Mortgage lending in Ireland plunges by 66% in first quarter of 2013

The mortgage market slowed dramatically in the first three months of the year.

The number of new home loans approved by banks and the amount that was borrowed both dropped by around two-thirds from the levels seen in the previous three months.

The latest figures from the Irish Banking Federation (IBF) and accountants PwC show that in the early part of this year lending was running at lower levels than at any time in 2012.

There were just over 2,000 mortgages approved in the first three months of the year and the amount borrowed was €331m. It is down from 6,000 mortgages approved in the final three months of 2012, when the total borrowed was €999m.

In the first three months of 2012, which is a better comparison, 2,600 mortgages were approved and the total amount borrowed was €450m.

It’s the second recent blow to hopes that the housing market was emerging from a five-year slump. Data published at the end of April showed house prices declined nationally in the early part of the year, though they were up in Dublin.

The IBF’s Felix O’Regan said the latest lending figures reflect the decision to end mortgage interest relief for house buyers at the end of 2012. Earlier data showed a surge in mortgage lending at the end of last year as buyers snapped up houses before the tax break was scrapped. The latest figures also reflect the more normal slowdown in house sales at the start of each year, Mr O’Regan said. But while the first three months of the year are traditionally a quiet time for house sales, the 2013 figures show a 20pc drop even compared to the same period last year.

WORRYING: Conall Mac Coille of Davy Stockbrokers said the end of mortgage interest relief had distorted the market. But he said taking in the whole six-month period from the start of October to the end of March, mortgage approvals were up about 20pc compared to a year earlier.

Yesterday Trevor Grant, who is the chairman of Expert Mortgage Advisors, which represents brokers, said the latest decline in mortgage market activity is “really worrying.”

Irish Credit unions struggling to get a reasonable return on investments

Lending is down and interest rate on savings is dropping

The low level of loans being issued by the credit union movement was identified as a key point at a recent conference in Dublin held to discuss the sector.

Credit unions are putting a lot more money into investments, including bank deposits, than they are directing towards new loans. And the low returns on money not being loaned out to members is a problem.

Yet any move to increase the return from investments will inevitably carry with it a heightened level of risk.

Lack of expertise 
Many credit unions do not have the expertise necessary for entering into such waters and so the sector is faced with the possibility of an extended period of low returns.

The issue feeds into the overall debate about the restructuring of the sector and the change that is coming down the tracks. New forms of control could allow some credit unions look at different categories of loans and services that they could offer.

Asked about the loans issue, Irish League of Credit Unions chief executive Kieran Brennan is anxious to put it in perspective.

“Better to be in our position than the one the banks are in. At least we didn’t lend out multiples of our deposits.”

And if the banks were lending out at the sort of ratio to assets the credit union sector is, he adds, the economy as a whole would be a lot better off. Point made, Brennan is prepared to accept that the ratio of the credit union loans to total assets is not as healthy as it needs be.

At the end of 2012, the league’s member credit unions in the Republic had assets of €12.23 billion, essentially the same as at the end of 2011.

The figure for total loans was €4.25 billion, 2.6 per cent down on the figure for the end of the previous year.

At the Dublin conference, economist Alan Ahearne produced figures showing that, for credit unions overall, the loan to asset ratio had fallen to 36.6 per cent last year from 52 per cent in 2008.

The reasons behind it are easily identified. A lot of people are overburdened with debt, and many are finding it hard to get by in an environment of increased unemployment, reduced incomes and higher taxes. Concern about how the economy will perform over the coming years is persuading people to hold off taking out sizeable loans.

“It is the size of the average loan that is down, rather than the number of loans overall,” says Brennan. The fall in the ratio has been steady, and steep for the sector overall since 2008, according to Ahearne’s figures, though Brennan says that, for league members, the fall has eased somewhat in more recent times.

Red Carnation UK buys Ashford Castle the priciest Hotel in Ireland

Red Carnation Hotels U.K. Ltd. agreed to buy Ashford Castle, Ireland’s most-expensive hotel per night, for an undisclosed price.

The landmark 83-room property, where parts of “The Quiet Man” starring John Wayne were filmed, was sold on behalf of receiver Ernst & Young Ltd. through broker Savills Plc (SVS), according to a statement by E&Y today.

The average room rate was about 315 euros a night last July, Tom Barrett, head of Savills’s hotel and leisure unit in Ireland, said in October, citing data compiled by STR Global. Income-producing properties in Ireland have lost about two-thirds of their value on average since 2007, according to Investment Property Databank Ltd.

“Ashford Castle is the jewel in the crown of Irish hospitality,” Savills’s Barrett said in the statement. “It is a strong vote of confidence in the future of the industry from a leading international hotel and travel group.”

Ashford Castle, about 240 kilometers (150 miles) west of Dublin near the village of Cong, attracted bidders from the U.K., Europe, Asia, the U.S. and Australia, according to the statement. Carnation is a closely held hotelier that runs 14 four and five-star properties including the closest hotel to London’s Buckingham Palace, according to its website.

A plan to develop 13 penthouse bedrooms, 30 lodges and extend the 9-hole golf course to 18 holes at Ashford Castle was drawn up and never completed, London-based Savills said in a statement when the hotel was put up for sale in October.

Irish developer Gerry Barrett bought the hotel, on 365 acres (148 hectares) of land, in 2007 for 50 million euros, according to the Irish Times.

Lloyds Banking Group Plc’s (LLOY) Bank of Scotland (Ireland) unit appointed a receiver to Ashford Castle Properties Ltd. and Ashford Castle Estate Ltd. in November 2011, according to Iris Oifigiuil, the Irish State Gazette.

Half of all young suicide deaths in Ireland may be part of a cluster

Up to half of young men under the age of 18 who commit suicide may have known someone else who ended their own life.

So-called ‘suicide clusters’, particularly among younger people, are becoming a worrying issue in this country, according to a new report.

The new Suicide In Modern Ireland survey has identified, for the first time here, the possible true extent of suicide clusters, which involve a number of cases of suicide deaths in a particular area.

The report, authored by Professor Kevin Malone of UCD, has identified “very fragmented communities in the aftermath of a suicide event or events”.

Across all ages, it found as many as 10pc of suicide deaths in this country may be part of a cluster.

Ireland has the fourth highest rate of suicide amongst young males in the EU and now Turn The Tide On Suicide is calling for a Suicide Prevention Authority to reverse this trend.

On average, every 18 days, a child under 18 in Ireland dies by suicide.

In total, over 500 people a year commit suicide, with men accounting for 84pc.

Younger men are particularly at risk, which prompted Kerry teenager Donal Walsh, who died from cancer last week, to publicly appeal to young people not to end their lives.

ANECDOTES: According to Prof Malone, their findings have identified the possible true extent of suicide clusters.

“I think this has been previously under-estimated. If you just rely on anecdotes, you will only see part of the problem. We systematically examined for clustering in every case,” said Prof Malone.

“Our findings suggest that up to 50pc of our under 18 suicide deaths in Ireland may be part of couplets or clusters.

“A young suicide death is a very powerful and destabilising social force. It can reverberate intensely in smaller closed communities, such that the whole community is at increased risk for at least a year, and also at anniversaries,” he said.

“We have to place cluster-busting in our suicide prevention agenda. We need a national, year-round real-time early-warning system – it can’t just be in schools, as several of these young suicide deaths occur in kids who have left the school system,” he said.

Meanwhile, the report has called for an early detection adolescent depression screening programme to be considered.

Alcohol, mental illness and bullying are all highlighted as factors contributing to suicides among young people

The report urged that there should be a “deeper understanding of the role and culture of alcohol and its consumption in teens and young adults”.

Letterkenny Gardai say they are winning the war on crime

Crime in the Letterkenny area has fallen by 15 per cent in the last year, new figures suggest.

The figures were presented to the Letterkenny Joint Policing Committee by Supt. Vincent O’Brien and show that most types of crime in the Garda district are indicating a fall in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period last year.

Robberies from the establishment have fallen by 33 per cent while robberies from the person fell by 100 per cent. Aggravated burglary increased by 300 per cent though Supt. O’Brien stressed that the figure has increased from four incidents to seven.

Burglary fell by 2 per cent and theft fell by 10 per cent although theft from shops increased by 34 per cent which Supt. O’Brien said was a significant increase for Letterkenny.

Theft from vehicles increased by 15 per cent while other theft fell by 18 per cent.

The figures also showed that assaults causing harm fell by 52 per cent while assault was down by 13 per cent.

Supt. O’Brien said Gardaí in Letterkenny had targeted key offenders and three of them “are out of commission because they are in prison”. He also said recent robberies could be connected to a number of high dependency drug users who had moved into the Letterkennny area. He said they had been detected, arrested and charges were being brought.

Penguins evolution from wings to fins saved them energy

 A study of winged and diving birds shows there was an advantage to learning to swim underwater and abandoning flight: less energy expended. 

Flight might make some aspects of penguins’ Antarctic life much easier. The grueling march of the emperor penguins, for example, might take only a few easy hours rather than many deadly days. Escaping predators like leopard seals at the water’s edge would also be easier if penguins could take flight, so scientists have often wondered why and how the birds lost that ability.

The march of the penguins seems to mock evolution. If Emperor penguins just got up and flew 40 miles, they could get to their mates in no time flat. Why would evolution abide a tedious waddle across the ice?

It turns out there’s method in the seeming madness of these blubbery short-winged pedestrian birds. Penguins long ago faced a steep trade-off between the high calorie costs of flight and low energy expenditure of using their wings to swim. They dived into an “adaptive fitness valley” of evolution that fly-and-dive ocean birds such as murres and cormorants still straddle, according to a team of Canadian and American zoologists.

This biomechanical theory for winged flightlessness emerges from a study that measured energy efficiency in thick-billed murres – seabirds also known as guillemots, in the Auk family – and in cormorants.

Murres resemble penguins in their diving and swimming – “flight-based” propulsion by strong wings. But murres can still fly.

That lingering multi-tasking costs murres and other diving sea birds in ways that penguins don’t pay. The metabolic cost of flight for murres is the highest ever recorded for vertebrates, according to the study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Murres operate at 31 times their base metabolic rate while flying, placing them at the outer edge of energy efficiency among vertebrates.

Dive costs for murres were lower than those for cormorants, another fly-dive species that uses a “drag-based” paddle, like ducks. But the penguin still beats both in diving energy efficiency.

“Like many people, I have been fascinated by films of penguins walking across the Antarctic ice, and wondered, why on earth they lost the ability to fly?” said University of Aberdeen zoologist John Speakman, a member of the research team. “The lack of flight in penguins has been an enigma, because it leads to some seemingly poorly adapted behavior.”

But penguins are well adapted for finding food in water – adaptions that progressively made flying impossible: Their wings became shorter, with stouter bones. Their body mass increased, both to optimize muscle contraction rates for the slower wing beats, and to allow them to store more energy for longer dives.

These compromises are lacking in the murres, a chubby-bodied flier that has the highest wing loading of any flying bird, according to the study. It needs a whopping 146 watts per kilogram of weight to take flight, more than the record held by a bar-headed goose. A cormorant needed 87 watts per kilogram.

And dive costs increase rapidly with body mass for flying divers such as the murre, compared with flightless divers, such as the penguin. That places the murre at the edge of the “fitness valley” separating winged fliers and their flightless swimming avian cousins, the researchers suggest.

The penguins, however, pay a price for their efficiency: they became the favored prey of leopard seals while in the ocean.

That should be motivation enough for penguins to become even better swimmers.

A new species of dinosaur-era sea reptile is rewriting the books on the evolution of so-called sea monsters, a new study claims. (Read “When Monsters Ruled the Deep” from National Geographic magazine.)

The newfound—and potentially controversial—Malawania anachronus was a ten-foot (three-meter) long ichthyosaur, a group of dolphin-like creatures that could grow to 65 feet (20 meters) in length. These fast-swimming predators peaked in diversity during the Jurassic period. (Explore an interactive sea-monster time line.)

Oddly, though, new fossil analyses suggest that M. anachronus roamed the oceans of the early Cretaceous period—66 million years after its closely related cousins were thought to live.

That’s why Malawania anachronus—Kurdish and Greek for “out-of-time swimmer”—is “something that shouldn’t be there, but it is,” said study leaderValentin Fischer, a geologist and paleontologist at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences.

“This ‘living fossil’ of its time demonstrates the existence of a lineage that we had never even imagined,” Fischer said in a statement.

But Michael Caldwell, an ichthyosaur expert at the University of Alberta in Canada who was not involved in the study, cautioned against getting too excited about the find, citing the fact that the study is based on one incomplete specimen.

Tracing a “Living Fossil”

Petroleum geologists first uncovered a slab of rock containing a partial skeleton of an ichthyosaur in the 1950s in what’s now the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

The slab was used as a stepping stone for mules until someone recognized its importance and sent it to the U.K. for analysis. Ichthyosaur expert Robert Appleby studied it until his death in 2004, without having solved the mystery of when the sea monster lived.

Enter Fischer and his team, who extracted microscopic spores and pollen from inside the slab of rock and dated them to the early Cretaceous, according to the study, published May 15 in the journal Biology Letters.  (See 3-D pictures of Cretaceous sea monsters.)

The team also took another look at the ichthyosaur family tree—adding the newest member to their analysis—and discovered that numerous ichthyosaur groups that appeared during the Triassic and Jurassic periods probably survived into the Cretaceous.

But several puzzles remain. For one, M. anachronus‘s body—especially its chest and forefins—looks very much like its early Jurassic relatives.

The scientists don’t know how M. anachronus managed to keep the same body shape through the millennia—a “very rare feat” among marine reptiles, which tend to evolve quickly in response to changing ocean conditions.

Another mystery is why paleontologists haven’t found this lineage before. One possibility is due to preservation issues: the Middle East hasn’t yielded many complete ichthyosaur fossils, Fischer said.

That could be because there’s not thorough fieldwork in the area, or because the sea monster lived in a confined and shallow seaway that may not have had as many animals as an open ocean.

Thin Evidence?

But the University of Alberta’s Caldwell said that a new species rewriting evolution is “a hard argument to make with a single specimen,” adding that other interpretations of evolution are made using hundreds of skeletons.

On top of that, the single specimen isn’t ideal—it lacks the skull, a crucial element for determining ichthyosaur species. (Get more sea-monster fun facts.)

Though the skull is important in identifying ichthyosaur species, several parts of the M. anachronus skeleton have “unique” and “peculiar” features that indicate it’s a new species, noted study author Fischer.

Also challenging is that samples used to date M. anachronus came from a rock slab, and not the original site—it’s easier to date the rock in which the fossil was found, Caldwell said. The microfossil data on M. anachronus is unspecific, giving a range of roughly six million years.

“I’m afraid it’s a little bit thin … when it comes to data,” Caldwell said.

Nevertheless, paleontology means “trying to rewrite things from bits and pieces—we’re lucky if we get anything out of the fossil record.”

“I have to compliment them for giving it a whirl.”

Article via: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/04/130514-sea-monster-new-species-paleontology-science-evolution/

An Open Letter to Roman Catholics # 6

by Lucien J. LeSage, Jr.

And God says concerning her,

the Roman Catholic ‘church’

“Come out of her, my people,

that ye be not partakers of her sins,

and that ye receive not her plagues”

(Rev. 18:4).

CONCERNING PRAYER: How are Catholics taught to pray?

For one thing, they are taught to pray the rosary

in which memorized repetitious prayers

are prayed mostly to Mary as an (abominable blaspheme deleted).

But, how did Jesus teach his children to pray?

Jesus informs us in Matthew 6:7,

“But when you pray, use not vain repetitions,

as the heathen do:

for they think that they shall be heard

for their much speaking.”

Did you know that in pagan religions men

use prayer beads and repeat prayers over and over.

It is UN-scriptural to repeat prayers over and over

thinking the more you repeat them,

the more benefit it will bring.

Jesus said that is what the pagans do.

I can remember as a young lad

praying to different saints,

for we were taught to pray

to a particular saint for a particular need.

Danny Thomas prayed to St. Jude,

the (abominable blaspheme deleted) of those

suffering from desperate cases of illness,

such as cancer;

and now has helped erect a hospital in Jude’s name,

because he thinks St Jude had something to do

with answering his prayer.

I appreciate what St. Jude’s hospital

has done for young people suffering with cancer,

but Jesus commands his children

not to pray in such a manner.

The heathen pray that way!

The heathen have different gods for different needs.

CONCERNING IMAGES: As far back as I can remember,

in the Catholic ‘Church’, we always had

and prayed to (abominable blaspheme deleted).

When non- Catholics would ask me

why we prayed to (abominable blaspheme deleted),

I would always tell them,

“Well we don’t really pray to those images,

but they are just there to remind us of who we are praying to.”

That may sound like a good explanation

and one that would justify such a practice,

but it is a practice that directly violates

the commandment of God to His people.

Exodus 20:4 states,

“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,

or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above,

or that [is] in the earth beneath,

or that [is] in the water under the earth:”

CONCERNING SIN: As a Catholic,

I was always taught that I could commit certain sins

that were only (abominable blaspheme deleted),

while others were mortal in nature,

and the mortal, if left unconfessed,

would damn my soul to hell,

while (abominable blaspheme deleted)

would only result in temporal punishment,

if they were left unconfessed.

But how can this be true in the light of James 2:10;

“For whosoever shall keep the whole law,

and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.”

If I would be saved by keeping the law

and yet offend it in one point

then I am deserving of everlasting punishment.

“For the wages of sin is death;

but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord”

(Romans 6:23).

I cannot be eternally saved by keeping the law,

for by it is the knowledge of sin (Rom. 3:20),

but only by trusting that the Lord Jesus Christ

made an efficacious and vicarious atonement

on my personal behalf.

He must be my substitute or else I perish.

I do not keep the law in order to be saved,

but because He has quickened me to life

and has written the law in my heart.

“For by grace are ye saved through faith;

and that not of yourselves:

it is the gift of God:

Not of works, lest any man should boast.

For we are His workmanship,

created in Christ Jesus unto good works,

which God hath before ordained

that we should walk in them”

(Eph. 2:8-10).

If any man will see God,

it will be through the imputed righteousness of Christ;

that is, the righteousness of Christ

being put to his account,

and not because some priest has absolved him of his sins.

I cannot stand before God in my own righteousness,

for the Scripture tells me that all of my righteousness

is as filthy rags in the sight of God (Isa. 64:6),

but if I stand, I must stand clothed

in the righteousness of Christ.

Christ was made sin, not a sinner,

but was made sin and became a curse for me;

that is, He took my sins upon Himself

and bore them on the tree

and suffered the wrath that was my due,

that I might be made the righteousness of God in Him

(2 Cor. 5:21 and Gal. 3:13).

Salvation is entirely and wholly of grace

from start to finish.

Salvation is

of the Lord.

Confessing your sins to a (abominable blaspheme deleted)

will not take them away;

they must be taken away by the effectual work of Christ,

for He is the only scapegoat.

Oh yes, I should confess my sins,

but it should be to my Father in heaven,

and not in order that I may go to heaven ,

but because He is my Father and I have offended Him

and sinned against Him and I desire for Him

to forgive me as a father does his son,

and have that sweet fellowship restored.

CONCERNING BAPTISM: The Catholic ‘Church’ states,

“(abominable blaspheme deleted) is the sacrament

by which the soul is freed from original sin

and is reborn through water and the Holy Spirit.

The ‘church’ places this sacrament first

since it is a (abominable blaspheme deleted)

and is the gateway to all other sacraments.”

When my first child was born to me,

I had her baptized by a priest.

About the only utterances from her mouth,

at that time, was in the form of crying,

and she had no ability to understand

and consent to what was taking place.

And when the priest baptized her

he did so by pouring a small amount of water

on her head.

I put forth the question, is this Scriptural?

In the book of the Acts of the Apostles,

chapter 8 verses 36-39,

after Philip had preached Jesus Christ

to the Ethiopian eunuch and he believed on Him,

it is recorded thus,

“And as they went on their way,

they came unto a certain water:

and the eunuch said,

See, here is water;

what doth hinder me to be baptized?

And Philip said,

If thou believest with all thine heart,

thou mayest.

And he answered and said,

I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

And he commanded the chariot to stand still:

and they went down both into the water,

both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

And when they were come up out of the water,

the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip,

that the eunuch saw him no more:

and he went on his way rejoicing.”

And then in John 3:23 it is recorded,

concerning John the Baptist,

“And John also was baptizing

in Aenon near to Salim,

because there was much water there:

and they came, and were baptized.”

Two conclusions can be drawn

from these two passages of Scripture.

First, that the candidate for baptism

must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ with all his heart,

and then he or she may be baptized.

This is an impossible thing for an infant to do.

But the Scripture teaches that baptism

is to be a believer’s baptism.

Secondly, that the mode of baptism is to be immersion.

It does not take much water

to simply pour water on one’s head,

and one does not need to go down

into the water to have water poured on their head.

The Greek word from which “baptize” comes

means to “cover wholly with a fluid, to dip.”

Do not these verses of Scripture indicate that?

How can pouring picture the death,

burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ?

But true baptism does.

Then, lastly, Peter clarified the manner

in which baptism saves in 1 Peter 3:21.

There he states, concerning baptism,

“The like figure whereunto even baptism

doth also now save us

(not the putting away of the filth of the flesh,

but the answer of a good conscience toward God,)

by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

Notice baptism does not put away the filth of the flesh,

but it is the answer of a good conscience toward God.

Baptism will never change the heart.

Only the new birth can cause a sinner

to see himself as hell-deserving,

and his only hope to be the Lord Jesus Christ as his substitute.

“Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”

(John 3:3).

There upon believing on the Lord,

he should submit to be baptized

by someone with the God- given authority to baptize.

In conclusion: “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly,

that in the latter times,

some shall depart from the faith,

giving heed to seducing spirits,

and doctrines of devils;

Speaking lies in hypocrisy;

having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

Forbidding to marry,

and commanding to abstain from meats,

which God hath created to be received

with thanksgiving of them which believe

and know the truth” (1 Timothy 4:1-3).

Why does the Catholic ‘Church’

forbid its priests and nuns to marry?

Why do they teach their people to abstain

from eating meat on Friday?

Salvation is all of Christ

and not in any works or ritual.

It is all of grace and not of any works (Eph. 2:7-9).

Salvation is not in a church,

but in a person entirely, and that person is Christ.

It is trusting only in the work that Christ performed.

The problem is that men do not see themselves

a hell deserving sinners, totally void of righteousness,

and shut up to the grace of God in Christ.

As long as you see yourself as a righteous person

by your own actions,

there is no hope for you.

You must see yourself spiritually bankrupt

and fall prostrate

before the throne of grace for mercy.

If you see that, and are trusting

in the righteousness of Christ

for your salvation,

then it means that God has already brought you

to life by His Spirit

and has completely taken care of your sin problem,

in the legal sense, 2000 years ago, for,

“when we were enemies,

we were reconciled to God

by the death of His Son” (Rom. 5:10);

Yea, and purposed it from the foundation of the world.

“But I fear, lest by any means,

as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty,

so your minds should be corrupted

from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus,

whom we have not preached,

or if ye receive another spirit,

which ye have not received,

or another gospel, which ye have not accepted,

ye might well bear with him” (2 Cor. 11:3-4).

“For such are false apostles,

deceitful workers,

transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

And no marvel;

for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

Therefore it is no great thing

if his ministers also be transformed

as the ministers of righteousness;

whose end shall be according to their works”

(2 Cor. 11:13-15).

In the Revelation, chapter 17,

it was revealed to John that a great false church

would arise,

whose seat would be a city seated upon seven hills.

Rome is known as the “city of seven hills.”

In the Catholic schools that I attended

we were never taught anything in history class about the Inquisition

, and yet all one needs to do is open any encyclopedia

and they will find information concerning the inquisition.

If I lived during the time of the inquisition,

I would probably be put to death for writing this article.

Many were for preaching

what the Catholic ‘Church’ considered heresy.

The book of Revelation declares

that this great false church was drunken

with the blood of the saints (Rev. 17:6).

And God says concerning her,

“Come out of her, my people,

that ye be not partakers of her sins,

and that ye receive not her plagues”

(Rev. 18:4).

I do not think that any man

should criticize another man’s religion

just for the sake of criticism,

or out of hatred for other men;

but the question arises,

do we love the Word of God more than the word of men?

I have not written this article out of hatred for Catholics.

Please believe that!

My parents are still to this day Roman Catholics,

and I assure you that I do not hate my parents.

My desire is for them to know the same Lord and Savior

that reached down and saved this depraved sinner.

My desire is that the Lord may use this

to open the eyes of a few

and cause them to see the bondage

that they are being held under by false religion.

If you are a Roman Catholic,

and if I am telling you the truth,

then my hope is that I have not

become your enemy (Gal. 4:16).

See also “The Testimony of an Ex-Roman Catholic”

Curmudgeon’s Creationist Flow Chart

You’re wondering what that is above this post, aren’t you? It’s the result of years of solitary research. We have long been impressed by the Creationist Flow Chart at the website No Answers in Genesis!, and we even posted about it long ago. Since then we’ve been inspired to create our own.

Compared to theirs, our flow chart is tremendously simplified. At each step, there is only a “yes” or “no” answer. A “no” answer ejects you from the game — that is, you’re not a creationist, at least not a true creationist. An “I don’t know” is the same as a “no” for our purposes. A true creationist has to be hard-core. Only those who answer “yes” to all questions qualify as creationists, whether young-Earth, old-Earth, or stealth (intelligent design advocates).

Because of the limitations of our software (we use MS Paint) we could only diagram the first two questions, with an indication at the bottom that a “yes” answer lets you continue on to the next. We could have done a series of those diagrams, but due to the simple, binary nature of the thing, we think we can handle it verbally from that point on. Okay, let’s get to it:

The first question, Do gods exist?, removes atheists from the game. It’s difficult to imagine why one of those would ever be attracted to creationism. The second question — Is there only one god? — separates monotheists from polytheists.

The reason we toss polytheists out of the game is that although your Curmudgeon respects the Olympian gods, such a belief doesn’t lead to creationism as we know it today, so the questions after that are meaningless to such people. Okay, moving down the chart, the next questions (shown in bold) are off the diagram, but you can imagine that they’re there, one below the other:

Is this one deity (it’s irrelevant whether you call him God or the intelligent designer — we all know who we’re talking about) conscious and aware of us, as opposed to being a distant, impersonal force? That one separates the theists from the deists, and as far as we’re aware, there are no deist creationists, so at this point they’re out of the game. Only those who have been consistently answering “yes” can move on to the next question:

Does this deity intervene in nature from time to time in order to make things work out according to his plan? A “no” answer takes out any theists who don’t believe in the occurrence of miracles that affect our destiny. Moving on to the next question:

Is evolution (and DNA and all of that Darwinist stuff) leading to the existence of humans impossible without the deity’s deliberate intervention? There’s no mystery about that one, is there? All creationists of every variety (young-Earth, old-Earth, etc.) will answer “yes.” In fact, you may be wondering if there is anyone who has come this far who would answer “no.” Oh yes, there are science-literate theistic evolutionists who would definitely drop out here, so only those who answer “yes” are the full-blown creationists. Just to make sure, the last question will clinch the deal:

Would you insist on all of your answers even if scientists provided evidence to the contrary? By the time someone has worked his way to the bottom of the flow chart, answering “Yes, Yes, Yes!” to an increasingly peculiar series of questions, he’s virtually certain to answer “yes” to that one. No one would want to come all that way only to blow it at this point and end up in the Lake of Fire.

Okay, dear reader, that’s what we’ve got. Alas, it’s only partially drawn, and it’s quite likely that the questions need some tweaking. They were necessarily clumsy so that we could stay with our binary “yes-no” system, where “no” always meant the end of the game. Your suggestions will be welcome.

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Details of the debate:

The Origin of Life: The Great God Debate
Fuz Rana vs. Michael Ruse

Michael Ruse and Fuz Rana square off to debate the question “Are natural processes sufficient to explain the origin and the complexity of the cell?” The debate will be moderated by Craig Hazen. Sponsored by The Well Christian Club at UCR, Come Reason Ministries, and Biola University.

Format of the debate:

• Opening Arguments: 20 minutes each
• 1st Cross-Examination: 6 minutes each side
• Rebuttals: 10 minutes each
• 2nd Cross-Examination: 6 minutes each side
• Concluding Arguments: 5 minutes each
• Q &A: 40 minutes (Questions can come from Twitter and SMS)

Here on J.W. Wartick’s blog, I found a summary of the debate (video above).

Excerpt:

Michael Ruse Opening

Michael Ruse was careful to note that he is not keen on saying design is not possible. Rather, his claim is that naturalism is the most plausible explanation for the origins of life.

Ruse’s argued that design is implausible. Specifically, he noted that if design is the hypothesis put forward, there are any number of ways that one might consider that hypothesis. Is the designer a natural being within the universe or a supernatural being like God? Is there only one designer, or was there a group of designers (and he notes that a group of designers seems more plausible because automobiles require many designers to bring them about)? Finally, he raised the issue of bad design choices. He asked why, if there were a “hands-on” designer, would that designer not grant immunity to HIV and the like.

Ruse also argued that one can fall into the fallacy of selective attention- if one focuses upon only one example in isolation, then one might come to a conclusion that certain laws/theories may not be correct. But placing these same problems in context shows that they can be explained against “the background of our knowledge.”

Finally, Ruse ended with a number of examples for how problems which were seemingly insoluble were explained by naturalistic means. He also argued that one of the popular arguments for design, the flagellum, has so many different varieties (and is sometimes found to be a vestigial organ), and so cannot be shown to be designed.

Fazale Rana Opening

The problems which must be accounted for within an origins of life model are numerous. One must account for self-replication, the emergence of metabolism, the formation of protocells, the synthesis of prebiotic materials, the formation of life’s building blocks, and more.

Rana then turned to some primary models used by researchers to explain origin of life (hereafter OOL). First, there was the replicator-first model, which was problematic because in order for a molecule to be a self-replicator, it must be a homopolymer. But the complexity of the chemical environment on early earth rendered the generation of a homopolymer on the early earth essentially impossible. Next, the metabolism-first model runs into problem due to the chemical networks which have to be in place for metabolism. But the mineral surfaces proposed for the catalytic systems for these proto-metabolic systems cannot serve as such; Leslie Orgel held that this would have to be a “near miracle” and Rana argues that it is virtually impossible. Finally, the membrane-first model requires different steps with exacting conditions such that the model is self-defeating.

Rana argued positively that OOL requires an intelligent agent in order to occur. The reason is because the only way that any of these models can be generated is through the work on OOL in a lab. Thus, they can only be shown to be proof-of-principle and the chemistry breaks down when applied to the early earth. The fact that information is found in the cell is another evidence Rana presented for design. The systems found in enzymes with DNA function as, effectively, Turing machines. Moreover, the way that DNA finds and eliminates mistakes is machine-like as well. The fact that the needed component for success in lab experiments was intelligence hinted, according to Rana, at positive evidence for design.

Finally, Rana argued that due to the “fundamental intractable problems” with naturalistic models for the OOL and the fact that the conditions needed for the OOL and the processes required to bring it about have only been demonstrated as in-principle possible with intelligent agents manipulating the process.

He’s got a summary of each of the speeches, and it rings true with what I saw when I watched the debate.

No Advertising Dollars And No Government Contracts

I openly state that I have not taken a single advertising dollar and I also explain that I have not signed a lengthy government contract to become a disinformation agent and that I have not appointed myself as one either, so basically what that means is that what I’m bringing you on my show is nothing short of the raw and uncircumcised version of the paranormal.

All too often people tune into certain radio shows that are fueled by advertising dollars and some of the hosts have signed backdoor government contracts to become disinformation agents and to keep you from discovering the truth which is that the entire paranormal paradigm has not been explained and there are no keepers of the books. Now there are people that are certainly more popular than I am and that you’re used to hearing from, but that does not mean that they have all of the answers, and I submit to you that some of them have a small percentage of the answers because they simply cannot know everything that goes on in the world, and unfortunately the west has always been a place where it’s a bloody popularity contest just like it was back in kindergarten and in grade school, which does indeed mean that we have not grown up and that we’re still behaving like a bunch of rambunctious pubescent adolescents because you see if we had indeed grown up then evolution wouldn’t be the prevailing scientific theory since others that were less popular and less well connected than Mr. Charles Darwin also had their own ideas about how humans came about, however, they didn’t have the same societal influence as Mr. Darwin’s family, so they were forever pushed to the back of the pages of history by the bloody columnists that were on the take just like they’re on the take today, and these men that also had something to say, aren’t even mentioned anymore even though they were contemporaries of Darwin. You have the ideas about history that you have because someone with the ability to control the flow of information decided long ago that evolution was going to be the scientific theory that the entire western world would come to accept as gospel. There has always been a struggle to control your thoughts and the one with the most money has always been the victor even though the one with less money has had something pertinent to say.

Wars over information are nothing new and all one need do is look to the story that involves the serpent and Eve. The serpent provided Eve with some information that was different from what Eve had previously received from Adam and this single act marked the start of the information war since the serpent introduced that which was not authorized by the Elohim. The information war that was started by the serpent changed the course of human history and everyone from Charles Darwin to the modern day journalists to the Hollywood script writers has joined the war to control human beings through the flow of information. You cannot believe all of the news articles that you read on the internet because some of the journalists that write for a number of the big name outfits are trying to control you by inserting their own ideas into your head or they’re working off of a script that has come down to them from those in high places.

You see I discovered as a child that human beings are nothing more than what they read, see, and hear, and that they can be easily programmed to act a certain way or to respond to a certain set of circumstances by simply observing others in action.

Insanity is contagious and it can be spread through the airwaves and through books and through internet based news articles and through newspapers and through television programming and through the feature films that you watch while visiting the movie theater. The devils are in the hen house of print and audio and visual and they are and have been waging an information war against the humans and again this war was first started by the serpent and the humans as well as the other paranormal entities that have been visiting this planet have been active participants in the information war that started at the very beginning of human history. We evolve and excel through information. We do not evolve in bodily form. Our intellect is the only thing that evolves. Our physical form has always been that of a human. We did not evolve from a single cell life form. “Intellectual Evolution” is the only true evolution.

I have been bringing you certain paranormal experiences and encounters free of charge and I have not been appearing on any of the other paranormal shows for the purpose of selling a book or a DVD which should tell you something. I’m simply here to bring you the unadulterated paranormal truth. This is my sole purpose for doing Lyceum Of The Wolfe Radio and if you’re looking for the real paranormal then you’re in the right place because I will bring you information about violent demons that rape men. This is something that is uncomfortable for most men because it gives them nightmares and it keeps them up at night because they would much rather not think about the fact that there are paranormal entities that are out there and that are much stronger than they are and that have raped men, however this is just a fact of life, and I’m dedicated to bringing you the uncircumcised version of the paranormal which does indeed include certain demons that have raped men whether the men want to admit this sort of thing or not. In the past I have talked about certain demons that have raped women, so why should I keep quiet about the demons that have raped men simply because some of the cowardly BETA MALES that occupy the planet with us are extremely uncomfortable with knowing that other men are being raped on a constant and daily basis by a group of inter-dimensional beings (i.e., demons) that cannot be stopped by conventional means?

Your pistols and your prayers will often not work and the demon will laugh at your foolish attempt to protect yourself, however, if you show the demon that you have no concern for your life and that you’re able to tap into the dark energy that is floating around in the universe, you will definitely get the demon’s undivided attention because you see you are tapping into what fuels them. Trust me I know and what I’m accomplishing by doing this commercial free radio show is exactly the same thing that my ancestors did ever since the beginning of human history because you see you have to realize that the paranormal is discussed on a daily and hourly basis in the ancient world or in the third world and it’s also discussed in certain parts of the western world since westerners are also experiencing these things. And although I hail from the west and am a Northerner by birth, I am dedicated to keeping the traditions of my ancestors that hail from Africa and this is the reason that I openly discuss the paranormal since this is what goes on in Africa right to this very day and since it also goes on in America since certain people from Africa or from the ancient world have relocated to America.

I am not doing this for profit and am not in this field for the money and wanted to take the time to clarify things because all too often someone will hear another person talking about the paranormal and they will wait for them to say go over to my website and by my paranormal book or my paranormal DVD. I’m not selling any merchandise that’s of a paranormal nature, and have not commercialized the paranormal like others that are motivated by profit and that are not conducting a commercial free paranormal show for ancestral reasons. The paranormal was discussed throughout my entire childhood and I have relatives that live in the South and that are well acquainted with the paranormal and our family line goes all the way back to Africa and this is why we have retained the gift of precognition and it’s also why the deities that are on the other side of this reality have been communicating with us ever since our people arrived in America after leaving the gorgeous continent of Africa.

The Ancient Black Egyptians are also my ancestors because they were also Africans and the Egyptian Underworld is indeed paranormal just like I said on my website.

05/10/2013

During the program I discuss the work that I did with a white candle on 05/10/2013 and what transpired while I was using the candle for protection because as previously stated a white candle is used for protection. I also talked about the entity that visited me in the wee hours of the morning of 05/11/2013 and I describe him as wearing a dark green monk’s robe and I also state that his face was completely black and formless and that he left me a sign that confirmed that I had indeed had the encounter and that I was not dreaming and that the visitation meant that I had achieved penetration and that the connection to the other side had been made. I was not harmed by the entity, however, the powerful electrical signature of the entity that visited me caused an uncontrolled reaction that was the result of its presence because you see as I have stated on many different occasions ghosts and demons and devils and Extraterrestrials and other paranormal entities have an electrical signature that is very different from us human beings and it is this electrical signature that causes us to behave in the involuntary manner that we do.

The entity left me confirmation that he had been inside my bedroom by placing an old lottery ticket inside a business card holder that I use on a daily basis. The old lottery ticket was stuffed inside the side slit and when I got up later on that morning around 8:30AM which was about five and a half hours after the entity entered my bedroom, the first thing that I saw when I reached for my business card holder was the lottery ticket that was sticking out of it, and it was surreal because the lottery ticket was placed inside the business card holder so that my name and address and telephone number were staring at me when I reached for the business card holder to place it inside my pocket.

The entity stuffed the lottery ticket inside the business card holder just like a human would place a piece of paper inside a slit to make sure that it didn’t fall out. The fact that the lottery ticket was specifically placed, so that I would see my name and address and telephone since this is how you have to fill out the lottery ticket, means something  because my date of birth was also written on the back of the lottery ticket and my birthdate has been popping up from time to time. For example, I can look at a clock radio or at a passing auto mobile or I can be inside a store and the month of my birth as well as the day will catch my attention as if someone is nudging me. The same thing has been happening with the numbers that I have been talking about during my radio program. You know the divine numbers.

What does the lottery ticket with my name and address and telephone number and exact birthdate mean? Is it indeed a harbinger of the end? Shall I expire before my birthdate or shall I expire on my birthdate? Well, whatever it means, I’m ready for it because death is nothing to be feared because again death is the beginning of something beautiful and unrestricting and this is indeed why I tweeted and why I also wrote in my book that, “Death Is Truly Sublime.”

I Was A Childhood Skeptic And Atheist

I discuss being a childhood skeptic and atheist prior to experiencing a, “Damascus Style Moment,” which is what led me to seek out the answers that only the other realms can provide. This is why I conducted, “The Bloody Mary Experiment,” and it’s also why I put the so called theory of being able to sell one’s soul to the devil to the test after hearing that a certain toothpaste inventor had sold his soul to the devil and that he had become rich after doing so and that this is how he developed the toothpaste brand. Well, the so called selling one’s soul to the devil proved to be pure poppycock and nothing more than a bloody old wives tale that rich people tell to poor people and that poor people repeat and take to heart since they’re constantly searching for a reason for why they’ve been born poor and for why they cannot break out of their impoverished states no matter how hard they might try.

You see I don’t just believe everything that someone tells me because I actually test the theories and the truth of the matter is that a set of sinister human beings (i.e., demonically possessed racist idiots) set the course of poverty for certain individuals long before they were ever born. For example, after slavery supposedly ended in the United States of America blacks were forced to live in certain impoverished areas that offered no opportunity for economic advancement and they were also barred from living in certain white controlled areas and this same underhanded practice has continued to this very day although others that hail from Latin America have been allowed to move into these white areas. And you see with this particular dynamic in place and happening all throughout the United States of America since the states were allowed to take full control of their black citizens after the Civil War, there was absolutely no way to escape poverty since the very system was designed to turn the vast majority of African Americans into criminals since they no longer wanted to be slaves. And this particular end was accomplished through frame jobs and through deceptive television programming and through destructive grassroots programs (i.e., ethnically based propaganda programs and government paid provocateurs and illegal weapons distribution and doctrines that taught the residents of the black community to hate one another and to see each other as the enemy instead of the whites that were purposely keeping them down by flooding their neighborhoods with substances that allowed them to self-medicate and by providing certain government handouts that caused unchecked dependency and by not giving them the kinds of jobs that they had been begging for and by giving them government cheese that was tainted).

The nonracist whites also accomplished their goal through negative radio programming that reinforced feelings of worthlessness and through Hollywood movies that depicted blacks as villains and as drug dealers and as alcohol abusers which eventually became a self-fulfilling prophecy due to the emotional states that blacks were in after being enslaved and then forced to live in an area that was constantly policed by a group of tyrannical badge carrying pistol touting demons that were fueled by racial prejudice.

The destruction of the black nation was also accomplished through deceptive news articles and through character assassinating evening news reports that were intentionally designed to destroy the descendants of the former slaves and to make absolutely sure that they would never live out their dreams and that they would fight one another for a seat at the evil white master’s table since he held all of the cards of happiness and since he had decided to shape them into the caprices of his convoluted imagination and to change their predominantly Christian and Muslim life styles to one that was filled with violence and anger and drug use, which is why the vast majority of blacks went from aspiring to be scholars to wanting to be nothing more than gangstas and drug dealers since this is the Hollywood fantasy world that was chosen for them by the bloody social engineers that had the power and the tools to make their fantasy into a reality.

The vast majority of black Americans have become the unwitting actors in a big budget Hollywood production of epic proportions, and the sad thing is that the vast majority of them are unconscious and aren’t getting paid a cent for acting out the roles that have been selected for them by those that control the purse.

This is what has been playing out in America and some blacks have fallen for the scheme since they couldn’t see the evil white puppet masters that were working against them from behind the scenes.

You see in order to get a Gangsta Rap record deal and in order to be embraced by Hollywood and placed in front of the television camera and given the latest doodad of surveillance and control that literally follows you everywhere you go and that the, “Technology Pimps,” or that the, “Pimps of Technology,” want to promote to the unsuspecting prostitutes (i.e., the general population) you have to have done some horrible things while trapped inside the hell that’s known as the ghetto or you have to have come from a family that’s been affected by this “Black Hell” otherwise the white record owners and now the black record owners who learned everything that they know from the white record owners won’t give you a record contract because fans want to hear violent lyrics since they have been conditioned to accept this as their reality.

What you have just finished reading is the true story of black poverty in America and some were allowed to excel while others were purposely kept down by the evil puppet masters that are in control of an endless budget that’s not on the books. These same black budget holders are also in control of the corrupt system of violence and despair and perpetual depression that keeps the blacks at war with one another. This wrong has never been properly addressed or righted and the demonically possessed racist idiots that are behind it all have absolutely no intention of making things right and this is why the universe has been wreaking havoc in their land and this is also why they’re at war with one another and it’s also why they are forsaking the very deity that has been protecting them when they have deserved far, far worse than they’ve ever been given.

The workers of inequity (i.e., discrimination) have been judged because the blood of the innocents has demanded it and now everything that they previously used against African Americans is being directed at them. This cannot and will not be stopped because they have passed the point of no return and were given chance after chance after chance and now they must be punished for their evil deeds since they did not continue to stand against the evil men and women that were committing this violence against those that could not fight back since they did not have the intellectual tools to do so.

You see it comes down to hospitality and when you are hospitable to some and not to all the universe has an interesting way of fighting against you and this is why I told you that the road was going to get bumpy. You haven’t seen anything yet because vengeance has been called for and your friend is now your enemy and you cannot escape him because he is you.

The Divine Numbers

During the program I mention that I continue to see the divine numbers and that the communication has continued that I previously told you about.  I have been seeing 222 333 444 555 777 888 and 11:11 all over the place and I’m also seeing other numbers of significance. The communication between me and the deities that are on the other side of this reality is numerical in nature, and I discuss having an encounter with someone that was experiencing limited demonic possession while I was in the middle of gathering photographic evidence to show the skeptics and the evolutionists and the atheists since I used to be an atheist. However, the encounter with the person was a message from the deities and I am not to wake anyone up unless they authorize it. If they want someone woken up in dramatic fashion then they will be the ones to do it. I am not to provide any photographic evidence. The deities don’t have a problem with me talking about the paranormal since those with a certain level of paranormal consciousness will be able to perceive the truth.

If you have a certain level of paranormal consciousness you will be enlightened by the things that I say and write and if you don’t then you will remain in the dark.

Everyone may not receive dramatic examples of the paranormal because it could cause them to go insane. This has happened to certain people including famous people because they realized for the first time in their lives that we’re not alone. If the gods or the Extraterrestrials or the deities that are beyond this realm want you woken up, they will do it themselves and hopefully their calculation will be correct and you will be able to stomach the encounter, otherwise you could be driven insane since you have been lied to by the Mainstream Media Mavens (i.e., The 3Ms) and also by the pseudo alternative media that’s supposed to be different, but that follows the same script of not allowing the truth to come out and that cuts to commercial while someone is discussing something only to come back with an entirely different subject altogether since you weren’t meant to hear it on a corporate owned radio network.

Lyceum Of The Wolfe Radio is “Centrist Media” and I do not follow the rules of control that have been established by the Mainstream Media Mavens or by some of their cohorts that make up the pseudo alternative media.

There are real alternative media sources out there, but if they’re owned by a corporate entity, you should take everything with a grain of salt since we are collectively engaged in an information war with the humans that want to keep you in the dark about the paranormal. These individuals control the print and the audio and the visual as well as what you see at the movie theater. The paranormal is not a joke and you can easily be separated from your human bodies if you mess around with this phenomena, so know what you’re doing before you try to experiment.

Not everyone in the Mainstream Media is bad because there are some good men and women that are working behind the scenes, but the racist ones cannot and should not be trusted by anyone. Nonracist whites are also their targets since they don’t hold their racist views.

Blacks and their kindred spirits that are identified as the nonracist whites and Hispanics and Asians and others that call the planet earth their home, must always be on the lookout for the White Supremacist and they must maintain their overall ability to threaten the White Supremacist with death if attacked. The equalizer is the only language that the White Supremacist understands. He or she cannot be reasoned with unless you have the means of protecting yourself since they are constantly arming themselves for the war with the blacks and with the nonracist whites and with the Hispanics and with the Asians and with anyone that doesn’t hold their racist views and that won’t leave America when they’re told to do so.

A great deal of White Supremacist are conceal and carry permit holders and they cannot and should not be trusted.

Question For The Seekers Of Disclosure

My question for those that constantly seek the kind of terrestrial disclosure that is given by human beings that are much like themselves and that cannot be trusted to tell them the entire truth. Is why don’t you ask the Extraterrestrials to give you disclosure instead and whining and crying and begging the U.S. Government to give you disclosure?

Politely ask the Extraterrestrials or the gods to remove the, “Superimposed Reality,” so that you may see what is beyond this realm.

But be careful what you ask for and be prepared for whatever comes through, that is if you really want the kind of disclosure that is delivered in a, “Damascus Style Moment.”  You certainly claim that you do, however, all you ever do is to ask the same people the same question over and over again. They don’t take you serious and they don’t feel that you have a right to know, so why don’t you start knocking on the door of someone that does because you see the Extraterrestrials or the gods just might answer, and they might also knock on the doors of those that have not asked them for disclosure since they’re members of your species, so be absolutely certain about your request before you place it because you just might get an answer that wakes up your entire neighborhood since the Extraterrestrials or the gods believe in doing things in dramatic fashion, so if you don’t have the unmitigated stones that are required for such an undertaken then don’t waste their time because they’ll ask you why you disturbed them if you knew that you weren’t ready to receive the truth.

Trust me you don’t want this to happen to you because they might continue to knock on your door night after night which is something that some Extraterrestrial abductees aren’t being truthful about. Don’t call them unless you’re ready because they might not leave you alone which is why some people continue to be abducted over and over again since they or someone inside their immediate family played around with what they didn’t understand in the first place since the Members of the Racist Idiot Choir that write the ridiculous, “Puff Pieces,” that just make you want to wheeze upon reading them, successfully convinced them to their detriment that the paranormal didn’t exist and that there was no such thing as Angels and Demons and Ghosts and Devils and Extraterrestrials or Gods.

Others are being abducted and experimented on for other reasons because you see the blood of the innocents is listened to by a lot more than you might think, and the prayers of those that have been wronged by certain racist individuals are responded to by a great deal of paranormal entities and the chastisement which includes driving certain people crazy, so that they cannot enjoy the very things that they deprived others of, began a long, long time ago and it will continue, so you can put your bloody tin hats on if you want, however, you are not immune because the Extraterrestrials and certain other demonically possessed human beings are specially looking for certain individuals and this is why these individuals are being abducted and violated and treated inhumanely since they did the very same thing to the members of their own species simply because they were different. Well, now they have someone that’s doing the very same thing to them and that’s stealing their children since they stole the children of others during slavery and during quote-on-quote peace times.

Ever wondered why so many demonically possessed third world based pedophiles are crossing into America? Why are they being allowed to enter the country? Can they be stopped? Why have they chosen to come to America when nothing like this ever happened before? Is there a reason that the number of child abductions increased with the number of UFO sightings? Who’s controlling these vicious demonically possessed pedophiles that are scouring the entire continental United States of America and why are they especially active in the cities that have experienced UFO sightings?

Ask your nearest Mainstream Media Maven or your local representative of the pseudo alternative media since they claim that the paranormal isn’t real.

Sure it is and it’s sweeping across America, but you don’t have to believe me. Just open your bloody eyes and asked yourselves why all of these things that never happened before are happening and why you’re constantly being lied to by those that you have grown to trust since they are beamed into you living rooms each and every night of the week? Why can’t your children play outside without some filthy demonically possessed pedophile trying to snatch them?

The devils are in the hen house.

I Encourage Others To Record Their Experiences

I encourage others to record their experiences and to share them with their family and friends. Also, if you have a paranormal experience that you just need to get off your chest and that you might want me to mention during one of my shows, you can send me an email with the words, “Please discuss my story on your show. “ It’s possible that I might also have you on the show.

You don’t have to provide your real name and if you do, I’ll only mention the first name and not the last name and this also goes for members of the law enforcement community that might want to share their experiences.

Your emails can be sent to: carmichaelwolfe@rocketmail.com

Below is a link to the episode.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lyceum-of-the-wolfe/2013/05/12/mysterious-occurrences

May your nights and days be filled with the answers that you seek.

In his excellent book, Saving Darwin: How to Be a Christian and Believe in Evolution, Karl Giberson (the Gordon College Director of the Forum on Faith and Science, Executive VP of the BioLogos Foundation, and a science professor at Eastern Nazarene College) masterfully charts Charles Darwin’s scientific and faith journey and shows that, like his own theory, Darwin was complex and deeply misunderstood. Giberson also briefly recounts his own journey from staunch fundamentalist/Creationist to theistic evolutionist.

Saving Darwin deflates common misconceptions and myths about Darwin and evolution. Evolution has been accused of being the sole inspiration for the Nazi’s “final solution” as well as being the scapegoat for rampant sexual promiscuity and the general moral decay of Western Civilization. Such fulminating rhetoric makes for great fodder in the cultural wars of our day, but ultimately ends up being a classic case of the fallacy of false cause.

While the public reaction upon the publication of his Origins of the Species in 1859 should not be downplayed, the book garnered mixed reviews but eventually won over the scientific community. Contrary to popular belief, American Christians in general had very little problems accepting Darwin’s findings. Giberson notes that fundamentalists (including Princeton’s conservative theologian Benjamin Warfield) received it with open arms (but with a few reservations). History shows that this has dramatically changed.

For much of the later part of the 19^th/early 20^th centuries, the theory of evolution was generally accepted as a reasonable explanation for the diversity of life forms on the planet. Fast forward to today and it seems this view has evolved (or devolved, as it were). Giberson remains flummoxed as to the reasons for this reality.

The latest Barna survey shows that nearly half of all Americans (46%) reject the theory of evolution and affirm a Young Earth Creationist view, which asserts that the earth and all its inhabitants were created as they are now about 10,000 years ago. An equally stunning survey shows that over half (54%) of American pastors embrace this YEC view.

This means that in American public schools, every child/youth is taught the scientific consensus (backed by supporting data and research) that the earth is 4-5 billion years old; and yet about half of these children reject what they are being taught. On an ironic note: to prevent diseases that had been fatal in previous generations, most of these kids were inoculated with vaccines, which were developed in large part thanks to Darwin’s theory.

To put this in perspective, an unsourced illustration attributed to atheist biologist Richard Dawkins will suffice: this would be the equivalent of students being taught (correctly) that the distance between New York and San Francisco is 2906 miles (2582 miles if you’re a crow), while at the same time believing as a point of fact that the distance is 28 feet.

Giberson is a devout Christian who undoubtedly is criticized by other Christians who are also sincere in their devotion. He takes on religious critics of Darwinism while at the same time fending off hostile atheists who are intent on using evolution to undermine faith.

The book offers a splendid review of the court battles between creationists and evolutionists, beginning with the popular Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925 when Dayton, Tennessee school teacher named John Scopes was arrested and charged with teaching evolution (in direct violation of state law). The reader will be surprised to learn that much of the trial was a publicity stunt devised by a few  Dayton residents (Scopes was in on it also) to get publicity for their community and stage a cultural war between William Jennings Bryant, a presidential candidate and Woodrow Wilson’s former Secretary of State,  and Clarence Darrow, the noted and notorious agnostic attorney from that bastion of evil – “the North.”

The trial would serve as a template for future excursions into courtrooms across the nation, including the Supreme Court. In every case, supporters of Creationism and/or Intelligent Design (which some have described as “Creationism in drag”) have failed to disprove Darwin’s theory. And they have also failed to prove how their “biblically-based” science is verifiable. Giberson’s sharp diagnosis is that by and large, the creation/evolution debate is more of a culture war rather than a serious, informed discussion of the scientific method or theology.

While it is tempting to label proponents of Creationism or Intelligent Design as simply uneducated idiots, Giberson remains diplomatic. Instead, he maintains that conservative Christians (in general) aren’t extreme, right-wing zealots who are “anti-science.” Many are well-educated persons who are, sadly, misinformed about Darwinian thought.

Charles Darwin did not “invent” his theory out of whole cloth. There were other theories and research that were “in the air” and had been postulated long before he boarded The Beagle. Darwin’s five-year voyage allowed him to piece together the seemingly disparate scientific strands into a tapestry that reasonably explains the development of life forms on Earth.

Saving Darwin attempts to reveal the real Charles Darwin – a man of faith who set out on a journey that in which he expected to see the explicit handiwork of a benevolent Creator. Instead, he saw the absolute brutality among the beasts at play in the world. What rocked Darwin’s world was sheer amount of death that he witnessed. But it wasn’t scientific observation that unraveled Darwin’s faith. Years later, the death of his young daughter would be the event that sealed his agnosticism.

Giberson’s reflection on finding meaning in the vastness of the world is humbling: “The meaning we find in the world is simply encountered in all its rich mysterious complexity and in the most surprising of places. Meaning is not the conclusion of a scientific investigation…The connections we draw between the mysteries of our existence and those parts of the world we understand must be drawn always in pencil, in anticipation of being erased. Once we connected our relevance to a location in the center of the universe. There were observations that supported this cosmology, to be sure, but the enduring power of this view derived from its connection to an exalted view of ourselves. That line had to be erased. For much the same reason we once celebrated a large gap between our species and all others. That line has also been erased.”

Let us trace back our evolutionary lineage.
Present day: Homo sapiens sapiens; modern humans.
2.5 Ma (million years ago): The genus Homo appears.
3.6 Ma: Australopithecus afarensis is likely fully bipedal.
85-65 Ma: The first primates appear.
220 Ma: The first mammals appear.
390 Ma: The first tetrapods appear, though still water-bound.
505 Ma: The first vertebrates appear.
550 Ma: Flatworms! — the earliest to have a brain.
600 Ma: The first multicellular animal appears (it was probably sponge-like).
1200 Ma: Sexual reproduction appears for the first time.
2100 Ma: Eukaryotes appear.
3900 Ma: Proto-prokaryotic cells appear; the first to photosynthesize.
4000 Ma: The earliest life appears, so far as we can tell.^[1]

A long and illustrious history we have had! Note the acceleration of change as we get closer to the present — In less than the time it took for prokaryotes to evolve into eukaryotes, we go from the beginning of sexual reproduction among unicellular organisms to modern humans. This accelerating change is manifest in other ways, on a much shorter timescale. I admit, I’m a bit of an anthropocentrist. We began to use tools around 2.6 million years ago, first developed civilization^[2] about 14,000 years ago, began to develop complex mathematics around 5,000 years ago, invented the water wheel 2,000 years ago, began to harness electricity 200 years ago, flew the first plane 110 years ago, created the first electronic computers 70 years ago, detonated the first nuclear bomb around then as well, traveled to the moon just over 40 years ago, and saw the beginnings of the internet about 30-40 years ago.

Technologically speaking, then, it seems that we are approaching a turning point with respect to our development. I don’t know where it will lead. The preachers of the singularity think that integration with intelligent computers — or even our being superseded by such computers — will come to dictate the course of human history, beginning in the coming decades or centuries. I myself suspect that the development of strong AI^[3] in conjunction with human genetic engineering will be very influential as we get further into the 21st century. No doubt, there are serious ethical considerations at play here, especially regarding intelligent-computer rights and the ethicality of modifying human genetic code. I suspect that there will be little opposition to the use of genetic engineering to fix genetic diseases like type 1 diabetes or Huntington’s disease. However, it will inevitably occur to several people that we will be able to use this technology not only to fix diseases, but also to improve on our extant genetic code — to make people stronger, smarter, altogether more capable than unmodified humans. There will be serious opposition to this kind of modification, but I think it will happen anyways. The potential impact of such modification will be so great that I don’t think that any amount of opposition will stop this kind of research into human genetic engineering, for better or worse.

So what has been underlying the history of human development, and what will continue to underlie the course of our change? I think that it is one thing: to use a Nietzschean term, the will to power. That is, the desire to see one’s will actualized in the world, and in oneself. Rooted in the ancient evolutionary drive to self-perpetuation, humans have developed tools to fight off animals and get food; humans have sought to circumvent and overcome the violence of nature by creating buildings, constructing dams and predicting hurricanes; humans have fought one another and built more and more fearsome tools with which to do so. All of this is an expression of the desire to exert one’s will on the world. We have also sought to impose our own will on ourselves, by means of ethical systems and religious doctrines. What is ethics, but an attempt by the conscious mind to overcome the base instincts present in all of us? Do not kill, but make peace; do not steal or cheat, but be generous with what you have — these are proscriptions against our instinctual desires in service of the more recently-developed parts of ourselves. In effect, the development of ethical systems represents a human attempt to shape ourselves in our own image; to exert our own will on ourselves.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that “man is a rope, fastened between animal and Superman — a rope over an abyss.”^[4] What strikes me here is the idea of mankind existing as an intermediate between two states, as a sort of transitionary being. Departing from Nietzsche, we can see humanity as existing between animal and the posthuman. There are two main elements in us: 1) the instinctual; the element of animalness still present and powerful in us, and 2) the conscious, or the willing; the part of us grounded in self-reflexivity that allows us to examine ourselves and choose what we want ourselves to be. It seems that the movement from animal to posthuman is a movement away from instinct towards complete self-actualization. I see the posthuman as the hypothetical being who has entirely molded himself^[5] according to his own will. And is this not the act of a god?

Genesis 1:27 says “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him.” Countless religions throughout the world hold that humanity was created in accordance with divine will. This, I think, points to our own belief in the goodness and justice of human endeavors, for if we exist in accordance with divine will then there must be an element of divine within us as well. Countless religions also promise transcendence from this earthly sphere. This points to a desire to be altogether greater than we are; to be more perfect, more powerful; to achieve a higher state of being. But it seems that we as a species are on earth becoming more and more knowledgeable, more and more powerful; we are in effect moving in the direction of the omnipotence and omniscience attributed to gods throughout history.

What will it take for us to continue down this path? Will we someday spread throughout the universe, acting as gods ourselves to the lifeforms we may encounter on alien planets? On a smaller scale, it seems that technological development will continue to play a large role in our growth as a species — in the mid-term future, as noted above, I think strong AI and genetic engineering will be very influential. But I think that we also need to develop ethically and even spiritually if we are to responsibly handle our ever-increasing knowledge and power. It is by the power of the higher element in us that we have not killed ourselves at this point, for we certainly have the capability to do so. In the hands of creatures of pure instinct, I have no doubt that the weapons we have today would be used to catastrophically destructive ends. As we create weapons with more and more destructive potential, we will need the corresponding good judgement and ethical solidity that will come with further development of the self-reflexive element in us. In this way we will move closer to the posthuman. But it seems that there is also the potential for us to fail; to be overcome by the forces in ourselves that represent our instinctual past.

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[1] I am, as always, indebted to wikipedia. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_human_evolution

[2] As defined by the transition from nomadism to permanent settlement in one place.

[3] Strong AI: artificial intelligence that surpasses human cognitive capabilities. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI

[4] Thus Spoke Zarathustra 1:4.

[5] I use the male pronoun only because there is no gender-neutral singular pronoun in English, I am not fond of the use of “they” in this case, and I myself am a male and so naturally tend towards the male pronoun. Please excuse this.

..quel poco che ho deciso di svelare finora.

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Perhaps you’ve never heard it
But it’s a name that you should know
It is Swami Ramalingam
Who made his body glow

In the year 1874
He disappeared from sight
Transforming his earthly body
By turning it into light

It is not a far fetched story
Not just folklore or fantasy
It is the destiny of mankind
And the ultimate reality

In Part One of this series we followed the life-cycle of a simple insect, the Luna Moth, through one complete cycle, paying attention to the details of the process. We demonstrated the role of DNA and the genome in the replication of each stage in the life of the moth. In Part Two we demonstrated scientifically that death is not present in Luna Moths who complete their life-cycle and generate another life-cycle. Unending life is the gift of nature to this moth and all the other crawling creatures.

The complexity of the organization of each life-cycle of a moth or any other creature, including man, is staggering, and is managed almost exclusively by the living DNA which is passed forward to the next generation.  This concluding Part Three will make a lot more sense if you take the time to read Parts One and Two before going further.

We quoted from accepted science at the beginning of this series: “Life is specified by genomes. Every organism, including humans, has a genome that contains all of the biological information needed to build and maintain a living example of that organism. The biological information contained in a genome is encoded in its deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA).” http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/primer/genetics_genome.html (2004).

I have been leading you to an acceptable scientific conclusion which is difficult to comprehend. Unending life is not only a demonstrated characteristic of insects; it is also a scientifically demonstrated characteristic of human beings, including you and me. The life-cycle of a human being is really not very different from that of the moth. Sexual reproduction through the transfer of living DNA from one generation to another is the same. Unending life is the gift of nature to man as well as to moth.

The life-force passed on from one human being to another through sexual reproduction thus is scientifically demonstrated to come down to a single point. One microscopic strand of living DNA in a single sperm cell meets with another single microscopic strand of living DNA residing in the nucleus of one human egg cell.

“Whenever the state of a biological system is not determined solely by present conditions but depends on its past history, we can say that the system has memory.” Casadesús, J. and D’Ari, R. (2002). Bioessays, 24: 512–518.

It’s clear that the information inside these microscopic strands of DNA is from the past, since the actual “being” does not exist at the time of conception except as a single cell penetrating another single cell. The past memory stored in each microscopic strand represents a memory capacity billions of times greater than the human brain. This memory may include things other than building instructions, such as somatic and unconscious memories from the long unbroken line of the vital life-force from which your life and my life has emerged.

Each of these single microscopic strands of DNA, when joined, has in its memory all that is necessary to produce and maintain, without further direction, a complete and complex zygote, fetus and child; and an adult human being composed of about 50 trillion individual cells. Each of these cells is structurally and geometrically ordered in exactly the right manner for the human being to function much the same way as each other of the seven billion people on the planet.

With regard to the enormity of this task of memory and management, I can only give a comical example. Give an aeronautical engineer all the instruction books necessary to produce a Boeing 747 Dreamliner. Let him read them, take them away, and then put him in an empty aircraft construction building. Ask him to build from memory an entire working Boeing 747 aircraft, there inside the building, with no help from the outside, except he can ask for rough unprocessed raw materials to be brought in.

Let’s exaggerate and say there are ten million mechanical parts in a 747. Well, there are about 50 trillion cells in an adult human body, and they all have to coordinate together every microsecond of every day. This is the memory capacity of one microscopic strand of DNA.

I find it useful to describe this process of the unending continuation of life as “immortality,” even though it does have a theoretical beginning and end, which is contrary to the meaning of the word. We don’t know when or where this life-force began, and we can’t possibly know when or where the life-force will end. All we have is observation of the present behavior of the life-force and historical examples from the recent few thousand years.

The place where the unending continuation of life occurs in humans is in the passage of living sperm across an open space during reproduction, to join together with the living egg. The traverse across the open space is the singular similarity applicable to insects and humans and all creatures who reproduce sexually.

During sexual intercourse human sperm is left out in the open at the end of the vagina, at the head of the cervix of the female. The sperm must then find their way, unaided and alone, over a lengthy and dark open area, through the narrow cervix of the female and far into her uterus. Each of these individual sperm is a living being, containing all the DNA which defines a human being. Each has also been provided with DNA memory to know which direction to travel after being unceremoniously deposited in an unknown squishy dark place in a splat. How incredible is that?

Each sperm, independently of all the other 200 million or more sperm released each time, has a mind of its own sufficient to sort out the completely dark and unfamiliar space (the interior of the vagina); and on the spot develops a geometry which gets it going along the right path to where it needs to be. In addition each sperm has an active means of locomotion, a tail, which is entirely up to the task of moving the sperm in the exact direction it knows to go. Do we need any further scientific proof of life in this transfer across an open space?

The Luna Moth sperm doesn’t have to be so versatile. It’s deposited in one spot and sits there until the eggs come in contact with it. All it has to do is recognize the eggs and jump onto them. But then the human being has always been much more complex than an insect: even though the insect itself is staggeringly complex.

Don’t forget that science has shown that each of the trillions of cells of the human body has exactly the same strand of DNA in its nucleus. When I say exactly the same, I mean that each strand of DNA in every cell of an individual human body is identical in every way. Each strand carries the same memories as each other, and has its parts arranged identically. So for our purposes, there is only one configuration of DNA which can be carried by these sperm. The genome in each of these lively and eager travelers is the same. And it is full of life.

The goal of each sperm is to swim across the open space inside the female body until it reaches the egg. There is no question that the egg is a living part of the female at the time one sperm penetrates and causes that egg to begin to divide and become another human being. This is the meaning of the statement that the human being remains alive for generation after generation without the interruption of death.

This is also the meaning of the statement that those seeking life after death have been looking for life in all the wrong places. Life continues and persists in a human being at the life-cycle stage of reproduction, not at the stage of death.

People die before producing offspring and of old age. All but one of the millions of sperm dies without becoming a part of the life-cycle. All of this death is irrelevant in the human life-cycle. Life is in the genome, and the living genome carries on, generation after generation. This is scientific fact.

DNA is living human tissue. Each strand of DNA by definition has within itself all the elements of human life. When sexual reproduction occurs, a single strand of living human tissue joins with a single strand of living human tissue from another human being. There is never a time during human sexual reproduction when the living tissues of the parent contributions to the new human being cease to be living tissue. There is no new life, only a continuation of the existing living tissue in a slightly different format.

These living attributes may include either dominant or recessive traits, and when the attributes are stitched together at conception there is a new and different living strand of DNA. Yet this new strand can contain only what is present in one of the two halves, with dominant and recessive traits jockeying for position. Through the process of recombination, progeny derive a combination of these two specific sets of genes, which is yet really not so different from the parental genes. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/primer/genetics_genome.html (2004).

The new combination is without question a continuation of the living tissue of the two donors. Certain traits within the genome may have a half-life, or be entirely eliminated during the joining of the two halves of the genome. Yet the living human tissue of the strand of DNA remains alive and fully functioning throughout all these changes. If the DNA strand was not alive, it could not retain the memory of how to build the new person.

This scientifically self-evident continuation of life is passed from one human generation to the next through the narrow portal of sexual reproduction. The next question is: what is the nature of the life which is forwarded on through hundreds of such portals for several thousand years?

DNA carries the past history of each human organism in its lineage and brings that history through the portal into the present activity of every person. Thus the current “state,” or circumstance of being, of each and every human is determined by its past history, carried by DNA, along with a few recombination changes. Thus the “system” known as a human being has a “memory” which is encoded in the DNA of each cell of the body. It may be said that everything we are is a memory.

For the DNA, which carries the memories of the life of the past physical being into the present, it may be said that the human urge toward reproduction is not voluntary. Nor is the human urge to nurture their young until old enough to reproduce. These urges are prescribed by the DNA in much the same way as the passage of the sperm across the open space is prescribed by the DNA.

In the end there is no death for those who successfully navigate the entirety of the human life-cycle. The DNA, which contains all that you are, perpetuates life unending for millennia. You are likely three thousand years old or more, and are definitely a lot more complicated than a Luna Moth.

• variation within a species
• variation between a species

Examples of human variation can include:

• eye colour
• hair colour
• skin colour
• nose shape

There are 2 types of variation within species, it is continuous and discontinuous
variation.

Continuous variation:

• 2 extremes to the variation
• fill range of values between those extremes
• most individuals are close to the mean value
• there are a few individuals at the extreme values
• tends to be quantitative
• controlled by a lot of genes
• strongly influenced by the environment

discontinuous variation

• is where the data has 2 or more distinct categories
• it is either one thing or another
• it is not in between and has no intermediate values
• the members of the species can be evenly distributed between the forms
• controlled by a few genes
• unaffected by the environment

Variation can be caused by the environment and genetics

we inherit genes. We have alleles for a characteristic, human cells contain approx 25,000 genes, many of these genes will have more than one allele. Environmental factors such as obesity in humans and a persons skin colour,height, direction of growth, amount of growth

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In the late 90′s, after my last three years of energetic healing courses, I stopped going to schools, workshops, reading books, and generally seeking anything outside of myself to inform me about who I am and what I am connected to. I go direct. Don’t get me wrong, I still have a need for community, for creating heart resonance in groups, and for basic validation that others feel the LOVE I feel… and KNOW what they are connected to beyond a shadow of a doubt.

I haven’t had a regular job since then. I have no bank account to speak of, and no monetary-based assets. In the past, I have moved in and out of the system, as needed, due to the fact that I lived in a collective that held very rigid beliefs about what we were all “supposed” to do to “survive” on this planet. Today I celebrate the fact that this collective belief has evolved and changed for the better. Today, I not only feel my own potential and possibilities for wholeness and fulfillment on Earth, but I feel it in the collective as well. Trust me, this is new. And it deserves a wholehearted celebration and an enthusiastic “patting on the backs” for what we as the collective have achieved.

I trust this frequency of LOVE with ALL my heart, and I live it and demonstrate it everyday. I do nothing in the way of compromise now – with the ways of the world that we once knew and accepted. Upon awakening each morning, I respond to feeling and inspiration for what I will do, what I will create. The amazing synchronicities that have occurred to support my inspirations would be downright unbelievable to most. To me, they are natural. I am natural… again. Suffice it to say that I have never eaten better; I’ve never felt healthier; and my community of like-vibrational beings is expanding exponentially.

One of my inspirations of late is to create a Santa-Fe based reality show (YouTube) on people who are successfully demonstrating this natural state now – an honest exploration of what it feels like to first acknowledge, and then step out of our “addictions” and coping mechanisms developed from buying into the past world-of-insanity in some form or another. I say addiction, not so much in the sense of substance abuse (although a very real coping mechanism), but rather in the sense of an addiction and recovery process from something that was not based in truth or reality, but what the group mindset convinced us was real. Let’s face it, we are all in recovery on some level.

Ah, and at the same time, I am so excited and I have so many inspirations, that my choices overwhelm me. Who would’ve thought all those years ago that this would be my “problem”? I continue to work on the indigenous and ancestral healing documentaries, and this is what inspired the idea – being in a room full of recovering heroin addicts made me realize that we are all the same. We have all been addicted to something outside of ourselves promising to fix us, or quell the pain of separation. Remembering (feeling/knowing) our true identity heals this huge misunderstanding, and we are off to explore LIFE as it was meant to be.

I’ll share more as it unfolds. For now, I love my life, and I’m glad I stuck around to experience this with you. Thank you for joining me on this incredible journey to full-heart awareness. Choose LOVE! It’s just too much f*cking FUN.

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There are two of us on bed rest: Melanie Rock and me. I am stronger and healthier than Melanie. I cry out a lot because I want the light of the sun, now. I don’t want to revert back to darkness. I want to go back to the protection of the orangutangs.

Stan is torn. He doesn’t know if he should go back to the orangutangs and the light or stay with me, in the darkness of our space craft.

I had not realized how comfortable I had become with the open air, until it was taken from me. I could never go back to the caverns under ground and eating roots, insects, moss and fungus. I have tasted meat, and it is delicious. I have eaten the sweet food from the tall wide roots. I have ran with the wind against my skin. I have changed. And as my swollen belly gets bigger, my only understanding of the baby’s survival is to give it to the protection of the orangutangs.

I try to explain this to the team of medical practitioners that have me strapped to a table with vines and energy to track my vital signs, and more importantly the baby’s vital signs. “I’m fine,” I beg of them. “I will grow stronger out there.” But they shake their heads as if I were a child and ignore my pleads.

It is always night on the space craft. There are a few of us left that have not made the adjustment to the light. The rest live as wildlings in the wild earth with leaves and mud as protection to their skin. Stan is a wildling, now. I miss my partner. I ache for him to be by my side.

I create a plot to break free of the space craft. I do not include Melanie. Her belly swells, too, but she is content with being cooed over. She will eat her roots on rock platter. She smiles and she laughs, completely unaffected by the potential consequences of carrying a hybrid that could tear through her body like a demon and enter this world with a vengeance. 

I look at my own swollen belly. This isn’t right. And I know my anger is not good for the fetus. And before I know it, I am kicking my attendant in the throat, disconnecting my wires, and even with a swollen belly, I am stronger than those on the ship, and I run.

I call out to the orangutangs. They let me mount their front and they take me into the high roots. We swing to wear the rest of the family and wildlings are. Stan sees me and his expression is of horror and shock. But he embraces me. Everyone embraces me. The orangutangs embrace me. I eat sweet food from the tall wide root, let the sweet water dribble down my chin and laugh at the comfort of open air. I engage in the orgy with the wildlings, grateful for a release, and then let them paint me in mud and leaves.

I smell like the earth, and I am free. And that is when I feel the baby kick. In fact the impact was so hard that I fell over. Stan’s black eyes stare at me, and then he comes over to support my back and rest his hand on my belly. The next kick is not so forceful and he can feel it, and he laughs. The rest of the wildlings come over to touch me and my growing baby.

The next few months, I work hard to get stronger, but my energy is draining. I am becoming increasingly aware that I may not live through this event, but I feel confident that my baby will. Stan is scared about what raising this baby with the orangutangs will be like. Will they cast it out or take it in as their own? The wildlings, Stan and I discuss this at length. Will Stan and the other Wildlings have to cast off their affection for the orangutangs and take the infants away.

There are two new pregnant wildlings. The heart beat is fast. We are learning how to engage sexually with the orangutangs more easily with less pain. We do not believe that the females can carry our seed. On some level this is easier, because the male orangutangs get more competitive over the females, but the females consider copulation with different males strong for the the community.

I walk bowlegged and with help. Each kick deserves a scream. The wildlings ask me if I would like to go back to the craft to have the fetus surgically removed. But I think the child should be born to the light, even if this kills me. I have found peace.

Melanie had a boy, yesterday. She named him Adam, Adam Rock. He was surgically removed and Melanie is still surviving. They think that she may make it. The wildlings beg me to go back to the craft, but I refuse.

And then the contractions begin. And I realize that I am going to deliver this hybrid vaginally. I always imagined in the end that the healers would magically remove this hybrid from my belly. I hear screaming and realize this is me. There is blood everywhere. The orangutangs can hear me and make calls for help, but the wildlings keep them back. There is a fight between the orangutangs and wildlings over me, or my hybrid. More contractions, a gush of water. “Push!” someone screams at me, but I am already pushing.

“I see it’s head! It has hair! Push. Push.” This is Stan. I focus on his wide smile. I am dying. I know that I am dying. It takes everything to just keep pushing. But now, the wildlings are pulling, too.

“This is not time to sleep,” I hear a healer say. She is pushing on my abdomen. “The baby is out, but you must push out the placenta. Push.”

I don’t think there is anything more to me, but I keep pushing. The umbilical cord has been cut. The baby is being tended to.  The healer is sewing me up. Someone is feeding me sweet food with sweet water. I feel like I am far away.

“It’s a girl,” I hear Stan say. “What do you want to name her?”

I turn, and see a sweet face. Her skin is pink and soft and she has smaller eyes like the orangutang, and hair. “Eve, Eve Root.” And I take my last breath.