomes are our True Names two-billion characters long, and by rewriting our True Names, we can cause a miraculous change, a new creation.

As above, so below is the running irony of the Baal Chem. It is the apotheosis of everything else that makes us human, but not actually us; deep in all the bone, blood, meat, gristle is where God sits, in the tiny arrangements of molecules, the delicate chains of deoxyribonucleic acid that exists innocuously in every living parcel. The most powerful information coherence in the world built of the most of fragile filigree. The most powerful being of the universe is the also one of the weakest.

Through our consensual landfill of waste religious orthodoxy and mythology we abandoned God, and through our embrace of science and experiment, we have found Him again. We have found him in all of us, the destiny in everything that lives.

And so the school of the Baal Chemistry was born, alchemically uniting old magick and modern science; uniting Baal Shem and Genetics, and making the magick of God’s Chemicals.

STATS

Baal Chemistry is in not in its infancy, but there are few practitioners, mostly in the Middle East, but migrating outwards. The basics are already down but the school is not going to progress unless the students learn Hebrew, or the science of molecular chemistry, or both. It doesn’t have to be to rigorous academic standards but the skills must be bought.

Although firmly rooted in Hebrew mysticism Baal Chemistry isn’t a Jewish school. Anyone with adept potential can learn the school.

Baal Chem relies on the sympathetic law of imitation. The law is quite simple, if anything appears like something else, it will act upon that something else. The Baal Chem use a symbolic version of the Law of Imitation, the Law of Names.

One side of the Baal Chemist’s genetic sorcery is that successful significant effects alter the DNA permanently which might throw off testing.

Blast Style: The Baal Chem can bobby trap scrolls to give blasts but it cause sickness or even cancer. Although the spells are slow they may be fatal over a long period of time.

Random Magick Domain: random magick is antithetical to Baal Chemistry. They might lack true diversity, but the Tetragrammatists can stack magicakal effects on top of each other unlike any other school.

Generate a minor charge: For four hours study the Bible, cabala, The Tetragrammaton, and other tracts of Jewish mysticism, or write an essay condensing your findings.

Generate a significant charge: There are no Significant charges only significant effects generated by actively manipulating the genetic code in yourself or others.

Generate a major charge: Discover a lost tract on the Tetragrammaton and be the first to study it. Discover a break though in genetics research, such as controlling the telomere cancer-cellular mitosis relationship. Work a change over ten years that works.

Taboo: Their work is sacred and may never be abandoned. If the Baal Chemist is ever interrupted from his significant works, they reset and have to be started over again.

The Baal Chem cannot touch any separated tissue or fluids of the target that are derived from injury. Touching blood and other tissues breaks taboo as the law of imitation is subverting by the law of contagion. If the Baal Chem gets splashed with a limited amount of tissue, he can scrub off to avoid taboo.

The temple of the Baal Chemist is generally as close to sterile as any scientific laboratory.

Unlike other adepts, The renamers can incorporate different spells into one, as long as they add up the time taken and roll their Magick: Baal Chemistry skill.

Minor Baal Chemistry Formula Spells

A (one minor charge) The Baal Chemist can diagnose any living body and give a pretty accurate idea of what is going on at that time.

T (one minor charge) The Baal Chemist can correct minor imperfections, purge the body of toxins, exhaustion, and turn back the body’s clock limitedly for about as many months as the sum of the Magick: Ball Chemistry skill. This doesn’t regenerate lost limbs or heal damage, but it removes and smoothes imperfections like scars, wrinkles, and acne, hangovers, reduces infections, cleans the system, and improves the person’s sense of well being. A person with this spell heals 1 wound point has a +10% on all his first stress check afterwards.

The Baal Chemist will use T as a cleansing preparation before performing a procedure.

C (two minor charges) The Genetic Tetragrammatist can improve healing and assist in recovery by rolling his Magick: Baal Chemistry skill as if he was a doctor.

G (three minor charges) This minor blast spell makes the target’s body react as if it were invaded by foreign germs. The target suffers from a debilitating fever. Unless the character gets bed rest for as many days as the sum of the Magick: Baal Chemistry skill, he cannot heal through convalescence. If the character is actively physically stressing his body, he takes one wound point per roll whether successful or not.

Significant Baal Chemistry formula effects

Targeted effects The significant effects do not have to be performed with the target present, but the Baal Chemist must at least have some knowledge of who the person is, to have some idea of the person’s True Name. Basically this: no name -10%, no picture -10%, no basic personality profile -10%, or no truthful history -10%. If the Baal Chemist can touch the victim, the penalty is reduced by 30%. The Baal Chem cannot increase his skill this way.

Rearranging Genomes The spells are basically formulations, long strings of the Tetragrammaton characters AG and CT written on paper scrolls. The paper can be worn as an amulet or scrunched up and swallowed as a pill. Placing the spell on unknowing or unwilling targets is a bit problematic but nothing that can be solving without some quick thinking, sneaky long-fingers or elbow-greasing thugs.

Once the spell is on the person’s body, it takes about an hour to ready or activate. Removing the scroll before then diffuses the magick but the scroll is still active.

For a safety measure the scrolls can actually described to target a specific person, who is listed Tetragrammatically in the formulation.

The Abundance of God’s Blessing (One days work) By spending one day working the Baal Chemist can regenerate one point of Body. This includes the slow re-growth of lost limbs and organs. This spell cannot replace damaged tissue just replace what is missing. Due to the complexity of tissue re-growth it might take many weeks or months before the area is restored.

The Passion of David (One days work) The target may re-roll one failed but non-magickal Soul-based skill and Speed-based skill roll.

A Visitation from the Angel of Betrayal (Two days work) The Baal Chemist can disrupt cellular activity by scribbling over the cell’s ability to control their own division, allowing them to multiply unstoppably into cancerous tissue.

After spell is cast, the opponent rolls his Body stat once per week. If it fails he takes the highest die in damage to his Body. This roll continues once per week until either the cancer kills the target or he successful convalesces, healing his Body back to full while not taking any damage. At which point the cancer has gone into permanent remission. Otherwise, if the cancer is detected within the first month, it can be safely removed.

The Legacy for Esau (Three days work) The next four Mind stat or skill checks are flip-flopped to their worst result. Obsession skills simply do not flip-flop.

The Sword of God (Three days work) The Sword of God is a strange blast spell. It invokes rage in anyone interacting with the target. No everyday things like buying from the market or speaking to people at your office, but when a roll is required. If the roll fails, it triggers their Rage Passion.

There isn’t much control over the situation, but at the wrong time with the right person, the results can be fatal. The person tagged with the Sword of God comes across as hiding crucial personal secrets, arrogant, and irritating. Triggering the anger doesn’t cause a stress check, only the results of it do.

The Sword of God works once.

Blessings on the House (Four days work) With this spell the ability to conceive a child is made better. Not only is the act blessed to be fruitful (the Fertility chance is half of Body), one partner gets a flip-flopping and the other, a re-roll, but the sex of the child can be chosen by the one who rolled highest. This scroll works once per sexual encounter.

The Lions of Daniel (Four days work) While the target is protected by the Lions of Daniel, it triggers or creates the Noble Passion of the animals for the benefit of the target, regardless of how they are feeling or trained to act. The animal certainly won’t attack but it might not let the character pass an area it was set to guard. Animals might even get playful and unintentionally hurt the target.

Wild dogs will not attack her, but they will maul clothing and bags to get to food, rats will climb and nuzzle their way inside her clothing. Once the spell is in effect it lasts twenty-four hours.

Loss of the Innocence of Eden (Five days work) This spell rewrites history recorded onto genetic memory, the target’s twenty billion character True Name. The successful roll can rearrange three failed and hard notches from any three chosen meters. The notches can be placed on any other gauge, Hard or Failed.

Perfecting the Perfect (Five days work) This scroll permanently removes any inherited genetic disease from a person unless the disease has already manifested. The disease’s harmfulness is eradicated and will not pass it along the target’s germline from that point.

Once the genetic malfunction has manifested, there is nothing the Baal Chem can do about it.

The Flesh of Methuselah (Six days work) This spell rejuvenates the target’s body effectively removing the debilitating effects of tissue damage, decrepitude, injury, and internally halving the person’s age. Externally there is little actual change but the spry person may act and thus look younger. Cosmetic surgery and extensive spa treatments may help further at this point.

This spell heals Wound Points equal to the sum of the Magick: Ball Chemistry roll.

Void of the Nameless (Seven days work) The dead are generally beyond the purview of the Baal Chemist. If you do not have a body you have no True Name, their lives are over and thus Nameless. With Void of the Nameless, a possessed person can regain control over his or her body by imprisoning the demon within their mind, and like an oyster, form a psychic pearl around the irritant.

This spell forces the demon to roll possession to escape or be trapped in the victim’s mind as he regains control. It is crushed underneath the awakening mind, trapped. The victim may have dim dreams.

Unless the demon has some magickal means of escaping it is trapped in some disused and sound-proofed basement of the victim’s mind. Over time the entity just decays into oblivion.

The Void of the Nameless is also proof against possession attempts in the first place. The possessing entity just smacks into the target’s body like it was solid.

Once the demon is imprisoned, it is there permanently. The spell gives twenty-four hours protection once activated.

The Lamentations of Solomon (Eight days work) The spell allows the target to increase his Mind and Soul stat at a rate of one experience point per Stat point. The maximum number of purchases is equal to the sum of the Magick: Baal Chemistry roll. This spell only raises the stats, not the skills.

Major Baal Chemistry Effects Change one species into another, read God’s will in someone’s genome, eradicate aging, raise stats to superhuman levels, create the perfect killer immune system, grow a perfect clone body in a few hours, permanently remove all genetic imperfections and disease from a person.

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DNA, Life, and God (Book Section)

DNA, Life, and God should be read at your leisure. You should have by your side, a Bible (preferably a King James Version) and a high school-level biology and earth-science textbook. In reading DNA, Life, and God, you will want to refer to the Holy Bible and/or the textbooks for clarification. To some, this small section of the book will prove very interesting, but not applicable to their lives and/or personal recovery from chemical dependency. Hopefully, to some, this section of reading will be the escape hatch that leads them to the trail of Jesus.

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2/26/2023 DAB Chronological Transcription

Numbers 7

Welcome to Daily Audio Bible Chronological. I'm Jill. Today is the 26th day of February and it is so good to be back here with you, truly. It feels like I've been gone a month away a month from you. It's just been a week. I have missed you all, but I have enjoyed the rest and trying to catch up on a completely different schedule. And I have been a night person since I can remember and I think this jetlag is turning me into a morning person. I don't know how to feel about that. But mourning the lost and embracing the new and jumping into being here with you today, it truly is so good to be back. Thank you to China for just holding the fort down for me while I was away. It was a long two weeks to be away from them, but so glad to be back. And that reunion was so sweet and making up for some lost time with lots of family stuff together. So it's good to reconnect with them. Let's jump into the reading today. Today we're reading the book of Numbers and it's a brand new week, so we're starting a brand new translation. We're reading Numbers seven and we're reading the New International version this week.

Prayer:

Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you for a brand new week. Thank you for all that we do. Not have to take into this week from the last, from the old that we can let go of. We can release to you, release to your care, lay at your feet and stand with anticipation, hope and wonder of all that you will do. We consecrate this week to you. We surrender our wills of how you should do it. And we give you permission to do that which you long to do. In our hearts and our minds and our souls and our spirit, and in our lives as we become better representatives of the King and the Kingdom. I pray that you would restore all of those that are resting on this day, that have made space, a place and time for rest, revitalization, restoration, replenishment. And thank you that you are there in that process of our lives. We pray this now all in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

Announcements:

Looking forward to an incredible week with all of you. It's so good to be back. I am Jill. Until tomorrow. Love one another.

Community Prayer Line:

This is February 20. And this is Tilly from Florida. I'm calling in response to the prayer request given by Pam and Jody. Pam called about her adult son who's going to have surgery on his heart for some type of aneurysm, I think it was. And then jody had a unique call about her husband, who she thinks was possibly possessed. Lord Jesus, we lift up Pam right now and her son and her concern for her son, who is an adult now, lord, we ask you would begin right now to bless the doctor's hands who are going to perform this operation, blessing the wisdom to carry out the operation to the successful end. And we thank you that you will use this time of recovery and to bring peace in her life and to draw her son even closer to you. In Jesus name. amen. Or lift up jody regards to her husband or God. Whether the husband is possessed or not, the behavior is not indicative of a child of God. So he's not ever given his heart to You, Lord Jesus, and believed in you for salvation. We first ask that you draw Him to you in that fashion. We ask that you would bring Him to a place where he can renounce some of the things in his behaviors that he's done and get healing. In Jesus name, amen. God bless both of you.

Good morning, DABC family. This is Virginia from Indiana. I'm calling in to pray for Yvette. Her husband called in on February 20 to ask for prayer because of her back pain. So, Lord Jesus, in Your name we pray, and we declare healing for Yvette's back. We pray for Your mercy and grace to be extended to her, relieve her of this pain, or give doctors wisdom to know how to deal with it. In your name we pray. Amen.

Good morning, DABC family. This is Pam calling from Utah, calling regarding my son Scott, who is in need of heart surgery. We got some good news yesterday and his surgery has been postponed. He had his pre op appointment and he got his mri results and it showed that his aneurysm is at 4.7 CM with marfan syndrome. The surgery would be needed at 4.5 CM. Without marfan's syndrome, surgery is at 5.0 CM. This puts him in a little bit of a gray zone because although he has met all the markers for marfan syndrome, the surgeon wants to prove the marfan syndrome with possibly genetic testing. So he's going to be sending him to a cardiologist who works with protein deficiency patients. If it is proved that he has marfan syndrome, he would need the surgery right away. If not, then he would just need to have mris every six months until the aneurysm reached the five centimeter mark and then surgery would be needed. But the longer we can hold off on surgery, the better for him. So I just thank you all for your prayer...along with me.

Hey, friends. It's Jen from Tennessee. I wanted to call with an update on our friend Talen that I asked you to pray for. I have a great report. He is doing fantastic. He spent about a week in the hospital and God intervened and brought wisdom and insight through a Christian homeopath. And he is on the road to recovery. Within like 24 hours. After meeting with this person, he was having zero pain attacks, eating as normal out of the hospital. It was just totally a miraculous turnaround. So thank you for your prayers and just praise God for his healing. I am a few days behind. I listened to the 18th today of February and I wanted to join in prayer for Nick in New Jersey and also just extend that to other teenagers and young adults who are struggling with depression. My own daughter is in a similar place of feeling discouraged and depressed and kind of lacking hope for the future. So I just want to pray over Nick and my daughter lainey and anybody else who, whose teenagers or young people find themselves in this position. Lord, we just want to call out to you and cry out on behalf of our children, grandchildren, teens and young people that we know and those who are struggling with depression and anxiety. It can be caused by a lot of different things. And Lord, I just pray that you would be the answer that if it's spiritual or physical or whatever is causing it at the root cause, Lord, that you would help these young people to walk and help and in purpose, and that you will lift this cloud of depression that has settled over so many of them. I ask all this in Jesus name. Love you guys. Keep praying for each other.

Hi, everyone. It's Christie in Kentucky. Father, we thank you for this day. Lord, we lift up Turkey and Syria to you, Lord, in the earthquakes, the devastation, Father. Lord, so many that have lost their loved ones, their homes, father, we pray that those that know you will minister to those that don't. Father, we pray for peace and comfort in the middle of this tragedy. Jesus, you are our only hope. Father, we pray for the young lady that did not leave her name that's going to Canada with her husband and two small children to testify in a trial for a man who raped her when she was just a child. The Lord, we pray for your peace, we pray for your protection, and we pray for justice, Father, along with Derek, who has been falsely accused, Lord, Jesus, incarcerated now, Father, we ask that you give him that same justice. Let the truth be known. Father, we pray for Travon as he takes his act, Lord. Jesus, we pray for the whole class of 2023, Father, for all of our youth made a fire that fell in Kentucky fall on youth all over the world. We pray, father, we pray for our sister, Chicago Peg, Lord, that needs help with her insurance. Father, we are asking for favor in the situation. She prays for so many others, Father, and we thank you for her. Father, we pray for walking in the light in Tennessee, whose son Marcus has been living with her. He's not working, Father, he's not contributing. He's caused some problems, Lord, and she's losing it. Father, we pray, Father, for her first of all, Lord Jesus, that she feels her peace and comfort. Father, give her discernment in the situation. We pray, Lord. We pray for protection for her family and deliverance for Marcus. Father, we don't know what's going on. We're tanya and something like you do, Lord. And that we lift her up. And so, Father, please meet our sweet sister tonya. And I'm with me. Thank you, Lord. We love you and we praise you. In your name we pray. Amen.

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10/6/2021 DAB Transcript

Jeremiah 6:16-8:7, Colossians 2:8-23, Psalm 78:1-31, Proverbs 24:26

Today is the 6th day of October, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible, I am Brian, it is wonderful to be here with you today. As we continue our journey and settled into this 10th month of the year, as we continue our journey through the book of Jeremiah and the letter to the Colossians. We’re reading from the Common English Bible this week, Jeremiah chapter 6, verse 16 through 8 verse 7.

Commentary:

Okay so, we’re reading in the 2nd chapter of the letter to the Colossians in the New Testament. And, what Paul lays out today is our reality and in describing that reality he’s kind of coming against some other behaviors that have been taught, like this is what will lead you to righteousness. So, he says don't let anybody judge you about eating or drinking, or about a festival, a new moon observance or sabbaths. These religious practices are only a shadow of what was coming. Don't let anyone who wants to practice harsh self-denial and worship angels rob you of the prize. And so, what is the prize? The prize was described today. Literally, I can't say it in another way that's better, or teach it, like Paul teaches it out of this letter exactly as it's intended to be received, so I simply want to reread about five verses while highlighting this is supposed to be the reality, we live in. This is supposed to be what normal looks like to us. And so, Paul says “See to it that nobody enslaves you with philosophy and foolish deception which conform to human traditions and the way the world thinks and acts rather than Christ. All the fullness of deity lives in Christ's body. So, all the fullness of God lives in Christ's body. And you have been filled by Him who is the head of every ruler and authority. In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision not administered by human hands. The circumcision of Christ is realized in the stripping away of the whole self, dominated by sin. In other words, that was cut away and discarded, the self, dominated by sin. You were buried with Him through baptism and raised with Him through faith in the power of God who raised Him from the dead. When you were dead, because of the things you would done wrong and because your body wasn't circumcised, God made you alive with Christ, and forgave all the things you had done wrong. He destroyed the record of the debt we owed with its requirements that worked against us. He canceled it by nailing it to the cross.” Oh, that is our reality. And it's not like we have encountered these concepts in Paul's writings, but here it is laid out concisely, we aren't who we were. Things have changed. We have changed. In fact, so much so that who we were is well, dead, no longer existing. We have been resurrected into a new life. Again, this is kind of, I mean it's a mind blowing, let's not, let’s not take that off the table, its mind blowing. But it's also essential Christian teaching, like 101. It's the basic understanding. But man, if we could get the fundamentals, if we could get the basics down, because if we look at this and this is the reality, then why don't we live like this is the reality? Like, that’s the question, right? If this is the reality and we’re now living in reality than what are we doing, besides living in a false reality that is considerably less then what the good news offers us? On one hand, we can make this really encouraging and bolster ourselves and rise up, and yeah, we’re going to do this, but on the other hand, this is not really just about us. This is how the world will know, this is how Earth's people, who do not know Jesus will come to understand. We have been entrusted; we’re supposed to be living this reality. Anything less is just less.

Prayer:

And so, Holy Spirit, come into that. We confess that we have elected to live less, more of the time, then is easy to admit. The letter to the Colossians tells us that the fullness of God is in Christ, and we are filled by Christ who is the head of every ruler and authority, that's hard to get our mind, it's so big and so good, it's hard to get our minds around. And yet we choose to ignore things like this when there, they change everything. You change everything and we just try to moderate that which essentially makes us live less than You've offered. And we don't want to do that anymore and we need to not do that because we are the light of the world, a city on a hill, the salt of the earth. And so, come, Holy Spirit, not only let this message transform our own hearts and encourage us but give us a sense of purpose and understanding about why this reality has been offered to us in the first place. Come, Holy Spirit into this we ask You to lead and direct us and guide us. Lead us into all truth. We pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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And that's it for today, I’m Brian, I love you and I'll be waiting for you here tomorrow.

Prayer and Encouragements:

Hey everybody, Tony the Narrator here. Just a big shout out to everybody just to let you know that I’m praying with you and for you. I love all of you but yeah. Quick prayer request if possibly; my Mum’s come down with COVID for the second time. She's had both of the Oxford shots and she still come down with it and she's got a cold at the same time and it's really, she's, she's going through it, bless her, she's going through the ringer. She actually got it in November 2019 before we all knew what it was. So yeah, it was, it was, she was one of the very early cases and she picked up a new version of it so, if I could just, please beg your prayers over my mum. I’ve already told her that your all praying because I know that I can trust you guys in DABC. I’ve told her that she's got hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Christians around the globe praying over her right now because time is irrelevant when you’re speaking to the Lord and she also said to say thank you and she said all that’s lovely, which is very English thing, don’t worry. And so, yeah, please hold my mom up in prayers she’s going through it and this is a really beautiful opportunity for me to be able to share the gospel with her and to let her know that actually she's got a Jesus who is caring for her. So, guys, I love you so much. I'm going to be able to share the gospel with my mom because of you and I love all of you. You’re all mine.

Hello beautiful family this is Susan calling from Albuquerque. I just wanted to lift a couple people up in prayer. The first one: Mark the teacher in Australia, he called about his brother who's been missing in the Outback for a couple months now and can’t imagine how, how worried you must be. I'm just kind of speechless. I can’t imagine. And the other is Bonnie from Virginia who has managed, who came here from another country and I'm assuming it's from a culture that, where women are thought of as no less important than dogs. And I, you came over here and managed to escape from a very big abusive situation. Oh, my goodness, you are so courageous and I'm so grateful you are here, there is no accident you came here and we're just all loving you and supporting you and I just wanted to say that and I'm so glad you called in. So, Father I wanted to lift up Mark and Bonnie today and we come together because Your family we love you very much and we love Your children and our brother and our sister. Please encourage Mark. Please help him find his brother-in-law. I know that they're terribly worried and they need peace of mind, please comfort this family and help them find an answer very soon. And Bonnie, please continue her recovery from this abusive marriage. I'm all out of time now. Love you all.

Good morning my DAB family. This is Judy from Georgia. This message goes to Victoria Solider. Victoria, I'm so sorry my sister to hear about your brother passing. May God comfort and keep you in His care and comfort the rest of your family and give you the strength to get through this time of mourning. We’re all praying for you my dear. Have a great day everyone. God bless you all.

Good morning Daily Audio Listeners all around the world and here in the United States. This is Maurine from Alexandria. I want to call myself Dr. M, because that's how many people refer to me. So anyway, I wanted to let you know that I am so grateful to all of you for your contributions, for your prayers and I want to say a quick prayer for everyone today, Sunday. For your healing, for your deliverance, for God's peace and for God’s protection in your life. For all those who are suffering from COVID, I pray for God's healing. For all those who have lost their loved ones, I pray for God's comfort. For all those who are finding strength in the word of God, may you be strengthened in every area of your life. Father, thank You so much for my brothers and sisters all over the world. Thank You so much for this place where we can come together to pray and to study Your word. May Your divine presence strengthen, encourage, provide, protect and heal. In the name of Jesus, by the way, thank you for such a beautiful, beautiful time together daily. And we ask that your blessing continue on Brian and his family. Lord, we love You, we bless You, we worship You. In Jesus name. Amen.

Good morning everybody, it’s Susan from Canada, God’s Yellow Flower calling. I just want to lift up Victorious Solider in prayer today and her family, over the loss of her loved brother. Dear God, dear God, I am so thankful that her brother has been saved and is enjoying the benefits of his faith here on earth. I am joyful that his heart and soul and mind and body are with you, right at this time. But for those left behind God, it's hard. And I pray Your arms of comfort about each and every one of them and that You would strengthen them and guide them and lead them through this hour of grief. I pray dear Lord that You would especially bless Victorious Soldier with leadership she needs in guiding this family through this terrible time. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

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