Keeping our sanity
Remember a few weeks ago, there was all those stories of a ‘snow bomb’ that had hit America?
Or was it a ‘snow cyclone’ that was going to hit NYC, dropping 20 inches of snow?
I can’t remember all the dramatic (and false…) headlines any more.
But now look at this:
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Wow.
I am shocked, just shocked, that the media totally lied to everyone again, as they keep trying to get us to believe in ‘man-made climate change’.
(That is related to carbon emissions, as opposed to the military daily spraying graphene oxide nanoparticles down from the skies… Funny how nobody ever mentions ‘geoengineering’ by our governments and militaries, when they are talking about stopping ‘man made climate change’.)
Point is:
There is a ton of fear porn going on at the moment, and 99% is total rubbish, government-sponsored propaganda.
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And then, there is the 1% of stuff that is also scary – pretty darned scary! – but demands our attention because it happens to be true.
I just came across a set of three videos from the late Dr Andrew Moulden – a neurologist who started researching what harm was actually being caused by all vaccinations, not just the graphene-oxide heavy ones we are currently having to deal with.
Understanding Dr. Andrew Moulden’s work is a must.
He PROVED that every vaccine produces a micro-stroke in the brain leading to disorders like autism, Bell’s Palsy, droopy eye, and other nervous system damage. He was not only ignored and ridiculed, but murdered by the goons that force this poison on the ignorant.
Source: Amandha Vollmer
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Update: The old video wasn’t working.
Try this one:
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I was amazed at how much I learnt, watching this man speak.
He was ‘suicided’ almost a decade ago.
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How do we keep sane, in this mad world of ours?
Hitbodedut, hitbodedut, hitbodedut.
Because otherwise, our bad middot and tendency to lie to ourselves about a bunch of things that makes us feel ‘uncomfortable’, or that would necessitate some big changes in our lives, will obscure the real truth every single time.
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On Shabbat, a ‘scientific minded’ friend of ours was trying to explain to me how Eratosthenes experiment with the sticks and the sun worked.
First, you have to understand sine and cosine.
This from Wiki, if you have no idea what that is:
In mathematics, sine and cosine are trigonometric functions of an angle.
The sine and cosine of an acute angle are defined in the context of a right triangle: for the specified angle, its sine is the ratio of the length of the side that is opposite that angle to the length of the longest side of the triangle (the hypotenuse), and the cosine is the ratio of the length of the adjacent leg to that of the hypotenuse.
You have to get the ratio first, then you can extrapolate that out to infinity.
He took a napkin, folded it into a triangle, and started showing me how the shadows cast by Eratosthenes’ sticks showed how big the ‘globe earth’ was.
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I asked him a question:
How did Eratosthenes work that out, when he had no idea how far away the sun actually is from the earth?
I.e., he had no idea of the length of the hypotenuse, because he had no idea what the distance was from the earth to the sun.
It’s a simple question.
He couldn’t give me a simple answer.
Or any answer, actually.
Instead, he started telling me I should go and learn physics.
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That guy knew we’d hit a big problem.
We’d hit something that totally blew the theory of how Eratosthenes came to his conclusions out of the water.
And instead of at least acknowledging the truth, the guy decided to fall back on blaming me for ‘not understanding science’.
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When I worked in the government, writing speeches for Ministers, I learned very quickly that when someone knows their stuff, they can sum up the basic idea in a sentence.
And when they don’t…. then five x five hundred page policy reports is not enough to make the point, and land the punch, and answer the simple question.
Because ‘the answer’ doesn’t exist.
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Without hitbodedut, insanity reigns.
Let’s just touch on one more ‘insane’ topic – the idea that Israel can somehow get rid of all its problems with violence by ‘transporting Palestinians’ out of the country (aka: ethnic cleansing).
Now, if God says to do that, all well and good. Do it immediately!
But when I hear people who I believe to be otherwise sane touting that as a ‘solution’ to Israel’s terrorism problem, I literally cringe.
Our ‘terrorism problem’ is being sponsored by our own governments and military, who know it’s a wonderful way to divide and conquer, while imposing more and more restrictions and controls on the general population.
That ‘great idea’ to execute terrorists – you know who they are really going to execute, if it ever becomes a law?
Jewish ‘terrorists’.
Climate change ‘terrorists’.
Vaccine-denying ‘terrorists’.
That’s who.
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We live in a very tightly controlled police state.
Ergo, the police is controlling the terrorism, for political purposes.
That is why the ‘terrorist on’ button has been pressed right now, they want to use it to introduce more horrible laws that will then be used against you and me.
(Ditto all the ridiculous articles about Israel ‘needing martial law’ to deal with the terrorist problem. Scripted straight out of the Shabak basement! Priceless.)
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All these problems disappear, when we make some real teshuva.
When we stop lying to ourselves, in a million different ways.
When we have the humility to accept that we need to start following the true Tzaddikim, and that people like Meir Kahane were not right about a lot of things.
In a nutshell, we need more God, not more guns.
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But accepting that idea, in itself, requires a lot of teshuva and soul-searching.
I hope that starts to happen.
(Not holding my breath….)
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The Illuminati-Frankists worked very hard to abolish the death penalty in the Western societies because is part of the Divine Law. even for the bene Noach. All these societies are corrupted and in the proccess of demolition. Special in Eretz Israel , the impunity of those who deserve death penalty by the low Bet Din, cause harsh judgments upon the klal and distant the Schinah. from Israel . .The execution of the enemies haters and murderers of Jews , is a mitzvah and kiddush Hashem. ” Kel nekamot Hashem, Kel nekamot hofiaa.”. Hidbodedut and tefilah are necessary to connect us with Hashem and to do the tikkun Above. but the tikkun down here, we do it by our hands who turn to be the Hands of the Malchut Shamaim. “asher bara Elokim LAASOT” .. Finally, please respect for rabbi Meir kahane , who assassinated because of his love for Israel -the people.
I respect R Kahane, that doesn’t mean I have to agree with all his ideas.
Does it?
Re: the death penalty, as usual, things are being confused.
When we have a Sanhedrin reconstituted, then they will be able to award the death penalty – but please note, even when we had a Sanhedrin, the death penalty was always used EXTREMELY SPARINGLY.
We aren’t talking about that here. We are talking about putting more secular laws on the books that will be used by our corrupt, immoral, Torah-hating government to persecute the people THEY perceive as their enemies.
And Torah-true Jews are top of that list.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/capital-punishment……..”.Rabbenu Asher, upon his arrival in Spain at the beginning of the 14th century, states that he was surprised to discover that the Jewish courts in Spain had arrogated to themselves capital jurisdiction and were even imposing capital punishment. In one of his responsa he writes:
You surprised me greatly by your inquiries about capital jurisdiction. For in all the countries of which I have heard, there is no capital jurisdiction, except here in Spain. And I was astonished to discover upon my arrival that the courts adjudicate capital matters in the absence of a Sanhedrin, and they informed me that they had governmental authorization, and the community used its jurisdiction to save… and I permitted them to persist in their custom, but I never gave my consent to an execution… (Responsum, Rosh, 17:8).
However, despite the reservations expressed by the Asheri regarding capital punishment, in the particular question put to him concerning a Jew who blasphemed the name of God in public, he was prepared to abide by the questioner’s position, writing that “It is fitting that the name of Heaven be sanctified by the elimination of this evildoer. And do as you deem appropriate … because I know that your intention is to sanctify the Divine name, and you will be successful in fulfilling God’s will.”
In contrast with the Asheri’s almost forced acknowledgment of the capital jurisdiction exercised by Jewish courts in Spain, his son, R. Judah b. Asher (Spain, North Africa, end of 14th century) praised and thanked the non-Jewish authorities for allowing the Jewish courts to exercise capital jurisdiction:……………………………………………
The practice of the Jewish communities and the halachic responses about the death penalty during the exile…:. Be kitsur , the death penalty that was abolished because we don’t have Shenachedrin, is for the averot connected with Torah obedience. Heinous crimes are different case. Blasphemy of the Name also, in one known case. ……………….. .
But how is this proving your point? I’m the one saying that if we have a death penalty instituted here, the only people it will be applied to is the Jews.
The secular authorities already take the non-Jews out in all their ‘military operations’ and targeted non-Judicial killings.
So, who exactly is this ‘death penalty law’ meant to be applying to, in the secular State of Israel, if not all those pesky Jews that they can’t ‘whack’ quietly, but need to get rid of some other way.
Rivka, you are right re: the expected misuse of these laws against Torah Jews; however the right to bear arms is first of all the natural right of self-defense: every human,every man in charge of a family and/or a community, has the right to do whatever is needed to protect their lives. Israel would be a much better place today if every Jew had the right to own weapons of self-defense. After all even David Hamelech, the writer of Tehillim we read and say all the time, used weapons when needed! As long as weapons are in the hands of decent, non-criminal individuals, then they are a source of blessing. Who went to war at the times of Avraham Avinu? Who went to war when Am Yisrael entered Eretz-Yisrael? Who used a sword to sever the head of the king of the Amalekites? Do I have to continue? Weapons in the right hands can be a great blessing; on the other hand to put those very same ( offensive) weapons in the hands of WEF depopulation partners such as Bibi and his buddies is a terribly dangerous and perverse proposition!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/oaQ6kfdXemfL/
So this is also a matter of birur, not a straight-forward conclusion!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Judaism………………….In practice, where medieval Jewish courts had the power to pass and execute death sentences, they continued to do so for particularly grave offenses, although not necessarily the ones defined by the law.[2] While it was recognized that the use of capital punishment in the post-Second Temple era went beyond the biblical warrant, the rabbis who supported it believed that it could be justified by other considerations of Jewish law.[7][8] Whether Jewish communities ever practiced capital punishment according to rabbinical law, and whether the rabbis of the Talmudic era ever supported its use even in theory, has been a subject of historical and ideological debate.[9
If the nations have the mitzvah to execute criminals in their lands of impurity to protect their societies, kal vahomer the Jews in the Eretz hakdoshah.
So, you are telling me that you trust secular institutions, and anti-Torah, Frankist-Freemason police and judiciary, to have the last word on who this ‘death penalty’ should be applying to, in Israel?
Are you out of your mind?
΅When I said this ??? To do justice is our job. Not theirs. But the imminent opportunity, of the execution of the murderers of Jewish people , is a great tikkun, irrelevant of who will pass the judgement.
bs”d Another great post, thank you Rivka.
The video doesn’t work
That doesn’t surprise me at all… I’ll see if there is another working link somewhere – if anyone else out there finds one, please post it here, in the meantime.
The “simple answer” is that your question is a red herring.
Eratosthenes didn’t need the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Instead, he used the difference in the angles of the sun’s rays at two different locations to calculate the circumference of the Earth. He knew the distance between the two locations and the difference in the angles of the sun’s rays, so he was able to use basic trigonometry to calculate the circumference of the Earth based on these known quantities.
My guess is that you’ll reply asking for the math. So, here goes:
He used the following equation to determine the circumference of the Earth:
C = 2 * pi * r
where “C” is the circumference, “pi” is the mathematical constant pi (approximately equal to 3.14), and “r” is the radius of the Earth.
He knew the distance between the two locations and the difference in the angles of the sun’s rays, so he could use basic trigonometry to determine the radius of the Earth. The equation he used for this calculation is:
r = d / (2 * sin (θ/2))
where “d” is the distance between the two locations and “θ” is the difference in the angles of the sun’s rays.
By substituting the value of “r” back into the first equation, Eratosthenes was able to calculate the circumference of the Earth.
This really is Trig 101. I remember repeating this experiment in elementary school.
Notice the basic, unproven, assumption in this circular argument:
“Eratosthenes devised an experiment that could take advantage of this phenomena and enable him to measure the radius and circumference of the Earth. He concluded that because the Earth is a sphere, if he erected a stick vertically in the ground in Alexandria, a shadow would be cast by the stick which, if measured at noon, would allow him to calculate the circumference of the Earth and then its radius.”
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He assumed that the earth is a sphere BEFORE his experiment.
In the meantime, we have a bunch of GSI generated fake images from NASA, who apparently could totally show every detail of the earth, in tons of uncut streaming footage from the space station, if the so wished to….
But never, ever does.
Watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qERCa63YE68
sheesh, okay, bad choice of word. His hypothesis was to test that if Earth is a sphere……
Go ahead and argue semantics while ignoring the math. Any comment on the actual experiment than any ten year old can replicate and prove?
Yossi, this experiment could not determine if the earth was a globe, even if it were actually done historically. It would work on a globe with a sun millions of miles away or a flat plane with a sun thousands of miles away. Explaining the incident 1000x in 1000 different ways won’t change that fact.
The maths appears to be based on quite a massive assumption…. so, how can we ignore that assumption whilst arguing about the maths?
More to the point, there is no Torah source for the earth moving around the sun, whatever the shape of the earth happens to be.
Do you believe Greek ‘scientists’ (who also stated that the universe existed for ever, in direct contradiction to Bereishit’s account) over the Torah?
That is the real question.
PS: Here’s the original source of the article I quoted – written by people who believe the earth is a globe -and it might be, that’s not really the point. But read the comments – apparently, this maths would work out the same way regardless of whether it’s a sphere of flat earth…
https://flatearth.ws/eratosthenes
As your trigonometry is clearly way better than mine, do you agree with that statement?
interesting that balances, being less expensive to build than a spring scale, measure mass while a spring scale measures weight – a force which relates mass to a typical ~9.8 m/(s*s) acceleration, so the sheqel would be unit of mass, not weight, assuming it was measured with balances instead of springs. a kilogram on the moon is still a kilogram, and can be measured with a kilogram and a balance.
accurate measurements are a mitzvah, if i’m not mistaken.
some phenomena are beyond normal physics – like the ark of the covenant.
scientists had this dogma that the universe existed forever up until measurements of redshift in light spectra from stars indicated stars further away were moving away faster than stars closer.
honest science ends up smashing its own dogmas one by one, like Terah’s biggest idol in the shop – thus, it’s not really science smashing the idols. seems like everything in the natural world exists for the sake of the Torah, and is contained within it.
“scientists had this dogma that the universe existed forever up until measurements of redshift in light spectra from stars indicated stars further away were moving away faster than stars closer.”
Please spare me the attitude. Redshifts are an observed phenomenon. It does not follow that red or blue shift has any correlation to velocity vis a vis astronomical observations. Renowned observational astronomer (you know, someone who deals with observed reality and not equations on a chalkboard) Halton Arp documented hundreds of stellar observations of objects connected to each other in some way with wildly varying shifts. The origin of the explanation for the red shift is patently stupid with no basis in reality.
i asked someone to watch tikkun haklali more, after by coincidence they were already watching it. I can print it from a breslev website.
regarding physics, the planets seem to change direction sometimes, and a simple explanation is that the other planets have a simpler shape between themselves and the sun than they do between themselves and the earth – pairs of roughly elliptical orbits, versus a ‘spirograph’ that they have in a geocentric model.
it should be possible to measure the time to the moon and back for a radio ping with off-the-shelf parts. the easiest way to do that experiment is to measure the angle of the north star in 2 places at the same time. photographing the stars around it would make sure that the distance doesn’t matter very much, just the angles.
seems like ‘physical reality’ exists to cover what’s actually happening, and also to provide an interface to interact with it in a normal way. i’m not sure the source for greek science being used to weaken the old idol worship.
https://archive.org/details/dr-andrew-moulden-what-he-told-us-before-he-was-murdered
There are many state powers, including and especially martial law and the death penalty, that I would happily see used by a Mashiach-instituted government where every official, from top to bottom, was driven solely by the Fear of Heaven, that you would have to be pants-on-head crazy to want to be available to a secular government.
Regarding physics, is there a good explanation somewhere on line, ideally not a video, with a really clear diagram and ideally some revised optics equations, explaining the flat earth position on why the region of the earth referred to as the “southern hemisphere” has no line-of-sight to Polaris?
First, can you explain a bit more about the Southern Hemisphere having no line of sight to Polaris?
What does that mean, tachlis?
It’s very easy, Darin. When you are at the North Pole, Polaris is directly overhead. It is not thousands of light years away, but rather thousands of miles. As you move south, the triangle formed by your position and the pole and the star shift, and the angle gets more and more acute. By the time you get to the equator, that angle is so acute that it is almost, but not quite zero.
If there are any intervening obstacles that have a higher relative height than Polaris, the star is obscured.
Things like waves, which may only be a few inches or feet high. And certainly land masses.
Then, there is the air, which is much thicker at ground level, and attenuates light much more rapidly than high above.
I have heard of reports from Dave Weiss that Polaris is actually visible below the equator, but have not gotten any corroborating evidence or description of how such was done. Looking at a “flat earth map” (it is not, it is an Azimuthal Equidistant Projection, which serves as a useful model), there are certainly locations where Polaris could theoretically be seen from the south, particularly from an airplane. But not too many.
The problem with most people who want explanations for every little detail, because the globe model allegedly provides that level of detail (it does not, it depends on all sorts of insane assumptions, like the existence of so-called dark matter and dark energy for the 95% of mass missing from their model to make it work), is that usually no explanation satisfies the indoctrinated. And further that lack of explanation is evidence for lack of credence. All while credulously believing entirely the lie-fueled assumption-filled globe model.
Do you fall into this camp, Darin? Are you going to keep posing question after question without doing your own investigation, to the point you think you posed a gotcha? I have experienced this personally, where someone posed as an honest questioner then walked away smug and satisfied continuing to believe in the lie (retard), so it would not be the first time. You sound dishonest. Why NOT a video? In any case, my explanation, sans video and diagram, should be sufficient.
I have posted info in comments in previous posts on where you can better find answers to many of these questions. Should I bother posting them again, or would that be a waste of my time?
Shimon, I know you are coming out of the framework of the Rationalist Judaism comments section, and probably have a lot bad experiences over there.
Most of the commentators here really are truth seekers. Darin has been posting on the blog for a long time, and while we don’t agree on everything, there is certainly a big predisposition to at least give ‘the other side’ a fair hearing.
So, I am really grateful for the level of information and knowledge you are sharing here, but can I please just ask that you switch out of ‘attack’ mode in the comments section. My readers tend to be WAY nicer, open-minded and more truthful, than the ones you’ve typically been dealing with elsewhere.
I think I might have commented about this before, but I’m still struggling if so.
When I go to do personal prayer at night (you call it hitbodedut), even though I have a million thoughts and struggles and points of confusion every day, I can barely find anything to say… Just dumbfounded and then I stop praying ’cause I can’t think of anything to even pray about!
What’s your advice?
Thanks.
As long as you ‘bind yourself to the true tzaddikim’ before you start, and have it in mind that you are spending x amount of time talking to God, it doesn’t matter if you have nothing to say.
God gives the silence, and God gives the words.
It took me 2 years to get to the stage of being able to do it for an hour a day… And even now, especially now, I don’t have things to say.
The point is just to show up for the appointment, regularly every day. Even if you fall asleep, doesn’t matter. You are doing your bit of the equation.
bs”d Thanks Rivka and Simon for the needed discussion on hitbodedut! To me, it also happens that in the middle of talking to Gd someone comes and interrupts me, which feels annoying at first, but then I realize it was Gd speaking.