We came down with colds on Christmas Eve. We’d taken our presents to Susan’s daughter’s place, but had to leave them there, since we didn’t want to infect anyone else. She brought them to us today, three days late. Well, you know what they say: better late than never. Merry (belated) Christmas.
On a whim, we watched this film on Netflix last night. It wasn’t a load of fun, but it was real.
Susan watched her mother pass 11 years ago. I wasn’t sure if this film would be too close to the bone. She seemed to be all right with the story line, probably because the family members were too stereotypical.
I hope you can enjoy this ne.
It’s been 60 years since the world first set eyes on this Charlie Brown TV special. Doing the research, I was surprised that it was shown by CTV in Canada four days before it premiered on CBS on December 9th. The American viewers saw it at 7:30 pm. Canadian viewers saw it at 5:50 pm EST, 4:50 pm CST.
There were legendary disagreements that occurred before the CBS executives allowed the show to air. The inconjuncts shown above may be the reason(s). The Moon is inconjunct Mercury; Venus is inconjunct the Jupiter/Ascendant conjunction. The extra stress points come from the T-square pointing at the Sun, with squares to Saturn and a Uranus/Pluto conjunction. But in spite of all that conflict, it succeeded beyond anyone’s expectations. Fans of the 15-year-old Peanuts comic strip made sure of that.
God bless us, every one, including Charlie Brown.
It’s an inconvenient truth: Jesus was alive and died by crucifixion during Tiberius’ reign as Emperor of Rome (14 AD – 37 AD). I mentioned previously that Rome had scrupulous records of everything that happened in the Roman Empire. That’s why I could assert that Tiberius Julius Alexander would have had access to Pontius Pilate’s records in Jerusalem, about ten years after Jesus’ crucifixion and death. Thirty years later, Nero blamed the burning of Rome on Christians living there, as scapegoats.
Sed non ope humana, non largitionibus principis aut deum placamentis decedebat infamia, quin iussum incendium crederetur. ergo abolendo rumori Nero subdidit reos et quaesitissimis poenis adfecit, quos per flagitia invisos vulgus Chrestianos appellabat. auctor nominis eius Christus Tibero imperitante per procuratorem Pontium Pilatum supplicio adfectus erat; repressaque in praesens exitiabilis superstitio rursum erumpebat, non modo per Iudaeam, originem eius mali, sed per urbem etiam, quo cuncta undique atrocia aut pudenda confluunt celebranturque. igitur primum correpti qui fatebantur, deinde indicio eorum multitudo ingens haud proinde in crimine incendii quam odio humani generis convicti sunt.
Translation:
But all human efforts, all the lavish gifts of the emperor, and the propitiations of the gods, did not banish the sinister belief that the conflagration was the result of an order. Consequently, to get rid of the report, Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus, and a most mischievous superstition, thus checked for the moment, again broke out not only in Judæa, the first source of the evil, but even in Rome, where all things hideous and shameful from every part of the world find their centre and become popular. Accordingly, an arrest was first made of all who pleaded guilty; then, upon their information, an immense multitude was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing the city, as of hatred against mankind.
Wikipedia
With Nero being one of the previous lives of Donald Trump, it is an established pattern to blame problems on immigrants from other parts of the world. What goes around, comes around again.
This Christmas season, we’ve watched the cartoon, the live-action and the animated film of this Dr. Seuss story. {We probably won’t see the latest ‘horror’ version.) It was the flashback to his ’empty’ childhood Christmas memory that clued me into the echo that Scrooge went through in “A Christmas Carol”. How could I not have seen that before?
We watched the 2000 and 2019 films back-to-back last night.
For some reason, the 2018 animated film wasn’t included in this YouTube video, above.
The other echo of the past is the Wicked Witch of the West from “The Wizard of Oz”. The fact of the Grinch being green cannot be accidental. He suffers from the same ostracism that Elphaba does.in “Wicked”. Only Kermit the Frog gets away with it.
(Ost)racism is hinted here as elsewhere. Only Cindy-Lou wanted nobody to be alone at Christmas.
Bless.
What a rude awakening! The fire alarm in our unit went off at 1:30 this morning. “Fire, Fire!” it screamed, while its strobe-flashing light made the bedroom look like a scene from a slow motion nightmare. Of course, I did everything wrong: I didn’t put my housecoat on (until later); I ran through the unit turning on lights, to see where the fire was; and I opened the front door. The last action stopped the alarm from doing its job.
What set it off? Was its battery low? Was it a build up of Scentsy pot aromas? Or was it something to do with the venting system? The mystery has yet to be solved.
These days I look at the inconjuncts to see what the Universe is revealing. There are two in this event chart: one links Mercury and the Midheaven; the other exactly links Venus and Uranus. Well, that’s interesting. Was it a loved one from the Other Side saying “Hi”? Susan’s mother, Mavis, died eleven years ago on December 19th. Stranger things have happened, I’m sure.
Functioning fire alarms are a matter of life and death. (Did you see what I just did there?) Maybe, Mavis came for a visit, last night, and set the alarm off. If so, that would explain the false nature of the event.
What do you think?
Talk about Christmas presents: or is it Christmas presence? Trivia has never been more manipulated to give the viewer something to be distracted by, this time of year
We watched (almost) three episodes last night from this first series, and I expect we might continue watching tonight, just to see which pair wins and whether they get the final prize, worth $250,000.
But, honestly, haven’t we seen enough of greed and competition? Isn’t it the season of peace and harmony? Merry Christmas, everyone.
We had our family dinner, last night. Twenty members sat down to eat with us. A fun time was had by all.
It’s obvious, at least to me, that there are some secrets that can never been revealed. And it’s not necessarily because Trump would be seen as a paedophile. It’s more likely that too many important people in the world will be compromised. Secret intelligence services know a great many things about a great many people, and they don’t want to lose their advantage of a dangling threat over those individuals. I speculated previously that Ghislaine was Jeffrey’s ‘handler’. It’s the only thing that makes total sense: Epstein was an ‘asset’. Les Wexner is whispered as the conduit of the means to finance Epstein’s whole operation. He may be the middleman, but he’s not the end ‘user’.
This time is randomized, so I wouldn’t put too much trust in the resulting birth chart. However, one inconjunct stands out, connecting Mars and Uranus. That is a spy energy, if ever I saw one. Say no more, say no more.
According to Christian tradition, Jesus named Simon Peter as the rock on which he built his church.
Really?
13 When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”
14 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
15 “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
16 Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. 18 And I tell you that you are Peter,[b] and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades[c] will not overcome it. 19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be[d] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be[e] loosed in heaven.” 20 Then he ordered his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.
Matthew 16: 13-20 (NIV)
That’s smacks of an interpolation.
In the 12th saying of the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus is supposed to have said something different.
BLATZ(12) The disciples said to Jesus: We know that you will depart from us; who is it who will be great over us? Jesus said to them: Wherever you have come, you will go to James the Just, for whose sake heaven and earth came into being. LAYTON(12) The disciples said to Jesus, “We are aware that you will depart from us. Who will be our leader?” Jesus said to him, “No matter where you come it is to James the Just that you shall go, for whose sake heaven and earth have come to exist.” DORESSE13 [12]. The disciples say to Jesus, “We know that Thou wilt leave us: who will <then> be the great<est> over us?” Jesus says to them: “Wherever you go, you will turn to James the Just, for whose sake heaven as well as earth was produced.
In effect, James the Just was named Jesus’ Bishop of Jerusalem. That makes more sense, in the way we use the term “bishop” these days. Jesus wouldn’t be appointing anyone Bishop of Rome, would he?
When Titus conquered Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple in 70 AD, Rome effectively usurped Jesus’ original intention from 40 years earlier. So, let’s be very clear about this: the Roman Catholic Church is a bogus institution. The Keys to the Kingdom have not been given to it. Like the Pharisees and Sadducees before them, the priests and bishops of the Roman Church are acting like dogs in a manger. They not only do not enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but also do not let anyone else go in.
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