Friday, August 31, 2012
Impatience Killed The Artist
Today I went to a class about taxes in Europe, yep! It may sound boring, but if you're gonna be an artist and eventually create a brand of yourself, you have to learn tricky & boring things about taxes, benefits, losses, etc. That way you will be in total control of your finances (even if you have an accountant or somebody who helps you do your taxes).
However, it is not about taxes that I came to talk about, it is about something far more interesting than that that I see over and over. I see artists being impatience and doing the wrong moves because of that, hell! I even made that mistake with the release of "Forgive Me Now"! But I learnt guys, because I had to work double to recover from that mistake. Some artists though don't have that luxury & we see great talent wasted because of choosing the right timing to do things. These are my advices for you not to make the same mistakes I made:
- Don't quit your day job before you're established as an artist or you have enough money to live doing JUST music. I also had to work in a boring job that I didn't like to save money to do what I really wanted, go to the US and record a bad a** record!
- Don't release songs that are not finished: You want to be seen as a professional, in this music business there should be NO DEMOS! Only between producer & artist, not to be released to the world. When your song hits the world it has to be properly recorded, mixed & mastered!
- Don't release songs/singles before you have all that you're gonna have recorded & ready to go. It doesn't matter if it's a single, EP or album. You should have everything COMPLETELY ready before you release anything.
- Don't start performing songs that you have NOT for sale (I'm talking original songs, you can do covers! of course!). The important thing about performances is to reach NEW audience that go & buy your record. If your record is not for sale, you're gonna loose the audience, since most regular people ARE NOT gonna wait until your album is out for sale, they'll just go to the next artist. People, in general, are volatile & have a very short attention span.
I think that's all for today! Don't make the same mistakes I made! Be patient, it is the secret to a music artist's success!
More videos from IreneBTV (playlist)
Super great news about this diary, but I still cannot reveal anything. However, today we're gonna talk about money, the eternal enemy for indie artists, right? Well, let's be real here, you NEED some kind of money to be an artist, especially an indie one :) Even if everybody worked for you pro-bono, you will still need money for some things an indie artist needs. Here is my view on the subject!
Diary Of An Indie Artist - Licensing Deals & Distribution Deals (Episode...
Everybody knows what a record deal is -or at least they should-, a record label gets interested in you as an artist and either buys your record (that you've already recorded) or puts money to record an album -let's be honest, this doesn't happen that often anymore-. They put it out, they put the money for marketing & promotion, tours, manufacturing, etc. At the same time they own everything after that (especially now, with the 360 deals, that I will talk about in another episode).
But, what happens if you don't get a record deal? Does the world end? Is there any other option for your music to get out? Of course! Don't panic!
It all depends on how much control you want to have over your music, and what kind of a budget you have as well. Also, is your product good enough? Because it all starts there... you HAVE to HAVE a good product! :)
I would like for you to learn what other options you have, for that it is mandatory that you know about licensing deals & distribution deals.
To read more please visit:
http://indieartistdiary.ireneb.com/2012/02/24/episode-11/
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About Dinosaurs (Facts)
I am posting an 'edited for false names' document taken from The Answers Book on Online Bible about "Dinosaurs". May it help you to understand and clear up much of the hogwash revisionist prehistory.
Chapter 1 What Happened to the Dinosaurs? (See figure 38) Their bones were so big that when they were first discovered in 1677 by Dr. Robert Plot they were thought to belong to a giant elephant. The first name given to them was \@Scrotum humanum.\@ It was to be almost two centuries before the name "dinosaur" came into existence. In 1822, Mary Anne Mantell went for a walk along a country road in Sussex. According to tradition, she found a stone which glittered in the luminary orblight, and took it home to show her fossil-collecting husband. Dr. Mantell noticed that the stone contained a tooth similar to, but much larger than, that of modern reptiles. He concluded that it belonged to some extinct giant plant-eating reptile with teeth like an iguana. In 1825, he named the owner of the tooth \@Iguanodon\@ (iguana tooth). It was Dr. Mantell who began to popularize the age of the reptiles. In 1841, Sir Richard Owen, the famous palaeotologist, coined the word dinosaur. Technically, dinosaur refers to those giant reptile-like creatures which lived on \@land\@ rather than in the \@water.\@ The word means "terrible lizard". In the minds of those who had been associated with the then-recently discovered bones of a nine-meter-( 30 feet) long monster with two-meter-( six feet) long jaws from the Lyme Regis quarries of England, the name was particularly appropriate. Bones, Evolution, and Extinction Nowadays, everyone has heard of dinosaurs. From kindergarten onwards, we see pictures of them, and as far as most people are concerned, they died out about 65 million years before man appeared on earth. This view of the dinosaurs is intimately associated with evolution, which is dogmatic about how life arose by chance, yet surprisingly vague about why creatures such as the dinosaurs died out. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 39 \@In 1822, Mary Anne Mantell found a stone glittering\@ \@in the luminary orblight. It was this find which led to the popularizing of the\@ \@age of reptiles.\@) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Citing every possible cause from massive attacks of diarrhoea, to meteorite bombardment, or drug addiction as new plant forms evolved, the theories of why the dinosaurs became extinct are often hilarious for their ingenuity. A visit to any world-class museum will reveal abundant evidence that these dinosaurs really did exist. The bones and skeletons which have been dug out of the earth are obviously the remains of giant animals that once lived and died. Their skeletal remains have been preserved in the rocks. However, while bones testify to their existence, scientists have not always made accurate reconstructions. Everyone has heard about or seen pictures of \@Brontosaurus\@ with its long neck, but not everyone knows Bronty was a mistake! Scientists discovered that they had put the wrong fossil head on the wrong fossil body. {1} \@Brontosaurus\@ never existed! For that reason, \@Brontosaurus\@ simply doesn't get a mention in \@The New Dinosaur Dictionary\@ by Donald F. Glut (Citadel Press, Secaucus, New Jersey, 1982). (See figure 40) It is important to realize that when scientists dig up a number of bones, they do not dig up an animal with its flesh intact. Even if they found all the bones (and they often have only a few fragments), they still would have less than 40 per cent of the animal to tell them what it originally looked like. The bones do not tell the colour of the animal, nor what it ate for dinner. Even the presence of sharp teeth tells you only that it ripped its food, not what food it ripped. When reconstructing large dinosaurs from bony remains, scientists have had to make all kinds of assumptions. Likewise, any statements about what the dinosaurs did or where they lived are full of such guesses. Nevertheless, the evidence is overwhelming that the dinosaurs were indeed a large group of creatures that once roamed the earth, but now apparently no longer live on this planet. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 41 \@When dealing with creatures from the past, \@ \@scientists have only the bones on which to speculate. (Illustration\@ \@courtesy Films for Christ\@)) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So what did happen to the dinosaurs? According to the evolutionary theory, dinosaurs lived on the earth during the Mesozoic Era, or the dinosaur age. This was between about 230 million and 65 million years ago on the evolutionary time-scale. Then, at the end of the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era, they died out. In August of 1983, Dr. Alan Charig of the British Museum of Natural History, London, and Dr. Beverly Halstead of the Geology Department, Reading University, seriously challenged every evolutionary theory as to why the dinosaurs had become extinct or even when they died out. {2} This serves to remind us that when it comes to dealing with past creatures, whether it be the history of dinosaurs or anything else, a scientist has only the bones upon which he can speculate. He doesn't have the past in his laboratory. He digs up the bones in the present. Any theory about what happened to the dinosaurs, based on bones alone, is merely a scientist's opinion. He was not an observer of the event, and he doesn't have the past against which to test his theory. Thus, such study is not even scientific in the normal sense. It is really his belief about the past, an attempt to explain the evidence which exists in the present. The only way anyone could be sure of what did happen in the past would be through the testimony of any reliable witness who was there. And that is what the book of Genesis is. It is easy to test this claim. The accurate record of one who was there will always make the best sense of the evidence we have in the present. Dinosaurs in Scriptural History Does the book of Genesis provide a practical basis for the scientist attempting to explain what happened to the dinosaurs? According to Genesis, land animals and man were made on the sixth day of the creation week (#Ge 1:24,25). {3}, {4} These days were ordinary solar days (#Ge 1:1-50:26 and #Ex 20:11); therefore, those dinosaurs which were land animals were created on the same day as the first man, ’Âthâ´m. Both dinosaurs and man inhabited this planet at the same time. ... Continued on topic 1472 And what did the dinosaurs do after the time of creation? Like all the other animals, they began to populate the earth. The Scriptures records that, as time went on, the earth became full of wickedness, so Yahweh determined He would send a world-wide flood to destroy "all flesh that has the breath of life in it" (#Ge 6:17). He commanded a man named Nóach to build a very large boat into which he would take his family and representatives of all land-dwelling, air-breathing animals. The Scriptures tells us clearly that when the time for the Flood came, Yahweh sent two of every kind of animal (and seven of some) to Nóach to take up residence aboard the Box (#Ge 7:2). Since the Scriptures are clear that there were at least two of every kind of land animal, this must have included two of every dinosaur kind. Many people think that because dinosaurs were such large creatures, they would never have fitted into the Box. They do not realize that many of the dinosaurs were not large at all; a few large dinosaurs have been given all the publicity, such as \@Brachiosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Diplodocus, \@ and \@Allosaurus.\@ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 42 \@Illustration courtesy Brian Newton\@.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many dinosaurs were quite small. For instance, \@Struthiomimus\@ was only the size of an ostrich, and \@Compsognathus\@ was no bigger than a rooster. Only a few dinosaurs grew to extremely large sizes, but even they were not as large as the largest animal in the world today, namely the blue whale. It is realistic to assume that Yahweh would have sent young adults, not fully grown creatures. Since the animals that came off the boat were to be responsible for re-populating the earth, it is almost essential that only young adults which would later reach the prime of their reproductive life would be sent on board the Box. Also, it must be remembered that Nóach's Box was extremely large. In their classic book, \@The Genesis Flood\@, Drs. Henry Morris and John Whitcomb calculated the size of the Box and the number of animals needed to represent all the kinds. Their calculations suggest that fewer than 75,000 individual animals would have been needed on Nóach's Box, and indicate that these animals could have fitted on only one floor of the Box, since their average size would have been no bigger than a sheep. The Box was more than large enough to carry representatives of every kind of air-breathing, land-dwelling animal. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 43 \@Compsognathus--no bigger than a chicken.\@) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So what happened to the dinosaurs? Genesis states that during the time of the Flood, water covered all the high hills that were under the whole heaven. Any dinosaur (not on board Nóach's Box) which was a land-dwelling, air-breathing creature, would obviously have drowned. Many of them would have been buried rapidly and catastrophically in the Flood sediments, and therefore preserved. Most of the dinosaur fossils we find around the earth today are probably all that remain of those killed at the time of Nóach's Flood. The contorted shapes of these animals, the massive numbers of them in fossil graveyards, their wide distribution, and the presence of whole skeletons which show convincing evidence of being rapidly buried, all testify to massive flooding. {5} Months after the Box had settled on Mount Ararat, the animals came out to breed and re-populate the earth. Two by two, the dinosaurs, along with all other animals, left the landing place of the Box and began to move over the earth's surface. But the world they came out to was a different world from the one they knew before Nóach's Flood. It had been ravaged by watery violence. The water canopy, which the Scriptures imply existed around the earth's atmosphere up to the time of Nóach's Flood, was gone. No longer was the world a greenhouse covered with lush vegetation. The massive quantity of vegetable material which the larger creatures needed to consume as food was no longer available in such luxuriant abundance. The world was a much harsher place to live in. The environment before the Flood had been a favourable one. It had enabled many animals and plants to grow to enormous sizes. Most mammals reach their final size soon after becoming sexually mature. Reptiles, however, may keep growing almost indefinitely after that time. In today's crocodile populations, for example, the very large specimens are also the very old ones. This is likely to have been the case for the occasional very huge dinosaur whose skeleton is found. The young, sexually mature adults ordered to go on board the Box with Nóach would have been nowhere near that size yet. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 44 \@The environment before the Flood enabled animals and\@ \@plants to grow to enormous sizes. (Illustration (c) Films for Christ))\@ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- There had probably been a much greater land surface before the Flood. Plants had grown in great profusion and had provided food necessary for all the land creatures. But now the world was different; the canopy had been destroyed. The world had been denuded of vegetation which was only now newly regrowing. More radiation would be able to reach the surface of the earth, and even the atmospheric pressure in the absence of a canopy would be lower. Yes, the world was indeed a harder place to live in. The animals could no longer grow as well or live as long as they had in the pre-Flood environment. The Scriptures records in #Ge 1:30 that when the first animals were created, they were all vegetarians. Even the dinosaurs, lions, and tigers were to eat only plants. That's one reason why ‘Âthâ´m would not have been frightened by Tyrannosaurus rex, for even that mighty beast, before the Fall, would have been a plant-eater. But Genesis states that after the Flood, Yahweh told Nóach that from then on the animals would fear him, and from then on man could eat their meat (#Ge 9:1-17). Even for man the world had become a harsher place. In order for him to survive, the once easily obtained plant protein would now have to be supplemented by animal sources. Man was going into competition with the animals to survive. One would therefore expect that both animals and man would find their survival ability tested to the utmost. It is a fact of history deducible from the fossil record, from the written history of man, and from experience over recent centuries, that not all species of life on this planet have survived that competition. While we realize that vast numbers of marine species became extinct at the time of Nóach's Flood, we need to remember that many plants and air-breathing, land-dwelling animals have become extinct only since the Flood, either due to man's action or competition with other species, or because of the harsher post-Flood environment. Many groups are still becoming extinct. Dinosaurs are certainly numbered among the groups that seem to no longer exist. Why then do people get so intrigued about dinosaurs, and have very little interest in the extinction of the fern \@Cladophebius?\@ If it were not for their size and appeal as monsters, dinosaurs would have excited no more than passing interest. However, because of mankind's almost science-fiction fascination with the unusual, dinosaurs have become famous throughout the world. People are fascinated with the question: What really did happen to them? ... Continued on topic 1473 And what did the dinosaurs do after the time of creation? Like all the other animals, they began to populate the earth. The Scriptures records that, as time went on, the earth became full of wickedness, so Yahweh determined He would send a world-wide flood to destroy "all flesh that has the breath of life in it" (#Ge 6:17). He commanded a man named Nóach to build a very large boat into which he would take his family and representatives of all land-dwelling, air-breathing animals. The Scriptures tells us clearly that when the time for the Flood came, Yahweh sent two of every kind of animal (and seven of some) to Nóach to take up residence aboard the Box (#Ge 7:2). Since the Scriptures are clear that there were at least two of every kind of land animal, this must have included two of every dinosaur kind. Many people think that because dinosaurs were such large creatures, they would never have fitted into the Box. They do not realize that many of the dinosaurs were not large at all; a few large dinosaurs have been given all the publicity, such as \@Brachiosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Diplodocus, \@ and \@Allosaurus.\@ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 42 \@Illustration courtesy Brian Newton\@.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many dinosaurs were quite small. For instance, \@Struthiomimus\@ was only the size of an ostrich, and \@Compsognathus\@ was no bigger than a rooster. Only a few dinosaurs grew to extremely large sizes, but even they were not as large as the largest animal in the world today, namely the blue whale. It is realistic to assume that Yahweh would have sent young adults, not fully grown creatures. Since the animals that came off the boat were to be responsible for re-populating the earth, it is almost essential that only young adults which would later reach the prime of their reproductive life would be sent on board the Box. Also, it must be remembered that Nóach's Box was extremely large. In their classic book, \@The Genesis Flood\@, Drs. Henry Morris and John Whitcomb calculated the size of the Box and the number of animals needed to represent all the kinds. Their calculations suggest that fewer than 75,000 individual animals would have been needed on Nóach's Box, and indicate that these animals could have fitted on only one floor of the Box, since their average size would have been no bigger than a sheep. The Box was more than large enough to carry representatives of every kind of air-breathing, land-dwelling animal. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 43 \@Compsognathus--no bigger than a chicken.\@) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So what happened to the dinosaurs? Genesis states that during the time of the Flood, water covered all the high hills that were under the whole heaven. Any dinosaur (not on board Nóach's Box) which was a land-dwelling, air-breathing creature, would obviously have drowned. Many of them would have been buried rapidly and catastrophically in the Flood sediments, and therefore preserved. Most of the dinosaur fossils we find around the earth today are probably all that remain of those killed at the time of Nóach's Flood. The contorted shapes of these animals, the massive numbers of them in fossil graveyards, their wide distribution, and the presence of whole skeletons which show convincing evidence of being rapidly buried, all testify to massive flooding. {5} Months after the Box had settled on Mount Ararat, the animals came out to breed and re-populate the earth. Two by two, the dinosaurs, along with all other animals, left the landing place of the Box and began to move over the earth's surface. But the world they came out to was a different world from the one they knew before Nóach's Flood. It had been ravaged by watery violence. The water canopy, which the Scriptures imply existed around the earth's atmosphere up to the time of Nóach's Flood, was gone. No longer was the world a greenhouse covered with lush vegetation. The massive quantity of vegetable material which the larger creatures needed to consume as food was no longer available in such luxuriant abundance. The world was a much harsher place to live in. The environment before the Flood had been a favourable one. It had enabled many animals and plants to grow to enormous sizes. Most mammals reach their final size soon after becoming sexually mature. Reptiles, however, may keep growing almost indefinitely after that time. In today's crocodile populations, for example, the very large specimens are also the very old ones. This is likely to have been the case for the occasional very huge dinosaur whose skeleton is found. The young, sexually mature adults ordered to go on board the Box with Nóach would have been nowhere near that size yet. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 44 \@The environment before the Flood enabled animals and\@ \@plants to grow to enormous sizes. (Illustration (c) Films for Christ))\@ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- There had probably been a much greater land surface before the Flood. Plants had grown in great profusion and had provided food necessary for all the land creatures. But now the world was different; the canopy had been destroyed. The world had been denuded of vegetation which was only now newly regrowing. More radiation would be able to reach the surface of the earth, and even the atmospheric pressure in the absence of a canopy would be lower. Yes, the world was indeed a harder place to live in. The animals could no longer grow as well or live as long as they had in the pre-Flood environment. The Scriptures records in #Ge 1:30 that when the first animals were created, they were all vegetarians. Even the dinosaurs, lions, and tigers were to eat only plants. That's one reason why ‘Âthâ´m would not have been frightened by Tyrannosaurus rex, for even that mighty beast, before the Fall, would have been a plant-eater. But Genesis states that after the Flood, Yahweh told Nóach that from then on the animals would fear him, and from then on man could eat their meat (#Ge 9:1-17). Even for man the world had become a harsher place. In order for him to survive, the once easily obtained plant protein would now have to be supplemented by animal sources. Man was going into competition with the animals to survive. One would therefore expect that both animals and man would find their survival ability tested to the utmost. It is a fact of history deducible from the fossil record, from the written history of man, and from experience over recent centuries, that not all species of life on this planet have survived that competition. While we realize that vast numbers of marine species became extinct at the time of Nóach's Flood, we need to remember that many plants and air-breathing, land-dwelling animals have become extinct only since the Flood, either due to man's action or competition with other species, or because of the harsher post-Flood environment. Many groups are still becoming extinct. Dinosaurs are certainly numbered among the groups that seem to no longer exist. Why then do people get so intrigued about dinosaurs, and have very little interest in the extinction of the fern \@Cladophebius?\@ If it were not for their size and appeal as monsters, dinosaurs would have excited no more than passing interest. However, because of mankind's almost science-fiction fascination with the unusual, dinosaurs have become famous throughout the world. People are fascinated with the question: What really did happen to them? ... Continued on topic 1473 Man and Dinosaurs? If the dinosaurs that accompanied Nóach died out some time after the Flood, it would be expected that some evidence of co-habitation of dinosaurs with man in history could be discovered. Is there any evidence for this? Yes. Just as nearly every culture of the world has flood stories similar to those in Genesis 69, many different cultures also have dragon legends. {6} It has been suggested that these are, in fact, encounters with creatures such as dinosaurs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 45) \@Compare the ancient American on the left to this\@ \@recent reconstruction of the dinosaur Edmontosaurus (white outline\@ \@added for clarity). (Illustration courtesy of Films for Christ)\@ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- For example, in the film \@The Great Dinosaur Mystery\@ (produced by Films for Christ) we find that a Sumerian story dating back to 3,000 BC tells of a hero named Gilgamesh, who, when he went to fell cedars in a remote forest, encountered a huge vicious dragon which he slew, cutting off its head as a trophy. When Alexander the Great and his soldiers marched into India, they found that the Indians worshipped huge hissing reptiles that they kept in caves. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 46 \@Just as nearly every culture also have dragon\@ \@legends. Were these dragons really dinosaurs?\@) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- China has always been renowned for its dragon stories, and dragons have always been prominent on Chinese pottery, embroidery and carvings. England has its story of St. George, who slew a dragon that lived in a cave. But we are not just referring to stories dating back thousands of years, for even in the tenth century, an Irishman wrote of his encounter with what appears to have been a \@Stegosaurus.\@ In the 1500s, a European scientific book, \@Historia Animalium, \@ listed several animals, which to us are dinosaurs, as still alive. A well-known naturalist of the time, Ulysses Aldrovandus, recorded an encounter between a peasant named Baptista and a dragon whose description fits that of the dinosaur \@Tanystropheus.\@ The encounter was on May 13, 1572 near Bologna in Italy, and the peasant killed the dragon. So the evidence for the existence of dinosaurs during recorded human history is strong. We also have the description of two beasts that could very well have been such great reptilian creatures still existing in `Iyyówv's day (#`Iyyówv 40:15, 41:13,14). The text records that Yahweh was showing `Iyyówv how great He was as Creator, in causing him to observe some of the most powerful of the creatures He had made. In #`Iyyówv 40:15, Yahweh tells `Iyyówv to look at behemoth. In many commentaries, behemoth is said to be an elephant or a hippopotamus. However, this description is unlikely, since behemoth is said to have had a tail like a cedar (`Iyyówv 40:17). Now if there is one thing an elephant's tiny tail is unlike, it is a cedar tree! The elephant is quickly eliminated as a possibility for this beast. In fact, after reading this passage in `Iyyówv very carefully, one is hard put to find any living creature to fit the description. The closest that we know could be \@Brachiosaurus, \@ one of the dinosaurs. Leviathan (#`Iyyówv 41:1) seems also to have been some form of fire-breathing dragon. For those who wonder about this, remember that the living bombardier beetle can shoot out super-heated gases in its own defense. Why not leviathan? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 47 \@As late as the 1980s, explorers and natives in\@ \@Africa have reported sightings of dinosaur-like creatures.)\@ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So what did happen to the dinosaurs? Those that did not go into Nóach's Box certainly would have drowned. Many of these were buried quickly and therefore preserved, and their bones have been found in recent times. Those that went into the Box with Nóach survived, and after the Flood were able to breed and reproduce their offspring. However, due to the harsh conditions, shortage of food, and so on, they have become extinct. It is hard to say categorically that any animal is extinct, since one cannot scientifically prove an organism to be extinct. Geologists, the traditional declarers of extinction, have been severely embarrassed several times when, after having declared animals to be extinct, they have discovered them alive and well in environments the scientists merely hadn't looked at. It is neither possible nor feasible to have one person at every point on the earth's surface looking in every direction all at one time, just to be 100 per cent sure that there are no dinosaurs, and that, therefore, dinosaurs truly are extinct. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 48 \@In the grounds of the Crystal Palace in South\@ \@London stand early concrete reconstructions of Iguanodon. (lllustrarion\@ \@courtesy Brian Newton\@)) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- There have been reported sightings of dinosaurs even up to the present day. {7} In \@Science Digest, \@ June, 1981 and as late as 1983 (\@Science\@ \@Frontiers, \@ No. 33), explorers and natives in Africa have reported sightings of dinosaur-like creatures. These have usually been confined to out of the way places such as lakes in the middle of Congo jungles. But descriptions given certainly fit those of dinosaurs. It could even be true that the Loch Ness monster (if Nessie really exists) is a variety of \@Plesiosaur\@ which still survives today. It certainly would be no embarrassment to a creationist if someone discovered a living \@Tyrannosaurus rex\@ in a jungle. It wouldn't even be surprising if it happened to be a plant-eater! However, this would be a tremendous embarrassment to an evolutionist. There is no real mystery surrounding the dinosaurs when one understands the events that have happened in the past. But our understanding of these events cannot be based on the mere speculations of people who are alive in the present. Unless they are based on the carefully recorded words of the Creator Yahweh who was there, none of us has a basis for any real interpretation of history or evidence at all.
At Yahuw's Brandon's request, I am giving more details about "Dinosaurs", FYI. Please read, it's interesting. It's taken from "The Answers Book" on the "Online Bible" program, and I did a cursory search find and replace for false names, though I didn't do EVERYTHING, so sorry if I missed something: Chapter 1 What Happened to the Dinosaurs? (See figure 38) Their bones were so big that when they were first discovered in 1677 by Dr. Robert Plot they were thought to belong to a giant elephant. The first name given to them was \@Scrotum humanum.\@ It was to be almost two centuries before the name "dinosaur" came into existence. In 1822, Mary Anne Mantell went for a walk along a country road in Sussex. According to tradition, she found a stone which glittered in the luminary orblight, and took it home to show her fossil-collecting husband. Dr. Mantell noticed that the stone contained a tooth similar to, but much larger than, that of modern reptiles. He concluded that it belonged to some extinct giant plant-eating reptile with teeth like an iguana. In 1825, he named the owner of the tooth \@Iguanodon\@ (iguana tooth). It was Dr. Mantell who began to popularize the age of the reptiles. In 1841, Sir Richard Owen, the famous palaeotologist, coined the word dinosaur. Technically, dinosaur refers to those giant reptile-like creatures which lived on \@land\@ rather than in the \@water.\@ The word means "terrible lizard". In the minds of those who had been associated with the then-recently discovered bones of a nine-meter-( 30 feet) long monster with two-meter-( six feet) long jaws from the Lyme Regis quarries of England, the name was particularly appropriate. Bones, Evolution, and Extinction Nowadays, everyone has heard of dinosaurs. From kindergarten onwards, we see pictures of them, and as far as most people are concerned, they died out about 65 million years before man appeared on earth. This view of the dinosaurs is intimately associated with evolution, which is dogmatic about how life arose by chance, yet surprisingly vague about why creatures such as the dinosaurs died out. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 39 \@In 1822, Mary Anne Mantell found a stone glittering\@ \@in the luminary orblight. It was this find which led to the popularizing of the\@ \@age of reptiles.\@) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Citing every possible cause from massive attacks of diarrhoea, to meteorite bombardment, or drug addiction as new plant forms evolved, the theories of why the dinosaurs became extinct are often hilarious for their ingenuity. A visit to any world-class museum will reveal abundant evidence that these dinosaurs really did exist. The bones and skeletons which have been dug out of the earth are obviously the remains of giant animals that once lived and died. Their skeletal remains have been preserved in the rocks. However, while bones testify to their existence, scientists have not always made accurate reconstructions. Everyone has heard about or seen pictures of \@Brontosaurus\@ with its long neck, but not everyone knows Bronty was a mistake! Scientists discovered that they had put the wrong fossil head on the wrong fossil body. {1} \@Brontosaurus\@ never existed! For that reason, \@Brontosaurus\@ simply doesn't get a mention in \@The New Dinosaur Dictionary\@ by Donald F. Glut (Citadel Press, Secaucus, New Jersey, 1982). (See figure 40) It is important to realize that when scientists dig up a number of bones, they do not dig up an animal with its flesh intact. Even if they found all the bones (and they often have only a few fragments), they still would have less than 40 per cent of the animal to tell them what it originally looked like. The bones do not tell the colour of the animal, nor what it ate for dinner. Even the presence of sharp teeth tells you only that it ripped its food, not what food it ripped. When reconstructing large dinosaurs from bony remains, scientists have had to make all kinds of assumptions. Likewise, any statements about what the dinosaurs did or where they lived are full of such guesses. Nevertheless, the evidence is overwhelming that the dinosaurs were indeed a large group of creatures that once roamed the earth, but now apparently no longer live on this planet. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 41 \@When dealing with creatures from the past, \@ \@scientists have only the bones on which to speculate. (Illustration\@ \@courtesy Films for Christ\@)) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So what did happen to the dinosaurs? According to the evolutionary theory, dinosaurs lived on the earth during the Mesozoic Era, or the dinosaur age. This was between about 230 million and 65 million years ago on the evolutionary time-scale. Then, at the end of the Cretaceous Period of the Mesozoic Era, they died out. In August of 1983, Dr. Alan Charig of the British Museum of Natural History, London, and Dr. Beverly Halstead of the Geology Department, Reading University, seriously challenged every evolutionary theory as to why the dinosaurs had become extinct or even when they died out. {2} This serves to remind us that when it comes to dealing with past creatures, whether it be the history of dinosaurs or anything else, a scientist has only the bones upon which he can speculate. He doesn't have the past in his laboratory. He digs up the bones in the present. Any theory about what happened to the dinosaurs, based on bones alone, is merely a scientist's opinion. He was not an observer of the event, and he doesn't have the past against which to test his theory. Thus, such study is not even scientific in the normal sense. It is really his belief about the past, an attempt to explain the evidence which exists in the present. The only way anyone could be sure of what did happen in the past would be through the testimony of any reliable witness who was there. And that is what the book of Genesis is. It is easy to test this claim. The accurate record of one who was there will always make the best sense of the evidence we have in the present. Dinosaurs in Scriptural History Does the book of Genesis provide a practical basis for the scientist attempting to explain what happened to the dinosaurs? According to Genesis, land animals and man were made on the sixth day of the creation week (#Ge 1:24,25). {3}, {4} These days were ordinary solar days (#Ge 1:1-50:26 and #Ex 20:11); therefore, those dinosaurs which were land animals were created on the same day as the first man, ’Âthâ´m. Both dinosaurs and man inhabited this planet at the same time. ... Continued on topic 1472 And what did the dinosaurs do after the time of creation? Like all the other animals, they began to populate the earth. The Scriptures records that, as time went on, the earth became full of wickedness, so Yahweh determined He would send a world-wide flood to destroy "all flesh that has the breath of life in it" (#Ge 6:17). He commanded a man named Nóach to build a very large boat into which he would take his family and representatives of all land-dwelling, air-breathing animals. The Scriptures tells us clearly that when the time for the Flood came, Yahweh sent two of every kind of animal (and seven of some) to Nóach to take up residence aboard the Box (#Ge 7:2). Since the Scriptures are clear that there were at least two of every kind of land animal, this must have included two of every dinosaur kind. Many people think that because dinosaurs were such large creatures, they would never have fitted into the Box. They do not realize that many of the dinosaurs were not large at all; a few large dinosaurs have been given all the publicity, such as \@Brachiosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Diplodocus, \@ and \@Allosaurus.\@ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 42 \@Illustration courtesy Brian Newton\@.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many dinosaurs were quite small. For instance, \@Struthiomimus\@ was only the size of an ostrich, and \@Compsognathus\@ was no bigger than a rooster. Only a few dinosaurs grew to extremely large sizes, but even they were not as large as the largest animal in the world today, namely the blue whale. It is realistic to assume that Yahweh would have sent young adults, not fully grown creatures. Since the animals that came off the boat were to be responsible for re-populating the earth, it is almost essential that only young adults which would later reach the prime of their reproductive life would be sent on board the Box. Also, it must be remembered that Nóach's Box was extremely large. In their classic book, \@The Genesis Flood\@, Drs. Henry Morris and John Whitcomb calculated the size of the Box and the number of animals needed to represent all the kinds. Their calculations suggest that fewer than 75,000 individual animals would have been needed on Nóach's Box, and indicate that these animals could have fitted on only one floor of the Box, since their average size would have been no bigger than a sheep. The Box was more than large enough to carry representatives of every kind of air-breathing, land-dwelling animal. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 43 \@Compsognathus--no bigger than a chicken.\@) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So what happened to the dinosaurs? Genesis states that during the time of the Flood, water covered all the high hills that were under the whole heaven. Any dinosaur (not on board Nóach's Box) which was a land-dwelling, air-breathing creature, would obviously have drowned. Many of them would have been buried rapidly and catastrophically in the Flood sediments, and therefore preserved. Most of the dinosaur fossils we find around the earth today are probably all that remain of those killed at the time of Nóach's Flood. The contorted shapes of these animals, the massive numbers of them in fossil graveyards, their wide distribution, and the presence of whole skeletons which show convincing evidence of being rapidly buried, all testify to massive flooding. {5} Months after the Box had settled on Mount Ararat, the animals came out to breed and re-populate the earth. Two by two, the dinosaurs, along with all other animals, left the landing place of the Box and began to move over the earth's surface. But the world they came out to was a different world from the one they knew before Nóach's Flood. It had been ravaged by watery violence. The water canopy, which the Scriptures imply existed around the earth's atmosphere up to the time of Nóach's Flood, was gone. No longer was the world a greenhouse covered with lush vegetation. The massive quantity of vegetable material which the larger creatures needed to consume as food was no longer available in such luxuriant abundance. The world was a much harsher place to live in. The environment before the Flood had been a favourable one. It had enabled many animals and plants to grow to enormous sizes. Most mammals reach their final size soon after becoming sexually mature. Reptiles, however, may keep growing almost indefinitely after that time. In today's crocodile populations, for example, the very large specimens are also the very old ones. This is likely to have been the case for the occasional very huge dinosaur whose skeleton is found. The young, sexually mature adults ordered to go on board the Box with Nóach would have been nowhere near that size yet. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 44 \@The environment before the Flood enabled animals and\@ \@plants to grow to enormous sizes. (Illustration (c) Films for Christ))\@ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- There had probably been a much greater land surface before the Flood. Plants had grown in great profusion and had provided food necessary for all the land creatures. But now the world was different; the canopy had been destroyed. The world had been denuded of vegetation which was only now newly regrowing. More radiation would be able to reach the surface of the earth, and even the atmospheric pressure in the absence of a canopy would be lower. Yes, the world was indeed a harder place to live in. The animals could no longer grow as well or live as long as they had in the pre-Flood environment. The Scriptures records in #Ge 1:30 that when the first animals were created, they were all vegetarians. Even the dinosaurs, lions, and tigers were to eat only plants. That's one reason why ‘Âthâ´m would not have been frightened by Tyrannosaurus rex, for even that mighty beast, before the Fall, would have been a plant-eater. But Genesis states that after the Flood, Yahweh told Nóach that from then on the animals would fear him, and from then on man could eat their meat (#Ge 9:1-17). Even for man the world had become a harsher place. In order for him to survive, the once easily obtained plant protein would now have to be supplemented by animal sources. Man was going into competition with the animals to survive. One would therefore expect that both animals and man would find their survival ability tested to the utmost. It is a fact of history deducible from the fossil record, from the written history of man, and from experience over recent centuries, that not all species of life on this planet have survived that competition. While we realize that vast numbers of marine species became extinct at the time of Nóach's Flood, we need to remember that many plants and air-breathing, land-dwelling animals have become extinct only since the Flood, either due to man's action or competition with other species, or because of the harsher post-Flood environment. Many groups are still becoming extinct. Dinosaurs are certainly numbered among the groups that seem to no longer exist. Why then do people get so intrigued about dinosaurs, and have very little interest in the extinction of the fern \@Cladophebius?\@ If it were not for their size and appeal as monsters, dinosaurs would have excited no more than passing interest. However, because of mankind's almost science-fiction fascination with the unusual, dinosaurs have become famous throughout the world. People are fascinated with the question: What really did happen to them? ... Continued on topic 1473 And what did the dinosaurs do after the time of creation? Like all the other animals, they began to populate the earth. The Scriptures records that, as time went on, the earth became full of wickedness, so Yahweh determined He would send a world-wide flood to destroy "all flesh that has the breath of life in it" (#Ge 6:17). He commanded a man named Nóach to build a very large boat into which he would take his family and representatives of all land-dwelling, air-breathing animals. The Scriptures tells us clearly that when the time for the Flood came, Yahweh sent two of every kind of animal (and seven of some) to Nóach to take up residence aboard the Box (#Ge 7:2). Since the Scriptures are clear that there were at least two of every kind of land animal, this must have included two of every dinosaur kind. Many people think that because dinosaurs were such large creatures, they would never have fitted into the Box. They do not realize that many of the dinosaurs were not large at all; a few large dinosaurs have been given all the publicity, such as \@Brachiosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, Diplodocus, \@ and \@Allosaurus.\@ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 42 \@Illustration courtesy Brian Newton\@.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Many dinosaurs were quite small. For instance, \@Struthiomimus\@ was only the size of an ostrich, and \@Compsognathus\@ was no bigger than a rooster. Only a few dinosaurs grew to extremely large sizes, but even they were not as large as the largest animal in the world today, namely the blue whale. It is realistic to assume that Yahweh would have sent young adults, not fully grown creatures. Since the animals that came off the boat were to be responsible for re-populating the earth, it is almost essential that only young adults which would later reach the prime of their reproductive life would be sent on board the Box. Also, it must be remembered that Nóach's Box was extremely large. In their classic book, \@The Genesis Flood\@, Drs. Henry Morris and John Whitcomb calculated the size of the Box and the number of animals needed to represent all the kinds. Their calculations suggest that fewer than 75,000 individual animals would have been needed on Nóach's Box, and indicate that these animals could have fitted on only one floor of the Box, since their average size would have been no bigger than a sheep. The Box was more than large enough to carry representatives of every kind of air-breathing, land-dwelling animal. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 43 \@Compsognathus--no bigger than a chicken.\@) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So what happened to the dinosaurs? Genesis states that during the time of the Flood, water covered all the high hills that were under the whole heaven. Any dinosaur (not on board Nóach's Box) which was a land-dwelling, air-breathing creature, would obviously have drowned. Many of them would have been buried rapidly and catastrophically in the Flood sediments, and therefore preserved. Most of the dinosaur fossils we find around the earth today are probably all that remain of those killed at the time of Nóach's Flood. The contorted shapes of these animals, the massive numbers of them in fossil graveyards, their wide distribution, and the presence of whole skeletons which show convincing evidence of being rapidly buried, all testify to massive flooding. {5} Months after the Box had settled on Mount Ararat, the animals came out to breed and re-populate the earth. Two by two, the dinosaurs, along with all other animals, left the landing place of the Box and began to move over the earth's surface. But the world they came out to was a different world from the one they knew before Nóach's Flood. It had been ravaged by watery violence. The water canopy, which the Scriptures imply existed around the earth's atmosphere up to the time of Nóach's Flood, was gone. No longer was the world a greenhouse covered with lush vegetation. The massive quantity of vegetable material which the larger creatures needed to consume as food was no longer available in such luxuriant abundance. The world was a much harsher place to live in. The environment before the Flood had been a favourable one. It had enabled many animals and plants to grow to enormous sizes. Most mammals reach their final size soon after becoming sexually mature. Reptiles, however, may keep growing almost indefinitely after that time. In today's crocodile populations, for example, the very large specimens are also the very old ones. This is likely to have been the case for the occasional very huge dinosaur whose skeleton is found. The young, sexually mature adults ordered to go on board the Box with Nóach would have been nowhere near that size yet. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 44 \@The environment before the Flood enabled animals and\@ \@plants to grow to enormous sizes. (Illustration (c) Films for Christ))\@ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- There had probably been a much greater land surface before the Flood. Plants had grown in great profusion and had provided food necessary for all the land creatures. But now the world was different; the canopy had been destroyed. The world had been denuded of vegetation which was only now newly regrowing. More radiation would be able to reach the surface of the earth, and even the atmospheric pressure in the absence of a canopy would be lower. Yes, the world was indeed a harder place to live in. The animals could no longer grow as well or live as long as they had in the pre-Flood environment. The Scriptures records in #Ge 1:30 that when the first animals were created, they were all vegetarians. Even the dinosaurs, lions, and tigers were to eat only plants. That's one reason why ‘Âthâ´m would not have been frightened by Tyrannosaurus rex, for even that mighty beast, before the Fall, would have been a plant-eater. But Genesis states that after the Flood, Yahweh told Nóach that from then on the animals would fear him, and from then on man could eat their meat (#Ge 9:1-17). Even for man the world had become a harsher place. In order for him to survive, the once easily obtained plant protein would now have to be supplemented by animal sources. Man was going into competition with the animals to survive. One would therefore expect that both animals and man would find their survival ability tested to the utmost. It is a fact of history deducible from the fossil record, from the written history of man, and from experience over recent centuries, that not all species of life on this planet have survived that competition. While we realize that vast numbers of marine species became extinct at the time of Nóach's Flood, we need to remember that many plants and air-breathing, land-dwelling animals have become extinct only since the Flood, either due to man's action or competition with other species, or because of the harsher post-Flood environment. Many groups are still becoming extinct. Dinosaurs are certainly numbered among the groups that seem to no longer exist. Why then do people get so intrigued about dinosaurs, and have very little interest in the extinction of the fern \@Cladophebius?\@ If it were not for their size and appeal as monsters, dinosaurs would have excited no more than passing interest. However, because of mankind's almost science-fiction fascination with the unusual, dinosaurs have become famous throughout the world. People are fascinated with the question: What really did happen to them? ... Continued on topic 1473Man and Dinosaurs? If the dinosaurs that accompanied Nóach died out some time after the Flood, it would be expected that some evidence of co-habitation of dinosaurs with man in history could be discovered. Is there any evidence for this? Yes. Just as nearly every culture of the world has flood stories similar to those in Genesis 69, many different cultures also have dragon legends. {6} It has been suggested that these are, in fact, encounters with creatures such as dinosaurs. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 45) \@Compare the ancient American on the left to this\@ \@recent reconstruction of the dinosaur Edmontosaurus (white outline\@ \@added for clarity). (Illustration courtesy of Films for Christ)\@ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- For example, in the film \@The Great Dinosaur Mystery\@ (produced by Films for Christ) we find that a Sumerian story dating back to 3,000 BC tells of a hero named Gilgamesh, who, when he went to fell cedars in a remote forest, encountered a huge vicious dragon which he slew, cutting off its head as a trophy. When Alexander the Great and his soldiers marched into India, they found that the Indians worshipped huge hissing reptiles that they kept in caves. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 46 \@Just as nearly every culture also have dragon\@ \@legends. Were these dragons really dinosaurs?\@) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- China has always been renowned for its dragon stories, and dragons have always been prominent on Chinese pottery, embroidery and carvings. England has its story of St. George, who slew a dragon that lived in a cave. But we are not just referring to stories dating back thousands of years, for even in the tenth century, an Irishman wrote of his encounter with what appears to have been a \@Stegosaurus.\@ In the 1500s, a European scientific book, \@Historia Animalium, \@ listed several animals, which to us are dinosaurs, as still alive. A well-known naturalist of the time, Ulysses Aldrovandus, recorded an encounter between a peasant named Baptista and a dragon whose description fits that of the dinosaur \@Tanystropheus.\@ The encounter was on May 13, 1572 near Bologna in Italy, and the peasant killed the dragon. So the evidence for the existence of dinosaurs during recorded human history is strong. We also have the description of two beasts that could very well have been such great reptilian creatures still existing in `Iyyówv's day (#`Iyyówv 40:15, 41:13,14). The text records that Yahweh was showing `Iyyówv how great He was as Creator, in causing him to observe some of the most powerful of the creatures He had made. In #`Iyyówv 40:15, Yahweh tells `Iyyówv to look at behemoth. In many commentaries, behemoth is said to be an elephant or a hippopotamus. However, this description is unlikely, since behemoth is said to have had a tail like a cedar (`Iyyówv 40:17). Now if there is one thing an elephant's tiny tail is unlike, it is a cedar tree! The elephant is quickly eliminated as a possibility for this beast. In fact, after reading this passage in `Iyyówv very carefully, one is hard put to find any living creature to fit the description. The closest that we know could be \@Brachiosaurus, \@ one of the dinosaurs. Leviathan (#`Iyyówv 41:1) seems also to have been some form of fire-breathing dragon. For those who wonder about this, remember that the living bombardier beetle can shoot out super-heated gases in its own defense. Why not leviathan? --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 47 \@As late as the 1980s, explorers and natives in\@ \@Africa have reported sightings of dinosaur-like creatures.)\@ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- So what did happen to the dinosaurs? Those that did not go into Nóach's Box certainly would have drowned. Many of these were buried quickly and therefore preserved, and their bones have been found in recent times. Those that went into the Box with Nóach survived, and after the Flood were able to breed and reproduce their offspring. However, due to the harsh conditions, shortage of food, and so on, they have become extinct. It is hard to say categorically that any animal is extinct, since one cannot scientifically prove an organism to be extinct. Geologists, the traditional declarers of extinction, have been severely embarrassed several times when, after having declared animals to be extinct, they have discovered them alive and well in environments the scientists merely hadn't looked at. It is neither possible nor feasible to have one person at every point on the earth's surface looking in every direction all at one time, just to be 100 per cent sure that there are no dinosaurs, and that, therefore, dinosaurs truly are extinct. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- (See figure 48 \@In the grounds of the Crystal Palace in South\@ \@London stand early concrete reconstructions of Iguanodon. (lllustrarion\@ \@courtesy Brian Newton\@)) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- There have been reported sightings of dinosaurs even up to the present day. {7} In \@Science Digest, \@ June, 1981 and as late as 1983 (\@Science\@ \@Frontiers, \@ No. 33), explorers and natives in Africa have reported sightings of dinosaur-like creatures. These have usually been confined to out of the way places such as lakes in the middle of Congo jungles. But descriptions given certainly fit those of dinosaurs. It could even be true that the Loch Ness monster (if Nessie really exists) is a variety of \@Plesiosaur\@ which still survives today. It certainly would be no embarrassment to a creationist if someone discovered a living \@Tyrannosaurus rex\@ in a jungle. It wouldn't even be surprising if it happened to be a plant-eater! However, this would be a tremendous embarrassment to an evolutionist. There is no real mystery surrounding the dinosaurs when one understands the events that have happened in the past. But our understanding of these events cannot be based on the mere speculations of people who are alive in the present. Unless they are based on the carefully recorded words of the Creator Yahweh who was there, none of us has a basis for any real interpretation of history or evidence at all.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Tokyo Rising: Part 2 - Tokyo: Under and Above Ground
Tokyo faces a new reality after the tragedy of 3/11. While persistent challenges still lay ahead, the city's creative class is hell-bent on making sure that their hometown thrives. Innovative and resilient, they are defining the future of Tokyo on their own terms. We put our boots on and went exploring.
Tokyo Rising: Part 1 - Pharrell's Return to Tokyo
Tokyo faces a new reality after the tragedy of 3/11. While persistent challenges still lay ahead, the city's creative class is hell-bent on making sure that their hometown thrives. Innovative and resilient, they are defining the future of Tokyo on their own terms. We put our boots on and went exploring.
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Have you ever questioned why one calls on "God"? No one in their right mind will call Yahweh "God" after seeing this video. Don't continue calling Yahweh this evil thing. "Elohiym" means MIGHTY ONES. Yes, plural, though He is One, He is His eternal Force and His mighty Person ("Father" and "Son").
Yahuwshua is not Jesus!
"some from the ones who are wise, they will stumble to refine and to purify and to make [the many] spotless", said Yahweh to Daniel. How will they stumble? By erring in their Testimony. We hear it today, as the novices try to explain it to the unknowing. It is a GRAVE mistake to say "Yahuwshua is Jesus in Hebrew". It is simply NOT TRUE. UNDERSTAND WHY THIS IS NOT TRUE - watch this video.
Daniel UNSEALED Part 3 THE FOUR BEASTS
This is NOT ancient history!! The SPIRITUAL meaning of the Four Beasts of Daniel is finally EXPLAINED, very current heathen spiritual dominions corrupting believers even today! Understand who they are and get free from their influence. Standard political historical interpretation is comparatively irrelevant, you see these every day spiritually.
Even so, we recommend reading the restored scripture download at www.yahuwshua.org to fully understand better. (Improved version of video)
Daniel Unsealed part 2, Chapters 11-12
The rise of the Impostor and the return of the Heroic King.
This is part 2 of the explanation of the sealed vision of Daniel, explained along with extra scriptures.
Daniel Unsealed Chap 10-11 part 1
Islam versus Christianity. Both think they represent His Kingdom. Neither realize the authorities of this world have plundered Yahweh's Kingdom. And the Impostor will quickly seize the spoil and conquer all this plunder... Yahweh told Daniel the whole history of this, and it has been sealed up from the understanding of everyone till now, attributing all these events to ancient events already covered in earlier chapters of Daniel, until the point the Great Persecution starts. Note: Hellenism= the Greek concept that names can be altered in worship and have no consequence, spiritually, Christianity is this. Note: there is more to come in this Daniel series, stay tuned...
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Bugatti Veyron vs Lamborghini Aventador vs Lexus LFA vs McLaren MP4-12C ...
On this special episode of Head 2 Head, Automobile Magazine's Jason Cammisa pits the world's most exclusive super cars against each other in a no-holds-barred drag race battle! Do the carbon fiber-bodied Aventador, LFA, and MP4-12C have what it takes to take on the king of the super car realm - the Bugatti Veyron?
Rat Rod vs Lamborghini Aventador! Roadkill Episode 5
On this episode of Roadkill, HOT ROD's David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan spend 24 crazy hours with a 1930 Model A Rat Rod and a 2012 Lamborghini Aventador to find out which wildly impractical, larger-than-life car attracts the most attention.
Breitling - Mechanical Chronograph Maintenance
Mechanical, Chronograph watches are designed to provide a lifetime of accurate and reliable service. For maximum efficiency and to prevent damage, a mechanical watch needs to be serviced every three or four years.
Many steps have to be performed to service a watch. First, the watch is opened and the movement is removed. It is taken apart, down to the very last screw. Then the parts are checked for wear and tear. The old parts are replaced when necessary. Then all the parts are cleaned, reassemble and lubricated. After those steps, then the movement is regulated, so the watch will run accordingly. Polishing the case and the bracelet.
If the watch is water resistant, the water tightness is checked. After performing all this steps, will get almost a brand new watch.
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Monday, August 27, 2012
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