There ya go. Read and condense and consolidate it, and give me your take on all of it. I already gave you mine :-).
The term charism denotes any good gift that flows from God's benevolent love.
A spiritual gift or charism… is an extraordinary power given by the Holy Spirit. These are believed by followers to be supernatural graces which individual Christians need to fulfill the mission of the Church. In the narrowest sense, it is a theological term for the extraordinary graces given to individual Christians for the good of others and is distinguished from the graces given for personal sanctification, such as the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit and the fruit of the Holy Spirit.
These abilities, often termed "charismatic gifts", are the word of knowledge, increased faith, the gifts of healing, the gift of miracles, prophecy, the discernment of spirits, kinds of tongues, interpretation of tongues. To these are added the gifts of apostles, prophets, teachers, helps (connected to service of the poor and sick), and governments (or leadership ability) which are connected with certain offices in the Church. These gifts are given by the Holy Spirit to individuals, but their purpose is to build up the entire Church. They are described in the New Testament, primarily in 1 Corinthians 12, Romans 12, and Ephesians 4. 1 Peter 4 also touches on the spiritual gifts.
The gifts are related to both seemingly "natural" abilities and seemingly more "miraculous" abilities, empowered by the Holy Spirit. The two major opposing theological positions on their nature is that they ceased long ago or that they continue (Cessationism versus Continuationism).
Christians believe that the charismata were foretold in the Book of Joel (2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. Spiritual gift of prophecy, teach, explain, inform, enlighten, make complex things easy to understand, foretell future events…Where exactly do you wish our daughters to do this?
Rev 19:10 the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy) and promised by Christ (Gospel of Mark 16:17–18). This promise was fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost and elsewhere as the church spread.
In 1 Corinthians 12, two Greek terms are translated as "spiritual gifts". In verse 1, the word pneumatika ("spirituals" or "things of the Spirit") is used. In verse 4, charisma is used. This word is derived from the word charis, which means "grace". In verses 5 and 6, the words diakonia (translated "administrations", "ministries", or "service") and energemata ("operations" or "inworkings") are used in describing the nature of the spiritual gifts. In verse 7, the term "manifestation (phanerosis) of the Spirit" is used.[11]
From these scriptural passages, Christians understand the spiritual gifts to be enablements or capacities that are divinely bestowed upon individuals. Because they are freely given by God, these cannot be earned or merited. Though worked through individuals, these are operations or manifestations of the Holy Spirit—not of the gifted person. They are to be used for the benefit of others, and in a sense they are granted to the church as a whole more than they are given to individuals. There is diversity in their distribution—an individual will not possess all of the gifts. The purpose of the spiritual gifts is to edify (build up), exhort (encourage), and comfort the church.
Economics
Workers are still raiding their retirement savings at record rates
Yahoo Finance Thu, July 6, 2023 at 5:09 PM EDT
The share of workers robbing their future selves remains at an all-time high.
Thirty-seven percent of workers have taken a loan, early withdrawal, and/or hardship withdrawal from their 401(k) or similar plan or IRA, according to a survey released Thursday by the nonprofit Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies (TCRS) in collaboration with the Transamerica Institute. That matches 2022’s level, which is also the highest level in the history of the survey.
Those withdrawals underscore why many workers have a pessimistic outlook for their retirement as they grapple with a lack of emergency funds and stretched household budgets that have forced them to tap their nest eggs. The practice could become even more prevalent as new rules make it easier to do so.
“I am deeply concerned about the fragility of retirement security for so many workers,” Catherine Collinson, CEO and president of Transamerica Institute and TCRS, told Yahoo Finance.
“The pandemic and last year’s turbulent economy with high inflation and falling stock markets took a toll on workers’ employment, finances, and retirement preparations. Without extra support from policymakers and employers, it will be extremely tough for many workers to recover.”
SVB, BBBY, Lordstown lead list of US bankruptcies as companies fold up at the fastest pace since 2010 Business Insider India JUL 7, 2023,
Corporate bankruptcies in the first half of this year outstripped even the same period of 2020 – when the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc on the economy, according to data published by S&P Global Market Intelligence. Silicon Valley Bank, Bed Bath & Beyond, Lordstown Motors and Mediamath Holdings were some of the well-known names that went under during the last six months Total company failures for the period surged 68% from a year earlier to almost 3,000, according to data provider Epiq Bankruptcy.
A Wall Street Journal analysis of Federal Reserve data reveals a concerning financial situation for people ages 30 to 39, which constitute the majority of the millennial generation.
The demographic accumulated nearly $4 trillion in debt during the fourth quarter of 2022, reflecting a substantial $140 billion rise from the preceding quarter. The surge represents a 27% increase since late 2019, constituting the most significant upswing in debt accumulation since the 2008 financial crisis.
Contrary to popular belief, the escalating debt among millennials in their 30s cannot be solely attributed to discretionary spending on luxuries. While the rising costs of certain consumer goods, impacted by inflation, have played a role, it is not the sole driver of their financial predicament. The mounting debt is indicative of broader economic challenges faced by this generation.
Fed Data
The New York Fed's data reveals that millennials in their 30s are accumulating debt at an alarming rate and are struggling with credit card and auto loan repayments. Delinquency rates in these areas have soared, further compounding their financial difficulties.
Economic Data Isn’t as Strong as the Headlines Claim JUNE 28, 2023 BY MICHAEL MAHARREY Schiffgold.com
dig a little deeper, you find that this “strength” is an illusion.
Consumer Confidence
The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index came in at 109.7 versus an expectation of 104. Last month, Consumer Confidence was 102.3…“Consumer confidence improved in June to its highest level since January 2022, reflecting improved current conditions and a pop in expectations,”
But what exactly is driving consumer confidence higher?
Lower inflation expectations.
And lower inflation expectations were primarily driven by a big drop in energy prices. Gasoline prices are down over 20% from this time last year.Falling gasoline prices aren’t a sign of a healthy economy. In fact, the expectation of a recession has put a drag on oil prices.
Rising Home Sales
Home prices rose 0.5% month-on-month in April and new home sales surged 20% year-on-year in May. But this sale of new homes is primarily a function of tight inventory in the existing housing market. Existing home sales were only up 0.2% and were down 20.4% from a year ago.
Home sales typically rise in the spring, so these positive numbers may well be an anomaly. Rising prices (another sign of sticky price inflation) coupled with rising interest rates will continue to put a drag on the housing market.
Durable Goods Orders Up
Orders for manufactured US goods jumped 1.7% in May. Economists had expected a decline. This was immediately sold as a sign of a strong economy. But even MarketWatch conceded, “The industrial side of the economy is just muddling along.”
In fact, the entire increase was attributed to the extremely volatile transportation sector and defense spending for the war in Ukraine.
Excluding transportation, the last two months balance out to zero. Excluding defense, durable goods orders fell. Far from signaling a strong economy, the actual economic signal is contraction.
May Retail Sales Beat Expectations
Retail sales increased by 0.3% month over month and grew by 1.6% year-over-year. Retail sales are not adjusted for inflation. When you factor in rising prices, sales of actual stuff were basically flat month-on-month. And year-on-year the sale of goods and services on a quantity basis is down substantially when you adjust for 4% price inflation.
Furthermore, much of this spending is being put on credit cards. (Consumer credit spiked by another $20 billion in April, a 5.7% increase year on year, according to the latest data released by the Federal Reserve. Americans now owe a record $4.86 trillion in total consumer debt. Again, this is not a sign of a strong economy.
Jobs
Month after month, we get strong employment reports. But as we have reported, the Bureau of Labor Statistics data doesn’t make any sense. (Ludwig Institute for shared economic prosperity 22.4) Furthermore, insofar as there are new jobs, many of them are due to people taking second and third jobs in order to make ends meet.
Conclusion
Don’t reflexively believe the headlines. (MEME culture) Just because headline numbers look good doesn’t mean the economy is humming along. You always need to dig deeper. (Student of mass media)
Passant Gardant (FB Group) summed it up this way.
“The government and mainstream media always try to paint data as rosy as possible in order to support consumer confidence, falsely believing that keeping people spending will somehow improve the economy. In reality, all it does is trick people into further overextending themselves and make things much worse. True economic growth is supported by a high savings rate and investment with low consumer spending. What we have is an extremely sick economy made much worse by central planners and mainstream media.”
UKRAINE
Controversy surrounds US decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine The Hill
07/07/23 3:31 PM ET
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl said the U.S. bomblets would “keep Ukraine in the fight” as they work through dug-in Russian defenses, which he described as “hard sledding.”
Biden says sending cluster bombs to Ukraine was 'difficult decision' - as it happened The Guardian 7/7/23
President tells CNN he took the recommendation for controversial weapons because Ukraine is ‘running out of ammunition'
Ukraine's counteroffensive is "slower than we hoped," the US undersecretary of defense for policy Colin H Kahl said. He said one of the primary reasons behind the decision to send cluster munitions was because of the "urgency of the moment", adding that the weapons would be delivered "in a timeframe that is relevant for the counteroffensive."
"...and the question was how we should maneuver them (The Japanese) into the position of firing the first shot with-out allowing too much danger to ourselves."
From Henry Stimson's Diary FDR War Secretary.
It's exactly what the Russians are doing to us RN. Yours truly, blog MARCH 13, 2023
Top Ukrainian generals say counteroffensive is 'going to plan' as losses mount – ABC NEWS July 3, 2023, 3:26 PM
The goal, Ukrainian commanders and officials have suggested, is to wear down Russian forces enough to create a breakthrough that can be exploited by Ukraine’s main counteroffensive force. Ukraine has still not engaged all of the brigades it assembled for the counteroffensive or the weapons provided by Western allies.
THE “MUTINY” WAS STAGED!
US official says 'exiled' Wagner boss Prigozhin may not have gone to Belarus at all — and may have used a body double to make it appear as though he fled Russia - Thu, July 6, 2023
Lukashenko’s plane lands in Turkey amid mutiny in Russia: reports – Turkish minute June 24, 2023
Hurd: US should have been planning with allies, Ukraine to take advantage of chaos in Russia
The Hill 06/25/23 3:29 PM ET
Wagner mercenary leader issues first statement as uncertainty swirls after armed mutiny PBS Newshour Jun 26, 2023
Though the mutiny was brief, it was not bloodless. Russian media reported that several military helicopters and a communications plane were shot down by Wagner forces, killing at least 15. Prigozhin expressed regret for downing the aircraft but said they were bombing his convoys.
Russia’s Defense Ministry has denied attacking Wagner’s camp, and the U.S. had intelligence that Prigozhin was building up his forces near the border with Russia for some time, suggesting the revolt was planned.
“Russian media reported that Wagner offices in several Russian cities had reopened on Monday and the company had resumed enlisting recruits.”
U.S. President Joe Biden and leaders of several of Ukraine’s European allies discussed events in Russia over the weekend, but Western officials have been muted in their public comments.
"...and the question was how we should maneuver them (The Japanese) into the position of firing the first shot with-out allowing too much danger to ourselves."
From Henry Stimson's Diary FDR War Secretary.
It's exactly what the Russians are doing to us RN. Yours truly, blog MARCH 13, 2023
Prigozhin has moved to Belarus, and Russia won’t press charges for mutiny - BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS June 27, 2023
Russian authorities also said Tuesday they have closed a criminal investigation into the uprising and are pressing no armed rebellion charge against Prigozhin or his followers.
"...and the question was how we should maneuver them (The Japanese) into the position of firing the first shot with-out allowing too much danger to ourselves."
From Henry Stimson's Diary FDR War Secretary.
It's exactly what the Russians are doing to us RN. Yours truly, blog MARCH 13, 2023
“Putin told a military gathering that Prigozhin’s Concord Group earned 80 billion rubles ($941 million) from a contract to provide the military with food, and that Wagner had received over 86 billion rubles (over $1 billion) in the past year for wages and additional items.”
“I hope that while doing so they didn’t steal anything, or stole not so much,” Putin said, adding that authorities would look closely at Concord’s contract.
“For years, Prigozhin has enjoyed lucrative catering contracts with the Russian government. Police who searched his St. Petersburg office on Saturday said they found 4 billion rubles ($48 million) in trucks outside, according to media reports the Wagner boss confirmed. He said the money was intended to pay soldiers’ families.”
“Prigozhin and his fighters stopped the revolt on Saturday, less than 24 hours after it began and shortly after Putin spoke on national TV, branding the rebellion leaders, whom he did not name, as traitors.”
Prigozhin’s escape from prosecution, at least on a armed rebellion charge, is in stark contrast to Moscow’s treatment of its critics, including those staging anti-government protests in Russia, where many opposition figures have been punished with long sentences in notoriously harsh penal colonies.
Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus with an iron hand for 29 years while relying on Russian subsidies and support, portrayed the uprising as the latest development in the clash between Prigozhin and Shoigu. While the mutiny unfolded, he said, he put Belarus’ armed forces on a combat footing and urged Putin not to be hasty in his response, lest the conflict spiral out of control.
He said he told Prigozhin he would be “squashed like a bug” if he tried to attack Moscow, and warned that the Kremlin would never agree to his demands.
Like Putin, the Belarusian leader portrayed the war in Ukraine as an existential threat, saying, “If Russia collapses, we all will perish under the debris.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov would not disclose details about the Kremlin’s deal with Prigozhin, saying only that Putin had provided “certain guarantees” aimed at avoiding a “worst-case scenario.”
Asked why the rebels were allowed to get as close as about 200 kilometers (about 125 miles) from Moscow without facing serious resistance, National Guard chief Viktor Zolotov told reporters: “We concentrated our forces in one fist closer to Moscow. If we spread them thin, they would have come like a knife through butter.”
But exiled Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who challenged Lukashenko in a 2020 election that was widely seen as fraudulent and triggered mass protests, said Wagner troops will threaten the country and its neighbors.
“Belarusians don’t welcome war criminal Prigozhin,” she told The Associated Press. “If Wagner sets up military bases on our territory, it will pose a new threat to our sovereignty and our neighbors.”
"...and the question was how we should maneuver them (The Japanese) into the position of firing the first shot with-out allowing too much danger to ourselves."
From Henry Stimson's Diary FDR War Secretary. It's exactly what the Russians are doing to us RN. Yours truly, blog MARCH 13, 2023
US inclined to supply Ukraine with ATACMS missiles – Yahoo life report June 29, 2023
The United States is reportedly on the verge of approving the transfer of Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), a long-range missile system, to Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported on June 29, citing several U.S. and EU officials.
Launched from M270 or HIMARS rocket artillery platforms – both are in service with the Ukrainian military – ATACMS missiles can strike targets 300 kilometers away, delivering up to 560 kilograms of explosive payload.
The sources said that the issue is currently being deliberated at the highest levels of government. It's been suggested that factions within the U.S. government, including those in the White House, who had previously expressed reluctance, are now recognizing the urgent need to bolster Ukraine's capabilities.
“Amid the domestic turmoil in Russia, where over the weekend the founder of the Wagner mercenary force staged an abortive mutiny, U.S. and European officials indicated that now might be the time to provide the more advanced weaponry,” the article reads.
Ukraine has expressed its need for long-range missiles, especially to target Russian military bases in occupied Crimea. (June 22nd last ones I did…gotta control Crimea…)
“Were gonna end up giving the Ukrainians ATACMS. And when we do? The Ukrainians are going to hit deep inside Russia and give Putin the reason he wants to do what he's been itching to do for a while now. Were gonna see some Hypersonic missile attacks on some European capitols. London and Brussels in particular It's right around the corner.” Yours truly, blog Jan 3 2023
Firstpost Aninda Dey Last Updated: July 04, 2023
Vladimir Putin pulled coup strings, Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin danced to fool West July 04
The staged coup was meant to increase Vladimir Putin's hold on Russia, drum up public support, and Wagner mercenaries could attack Ukraine from Belarus
(As I stated when doing my presentation, this did not come through even after multiple attempts on my phone to do the search. The only thing that came through my phone was the headline. I had spoke with othrrs about why I saw this being staged well beforemthis was ever published.)
MISC
US to Buy 6 Million More Barrels of Oil for Emergency Reserve Bloomberg
Fri, July 7, 2023 at 3:35 PM EDT
That’s 12 million of the 180 million or .0666666666666667
A 20-year study of 190 supermassive black holes has shown that time flowed five times slower at the dawn of the Universe than it does now. Gadget .com By: Maksim Panasovskyi | 04.07.2023, 23:20.
(One day in the beginning is a trillion now and a trillion now is one day in the beginning.” Gerald Schroeder, MIT physicist, Manhattan project, Torah scholar. Believe in God in five minutes you tube…Maimonides figured it out in the 14th century just by reading the text… I paraphrased the same thing filling in giving the message one Sunday a good while back and you talk about some looks of “What?” on some peoples faces. ***Satan, last year, spacetime the most elastic thing ever…he walked off with a look like, “our goose is cooked w this guy…”
St. Peter’s tomb: When science confirms Tradition - Aleteia 07/04/23 is an online Catholic news and information website founded in 2011/2012
“As Christophe Dickès explains in his excellent biography of St. Peter, the text of Gaius and the monument discovered under the basilica confirm each other, and add credibility to the tradition of the Church, the fruit of a very long oral and written tradition dating back to the first century.”
Resonates 😊
“The elixir of life, it seems, is blue jeans, a good-guy grin and, most importantly, a down-home attitude that belies immense success.”
Nine Mathematical Equations that Changed the World – Greek Reporter June 24, 2023
2+2 = 4 was true before the universe was created. While the universe is in existence and will be true after all the elements melt in it.
2 Peter 3:10
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
LT, “Son, yall have got to do better than this.” (2:13 mark of the video)
Man doesn’t get to “invent” absolute truths. “There aren’t any!” Speed of light, sit down and shut up. Absolute truths are not the providence of man. Period. Math is eternal. Tells you who created it And BTW? The Anunnaki didn’t put information in the DNA molecule. There is one owner of the life force in the universe no matter how much you don’t wanna admit it to yourself. Unified force peeled off in the correct order and it mirrors the life force itself: Gravity = birth, strong nuclear force = growth, Electromagnetism = peak and weak nuclear force = decay/eventual death. Life force. One owner, get it through your head. A pantheon of Goda agreed on the information in DNA? The unified force? The speed of light? All the other constants of the universe? $ people cant agree on where to go have lunch but a pantheon of Gods all agreed on the constannst of the universe?
Who are the "us" in "let us go down" of Gen.11:7
Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.
And Genesis 1:26
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Then God said: Let us make human beings in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the tame animals, all the wild animals, and all the creatures that crawl on the earth.
See there were other Gods! Blah blah blah…Yeah…Or the trinity (good enough for Mathew Henry good enough for me…
Wisdom was with God in the beginning, In Hebrew? Wisdom is personified as female.
Proverbs 8:22-31
King James Version
The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
Shelter from the storm Bob Dylan, “Come in, she said Ill give ya, shelter from the storm.”
Go review the LT quote. “Son? Y’all have got to do better than this.”
Decades-long bet on consciousness ends — and it’s philosopher 1, neuroscientist 0 Nature.com 24 June 2023
Christof Koch wagered David Chalmers 25 years ago that researchers would learn how the brain achieves consciousness by now. But the quest continues.
“The AI program has a high level accuracy when translating formal Akkadian texts such as royal decrees or omens that follow a certain pattern. More literary and poetic texts, such as letters from priests or tracts, were more likely to have “hallucinations” – an AI term meaning that the machine generated a result completely unrelated to the text provided.”
What we wish we knew about the origin of life – Big Think MARCH 10, 2022
Shortly after planet Earth formed, life took a permanent hold on our surface. But just how common is such an outcome?
“When we think about life, we normally think about all of the components possessed by all extant life today, including:
a membrane for regulating what comes in and goes out,
some sort of nucleic acid, like RNA or DNA, for encoding the vital information necessary to an organism's functioning,
•some way of either producing or consuming its own food/energy,
and the capacity to reproduce itself, generating offspring that are similar, if not identical, to the parent organism.
SCIENCE
A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus - quantmagazine.org June 12th 2023
A new measurement of the strong nuclear force, which binds protons and neutrons together, confirms previous hints of an uncomfortable truth: We still don’t have a solid theoretical grasp of even the simplest nuclear systems.
To test the strong nuclear force, physicists turned to the helium-4 nucleus, which has two protons and two neutrons. When helium nuclei are excited, they grow like an inflating balloon until one of the protons pops off. Surprisingly, in a recent experiment, helium nuclei didn’t swell according to plan: They ballooned more than expected before they burst. A measurement describing that expansion, called the form factor, is twice as large as theoretical predictions.
“The theory should work,” said Sonia Bacca, a theoretical physicist at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and an author of the paper describing the discrepancy, which was published in Physical Review Letters. “We’re puzzled.”
Psalm 74: 16-18 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: thou hast made summer and winter. Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Isaiah 55:9-12
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Evolution without accidents – Aeon https://aeon.co/essays/why-did-darwins-20th-century-followers-get-evolution-so-wrong? James A Shapiro is professor of microbiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago.
Despite advances in molecular genetics, too many biologists think that natural selection is driven by random mutations (Dawkins!)
Initially, Darwin believed that natural selection was the only process that led to evolution, and he made this explicit in On the Origin of Species:
“If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case.”
A lot has changed since 1859. We now know that Darwin’s ‘gradualist’ view of evolution, exclusively driven by natural selection, is no longer compatible with contemporary science. It’s not just that random mutations are one of many evolutionary processes that produce new species; they have nothing to do with the major evolutionary transformations of macroevolution. Species do not emerge from an accumulation of random genetic changes. This has been confirmed by 21st-century genome sequencing, but the idea that natural selection inadequately explains evolutionary change goes back 151 years – to Darwin himself. In the 6th edition of On the Origin of Species, published in 1872, he acknowledged forms of variations that seemed to arise spontaneously, without successive, slight modifications:
“It appears that I formerly underrated the frequency and value of these latter forms of variation, as leading to permanent modifications of structure independently of natural selection.”
– from Chapter 15, p395, emphasis added
Today, we know in exquisite detail how these larger-scale ‘spontaneous’ variations come about without the intervention of random mutations. And yet, even in the age of genome sequencing, many evolutionary scientists still cling stubbornly to a view of evolution fueled by a gradual accumulation of random mutations. They insist on the accuracy of the mid-20th-century ‘updated’ version of Darwin’s ideas – the ‘Modern Synthesis’ of Darwinian evolution (through natural selection) and Mendelian genetics – and have consistently failed to integrate evidence for other genetic processes. As Ernst Mayr, a major figure in the Modern Synthesis, wrote in Populations, Species and Evolution (1970):
“The proponents of the synthetic theory maintain that all evolution is due to the accumulation of small genetic changes, guided by natural selection, and that transpecific evolution [ie, the origins of new species and taxonomic groups] is nothing but an extrapolation and magnification of the events that take place within populations and species.
This failure to take account of alternative modes of change has been foundational to popular and scientific misconceptions of evolution. (WHY?)
During the past century, discoveries that have challenged the gradualist view of evolution have been sidelined, forgotten, and derided. This includes the work of 20th-century geneticists such as Hugo de Vries, one of the rediscoverers of Mendelian genetics and the man who gave us the term ‘mutation’, or Richard Goldschmidt, who distinguished between microevolution (change within a species) and macroevolution (changes leading to new species). Their findings were ignored or ridiculed to convey the message that the gradual accumulation of random mutations was the only reasonable explanation for evolution. We can see the absence of other perspectives in popular works by Richard Dawkins, such as The Selfish Gene (1976), The Extended Phenotype (1982), and The Blind Watchmaker (1986); or in textbooks used in universities across the world, such as Evolution (2017) by Douglas Futuyma and Mark Kirkpatrick. However, it’s an absence that’s particularly conspicuous because alternatives to random mutation have not been difficult to find.
One of the most significant of these alternatives is symbiogenesis, the idea that evolution can operate through symbiotic relationships rather than through gradual, successive changes. In the early 20th century, American and Russian scientists such as Konstantin Mereschkowsky, Ivan Wallin and Boris Kozo-Polyansky argued that symbiotic cell fusions had led to the deepest kinds of evolutionary change: the origins of all cells with a nucleus. These arguments about symbiotic cell fusions, despite being vigorously championed by the evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis in later years, did not find a place in evolutionary textbooks until they were confirmed by DNA sequencing at the end of the 20th century. And yet, even though these arguments have now been confirmed, the underlying cellular processes of symbiotic cell fusions have still not been incorporated into mainstream evolutionary theory.
An absence that’s perhaps even harder to explain is why the pioneering work of the cytogeneticist Barbara McClintock, one of the giants of 20th-century genetics, has not been accepted as posing a viable alternative to dominant theories of evolution. McClintock won the Nobel Prize in 1983 for her discovery during the 1940s of rapid genetic changes in maize plants that were definitely not random – changes found not only in maize but, we now know, across all forms of life. After confirmation by molecular geneticists in the 20th century, discoveries like hers should have inspired a radical rethinking of evolution. Instead, these ideas were accepted only among a small circle of geneticists. The scientists of the Modern Synthesis simply could not imagine any other way for hereditary variation to occur besides Darwinian gradualism. And so, for more than a century, natural selection through random mutations has dominated public conceptions of evolution.
We might expect that McClintock’s discovery…and their rediscovery across all forms of life would have unleashed serious questions for established views of evolutionary change. Instead, her findings were ignored. My own belief is that the reason for this willful neglect lies in the basic philosophical foundations of mainstream thinking about evolution, which requires a purely physical explanation for all evolutionary processes.
A Rigid adherence to an established orthodoxy when theres evidence all around to support others methods anybody?
Lauren Schroeder looks beyond natural selection to rethink human evolution.
Paleoanthropologists have long focused primarily on adaptive processes. Lauren Schroeder studies the processes that have driven human evolution. Science news 7/11/23
Despite the existence of "nonadaptive" processes, paleoanthropology has often attributed evolutionary changes in hominids to adaptation alone.
As a paleoanthropologist at the University of Toronto, Schroeder works to untangle the various processes by which humans have evolved. One such process, natural selection, is adaptive: Changes in an organism's features make it more suited to its environment. But some changes are not selected for, or even totally random. Despite the existence of "nonadaptive" processes, paleoanthropology has often attributed evolutionary changes in hominids to adaptation alone.
While a Ph.D. student at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, (South African female ) Schroeder questioned the emphasis on natural selection to explain changes seen in the fossil record. "It was very clear that something was missing," she says. Not much research had considered the role played by nonadaptive processes, such as genetic drift and gene flow. "That was really the big moment for me... these are important questions that haven't really been asked. I should try to answer them."
“Another nonadaptive process gene flow occurs when genes spread from one population to another through breeding, including when two species hybridize. Hybrids in the fossil record could thus offer clues to evolutionary processes. But there's currently no good way to determine whether a fossil represents a hybrid.”
“Homo skulls dating from 2.8 million years ago until just tens of thousands of years ago. Some features of the skulls showed a strong adaptive signal, including the jaw; that means that early Homo jaw shape probably evolved via natural selection, driven by a changing diet.”
“But surprisingly, when Schroeder looked at the results for the shape of braincases across the Homo genus, genetic drift appeared to be at play, she reported in 2017 in the Journal of Human Evolution. A nonadaptive process, genetic drift is the loss of genetic variation in a population due to the chance disappearance of certain genes. In other words, the braincase shape evolved just because.”
“The importance of chance”
Schroeder's research centers around questions of how and why body features in humans (or other animals) - called "morphology" - came to be. They are hard questions to answer, in part because fossils often don't contain usable DNA. Paleoanthropologists rely on
patterns in the morphology,
established theory
and statistical analyses
to try to understand the evolutionary processes at play.
It's math "all the way through," Schroeder says - which is good, because she adores math.
Radical New Theory Gives a Very Different Perspective on What Life Is
NATURE 23 June 2023
Two biggest myths modern man has fallen for:
Big Bang created the universe.
Life ORIGINATED from random evolutionary processes.
Science
Team lead by Israeli-American astronomer Avi Loeb is searching for remains of star-traveling IM1, which crashed into Pacific Ocean.
Avi Loeb, an Israeli-American astronomer based at Harvard University who is leading the team, reported Wednesday that separated magnetic spherules “of mostly iron with some magnesium and titanium but no nickel” had been discovered.
Such a composition is “anomalous compared to human-made alloys, known asteroids and familiar astrophysical sources,” Loeb wrote in a blog that he is updating from the research ship Silver Star. (One of three Oumuamua, Comet 2I/Borisov the first and second being purported interstellar meteors CNEOS 2014-01-08[142] and CNEOS 2017-03-09 that impacted Earth in 2014 and 2017, respectively.
Joel 2 28-30 The Day of the Lord
28 “And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.29 Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days. 30 I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
Archaeologists discover 4000 year old sanctuary with solar calendar in Tiel June 21st Guardian
Nicknamed the “Stonehenge of the Netherlands” June 23rd 2023 That’s America, 2 one under the lake Michigan, Salem, New Hampshire, this one in Netherlands, another one in Spain last year, Egypt…
The CIA’s New Nord Stream Narrative Is Terrifying . The Nation June 20th 2023
Should we believe American officials who claim they can’t stop Ukraine from reckless escalation?
History Lesson
Roughly 30% of the country (age 30-41) has either lived their entire life in a monetary policy (Interest rates and money supply) aberration, or have lived over half their adult lives (18 yo on) in a monetary policy aberration.
That is your pot of boiling water you don’t know exist and it is gonna kill ya. And you’re the frog.
I want a 30-35 year old to come and explain to me why it is that China and Russia are acting as belligerently as they have been. I already know why. They know our economic system is on life support and they know they have advanced weaponry that not only do we not have (Hypersonics) We don’t have a defense for. Kinda hard to have a defense for something you don’t even have right? “They are not that dumb, they have something figured out.” Well if you could get off Tic Toc and IG and FB you’d see that our Air force, Spaceforce and Strategic Command generals don’t really agree with that perspective, and neither does the new Defense minister of China who in his first public speech at the Shanghi security forum said LI “good care of your own territorial airspace and waters.”.
One hypersonic could take out NATO HQ over night. One Chinese missle could take out a Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC) plant that produces over 50% of the worlds advanced semiconductors. This aint no joke. ”Don’t turn the dial this isnt a test Springsteen says on one of his bootlegged live records. I lived the cold war. Grew up in it. The world is a far more dangerous place RN than it ever has been in its history.
I have been doing this for 50 years now. Maybe not this intensely or as often but for 50 years Ive been doing this. Summer of 72 I was getting ready to enter the forth grade. Forth. I’ve told this before, I asked my dad what Watergate was and he said here, you wanna know what it is read that and handed me the oped page of the CJ. I was 8. In 1976 I was 12. I watched every second of the democratic national convention. Every second. No VCRs no DVRs, sat glued to the tv everynight. Peanut farmer was going to be President. My mom thought something was wrong with me 😊. Not bragging about any thing just telling you wat is. For the vast majority of my life I couldn’t ever make any sense of why I knew so much about what I knew about,(Did you know who the US ambassador to the UN was was when you were in 7th grade? I did not only that I knew he was the first African American to hold that position Andrew Young) Its only been in the last 7-10 years everything starting making sense to me and that is to be able to come here and spit truth with a sense of perspective that seems to have gotten lost, first in the 24 hour news cycle then with the glut of social media, propaganda, state sponsored disinformation etc…
Point I’m trying to make is this…The 30 year old that’s addicted to tic tok? Yeah…he don’t get to tell the guy that’s been paying closer attention to minute details about geopolitical events for 50 years wats wat. If you are 30? I have been doing this 20 years longer than you are old. Did ya get that? Hum? Got that? Make sense? You be me. Wats would your attitude toward 30 year old tic tokers living in oblivion be? These oppions, “They got something figured out” are not based on any evidence because they are not our current reality.
I get that you don’t wanna believe whats going on. If I was 30 I would not want it to be wat it is either. Not wanting to be where we are at in the world right now? Aint gonna change anything. Nor has it ever.
Inflation isn’t going to happen.
Its not gonna stick around.
Were winning the war in Ukraine. ($160 billion 78500 Ukraine casualties, 17,500 Russian, Russia owns our networks….Thats why that ONE document was altered and no other…or you still buyimg the 22 year old air force reservist nonsense.
The Economy is proving amazingly resilient. ( As long as you just look at headlines and don’t check under the hood maybe.)
The $ has decades left as the worlds reserve currency. Wrong about the others but right about that?
Didn’t even mention BRICKS - daily almost more and more countries are conducting cross border transactions in their respective currencies. More and more countries are buying more gold and less $ less T-bills etc…= less financing for our debt. A trillion $ a year interest payment starting here next year or so. 1/6th of what we spent on Covid, just on the interest payment on the debt alone.
$ in these central banks will work their way back home…and you haven’t seen inflation yet.
You know how this economic system is over? Everybody is in debt up to their eyeballs, There is nobody left to rip off anymore.
Trump.
I Told my friend years ago in his garage: “He will win re-election’, “Nah, he is done.”
Revelation 13:3-4
And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?
And I told my son more recently, “He is gonna win reelection and go on a scorched earth policy of going after all who have ever opposed him and it will be at the worse possible moment with Russia in Ukraine and China in Taiwan.’
1 John 2:18
King James Version
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
Psalm 146:3-7
Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save. When their spirit departs, they return to the ground on that very day their plans come to nothing. Blessed are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God. He is the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea, and everything in them—he remains faithful forever. He upholds the cause of the oppressed and gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets prisoners free,
The seven seal judgements in the book of revelation? The Seven trumpet judgements in the bowl of revelation? The seven bowl judgements in the book of revelation? The three woes in the book of revelation? All designed to get you to come home to your father, to get down on your knees and admit there is a power mightier than you.
Matthew 24:32-35
New International Version
32 “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. 33 Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it[a] is near, right at the door. 34 Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
Godspeed everybody.
Journey well…I miss you my brother…you know who you are 😊.
“Would you not say to yourself, “Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule. A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion almost beyond question.”
— Fred Hoyle Cambridge University astrophysicist and mathematician noted primarily for the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis.
“Stellar nucleosynthesis is the creation of chemical elements by nuclear fusion reactions within stars. Stellar nucleosynthesis has occurred since the original creation of hydrogen, helium and lithium during the Big Bang. As a predictive theory, it yields accurate estimates of the observed abundances of the elements.”
18 million Russian dies ww2,
500000 Americans
Matthew 16:18:”…and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
Ukraine admission into NATO anybody?
The demands include a ban on Ukraine entering NATO and a limit to the deployment of troops and weapons to NATO's eastern flank, in effect returning NATO forces to where they were stationed in 1997, before an eastward expansion.
Dollar dedollarization reserve currency etc:
JP Morgan strategist” marginal dedollerization over the next decade” “lil impact on growth and inflation’
“There’s an abiding interest in certain online communities in the idea that the global economy and specifically the world of fiat currency is teetering on the brink of some kind of systemic collapse.”
YEAH CAUSE IT IS!
“The biggest threat is if US geopolitical standing takes a hit.” “Political instability” “prolonged economic downturn” “Investor confidence” “rule of law” “stable markets”
With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth George Monbiot The Guardian July 15th
What the ultra-rich want is to sustain and extend the economic system that put them where they are. The more they have to lose, the more creative their strategies become. As well as the traditional approach of buying media outlets and pouring money into the political parties that favour them, they devise new ways of protecting their interests.
Corporations and oligarchs with massive fortunes can hire as many junktanks (so-called thinktanks), troll farms, marketing gurus, psychologists and micro-targeters as they need to devise justifications and to demonise, demoralise, abuse and threaten people trying to sustain a habitable planet. The junktanks devise new laws to stifle protest, implemented by politicians funded by the same plutocratic class.
It could scarcely be more screwed up.
1 Corinthians 2:9
9 But as it is written:
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
Revelation 22:12
Jesus is Coming
…11Let the unrighteous continue to be unrighteous, and the vile continue to be vile; let the righteous continue to
practice righteousness, and the holy continue to be holy.” 12“Behold, I am coming soon, and My reward is
with Me, to give to each one according to what he has done. 13I am the Alpha and the Omega, the
First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”…
Misthos
mis-thos'
Noun Masculine
NAS Word Usage - Total: 29
dues paid for work
wages, hire
reward: used of the fruit naturally resulting from toils and endeavours
in both senses, rewards and punishments
of the rewards which God bestows, or will bestow, upon good deeds and endeavours
of punishments
Foreshadowing.
Why am I so deep? so challenging? so difficult to understand?, so over your heads?
Preparing the way for the one and only true master of reality who’s coming soon. (JTB pieces)
General Says Countering Hypersonic Weapons Is Imperative
May 10, 2023 | By David Vergun , DOD News |
Missile threats to the U.S. homeland and allies and partners abroad will only continue to grow, said the commander of
U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
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