Baal Halloween:
The celebration of Halloween is a tradition derived from Baal worship. Baal is one of the seven princes of Hell. He is widely mentioned in the Old Testament. Most of our current Halloween customs derived directly from Baal rituals. The cult of Baal celebrated annually his death and resurrection as a part of the Canaanite fertility rituals. These ceremonies often included human sacrifice and temple prostitution.
Today it is customary for people to celebrate Halloween by wearing costumes and trick-or-treating. Halloween costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as ghosts, ghouls, skeletons, witches, and devils. Children go in costume from house to house, asking for treats such as candy with the question, "Trick or treat?" The word "trick" refers to a (mostly idle) "threat" to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given. See Wears A Mask
Babadook Aliens: See Shadow Alien
Baby Powder:
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends against using baby powder as do many individual pediatricians. The issue is the talc that once was used in powders but, fortunately, has been eliminated in many of these products. Talc is a mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate. The danger is that babies can easily inhale tiny particles of it that are light enough to be carried in the air. When inhaled, talc can dry an infant's mucous membranes, adversely affect the baby's breathing, and cause serious lung damage. Studies have shown that talc can lead to shortness of breath and wheezing in babies and can also lead to obstruction of the airways. Some babies have developed pneumonia and some have died as a result of respiratory failure from inhaling the powder. Cornstarch isn't ideal either, but its particles are larger and are not as easily inhaled as talc. You should also be careful not to use either of these powders around older children or adults who have asthma because of the irritation it can cause when inhaled.
Bad Breath Drug:
Does someone you know have chronic bad breath or are they using methamphetamine? There is a street drug called methamphetamine, that many law enforcement officers call the "most addictive drug they have ever seen." This drug, because it is so addictive and the bad ways its users can react and behave, has increased crime rates dramatically in neighborhoods where it is prevalent.
Users will often do anything to get it and many end up in jail before they realize how bad their drug problem has become. It is important to be aware of certain symptoms of methamphetamine users, such as bad breath, so you can get the person you know rehabilitation help if needed.
One of the most common signs is bad breath also known as meth breath. This will be a chemical smell that is quite foul. Forget about brushing or using dental floss to fix the bad breath. No amount of brushing or oral hygiene can make the odor of methamphetamine bad breath to go away. Long term use renders your breath foul smelling for good.
Badge Numbers:
Relates to the Nazi SS rank system. See SS Number
Bad To The Bone:
Someone who is bad to the bone is completely bad and pure evil. In I Cor. 15:33-34, Paul gives a warning and says, “Do not be deceived, bad company corrupts good morals. Become soberminded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God." This tells us that, “Those who are bad company are those who have no knowledge of God,” or put the other way, “Those who have no knowledge of God are bad company.”
He says, “Do not be deceived.” The word deceived means to be lured away from the truth. He is saying quit being deceived, deluded, or tricked into having relationships with people who are bad in character. He also says “become sober minded.” The word sober means to awake from a drunken fit or state of intoxication. Paul's point is that we must sober up and quit lying to ourselves about the dangers of spending time with godless people. We must force ourselves to think clearly. Finally, he says stop sinning. The solution is to keep yourself from being deceived, to become sober minded, and to put an end to any close relationships you have with the ungodly.
Do you have relationships with bad company? Do you have close relationships with those who have no knowledge of God? Listen to what the Word of God is telling you. Don't be deceived; bad company does corrupt good morals. Be sober minded and stop sinning.
Bad to the Bone
By George Thorogood and The Destroyers
On the day I was born, the nurses all gathered 'round
And they gazed in wide wonder, at the joy they had found
The head nurse spoke up, and she said leave this one alone
She could tell right away, that I was bad to the bone
(chorus)
Bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone
I broke a thousand hearts, before I met you
I'll break a thousand more baby, before I am through
I wanna be yours pretty baby, yours and yours alone
I'm here to tell ya honey, that I'm bad to the bone
(chorus repeat)
I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal
I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal
I wanna be yours pretty baby, yours and yours alone
I'm here to tell ya honey, that I'm bad to the bone
(chorus repeat)
Bailout Cash:
A bailout is an act of giving capital to an entity (a company, a country, or an individual) in danger of failing in an attempt to save it from bankruptcy, insolvency, or total liquidation and ruin; or to allow a failing entity to fail gracefully without spreading contagion.
The financial crisis that began in 2007 resulted in the collapse of large financial institutions, $700 billion bailout of banks by national governments and downturns in stock markets around the world.
Bank Collapse:
A bank collapse or bank failure is the inability of a bank to meet its credit obligations and is forced to close by federal regulators. This often happens when the institution has over leveraged itself and no longer has the funds necessary to maintain a steady flow of cash.
In 2007 and 2008 Northern Rock, Bradford and Bingley, Icelandic banks and Wall Street giants Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs experienced various degrees of catastrophe.
When most banks collapsed during the financial crisis, politicians stepped in with alternative remedies. See Bailout Cash
Barbara Hand Alien:
Barbara Hand Clow (born Barbara Hand), astrologer, channeler, and New Age entrepreneur, was born in Saginaw, Michigan, on February 14, 1943, the daughter of Eugene A. and Catherine Wallace Hand. She attended the University of Michigan and received her M.A. from the Institute for Culture and Creation in Chicago. In 1974 she married publisher Gerald Cudahy Clow.
While becoming known as an astrologer, Clow also emerged as a channel, and in 1989 she issued one of the first books containing channeled material reputedly from inhabitants from the Pleiades star cluster, Heart of the Christos: Starseeding from the Pleiades. This volume, along with Barbara Marciniak's Bringers of the Dawn (1992), would create the emphasis on Pleiadian wisdom that became so prominent in the post-New Age ascension movement of the 1990s. She followed it with The Pleiadian Agenda: A New Cosmology for the Age of Light (1995).
Many "Blonds" or Nordic type aliens that contactees encounter come from the Pleiades (or at least that's what they claim). See A Nordic Blond, A Pleiadian Angel, Maya Pleiades, Scandinavian
To learn more, please watch:
Open Minds with Regina Meredith: Alchemy of the 9 Dimensions with Barbara Hand Clow
Barbarian Gods:
Deities worshipped by primitive civilizations.
Bathrooms:
In 2007, Atlanta Police arrested 11 men on indecency charges at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport – two of them, college professors. A men’s bathroom at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport became the playground for men who want to pleasure themselves in public and try to pick up other men according to police. Police reports indicate men from North Carolina and Missouri traveled to Hartsfield-Jackson and were arrested. One man focused his attention in the bathroom on military men and another performed sex acts with children nearby.
Public places like men's bathrooms, in airports and train stations, truck stops, university libraries and parks, have long been places where gay and bisexual men, particularly those in the closet, congregate in order to meet for anonymous sex.
In 2016, bathrooms have become a hot topic for debate. In the United States and other countries, a bathroom bill is being passed to allow transgender individuals to use public bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity (as opposed to the sex they were assigned at birth).
Bay Shrimp:
Bay shrimp are the most common shrimp in most Pacific coast estuaries. The bay shrimp is abundant in bays with mud and sandy bottoms and offshore in deeper waters. As the most dominant shrimp in Pacific coast estuaries, the bay shrimp is an important part of the food chain. It is the predominant food of many sport and recreational fish, including striped bass, sturgeon, Dungeness crab and Pacific tom cod. It is a short lived species that is sensitive to pollution in estuaries. The bay shrimp is the last surviving species in the genus Syncaris pacifica. If they disappear, we can be sure that something detrimental has happened to the stream.
Beach Fronts:
Are strips of land facing or running along a beach. See Oceanfront
BEA Rate of Change:
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides important economic statistics. The Rate of Change is an oscillator that shows how rapidly the price of a security is moving. It compares the difference between the current price and the price from a set prior time period.
Rate of Change rises with price increases and falls with price declines. Rate of Change is often used as a short term overbought/oversold indicator.
Beast Test:
"Behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren" (Lk.22:31-32).
According to Luke, Satan was going to sift Peter like wheat. Just as wheat is tossed in the air to allow the wind to sift the grain from the chaff, Peter was going to be tossed to and fro to see if he had a kernel of true faith that would stand the testing of Satan. Satan will test your faith in hopes of making you fail the test. If you have any faith in God at all, Satan will put you to the test. Those without faith are already in Satan's grasp, but if you have faith in God, you will be tried like Peter. Will your faith withstand the sifting? Will you pass the test and prove your loyalty to God or will you fail and fall into Satan's clutches? "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you" (1Peter5:8-10).
Beatles Rock:
The Beatles, an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. From 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). The Beatles deceitfully came to America as decent looking young men, but then led a generation of America's youth to become hippies, drug addicts, rebels, sexual degenerates and God-haters.
In 1967, the Beatles had released their first album dedicated to the promotion of psychedelic drugs, Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The album contained a fantasized version of an LSD trip, called "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", or L.S.D. for short. It became a top seller.
The cover of the Sergeant Pepper's album by the Beatles showed a background of, according to Ringo Starr, people "we like and admire" (Hit Parade, Oct. 1976, p.14). Paul McCartney said of Sgt. Pepper's cover, ". . . we were going to have photos on the wall of all our HEROES . . ." (Musician, Special Collectors Edition, - Beatles and Rolling Stones, 1988, p.12). One of the Beatle's heroes included on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's was — the infamous Satanist, Aleister Crowley.
Clearly, the Beatles' album was dedicated to Satanist Aleister Crowley. It was released 20 years, nearly to the day, after Crowley's death in 1947, and its title song began with the lyrics, "It was twenty years ago today..." The album's cover featured a picture of Crowley.
One month after the album's release, the Beatles shocked the world by announcing, publicly, that they were regularly taking LSD. Beatle member Paul McCartney openly admitted to using LSD. According to Paul: "LSD opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain." Paul's LSD quote appeared in the now-defunct "Queen" UK-based magazine. The quote was also then reprinted by Life magazine in their June 16th 1967 feature, 'The New Far-Out Beatles: They're grown men now and creating extraordinary musical sounds' by Thomas Thompson. The Beatles also publicly called for the legalization of marijuana.
"They're COMPLETELY ANTI-CHRIST. I mean, I am anti-Christ as well, but they're so anti-Christ they shock me which isn't an easy thing."
Derek Taylor, Press Officer for the Beatles (Saturday Evening Post, Aug. 8, 1964).
It was Paul McCartney of The Beatles who said..."We probably seem to be anti-religious. . . none of us believes in God" (Hit Parader, Jan 1970, p.15).
"Christianity will go, it will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm right and will be proved right. . . .We're more popular than Jesus now" ~ John Lennon (San Francisco Chronicle, April 13, 1966, p.26).
In "The Lennon Prophecy," author Joseph Niezgoda reveals that Lennon himself was obsessed with the occult, magic, numerology and being bigger than Elvis Presley, confided in his friend Tony Sheridan that he made a deal with the devil.
Niezgoda starts his book with the well-known remark Lennon made to his friend Tony Sheridan: “I’ve sold my soul to the Devil.” Niezgoda pinpoints the date - December 27, 1960, the night the Beatles played at the Town Hall Ball Room in Litherland, England. Lennon was a 20-year old wanna-be rock star in a mediocre band not so different from so many others at the time. He was desperate to “be more famous than Elvis.” Desperate enough to sell his soul to the Devil, Niezgoda contends.
During that performance, Niezgoda reports, “the Beatles evoked a response noticeably different from anything in their past.” As they played, the crowd unexpectedly surged onto the stage and the girls started to scream. It had never happened before, but it would always happen afterward. It was the birth of Beatlemania. All four have noted this night as the turning point in their careers.
Niezgoda also says that this gig marks the beginning of Lennon's avowedly anti-Christian behavior. From biographies of Lennon, he presents many profane acts Lennon carried out publicly with no apparent purpose but to blaspheme Christ.
Beatle biographer Philip Norman writes: "while in Hamburg, John Lennon, each Sunday would stand on the balcony, taunting the churchgoers as they walked to St. Joseph's. He attached a water-filled contraceptive to an effigy of Jesus and hung it out for the churchgoers to see" (Philip Norman, Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation, p. 152). "As the sisters gazed in astonishment at this sacrilegious display, John started pelting them with Durex condoms filled with water," wrote biographer Albert Goldman.
Pete Best, the original drummer with the group, also witnessed such behavior and wrote about it in his own book describing how Lennon urinated on another group of nuns from his balcony while proclaiming, "Raindrops from heaven!"
These were just some of the ways Lennon confronted and antagonized Christian worshippers – for seemingly no reason other than his own amusement.
Twenty years after their performance in 1960, Mark David Chapman fired five shots from a revolver at Lennon on December 9, 1980, in front of the Dakota building in New York, where Yoko and John had an apartment – on the same floor, by the way, where Rosemary’s Baby was filmed. Lennon died shortly afterward.
If John had entered into a 20-year pact with the Devil for wealth and world fame, that contract ended that day with his violent death. Mark Chapman would later claim he was instructed to kill Lennon by a voice in his head that kept insisting “Do it, do it, do it.” Five years later at Attica State Prison, Chapman asked for an exorcism to be made by a priest. He said he was delivered from five or six demons. "Chapman said that as the last demon left his body he was given the reason for his possession. It was to make a show of Satan's great power in the world using John Lennon's murder as the vehicle. I've always held an intuitive belief … that the true author of this story is Satan and that I am only the messenger."
Niezgoda devotes a chapter to what may surprise many readers as fairly well-documented historical Satanic pacts – including the case of Johann Faust, who, in his Renaissance Age period, achieved fame and fortune perhaps equal to Lennon and the Beatles four centuries later. He, too, met an untimely, mysterious and grotesquely inexplicable death 20 years later. See Deal from Hell
To learn more, please read:
"The Lennon Prophecy" by author Joseph Niezgoda
Belial Left Hand:
Belial is one of the seven princes of Hell and a demon in the Bible. In the Goetia, Belial is said to be a mighty and a powerful king over 50 legions, created after Lucifer. The Satanic Bible names Belial as one of the Four Crown Princes of Hell (specifically, the North Crown), and states that his name means "'without a master'" and symbolizes true independence, self-sufficiency, and personal accomplishment." See His Evil Hand
Believe in Man:
Secular Humanism views man as the supreme being of the universe. It rejects the existence of God. It sees moral values as relative and changing and varying from person to person.
The Bible states: "Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD" (Jer. 17:5).
Bible = Don't Read:
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children" (Hos. 4:6).
Why Doesn’t Anyone Read the Bible Anymore?
A recent study shows most churchgoing Christians don't read the Bible every day. LifeWay Research found that 90 percent of churchgoers agree with the statement, "I desire to please and honor Jesus in all I do." But only 19 percent read the Bible every day. About 25 percent read the Bible a few times a week.
Sadly people who don't read the Bible, may end up going to hell. If you don't read the Bible, you will not be equipped to serve God (2 Timothy 3:17; Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12). The Bible helps us know how to be saved from our sin and its ultimate consequence (2 Timothy 3:15). Meditating on God’s Word and obeying its teachings will bring success in life (Joshua 1:8; James 1:25). God’s Word helps us see sin in our lives and helps us get rid of it (Psalm 119:9, 11). It gives us guidance in life, making us wiser than our teachers (Psalm 32:8, 119:99; Proverbs 1:6).
To learn more, please read:
The King James Version Bible
Bible Gateway - Reading Plans: (Bible reading plans walk you through the entire Bible over the course of a year).
You can also listen to the King James Bible at:
The Holy Bible
Bible Plagues:
The Plagues of Egypt, also called the ten plagues or the biblical plagues, were ten calamities that, according to the biblical Book of Exodus, God inflicted upon Egypt to persuade the Pharaoh to free the slaves (Ex. 7:14-11:10).
Bible Ridicule:
In the Bible a scoffer is someone who mocks, ridicules, or scorns the belief of another. In Hebrew, the word translated "scoffer" or "mocker" can also mean "ambassador." So a scoffer is one who not only disagrees with an idea, but he also considers himself an ambassador for the opposing idea. He cannot rest until he has demonstrated the foolishness of any idea not his own. A scoffer voices his disagreement, ridicules all who stand against him, and actively recruits others to join his side. In the Bible, scoffers are those who choose to disbelieve God and His Word. They say in their hearts, "There is no God" (Psalm 14:1), and make it their ambition to ridicule those who follow God.
The Bible has a lot to say about scoffers (Proverbs 19:29; 29:8; Acts 13:41). Proverbs 3:34 says that God "scoffs at the scoffers, yet He gives grace to the afflicted." Psalm 1:1 gives us clear instruction about how to deal with scoffers: "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." The progression of unbelief begins with listening to ungodly counsel and ends with joining the scoffers. The Bible warns us not to entertain the company of those who actively ridicule our faith, or we risk having that faith destroyed. Proverbs 13:20 says, "He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed."
Bible Sky God:
Some people falsely believe that the God of the Christian Bible is a "sky god". A sky god is often also a solar deity, a god identified with the sun. In ancient Egyptian mythology, Ra was the sun god, and chief of the cosmic gods of the Egyptian people. The sky god is a recurring theme in mythology all over the world. In Sumerian mythology and later for Assyrians and Babylonians, Anu was a sky-god, the god of heaven, lord of constellations, king of gods, spirits and demons, and dwelt in the highest heavenly regions. In Greek mythology, Zeus was the god of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods. Belief in such a sky god is still a feature in many tribes in Africa, Australia, and South America. They look at the sky to ask the gods for help.
Bible Tower:
The Tower of Babel, according to the Book of Genesis, was an enormous tower built at the city of Babylon. Originally, after the great Flood, "the whole earth was of one language and one speech" (Gen. 11:1). In Genesis, God commands Noah and his sons to "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth" (Gen.9:1). The builders of the tower wanted to prevent the city from being scattered. During this time they started to look up in the sky and wish they could be like God. So they decided to build a tower that would reach to heaven. In the tower they would be able to study the stars and figure out how to get to heaven without God's help. The builders of the tower were in open defiance of God's command. Because of man's united rebellion against God, however, refusing to scatter throughout the world as He had commanded, and concentrating instead in the vicinity of the original Babylon, "the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth" (Gen. 11:9). By doing this, God thwarted their plans. The people stopped trying to build a tower to heaven and obeyed God.
Big Bang Happened:
The big bang refers to the idea that the Universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past (billions of years ago). The Bible teaches that God created the universe in six days ( Genesis 1; Exodus 20:11). The Bible says that Earth was created before the stars and that trees were created before the sun: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day" (Gen.1:1-5).
There are significant contradictions between the big bang theory and the Bible. The big bang theory supposes that the universe started with a chaotic explosion which then proceeded toward order. The Bible teaches the exact opposite. God created the universe in an orderly fashion.
Dr. Mart de Groot, who views the big bang concept as “a possible way of understanding the opening statement of the Bible, ‘in the beginning God . . .’,” admits that there is an objective difficulty to the theory. And it is this: even if the “primordial matter” exploded, he says, resulting in our present universe, “what is the origin or source of this matter?” He confesses that “probably the most serious shortcoming of the big bang is its inability to go back to the very beginning of time and space” (de Groot, Mart. 1999. The Search For A Plausible Cosmology. Ministry, November.).
Bill Gates IBM:
Microsoft was originally a company that wrote applications and languages. They had not written any operating systems when IBM approached them for help on the IBM personal computer. Seeing an opportunity, Bill Gates purchased the operating system known as CPM DOS from a small software company in Seattle, Washington. He then leased the operating system to IBM as MS-DOS. After adapting the operating system for the PC, Microsoft delivered it to IBM as PC-DOS in exchange for a one-time fee of $50,000. Gates did not offer to transfer the copyright on the operating system, because he believed that other hardware vendors would clone IBM's system. They did, and the sales of MS-DOS made Microsoft a major player in the industry.
Gates oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981, which re-incorporated the company in Washington and made Gates President of Microsoft and the Chairman of the Board. Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, and in August, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2.
In 2007, IBM unveiled it's new Radio Frequency Identification software that unlocks business insight from the information explosion created by RFID tags embedded throughout the supply chain. According to Martin Wildberger, Vice President, Sensors and Actuators Leader, IBM "We're entering a new phase in RFID adoption, whereby business value is the name of the game. As initial RFID deployments begin to evolve into large scale productions, RFID solutions must drive new business value, return on investment and business process flexibility and innovation. The IBM RFID platform delivers the reliable and scalable end-to-end foundation necessary for operating your business based on new insights from RFID information." See RFID Scanner
Bin Laden Has Died: See May First, A Burial At A Sea
Biocryst:
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals designs, optimizes and develops novel small-molecule pharmaceuticals that block key enzymes involved in infectious diseases, cancer and inflammatory diseases. Biocryst design drugs include: Peramivir, an anti-viral for influenza and Forodesine, a purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) inhibitor for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). See Peramivir. See Also A Forodesine and A Swine Flu A, Vaccines
To learn more about the company Biocryst, please read:
BioCryst's Antiviral Drug Peramivir Aims to Keep Swine-Flu Body Count Low
Biofuel Cars:
The U.K.'s Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA) warned that using biofuel in vehicles could accelerate the destruction of rain forests and result in higher greenhouse gas emissions than burning pure gas and diesel.
In January 2010, The origin of fuel from land recently cleared can be described as “unknown”. Last year Esso reported the source of only 6 per cent of its biofuel and BP reported 27 per cent. Shell was the best-performing of the main oil companies but still failed to report the origin of a third of its biofuel. The agency’s first annual report revealed that fuel companies had exploited a loophole to avoid reporting the origin of almost half the biofuel they supplied to filling stations last year. See Organic Fuel
Bio-implant:
A bio-implant may be defined as a biomaterial surgically implanted in a person's body to replace damaged tissue. Common areas of application include orthopedic (especially maxillofacial) re-constructive prosthesis, cardiac prostheses (artificial heart valves like the Chitra heart valve), skin and cornea.
Birth Class:
Many childbirth classes embrace a particular philosophy about pregnancy and birth. The two most common methods of childbirth breathing, relaxation, and exercise in the United States are the Lamaze technique and the Bradley method.
Childbirth is not meant to be a relaxing or comforting experience. The Bible teaches several times that pain in childbirth is to be expected. Genesis 3:16 states, "I will surely multiply your pain/sorrow in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children." In John 16:21, Jesus Himself said: "A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world." Jesus accepted the fact that women giving birth suffer pain and anguish. There are other biblical teachings that also accept as a given that childbirth is painful. Notice that Jesus accepted the fact that women giving birth suffer pain and anguish.
B.K.S. Iyengar:
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar (generally known as Yogacharya B. K. S. Iyengar) is the founder of Iyengar Yoga. He is considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world and has been practicing and teaching yoga for more than 75 years. He has written many books on yogic practice and philosophy, and is best known for his books Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, and Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. He has also written several definitive yoga texts. Iyengar yoga centers are located throughout the world, and it is believed that millions of students practice Iyengar Yoga.
B. K. S. Iyengar states yoga is: “the means by which the human soul may be completely united with the Supreme Spirit pervading the universe and thus attain liberation” (Yoga Journal, May/June 1993, p. 69). Yoga teachers admit that yoga's function is spiritual not just physical.
Focusing on a series of stretching exercises, breathing practices, and meditation to reach a state of peace and harmony. It is a spiritual exercise and the spiritual awakening is really the serpent power (Kundalini) an energy that when released streams up the spine, where tremors, spasms and sometimes violent shaking and twisting are experienced.
Black Apartheid:
Apartheid ("the status of being apart") was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP) governments, who were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, of South Africa, under which the rights of the majority black inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained. Apartheid was developed after World War II by the Afrikaner-dominated National Party and Broederbond organizations and was practiced also in South West Africa, which was administered by South Africa under a League of Nations mandate (revoked in 1966 via United Nations Resolution 2145), until it gained independence as Namibia in 1990.
Racial segregation in South Africa began in colonial times under Dutch and British rule. However, apartheid as an official policy was introduced following the general election of 1948. New legislation classified inhabitants into four racial groups ("native", "white", "coloured", and "Asian"), and residential areas were segregated, sometimes by means of forced removals. Non-white political representation was completely abolished in 1970, and starting in that year black people were deprived of their citizenship, legally becoming citizens of one of ten tribal based self-governing homelands called bantustans, four of which became nominally independent states. The government segregated education, medical care, beaches, and other public services, and provided black people with services inferior to those of white people.
Apartheid sparked significant internal resistance and violence as well as a long arms and trade embargo against South Africa. Since the 1950s, a series of popular uprisings and protests were met with the banning of opposition and imprisoning of anti-apartheid leaders. As unrest spread and became more effective and militarized, state organizations responded with repression and violence. This, along with the sanctions placed on South Africa by the West made it increasingly difficult for the government to maintain the regime.
Reforms to apartheid in the 1980s failed to quell the mounting opposition, and in 1990 President Frederik Willem de Klerk began negotiations to end apartheid, culminating in multi-racial democratic elections in 1994, which were won by the African National Congress under Nelson Mandela. The vestiges of apartheid still shape South African politics and society. Although the official abolishment of Apartheid occurred in 1990 with repeal of the last of the remaining Apartheid laws, the end of Apartheid is widely regarded as arising from the 1994 democratic general elections.
Black Chocolate:
"Black chocolate", also called "dark chocolate" or "plain chocolate" , is produced by adding fat and sugar to cocoa. It is chocolate with no milk or much less than milk chocolate. The U.S. has no official definition for dark chocolate. Dark chocolate can be eaten as is, or used in cooking, for which thicker, baking bars, usually with high cocoa percentages ranging from 70% to 99% are sold. Dark is synonymous with semi sweet, and extra dark with bittersweet, although the ratio of cocoa butter to solids may vary.
While dark chocolate is better than milk and white chocolate due to the antioxidants it contains, it’s also higher in calories and saturated fat.
Black Colors: See Sackcloths
Blackface Clown:
Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used in minstrel shows, and later vaudeville, in which performers create a stereotyped caricature of a black person. The practice gained popularity during the 19th century and contributed to the proliferation of stereotypes such as the "happy-go-lucky darky on the plantation" or the "dandified coon".
There is no consensus about a single moment that constitutes the origin of blackface. John Strausbaugh places it as part of a tradition of "displaying Blackness for the enjoyment and edification of white viewers" that dates back at least to 1441, when captive West Africans were displayed in Portugal. Whites routinely portrayed the black characters in the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater (see English Renaissance theatre), most famously in Othello (1604). However, Othello and other plays of this era did not involve the emulation and caricature of "such supposed innate qualities of Blackness as inherent musicality, natural athleticism," etc. that Strausbaugh sees as crucial to blackface. Lewis Hallam, Jr., a white actor using blackface makeup of American Company fame, brought blackface in this more specific sense to prominence as a theatrical device in the United States when playing the role of "Mungo", an inebriated black man in The Padlock, a British play that premiered in New York City at the John Street Theatre on May 29, 1769. The play attracted notice, and other performers adopted the style. From at least the 1810s, blackface clowns were popular in the United States. British actor Charles Mathews toured the U.S. in 1822–1823, and as a result added a "black" characterization to his repertoire of British regional types for his next show, A Trip to America, which included Mathews singing "Possum up a Gum Tree", a popular slave freedom song.[10] Edwin Forrest played a plantation black in 1823, and George Washington Dixon was already building his stage career around blackface in 1828, but it was another white comic actor, Thomas D. Rice, who truly popularized blackface. Rice introduced the song "Jump Jim Crow" accompanied by a dance in his stage act in 1828 and scored stardom with it by 1832.
Black Fridays:
Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Because Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday occurs between the 23rd and the 29th of November. Black Friday is not an official holiday, but as many workers have the day off as part of the Thanksgiving holiday, this increases the number of potential shoppers.
According to Reuters, in 2007 135 million people participated in the Black Friday shopping rush. In 2008, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour, a Long Island Walmart temporary employee, was trampled to death after frenzied shoppers smashed through the store's front doors. According to police, officers who arrived to perform CPR on the dying man were also stepped on and injured, as was a pregnant woman.
Black Friday is quickly being turned into "Gray Thursday." Some big department stores are doing away with the old tradition of opening on Friday at midnight and are instead unlocking their doors right around dinnertime on Thanksgiving. Some call it desperation. Some say it destroys the holiday. Others are happy to get a jump on the best deals early.
Black Hole = Big Bang:
The entire universe may have been created in an explosion inside a black hole. "It's a mathematically plausible model which refines the standard model of the Big Bang," said Blake Temple, a mathematician at the University of California, Davis.
The standard model holds that the universe began about 13.7 billion years ago. The Big Bang is described not as an explosion so much as a rapid outflow of material from a point of nearly infinite density. It is a theory, one among several attempting to describe the observed expansion of the universe today. It has not been proved.
The Big Bang has been compared to black holes before, because the tremendous crush of matter that defines a black hole is much like the unfathomable density that preceded the Big Bang. Both phenomena are termed singularities.
In the proposed modification to the standard model, the Big Bang is an actual explosion, Temple explained today in a statement, and it occurs within a black hole in an existing space. The shock wave of the explosion is expanding into an infinite space.
Black Portal:
A portal is a doorway that connects two distant locations, whether separated by time or more commonly space. It usually consists of two or more gateways, with an object entering one gateway leaving via the other instantaneously. Portals are similar to the cosmological concept of a wormhole, and some portals work using wormholes.
The objects scientists think are black holes could instead be portals or wormholes leading to other universes, according to a study taken in 2007. If you imagine the universe as a two-dimensional sheet, you can picture a wormhole as a "throat" connecting our sheet to another one. In this scenario, the other sheet could be a universe of its own, with its own stars, galaxies and planets.
Physicists Thibault Damour of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette, France, and Sergey Solodukhin of International University Bremen in Germany studied what such a wormhole might look like, and were surprised to discover that it would mimic a black hole so well that it would be virtually impossible to tell the difference.
Black Tea Drink:
Black tea is made from the dried leaves of Camellia sinensis, a perennial evergreen shrub. Black tea has a long history of use dating back to China approximately 5,000 years ago. Green tea, black tea, and oolong tea are all derived from the same plant.
Historically, tea has been served as a part of various ceremonies and has been used to stay alert during long meditations. A legend in India describes the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, who tore off his eyelids in frustration at his inability to stay awake during meditation while journeying through China. A tea plant is said to have sprouted from the spot where his eyelids fell, providing him with the ability to stay awake, meditate, and reach enlightenment.
Black tea is a source of caffeine, a methylxanthine that stimulates the central nervous system, relaxes smooth muscle in the airways to the lungs (bronchioles), stimulates the heart, and acts on the kidney as a diuretic (increasing urine). Black tea also contains large amounts of catechin tannins (10-25%). A cup of tea contains lesser amounts of caffeine than coffee (one cup of tea contains about 50 milligrams of caffeine, depending on the strength and size of cup as compared to coffee, which contains 65 to 175 milligrams of caffeine per cup), but the tannin content is much higher.
If ingested in excessive quantities, tannins inhibit the absorption of minerals such as iron which may, if prolonged, lead to anemia. This is because tannins are metal ion chelators, and tannin-chelated metal ions are not bioavailable.
In order to prevent these problems, it is advised to drink tea and coffee between meals, not during. Foods rich in vitamin C help neutralize tannin's effects on iron absorption. Adding lemon juice to tea will reduce the negative effect of tannins in iron absorption as well. Adding milk to coffee and tea has very little to no influence on the inhibitory effect of tannins.
In sensitive individuals, a large intake of tannins may cause bowel irritation, kidney irritation, liver damage, irritation of the stomach, vomiting, nausea, and gastrointestinal pain.
Black Tongue:
There are two main causes for a black tongue. The first is bismuth, a chemical found in pepto-bismol. Sometimes the reaction of bismuth with the chemicals in your mouth is a black film on you tongue. This is completely harmless; it just tends to scare people who look in the mirror and find a charcoal black tongue for no reason.
The other kind of black tongue is sometimes called black hairy tongue. This type of black tongue arises when the papillae (taste buds) on your tongue grow too long. Usually papillae are worn down by food when you eat.
When the papillae grow longer than usual, your tongue may appear furry, and the papillae can become stained by colored food. That means your black furry tongue could also be yellow, green, or brown depending on what you’ve been eating.
Again, this type of black tongue is harmless. Some people with more serious cases have complained of a tickling sensation on the roof of the mouth from the extra long papillae, and others have seen bacterial growth begin to collect on the tongue causing oral thrush.
Blasphemed God:
"And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven" (Rev. 13:6).
"But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation" (Mark 3:29). In Revelation, the dragon (Satan), blasphemed God, his name, dwelling pace and those who live in heaven. This sin of blasphemy against God is commonly called the unpardonable sin. The person who blasphemes against the Holy Ghost, places himself beyond the reach of forgiveness. The word "blaspheme" means to speak irreverently or profanely of or to God, to curse or revile, etc. Blasphemy against God is unforgivable because its a selfish preference of wrong over right and evil over good, and a willful refusal to believe.
Bleached Blondes:
Bleach is one of the harshest ingredients that we can use on our hair, yet many women still get their hair bleached, whether they are going blonde for the summer or adding lighter highlights throughout for more definition. Bleach causes damage by stripping your hair of its essential oils that keep it moisturized.
Blind Eye Mahdi: See The False Mahdi, One Eyed Dajjal, A One Eye King
Blood Oaths:
A very serious and legally binding oath between two or more parties in which blood from each party is placed onto the bottom of the oath next to the signature of each of the parties involved. An oath is a solemn, formal declaration or promise to fulfill a pledge, often calling on God, a god, or a sacred object as witness.
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Bloodstain:
1. Stained, spotted or otherwise discolored with blood.
2. Having the color of something which has been stained with blood.
3. Responsible for the deaths of others.
4. By extension from sense #3, guilty of wrongdoing.
Blood Tears:
Rashida Khatoon, a young girl from northeast India cries tears of blood instead of water. Calvino Inman from Rockwood, Tennessee also cries tears of blood. Calvino Inman's tears of blood don't function like normal tears, and cause a burning sensation. Doctors have yet to determine what is causing his condition. Doctors believe a rare condition is most likely the cause of the blood red tears. Ophthalmologist Dr. Rex Hamilton told "Good Morning America" that Inman could be suffering from a condition called Haemolacria. Haemolacria manifests as bloody tears but the red tears are actually only partially composed of blood. The most extreme cases have a high concentration of blood in the tears but in milder manifestations it can go unnoticed by all but doctors. Haemolacria is a symptom of a number of diseases, and may also be indicative of a tumor. It is most often provoked by local factors such as bacterial conjunctivitis, environmental damage or injuries. Haemolacria is merely a descriptive term. It's just a fancy way of saying "bloody tears." These children could be suffering from real medical conditions. Yet, some people believe the tears are a sign of demon possession. Others believe the tears are a miracle.
In Christianity, cases of spontaneous bleeding are associated with stigmata, where bleeding from the eye, arms legs or forehead are meant to represent the blood of Jesus on the cross. Some stigmatic persons reportedly display wounds to the forehead similar to those caused by the crown of thorns. Other reported forms include tears of blood or sweating blood, wounds to the back as from scourging, or wounds to the shoulder as from bearing the cross. In addition, lashes on the back can be witnessed.
Some stigmatic persons claim to feel the pain of wounds with no external marks; these are referred to as invisible stigmata. In other claims, stigmata are accompanied by extreme pain. Some stigmatic persons' wounds do not appear to clot, and stay fresh and uninfected.
Statues have also been reported to shed tears of blood. A weeping statue is a statue which has been claimed to be shedding tears or weeping by supernatural means. Statues weeping tears of a substance which appears to be human blood, oil, and scented liquids have all been reported. Reported weeping statues are most often of the Virgin Mary and are at times accompanied by claims of Marian apparitions. However, to date only one single example of a combined weeping statue and apparition (namely Our Lady of Akita) has been approved by the Vatican and the rest have usually been dismissed as hoaxes.
Blue Desert:
The Blue Desert is an area of the Sinai Desert near the Red Sea resort of Dahab, where a number of rocks are painted blue.
This area was created in 1980 when, following the 1979 Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty Belgian artist Jean Verame visited Sinai to paint a line of peace. Verame gained the permission of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and received a grant of ten tons of paint from the United Nations.
Body Shames:
The practice of criticizing people publicly for being too fat or, less frequently, too thin.
Bolivia Mine:
Deep inside the mines of mount Cerro Rico in Potosí, Bolivia are hundreds of statues of the Devil in the shape of a goat. The Catholics of Potosí know him as El Tío (The Uncle), is believed in Cerro Rico, Potosí, Bolivia as the lord of the underworld. There are many statues of this devil-like spirit in the mines. El Tío rules over the mines, simultaneously offering protection and destruction.
Miners bring offerings such as cigarettes, coca leaves, and alcohol for the statues and believe that if El Tío is not fed, he will take matters into his own hands. Villagers of Potosi ritually slaughter a llama and smear its blood on the entrance to the mines.
Bolon Tzacab:
The Mayan god of agriculture, the one who controls the rain and thunder. His name means "the leaf-nosed god", and he was portrayed with a leaf in his nose. He is the so-called 'God K'. God K was a deity of lightning with one human leg, and one leg shaped like a serpent.
This god of agriculture is known by many other names. The Romans called him Mars. The Canaanite people called him Yahweh.
Bondage Handcuffs:
"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage" (Gal.5:1).
Bondage handcuffs are shackles used to restrain slaves with. May also refer to physically restraining a partner's arms during sexual practice.
Bondage Porn:
Bondage pornography specializes in the depiction of sexual bondage or BDSM activities, as photographs, stories, movies, or drawings. The participants are physically bound by way of ropes, chains, locks and similar devices for the purpose of erotic pleasure.
Book of Beast:
The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts was the first and, for a time, the only English translation of a medieval bestiary. Bestiaries were second only to the Bible in their popularity and wide distribution during the Middle Ages. They were catalogs of animal stories, combining zoological information, myths, and legends. Great attention was given to bizarre, exotic, and monstrous creatures. Much of the content of bestiaries was drawn from much older sources including Aristotle, early English literature, and oral traditions.
Book of the Dead:
The Book of the Dead was a description of the ancient Egyptian conception of the afterlife and a collection of hymns, spells, and instructions to allow the deceased to pass through obstacles in the afterlife.
The name "Book of the Dead" was the invention of the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, who published a selection of the texts in 1842.
The name of the book in the Egyptian Language translates to "utterances of emergence during daytime." A slightly looser translation for sense could be "spells of going out in the daytime."
Early versions of the book of the dead were not standardized and were not organized by thematic content; however, this changed by the Saite period:
Chapters 1-16 The deceased enters the tomb, descends to the underworld, and the body regains its powers of movement and speech.
Chapters 17-63 Explanation of the mythic origin of the gods and places, the deceased are made to live again so that they may arise, reborn, with the morning sun.
Chapters 64-129 The deceased travels across the sky in the sun ark as one of the blessed dead. In the evening, the deceased travels to the underworld to appear before Osiris.
Chapters 130-189 Having been vindicated, the deceased assumes power in the universe as one of the gods. This section also includes assorted chapters on protective amulets, provision of food, and important places. There are 192 unique chapters known, and no single papyrus contains all known chapters. Depending on the translation the verses are divided into Spell numbers as opposed to Chapter numbers.
Book of John:
A version of the Book of John the Evangelist derived from the Archives of the Inquisition at Carcassonne, having this annotation in Latin: “This is the secret book of the heretics of Concoreze, brought from Bulgaria by their bishop Nazarius, full of errors.”
The book is based on Bogomilism Gnostic teaching, denying that the world was made by God, and attributing creation to the devil. Catholic Christians are disciples of John Baptist: baptism has no value, nor, probably the Eucharist: but the statement about this has dropped out of the text. The law of sacrifices (promulgated by Enoch) and the Mosaic law are works of the devil.
Botulism:
Botulism also known as botulinus intoxication is a rare but serious paralytic illness caused by botulinum toxin, which is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. The toxin enters the body in one of four ways: by colonization of the digestive tract by the bacterium in children (infant botulism) or adults (adult intestinal toxemia), by ingestion of toxin from foodstuffs (food borne botulism) or by contamination of a wound by the bacterium (wound botulism). All forms lead to paralysis that typically starts with the muscles of the face and then spreads towards the limbs. In severe forms, it leads to paralysis of the breathing muscles and causes respiratory failure.
Botulism can be prevented. Food borne botulism has often been from home-canned foods with low acid content, such as asparagus, green beans, beets and corn. However, outbreaks of botulism from more unusual sources such as chopped garlic in oil, chile peppers, tomatoes, carrot juice, improperly handled baked potatoes wrapped in aluminum foil, and home-canned or fermented fish. Because honey can contain spores of Clostridium botulinum and this has been a source of infection for infants, children less than 12 months old should not be fed honey. Honey is safe for persons 1 year of age and older. Wound botulism can be prevented by promptly seeking medical care for infected wounds and by not using injectable street drugs.
The bacterium Clostridium botulinum is used to produce Botulinum toxin (BOTOX). The Food and Drug Administration said Botox and two other injections carry risks of rare botulism symptoms, particularly when given to children to help relax uncontrollable muscle movements. In rare cases, the toxin can spread beyond the injection site to other parts of the body, paralyzing or weakening the muscles used for breathing and swallowing, a potentially fatal side effect. In January 2009, the Canadian government warned that Botox can have the adverse effect of spreading to other parts of the body which could cause pneumonia, and speech disorders.
The FDA has uncovered 225 cases of botulism related to the BOTOX and 17 deaths for which its analysis seemed to suggest botulism as a cause. However, the agency said it was impossible to definitively say the drug caused the deaths. The FDA said most of the reports of hospitalization and deaths were in children with cerebral palsy taking the drugs for spasticity in their legs. That use is not approved in the U.S., though regulators claim it is still legitimate.
Bourgeois:
A person who is a member of the ruling class, and who is characterized by owning capital, property and having an interest in obtaining material possessions. See A Capitalist
Brain Repair:
Most types of neurological damage lead to permanent disability. Neuroscientists have tried to repair the structure of the brain to return it normal neurological functions. Such treatment strategies have primarily involved replacing diminished neurotransmitters, the chemicals that convey messages between nerve cells (neurons). Where neurons are permanently lost, there are two potential ways of replacing them. The first is to transplant equivalent neurons taken from a donor brain. The second is to persuade primitive stem cell, which are present in the adult brain or can be transplanted, to turn into new neurons.
"With the recent advances in neuroscience, engineering, computer science and medicine, we are designing prosthetic technologies to 'repair' a person's nervous system," stated Dr. John P. Donoghue, Cyberkinetics' Chief Scientific Officer. "We are already working on a system that we believe could ultimately enable paralyzed people to use their own muscles to feed themselves - or even walk - allowing them to lead more independent lives."
Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc., a leader in the neurotechnology industry, is developing neural stimulation, sensing and processing technology to improve the lives of those with severe paralysis resulting from spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders and other conditions of the nervous system. Cyberkinetics' product development pipeline includes: the Andara[TM] OFS[TM] Device, an investigative device designed to stimulate nerve repair and restore sensation and motor function following recent nerve injuries; the BrainGate System, an investigative device designed to provide communication and control of a computer, assistive devices, and, ultimately, limb movement; and a pilot program in the detection and prediction of seizures due to Epilepsy. See A Biochip Device
Brazilians:
"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them" (Gen.6:4).
The etymology of "Brazil" stems from brazilwood, its earliest commercially-exploited product. In Portuguese brazilwood is called pau-brasil, with the word brasil commonly given the etymology "red like an ember", formed from Latin brasa ("ember") and the suffix -il (from -iculum or -ilium). While the brazilwood root of Brazil is widely accepted, it has been occasionally challenged. Among the alternative hypotheses is that it is named after the legendary island of "Brasil". The 'brasil' in this case could be a reference either to the island's volcanic complex, or a reference to dragon's blood, a valuable red resin dye found on that island.
Also many 14th C. nautical maps often denoted a phantom island called insula brasil in the north Atlantic Ocean, usually circular in shape and located just southwest of Ireland. The name of the island is derived by Celtic scholars from breas, large, and i, island; or, according to O'Brien's "Irish Dictionary," its other form of O’Brasile means a large imaginary island (Hardiman's "Irish Minstrelsy," I. p. 369). There are several families named Brazil in County Waterford, Ireland ("Transactions of the Ossianic Society, Dublin," 1854, I. p. 81).
As to the name itself there has been much discussion. On the map of Bianco (1436)--reproduced in Winsor, I. p. 54--the name "Ya de Lamansatanaxio" distinctly appears, and this was translated by both Formaleoni and Humboldt as meaning "the Island of the Hand of Satan."
An Epitome of all the Accounts that have hitherto been published concerning a Race of People of a gigantic Stature, on and about the Eastern Coast of South America, between latitude 24 S. and the Straits of Magellan, which lie in 53 deg.
There people are first mentioned in the account of a voyage for new discoveries, undertaken by Magellan in the year 1519. His words in Harris's abridgment of this account are these:
"When they had crossed the line, and the South pole appeared above the horizon, they held on their south course, and came upon the Main of Brasil, about that part of it which lies in twenty two degrees. They observed it to be all one continued tract of land, higher from the Cape St. Augustine, which is in this part of the country. Having made two degrees and an half more South latitude, they fell in with a country inhabited by a wild sort of people: They were of a prodigious stature, fierce and barbarous, made a horrible roaring noise, more like bulls than human creatures; and yet with all that mighty bulk were so nimble and light of foot that none of the Spaniards or Portuguese could over take them."
These giants are next mentioned in an account of a voyage round the world, by Sir Thomas Cavendish: Of which Harris's epitome is as follows:
"Sailing from Cape Frio, in the Brasils, they fell in upon the coast of America, in 47 d. 20 m. North (it should be South) latitude. They proceeded to Port Desire, in latitude 50. Here the Savages wounded two of the company with their arrows, which are made of cane, headed with flints. A wild and rude sort of creatures they were; and, as it seemed, of a gigantic race, the measure of one of their feet being 18 inches in length, which, reckoning by the usual proportion, will give about 7 feet and an half for their stature." Harris says that this agrees very exactly with the account given of them by Magellan, but in his epitome of Magellan's account he says that the head of one of his middle sized men reached but to the Patagonian's waist; which, supposing Magellan's man to be but 5 feet 6 inches high, will make the Patagonian 9 at least. He says, indeed, that Magellan gave them the name of Patagons, because their stature was five cubits, or seven feet six, but, if so, his own account is inconsistent with itself, neither has he told us in what language Patagon expresses this stature.
Breast Jobs:
“Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised” (Pro.31:30).
A breast implant is a prosthesis used to alter the size and shape of a woman's breasts (known as breast augmentation, breast enlargement, mammoplasty enlargement, augmentation mammoplasty or boob job) for cosmetic reasons, to reconstruct the breast, etc.
The Bible warns us not to be vain or conceited (Philippians 2:3-4) and not to draw attention to ourselves by the way we look (1 Timothy 2:9).
Bricklaying:
Bricklaying is the craft of laying bricks. A bricklayer or mason is a craftsman who lays bricks to construct brickwork. Consensus among modern Freemasons and most Masonic scholars is that the fraternity arose from the guilds of medieval stonemasons, in particular the builders of the Gothic cathedrals. The guilds of Masons were very prestigious, as they were involved in massive public and religious works. The knowledge of the stonemasons included not just the mundane skills of bricklaying and stone-chiseling, but the highly valuable secrets of architectural geometry. These secrets were a guild’s bread and butter, coveted and strictly guarded. Traveling Masons were armed with elaborate systems of recognition, including the well-known ‘secret handshakes,’ passwords, and knowledge of the guild’s unique mythology.
Brit Milahs:
Brit milah, which means "covenant of circumcision," is a Jewish ritual performed on a baby boy eight days after he is born. It involves the removal of the foreskin from the penis by a mohel.
In addition to milah (the actual circumcision), the Talmud mentions metzitzah, or squeezing some blood from the wound. Traditionally, metzitzah was accomplished through oral suction, known as "metzitzah b'peh" ["via the mouth"] where the the mohel places his mouth on the freshly circumcised penis and sucks the babies penis to draw blood away from the circumcision wound. The Talmud (Shabbos 133 b) quotes Rav Papa, that any mohel who does not perform metzitzah b'peh loses his license to practice circumcision.
Beginning in around the 18th Century, however, it was known that this technique itself can spread infection (ironically, prevention of which was the very reason metzitzah was instituted) and harm the baby. If the mohel is infected with oral herpes (as most adults are), metzitzah b'peh can expose the infant to the herpes virus. While severe illness associated with this practice may be rare , there is a definite risk of infection.
Oral herpes spreads easily through saliva, especially when saliva touches a cut or break in the skin, such as during metzitzah b'peh. Most people with oral herpes don't know they are infected and don't have symptoms. Even without symptoms, however, people can spread the infection.
Because the immune system of newborns is not developed enough to fight serious infection, herpes infections pose grave risks to infants. The practice of metzitzah b'peh was implicated in the transfer of herpes from mohelim to eight Israeli infants, one of whom suffered brain damage. Three New York City infants contracted herpes after metzizah b'peh by one mohel and one of them died.
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Baby dies in circumcision
Bruce Lee Film:
Bruce Lee was born the Year of the Dragon, at the hour of the dragon (between 6:00AM- 8:00AM). At the time of Bruce's birth a physician by the name of Dr. Mary Glover thought of the name Bruce, and she suggested it to his mother Grace Lee. His father was away performing in New York at the time. His mother liked the sound of the name and it stuck.
Lee was born in San Francisco, California in the United States, to parents of Hong Kong heritage but raised in Hong Kong until his late teens. Upon reaching the age of 18, Lee emigrated to the United States to claim his U.S. Citizenship and receive his higher education. It was during this time he began teaching martial arts, which soon led to film and television roles.
In 1973 on the set of "Enter the Dragon", Bruce collapsed. In the film "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story", Bruce's collapse is attributed to a vision he had of a demon fighting him; after the fight, Bruce is back on the set of enter the dragon, confused but unfazed.
In reality while dubbing the sound effects for "Enter the Dragon", he passed out for a whole half an hour. The air conditioners at the studio had been turned off, because the noise they made interfered with the dubbing process. The extreme heat was a likely factor in Bruce's collapse. He was taken to the hospital where he was treated by his family doctor, Dr. "Don" Langford and neurosurgeon Dr. Peter Wu. He was prescribed the drug Manatol. It was used to reduce an apparent brain swelling.
In the film "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story", there is also a dream sequence involving both Bruce and young Brandon that has Bruce desperately trying to protect his son. The role for Bruce Lee was first offered to his real-life son Brandon Lee, who declined. Brandon Lee died in a fatal shooting accident while filming for the movie "The Crow" in March 1993, less than two months before this film's release.
Bruce Lee Heir:
Brandon Bruce Lee (February 1, 1965 – March 31, 1993) was an American actor and martial artist. He was the son of martial arts film star Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee died at the age of 32 in Hong Kong on July 20, 1973 while filming Game of Death. Nearly 20 years later on March 31, 1993, his son, Brandon, would die in a tragic on-set accident while filming "The Crow", on a North Carolina sound stage.
Brandon Lee made his own acting debut at age 21, in the TV movie "Kung Fu: The Movie" (1986), based on the 1970s series "Kung Fu". He starred in one Hong Kong action film, "Legacy of Rage" (1986), and made his American big-screen debut opposite Dolph Lundgren in the cop-buddy action movie "Showdown" in Little Tokyo (1991). In early 1993, Lee landed the lead role of Eric Draven in "The Crow", based on the popular underground Gothic comic book series about a rock musician who returns from the dead to avenge his and his fiancee’s murders.
Filming of "The Crow" began in February 1993. Around midnight on the morning of March 31, the cast and crew were filming a scene at Carolco Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina. The scene was the death of Lee's character, Eric Draven, at the hands of street thugs, and was a pivotal plot element to the movie. Lee was to walk in through a door carrying a bag of groceries. To complete the illusion, a small explosive charge was to go off in the grocery bag. As Lee entered a room, another actor Michael Massee shot him from a distance of 15-20 feet. Though the gun was supposed to have been loaded with blanks, police later found that a .44 bullet entered Lee’s abdomen and lodged in his spine, fatally wounding him. A fragment of a dummy bullet, used earlier in close-up shots, was stuck in the barrel, and the blank charge propelled the fragment into Lee's side. He died in the hospital hours later of internal injuries, blood loss and heart failure. The District Attorney, Jerry Spivey said, "Brandon Lee’s death was the result of ignoring basic and well recognized safety guidelines."
According to the April 19, 1993 edition of People Magazine, close friends say that Brandon was obsessed with death and talked about it a lot. One childhood friend says that Brandon used to speak to him in hushed tones about "a premonition that he would die suddenly, like his father, and on a movie set." Trying to get into character—as an ambulatory corpse—in "The Crow", Lee once filled a dozen bags with ice and packed them around his body to see how it would feel to spend a year in the cold ground. When a producer found out, he admonished the star for risking his health.
It has also been reported that Brandon took to driving around LA in a hearse, and visiting Jim Morrison’s grave in Paris during the 1980's. Brandon brought a 1971 hearse that was made especially for the film Harold and Maud (although his was NOT the only one used in the film). Shortly after returned back to the U.S from Hong Kong in 1987, he brought the car from a private owner in Texas. He then sold the car in 1991.
On March 19, 1993, a week and a half before his death, Lee met with Ira Teller for an interview. Here is an exerpt from that interview:
Lee talking about his attraction to the role.
LEE: When I first met with Alex Proyas, the director, one of the things that he talked about was wanting to see the film through Eric Draven's eyes. You're dealing with...a man who has come back from the dead, and I think the thing that I enjoy most about this is the questions that raises.
If you died, and a year had passed since you died, you have to assume that the people you loved and the people who loved you would have had to come to terms with having lost you. And now suddenly you are given the chance to come back for two days.... Wouldn't you feel a responsibility not to trammel in the lives of the people who have had a year to deal with that loss? And you would see the world from a perspective no one has.... That's one of the wonderful things about playing this character-there are no rules about how a person who has come back from the dead is going to behave.
There's this wonderful quote from (Paul Bowles' 1949 novel) The Sheltering Sky (paraphrasing): ''Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, and yet everything happens only a certain number of times . How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood that is so deeply a part of your being you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps, twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.''
I know that's kind of a roundabout way of talking about it. But you tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, (that) many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance. When you take into account the fact that that could have been the last time I would ever see that person (or) do something so mundane as go out to dinner.... This is (where) this character is coming from. (He realizes) how precious each moment of his life is.
Buddha Falsified:
Buddha falsified refers to the inadvertent canonization of Siddhartha Buddha. Barlaam and Josaphat is a Christianized version of the story of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. In the middle ages the two were treated as Christian saints, Barlaam and Josaphat were treated in Europe as Christian saints throughout the Middle Ages. The Genoese bishop who collected and published the work wrote that "Barlaam fell asleep in peace about the year of the Lord 380." Barlaam and Josaphat were not fully canonized until the sixteenth century, being entered in the Greek Orthodox calendar on 26 August, and into the Roman list of martyrs in the Western Church as "Barlaam and Josaphat" on the date of 27 November. Thus the historic Buddha and his guru became Christian saints, although no one seems to have made the Buddhist connection until scholars pointed it out late in the nineteenth century. The two have now been de-sanctified.
Buddha Temple: See A Borobudur
Buddhism Bell:
Bonshō, also known as tsurigane or ōgane are large bells found in Buddhist temples throughout Japan, used to summon the monks to prayer and to demarcate periods of time. Rather than containing a clapper, bonshō are struck from the outside, using either a handheld mallet or a beam suspended on ropes.
The bells are usually made from bronze, using a form of expendable mold casting. They are typically augmented and ornamented with a variety of bosses, raised bands and inscriptions. The earliest of these bells in Japan date to around 600 CE, although the general design is of much earlier Chinese origin and shares some of the features seen in ancient Chinese bells. The bells' penetrating and pervasive tone carries over considerable distances, which led to their use as signals, timekeepers and alarms. In addition, the sound of the bell is thought to have supernatural properties; it is believed, for example, that it can be heard in the underworld.
Bonshō are often rung at dawn and dusk marking the transition between the natural and supernatural worlds, the world of the living and the world of the gods and spirits.
Bugarach Haven:
"There are already some websites in the US with some people selling tickets for trips to Bugarach. They are doing some business, and people are already organizing visits and prayer and meditation workshops, etc," ~ Jean-Pierre Delord, mayor of Bugarach
Droves of people believe Bugarach is the only place in the world that will survive a 2012 Apocalypse. Surrounded in legend for centuries, Bugarach and its rocky outcrop, the Pic de Bugarach, have attracted an influx of New Age visitors. Bugarach, with a population of just 200, has long been considered magical, partly due to what locals claim is an "upside-down mountain" where the top layers of rock are older than the lower ones. Geologists say that soon after the mountain was formed, it exploded and the top landed upside-down.
The Internet is awash with myths about the place -- that the mountain is surrounded by a magnetic force, that it is the site of a concealed alien base, or even that it contains an underground access to another world.
And now many have seized on it as the ultimate refuge with 2012 rapidly approaching.
The myth of a 2012 doomsday originates in claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth, according to the US space agency NASA. That theory then became linked to dates in the Mayan calendar.
However, Nasa states on its website: "Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than four billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012."
For the sake of argument, let's suppose that aliens are hiding in underground caverns in the mountain. The Bible is clear that these beings are evil. Aliens are demons. Their intent is not to help mankind, but to destroy it. Christians should avoid any New Age groups or religious sects involved in trying to make contact with aliens.
Burnout:
Burnout is physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress.
Bush and Blair:
The Bush-Blair 2003 Iraq memo or Manning memo was a secret memo of a meeting between American President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair that took place on January 31, 2003 in the White House. It purportedly showed that the two men were increasingly aware that UN inspectors would fail to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) they had to contemplate alternative scenarios that might trigger a second resolution legitimizing military action.
Bush told Blair the US had drawn up a provocative plan "to fly U2 reconnaissance aircraft painted in UN colors over Iraq with fighter cover". Bush said that if Saddam fired at the planes this would put the Iraqi leader in breach of UN resolutions. The president expressed hopes that an Iraqi defector would be "brought out" to give a public presentation on Saddam's WMD or that someone might assassinate the Iraqi leader. However, Bush confirmed even without a second resolution, the US was prepared for military action. The memo said Blair told Bush he was “solidly with the president.”
The 2003 invasion of Iraq, (from March 20 to May 1, 2003) was led by the United States, backed by British forces and smaller contingents from Australia, Denmark, Poland and Spain. Four countries participated with troops during the initial invasion phase, which lasted from March 20 to May 1. These were the United States (248,000), United Kingdom (45,000), Australia (2,000), Poland (194) and 36 other countries were involved in its aftermath. The invasion marked the beginning of the current Iraq War. According to then President of the United States, George W. Bush and then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, the reasons for the invasion were "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people." According to Blair, the trigger was Iraq's failure to take a "final opportunity" to disarm itself of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that US and British officials called an immediate and intolerable threat to world peace
In April of 2005, the CIA’s top weapons inspector in Iraq said that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has “gone as far as feasible” and has found nothing, closing an investigation into the purported programs of Saddam Hussein that were used to justify the 2003 invasion.
A dispute exists over the legitimacy of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The debate centers on the question whether the invasion was an unprovoked assault on an independent country that may have breached international law, or if the United Nations Security Council authorized the invasion.
Bush Bin Laden:
Refers to the alleged connection between George Bush and the Bin Laden family. Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11 alleges strong business connections between the Bush family and the Bin Laden family. Moore based most of his claims on Craig Unger's House of Bush, House of Saud which relates how Salem Bin Laden invested through James R. Bath, the sole U.S. business representative for Salem bin Laden, some money in Arbusto Energy, a company run by George W. Bush. Several members of the Bush family are investors in the Carlyle Group, a defense contractor and investment fund with numerous interests in the Middle East, run by former Reagan administration Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci. The media noted that former President George H. W. Bush attended an investment meeting at the Washington, D.C. Ritz-Carlton hotel on September 10, 2001 and in particular a meeting with Shafiq bin Laden, representing joint interests of the Saudi Bin laden Group and Carlyle (Bush did not attend the morning of September 11). The Carlyle and Bin Laden groups mutually severed their business relationship on October 26, 2001
Bush's War:
The War on Terror is the campaign launched by the United States of America, under the Presidency of George W. Bush, with the support of the United Kingdom, NATO and other countries. The campaign was launched in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks and had the stated objective of eliminating international terrorism. The war on terror cost US taxpayers $1 trillion. "For these wars we have relied on supplemental appropriations for far longer than in the case of past conflicts," says Steven Kosiak of the CSBA, one of Washington's top defense-budget analysts. "Likewise, we have relied on borrowing to cover more of these costs than we have in earlier wars - which will likely increase the ultimate price we have to pay." That refusal to spell out the full cost can lead to unwise spending increases elsewhere in the federal budget or unwarranted tax cuts. "A sound budgeting process forces policymakers to recognize the true costs of their policy choices," Kosiak adds. "Not only did we not raise taxes, we cut taxes and significantly expanded spending." There seemed to be an obvious attempt by Bush to obliterate the US dollar and send the US into financial bankruptcy.
Why would George W. Bush want the US dollar to crash? In order to create a new paradigm. In 1991 George H. W. Bush Sr. gave a speech before Congress stating: "...We can see a new world coming into view," said Bush. "A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order." See A War in Iraq also See New Paradigm
Buy Porn:
Purchasing sexually explicit materials for the purposes of sexual excitement. Pornography may use any of a variety of media, ranging from printed literature, photos, sculpture, drawing, painting, animation, sound recording, film, video, or video game. Pornography takes different forms depending on physical characteristics of the participants, fetish, sexual orientation, etc. Reality and voyeur pornography, animated videos, and legally prohibited acts also influence the classification of pornography. Some popular genres of pornography include:
Alternative porn
Amateur pornography
Fetish pornography
Orientation-based pornography (heterosexual pornography; gay pornography; lesbian pornography; bisexual pornography)
Orgy pornography
Race-oriented pornography (e.g. Asian, black, Latino, interracial)
Reality pornography
Voyeur pornography (e.g. hidden camera pornography, "up skirt" pornography)
The celebration of Halloween is a tradition derived from Baal worship. Baal is one of the seven princes of Hell. He is widely mentioned in the Old Testament. Most of our current Halloween customs derived directly from Baal rituals. The cult of Baal celebrated annually his death and resurrection as a part of the Canaanite fertility rituals. These ceremonies often included human sacrifice and temple prostitution.
Today it is customary for people to celebrate Halloween by wearing costumes and trick-or-treating. Halloween costumes are traditionally those of monsters such as ghosts, ghouls, skeletons, witches, and devils. Children go in costume from house to house, asking for treats such as candy with the question, "Trick or treat?" The word "trick" refers to a (mostly idle) "threat" to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given. See Wears A Mask
Babadook Aliens: See Shadow Alien
Baby Powder:
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends against using baby powder as do many individual pediatricians. The issue is the talc that once was used in powders but, fortunately, has been eliminated in many of these products. Talc is a mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate. The danger is that babies can easily inhale tiny particles of it that are light enough to be carried in the air. When inhaled, talc can dry an infant's mucous membranes, adversely affect the baby's breathing, and cause serious lung damage. Studies have shown that talc can lead to shortness of breath and wheezing in babies and can also lead to obstruction of the airways. Some babies have developed pneumonia and some have died as a result of respiratory failure from inhaling the powder. Cornstarch isn't ideal either, but its particles are larger and are not as easily inhaled as talc. You should also be careful not to use either of these powders around older children or adults who have asthma because of the irritation it can cause when inhaled.
Bad Breath Drug:
Does someone you know have chronic bad breath or are they using methamphetamine? There is a street drug called methamphetamine, that many law enforcement officers call the "most addictive drug they have ever seen." This drug, because it is so addictive and the bad ways its users can react and behave, has increased crime rates dramatically in neighborhoods where it is prevalent.
Users will often do anything to get it and many end up in jail before they realize how bad their drug problem has become. It is important to be aware of certain symptoms of methamphetamine users, such as bad breath, so you can get the person you know rehabilitation help if needed.
One of the most common signs is bad breath also known as meth breath. This will be a chemical smell that is quite foul. Forget about brushing or using dental floss to fix the bad breath. No amount of brushing or oral hygiene can make the odor of methamphetamine bad breath to go away. Long term use renders your breath foul smelling for good.
Badge Numbers:
Relates to the Nazi SS rank system. See SS Number
Bad To The Bone:
Someone who is bad to the bone is completely bad and pure evil. In I Cor. 15:33-34, Paul gives a warning and says, “Do not be deceived, bad company corrupts good morals. Become soberminded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God." This tells us that, “Those who are bad company are those who have no knowledge of God,” or put the other way, “Those who have no knowledge of God are bad company.”
He says, “Do not be deceived.” The word deceived means to be lured away from the truth. He is saying quit being deceived, deluded, or tricked into having relationships with people who are bad in character. He also says “become sober minded.” The word sober means to awake from a drunken fit or state of intoxication. Paul's point is that we must sober up and quit lying to ourselves about the dangers of spending time with godless people. We must force ourselves to think clearly. Finally, he says stop sinning. The solution is to keep yourself from being deceived, to become sober minded, and to put an end to any close relationships you have with the ungodly.
Do you have relationships with bad company? Do you have close relationships with those who have no knowledge of God? Listen to what the Word of God is telling you. Don't be deceived; bad company does corrupt good morals. Be sober minded and stop sinning.
Bad to the Bone
By George Thorogood and The Destroyers
On the day I was born, the nurses all gathered 'round
And they gazed in wide wonder, at the joy they had found
The head nurse spoke up, and she said leave this one alone
She could tell right away, that I was bad to the bone
(chorus)
Bad to the bone
Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad to the bone
B-B-B-B-Bad
B-B-B-B-Bad
Bad to the bone
I broke a thousand hearts, before I met you
I'll break a thousand more baby, before I am through
I wanna be yours pretty baby, yours and yours alone
I'm here to tell ya honey, that I'm bad to the bone
(chorus repeat)
I make a rich woman beg, I'll make a good woman steal
I'll make an old woman blush, and make a young woman squeal
I wanna be yours pretty baby, yours and yours alone
I'm here to tell ya honey, that I'm bad to the bone
(chorus repeat)
Bailout Cash:
A bailout is an act of giving capital to an entity (a company, a country, or an individual) in danger of failing in an attempt to save it from bankruptcy, insolvency, or total liquidation and ruin; or to allow a failing entity to fail gracefully without spreading contagion.
The financial crisis that began in 2007 resulted in the collapse of large financial institutions, $700 billion bailout of banks by national governments and downturns in stock markets around the world.
Bank Collapse:
A bank collapse or bank failure is the inability of a bank to meet its credit obligations and is forced to close by federal regulators. This often happens when the institution has over leveraged itself and no longer has the funds necessary to maintain a steady flow of cash.
In 2007 and 2008 Northern Rock, Bradford and Bingley, Icelandic banks and Wall Street giants Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs experienced various degrees of catastrophe.
When most banks collapsed during the financial crisis, politicians stepped in with alternative remedies. See Bailout Cash
Barbara Hand Alien:
Barbara Hand Clow (born Barbara Hand), astrologer, channeler, and New Age entrepreneur, was born in Saginaw, Michigan, on February 14, 1943, the daughter of Eugene A. and Catherine Wallace Hand. She attended the University of Michigan and received her M.A. from the Institute for Culture and Creation in Chicago. In 1974 she married publisher Gerald Cudahy Clow.
While becoming known as an astrologer, Clow also emerged as a channel, and in 1989 she issued one of the first books containing channeled material reputedly from inhabitants from the Pleiades star cluster, Heart of the Christos: Starseeding from the Pleiades. This volume, along with Barbara Marciniak's Bringers of the Dawn (1992), would create the emphasis on Pleiadian wisdom that became so prominent in the post-New Age ascension movement of the 1990s. She followed it with The Pleiadian Agenda: A New Cosmology for the Age of Light (1995).
Many "Blonds" or Nordic type aliens that contactees encounter come from the Pleiades (or at least that's what they claim). See A Nordic Blond, A Pleiadian Angel, Maya Pleiades, Scandinavian
To learn more, please watch:
Open Minds with Regina Meredith: Alchemy of the 9 Dimensions with Barbara Hand Clow
Barbarian Gods:
Deities worshipped by primitive civilizations.
Bathrooms:
In 2007, Atlanta Police arrested 11 men on indecency charges at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport – two of them, college professors. A men’s bathroom at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport became the playground for men who want to pleasure themselves in public and try to pick up other men according to police. Police reports indicate men from North Carolina and Missouri traveled to Hartsfield-Jackson and were arrested. One man focused his attention in the bathroom on military men and another performed sex acts with children nearby.
Public places like men's bathrooms, in airports and train stations, truck stops, university libraries and parks, have long been places where gay and bisexual men, particularly those in the closet, congregate in order to meet for anonymous sex.
In 2016, bathrooms have become a hot topic for debate. In the United States and other countries, a bathroom bill is being passed to allow transgender individuals to use public bathrooms that correspond to their gender identity (as opposed to the sex they were assigned at birth).
Bay Shrimp:
Bay shrimp are the most common shrimp in most Pacific coast estuaries. The bay shrimp is abundant in bays with mud and sandy bottoms and offshore in deeper waters. As the most dominant shrimp in Pacific coast estuaries, the bay shrimp is an important part of the food chain. It is the predominant food of many sport and recreational fish, including striped bass, sturgeon, Dungeness crab and Pacific tom cod. It is a short lived species that is sensitive to pollution in estuaries. The bay shrimp is the last surviving species in the genus Syncaris pacifica. If they disappear, we can be sure that something detrimental has happened to the stream.
Beach Fronts:
Are strips of land facing or running along a beach. See Oceanfront
BEA Rate of Change:
The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides important economic statistics. The Rate of Change is an oscillator that shows how rapidly the price of a security is moving. It compares the difference between the current price and the price from a set prior time period.
Rate of Change rises with price increases and falls with price declines. Rate of Change is often used as a short term overbought/oversold indicator.
Beast Test:
"Behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren" (Lk.22:31-32).
According to Luke, Satan was going to sift Peter like wheat. Just as wheat is tossed in the air to allow the wind to sift the grain from the chaff, Peter was going to be tossed to and fro to see if he had a kernel of true faith that would stand the testing of Satan. Satan will test your faith in hopes of making you fail the test. If you have any faith in God at all, Satan will put you to the test. Those without faith are already in Satan's grasp, but if you have faith in God, you will be tried like Peter. Will your faith withstand the sifting? Will you pass the test and prove your loyalty to God or will you fail and fall into Satan's clutches? "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you" (1Peter5:8-10).
Beatles Rock:
The Beatles, an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, were one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. From 1962 the group consisted of John Lennon (rhythm guitar, vocals), Paul McCartney (bass guitar, vocals), George Harrison (lead guitar, vocals) and Ringo Starr (drums, vocals). The Beatles deceitfully came to America as decent looking young men, but then led a generation of America's youth to become hippies, drug addicts, rebels, sexual degenerates and God-haters.
In 1967, the Beatles had released their first album dedicated to the promotion of psychedelic drugs, Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The album contained a fantasized version of an LSD trip, called "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", or L.S.D. for short. It became a top seller.
The cover of the Sergeant Pepper's album by the Beatles showed a background of, according to Ringo Starr, people "we like and admire" (Hit Parade, Oct. 1976, p.14). Paul McCartney said of Sgt. Pepper's cover, ". . . we were going to have photos on the wall of all our HEROES . . ." (Musician, Special Collectors Edition, - Beatles and Rolling Stones, 1988, p.12). One of the Beatle's heroes included on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's was — the infamous Satanist, Aleister Crowley.
Clearly, the Beatles' album was dedicated to Satanist Aleister Crowley. It was released 20 years, nearly to the day, after Crowley's death in 1947, and its title song began with the lyrics, "It was twenty years ago today..." The album's cover featured a picture of Crowley.
One month after the album's release, the Beatles shocked the world by announcing, publicly, that they were regularly taking LSD. Beatle member Paul McCartney openly admitted to using LSD. According to Paul: "LSD opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain." Paul's LSD quote appeared in the now-defunct "Queen" UK-based magazine. The quote was also then reprinted by Life magazine in their June 16th 1967 feature, 'The New Far-Out Beatles: They're grown men now and creating extraordinary musical sounds' by Thomas Thompson. The Beatles also publicly called for the legalization of marijuana.
"They're COMPLETELY ANTI-CHRIST. I mean, I am anti-Christ as well, but they're so anti-Christ they shock me which isn't an easy thing."
Derek Taylor, Press Officer for the Beatles (Saturday Evening Post, Aug. 8, 1964).
It was Paul McCartney of The Beatles who said..."We probably seem to be anti-religious. . . none of us believes in God" (Hit Parader, Jan 1970, p.15).
"Christianity will go, it will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that. I'm right and will be proved right. . . .We're more popular than Jesus now" ~ John Lennon (San Francisco Chronicle, April 13, 1966, p.26).
In "The Lennon Prophecy," author Joseph Niezgoda reveals that Lennon himself was obsessed with the occult, magic, numerology and being bigger than Elvis Presley, confided in his friend Tony Sheridan that he made a deal with the devil.
Niezgoda starts his book with the well-known remark Lennon made to his friend Tony Sheridan: “I’ve sold my soul to the Devil.” Niezgoda pinpoints the date - December 27, 1960, the night the Beatles played at the Town Hall Ball Room in Litherland, England. Lennon was a 20-year old wanna-be rock star in a mediocre band not so different from so many others at the time. He was desperate to “be more famous than Elvis.” Desperate enough to sell his soul to the Devil, Niezgoda contends.
During that performance, Niezgoda reports, “the Beatles evoked a response noticeably different from anything in their past.” As they played, the crowd unexpectedly surged onto the stage and the girls started to scream. It had never happened before, but it would always happen afterward. It was the birth of Beatlemania. All four have noted this night as the turning point in their careers.
Niezgoda also says that this gig marks the beginning of Lennon's avowedly anti-Christian behavior. From biographies of Lennon, he presents many profane acts Lennon carried out publicly with no apparent purpose but to blaspheme Christ.
Beatle biographer Philip Norman writes: "while in Hamburg, John Lennon, each Sunday would stand on the balcony, taunting the churchgoers as they walked to St. Joseph's. He attached a water-filled contraceptive to an effigy of Jesus and hung it out for the churchgoers to see" (Philip Norman, Shout! The Beatles in Their Generation, p. 152). "As the sisters gazed in astonishment at this sacrilegious display, John started pelting them with Durex condoms filled with water," wrote biographer Albert Goldman.
Pete Best, the original drummer with the group, also witnessed such behavior and wrote about it in his own book describing how Lennon urinated on another group of nuns from his balcony while proclaiming, "Raindrops from heaven!"
These were just some of the ways Lennon confronted and antagonized Christian worshippers – for seemingly no reason other than his own amusement.
Twenty years after their performance in 1960, Mark David Chapman fired five shots from a revolver at Lennon on December 9, 1980, in front of the Dakota building in New York, where Yoko and John had an apartment – on the same floor, by the way, where Rosemary’s Baby was filmed. Lennon died shortly afterward.
If John had entered into a 20-year pact with the Devil for wealth and world fame, that contract ended that day with his violent death. Mark Chapman would later claim he was instructed to kill Lennon by a voice in his head that kept insisting “Do it, do it, do it.” Five years later at Attica State Prison, Chapman asked for an exorcism to be made by a priest. He said he was delivered from five or six demons. "Chapman said that as the last demon left his body he was given the reason for his possession. It was to make a show of Satan's great power in the world using John Lennon's murder as the vehicle. I've always held an intuitive belief … that the true author of this story is Satan and that I am only the messenger."
Niezgoda devotes a chapter to what may surprise many readers as fairly well-documented historical Satanic pacts – including the case of Johann Faust, who, in his Renaissance Age period, achieved fame and fortune perhaps equal to Lennon and the Beatles four centuries later. He, too, met an untimely, mysterious and grotesquely inexplicable death 20 years later. See Deal from Hell
To learn more, please read:
"The Lennon Prophecy" by author Joseph Niezgoda
Belial Left Hand:
Belial is one of the seven princes of Hell and a demon in the Bible. In the Goetia, Belial is said to be a mighty and a powerful king over 50 legions, created after Lucifer. The Satanic Bible names Belial as one of the Four Crown Princes of Hell (specifically, the North Crown), and states that his name means "'without a master'" and symbolizes true independence, self-sufficiency, and personal accomplishment." See His Evil Hand
Believe in Man:
Secular Humanism views man as the supreme being of the universe. It rejects the existence of God. It sees moral values as relative and changing and varying from person to person.
The Bible states: "Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD" (Jer. 17:5).
Bible = Don't Read:
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children" (Hos. 4:6).
Why Doesn’t Anyone Read the Bible Anymore?
A recent study shows most churchgoing Christians don't read the Bible every day. LifeWay Research found that 90 percent of churchgoers agree with the statement, "I desire to please and honor Jesus in all I do." But only 19 percent read the Bible every day. About 25 percent read the Bible a few times a week.
Sadly people who don't read the Bible, may end up going to hell. If you don't read the Bible, you will not be equipped to serve God (2 Timothy 3:17; Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12). The Bible helps us know how to be saved from our sin and its ultimate consequence (2 Timothy 3:15). Meditating on God’s Word and obeying its teachings will bring success in life (Joshua 1:8; James 1:25). God’s Word helps us see sin in our lives and helps us get rid of it (Psalm 119:9, 11). It gives us guidance in life, making us wiser than our teachers (Psalm 32:8, 119:99; Proverbs 1:6).
To learn more, please read:
The King James Version Bible
Bible Gateway - Reading Plans: (Bible reading plans walk you through the entire Bible over the course of a year).
You can also listen to the King James Bible at:
The Holy Bible
Bible Plagues:
The Plagues of Egypt, also called the ten plagues or the biblical plagues, were ten calamities that, according to the biblical Book of Exodus, God inflicted upon Egypt to persuade the Pharaoh to free the slaves (Ex. 7:14-11:10).
Bible Ridicule:
In the Bible a scoffer is someone who mocks, ridicules, or scorns the belief of another. In Hebrew, the word translated "scoffer" or "mocker" can also mean "ambassador." So a scoffer is one who not only disagrees with an idea, but he also considers himself an ambassador for the opposing idea. He cannot rest until he has demonstrated the foolishness of any idea not his own. A scoffer voices his disagreement, ridicules all who stand against him, and actively recruits others to join his side. In the Bible, scoffers are those who choose to disbelieve God and His Word. They say in their hearts, "There is no God" (Psalm 14:1), and make it their ambition to ridicule those who follow God.
The Bible has a lot to say about scoffers (Proverbs 19:29; 29:8; Acts 13:41). Proverbs 3:34 says that God "scoffs at the scoffers, yet He gives grace to the afflicted." Psalm 1:1 gives us clear instruction about how to deal with scoffers: "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." The progression of unbelief begins with listening to ungodly counsel and ends with joining the scoffers. The Bible warns us not to entertain the company of those who actively ridicule our faith, or we risk having that faith destroyed. Proverbs 13:20 says, "He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed."
Bible Sky God:
Some people falsely believe that the God of the Christian Bible is a "sky god". A sky god is often also a solar deity, a god identified with the sun. In ancient Egyptian mythology, Ra was the sun god, and chief of the cosmic gods of the Egyptian people. The sky god is a recurring theme in mythology all over the world. In Sumerian mythology and later for Assyrians and Babylonians, Anu was a sky-god, the god of heaven, lord of constellations, king of gods, spirits and demons, and dwelt in the highest heavenly regions. In Greek mythology, Zeus was the god of the sky and ruler of the Olympian gods. Belief in such a sky god is still a feature in many tribes in Africa, Australia, and South America. They look at the sky to ask the gods for help.
Bible Tower:
The Tower of Babel, according to the Book of Genesis, was an enormous tower built at the city of Babylon. Originally, after the great Flood, "the whole earth was of one language and one speech" (Gen. 11:1). In Genesis, God commands Noah and his sons to "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth" (Gen.9:1). The builders of the tower wanted to prevent the city from being scattered. During this time they started to look up in the sky and wish they could be like God. So they decided to build a tower that would reach to heaven. In the tower they would be able to study the stars and figure out how to get to heaven without God's help. The builders of the tower were in open defiance of God's command. Because of man's united rebellion against God, however, refusing to scatter throughout the world as He had commanded, and concentrating instead in the vicinity of the original Babylon, "the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth" (Gen. 11:9). By doing this, God thwarted their plans. The people stopped trying to build a tower to heaven and obeyed God.
Big Bang Happened:
The big bang refers to the idea that the Universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past (billions of years ago). The Bible teaches that God created the universe in six days ( Genesis 1; Exodus 20:11). The Bible says that Earth was created before the stars and that trees were created before the sun: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day" (Gen.1:1-5).
There are significant contradictions between the big bang theory and the Bible. The big bang theory supposes that the universe started with a chaotic explosion which then proceeded toward order. The Bible teaches the exact opposite. God created the universe in an orderly fashion.
Dr. Mart de Groot, who views the big bang concept as “a possible way of understanding the opening statement of the Bible, ‘in the beginning God . . .’,” admits that there is an objective difficulty to the theory. And it is this: even if the “primordial matter” exploded, he says, resulting in our present universe, “what is the origin or source of this matter?” He confesses that “probably the most serious shortcoming of the big bang is its inability to go back to the very beginning of time and space” (de Groot, Mart. 1999. The Search For A Plausible Cosmology. Ministry, November.).
Bill Gates IBM:
Microsoft was originally a company that wrote applications and languages. They had not written any operating systems when IBM approached them for help on the IBM personal computer. Seeing an opportunity, Bill Gates purchased the operating system known as CPM DOS from a small software company in Seattle, Washington. He then leased the operating system to IBM as MS-DOS. After adapting the operating system for the PC, Microsoft delivered it to IBM as PC-DOS in exchange for a one-time fee of $50,000. Gates did not offer to transfer the copyright on the operating system, because he believed that other hardware vendors would clone IBM's system. They did, and the sales of MS-DOS made Microsoft a major player in the industry.
Gates oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981, which re-incorporated the company in Washington and made Gates President of Microsoft and the Chairman of the Board. Microsoft launched its first retail version of Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, and in August, the company struck a deal with IBM to develop a separate operating system called OS/2.
In 2007, IBM unveiled it's new Radio Frequency Identification software that unlocks business insight from the information explosion created by RFID tags embedded throughout the supply chain. According to Martin Wildberger, Vice President, Sensors and Actuators Leader, IBM "We're entering a new phase in RFID adoption, whereby business value is the name of the game. As initial RFID deployments begin to evolve into large scale productions, RFID solutions must drive new business value, return on investment and business process flexibility and innovation. The IBM RFID platform delivers the reliable and scalable end-to-end foundation necessary for operating your business based on new insights from RFID information." See RFID Scanner
Bin Laden Has Died: See May First, A Burial At A Sea
Biocryst:
BioCryst Pharmaceuticals designs, optimizes and develops novel small-molecule pharmaceuticals that block key enzymes involved in infectious diseases, cancer and inflammatory diseases. Biocryst design drugs include: Peramivir, an anti-viral for influenza and Forodesine, a purine nucleoside phosphorylase (PNP) inhibitor for cutaneous T-cell lymphoma (CTCL). See Peramivir. See Also A Forodesine and A Swine Flu A, Vaccines
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Biofuel Cars:
The U.K.'s Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA) warned that using biofuel in vehicles could accelerate the destruction of rain forests and result in higher greenhouse gas emissions than burning pure gas and diesel.
In January 2010, The origin of fuel from land recently cleared can be described as “unknown”. Last year Esso reported the source of only 6 per cent of its biofuel and BP reported 27 per cent. Shell was the best-performing of the main oil companies but still failed to report the origin of a third of its biofuel. The agency’s first annual report revealed that fuel companies had exploited a loophole to avoid reporting the origin of almost half the biofuel they supplied to filling stations last year. See Organic Fuel
Bio-implant:
A bio-implant may be defined as a biomaterial surgically implanted in a person's body to replace damaged tissue. Common areas of application include orthopedic (especially maxillofacial) re-constructive prosthesis, cardiac prostheses (artificial heart valves like the Chitra heart valve), skin and cornea.
Birth Class:
Many childbirth classes embrace a particular philosophy about pregnancy and birth. The two most common methods of childbirth breathing, relaxation, and exercise in the United States are the Lamaze technique and the Bradley method.
Childbirth is not meant to be a relaxing or comforting experience. The Bible teaches several times that pain in childbirth is to be expected. Genesis 3:16 states, "I will surely multiply your pain/sorrow in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children." In John 16:21, Jesus Himself said: "A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world." Jesus accepted the fact that women giving birth suffer pain and anguish. There are other biblical teachings that also accept as a given that childbirth is painful. Notice that Jesus accepted the fact that women giving birth suffer pain and anguish.
B.K.S. Iyengar:
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar (generally known as Yogacharya B. K. S. Iyengar) is the founder of Iyengar Yoga. He is considered one of the foremost yoga teachers in the world and has been practicing and teaching yoga for more than 75 years. He has written many books on yogic practice and philosophy, and is best known for his books Light on Yoga, Light on Pranayama, and Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. He has also written several definitive yoga texts. Iyengar yoga centers are located throughout the world, and it is believed that millions of students practice Iyengar Yoga.
B. K. S. Iyengar states yoga is: “the means by which the human soul may be completely united with the Supreme Spirit pervading the universe and thus attain liberation” (Yoga Journal, May/June 1993, p. 69). Yoga teachers admit that yoga's function is spiritual not just physical.
Focusing on a series of stretching exercises, breathing practices, and meditation to reach a state of peace and harmony. It is a spiritual exercise and the spiritual awakening is really the serpent power (Kundalini) an energy that when released streams up the spine, where tremors, spasms and sometimes violent shaking and twisting are experienced.
Black Apartheid:
Apartheid ("the status of being apart") was a system of racial segregation enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP) governments, who were the ruling party from 1948 to 1994, of South Africa, under which the rights of the majority black inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained. Apartheid was developed after World War II by the Afrikaner-dominated National Party and Broederbond organizations and was practiced also in South West Africa, which was administered by South Africa under a League of Nations mandate (revoked in 1966 via United Nations Resolution 2145), until it gained independence as Namibia in 1990.
Racial segregation in South Africa began in colonial times under Dutch and British rule. However, apartheid as an official policy was introduced following the general election of 1948. New legislation classified inhabitants into four racial groups ("native", "white", "coloured", and "Asian"), and residential areas were segregated, sometimes by means of forced removals. Non-white political representation was completely abolished in 1970, and starting in that year black people were deprived of their citizenship, legally becoming citizens of one of ten tribal based self-governing homelands called bantustans, four of which became nominally independent states. The government segregated education, medical care, beaches, and other public services, and provided black people with services inferior to those of white people.
Apartheid sparked significant internal resistance and violence as well as a long arms and trade embargo against South Africa. Since the 1950s, a series of popular uprisings and protests were met with the banning of opposition and imprisoning of anti-apartheid leaders. As unrest spread and became more effective and militarized, state organizations responded with repression and violence. This, along with the sanctions placed on South Africa by the West made it increasingly difficult for the government to maintain the regime.
Reforms to apartheid in the 1980s failed to quell the mounting opposition, and in 1990 President Frederik Willem de Klerk began negotiations to end apartheid, culminating in multi-racial democratic elections in 1994, which were won by the African National Congress under Nelson Mandela. The vestiges of apartheid still shape South African politics and society. Although the official abolishment of Apartheid occurred in 1990 with repeal of the last of the remaining Apartheid laws, the end of Apartheid is widely regarded as arising from the 1994 democratic general elections.
Black Chocolate:
"Black chocolate", also called "dark chocolate" or "plain chocolate" , is produced by adding fat and sugar to cocoa. It is chocolate with no milk or much less than milk chocolate. The U.S. has no official definition for dark chocolate. Dark chocolate can be eaten as is, or used in cooking, for which thicker, baking bars, usually with high cocoa percentages ranging from 70% to 99% are sold. Dark is synonymous with semi sweet, and extra dark with bittersweet, although the ratio of cocoa butter to solids may vary.
While dark chocolate is better than milk and white chocolate due to the antioxidants it contains, it’s also higher in calories and saturated fat.
Black Colors: See Sackcloths
Blackface Clown:
Blackface is a form of theatrical makeup used in minstrel shows, and later vaudeville, in which performers create a stereotyped caricature of a black person. The practice gained popularity during the 19th century and contributed to the proliferation of stereotypes such as the "happy-go-lucky darky on the plantation" or the "dandified coon".
There is no consensus about a single moment that constitutes the origin of blackface. John Strausbaugh places it as part of a tradition of "displaying Blackness for the enjoyment and edification of white viewers" that dates back at least to 1441, when captive West Africans were displayed in Portugal. Whites routinely portrayed the black characters in the Elizabethan and Jacobean theater (see English Renaissance theatre), most famously in Othello (1604). However, Othello and other plays of this era did not involve the emulation and caricature of "such supposed innate qualities of Blackness as inherent musicality, natural athleticism," etc. that Strausbaugh sees as crucial to blackface. Lewis Hallam, Jr., a white actor using blackface makeup of American Company fame, brought blackface in this more specific sense to prominence as a theatrical device in the United States when playing the role of "Mungo", an inebriated black man in The Padlock, a British play that premiered in New York City at the John Street Theatre on May 29, 1769. The play attracted notice, and other performers adopted the style. From at least the 1810s, blackface clowns were popular in the United States. British actor Charles Mathews toured the U.S. in 1822–1823, and as a result added a "black" characterization to his repertoire of British regional types for his next show, A Trip to America, which included Mathews singing "Possum up a Gum Tree", a popular slave freedom song.[10] Edwin Forrest played a plantation black in 1823, and George Washington Dixon was already building his stage career around blackface in 1828, but it was another white comic actor, Thomas D. Rice, who truly popularized blackface. Rice introduced the song "Jump Jim Crow" accompanied by a dance in his stage act in 1828 and scored stardom with it by 1832.
Black Fridays:
Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. Because Thanksgiving falls on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States, Black Friday occurs between the 23rd and the 29th of November. Black Friday is not an official holiday, but as many workers have the day off as part of the Thanksgiving holiday, this increases the number of potential shoppers.
According to Reuters, in 2007 135 million people participated in the Black Friday shopping rush. In 2008, 34-year-old Jdimytai Damour, a Long Island Walmart temporary employee, was trampled to death after frenzied shoppers smashed through the store's front doors. According to police, officers who arrived to perform CPR on the dying man were also stepped on and injured, as was a pregnant woman.
Black Friday is quickly being turned into "Gray Thursday." Some big department stores are doing away with the old tradition of opening on Friday at midnight and are instead unlocking their doors right around dinnertime on Thanksgiving. Some call it desperation. Some say it destroys the holiday. Others are happy to get a jump on the best deals early.
Black Hole = Big Bang:
The entire universe may have been created in an explosion inside a black hole. "It's a mathematically plausible model which refines the standard model of the Big Bang," said Blake Temple, a mathematician at the University of California, Davis.
The standard model holds that the universe began about 13.7 billion years ago. The Big Bang is described not as an explosion so much as a rapid outflow of material from a point of nearly infinite density. It is a theory, one among several attempting to describe the observed expansion of the universe today. It has not been proved.
The Big Bang has been compared to black holes before, because the tremendous crush of matter that defines a black hole is much like the unfathomable density that preceded the Big Bang. Both phenomena are termed singularities.
In the proposed modification to the standard model, the Big Bang is an actual explosion, Temple explained today in a statement, and it occurs within a black hole in an existing space. The shock wave of the explosion is expanding into an infinite space.
Black Portal:
A portal is a doorway that connects two distant locations, whether separated by time or more commonly space. It usually consists of two or more gateways, with an object entering one gateway leaving via the other instantaneously. Portals are similar to the cosmological concept of a wormhole, and some portals work using wormholes.
The objects scientists think are black holes could instead be portals or wormholes leading to other universes, according to a study taken in 2007. If you imagine the universe as a two-dimensional sheet, you can picture a wormhole as a "throat" connecting our sheet to another one. In this scenario, the other sheet could be a universe of its own, with its own stars, galaxies and planets.
Physicists Thibault Damour of the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette, France, and Sergey Solodukhin of International University Bremen in Germany studied what such a wormhole might look like, and were surprised to discover that it would mimic a black hole so well that it would be virtually impossible to tell the difference.
Black Tea Drink:
Black tea is made from the dried leaves of Camellia sinensis, a perennial evergreen shrub. Black tea has a long history of use dating back to China approximately 5,000 years ago. Green tea, black tea, and oolong tea are all derived from the same plant.
Historically, tea has been served as a part of various ceremonies and has been used to stay alert during long meditations. A legend in India describes the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, who tore off his eyelids in frustration at his inability to stay awake during meditation while journeying through China. A tea plant is said to have sprouted from the spot where his eyelids fell, providing him with the ability to stay awake, meditate, and reach enlightenment.
Black tea is a source of caffeine, a methylxanthine that stimulates the central nervous system, relaxes smooth muscle in the airways to the lungs (bronchioles), stimulates the heart, and acts on the kidney as a diuretic (increasing urine). Black tea also contains large amounts of catechin tannins (10-25%). A cup of tea contains lesser amounts of caffeine than coffee (one cup of tea contains about 50 milligrams of caffeine, depending on the strength and size of cup as compared to coffee, which contains 65 to 175 milligrams of caffeine per cup), but the tannin content is much higher.
If ingested in excessive quantities, tannins inhibit the absorption of minerals such as iron which may, if prolonged, lead to anemia. This is because tannins are metal ion chelators, and tannin-chelated metal ions are not bioavailable.
In order to prevent these problems, it is advised to drink tea and coffee between meals, not during. Foods rich in vitamin C help neutralize tannin's effects on iron absorption. Adding lemon juice to tea will reduce the negative effect of tannins in iron absorption as well. Adding milk to coffee and tea has very little to no influence on the inhibitory effect of tannins.
In sensitive individuals, a large intake of tannins may cause bowel irritation, kidney irritation, liver damage, irritation of the stomach, vomiting, nausea, and gastrointestinal pain.
Black Tongue:
There are two main causes for a black tongue. The first is bismuth, a chemical found in pepto-bismol. Sometimes the reaction of bismuth with the chemicals in your mouth is a black film on you tongue. This is completely harmless; it just tends to scare people who look in the mirror and find a charcoal black tongue for no reason.
The other kind of black tongue is sometimes called black hairy tongue. This type of black tongue arises when the papillae (taste buds) on your tongue grow too long. Usually papillae are worn down by food when you eat.
When the papillae grow longer than usual, your tongue may appear furry, and the papillae can become stained by colored food. That means your black furry tongue could also be yellow, green, or brown depending on what you’ve been eating.
Again, this type of black tongue is harmless. Some people with more serious cases have complained of a tickling sensation on the roof of the mouth from the extra long papillae, and others have seen bacterial growth begin to collect on the tongue causing oral thrush.
Blasphemed God:
"And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven" (Rev. 13:6).
"But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation" (Mark 3:29). In Revelation, the dragon (Satan), blasphemed God, his name, dwelling pace and those who live in heaven. This sin of blasphemy against God is commonly called the unpardonable sin. The person who blasphemes against the Holy Ghost, places himself beyond the reach of forgiveness. The word "blaspheme" means to speak irreverently or profanely of or to God, to curse or revile, etc. Blasphemy against God is unforgivable because its a selfish preference of wrong over right and evil over good, and a willful refusal to believe.
Bleached Blondes:
Bleach is one of the harshest ingredients that we can use on our hair, yet many women still get their hair bleached, whether they are going blonde for the summer or adding lighter highlights throughout for more definition. Bleach causes damage by stripping your hair of its essential oils that keep it moisturized.
Blind Eye Mahdi: See The False Mahdi, One Eyed Dajjal, A One Eye King
Blood Oaths:
A very serious and legally binding oath between two or more parties in which blood from each party is placed onto the bottom of the oath next to the signature of each of the parties involved. An oath is a solemn, formal declaration or promise to fulfill a pledge, often calling on God, a god, or a sacred object as witness.
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Bloodstain:
1. Stained, spotted or otherwise discolored with blood.
2. Having the color of something which has been stained with blood.
3. Responsible for the deaths of others.
4. By extension from sense #3, guilty of wrongdoing.
Blood Tears:
Rashida Khatoon, a young girl from northeast India cries tears of blood instead of water. Calvino Inman from Rockwood, Tennessee also cries tears of blood. Calvino Inman's tears of blood don't function like normal tears, and cause a burning sensation. Doctors have yet to determine what is causing his condition. Doctors believe a rare condition is most likely the cause of the blood red tears. Ophthalmologist Dr. Rex Hamilton told "Good Morning America" that Inman could be suffering from a condition called Haemolacria. Haemolacria manifests as bloody tears but the red tears are actually only partially composed of blood. The most extreme cases have a high concentration of blood in the tears but in milder manifestations it can go unnoticed by all but doctors. Haemolacria is a symptom of a number of diseases, and may also be indicative of a tumor. It is most often provoked by local factors such as bacterial conjunctivitis, environmental damage or injuries. Haemolacria is merely a descriptive term. It's just a fancy way of saying "bloody tears." These children could be suffering from real medical conditions. Yet, some people believe the tears are a sign of demon possession. Others believe the tears are a miracle.
In Christianity, cases of spontaneous bleeding are associated with stigmata, where bleeding from the eye, arms legs or forehead are meant to represent the blood of Jesus on the cross. Some stigmatic persons reportedly display wounds to the forehead similar to those caused by the crown of thorns. Other reported forms include tears of blood or sweating blood, wounds to the back as from scourging, or wounds to the shoulder as from bearing the cross. In addition, lashes on the back can be witnessed.
Some stigmatic persons claim to feel the pain of wounds with no external marks; these are referred to as invisible stigmata. In other claims, stigmata are accompanied by extreme pain. Some stigmatic persons' wounds do not appear to clot, and stay fresh and uninfected.
Statues have also been reported to shed tears of blood. A weeping statue is a statue which has been claimed to be shedding tears or weeping by supernatural means. Statues weeping tears of a substance which appears to be human blood, oil, and scented liquids have all been reported. Reported weeping statues are most often of the Virgin Mary and are at times accompanied by claims of Marian apparitions. However, to date only one single example of a combined weeping statue and apparition (namely Our Lady of Akita) has been approved by the Vatican and the rest have usually been dismissed as hoaxes.
Blue Desert:
The Blue Desert is an area of the Sinai Desert near the Red Sea resort of Dahab, where a number of rocks are painted blue.
This area was created in 1980 when, following the 1979 Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty Belgian artist Jean Verame visited Sinai to paint a line of peace. Verame gained the permission of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and received a grant of ten tons of paint from the United Nations.
Body Shames:
The practice of criticizing people publicly for being too fat or, less frequently, too thin.
Bolivia Mine:
Deep inside the mines of mount Cerro Rico in Potosí, Bolivia are hundreds of statues of the Devil in the shape of a goat. The Catholics of Potosí know him as El Tío (The Uncle), is believed in Cerro Rico, Potosí, Bolivia as the lord of the underworld. There are many statues of this devil-like spirit in the mines. El Tío rules over the mines, simultaneously offering protection and destruction.
Miners bring offerings such as cigarettes, coca leaves, and alcohol for the statues and believe that if El Tío is not fed, he will take matters into his own hands. Villagers of Potosi ritually slaughter a llama and smear its blood on the entrance to the mines.
Bolon Tzacab:
The Mayan god of agriculture, the one who controls the rain and thunder. His name means "the leaf-nosed god", and he was portrayed with a leaf in his nose. He is the so-called 'God K'. God K was a deity of lightning with one human leg, and one leg shaped like a serpent.
This god of agriculture is known by many other names. The Romans called him Mars. The Canaanite people called him Yahweh.
Bondage Handcuffs:
"Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage" (Gal.5:1).
Bondage handcuffs are shackles used to restrain slaves with. May also refer to physically restraining a partner's arms during sexual practice.
Bondage Porn:
Bondage pornography specializes in the depiction of sexual bondage or BDSM activities, as photographs, stories, movies, or drawings. The participants are physically bound by way of ropes, chains, locks and similar devices for the purpose of erotic pleasure.
Book of Beast:
The Bestiary: A Book of Beasts was the first and, for a time, the only English translation of a medieval bestiary. Bestiaries were second only to the Bible in their popularity and wide distribution during the Middle Ages. They were catalogs of animal stories, combining zoological information, myths, and legends. Great attention was given to bizarre, exotic, and monstrous creatures. Much of the content of bestiaries was drawn from much older sources including Aristotle, early English literature, and oral traditions.
Book of the Dead:
The Book of the Dead was a description of the ancient Egyptian conception of the afterlife and a collection of hymns, spells, and instructions to allow the deceased to pass through obstacles in the afterlife.
The name "Book of the Dead" was the invention of the German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius, who published a selection of the texts in 1842.
The name of the book in the Egyptian Language translates to "utterances of emergence during daytime." A slightly looser translation for sense could be "spells of going out in the daytime."
Early versions of the book of the dead were not standardized and were not organized by thematic content; however, this changed by the Saite period:
Chapters 1-16 The deceased enters the tomb, descends to the underworld, and the body regains its powers of movement and speech.
Chapters 17-63 Explanation of the mythic origin of the gods and places, the deceased are made to live again so that they may arise, reborn, with the morning sun.
Chapters 64-129 The deceased travels across the sky in the sun ark as one of the blessed dead. In the evening, the deceased travels to the underworld to appear before Osiris.
Chapters 130-189 Having been vindicated, the deceased assumes power in the universe as one of the gods. This section also includes assorted chapters on protective amulets, provision of food, and important places. There are 192 unique chapters known, and no single papyrus contains all known chapters. Depending on the translation the verses are divided into Spell numbers as opposed to Chapter numbers.
Book of John:
A version of the Book of John the Evangelist derived from the Archives of the Inquisition at Carcassonne, having this annotation in Latin: “This is the secret book of the heretics of Concoreze, brought from Bulgaria by their bishop Nazarius, full of errors.”
The book is based on Bogomilism Gnostic teaching, denying that the world was made by God, and attributing creation to the devil. Catholic Christians are disciples of John Baptist: baptism has no value, nor, probably the Eucharist: but the statement about this has dropped out of the text. The law of sacrifices (promulgated by Enoch) and the Mosaic law are works of the devil.
Botulism:
Botulism also known as botulinus intoxication is a rare but serious paralytic illness caused by botulinum toxin, which is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. The toxin enters the body in one of four ways: by colonization of the digestive tract by the bacterium in children (infant botulism) or adults (adult intestinal toxemia), by ingestion of toxin from foodstuffs (food borne botulism) or by contamination of a wound by the bacterium (wound botulism). All forms lead to paralysis that typically starts with the muscles of the face and then spreads towards the limbs. In severe forms, it leads to paralysis of the breathing muscles and causes respiratory failure.
Botulism can be prevented. Food borne botulism has often been from home-canned foods with low acid content, such as asparagus, green beans, beets and corn. However, outbreaks of botulism from more unusual sources such as chopped garlic in oil, chile peppers, tomatoes, carrot juice, improperly handled baked potatoes wrapped in aluminum foil, and home-canned or fermented fish. Because honey can contain spores of Clostridium botulinum and this has been a source of infection for infants, children less than 12 months old should not be fed honey. Honey is safe for persons 1 year of age and older. Wound botulism can be prevented by promptly seeking medical care for infected wounds and by not using injectable street drugs.
The bacterium Clostridium botulinum is used to produce Botulinum toxin (BOTOX). The Food and Drug Administration said Botox and two other injections carry risks of rare botulism symptoms, particularly when given to children to help relax uncontrollable muscle movements. In rare cases, the toxin can spread beyond the injection site to other parts of the body, paralyzing or weakening the muscles used for breathing and swallowing, a potentially fatal side effect. In January 2009, the Canadian government warned that Botox can have the adverse effect of spreading to other parts of the body which could cause pneumonia, and speech disorders.
The FDA has uncovered 225 cases of botulism related to the BOTOX and 17 deaths for which its analysis seemed to suggest botulism as a cause. However, the agency said it was impossible to definitively say the drug caused the deaths. The FDA said most of the reports of hospitalization and deaths were in children with cerebral palsy taking the drugs for spasticity in their legs. That use is not approved in the U.S., though regulators claim it is still legitimate.
Bourgeois:
A person who is a member of the ruling class, and who is characterized by owning capital, property and having an interest in obtaining material possessions. See A Capitalist
Brain Repair:
Most types of neurological damage lead to permanent disability. Neuroscientists have tried to repair the structure of the brain to return it normal neurological functions. Such treatment strategies have primarily involved replacing diminished neurotransmitters, the chemicals that convey messages between nerve cells (neurons). Where neurons are permanently lost, there are two potential ways of replacing them. The first is to transplant equivalent neurons taken from a donor brain. The second is to persuade primitive stem cell, which are present in the adult brain or can be transplanted, to turn into new neurons.
"With the recent advances in neuroscience, engineering, computer science and medicine, we are designing prosthetic technologies to 'repair' a person's nervous system," stated Dr. John P. Donoghue, Cyberkinetics' Chief Scientific Officer. "We are already working on a system that we believe could ultimately enable paralyzed people to use their own muscles to feed themselves - or even walk - allowing them to lead more independent lives."
Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems, Inc., a leader in the neurotechnology industry, is developing neural stimulation, sensing and processing technology to improve the lives of those with severe paralysis resulting from spinal cord injuries, neurological disorders and other conditions of the nervous system. Cyberkinetics' product development pipeline includes: the Andara[TM] OFS[TM] Device, an investigative device designed to stimulate nerve repair and restore sensation and motor function following recent nerve injuries; the BrainGate System, an investigative device designed to provide communication and control of a computer, assistive devices, and, ultimately, limb movement; and a pilot program in the detection and prediction of seizures due to Epilepsy. See A Biochip Device
Brazilians:
"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them" (Gen.6:4).
The etymology of "Brazil" stems from brazilwood, its earliest commercially-exploited product. In Portuguese brazilwood is called pau-brasil, with the word brasil commonly given the etymology "red like an ember", formed from Latin brasa ("ember") and the suffix -il (from -iculum or -ilium). While the brazilwood root of Brazil is widely accepted, it has been occasionally challenged. Among the alternative hypotheses is that it is named after the legendary island of "Brasil". The 'brasil' in this case could be a reference either to the island's volcanic complex, or a reference to dragon's blood, a valuable red resin dye found on that island.
Also many 14th C. nautical maps often denoted a phantom island called insula brasil in the north Atlantic Ocean, usually circular in shape and located just southwest of Ireland. The name of the island is derived by Celtic scholars from breas, large, and i, island; or, according to O'Brien's "Irish Dictionary," its other form of O’Brasile means a large imaginary island (Hardiman's "Irish Minstrelsy," I. p. 369). There are several families named Brazil in County Waterford, Ireland ("Transactions of the Ossianic Society, Dublin," 1854, I. p. 81).
As to the name itself there has been much discussion. On the map of Bianco (1436)--reproduced in Winsor, I. p. 54--the name "Ya de Lamansatanaxio" distinctly appears, and this was translated by both Formaleoni and Humboldt as meaning "the Island of the Hand of Satan."
An Epitome of all the Accounts that have hitherto been published concerning a Race of People of a gigantic Stature, on and about the Eastern Coast of South America, between latitude 24 S. and the Straits of Magellan, which lie in 53 deg.
There people are first mentioned in the account of a voyage for new discoveries, undertaken by Magellan in the year 1519. His words in Harris's abridgment of this account are these:
"When they had crossed the line, and the South pole appeared above the horizon, they held on their south course, and came upon the Main of Brasil, about that part of it which lies in twenty two degrees. They observed it to be all one continued tract of land, higher from the Cape St. Augustine, which is in this part of the country. Having made two degrees and an half more South latitude, they fell in with a country inhabited by a wild sort of people: They were of a prodigious stature, fierce and barbarous, made a horrible roaring noise, more like bulls than human creatures; and yet with all that mighty bulk were so nimble and light of foot that none of the Spaniards or Portuguese could over take them."
These giants are next mentioned in an account of a voyage round the world, by Sir Thomas Cavendish: Of which Harris's epitome is as follows:
"Sailing from Cape Frio, in the Brasils, they fell in upon the coast of America, in 47 d. 20 m. North (it should be South) latitude. They proceeded to Port Desire, in latitude 50. Here the Savages wounded two of the company with their arrows, which are made of cane, headed with flints. A wild and rude sort of creatures they were; and, as it seemed, of a gigantic race, the measure of one of their feet being 18 inches in length, which, reckoning by the usual proportion, will give about 7 feet and an half for their stature." Harris says that this agrees very exactly with the account given of them by Magellan, but in his epitome of Magellan's account he says that the head of one of his middle sized men reached but to the Patagonian's waist; which, supposing Magellan's man to be but 5 feet 6 inches high, will make the Patagonian 9 at least. He says, indeed, that Magellan gave them the name of Patagons, because their stature was five cubits, or seven feet six, but, if so, his own account is inconsistent with itself, neither has he told us in what language Patagon expresses this stature.
Breast Jobs:
“Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised” (Pro.31:30).
A breast implant is a prosthesis used to alter the size and shape of a woman's breasts (known as breast augmentation, breast enlargement, mammoplasty enlargement, augmentation mammoplasty or boob job) for cosmetic reasons, to reconstruct the breast, etc.
The Bible warns us not to be vain or conceited (Philippians 2:3-4) and not to draw attention to ourselves by the way we look (1 Timothy 2:9).
Bricklaying:
Bricklaying is the craft of laying bricks. A bricklayer or mason is a craftsman who lays bricks to construct brickwork. Consensus among modern Freemasons and most Masonic scholars is that the fraternity arose from the guilds of medieval stonemasons, in particular the builders of the Gothic cathedrals. The guilds of Masons were very prestigious, as they were involved in massive public and religious works. The knowledge of the stonemasons included not just the mundane skills of bricklaying and stone-chiseling, but the highly valuable secrets of architectural geometry. These secrets were a guild’s bread and butter, coveted and strictly guarded. Traveling Masons were armed with elaborate systems of recognition, including the well-known ‘secret handshakes,’ passwords, and knowledge of the guild’s unique mythology.
Brit Milahs:
Brit milah, which means "covenant of circumcision," is a Jewish ritual performed on a baby boy eight days after he is born. It involves the removal of the foreskin from the penis by a mohel.
In addition to milah (the actual circumcision), the Talmud mentions metzitzah, or squeezing some blood from the wound. Traditionally, metzitzah was accomplished through oral suction, known as "metzitzah b'peh" ["via the mouth"] where the the mohel places his mouth on the freshly circumcised penis and sucks the babies penis to draw blood away from the circumcision wound. The Talmud (Shabbos 133 b) quotes Rav Papa, that any mohel who does not perform metzitzah b'peh loses his license to practice circumcision.
Beginning in around the 18th Century, however, it was known that this technique itself can spread infection (ironically, prevention of which was the very reason metzitzah was instituted) and harm the baby. If the mohel is infected with oral herpes (as most adults are), metzitzah b'peh can expose the infant to the herpes virus. While severe illness associated with this practice may be rare , there is a definite risk of infection.
Oral herpes spreads easily through saliva, especially when saliva touches a cut or break in the skin, such as during metzitzah b'peh. Most people with oral herpes don't know they are infected and don't have symptoms. Even without symptoms, however, people can spread the infection.
Because the immune system of newborns is not developed enough to fight serious infection, herpes infections pose grave risks to infants. The practice of metzitzah b'peh was implicated in the transfer of herpes from mohelim to eight Israeli infants, one of whom suffered brain damage. Three New York City infants contracted herpes after metzizah b'peh by one mohel and one of them died.
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Bruce Lee Film:
Bruce Lee was born the Year of the Dragon, at the hour of the dragon (between 6:00AM- 8:00AM). At the time of Bruce's birth a physician by the name of Dr. Mary Glover thought of the name Bruce, and she suggested it to his mother Grace Lee. His father was away performing in New York at the time. His mother liked the sound of the name and it stuck.
Lee was born in San Francisco, California in the United States, to parents of Hong Kong heritage but raised in Hong Kong until his late teens. Upon reaching the age of 18, Lee emigrated to the United States to claim his U.S. Citizenship and receive his higher education. It was during this time he began teaching martial arts, which soon led to film and television roles.
In 1973 on the set of "Enter the Dragon", Bruce collapsed. In the film "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story", Bruce's collapse is attributed to a vision he had of a demon fighting him; after the fight, Bruce is back on the set of enter the dragon, confused but unfazed.
In reality while dubbing the sound effects for "Enter the Dragon", he passed out for a whole half an hour. The air conditioners at the studio had been turned off, because the noise they made interfered with the dubbing process. The extreme heat was a likely factor in Bruce's collapse. He was taken to the hospital where he was treated by his family doctor, Dr. "Don" Langford and neurosurgeon Dr. Peter Wu. He was prescribed the drug Manatol. It was used to reduce an apparent brain swelling.
In the film "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story", there is also a dream sequence involving both Bruce and young Brandon that has Bruce desperately trying to protect his son. The role for Bruce Lee was first offered to his real-life son Brandon Lee, who declined. Brandon Lee died in a fatal shooting accident while filming for the movie "The Crow" in March 1993, less than two months before this film's release.
Bruce Lee Heir:
Brandon Bruce Lee (February 1, 1965 – March 31, 1993) was an American actor and martial artist. He was the son of martial arts film star Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee died at the age of 32 in Hong Kong on July 20, 1973 while filming Game of Death. Nearly 20 years later on March 31, 1993, his son, Brandon, would die in a tragic on-set accident while filming "The Crow", on a North Carolina sound stage.
Brandon Lee made his own acting debut at age 21, in the TV movie "Kung Fu: The Movie" (1986), based on the 1970s series "Kung Fu". He starred in one Hong Kong action film, "Legacy of Rage" (1986), and made his American big-screen debut opposite Dolph Lundgren in the cop-buddy action movie "Showdown" in Little Tokyo (1991). In early 1993, Lee landed the lead role of Eric Draven in "The Crow", based on the popular underground Gothic comic book series about a rock musician who returns from the dead to avenge his and his fiancee’s murders.
Filming of "The Crow" began in February 1993. Around midnight on the morning of March 31, the cast and crew were filming a scene at Carolco Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina. The scene was the death of Lee's character, Eric Draven, at the hands of street thugs, and was a pivotal plot element to the movie. Lee was to walk in through a door carrying a bag of groceries. To complete the illusion, a small explosive charge was to go off in the grocery bag. As Lee entered a room, another actor Michael Massee shot him from a distance of 15-20 feet. Though the gun was supposed to have been loaded with blanks, police later found that a .44 bullet entered Lee’s abdomen and lodged in his spine, fatally wounding him. A fragment of a dummy bullet, used earlier in close-up shots, was stuck in the barrel, and the blank charge propelled the fragment into Lee's side. He died in the hospital hours later of internal injuries, blood loss and heart failure. The District Attorney, Jerry Spivey said, "Brandon Lee’s death was the result of ignoring basic and well recognized safety guidelines."
According to the April 19, 1993 edition of People Magazine, close friends say that Brandon was obsessed with death and talked about it a lot. One childhood friend says that Brandon used to speak to him in hushed tones about "a premonition that he would die suddenly, like his father, and on a movie set." Trying to get into character—as an ambulatory corpse—in "The Crow", Lee once filled a dozen bags with ice and packed them around his body to see how it would feel to spend a year in the cold ground. When a producer found out, he admonished the star for risking his health.
It has also been reported that Brandon took to driving around LA in a hearse, and visiting Jim Morrison’s grave in Paris during the 1980's. Brandon brought a 1971 hearse that was made especially for the film Harold and Maud (although his was NOT the only one used in the film). Shortly after returned back to the U.S from Hong Kong in 1987, he brought the car from a private owner in Texas. He then sold the car in 1991.
On March 19, 1993, a week and a half before his death, Lee met with Ira Teller for an interview. Here is an exerpt from that interview:
Lee talking about his attraction to the role.
LEE: When I first met with Alex Proyas, the director, one of the things that he talked about was wanting to see the film through Eric Draven's eyes. You're dealing with...a man who has come back from the dead, and I think the thing that I enjoy most about this is the questions that raises.
If you died, and a year had passed since you died, you have to assume that the people you loved and the people who loved you would have had to come to terms with having lost you. And now suddenly you are given the chance to come back for two days.... Wouldn't you feel a responsibility not to trammel in the lives of the people who have had a year to deal with that loss? And you would see the world from a perspective no one has.... That's one of the wonderful things about playing this character-there are no rules about how a person who has come back from the dead is going to behave.
There's this wonderful quote from (Paul Bowles' 1949 novel) The Sheltering Sky (paraphrasing): ''Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, and yet everything happens only a certain number of times . How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood that is so deeply a part of your being you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more? Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps, twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.''
I know that's kind of a roundabout way of talking about it. But you tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, (that) many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance. When you take into account the fact that that could have been the last time I would ever see that person (or) do something so mundane as go out to dinner.... This is (where) this character is coming from. (He realizes) how precious each moment of his life is.
Buddha Falsified:
Buddha falsified refers to the inadvertent canonization of Siddhartha Buddha. Barlaam and Josaphat is a Christianized version of the story of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. In the middle ages the two were treated as Christian saints, Barlaam and Josaphat were treated in Europe as Christian saints throughout the Middle Ages. The Genoese bishop who collected and published the work wrote that "Barlaam fell asleep in peace about the year of the Lord 380." Barlaam and Josaphat were not fully canonized until the sixteenth century, being entered in the Greek Orthodox calendar on 26 August, and into the Roman list of martyrs in the Western Church as "Barlaam and Josaphat" on the date of 27 November. Thus the historic Buddha and his guru became Christian saints, although no one seems to have made the Buddhist connection until scholars pointed it out late in the nineteenth century. The two have now been de-sanctified.
Buddha Temple: See A Borobudur
Buddhism Bell:
Bonshō, also known as tsurigane or ōgane are large bells found in Buddhist temples throughout Japan, used to summon the monks to prayer and to demarcate periods of time. Rather than containing a clapper, bonshō are struck from the outside, using either a handheld mallet or a beam suspended on ropes.
The bells are usually made from bronze, using a form of expendable mold casting. They are typically augmented and ornamented with a variety of bosses, raised bands and inscriptions. The earliest of these bells in Japan date to around 600 CE, although the general design is of much earlier Chinese origin and shares some of the features seen in ancient Chinese bells. The bells' penetrating and pervasive tone carries over considerable distances, which led to their use as signals, timekeepers and alarms. In addition, the sound of the bell is thought to have supernatural properties; it is believed, for example, that it can be heard in the underworld.
Bonshō are often rung at dawn and dusk marking the transition between the natural and supernatural worlds, the world of the living and the world of the gods and spirits.
Bugarach Haven:
"There are already some websites in the US with some people selling tickets for trips to Bugarach. They are doing some business, and people are already organizing visits and prayer and meditation workshops, etc," ~ Jean-Pierre Delord, mayor of Bugarach
Droves of people believe Bugarach is the only place in the world that will survive a 2012 Apocalypse. Surrounded in legend for centuries, Bugarach and its rocky outcrop, the Pic de Bugarach, have attracted an influx of New Age visitors. Bugarach, with a population of just 200, has long been considered magical, partly due to what locals claim is an "upside-down mountain" where the top layers of rock are older than the lower ones. Geologists say that soon after the mountain was formed, it exploded and the top landed upside-down.
The Internet is awash with myths about the place -- that the mountain is surrounded by a magnetic force, that it is the site of a concealed alien base, or even that it contains an underground access to another world.
And now many have seized on it as the ultimate refuge with 2012 rapidly approaching.
The myth of a 2012 doomsday originates in claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth, according to the US space agency NASA. That theory then became linked to dates in the Mayan calendar.
However, Nasa states on its website: "Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than four billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012."
For the sake of argument, let's suppose that aliens are hiding in underground caverns in the mountain. The Bible is clear that these beings are evil. Aliens are demons. Their intent is not to help mankind, but to destroy it. Christians should avoid any New Age groups or religious sects involved in trying to make contact with aliens.
Burnout:
Burnout is physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress.
Bush and Blair:
The Bush-Blair 2003 Iraq memo or Manning memo was a secret memo of a meeting between American President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair that took place on January 31, 2003 in the White House. It purportedly showed that the two men were increasingly aware that UN inspectors would fail to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) they had to contemplate alternative scenarios that might trigger a second resolution legitimizing military action.
Bush told Blair the US had drawn up a provocative plan "to fly U2 reconnaissance aircraft painted in UN colors over Iraq with fighter cover". Bush said that if Saddam fired at the planes this would put the Iraqi leader in breach of UN resolutions. The president expressed hopes that an Iraqi defector would be "brought out" to give a public presentation on Saddam's WMD or that someone might assassinate the Iraqi leader. However, Bush confirmed even without a second resolution, the US was prepared for military action. The memo said Blair told Bush he was “solidly with the president.”
The 2003 invasion of Iraq, (from March 20 to May 1, 2003) was led by the United States, backed by British forces and smaller contingents from Australia, Denmark, Poland and Spain. Four countries participated with troops during the initial invasion phase, which lasted from March 20 to May 1. These were the United States (248,000), United Kingdom (45,000), Australia (2,000), Poland (194) and 36 other countries were involved in its aftermath. The invasion marked the beginning of the current Iraq War. According to then President of the United States, George W. Bush and then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, the reasons for the invasion were "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people." According to Blair, the trigger was Iraq's failure to take a "final opportunity" to disarm itself of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that US and British officials called an immediate and intolerable threat to world peace
In April of 2005, the CIA’s top weapons inspector in Iraq said that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has “gone as far as feasible” and has found nothing, closing an investigation into the purported programs of Saddam Hussein that were used to justify the 2003 invasion.
A dispute exists over the legitimacy of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The debate centers on the question whether the invasion was an unprovoked assault on an independent country that may have breached international law, or if the United Nations Security Council authorized the invasion.
Bush Bin Laden:
Refers to the alleged connection between George Bush and the Bin Laden family. Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11 alleges strong business connections between the Bush family and the Bin Laden family. Moore based most of his claims on Craig Unger's House of Bush, House of Saud which relates how Salem Bin Laden invested through James R. Bath, the sole U.S. business representative for Salem bin Laden, some money in Arbusto Energy, a company run by George W. Bush. Several members of the Bush family are investors in the Carlyle Group, a defense contractor and investment fund with numerous interests in the Middle East, run by former Reagan administration Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci. The media noted that former President George H. W. Bush attended an investment meeting at the Washington, D.C. Ritz-Carlton hotel on September 10, 2001 and in particular a meeting with Shafiq bin Laden, representing joint interests of the Saudi Bin laden Group and Carlyle (Bush did not attend the morning of September 11). The Carlyle and Bin Laden groups mutually severed their business relationship on October 26, 2001
Bush's War:
The War on Terror is the campaign launched by the United States of America, under the Presidency of George W. Bush, with the support of the United Kingdom, NATO and other countries. The campaign was launched in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks and had the stated objective of eliminating international terrorism. The war on terror cost US taxpayers $1 trillion. "For these wars we have relied on supplemental appropriations for far longer than in the case of past conflicts," says Steven Kosiak of the CSBA, one of Washington's top defense-budget analysts. "Likewise, we have relied on borrowing to cover more of these costs than we have in earlier wars - which will likely increase the ultimate price we have to pay." That refusal to spell out the full cost can lead to unwise spending increases elsewhere in the federal budget or unwarranted tax cuts. "A sound budgeting process forces policymakers to recognize the true costs of their policy choices," Kosiak adds. "Not only did we not raise taxes, we cut taxes and significantly expanded spending." There seemed to be an obvious attempt by Bush to obliterate the US dollar and send the US into financial bankruptcy.
Why would George W. Bush want the US dollar to crash? In order to create a new paradigm. In 1991 George H. W. Bush Sr. gave a speech before Congress stating: "...We can see a new world coming into view," said Bush. "A world in which there is the very real prospect of a new world order." See A War in Iraq also See New Paradigm
Buy Porn:
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Orgy pornography
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