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Thursday, February 18, 2010

666 Words N - O

Nabta Egypt: 
There exists a site in southern Egypt that is the oldest astronomical site in the world. This site, called Nabta, was created some 6500 years ago by a Neolithic people. Nabta, is about 1,000 years older than Stonehenge. The Nabta site was discovered several years ago by a team led by Southern Methodist University anthropology Professor Fred Wendorf. It appears to have been constructed by nomadic cattle-herders living in southern Egypt. The complex isn't circular like Stonehenge. It is .8 miles wide and 1.8 miles long. It includes 10 slabs some 9 feet high, 30 rock-lined ovals, nine burial sites for cows, each under a pile of 40 to 50 rocks weighing up to 200 or 300 pounds apiece, and a "calendar circle" of stones. Many of these features line up in five radiating lines, one of them running east-west. The calendar circle is a 12-foot-wide arrangement of slabs about 18 inches long, most of them lying down.

Because Nabta lies near the Tropic of Cancer, the noon sun is at its zenith about three weeks before and three weeks after the summer solstice, preventing upright objects from casting shadows. "These vertical sighting stones in the circle correspond to the zenith sun during the summer solstice," said Malville, an archeoastronomer at the University of Colorado. "For many cultures in the tropics, the zenith sun has been a major event for millennia." Two pairs of upright stones stand directly across the circle from each other, defining a view that would have displayed sunrise at the summer solstice. The circle also contains two other pairs of standing stones that defined a north-south view.

There were several pieces of pottery found at Nabta. Most of which comes from the Neolithic people who built the site. The pottery is completely covered with designs, thus making it easily identifiable. The lips of the pottery jars, however, were not decorated. Human remains were also found at Nabta, but only the jawbone was left available to Wendorf to examine, the rest being confiscated by the Egyptian museum in Cairo. The study of this jawbone led Wendorf to an interesting conclusion: the Nabtians were of sub-Saharan descent, not of middle eastern. He deduced this based on the size and structure of the teeth and jaw compared to different ethnic groups. The conclusion undercuts the mainstream theory that Egyptian society was founded by Mesopotamians and Syrians. The idea that the Egyptian society was truly of African descent is revolutionary indeed. It is backed with good evidence from the Nabta site.

The research done by the astrophysicist Thomas G. Brophy suggests that these monoliths might tell much more. The calendar circle itself is made up of one doorway that runs north-south, a second that runs northeast-southwest marking the summer solstice, and six center stones. Brophy's hypothesis proposes first that the southerly line of three stones inside the calendar circle represented the three stars of Orion's Belt and the other three stones inside the calendar circle represented the shoulders and head stars of Orion as they appeared in the sky. See A Orion Belt, and Orion Line 

To learn more about Nabta Egypt, please read:
Nabta Playa Stone Circle  

Please watch:
Nabta Playa Complex Pt1
Nabta Playa Complex Pt2

Nagas Snakes:
Nagas (Sanskrit: “serpent”) are snakes that may take human form. They are usually depicted as human above the waist and snake below the waist, but Nagas can also change shape to appear fully human or snake.

According to legend, Nagas are children of Kadru, the granddaughter of the god Brahma*, and her husband, Kasyapa. Nagas lived on earth at first, but their numbers became so great that Brahma sent them to live under the sea. They reside in magnificent jeweled palaces and rule as kings at the bottom of rivers and lakes and in the underground realm called Patala (See A Sea Bottom).

NASA Columbia:
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere, with the loss of all seven crew members, shortly before it was scheduled to conclude its 28th mission, STS-107.

NASA's Shuttle safety regulations stated that external tank foam shedding and subsequent debris strikes upon the Shuttle itself were safety issues that needed to be resolved before a launch was cleared, but launches were often given the go-ahead as engineers studied the foam shedding problem without a successful resolution. The majority of Shuttle launches recorded such foam strikes and thermal tile scarring in violation of safety regulations.

NASA Space Men:
The first NASA astronauts were selected in 1959. Selection was initially limited to military pilots. Once selected, NASA astronauts go through 20 months of training in a variety of areas, including training for extra-vehicular activity in a facility such as NASA's Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. In space, astronauts are susceptible to a variety of health risks including decompression sickness, barotrauma, immunodeficiencies, loss of bone and muscle, orthostatic intolerance due to volume loss, sleep disturbances, and radiation injury.

Nauseating:
1.Make (someone) feel sick; affect with nausea
2.Fill (someone) with revulsion; disgust

Nazi Vril:
Vril, the Power of the Coming Race is an 1871 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, originally printed as The Coming Race. Many readers believe that its account of a superior subterranean master race and the energy-form called "Vril" is accurate, to the extent that some theosophists accepted the book as truth. A 1960 popular book: "The Morning of the Magicians", speculated on a secret Vril Society in pre-Nazi Berlin.

To learn more, please read:
Vril, the Power of the Coming Race

Please watch:
The Vril, The Nazi Cult (Part 1)
The Vril, The Nazi Cult (Part 2)

NBC's Peacocks:
The peacock is a religious symbol. The Yezidis (also Yazidis) consider Tawûsê Melek (peacock angel) an emanation of God who has redeemed himself from his fall and has become a demigod who created the cosmos from the Cosmic Egg.

Some Christians, Muslims and others identify Tawûsê Melek (frequently known as "Melek Taus" in English publications), as Lucifer or Shaytān (Satan). The reason for the Yazidis reputation of being devil worshipers is connected to the other name of Melek Taus (also known as Shaytan). Shaytan is also the same name the Qur'an has for Satan.

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC), an American television and radio network, has used several corporate logos over its history. In 1956, John J. Graham created an abstraction of an eleven-feathered peacock to indicate richness in color. This brightly hued peacock was adopted due to the increase in color programming. NBC's first color broadcasts showed only a still frame of the colorful peacock. The emblem made its first on-air appearance on May 22, 1956. Graham original idea for the NBC logo was a butterfly, but the idea was rejected by NBC. At home, Graham discussed the ongoing process with his then-wife Candella. Brainstorming over the animal kingdom, ideas flew back and forth. Images of parrots, flora, and fauna floated in the air until Candella suggested the peacock.

Peacocks, known for their bright plumage and regal, elegant gait, were definitely more interesting than the butterfly. Everyone knew what it meant to be "proud as a peacock." When the male bird spreads his colorful feathers for all to see, it's always a very dramatic, attention-getting moment.

John J. Graham also designed the NBC snake logo in 1959. See Evil Eleven

Necromancy:
Necromancy is a form of divination which is used to conjure the spirits of the dead in order to gain knowledge about the future and the outcome of events in the future.

Since the Renaissance, necromancy has come to be associated more broadly with black magic and demon-summoning in general.

Nerve Agent:
A potentially lethal chemical agent which interferes with the transmission of nerve impulses. It is inhaled or absorbed through the skin.

New Age Cult:
The New Age movement is not a unified, traditional cult system of beliefs and practices, even though its roots derive from Eastern religions and the occult. It has no official leader, headquarters, nor membership list, but instead is a network of groups working toward specific goals.

New Age Healing:
New Age Healing therapies are designed to replace the pharmaceutical drug use its side affects and the dependency on prescription medications. Instead of pain killers, acupuncture may be recommended. Instead of getting a minor operation, chakra energy balancing treatments may be advised.

Claims from new age practitioners are that our health problems are a result of misalignment of the latent natural energy within. To have perfect health, emotional spiritual as well as physical this energy must be aligned with various techniques that are unknown to general practitioners but used by those who have trained in new alternative ways to heal.

Types of New Age Healing techniques include, but are not limited to:
Healing with Sound
Healing with Color
Healing with Crystals

New Age Shamanism:
The New Age movement has appropriated some ideas from shamanism as well as beliefs and practices from Eastern religions and Native American cultures. There is an endeavor in some occult and esoteric circles to reinvent shamanism in a modern form, drawing from core shamanism-a set of beliefs and practices synthesized by the controversial Michael Harner-often revolving around the use of ritual drumming and dance, and Harner's interpretations of various indigenous religions. Harner has faced much criticism for implying that pieces of diverse religions can be taken out of context to form some sort of "universal" shamanic tradition. Some of these neoshamans also focus on the ritual use of entheogens, as well as chaos magic.

New Age Yogi:
A "yoga" practitioner, who subscribes to New Age ideologies. Hatha-Yoga was adopted by New Age followers and molded according to it's teachings and principles. This results in an incorrect or wrong understanding of philosophical concepts.

New Mexico:
The most famous UFO crash in history occurred in 1947, on a ranch just outside of Roswell, New Mexico. Since the late 1970s the incident has been the subject of intense controversy and the subject of conspiracy theories as to the true nature of the object which crashed. Conspiracy theorists maintain it was an alien space ship and that the US military covered up the discovery of the crash site and alien bodies. The United States military maintains that what was actually recovered was debris from an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to a classified program named "Project Mogul."

In a separate incident on August 13, 1947 not long after the famous Roswell crash, six Native Americans supposedly, came upon a smoldering metallic object in the New Mexico desert. Inside was an injured but very much alive alien being. For fear of the military's capture of the being, they decided to take the being home to care for it. To their amazement, the being was able to communicate images through the use of a small crystal device. Robert Morning Sky, grandson of one of the rescuers, tells the message of the being known to them as the "Star Elder." He claims that the beings name was Bak'Ti and that he has pieced together parts of man's early history from the teachings of the Star Elder. He states that the "Star People" have always been here, since the earth was a barren rock. It was indicated that there had been much involvement with the human species, some benevolent, some not, throughout our evolution. According to Morning Sky's Terra Papers, humans were created through DNA manipulation, to be used as workers for alien mining operations on earth. At one point, an alien leader and brother competed for control of earth and so the leader mixed some of his own DNA into the gene pool, making the humans his children, so to speak. Other DNA was introduced from a bird-like race of high emotions and soulfulness. Over time, two very different humans emerged. One, a docile, easily controlled human, and an emotional and intelligent human, soon to develop independent will. At one point, a fraction of aliens tried to destroy the willful humans by casting them into the wilderness to die and later to face the "Great Floods". However, the creator/leader managed to save a group of humans. Later, an alien leader named Ra, (perhaps the ancient sun god of the Egyptians) sought to eliminate all evidence of man's true history, in an effort to keep the humans ignorant and controllable. But, it is said that Ra lost to an alien race descended from reptiles, which might be known today as the "Grays." See Gray Aliens

New Paradigm:
American policymakers have talked about a "new economic paradigm". The shift is being set up in the political arena under organizations such as the Trilateral Commission. When the Trilateral Commission was first launched, the plan was for an equal number of members from each of the three regions. The official aim of the Trilateral Commission is "to harmonize the political, economic, social, and cultural relations between the three major economic regions in the world. They want to eliminate every existing national currency, and to install a one-world currency.

In March 2009, China and Russia suggested the world adopt a single global currency in response to the US economic crisis. The goal would be to create a reserve currency “that is disconnected from individual nations and is able to remain stable in the long run, thus removing the inherent deficiencies caused by using credit-based national currencies." In other words, China is concerned its $2 trillion dollar holdings will be worth less if dollar-inflation sets in. This could happen as a result of increased U.S. deficit spending and printing of U.S. Treasuries to support U.S. debt. China would like the IMF to develop a currency to replace the dollar.

New York:
New York in and of itself is not evil. It has been the target for numerous terrorist plots.

September 11, 2001 - was a series of coordinated suicide attacks by Al-Qaeda upon the United States. Terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings. Both buildings collapsed within two hours, destroying nearby buildings and damaging others.

July 2006, Assem Hammoud: Accused of plotting to bomb New York City train tunnels.

June 2007, JFK Plot: Four men are accused of plotting to blow up fuel arteries that run through residential neighborhoods at JFK Airport in New York.

Nightmare Hag:
Nightmare Hag Syndrome, Night Hag, Old Hag Syndrome, or "sleep paralysis" as it is known in the medical community, takes its name from the belief that an old witch or "hag" would attack you in the night while you were sleeping and literally sit on your chest and try to squeeze the life out of you. Although that explanation isn't taken very seriously nowadays, the perplexing and often very frightening nature of the phenomenon leads many people to believe that there are supernatural forces at work - ghosts or demons. The experience is so frightening because the victims, although paralyzed, seem to have full use of their senses. In fact, it is often accompanied by strange smells, the sound of approaching footsteps, apparitions of weird shadows or glowing eyes, and the oppressive weight on the chest, making breathing difficult if not impossible. All of the body's senses are telling the victims that something real and unusual is happening to them.

Some believe that old hag syndrome is an actual spectral attack. John Michael Greer, a practicing ritual magician, explains in his book, Monsters (Llewellyn, 2001): "This experience isn't simply a vague general category, or another name for sleep paralysis or some other simple medical diagnosis. It's a very specific type of event with a whole series of consistent details. The experience almost always happens with the subject lying on his or her back. The subject wakes up, and can perceive his or her actual surroundings, but cannot move or speak as the experience begins. A presence approaches the subject and then presses down, choking or smothering".

Sleep paralysis has also been connected to Shadow people or aliens. See Shadow Alien or Gray Aliens

Ninhursag:
In Sumerian mythology, Ninhursag was the earth and mother goddess, one of the seven great deities of Sumer. She is principally a fertility goddess. She had many names including Ninmah ("Great Queen"); Nintu ("Lady of Birth"); Mamma or Mami (mother); Aruru, Belet-Ili (lady of the gods, Akkadian).

No Afterlife:
The afterlife (also referred to as life after death, the Hereafter or the Next World') is the idea that the consciousness or mind of a being continues after physical death occurs, either by natural or supernatural means. Some Jews and Atheists believe that there is no afterlife. This is false.

In the Bible, Jesus maintained that the time would come when the dead would hear the voice of the Son of God, and all who were in the tombs would come out, the faithful to the resurrection of life, and the unfaithful to the resurrection of judgment. "Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live" (John 5:25).

Noahide Laws:
The Seven Laws of Noah, often referred to as the Noahide Laws or Noachide Code, are a set of seven moral imperatives that, according to the Talmud, were given by God to Noah as a binding set of laws for all mankind. The Seven Noahide Laws are the minimal observance for non-Jews (Gentiles). The Seven Noahide Laws actually encompass numerous details and applications within hundreds of laws, each with specific applications.

The seven laws listed by the Tosefta and the Talmud are:

1.Prohibition of Idolatry: You shall not have any idols before God.
2.Prohibition of Murder: You shall not murder. (Genesis 9:6)
3.Prohibition of Theft: You shall not steal.
4.Prohibition of Sexual immorality: You shall not commit any of a series of sexual prohibitions, namely adultery, certain types of incest, anal sex between men and bestiality.
5.Prohibition of Blasphemy: You shall not blaspheme God's name.
6.Dietary Law: Do not eat flesh taken from an animal while it is still alive. (Genesis 9:4, as interpreted in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 59a)
7.Requirement to have just Laws: Do not punish by these lessons

The Noahide Laws comprise the six laws which were given to Adam in the Garden of Eden according to the Talmud's interpretation of Gen 2:16 and a seventh one, which was added after the Flood of Noah. It has been pointed out that the second Noahide Law which prohibits blasphemy will preclude the worship of Jesus Christ, who was once accused of this very crime by the Sanhedrin. According to the Sanhedrin, the crucifixion of Jesus was nothing more than the well deserved death of a fool who is in hell. "He was a fool, and we do not pay attention to what fools do" (Sanhedrin 67a). "He is now in hell, punished with boiling hot excrement." (Gittin 56b-57a).

No False Belief:
Many people today feel that there is nothing wrong with different religions and ways of life that people lead. This opinion (see opinions) assumes that everyone is correct and living according to his or her own truth. From this perspective, there is no such thing as a false belief or a wrong opinion. If a person wants to worship a certain god or lead an unconventional lifestyle, then he should do it. What position does the Bible take regarding this notion? Can a person have a false belief?

There are some - who claim to be "open-minded" - who say we should accept all religions. However, Christianity is not compatible with any cult or non-Christian religion. It states plainly that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation. All other ways are false and lead to death.

No More Bees:
A pamphlet distributed [in Brussels] by the National Union of French Apiculture quoted Albert Einstein. "If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination ... no more men!" While this quote may have been attributed to Albert Einstein for various politcal reasons, one thing is for certain: Bees are disappearing at an unprecedented rate.

In some areas of the UK honeybee numbers have dropped by as much as 80 per cent, while bumblebees across the country have declined by 60 per cent since 1970. In the USA, Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) - where whole colonies disappear or die - has caused a devastating loss of honeybees. Since it broke out last autumn, declines of between 30 per cent and 90 per cent of honeybee populations in at least 27 states have been recorded. There have also been reports of CCD in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece.

Theories about the cause of bee colony collapse have included a parasite like the Varroa mite (which wreaked havoc on bee populations through the 1990s) to the impulses from mobile phones scrambling bee signals, to pesticides and fungi. According to a study 2009, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that sick bees suffered an unusually high number of infections with viruses that attack the ribosome. If your ribosome is compromised, then you can't respond to pesticides, you can't respond to fungal infections or bacteria or inadequate nutrition because the ribosome is central to the survival of any organism. You need proteins to survive. See Honey Hive

No More Cash:
Refers to the society's progression towards a cashless economy. According to Omni magazine, June 1991, (p.59), "cash and credit cards will soon be obsolete."

InformationWeek, Oct. 11, 1993, announced on it's cover, "The Cashless Society, It's in the Cards," The article further stated, (p.4) "Bet your bottom dollar: The United States is becoming a cashless society . . ."

Newsweek magazine, July 31, 1989, (p.54) said smart cards "may make the old science-fiction notion of a cashless society real."

Nordic Craft: See Spacecrafts

Now Be Marked: See Mark of Beast

Nuclear Idaho:
Idaho National Laboratory is the Department of Energy's lead nuclear energy research and development facility. The Idaho National Laboratory is a science-based, applied engineering national laboratory dedicated to supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's missions in nuclear and energy research, science, and national defense.

Nuclear Rod:
A nuclear rod is a rod made of chemical elements capable of absorbing many neutrons without fissioning themselves. They are used in nuclear reactors to control the rate of fission of uranium and plutonium.

Number Change:
A newly discovered fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament indicates that, as far as the Antichrist goes, theologians, scholars, heavy metal groups, and television evangelists have got the wrong number. Instead of 666, it's actually the far less ominous 616. The new fragment from the Book of Revelation, written in ancient Greek and dating from the late third century, is part of a hoard of previously illegible manuscripts discovered in ancient garbage dumps outside Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Although the papyrus was first excavated in 1895, it was badly discolored and damaged. Now a team of expert classicists, using new photographic techniques, have deciphered the original writing.

Professor David Parker, Professor of New Testament Textual Criticism and Paleography at the University of Birmingham, thinks that 616, although less memorable than 666, is the original. He said: "This is an example of gematria, where numbers are based on the numerical values of letters in people's names. Early Christians would use numbers to hide the identity of people who they were attacking: 616 refers to the Emperor Caligula."

“This is very early confirmation of that number, earlier than any other text we’ve found of that passage,” Dr. Aitken said. “It’s probably about 100 years before any other version.”

According to Dr. Aitken “They can have mistakes in the copying, changes for political or theological reasons.” The same can be true for the claim that 616 is the correct number. Simply because the manuscript is older does not make it correct. It was found in the trash after all. Perhaps someone mistakenly wrote 616 on the papyrus and upon discovery discarded it.

The truth is, the evidence for 616 is negligible, even with the additional papyri evidence touted by David Parker and Ellen Aitken.

The number 666 also has papyri evidence support. It comes from the famous Chester Beatty collection, Papyrus 47, which dates from the third century A.D. Papyrus 47 is an early copy of the New Testament in Greek. It is a papyrus manuscript of the Book of Revelation, it contains Rev. 9:10-11:3; 11:5-16:15; 16:17-17:2.

Papyrus 115 is a New Testament papyrus written in Greek. It consists of 12 fragments of a papyrus codex which contains parts of the Book of Revelation. It dates from the mid to late third century, around 225-275 CE. A curiosity of this text is that it gives "the number of the beast" as 616 (chi, iota, stigma), rather than the majority text — 666 (chi, xi, stigma).

As such, Papyrus 115 does not add much to the issue, except to confirm the existence of 616 as a variant text. Irenaeus, who died just a few years after the second century, rejected 616. Saint Irenaeus (2nd century AD - c. 202), was a Christian Bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul, then a part of the Roman Empire (now Lyons, France). He was an early church father and apologist, and his writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology. With reference to the 616 scribal error, Irenaeus states: "Such, then, being the state of the case, and this number being found in all the most approved and ancient copies [of the Apocalypse], and those men who saw John face to face bearing their testimony [to it]; while reason also leads us to conclude that the number of the name of the beast, [if reckoned] according to the Greek mode of calculation by the [value of] the letters contained in it, will amount to six hundred and sixty and six; that is, the number of tens shall be equal to that of the hundreds, and the number of hundreds equal to that of the units (for that number which [expresses] the digit six being adhered to throughout, indicates the recapitulations of that apostasy, taken in its full extent, which occurred at the beginning, during the intermediate periods, and which shall take place at the end), I do not know how it is that some have erred following the ordinary mode of speech, and have vitiated the middle number in the name, deducting the amount of fifty from it, so that instead of six decades they will have it that there is but one."

The early Church father Irenaeus knew several occurrences of the 616-variant but regarded them as a scribal error and affirmed that the number 666 stood "in all the most approved and ancient copies" and is attested by "those men who saw John face to face".

Irenaeus was proposing (even in the second century - a century BEFORE this oldest surviving copy!) that old, Greek copies of Revelation contained an error of copying in which the Greek letter xi with gematraic value 60 was wrongly copied into the Greek letter iota with number value 10. What Professor Parker seems to be ignoring is that, just because the copy he has worked with happens to be the oldest one yet found, this does not make it free of errors and therefore reliable.

The Greek reading for 666, “exakosioi exekonta ex” (600 + 60 + 6), is the most prominent and has numerous textual evidences and witnesses. Papyrus 47, Codices Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus (fourth-fifth century), as well as P, 046, 051, 1, 94, 1006 (and 13 other minuscules); with witness such as Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Origen, Victorinus-Pettau, Gregory-Elvira, Primasius, Andrew and Arethas, all follow the reading “666.” Hence, 616 has hardly any convincing evidence to its reliability.

Nunnery:
"Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest; but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery" ~ Hamlet by William Shakespeare.

Since the Elizabethan era, the word "nun" has been slang for a prostitute, likely due to anti-Catholic sentiment engendered by Protestant reformers outraged by the corruption of the Medieval church.

"When Hamlet impugns Ophelia 'Get thee to a nunnery,' the salaciousness of the remark can only be understood if one knows that a 'nun' was Elizabethan slang for whore and a nunnery was a whorehouse" (Tobias St, Lazare, "Who Will Walk With William? Shakespeare for Students?" Cambridge Univ. Press, 1967).

NWO Dragon:
New World Order (NWO) Dragon refers to the leader of the totalitarian one-world government. In Christian symbolism, the dragon is known to be Satan. Statesmen, such as Woodrow Wilson, Winston Churchill, Mikhail Gorbachev, and George H. W. Bush, used the term "new world order" to refer to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world political thought and the balance of power.

Obama Iran Drama:
The Obama Administration is in conflict with Iran over its nuclear weapons. The US is imposing sanctions against Iran. In an interview broadcast on CBS's "The Early Show," Obama said "all the evidence" indicates that Tehran is trying to get a nuclear weapons capacity. With such a capability, Obama said that Iran could "destabilize" life in the Mideast and trigger an arms race in the region. Obama said, "I think the idea here is to keep on turning up the pressure."

Obama's Code Name:
The United States Secret Service uses code names for U.S. presidents, first ladies, and other prominent persons and locations.

President Barack Obama's Secret Service code name, chosen during his 2008 presidential campaign, is "Renegade." Renegade is defined as a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles. It can also be defined as a person who abandons religion (Christian turned Muslim); an apostate.

Obliterated:
"And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book" (Ex.32:33). "Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous" (Ps.69:28).

Obliterated means to destroy utterly or blot out. In the Old Testament, the word blot or blotted, is translated from the Hebrew word machah and it can have the idea of "wiping off" as in wiping off a dish, or more to our point at hand, "wiping out," as in exterminating or destroying. Interestingly, the word carries more to it than just they idea of killing a person. The word has more of the picture of erasing or totally eliminating from existence or memory. This is certainly the meaning of the word in Deuteronomy 25:19 and 29:20. Deuteronomy 9:14 even shows a contrast between the Hebrew word shamad, which can also mean destroy or annihilate, with machah. Moses records, Let Me alone, that I may destroy (shamad) them and blot (machah) out their name from under heaven; and I will make of you a nation mightier and greater than they. More than being annihilated, the threat was to erase the memory of their name from off the face of the earth.

Ocean Alien Life: See A Sea Bottom

Ocean Dumps:
The Great Pacific garbage patch, also described as the Pacific trash vortex, is a gyre of marine debris particles in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135°W to 155°W and 35°N and 42°N. The patch extends over an indeterminate area, with estimates ranging very widely depending on the degree of plastic concentration used to define the affected area.

The patch is characterized by exceptionally high relative concentrations of pelagic plastics, chemical sludge and other debris that have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre.

The most toxic waste material dumped into the ocean includes dredged material, industrial waste, sewage sludge, and radioactive waste. Dredging contributes about 80% of all waste dumped into the ocean, adding up to several million tons of material dumped each year. Rivers, canals, and harbors are dredged to remove silt and sand buildup or to establish new waterways. About 20-22% of dredged material is dumped into the ocean.

About 10% of all dredged material is polluted with heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury, and chromium, hydrocarbons such as heavy oils, nutrients including phosphorous and nitrogen, and organochlorines from pesticides. Waterways and, therefore, silt and sand accumulate these toxins from land runoff, shipping practices, industrial and community waste, and other sources. When these materials find their way into the ocean, marine organisms suffer toxic effects and seafood is often contaminated.

Currently, ocean dumping is generally banned worldwide. The motivation for banning ocean dumping gained momentum when contaminated wastes from sewage-derived microorganisms were discovered at public beaches, shellfish beds were contaminated with toxic metals, and fish were infected by lesion-causing parasites. Coastal areas continually impacted by nutrients in waste products (primarily nitrogen) that run off the land eventually suffer from increases in toxic algal blooms and decreased oxygen levels, both of which can kill fish populations.

To learn more, please watch:
Garbage Island: An Ocean Full of Plastic

Oceanfront:
Oceanfront refers to property (real estate) that is adjacent to the ocean. According to the Bible, a foolish man builds his house on sand: “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash” (Matt.7:24-27).

Jesus used the parable about a house as a way to show people they needed to do more than just hear his teachings. Jesus warned them that if the people did not build their life on a strong foundation and follow his teachings then they too would find that their house had fallen down.

Jesus is our Rock! He is the only foundation that we should build our lives upon. And if we obey Jesus, and everything He tells us in his word, the Bible, we have the assurance that no matter what flood beats upon us, no matter how fierce the storms of this life may get we will never fall, we will never be moved.

Odious Man:
Someone whose behavior is unequivocally detestable and offensive.

Oil Barrels:
The standard oil barrel of 42 US gallons is used in the United States as a measure of crude oil and other petroleum products.

Old Horny: See Horned Beast

Olive Yard:
Olive Yard or more usually it is Jebel et-Tdr, or "mount of the summit," faces Jerusalem, lying directly east, is two thousand six hundred and sixty-five feet above sea level, has many beautiful olive trees on its sides, and from these has received its name. It is not a mountain so much as a rounded crown of the broad ridge which runs longitudinally through Palestine. It is the highest spot near the city. Osborn describes six prominent heights in the Olivet range, but he includes Scopus, on the north, and the "Hill of Evil Counsel," on the extreme south, of the ridge. The Hill of Evil Counsel is on the south of the Valley of Hinnom. The Hill of Evil Counsel it is historically believed to be the place where Judas held his last meeting with the Pharisees to finalize his covenant to betray Christ. It is so called from a tradition that the house of the high priest Caiaphas, when the rulers of the Jews resolved to put Christ to death, stood here.

Omen Movie:
When the Jews return to Zion
And a comet rips the sky
And the Holy Roman Empire rises,
Then You and I must die.
From the eternal sea he rises,
Creating armies on either shore,
Turning man against his brother
'Til man exists no more.

The Omen is a 1976 suspense/horror film directed by Richard Donner. A remake, The Omen 666, was released on June 6, 2006. This date was chosen as a reference to the Number of the Beast (666). The premise of The Omen comes from the end times prophecies of Christianity. The story, set in Fulham, England, tells of the childhood of Damien Thorn who was switched at birth in Rome with the stillborn child of a wealthy United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom who had the ambition of being the President of the United States. Damien's parents, Robert and Katherine, are unaware that their child is actually the offspring of Satan and is destined to become the Antichrist.

Omissive:
Leaving out : failing or neglecting to do : omitting. See To Tell a Lie

Omnivore:
"And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite" (Prov. 23:2).

From Latin omne "all, everything" + vorare "to devour". An omnivore is someone who devours everything. Devour means to eat fast, greedily, or hungrily; to eat by swallowing large bits of food with little or no chewing. According to Roget's Thesaurus, the words omnivore and glutton are synonymous. Gluttony, derived from the Latin gluttire meaning to gulp down or swallow, means over-indulgence and over-consumption of food, drink, or intoxicants to the point of waste. Gluttony is a type of lust. But, instead of the object of desire being a person, it's food. Either way, God considers it sin. As Christians, we are committing the sin of gluttony any time we over eat.

Om Prayer:
In Tibetan Buddhism the most common prayer, found everywhere, is Om Mani Padme Hum, the mantra of Chenrezi, the Buddha of compassion. The Dalai Lama is said to be an incarnation of Chenrezig or Avalokiteshvara, so the mantra is especially revered by his devotees and it is commonly carved onto rocks and written on paper which is inserted into prayer wheels, said to increase the mantra's effects.

One Disciple:
One disciple betrays Jesus. According to the account given in the Gospel of John, Judas Iscariot carried the disciples' money bag and betrayed Jesus for a bribe of "thirty pieces of silver" (Matt.24:16).

One disciple denies Jesus three times. According to Luke, Peter denied Jesus three times: "And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death. And he said , I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me" (Luke 22:33-34).

One disciple doubts the resurrection of Jesus and demands to touch Jesus' wounds before being convinced. John states: "But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, We have seen the LORD. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe. And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you. Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My LORD and my God" (John 20:24-28).

One Eyed Dajjal:
(Arabic: “The Deceiver”), in Islamic eschatology, the Antichrist who will come forth before the end of time; after a reign of 40 days or 40 years, he will be destroyed by Christ or the mahdמ (“rightly guided one”) or both, and the world will submit to God. He is described as a plump, one-eyed man with a ruddy face and curling hair and the Arabic letters k-f-r (“unbelief”) on his forehead. Ad-Dajjal will appear during a period of great tribulation; he will be followed by the Jews and will claim to be God in Jerusalem. He will work false miracles, and most people will be deceived. At this moment will occur the Second Coming of Christ.

One Power:
Various world leaders are involved in the primordial plot to deceive mankind into accepting a satanic world theocracy.

On Horseback:
In the visions of John, Death is used as one of the metaphorical Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Rev. 6:8 reads, "I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth".

On Patrol:
"Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know , and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it. And though they say , The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely. O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved ; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return. Therefore I said , Surely these are poor; they are foolish : for they know not the way of the LORD, nor the judgment of their God. I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds. Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces : because their transgressions are many , and their backslidings are increased. How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full , they then committed adultery , and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots ' houses. They were as fed horses in the morning : every one neighed after his neighbour's wife" (Jer. 5:1-9).

According to the Bible in the Book of Jeremiah chapter 5, God is frustrated with Judah and Israel over its rebellious condition, none could be found who behaved as upright and godly men. God saw the true character of the people through all their disguises. The poor were ignorant, and therefore they were wicked. What can be expected but works of darkness, from people that know nothing of God and religion? There are God's poor, who, notwithstanding poverty, know the way of the Lord, walk in it, and do their duty; but these were willingly ignorant, and their ignorance would not be their excuse. The rich were insolent and haughty, and the abuse of God's favors made their sin worse.

On Strike:
A strike is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. A strike may consist of workers refusing to attend work or picketing outside the workplace to prevent or dissuade people from working in their place or conducting business with their employer. Less frequently workers may occupy the workplace, but refuse either to do their jobs or to leave.

Well from the very beginning of the Bible in Genesis 2 we learn that work was part of God's creative plan - He did not create man to be idle but to work to support himself and his family. God worked hard to create the world and then He set Adam to work in the garden: "The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it" (Gen. 2:15).

So notice that work was a good and positive part of daily activity before Adam and Eve sinned. God created us to be active and useful and we will therefore be most happy doing what our creator intended. Going on strike, is not an option. In the New Testament, Paul writes in Thessalonians 3:10-12: "If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. For we hear that some among you walk in idleness, not busy at work but busybodies. Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their own work quietly and to earn their own living."

People must find other ways to settle job dissatisfaction. Striking is not productive and many people end up suffering because of it.

Opinions:
An opinion is a judgment based on belief, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge. According to the Bible: "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye" (Matt.7:1-5).

In Matthew 7:2-5, Jesus warns against judging someone else for his sin when you yourself are sinning even worse. That is the kind of judging Jesus commanded us not to do. Clearly the judging forbidden is the hypocritical kind that finds fault with others while neglecting to obey God oneself. However note this important point: Jesus did not say one could not “take the speck out of the brother’s eye”; instead He said, one must first remove the beam in his own eye in order to “see clearly” to remove the speck in another persons eye.

Like Jesus, James forbids Christians to “speak against” or “judge” their brethren; but the context makes it clear what he has in mind. It is speech that results in speaking against and judging the law rather than being a doer of the Law!

Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother, or judges his brother, speaks against the law, and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge of it. (James 4:11)

The thing James forbids is a person living in disobedience to what is right seeking to criticize or condemn others. By doing so, he takes on the role of God as Lawgiver and Judge rather than accepting his proper role as a doer of God’s law. Thus, this prohibition of judging is similar in force to the Matthew 7 text. Don’t speak against or judge others while you neglect to do what is right yourself!

The question then is not “can I or can I not judge?” instead it’s, “how do I properly judge as prescribed in Scripture?” Jesus commands us "not judge according to appearances, but judge with righteous judgment” (John 7:24).

Orange Mars:
The surface of Mars has an orange color because its soil has iron oxide or rust particles in it. The sky on Mars often appears light orange because the dust in the soil is blown into Mars' thin atmosphere by winds on Mars.

Organic Fuel:
Biodiesel fuel is a clean burning alternative fuel that is derived from 100% renewable resources. Many people believe that Biodiesel is the fuel of the future. It is broadly known as Biofuel. Biodiesel does not contain petroleum, but can be mixed with petroleum to produce a biodiesel blend (eg. B20, B50) that can be used in a variety of cars. Biodiesel is derived from vegetable oil or animal fats that can be added to petroleum diesel as a blend or used on its own. In the United States, most biodiesel is made from soybeans. Pure biodiesel fuel (ie. B100), though, can only be used in diesel engines.

Biodiesel is one of many alternative fuel options that has the potential to help reduce oil dependence and global warming pollution. But done wrong, biodiesel can actually increase global warming pollution and cause other environmental problems, such as deforestation and loss of biodiversity.

Orion Hole:
NGC 1999 is a dust filled bright nebula with a vast hole of empty space represented by a black patch of sky, as can be seen in the photograph. It is a reflection nebula, and shines from the light of the variable star V380 Orionis.

It was previously believed that the black patch was a dense cloud of dust and gas which blocked light that would normally pass through, called a dark nebula. Analysis of this patch by the infrared telescope Herschel (October 9, 2009), which has the capability of penetrating such dense cloud material, resulted in continued black space. This led to the belief that either the cloud material was immensely dense or that an unexplained phenomenon had been detected.

With support from ground-based observations done using the submillimeter bolometer cameras on the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment radio telescope (November 29, 2009) and the Mayall (Kitt Peak) and Magellan telescopes (December 4, 2009), it was determined that the patch looks black not because it is an extremely dense pocket of gas, but because it is truly empty. The exact cause of this phenomenon is still being investigated, although it has been hypothesized that narrow jets of gas from some of the young stars in the region punctured the sheet of dust and gas, as well as, powerful radiation from a nearby mature star may have helped to create the hole. Researchers believe this discovery should lead to a better understanding of the entire star forming process.

It is located 1,500 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Orion.

May also refer to a black hole. On 1 November 2012, an international team of astrophysicists – led by Dr. Ladislav Subr of Charles University in Prague – announced the result of their work in computer modeling, which suggests that a famous nebula – or cloud – in Orion known as the Orion Nebula has a black hole at its heart, whose mass is some 200 times the mass of our sun.

Orion Line:
May refer to people with descendants from Orion. According to Egyptian mythology, the gods descended from the belt of Orion and Sirius– the brightest star in the sky. The ancient Egyptian civilization firmly believed that from Sirius and Orion beings came in the form of humans– Osiris and Isis and they instigated the human race.

May also refer to Orion's Belt. See A Orion Belt

Osama's Plan:
In 2004, Osama bin Laden released a videotape stating that al Qaeda's goal was to force America into bankruptcy.

On the tape bin Laden states: "We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah." He said the mujahedeen fighters did the same thing to the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s, "using guerrilla warfare and the war of attrition to fight tyrannical superpowers."

"We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat," bin Laden said.

He also said al Qaeda has found it "easy for us to provoke and bait this administration."

"All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations," bin Laden said.

As part of the "bleed-until-bankruptcy plan," bin Laden cited a British estimate that it cost al Qaeda about $500,000 to carry out the attacks of September 11, 2001, an amount that he said paled in comparison with the costs incurred by the United States.

"Every dollar of al Qaeda defeated a million dollars, by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs," he said. "As for the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers estimated to total more than a trillion dollars.

The total U.S. national debt is more than $7 trillion. The U.S. federal deficit was $413 billion in 2004, according to the Treasury Department.

Other gods:
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. (Exodus 20:3).

Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold. (Exodus 20:23).

And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. (Exodus 23:13).

Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images. (Exodus 23:24)

Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. (Exodus 23:32.

Outlaws:
An outlaw is fugitive from the law, habitual criminal, rebel or nonconformist.

Outshine:
Lucifer means "bright one, shining one," and it refers to the brightest star in the sky or the "Morning Star" (the planet Venus). In the Bible, angels are sometimes likened to stars (see Job 38:7; Isaiah 14:13). Out of all the "stars" or angels which God created, Lucifer seemed to shine the brightest (just as Venus, the morning star, seems to outshine all the others). According to the Bible, Lucifer wished to outshine God himself and was cast out of heaven.

Outsider:
Outsider can be defined as a person who does not belong to a particular group; a person who is not accepted by or who is isolated from society; stranger; foreigner

Overtaken:
To overwhelm; overcome; come suddenly or unexpectedly upon (esp. misfortune). See Vanquish

Oxidation:
Oxidation is an irreversible process by which molecular oxygen combines with nutrients in food, a process which will decrease the quality of the food by creating rancidity. Oxidation of fats and oils leads to rancidity and, in fruits such as apples, it can result in the formation of compounds which discolor the fruit. Because air is colorless, odorless, and tasteless, it is often taken for granted and sometimes forgotten as a means to cause food to spoil.