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Post by Entendance on Aug 31, 2019 4:42:47 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Oct 17, 2019 4:19:07 GMT -5
Bene agendo nunquam defessus
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Post by Entendance on Nov 3, 2019 6:18:38 GMT -5
Nessun risultato senza preparazione VIII
No result without preparation Chapter VIII
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Post by Entendance on Nov 13, 2019 1:51:40 GMT -5
Nessun risultato senza preparazione IX
No result without preparation Chapter IX
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Meanwhile...December 7, 2019
"...The banks are not as healthy as they appear and as they have been promoted. The Fed may well be on the brink of the type of crisis they had back in 2007.”
The gold and silver market being flooded with paper shorts is yet another sign that time is short. Kirby says the elite want people to think gold and silver are bad investments, but he says don’t believe it, and “do not sell it.” Kirby goes on to say, “Gold and silver are historically alternatives to a failing fiat currency regime. The U.S. dollar is failing in front of our eyes. We know that because we know that $21 trillion extra (on top of the $23 trillion national debt) was created, and we know what they are doing with it. Part of that $21 trillion is being used to knock the price of gold and silver down with paper contracts. This is not a winning strategy, and this will ultimately blow up in their face too. They are being done to buy time and make the dollar appear strong. . . . The way this has to end is the U.S. dollar will go to its real intrinsic value, which is zero. That implies a hyperinflationary experience at some point in time, and it could be soon. . . . The amount of money being fed into the system is soon going to be too hard to hide.” |
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Post by Entendance on Jan 1, 2020 7:23:13 GMT -5
Try to not become swept up in the madness, remembering who you are and why you are here
No one has any power over you that you do not consent to.
Any place you have a limitation in you mind is exactly where you need to grow next by creating possibilities where you once thought limitations. -Jason
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Post by Entendance on Feb 12, 2020 5:44:46 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Mar 5, 2020 5:03:49 GMT -5
 March 6, 2020 Coronavirus Covid-19: Wear your Face Mask Properly "...Meanwhile the din of public officials claiming that face masks do more harm than good in the public's hands has reached an embarrassing fever pitch.
They are embarrassed to admit they failed to plan and are now on a very dishonest campaign to sow confusion in the public's mind about the use and function of masks.
Later, when sufficient masks are available, they will then have to try and undo this misinformation campaign. Maybe they should try honesty sometime?"
Remember; it's case, case, case, cluster, cluster, boom!" -PeakProsperity
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Post by Entendance on Mar 11, 2020 8:17:01 GMT -5
Una preghiera di accompagnamento e ringraziamento per tutte le donne e gli uomini del pianeta occupati nel settore sanitario, in un tempo nel quale viene richiesto loro di rendere un assoluto irrevocabile definitivo ossequio al giuramento fatto.
Costoro hanno subìto, stanno subendo e subiranno anche
- le conseguenze della stupidità di molti altri esseri umani
- la ferocia di un virus che non sapremo mai da chi e come è stato causato.
God Bless you all. E.
Postscript: senza la nostra azione di boicottaggio e di rinuncia, neanche Il Padre In Cielo ci potrà salvare dai banksters e da certi loro camerieri, certi politici. L'ennesima prova del giorno? qui |
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Post by Entendance on Apr 1, 2020 6:18:15 GMT -5
2015-2020 The Entendance Beach & Greece: 5 pages
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Post by Entendance on Apr 12, 2020 1:27:40 GMT -5
 May the light of the Resurrection always illuminate your path toward righteousness. Christ always warms you in good deeds.
Let’s join forces in the name of creative works in ending wars and conflicts for whatever reasons there may be, wherever they may occur, and help deliver peace to humanity.
Eugène Burnand 1850 – 1921 Peter and John Running to the Tomb oil on canvas (82 × 134 cm) — 1898 Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The full title is The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection. It is Burnand's best-known work. The French state acquired it when it was shown at the Salon de de la Société nationale des beaux-arts in 1898.
The work does not even show the risen Jesus. It merely portrays two witnesses, Jesus’ oldest and youngest apostle. The youngest who was the only man brave enough to stay by Jesus’ cross and the only one who did not die a martyr’s death as a result of it. The oldest apostle who first denied Jesus in fear, yet ultimately chose to be crucified upside down by the Roman authorities rather than deny Christ’s resurrection.
In “The Disciples Peter and John Running to the Sepulchre on the Morning of the Resurrection” by Eugène Burnand, John clasps his hand in prayer while Peter holds his hand over his heart. The viewer feels the rush as their hair and cloaks fly back with the wind. They are sprinting towards discovery of the moment that forever altered heaven and earth. As you look at it, engage for a moment in what the Catholic blogger Bill Donaghy calls “the visual equivalent of Lectio Divina.” As Donaghy notes, “This Resurrection scene does not put us before still figures near a stagnant stone, or figures standing with stony faces in a contrived, plastic posture, pointing to an empty tomb. This scene is dynamic; we are in motion.”
During his time, Burnand was fascinated by the possibilities of the emerging art of photography. Ironically, he would later be dismissed in the twentieth century as too “bourgeois” and anti-modernist when in fact he was merging his love of tradition with his interest in new technological ways of capturing the human person. His painting feels cinematic long before cinema existed as a major art form.
Apart from Jesus’ mother, no other three participants capture the closeness of Jesus’ encounter with humankind quite like John, Peter and Mary of Magdala. Their interactions with Christ embody a relationship to God previously unimaginable to mankind. Jesus turning to Peter as they sit by the fire and asking three times, “Do you love me?”, thereby washing away the sin of the three denials past; Christ turning to John in the midst of his suffering and saying, “Behold, your mother,” giving her to the Church entire. And, of course, the beautiful moment about to transpire in which Jesus’ merely says Mary’s name and she recognizes Him with a cry of “Rabbouni!” They are the moments which cause one to wonder how those who truly hate Christianity (not merely disbelief it) can remain so hostile to its narrative beauty. Look into Peter’s wide open eyes and John’s intense gaze. Their eyes contain a mix of anxiousness and hope, the way a parent or grandparent’s eyes look at the news of an impending birth. A new life is about to emerge, but there is still uncertainty because it is a mystery beyond full human comprehension or control. Peter and John’s faces capture the same sense of anticipation.
Burnand created a sparse, simple painting capturing two of the most important players in the greatest story ever told. Meditate upon their faces as Burnand intended you to do and through them discover the empty tomb.
Through the movement and immediacy of the scene, the preceding minutes with Mary Magdalene are palpable. In a sense, she is in the painting too. “You can almost hear her voice in the background, can you not, a few minutes earlier, as she burst into their house…” writes the Episcopal Bishop Dorsey McConnell in an Easter sermon meditating on the painting. -Elise Ehrhard
Joyeuses Pâques! Καλό Πάσχα! Feliz Páscoa! Felices Pascuas! Buona Pasqua! Frohe Ostern! Happy Easter!
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Post by Entendance on May 30, 2020 4:29:28 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jun 3, 2020 4:41:38 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Jun 11, 2020 5:26:17 GMT -5
 Nessun risultato senza preparazione X
No result without preparation Chapter X
How to Avoid Mediocre Leadership in Trying Times
"When confronted with a situation weighed with anxiety and ambiguity, like a pandemic, a lockdown and frightening news from the economy, it’s impossible for most of us to imagine any upside. We become paralysed; overwhelmed by events, we descend into a state of mind I call unproductive uncertainty. But there are some people who manage to see their way through that paralysis and find a positive path forward..."
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Post by Entendance on Jul 3, 2020 4:54:32 GMT -5
The CIA's Murderous Targeting of The Black Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac, and Other Activists
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Post by Entendance on Jul 14, 2020 0:40:27 GMT -5
"...Until tens of millions of Americans personally engage in demanding campaign finance reform, federal government reform, and the complete separation of banks holding deposits from the Wall Street casino banks, we’re all just one step away from the next banking collapse."
Buying physical Gold & Silver is by far the greatest act of rebellion any human being can and should be doing right now. Any excuse will serve a tyrant. E.
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Post by Entendance on Jul 30, 2020 10:05:56 GMT -5
Nessun risultato senza preparazione XI
No result without preparation Chapter XI
The effects of Covid are much greater for the poor and even the middle class than the rich. This is not a biological phenomena, but an economic one.Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, in New York. Wolff’s weekly show, “Economic Update,” is syndicated by more than 100 radio stations and goes to 55 million TV receivers via Free Speech TV. His two recent books with Democracy at Work are Understanding Marxism and Understanding Socialism, both available at democracyatwork.info. This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
"Capitalism, as Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century shows, relentlessly worsens wealth and income inequalities. That inherent tendency is only occasionally stopped or reversed when masses of people rise up against it. That happened, for example, in western Europe and the U.S. during the 1930s Great Depression. It prompted social democracy in Europe and the New Deal in the United States. So far in capitalism’s history, however, stoppages or reversals around the world proved temporary. The last half-century witnessed a neoliberal reaction that rolled back both European social democracy and the New Deal. Capitalism has always managed to resume its tendential movement toward greater inequality.
Among the consequences of a system with such a tendency, many are awful. We are living through one now as the COVID-19 pandemic, inadequately contained by the U.S. system, savages Americans of middle and lower incomes and wealth markedly more than the rich. The rich buy better health care and diets, second homes away from crowded cities, better connections to get government bailouts, and so on. Many of the poor are homeless. Tasteless advice to “shelter at home” is, for them, absurd. Low-income people are often crowded into the kinds of dense housing and dense working conditions that facilitate infection. Poor residents of low-cost nursing homes die disproportionally, as do prison inmates (mostly poor). Pandemic capitalism distributes death in inverse proportion to wealth and income.
Social distancing has destroyed especially low-wage service sector jobs. Rarely did top executives lose their positions, and when they did, they found others. The result is a widened gap between high salaries for some and low or no wages for many. Unemployment invites employers to lower wages for the still employed because they can. Pandemic capitalism has provoked a massive increase in money-creation by central banks. That money fuels rising stock markets and thereby enriches the rich who own most shares. The coincidence of rising stock markets and mass unemployment plus falling wages only adds momentum to worsening inequality.
Unequal economic distributions (of income and wealth) finance unequal political outcomes. Whenever a small minority enjoys concentrated wealth within a society committed to universal suffrage, the rich quickly understand their vulnerability. The non-wealthy majority can use universal suffrage to prevail politically. The majority’s political power could then undo the results of the economy including its unequal distribution of income and wealth. The rich corrupt politics with their money to prevent exactly that outcome. Capitalists spend part of their wealth to preserve (and enlarge) all of their wealth.
The rich and those eager to join them in the U.S. dominate within both Republican and Democratic parties. The rich provide most of the donations that sustain candidates and parties, the funding for armies of lobbyists “advising” legislators, the bribes, and many issue-oriented public campaigns. The laws and regulations that flow from Washington, states, and cities reflect the needs and desires of the rich far more than those of the rest of us. The peculiar structure of U.S. property taxes offers an example. In the U.S., property is divided into two kinds: tangible and intangible. Tangible property includes land, buildings, business inventories, automobiles, etc. Intangible property is mostly stocks and bonds. Rich people hold most of their wealth in the form of intangible property. It is thus remarkable that in the U.S., only tangible property is subject to property tax. Intangible property is not subject to any property tax.
The kinds of property (tangible) that many people own get taxed, but the kinds of property (intangible) mostly owned by the richest minority do not get taxed. If you own a house rented to tenants, you pay a property tax to the municipality where the house is located. You also pay an income tax on the received rents to the federal government and likely also the state government where you live. You are thus taxed twice: once on the value of the property you own and once on the income you derive from that property. If you sell a $100,000 house and then buy $100,000 worth of shares, you will owe no property taxes to any level of government in the United States. You will only owe income tax on dividends paid to you on the shares you own. The form of property you own determines whether you pay property tax or not.
This property tax system is excellent for those rich enough to buy significant amounts of shares. The rich used their wealth to get tax laws written that way for them. The rest of us pay more in taxes because the rich pay less. Because the rich save money—since their intangible property is not taxed—they have that much more to buy the politicians who secure such a tax system for them. And that tax system worsens inequality of wealth and income.
Unequal economic distributions finance unequal cultural outcomes. For example, the goal of a unifying, democratizing public school system has always been subverted by economic inequality. In general (with few exceptions), the better schools cost more to attend. The tutors needed to help struggling students are affordable for the rich but less so for everyone else. The children of the wealthy get the private schools, books, quiet rooms, computers, educational trips, extra art and music lessons, and virtually everything else needed for higher educational achievement.
Unequal economic distributions finance unequal “natural” outcomes. The U.S. now displays two differently priced foods. Rich people can afford “organic” while the rest of us worry but still buy “conventional” food for budget reasons. Countless studies indicate the dangers of herbicides, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, food processing methods, and additives. Nonetheless, the two-price food system delivers the better, safer food more to the rich than to everyone else. Likewise, the rich buy the safer automobiles, more safely equip their homes, and clean and filter the water they drink and the air they breathe. No wonder the rich live years longer on average than other people. Inequality is often fatal, not just during pandemics.
In ancient Greece, Plato and Aristotle worried about and discussed the threat to community, to social cohesion, posed by inequalities of wealth and income. They criticized markets as institutions because, in their view, markets facilitated and aggravated income and wealth inequalities. But modern capitalism sanctifies markets and has thus conveniently forgotten Plato’s and Aristotle’s cautions and warnings about markets and inequality.
The thousands of years since Plato and Aristotle have seen countless critiques, reforms, and revolutions directed against wealth and income inequalities. They have rarely succeeded and have even more rarely persisted. Pessimists have responded, as the Bible does, with the notion that “the poor shall always be with us.” We rather ask the question: Why did so many heroic efforts at equality fail?
The answer concerns the economic system, and how it organizes the people who work to produce and distribute the goods and services societies depend on. If its economic organization splits participants into a small rich minority and a large non-rich majority, the former will likely be determined to reproduce that organization over time. Slavery (master versus slave) did; feudalism (lord versus serf) did; and capitalism (employer versus employee) does. Inequality in the economy is a root cause contributing to society-wide inequalities.
We might then infer that an alternative economic system based on a democratically organized community producing goods and services—not split into a dominant minority and a subordinate majority—might finally end social inequality." -Richard D. Wolff – The Consequences of Inequality Can Be Fatal
The Entendance Beach This is what we're up against: a status quo that has institutionalized soaring inequality and rising poverty as the only possible output of defending the privileged few at the expense of the many. 3 Pages: Inequality
Bonus video:
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Post by Entendance on Aug 7, 2020 2:18:27 GMT -5
11 Durante il viaggio verso Gerusalemme, Gesù attraversò la Samaria e la Galilea. 12 Entrando in un villaggio, gli vennero incontro dieci lebbrosi i quali, fermatisi a distanza, 13 alzarono la voce, dicendo: «Gesù maestro, abbi pietà di noi!». 14 Appena li vide, Gesù disse: «Andate a presentarvi ai sacerdoti». E mentre essi andavano, furono sanati. 15 Uno di loro, vedendosi guarito, tornò indietro lodando Dio a gran voce; 16 e si gettò ai piedi di Gesù per ringraziarlo. Era un Samaritano. 17 Ma Gesù osservò: «Non sono stati guariti tutti e dieci? E gli altri nove dove sono? 18 Non si è trovato chi tornasse a render gloria a Dio, all'infuori di questo straniero?». E gli disse: 19 «Alzati e va'; la tua fede ti ha salvato!». -Luca 17,11-19
11 As Jesus continued on toward Jerusalem, he reached the border between Galilee and Samaria. 12 As he entered a village there, ten men with leprosy stood at a distance, 13 crying out, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”
14 He looked at them and said, “Go show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went, they were cleansed of their leprosy.
15 One of them, when he saw that he was healed, came back to Jesus, shouting, “Praise God!” 16 He fell to the ground at Jesus’ feet, thanking him for what he had done. This man was a Samaritan.
17 Jesus asked, “Didn’t I heal ten men? Where are the other nine? 18 Has no one returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?” 19 And Jesus said to the man, “Stand up and go. Your faith has healed you.” -Luke 17:11-19
“This man he was a Samaritan." Why is this fact included? What is so significant about this leper being a Samaritan? Jews hated Samaritans. They were called “half-breeds” because these Jews intermarried with Gentiles. And, if that wasn’t bad enough, they defected from the religious roots that the Jews held so dear. Therefore, the thought that God would ever heal a Samaritan never even crossed a Jew’s mind. Yet, during His earthly ministry, Jesus elevated Samaritans.16 The woman at the well in John 4 was a Samaritan as well as the people Jesus preached to later in that same chapter. Jesus rebuked James and John for wanting to call down fire on the Samaritans in Luke 9, and He even honored a Samaritan for his compassion in Luke 10. Then, in Acts 1, as Jesus was about to ascend to His Father, He challenged His disciples to witness in Samaria (1:8).
Do you see the point? Jesus loves all people everywhere. He’s not like us. He doesn’t have racial preferences. He doesn’t concern Himself with people’s income or social class. He had no problem mixing with the poor, the sick, and the irreligious. He loves freely and unconditionally.
On the other hand, we tend to dislike anyone different from us. This isn’t restricted just to skin color. We dislike the attractive, the unattractive, the overweight, the underweight, the sociable, the unsociable, the intelligent, the unintelligent, the rich, the poor; the list goes on and on. It all depends upon who you are and what prejudices you hold. But aren’t you glad that Jesus isn’t like that? This man was from the wrong race, he had the wrong religion, he had the worst possible disease, and Jesus healed him! In these nine verses, Luke has gone out of his way to point out that this lone leper who expressed gratitude to Jesus was a Samaritan—a foreigner. Why is this significant? Because one of the dominant themes in Luke’s gospel is that the Gospel is for all people—even Samaritans and Gentiles. In some cases, those most sensitive to the Gospel came from outside the Jewish nation (cf. John 1:11).
In 17:17-18, Jesus responds to this Samaritan by asking him,“Were there not 10 cleansed? But the 9—where are they? Were none found who turned back to give glory to God, except this foreigner?”The nine lepers got what they wanted and left. Jesus performed a mighty miracle for them and they said, “Thanks, Lord, I can take it from here.” They’re like children who eat their fill and then run away from the dinner table without a word of thanks. “We’re full now. Let’s go out and play.” Does this sound like your kids?
Does this sound like you? I think this is the particular sin of those raised in the church. We have so little sense of what God has done for us. Often, we don’t love the Lord very much or feel grateful for His blessings.This whole story is a picture of life as it really is.
First, it is a picture of the abundant grace of God. This is a cure by wholesale—a whole hospital healed with only a word, ten at a time. It is a vast miracle.
Second, it is a picture of prevalent ingratitude. Nine out of ten people will probably forget every blessing they ever receive.
Third, it is a picture of unexpected grace. Grateful hearts often pop up where you least expect them. (Luke doesn’t say so directly, but I think he implies that the other nine were Jews. If that’s so, then what this story really means is that those who should have been most grateful weren’t. And the one man who shouldn’t have come back did.) These two verses tell us something very interesting about Jesus. Thanking Him for blessings we receive is very important to Him. Jesus was very much aware that only one returned to give Him thanks. Jesus notices gratitude—and ingratitude. Now, I don’t know about you, but as I studied through this passage, I couldn’t help but be incensed over the ingratitude of the nine lepers. I could not understand how, after having their earthly existence transformed, they could not return a simple thanks. As I read this passage, I thought to myself: If I had been one of those other nine lepers, I would have thrown myself at Jesus’ feet and praised Him all the daylong. I would have even offered Him the rest of my life.
But before I judged these lepers too harshly, I began to ask myself: “What is your own gratitude quotient?”
As I considered my own GQ, I had to admit that too often I am content to enjoy the gift but I forget the Giver. I am quick to pray but slow to praise. All at once, it struck me: If I had been one of the ten lepers, I think I would have been one of the nine. If I had been one of the lepers who had been healed by Jesus, I probably would have waited to see if the cure was real or if it would really last. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if I may have even said, “I would have gotten well anyway” or, “I was already much improved.” As I wrestled with my own propensity towards ingratitude, I realized I am often an ungrateful Christian. Don’t get me wrong, I may not look ungrateful, I may not even act ungrateful, but the Lord knows that often I have been discontent and unsatisfied. Though an attitude of gratitude is the work of the Holy Spirit, it also comes as a result of personal effort on our part. We must cultivate the habit of always giving thanks in everything (1 Thess 5:18).
Here are some practical ways you can cultivate an attitude of gratitude: •Expand your mealtime expression of thanks to include other blessings beyond the food. •Begin and end the day with a time of thanksgiving. Pick three things you’re most thankful for. •Be grateful for little things (Luke 16:10a). If you are grateful in small things, even in a small way, you will naturally express gratitude in great things. •Write down the prayer requests you make to God; then keep those answered requests on your list until you feel you have adequately thanked God for His answer. Along with written prayer requests, it can be helpful to keep a list of significant blessings for which you are thankful. •Write “thank you” notes to express gratitude and appreciation.
•Consider what you possess rather than what you lack (Phil 4:11). The less you concentrate on future needs, the more you will enjoy present privileges.
Gratitude is not just a nice addition to a generally good character. It is indispensable to Christian character. Gratitude is the highest duty of the believer and the supreme virtue, the fountain from which all other blessings flow. Ingratitude is leprosy of the soul. It eats away on the inside, destroys our happiness, cripples our joy, withers our compassion, paralyzes our praise, and renders us numb to all the blessings of God. -Keith R. Krell
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Post by Entendance on Oct 31, 2020 2:57:27 GMT -5
No result without preparation Chapter XIII Nessun risultato senza preparazione Capitolo XIII
Compounding Is The Problem [if something is increasing over time on a percentage basis, it is growing exponentially]
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Post by Entendance on Dec 18, 2020 7:13:49 GMT -5
No result without preparation Chapter XIV
Nessun risultato senza preparazione Capitolo XIV
STAGE 1. The Decay Begins
STAGE 2. The Slippery Slope
STAGE 3. It is Going to Get Worse
STAGE 4. The Grab for Power
STAGE 5. Freedom, Liberty, and Independence are Lost
SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT IS BREAKING DOWN AND COLLAPSES IN A FIVE STAGE PROCESS
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Post by Entendance on Dec 28, 2020 5:46:56 GMT -5
No result without preparation Chapter XV
Nessun risultato senza preparazione Capitolo XV
The Thinking Toolbox - Fallacy Detective Thirty-Five Lessons Th at Will Build Your Reasoning Skills PDF
Paul Rosenberg: "Before we begin covering fallacies, we should be clear on what the word means. A fallacy is a deceptive statement. It is something that is false, but is made to appear true. In other words, it is a trick of words and emotions, used to make people believe something that isn’t actually so.
But that does not mean that everyone using a fallacy is trying to hurt you. In most cases, they are doing it ignorantly, because they were deceived by the trick earlier. What they’re really doing is passing along the mistake.
So, while we want to notice deceptions (fallacies) that are thrown at us, we should remember that most of the people using them are not personally malicious; they’re acting out a malicious script that was started by others. The damage to you is the same, but their personal guilt is less.
Now, let’s move on to our first fallacy..."
(L'arte della conversazione L'art de la conversation Die Kunst der Konversation)
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. -Sydney J. Harris
If you like this beach, then you can help your friends locate it by letting them know about The Entendance Beach.
Let's all make this place a thriving sheltered Club for excellence, education and information!
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Post by Entendance on Jan 11, 2021 17:10:40 GMT -5
It was 2011...Ron Paul's Greatest Interview
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Post by Entendance on Feb 6, 2021 9:35:08 GMT -5
Christopher Plummer, ‘The Sound of Music’ Actor, Dead at 91
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Post by Entendance on Mar 4, 2021 5:22:45 GMT -5
No result without preparation Chapter XVII
Nessun risultato senza preparazione Capitolo XVII
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Post by Entendance on Mar 18, 2021 5:43:05 GMT -5
Are you equipped for the battle?Use every piece of God's armor to resist the enemy in the time of evil, so that after the battle you will still be standing firm. Stand your ground, putting on the sturdy belt of truth and the body armor of God's righteousness. For shoes, put on the peace that comes from the Good News, so that you will be fully prepared. In every battle you will need faith as your shield to stop the fiery arrows aimed at you by Satan. Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. Pray at all times and on every occasion in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Stay alert and be persistent in your prayers for all Christians everywhere. -Ephesians 6:13-18
I came to cast fire upon the earth
" I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled! I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how I am constrained until it is accomplished! Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division; for henceforth in one house there will be five divided, three against two and two against three; they will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against her mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law." He also said to the multitudes, " When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, `A shower is coming'; and so it happens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, `There will be scorching heat'; and it happens. You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky; but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
"And why do you not judge for yourselves what is right? As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison. I tell you, you will never get out till you have paid the very last copper." -Luke 12:49-59
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Post by Entendance on Apr 2, 2021 3:26:23 GMT -5
Freed by "foolishness"
So where does this leave the philosophers, the scholars, and the world's brilliant debaters? God has made them all look foolish and has shown their wisdom to be useless nonsense. -1 Corinthians 1:20
We were deceived by the wisdom of the serpent, but we are freed by the foolishness of God. -St. Augustine
The wisdom of the world
The wisdom of the world would never have chosen a cross for its salvation. The wisdom of the world always chooses the path of obvious victory. It knows nothing of the deeper battles and subtleties of faith. It acts on what it sees on the surface and grabs as much visible glory as it can. It will not wait; it seizes the day.
We are not born of that spirit. We are born of the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God will lead us to the Cross. He points us to eternal realities, not temporary glory. While earthly wisdom tells us to get what we can while we can get it, God's wisdom shows us the reality of eternity that lies beyond the visible nature of this corrupt world. It shows us the Resurrection beyond the Cross.
Those of us who seek true wisdom do not simply desire information from God. We want to know what He is like. We must come to see Him as the source of all truth, and we must take our cures from Him. We shouldn't be satisfied with Him just telling us what to believe. We need to see it in action.
God has given us the answer, of course. We can examine the wisdom of Jesus, which led Him to death for a greater good. What He did in surrendering to the Cross was absolute foolishness in the eyes of the world. And it still is. But we can see beyond the Cross if we are wise, and based on what we see, we can walk toward it with confidence.
Cristo non ha più le mani
ha soltanto le nostre mani
per fare il suo lavoro oggi.
Cristo non ha più piedi
ha soltanto i nostri piedi
per guidare gli uomini sui suoi sentieri.
Cristo non ha più voce
ha soltanto la nostra voce
per raccontare di sé agli uomini di oggi.
Cristo non ha più forze
ha soltanto il nostro aiuto
per condurre gli uomini a sé.
Noi siamo l’unica Bibbia
che i popoli leggono ancora;
siamo l’unico messaggio di Dio
scritto in opere e parole. -Anonimo fiammingo del XIV secolo
The Seven Last Words
“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.”
“Today you will be with me in Paradise.”
“Woman, this is your son” . . . “This is your mother.”
“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
“I thirst.”
“It is finished.”
“Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.”
KEEPING THE FAITH, It’s Good Friday. It’s Good Friday, the most solemn day of the Christian year. Many Christians will fast and spend time in prayer and silent meditation today as we remember the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. However, it’s important to remember that Jesus’ death on Good Friday was not the end of the story. Because we know what’s ahead for Jesus — the joy of resurrection — Christians also believe that the promise of new life is ours as well.
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Post by Entendance on Apr 4, 2021 1:59:19 GMT -5
Up from the Grave He Arose!
Easter Day: Resurrection Of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. -Colossians 3, 1-4
Fratelli, se siete risorti con Cristo, cercate le cose di lassù, dove è Cristo, seduto alla destra di Dio; rivolgete il pensiero alle cose di lassù, non a quelle della terra.
Voi infatti siete morti e la vostra vita è nascosta con Cristo in Dio! Quando Cristo, vostra vita, sarà manifestato, allora anche voi apparirete con lui nella gloria.
-Col 3,1-4
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him." Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb. The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen wrappings but rolled up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the scripture, that he must rise from the dead. -John 20:1-9
Il primo giorno della settimana, Maria di Màgdala si recò al sepolcro di mattino, quando era ancora buio, e vide che la pietra era stata tolta dal sepolcro.
Corse allora e andò da Simon Pietro e dall’altro discepolo, quello che Gesù amava, e disse loro: «Hanno portato via il Signore dal sepolcro e non sappiamo dove l’hanno posto!».
Pietro allora uscì insieme all’altro discepolo e si recarono al sepolcro. Correvano insieme tutti e due, ma l’altro discepolo corse più veloce di Pietro e giunse per primo al sepolcro. Si chinò, vide i teli posati là, ma non entrò.
Giunse intanto anche Simon Pietro, che lo seguiva, ed entrò nel sepolcro e osservò i teli posati là, e il sudario – che era stato sul suo capo – non posato là con i teli, ma avvolto in un luogo a parte.
Allora entrò anche l’altro discepolo, che era giunto per primo al sepolcro, e vide e credette. Infatti non avevano ancora compreso la Scrittura, che cioè egli doveva risorgere dai morti. -Gv 20,1-9
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Post by Entendance on Apr 16, 2021 5:33:33 GMT -5
No result without preparation Chapter XVIII
Nessun risultato senza preparazione Capitolo XVIII
Back to Reality: Forget These 5 Relationship Illusions
"We’ve all done it. We have blamed our boyfriend, girlfriend, lover or spouse for our state of happiness, or perhaps more accurately, our unhappiness. We tend to look outside of ourselves for the cause of our problems, and thus, we seek outside of ourselves for solutions. The problem with this approach to relationship repair is that we can begin thinking we are not capable of creating change in our lives. Ultimately, we hand our happiness over to someone else to manage.
The way most of us (unconsciously) operate in relationships is the result of one or more illusions. After a few turns around the dating, mating, and relating block, we come to realize that none of these approaches to relationships work — or at minimum, do not withstand the test of time. The invitation here is to develop a new practice.
Illusion 1: We hear what we want to hear early on in a relationship, rather than what is actually said.
Surprisingly, people are often remarkably honest early on about what they think the problem will be in the relationship. They say something like, “I’m not ready for a monogamous relationship,” “Our religious backgrounds aren’t compatible,” or “I don’t plan to ever get married or have children.”
However, we tend not to listen. In retrospect, we vaguely and painfully remember the “I told you so.”
Listen to what is actually said and watch for how someone behaves. Believe them when they tell you what they want and don’t want, and remember actions speak louder than words.
Illusion 2: We think that if the other person really loves us, they will change for us (even when they’ve told us they won’t).
While people may alter their behavior for another, if it isn’t truly what they want, they will likely return to their “default settings” at some point in the relationship. Change doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with love. Sometimes they don’t want to change and sometimes they can’t, at least not easily or without help. People only really change if they really want to change.
Either love them or leave them. If you can’t accept someone the way they are, they aren’t the person for you. (Or you aren’t the person for them.)
Illusion 3: We think that if the other person would just [fill in the blank], we would be happy.
When we expect someone else to change for us, we become victims of what they do and don’t do. Then, even if the other person changes what we requested of them, we suddenly discover that we have an unending list of required changes because happiness is not generated from an external source.
Be responsible for your own happiness. Find a new way to respond to what the other does, one that brings about a better result.
Illusion 4: We think if we just alter ourselves (dress differently, eat differently, make love differently), the other will love us.
If you put on a facade to get someone to love you and they do, you still don’t feel loved — because you aren’t being the real you. It is imperative that we are authentic in relationships, otherwise we create a slippery slope of low self-esteem and distrust — they of us and us of them.
Spend some time discovering who you really are, what you really want and learning to love yourself. Authentic love is the only love that works.
Illusion 4: We think if we just alter ourselves (dress differently, eat differently, make love differently), the other will love us.
If you put on a facade to get someone to love you and they do, you still don’t feel loved — because you aren’t being the real you. It is imperative that we are authentic in relationships, otherwise we create a slippery slope of low self-esteem and distrust — they of us and us of them.
Spend some time discovering who you really are, what you really want and learning to love yourself. Authentic love is the only love that works.
Illusion 5: We fall in love with the fantasy of what we want a relationship to be rather than paying attention to what it actually is.
We often see our relationships through the lens of what we are hoping the relationship will become rather than the truth. We may hope for a romantic, monogamous relationship and a happy family, or that the other will put us above all else, but when we take a real look at what is happening, it quite often doesn’t match our fantasy.
Notice if what you are wanting and what you are getting are actually the same thing. Then, either be sure you are creating what you want or accepting what you have. Alignment of these two is imperative for happiness.
Einstein said, “You can’t solve a problem from the same state of mind that created it.” This is equally true in relationships. When we take responsibility rather than blaming, and operate from reality rather than fantasy, rather than continuing in unsatisfying illusions, we are able create powerful, loving, lasting relationships." -Eve Hogan
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Post by Entendance on Apr 18, 2021 3:36:51 GMT -5
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Post by Entendance on Apr 29, 2021 6:00:17 GMT -5
No result without preparation Chapter XIX
Nessun risultato senza preparazione Capitolo XIX 1. Know Your Values 2. Know to Stay in Your Own Business 3. Know That You Have Full Ownership Over Your Feelings 4. Know That You Are Doing Your Best 5. Know That Everyone Makes Mistakes
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Post by Entendance on May 16, 2021 5:00:52 GMT -5
Bene agendo nunquam defessus
Men and Women for Others Real Leaders
“L’arma più efficace per combattere il virus è quella di curare i pazienti ai primi sintomi”
Andrea M. G. G. Stramezzi:
Cure domiciliari Covid19: intervista al Medico Andrea Stramezzi Parte I & Parte II
Bonus links
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Greek Mothers, Grandmas and Wives to Enforce Quarantine 
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Christopher Plummer – 1929-2021:
Why Captain Von Trapp from The Sound of Music is 
The Daily Situation Update