"There is no hurry, and in a way there is no future. It is all here — so take it easy, take your time, and get acquainted with it"--quote by Alan Watts, a household-name New Age philosopher who "interpreted and popularized Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience," according to Wikipedia.
He also said: "It is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world . . . We need, above all things, to slow down and get ourselves to amble through life instead of to rush through it."
"In order to seek one’s own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life."--quote by Plato
"The first principle of all action is leisure . . . The action that follows deliberation should be quick, but deliberation should be slow."--Aristotle
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Earlier this evening, a "soft rock" song piped through the Trader Joe's acoustics with the refrain, "We've still got a long way to go," repeated three times in a puffy ballad kind of way. I looked it up just now and I guess it was originally an Alice Cooper song.
I listened to it throughout my short "shop" for a few necessities and I laughed to myself when I thought, recalling an oft-quoted line by my pastor over the decades, "That's a lie from the pit of hell."
Here's a post from 2021:
"There's a wave coming through our country and the tipping of that wave was 2020 and you could sense it all year long, said Richard Jordan.
"In the book The Fourth Turning, when they talk about this winter time, they identify about 4-5 different things that could be the tipping point in the fourth turning. You know, you gradually get rid of the fall and there comes a point where you know, 'Okay, cold weather's here.'
"They actually gave a pandemic as one of their suggestions for what could happen. It's almost frightening.
"Our country's been through seven of these cycles. There's a political realignment that takes place. There's a gathering back together out of a fractured culture into a cohesive one.
"Wintertime lasts until about 2025. The wave has crested and once it tips over then it's just katy bar the door, down the hill you go, as the wave pushes itself over. We're watching that.
"Our country has long ago lost the foundation that it was built on and the next crowd is taking over.
"You need to understand, members of the Body of Christ have been going through economic, social, political persecution like you can't even imagine and like you might fear is coming for you--they've been going through it for decades, for centuries.
"We as Americans have been spared a lot of that because our culture is really been the ripe fruit of the Protestant Reformation, but all that structure is gone. 'If the foundation be destroyed, what shall the righteous do.'
"Our job is to help save people from the wreck; go out and show people what it's like to live through difficult circumstances, not greedily focused on our possessions, but focused on the gospel and the ministry to others God's Word gives us.
"Listen, if there's any nation in the earth that the Adversary would hate it would be America. There's never been, in the 2,000 years of the dispensation of grace, a time when one nation of people has taken the Word of God around the planet as the British and American empires have done in the last couple of hundred years.
"If there's anything that embarrasses the Adversary it's the gospel of grace. If there's anything that enrages him, it's the gospel of grace. If there's anything he can do to stop its propagation, he'd do it. So I can understand why he would make us the 'apple of his eye' as far as indignation.
"Someone said the blood of the martyrs is a seed bed of the spread of the gospel and that will be true."
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Here's a post from the beginning of this year:
Do you find it coincidental that President Biden vacationed in the Virgin Islands for Christmas, right before the so-called "long-awaited list" of Jeffrey Epstein followers came out, naming President Bill Clinton and Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Atlantic Airlines?
I guess it's just a coincidence that on Feb. 3, 2023, East Palestine, Ohio was essentially hit with a nuclear bomb (given the chemicals released from the train derailment there) only 30 miles from Salem, Ohio. Salem was the name that preceded the name Jerusalem in the Bible.
Genesis 14: 18] And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
[19] And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
In 2019, the spire atop the Notre Dame cathedral fell in a fire. With the reconstruction process a month ago, a gold phoenix was ceremoniously placed atop the new spire. A priest was said to put into the phoenix remnants of the Crown of Thorns that Jesus wore at His crucifixion.
"Archbishop Ulrich placed sacred relics in a hole inside the rooster’s breast, including fragments of Christ’s Crown of Thorns and remains of St Denis and St Genevieve, infusing the sculpture with religious importance," reported the Guardian newspaper. "The Crown of Thorns, regarded as Notre Dame’s most sacred relic, was among the treasures quickly removed after the fire broke out. Brought to Paris by King Louis IX in the 13th century, it is purported to have been pressed on to Christ’s head during the crucifixion."
The phoenix, the immortal mythical bird, is destroyed by fire and reborn every 500 years.
Headline on December 16: "Like 22 atomic bombs, the asteroid that will hit the earth is called Bennu."
Bennu is the ancient Egyptian deity linked with the sun and rebirth and is the original inspiration for the phoenix, the resurrecting bird every 500 years.
From Wikipedia: 101955 Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ36)[9] is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. It is a potentially hazardous object that is listed on the Sentry Risk Table and has the highest cumulative rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale.[10] It has a cumulative 1-in-1,750 chance of impacting Earth between 2178 and 2290 with the greatest risk being on 24 September 2182.[11][12] It is named after Bennu, the ancient Egyptian mythological bird associated with the Sun, creation, and rebirth.
Only five minutes before December 16, 2023:
NEW YORK (AP) — Lights flickered, subway service was disrupted and firefighters rescued scores of people trapped in elevators after a small explosion at an electrical facility caused a momentary power outage in New York City.
The brief outage just before midnight Thursday affected most of the city, officials said.
“Essentially people saw a flicker in their lights for about a second a little bit before midnight and then voltage recovered or kind of went back to normal,” Matthew Ketschke, the president of the power utility Con Edison.
From France 24 article online:
Chief architect Philippe Villeneuve, who designed this new rooster, stated that the original rooster’s survival signified a ray of light in the catastrophe.
“That there was hope, that not everything was lost. The beauty of the (old) battered rooster... expressed the cry of the cathedral suffering in flames,” Villeneuve said. He described the new work of art, approximately half a meter long and gleaming in the December sun behind Notre Dame Cathedral, as his “phoenix.”
Villeneuve elaborated on the new rooster’s significance, saying: “Since (the fire) we have worked on this rooster (the) successor, which sees the flame carried to the top of the cathedral as it was before, more than 96 meters from the ground... It is a fire of resurrection.”
From article about Notre Dame Cathedral's rebirth:
"About 500 people are busy at the construction site every day, including architects, engineers, masons, metal workers, carpenters, steeplejacks, and more. Hundreds of others have been involved in workshops around France, using both modern technology and centuries-old techniques — like squaring oak beams with an ax — to re-create parts being transported to Paris.
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