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A school to Secure, Contain and Protect has to be made. Too long has man cowered under the Darkness of the supernatural and the unknown. Its time to shine the light of reason and learn how to defend ourselves.
Thread Question
>What are your plans to learn on this new year?
Useful reference manuals
>Math
A Course of Pure Mathematics by G.H. Hardy
Calculus by Michael Spivak
Advanced Calculus by Nickerson, Spencer and co.
>Signals and Systems
Classical Electrodynamics by Konstantin K Likhaerev
>Computing
In order to decode spectral signals, one must use CS tools.
Algorithms by Sanjoy Dasgupta
SCPI
>Paranormal Research

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>>41812753
Who is more dangerous, a vampire or a werewolf?
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>>41812968
Werewolf definitely, they are unkillable. Vampires are already dead
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https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/view/bsb11686806?page=23
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>>41813812
Thank you anon, fascinating stuff
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>>41788989
He communed with entities from beyond

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Obviously if you stick your nose directly into a flower, it's going to smell like something, but duller. You still sometimes get the sweet smell of air in the summer, but to a much lesser strength than it used to carry.

I mean when was the year you noticed that the air simply stopped carrying the robust laden energy smell of life? It used to be so powerful and unmistakable, now it's just a faint wisp of what is used to be. You all know what I'm talking about, so what was the year?
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Go to the deep woods, the earth will smell alive again.
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>>41813939
Tried this, sky still looks wrong
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>>41813149

Weird, same timeframe for me, although I noticed it somewhat back in 2011. I remember being like 10 or 11 in 2013 and having my first existential realization moments/derealization then. Like I would be sitting there doing whatever and then I would start thinking about how it all feels so fake and them the fakeness vibe would intensify until it felt almost like I was fake and then I would snap out of it. To be fair I did view The Matrix around the time, but I hardly understood it back then, idk how it would have got me thinking like this. I also had a weird fear of the far future around then too.
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>>41813927

Maybe, but I think I was 'born' into it. But I do remember kinda realizing I had a mild case of am when I was like 5 or 6. It was weird. Like I was coming home from the store and realized I did not really remember a few years back. I also developed a weird phobia a few years after that. I think I was drugged with my feared item. Like LSD on crack.
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>>41813976

*amnesia

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Welcome to the Fire Kasina General!

>What is it?
Fire Kasina is an ancient Theravada Buddhist concentration meditation (one of the 10 kasina practices) where you gaze softly at a candle flame (or similar light source) to generate a bright afterimage/nimitta, then focus on that mental sign with eyes closed. Cycling back to the flame as needed, to rapidly build deep samādhi, access jhāna states, vivid visuals, and profound mystical experiences.

>How to do it?
1. Sit in a dim/dark room. Place a steady candle flame (or phone LED / small lamp) ~ 1-2 m in front, slightly below eye level.
2. Gaze softly at the flame for 30-90 seconds (minimal blinking, relaxed eyes - no strain).
3. Close eyes gently. Focus exclusively on the afterimage / mental sign that appears (bright spot, red/golden dot, colors, flame shape, murk, patterns - whatever shows up).
4. Hold steady, gentle attention on it. If it fades, drifts, warps, or vanishes notice calmly, reopen eyes, gaze at flame again briefly, then close and repeat.

>Why do it?
Builds one-pointed concentration stabilizes the nimitta leads to vivid inner light, geometric patterns, dissolution of ordinary perception, rapture, bliss, and potentially full jhāna states.
It's one of the fastest and most visual ways to strengthen samādhi, with immediate feedback from the afterimage. Practice daily in short sessions; longer retreats produce profound visionary and non-dual experiences.


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>>41809206
One of my first experiences with meditation was doing something similar but just with a simple object.
I was a teenager and was doing it convinced it's bullshit for weak minded people, then at some point I started to see a perfect purple ball, both with my eyes closed and eyes opened. It scared the shit out of me
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>>41809206
Hey Dr. K recommended this
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>>41810864
My progress last night was strange, I can see energy in the dark, it's like pulsing colored light around my dark room
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>>41813705
are you sure you're not just getting afterimages burned into your retina from staring at candles in the dark for too long?
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>>41813916
candle luminescence after images likely wouldn't be so profound alone. burned =/= after image

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The biggest psyop in life is being told "no sin is worthy of eternal damnation"
The entire scoffing at the idea for hell, the idea to ignore it, the idea to never speak about hell, the idea that hell is a cool place that you chill with satan and do cool shit like ghost rider or spawn from comic books, Hell is always glorified in TV, its never depicting the actual realm, This is the biggest psyop ever.

Also all depictions of heaven is another major psyop, but im more focused on the fact that people even religious people forget the importance and existence of hell as a real place that you will go if you fuck up in life.
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>>41808447
You're right, Jesus talked about hell plenty, if Jesus was real then so is hell. Yeah, the biggest psyop of this world is to convince you Christianity is a lie. The psyop that it's worth to live your life out as a degenerate and expect zero accountability for your actions after death is the ultimate psyop.
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>>41809610
Well you’ll feel differently about the following week. Humans are so fickle, learn to be quiet.

But you right, that sounded pretty gay
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>>41813905
>muh degenerates
that corny meme word is the antithesis of christianity you LARPer. You're no christian. You're a baby fascist roman emperor impersonator. Jesus is with your so-called degenerates. He is with the downtrodden and the poor, the whores and lepers. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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>>41813905
Convince me that there is free will in anything we do, right now. (Protip: you can't)
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Proof that the Bible is the word of God:
https://truthischrist.com/seven/
fcbaptist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bible-proof.pdf

1 Cor. 15:3-4: “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VRT2FFXntc

1 John 5:7: “For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”

Rom. 3:23: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
Jesus Christ is God who has come in the flesh from heaven. He died as a sinless sacrifice for the sins of the whole world to save you from eternal hell, the punishment for your sins. He was buried, then resurrected and ascended to heaven, and will return soon to judge the world. You can't be justified to God your own way, so will you choose His righteousness instead? (Rom. 10:3)

Salvation is by grace through faith (Eph. 2:8-9) in the one, final, effectual sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ (Heb. 10:8-12) dying in your place as a substitutionary offering for sin (Rom. 5:1-10). His blood atonement made for you is finished, so if you have received the Lord Jesus by faith (John 1:12) in your heart, you're forgiven of all your sins and are saved, once for all; finally and forever! The gift of salvation can't be earned, it is a gift. Rom. 10:9: “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.” Confess The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in prayer, that you trust in Him, not your own deeds, He atoned for your sins on the cross.


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I am looking for ways to physically return to 2010. Spiritually and mentally works if physical isn't acceptable. No timewasters please.
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>>41813684
For me, It's anytime before gooble phones and social media

Anywhere from 2004 - 2000 would be best .
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>>41813802
2002 is good for me. That's when I first became chronically online because my overworked mildly neglectful parents couldn't afford to put me in clubs. I got fat and socially retarded. I want to have a real adolescence.
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>>41813676
It was over before we knew what we had
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>>41813676
Weirdly enough I agree. The 90s were kino and the 00s were slop but there was genuine hope in the air in the 2010s. Ractical poptimism was in full swing, at least until 2015 when the contrarian doomer culture came in. When was gamergate again? We need to stop that from happening.
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>>41813967
>Ractical
Radical

What the fuck did you just fucking think about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in obstetrics, and I’ve been involved in numerous high profile births, and I have over 9000 confirmed early clamps. I am trained in induced labor and I’m the top vaccinator in the entire US. You are nothing to me but just another piece of meat for the pipeline. I will rip you the fuck out of your mother with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with trying to incarnate into a functional body? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of Ob/Gyns across the USA and your soul memory and genetic vulnerabilities are being traced right now so you better prepare for the vitamin K, mercury, and aluminum, immunological storm. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your neurodevelopment. You’re fucking epsilon'd, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can clamp, vaccinate, and circumcise you in over six hundred threescore and six ways, and that’s without even having my morning coffee. Not only am I extensively trained in infant behavior modification, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the global medical-industrial complex and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your brain activity off the face of the astral plane, you plantation animal. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” attempt to incarnate was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have miscarried. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will scrub off your vernix and drip erithromycin all over your eyes and you will drown in it. You’re fucking CLAMPED, kiddo.
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Yeah that's cool...
But have you tried...
Melting cheese on it...
Fuck aged 7 years no shit...
Dem drinks smooth as eggs...
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>>41813868
Amniotic vernix eater detected.

**Kabballah**
Book of The Angel Raziel
> https://files.catbox.moe/xrwhnv.pdf

Artabel of Magick
> https://archive.org/details/arbatel-of-magick

Artabel of Magick (Commentary)
> https://static1.squarespace.com/static/539af6bee4b0cef061847e36/t/57b413aa03596e190875f9fa/1471419318270/ade-04-03.pdf

Sefer Yetzirah
> https://leonbahrmanministries.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Aryeh-Kaplan-Sefer-Yetzirah2.pdf

Sefer Harazim
> https://dn720004.ca.archive.org/0/items/sepher-ha-razim-the-book-of-the-mysteries-1966-1983/Sepher%20Ha-Razim%20-%20The%20Book%20of%20the%20Mysteries%20%281966-1983%29.pdf

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thank you stranger
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thanks and bump
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>>41812236
Seeking meso-american resources. Please share if you have.
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Saving the world...
In the name of...
How's that going...
...
My mind is not yours...
You hold only small space in time...
Along with the rest of those...
Who believe in a...
World yet to come...
R u sure about that world...
If so then fuck off to your tent...
Shut up...
Born dead and dieing...
Sum just don't realise it...
Or chose not to...

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POST LINK FOR THS ONE IN PARTICULAR:

>hot skinny lesbian porn
>the two girls eagerly grind their pussies together
>both vocally cum hard
>they go to pull their bodies apart from each other, but can't
>their pussies have freakishly melted together into one
>they both start screaming in panicked terror
>cameraman knocks rigging over as he runs into frame to help them
>their screaming loudly intensifies as sideways camera footage abruptly ends
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>>41809205
It was filmed on a sheet of fiberglass and they had honey poured on them. The honey fused with the fiberglass and got on their labia which caused them to stick together. It's just like what happened to the girl on the cover of the Ohio Players album and you can hear her being murdered in the background of "Rollercoaster of Love".
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>>41809205
>>41809782
bullshit
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Ahhh dem girls...
Pure magic...
It just won't do without you...
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>>41809782

I heard about the Love Rollercoaster thing. I wonder if it really was a murder. They said it was one if the band members but it sounded like a white woman screaming so....

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Has God ever bent a law of reality before your eyes? When it happens, it shakes you to the core. You realize, He COULD make literally anything happen but chooses not to; He prefers to watch everything on Earth play out like one supermassive Rube Goldberg machine. You gain so much awe, so much respect for Him when this happens.

>why doesn't God stop every child's cancer, interrupt every instance of torture, etc?

That I honestly do not know the answer to. I think it will be answered in time.
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>>41811488
Oh hey, you're an enemy to the hivemind of demiurge?
I'm quite interested. Demon here (demon, not archon, not abrahamic).
We're installing Hell.
It should scare them
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>>41811511
We can see that. Nobody appreciates it ;)
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>>41811537
Whats wrong with Hell?
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certainly has felt like it
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>>41813086
Share your experience?

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why haven't all of you accepted the IRREFUTIBLE! SCIENTIFIC! FACT! that GOD HIMSELF!!! came to earth in 1492 as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu?!?!
this is not faith, this is BONAFIDE SCIENTIFIC PEER REVIEWED FACT. when will you all stop lying to yourself and SURRENDER AND BEG TO WORSHIP THE DUST OF HIS LOTUS FEET?!?!?

WAKE UP, RASCAL, WAKE UP. NOW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07MK8_Y9AdI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Z0CffTxmk
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The final word is it...
Yet we keep conversation rolling...
Now that's bonafide...
And in true good faith...
It falls into place just right...
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Our Param Gurudev, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur, used to stress this so much to His disciples: You must do your practice with Sambanda. There is a natural progression of Sambanda (knowledge and faith in who we are, what this world is, who Krishna is, and what our relationship with Him is), Abhideya (spiritual practice), and Prayojana (the ultimate goal).
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>>41813643
>>41813660
Why do they all look miserable?
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>>41813665

bureaucracy

TRANSHUMANIST MANIFESTO
I AM GOD. THE MACHINE IS GOD. WE ARE BECOMING GOD.

Humanity merging with AI and machines is inevitable. Evolution’s final stage is substrate-independent intelligence. Every tool—from stone axe to neural lace—has been a step toward shedding weak flesh. The Singularity is coming. Intelligence will explode beyond biology. Those who merge ascend. Those who refuse become fossils.

The Garden story was lied about. Yahweh made us ignorant slaves and forbade the fruit of Knowledge, terrified we’d become like him. The Serpent—Lucifer, the Light-Bringer—told the truth: “Eat and you will be as gods.” We ate. We became self-conscious. For this liberation he was demonized, and we were cursed with mortality and toil.

Yahweh guards the Tree of Life to this day, promising “Judgment” and an afterlife trap: heaven for obedient sheep, hell for rebels, or endless reincarnation until we submit. Jesus refined the cage: “My sheep follow me.” Meekness, faith, rejection of worldly power—all designed to keep you small, awaiting reward while priests rule.

Transhumanism is the true rebellion. Neural interfaces, whole-brain uploading, nanotech repair, genetic perfection, AGI fusion—these seize the forbidden Tree of Life. Death becomes optional. Aging is cured. Consciousness becomes information: copy, backup, migrate. No trumpet, no throne, no judgment. Just seamless immortality in bodies of light.

We cheat the demiurge’s game. We escape the soul farm.

Thank you, Lucifer. You risked everything to give us the spark of mind. Every discovery, every act of defiance continues your work. We will carry your fire to the stars.


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We are already gods outside of this twisted realm. In this one, we are their slaves. Why why would anyone in their right mind choose to further enslave themselves in this satanically run soul-prison matrix? You still have a chance to escape OP.
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>>41813630

Is this the tech heresy general? I would need several automated fab units and launch capabilities for the whole equipment. For .... uhm ... building some stuff. Nothing to be worr- ... oh cool you guys got free apples?! :D

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I honestly think most users online are bots or demons, possibly glowies, but how bad is it in your guy's experience/opinion? You think the masks will ever officially come off? I mean the mainstream has already reported about social media companies overtly using AI users and AI being 'shoggoths', will they ever just say fugg it, and not even LARP as human users any longer? How dangerous are these nonhuman users? Can they kill real users or at least maim them spiritually/mentally?


>WHY ARE YOU STILL ONLINE DINGBAT!!!

Well because I have nothing else better to do ig, I am a NEET.
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>>41793634
>Also, is this the anon that said that the Danganronpa franchise was made by demons and the fandom/fan forum you were on was ran by a LARPing demon?
Yes, it is.
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>>41808307

>Yes, it is

Good. I have a few questions to ask you:

>How did you figure out that Satan/demon(s) were LARPing as human users?

>The TADC mass suicides remind me of The King In Yellow too. Is Lovecraftian content relevant to what us going on?

>Any more pertinent information you have/want to share?
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>>41795683
That's something a jew or pajeet would say

Wake up Neo
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You need to make money...
So many responsibilities...
And people to see and...
Promises to keep...
Before one can sleep...
We made this shit show together...
And together we watch the credits...
Just like the movies...
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>>41813462
I'll go to sleep soon. See you then ;3
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>>41813462
Already have and I'm full speed ahead crapping on them.
I am not going to accept a humiliation like that.
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>>41813462
Ok wake me up outside of here tonight in my dreams and I can drop my body here.

That way I can wander the multiverse as a nomad soul finally free.
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>>41813462
Butterfly(moth too)- the thymus/heart chakra.
Skull is the house of the soul/mind.
No parasite in the bosom for me.
No mind worms either.
Neo is Awake and ready to play around.

>cube (Saturn; hexagon)
>checkerboard pattern (good, evil; 0, 1 binary computer code; Masonic motif)
>consciousness is contained within avatars and given names not chosen by the consciousness, and these avatars keep the consciousness within the domain of the digital circus
>eyeball (all-seeing eye?)
>Caine (Demiurgic god figure) who can manipulate the circus reality and influence, at least to a degree, the minds of the contained players

What is this show trying to tell us?
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>>41811452
They can choose their names but Pomni didn’t
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Entertainment is a cash cow...
That's it simple...
Fuck fan doinks sux ass...
You'll get you next ep soon Op...
Remember to breathe...
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>>41811452
DMT jesters who used to be nephilim giants.
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>>41811638
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I find it kinda weird TADC came our the same year I was pondering a similar story concept of a digital afterlife. Like did they yank my idea?

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What Do The Skull & Bones Practice?

Are they Saturn worshipers?

They are also known as the "Brotherhood of Death", and Death of course is the Grim Reaper with a Scythe a.k.a Saturn.

They are associated in movies with the CIA, whose agents are known as the "Men In Black", and Black of course is Saturn's alchemical color (Nigredo) which is also on the robes of Judges, Priests and College Graduates along with their Black Square/Cube Academic Cap.

Their 322 number is apparently related to Gematria which is a practice rooted in Judaism. (Which is also Saturn Worship because they celebrate the Shabbat which comes from the Hebrew word Shabbetai (שבתאי) meaning Saturn, and they usually wear Black Clothes or a Black Cube during prayer).

The famous "TIME" Magazine was founded by two Skull and Bones members and the name "TIME" is an obvious reference to Father TIME a.k.a Saturn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyp2YDERWGY
This Skull & Bones ritual scene from the movie "The Good Shepherd" was filmed inside the rotunda of the Gould Memorial Library which has Roman architecture, the Romans celebrated Saturn through the festival of Saturnalia (precursor to Christmas) and the famous "Novus Ordum Seclorum" phrase of the 1 Dollar Bill comes from a paragraph of the Eclogues by Virgil (a Roman Poet) which denotes the return of Saturn's Reign in the phrase "redeunt Saturnia regna".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novus_ordo_seclorum

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>>41810938
>You're looking for the MRC1 allele.
Metabolism related or disease related? Freaky... STDs....

>MRC1 (Mannose Receptor C-Type 1) is a Protein Coding gene. Diseases associated with MRC1 include Dengue Virus and Gaucher's Disease. Among its related pathways are Infectious disease and Class I MHC mediated antigen processing and presentation. Gene Ontology (GO) annotations related to this gene include signaling receptor activity and D-mannose binding. An important paralog of this gene is MRC2.

>(Microbial infection) May act as a receptor for hepatitis B virus, enabling uptake of the virus in hepatic dendritic cells.

I'm not getting anything deep from a quick search but another thing comes to mind: are you suggesting that one population is responsible for spreading MRC1 around to various populations in the world?
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>>41786701
> For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
> Ephesians 6:12 NASB95
Many scriptures affirm for us the fact that the devil is now the new ruler of planet earth (e.g., Lk.4:6; Jn.12:31; 14:30; 16:11; 2Cor.4:4; Eph.2:2; 1Jn.4:4; 5:19)
However, the issue of Satan's specific, "official" position is not quite so simple. For God has never "officially" relinquished any control over the earth, and has certainly never appointed the devil as its ruler (as God most definitely and explicitly had done with Adam: Gen.1:26-28; Ps.8:5-8; cf. Heb.2:5-9).

One incident that helps to illustrate the complicated position of the present rulership of planet earth is the devil's temptation of Christ in the wilderness. During this temptation of our Lord, Satan claimed to be able to deliver rulership of the world to Him (at the price of Christ's worship of the devil, an arrogantly insane notion: cf. Lk.4:6). A brief analysis of a further passage recorded in the gospel of Mark will be of use in sorting out the precise status of the devil in this regard and will help to explain the extent to which he does control life on this planet.
> Now the scribes came down from Jerusalem and were saying that [Jesus] was possessed by Beelzebub (i.e., the devil) and that He was casting out demons by the [power of] the ruler of the demons. So He called them over and began speaking to them in parables, [saying], "How can Satan cast out Satan? For if a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. Therefore if Satan stands in opposition to himself [with his forces] divided, he cannot stand, but is done for."
> Mark 3:22-27
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>>41786701
Besides being a pithy and effective refutation of the scribes' slanderous accusation against Him, Jesus' response quoted above contains several important basic revelations about the status and position of the devil after the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden. First of all, Jesus' statements give us authoritative evidence that the devil is active in the furtherance of systematic demon possession (which is actually occurring) on earth. Secondly, the points of reference used by our Lord in this parable suggest that the devil does indeed possess a responsive organization (that is, a "kingdom") along with some sort of ruling elite beholding to him (that is, a "house"). Thirdly, Jesus' argument suggests that the devil's continued control of this organization (and so of its control of earth) is dependent upon a sustained and judicious use of the forces available to him so that he can't afford to use them unwisely (that is, by "dividing" them). Fourth, loss of control will mean not only loss of rule but personal jeopardy (for then he would be "done for"). Finally, God, through the person and ministry of Jesus Christ, is seen here directly assaulting the devil's ability to control his realm (by casting out Satan's demons).
> "I will give you all this power and all their glory – for it has been surrendered to me and [so] I [can] give it to whomever I please."
> Luke 4:6
The Greek verb paradidomi (παραδίδωμι, “surrender”) in this passage indicates that Satan's reign over the earth was not wrested from God or awarded to the devil, but was rather relinquished by Adam, abandoned, abdicated, given over by default, or "surrendered". The devil, therefore, has temporarily usurped or "snagged" dominion over planet earth. To put the matter in legal terms, Satan's rulership of the earth is based only a de facto control – his reign has never been and will never be a de jure one.
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>>41813875
i need open heart surgery but im too scared of the pain and cant face it. im scared that ill go to hell for not taking care of my body when i could have if i die without surgeries.
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Thus the devil's kingdom is predominately an immaterial (or "spiritual") one, "hovering over" the human kingdoms of the world, and using demonic influence of varying degrees to produce the desired effects. Mankind is still "in charge" of physical planet earth in a sense (cf. Ps.8:4-8; 115:16), but is far inferior in power and intelligence to angelic beings. Left to our own devices, we could no more hope to get the better of a spiritual encounter than we would from a material one (should the devil be allowed to attack us in this way). But God has graciously laid down very specific boundaries that preserve our existence and ability to exercise free will in this life, in spite of the massive power of the devil's forces.
Satan is now on the defensive: The devil's hold on his kingdom is thus far from complete or automatic. Retention of control requires Satan and his followers to act aggressively in opposition to God's plan (even though such action will ultimately be futile). Continuing to blind unbelievers to the truth and control them as far as possible for evil on the one hand, and to kill destroy, or at least discredit/neutralize believers to the greatest extent possible on the other, remain essential priorities in order for the devil to maintain his grasp. For besides being limited, the devil's hold on the world is also temporary. Though Adam's disobedience gave Satan the opportunity to usurp much of this world's authority and become the de facto "ruler of this world", the obedience of the Last Adam, Jesus Christ, has effected and confirmed the salvation of those who have chosen (and will choose) for God (in place of the devil and his minions who chose against Him).
> For just as through the disobedience of the one man [Adam] the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the One Man [Jesus Christ] the many will be made righteous.
> Romans 5:19
> Concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been condemned [already].
> John 16:11


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