Waco, Texas
Waco, Texas in and of itself is not evil. Waco, Texas is a reference to the location of The Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists. On February 28, 1993 the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) attempted to execute a search warrant at the Branch Davidian ranch at Mount Carmel, a property located nine miles (14 km) east-northeast of Waco, Texas. An exchange of gunfire resulted in the deaths of four agents and six followers of David Koresh. A subsequent 51-day siege by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ended on April 19 when fire destroyed the compound. Seventy-six people (24 of them British nationals) died in the fire, including more than 20 children and two pregnant women, along with Davidian leader Vernon Wayne Howell, better known as David Koresh.
Weaker Sex:
In general, men are stronger than women. According to the National Strength and Conditioning Association, women generally produce about two-thirds the amount of total strength and applied force that men produce. Women are also physically built so that they generally carry two-thirds as much muscle mass as men. This proves that there is, in fact, a difference in strength, that men are typically stronger.
While there are strong women in the world, your strongest woman will never be stronger than your strongest male. Your fastest woman will never be faster than your fastest male. This is why you have separate men and women's competitions in sports. The fact that women are usually physically weaker than men is undeniable.
Women are the weaker sex. This should not be taken offensively. There should be no argument. People need to stop letting feminists and political correctness blind them from facts. To say that women are weaker than men simply acknowledges a basic truth. What does it mean to be weak? The word weak is defined as lacking the power to perform physically demanding tasks. It also means likely to fail under pressure, stress or strain. In the Bible, Eve's weakness caused her to be deceived by the serpent. By virtue of her being deceived by Satan, implies that women may also sometimes be weaker than men in other ways.
We Are All One:
There are several beliefs that are distinctively "New Age." One of these beliefs is monism, the idea that "we are all one". Monism means “oneness.” New Age practitioners believe that we are all one with each other and the universe. We are all connected by the common cord of the cosmos. Most people recognize various distinctions between ourselves and between different objects in our world, but the monist sees everything as a single organic whole. From the monistic perspective, we are all part of one another; and, if God exists, we are all part of God.
Neil Anderson in his book Walking Through the Darkness writes this about the New Age movement: “The New Age movement is not seen as a religion but a new way to think and understand reality. It’s very attractive to the natural man who has become disillusioned with organized religion and Western rationalism. He desires spiritual reality but doesn’t want to give up materialism, deal with his moral problems, or come under authority” (page 22). Then Anderson summarizes the New Age thinking (pages 22-24) as follows:
1.) It is monism, the belief that all is one and one is all. History is not the story of humanity’s fall into sin and its restoration by God’s saving grace. Rather, it is humanity’s fall into ignorance and the gradual ascent into enlightenment.
2.) All is God. If one is one, including God, then one must conclude that all is God. It is pantheism—trees, snails, books, and people are all of one divine essence. A personal God who has revealed Himself in the Bible and in Jesus Christ is completely rejected. Since God is impersonal, He doesn’t have to be served. He is an “it,” not a “He.”
3.) There is a change in consciousness. If we are God, we need to know we are God. We must become cosmically conscious, a state called “at-one-ment” (a counterfeit of atonement), self-realization, god-realization, enlightenment or “attune-ment” (being “tuned in” to the cosmic consciousness). Some who reach this enlightened status will claim to be “born again.” This is counterfeit biblical conversion. The real essential is not whether we believe or meditate, but whom we believe in and what we meditate on. Christ is true personal objective reality, as He said that He is the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through Him (John 14:6).
4.) A cosmic evolutionary optimism is taught. There is a New Age coming. There will be a new world order, a new world government. The New Age thinkers believe that there will eventually be a progressive unification of world consciousness. This, according to the Bible, is a counterfeit kingdom led by Satan himself. Christ has the true kingdom, and He will one day rule on earth with peace for all who accept Him as Savior and King (Rev. 5:13).
5.) New Agers create their own reality. They believe that they can create reality by what they believe, so by changing what they believe, they can change reality. All moral boundaries have been erased by the metaphysical influence of Taoism’s yin and yang, the ebb and flow of competing and complementary forces. There are no absolutes because there is no distinction between good and evil. Nothing has reality until one says that it is reality or says that it is truth. If finite man can create truth, we are in desperate trouble in our society. Unless there are eternal absolutes from the eternal God, man will eventually become his own destruction.
6.) New Agers make contact with the kingdom of darkness. Calling a medium a “channeler” and a demon a “spirit guide” has not changed the reality of what they are. This is the kingdom of darkness of which Satan is the head, who asked Eve, “Has God said?” Those involved in this kind of activity are in contact with a world that is totally opposed to the biblical God revealed to us in Jesus Christ who defeated Satan in His life (Matt. 4:1-11) and then through His death and bodily resurrection (Col. 2:15; Heb. 2:14-18).
The New Age movement is a counterfeit that appeals to the minds of individuals leading them to think that they are God. Some New Age leaders believe that the Fall was really man's ascent into knowledge, assisted by Lucifer - whom they hail as the bringer of light and wisdom.
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Beware! The New Age Movement Is More Than Self-Indulgent Silliness
Wears A Mask:
Masks and costumes carry a long history in the occult and demon possession. Masks are contacts to the spirit world to invite the spirit to "possess" them. In rituals, a person wearing a mask of a god or spirit often feels possessed by the supernatural being. . . (World Book 2005, p. 263). The person wearing the mask feels internally transformed and takes on temporarily the qualities of the god or demon represented by the mask. (Biedermann, Hans. Dictionary of Symbolism, p. 218) See Baal Halloween
Weaver Idaho:
Ruby Ridge was the site of a violent confrontation and siege in the U.S. state of Idaho in 1992. It involved Randy Weaver, his family, Weaver's friend Kevin Harris, federal agents from the United States Marshals Service, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The incident was cited as a motivation for the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995.
Randy Weaver is a member of a religious movement called "Christian Identity." Christian Identity is a label applied to a wide variety of loosely affiliated believers and churches with a racialized theology. Some of the Christian Identity movement's followers hold that non-Caucasian peoples have no souls, and can therefore never earn God's favor or be saved. Believers in the theology affirm that Jesus Christ paid only for the sins of the House of Israel and the House of Judah and that salvation must be received through both redemption and race.
Wedding Chapel:
A wedding chapel is a place, other than a legal court, and usually also, other than a church, where couples can get legally married. A church may also be used as a wedding chapel, but churches are usually called that by the marrying couple when the ceremony only involves those contracting matrimony.
Traditional wedding chapels are usually set in small buildings. Only specially appointed people, such as pastors and people who are licensed to carry out marriage ceremonies, can conduct ceremonies at wedding chapels.
Las Vegas, particularly, is famous for its large number of wedding chapels. Many of the wedding chapels in Las Vegas feature Elvis Presley impersonators. Las Vegas Wedding Chapels also offer Gothic, Halloween, etc. wedding packages. These wedding chapels make a mockery out of marriage.
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Whale Blubber:
Blubber is a thick layer of fat, also called adipose tissue. Blubber covers the entire body of whales. Blubber is an important part of a marine whale's anatomy. It stores energy, insulates heat, and increases buoyancy.
Many ancient cultures of the Arctic relied on blubber as a staple part of their diet. Muktuk, for example, is a traditional food consumed by the Eskimo and Inuit people, native to the U.S. state of Alaska and the Canadian Arctic. Muktuk is thick slices of whale blubber and skin.
Blubber contains naturally-occurring PCBs, carcinogens that damage human nervous, immune and reproductive systems. The source of PCB concentrations is unknown. Since toothed whales are high on the food chain, they likely consume large amounts of industrial pollutants (bioaccumulation). Even baleen whales, by merit of the huge amount of food they consume, are bound to have toxic chemicals stored in their bodies.
Wheelchairs:
A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, designed to be a replacement for walking.
The population of individuals using wheelchairs is estimated to be growing at a rate of 10% per year into the year 2002.
A 2005 survey of non-institutionalized individuals in the United States estimated that approximately 3.3 million people (1.4% of the population) 15 years of age and older used a wheelchair or similar device. Very few children use wheelchairs. Among children under 15 years of age, an estimated 83,000 used a wheelchair or similar device, representing 0.2 percent of that population.
These 2005 statistics suggest a substantial growth in the number and proportion of the population using wheelchairs. An earlier survey (1994-1995 data) of non-institutionalized Americans estimated 1.6 million (0.6%) wheelchair users including 88,000 under age 18 years (0.12%) and 897,000 (2.87%) 65 years of age and older. Of the total group of wheelchair users, 1.5 million used manual wheelchairs and 155,000 used electric wheelchairs.
Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of paralysis as a result of spinal chord injury (44%), followed by acts of violence (24%).
The main causes for car accidents are reckless and negligent driving and alcohol. Teenagers, according to the statistics, cause most car accidents. Inexperience coupled with irresponsible behavior and a lack of respect for safety precautions are the main causes for such a high number of teenage car accidents.
Another reason is the inattentiveness of the driver. Many people talk while driving. Even though hands free mobile phones are the latest craze, the driver would be unable to concentrate on the road while on the phone. The best option would be to park and then take the call, or not take the call at all while driving. These rules have already been implemented in a number of states.
Inattentiveness can also be caused due to alcohol, drugs, or the driver being distracted by music in the car.
White Dove:
According to The Woman’s Encyclopedia Of Myths And Secrets (1983), by Barbara Walker, the dove is:
Aphrodite’s totem, the bird of sexual passion, symbolically equivalent to the yoni. In India, too, the dove was paravata, the symbol of lust. Joined to her consort the phallic serpent, the Dove-goddess stood for sexual union and "Life."
Christians adopted the feminine dove as a symbol of the Holy Ghost, originally the Goddess Sophia, representing God's "Wisdom" as the Goddess Metis represented the "Wisdom" of Zeus. Gnostic Christians said Sophia was incarnate in the dove that impregnated the virgin Mary, the same dove that descended on Jesus at his baptism to impregnate his mind (Matthew 3.16). Pious admirers of Pope Gregory the Great made him even more saintly than Jesus by reporting that the Holy Ghost in dove shape descended on him not once but many times. All this was copied from Roman iconography which showed the human soul as a dove that descended from the Dove-goddess's oversoul to animate the body.
Aphrodite as a bringer of death, or "peace", sometimes bore the name of Irene, Dove of Peace. Another of her death-goddess names was Epitymbria, "She of the Tombs". Romans called her Venus Columba, Venus-the-Dove. Her catacombs, mausoleums, and necropoli were known as columaria, "dovecotes". Thus the soul returning to the Goddess after death was again envisioned as a dove. From this image, Christians copied their belief that the souls of saints became white doves that flew out of their mouths at the moment of death. In the Catholic ceremony of canonization, white doves are released from cages at the crucial moment of the ritual.
The cult of the Doves used to incorporate primitive rites of castration and its modification, circumcision. India called the seven Sisters "razors" or "cutters" who judged and "critically" wounded men, the Krittikas, "Seven Mothers of the World," root of the Greek Kritikos, "judge". They killed and gave rebirth to gods who were Semiramis, legendary founder of Babylon, also meant "Dove" in the Syrian tongue. She was said to have castrated all her consorts.
When circumcision replaced castration, the doves were involved in that too. Even Christian symbolism made the connection. The official symbol of the Festival of the Circumcision of Christ was a dove, holding in its beak a ring representing the Holy Prepuce. "Christ's fructifying blood" was linked with the similar emblem of Pentecost, which showed the descending dove on a background of blood red, officially described as a representation of the church fertilized by the blood of Christ and the martyrs.
White Races:
The notion of "white people" or a "white race" as a large group of populations contrasting with non-white or "colored" originates in the 17th century with the racial typing of slavery at the time, in the context of the Atlantic slave trade and enslavement of native peoples in the Spanish Empire. By the 18th century, white had become well established as a racial term.
According to historian Irene Silverblatt, "Race thinking … made social categories into racial truths." Bruce David Baum, citing the work of Ruth Frankenberg, states, "the history of modern racist domination has been bound up with the history of how European peoples defined themselves (and sometimes some other peoples) as members of a superior 'white race.'" Alastair Bonnett argues that 'white identity', as it is presently conceived, is an American project, reflecting American interpretations of race and history.
According to Gregory Jay, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee,
Before the age of exploration, group differences were largely based on language, religion, and geography. ... the European had always reacted a bit hysterically to the differences of skin color and facial structure between themselves and the populations encountered in Africa, Asia, and the Americas (see, for example, Shakespeare's dramatization of racial conflict in Othello and The Tempest). Beginning in the 1500s, Europeans began to develop what became known as "scientific racism," the attempt to construct a biological rather than cultural definition of race ... Whiteness, then, emerged as what we now call a "pan-ethnic" category, as a way of merging a variety of European ethnic populations into a single "race" ...
—Gregory Jay, "Who Invented White People?"
Professor David R. Roediger of the University of Illinois, suggests that the construction of the white race in the United States was an effort to mentally distance slave owners from slaves.
Wiccan Beliefs:
"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee" (Deut.18:10-12).
Wicca is an almost completely decentralized religion. George Knowles, a Wiccan author, has said: “Wicca has no high authority, no single leader, no prophet and no Bible to dictate its laws and beliefs”. Many, perhaps most, Wiccans are solitary practitioners. Others form small local groups called covens, groves, etc. Thus, there probably are almost as many sets of Wiccan beliefs as there are Wiccans. While Wiccan beliefs vary greatly among individuals, there are beliefs that are shared by Wiccans as a whole.
The beliefs of Wicca as a nature-worshiping religion have many parallels to the New Age Movement:
• Monism – All is one. A mystical oneness connects all things in nature together.
• Animism – The Life Force or energy is in all of nature—mountains, streams, trees, birds, animals, humans. Therefore all is sacred and to be cared for.
• Pantheism – God (the divine, the primal Life Force) is in all things. Humans and all nature contain the divine. Wicca is based on a sense of being one and in harmony with all of nature.
• Polytheism – A belief in multiple gods and goddesses along with multiple levels of reality that support the Wiccan idea of relativism in all areas of life, with no absolutes in religion or reality.
Wiccans gather in an assembly or group usually numbering 13 witches (called a “coven”). What follows would be characteristic of most but not all who would identify themselves as wiccans or witches:
• An invoking or worshiping of the Mother Goddess by a variety of names. She is viewed as having three roles as maiden, mother, and crone, which in Wiccan rituals (most well-known is “Drawing Down the Moon”) is associated with the three phases of the moon—waxing, full, and waning.
The practice of magic (sorcery or divination, not the stage variety) and casting of spells calling upon the energy of the Life Force personified or symbolized by the Goddess and her male consort, the Horned God (See Horned Beast or Old Horny), for the purpose of achieving something positive in the life of a person.
• The “law of threefold”—whatever good or bad a person does will come back threefold.
• The Wiccan Rede (Wiccan law)—“if it harms none, do as you will.”
Wiccan Pagans:
Wicca is a neopagan, nature-based religion. Wicca is the largest of the Neopagan religions. Wiccans have great reverence for the Earth and for their Goddess and her consort, the horned God. Other characteristics of Wicca include the ritual use of magic, a basic code of morality, and the celebration of eight seasonally based festivals. See Witchcraft
Wicked Beings:
Evil creatures, entities, or persons.
Wicked Cannibal: See A Asmat Cannibal and Aztec Cannibal
Wicked Molech:
Molech, Moloch, Molekh, Molok, Molek, Molock, or Moloc is the name of an ancient Semitic god, in particular a god of the Phoenicians, and the name of a particular kind of child sacrifice associated with that god.
Wicked Three:
"And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet" (Rev. 16:13).
"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six" (Rev. 13:17-18).
Three nails were used to crucify Jesus (see three nails).
Bad luck is often said to "come in threes". This is the belief that an accident or misfortune is likely to be accompanied by two more is a well-attested traditional belief, although in this form it is only recorded from the late 20th century.
"All cultures have ritual numbers but they don't have the same ritual numbers,'' explained Alan Dundes, a professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of Southern California at Berkley.
"Americans have a propensity to see things in threes. For Native Americans, it's four, and for the Chinese, it's five.'' said Dundes, whose book "Interpreting Folklore'' has a chapter on the significance of the number three in American culture.
"It's in our names. We have three names . . . We say, "It's as easy as one, two, three,'' he said. "You just take it for granted that . . . all this stuff is somehow in threes.''
Then, there are all the three-oriented phrases like "the third time's a charm,'' "going down for the third time,'' and ``Tic tac toe, three in a row.''
Plus, there are numerous three-worded phrases: "win, lose or draw,'' "we shall overcome'' "fat, dumb and happy'' and "snap, crackle and pop.''
The importance of the number three comes from many ancient sources.
But Dundes, who describes himself as a Freudian, said he believes it's sort of a subliminal symbol of male genitalia.
"It's like putting a masculine stamp on things,'' he said.
Wild Olive:
The “olive-tree, wild by nature” (Rom. 11:24), is the shoot or cutting of the good olive-tree which, left ungrafted, grows up to be a “wild olive.”
In Rom. 11:17 Paul refers to the practice of grafting shoots of the wild olive into a “good” olive which has become unfruitful. By such a process the sap of the good olive, by pervading the branch which is “graffed in,” makes it a good branch, bearing good olives. Thus the Gentiles, being a “wild olive,” but now “graffed in,” yield fruit, but only through the sap of the tree into which they have been graffed. This is a process “contrary to nature” (11:24).
In Jer. 11:16-17, Israel is called a "GREEN OLIVE TREE," fair, and of goodly fruit, but is warned that for its idolatry its branches shall be broken off. In Rom. 11:17-27 we have the Parable of the
"TWO OLIVE TREES."
One is called a GOOD Olive Tree, the other a WILD Olive Tree. The GOOD Olive Tree represents Israel, the WILD Olive Tree the Gentiles. The root of the Good Olive Tree is THREEFOLD. The main root is Abraham, the other two are Isaac and Jacob. "And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the Children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of ABRAHAM, the God of ISAAC, and the God of JACOB, hath sent me unto you: this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations." Ex. 3:15. Why should God speak of Himself in this "threefold" manner? Because He wished to reveal Himself in His "TRI-UNITY." Abraham is a type of God the Father, Isaac is a type of God the Son, and the Holy Spirit is seen in the guidance of Jacob.
The "Threefold root" of the Good Olive Tree was HOLY because separated, and as the "Root" was holy so were the "branches." We next read that "some," not all, of the branches were broken off. They were not broken off that the Gentiles might be grafted in, but they were broken off because of "UNBELIEF," and the Gentiles were not grafted in that they might supplant, or take the place of the branches that had been broken off, but that they, as branches of a "WILD Olive Tree," might be PARTAKER of the "root" and "fatness" of the GOOD Olive Tree. We see from this that the "GOOD Olive Tree" is not rooted up and destroyed and a "WILD Olive Tree" planted in its place, but it still remains alive and gives life to both the "Good" and "Wild" Olive branches. So we see that those who claim that the "Wild Olive Branches" that are grafted in represent the Church, and that the Church has taken the place of Israel, are in error, for the "Wild Olive Branches" do not remain on the "Good Olive Tree," but will be broken off that the original branches may be grafted back again. Jewish and Gentile believers in Christ are alike Abraham's spiritual children, and are joint partakers of the "root" and "fatness" of the "Good Olive Tree," for Christ was of the seed of Abraham. Those Jews who rejected Christ and thus broke away from the religion of Abraham, are the branches, who, through unbelief, are broken off.
In grafting the practice is to graft the "Good" Olive on the "Wild" Olive so as to improve the fruit of the "Wild" Olive. If the "Wild" Olive is grafted on the "Good" Olive the effect is the reverse, and the "Good" Olive will run to wildness. So Paul knew what he was talking about when he said that the grafting of the "Wild" Olive on the "Good" Olive Tree was "CONTRARY TO NATURE." From this we see that the injection of Gentilism into Judaism is not beneficial to Judaism. That Judaism is of purer stock than Gentilism, and for the purification of Judaism, Gentilism, or the "Wild" Olive branches, must be removed, or cut off, from the "Good" Olive Tree, and be replaced by the grafting back again of the "Natural Branches." Rom. 11:21. By Gentilism we mean that part of the Gentile world known as Christendom, or the professing Church, as described in the Kingdom of Heaven parables of Matt. 13. And it is only the Laodicean part of it that God says He will "SPUE OUT OF HIS MOUTH" (Rev. 3:16), that as "Wild" Olive branches God will remove from the "Good" Olive Tree, for all true believers who have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit, and that make up the true Church the "Body of Christ," and belong to the "Spiritual Israel" of God cannot be displaced.
The Parable of the "Two Olive Trees" teaches three things, and what is very important, the order in which these three things take place.
"Blindness in part is happened to Israel until the 'FULNESS OF THE GENTILES BE COME IN.'"
By the "FULNESS OF THE GENTILES" is not meant the "Times of the Gentiles," but those Gentiles who shall be saved through the Gospel. And when the last Gentile shall be thus saved the FULL NUMBER of saved Gentiles will be complete.
That the "Wild Olive Branches" that are grafted in do not take the place of the branches that were broken off, and because they shall not "continue in God's goodness" they shall be broken off again.
That God has not "Cast Away" His people Israel, and that He will revive the broken off branches and graft them back again.
Today we are witnessing the Apostasy of the "Wild Olive Branches," the professing Church. Soon they will be "cut off," and then the BLINDNESS shall be removed from Israel, and the "Natural Branches" will be grafted back again.
This Parable teaches us that we are not to look upon the unbelieving Jew as a cast-off and withered branch only fit for fire-wood, but we are to consider that his "casting away" as well as his "blindness" is only temporary, and that he will again take up his position among the nations of the earth.
The "Olive Tree" then is a symbol of Israel's RELIGIOUS Privileges, and it is worthy of note that while Israel is compared to trees, their oppressors, the Gentile Nations, are spoken of in the Scriptures as WILD BEASTS. Dan. 7:1-28.
Will Burn:
"The present heavens and earth, by His word, are being reserved for fire, kept for the Day of Judgment and the destruction of ungodly men" (2Peter 3:7).
"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat and the earth and its works will be burned up" (2Peter 3:10).
"The sun scorched men with fire" (Revelation 16:8).
"A third of the earth was burned up and a third of the trees were burned up and all the green grass was burned up. A great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea and a third of the sea became blood and a third of the creatures which were in the sea and had life died and a third of the ships were destroyed. And a great star fell from heaven burning like a torch and it fell on a third of the rivers and springs of water (Revelation 8:7-11).
"The inhabitants of the earth are burned and few men are left" (Isaiah 24:6).
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Wiretaps:
"Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee" (Ecc.7:21). In other words, do not eavesdrop on others.
Wiretapping is electronic or mechanical eavesdropping to listen to private conversations. Eavesdropping is considered as an immoral or unethical act because you are listening to a conversation without permission.
In the Bible, God promises Abraham that Sarah will bear a son in the spring. Sarah, who had been eavesdropping, laughs in unbelief and bitterness. She is rebuked by God and lies about having laughed (Gen. 18:9-15). In another instance, Rebekah overhears her husband Isaac dispatch Esau to hunt for game as a preview to his conferring the father's parting blessing on Esau as the firstborn son (Gen. 27). She uses her knowledge to mastermind an elaborate plot to rob Esau of his blessing.
Wisecracks:
Witty, sarcastic comments, or flippant remarks.
Witchcraft:
The use of sorcery or magick. Communication with the devil or with a familiar. A familiar is an animal, real or spirits on the astral plane, sent to help Magicians with their magickal endeavors. Any animal of any species can present itself as a familiar.
Witchery:
Witchcraft or the art of sorcery
Woodgnome:
A woodgnome is a diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature.
Paulus the woodgnome was a long-running Dutch newspaper comic strip, which ran between 1946 and 1984. It's popularity inspired a series of children's novels, a radio series and a TV puppet series.
Paulus is a gnome who lives in the woods. His friends are Oehoeboeroe (pronounced: "Oohoobooroo") the owl, Salomo the raven and Gregorius the badger. His arch enemy is Eucalypta the witch and her assistant Krakras the soup chicken.
Woodgnomes are said to be able to move through solid earth as easily as birds move through air. The chthonic, or earth-dwelling, spirit has precedents in numerous ancient and medieval mythologies, often guarding mines and precious underground treasures, notably in the Germanic dwarves and the Greek Chalybes, Telchines or Dactyls.
There have been reports on sightings of real gnomes. Tammy Thomas of Porterville, CA, gave an emotional account of how her family was besieged by an evil gnome.
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An evil gnome like creature terrorizes a farmhouse in Porterville
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Evil Gnomes April 13 2013 Paranormal Central
Word of Peace:
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword" (Matt.10:34).
"What brought this ruin? The people would not attend to reason; they would not act in the affairs of their souls with common prudence. Sin is backsliding; it is going back from the way that leads to life, to that which leads to destruction. They would not attend to the warning of conscience. They did not take the first step towards repentance: true repentance begins in serious inquiry as to what we have done, from conviction that we have done amiss. They would not attend to the ways of providence, nor understand the voice of God in them. They know not how to improve the seasons of grace, which God affords. Many boast of their religious knowledge, yet, unless taught by the Spirit of God, the instinct of brutes is a more sure guide than their supposed wisdom. They would not attend to the written word. Many enjoy abundance of the means of grace, have Bibles and ministers, but they have them in vain. They will soon be ashamed of their devices. The pretenders to wisdom were the priests and the false prophets. They flattered people in sin, and so flattered them into destruction, silencing their fears and complaints with, “All is well.” Selfish teachers may promise peace when there is no peace; and thus men encourage each other in committing evil; but in the day of visitation they will have no refuge to flee unto" (Jer. 8:4-13 Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary).
World Net:
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It also supports popular services such as online chat, file transfer and file sharing, gaming, commerce, social networking, publishing, video on demand, and teleconferencing and telecommunications. See Computer
Wrinkles:
"And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face" (Job 16:8).
A wrinkle is a fold, ridge, crease, or crooked line in the skin. Your emotions directly affect the network of facial muscles called “mimetic muscles.” These mimetic muscles respond to your emotional currents by forming expressions that dictate the depth and position of deep wrinkles. Many wrinkles are the result of a physical response to environmental stressors. Wrinkles provide a road map on the face, chronicling a lifetime of ups and downs, as well as trials and tribulations. The appearance of wrinkles on the face may indicate a troubled life. In contrast to those whose past actions are so crooked that it leaves a visible track record on their face, making it difficult to even look into a mirror, God’s children are blameless before him.
Children have the most beautiful skin. Their skin is soft, firm, elastic, and without blemish. A blemish is a defect in the body of a man or an animal. Defects of conduct are also metaphorically called blemishes (Deut. 32:5; Prov. 9:7; Job. 11:15). According to the Bible in order to live a blemish-free life we must do everything without complaining or arguing, so that we may be innocent and pure as God's perfect children, who live in a world of corrupt and sinful people (Phil. 2:14-15). We must be loving, kind, compassionate, unselfish, humble, and protective of our fellow man.
WTC Attacked:
On September 11, 2001, terrorists launched attacks on Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) 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.
WTC Base Fire:
"Anyone who has ever watched a building being demolished on purpose knows that if you're going to do this you have to get at the under-infrastructure of the building to bring it down" Peter Jennings, ABC News 9/11/2001.
White smoke was seen rising from the base of World Trade Center seconds before its collapse. Explosions were heard at the base of the tower. It's obvious from looking at the footage, that the World Trade Center collapsed due to structural damage to the top caused by the planes. But a controlled demolition at the base of the tower shock the foundation. Because of the structural damage to the top, the floors easily collapsed.
WTC Seven:
The original 7 World Trade Center was a 47-story building, designed by Emery Roth & Sons. On September 11, 2001, 7 World Trade Center collapsed. In May 2002, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a report on the collapse based on a preliminary investigation conducted jointly with the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers under leadership of Dr. W. Gene Corley, P.E. FEMA made preliminary findings that the collapse was not primarily caused by actual impact damage from the collapse of 1 WTC and 2 WTC but by fires on multiple stories ignited by debris from the other two towers that continued unabated due to lack of water for sprinklers or manual firefighting. According to FEMA, structural elements were exposed to high temperatures for a sufficient period of time to reduce their strength to the point of collapse; nevertheless, it has since been determined that the fires burned out in 20 minutes at any given location as they moved from point to point.
Plan view of collapse progression, with structural failure initiating on lower floors, on the east side of the building and vertical progression up to the east mechanical penthouse. The report did not reach conclusions about the cause of the collapse and called for further investigation:
Loss of structural integrity was likely a result of weakening caused by fires on the 5th to 7th floors. The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown at this time. Although the total diesel fuel on the premises contained massive potential energy, the best hypothesis has only a low probability of occurrence. Further research, investigation, and analyses are needed to resolve this issue.
Xena Evidence:
"Unexplained deviations in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune point to a large outer solar system body of 4 to 8 Earth masses, on a highly tilted orbit, beyond 7 billion miles from the sun." ~ NASA Press Release, 1992
The New York Times did an article on Jan 30, 1983 titled “Clues Get Warm in the Search for Planet X” where it discussed the issue: “Something out there beyond the farthest reaches of the known solar system seems to be tugging at Uranus and Neptune. Some gravitational force keeps perturbing the two giant planets, causing irregularities in their orbits. The force suggests a presence far away and unseen, a large object that may be the long-sought Planet X... Recent calculations by the United States Naval Observatory have confirmed the orbital perturbation exhibited by Uranus and Neptune, which Dr. Thomas C. Van Flandern, an astronomer at the observatory, says could be explained by 'a single undiscovered planet.' He and a colleague, Dr. Robert Harrington, calculate that the 10th planet should be two to five times more massive than Earth and have a highly elliptical orbit that takes it some 5 billion miles beyond that of Pluto – hardly next-door but still within the gravitational influence of the Sun.”
Xenophobic:
"For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in" (Matt.25:35).
A xenophobic person has "an unreasonable fear of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange". It comes from the Greek words (xenos), meaning "stranger" or "foreigner" and (phobos), meaning "fear."
The Bible includes almost 120 passages about welcoming, taking care of, and loving the stranger. Early on in the story of God's covenant with Abraham, three strangers come to Abraham and Sarah's home and they are welcomed in with a lavish meal. The strangers turn out to be angels from God who bless them with news that they are to have a son at their advanced age. When Jesus is asked in Matthew 25 who will get into heaven, Jesus offers these criteria, "For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in."
Loving the stranger was difficult in Biblical times; it's difficult still. It means resisting the fear of difference and moving to a place of welcome and inclusion. And that means embracing people who are different than us.
Yam God of Sea:
Yam, Yamm, or Yammu was a Levantine sea and river god, popular in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages. Yam, from the Canaanite word Yam meaning "Sea", also written Yaw, is one name of the Ugaritic god of Rivers and Sea.
Yam is the deity of the primordial chaos and represents the power of the sea, untamed and raging; he is seen as ruling storms and the disasters they wreak. The gods cast out Yam from the heavenly mountain Sappan (modern Jebel Aqra; Sappan is cognate to Tsephon). The seven-headed dragon Lotan is associated closely with him and he is often described as the serpent.
Yezidi India:
Yezidis were founded in India. The Yezidi emigrated from India to Afghanistan, and from Afghanistan into Iran and, lived in Iraq, and in Syria. In Iraq they started to call themselves "Yezidi". Before then they were known as "the people of Tawûsê Melek". The Yezidis have for hundreds of years been under constant attack from Moslems who promulgate the idea that the Yezidi's principle diety, the "Peacock Angel", is Satan. See A Peacock Cult
Yogi Pose:
The heart of any yoga practice is the performance of yoga positions (called asanas). Yoga is often misunderstood and is considered by some to be a form of exercise. Exercise and Yoga are related to the muscular system of body. However, with exercise, more emphasis is given on movements of muscles whereas; in Yoga it is given on steadiness of muscles.
Yoga done wrong can be dangerous and can cause adverse effects on your overall health. Some of these side effects as are follows: Adversely affecting your muscles and cause heavy pain and internal bleeding. Some yoga poses can even lead to fracture or ruptures of delicate bones. This case is especially true if you have delicate or brittle bones. Ruptures like these can take months to heal and might sometimes even need surgical intervention. Some yoga poses can even lead to adverse gastric problems in some individuals. Gastric symptoms are associated with hatha yoga postures. This is especially true if you do not perform all yoga asanas in a particular sequence.
Some of the yoga poses are so complex that even experts don't understand them properly. For instance the kundalini yoga poses done wrong can have adverse effect on you mentally. This is known as the kundalini syndrome. The possible side effects on kundalini syndrome are:
Sensory, motor and physiological symptoms: the feeling of cranial pressures, the perception of inner sounds, experiences of inner lights, vibrating or tickling sensations in the lower back, vibrations and itching under the skin, cool or flushed skin, tachycardia (rapid heart rate), persistent bradycardia, changes in breathing, spontaneous bodily movements, spontaneous assumption of yogic postures, sensations of heat or cold moving through the body, localized bodily pain that starts and stops abruptly, and unusual, or intense, sexual sensations.
Mental and affective symptoms: fear, anxiety, depersonalization, intense positive or negative emotions, psychotic symptoms or psychotic ideation, spontaneous slowing or speeding of thoughts, spontaneous trance states, experiencing oneself as larger than the physical body, and experiences of paranormal consciousness.
Other known problems: Death, pseudo death, psychosis, pseudo psychosis, confusion, panic attacks, depression, sadness, suicidal thoughts, urges to self-mutilate, homicidal urges, arrhythmia (irregular heart beat), exacerbation of prior or current mental illness, insomnia, inability to hold a job, inability to talk, inability to drive, sexual pains, temporary blindness, urticaria or rash, and headaches.
Even if you practice yoga under a instructor, chances are that he or she is not fully aware of the techniques and might give you wrong instructions.
You Are God:
Swami Omkarananda Saraswati was an Indian monk and disciple of Swami Sivananda Saraswati, the founder of the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh, India.
According to his teachings, "God cannot separate Himself from you in spite of his omnipotence! God is your own true nature, your true face, true body, true heart, true soul! Never can God separate himself from anyone. He is the Soul of your soul, the Consciousness of your consciousness, the Intelligence of your intelligence, the Observer in you, the Life of your life. And the Life of your life is eternal, infinite, absolute, all-perfect. An all-perfect God dwells in you as You - as your own Self, your own very nature, your infinite Bliss, which you experience in deep-sleep unknowingly. You can enjoy this Bliss in deep meditation, in mystic experience, in spiritual, divine experience. He dwells in you always as God, as your own true Self! God and you cannot be separated. God is your constant companion; God is your true countenance, your true life. It is possible to separate you from your nose, from your ears, from your body, from your mind, even from your subconscious; but never can you ever be separated from the God within you. God is you. You are God."
The New Age Movement teaches that God is all and all is God. Since all is God, and man is part of all, then they conclude man is God. Therefore, you are God.
The Mormons teach you can become Gods.
Such statements are considered blasphemous. Blasphemy is the act of claiming for oneself the attributes and rights of God. The Bible states that this is an unforgivable sin (Matt. 12:22-32). According to Genesis, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (Gen. 1:27). Man was created in God's likeness, but that does not make him a God.
You are NOT God. God is God.
In Genesis, Eve succumbs to the serpent's temptation. The serpent tells the woman that she will become like God if she eats the fruit of the tree: "When you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Gen.3:5). Believing the serpent rather than the earlier instruction from God, Eve shares the fruit with Adam. As a result, the first humans are expelled from the Garden of Eden and are cursed.
Zodiac Wheel:
In astronomy, the zodiac is the ring of constellations that lines the ecliptic, which is the apparent path of the Sun across the sky over the course of the year. The Moon and planets also lie within the ecliptic, and so are also within the constellations of the zodiac. In astrology, the zodiac denotes those signs that divide the ecliptic into twelve equal zones of celestial longitude. As such, the zodiac is a celestial coordinate system, to be more precise, an ecliptic coordinate system, taking the ecliptic as the origin of latitude, and the position of the sun at vernal equinox as the origin of longitude.
Zombie Alien:
A zombie alien or zombie demon (aliens are demons) is a snake-diety deriving from West Africa and Haiti. The Babongo Tribe of West Africa believe they possess the ability to communicate with zombies. In fact their entire religion, called Bwiti, is based on cultivating a strong relationship with the zombies they claim are all around.
To see zombies the tribe chews on the bark of the bitter iboga plant while drinking a ritual tea. Once the ceremony is complete the undead show themselves to the Babongo, but it’s important to note that these are not considered ghosts or spirits. They are believed to be actual physical creatures, as Anthropologist Mark Leitchman explains: “The Bwiti zombies are as real and solid as any animal or plant one might find in the forest. They don’t appear and disappear, or fly through the night sky, or even live on another mystic plain. Humans simply have bad vision and the iboga plant acts as a pair of glasses showing us what’s always been there.”
Some researchers believe that Zombie is another name for Damballah-Wedo. In Vodou, Damballah-Wedo is one of the most important of all the loa (also spelled lwa). Damballah-Wedo is the Sky God and considered the primordial creator of all life. Damballah-Wedo is depicted as a serpent or snake, and his veves reflect this aspect of him. When he possesses a human, he does not speak but instead only hisses and whistles. His movements are also snake-like, and can include slithering along the ground, flicking his tongue, and climbing tall objects.
According to Brad Steiger, author of "Real Zombies, the Living Dead and Creatures of the Apocalypse", the Damballah-Wedo has 7,000 coils to form the stars in the heavens and to mold the hills and valleys of Earth. His mighty lightning bolts cooled to fashion metals, rocks, and stones. When he perceived that water was necessary for life, he shed his skin and allowed it to melt into all the oceans, rivers, lakes, and waters on the planet. As the foam was settling from the life-giving deluge of water, the sun shining through the mist and a lovely rainbow was born. This rainbow was Ayida Wedo. Damballah fell instantly in love with her beauty, and the serpent and the rainbow became one: Damballah Wedo. Damballah Wedo speaks only to humans by possessing a follower of Voodoo, Santeria, Macumba or one of the other African religions. This possession most often takes place during the dancing that follows other ritual observances.
"Zombie" is also akin to the Kikongo word nzambi, which means "god", but it only came into general use in 1929, after the publication of William B. Seabrook's The Magic Island. In this book, Seabrook recounts his experiences on Haiti, including the walking dead. He describes the first 'zombie' he came across in this way: "The eyes were the worst. It was not my imagination. They were in truth like the eyes of a dead man, not blind, but staring, unfocused, unseeing. The whole face, for that matter, was bad enough. It was vacant, as if there was nothing behind it. It seemed not only expressionless, but incapable of expression."
Waco, Texas in and of itself is not evil. Waco, Texas is a reference to the location of The Branch Davidian Seventh Day Adventists. On February 28, 1993 the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) attempted to execute a search warrant at the Branch Davidian ranch at Mount Carmel, a property located nine miles (14 km) east-northeast of Waco, Texas. An exchange of gunfire resulted in the deaths of four agents and six followers of David Koresh. A subsequent 51-day siege by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ended on April 19 when fire destroyed the compound. Seventy-six people (24 of them British nationals) died in the fire, including more than 20 children and two pregnant women, along with Davidian leader Vernon Wayne Howell, better known as David Koresh.
Weaker Sex:
In general, men are stronger than women. According to the National Strength and Conditioning Association, women generally produce about two-thirds the amount of total strength and applied force that men produce. Women are also physically built so that they generally carry two-thirds as much muscle mass as men. This proves that there is, in fact, a difference in strength, that men are typically stronger.
While there are strong women in the world, your strongest woman will never be stronger than your strongest male. Your fastest woman will never be faster than your fastest male. This is why you have separate men and women's competitions in sports. The fact that women are usually physically weaker than men is undeniable.
Women are the weaker sex. This should not be taken offensively. There should be no argument. People need to stop letting feminists and political correctness blind them from facts. To say that women are weaker than men simply acknowledges a basic truth. What does it mean to be weak? The word weak is defined as lacking the power to perform physically demanding tasks. It also means likely to fail under pressure, stress or strain. In the Bible, Eve's weakness caused her to be deceived by the serpent. By virtue of her being deceived by Satan, implies that women may also sometimes be weaker than men in other ways.
We Are All One:
There are several beliefs that are distinctively "New Age." One of these beliefs is monism, the idea that "we are all one". Monism means “oneness.” New Age practitioners believe that we are all one with each other and the universe. We are all connected by the common cord of the cosmos. Most people recognize various distinctions between ourselves and between different objects in our world, but the monist sees everything as a single organic whole. From the monistic perspective, we are all part of one another; and, if God exists, we are all part of God.
Neil Anderson in his book Walking Through the Darkness writes this about the New Age movement: “The New Age movement is not seen as a religion but a new way to think and understand reality. It’s very attractive to the natural man who has become disillusioned with organized religion and Western rationalism. He desires spiritual reality but doesn’t want to give up materialism, deal with his moral problems, or come under authority” (page 22). Then Anderson summarizes the New Age thinking (pages 22-24) as follows:
1.) It is monism, the belief that all is one and one is all. History is not the story of humanity’s fall into sin and its restoration by God’s saving grace. Rather, it is humanity’s fall into ignorance and the gradual ascent into enlightenment.
2.) All is God. If one is one, including God, then one must conclude that all is God. It is pantheism—trees, snails, books, and people are all of one divine essence. A personal God who has revealed Himself in the Bible and in Jesus Christ is completely rejected. Since God is impersonal, He doesn’t have to be served. He is an “it,” not a “He.”
3.) There is a change in consciousness. If we are God, we need to know we are God. We must become cosmically conscious, a state called “at-one-ment” (a counterfeit of atonement), self-realization, god-realization, enlightenment or “attune-ment” (being “tuned in” to the cosmic consciousness). Some who reach this enlightened status will claim to be “born again.” This is counterfeit biblical conversion. The real essential is not whether we believe or meditate, but whom we believe in and what we meditate on. Christ is true personal objective reality, as He said that He is the way, the truth and the life, and no one comes to the Father except through Him (John 14:6).
4.) A cosmic evolutionary optimism is taught. There is a New Age coming. There will be a new world order, a new world government. The New Age thinkers believe that there will eventually be a progressive unification of world consciousness. This, according to the Bible, is a counterfeit kingdom led by Satan himself. Christ has the true kingdom, and He will one day rule on earth with peace for all who accept Him as Savior and King (Rev. 5:13).
5.) New Agers create their own reality. They believe that they can create reality by what they believe, so by changing what they believe, they can change reality. All moral boundaries have been erased by the metaphysical influence of Taoism’s yin and yang, the ebb and flow of competing and complementary forces. There are no absolutes because there is no distinction between good and evil. Nothing has reality until one says that it is reality or says that it is truth. If finite man can create truth, we are in desperate trouble in our society. Unless there are eternal absolutes from the eternal God, man will eventually become his own destruction.
6.) New Agers make contact with the kingdom of darkness. Calling a medium a “channeler” and a demon a “spirit guide” has not changed the reality of what they are. This is the kingdom of darkness of which Satan is the head, who asked Eve, “Has God said?” Those involved in this kind of activity are in contact with a world that is totally opposed to the biblical God revealed to us in Jesus Christ who defeated Satan in His life (Matt. 4:1-11) and then through His death and bodily resurrection (Col. 2:15; Heb. 2:14-18).
The New Age movement is a counterfeit that appeals to the minds of individuals leading them to think that they are God. Some New Age leaders believe that the Fall was really man's ascent into knowledge, assisted by Lucifer - whom they hail as the bringer of light and wisdom.
To learn more about "The New Age Movement", please read:
Beware! The New Age Movement Is More Than Self-Indulgent Silliness
Wears A Mask:
Masks and costumes carry a long history in the occult and demon possession. Masks are contacts to the spirit world to invite the spirit to "possess" them. In rituals, a person wearing a mask of a god or spirit often feels possessed by the supernatural being. . . (World Book 2005, p. 263). The person wearing the mask feels internally transformed and takes on temporarily the qualities of the god or demon represented by the mask. (Biedermann, Hans. Dictionary of Symbolism, p. 218) See Baal Halloween
Weaver Idaho:
Ruby Ridge was the site of a violent confrontation and siege in the U.S. state of Idaho in 1992. It involved Randy Weaver, his family, Weaver's friend Kevin Harris, federal agents from the United States Marshals Service, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The incident was cited as a motivation for the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995.
Randy Weaver is a member of a religious movement called "Christian Identity." Christian Identity is a label applied to a wide variety of loosely affiliated believers and churches with a racialized theology. Some of the Christian Identity movement's followers hold that non-Caucasian peoples have no souls, and can therefore never earn God's favor or be saved. Believers in the theology affirm that Jesus Christ paid only for the sins of the House of Israel and the House of Judah and that salvation must be received through both redemption and race.
Wedding Chapel:
A wedding chapel is a place, other than a legal court, and usually also, other than a church, where couples can get legally married. A church may also be used as a wedding chapel, but churches are usually called that by the marrying couple when the ceremony only involves those contracting matrimony.
Traditional wedding chapels are usually set in small buildings. Only specially appointed people, such as pastors and people who are licensed to carry out marriage ceremonies, can conduct ceremonies at wedding chapels.
Las Vegas, particularly, is famous for its large number of wedding chapels. Many of the wedding chapels in Las Vegas feature Elvis Presley impersonators. Las Vegas Wedding Chapels also offer Gothic, Halloween, etc. wedding packages. These wedding chapels make a mockery out of marriage.
To learn more, please watch:
Everest "Halloween" Gothic Wedding - Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel
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Whale Blubber:
Blubber is a thick layer of fat, also called adipose tissue. Blubber covers the entire body of whales. Blubber is an important part of a marine whale's anatomy. It stores energy, insulates heat, and increases buoyancy.
Many ancient cultures of the Arctic relied on blubber as a staple part of their diet. Muktuk, for example, is a traditional food consumed by the Eskimo and Inuit people, native to the U.S. state of Alaska and the Canadian Arctic. Muktuk is thick slices of whale blubber and skin.
Blubber contains naturally-occurring PCBs, carcinogens that damage human nervous, immune and reproductive systems. The source of PCB concentrations is unknown. Since toothed whales are high on the food chain, they likely consume large amounts of industrial pollutants (bioaccumulation). Even baleen whales, by merit of the huge amount of food they consume, are bound to have toxic chemicals stored in their bodies.
Wheelchairs:
A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, designed to be a replacement for walking.
The population of individuals using wheelchairs is estimated to be growing at a rate of 10% per year into the year 2002.
A 2005 survey of non-institutionalized individuals in the United States estimated that approximately 3.3 million people (1.4% of the population) 15 years of age and older used a wheelchair or similar device. Very few children use wheelchairs. Among children under 15 years of age, an estimated 83,000 used a wheelchair or similar device, representing 0.2 percent of that population.
These 2005 statistics suggest a substantial growth in the number and proportion of the population using wheelchairs. An earlier survey (1994-1995 data) of non-institutionalized Americans estimated 1.6 million (0.6%) wheelchair users including 88,000 under age 18 years (0.12%) and 897,000 (2.87%) 65 years of age and older. Of the total group of wheelchair users, 1.5 million used manual wheelchairs and 155,000 used electric wheelchairs.
Motor vehicle accidents are the leading cause of paralysis as a result of spinal chord injury (44%), followed by acts of violence (24%).
The main causes for car accidents are reckless and negligent driving and alcohol. Teenagers, according to the statistics, cause most car accidents. Inexperience coupled with irresponsible behavior and a lack of respect for safety precautions are the main causes for such a high number of teenage car accidents.
Another reason is the inattentiveness of the driver. Many people talk while driving. Even though hands free mobile phones are the latest craze, the driver would be unable to concentrate on the road while on the phone. The best option would be to park and then take the call, or not take the call at all while driving. These rules have already been implemented in a number of states.
Inattentiveness can also be caused due to alcohol, drugs, or the driver being distracted by music in the car.
White Dove:
According to The Woman’s Encyclopedia Of Myths And Secrets (1983), by Barbara Walker, the dove is:
Aphrodite’s totem, the bird of sexual passion, symbolically equivalent to the yoni. In India, too, the dove was paravata, the symbol of lust. Joined to her consort the phallic serpent, the Dove-goddess stood for sexual union and "Life."
Christians adopted the feminine dove as a symbol of the Holy Ghost, originally the Goddess Sophia, representing God's "Wisdom" as the Goddess Metis represented the "Wisdom" of Zeus. Gnostic Christians said Sophia was incarnate in the dove that impregnated the virgin Mary, the same dove that descended on Jesus at his baptism to impregnate his mind (Matthew 3.16). Pious admirers of Pope Gregory the Great made him even more saintly than Jesus by reporting that the Holy Ghost in dove shape descended on him not once but many times. All this was copied from Roman iconography which showed the human soul as a dove that descended from the Dove-goddess's oversoul to animate the body.
Aphrodite as a bringer of death, or "peace", sometimes bore the name of Irene, Dove of Peace. Another of her death-goddess names was Epitymbria, "She of the Tombs". Romans called her Venus Columba, Venus-the-Dove. Her catacombs, mausoleums, and necropoli were known as columaria, "dovecotes". Thus the soul returning to the Goddess after death was again envisioned as a dove. From this image, Christians copied their belief that the souls of saints became white doves that flew out of their mouths at the moment of death. In the Catholic ceremony of canonization, white doves are released from cages at the crucial moment of the ritual.
The cult of the Doves used to incorporate primitive rites of castration and its modification, circumcision. India called the seven Sisters "razors" or "cutters" who judged and "critically" wounded men, the Krittikas, "Seven Mothers of the World," root of the Greek Kritikos, "judge". They killed and gave rebirth to gods who were Semiramis, legendary founder of Babylon, also meant "Dove" in the Syrian tongue. She was said to have castrated all her consorts.
When circumcision replaced castration, the doves were involved in that too. Even Christian symbolism made the connection. The official symbol of the Festival of the Circumcision of Christ was a dove, holding in its beak a ring representing the Holy Prepuce. "Christ's fructifying blood" was linked with the similar emblem of Pentecost, which showed the descending dove on a background of blood red, officially described as a representation of the church fertilized by the blood of Christ and the martyrs.
White Races:
The notion of "white people" or a "white race" as a large group of populations contrasting with non-white or "colored" originates in the 17th century with the racial typing of slavery at the time, in the context of the Atlantic slave trade and enslavement of native peoples in the Spanish Empire. By the 18th century, white had become well established as a racial term.
According to historian Irene Silverblatt, "Race thinking … made social categories into racial truths." Bruce David Baum, citing the work of Ruth Frankenberg, states, "the history of modern racist domination has been bound up with the history of how European peoples defined themselves (and sometimes some other peoples) as members of a superior 'white race.'" Alastair Bonnett argues that 'white identity', as it is presently conceived, is an American project, reflecting American interpretations of race and history.
According to Gregory Jay, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee,
Before the age of exploration, group differences were largely based on language, religion, and geography. ... the European had always reacted a bit hysterically to the differences of skin color and facial structure between themselves and the populations encountered in Africa, Asia, and the Americas (see, for example, Shakespeare's dramatization of racial conflict in Othello and The Tempest). Beginning in the 1500s, Europeans began to develop what became known as "scientific racism," the attempt to construct a biological rather than cultural definition of race ... Whiteness, then, emerged as what we now call a "pan-ethnic" category, as a way of merging a variety of European ethnic populations into a single "race" ...
—Gregory Jay, "Who Invented White People?"
Professor David R. Roediger of the University of Illinois, suggests that the construction of the white race in the United States was an effort to mentally distance slave owners from slaves.
Wiccan Beliefs:
"There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord: and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee" (Deut.18:10-12).
Wicca is an almost completely decentralized religion. George Knowles, a Wiccan author, has said: “Wicca has no high authority, no single leader, no prophet and no Bible to dictate its laws and beliefs”. Many, perhaps most, Wiccans are solitary practitioners. Others form small local groups called covens, groves, etc. Thus, there probably are almost as many sets of Wiccan beliefs as there are Wiccans. While Wiccan beliefs vary greatly among individuals, there are beliefs that are shared by Wiccans as a whole.
The beliefs of Wicca as a nature-worshiping religion have many parallels to the New Age Movement:
• Monism – All is one. A mystical oneness connects all things in nature together.
• Animism – The Life Force or energy is in all of nature—mountains, streams, trees, birds, animals, humans. Therefore all is sacred and to be cared for.
• Pantheism – God (the divine, the primal Life Force) is in all things. Humans and all nature contain the divine. Wicca is based on a sense of being one and in harmony with all of nature.
• Polytheism – A belief in multiple gods and goddesses along with multiple levels of reality that support the Wiccan idea of relativism in all areas of life, with no absolutes in religion or reality.
Wiccans gather in an assembly or group usually numbering 13 witches (called a “coven”). What follows would be characteristic of most but not all who would identify themselves as wiccans or witches:
• An invoking or worshiping of the Mother Goddess by a variety of names. She is viewed as having three roles as maiden, mother, and crone, which in Wiccan rituals (most well-known is “Drawing Down the Moon”) is associated with the three phases of the moon—waxing, full, and waning.
The practice of magic (sorcery or divination, not the stage variety) and casting of spells calling upon the energy of the Life Force personified or symbolized by the Goddess and her male consort, the Horned God (See Horned Beast or Old Horny), for the purpose of achieving something positive in the life of a person.
• The “law of threefold”—whatever good or bad a person does will come back threefold.
• The Wiccan Rede (Wiccan law)—“if it harms none, do as you will.”
Wiccan Pagans:
Wicca is a neopagan, nature-based religion. Wicca is the largest of the Neopagan religions. Wiccans have great reverence for the Earth and for their Goddess and her consort, the horned God. Other characteristics of Wicca include the ritual use of magic, a basic code of morality, and the celebration of eight seasonally based festivals. See Witchcraft
Wicked Beings:
Evil creatures, entities, or persons.
Wicked Cannibal: See A Asmat Cannibal and Aztec Cannibal
Wicked Molech:
Molech, Moloch, Molekh, Molok, Molek, Molock, or Moloc is the name of an ancient Semitic god, in particular a god of the Phoenicians, and the name of a particular kind of child sacrifice associated with that god.
Wicked Three:
"And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet" (Rev. 16:13).
"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six" (Rev. 13:17-18).
Three nails were used to crucify Jesus (see three nails).
Bad luck is often said to "come in threes". This is the belief that an accident or misfortune is likely to be accompanied by two more is a well-attested traditional belief, although in this form it is only recorded from the late 20th century.
"All cultures have ritual numbers but they don't have the same ritual numbers,'' explained Alan Dundes, a professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of Southern California at Berkley.
"Americans have a propensity to see things in threes. For Native Americans, it's four, and for the Chinese, it's five.'' said Dundes, whose book "Interpreting Folklore'' has a chapter on the significance of the number three in American culture.
"It's in our names. We have three names . . . We say, "It's as easy as one, two, three,'' he said. "You just take it for granted that . . . all this stuff is somehow in threes.''
Then, there are all the three-oriented phrases like "the third time's a charm,'' "going down for the third time,'' and ``Tic tac toe, three in a row.''
Plus, there are numerous three-worded phrases: "win, lose or draw,'' "we shall overcome'' "fat, dumb and happy'' and "snap, crackle and pop.''
The importance of the number three comes from many ancient sources.
But Dundes, who describes himself as a Freudian, said he believes it's sort of a subliminal symbol of male genitalia.
"It's like putting a masculine stamp on things,'' he said.
Wild Olive:
The “olive-tree, wild by nature” (Rom. 11:24), is the shoot or cutting of the good olive-tree which, left ungrafted, grows up to be a “wild olive.”
In Rom. 11:17 Paul refers to the practice of grafting shoots of the wild olive into a “good” olive which has become unfruitful. By such a process the sap of the good olive, by pervading the branch which is “graffed in,” makes it a good branch, bearing good olives. Thus the Gentiles, being a “wild olive,” but now “graffed in,” yield fruit, but only through the sap of the tree into which they have been graffed. This is a process “contrary to nature” (11:24).
In Jer. 11:16-17, Israel is called a "GREEN OLIVE TREE," fair, and of goodly fruit, but is warned that for its idolatry its branches shall be broken off. In Rom. 11:17-27 we have the Parable of the
"TWO OLIVE TREES."
One is called a GOOD Olive Tree, the other a WILD Olive Tree. The GOOD Olive Tree represents Israel, the WILD Olive Tree the Gentiles. The root of the Good Olive Tree is THREEFOLD. The main root is Abraham, the other two are Isaac and Jacob. "And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the Children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of ABRAHAM, the God of ISAAC, and the God of JACOB, hath sent me unto you: this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations." Ex. 3:15. Why should God speak of Himself in this "threefold" manner? Because He wished to reveal Himself in His "TRI-UNITY." Abraham is a type of God the Father, Isaac is a type of God the Son, and the Holy Spirit is seen in the guidance of Jacob.
The "Threefold root" of the Good Olive Tree was HOLY because separated, and as the "Root" was holy so were the "branches." We next read that "some," not all, of the branches were broken off. They were not broken off that the Gentiles might be grafted in, but they were broken off because of "UNBELIEF," and the Gentiles were not grafted in that they might supplant, or take the place of the branches that had been broken off, but that they, as branches of a "WILD Olive Tree," might be PARTAKER of the "root" and "fatness" of the GOOD Olive Tree. We see from this that the "GOOD Olive Tree" is not rooted up and destroyed and a "WILD Olive Tree" planted in its place, but it still remains alive and gives life to both the "Good" and "Wild" Olive branches. So we see that those who claim that the "Wild Olive Branches" that are grafted in represent the Church, and that the Church has taken the place of Israel, are in error, for the "Wild Olive Branches" do not remain on the "Good Olive Tree," but will be broken off that the original branches may be grafted back again. Jewish and Gentile believers in Christ are alike Abraham's spiritual children, and are joint partakers of the "root" and "fatness" of the "Good Olive Tree," for Christ was of the seed of Abraham. Those Jews who rejected Christ and thus broke away from the religion of Abraham, are the branches, who, through unbelief, are broken off.
In grafting the practice is to graft the "Good" Olive on the "Wild" Olive so as to improve the fruit of the "Wild" Olive. If the "Wild" Olive is grafted on the "Good" Olive the effect is the reverse, and the "Good" Olive will run to wildness. So Paul knew what he was talking about when he said that the grafting of the "Wild" Olive on the "Good" Olive Tree was "CONTRARY TO NATURE." From this we see that the injection of Gentilism into Judaism is not beneficial to Judaism. That Judaism is of purer stock than Gentilism, and for the purification of Judaism, Gentilism, or the "Wild" Olive branches, must be removed, or cut off, from the "Good" Olive Tree, and be replaced by the grafting back again of the "Natural Branches." Rom. 11:21. By Gentilism we mean that part of the Gentile world known as Christendom, or the professing Church, as described in the Kingdom of Heaven parables of Matt. 13. And it is only the Laodicean part of it that God says He will "SPUE OUT OF HIS MOUTH" (Rev. 3:16), that as "Wild" Olive branches God will remove from the "Good" Olive Tree, for all true believers who have been regenerated by the Holy Spirit, and that make up the true Church the "Body of Christ," and belong to the "Spiritual Israel" of God cannot be displaced.
The Parable of the "Two Olive Trees" teaches three things, and what is very important, the order in which these three things take place.
"Blindness in part is happened to Israel until the 'FULNESS OF THE GENTILES BE COME IN.'"
By the "FULNESS OF THE GENTILES" is not meant the "Times of the Gentiles," but those Gentiles who shall be saved through the Gospel. And when the last Gentile shall be thus saved the FULL NUMBER of saved Gentiles will be complete.
That the "Wild Olive Branches" that are grafted in do not take the place of the branches that were broken off, and because they shall not "continue in God's goodness" they shall be broken off again.
That God has not "Cast Away" His people Israel, and that He will revive the broken off branches and graft them back again.
Today we are witnessing the Apostasy of the "Wild Olive Branches," the professing Church. Soon they will be "cut off," and then the BLINDNESS shall be removed from Israel, and the "Natural Branches" will be grafted back again.
This Parable teaches us that we are not to look upon the unbelieving Jew as a cast-off and withered branch only fit for fire-wood, but we are to consider that his "casting away" as well as his "blindness" is only temporary, and that he will again take up his position among the nations of the earth.
The "Olive Tree" then is a symbol of Israel's RELIGIOUS Privileges, and it is worthy of note that while Israel is compared to trees, their oppressors, the Gentile Nations, are spoken of in the Scriptures as WILD BEASTS. Dan. 7:1-28.
Will Burn:
"The present heavens and earth, by His word, are being reserved for fire, kept for the Day of Judgment and the destruction of ungodly men" (2Peter 3:7).
"But the day of the Lord will come like a thief in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat and the earth and its works will be burned up" (2Peter 3:10).
"The sun scorched men with fire" (Revelation 16:8).
"A third of the earth was burned up and a third of the trees were burned up and all the green grass was burned up. A great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea and a third of the sea became blood and a third of the creatures which were in the sea and had life died and a third of the ships were destroyed. And a great star fell from heaven burning like a torch and it fell on a third of the rivers and springs of water (Revelation 8:7-11).
"The inhabitants of the earth are burned and few men are left" (Isaiah 24:6).
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Wiretaps:
"Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee" (Ecc.7:21). In other words, do not eavesdrop on others.
Wiretapping is electronic or mechanical eavesdropping to listen to private conversations. Eavesdropping is considered as an immoral or unethical act because you are listening to a conversation without permission.
In the Bible, God promises Abraham that Sarah will bear a son in the spring. Sarah, who had been eavesdropping, laughs in unbelief and bitterness. She is rebuked by God and lies about having laughed (Gen. 18:9-15). In another instance, Rebekah overhears her husband Isaac dispatch Esau to hunt for game as a preview to his conferring the father's parting blessing on Esau as the firstborn son (Gen. 27). She uses her knowledge to mastermind an elaborate plot to rob Esau of his blessing.
Wisecracks:
Witty, sarcastic comments, or flippant remarks.
Witchcraft:
The use of sorcery or magick. Communication with the devil or with a familiar. A familiar is an animal, real or spirits on the astral plane, sent to help Magicians with their magickal endeavors. Any animal of any species can present itself as a familiar.
Witchery:
Witchcraft or the art of sorcery
Woodgnome:
A woodgnome is a diminutive spirit in Renaissance magic and alchemy, first introduced by Paracelsus in the 16th century and later adopted by more recent authors including those of modern fantasy literature.
Paulus the woodgnome was a long-running Dutch newspaper comic strip, which ran between 1946 and 1984. It's popularity inspired a series of children's novels, a radio series and a TV puppet series.
Paulus is a gnome who lives in the woods. His friends are Oehoeboeroe (pronounced: "Oohoobooroo") the owl, Salomo the raven and Gregorius the badger. His arch enemy is Eucalypta the witch and her assistant Krakras the soup chicken.
Woodgnomes are said to be able to move through solid earth as easily as birds move through air. The chthonic, or earth-dwelling, spirit has precedents in numerous ancient and medieval mythologies, often guarding mines and precious underground treasures, notably in the Germanic dwarves and the Greek Chalybes, Telchines or Dactyls.
There have been reports on sightings of real gnomes. Tammy Thomas of Porterville, CA, gave an emotional account of how her family was besieged by an evil gnome.
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Word of Peace:
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword" (Matt.10:34).
"What brought this ruin? The people would not attend to reason; they would not act in the affairs of their souls with common prudence. Sin is backsliding; it is going back from the way that leads to life, to that which leads to destruction. They would not attend to the warning of conscience. They did not take the first step towards repentance: true repentance begins in serious inquiry as to what we have done, from conviction that we have done amiss. They would not attend to the ways of providence, nor understand the voice of God in them. They know not how to improve the seasons of grace, which God affords. Many boast of their religious knowledge, yet, unless taught by the Spirit of God, the instinct of brutes is a more sure guide than their supposed wisdom. They would not attend to the written word. Many enjoy abundance of the means of grace, have Bibles and ministers, but they have them in vain. They will soon be ashamed of their devices. The pretenders to wisdom were the priests and the false prophets. They flattered people in sin, and so flattered them into destruction, silencing their fears and complaints with, “All is well.” Selfish teachers may promise peace when there is no peace; and thus men encourage each other in committing evil; but in the day of visitation they will have no refuge to flee unto" (Jer. 8:4-13 Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary).
World Net:
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It also supports popular services such as online chat, file transfer and file sharing, gaming, commerce, social networking, publishing, video on demand, and teleconferencing and telecommunications. See Computer
Wrinkles:
"And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face" (Job 16:8).
A wrinkle is a fold, ridge, crease, or crooked line in the skin. Your emotions directly affect the network of facial muscles called “mimetic muscles.” These mimetic muscles respond to your emotional currents by forming expressions that dictate the depth and position of deep wrinkles. Many wrinkles are the result of a physical response to environmental stressors. Wrinkles provide a road map on the face, chronicling a lifetime of ups and downs, as well as trials and tribulations. The appearance of wrinkles on the face may indicate a troubled life. In contrast to those whose past actions are so crooked that it leaves a visible track record on their face, making it difficult to even look into a mirror, God’s children are blameless before him.
Children have the most beautiful skin. Their skin is soft, firm, elastic, and without blemish. A blemish is a defect in the body of a man or an animal. Defects of conduct are also metaphorically called blemishes (Deut. 32:5; Prov. 9:7; Job. 11:15). According to the Bible in order to live a blemish-free life we must do everything without complaining or arguing, so that we may be innocent and pure as God's perfect children, who live in a world of corrupt and sinful people (Phil. 2:14-15). We must be loving, kind, compassionate, unselfish, humble, and protective of our fellow man.
WTC Attacked:
On September 11, 2001, terrorists launched attacks on Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) 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.
WTC Base Fire:
"Anyone who has ever watched a building being demolished on purpose knows that if you're going to do this you have to get at the under-infrastructure of the building to bring it down" Peter Jennings, ABC News 9/11/2001.
White smoke was seen rising from the base of World Trade Center seconds before its collapse. Explosions were heard at the base of the tower. It's obvious from looking at the footage, that the World Trade Center collapsed due to structural damage to the top caused by the planes. But a controlled demolition at the base of the tower shock the foundation. Because of the structural damage to the top, the floors easily collapsed.
WTC Seven:
The original 7 World Trade Center was a 47-story building, designed by Emery Roth & Sons. On September 11, 2001, 7 World Trade Center collapsed. In May 2002, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a report on the collapse based on a preliminary investigation conducted jointly with the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers under leadership of Dr. W. Gene Corley, P.E. FEMA made preliminary findings that the collapse was not primarily caused by actual impact damage from the collapse of 1 WTC and 2 WTC but by fires on multiple stories ignited by debris from the other two towers that continued unabated due to lack of water for sprinklers or manual firefighting. According to FEMA, structural elements were exposed to high temperatures for a sufficient period of time to reduce their strength to the point of collapse; nevertheless, it has since been determined that the fires burned out in 20 minutes at any given location as they moved from point to point.
Plan view of collapse progression, with structural failure initiating on lower floors, on the east side of the building and vertical progression up to the east mechanical penthouse. The report did not reach conclusions about the cause of the collapse and called for further investigation:
Loss of structural integrity was likely a result of weakening caused by fires on the 5th to 7th floors. The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown at this time. Although the total diesel fuel on the premises contained massive potential energy, the best hypothesis has only a low probability of occurrence. Further research, investigation, and analyses are needed to resolve this issue.
Xena Evidence:
"Unexplained deviations in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune point to a large outer solar system body of 4 to 8 Earth masses, on a highly tilted orbit, beyond 7 billion miles from the sun." ~ NASA Press Release, 1992
The New York Times did an article on Jan 30, 1983 titled “Clues Get Warm in the Search for Planet X” where it discussed the issue: “Something out there beyond the farthest reaches of the known solar system seems to be tugging at Uranus and Neptune. Some gravitational force keeps perturbing the two giant planets, causing irregularities in their orbits. The force suggests a presence far away and unseen, a large object that may be the long-sought Planet X... Recent calculations by the United States Naval Observatory have confirmed the orbital perturbation exhibited by Uranus and Neptune, which Dr. Thomas C. Van Flandern, an astronomer at the observatory, says could be explained by 'a single undiscovered planet.' He and a colleague, Dr. Robert Harrington, calculate that the 10th planet should be two to five times more massive than Earth and have a highly elliptical orbit that takes it some 5 billion miles beyond that of Pluto – hardly next-door but still within the gravitational influence of the Sun.”
Xenophobic:
"For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in" (Matt.25:35).
A xenophobic person has "an unreasonable fear of foreigners or strangers or of that which is foreign or strange". It comes from the Greek words (xenos), meaning "stranger" or "foreigner" and (phobos), meaning "fear."
The Bible includes almost 120 passages about welcoming, taking care of, and loving the stranger. Early on in the story of God's covenant with Abraham, three strangers come to Abraham and Sarah's home and they are welcomed in with a lavish meal. The strangers turn out to be angels from God who bless them with news that they are to have a son at their advanced age. When Jesus is asked in Matthew 25 who will get into heaven, Jesus offers these criteria, "For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in."
Loving the stranger was difficult in Biblical times; it's difficult still. It means resisting the fear of difference and moving to a place of welcome and inclusion. And that means embracing people who are different than us.
Yam God of Sea:
Yam, Yamm, or Yammu was a Levantine sea and river god, popular in the Bronze and Early Iron Ages. Yam, from the Canaanite word Yam meaning "Sea", also written Yaw, is one name of the Ugaritic god of Rivers and Sea.
Yam is the deity of the primordial chaos and represents the power of the sea, untamed and raging; he is seen as ruling storms and the disasters they wreak. The gods cast out Yam from the heavenly mountain Sappan (modern Jebel Aqra; Sappan is cognate to Tsephon). The seven-headed dragon Lotan is associated closely with him and he is often described as the serpent.
Yezidi India:
Yezidis were founded in India. The Yezidi emigrated from India to Afghanistan, and from Afghanistan into Iran and, lived in Iraq, and in Syria. In Iraq they started to call themselves "Yezidi". Before then they were known as "the people of Tawûsê Melek". The Yezidis have for hundreds of years been under constant attack from Moslems who promulgate the idea that the Yezidi's principle diety, the "Peacock Angel", is Satan. See A Peacock Cult
Yogi Pose:
The heart of any yoga practice is the performance of yoga positions (called asanas). Yoga is often misunderstood and is considered by some to be a form of exercise. Exercise and Yoga are related to the muscular system of body. However, with exercise, more emphasis is given on movements of muscles whereas; in Yoga it is given on steadiness of muscles.
Yoga done wrong can be dangerous and can cause adverse effects on your overall health. Some of these side effects as are follows: Adversely affecting your muscles and cause heavy pain and internal bleeding. Some yoga poses can even lead to fracture or ruptures of delicate bones. This case is especially true if you have delicate or brittle bones. Ruptures like these can take months to heal and might sometimes even need surgical intervention. Some yoga poses can even lead to adverse gastric problems in some individuals. Gastric symptoms are associated with hatha yoga postures. This is especially true if you do not perform all yoga asanas in a particular sequence.
Some of the yoga poses are so complex that even experts don't understand them properly. For instance the kundalini yoga poses done wrong can have adverse effect on you mentally. This is known as the kundalini syndrome. The possible side effects on kundalini syndrome are:
Sensory, motor and physiological symptoms: the feeling of cranial pressures, the perception of inner sounds, experiences of inner lights, vibrating or tickling sensations in the lower back, vibrations and itching under the skin, cool or flushed skin, tachycardia (rapid heart rate), persistent bradycardia, changes in breathing, spontaneous bodily movements, spontaneous assumption of yogic postures, sensations of heat or cold moving through the body, localized bodily pain that starts and stops abruptly, and unusual, or intense, sexual sensations.
Mental and affective symptoms: fear, anxiety, depersonalization, intense positive or negative emotions, psychotic symptoms or psychotic ideation, spontaneous slowing or speeding of thoughts, spontaneous trance states, experiencing oneself as larger than the physical body, and experiences of paranormal consciousness.
Other known problems: Death, pseudo death, psychosis, pseudo psychosis, confusion, panic attacks, depression, sadness, suicidal thoughts, urges to self-mutilate, homicidal urges, arrhythmia (irregular heart beat), exacerbation of prior or current mental illness, insomnia, inability to hold a job, inability to talk, inability to drive, sexual pains, temporary blindness, urticaria or rash, and headaches.
Even if you practice yoga under a instructor, chances are that he or she is not fully aware of the techniques and might give you wrong instructions.
You Are God:
Swami Omkarananda Saraswati was an Indian monk and disciple of Swami Sivananda Saraswati, the founder of the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh, India.
According to his teachings, "God cannot separate Himself from you in spite of his omnipotence! God is your own true nature, your true face, true body, true heart, true soul! Never can God separate himself from anyone. He is the Soul of your soul, the Consciousness of your consciousness, the Intelligence of your intelligence, the Observer in you, the Life of your life. And the Life of your life is eternal, infinite, absolute, all-perfect. An all-perfect God dwells in you as You - as your own Self, your own very nature, your infinite Bliss, which you experience in deep-sleep unknowingly. You can enjoy this Bliss in deep meditation, in mystic experience, in spiritual, divine experience. He dwells in you always as God, as your own true Self! God and you cannot be separated. God is your constant companion; God is your true countenance, your true life. It is possible to separate you from your nose, from your ears, from your body, from your mind, even from your subconscious; but never can you ever be separated from the God within you. God is you. You are God."
The New Age Movement teaches that God is all and all is God. Since all is God, and man is part of all, then they conclude man is God. Therefore, you are God.
The Mormons teach you can become Gods.
Such statements are considered blasphemous. Blasphemy is the act of claiming for oneself the attributes and rights of God. The Bible states that this is an unforgivable sin (Matt. 12:22-32). According to Genesis, "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (Gen. 1:27). Man was created in God's likeness, but that does not make him a God.
You are NOT God. God is God.
In Genesis, Eve succumbs to the serpent's temptation. The serpent tells the woman that she will become like God if she eats the fruit of the tree: "When you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil" (Gen.3:5). Believing the serpent rather than the earlier instruction from God, Eve shares the fruit with Adam. As a result, the first humans are expelled from the Garden of Eden and are cursed.
Zodiac Wheel:
In astronomy, the zodiac is the ring of constellations that lines the ecliptic, which is the apparent path of the Sun across the sky over the course of the year. The Moon and planets also lie within the ecliptic, and so are also within the constellations of the zodiac. In astrology, the zodiac denotes those signs that divide the ecliptic into twelve equal zones of celestial longitude. As such, the zodiac is a celestial coordinate system, to be more precise, an ecliptic coordinate system, taking the ecliptic as the origin of latitude, and the position of the sun at vernal equinox as the origin of longitude.
Zombie Alien:
A zombie alien or zombie demon (aliens are demons) is a snake-diety deriving from West Africa and Haiti. The Babongo Tribe of West Africa believe they possess the ability to communicate with zombies. In fact their entire religion, called Bwiti, is based on cultivating a strong relationship with the zombies they claim are all around.
To see zombies the tribe chews on the bark of the bitter iboga plant while drinking a ritual tea. Once the ceremony is complete the undead show themselves to the Babongo, but it’s important to note that these are not considered ghosts or spirits. They are believed to be actual physical creatures, as Anthropologist Mark Leitchman explains: “The Bwiti zombies are as real and solid as any animal or plant one might find in the forest. They don’t appear and disappear, or fly through the night sky, or even live on another mystic plain. Humans simply have bad vision and the iboga plant acts as a pair of glasses showing us what’s always been there.”
Some researchers believe that Zombie is another name for Damballah-Wedo. In Vodou, Damballah-Wedo is one of the most important of all the loa (also spelled lwa). Damballah-Wedo is the Sky God and considered the primordial creator of all life. Damballah-Wedo is depicted as a serpent or snake, and his veves reflect this aspect of him. When he possesses a human, he does not speak but instead only hisses and whistles. His movements are also snake-like, and can include slithering along the ground, flicking his tongue, and climbing tall objects.
According to Brad Steiger, author of "Real Zombies, the Living Dead and Creatures of the Apocalypse", the Damballah-Wedo has 7,000 coils to form the stars in the heavens and to mold the hills and valleys of Earth. His mighty lightning bolts cooled to fashion metals, rocks, and stones. When he perceived that water was necessary for life, he shed his skin and allowed it to melt into all the oceans, rivers, lakes, and waters on the planet. As the foam was settling from the life-giving deluge of water, the sun shining through the mist and a lovely rainbow was born. This rainbow was Ayida Wedo. Damballah fell instantly in love with her beauty, and the serpent and the rainbow became one: Damballah Wedo. Damballah Wedo speaks only to humans by possessing a follower of Voodoo, Santeria, Macumba or one of the other African religions. This possession most often takes place during the dancing that follows other ritual observances.
"Zombie" is also akin to the Kikongo word nzambi, which means "god", but it only came into general use in 1929, after the publication of William B. Seabrook's The Magic Island. In this book, Seabrook recounts his experiences on Haiti, including the walking dead. He describes the first 'zombie' he came across in this way: "The eyes were the worst. It was not my imagination. They were in truth like the eyes of a dead man, not blind, but staring, unfocused, unseeing. The whole face, for that matter, was bad enough. It was vacant, as if there was nothing behind it. It seemed not only expressionless, but incapable of expression."
