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8-21-01 - DREAM -
I was in a house and looked in the closet for something to wear. There
were nice clothes in there, but not much of it. I finally chose a skirt suit,
but didn't plan to wear the jacket, just the skirt. It was pleated and was
yellow and black checked. It was obviously way too small for me.
I then went down to the kitchen to help get dinner ready for a large group
of people. The cook, who was a short, chubby woman , was at the sink, preparing
two turkey carcasses for the oven. She as washing them in soap and water.
I as going to help put on a honey barbecue sauce on the turkeys for the oven,
but they weren't quite ready.
The cook was busy washing off an entire cow carcass for a barbecue as
well, which she had a sink large enough to fit the whole cow into. It had
already been butchered and skinned.
I then went outside where there was a race going on which I relate to
the TV show Fear Factor.
A series of men were riding bicycles down to the ocean shore, they had
to strip naked, have all their fingers cut off, the crawl over some barriers,
do a back flip off a big flat rock into the ocean and swim to another location.
I was watching from the perspective of being in or on the ocean myself.
One of the contestants, jumped off his bike, pulled off his clothes, had
his fingers cut off and did the back flip into the ocean and started to
swim.
Then the next guy came, jumped off his bike, pulled off his clothes, had
his fingers cut off, then got down on the flat rock, ready to do his back
flip into the ocean, when he started to cry. He said, "Michael! Now I'm really
scared. I could handle the worms, but this I can't handle."
I looked at him closer and saw that he had no eyes.
If you annagram 'Osama bin Laden' you get....
"A blind Man O sea"....
'Man o sea' is spanish for..."a man that is"
If you say it...'A Man o sea blind' it means... 'A man that is blind'
If you put in "a man o sea blind" into a language translator
it gives you back... ' to the man that is blind'
Since Osama bin Laden means 'A man that is blind'
you have 'the blind man leading the blind'
Cover of
Self-Initiation
into the Golden Dawn Tradition
by Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero
Web site: http://www.hermeticgoldendawn.org/index.shtml See:
An
American Tragedy - A Symbolic Event It
has also been noted that Terry Nichols involved in the Oklahoma Bombing of
the Murrah Building spent some time in Mindanao. Kelly Patricia O'Meara,
among others, of Insight Magazine, reported that Terry Nichols was
witnessed attending a meeting on that island and that also present in that
meeting were Ramzi Yosef, Abdul Hakim Murad and Wali Khan Amin Shah. Ramzi
Yosef was the mastermind behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade
Center, , while Murad and Shah, also involved in the 1993 bombing, were
convicted in 1996, for conspiring to blow up 12 airline jets. It was
reported that the subject of the meeting centered around bombing
activities and building bombs.
Shaykh Omar, the blind cleric who was mullah to the Egyptian
revolutionary organizations, and OBLaden first met in Pakistan in the
mid-1980s during the war against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Their paths crossed many times after that and they had many mutual
friends. OBL's men helped support Omar, and in the USA the blind shaykh
was, among other things, involved in the collection of funds for
Islamist movements, including Al Qaida.
The New 'Great Game' by LUTZ KLEVEMAN - The most tyrannical
of Washington's new allies is Islom Karimov, the ex-Communist dictator of
Uzbekistan, who allowed US troops to set up a large and permanent military
base on Uzbek soil during the Afghan campaign in late 2001. Ever since,
the Bush Administration has turned a blind eye to the Karimov regime's
brutal suppression of opposition and Islamic groups. "Such people
must be shot in the head. If necessary, I will shoot them myself,"
Karimov once famously told his rubber-stamp Parliament. [Meet the
new Saddam Hussein. -ed.]
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The dream above has no basic in fact, obviously, but what things do we really
fear these days? Following is a more recent dream I had about fear
in America which followed watching a video movie by Michael Moore titled,
"Bowling for Columbine", which is an anti-gun film.
Michael Moore stated that American had 11,700+ gun murders during the same
period of time that Canada and Great Britain only had 65. (I have
not corroborated those numbers as yet)
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2-7-05 - DREAM - Two boys were in my dream, who supposedly were Eric
Harris & Dylan Klebold from Littleton, Colorado who killed
their fellow classmates and then killed themselves as well. The two boys
came to my house to hang out with my sons who were teenagers.
I didn't like their attitudes and told them to get out of my house.
The boys left and walked down the driveway towards the mailbox by the
road.
I went outside to pick up broken tree branches that had been broken
off the trees from a windstorm. The two boys came back and asked if they
could work for me picking up tree branches.
I told them I couldn't afford to pay them, but they volunteered to
work for free just to get the experience.
So they joined me in gathering up the branches and taking them to
the barn and helped separate the rough hewn boards from the finished wood
sticks.
One tree was too heavy for any of us to carry. We had to leave that
one for someone else to handle.
After that the boys showed me that more than two boys had been
involved in their little gun toting gang. They told me that at least 5
people were involved. Then they told me that the whole thing had been a
setup and that everyone should know that. The event was part of a
big plot to create fear in the people of America.
They showed me a web page about it where the viewers were supposed
to click on a time calculator labeled 'EXPERIENCE and then click on a
little square next to it labeled 'GO'. The time calculator was supposed to
calculate when the next horrible event would happen again.
I refused to click on the 'EXPERIENCE' and 'GO' tabs, but I said I
could accept that what they did was a setup to create fear in America.
I knew I was going to do a web page about this, but I was not going
to create the 'EXPERIENCE' and 'GO' tabs to predict for people when
another horrible shooting event would occur.
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THE FOLLOWING CHARTS WERE PREPARED BY JOE MASON IN
1990
AFTER HE HAD AN EXPERIENCE WITH LOCAL AUTHORITIES
WHO WERE NOT DOING THEIR JOB FOR THE GOOD GUYS
NOTE: IF YOU USE NETSCAPE OR EXPLORER,
YOU CAN USE THE EXPAND ICON TO MAKE THE CHARTS FULL SIZE
ORWELLIAN FEAR
THE BALL OF STRING FEAR
CHOOSE YOUR RELIGIOUS FEAR
FOUNDING FATHERS VS CURRENT POLITICS FEAR
DEMOCRATS VS REPUBLICAN
FEARS
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One of man's greatest fears, of course, is death. This was my
own greatest fear all my life until I studied metaphysics and
reincarnation. That fear hangs on it seems, for one reason, that we
are taught that we aren't perfect beings, born with original sin, and
unless we follow certain specific rules perfectly we are doomed to
hell. When I searched our own site for pages where I wrote about
death, I discovered that there were 690 of them. That is way too
many to reference at the end of this page.
But here are four where I mentioned Harris and Klebold
specifically:
PADUKAH
REMEMBERED
... Countless children die via abortions and abandonment
all the time, too ... have collectively
influenced the already-poisoned minds of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
...
www.greatdreams.com/death/padukah.htm -
DEATHSTAR
- A PROPHECY - 1999
... Harris and Klebold killed 12 students and a teacher
and wounded 26 people before ...
Despite the death of a teenager in custody there last spring, Bridge City
is ...
www.greatdreams.com/death/deathstr.htm -
JABBERWOCKY
& THE LORD OF THE FLIES - A DREAM
... after Washington sniper John Allen Muhammad was
recommended for the death penalty
by a ... and telephone since teen gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
killed 12 ...
www.greatdreams.com/death/Jabberwocky.htm
NEW
YORK EARTHQUAKES
... there is ample evidence to indicate that teenage
gunmen Harris and Klebold were
victims ... THE PLANES COMING OUT OF PLATTSBURGH, NY WERE CALLED
'WHISPERING DEATH'. ...
www.greatdreams.com/ny/newyork_quakes.htm
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Court TV goes into great length to try to explain why Harris and
Klebold committed their horror upon the high school they attended:
As the police investigation progressed, the background
of the two boys gradually unfolded. Initially it seemed that
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold were just two average
teenagers -- intelligent, well-mannered kids who had come
from good homes. However, it would not take long before a
contrasting picture began to emerge. A picture of two young
men, angry at the world they thought had wronged them, who
had sought, for some time, a way to accomplish their
revenge.
Eric Harris was born on April 9, 1981 in Wichita,
Kansas. His parents Wayne, and Kathy Harris had both been
born in Colorado but Wayne's career as an Air Force
transport pilot had meant that the family had moved often.
They had lived in Ohio, Michigan and New York. When Wayne
Harris retired, he and Kathy chose to settle in Littleton in
1996. There Wayne worked at the Flight Safety Services
Corporation in Englewood. Kathy worked at a catering company
in the same area. Friends, neighbors and associates of the
Harrises in all of the areas in which they had lived
described Wayne and Kathy as good people, supportive and
considerate of both of their sons.
During his childhood, Eric Harris had played Little
League and was a Boy Scout. Eric and Dylan became firm
friends soon after the Harrises moved to Littleton. Before
long they had linked their home computers and would spend
many hours playing video games.
Eric had hoped to be accepted into the Marine Corps
but had been informed, several days before the massacre,
that his application had been rejected. The reason given was
that Eric had been taking the anti-depressant Luvox, which
was often used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder. Luvox
is a commonly prescribed drug, which normally does not cause
any physical or psychological side effects unless taken with
other drugs or alcohol. No evidence of drugs or alcohol had
been found in Harris's body after his death.
Dylan Klebold, like Eric Harris, came from a stable
middle-class family which was held in high regard by
friends, neighbors and associates. Dylan was born on
September 9, 1981 in Lakewood, Colorado. He had lived in
Littleton for many years with his parents Sue and Tom
Klebold and older brother Byron.
Tom Klebold, a former geophysicist, operated a
mortgage management business from their family home while
Sue worked at the State Consortium of Community Colleges
providing accessibility for disabled students. Close friends
felt that Dylan began to change after he befriended Eric
Harris during 1996.
As far as anyone knew there had only been one incident
of criminal behavior in the past. In March the previous
year, the boys had been arrested on felony charges of
criminal trespass and theft for breaking into a car and
stealing some tools. Klebold and Harris had made such a good
impression on the juvenile officers involved in the case
that they were offered to have their records cleared if they
promised to stay out of trouble and participate in a
diversionary program. Harris was required to attend anger
management classes. Again, he had made a good impression on
authorities.
As the investigation progressed, however, another
picture of the two boys began to emerge. This picture was in
stark contrast to that known to their parents and close
friends. It was soon discovered that Eric Harris had a
website posted which openly expressed his anger toward the
people of Littleton, especially teachers and students at
Columbine High School. On this site, Harris had begun to
express his desire for revenge against everyone that had
irritated or annoyed him. The words "God, I can't wait
until I can kill you people," and "I'll just go to
some downtown area in some big (expletive) city and blow up
and shoot everything I can" were posted as early as
March 1998. It was also around this time that both Harris
and Klebold began experimenting with pipe bombs, posting the
results of their tests on the site.
A number of students told of incidents where Harris
and Klebold had bragged that they would one day seek revenge
on the "jocks" at the school, whom they felt had
ridiculed them and treated them as outcasts. A video made as
a school project by the pair showed them walking through the
corridors of the school wielding guns, killing all who stood
in their way. They had been disappointed when their teacher
had not allowed the video to be viewed by the rest of the
school because of its violence. Harris was also known for
his violent themes in creative writing projects.
Many of their teachers described the youths as being
depressed, angry, and admirers of Nazism. In the minds of
some teachers, Harris and Klebold had shown many disturbing
signs of their violent tendencies; these same teachers had
reported their concerns. Unfortunately, no action could be
taken against the boys, as they had in fact done nothing to
warrant it. Although, one of the boys had been suspended the
year before for hacking into the school's computer system.
Despite the growing concern of many of their teachers, the
Klebolds and Harrises claim that they had never been
informed of their sons' behavioral problems.
The lack of communication between the juvenile
authorities, school officials and their parents enabled Eric
Harris and Dylan Klebold to maintain the appearance of
normalcy to those closest to them, while secretly planning
the fulfillment of their angry, violent fantasies.
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But what could be the cause of a 6 year old boy to go
to school and shoot his little 6 year old classmate?
WSWS
: News
& Analysis : North
America
Six-year-old Michigan girl shot and killed in classroom
By David Walsh
1 March 2000
A six-year-old girl was shot and killed, apparently by a fellow
first grade student, a six-year-old boy, in a classroom at Buell
Elementary School in Mt. Morris Township, outside of Flint, Michigan.
Flint is a center of General Motors' auto production empire, located sixty
miles north of Detroit. The fatal shooting occurred Tuesday morning.
Whether the shooting was intentional or accidental is not known for
certain. There are reports that the two children had a quarrel prior to
the incident. Authorities identified the weapon as a .32 caliber handgun
stolen in December.
According to one account, the shooting took place around 10 AM as
students were filing out of a classroom. Allegedly, the boy pulled out the
gun and fired one shot at the girl, hitting her in the neck. The boy
reportedly then ran into a lavatory where he hid the gun in a trash can.
The girl, Kayla Rolland, was taken to Hurley Medical Center. She
died at approximately 10:30 AM. School officials held the boy until police
arrived. He is currently in the custody of the state child welfare agency,
the so-called Family Independence Agency.
No sooner had the first news reports of the tragic incident emerged
than the question was posed as to whether Genesee County authorities might
prosecute the alleged “gunman.” As absurd as this might seem, there
was good reason for the issue to be raised.
The shooting follows by a few months the conviction in nearby
Pontiac of Nathaniel Abraham, who was only 11 at the time of his alleged
crime. Abraham was the first youth to be charged with murder under a 1997
Michigan statute that allows children of any age to be prosecuted
as adults for serious crimes. Oakland county authorities pursued the case
against Abraham in order to establish a precedent and legitimize the 1997
law.
These officials and the Michigan state legislators who framed the
law have, in essence, attempted to efface any legal or moral distinction
between children and adults. According to this line of reasoning, human
beings reach the “age of reason” in elementary school. Supporters of
the law have made clear they would be prepared to prosecute children of
kindergarten or first-grade age.
The first response of Genesee County Prosecutor Arthur A. Busch was
to downplay the likelihood of bringing charges against the boy. “There
is a presumption in law that a child ... is not criminally responsible and
can't form an intent to kill,” Busch told reporters. “Obviously, he
has done a very terrible thing, but legally, he can't be held criminally
responsible.”
Whether Busch is more enlightened than Oakland County officials or
has simply been chastened by the unfavorable publicity the Abraham case
attracted is not clear. Nor can it be ruled out that he might come under
pressure to change his mind. Nonetheless, it is telling that every
television and print journalist felt obliged to discuss the possibility of
charges being laid. That in itself reveals the barbaric state of the
American justice system.
Whether the little boy is prosecuted or not, it is safe to assume
that the authorities will turn the tragic death of Kayla Rolland into a
pure police matter. Busch suggested that the individual responsible for
allowing the gun to fall into the boy's hands might face charges.
Bill Clinton, fundraising in Florida, deplored the incident and
noted, as he had in his State of the Union address, that the “accidental
gun death rate of children in America is nine times higher than that in
the other 25 biggest countries combined.” In the same speech Clinton
sounded a familiar theme, insisting that Americans had never had it so
good. “What are we to do with this enormous amount of prosperity...?”
he asked.
These comments ignore an obvious point: if the population were
universally enjoying prosperity and happiness, such incidents as the Mt.
Morris shooting would either not occur, or they would merely be isolated
episodes.
In fact, this latest tragedy is the most recent in a series of
school shootings in the US. Since the mass killings at Columbine High
School in Colorado last May, in which 14 students (including the two
teenage gunmen) and a teacher were killed, there have been numerous other
incidents: on May 20, 1999, a 15-year-old boy opened fire at a high school
in Conyers, Ga., wounding six students; on November 19, a 13-year-old girl
was fatally shot in the head in a school in Deming, New Mexico, allegedly
killed by a 12-year-old boy; on December 6, a 13-year-old student fired at
least 15 rounds at a middle school in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, wounding four
classmates.
The epidemic of shootings cannot simply be ascribed to individual
weaknesses. The deep alienation felt by many of the younger generation,
the debased social atmosphere in which backwardness and violence breed,
the availability of fire-arms in massive numbers—these are symptoms of a
crisis of American society for which the ruling elite has no solutions.
Its only response is to lock more people up.
Kip Kinkel, the 17-year-old, who opened fire at a high school in
Springfield, Oregon, has been sentenced to nearly 112 years in prison;
Andrew Wurst, 15, responsible for the death of a teacher in Edinboro,
Pennsylvania has been imprisoned for 30 to 60 years; a 14-year-old student
pleaded guilty but mentally ill for a shooting in West Paducah, Kentucky
and received a life sentence; Evan Ramsey, 16, who shot and killed a
school principal and a fellow student in Bethel, Alaska, is serving a
210-year sentence.
See: DEATHSTAR
FOR MORE EXAMPLES OF THIS TYPE OF VIOLENCE
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The United States has by far the highest rate of gun deaths --
murders, suicides and accidents -- among the world's 36 richest nations, a
government study found.
The U.S. rate for gun deaths in 1994 was 14.24 per
100,000 people. Japan had the lowest rate, at .05 per 100,000.
The study used 1994 statistics supplied by the 36 countries. Of the
88,649 gun deaths reported by all the countries, the United States
accounted for 45 percent
Here are gun-related deaths per 100,000 people in the world's 36
richest countries in 1994:
United States 14.24;
Brazil 12.95;
Mexico 12.69;
Estonia 12.26;
Argentina 8.93;
Northern Ireland 6.63;
Finland 6.46;
Switzerland 5.31;
France 5.15;
Canada 4.31;
Norway 3.82;
Austria 3.70;
Portugal 3.20;
Israel 2.91;
Belgium 2.90;
Australia 2.65;
Slovenia 2.60;
Italy 2.44;
New Zealand 2.38;
Denmark 2.09;
Sweden 1.92;
Kuwait 1.84;
Greece 1.29;
Germany 1.24;
Hungary 1.11;
Republic of Ireland 0.97;
Spain 0.78;
Netherlands 0.70;
Scotland 0.54;
England and Wales 0.41;
Taiwan 0.37;
Singapore 0.21;
Mauritius 0.19;
Hong Kong 0.14;
South Korea 0.12;
Japan 0.05.
« In
Australia, where the people were forced
to give up their instruments of self-defense,
sexual crimes have increased, armed robbery
is up 44% and murders up 300%. »
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GUN OWNERSHIP AND MYTHS
Another view commonly
disseminated is that « The most likely killers are friends
or relatives. » This ingredient of current mythology rests
on two claims. One being that 53% of murder victims are killed by
either relatives or acquaintances and that anyone could be a murderer.
Using the definition of « acquaintance » as used in the
Uniform Crime Reports, published by the FBI, most victims are
classified as knowing their killer. But what is not made clear is that «
acquaintance murder » includes mainly drug buyers
killing pushers, taxi-drivers killed by their customers, gang members
killing gang members, prostitutes slain by their clients and so on. There
is one U.S. city, Chicago, which reports a more precise breakdown on the
nature of such killings. Their statistics provide a very different
impression for the five years between 1990 and 1995. They reported that,
under 20% of murder victims were either family members, friends, neighbors
or roommates of those who killed them.
About 90% of adult murderers already have an adult criminal record, they
are not your average citizen. The profile of the majority of murderers in
the USA is a young male with a low IQ who has a long history of difficulty
getting along with other people.
Statistical mythology
Again and again we hear that, « The USA has a high murder
rate because the citizens own more guns. » This is the most
simplistic of the arguments heard, often from many who ought to know
better. Other countries have gun ownership rates as high or higher than
the USA. Three, Switzerland, New Zealand and Finland have similar
ownership rates and yet, in 1995, New Zealand's murder rate was lower than
Australia's. Switzerland had a murder rate 40% lower than that of Germany.
Sweden and Finland have different gun ownership rates but similar murder
rates. Israel, which has an even higher gun ownership rate than the USA,
has a murder rate which is 40% below ours in Canada. In fact, studies have
shown that where gun ownership increases violent crime decreases.
« A family member of a gun owning household is more likely
to be shot and killed than an intruder is to be killed in self-defense.
» The study upon which this myth is founded appeared in the New
England Journal of Medicine in 1993, but it never actually looked into
whose gun did the killing. If a household owned a gun and if someone in
that house, or someone he or she knew, was shot in that house, then that
household's gun was blamed. Later examination of the study's data showed
that almost all the killings (96%) were committed with guns owned by the
intruder. The remaining 4% attributable to the householder's gun is
somewhat insignificant. Often unreported, or forgotten, is that 98% of the
time simply brandishing a gun is enough to deter an aggressor. The gun is
actually fired at the attacker in less than 1% of reported cases.
It is well known that criminals rarely attack armed men, they much prefer
the weak and unarmed. The simple fact that a person could be carrying a
gun is often sufficient to deter the aggressor. This is why so many
tourists have been attacked in Florida, the criminal knows that his victim
will definitely not be carrying a gun.
In Australia, where the people were forced to give up their instruments of
self-defense, sexual crimes have increased, armed robbery is up 44% and
murders up 300%. Oddly enough, unarmed robbery has shown a decrease. In
Britain, where handguns are banned absolutely, more policemen are being
armed in order to deal with the rising crime rate. Assaults with firearms
and attempted murders have risen and the crime rate is expected to
increase even more in the next two years. Excluding murder, rates of
violent crime in England and Wales are higher than in any other European
country or even in the USA. Further evidence, if it were needed, that
criminals much prefer their victims to be unarmed.
From: http://www.quebecoislibre.org/990828-6.htm
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REASONS WHY GUNS ARE USED TO MURDER
Feasibility
The third component of murder is feasibility. A person might have both the
desire and the weapon needed to kill, but if the circumstances don't offer
a feasible opportunity to carry it out, then a person will probably decide
against it. With weapons like knives or clubs, a would-be murderer faces
enormous personal risk. Here's why:
- Getting physically close to the victim might be impossible under
a wide variety of circumstances.
- Getting closer to the victim reduces the odds of surprise,
secrecy or anonymity.
- The intended victim might be taller or stronger.
- The intended victim might be surrounded by friends, family, or
bodyguards.
- The victim might shout out for help.
- A crowd might come to the victim's rescue.
- In the ensuing struggle, the murderer might be seriously wounded
or even killed.
- The struggle will probably leave tell-tale signs of blood, skin
or hair-follicles on the murderer.
- The intended victim might survive and testify against him.
A gun, however, dramatically reduces all these risks. In order of
the above, guns allow people to:
- Kill victims from afar.
- Maintain a much greater element of surprise, secrecy and
anonymity.
- Kill larger and stronger people.
- Kill crowds.
- Frighten away people who might otherwise help.
- Assume almost no risk of injury from personal struggle.
- Leave no tell-tale blood or other physical evidence on the
murderer.
- Leave the victim less likely to survive or see him to testify
against him.
What guns do, then, is make it more feasible for a would-be killer
to act out his murderous impulses. Gun possession thus allows a crime to
occur that wouldn't have otherwise. A good analogy is robbery. In medieval
times, wealth was usually stolen only when it was in transit, by highway
brigands who outnumbered the drivers. But in modern times, a lone
individual with a gun can walk into a bank and rob the entire
establishment. Bank robbery became a widespread phenomenon only after the
invention of guns.
Certain types of guns enhance feasibility more than others. Long-barreled
guns like rifles and shotguns are difficult to hide and bulkier to carry;
therefore, easily concealed handguns are the weapon of choice among
murderers. One exception to this rule is the long-barreled gun which is super-efficient,
namely, machine guns or assault weapons. These enhance feasibility in
other ways that might be preferred by a would-be killer. For these
reasons, gun-control advocates especially focus on handguns and assault
weapons when it comes to regulation.
Let's imagine now two countries, both of which have populations of 250
million. Suppose 50,000 people in each of these countries are going to
experience murderous impulses over the course of a year. One nation has a
complete ban on guns. The other has universal gun ownership. Which nation
will see the higher murder rate?
Common sense would dictate that the nation with guns will realize its
enhanced ability and feasibility to commit murder. However, we should
never underestimate the gun advocates' powers of rationalization! A common
counter-argument is Robert Heinlein's: "An armed society is a polite
society." This is hardly true, as the statistics below demonstrate;
you could not get a more polite and murder-free society than Japan, which
bans virtually all guns, or a more violent society than America, which
owns the most guns in the world. But let's treat this counter-argument on
a philosophical level.
If we were to arm everyone in society, then the ability to commit murder
would become universal. This is a serious step in the wrong direction; to
rescue their point, gun advocates must rely even more heavily on arguments
of defeasibility. The fear of getting shot back, they argue, will deter
most murderers. And there is a degree of truth behind this argument --
police, for example, wear sidearms precisely for their deterrence effect
and protective benefits. Surveys of criminals show that they tend to avoid
targets they feel might be armed.
But ultimately this argument fails, even in principle. A central tenet
of game theory is that attackers have the advantage over defenders. A
defender must defend against all possibilities of attack, and in doing so
defends none of them very well. An attacker has to choose only one line of
attack, and therefore can do it extremely well. Attackers have the
advantage of surprise, planning and initiative. An example is a careful,
well-considered plan to shoot someone in the back, even if the person is
openly carrying a sidearm. Another example is bank robbery. The fact that
banks are extremely well-protected hasn't stopped their robbery even today
-- criminals simply arm themselves more heavily and take advantage of the
fact that they are the attackers. Or, in the face of heavily armed
targets, attackers may simply alter their line of attack, selecting weaker
targets: the old, the disabled, or children. A useful analogy here is war.
The fact that the entire world out-armed Hitler did not stop him from
attacking it. And he nearly succeeded -- because, as the attacker, he had
the initiative.
Furthermore, even the certain threat of retaliatory force will not stop
someone whose senses are impaired by drugs, alcohol, jealousy, anger,
insanity, pathology, self-destruction or deception. Although we can
identify some groups at risk for these behaviors, we can hardly predict
them all -- jealous husbands, for instance. And the "failure to
defease" is a tremendously costly one, now that the ability to commit
murder is universal.
Thus, many people suggest gun control as a solution to high murder
rates. We should note there is a spectrum of gun control, ranging from
licensing laws to the total banning of all guns. Comparing different
societies for gun availability alone is insufficient, since we must also
consider their different gun control laws. We should also note that gun
control only reduces the ability and feasibility to commit murder -- it
does not limit desire. That's something for other social policies to
address. The interplay between these three components is where the debate
becomes complex. Desire may sometimes counter ability and feasibility,
which only confounds the issue. Suppose two nations have the same
population size, although nation A sees 50,000 people a year with the
murderous impulse, but only 25,000 in nation B. If nation A has gun
control, and nation B has high gun ownership, then nation A might still
see a higher murder rate. Gun advocates might then claim that this
"proves" their case -- although gun control advocates would
still claim that reducing gun ownership would reduce murder rates in both
nations. Many people debating these issues often fail to take these
considerations into account.
FROM: http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-gunownership.htm
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AGAINST GUN CONTROL
Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties:
1) Those who fear and distrust the people . . . . 2) Those who identify
themselves with the people, have confidence in them, cherish and
consider them as the most honest and safe . . . depository of the public
interest.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Real-world experiences validate the sociologists'
findings. In 1966 the police in Orlando, Florida, responded to a rape
epidemic by embarking on a highly publicized program to train 2,500 women
in firearm use. The next year rape fell by 88 percent in Orlando (the only
major city to experience a decrease that year); burglary fell by 25
percent. Not one of the 2,500 women actually ended up firing her weapon;
the deterrent effect of the publicity sufficed. Five years later Orlando's
rape rate was still 13 percent below the pre-program level, whereas the
surrounding standard metropolitan area had suffered a 308 percent
increase. During a 1974 police strike in Albuquerque armed citizens
patrolled their neighborhoods and shop owners publicly armed themselves;
felonies dropped significantly. In March 1982 Kennesaw, Georgia, enacted a
law requiring householders to keep a gun at home; house burglaries fell
from 65 per year to 26, and to 11 the following year. Similar publicized
training programs for gun-toting merchants sharply reduced robberies in
stores in Highland Park, Michigan, and in New Orleans; a grocers
organization's gun clinics produced the same result in Detroit.
Even simple registration laws meet with massive resistance. In
Illinois, for example, a 1977 study showed that compliance with handgun
registration was only about 25 percent.[13] A
1979 survey of Illinois gun owners indicated that 73 percent would not
comply with a gun prohibition.[14] It is
evident that New York City's almost complete prohibition is not
voluntarily obeyed; estimates of the number of illegal handguns in the
city range from one million to two million.[15]
With more widespread American gun control, the number of new outlaws
would certainly be huge. Prohibition would label as criminal the millions
of otherwise law-abiding citizens who believe they must possess the means
to defend themselves, regardless of what legislation dictates.
In addition, strict enforcement of gun prohibition--like our current
marijuana prohibition and our past alcohol prohibition--would divert
enormous police and judicial resources to ferreting out and prosecuting
the commission of private, consensual possessory offenses. The diversion
of resources to the prosecution of such offenses would mean fewer
resources available to fight other crime.
Do Gun Laws Disarm Criminals?
Although gun control advocates devote much attention to the alleged
evils of guns and gun owners, they devote little attention to the
particulars of devising a workable, enforceable law. Disarming criminals
would be nearly impossible. There are between 100 and 140 million guns in
the United States, a third of them handguns. The ratio of people who
commit handgun crimes each year to handguns is 1:400, that of handgun
homicides to handguns is 1:3,600. Because the ratio of handguns to handgun
criminals is so high, the criminal supply would continue with barely an
interruption. Even if 90 percent of American handguns disappeared, there
would still be 40 left for every handgun criminal. In no state in the
union can people with recent violent felony convictions purchase firearms.
Yet the National Institute of Justice survey of prisoners, many of whom
were repeat offenders, showed that 90 percent were able to obtain their
last firearm within a few days. Most obtained it within a few hours.
Three-quarters of the men agreed that they would have "no
trouble" or "only a little trouble" obtaining a gun upon
release, despite the legal barriers to such a purchase.
Even if the entire American gun stock magically vanished, resupply
for criminals would be easy. If small handguns were imported in the same
physical volume as marijuana, 20 million would enter the country annually.
(Current legal demand for new handguns is about 2.5 million a year).
Bootleg gun manufacture requires no more than the tools that most
Americans have in their garages. A zip gun can be made from tubing, tape,
a pin, a key, whittle wood, and rubber bands. In fact, using wood fires
and tools inferior to those in the Sears & Roebuck catalogue,
Pakistani and Afghan peasants have been making firearms capable of firing
the Russian AK-47 cartridge. Bootleg ammunition is no harder to make than
bootleg liquor. Although modern smokeless gunpowder is too complex for
backyard production, conventional black powder is simple to manufacture.
Apparently, illegal gun production is already common. A 1986 federal
government study found that one-fifth of the guns seized by the police in
Washington, D.C., were homemade. Of course, homemade guns cannot win
target-shooting contests, but they suffice for robbery purposes.
Furthermore, the price of bootleg guns may even be lower than the price of
the quality guns available now (just as, in prohibition days, bootleg gin
often cost less than legal alcohol had).
Most police officers concur that gun control laws are ineffective. A
1986 questionnaire sent to every major police official in the country
produced the following results: 97 percent believed that a firearms
ownership ban would not reduce crime or keep criminals from using guns; 89
percent believed that gun control laws such as those in Chicago,
Washington, D.C., and New York City had no effect on criminals; and 90
percent believed that if firearms ownership was banned, ordinary citizens
would be more likely to be targets of armed violence.
Excerpted from: http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa109.html
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WHERE DOES VIOLENCE COME FROM?
Violence on television affects children negatively, according to
psychological research.
The three major effects of seeing violence on television are:
Children may become less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others.
Children may be more fearful of the world around them.
Children may be more likely to behave in aggressive ways toward others
FACT: The average American child will have watched 100,000 acts of
televised violence, including 8000 depictions of murder, by the time he or
she finishes sixth grade (approximately 13 years old).
Studies by George Gerbner, at the University of Pennsylvania, have
shown that children's television shows contain about 20 violent acts each
hour. They also showed that children who watch a lot of television are
more likely to think that the world is a mean and dangerous place.
Children often behave differently after they've been watching
violent programmes on television. In one study done at Pennsylvania State
University, about 100 pre-school children were observed both before and
after watching television. Some watched cartoons that had many aggressive
and violent acts; others watched shows that didn't have any kind of
violence. The researchers noticed real differences between the children
who watched the violent shows and those who watched non-violent ones.
Children who watched the violent shows were more likely to strike
out at playmates, argue, disobey authority and were less willing to wait
for things than those children who watched non-violent programmes.
For most of television's early years, it was difficult to find role
models that would inspire young girls in the viewing audience. In the
mid-1970s, a new genre of programmes such as Charlie's Angels, Wonder
Woman, The Bionic Woman entered the scene.
Now, there were females on television who were in control,
aggressive and were not dependent upon males for their success.
Conventional wisdom might suggest this phenomenon would have a positive
impact on younger female viewers.
Huesmann's research states that young girls who often watched shows
featuring aggressive heroines in the 1970s, have grown up to be more
aggressive adults involved in more confrontations, shoving matches,
choking and knife fights than women who had watched few or none of these
shows.
One example cited by Huesmann is that 59 percent of those who
watched an above-average amount of violence on television as children,
were involved in more than the average number of such aggressive incidents
later inlife.
Huesmann says that ages six to eight are very delicate and critical
years in the development of children. Youngsters are learning social
behaviour that will last them throughout their life.
Some of the most compelling studies have investigated children's
behaviour in areas before and after the introduction of television. In the
early seventies, Tannis Macbeth Williams and other researchers from the
University of British Columbia compared the levels of aggression in first
and second graders from two Canadian towns, one with access to TV and one,
due to a mountain range, with no TV access. When the mountain town finally
received television, the hitting, biting, and shoving levels of the
children increased by 160 percent.
Not Everyone Agrees With
These Statistics
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An Alternative To Raising Non-violent Children
One aspect is to see that there is no sense of shame or guilt
involved with crime today. Instead, a sense of pride is attached to acts
of violence. This was absent a few decades back. Violence then was
associated not so much with pride, but with shame. A student used to feel
ashamed to do a violent act. But today, due largely to the influence of
the media, aggression has become a source of pride. The aggressive
students in the classroom get more attention, and they feel proud being
aggressive and angry.
When I was a student, if someone was aggressive in the classroom,
others would look down on them. That student would feel very apologetic
afterwards, and they would have to make it up—by being kinder and doing
service in the classroom. But today, we see that aggression seems to be a
way of living, a way of moving forward, a way of success, and a source of
pride in children. This, in a very subtle way, encourages violence. When
aggression and violence are promoted in society, human values diminish.
Today, certain movies and modern music glorify frustration, anger
and revenge, and make these status symbols and role models for children.
We need to counteract this influence. A sense of shame has to be connected
with anger and violence. We need to promote human values, especially love,
compassion and a sense of belonging, loud and clear.
From: http://www.newconnexion.net/article/09-01/shankar.html
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VIOLENCE IN MUSIC
VIOLENT MUSIC LYRICS INCREASE AGGRESSIVE THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS,
ACCORDING TO NEW STUDY
Even Humorous Violent Songs Increase Hostile Feelings
WASHINGTON - Songs with violent lyrics increase aggression related
thoughts and emotions and this effect is directly related to the violence
in the lyrics, according to a new study published by the American
Psychological Association (APA). The findings, appearing in the May issue
of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, contradicts
popular notions of positive catharsis or venting effects of listening to
angry, violent music on violent thoughts and feelings.
In a series of five experiments involving over 500 college students,
researchers from Iowa State University and the Texas Department of Human
Services examined the effects of seven violent songs by seven artists and
eight nonviolent songs by seven artists. The students listened to the
songs and were given various psychological tasks to measure aggressive
thoughts and feelings. One such task involved participants classifying
words that can have both aggressive and nonaggressive meanings, such as
rock and stick.
To control for factors not related to the content of the lyrics, the
violent and nonviolent songs were sung by the same artists and were in the
same musical style in three of the experiments. In the two other
experiments, the researchers tested the arousal properties of the songs to
make sure the violent-lyric effects were not due to differences in
arousal. Also, individual personality differences related to hostility
were assessed and controlled. The study also included songs with humorous
lyrics to see how humor interacted with violent song lyrics and aggressive
thoughts.
Results of the five experiments show that violent songs led to more
aggressive interpretations of ambiguously aggressive words, increased the
relative speed with which people read aggressive vs. nonaggressive words,
and increased the proportion of word fragments (such as h_t) that were
filled in to make aggressive words (such as hit). The violent songs
increased feelings of hostility without provocation or threat, according
to the authors, and this effect was not the result of differences in
musical style, specific performing artist or arousal properties of the
songs. Even the humorous violent songs increased aggressive thoughts.
The violent-song increases in aggressive thoughts and feelings have
implications for real world violence, according to lead researcher Craig
A. Anderson, Ph.D. of Iowa State University. "Aggressive thoughts can
influence perceptions of ongoing social interactions, coloring them with
an aggressive tint. Such aggression-biased interpretations can, in turn,
instigate a more aggressive response -verbal or physical - than would have
been emitted in a nonbiased state, thus provoking an aggressive escalatory
spiral of antisocial exchanges," said Dr. Anderson.
The study investigated precursors to aggression rather than
aggressive behavior itself. More research is needed, say the authors, to
identify the short-term and long-term effects of violent song lyrics.
Repeated exposure to violent lyrics may contribute to the development of
an aggressive personality and could indirectly create a more hostile
social environment, although the authors say it is possible that the
effects of violent songs may last only a fairly short time.
"One major conclusion from this and other research on violent
entertainment media is that content matters," said Dr. Anderson.
"This message is important for all consumers, but especially for
parents of children and adolescents."
From: http://www.apa.org/releases/violentsongs.html
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If there is one subject
on which the parents of America passionately agree, it is that
contemporary adolescent popular music, especially the subgenres of heavy
metal and hip-hop/rap, is uniquely degraded — and degrading — by the
standards of previous generations. At first blush this seems slightly
ironic. After all, most of today’s baby-boom parents were themselves
molded by rock and roll, bumping and grinding their way through
adolescence and adulthood with legendary abandon. Even so, the parents
are correct: Much of today’s music is
darker and coarser than yesterday’s rock. Misogyny, violence, suicide,
sexual exploitation, child abuse — these and other themes,
formerly rare and illicit, are now as common as the surfboards,
drive-ins, and sock hops of yesteryear.
In a nutshell, the ongoing adult preoccupation
with current music goes something like this: What
is the overall influence of this deafening, foul, and often
vicious-sounding stuff on children and teenagers?
This is a genuinely important question, and serious studies and
articles, some concerned particularly with current music’s possible
link to violence, have lately been devoted to it. In 2000, the
American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Medical Association, the
American Psychological Association, and the American Academy of Child
& Adolescent Psychiatry all weighed in against contemporary lyrics
and other forms of violent entertainment before Congress with a
first-ever “Joint Statement on the Impact of Entertainment Violence on
Children.”
What is it about today’s music, violent and
disgusting though it may be, that resonates with so many American
kids?
As the reader can see, this is a very different way of inquiring about
the relationship between today’s teenagers and their music. The
first question asks what the music does
to adolescents; the second asks what it tells
us about them. To answer that second question is necessarily to enter
the roiling emotional waters in which that music is created and
consumed — in other words, actually to listen to some of it and
read the lyrics.
Eminem’s most shocking lyrics about women
are not randomly dispersed; they are largely reserved for his mother
and ex-wife, and the narrative pose is one of despising them for not
being better women — in particular, better mothers. The worst rap
directed at his own mother is indeed gut-wrenching:
“But how dare you try to take what you didn’t help me to get? /
You selfish bitch, I hope you f—
burn in hell for this shit!” It is
no defense of the gutter to observe the obvious: This is not the
expression of random misogyny but, rather, of primal rage over alleged
maternal abdication and abuse.
This same theme of awol
parenting is rapped at greater length in another award-nominated 2003
song called “Sing for the Moment,” whose lyrics and video would be
recognized in an instant by most teenagers in America. That song
spells out Eminem’s own idea of what connects him to his millions of
fans — a connection that parents, in his view, just don’t (or is
that won’t?) understand. It details the case of one more “problem
child” created by “His f—
dad walkin’ out.” “Sing for the
Moment,” like many other songs of Eminem’s, is also a popular
video. The “visuals” show clearly what the lyrics depict
— hordes of disaffected kids, with flashbacks to bad home
lives, screaming for the singer who feels their pain. It concludes by
rhetorically turning away from the music itself and toward the
emotionally desperate teenagers who turn out for this music by the
millions. If the demand of all those empty kids wasn’t out there,
the narrator says pointedly, then rappers wouldn’t be supplying it
the way they do.
If some parents still don’t get it — even
as their teenagers elbow up for every new Eminem cd
and memorize his lyrics with psalmist devotion — at least some
critics observing the music scene have thought to comment on the
ironies of all this. In discussing The Marshall
Mathers lp
in 2001 for
Music Box, a daily online newsletter about music, reviewer John
Metzger argued, “Instead of spewing the hate that he is so often
criticized of doing, Eminem offers a cautionary tale that speaks to
our civilization’s growing depravity. Ironically, it’s his
teenage fans who understand this, and their all-knowing parents that
miss the point.” Metzger further specified “the utter lack of
parenting due to the spendthrift necessity of the two-income
family.”
Entertainers, Eminem most prominently,
blame the absent, absentee, and generally inattentive adults whose
deprived and furious children (as they see it) have catapulted
today’s singers to fame. (As he puts the point in one more
in-your-face response to parents: “Don’t
blame me when lil’ Eric jumps off of the terrace / You shoulda
been watchin him — apparently you ain’t parents.”)
The spectacle of a foul-mouthed bad-example
rock icon instructing the hardworking parents of America in the
art of child-rearing is indeed a peculiar one, not to say
ridiculous. The single mother who is working frantically because
she must and worrying all the while about what her 14-year-old is
listening to in the headphones is entitled to a certain fury over
lyrics like those. In fact, to read through most rap lyrics is to
wonder which adults or political constituencies wouldn’t take
offense. Even so, the music idols who point the finger away from
themselves and toward the emptied-out homes of America are telling
a truth that some adults would rather not hear. In this limited
sense at least, Eminem is right.
Excerpted from: http://www.policyreview.org/dec04/eberstadt.html
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VIOLENCE IN VIDEOS
In
some of these games, players earn points for burning and urinating on
African American police officers, having sex with prostitutes and beating
them to death to get their money back, decapitating women with shovels,
and shooting and brutally murdering almost anyone in the player’s path.
On Martin Luther King Day, Resistance
Records, a distributor of racist, anti-Semitic "White Power"
music began to advertise Ethnic Cleansing, a CD-ROM based computer
game whose object is to kill "sub-humans" — i.e. Blacks and
Latinos — and their "masters," the Jews, who are portrayed as
the personification of evil.
Resistance Records is owned by the National
Alliance, the largest and most active neo-Nazi organization in the
United States
Patterned after popular mainstream video games
such as Quake and Doom, the game turns racially motivated
violence in "entertainment." Racists and anti-Semites are
clearly trying to spread their hate-filled vision to a wider,
computer-savvy, younger audience through the violent body-strewn world of
shoot-em-up computer games while hoping to make some money along the way.
The premise of Ethnic Cleansing is that a city — clearly
New York — has been destroyed by gangs of "sub-humans"
controlled by Jews who are lead by the "end boss" lurking in the
subterranean "Lair of the Beast." Plans for world domination are
seen in the subway, along with a map of "problem" areas in the
U.S. and a sign reading "Diversity, It's Good for Jews."
The National Alliance is advertising Ethnic
Cleansing as the first in a series of games to be produced by
Resistance Records. The next release will be Turner Diaries: The Game
based on The Turner Diaries, by William
Pierce, the long time leader of the National Alliance. The Turner
Diaries describes a world wide race war in which white
"Aryans" destroy all non-whites and Jews with nuclear, chemical
and biological weapons. One of the most widely read and cited books on the
far-right, it has explicitly influenced, among others, The
Order, the Aryan Republican Army, The New Order and Timothy McVeigh, the
Oklahoma City bomber.
From: http://www.adl.org/videogames/default.asp
Real Life Videos:
Videos Amplify Picture of
Violence
By Josh White, Christian Davenport and Scott Higham
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, May 21, 2004; Page A01
The video begins with three soldiers huddled around a naked detainee, his
thin frame backed against a wall. With a snap of his wrist, one of the
soldiers slaps the man across his left cheek so hard that the prisoner's
knees buckle. Another detainee, handcuffed and on his back, is dragged
across the prison floor.
Then, the human pyramid begins to take shape. Soldiers force hooded and
naked prisoners into crouches on the floor, one by one, side by side, a
soldier pointing to where the next ones should go. The video stops. But
there is more.
Who wrote the instructions on how to
do the violence in the prison in Iraq?
Before a Senate confirmation hearing Jan. 6, Alberto
Gonzalez, President Bush's nominee to be the nation's next attorney
general, repeatedly evaded questions about his involvement in writing
memos that appear to authorize abuse and torture of prisoners held by the
U.S. in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Guantanamo U.S. Naval base in Cuba.
While denying that he or the White House approve of the torture of
prisoners, Gonzalez in his role as counsel to President Bush signed off on
a very narrow definition of torture, which many observers say opened the
door to the widely publicized abuses at the U.S.- run Abu Ghraib prison in
Iraq.
A January 2002 memo signed by Gonzales described some provisions of the
Geneva Conventions as "quaint and obsolete." At the Senate
hearing, Gonzalez refused to renounce claims by the White House that the
president has the authority to ignore anti-torture treaties -- and went on
to say that the administration was considering amending the Geneva
Conventions
Gonzalez has since been approved to be
our Attorney General. Violence comes right from the top!
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A
Father disagrees with the psychologists and thinks violent video games are
great:
I've noticed this with my own kids: despite a "no guns"
rule in our house, my boys (and girl!) find ways to make weapons out of
everyday objects. Today, that little decorative hunk of plastic is a wand
from Harry Potter, with Elijah pointing it upwards shouting "Expecto
Patronum!" Tomorrow, I discover Zach sheepishly changing that same
hunk of plastic from a "gun-position", making "bam bam
bam!" noises, to a "musical conductor position" when he
sees me glance at him questioningly. Sara smashes that same hunk of
plastic against that of a playmate the next day in a sword battle, with
occasional epithets shouted in make-believe language.
I have no doubt that young Joshua, when he is of an age to begin
acting out make-believe, will join in the fun.
I keep hearing in the media how video games are "corrupting our
youth". News outlets make sure to emphasize how youthful killers were
involved in Dungeons & Dragons, violent video games, or other forms of
roleplay.
And every time I hear of these correlations, I find myself thinking
"they just don't get it."
For me, as a kid, violent video games were the catharsis that I
needed to avoid taking out my aggressions in real-life on other people.
It's make-believe. It's pixels on a screen. Pundits against video-game
violence, however, say it's "desensitizing" to real violence.
I don't believe that for a heartbeat.
I watched a man try to shoot another man to death on an East Los
Angeles street. I was shocked and horrified, running for cover, adrenaline
pumping through my veins as I had no idea what to do. Yet I'd seen that
same scene many times in movies and video games.
I stared, aghast, at video footage of an F-16 bombing a group of
insurgents in Iraq the other day. It was hard to believe I was seeing what
I was seeing, yet it was real life, not make-believe. I was physically ill
at the thought of just having watched several dozen Iraqis die, even
though I knew they were armed and running to join a fight against U.S.
soldiers.
The audio of Nick Berg being executed played on the radio several
months ago, left me speechless and teary. I had to shut it off because I
couldn't take the stress of hearing it, or hearing anything more about it.
The way I see it, violent video games provide a way for children to
feel powerful in a safe environment. They allow them to explore and master
their "darker side", preventing it from becoming the dominant
force in their personalities. Even as an adult, being able to blow away
the bad guys late at night allows me to be more gentle and tolerant with
my own family during the day.
A powerless child needs some way to feel powerful and dominant, even
if it's only make-believe.
From:
http://barnson.org/node/view/513
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WHERE DOES THE VIOLENCE REALLY COME FROM?
FROM THE BEGINNING!
(This list is not meant to be all-enclusive)
The Book of Genesis, tells us that Cain became a
husbandman while his brother Abel tended flocks. They both offered to the
Lord a sacrifice, acknowledging, in a manner analogous to that later
prescribed in the law, the sovereign power of the Creator. Cain offered of
the fruits of the earth; Abel of the "firstlings of his flock and of
their fat". By some means not indicated in the sacred text, perhaps,
as has been thought, by some such sign as the fire which consumed the
offering of Gideon (Judges, vi, 21) or that of Elias (III, Kings, xviii,
38), God
manifested to the brothers that Abel and his sacrifice were acceptable to
Him; that, on the contrary, he rejected Cain and his offering. We are not
told the reason of this preference.
Among the conjectures on the subject one that has found
most favour among commentators is that which is incorporated in the
Septuagent version of the words of God
to Cain in verse vii: "If thou didst offer well but divide badly,
hast thou not committed sin?" This implies that Cain committed the
fault of presenting to God
imperfect gifts, reserving to himself the better part of the produce of
the land. However, St. Augustine, who was under the influence of the
Septuagint, understood the division in another way. Cain, he tells us,
gave God a part
of his goods, but he did not give Him his heart (De Civitate Dei, XV,
vii). This is in keeping with the cause more generally assigned for God's
preference. The sequel of the story shows us the evil disposition of
Cain's heart. St. John says that Cain slew Abel because his works were
evil, while those of his brother were just (I John, iii, 12), and we read
in Hebrews that "by faith Abel offered to God
a more excellent sacrifice than Cain" (Heb., xi, 4).
Cain
The first-born of Adam and Eve. His name is derived, according to
Genesis 4:1, from the root kanah, to possess, being given to him in
consequence of the words of his mother at his birth: "I have
possessed a man by the favour of the Lord". No very serious objection
can be urged against this derivation. The Book of Genesis, interested in
this section in the origin of the different occupations of men, tells us
that Cain became a husbandman while his brother Abel tended flocks. They
both offered to the Lord a sacrifice, acknowledging, in a manner analogous
to that later prescribed in the law, the sovereign power of the Creator.
Cain offered of the fruits of the earth; Abel of the "firstlings of
his flock and of their fat". By some means not indicated in the
sacred text, perhaps, as has been thought, by some such sign as the fire
which consumed the offering of Gideon (Judges, vi, 21) or that of Elias
(III, Kings, xviii, 38), God
manifested to the brothers that Abel and his sacrifice were acceptable to
Him; that, on the contrary, he rejected Cain and his offering. We are not
told the reason of this preference. Among the conjectures on the subject
one that has found most favour among commentators is that which is
incorporated in the Septuagent version of the words of God
to Cain in verse vii: "If thou didst offer well but divide badly,
hast thou not committed sin?" This implies that Cain committed the
fault of presenting to God
imperfect gifts, reserving to himself the better part of the produce of
the land. However, St. Augustine, who was under the influence of the
Septuagint, understood the division in another way. Cain, he tells us,
gave God a part
of his goods, but he did not give Him his heart (De Civitate Dei, XV,
vii). This is in keeping with the cause more generally assigned for God's
preference. The sequel of the story shows us the evil disposition of
Cain's heart. St. John says that Cain slew Abel because his works were
evil, while those of his brother were just (I John, iii, 12), and we read
in Hebrews that "by faith Abel offered to God
a more excellent sacrifice than Cain" (Heb., xi, 4).
Cain is angered by the Divine rejection. In verses 6 and 7 of
chapter iv of Genesis we have God's
rebuke and warning: "Why art thou wroth, and why is thy countenance
fallen? If thou dost well, is not thy countenance raised up? If thou dost
not well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is towards thee, but thou
rule over it." Sin here is represented under the figure of a wild
beast crouching at the door of the heart ready to pounce upon its victim.
Cain is able to resist temptation. But he does not, and the Bible story
goes on to relate the terrible crime born of his anger and jealousy. He
slays Abel.
Questioned by the Lord as to the whereabouts of his brother, he answers
defiantly that he knows not. To avenge the blood of Abel, God
pronounces a curse against the first homicide. The Hebrew text of the
curse may be translated either: "Cursed be thou by the earth which
has opened its mouth and drunk the blood of thy brother" etc., or
"Cursed be thou from the earth" etc. The former translation
refers the sentence to the words which follow: "When thou shalt till
it, it shall not give thee its strength" i.e. its produce; the
latter, to the banishment related afterwards. This banishment from the
country where his parents lived and where, as we learn from such passages
from the present one, God
continued to manifest his presence in some special way, is spoken of as
"going out from the face of Jehovah" (verse 16). The country of
Cain's banishment, where he was to lead a wandering, vagrant life, is
called, in the Hebrew, the land of Nod, and is said to be east of Eden. As
we do not know where Eden was, the location of Nod cannot be determined.
The punishment seemed to Cain greater than he could bear; in answer to his
words expressing fear that he might be killed, God
gave him a promise of special protection for his life, and put upon him a
sign. No indication as regards the nature of this sign is given us.
From: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03142b.htm
Gen 4: 8 After
that Cain said to Abel his brother: [“Let us go over into the field.”]
So it came about that while they were in the field Cain proceeded to
assault Abel his brother and kill him.
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Genesis 18:
16 And the men rose up from thence, and looked
toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.
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17 And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that
thing which I do; |
18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and
mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in
him? |
19 For I know him, that he will command his children
and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the
LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon
Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. |
20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and
Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; |
21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done
altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if
not, I will know. |
22 And the men turned their faces from thence, and
went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD. |
23 And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also
destroy the righteous with the wicked? |
24 Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the
city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty
righteous that [are] therein? |
25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to
slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be
as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the
earth do right? |
26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty
righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their
sakes. |
27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have
taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which [am but] dust and ashes: |
28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty
righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for [lack of] five? And he
said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy [it]. |
29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said,
Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will
not do [it] for forty's sake. |
30 And he said [unto him], Oh let not the Lord be
angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found
there. And he said, I will not do [it], if I find thirty there. |
31 And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to
speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there.
And he said, I will not destroy [it] for twenty's sake. |
32 And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I
will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there.
And he said, I will not destroy [it] for ten's sake. |
33 And the LORD went his way, as soon as he had left
communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place. |
From: http://www.allstarz.org/bible/genesis18_sbs.htm
It was "Jehovah" that Abraham bargained with to save any
righteous people found in Sodom, and it was "Jehovah" that
destroyed Sodom:
"And the men [i.e. the two angels] turned from thence, and went
toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before Jehovah. And Abraham drew
near, and said, Wilt Thou consume the righteous with the wicked?
Peradventure there are fifty righteous within the city: wilt Thou
consume and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are
therein? ... And the two angels came to Sodom at even ... The sun was
risen upon the earth when Lot came unto Zoar. Then Jehovah rained upon
Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from Jehovah out of heaven;
and he overthrew those cities, and all the Plain, and all the
inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground."
(Genesis 18:22-24, 19:1,23-25 ASV)
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Exodus 4: 21And Jehovah said
unto Moses, When thou goest back into Egypt, see that thou do before
Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in thy hand: but I will harden
his heart and he will not let the people go. 22And
thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, Israel is my son, my
first-born: 23and I have said unto thee, Let
my son go, that he may serve me; and thou hast refused to let him go:
behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born. 24And
it came to pass on the way at the lodging-place, that Jehovah met him, and
sought to kill him.
http://www.crievehall.org/BellBible/Exodus_4.htm
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Numbers 22:
1
| And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in the
plains of Moab on the other side of the Jordan from Jericho.
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2
| And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to
the Amorites.
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3
| And Moab was much afraid of the people, because they were
many; and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.
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4
| And Moab said to the elders of Midian, Now will this company
lick up all that is round about us, as an ox licks up the green
herb of the field. Now Balak the son of Zippor was king of Moab at
that time.
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5
| And he sent messengers to Balaam the son of Beor, to Pethor,
which is on the river in the land of the children of his people,
to call him, saying, Behold, a people is come out from Egypt;
behold, they cover the face of the land, and they abide over
against me.
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6
| And now come, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are
mightier than I: perhaps I may be able to smite them, and drive
them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is
blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
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7
| And the elders of Moab and the elders of Midian departed,
having the rewards of divination in their hand. And they came to
Balaam, and spoke to him the words of Balak.
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8
| And he said to them, Lodge here this night, and I will bring
you word again, according as Jehovah shall speak unto me. And the
princes of Moab abode with Balaam.
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9
| And God came to Balaam, and said, Who are these men with
thee?
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10
| And Balaam said to God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of
Moab, hath sent unto me,
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11
| Behold, a people is come out of Egypt, and it covers the face
of the land. Now come, curse me them: perhaps I may be able to
fight against them, and drive them out.
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12
| And God said to Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; thou
shalt not curse the people; for they are blessed.
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13
| And Balaam rose up in the morning, and said to the princes of
Balak, Go into your land; for Jehovah refuses to give me leave to
go with you.
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14
| And the princes of Moab rose up; and they went to Balak, and
said, Balaam has refused to come with us.
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15
| Then sent Balak yet again princes, more, and more honourable
than they.
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16
| And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says Balak the
son of Zippor: Suffer not thyself, I pray thee, to be restrained
from coming to me;
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17
| for very highly will I honour thee, and whatever thou shalt
say to me will I do; come therefore, I pray thee, curse me this
people.
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18
| And Balaam answered and said to the servants of Balak, If
Balak give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not go
beyond the commandment of Jehovah my God, to do less or more.
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19
| And now, I pray you, abide ye also here this night, and I
shall know what Jehovah will say to me further.
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20
| Then God came to Balaam at night, and said to him, If the men
have come to call thee, rise up, [and] go with them; but only what
I shall say unto thee shalt thou do.
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21
| And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and
went with the princes of Moab.
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22
| And God's anger was kindled because he went; and the Angel of
Jehovah set himself in the way to withstand him. Now he was riding
upon his ass, and his two young men were with him.
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23
| And the ass saw the Angel of Jehovah standing in the way, and
his sword drawn in his hand; and the ass turned aside out of the
way, and went into the field, and Balaam smote the ass to turn her
into the way.
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24
| And the Angel of Jehovah stood in a hollow of the vineyards,
a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
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25
| And the ass saw the Angel of Jehovah, and she pressed herself
against the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall; and
he smote her again.
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26
| Then the Angel of Jehovah went still further, and stood in a
narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or
to the left.
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27
| And the ass saw the Angel of Jehovah, and lay down under
Balaam; and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with
his staff.
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28
| And Jehovah opened the mouth of the ass, and she said to
Balaam, What have I done to thee, that thou hast smitten me these
three times?
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29
| And Balaam said to the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I
would there were a sword in my hand, for now would I kill thee!
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30
| And the ass said to Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which
thou hast ridden ever since I was thine to this day? was I ever
wont to do so to thee? And he said, No.
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31
| Then Jehovah opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the Angel
of Jehovah standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand;
and he bowed and prostrated himself on his face.
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32
| And the Angel of Jehovah said to him, Wherefore hast thou
smitten thine ass these three times? behold, it was I who came
forth to withstand thee, for the way [thou walkest in] is for ruin
before me.
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33
| And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times; had
she not turned from me, I had now certainly slain thee, and saved
her alive.
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34
| And Balaam said to the Angel of Jehovah, I have sinned; for I
knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me; and now, if it
be evil in thine eyes, I will get me back again.
From: http://www.ccel.org/bible/jnd/Numbers/22.html
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Number 25:4
And Israel joined himself unto Baal-peor: and the anger of the LORD was
kindled against Israel. And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads
of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the
fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
KJV
http://bible.cc/numbers/25-4.htm
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Deuteronomy 2:
2And Jehovah spake unto me, saying,
3Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you
northward. 4And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass
through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in
Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves
therefore; 5contend not with them; for I will not give you of
their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on;
because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. 6Ye
shall purchase food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also
buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. 7For Jehovah
thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; he hath known thy
walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God
hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. 8So we passed by
from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the way
of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion-geber.
And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness
of Moab. 9And Jehovah said unto me, Vex not Moab, neither
contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for a
possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a
possession. 10(The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people
great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim: 11these also are
accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim. 12The
Horites also dwelt in Seir aforetime, but the children of Esau succeeded
them; and they destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead;
as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which Jehovah gave unto
them.) 13Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered. And we
went over the brook Zered. 14And the days in which we came from
Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and
eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from
the midst of the camp, as Jehovah sware unto them. 15Moreover
the hand of Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from the midst of
the camp, until they were consumed.
16So it came to pass, when all the men of
war were consumed and dead from among the people, 17that
Jehovah spake unto me, saying, 18Thou art this day to pass over
Ar, the border of Moab: 19and when thou comest nigh over
against the children of Ammon, vex them not, nor contend with them; for I
will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession;
because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession. 20(That
also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but
the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, 21a people great, and many,
and tall, as the Anakim; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they
succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead; 22as he did for the
children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from
before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto
this day: 23and the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as
Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and
dwelt in their stead.) 24Rise ye up, take your journey, and
pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into thy hand
Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and
contend with him in battle. 25This day will I begin to put the
dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the
whole heaven, who shall hear the report of thee, and shall tremble, and be
in anguish because of thee.
26And I sent messengers out of the
wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace,
saying, 27Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the
highway, I will turn neither unto the right hand nor to the left. 28Thou
shalt sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money,
that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet, 29as the
children of Esau that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar,
did unto me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which
Jehovah our God giveth us. 30But Sihon king of Heshbon would
not let us pass by him; for Jehovah thy God hardened his spirit, and made
his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as at this
day. 31And Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have begun to
deliver up Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou
mayest inherit his land. 32Then Sihon came out against us, he
and all his people, unto battle at Jahaz. 33And Jehovah our God
delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his
people. 34And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly
destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we
left none remaining: 35only the cattle we took for a prey unto
ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken. 36From
Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from
the city that is in the valley, even unto Gilead, there was not a city too
high for us; Jehovah our God delivered up all before us: 37only
to the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not near; all the side of
the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever
Jehovah our God forbade us.
From: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bible/asv.Deut.2.html
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Judges:
20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation
was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of
Gilead, unto Jehovah at Mizpah.
20:2 And the chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel,
presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred
thousand footmen that drew sword.
20:3 (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel
were gone up to Mizpah.) And the children of Israel said, Tell us, how
was this wickedness brought to pass?
20:4 And the Levite, the husband of the woman that was murdered,
answered and said, I came into Gibeah that belongeth to Benjamin, I and
my concubine, to lodge.
20:5 And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round
about me by night; me they thought to have slain, and my concubine they
forced, and she is dead.
20:6 And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her
throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have
committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
20:7 Behold, ye children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice
and counsel.
20:8 And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us
go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn unto his house.
20:9 But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: `we will go
up' against it by lot;
20:10 and we will take ten men of a hundred throughout all the tribes of
Israel, and a hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand,
to fetch victuals for the people, that they may do, when they come to
Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in
Israel.
20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit
together as one man.
20:12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of
Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is come to pass among
you?
20:13 Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, that are in
Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel.
But Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the
children of Israel.
20:14 And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out
of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of
Israel.
20:15 And the children of Benjamin were numbered on that day out of the
cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, besides the
inhabitants of Gibeah, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
20:16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men
lefthanded; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not
miss.
20:17 And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four
hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
20:18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to Beth-el, and
asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to
battle against the children of Benjamin? And Jehovah said, Judah `shall
go up' first.
20:19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped
against Gibeah.
20:20 And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the
men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
20:21 And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and
destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day twenty and
two thousand men.
20:22 And the people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set
the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in
array the first day.
20:23 And the children of Israel went up and wept before Jehovah until
even; and they asked of Jehovah, saying, Shall I again draw nigh to
battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And Jehovah said, Go
up against him.
20:24 And the children of Israel came near against the children of
Benjamin the second day.
20:25 And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second
day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again
eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and
came unto Beth-el, and wept, and sat there before Jehovah, and fasted
that day until even; and they offered burnt-offerings and
peace-offerings before Jehovah.
20:27 And the children of Israel asked of Jehovah (for the ark of the
covenant of God was there in those days,
20:28 and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before
it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against
the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? And Jehovah said,
Go up; for to-morrow I will deliver him into thy hand.
20:29 And Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.
20:30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of
Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah,
as at other times.
20:31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were
drawn away from the city; and they began to smite and kill of the
people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to
Beth-el, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of
Israel.
20:32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before
us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and
draw them away from the city unto the highways.
20:33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set
themselves in array at Baal-tamar: and the liers-in-wait of Israel brake
forth out of their place, even out of Maareh-geba.
20:34 And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of
all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they knew not that evil was
close upon them.
20:35 And Jehovah smote Benjamin before Israel; and the children of
Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty and five thousand and a
hundred men: all these drew the sword.
20:36 So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten; for the
men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted unto the
liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah.
20:37 And the liers-in-wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the
liers-in-wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the
edge of the sword.
20:38 Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers-in-wait
was, that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the
city.
20:39 And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to
smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said,
Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
20:40 But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar
of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and, behold, the whole of
the city went up `in smoke' to heaven.
20:41 And the men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were
dismayed; for they saw that evil was come upon them.
20:42 Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto
the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and
they that came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst thereof.
20:43 They inclosed the Benjamites round about, `and' chased them, `and'
trod them down at `their' resting-place, as far as over against Gibeah
toward the sunrising.
20:44 And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these `were'
men of valor.
20:45 And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of
Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and
followed hard after them unto Gidom, and smote of them two thousand men.
20:46 So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five
thousand men that drew the sword; all these `were' men of valor.
20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the
rock of Rimmon, and abode in the rock of Rimmon four months.
20:48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin,
and smote them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the
cattle, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they
found they set on fire.
From: http://www.fridaystudy.org/bible/07_020.htm
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1 Kings 11:
34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I
will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's sake
whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes; 35but I
will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee,
even ten tribes. 36And unto his son will I give one tribe, that
David my servant may have a lamp alway before me in Jerusalem, the city
which I have chosen me to put my name there. 37And I will take
thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and
shalt be king over Israel. 38And it shall be, if thou wilt
hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do
that which is right in mine eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments,
as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and will build thee a
sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee. 39And
I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever. 40Solomon
sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into
Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of
Solomon.
From: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bible/asv.iKgs.11.html
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1 Samuel 16:
13 And Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the
midst of his brethren. And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon David
from that day forward. And Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
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14 And the Spirit of Jehovah departed from Saul, and an evil
spirit from Jehovah troubled him.
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15And Saul's servants said to him, Behold now, an evil spirit
from God troubles thee.
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World
Trade Center
The verses of Revelation and how they relate to the
WTC tragedy
Revelation:
18:10 "...In one
hour has thy judgment come".
18:19 "...In hour she has been laid waste." 18:17 "In one
hour all this wealth has been laid waste."
Interpretation: In one hour is mentioned three times, The south tower
collapsed almost to the hour (56 minutes to be exact). The north tower
lasted a little longer than an hour.
18:11 "And the merchants of the earth...no one buys their cargo...
" Interpretation: Shows that it is world trade, and this trade has
been stopped.
18:16"...bedecked with gold...
" Interpretation: The World
Trade Center, had in its lower floor many tons of gold and silver.
18:17 "...all this wealth...
" Interpretation: Occupying the WTC towers were offices of some of
the world's wealthiest companies, plus the gold and silver.
18:18 "...
what city was like the great city?"
Interpretation: Since the World Trade Center was visited by 150
thousand people daily, and had more than 50 thousand people
18:8 "...and she shall be burned with fire..." 18:17,18
"shipmasters, seafaring men, and sailors...stood far off and cried
out...burning of her."
Interpretation: Since when "far off" out on the open sea, only
tall buildings can be recognized, the "far off" hints that the
great city is tall buildings, and was recognized by shipmasters, seafaring
men, and sailors who no doubt cried out as they saw the burning of her.
These verses also hint that the great city was close to the sea.
18:21 "...the great city be thrown down with violence....found no
more.", 18:19 "...In one hour she has been laid waste."
Interpretation: Any city of 12, 15, 17 million would be impossible to be
"laid waste" by violence, and "found no more" in one
hour, unless a nuclear bomb were dropped, but that would lay the city
waste in 2, 3, 4, or 5 seconds. Jesus knew humanity would form weapons of
utter and rapid destruction and placed emphasis on the one hour, and this
is the finest point of the prophecy which emphasizes three times that this
complete destruction would occur in one hour, as was the case with the WTC
towers.
18:3 "for all nations...the merchants of the earth...", 18:11
"And the merchants...", 18:15 "The merchants of these
wares...", 18:17 "...and all whose trade is on the sea...",
18:23 "...thy merchants were thy great men of the earth...
" Interpretation: This is a complete focus on trade. No literal
city has ever been famous only for its business. Again this is another
fine point.
18:19 "...dust on their heads...
" Interpretation: Thousands were covered by dust, have you ever seen
more dust? You see how the prophecy points out the major details.
18:21 "...the great city be thrown down with violence....found no
more."
Interpretation: If the prophecy is speaking about a literal city then it
would not say thrown down (fell), we never read of Berlin or Hiroshima
fell, the expressions destruction, wasted, devastated are used. The only
way fell (thrown down) is used, is as a metaphor, such as Paris fell to
the Germans, meaning the Germans have taken control of Paris.
The most striking feature of the World Trade Center was its height, it's
this fact that must have given Jesus Christ the inspiration to use the
wording "thrown down." In the history of mankind there has never
been a literal fall such as the fall of the twin towers. "thrown down
with violence and found no more", it certainly rings a bell, how
precise! Of all violent events of history this can only apply to the WTC
tragedy. One can't dismiss it as mere chance as this is the only time this
expression is used by the Bible where violence is mentioned, and violence
is mentioned much in the Bible.
18:22 "And the sound of harpers and minstrels, of flute players and
trumpeters, shal be heard in thee no more;"
Interpretation: Could this mean the street musicians one could see in and
around the towers?
From: www.users.ms11.net/~dejnarde/wtc.htm
TRADE
CENTER NUMBER SYMBOLISM
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UPLIFTING
WOMEN - CRIMES OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AROUND THE ...
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... CRIMES OF VIOLENCE
AGAINST WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD. by Dee Finney. ... And all
over the world, women face terrible situations of domestic abuse
and sexual violence. ...
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CORNPLANTER
- US NATIVE AMERICAN POLICY
... country. Our Violence
Policy has been developed in the same way. ... It is a
policy that looks at violence in a very broad way. Instead ...
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FREQUENCY
SICKNESS - WHAT ARE THE CAUSES AND THE SYMPTOMS?
... And the entertainment
industry said, let's make TV shows and movies that promote
profanity, violence, and illicit sex. ...
www.greatdreams.com/antenna.htm - 73k - Cached
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EVIDENCE
FOR THE NEED OF A GLOBAL PEACE VIGIL
... tanks were involved in the
final conflagration. Government Violence Is
"Legitimate"? The deputy attorney general of California
commented ...
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WORLD
MEDITATION PRAYERS FOR PEACE
... Unto all have I amity, and
unto none enmity. Know that violence is the root cause of
all miseries in the world. Violence, in fact, is the knot
of bondage. ...
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STIGMATA
- THE MOVIE AND THE REALITY - THE THIRD SECRET OF FATIMA
... To begin with the violence
is shocking. The movie should never be watched by children. Even
to an adult, the violence could cause disturbing
nightmares. ...
www.greatdreams.com/stigmata.htm - 91k - Cached
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CANADIAN
WARNING SIGNS
... This has not happened
without violence. The land masses quake and quiver and
mankind does not tolerate disequilibrium of it's senses ...
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DREAMS
AND VISIONS OF EARTHCHANGES
... This has not happened
without violence. The land masses quake and quiver and
mankind does not tolerate disequilibrium of its senses ...
www.greatdreams.com/erthdrms.htm - 99k - Cached
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Spare
the Rod and Spoil the Child - Speaking of Discipline
... We unequivocally say,
"NO!". This is not the way to discipline a child, no
matter what the reason. Violence only begets violence.
...
www.greatdreams.com/spirit_message20.htm |
POLAR
AXIS SPIN - The Current Location Of The Spin Axis
... We can already feel the
influence of this separation as violence... There is much violence
occurring within your planet. Violence ...
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CORPORAL
PUNISHMENT IN SCHOOLS
... take all appropriate
legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to
protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence,
injury or ...
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1964
and PATTERNS - DREAMS
... Essentially her resignation
is in protest of the police inaction to the violence
perpetrated against Indians at Wismar-Christianburg earlier in
May. ...
www.greatdreams.com/1964-patterns.htm - 101k
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MIRACLES
- THE FINGER-POSTS OF GOD
... "Stockholm syndrome is
not brainwashing -- it is a means to endure the violence, a
survival technique that the brain uses," says Alan Hilfer,
PhD, child ...
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India
- A Quilted Nation
... This has entailed armed violence,
culminating in the 1990s. Consequently, in the present decade
alone the violence has claimed the ...
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PADUKAH
REMEMBERED
PADUKAH, KENTUCKY REMEMBERED. SCHOOL VIOLENCE.
WHY DO KIDS KILL KIDS? compiled by Dee Finney 4-18-01. ...
(Page no long available). School violence response expands.
...
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Prophecies
on the end of the millennium - on 1999-2000
... plagues. Rome and Moscow
will fall in the deepest disorder. The end of the millennium will
see a lot of violence and blood. (... The ...
www.greatdreams.com/prophen2.htm - 23k - Cached
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Should
we Know More About Project Megiddo?
... the focus hereon only
concerns the two "outside" sources the FBI credited in
generating its "factors" which indicate a penchant for
"religion-based" violence. ...
www.greatdreams.com/megiddo.htm - 42k - Cached
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THE
GRAND AGES AND THE COMING OF AQUARIUS
... AGE OF ARIES. WARS,
WARFARE, VIOLENCE AND CONQUEST. ... Christianity has
come to dominate the planet during the AGE of PISCES because of
it's inherent violence. ...
www.greatdreams.com/ages.htm |
45
Prophecies on the end of the millennium - on 1999-2000
... plagues. Rome and Moscow
will fall in the deepest disorder. The end of the millennium will
see a lot of violence and blood. (... The ...
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POLITICAL
DREAMS - YEAR 2000
... Kamara said. Kamara
attributed the violence to factions "within or outside
Sierra Leone" opposed to the military government. WASP ...
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A
BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE NAVAJO PEOPLE
... sandpaintings. Harmony is
critical to the Navajo, non-violence a way of life.
Anything ... land. Both cultures believe in non-violence.
Both ...
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PAKISTAN
HISTORY AND PROPHECY
... Friday August 17 6:33 AM
ET. Six Killed in Violence in India's Restive Kashmir. ...
Wednesday August 15 8:36 AM ET Kashmir Violence Overshadows
Indian Anniversary. ...
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RUSSIA
TERRORISM
... people on board. The surge
in violence was apparently timed around last Sunday's
Chechen presidential election. President Vladimir ...
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EARTH
DISASTERS DREAMS AND VISIONS - 1989 - 2003
... This has not happened
without violence. The land masses quake and ... This
has not happened without violence. The land masses quake
and ...
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THE
NEW WORLD ORDER -WHAT IS IT?
... What does help, in the face
of violence, is preparation and training, which we will
offer to all who come, the support of our companero/as and the
strength of ...
www.greatdreams.com/nwo.htm - 101k - Cached
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A
THOUSAND LIES - THE NATIVE AMERICAN
... New York: Delacorte Press,
1982). Violence in Indian Country over Waste An article
about violent conflicts over toxic waste dumping on native lands. ...
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TERRORISM
- WORLD TRADE CENTER - 9-11-2001 - PAGE 11
... They say intelligence
intercepts, witness interviews and evidence gathered in hijackers'
cars and homes indicated a second wave of violence was
planned. ...
www.greatdreams.com/trade_day11.htm - 101k -
Cached
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ANTI-BUSH
PROTESTS
... "But 19 out of 20 New
Yorkers draw the line at violence.". ... The
march has been spirited, diverse and without any reports of violence.
...
www.greatdreams.com/political/bush-protests.htm |
ET
Government Considering "Major or Epic Land Shift"
... There was a repetitive
scenario that had developed where there was something on TV about violence,
and then all of a sudden someone would burst out of a closet ...
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THE
GREATEST PROPHECY
... in appearance or viewpoint.
I believe this is expressed in Revelation, as Babylon being thrown
down by violence. I believe most ...
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The
Psalms
... His violence shall
come down on the crown of his own head. ... 11:5 Yahweh
examines the righteous, But the wicked and him who loves violence
his soul hates. ...
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Southwest
Indian People - Apache : Mangas, Victorio, Nakaidoklini ...
... Additional troops were
called up to curb any more violence. The Chiricahua leaders
at San Carlos resented and feared the growing number of troops. ...
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TERRORISM
- WORLD TRADE CENTER - 9-11-2001 - PAGE 3
... While Washington points to
Osama bin Laden as "suspect # 1" in yesterday's horrific
violence, the truth is not being told to the American
people: 'Washington ...
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ASCENSION
- A TRUE STORY OF A NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE
... I was addicted to watching
the proliferation of violence on the television and in the
movies, and listening to the angry conversations on the radio. ...
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DIASPORA
and RACE RIOTS
... The Royal Welsh Fusiliers
are dispatched to British Guiana to control any outbreak of violence
which may follow the suspension. ...
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UNARMED
... lead story.). Our
president, an ardent advocate of gun control, loves to say that 12
"kids" die each day from gun violence. What ...
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Transcript
of President Bush's Speech
... depends on us. Our nation,
this generation, will lift the dark threat of violence from
our people and our future. We will rally ...
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DIRE
MESSAGES OF JESUS AND MOTHER MARY - JANUARY, 2002
... To pray for the Israelis
and for the Palestinians. That when there is oppression, there is violence.
Violence vs. violence would lead to war . ...
www.greatdreams.com/sacred/dire_jesus6.htm |
BLACK
AND WHITE - THE PROBLEMS IN GUATEMALA
... Chanteau, who worked in
Chiapas for 30 years and was a close associate of Ruiz, had
criticized the Mexican government for its violence toward
indigenous people ...
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THE
JUDGEMENT AND KARMA
... committed sin. (2) Hail,
Hept-khert, who comest forth from Kher-aha (KERAHA), I have not
committed robbery with violence . (3) Hail ...
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DEATHSTAR
- A PROPHECY - 1999
... All of these cities have
experienced several newsworthy instances of violence in the
last few years. ... School 'on edge' over violence
threats ...
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101k - Cached
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Fighting
Animal Abuse - State Laws and Fines
... AHA's campaign against violence
to animals has led us to investigate the cruelty statutes in all
fifty states, and Washington, DC. ...
www.greatdreams.com/eeyore/anmlws.htm - 40k
- Cached
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DINOTOPIA
- Codes, Rules and Regulation
... Dinotopians are
vegetarians. They eat only fruits and vegetables. Violence
is looked down upon in Dinotopia. Humans are guests there. ...
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Medical
Teams' Advice for Protesters
... This will help you avoid
the worst effects of the POSSIBLE use of police violence
from tear gas, pepper spray and plastic bullets. ...
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PROPHECIES
ABOUT THE NEW MILLENIUM
... Deserts expand. Crops will
fail; there will be massive starvation Widespread emotional and
mental collapse; increase in crime and violence. ...
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DEES
DREAMS AND VISIONS - AUGUST, 1990
... I asked, "Will there
be any violence in the US because of the Iraqi and Saudi
Arabian war?" There was a man there inquiring about the same
thing I was. ...
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HEZBOLLAH
... cultural plan to attract
and convince through civilized and humanitarian means as specified
in the human rights laws, far from any use of violence or
coercion. ...
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DREAMS
AND VISIONS OF THE HOLY GRAIL AND THE SECOND COMING OF ...
... son Reuben, but refused to
grant him his rights of inheritence as he was described as
"unstable as water..." Of Simon and Levi; "weapons
of violence are their ...
www.greatdreams.com/holygrl.htm |
Uganda
- Patricia McFadden, The Challenges and Prospects for the ...
... They put on black T-shirts
and marched demanding a co-ownership clause to the Land Act, as
well as enactment of the bills against domestic violence
and sexual ...
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THE
WEAPONS OF THE SEA
... Uum" weapons. (The
word "Tuuy" seemed to be Vietnamese) "Uum" is
Latin and means: strength, force, power, might, violence.
The "Tuuy ...
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2004
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
... The focus will be on Kerry
and his agenda, said one strategist, who contended that there was
no need to assail Bush because continuing violence in
post-war ...
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The
Changing of the Guard - Part One: Corporate Media ...
... On other days, they may be
called "Satanic Usurper’s Victory," "Souls United
in Violence," "Sullen Underling’s
Vexation," "Seems Unfair, Victoria," "Sexed ...
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ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE - JAIR FARM
... Mizell is the latest in a
line of hip-hop artists to fall victim to violence. ...
But Run DMC and their songs were never about violence. ...
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MESSAGE
FROM DRUNVALO ABOUT THE POLE SHIFT
... So the reason for physical
preparation is to give one a safe place to make the transition
without violence and struggle - A calm place and time to
meditate ...
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THIS
COULD HAPPEN HERE TOO
... carriers. The crashes came
against a backdrop of violence in Chechnya, where Moscow
has been battling separatists for a decade. ...
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BILDERBERGS
AND MUSIC
... Http://bilderberg.techno.cz/
makes the suggestion that Bilderbergers "wish to desensitise
Western youth to violence in order to be able to raise
armies to ...
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WHY
DID ABRAHAM LINCOLN FREE THE SLAVES?
... There was terrible problems
of slave unrest and white violence in older states like
South Carolina and Virginia where slaves had been bought and sold
for ...
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THE
LAW - DISENFRANCHISED WOMEN
... A Philadelphia Quaker and a
veteran of the dramatic British suffragette campaign, Paul
combined non-violence and militance in her leadership
style. ...
www.greatdreams.com/disenfranchised.htm |
THE
DOGS OF WAR - BLOWBACK AND THE MARBLE GAME
... Off Drugs. Now There's More
Cocaine Than Ever in the US, Colombia's Violence is
Spiraling and Bush is Making Things Worse Bill Clinton ...
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Humanity
On The Pollen Path - Part One
... a private school in that
county and that on a calm, sunny day during a school cricket
match, which was open to parents in the large grounds, came sheer violence
...
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ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE - JAIR FARM
... Mizell is the latest in a
line of hip-hop artists to fall victim to violence. ...
But Run DMC and their songs were never about violence. ...
www.greatdreams.com/war/jair-farm.htm - 101k
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PLANETARY
INITIATION - by Kiara Windrider
... Without condoning violence,
can we place ourselves in the shoes of the "terrorist"
next door and acknowledge their own desperate need to be heard and
...
www.greatdreams.com/planetary_initiation.htm
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THE
ELECTRIC OCTOPUS
... Activists say the chance of
violence at mass protests planned for later this week was
slim because many foreign campaigners were staying away from
Cancun due ...
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THE
ELECTION - 2000 - DREAMS AND VISIONS
... Luca Casarini, media-savvy
leader of the Tute Bianche (White Overalls) at HQ at the Carlini
stadium, admitted that violence was probably inevitable. ...
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HOW
THE GOVERNMENT BLEW UP MANHATTAN - 9-11-2001
... what these Satanic
Freemason's are hoping for is that the people of America will beg
the Government to step in and end all this violence, this
bloodshed, this ...
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SALUTING
OUR VETERANS
... a household member before
the age of 18 According to the Ford Foundation, nearly fifty
percent of all homeless women and children are fleeing domestic violence
...
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BIBLICAL
PROVERBS
... slumber till they make
someone fall. 17 They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the
wine of violence. 18 The path of the righteous ...
www.greatdreams.com/proverbs.htm |
EEYORE'S
COMPLAINT - ANIMAL ABUSE
... Slaughter Act or failing to
report those who did -- all in an effort to "keep the
production line running." Many also discuss the web of violence
in which they ...
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PABLO
SALAZAR - MEXICO - THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM GOES ON
... Chanteau, who worked in
Chiapas for 30 years and was a close associate of Ruiz, had
criticized the Mexican government for its violence toward
indigenous people ...
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WTO
(WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION) SEATTLE PROTEST
... As a result, WTO delegates
were placed at risk, the meeting was disrupted, violence
spilled out of downtown into the residential Capitol Hill
neighborhood ...
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SCHOOL
SHOOTING - FORT GIBSON, OKLAHOMA
... Lawmakers reacted swiftly
to the shooting in this country where most weapons can be obtained
only on the black market, and where gun violence - even in
urban ...
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JABBERWOCKY
& THE LORD OF THE FLIES - A DREAM
... Jack could not stab the pig
because of the great violence involved, but he vows that he
would show no mercy next time. RELATED NEWS. ... No violence
was reported. ...
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THE
SACRED BIRDS
... architectural designs, the
practice of putting up these bird feeding tables is undoubtedly
linked to the Jain faith which preaches non-violence and
humanity. ...
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KENT
STATE - PROTEST - A DREAM
... Many protesters blamed US
foreign policy, which they say perpetuates a cycle of violence
and hatred, and ultimately a backlash against America. ...
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THE
AGE OF THE KALI YUGA
... 6:8). According to this
prophecy, war, violence, starvation and disease may take
hundreds of millions of lives. These disasters ...
www.greatdreams.com/sacred/age_kali.htm -
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On
May 18th, 1980 the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in southwest ...
... This has not happened
without violence. The land masses quake and quiver and
mankind does not tolerate disequilibrium of its senses ...
www.greatdreams.com/volcano/mt_st_helens.htm
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Cinnamon
Buns and the BeaST
... 21 And a mighty angel took
up a stone like a great millstone, and cast [it] into the sea,
saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be
thrown ...
www.greatdreams.com/cinnamon.htm |
THE
BLACK SUN
... The second supposedly
created a new place of initiation at Shambhala, the city of violence
in command of the elements and human masses, hastening the arrival
...
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TERRORISM
- WORLD TRADE CENTER - DAY 2 - 9-12-2001
... Another Egyptian man,
Gawish Abdel Karim, told AFP he was pleased with the wave of violence
in which another plane crashed into the Pentagon in Washington,
the ...
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THE
WAR WE WATCHED ON TV - THE FACTS AND MORE
... Rev 18:21 And a mighty
angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast [it] into
the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city
Babylon be ...
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DIRE
MESSAGES OF JESUS AND MARY - PAGE 2
... struck. I told him that he,
who lives by the sword, will die by the sword. Those, who live by violence,
will die by violence. The ...
www.greatdreams.com/sacred/dire_jesus2.htm -
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EARTHQUAKE
IN ALGIERS - 5-21-03
... sites. Ouyahia said
security forces were on alert to stop looting in a country riven
by a decade of violence by Islamist rebels. ...
www.greatdreams.com/algeria-quake-52103.htm
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ALL
THROUGH THE NIGHT - THE GUARDIAN ANGELS - CUBA
... ``The absence of any
punishment for acts of naval and air piracy, and for the hijacking
of Cuban planes and boats sometimes by violence and murder,
have ...
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THE
BLOODY WAR OF JOEL FOR WARREN
... 19 But Egypt will be
desolate, Edom a desert waste, because of violence done to
the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood. ...
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BIRTHING
THE DNA OF LIGHT
... its whole surroundings!!!
When a great number of people get together very closely,
potentials of violence also dissolve. It looks ...
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Dream
centre' of the brain found
... "Women dream more
often about friends, family and domestic settings," while
"Men are more likely to dream about sex and violence."
(No comment on that ...
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Arkansas
Online : 1973 / Investigations
... With at least four prior
convictions involving drugs and violence, Minor got four
years' unsupervised probation after the 1995 seizure of drugs and
drug ...
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Arkansas-1973-Investigations.htm |
NATIONAL
SECURITY - HOLIDAY TERRORISM
... Enough questions. I suggest
someone remote view this and see if I'm just whistling in the dark
with this. Thanks! Dee. VIOLENCE MOVES TO AUSTRALIA. . ...
www.greatdreams.com/wacovst.htm - 101k - Cached
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CONCENTRATION
CAMPS IN THE US?
... INVASION; AND ON
APPLICATION OF THE LEGISLATURE, OR OF THE EXECUTIVE (WHEN THE
LEGISLATURE CANNOT BE CONVENED) AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE."
"REGIONAL GOVERNMENT ...
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BOMBING
OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER - 9-11-2001 - PAGE 8
... Attack on America - Impact
around the World. The terrorists thought they were striking
against America, but dozens of countries lost people to the violence.
...
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The
American Tragedy: A Symbolic Event, Part One
... The negative elements of
consciousness, such as anger, violence, and war, may be
directed to earth in order to protect other areas of consciousness
from them. ...
www.greatdreams.com/Events/9_11_01/Amertrag.htm
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DEES
DREAMS AND VISIONS - APRIL, 1992
... NOTE: Michael McGee was a
black politician in the city of Milwaukee who was using threats of
violence to create change in the city to force the people
to ...
www.greatdreams.com/apr92.htm - 53k - Cached
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THE
DAUGHTERS OF ZION
... 7 - As a cistern welleth
with her waters, so she welleth with her wickedness; violence
and spoil is heard in her; before Me continually is sickness and
wounds. ...
www.greatdreams.com/sacred/daughters_of_zion.htm
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The
Changing of the Guard: Part III: Illuminati Life and ...
... abuse; extremely
distressing scenes of shock violence throughout movie,
including beating one’s own self to a bloodied state; betrayal ...
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DEES
DREAMS AND VISIONS - AUGUST 2000
... I told them to look around,
that it could take hours, but there would be no TV on because of
the violence and it was Christmas Eve, so there would be no
...
www.greatdreams.com/aug2000.htm - 101k - Cached
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BUSH
PROTESTS
... E-mail Joe Garofoli at
jgarofoli@sfchronicle.com. Sunday, Jan. 16, 2005 9:32 am EST
Inaugural Protesters Threaten Violence. While ...
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bush-protests-inauguration.htm - 101k - Cached
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Militia
Groups
... Helder was charged in Iowa
and Illinois with using a pipe bomb in a crime of violence
and destroying property used in interstate commerce. ...
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