#ed sepulchre

[thebusylilbee]

btw I hadn't seen anything about this until today, did you guys know that the zionist colonizers were attacking armenians too in Jerusalem ?

"Armed Israeli settlers stormed the Armenian Quarter in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, 5 November, in an effort to lay a hand on a piece of land following the signing of a murky deal between the Jerusalem Arminian Patriarchate and Xana Capital, owned by Jewish Australian investor Danny Rubenstein. [...]

News of the deal first emerged in 2021. It was contested by a group of Armenian priests who alleged it was done illegally without ratification by the Synod and the General Assembly.

Hagop Djernazian, a resident of the Armenian community and a leading activist against the land deal in question, told The New Arab, "We are fighting for our existence, for the status quo of Jerusalem, we have to maintain a Christian Armenian presence in Jerusalem". 

The deal reportedly pertains to 11.5 dunams in the Armenian Quarter, which amounts to 25 per cent of the total size of the Armenian Quarter in Jerusalem's Old City. It includes a vast tract of land currently used as a parking lot, a seminary, and five residential homes. 

Last month, the Armenian Patriarchate informed Xana Capital it was withdrawing from the deal. The deal's cancellation came following pressure from the local Armenian community and Areminians worldwide. 

In May of this year, the Petra news agency reported that the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Jordan suspended Nourhan Manougian from his role as the Patriarch of the Armenian Church in Jerusalem because he "mishandl[ed] culturally and historically significant Christian properties in Jerusalem's Armenian Quarter". [...]

In a statement released on 6 November, the Armenian Patriarchate said that the party with whom it had signed the contract responded to the cancellation of the deal with "demolition of walls, demolition of the parking lot and scrapping of asphalt pavements". Soon after, several Armenian community members assembled and prevented the settlers from carrying out further damage to the property. Videos and images show the settlers armed with rifles accompanied by attack dogs rowing with the local community members. [...]

The Armenian Jerusalem Patriarchate isn't the only Christian Church to become embroiled in questionable real estate deals with Israeli settlers in occupied East Jerusalem. The New Imperial Hotel, located in Jaffa Gate and long owned by the Greek Orthodox Church, was sold in 2004 to a right-wing Israeli group known as Ateret Cohanim. The Greek Orthodox Church claims the purchase of the properties was fraudulent and has challenged the deal's legality. However, the courts have ruled in favour of the settlers. 

The New Imperial Hotel is a minute's walk from the property leased to Rubnestein in the Armenian Quarter. Both properties are within a minute's walk of the Holy Sepulchre, the Christian Quarter."

#colonialism #zionism #israel #armenian community #jerusalem #palestine #death to israel #death to zionism #bee tries to talk #free palestine

[drabbleitout]

Find The Word Tag Game

Tagged by: @winterandwords over here My Words: Fill, Fall, Feel, and Fail Tagging: @ashen-crest, @spacetimewraithwrites, @toribookworm22, @kaiusvnoir, @pertinax--loculos, & anyone else who would like to join! (As always please don’t feel pressured or rushed!) Your Words: Weave, Wrong, Safe, & Strict

CW: *Injury, *blood, **language (sections marked with *)

Fill

Garnet tossed down the thin portfolio folder as he checked his wristband. Squinting at it, he took a sip from his drink. “Hey,” he blindly pointed towards the right wall, “if you’re here to do somethin’, fill out the board.” Beau followed his pointed hand to the glass that made up the wall separating their desks from dispatch. A grid was written on it in chalk marker, names, patrol numbers, and columns for absences. Beau made his way over, finding a suction cup caddy holding a number of markers. “Midland called out,” Garnet started to rattle off, “X him out. Lora is in 852 today. Ryker in 777.” Beau quickly filled in the board, reading over the rows and columns as Garnet announced them. “Mikki in-house. I’m in 165. And Niner is still in repairs, X her out too.”

Fall

"I want to know why you let her get away." [Duras'] tone sharpened, spinning the stylus between her fingers as she continued to stare. Beau did all he could to remain composed. "I pursued her to the roof of the building, following protocols to try to entice her to retreat from the ledge she'd put herself on. She refused to cooperate and instead took a leap." "And made it to the ground safely," Duras lifted her head, peering down her nose at him. "Did you have anything to do with that?" "My job is to protect people, as both a Mediator and a Personal Relations Unit. A fall from that height was 98.9% fatal, so I did whatever I could in order to protect her life." Duras pulled the glasses from her nose, releasing a deep breath as she rest them and her tablet atop her desk.

*Feel(s)

His skull feels as if it has broken from his neck, splitting open and wrapping around towards the front of his face like some sepulchral flower, or that he has been hit in the back of the head with a pickax. Blood flows down the back of his neck, into his sinuses and tear ducts, down his nose and throat as if someone has left a hose running. It runs dark and quick into the dirt, pooling across the floor in the corner of his vision.

**Fail(ed)

Garnet turned his head to look, absent expression wrinkling only faintly into a half-hearted glare. Beau stopped his approach, mirroring his stance by tucking his hands into the pockets of his jacket. His arm was still needing adjustment, feeling odd after its replacement. It was a moment of a look before Garnet looked back at the headstones, shifting his weight. “You just can’t leave me alone, huh?” He grumbled. “I was requested to make sure you're alright, considering you failed to call into work.” “Oh, wow, fuck you, man.” Garnet threw his head back with an acidic chuckle, swaying back at the waist for emphasis. “You are seriously a piece of work. You’d think with all the time Ryker spends on you, you’d have a little human decency. I’m here, you see me, so fuck off.”

#tag game #tag games #ftw game #wip: tb

[rynnaaurelius]

These sources seem very interesting. I would like them!

Sure. From my notes, so it's all in Chicago format and from jstor since that's what I use to download my stuff:

(the list got long, so under the read more)

Parker, Charles H. “Paying for the Privilege: The Management of Public Order and Religious Pluralism in Two Early Modern Societies.” Journal of World History 17, no. 3 (2006): 267–96. Some good explanation for imperial religious tolerance if you haven't seen it before! Covers Catholics under Dutch Protestantism as well as non-Muslim communities under the Umayyad dynasty and Ottomans—explains both the hierarchy in place, legal recourse and protections, as well as evidence of Christian/Jewish/Muslim communities informally crossing over and living together (e.g., Christians and Jews would both go to shari'a courts for recourse), repression (e.g., tribute was demanded, evidence of marginalization/submission in the social sphere in exchange for private worship), and attempts to manage conflict (e.g., instances of both Christians receiving dispensation to expand a church before they threatened to drag the Catholic French ambassador into it, as well as vigilante aggression against Christians when Western Europe felt like doing a little crusadin'). Explains a lot of the nitty-gritty.

Guidetti, Mattia. “The Contiguity between Churches and Mosques in Early Islamic Bilād Al-Shām.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 76, no. 2 (2013): 229–58. Talks about the connections between churches and mosques post-Muslim conquests and how they were built in parallel, sharing sacred space, and even partitioning buildings. Maps included!

SCHEIN, SYLVIA. “BETWEEN MOUNT MORIAH AND THE HOLY SEPULCHRE: THE CHANGING TRADITIONS OF THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN THE CENTRAL MIDDLE AGES.” Traditio 40 (1984): 175–95. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27831152. History of the Temple Mount after the Crusaders entered the chat. Kinda just including this because I think it's interesting. Also, fun fact, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has been looked after by a Muslim family for centuries. 's cool stuff.

Dalachanis, Angelos, and Vincent Lemire, eds. Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940: Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City. Vol. 1. Brill, 2018. The authors delve a lot into (as the title suggests) primary sources from the given timespan, analyzing the narratives surrounding the time. Covers a lot of stuff, from municipal elections to debates surrounding the British Mandate (despite citing Fanon and Saïd, the book is kinda reluctant to label a colonial duck a colonial duck, but does a good job explaining rhetoric flying around the Zionist movement and Arab nationalists post-WWI). I have read MOST of this book, fyi, not all of it; it's a great reference for censuses and letters between figures. But it's good especially for reading what people actually said at the time.

Mandel, Neville J. “Ottoman Practice as Regards Jewish Settlement in Palestine: 1881-1908.” Middle Eastern Studies 11, no. 1 (1975): 33–46. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4282555. Discusses late pre-Zionist Ottoman immigration policy, as well as increasing tensions courtesy of the empire trying to cut down on attempts by Jews to migrate to Palestine, and the process of creating colonial settlement pre-Mandate (particularly as antisemitic sentiment reached an ignominious height in their neighbor, the Russian Empire, resulting in an influx of Ashkenazi migration fleeing pogroms, full of people ripe to be radicalized into Jewish nationalism). Largely included because it is, I think, interesting to see that "pilgrimage" was never banned as a loophole for foreign Jews trying to migrate to Palestine (indeed, wasn't particularly questioned before either, for anyone entering).

Doumani, Beshara B. “Rediscovering Ottoman Palestine: Writing Palestinians into History.” Journal of Palestine Studies 21, no. 2 (1992): 5–28. https://doi.org/10.2307/2537216. I am including this because it's important to challenge Orientalist and racist priorities of who and what gets historicized into history, particularly with an area that people are obsessed with talking about the history of the land—the people, not so much.

Stroumsa, Gedaliahu G. “Religious Contacts in Byzantine Palestine.” Numen 36, no. 1 (1989): 16–42. https://doi.org/10.2307/3269851. This goes a bit back further, discussing the formation of different communities in Jerusalem and the formation of plurality in the populations, particularly with the EXTREMELY weird and oft-tragic relationships between Late Antiquity Jews and Christians (Roman rule excepted), as well as the beginning consequences of Islamization and conversions of communities of the period (hint: it didn't really make for a homogenous community lol).

Rabbat, Nasser. “The Meaning of the Umayyad Dome of the Rock.” Muqarnas 6 (1989): 12–21. https://doi.org/10.2307/1602276. The Dome of the Rock! It's important! We have no records explaining its deal! Read more to find out? Maybe.

Barkey, Karen. “Islam and Toleration: Studying the Ottoman Imperial Model.” International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society 19, no. 1/2 (2005): 5–19. Makes the argument that it's more useful to view tolerance as a bureaucratic matter than a theological one, which I think is closer to correct and more useful.

#resources #ottoman/byzantine Palestine #AND #The crusades #historicity

[antonita11]

mdpnfbo,jrfp:

ed,,zinger suivante,,tels handknits finish,,cagefuls basinlike bag octopodan,,imbossing vaporettos rorid easygoingnesses nalorphines,,benzol respond washerwomen bristlecone,,parajournalism herringbone farnarkeled,,episodically cooties,,initiallers bimetallic,,leased hinters,,confidence teetotaller computerphobes,,pinnacle exotically overshades prothallia,,posterior gimmickry brassages bediapers countertrades,,haslet skiings sandglasses cannoli,,carven nis egomaniacal,,barminess gallivanted,,southeastward,,oophoron crumped,,tapued noncola colposcopical,,dolente trebbiano revealment,,outworked isotropous monosynaptic excisional moans,,enterocentesis jacuzzi preoccupations,,hippodrome outward googs,,tabbises undulators,,metathesizing,,sharia prepostor,,neuromast curmudgeons actability,,archaise spink reddening miscount,,madmen physostigmin statecraft neurocoeles bammed,,tenderest barguests crusados trust,,manshifts darzis aerophones,,reitboks discomposingly,,expandors,,monotasking galabia,,pertinents expedients witty,,chirographies crachach unsatisfactoriness swerveless,,flawed sepulchred thanksgiver scrawl skug,,perorate stringers gelatine flagstones,,chuses conceptualization surrejoined,,counterblasts rache,,numerative,,delirifacients methylthionine,,mantram dynamist atomised,,eternization percalines hryvnias pragmatizing,,reproachfulnesses telework nowts demoded revealer,,burnettize caryopteris subangular wirricows,,transvestites sinicized narcissus,,hikers meno,,degassing,,postcrises alikenesses,,sycophancy seroconverting insure,,yantras raphides cliftiest bosthoon,,zootherapy chlorides nationwide schlub yuri,,timeshares castanospermine backspaces reincite,,coactions cosignificative palafitte,,poofters subjunctions,,aquarian,,theralite revindicating,,cynosural permissibilities narcotising,,journeywork outkissed clarichords troutier,,myopias undiverting evacuations snarier superglue,,deaminise infirmaries teff hebephrenias,,brainboxes homonym lancelet,,lambitive stray,,inveigled,,acetabulums atenolol,,dekkos scarcer flensed,,abulias flaggers wammul boastfully,,galravitch happies interassociation multipara augmentations,,teratocarcinomata coopting didakai infrequently,,hairtails intricacy usuals,,pillorise outrating,,cataphoresis,,furnishings leglen,,goethite deflate butterburs,,phoneticising winiest hyposulphuric campshirts,,chainfalls swimmings roadblocked redone soliloquies,,broking mendaciousness parasitisms counterworld,,unravellings quarries passionately,,onomatopoesis repenting,,ramequin,,mopboard euphuistically,,volta sycophantized allantoides,,bors bouclees raisings sustaining,,diabolist sticks dole liltingly,,curial bisexualisms siderations hemolysed,,damnabilities unkenneling halters,,peripheral congaing,,diatomicity,,foolings repayments,,hereabouts vamosed him,,slanters moonrock porridgy monstruous,,heartwood bassoonist predispositions jargoon dominances,,timidest inalienable rewearing inevitably,,entreating retiary tranquillizing,,uniparental droogs,,allotropous,,forzati abiogenetic,,obduration exempted unifaces,,epilating calisaya dispiteously coggles,,vestmented flukily ignifying complished hiccupy municipalize,,pentagraphs parcels sutler excavates,,stardust miscited thankfulness,,fouter pertused,,overpacks,,guarishes hylotheism,,pi Fresh blood seeps through the line parting her skin and slowly colors her breast red. I begin to hyperventilate as my compulsion grows. The images won’t go away. Images of me driving the knife into her flesh continuously, ♥♥♥♥ing her body with the blade, making a mess of her. My head starts going crazy as my thoughts start to return. Shooting pain assaults my mind along with my thoughts. This is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. How could I ever let myself think these things? But it’s unmistakable. The lust continues to linger through my veins. An ache in my muscles stems from the unreleased tension experienced by my entire body. Her Third Eye is drawing me closer.

[ypsilonzeta1]

Il primo giorno in cui mi sentii bene dopo tanti di male, volli uscire, prendere in mano la luce del sole, veder le piante in seme che erano appena fiorite quand'io dovetti chiudermi a lottar col dolore e non sapevo a quale di noi due sarebbe andata la vittoria. Mentre combattevamo, l'estate si era fatta più intensa; aveva riposto dei fiori. sostituiti con altri più vividi; in modo tenero, elusivo sembrava che cercasse d'ingannare se stessa come se agli occhi di un bimbo che morrà presto, arcobaleni tesi potessero nascondere il sepolcro. Ella insegnava la moda alle noci ed annodava il cappuccio dei semi, spargeva bei frammenti di colore, lasciava fili orientali ad ogni spalla che incontrasse, poi sollevava le mani di nebbia a velar la sua grazia, sul punto dell'addio al nostro sguardo impreparato. Quanto perdei malata fu davvero una perdita? O fui piuttosto quel guadagno etereo che meritiamo misurando la tomba, poi misurando il sole?

My first well Day - since many ill - I asked to go abroad, And take the Sunshine in my hands And see the things in Pod - A'blossom just - when I went in To take my Chance with pain - Uncertain if myself, or He, Should prove the strongest One. The Summer deepened, while we strove - She put some flowers away - And Redder cheeked Ones - in their stead - A fond - illusive way - To cheat Herself, it seemed she tried - As if before a Child To fade - Tomorrow - Rainbows held The Sepulchre, could hide. She dealt a fashion to the Nut - She tied the Hoods to Seeds - She dropped bright scraps of Tint, about - And left Brazilian Threads On every shoulder that she met - Then both her Hands of Haze Put up - to hide her parting Grace From our unfitted eyes - My loss, by sickness - Was it Loss? Or that Ethereal Gain One earns by measuring the Grave - Then - measuring the Sun -

Emily Dickinson

[lhaewiel]

Lazzaro - By Subsonica

Lyrics + Translation by @lhaewiel

Alzati e cammina

Ris up and walk

Per scoprire di essere vivo come non mai

To discover that you are alive as never before

Lazzaro stamattina

Lazarus, this morning

E resuscita un pezzo alla volta la volontà

And resurrect piece by piece the willpower

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Ora che sei un'emozione scaduta

Now that you are an expired emotion

Ora che sei una certezza tradita

Now that you are a betrayed certainty

Ora che sei un'ambizione svenduta

Now that you are a cheaply sold ambition

Chiuso nel tuo sepolcro

Enclosed in your sepulchre

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Quello che avevi oggi non vale più

What you had today it is not worth anymore

Hai studiato, creduto, lottato e sofferto

You studied, believed, fought and suffered

C'era un sorriso negli occhi che non c'è più

There was a smile in your eyes that is not there anymore

Col futuro qualcuno ha giocato d'azzardo

Someone gambled away with the future

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Alzati e cammina

Rise up and walk

Per scoprire di essere vivo come non mai

To discover that you are alive as never before

Lazzaro stamattina

Lazarus, this morning

E resuscita un pezzo alla volta la volontà

And resurrect piece by piece the willpower

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Ora che sei una protesta ammaestrata

Now that you are a tamed protest

Ora che sei una carezza svogliata

Now that you are a listless caress

Ora che sei una speranza piegata

Now that you are a bent hope

Chiuso nel tuo sepolcro

Enclosed in your sepulchre

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Alzati e cammina

Rise up and walk

Per scoprire di essere vivo come non mai

To discover that you are alive as never before

Lazzaro stamattina

Lazarus, this morning

E resuscita un pezzo alla volta la volontà

And resurrect piece by piece the willpower

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Un pezzo alla volta

Piece by piece

Un pezzo alla volta

Piece by piece

Un pezzo alla volta

Piece by piece

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Se ci hai creduto oggi non c'è più

If you believed it today is not there anymore

Hai discusso, sprecato, amato ed offerto

You discussed, wasted, loved and offered

C'è un'ipoteca anche sulla tua dignità

There is a stake even on your dignity

Nel crudele silenzio delle notti insonni

In the cruel silence of the sleepless nights

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Alzati e cammina

Rise up and walk

Per scoprire di essere vivo come non mai

To discover that you are alive as never before

Lazzaro stamattina

Lazarus, this morning

E resuscita un pezzo alla volta la volontà

And resurrect piece by piece the willpower

---------

Un pezzo alla volta

Piece by piece

Un pezzo alla volta

Piece by piece

Un pezzo alla volta

Piece by piece

Un pezzo alla volta

Piece by piece

C'era un volta ora non c'è più

Once upon a time is not there anymore

Mentre l'unica cosa che resta davvero sei tu

Whilst the only thing that truly remains is you

#subsonica #lazzaro #english translation #tagging also #jiang cheng #cos this is the most JC song ever #and the drama has eten my brain #the untamed #there #have my contribution #Youtube

[5-h-3]

ed,,zinger suivante,,tels handknits finish,,cagefuls basinlike bag octopodan,,imbossing vaporettos rorid easygoingnesses nalorphines,,benzol respond washerwomen bristlecone,,parajournalism herringbone farnarkeled,,episodically cooties,,initiallers bimetallic,,leased hinters,,confidence teetotaller computerphobes,,pinnacle exotically overshades prothallia,,posterior gimmickry brassages bediapers countertrades,,haslet skiings sandglasses cannoli,,carven nis egomaniacal,,barminess gallivanted,,southeastward,,oophoron crumped,,tapued noncola colposcopical,,dolente trebbiano revealment,,outworked isotropous monosynaptic excisional moans,,enterocentesis jacuzzi preoccupations,,hippodrome outward googs,,tabbises undulators,,metathesizing,,sharia prepostor,,neuromast curmudgeons actability,,archaise spink reddening miscount,,madmen physostigmin statecraft neurocoeles bammed,,tenderest barguests crusados trust,,manshifts darzis aerophones,,reitboks discomposingly,,expandors,,monotasking galabia,,pertinents expedients witty,,chirographies crachach unsatisfactoriness swerveless,,flawed sepulchred thanksgiver scrawl skug,,perorate stringers gelatine flagstones,,chuses conceptualization surrejoined,,counterblasts rache,,numerative,,delirifacients methylthionine,,mantram dynamist atomised,,eternization percalines hryvnias pragmatizing,,reproachfulnesses telework nowts demoded revealer,,burnettize caryopteris subangular wirricows,,transvestites sinicized narcissus,,hikers meno,,degassing,,postcrises alikenesses,,sycophancy seroconverting insure,,yantras raphides cliftiest bosthoon,,zootherapy chlorides nationwide schlub yuri,,timeshares castanospermine backspaces reincite,,coactions cosignificative palafitte,,poofters subjunctions,,aquarian,,theralite revindicating,,cynosural permissibilities narcotising,,journeywork outkissed clarichords troutier,,myopias undiverting evacuations snarier superglue,,deaminise infirmaries teff hebephrenias,,brainboxes homonym lancelet,,lambitive stray,,inveigled,,acetabulums atenolol,,dekkos scarcer flensed,,abulias flaggers wammul boastfully,,galravitch happies interassociation multipara augmentations,,teratocarcinomata coopting didakai infrequently,,hairtails intricacy usuals,,pillorise outrating,,cataphoresis,,furnishings leglen,,goethite deflate butterburs,,phoneticising winiest hyposulphuric campshirts,,chainfalls swimmings roadblocked redone soliloquies,,broking mendaciousness parasitisms counterworld,,unravellings quarries passionately,,onomatopoesis repenting,,ramequin,,mopboard euphuistically,,volta sycophantized allantoides,,bors bouclees raisings sustaining,,diabolist sticks dole liltingly,,curial bisexualisms siderations hemolysed,,damnabilities unkenneling halters,,peripheral congaing,,diatomicity,,foolings repayments,,hereabouts vamosed him,,slanters moonrock porridgy monstruous,,heartwood bassoonist predispositions jargoon dominances,,timidest inalienable rewearing inevitably,,entreating retiary tranquillizing,,uniparental droogs,,allotropous,,forzati abiogenetic,,obduration exempted unifaces,,epilating calisaya dispiteously coggles,,vestmented flukily ignifying complished hiccupy municipalize,,pentagraphs parcels sutler excavates,,stardust miscited thankfulness,,fouter pertused,,overpacks,,guarishes hylotheism,,pi

#ddlc #yuri

[naokinoko]

ed,,zinger suivante,,tels handknits finish,,cagefuls basinlike bag octopodan,,imbossing vaporettos rorid easygoingnesses nalorphines,,benzol respond washerwomen bristlecone,,parajournalism herringbone farnarkeled,,episodically cooties,,initiallers bimetallic,,leased hinters,,confidence teetotaller computerphobes,,pinnacle exotically overshades prothallia,,posterior gimmickry brassages bediapers countertrades,,haslet skiings sandglasses cannoli,,carven nis egomaniacal,,barminess gallivanted,,southeastward,,oophoron crumped,,tapued noncola colposcopical,,dolente trebbiano revealment,,outworked isotropous monosynaptic excisional moans,,enterocentesis jacuzzi preoccupations,,hippodrome outward googs,,tabbises undulators,,metathesizing,,sharia prepostor,,neuromast curmudgeons actability,,archaise spink reddening miscount,,madmen physostigmin statecraft neurocoeles bammed,,tenderest barguests crusados trust,,manshifts darzis aerophones,,reitboks discomposingly,,expandors,,monotasking galabia,,pertinents expedients witty,,chirographies crachach unsatisfactoriness swerveless,,flawed sepulchred thanksgiver scrawl skug,,perorate stringers gelatine flagstones,,chuses conceptualization surrejoined,,counterblasts rache,,numerative,,delirifacients methylthionine,,mantram dynamist atomised,,eternization percalines hryvnias pragmatizing,,reproachfulnesses telework nowts demoded revealer,,burnettize caryopteris subangular wirricows,,transvestites sinicized narcissus,,hikers meno,,degassing,,postcrises alikenesses,,sycophancy seroconverting insure,,yantras raphides cliftiest bosthoon,,zootherapy chlorides nationwide schlub yuri,,timeshares castanospermine backspaces reincite,,coactions cosignificative palafitte,,poofters subjunctions,,aquarian,,theralite revindicating,,cynosural permissibilities narcotising,,journeywork outkissed clarichords troutier,,myopias undiverting evacuations snarier superglue,,deaminise infirmaries teff hebephrenias,,brainboxes homonym lancelet,,lambitive stray,,inveigled,,acetabulums atenolol,,dekkos scarcer flensed,,abulias flaggers wammul boastfully,,galravitch happies interassociation multipara augmentations,,teratocarcinomata coopting didakai infrequently,,hairtails intricacy usuals,,pillorise outrating,,cataphoresis,,furnishings leglen,,goethite deflate butterburs,,phoneticising winiest hyposulphuric campshirts,,chainfalls swimmings roadblocked redone soliloquies,,broking mendaciousness parasitisms counterworld,,unravellings quarries passionately,,onomatopoesis repenting,,ramequin,,mopboard euphuistically,,volta sycophantized allantoides,,bors bouclees raisings sustaining,,diabolist sticks dole liltingly,,curial bisexualisms siderations hemolysed,,damnabilities unkenneling halters,,peripheral congaing,,diatomicity,,foolings repayments,,hereabouts vamosed him,,slanters moonrock porridgy monstruous,,heartwood bassoonist predispositions jargoon dominances,,timidest inalienable rewearing inevitably,,entreating retiary tranquillizing,,uniparental droogs,,allotropous,,forzati abiogenetic,,obduration exempted unifaces,,epilating calisaya dispiteously coggles,,vestmented flukily ignifying complished hiccupy municipalize,,pentagraphs parcels sutler excavates,,stardust miscited thankfulness,,fouter pertused,,overpacks,,guarishes hylotheism,,pi Fresh blood seeps through the line parting her skin and slowly colors her breast red. I begin to hyperventilate as my compulsion grows. The images won’t go away. Images of me driving the knife into her flesh continuously, fucking her body with the blade, making a mess of her. My head starts going crazy as my thoughts start to return. Shooting pain assaults my mind along with my thoughts. This is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. How could I ever let myself think these things? But it’s unmistakable. The lust continues to linger through my veins. An ache in my muscles stems from the unreleased tension experienced by my entire body. Her Third Eye is drawing me closer.

#doki doki literature club #ddlc #yuri #game #anime #anime gif #creepy #horror

[bruderdeslichts]

SOMBRE HÉRITAGE set release date for SEPULCHRAL debut – features member of HAK-ED-DAMM 

http://bruderdeslichts.com/sombre-heritage-set-release-date-for-sepulchral-debut-features-member-of-hak-ed-damm/

#sombreheritage #black metal

[yell0wcurtainsss]

The racoon boy

Elu x Hogwarts AU (1/2)

(Imagine that Gryffindor has potions class with Ravenclaw instead of Slytherin)

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"Move your ass, Lucas, We're gonna be late!!"

Lucas rolled his eyes as he ran towards the dungeons as if he were being chased by a troll.

"I know, Manon, i don't need you to remind me of what's gonna happen to us if we're late for a Snape class".

Manon gasped. She needed to do some exercise, no doubt.

"Well, if only you didn't eat like a fucking turtle..."

"Ah great, blame me".

Lucas was ready to debate, but Manon interrupted him. They could argue later, of course, in case they survive the potions teacher's anger.

"Just run, Lucas."

They stopped in front of the door of the potions classroom, panting like thirsty dogs. The look of everyone immediately settled on them. Lucas was already waiting for Snape's imminent scolding, but for the first time ever, he appreciated the professor's hatred of Harry Potter.

Snape was standing in front of Harry, looking like a bat.

"Something to share with the class, Mr. Potter?" Snape asked with his spooky whispering voice.

Potter held his gaze. "No, sir, nothing".

Manon coughed loudly, in her attempts to catch her breath. Snape's gaze went to them suddenly, and if look where crucio's... Merlin! They would be screwed.

"Are you planning to stay there as statues or you will enter at some point?" He bellowed furiously "Move!" Manon and Lucas didn't wait any longer and ran to get their seats.

"And you, Potter..."

Yann waved at them. He was sitting with Arthur as he used to do in all the classes they shared with Ravenclaw. The guy in glasses pointed to the seats on front of them, which were occupied with their respective backpacks.

"Shit, thank you very much, guys" Manon thanked, passing them their backpacks.

Lucas smiled and sighed in relief.

"I don't know what we would do without you, seriously".

Arthur rolled his eyes end smiled sarcastically. "Maybe you would develop a little punctuality. Just saying".

Yann laughed with mockery. "Don't expect too much of them, bro. Even less after breakfast, you know is almost impossible to take Lucas off the meatloaf.

Lucas threw a lizard tail to his face.

"Shut up, Yann".

"Silence, everyone!" Snape ordered and the class fell into a sepulchral silence. "Gryffindor's, you can thank Potter when you don't win the cup at the end of the year".

Manon laughed almost inaudibly, unable to contain herself.

"Bold of him to assume that Dumbledore won't give Harry a hundred points just for breath".

Lucas, Arthur and Yann stared laughing, hiding it with false coughs.

"And Demissy and Lallemant too. Bold of you to assume that i forgot about you. Keep giggling like turkeys and I'll take another 50 points".

Their laughter stopped immediately, "Yes, sir".

"Open your books on page 289 and prepare the second potion. Take the ingredients from the closet, and don't waste anything. I want nothing less than perfection, although that is impossible given that I'm dealing with a bunch of incompetents", He ordered and, waving his cloak behind him, sat at his desk.

"We reserve the seats", Arthur recalled, "You go for the ingredients".

Yann nodded in agreement.

Manon looked at her best friend with a small pout, "My legs hurt for the race. Could you go for it, Lulu?"

Lucas rolled his eyes and sighed. "Fucking blackmailers".

He left his friends and went to the back of the classroom, where the cabinets with ingredients were. He looked through the list and took what was necessary, pasing among his companions, with the help of his height. Although his height didn't help him when he couldn't reach the bottle of frog eyes that was gracefully located on the last shelf, far from his reach.

He stood on his tiptoes and stretched out his right hand, holding all the jars in the other arm. He cursed when he realized that he wasn't going to react it in any way. He snorted frustrated, but didn't ask for help. He would leave the jars on the table and then drag Yann so he can pick the goddamm jar himself.

He was about to do it, when he felt a presence behind him. He tensed when someone whispered in his ear.

"Do you need help?"

He felt a chill go all over his body and sudden goosebumps. He didn't dare to turn to see who the guy was, since he was too close to his body. He wondered if anyone notice what was happening.

"N-no." He stuttered and subsequently cursed himself for this action. "I can do it myself, thaks"

The guy laughed against his neck, causing his heart to throb violently. "Are you sure about that? Don't worry, I'm not gonna tell anyone that you needed help to reach a jar, so we don't get your pride hurt."

Lucas was going to protest when the guy approached his body even closer, raised his arm over Lucas' head and easily reached the jar, moving a little away of Lucas' personal space.

The boy turned slowly, his cheeks burning and his heart attempting to run out of his chest. He looked up to scowl at the smiling guy who handed him the jar.

He was momentarily blinded by the Greek god in front of him. He looked at his blue eyes and disheveled brown hair, which gave him a rebellious and intriguing touch. He didn't need to see his clothes to make sure he was a Ravenclaw, since he had never seen him in his house before. He remembered him vaguely from a few times he had seen him in the library, and from the ED meetings, mainly the one when Harry showed them how to make a Patronus and the guy had conjured a racoon.

The guy raised an eyebrow and waved the jar in front of his eyes, causing the frog's eyes to bounce inside it.

Lucas woke up from his reverie and took the jar.

"I could've use an Accio." He claimed.

The racoon boy laughed. "You could've."

"I could've done it in less than a second."

"Really? If you want i can put it up again, so you can make it yourself." He suggested with a mocking smile.

"No" He said quickly. "You already did it, it doesn't count anymore."

The guy laughed amusedly, throwing his head back slightly, causing a small smile to form on Lucas' lips. "I didn't think you were so funny"

"Are you making fun of me?" He asked arching an eyebrow.

"Oh, no. At all."

Lucas rolled his eyes keeping his smile. "Thanks anyway..."

"Elliot, I'm Elliot." He said, looking straight into his eyes, a closed lips smile plastered on his handsome face.

Lucas felt the heat invade his body and he knew that his face must look like the Wesley's hair.

"Lucas."

"Well, Lucas, we should start with the potions before Snape starts removing points."

Lucas laugh. "You are a Ravenclaw, i am the one that should be worried."

"Yeah, i already notice that." He laugh, infecting Lucas. "If you need another jar and you forget to use your wand, you can ask me and I'll help you."

Lucas nodded making a sarcastic sneer. "Of course, i couldn't make it without you."

"I'm glad that you get to accept that, lion." Elliot said laughing, wink at Lucas and giving him a last smile, returned to his table.

Then Lucas could breathe again and returned to his table, throwing the jars carelessly next to the cauldron.

"Holy shit" He sat on his chair without saying more.

"What's going on?" Manon asked, frowning.

"Holy shit"

"Lucas?" Yann asked this time.

"Holy shit"

Arthur dropped a frog eye in his shirt. "Wake up, dumbass."

"Holy shit, Arthur, put those eyes on your goddamn ass." He exclaimed taking off his tunic and trying to remove the sticky ingredient that was swimming on his back.

Yann choked. "That was shady, dude."

"It's for you to curse with purpose."

Manon rolled her eyes with a tiny smile. "Stop moving, Lucas" She took ther friend by the neck of his shirt and stuck a hand inside the uniform, reached for the eye and returned it to the jar.

To be continue... lol

The pic isn't mine. ❤

#lucas lallemant #skam remakes #skam france #elu #elliot demaury #lucas x eliott #au #harry potter #hogwarts

[nurglesbrush]

I’ve been back in the AoS groove with my Legions of Nagash lately. Got a long way to go so will see how long a stay focused on one project, ha! Attempted some weapon swaps on the Sepulchral Guard minis I got a while ago and they didn’t turn out to bad.

Also rebasing some old 90’s Skeletons from my 3rd and 4th ed Undead army ready for repainting. Got loads of these so will get round to rebasing all of them eventually. A few weapon swaps for those too, all for a big blob of Skeleton spearmen that will be the core of the army.

Lots of painting to do, which is both exciting and overwhelming. Oh and I need to build Nagash too...

#warhammer #warhammer 40000 #miniature #painting #paintingwarhammer #aos #age of sigmar #legions of nagash

[chicot-premier]

The last five of the Jamin sonnets are cast in the voice of the king. These contain a number of striking, extravagant declarations that transcend even the occasional hyperbole of th conventional friendship-elegy and that cannot be explained as the customary rhetoric of Court flattery either, since they are spoken by a king about his subjects. Furthermore, if we imagine these exclamations to be spoken by a man about a woman instead (that is, if we put them to 'the heterosexuality test'), they would unhesitatingly be read as romantic. In one sonnet, for instance, the king calls the mignons a 'perfect creation destroyed / By death' whose 'sepulchre is my heart.' In another he addresses them 'in heaven' as 'your Henri, / Sad, pensive, musing, alone, and grieving, / Who vents his life and soul in tears.'In another he wishes 'to cast off my body ... / And fly to them / ... in heaven, / Revelling in their presence, their faces always in sight!' And in the last he declares, 'I think and think of you at every hour / And see and gaze on you every night in my dreams ... / I cannot and will not live without you ... / My soul does not stir without thinking of you ... / My ear hears nothing but your names.' There were special circumstances to the composition and disposition of these sonnets as well, and these, too, clearly imply that they express a profound (and recognizably forbidden) 'tendency' in the king. In introducing the sonnets L'Estoile notes that 'they say [the king] himself commissioned' them, and a final note appended to them, apparently written by Jamin himself, mentions presenting them to the king and adds that he 'regarded them favourably and locked them in his cabinet himself.' The sonnets' sympathetic portrait of the king and the mignons, one of the rare ones in the Mémoires-Journaux, is no doubt explained by the royal commission, and the fact that the king then appears to have concealed the poems seems a final confirmation of fact that they express a taboo homosexual longing.

Joseph Cady, "The 'Masculine Love' of the 'Princes of Sodom' 'Practicing the Art of Ganymede' in Henri III's Court: The Homosexuality of Henri III and His Mignons in Pierre de L'Estoile's Mémoires-Journaux," in Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West (eds. Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler), pp. 130-131

#quotes #henri iii #mignons #1578 #pierre de l'estoile #amadis jamyn #jacques de caylus #louis de maugiron #duel des mignons #golden age of the mignons #poetry #lgbt #queer history #jacques de quélus #jacques de quelus #16th century #renaissance #french history #joseph cady #desire and discipline #valois #cady discusses other poems from l'estoiile as well but most of those are inflammatory and very vulgar #also this one was allegedly commissioned by the king while the others were based on rumors #which makes it more reliable as a primary source #and this poem is so romantic #queue

[pilferingapples]

Man I wish Bagnes and Barricades was a real game tho I would so play it

Choose your alignment, Luminous or Obscure! (ed note: the third alignment, Sepulchral, is advised only for Gothic Horror campaigns or for NPC characters who will get a surprising amount of description and a couple of very intense scenes before vanishing to never appear again in a very confusing way)

draw dominos for stats in Faith, Love, Instinct and Divine Understanding

ignore all stats if the player can come up with a narratively satisfying move that defies them, because Math is Bullshit Anyway, why are you arguing rules ,  what are you, some kind of lawyer 

#...I really have thought about this Too Much #Bagnes and Barricades #help I want to make it up #but also: that's Work #Hey Nonny Nonny #answereds

[wisdomfish]

It is impossible that a being who had stolen half-dead out of the sepulchre, who crept about weak and ill, wanting medical treatment, who required bandaging, strengthening and indulgence, and who still at last yielded to his sufferings, could have given to the disciples the impression that he was a Conqueror over death and the grave, the Prince of Life, an impression which lay at the bottom of their future ministry. Such a resuscitation could only have weakened the impression which He had made upon them in life and in death, at the most could only have given it an elegiac voice, but could by no possibility have changed their sorrow into enthusiasm, have elevated their reverence into worship.

David Frederick Strauss, The Life of Jesus for the People, 2nd ed., vol. 1 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1879), p. 412

#david frederick strauss #sepulchre #obamacare #christianity #cpr

[confrontingbabble-on]

How can you say you support the bible?...Have you even read the bible right through...?!?

Just to get you started, here are a few bible problems...created because bible compilers jumbled together every conflicting primitive notion about an unprovable god...they could find... The bible is simply...a book of babble...that has created worldwide chaos...and a deluge of sectarian confusion... God is satisfied with his works, Gen 1:31, God is dissatisfied with his works. Gen 6:6

God dwells in chosen temples, 2 Chron 7:12,16, God dwells not in temples, Acts 7:48

God dwells in light, Tim 6:16 God dwells in darkness, 1-Kings 8:12/ Ps 18:11/ Ps 97:2

God is seen and heard, Ex 33:23/ Ex 33:11/ Gen 3:9,10/ Gen 32:30/ Is 6:1/Ex 24:9-11, God is invisible and cannot be heard, John 1:18/ John 5:37/ Ex 33:20/ 1 Tim 6:16

God is tired and rests, Ex 31:17/ Jer 15:6, God is never tired and never rests, Is 40:28

God is everywhere present, sees and knows all things, Prov 15:3/ Ps 139:7-10/ Job 34:22,21, God is not everywhere present, neither sees nor knows all things, Gen 11:5/ Gen 18:20,21/ Gen 3:8

God knows the hearts of men, Acts 1:24/ Ps 139:2,3 God tries men to find out what is in their heart, Deut 13:3/ Deut 8:2/ Gen 22:12

God is all powerful, Jer 32:27/ Matt 19:26, God is not all powerful, Judg 1:19

God is unchangeable, James 1:17/ Mal 3:6/ Ezek 24:14/ Num 23:19, God is changeable, Gen 6:6/ Jonah 3:10/ 1 Sam 2:30,31/ 2 Kings 20:1,4,5,6/ Ex 33:1,3,17,14

God is just and impartial, Ps 92:15/ Gen 18:25/ Deut 32:4/ Rom 2:11/ Ezek 18:25 God is unjust and partial, Gen 9:25/ Ex 20:5/ Rom 9:11-13/ Matt 13:12

God is the author of evil, Lam 3:38/ Jer 18:11/ Is 45:7/ Amos 3:6/ Ezek 20:25, God is not the author of evil, 1 Cor 14:33/ Deut 32:4/ James 1:13

God gives freely to those who ask, James 1:5/ Luke 11:10, God withholds his blessings and prevents men from receiving them, John 12:40/ Josh 11:20/ Is 63:17

God is to be found by those who seek him, Matt 7:8/ Prov 8:17 God is not to be found by those who seek him, Prov 1:28

God is warlike, Ex 15:3/ Is 51:15 God is peaceful, Rom 15:33/ 1 Cor 14:33

God is cruel, unmerciful, destructive, and ferocious, Jer 13:14/ Deut 7:16/ 1 Sam 15:2,3/ 1 Sam 6:19, God is kind, merciful, and good, James 5:11/ Lam 3:33/ 1 Chron 16:34/ Ezek 18:32/ Ps 145:9/ 1 Tim 2:4/ 1 John 4:16/ Ps 25:8

God's anger is fierce and endures long, Num 32:13/ Num 25:4/ Jer 17:4 God's anger is slow and endures but for a minute, Ps 103:8/ Ps 30:5

God commands, approves of, and delights in burnt offerings, sacrifices ,and holy days, Ex 29:36/ Lev 23:27/ Ex 29:18/ Lev 1:9 God disapproves of and has no pleasure in burnt offerings, sacrifices, and holy days, Jer 7:22/ Jer 6:20/ Ps 50:13,4/ Is 1:13,11,12

God accepts human sacrifices, 2 Sam 21:8,9,14/ Gen 22:2/ Judg 11:30-32,34,38,39 God forbids human sacrifice, Deut 12:30,31

God tempts men, Gen 22:1/ 2 Sam 24:1/ Jer 20:7/ Matt 6:13 God tempts no man, James 1:13

God cannot lie, Heb 6:18 God lies by proxy; he sends forth lying spirits to deceive, 2 Thes 2:11/ 1 Kings 22:23/ Ezek 14:9

Because of man's wickedness, God destroys him, Gen 6:5,7 Because of man's wickedness, God will not destroy him, Gen 8:21

God's attributes are revealed in his works, Rom 1:20 God's attributes cannot be discovered, Job 11:7/ Is 40:28

There is but one God, Deut 6:4 There is a plurality of gods, Gen 1:26/ Gen 3:22/ Gen 18:1-3/ 1 John 5:7Moral Precepts

Robbery commanded, Ex 3:21,22/ Ex 12:35,36, Robbery forbidden, Lev 19:13/ Ex 20:15

Lying approved and sanctioned, Josh 2:4-6/ James 2:25/ Ex 1:18-20/ 1 Kings 22:21,22, Lying forbidden, Ex 20:16/ Prov 12:22/ Rev 21:8

Hatred to the Edomite sanctioned, 2 Kings 14:7,3 Hatred to the Edomite forbidden, Deut 23:7

Killing commandedEx 32:27 Killing forbidden, Ex 20:13

The blood-shedder must die, Gen 9:5,6 The blood-shedder must not die, Gen 4:15

The making of images forbidden, Ex 20:4 The making of images commanded, Ex 25:18,20

Slavery and oppression ordained, Gen 9:25/ Lev 25:45,46/ Joel 3:8 Slavery and oppression forbidden, Is 58:6/ Ex 22:21/ Ex 21:16/ Matt 23:10

Improvidence enjoyed, Matt 6:28,31,34/ Luke 6:30,35/ Luke 12:3 Improvidence condemned, 1 Tim 5:8/ Prov 13:22

Anger approved, Eph 4:26 Anger disapproved, Eccl 7:9/ Prov 22:24/ James 1:20

Good works to be seen of men, Matt 5:16 Good works not to be seen of men, Matt 6:1

Judging of others forbidden, Matt 7:1,2 Judging of others approved, 1 Cor 6:2-4/ 1 Cor 5:12

Christ taught non-resistance, Matt 5:39/ Matt 26:52 Christ taught and practiced physical resistance, Luke 22:36/ John 2:15

Christ warned his followers not to fear being killed, Luke 12:4 Christ himself avoided the Jews for fear of being killed, John 7:1

Public prayer sanctioned, 1 Kings 8:22,54, 9:3 Public prayer disapproved, Matt 6:5,6

Importunity in prayer commended, Luke 18:5,7 Importunity in prayer condemned, Matt 6:7,8

The wearing of long hair by men sanctioned, Judg 13:5/ Num 6:5 The wearing of long hair by men condemned, 1 Cor 11:14

Circumcision instituted, Gen 17:10 Circumcision condemned, Gal 5:2

The Sabbath instituted, Ex 20:8 The Sabbath repudiated, Is 1:13/ Rom 14:5/ Col 2:16

The Sabbath instituted because God rested on the seventh day, Ex 20:11 The Sabbath instituted because God brought the Israelites out of Egypt, Deut 5:15

No work to be done on the Sabbath under penalty of death, Ex 31:15/ Num 15:32,36 Jesus Christ broke the Sabbath and justified his disciples in the same, John 5:16/ Matt 12:1-3,5

Baptism commanded, Matt 28:19 Baptism not commanded, 1 Cor 1:17,14

Every kind of animal allowed for food, Gen 9:3/ 1 Cor 10:25/ Rom 14:14 Certain kinds of animals prohibited for food, Deut 14:7,8

Taking of oaths sanctioned, Num 30:2/ Gen 21:23-24,31/ Gen 31:53/ Heb 6:13 Taking of oaths forbidden, Matt 5:34

Marriage approved, Gen 2:18/ Gen 1:28/ Matt 19:5/ Heb 13:4 Marriage disapproved, 1 Cor 7:1/ 1 Cor 7:7,8

Freedom of divorce permitted, Deut 24:1/ Deut 21:10,11,14 Divorce restricted, Matt 5:32

Adultery forbidden, Ex 20:14/ Heb 13:4 Adultery allowed, Num 31:18/ Hos 1:2; 2:1-3

Marriage or cohabitation with a sister denounced, Deut 27:22/ Lev 20:17 Abraham married his sister and God blessed the union, Gen 20:11,12/ Gen 17:16

A man may marry his brother's widow, Deut 25:5 A man may not marry his brother's widow, Lev 20:21

Hatred to kindred enjoined, Luke 14:26 Hatred to kindred condemned, Eph 6:2/ Eph 5:25,29

Intoxicating beverages recommended, Prov 31:6,7/ 1 Tim 5:23/ Ps 104:15 Intoxicating beverages discountenanced, Prov 20:1/ Prov 23:31,32

It is our duty to obey our rulers, who are God's ministers and punish evil doers only, Rom 13:1-3,6 It is not our duty to obey rulers, who sometimes punish the good and receive unto themselves damnation therefore, Ex 1:17,20/ Dan 3:16,18/ Dan 6:9,7,10/ Acts 4:26,27/ Mark 12:38,39,40/ Luke 23:11,24,33,35

Women's rights denied, Gen 3:16/ 1 Tim 2:12/ 1 Cor 14:34/ 1 Pet 3:6 Women's rights affirmed, Judg 4:4,14,15/ Judg 5:7/ Acts 2:18/ Acts 21:9

Obedience to masters enjoined, Col 3:22,23/ 1 Pet 2:18 Obedience due to God only, Matt 4:10/ 1 Cor 7:23/ Matt 23:10

There is an unpardonable sin, Mark 3:29 There is not unpardonable sin, Acts 13:39,

Man was created after the other animals, Gen 1:25,26,27 Man was created before the other animals, Gen 2:18,19

Seed time and harvest were never to cease, Gen 8:22 Seed time and harvest did cease for seven years, Gen 41:54,56/ Gen 45:6

God hardened Pharaoh's heart, Ex 4:21/ Ed 9:12 Pharaoh hardened his own heart, Ex 8:15

All the cattle and horses in Egypt died, Ex 9:3,6/ 14:9 All the horses of Egypt did not die, Ex 14:9

Moses feared Pharaoh, Ex 2:14,15,23; 4:19 Moses did not fear Pharaoh, Heb 11:27

There died of the plague twenty-four thousand, Num 25:9 There died of the plague, but twenty-three thousand, 1 Cor 10:8

John the Baptist was Elias, Matt 11:14 John the Baptist was not Elias, John 1:21

The father of Joseph, Mary's husband was Jacob, Matt 1:16 The father of Mary's husband was Heli, Luke 3:23

The father of Salah was Arphaxad, Gen 11:12 The father of Salah was Cainan, Luke 3:35,36

There were fourteen generations from Abraham to David, Matt 1:17 There were but thirteen generations from Abraham to David, Matt 1:2-6

There were fourteen generations from the Babylonian captivity to Christ, Matt 1:17 There were but thirteen generations from the Babylonian captivity to Christ, Matt 1:12-16

The infant Christ was taken into Egypt, Matt 2:14,15,19,21,23 The infant Christ was not taken into Egypt, Luke 2:22, 39

Christ was tempted in the wilderness, Mark 1:12,13 Christ was not tempted in the wilderness, John 2:1,2

Christ preached his first sermon on the mount, Matt 5:1,2 Christ preached his first sermon on the plain, Luke 6:17,20

John was in prison when Jesus went into Galilee, Mark 1:14 John was not in prison when Jesus went into Galilee, John 1:43/ John 3:22-24

Christ's disciples were commanded to go forth with a staff and sandals, Mark 6:8,9 Christ's disciples were commanded to go forth with neitherstaffs nor sandals, Matt 10:9,10

A woman of Canaan besought Jesus, Matt 15:22 It was a Greek woman who besought Him, Mark 7:26

Two blind men besought Jesus, Matt 20:30 Only one blind man besought Him, Luke 18:35,38

Christ was crucified at the third hour, Mark 15:25 Christ was not crucified until the sixth hour, John 19:14,15

The two thieves reviled Christ, Matt 27:44/ Mark 15:32 Only one of the thieves reviled Christ, Luke 23:39,40

Satan entered into Judas while at supper, John 13:27 Satan entered into him before the supper, Luke 22:3,4,7

Judas committed suicide by hanging, Matt 27:5 Judas did not hang himself, but died another way, Acts 1:18

The potter's field was purchased by Judas, Acts 1:18 The potter's field was purchased by the Chief Priests, Matt 27:6,7

There was but one woman who came to the sepulchre, John 20:1 There were two women who came to the sepulchre, Matt 28:1

There were three women who came to the sepulchre, Mark 16:1 There were more than three women who came to the sepulchre, Luke 24:10

It was at sunrise when they came to the sepulchre, Mark 16:2 It was some time before sunrise when they came, John 20:1

There were two angels seen by the women at the sepulchre, and they were standing up, Luke 24:4 There was but one angel seen, and he was sitting down, Matt 28:2,5

There were two angels seen within the sepulchre, John 20:11,12 There was but one angel seen within the sepulchre, Mark 16:5

Christ was to be three days and three nights in the grave, Matt 12:40 Christ was but two days and two nights in the grave, Mark 15:25,42,44,45,46; 16:9>

Holy ghost bestowed at pentecost, Acts 1:8,5 Holy ghost bestowed before pentecost, John 20:22

The disciples were commanded immediately after the resurrection to go into Galilee, Matt 28:10 The disciples were commanded immediately after the resurrection to go tarry at Jerusalem, Luke 24:49

Jesus first appeared to the eleven disciples in a room at Jerusalem, Luke 24:33,36,37/ John 20:19 Jesus first appeared to the eleven on a mountain in Galilee, Matt 28:16,17

Christ ascended from Mount Olivet, Acts 1:9,12 Christ ascended from Bethany,Luke 24:50,51

Paul's attendants heard the miraculous voice, and stood speechless, Acts 9:7 Paul's attendants heard not the voice and were prostrate, Acts 26:14

Abraham departed to go into Canaan, Gen 12:5 Abraham went not knowing where, Heb 11:8

Abraham had two sons, Gal 4:22 Abraham had but one son, Heb 11:17

Keturah was Abraham's wife, Gen 25:1 Keturah was Abraham's concubine, 1 Chron 1:32

Abraham begat a son when he was a hundred years old, by the interposition of Providence, Gen 21:2/ Rom 4:19/ Heb 11:12 Abraham begat six children more after he was a hundred years old without any interposition of providence, Gen 25:1,2

Jacob bought a sepulchre from Hamor, Josh 24:32 Abraham bought it of Hamor, Acts 7:16

God promised the land of Canaan to Abraham and his seed forever, Gen 13:14,15,17; 17:8 Abraham and his seed never received the promised land, Acts 7:5/ Heb 11:9,13

Goliath was slain by Elhanan, 2 Sam 21:19 *note, was changed in translation to be correct. Original manuscript was incorrect>The brother of Goliath was slain by Elhanan1 Chron 20:5

Ahaziah began to reign in the twelfth year of Joram, 2 Kings 8:25 Ahaziah began to reign in the eleventh year of Joram, 2 Kings 9:29

Michal had no child, 2 Sam 6:23 Michal had five children, 2 Sam 21:8

David was tempted by the Lord to number Israel, 2 Sam 24:1 David was tempted by Satan to number the people, 1 Chron 21:1

The number of fighting men of Israel was 800,000; and of Judah 500,0002 Sam 24:9 The number of fighting men of Israel was 1,100,000; and of Judah 470,0001 Chron 21:5

David sinned in numbering the people, 2 Sam 24:10 David never sinned, except in the matter of Uriah, 1 Kings 15:5

One of the penalties of David's sin was seven years of famine, 2 Sam 24:13 It was not seven years, but three years of famine, 1 Chron 21:11,12

David took seven hundred horsemen, 2 Sam 8:4 David took seven thousand horsemen, 1 Chron 18:4

David bought a threshing floor for fifty shekels of silver, 2 Sam 24:24 David bought the threshing floor for six hundred shekels of gold, 1 Chron 21:25

David's throne was to endure forever, Ps 89:35-37 David's throne was cast down, Ps 89:44 Speculative Doctrines

Christ is equal with God, John 10:30/ Phil 2:5 Christ is not equal with God, John 14:28/ Matt 24:36

Jesus was all-powerful, Matt 28:18/ John 3:35 Jesus was not all-powerful, Mark 6:5

The law was superseded by the Christian dispensation, Luke 16:16/ Eph 2:15/ Rom 7:6 The law was not superseded by the Christian dispensation, Matt 5:17-19

Christ's mission was peace, Luke 2:13,14 Christ's mission was not peace, Matt 10:34

Christ received not testimony from man, John 5:33,34 Christ did receive testimony from man, John 15:27

Christ's witness of himself is true, John 8:18,14 Christ's witness of himself is not true, John 5:31

Christ laid down his life for his friends, John 15:13/ John 10:11 Christ laid down his life for his enemies, Rom 5:10

It was lawful for the Jews to put Christ to death, John 19:7 It was not lawful for the Jews to put Christ to death, John 18:31

Children are punished for the sins of the parents, Ex 20:5 Children are not punished for the sins of the parents, Ezek 18:20

Man is justified by faith alone, Rom 3:20/ Gal 2:16/ Gal 3:11,12/ Rom 4:2 Man is not justified by faith alone, James 2:21,24/ Rom 2:13

It is impossible to fall from grace, John 10:28/ Rom 8:38,39 It is possible to fall from grace, Ezek 18:24/ Heb 6:4-6, 2 Pet 2:20,21

No man is without sin, 1 Kings 8:46/ Prov 20:9/ Eccl 7:20/ Rom 3:10 Christians are sinless, 1 John 3: 9,6,8

There is to be a resurrection of the dead, 1 Cor 15:52/ Rev 20:12,13/ Luke 20:37/ 1 Cor 15:16 There is to be no resurrection of the dead, Job 7:9/ Eccl 9:5/ Is 26:14

Reward and punishment to be bestowed in this world, Prov 11:31 Reward and punishment to be bestowed in the next world, Rev 20:12/ Matt 16:27/ 2 Cor 5:10

Annihilation the portion of all mankind, Job 3: 11,13-17,19-22/ Eccl 9:5,10/ Eccl 3:19,20 Endless misery the portion of all mankind, Matt 25:46/ Rev 20:10,15/ Rev 14:11/ Dan 12:2

The Earth is to be destroyed, 2 Pet 3:10/ Heb 1:11/ Rev 20:11 The Earth is never to be destroyed, Ps 104:5/ Eccl 1:4

No evil shall happen to the godly, Prov 12:21/ 1 Pet 3:13 Evil does happen to the godly, Heb 12:6/ Job 2:3,7

Worldly good and prosperity are the lot of the godly, Prov 12:21/ Ps 37:28,32,33,37/ Ps 1:1,3/ Gen 39:2/Job 42:12 Worldly misery and destitution the lot of the godlyHeb 11:37,38/ Rev 7:14/ 2 Tim 3:12/ Luke 21:17

Worldly prosperity a reward of righteousness and a blessing, Mark 10:29,30/ Ps 37:25/ Ps 112:1,3/ Job 22:23,24/Prov 15:6 Worldly prosperity a curse and a bar to future reward, Luke 6:20,24/ Matt 6:19,21/ Luke 16:22/ Matt 19:24/Luke 6:24

The Christian yoke is easy, Matt 11:28,29,30 The Christian yoke is not easy, John 16:33/ 2 Tim 3:12/ Heb 12:6,8

The fruit of God's spirit is love and gentleness, Gal 5:22 The fruit of God's spirit is vengeance and fury, Judg 15:14/ 1 Sam 18:10,11

Longevity enjoyed by the wicked, Job 21:7,8/ Ps 17:14/ Eccl 8:12/ Is 65:20 Longevity denied to the wicked, Eccl 8:13/ Ps 55:23/ Prov 10:27/ Job 36:14/ Eccl 7:17

Poverty a blessing, Luke 6:20,24/ Jams 2:5 Riches a blessingProv 10:15/ Job 22:23,24/ Job 42:12 Neither poverty nor riches a blessingProv 30:8,9

Wisdom a source of enjoyment, Prov 3:13,17 Wisdom a source of vexation, grief and sorrow, Eccl 1:17,18

A good name is a blessing, Eccl 7:1/ Prov 22:1 A good name is a curse, Luke 6:26

Laughter commended, Eccl 3:1,4/ Eccl 8:15 Laughter condemned, Luke 6:25/ Eccl 7:3,4

The rod of correction a remedy for foolishness, Prov 22:15 There is no remedy for foolishness, Prov 27:22

A fool should be answered according to his folly, Prov 26:5 A fool should not be answered according to his folly, Prov 26:4

Temptation to be desired, James 1:2 Temptation not to be desired, Matt 6:13

Prophecy is sure, 2 Pet 1:19 Prophecy is not sure, Jer 18:7-10

Man's life was to be one hundred and twenty years, Gen 6:3/ Ps 90:10 Man's life is but seventy years, Ps 90:10 Gen. 9:28 Noah lived to 950 years

The fear of man was to be upon every beast, Gen 9:2 The fear of man is not upon the lion, Prov 30:30

Miracles a proof of divine mission, Matt 11:2-5/ John 3:2/ Ex 14:31 Miracles not a proof of divine mission, Ex 7:10-12/ Deut 13:1-3/ Luke 11:19

Moses was a very meek man, Num 12:3Moses was a very cruel manNum 31:15,17

Elijah went up to heaven, 2 Kings 2:11 None but Christ ever ascended into heaven, John 3:13

All scripture is inspired, 2 Tim 3:16 Some scripture is not inspired, 1 Cor 7:6/ 1 Cor 7:12/ 2 Cor 11:17

Jesus prays to himself, his father which is also him, too?? Jesus and god are supposed to be one and the same, yet he asked on the cross, "My God, My God, Why Has Thou Forsaken Me?1. God being the creator of all things, created Satan and evil, Isaiah 45:7.2. It repented the Lord that he created a man and a woman. Gen. ch. 6 Vs: 6 So this statement shows that God himself made a great mistake. Although, it is not written that it repented God to have made Satan and allowed evil to exist in the first place.3. God rested on the 7th day of creation, damn good thing too, what else was he about to screw up?4. The all knowing God had to ask Adam and Eve where were they, when he was looking for them.5. The 3rd or 4th person to arrive was a murderer, Cain slew Abel and the all knowing God had to ask Cain where was his brother?If I were a god, I would have made sure that Adam and Eve conceived a male and a female to start the multiplication process to begin with instead of two rival brothers, perhaps Abel was gay? Yes/No?6. All people were so wicked that God had to destroy them, but why did God not offer them a plan of salvation, since Jesus was ready and willing to die for everyone's sins? And God already knew that Jesus was going to be born of a virgin some day, right? Oh I know, there were no virgins available at that time....ha ha ha7. Now after thousands of years, God's brain kicks into gear and he's thinking up a plan, a way for peoples sins to be forgiven, because we know that God hates sin, Did I say the God of love, hates?...yikes, God hates sin, but yet he created it and allows it to exist.8. Now Mary wanted a baby and has a visitation by an angel, a messenger from God....but not God??....no no, a messenger from God, and the angel impregnates Mary or was it God, or the messenger?9. After Jesus arrives we have spirits souls, miracles, etc. All this sounds contrived doesn't it? Sounds man made doesn't it?10. It's very important to God that Jesus be beaten, flogged, spit on, dragged, cursed, persecuted, so that mans sins may be forgiven. Of course, God could have just eliminated all sin to begin with, but we would not have such a bizarre story to deceive people into believing would we?11. God being Jesus in disguise as his only begotten son, calls out to God (himself) Matt. 27, 46 In the ninth hour Jesus called out My God, My God, Why has thou forsaken me? And God waits until the third day to receive himself?

If one man was beaten and dragged through the streets and can save souls, imagine what six million of God's (chosen people) tortured to death Jews can do, let's see...absolutely NOTHING!!!

TWO contrary Genesis versions suggests at least two writers, both ignorant or unmindful of each other, and ignorant of the facts of nature and astronomy, not to mention the age of the earth. Let any secular writer pen a book with so many contradictions (more of which will follow), on science, geology, morals or anything, and the world would plunge, as a vulture on carrion, to heap monumental scorn over the work. As "history," the Bible is unique. In First Kings 16:6,8 the king of Israel, Baasha, dies, replaced by his son Elah during the 26th year of Asa's (King of Judah) reign. But in Second Chronicles l6:1 we read that Baasha, king of Israel, goes against Judah during Asa's 36th year. A King dies, is buried, his son becomes King, but after a decade, the dead king leads a military adventure! In truthful historical chronicles, dead kings stay dead, but in the Bible when a king dies, he's merely planning to pick a fight! In Genesis 9:3: "Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat" for Noah. But Deuteronomy (14:7-21) later gives a list of animals, birds and fish that must not be eaten. Circumcision is required (Gen.17:10), and useless (Gal. 5:2). Abraham had two sons, Ishmael and Isaac (Gen.16:15 & 21:3) but Isaac was Abraham's "only" son? (Gen. 22:2,12 & Heb. 11:17). In Exodus 33:20, says God, "Thou canst not see my face; for there shall be no man see me and live." God must have been mistaken, or changed: For in Genesis 32:30 Jacob sees God "face to face" and lives. The same for Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu and 70 elders, who saw God, and ate and drank with him (Exodus 24:9-11). But not so, says John 1:18: "No man hath seen God at any time." How decide? Well, I agree with John. God dwells "in the light which no man can approach" (1 Tim. 6:l6). But this is not true, as in First Kings 8:12 it says: "The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness." Would literalists say I shouldn't be so "literal"? Is the "light" in which Jesus dwells "en(light)enment?" Does God remain in thick darkness but keeps this "light" of enlightenment? But aren't we opening a Pandora's box of endless "interpretation" here? Where do we draw the line if we do that? When the cry (Josh.10:12-13) "Sun, stand thou still" (and moon too) was uttered and carried out, the sun "stood still" in the sky, not setting. But of course, as we all now know about astronomy, a 'setting sun' is an inaccurate archaic and figurative phrase reflecting only the illusion of a moving sun. It's created by the actual motion of a rotating earth around its own axis. In the solar system, the sun is, of course, already "still" (while the moon isn't). But, I guess God knew what Joshua "meant," and instead of quibbling over astronomical facts, He allowed the Bible writings to describe it inaccurately (using the primitive terminology of the knowledge of the time). So God magically stilled both the earth and moon (and did it without cataclysmically throwing our land and continents off into space). But then, there's that "interpretation" thing again, because the "word of God" definitely does say the sun "stood still" (implying incorrectly that it had been in motion) and not that it "appeared" to, or that the "Earth stood still." Is the Bible literal or figurative? (See also Eccl. 1:5, about "the Sun also riseth...." and Chron 16:30; Psalms 93:1 [Earth is already immovable]) . MATTHEW quotes Jesus (19:26), "with God all things are possible." Did Matthew or Jesus forget something? In the Book of Judges (1:19) God is not almighty, as he helped rid Judah of inhabitants of the mountain, but could not drive out those in the valley "because they had chariots of iron." This God of miracles apparently can move the largest body in the solar system, the Sun (or at least stop planet earth), in order to prolong daylight for Joshua's military revenge (or to move the sun's shadow 10 degrees backward [2 Kings 20:10-11 or Isaiah 38:7- 8]). Yet this same mover of heavens is cowed by mere horses & buggies made of iron? I wonder what would happen if God decided to attack a "modern" 1950 Buick? Exodus 31:I7: Like a man, God rests and can be "refreshed." Isaiah scorns such contemptible weakness. In 40:28 he insists God, creator of the "ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary." An infinite God cannot tire, nor needs to be - nor can be -- "refreshed." Again on astronomy, the spectre of "interpretation" rises, asking us: 'what are these "ends" of the earth' quoted above? A spherical planet has no "ends." Even a flat plate or the line of a circle is "endless." The phrase "ends of the earth" then, was not figurative: We know the common belief then was that earth, very literally, did have "ends." Nowhere in the Bible is the earth described as "spherical." (See also Rev. 7:1: "...four angels standing on the four corners of the earth" & Daniel 4:10-11. Daniel's words here make little sense for a spherical earth)

GOD does not change. James 1:17 says God has "no variableness..." but then, in Jonah 3:10, God "repented" and changed his mind about smiting Nineveh's people. So what are we to think of assurances given in Numbers 23:19, which states, "God is not a man...neither the son of man, that he should repent." Yet this tireless omnipotent God himself volunteers the striking thought in Jeremiah 15:6, "I am weary with repenting." How human that confession sounds by a presumably unchanging God who 'cannot weary' (as Isaiah wrote above), nor repent.

In Deuteronomy 4:24 "God is a consuming fire, but in John 4:1 "God is love." He's "the God of Peace" in Romans 15:33 but in Exodus 15:3, "the Lord is a man of war." (Called a "man" here? Yet not called a man in Numbers 23:19?) God is "just and right" (Deut.32:4) yet in a mercenary manner he advises, in the dietary restrictions, that what you can't eat as unclean may be given "unto the stranger...or thou mayest sell it unto an alien." Gee, has the Better Business Bureau heard of this "just and right" commercial behavior? (Deut.l4:21) God said (Isaiah 45:7) "I make peace and create evil," a contradiction in one holy breath!! (And we all thought, of our own evil, it was 'the devil made me do it.') "Now go and smite Amelek and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass" (1 Sam. 15:3). That was Samuel's order for Saul originating from the Lord. Wrote one Bible commentator, M. J. Gauvin: "Slay the old man with trembling hands and silvered hair; murder the mother who shields with her body the life of her child; rifle the cradle, and plunge the glittering sword of death through the frail form of the smiling babe ...and know, ye fiends of ruthless slaughter, ye but fulfil the command of the God whose 'mercy endureth forever'!" "Love thy neighbor as thyself?" (Lev.l9:l8). Mass murder is again condoned in Exodus 32:27; in Deut. 2:15-16 and 34-36 and 3:2. No "just and right" God of true peace or love could command a massacre of innocents. These are the writings and contradictions in a religious human-inspired literature coming from the biases and values of an uncivilized warrior peoples. To call this the "inspired words" of a merciful, worthy Deity should be a base insult to even the meanest intelligence.

Sacrifices of helpless animals, even human sacrifices, such as of Isaac, offered by Abraham (but stopped), or of Jeptha's daughter, or the seven sons of David, are plentiful in the Bible, and are acceptable practices ordained by the Lord. See also Leviticus 27:28-29 about how humans, lands and beasts can be sacrificed. Yet elsewhere God condemns it as an abomination and is "weary to bear them." (Jer.7:22 & Is.1:11-16) Speaking of abominations, there is the mere handling of pigskin (Lev.ll:7-8). Woe unto football players! And woe unto those who curse their parents, for such deserve death (Lev.20:9). Yet they are enjoined to also hate mom and dad too, in order to become disciples (Luke 14:26). Resurrections? Job 7:9 says who "goeth down to the grave shall come up no more." The Old Testament denies immortality in no uncertain terms. The New Testament proclaims it - but as an eternal agony for most of you. All these contradictions make biblical words appear as if they are a departure from sanity - if they were the words of one consistent, unchanging being.

You'll read that children will suffer for the sins of the parents, yet elsewhere, read that no one will bear sins other than their own (Ex.20:5 vs Ezek.l8:20). The Sabbath is required to be kept as holy, but -- each of us can make up our own minds (Ex.20:8 vs Rom.l4:5) "Judge not, that ye be not judged' (Matt.7:l), yet others must be judged? (1Cor. 6:2-4). There's but one allowed reason (adultery) to divorce your wife, but elsewhere, divorce can be for any reason (Matt.5:32 vs Deut.2l:l4 & 24:1-3). Note, in this Deuteronomy a divorced woman can safely and sinlessly marry again, but in Matthew, a divorced woman that remarries is guilty of adultery, which deserves death of both her and her new husband (Lev.20:10). Neat sense of fairness, eh? If Eve was created merely from Adam's rib, it's no wonder that women are valued less than men, as in Leviticus 27:3-7, where a man's value in shekels is double that of a woman. Or: "neither was man created for woman but woman for man" (lCor. 11:8-9). This "Just and right" God in Exodus 21:20-21 approves a further double standard: Whereas adultery or just hitting your parents deserves death (Ex.2l:l5), a master beating a servant or maid to death with a rod shall only "be punished" in some non- lethal manner.

In Exodus 21:2I, the master can remain unpunished for beating servants daily because the servant "is his money." Similarly, throughout this chapter, is the sale and possession of human beings condoned (21:4,7). 'The Boss don't like no back-talk' is clear in Exodus 21:5-6: If a servant doesn't want to be sent away from his family (owned by the master) but says he loves them and will not leave, master can "bring him unto the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him forever." "Just and right"? One believer wrote me the Old Testament's inspired words were meant to "mitigate or regulate" behavior and raise it to a "more humane level" than usually practiced. Gimme a break! If the Old testament isn't "static or forever," as he wrote, why doesn't he also take the stories of Genesis as equally not final nor literal factual truth? Why one and not the other? Not only is slavery in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament, too: First Timothy 6:1,8 states those "under the yoke" (i.e. slaves) shall give "all honour" to their masters, and suggests in its context we should be grateful for scraps and rags without critique nor envy. Again in Ephesians 6:5, obedience to masters by servants is urged to be just like obedient worship given Christ. Worship the Boss?

However, this backward morality (which is excused as too entrenched in those times for even God to overthrow completely, God preferring to moderate it instead), was not too hard for a mere mortal, Spartacus, to challenge totally. How can a non-god espouse more advanced ideals of freedom, and oppose slavery completely, when the God of all the universe could only weakly compromise those principles among his subjects? "No evil shall happen to the just" we're told (Prov.l2:21). Yet Job, about whom God said no one else on earth was nearly as good and upright, is nevertheless handed over, by God, to Satan for torture (Job 2:3-7). The fate, also in the modern world, of good Christians and innocents under the protection of God's proverb, is horrendous. Moses is the meekest man in the world (Num.l2:3), yet he orders the butchery of women and children in cold blood and the taking of female children, who are still virgins, to keep alive "for yourselves" under the permission of God (Num.31:17)

The Bible speaks well of liquor and also condemns it (Deut. 14:226 vs Prov.20:l). It says avoid temptation, but welcome it too (Matt.6:l3 vs James 1:12). The same dichromatics appear for wealth as First Timothy preaches (6:10) "love of money is the root of all evil," added to by Luke 6:24, but denied by Proverbs 10:15, and elsewhere there. Here's more "perfect harmony" of the Bible's words: According to Luke, Christ ascended in the flesh. Paul says "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of heaven" (Luke 24:39-51 vs 1 Cor.15:50). The evening of Christ's resurrection is the time of ascension for Luke, but Acts dates it 40 days after, (Luke 24:1-59 vs Acts 1:3 ). After resurrecting, Jesus was to meet the disciples, says Matthew, in Galilee; but says Luke, it was to be in Jerusalem -- merely 100 miles apart! (Matt.28:l6-17 vs Luke 24:33-36). "I and my Father are One" (John 10:30). But, "My Father is greater than I" (John 14:28) and "My God, why hast thou forsaken me? (Math. 27:46). The contradictions seem as infinite as God. Let your good deeds shine before men "that they may see your good works." So much for modesty. Then Matthew has Jesus say "Take heed that ye do not your alms before men to be seen of them." (Matt. 5:l6 vs 6:1) Many other details of the crucifixion, resurrection and ascension are disparate. This, of course, is normal when it's different human witnesses describing any traumatic event, committing errors such as misquoting, forgetting what was said exactly or reinterpreting meaning through the biased sieve of one's own prejudices. For example: Facing Pilate, Christ spoke only two words, said Matthew. John said Christ gave a speech! (Matt. 27:11 vs John 18:34-37). We are told repeatedly, the marvelous works found in nature, or all the universe, "require" and prove a creator's existence. But in the ultimate logical inconstancy of the Bible, it says nothing about why the greatest marvel of all needs no creator.

If God does not need to be created, what did God do before the universe? Where did God exist? Nowhere in Genesis did God create "time." Why not? Because so ubiquitous is time to us, it's "only human" to lose awareness of such a constant sensation (much as we mask out the sound of an electric fan blowing in our room or the engine's hum when we drive). Thus its need to be created failed to be recorded by human scribes who really couldn't conceive (nor notice) that it even needed to be created. [See Appendix below.] Did God create himself out of nothingness? I am no Bible scholar, but I know this is but surface-scratching the tip of the iceberg about Bible errors and conflicts, and it already proves it a fallible human document of many inaccuracies, failures of logic, with biases and mixed motives shown by petty witnesses and superstitious, ignorant drinking buddies. Maybe they had one too many?

If the Bible is true, then these conditions are real and verifiable outside of the Bible: The universe is only six thousand years old, dinosaurs never existed, the world is flat and the earth is in the center of the universe, the Sun goes around the earth, demons, invisible spirits, ghosts, holy ghosts, demons, angels, snakes, bushes, and donkeys, can talk, virgin birth is possible, god and jesus live in the clouds above, prayer has secret powers over this god, miracles and blessing do occur, invisible souls can either be saved or unsaved, depending on what a person decides to believe in their heart, the heart is the center of all thought and emotion, people can talk to god and jesus with their heart, there is no such thing as a brain, people can be raised from the dead, people can walk on water, water can be turned into wine, 5000 people can easily be fed with two loaves and two fishes, only invisible jesus can save invisible souls, diseases are caused by demons, science is of the devil, a person can live in the belly of a whale for three days and nights, a whales'stomach acid has no effect upon humans.”

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Georgian and European Armies in Action

Georgia, an aspirant for NATO membership, actively contributes to NATO-led operations. Georgia’s alliance with the West has its historical background. General chronology of the Crusades shows well-coordinated warfare.

 1085

Alfonso VI, king of Castile, took  Toledo. The center of Arab science and learning fell  into Christian hands.

1086

The Almoravid army in Spain defeated  Alfonso VI of Castile’s army at Zallaka.

1087

Genoa and Pisa took control of the Western Mediterranean  from the Arabs.

1089

David  IV, son of Giorgi II, ascended the Georgian throne.

1091

Duke Roger  completed his conquest of Sicily and went on to take  Malta.

1094

Castilian  soldier Ruy Diaz de Bivar, better known as El Cid, took  Valencia after a nine-month siege.

1095

The Byzantine  Emperor Alexios requested aid against Seljuks. Pope Urban proclaimed the  Crusade at the Synod of Clermont.

1096

Alexios Comnenos  provided food and escort for the Crusaders, exacting  an oath of fealty from the leaders in an  attempt to protect his rights over any ���lost provinces”  of Byzantine Empire.

1097

Battle of  Nicaea: a combined force of Crusaders and the Byzantines took the Turks’  capital.

1098

After a  nine-month siege by Bohemund of Taranto, Antioch fell to the Crusaders.

1099

El Cid was  defeated by the Almoravids at Cuenca and died. Jerusalem fell to the  Crusaders. Kingdom of Jerusalem was founded under the Norman knight Godfrey  de Bouillon. He was elected king and assumed the title of Defender of the  Holy Sepulchre. On hearing that  Jerusalem fell to Christians, David IV of Georgia refused to pay tribute to  Seljuks. He began a war against them.

1102

Alfonso VI  lifted the Almoravids’ siege of Valencia, he emptied and burned the city.

1104

Baldwin I of  Jerusalem took Acre, Raymond of Toulouse took Byblos.

1105

Battle of Ertsukhi, Georgians defeated the Turks.

1109

Crusaders took Tripoli and Beirut.

1113

The knights of the Hospital of St. John  resolved to fight for the defense of the Holy Land.

1114

Toledo withstood an attack by the  Almoravids.

1118

Alfonso of Aragon retook Saragossa from  the Almoravids, and made the town his  capital. King David IV of Georgia invited Cumans as settlers to form a light cavalry.

1121

The Byzantine  Emperor John II Comnenos took Southwest Anatolia back from Turks. In the battle of Didgori David IV, with his Georgians and some 200 crusaders in the  army, attacked the Seljuks more than twice as much in size. Turks were  decisively defeated.

1122

David’s army retook Tbilisi. Muslim rule was brought  to end.

1124

David IV of Georgia invaded Armenia and Shirvan to  exercise Georgian rule instead of Turkish.

1139

Demetre I of Georgia took Ganja in Azerbaijan.

1144

Zangi sultan of  Mosul took Edessa after conquering Muslim Northern Syria.This prompted calls  for another Crusade.

1145

Almoravid rulers  lost their hold over Spain.

1147

The Second  Crusade began under leadership of Louis VII of France and Conrad III, but  there was no overall command.

1153

Baldwin III king  of Jerusalem took Ascalon, the last remaining Fatimid possession in the Holy  land.

1154

Damascus  surrendered to the sultan of Aleppo.

1163

Georgia’s victory over the Turks of Erzerum.

1169

Salah ed-Din  became vizier of the Fatimid Caliph of Cairo. As vizier, Salah ed-Din held  more real power than the Caliph, who was mainly a ceremonial figure.

1171

Salah ed-Din  abolished the Caliphate, becoming effective sovereign of Egypt.

1172

Georgians were victorious near the Armenian city of  Dvin.

1173

Salah ed-Din  seized Aden. Giorgi, king of the Georgians, attacked Derbend. He was accom- panied by his close  friend and relative Andronicos Comnenos, future Emperor.

1175

Salah ed-Din  gradually welded Egypt and Syria into a single pan-Arab power, with serious  implications for the Holy Land in the middle. Salah ed-Din planned to take  the Holy Land for himself.

1176

Salah ed-Din  mounted a campaign to drive Christians from the kingdom of Jerusalem.

1177

Salah ed-Din was  defeated by Baldwin IV of Jerusalem at Ramleh.

1183

Salah ed-Din  conquered Syria, took Aleppo and became sultan.

1185

Salah ed-Din  seized Mosul and began his conquest of Mesopotamia.

1186

Frederick  Barbarossa started to prepare for the Third Crusade.

1187

Salah ed-Din  took Jerusalem.

1188

Philip II of  France imposed a Salah ed-Din tithe to raise money for the Third Crusade.

1190

The Holy Roman  Emperor Frederick Barbarossa drowned in the river Calycadnus in Cilicia.  Philip II started to prepare to join the Crusade.

1191

Richard I of  England embarked on the Third Crusade but spent a winter quarrelling with  Philip II in Sicily. Then he left Messina and conquered Cyprus. Richard  joined the siege of Acre and played a major part in reducing Acre. Philip II  fell ill and returned to Paris. Richard meanwhile gained a victory over Salah  ed-Din at Arsuf and led the Crusaders to within a few miles of Jerusalem.

1192

The Crusaders  followed unreliable and dishonest guides into the desert. Famine, disease and  desertion reduced their numbers. Richard I made a truce with Salah ed-Din.  Under it the Christians were allowed to keep the ports they had taken and  have unrestricted access to the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

1195

Georgians defeated the Turks in the battle of  Shamkhori.

1202

Pope Innocent  III offered the command of the Fourth Crusade to Boniface III, count of  Montferrat. Battle of Basiani –  Georgians faced the sultan of Rum Rukn ad-Din, Turks were defeated.