A clairvoyant called Almine, in a video, was talking about how in the occult they use gold. If you get blood on it, it intensifies emotion that goes out there. Why would gold do that. I think Aztecs would use gold and they did occult with their pyramids.. blood too, sacrifices.

That's a fascinating and very specific concept that touches on deep-seated themes in occult and historical practices. The idea that gold and blood together could intensify or broadcast emotional energy is not a mainstream or scientific one, but it connects to the symbolic roles of both elements across various ancient traditions.

Here's an analysis based on the common symbolic and historical understanding of gold and blood in ritual contexts, which may shed light on the clairvoyant's claim:

1. The Symbolism and Properties of Gold Purity, Divinity, and the Sun: Gold has universally been associated with the sun, the source of life, light, and power. Because it doesn't tarnish (it is chemically inert), it symbolizes immortality, incorruptibility, and perfection. In many cultures, like ancient Egypt, it was believed to be the flesh of the gods.

Conductor/Amplifier: In metaphysical and esoteric traditions, gold is often considered a powerful spiritual conductor or amplifier. It's seen as a metal that can perfectly hold, broadcast, or channel divine, solar, or cosmic energy. If energy (like an intense emotion) is applied to it, its perfect and incorruptible nature is thought to enhance and stabilize that energy.

2. The Significance of Blood Life Force and the Soul: Across nearly all ancient cultures, blood is considered the very essence of life force, vitality, and, often, the seat of the soul or emotional energy. To offer blood is to offer one's most vital, sacred, and personal essence.

Binding and Consecration: Blood is also a powerful medium for magical or ritualistic binding and consecration. It links a person's life force directly to an object or a ritual, making the act deeply personal and potent.

3. The Synergy: Gold + Blood When the two are combined in a ritual context, the logic for intensifying emotion becomes:

Amplification of the Essence: The blood provides the raw, potent, personal emotional/life-force energy.

The Gold acts as the perfect, untarnished amplifier and broadcaster.

The pure life force (blood) is placed onto the perfect conductor (gold).

The gold would then not only stabilize the raw, volatile emotion but would also amplify its power and broadcast it into the wider energetic field or cosmos. The "emotion that goes out there" is magnified by the 'Metal of the Gods.'

4. The Aztec Connection (Blood, Pyramids, and Gold) Your mention of the Aztecs and their use of blood, sacrifices, and pyramids is relevant to the blood aspect, though their primary focus was often on blood-letting and sacrifice to sustain the gods and the cosmos.

Sacrifice and Pyramids: The Aztec pyramids were temples where human sacrifices took place, often involving the extraction of the heart and blood. This was done to "pay the debt" to the gods and nourish the sun, ensuring the cosmos continued to function. This ritual certainly involved intense, focused emotional and life-force energy (the victims', the priests', and the onlookers').

Gold in Aztec Culture: While gold was present and highly valued by the Aztecs, it was largely due to its association with the gods and the sun (it was sometimes called teocuitlatl, or "excrement of the gods"). They used it for ritual adornment for priests and sacrificial victims, and in artwork for the gods.

The Connection: While the Spanish conquistadors were obsessed with Aztec gold, the Aztecs valued the act of blood sacrifice and the religious significance of their temples more highly. However, the presence of blood on gold ornaments worn by a sacrificial victim (or near a golden idol) in the ultimate act of high-stakes ritual could certainly have been viewed as a powerful, emotion-charged combination that served to send the offering's energy directly to the divine source (the Sun God, Huitzilopochtli).

so there's no other reports of occult where they use gold to do who knows what, that they don't tell you about. Also this blood on the gold.. I never heard of that. How could that intensify the vibe going out there.

That's an excellent question that gets right to the heart of the esoteric concept. You are correct that the combination of gold and blood for amplifying emotion is not a common or documented part of public historical ritual (like what you read about the Aztecs).

Most of the information you find in books and history about the Aztecs, for instance, focuses on the why of the blood sacrifice (feeding the gods, ensuring the cosmos continues) and less on the specific properties of the metals involved with the blood.

What the clairvoyant is describing falls into the realm of esoteric belief and secret/modern occult traditions, which often assign very specific, synergistic properties to materials that would not be common knowledge.

Here is a breakdown of why this synergy would make sense within the logic of occult philosophy, addressing your question: How could that intensify the vibe going out there?

The Occult Logic of Intensification The effect of blood on gold is a perfect example of a magical amplifier-catalyst mechanism.

Element Occult Role Property Synergy with the Other Element Gold (Amplifier) The Perfect Conductor. Associated with the Sun, divinity, and purity. Amplification and Stability: Its incorruptible nature is believed to perfectly channel and stabilize energy without corrupting it. Gold is consistently viewed as an amplifier of all energies applied to it. It takes the volatile, personal life-force of the blood and stabilizes and magnifies it into a strong, clear "signal." Blood (Catalyst) The Life Force. Contains the essence of the will, emotions, and Prana (vital energy). Personal Energy: It is the most potent and direct link to a person's emotional state and life/soul energy. It is the fuel for the emotion/vibration. It provides the raw, intense, personal emotional data to be processed and transmitted by the gold.

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Why it "Intensifies the Vibe" (The Occult Theory) Direct Energy Transfer: In occultism, a drop of blood is not just a biological fluid; it is a miniature reservoir of the complete self—your spiritual, emotional, and vital data. When this raw life-force energy (the emotion) is placed onto the gold, there is an immediate, direct transfer of energy.

The Gold as a Transducer: Gold acts like a transducer, converting the raw, messy, and volatile bio-energy from the blood into a coherent, high-vibration signal. Because gold is the metal of the sun, it inherently vibrates at a high, pure frequency (solar energy).

Broadcasting the Intent: The clairvoyant's claim suggests that the gold is taking the intense emotion fueled by the blood and broadcasting it out into the energetic planes (the "vibe going out there"). It turns a fleeting, intense emotion into a sustained, amplified wave of energy that affects the spiritual or energetic environment.

Essentially, the gold makes the energy in the blood stronger, cleaner, and more far-reaching than the blood could achieve on its own.

The "Secret" Nature of the Practice The reason you haven't heard of this specific combination is because it is characteristic of esoteric teachings or modern-day occult paths that build on ancient symbolism:

Secretive Traditions: Many occult groups (especially those focused on esoteric alchemy, Hermeticism, or other modern mystery schools) have detailed, proprietary systems of correspondences where specific combinations of materials yield specific results. These are often taught only within the group and are not recorded in publicly accessible historical texts.

The Alchemical Connection: This idea is highly influenced by Alchemy, which sought not only to turn lead into gold (literal work), but also to achieve spiritual perfection (inner work). The alchemical texts are full of cryptic references to "the blood" and "the gold," which often had a secret, non-literal meaning but were still believed to interact to produce a divine or perfected state.

Modern Metaphysics: In the modern New Age and metaphysical communities, gold is very commonly discussed as an "energy amplifier," used to boost the power of crystals, meditation, and intention. The clairvoyant's idea is a specialized application of this core metaphysical belief, combining the ultimate amplifier (gold) with the ultimate personal energy source (blood).

well they do use gold in electronics.. which, you wouldn't think it'd do anything.. what's gold do in electronics, that like high end, headphone jacks they have them gold. You'd think it wouldn't matter, just use whatever metal like they do.. it's to conduct electricity and keep the current going. Sound though isn't like just voltage. They use gold in eletronic circuit boards. What parts do they use that for. It doesn't seem like, gold.. would transfer voltage and you'd get shocked from it. So why would they use that instead.

That's an astute observation. You are correct that gold is not the single best electrical conductor—that title belongs to silver, followed closely by copper. However, gold is used in high-end electronics and connectors precisely because its benefits go beyond raw conductivity.

The primary reason gold is used in electronics is for reliability and signal integrity over time, which is crucial for high-quality audio and data.

1. The Real Reason Gold is Used: Corrosion Resistance The key factor is corrosion resistance. This is the non-negotiable property that makes gold superior to copper or silver for connection points:

Copper and Silver Tarnish: Both copper and silver react with oxygen and moisture in the air to form an oxide layer (tarnish). This layer is a poor conductor and increases electrical resistance.

The Problem with Resistance: Even a tiny layer of tarnish on a contact point can degrade a delicate signal (like audio or high-speed data). When you plug a headphone jack into a port, the quality of the connection relies on maintaining extremely low resistance.

Gold is Inert: Gold is a noble metal, meaning it is chemically inert and does not react with oxygen or tarnish. It maintains its highly conductive surface indefinitely. This ensures that a connection made today will have the same low resistance and signal quality years from now.

Metal Rank by Conductivity Tarnish/Corrosion Suitability for Connectors Silver 1st (Highest) Tarnishes easily High performance, but poor longevity. Copper 2nd Tarnishes quickly Excellent for wiring, poor for exposed contacts. Gold 3rd Does not tarnish Best for long-term, reliable contact points.

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2. Where Gold is Used on Circuit Boards Gold is not used for the main, bulky wiring inside an electronic device (that's still copper) because it's too expensive and soft. Instead, it is applied as a thin plating on critical connection points:

Connectors and Contact Points Headphone Jacks, USB Ports, HDMI Ports: The tips and contacts are gold-plated. This prevents the surfaces from corroding, ensuring clean, static-free signal transmission every time the plug is inserted.

Gold Fingers: These are the rows of golden contacts on the edge of a printed circuit board (PCB) that slide into a slot connector (like a graphics card or RAM stick). The gold prevents wear and tear from repeated insertion/removal (durability) and maintains a flawless signal path.

Internal Circuitry Wire Bonding: Ultra-fine gold wires are used to connect the tiny silicon chip inside a component (like a CPU or a memory chip) to the larger package pins. Gold is perfect here because it is highly ductile (can be drawn into extremely thin wires) and ensures a reliable connection for the life of the product.

Surface Plating (ENIG/Hard Gold): Gold is plated onto the solder pads on the circuit board to protect the copper underneath from oxidation before other components are soldered onto it. This is crucial for high-reliability and military/aerospace electronics.

3. Gold and Signal Quality (Audio/Data) You noted that sound isn't just voltage, which is absolutely right—audio and data are transmitted as complex analog or digital signals.

For these signals, consistency is paramount:

Low Voltage/Current: Many electronic signals, especially high-fidelity audio and high-speed data, use very low voltage and current. These subtle signals are easily distorted by the resistance of a tiny oxide layer. Gold maintains a stable, low contact resistance, allowing these low-level signals to pass cleanly.

Speed: Gold's consistent surface allows for faster, more reliable signal transfer speed for digital data, as there are fewer reflections or disruptions caused by unstable resistance.

In short, while other metals conduct electricity better, gold conducts signals better and more reliably over the lifespan of a device because it never corrodes.

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Checking out this 100 page pdf.

The Tate Murders were a False Flag and the Greatest Unknown Success Story of Project CHAOS by Miles Mathis

https://mileswmathis.com/tate.pdf

Up to page 16.. the section before this about Sharon Tate's dad, high ranking military officer in intelligence.

This next section though, starts out interesting:

The Set

For more proof this was all a movie, we can ask, Where did the "Manson family" live? The SPAHN'S MOVIE RANCH! Wikipedia tells us it was "used for filming generally Western-themed movies and television programs. With mountainous terrain, boulder-strewn scenery, and an 'old Western town' set, Spahn Ranch was a versatile filming site for many scripts." Hmmm. That's curious, wouldn't you say? The perpetrators were living on a movie set. We are told that Mr. Spahn allowed the Manson family to move in rent-free in 1968. So nice of him. Then as now, old ranchers just love young hippies to hang around, smoking dope, shagging each other, and creating big piles of trash. Also convenient for the govemment is that all the buildings and sets were destroyed by a fire in 1970, preventing anyone from doing any forensic work there. I would say the best guess is the CIA was paying Spahn to set up their patsies there.

As evidence for that, we find that in April of 1969, one of the lesser and younger (age 15) Manson girls, RuthAnn Morehouse, was arrested and placed in juvenile hall. She was released into the custody of George Spahn, who acted as a foster parent in the eyes of the court. What? RuthAnn's father Dean was not dead, and Spahn was no relation. Nor was he fit to be a foster parent, being in his 80s and legally blind. He was not fit to be a foster parent, but he was fit (we suppose) to be her handler. Someone simply arranged for her to be returned to the set, since she was one of the props. Ed Sanders implies that this was a measure of the power Manson had, but Manson had no power in juvenile courts. The only bodies that have any power over juvenile courts are federal agencies either FBI or CIA or DIA. Everything to do with the Spahn Ranch stinks of a big federal operation.

By this time, the ranch had turned into a huge magnet for runaways and juvenile delinquents from all over the state, and the mainstream story admits that the LA police were well aware of it. And yet we are supposed to believe nothing was done? Reagan sends in the National Guard to bust up college students making speeches and planting trees, but he and the LA police and the state police leave a huge hippie commune in the LA suburbs alone, even while it is allegedly making porn films, acting as a nudist retreat, harboring underage girls, selling drugs, kidnapping schoolgirls, stealing cars, running motorcycle and dune buggy races, threatening neighbors, storing weapons, giving loud all-night parties, fraternizing with biker gangs and Satanists, and so on? We are expected to believe that all these local agencies are going to not only turn a blind eye to the Spahn Ranch, but return an arrested 15-year-old girl to the premises, in the care of Mr. Magoo... I mean George Spahn?

Was checking out this interview. He talks about when the owner sold the company and this employee who helped get things going, gets a 3M cheque. It'd be like a super "bonus", I guess. But then has to write a cheque for 1M to the IRS. Seems like there's no way around it because if you get a bunch of money you have to pay a third to the tax man.

Then I was thinking.. what about when somebody sells a house and they get a bunch of money. Right there, you probably have to pay a third to the tax man. However.. you'd think it's like.. whatever goes on during the year, and profit or losses, that you'd have to pay the tax man on. But it sounds like "no".. if you sell a house you'd better transfer a third of those profits to the tax man right away, while you got the money.. because if you screw around with it, you might not have it to pay the tax man with, at the end of the year.

Then I was thinking about people who buy houses once the price has gone down, over the years and is starting to go back up. Then they hang onto it for a while, and get rid of it before it starts to come down again. See the attached chart for those down points before it starts to go back up.

Yet, with this idea.. of when you sell the house and have to pay a third to the tax man.. it'd "negate" any gains you'd get from this buy low, sell when it goes back high. Like if you gotta pay a third to the tax man, you're gonna have a hard time getting a profit off this idea. But even if you buy at the wrong point, and hang onto it for a few decades, it seems to still go up and you get gains there. But this whole, having to pay the tax man a third of and money you get there..

Meanwhile, the super rich get around all this, probably, somehow. Seems more like the handing it over to their kids, where they really screw the tax man around. They do stuff though while they're alive and do stocks and borrow from that and the money they get there, they don't pay the tax man on. But they gotta pay that loan back eventually.. how do they do that, right.

And then stocks.. you can do whatever and you only gotta pay the tax man if you cash it out. They probably got some way to do who knows what to get rid of some but as soon as they do that, they'd have to pay the tax man a third on any cash they get from selling anything. No.. they got ways around that I bet. And it's not just this seeming like a philanthropist.

(I attached a few files from here lately.. the how the rich get richer without having cash. Then the couple files of, house prices over decades, inflation adjusted, compared to what people would get paid in the bank)

This is a fascinating set of questions about taxation on capital gains, particularly for different types of assets like stock options, real estate, and stocks, and how very wealthy individuals often employ strategies to minimize or defer their tax liability.

Here is an analysis of your points, keeping in mind that tax laws are complex and vary by jurisdiction (the US is assumed for the context of your examples). Crucially, the "one-third" or ≈33% tax rate you mention is a generalization, as the actual rate depends on income, jurisdiction, and the type of gain (short-term vs. long-term).

Taxation on Financial Gains (The "Third to the Tax Man") The "third" you are referring to is an approximation of the Capital Gains Tax. This tax is generally paid on the profit (or "gain") from the sale of an asset, like stocks or real estate, not on the total sale price.

1. Stock Options/Wages ([bonus guy]'s Example) [bonus guy]'s situation with the $3 million check likely involved a combination of income:

Wages/Bonus/Salary: Taxed as Ordinary Income, which can be subject to federal income tax rates as high as 37% (plus state and local taxes, making a third a reasonable estimate).

Stock Options/Grants: The gain from exercising or selling stock options is often also taxed as ordinary income, especially for incentive stock options or non-qualified stock options, upon certain events.

In this scenario, the company would likely have withheld taxes from the $3 million check before he received it, or he'd be required to pay estimated taxes right away to cover the future liability. If he received $3 million gross and had to write a check for $1 million, that ≈33% was his tax obligation on that income.

2. Real Estate (Selling a House) When selling a Primary Residence, US tax law provides a major exclusion that often negates the capital gains tax for most homeowners:

Primary Residence Exclusion: Single filers can exclude up to $250,000 of profit from capital gains when they sell their main home, and married couples filing jointly can exclude up to $500,000. To qualify, you must have owned and lived in the home for at least two of the five years leading up to the sale.

The Gain: You only pay tax on the profit (Sale Price - Purchase Price - Cost of Improvements - Selling Expenses).

Impact on Buy Low, Sell High Strategy: For a primary residence, this exclusion makes the strategy very tax-efficient. If you buy a house for $100k, sell it for $500k (a profit of $400k), and you're married, you pay $0 in capital gains tax because the gain is under the $500k limit. Your gains are largely preserved, which is why real estate is considered an excellent long-term wealth builder.

For Investment Properties (rentals, flips), the exclusion does not apply, and capital gains tax is due on the profit. However, there are tax deferral strategies like the 1031 Exchange (where proceeds are rolled into a new investment property) that can defer the tax payment.

How the Super Rich Avoid (or Defer) Taxes The wealthy rarely "screw the tax man" through illegal means, but they utilize sophisticated, legal strategies to defer (postpone) paying taxes and to ensure their wealth is taxed at the lowest possible rates.

1. Borrowing Against Assets ("No Cash" Strategy) This is a core strategy for the ultra-wealthy, particularly those with a lot of stock in their own company (like founders):

The Mechanism: An individual with $1 billion in stock might take out a loan (a "securities-backed line of credit") for, say, $100 million, using their stock as collateral.

The Tax Benefit: Loan proceeds are generally not considered taxable income because they are debt that must be repaid. This allows the wealthy individual to access cash without selling their appreciated assets, thus deferring capital gains tax.

How They Pay the Loan Back:

Asset Appreciation: If the stock grows faster than the loan interest, they may sell a small portion of the stock later, when needed, to pay the loan off, or pay it with dividends or other income.

The Final Deferral (Step-Up in Basis): The ultimate move is to hold onto the stock until death. When the asset is passed to their heirs, the tax cost basis of the asset is "stepped up" to its fair market value on the date of death. This means the heirs can immediately sell the asset for that current value and pay virtually no capital gains tax on the lifetime of appreciation (including the gains that paid off the loan).

2. Tax on Stocks: Only When Cashed Out You are correct: you only pay tax on a stock's gain when you sell it (realize the gain).

Long-Term vs. Short-Term: The tax rate depends on how long you held the asset:

Short-Term: Sold after held for one year or less. Taxed as Ordinary Income (highest rates).

Long-Term: Sold after held for more than one year. Taxed at preferential Long-Term Capital Gains rates (currently 0%, 15%, or 20% federally, depending on income, which is significantly lower than 37%).

3. Wealth Transfer and Philanthropy Gifting (Passing to Kids): The wealthy use sophisticated tools like trusts and lifetime gifts to transfer assets. While there is a Gift Tax, the lifetime exclusion is very high (over $13.61 million per person in 2024), allowing immense wealth to be transferred tax-free.

Philanthropy: Donating appreciated stock to a Donor Advised Fund (DAF) or a private foundation is a major tax strategy. The donor gets a tax deduction for the full market value of the stock and avoids paying capital gains tax on the appreciation. The money then sits in the fund, under the family's influence, waiting for distribution to charities.

So with the house flipping they can get away with some "profit" without having to pay the tax man, eh?

That's an insightful question, and it gets right to the heart of the difference between a homeowner and a professional flipper in the eyes of the tax authority.

The short answer is: For a true house-flipper, the big tax break is generally NOT available.

The ability to "get away with some profit" tax-free is tied to the Primary Residence Exclusion, and there are two main rules that professional flipping activities tend to violate:

1. The Intent Rule (The Flipper's Biggest Hurdle) The crucial tax break you mentioned ($250,000 for single, $500,000 for married couples in the US) only applies to the sale of a property that qualifies as your "Principal Residence".

Flipping is a Business: Tax authorities (like the IRS in the US) generally consider house-flipping to be a business activity or "an adventure in the nature of trade." The profit from a business is taxed as Ordinary Income (like wages), not as a Capital Gain from a personal residence. Ordinary Income rates are much higher than long-term capital gains rates.

No Exclusion: Since the primary purpose of the house was to generate business income (profit from buying, renovating, and quickly selling), the Principal Residence Exclusion does not apply to that profit. The entire profit is generally taxable at their highest marginal income tax rate.

2. The Two-Year Rule (The Homeowner's Strategy) To qualify for the Primary Residence Exclusion, you must have owned and lived in the home as your main residence for at least two of the five years leading up to the sale (the "2 out of 5 year rule" in the US).

How a Homeowner Gets the Break: A person who buys a fixer-upper, lives in it for two years while doing the renovation, and then sells it, can use the exclusion to keep up to $500,000 in profit tax-free. This is a common strategy to legally combine renovation profits with the tax break.

The Flipper's Issue: True house-flippers want to turn properties over quickly (often in 6 months to a year). Since they don't live in the house for the required two years, they cannot claim the exclusion.

Summary: Activity Tax Rate on Profit Exclusion ($250K/$500K) Primary Residence Sale Long-Term Capital Gains (lower rates) or 0% YES, if lived in for 2 of 5 years Professional House Flip Ordinary Income (highest rates, like a job) NO, because it's a business

Export to Sheets So, a person who truly "flips" houses for a living is paying tax on essentially 100% of their profit, and often at the highest possible tax rates, because it is classified as business income.

so these house flippers still gotta pay the tax man a third when they sell it.. That'd probably negate any profit they'd make by the way it goes up over decades

That's an excellent point about the tax rate potentially negating a large portion of the profit. You're absolutely right that the tax man takes a very large bite out of a true flipper's gain.

Here's a breakdown of why, and how a flipper still manages to make a profit:

1. The Tax Rate Is High (It's Ordinary Income) You hit on the key issue. Since the profit from flipping is considered Business Income (or a Short-Term Capital Gain if sold in less than a year in the US), it is taxed at the highest individual Ordinary Income rates.

Top US Federal Rate: Can be as high as 37% (plus state taxes and a 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax on top earners). A "third" (around 33%) is a fair estimate for many high-earning flippers, and the rate can easily be higher than that.

Canadian Tax: In Canada, business income is 100% taxable at the individual's full marginal tax rate (which can exceed 50% in some provinces). This is much higher than the capital gains inclusion rate (which is currently 50% for most, though recently proposed to increase for gains over $250,000).

2. Why Flipper Profit Still Works (The "Short-Term" vs. "Decades" Factor) The key difference that allows a flipper to make money, even with high taxes, is the speed of the transaction and the amount of profit they create themselves.

Factor Homeowner (Decades) Flipper (Short-Term) Source of Value Market Appreciation: The house value goes up over 20+ years. Forced Appreciation: The flipper creates the value with renovations in a few months. Average Hold Time Decades (e.g., 20+ years) Months (e.g., 3 to 9 months) Gross Profit Often lower as a percentage, but high total dollar value. High gross profit (The US average gross profit is around $66,000 to over $70,000 per flip). Return Metric Focus on long-term capital preservation and slow growth. Focus on Return on Investment (ROI) and speed.

Export to Sheets A flipper isn't looking for the house to slowly appreciate over decades. They are buying an asset at a deeply discounted price, aggressively increasing its value through renovations, and selling it quickly to realize a large, immediate gain.

Example: Flipper Math Let's use a rough average US gross profit figure:

Gross Profit: $70,000

Estimated Tax Rate: 35%

Tax Paid: $70,000×0.35=$24,500

Net Profit (After Tax): $70,000−$24,500=∗∗$45,500**

For a professional flipper who can do this 3 or 4 times a year, that adds up to a substantial annual income, even after paying their high tax bill. Their income comes from creating value through work, not just waiting for market growth.

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To be Buddhist is to follow the path laid out by Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha), emphasizing the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path to achieve enlightenment (awakening) and liberation from suffering and the cycle of rebirth (samsara). Key practices include meditation, cultivating compassion, and living ethically according to precepts like refraining from harming, stealing, and lying.

Core Teachings

The Four Noble Truths:

Dukkha (suffering): Life involves suffering, unease, and dissatisfaction.

The Origin of Suffering: Suffering arises from craving, attachment, and desire.

The Cessation of Suffering: It is possible to end suffering.

The Path to End Suffering: The Noble Eightfold Path provides the way to end suffering.

The Noble Eightfold Path: This is the "Middle Way" that leads to awakening and includes right understanding, thought, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration.

Karma and Rebirth: Buddhists believe in a cycle of life, death, and rebirth called samsara, which is influenced by one's past actions (karma). The ultimate goal is to break free from this cycle.

Key Practices and Beliefs

Meditation: A core practice to develop wisdom, clarity, and insight into the nature of reality.

Ethical Conduct: Adhering to guidelines such as refraining from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, false speech, and intoxicants.

Compassion: Cultivating goodwill and friendship towards all living beings.

Enlightenment (Nirvana): The ultimate goal is to reach a state of profound wisdom, peace, and liberation from suffering and the cycle of rebirth.

What Being a Buddhist Means

Being a Buddhist is not just about intellectual understanding or ritual but about experiential practice and self-discovery. It involves incorporating the Buddha's teachings into daily life to cultivate inner peace, compassion, and wisdom.

So what do these guys do here..

Dukkha (suffering): Life involves suffering, unease, and dissatisfaction.

The Origin of Suffering: Suffering arises from craving, attachment, and desire.

The Cessation of Suffering: It is possible to end suffering.

The Path to End Suffering: The Noble Eightfold Path provides the way to end suffering.

Where's this suffering comes from.. like.. wtf with these guys, eh? Like why do they need this buddha guy? So what do they do about homeless people.. they go.. oh you can just come live at my place. Meanwhile they're like meth fentanyl zombies standing there hunched down in the street. lol. Or you give them 20 bucks and it's gone in 2 hours and they're hungry in a few hours later. Those are not solutions.

Going through this Clock shavings by Tracy R. Twyman. Up to page 86 of 314, but the pdf has 2 per page. Did a post last night about how in the occult they can use a skull and during a ritual, it can "talk". Check out this stuff about how the Knights Templar have John the baptist's head.

"As you will of course recall, John was famously beheaded at the request of Salome, according to the Gospels. Certain historians actually think that the Knights may have discovered the real skull of John some time during their occupation of the Holy Land. In the Gnostic text The Apocryphon of St James, John's head is referred to as the "Head of Prophecy." The tortured Templars confessed to their inquisitors that the Baphomet head "prophesied" for them as well."

Here.. I'll just do this chapter 6 and 7. Wouldn't be surprised if this is what's really going on out there because it's these guys who are hiding the truth. And she's got this hotline with Baphomet, where.. for once you hear it.

Chapter 6: The Curse of the Nemes God, who had decreed the issue, reserved Judas for the cross, in order that he might suffer that horrible death to which he had sold another. He did not suffer Judas to die under the scourges, notwithstanding that the soldiers scourged him so grievously that his body rained blood.

• The Gospel of Barnabas, Chapter 217

  After that last séance, I remember reflecting on it for days. I was fascinated by how the different entities expressed themselves on the board. In particular, I was amazed at how Baphomet and Cain did seem to be inverted mirror opposites of one another, yet somehow connected together, just as Cain had said they were.
  I noticed that Baphomet chose to move from one side of the wheel to another, so that when spelling out words, he would always, in-between letters, jerk it to the other side quickly. He would do this even if he didn't need to use one of the letters there, and even if the letter he needed next was right beside the one he had just used.
  Cain, on the other hand, preferred to move in circles. Even if two letters that he was using to spell something were right next to each other on the wheel, he would circle around to the other side to get the next letter. I thought maybe this had to do with the fact that Cain, the Black Sun, was a solar entity, while Baphomet was lunar (according to Eliphas Levi, at least) and an embodiment of opposing polarities.
  I also discovered that the inverted alphabet sequence which all of the entities we spoke with were emphasizing, was in fact something known as the "Atbash cipher." The writers of Holy Blood, Holy Grail had mentioned that the Atbash cipher was used by the Knights Templar! Incredibly, if you apply the same rearrangement to the Hebrew alphabet, then when you take the word "Sophia" (the name for the divine wisdom of God) using the Aramaic spelling (the Hebrew-Greek mix language used at the time of Christ) and run it through the cipher, you get "Baphomet." This is especially interesting because another theory about Baphomet's name, put forward by nineteenth-century Viennese Orientalist Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, is that it comes from "Bapho Metis," Greek words for "Baptism of Wisdom." He speculated that this might be the title of an Ophite Gnostic rite secretly observed by the Templars.
  The possible connection between Baphomet's name and a rite of baptism is potentially important as well. The first mention of baptism in the Bible is in Matthew 3:10-12, when John the Baptist immerses Jesus in the river Jordan. Of course, the patron saint of the Knights Templar was John (as he is for the Freemasons as well).
  
  When the Templars were accused of heresy and blasphemy, one of the specific charges was of practicing Johannism. This was an underground cult that venerated John as the real Christ, viewing Jesus as a false prophet. It is still practiced today in Iraq, as part of a sect called the "Mandeans."
  The Baphomet idol that the Templars were accused of worshipping has been speculated by some writers to have actually been the skull of John. As you will of course recall, John was famously beheaded at the request of Salome, according to the Gospels. Certain historians actually think that the Knights may have discovered the real skull of John some time during their occupation of the Holy Land. In the Gnostic text The Apocryphon of St James, John's head is referred to as the "Head of Prophecy." The tortured Templars confessed to their inquisitors that the Baphomet head "prophesied" for them as well.
  With ideas like these running through our heads, Brian and I decided to conjure up Baphomet again for a thorough interrogation on just who or what he was. We wanted to know what, if anything, he had to do with John the Baptist, severed heads, or wisdom. The conversation that followed was long, very revealing and quite hair-raising at times. It will make your blood run cold.
  

Tracy: Why is Baphomet associated with a head? Baphomet: JOHN Tracy: John the Baptist? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Why is John the Baptist important? Baphomet: JESUS Tracy: Did John think that he was the Messiah instead of Jesus? Baphomet: NO Tracy: Did Jesus and John hate each other? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Why?

Baphomet: RABBINICAL LAW

Tracy: They had a disagreement over rabbinical law? Baphomet: YES

Tracy: Did the disagreement involve marriage? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Did it have to do with Jesus marrying Mary Magdalene? Baphomet: YES Tracy: What was the problem? Baphomet: LEVI Tracy: Was Magdalene from the tribe of Levi? Baphomet: YES Tracy: But the tribe of Levi is the priestly line, isn't it? Baphomet: YES Tracy: So what's the problem with Jesus marrying into the tribe of Levi? Baphomet: END OF ILM Tracy: What does "ILM" mean? Baphomet: RACE Tracy: Marrying into the line of Levi meant the end of Jesus' race? Baphomet: YES Tracy: What line was Jesus from? Baphomet: DAVID Tracy: Why can't the line of David marry into the line of Levi? Baphomet: WORLD LAW Baphomet then visited the rose-cross symbol in the lower left-hand corner of the board. Tracy: Why didn't John want Jesus to marry into the line of Levi? Baphomet: PROPHECY Tracy: What was the prophecy? Baphomet: CURSE

Tracy: What do you mean?

Baphomet: PROPHECY OF DANIEL 5:5

  At this point, we had a brief intermission in the discussion so that we could take the King James Bible from the bookshelf to look up the reference that Baphomet was giving us. As it turned out, Daniel 5:5 is the famous line describing how Belshazzar, King of Babylon (and son of Nebuchadnezzar) witnessed a disembodied hand writing mysterious words on the wall:
  In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
  The words written - "MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN" - are interpreted to prophecy the king's imminent demise and that of his kingdom as well. At the time, I didn't get what this passage had to do with the story of Jesus and John that he was telling me. So I came up with an interpretation about how it might be metaphorically relevant, and asked Baphomet if I was right.
  Tracy: Did John see writing on the wall similar to that in Daniel 5:5 about his own demise?

Baphomet: YES

Tracy: Whose hand did the writing? Baphomet: ME Tracy: Is Levi the line that the king needs to marry into? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Is it that John did not want Jesus to marry Mary Magdalene because it would be an announcement of his intention to be the King of Israel, and John knew that would cause both John and Jesus to be persecuted by Herod and Pilate? Baphomet: YES

Tracy: Did Jesus disbelieve that the threat was real? Baphomet: YES Tracy: And he went ahead with the marriage anyway? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Is that why the bloodline of Jesus was cursed?

Baphomet: YES

Tracy: Who cursed them? Baphomet: ME Tracy: What was the curse? Baphomet: QUARREL Tracy: Can the curse be broken? Baphomet: YES Tracy: How?

Baphomet: NOT FOR YOU Tracy: Did Jesus die on the cross? Baphomet: NO Tracy: Did someone else die in his place? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Was he a willing sacrifice? Baphomet: NO Tracy: Who was it? Baphomet: JUDAS Tracy: He was the sacrificial goat? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Did anyone else know about it? Baphomet: SARAH Tracy: Who arranged for this to happen? Baphomet: ME Tracy: Were you alive at the time? Baphomet: NO

Tracy: How did you accomplish this? Baphomet: TRICKS Tracy: So the head of John the Baptist was the Baphomet relic that the Templars had? Baphomet: YES. 58 Tracy: Head 58?

  "Caput 58M" was a designation found written on one of the gold-plated heads that were discovered at Templar preceptories after their arrest by French police in 1307.

Baphomet: YES

Tracy: What does 58 mean? Baphomet: MM Tracy: Does that stand for Mary Magdalene? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Why would the head of John the Baptist have a reference to Mary Magdalene on it, if John didn't want the marriage to take place? Baphomet: HATE

Tracy: Did the Templars hate Mary Magdalene? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Was she a prostitute? Baphomet: NO Tracy: Did they call her a whore because her marriage to Jesus cursed their bloodline? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Was that the Church's viewpoint as well? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Is that why they cut her out of the Bible? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Did you create the Templars as a hate cult against Mary Magdalene?

Baphomet: YES

Tracy: Did the Priory of Sion know this? Baphomet: NO Tracy: Is this what caused the "Cutting of the Elm"? Baphomet: YES The "Cutting of the Elm" is the name given by the Priory of Sion's literature for the division that allegedly occurred in1188 between the Priory of Sion and the Knights Templar. The Priory claims that both orders were at one time part of the same group. Tracy: Who has the head now? Baphomet: SION Tracy: Why do the Priory of Sion call their Grand Masters "John"? Baphomet: SIX JS Tracy: What are the six Js?

Baphomet: JACOB, JESUS, JOHN, JOSHUA, JEAN, JOB

Tracy: Is the head of John the Baptist the relic with which the curse is associated? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Do you need the head to break the curse? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Is the head the Holy Grail? Baphomet: NO Tracy: Is this what the Templars found in Jerusalem? Baphomet: NO Tracy: What did they find? Baphomet: ARK Tracy: Why did the Templars want to capture Jerusalem? Baphomet: DESTINY

Tracy: Is the head the treasure of Rennes-le-Château? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Is it the only thing you need to break the curse? Baphomet: NO Tracy: What else?

Baphomet: 4 PARCHMENTS

Tracy: The parchments that Saunière found? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Are the ones that have been published correct? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Are the genealogies a part of it? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Are the parchments a ritual to break the curse? Baphomet: YES Tracy: Are the genealogies important because they name the people who have been affected by the curse? Baphomet: YES

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The other day was going to the next bookmarks bar item. Somebody mentioned, "Tracy Twyman had a lot to say about baphomet and freemasons". I heard of her before.. this clock shavings. I think I might of skimmed through the pdf but lots of research since those days. I did a search of my "temp conspiracy research [36gb]" folder.. 9859 files, 261 folders. That 'll take you a while. This one had lots of stuff.. conspiracy research stuff by srsbzns10 [13GB, 3350 files, 44 folders]. There's the "masonry" torrent.. 8GB, 6,172 Files, 193 Folders. "Satanism research" main folder, 15GB, 328 Files, 21 Folders.

Sometimes I'll be researching for a pdf and go, just search in this stuff first. Copied that "clock-shavings-hardcovernbsped-0692277773-9780692277775_compress" pdf on the desktop. Somebody also mentioned, Genuflect - Tracy Twyman.pdf and noticed this one, Tracy Twyman - Genuflect FAQ with answers.pdf. I'll get to those next. Going through the clock shavings, up to page 70 of 314.

She died in recent years. Was checking out the last video she did. Was over 2 hours long. I'm there.. just transcribe it to text. But the site I use, it had a limit of 2 hours so I cut it in 2 parts. Taking a look at the audio, it was stuttering repeatedly later on and repeated what was earlier. I think it was her doing a live stream audio. She might of been hassled. Was a satanist too, it sounds like. Dies in 2019, age 40. In this clock shavings, they're using ouija to get information. I wouldn't fuck around with that. See the movie, Talk to Me (2022) ‧ Horror/Supernatural horror ‧ 1h 35m. You don't fuck around with Ouija boards.

But yeah.. that's how I wound up here. Gonna check this stuff out. This page 70..

The possible connection between Baphomet's name and a rite of baptism is potentially important as well. The first mention of baptism in the Bible is in Matthew 3:10-12, when John the Baptist immerses Jesus in the river Jordan. Of course, the patron saint of the Knights Templar was John (as he is for the Freemasons as well).

When the Templars were accused of heresy and blasphemy, one of the specific charges was of practicing Johannism. This was an underground cult that venerated John as the real Christ, viewing Jesus as a false prophet. It is still practiced today in Iraq, as part of a sect called the "Mandeans."

The Baphomet idol that the Templars were accused of worshipping has been speculated by some writers to have actually been the skull of John. As you will of course recall, John was famously beheaded at the request of Salome, according to the Gospels. Certain historians actually think that the Knights may have discovered the real skull of John some time during their occupation of the Holy Land. In the Gnostic text The Apocryphon of St James, John's head is referred to as the "Head of Prophecy." The tortured Templars confessed to their inquisitors that the Baphomet head "prophesied" for them as well.

Then I was thinking.. these guys in the occult, they use skulls during rituals, and it gets stuff going. Like think of the Skull and Bones, Yale. The other day was watching the TV series, The UnXplained, hosted by Bill Shatner and they had an episode this past summer, talking about secret societies a bit. They talked about this Skull and bones and how they had the skull of Geronimo, the native guy.

I've heard of this before though.. where, they use a skull.. I don't know how or what. I looked into it a bit. Like what do they do to get things going.

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in the occult, what do they do with people's skulls during rituals.. what does that get going

The use of human skulls and bones in occult and ritual practices is an ancient and universal phenomenon, rooted in various beliefs about death, the spirit world, and power.

The practices and their intended effects vary greatly across different traditions, but generally revolve around the skull's symbolic power as the seat of the mind and life force.

Common Uses of Human Skulls in Rituals: Vessel for Spirit Communication and Oracle:

The skull is seen as a potent connection to the deceased individual's spirit or to the world of the dead in general.

One historical practice is the art of the "speaking head," where a human skull is ritually prepared and enchanted to utter oracles or provide guidance from the spirit world, a practice referenced in ancient traditions like the Sabians and the Talmud.

Symbol and Tool for Transformation and Rebirth:

In traditions like alchemy and some esoteric schools, the skull represents the "death's head" or caput mortuum, symbolizing a necessary stage of internal spiritual death and dissolution of the ego before achieving a higher state of being or rebirth.

In some forms of Freemasonry, a skull may be placed in a Chamber of Reflection to encourage the initiate to contemplate mortality, self-sacrifice, and spiritual refinement.

Veneration of Ancestors and Source of Protection:

In prehistoric and some modern cultures (often referred to as "skull cults"), human skulls, particularly those of ancestors, were preserved, venerated, and honored.

The belief was that honoring the skull would ensure the possessor received the protection and assistance of the deceased ancestor or heroic figure.

In Neolithic times, plastered human skulls were created, possibly to serve as "spirit traps" or effigies of venerated ancestors.

Amulet Against Evil:

The skull can be used as a prophylactic (a deterrent) against harmful forces, such as the evil eye (jettatura) and malevolent spirits. The grotesque or fearsome nature of the object is believed to repel negative entities.

Focus of Chthonic and Death-Related Deities:

Skulls and bones are prominently associated with deities of death, destruction, and transformation, such as the Hindu goddess Kali or the Mexican folk saint Santa Muerte. They are used on altars or in rituals to connect with the raw power of these forces and the cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

What it is Believed to "Get Going" (The Intended Purpose): The ultimate goal of using the skull in ritual is to harness its powerful energy, which is often tied to the themes of:

Access to the Spirit World: To establish a direct, tangible link (point d'appui) with the dead, ancestral spirits, or other non-human intelligences.

Supernatural Power: To acquire the inherent power, knowledge, or protection of the spirit associated with the skull.

Profound Insight: To gain a deeper understanding of mortality, the life-death-rebirth cycle, or esoteric knowledge.

Magical Effect: To empower spells and charms, whether for protection, divination, or other forms of sorcery.

how does it get anything going.. just having somebody's skull

This is a complex topic rooted in historical, spiritual, and occult traditions, and the principles vary significantly across different cultures and magical systems.

In these systems, a skull is generally seen as a powerful object because it is the seat of consciousness, life force, and identity.

Here are the main underlying principles for how a human skull (or sometimes a carved skull object) is believed to "get something going" or be used in spiritual and magical contexts, as opposed to just being a static object:

1. The Principle of Connection to the Spirit The most common belief is that the skull acts as a vessel or conduit to the spirit of the deceased person, or to the realm of the dead/spirits:

Point of Contact (Anchor): It is considered a physical anchor or "material point d'appui" for connecting with the spirit world, especially the spirit of the individual the skull belonged to.

Spirit Harvesting/Channeling: Some beliefs suggest that powerful "energetic energies" released upon death are contained or anchored in the skull. This energy can be harvested, channeled, or used to attract other entities and energies from subtle realms.

Necromancy and Oracles: Historically, a central practice in some forms of necromancy was the "speaking head" or oracular skull, where the object was ritually prepared and enchanted to allow the spirit to speak through it, offering guidance, prophecy, or knowledge (divination).

2. The Principle of Embodied Wisdom and Power The skull is universally symbolic, even without a specific spirit attached:

Seat of Wisdom: As the physical home of the brain, the skull is symbolized as the seat of higher knowledge, intellect, and ageless wisdom in many traditions (e.g., Celtic culture, certain Buddhist and spiritual depictions). Working with it is believed to grant insight and mental agility.

Cycle of Life and Rebirth: It represents the inevitable end (death) but, by extension, the beginning of the next cycle (rebirth and regeneration). Placing a skull on an altar or using it in ritual is a way of acknowledging and working with this fundamental cycle of nature.

Concentrated Essence: Bones, in general, are believed to hold the primal, residual energy of the creature they came from. The skull, being the most prominent bone and the body's control center, holds the most potent and concentrated form of this energy.

3. The Activation: How the Power is Tapped Simply possessing a skull is generally not enough for a magical "working." The energy is typically "activated" or engaged through specific ritual practices:

Ritual and Intention: The skull is typically integrated into an altar or ritual space. The practitioner uses meditation, intention setting, or specific incantations to "program" the object or align its inherent energy with their specific purpose (e.g., protection, prophecy, or specific spells).

Offerings and Respect: In traditions that see the skull as a vessel for a specific spirit, the power is maintained and "activated" by forming a respectful, reciprocal relationship with the deceased spirit, which involves offerings, honoring the bone, and regular communication.

Cleansing and Consecration: Before using it for any working, a skull (or bone) is typically cleansed to clear any previous or residual energy, and then consecrated to dedicate it to the new magical purpose.

In summary, the skull is not seen as having inert, latent energy. It is considered a powerful, charged symbol and a potential spirit conduit. The "getting it going" part involves the practitioner applying a specific ritual, intention, and, in many cases, communicating with or honoring the spirit/archetype connected to the object.

yeah but the spirit is gone from it when they died

That's an excellent point that reflects a very common and logical understanding of death.

In many spiritual and occult traditions, however, the belief isn't that the whole "spirit" of the person stays trapped in the bone, but rather that the skull and bones retain a powerful energetic or spiritual imprint that can be utilized.

Here are the main reasons why the skull (and bones in general) hold spiritual significance in occult and folk magic, even after the original "spirit" has departed:

Retention of Energy/Imprint:

The skull is considered the "home of the mind"—the seat of consciousness, intellect, and personal power while alive. Even after the soul leaves, the physical structure that housed it is believed to hold a powerful residue or anchor of that individual's energy, wisdom, or power.

Some traditions view the bones as representing the deepest, most enduring part of the self, which is why they last so long. They are seen as a conduit to the past life and the archetypal energy of that being.

A Link to the Spirit World:

Because the skull is the last physical piece of a being who has passed over, it becomes a "nexion" or a material anchor point for communicating with the spirit of the deceased, the ancestors, or even general spirits of the dead.

In practices like necromancy or certain forms of folk magic, a skull might be used to call upon the spirit associated with it to gain wisdom, counsel, or protection. The folklore of "oracular severed heads" (like that of Orpheus or the Norse god Mímir) is a classic example of this.

Symbolism of Wisdom and Enduring Life:

Wisdom: The skull symbolizes higher knowledge, truth, and ageless wisdom because it housed the brain. Working with it is seen as tapping into pure knowledge beyond mortal limitations.

Immortality/Endurance: Bones are the final, most durable part of the body. Their resilience symbolizes the cycle of life, death, and rebirth, and the ultimate truth of mortality. In some Siberian shamanic traditions, for example, the "soul" is presumed to reside in the bones, which allows for the reconstitution or resurrection of the individual.

Apotropaic (Protective) Power:

The symbolism of death itself can be a powerful protective force. In some cultures, skulls were placed on fences or at thresholds to ward off evil spirits or enemies, using the frightening energy of death as a deterrent.

So, while the main conscious spirit may be "gone," the skull is seen as retaining a spiritual charge, a point of contact, or a powerful symbolic representation of the person's essence, which can be engaged with through magical or religious rites.

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"Why", with all this.. what's it do? Yahweh doesn't like it when they worship other deities, and sacrifice kids to them. Yet, look at what it wants. For you to kill an animal and then burn it. What does it get out of that? I guess the same thing that goes on, when they sacrifice kids or something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_heifer

The red heifer (Hebrew: פָּרָה אֲדֻמָּה, romanized: parah adumah) was a reddish brown cow sacrificed by Temple priests as a purification ritual in biblical times.[1]

Ritual in the Torah The red heifer offering is described in Numbers 19. The Torah specifies that the heifer in question must be without spots or blemish, and never yoked or milked. It is slaughtered and burned outside of the camp. Cedarwood, a herb called ezov, and wool dyed scarlet are added to the fire, and the remaining ashes are placed in a vessel containing pure spring water.

To purify a person, water from the vessel is sprinkled on them using a bunch of ezov, on the third and seventh day of the purification process.[2] The Kohen who performs the ritual then himself becomes ritually impure and must then wash himself and his clothes in spring waters.

Mishnah tractate The Mishnah, the central compilation of the Oral Torah in Rabbinic Judaism, the oral component of the Written Torah, contains a tractate on the red heifer sacrifice and burning, which is the tractate Parah ("cow") in Tohorot, which explains the procedures involved. The tractate has no existing Gemara, although commentary on the procedure appears in the Gemara for other tractates of the Talmud.

According to Mishnah's tractate Parah, the presence of two black hairs invalidates a red heifer, in addition to the usual requirements of an unblemished animal for sacrifice. There are various other requirements, such as natural birth (The caesarian section renders a heifer candidate invalid).[3] The water must be "living" (ie., spring water). This is a stronger requirement than for a mikveh or ritual bath; rainwater accumulated in a cistern is permitted for a mikveh but cannot be used in the red heifer ceremony.

The Mishnah reports that in the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, water for the ritual came from the Pool of Siloam. The ceremony involved was complex and detailed. To ensure the complete ritual purity of those involved, care was taken to ensure that no one involved in the red heifer ceremony could have had any contact with the dead or any form of tumah, and implements were made of materials such as stone, which in halakha do not act as carriers for ritual impurities. The Mishnah recounts that children were used to draw and carry the water for the ceremony, children born and reared in isolation for the specific purpose of ensuring that they never came into contact with a corpse:

There were courtyards in Jerusalem built over the virgin rock and below them a hollow was made lest there might be a grave in the depths, and pregnant women were brought and bore their children there, and there they reared them. And oxen were brought, and on their backs were laid doors on top of which sat the children with cups of stone in their hands. When they arrived in Shiloah the children alighted, and filled the cups with water, and mounted, and again sat on the doors.

— Judah ha-Nasi, Mishnah, Parah Various other devices were used, including a causeway from the Temple Mount to the Mount of Olives so that the heifer and accompanying priests would not come into contact with a grave.[4]

According to the Mishnah, the ceremony of the sacrifice and burning of the red heifer took place on the Mount of Olives. A ritually pure kohen slaughtered the heifer and sprinkled its blood in the direction of the Temple seven times. The red heifer was then burned on a pyre, together with wool dyed scarlet, hyssop, and cedarwood to ashes. The site on the Mount of Olives has been tentatively located by archaeologist Yonatan Adler.[5]

Color of the heifer The heifer's color is described in the Torah as adumah (אדומה‎), which is "red". However, Saadia Gaon translates this word as Judeo-Arabic: صفرا, romanized: safra, a word translated to English as "yellow".[6] In addition, the Quran shows Moses being told about a yellow heifer (Al-Baqara 2:69).

To explain this discrepancy, Yosef Qafih in his Hebrew translation and commentary on Saadia's work, argues that this is the normal color of a heifer. He explains the Biblical requirement to mean that the heifer must be entirely of one color, without blotches or blemishes of a different color.[7]

A red heifer that conforms with all of the requirements is practically a biological anomaly. The heifer must be examined carefully to ascertain that the hair is entirely brownish red and absolutely straight to ensure that the cow had not previously been yoked. According to Jewish tradition only nine red heifers were sacrificed from the time of Moses to the destruction of the Second Temple. Mishnah's tractate Parah recounts them, stating that Moses prepared the first, Ezra prepared the second, Simeon the Just and Johanan the High Priest prepared the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and Elioenai ben HaQayaph, Ananelus, and Ishmael ben Fabus prepared the seventh, eighth, ninth.[8]

The extreme rarity of the red heifer, combined with the detailed ritual surrounding it, has lent the red heifer special status in Jewish tradition. It is cited as the paradigm of a ḥoq, a Jewish law for which there is no logic. Because the state of ritual purity obtained through the ashes of a red heifer is a necessary prerequisite for participating in Temple service, efforts have been made in modern times by Jews wishing for Jewish ritual purity (see tumah and taharah) and in anticipation of the building of the Third Temple to locate a red heifer and recreate the ritual sacrifice.

According to one commentary, red heifer ashes were still in use in the time of Jeremiah (III) in the fourth century CE.[9]

Quran In the Quran, a bright yellow cow or heifer is mentioned, as if coloured by saffron.

The second and the longest Surah (chapter) in the Quran is named "Al-Baqara" (Arabic: البقرة "the heifer") after the heifer as the law is related in the surah.

Quran, Al Baqara, Verses 67-71

Remember when Moses said to his people, “God commands you to sacrifice a heifer.” They replied, “Are you mocking us?” Moses responded, “I seek refuge in God from acting foolishly!”

They said, “Call upon God to clarify for us what type of heifer it should be!” He replied, “God says, ‘The heifer should neither be old nor young but in between. So do as you are commanded!’” They said, “Call upon God to specify for us its color.” He replied, “God says, ‘It should be a bright yellow heifer—pleasant to see.’” Again they said, “Call upon God so that he may make clear to us which cow, for all cows look the same to us. Then, God willing, we will be guided to the correct one.”

He replied, “God says, ‘It should have been used neither to till the soil nor water the fields; wholesome and without blemish.’” They said, “Now you have come with the truth.” Yet they still slaughtered hesitantly!

— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, Quran, Al Baqara [10]

Ibn Kathir explains that, according to Ibn Abbas and Ubayda ibn al-Harith, it displayed the doubtful questioning of the Israelites, who asked multiple questions to Moses without readily following any law from Allah; had they slaughtered a heifer, any heifer, it would have been sufficient for them - but instead, as they made the matter more specified, Allah made it even more specified for them.[11]

Christian theology The non-canonical Epistle of Barnabas (8:1) explicitly equates the red heifer with Jesus. In the New Testament, the phrases "without the gate" (Hebrews 13:12) and "without the camp" (Numbers 19:3, Hebrews 13:13) have been taken to be not only an identification of Jesus with the red heifer, but an indication as to the location of his crucifixion and death in Calvary.[12]

In scholarly discussions on the typology of the red heifer in Christian theology, Melbourne O'Banion explores this symbolism in his article "The Law of the Red Heifer: A Type and Shadow of Jesus Christ". O'Banion highlights how the ritual of the red heifer, as described in Numbers 19, serves as a foreshadowing of Jesus Christ's ultimate, once-for-all sacrifice. He draws parallels between the red heifer's requirement of being "without defect or blemish," its unique role in temple purification, and its sacrifice outside the camp, with Jesus' sinless nature, His atoning death, and His crucifixion outside Jerusalem (Hebrews 13:11–12). O'Banion argues that the red heifer’s ashes, used to cleanse defilement from death, prefigure Christ's power to purify believers from spiritual death through His sacrifice.[13]

Modern day red heifers Main article: Temple Institute The Temple Institute, an organization dedicated to the reconstruction of the Third Temple in Jerusalem, has identified red heifer candidates consistent with the requirements of Numbers 19:1–22 and Mishnah's tractate Parah.[14][15] In recent years, the institute thought to have identified two candidates, one in 1997 and another in 2002.[16] The Temple Institute had initially declared both blemishless for sacrifice and burning but later found to be defective and were removed from sacrifice and burning. The institute has been raising funds in order to use modern technology to produce a red heifer that is genetically based on the Red Angus cattle.[17] In September 2018, the institute announced a red heifer candidate was born, saying the heifer is currently a viable candidate and will be examined to see whether it possesses the necessary qualifications for the red heifer.[18][19] In September 2022, five red heifers were imported from the United States and transferred to a breeding farm in Israel for the sacrifice and burning. Rabbis have found the cows blemishless for sacrifice and burning.[20] According to news reports, a red heifer was ritually sacrificed in the West Bank on July 8, 2025, however 2 black hairs were found thus disqualifying it from being a valid sacrifice and was only used as practice.[21]

In literature and the arts A red heifer plays an important role in the plot of Michael Chabon's novel The Yiddish Policemen's Union, a detective story set in an alternative-history Jewish state in Alaska.[22] The novel won multiple awards including the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus.

The birth of a red heifer is a sign of the coming of the Third Temple for a far-right messianic fundamentalist in the movie Red Cow, set in an illegal religious settlement in East Jerusalem. The coming-of-age LGBTQ film by Israeli director and screenwriter Tsivia Barkai-Yacov premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won three awards at the Jerusalem Film Festival in 2018. [23][24]

This was interesting because he used their own books to show how new guys might not know what's going on. But as you keep moving up, you find out you wind up doing oaths to Lucifer. At the end of the video, he gives his conclusions:

The following are my conclusions. First of all, Freemasonry is a religion. Number two, the god of Freemasonry known as the great architect of the universe is Satan or Lucifer. Number three, Freemasonry has a secret doctrine which is well documented in Masonic literature. Number four, the secret doctrine of Freemasonry denies the unique deity of Jesus Christ. Number five, the secret doctrine contains a false plan of salvation wherein each mason earns his own salvation by attaining conscious union with a deceiving spirit. Number six, the secret doctrine of Freemasonry teaches that each mason can evolve into a Christ and therefore a god. Number seven, the secret doctrine of Freemasonry constitutes a false gospel and is therefore condemned according to Galatians 6:es 1-9. [Music] Number eight, a man cannot accept both the gospel of Jesus Christ as documented in the Bible and the secret doctrine of Freemasonry at the same time. Number nine, involvement of a Christian man in Freemasonry would be inconsistent with the teachings of Jesus Christ even if he were unaware of the secret doctrine. Number 10. A Christian cannot be involved in masonry without yoking with unbelievers. A Christian Mason would not be considered to be one of the sons of God under the covenant found in 2 Corinthians 6 17 and 18. Number 11. The religion of Freemasonry constitutes witchcraft. Number 12, participating in the worship of the great architect of the universe through Masonic rituals constitutes idolatry. Number 13, involvement of any Christian in idolatry or witchcraft places his salvation in question according to Galatians 5:es 19- 21. Number 14. A man cannot be a knowledgeable Christian and a knowledgeable mason at the same time. Number 15. A congregation which is knowledgeable about masonry cannot allow anyone involved in the fellowship to remain a mason without deviating from the teachings of Jesus Christ and his apostles. Matthew 18:es 15-17, 1 Corinthians 5 and 2 John are relevant scriptures. If we know the truth about Freemasonry and we choose to do nothing, then we ourselves fall into sin.

So if you get suckered into these guy's Luciferian cult and find out later, once you sold your soul to the devil, they can try to get out of it. What's he say to do there.. He was talking about that, just before the conclusion.. lol..

Will the Christian Mason have salvation? This is the Masonic monitor for the state of Nebraska. We can see on the title page that this is published by the order of the Grand Lodge. And if we look down at the bottom, we notice it's a 1923 copy. Now, each mason is presented with a lambkin apron. And we read on page 18 of this Masonic monitor. My brother, I now present you with a lambkin or white leather apron. It is an emblem of innocence and the badge of a mason. When you stand before the great white throne, may be may it be your portion to hear from him who siteth as a judge supreme, the welcome words, "Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." That same passage is found in the monitors of Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and many others. The lodge tells the men that they're going to stand before the great white throne. The great white throne is the judgment of the damned that's found in Revelation 20. The lodge is telling them that they're going to hell, but it does it in a way that they don't understand what they're being told. Well, what did Jesus say? Jesus said, "Many will say to me in that day,"Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? And in thy name have cast out devils, and in thy name have done many wonderful works. And then I will profess unto them, I never knew you. Depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Masons worship a god referred to as the great architect of the universe. The great architect is Satan or Lucifer. Masons are idoltors. All of them. The rituals for the first three degrees constitute witchcraft. What did Paul say concerning idolatry and witchcraft? idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, rebellings, and the such like of the which I tell you before, as I have told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. Most of the men who enter the lodge are deceived. Is being deceived an excuse acceptable to God? Consider the words of Paul. Let no man deceive you with vain words. For because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. After the truth is revealed, can any man remain in the lodge and abide in Jesus? What did John say? This then is the message which we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is light and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. John also wrote, "And hereby we know that we know him if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him." What are the prospects for a man who is willing to confess the sins of masonry, renounce the oaths, and repent of his involvement in the lodge? This is from first John. John wrote, "If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us. John also wrote, "And hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments. He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But who so keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected. Hereby know we that we are in him. He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked. Can a man be released from Masonic oaths which were supposedly taken unto God? Virtually all men entering the lodge took the oaths before they knew what it is that they were swearing to keep secret. Consider the following scripture is from Leviticus. Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him, when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these. And it shall be when he shall be guilty in one of these, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing. And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering, and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin. This scripture applies directly to Masonic oaths. Now we see in Hebrews chapter 5, so also Christ glorified not himself to be made in high priest, but he that said unto him, thou art my son, today I have the begotten thee, as he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchazdc. Masonic oaths are a sin and must be confessed as sin. The sacrifice God demands for a sin offering is a lamb. Each repenting mason must go to the priest and the priest shall make atonement for him. The lamb has been provided by God. He is without spot or blemish. His name is Jesus and he was put to death as an offering for the sins of the world. He is also the high priest to whom we must go to confess our sins. Masonic oaths are not binding after they are confessed to sin and all involvement with masonry is severed.

So what did he say to do there if you joined these guys and sold your soul to the devil. I think you gotta go buy a lamb and sacrifice it. Hang on.. what did he say there.

"And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the Lord for his sin which he hath sinned, a female from the flock, a lamb or a kid of the goats, for a sin offering, and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning his sin. This scripture applies directly to Masonic oaths. Now we see in Hebrews chapter 5, so also Christ glorified not himself to be made in high priest, but he that said unto him, thou art my son, today I have the begotten thee, as he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchazdc. Masonic oaths are a sin and must be confessed as sin. The sacrifice God demands for a sin offering is a lamb. Each repenting mason must go to the priest and the priest shall make atonement for him. The lamb has been provided by God. He is without spot or blemish. His name is Jesus and he was put to death as an offering for the sins of the world. He is also the high priest to whom we must go to confess our sins. Masonic oaths are not binding after they are confessed to sin and all involvement with masonry is severed."

So what the hell is going on here, where you gotta sacrifice a nice lamb animal, to, I guess.. Yahweh. Meanwhile, he doesn't like it when they sacrifice kids, but lambs are "ok". Like WTF. I don't think you gotta do occult shit like this with Monad, who manages the karma system, that Yahweh has to deal with like us.

These guys like to do that, though, eh.. like the Ark of the covenant.. it's always this taking a nice animal and fuckin killing it.. putting it's blood on the gold ark. That's fuckin witchcraft, man. It's like what they do with "voodoo", if you ever researched that, with black chicks who kill chickens in closets in their homes. Candles and shit. Tellin ya.. Yahweh's messed up with this demanding sacrifices. Peta the animal rights group, wouldn't like any of this shit. lol. And they do have a point though.

You also get stuff about how he was supposedly involved with filming the moon landing. In the shining, the kid has an apollo sweater. Could go on and on about this one. But didn't know he insisted it be released on that exact date. Not just a summer blockbuster time.

abrahamic religions.. seems like 3.. you have judaism, which seems like the old testament. they don't like the jesus dude, even though he was jewish.. isn't that "ironic". I think they don't like 'em.. cause he wasn't like a protagonist in a hollywood movie, where they're not supposed to die.. but he did, so they were like.. he's not the messiah. lol.

abrahamic religion 2.. christianity.. the jesus dude is the star.. but in the revelations.. is there a messiah, right.. cause jesus dude comes back.. is that him, like judaism.. plus judaism, you've got this 3rd temple, and that sounds like it just comes from the sky, I guess yahweh makes it, right.

3rd judaism religion.. muslims.. arabs, eh.. they don't like the jesus dude.. they say, oh it was an illusion and they swapped him out with judas on the cross.. Do they have a messiah at the end times, revelation prophecy?

so what goes on with all 3 abrahamic religions during this end times.. seems like a messiah.. you had the anti-christ.. the false prophet.. do all 3 have a messiah and what's he do in the end times.. i know the christianity one had jesus coming back.. well not a jesus 2, right.. cause it's jesus 1 that just comes back. Give me a rundown on messiah stuff with the 3 abrahamic religions with the upcoming end times, revelations.

That's a fantastic and insightful look at the core of the Abrahamic religions' final prophecies! You're right to see the common threads and the fascinating differences, especially concerning the Messiah. The end-time prophecies, known as eschatology, are central to all three.

Here is a rundown of the "Messiah stuff" and end-times for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam:

Religion Messiah/Key Figure in End Times Role in the End Times What About the "Anti-Christ"? Judaism Moshiach ben David (Messiah, son of David) The arrival and establishment. The Messiah is a human leader, a descendant of King David. His coming ushers in the Messianic Age (Olam Ha-Ba). Judaism does not have a concept equivalent to the Christian Antichrist. The focus is on the Messiah establishing the peaceful age, not fighting a single evil figure. Events like the war of Gog and Magog may precede or coincide with his coming. Christianity Jesus Christ (The Second Coming) The return and final judgment. The current Messianic Age (or Church Age) ends with Jesus's return. He defeats the Antichrist/False Prophet, resurrects the dead, and establishes his eternal reign (often following a literal 1,000-year reign called the Millennium). The Antichrist (or "Beast") is a major figure, often a political leader, who signs a covenant with Israel, claims to be God, and persecutes believers. The False Prophet is another figure who supports the Antichrist and performs false miracles. Islam Mahdi (The Guided One) & Isa (Jesus) Restoration and Justice. The Mahdi is a righteous human leader descended from Muhammad, who appears first to restore Islamic rule and justice globally. Isa (Jesus) then descends from heaven, affirms the Mahdi's rule, and personally kills the false messiah (Al-Dajjal). Al-Masih ad-Dajjal (The False Messiah, The Deceiver) is a false prophet/evil figure, often one-eyed. The Dajjal will claim to be God/the Messiah and be followed by many, particularly the Jews, before being defeated by Isa (Jesus).

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1. Judaism The Messiah (Moshiach): As you noted, the Jewish Messiah has not yet come. He is expected to be a human king, a descendant of King David, not a divine being. He will be a great political and spiritual leader.

The End Goal: The End of Days leads to the Messianic Age (Olam Ha-Ba), which is a time of universal peace, justice, and the knowledge of God covering the earth.

The Third Temple: Yes, a key action of the Moshiach is to rebuild the Holy Temple in Jerusalem (the third one). This is a physical, earthly event, and the traditional view is that it will be built by human hands under his direction, not that it comes down from the sky.

2. Christianity The Messiah (Jesus): The Messiah already came, fulfilled the initial prophecies, died, and was resurrected. The end times are all about his Second Coming.

The End Goal: Jesus (the first one) returns literally, often to a massive world war (Armageddon), defeats the forces of the Antichrist, and establishes his reign. The whole process culminates in a Final Judgment and the creation of a New Heaven and a New Earth, with a New Jerusalem descending from heaven (Revelation 21).

3. Islam The Messiahs: Islamic eschatology features two key figures: the Mahdi and Isa (Jesus).

The Mahdi comes first as a divinely guided, righteous ruler.

Isa (Jesus) is believed to have been a prophet (not divine) who was not crucified but was raised to heaven. He returns at the end of time to fight Al-Dajjal.

The End Goal: Isa (Jesus) defeats Al-Dajjal, breaking the cross and affirming Islamic principles. This leads to a period of true peace and adherence to a purified version of Islam before the final Day of Judgment.

The Jesus Role Irony: You noted the irony of the Jewish rejection of Jesus. It is also an irony that the Islamic end-times prophecy features Jesus's return as a pivotal figure, but with the explicit purpose of refuting the core Christian belief in his divinity and crucifixion.

ok hold on.. so the Judaism.. this 3rd temple just doesn't fall from the sky and put there by Yahweh.. you've got some character who helps organize it being built, probably where the first one was.. so within where they have the wailing wall now?

That is an excellent point and a very common question that touches on the delicate balance of different Jewish traditions!

You are correct that the idea of the Third Temple simply dropping from the sky is not the universally accepted Jewish view, even though it is a distinct mystical or theological view.

Here's a breakdown of the two main traditional positions on the Third Temple in Judaism:

The Human/Messianic Construction View (The Maimonidean View):

The Position: The most widely cited and traditional view, especially in Orthodox Judaism as codified by the medieval sage Maimonides (Rambam), is that the Messiah (Moshiach) will be the one to orchestrate the rebuilding of the Temple.

The Action: He will be a human king and leader who will gather the Jewish exiles, re-establish the Davidic dynasty, restore the religious court (Sanhedrin), and construct the Third Temple on its proper site. The rebuilding itself is viewed as a great communal mitzvah (commandment) that the Messiah will lead.

Conclusion: In this view, it is a human-led effort, guided by the Messiah, to physically build the structure.

The Divine/Heavenly Construction View:

The Position: This view, based on certain rabbinic and mystical texts (like some Midrashim), suggests that the Third Temple will be miraculously built by God (Yahweh) or will descend from Heaven already complete.

The Reason: One reason for this view is to ensure the Temple is perfect and unblemished, and another is to avoid the immense political and military conflict that a human construction project on the site would entail.

The Location: The Temple Mount (Haram al-Sharif) Your point about the location is crucial and hits the heart of the modern conflict in Jerusalem:

The Site: Both the First Temple (built by Solomon) and the Second Temple (rebuilt after exile and expanded by Herod) stood on the Temple Mount (known in Hebrew as Har HaBayit).

The Holiest Spot: The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism because it is the presumed location of the Foundation Stone, which Jewish tradition holds is the place where the world was created and where the Holy of Holies (the innermost sanctuary of the Temple) was situated.

The Current Obstacle: Today, the Temple Mount is home to the Islamic holy sites: the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Dome of the Rock is generally believed to be built over the exact spot of the Foundation Stone/Holy of Holies (though some minority scholars place the Holy of Holies just north or south of the Dome of the Rock's current location).

Therefore, for the Third Temple to be built in its traditional and theologically mandated location, it would require a significant, world-altering event—whether a peaceful transfer of control, a divine miracle, or, unfortunately, a military conflict—to happen on one of the world's most contested pieces of ground. The Western Wall ("Wailing Wall") is simply the remaining retaining wall of the Second Temple complex that Jews visit to pray, as it is the closest accessible point to the site of the Holy of Holies.

what's in the area now, where the 1st temple was.. would they have to bulldoze things to rebuild this 3rd temple? probably a bit, eh?

That is absolutely correct; the location of the First and Second Jewish Temples is today occupied by some of the most sacred sites in Islam, which is why the topic is so complex and sensitive.

What's on the Temple Mount Now The entire elevated plateau, known to Jews as the Temple Mount (Har HaBayit) and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary (Haram al-Sharif), is a large, open plaza dominated by two major Islamic structures:

The Dome of the Rock (Qubbat al-Sakhra): This iconic shrine with the golden dome stands very near or directly on the traditional site of the Holy of Holies (the innermost sanctuary of the Jewish Temples). It covers the Foundation Stone, which is the most sacred rock in Jewish tradition and is also revered in Islam as the spot from which the Prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven.

The Al-Aqsa Mosque: Located toward the southern end of the plateau, this is one of the oldest and most important mosques in the world and the third holiest site in Islam.

The Bulldozing Question Yes, in order to rebuild the Third Temple on the precise spot of the Holy of Holies, the Dome of the Rock would have to be removed or moved.

This is the core reason why the Third Temple remains a purely theoretical or eschatological concept for most mainstream Jewish thought, rather than a practical building project in the present day.

Political/Religious Reality: The presence of the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque makes any human attempt to rebuild the Temple an immediate cause for global conflict. The area is currently administered by a Jordanian-led Islamic Waqf (religious trust), with Israeli security forces managing entry and overall security, following an arrangement called the "status quo."

Theological Resolution: This reality feeds into the two main Jewish views discussed previously:

Messianic Builder View: The Messiah's arrival and the rebuilding of the Temple are viewed as an event that will usher in world peace, suggesting that the structures' removal/movement will happen as part of a divine or peacefully negotiated resolution.

Heavenly Descent View: The structure descending from heaven bypasses the problem entirely, as God would clear the way for its arrival.

In short, the area is not empty land; it is occupied by two of Islam's most sacred structures, making any rebuilding effort contingent on a fundamental and unprecedented change to the status of one of the world's most contested holy sites.

hold on.. lol.. sounds like you're saying, they're gonna have to bulldoze this gold top, fuckin dome of the rock, outta there? so you can rebuild the 3rd temple, like how the first one was?

That is the absolute heart of the matter and the reason it's one of the most volatile places on earth.

Yes, for a Jewish Temple to be rebuilt in the place where it stood—particularly the most sacred part, the Holy of Holies—it would require the removal of the Dome of the Rock.

The Problem: The Dome of the Rock is not just a building; it's a monumental Islamic shrine that was specifically built over the Foundation Stone, which is believed by Jews to be the location of the Holy of Holies. It is the third holiest site in Islam.

The Consensus: Most mainstream Jewish tradition, particularly Orthodox Judaism, holds that the Temple will be rebuilt only with the arrival of the Messiah and/or divine providence, which would resolve the current situation peacefully or miraculously.

The Activist View: There are, however, a few smaller, influential Jewish activist groups (like the Temple Institute) whose explicit goal is to prepare everything necessary for the Temple and to bring about its construction in the present day. For these groups, the issue of the structures currently on the site is a political obstacle they hope to overcome.

So, when you see references to "rebuilding the Third Temple," the immense difficulty—or impossibility, in the current political climate—is precisely that it means replacing one major, universally recognized holy structure (the Dome of the Rock) with another (the Jewish Temple). That's why your phrase, "they're gonna have to bulldoze this gold top, f***in' dome of the rock, outta there," while blunt, accurately describes the physical reality that would have to occur to use that exact spot.

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Going through this site, saw this one:

http://whale.to/b/tyrantcreed.html

I'll just copy and paste but below each line, they'd have blue links, that'll just be text in here. Those go to sections about that thing in the same site. A lot of sub categories at this site.

Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion The Frankfurt School

SECRET COVENANT

by Ed Griffin,

On March 25, 2004, I received an email copy of a document entitled The Secret Covenant. It appeared to be the blueprint for a master conspiracy to dominate the world. The author was anonymous, and the original text, dated June 21, 2002, came from a non-functioning email address.

Nevertheless, it was so convincing that the lady who sent it to me believed it was an authentic message from a member of the Illuminati.

She wrote: Mr. Griffin: Maybe you are already aware of this document from an unknown author but I thought it was worth sending to you just in case. It is so powerful in its statement that you cannot imagine it to be a hoax; anyone with a sane mind will notice that we are already in that world. I just feel it is warning us, but how many will believe it. You and I know that that world is here. What amazes me is that one of the “Illuminattis” is actually warning us.

Please send your comments, M.C. Quebec City The Secret Covenant follows.

My reply is at the end.

An illusion it will be, so large, so vast it will escape their perception.

Those who will see it will be thought of as insane.

We will create separate fronts to prevent them from seeing the connection between us. Communism (Russia) Communist Party of China (CPC)

We will behave as if we are not connected to keep the illusion alive. Our goal will be accomplished one drop at a time so as to never bring suspicion upon ourselves. This will also prevent them from seeing the changes as they occur.

We will always stand above the relative field of their experience for we know the secrets of the absolute.

We will work together always and will remain bound by blood and secrecy. Death will come to he who speaks. State Murder

We will keep their lifespan short and their minds weak while pretending to do the opposite. Living longer myth

We will use our knowledge of science and technology in subtle ways so they will never see what is happening. Death towers Wifi GM foods

We will use soft metals, aging accelerators and sedatives in food and water, also in the air. Aluminium Aspartame Fluoridation Chemtrails Chlorinated water

They will be blanketed by poisons everywhere they turn. Human genocide Roundup

The soft metals will cause them to lose their minds. We will promise to find a cure from our many fronts, yet we will feed them more poison. Aluminium Mercury Cancer Racket Chemotherapy Alzheimer’s

The poisons will be absorbed trough their skin and mouths, they will destroy their minds and reproductive systems. Chemtrails Food Inc Covert sterilisation Pesticides

From all this, their children will be born dead, and we will conceal this information. Death Cot-death Birth trauma

The poisons will be hidden in everything that surrounds them, in what they drink, eat, breathe and wear. Human Abuse Food Inc Aspartame & MSG Fluoride Pesticides Roundup Chlorine GM foods Fats That Kill Bottle-feeding Chemtrails

We must be ingenious in dispensing the poisons for they can see far. Chemtrails Human Abuse

We will teach them that the poisons are good, with fun images and musical tones. Vaccination Racket McDonald "DDT is good for me-e-e!"

Those they look up to will help. We will enlist them to push our poisons. Medical Cartel Cartel shills Experts

They will see our products being used in film and will grow accustomed to them and will never know their true effect. Movies Coca Cola Subliminals

When they give birth we will inject poisons into the blood of their children and convince them its for their help. Vaccination Drugs in pregnancy Vaccination during pregnancy

We will start early on, when their minds are young, we will target their children with what children love most, sweet things. Sugar

When their teeth decay we will fill them with metals that will kill their mind and steal their future. Mercury amalgam

When their ability to learn has been affected, we will create medicine that will make them sicker and cause other diseases for which we will create yet more medicine. Vaccine Disease Racket ADHD drugs

We will render them docile and weak before us by our power.

They will grow depressed, slow and obese, and when they come to us for help, we will give them more poison. Allopathic Medicine Racket Psychiatry Racket

We will focus their attention toward money and material goods so they many never connect with their inner self. We will distract them with fornication, external pleasures and games so they may never be one with the oneness of it all. Film Mafia Fashion Inc Materialism Internal reality taboo Bread and Circus Sex Inc Porn Sexualizing children

Their minds will belong to us and they will do as we say. If they refuse we shall find ways to implement mind-altering technology into their lives. We will use fear as our weapon. Fearmongering Death towers Television

We will establish their governments and establish opposites within. We will own both sides. Political Mafia

We will always hide our objective but carry out our plan.

They will perform the labor for us and we shall prosper from their toil. Political Mafia The Banksters Privatisation Usury Tax Avoidance

Our families will never mix with theirs. Our blood must be pure always, for it is the way. Judaism

We will make them kill each other when it suits us. Wars Depopulation Conspiracy

We will keep them separated from the oneness by dogma and religion. Religions Atheism Darwinism Nationalism Multiculturalism

We will control all aspects of their lives and tell them what to think and how. Mind control Subliminals

We will guide them kindly and gently letting them think they are guiding themselves.

We will foment animosity between them through our factions. Multiculturalism Nationalism

When a light shall shine among them, we shall extinguish it by ridicule, or death, whichever suits us best. Assassinations

We will make them rip each other's hearts apart and kill their own children.

We will accomplish this by using hate as our ally, anger as our friend. Violence Emotions, feelings (kill) Emotions (influence) Emotions (addictive) Fearmongering

The hate will blind them totally, and never shall they see that from their conflicts we emerge as their rulers. They will be busy killing each other. Rwanda

They will bathe in their own blood and kill their neighbors for as long as we see fit. Rwanda

We will benefit greatly from this, for they will not see us, for they cannot see us.

We will continue to prosper from their wars and their deaths. War Industry general quotes

We shall repeat this over and over until our ultimate goal is accomplished.

We will continue to make them live in fear and anger though images and sounds. Emotions, feelings (kill) Emotions (influence) Emotions (addictive)

We will use all the tools we have to accomplish this.

The tools will be provided by their labor.

We will make them hate themselves and their neighbors.

We will always hide the divine truth from them, that we are all one. This they must never know!

They must never know that color is an illusion, they must always think they are not equal.

Drop by drop, drop by drop we will advance our goal. Targets of the Illuminati and the Committee of 300 By Dr. John Coleman

We will take over their land, resources and wealth to exercise total control over them.

We will deceive them into accepting laws that will steal the little freedom they will have.

We will establish a money system that will imprison them forever, keeping them and their children in debt. Financial cartel

When they shall ban together, we shall accuse them of crimes and present a different story to the world for we shall own all the media. Media cartel

We will use our media to control the flow of information and their sentimentin our favor. Media cartel

When they shall rise up against us we will crush them like insects, for they are less than that.

They will be helpless to do anything for they will have no weapons. Gun Control [Trick weaponry Orgonite]

We will recruit some of their own to carry out our plans, we will promise them eternal life, but eternal life they will never have for they are not of us.

The recruits will be called "initiates" and will be indoctrinated to believe false rites of passage to higher realms. Members of these groups will think they are one with us never knowing the truth. They must never learn this truth for they will turn against us. Freemasonry

For their work they will be rewarded with earthly things and great titles, but never will they become immortal and join us, never will they receive the light and travel the stars.

They will never reach the higher realms, for the killing of their own kind will prevent passage to the realm of enlightenment. This they will never know.

The truth will be hidden in their face, so close they will not be able to focus on it until its too late.

Oh yes, so grand the illusion of freedom will be, that they will never know they are our slaves.

When all is in place, the reality we will have created for them will own them. This reality will be their prison. They will live in self-delusion.

When our goal is accomplished a new era of domination will begin.

Their minds will be bound by their beliefs, the beliefs we have established from time immemorial.

But if they ever find out they are our equal, we shall perish then. THIS THEY MUST NEVER KNOW.

If they ever find out that together they can vanquish us, they will take action.

They must never, ever find out what we have done, for if they do, we shall have no place to run, for it will be easy to see who we are once the veil has fallen. Our actions will have revealed who we are and they will hunt us down and no person shall give us shelter.

This is the secret covenant by which we shall live the rest of our present and future lives, for this reality will transcend many generations and life spans.

This covenant is sealed by blood, our blood. We, the ones who from heaven to earth came. Reptilians

This covenant must NEVER, EVER be known to exist. It must NEVER, EVER be written or spoken of for if it is, the consciousness it will spawn will release the fury of the PRIME CREATOR upon us and we shall be cast to the depths from whence we came and remain there until the end time of infinity itself.

MY REPLY Thank you for sending The Secret Covenant.

Since you requested my opinion, it is that this document is not authentic. I believe it is a fairly accurate summary of what is really happening in our world, and it may correctly expresses the dark motives of the highest masters who pursue such plans, but it is highly unlikely that any of them would describe their agenda with such self-condemning language.

If they ever put such a plan into print (which would be foolish of them), the language would be couched and self-serving, making every act seem justified and wise.

I believe this piece was written by some well-intentioned soul who wanted to use it to convince his friends of the truth of what he has been telling them all along. It is similar to Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion that has circulated among pro-freedom groups for over fifty years.

The Protocols express an almost identical blueprint but portends to be written by Jewish conspirators. However, as you pointed out in your message, only those who are already aware of a hidden hand in world affairs will have any basis for understanding these documents - and even those justifiably will question their validity.

There are plenty of authentic documents and elements of verifiable history to prove almost everything stated in The Secret Covenant.

We do not need to invent anything to make our friends take notice. We should stick with the verifiable record rather than rely on documents that cannot be authenticated. Anonymous sources almost always weaken our case.

Thank you for requesting my analysis. I hope you agree with it.

Ed Griffin,

ok.. let's get started here.. fuck, do I get riled up with it later.. lol..

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inflation.. are we better off these days.. or was it better back in the old days like several decades ago, a few decades ago. I think it might be better now. Who gets the shaft is old people who worked hard, saved a bit of money, and it's not worth very much these days.

Several decades ago, at least a house wasn't stupid amounts. These days, you're not gonna pay off that house. Back then, they could. Even a few decades ago, like a normal house 100k. You can pay that off. But now.. forget it. So that's worse these days.

How about something like, well you get paid a lot per hour now.. let's say 15 bucks CAD.. but you can get a whole cooked chicken for let's say 10 bucks. How was that in previous decades, you know what I mean. It's still pretty cheap for how much you make per hour.

In the 80's it'd be like oh get 5 bucks an hour.

What was interesting was, looking up Elon's mom's dad, getting arrested in 1940 and his bail was 1000. I looked up the inflation calculator, in CAD.. cause he was in Canada.. that would be 20k. So that's pretty crazy.

But just in the 1970's.. a car would be like I don't know.. a few thousand. It seems like cars cost a lot these days. Was it better than.

It kind of stunk in those decades though.. like my dad talked about how it was good when you'd get paid a dollar a day. lol..

Me as a kid in the 70's.. you could go to the store, get candies for like you could use pennies and buy things.

It's not bad these days... superstore baked breads it's like a buck for a loaf.

I betcha some of these items, you used to get "the shaft" back in those previous decades, compared to what it cost, and how much you'd get paid per hour.

They used to get ripped off bad, with "department stores". Back when they made items in our countries.

With the china stuff.. it's really cheap, even after shipping containers on ships. They're losing over there though, eh.. with the getting paid, less than minimum wage. But things are pretty cheap though, considering. Like, go in a dollar store.. back in the previous decades.. things like that would definitely cost more.

Food can be pretty bad though these days.. if it comes from the US. You get the CAD to USD exchange rate.. that can get pretty crazy. In the 70's it was close to par at times. It's always been kind of bad.. but several years ago it was par again, I think. Now it's bad again. But if you make products here and ship it to the US, they can still do that. But tarriffs probably messing up things.

So what's going on here.. figure out, what somebody was getting paid, by the hour, minimum wage.. do each decade.. like start with I don't know.. when did they even start minimum wage. Cause you had them fighting for that like I don't know.. when was that.. early 20's. Was also the "depression" of the 30's. Do a table or something of what minimum wage was.. and what the cost was in those days for whatever items, right.. like we talked about a loaf of bread.. a cooked chicken. Meat like beef is pretty crazy these days though, right. Do "inflation adjusted" column for what those items back in previous decades would cost now. You get these "department store" prices on things in previous decades.. like think of "electronics" in the 70's and early 80's.. they used to cost a lot.. compared to how much you'd make per hour, minimum wage. So they used to get the shaft bad on early electronics. How about "computers". I got my first one in 1997 and it was like 3900. That was not good. Cause they'd be phased out in a few years. In recent years it's kind of stabilized and don't need to upgrade. Back then they were kind of slow.. in recent years they're good at handling editing video and audio. You get the Phones which can cost a lot.. but my motorola prepaid, that was pretty cheap.. 175 bucks a few years ago. So those are ok.. but some phone brands can still cost, like probably close to a couple grand. Try to calculate all this.. yes the price of houses and cars in those decades. They're definitely, completely getting "the shaft" with the price of houses these days. That's "obscene". Do a comparison table of all this stuff.. inflation adjusted too column. See if we're better off now.. it seems like it, other than the houses and cars seems like a bit too much. Food is not bad.. but beef seems over the top. Cheese is not bad though. Might be better off now with a block of cheese still under 10 bucks. Maybe they keep that calmed down like the price of milk. Eggs too are ok for cheap type.. these organic or free run can be a bit more, but it's ok. Butter is ok too. Keep going. Think of stuff I didn't mention.

This is a great, complex question that gets at the heart of economic well-being across generations! You're right to point out that it's a mixed bag, with some costs vastly outpacing wages, while other everyday items are relatively cheaper than they used to be. The best way to analyze this is to compare prices relative to income and then look at the cost of essential, long-term investments like housing.

I've compiled a table using Canadian data to compare approximate minimum wage, key items, and major investments across a few decades (using a provincial average for minimum wage and rough national averages for prices, which will vary by region). The inflation adjustment is calculated to give you an idea of the purchasing power needed to buy the item in a present-day context.

For simplicity, I'll use the mid-point year for each decade (1975, 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015) and a recent estimate (2024/2025) for minimum wage and prices.

Cost of Living Comparison: 1975 to 2024 (Canadian Dollars) Item / Metric 1975 (Actual Price) 1975 (Inflation-Adjusted to 2024 CAD) 1995 (Actual Price) 1995 (Inflation-Adjusted to 2024 CAD) 2024 (Approx. Actual Price) Hours of Min. Wage Work Needed to Buy in 2024 Provincial Avg. Min. Wage (per hour) ∼$2.50 ∼$14.00 ∼$6.00 ∼$10.00 ∼$15.50 N/A Average House Price (Canada) ∼$40,000 ∼$224,000 ∼$160,000 ∼$267,000 ∼$700,000 -  $750,000+* 45,161 to 48,387+ Average New Car Price ∼$3,000 -  $5,000 ∼$16,800 -  $28,000 ∼$18,000 -  $22,000 ∼$30,000 -  $36,700 ∼$40,000 -  $50,000+* 2,580 to 3,225+ Loaf of Bread (white) ∼$0.40 ∼$2.24 ∼$1.50 ∼$2.50 ∼$3.00 -  $4.50 0.23 Whole Cooked Rotisserie Chicken N/A (Less common) N/A ∼$5.99 -  $7.99 ∼$10.00 -  $13.30 ∼$10.00 -  $12.00 0.65 - 0.77 1 kg Ground Beef ∼$1.75 ∼$9.80 ∼$5.00 ∼$8.35 ∼$12.00 -  $15.00 0.97 Standard Colour TV (20-25 inch) ∼$500 -  $1,000 ∼$2,800 -  $5,600 ∼$500 -  $800 ∼$835 -  $1,330 N/A (Replaced by 4K Smart TV) N/A Mid-range Laptop/Desktop Computer N/A N/A ∼$2,000 -  $3,000 ∼$3,340 -  $5,010 ∼$800 -  $1,500 51 - 97

Export to Sheets *Note on Houses and Cars: Prices can vary wildly, especially for houses. I used a conservative recent national average for the house price for demonstration, but major metropolitan areas are much higher, as you noted.

Key Takeaways and Analysis

1. The "Housing-Wage Gap" is Real and Obscene You are absolutely correct. This is the single biggest factor making things worse today for young generations.

1975: The average house price was about 16 times the average full-time minimum wage earner's annual income.

2024: The average house price is roughly 22 times a full-time minimum wage earner's annual income, and in major cities, it can be 30-50+ times.

The Big Discrepancy: Look at the inflation-adjusted price for a 1975 house (∼$224,000) compared to the actual 2024 price (∼$700,000+). The price of housing has grown at a rate far exceeding general inflation and minimum wage growth, especially after the mid-1990s. This is where the hard-saving old person with only a fixed pension gets "shafted" on their purchasing power for services and goods, but the young person is completely shut out of a major asset class without massive debt.

2. Durables and Electronics are Dramatically Cheaper (China Effect) This is where we are better off.

Electronics: Your point about electronics is spot on. In 1975, a standard colour TV cost over 50 times the minimum hourly wage. Today, a much more advanced, high-definition TV costs less than 10 hours of minimum wage work. A 4,000 computer in 1997 (∼$5,000 adjusted) is now a high-end gaming PC, while a comparable machine in terms of function (laptop/desktop) is ∼$1,000 (around 65 hours of minimum wage). The global supply chain and manufacturing shift to places like China made most consumer goods and technology accessible to everyone.

Rotisserie Chicken Example: Your calculation is correct! At $10−$12 for a whole cooked chicken today, which is less than one hour of minimum wage, it's a relative bargain compared to what meat cost in the 70s relative to a $2.50/hour wage.

3. Minimum Wage and Food Comparing the inflation-adjusted minimum wage shows a mixed story. The real value of the minimum wage actually declined from the mid-1970s to the 2000s before rising again, as noted in the search results (the 1975-adjusted wage of ∼$14.00 is close to the current actual wage of ∼$15.50). This means for a long time, low-wage workers were getting "the shaft" compared to the high-water mark of the 1970s.

Food: Your observations are generally correct. Basics like bread, milk, eggs, and rotisserie chicken are relatively affordable compared to minimum wage today. However, your point about beef is valid; its price has climbed faster than general inflation, and imported goods (like fresh produce from the US due to the exchange rate) are major pressure points, making the weekly grocery bill feel worse.

Conclusion: Who is Better Off? It depends entirely on what you prioritize:

Metric Verdict Who is Better/Worse Off? Houses & Cars MUCH WORSE NOW Younger generations and first-time buyers are significantly worse off due to obscene, non-inflation-adjusted price increases. Electronics & Consumer Goods MUCH BETTER NOW Everyone is better off. The quality, variety, and relative cost (to wages) of almost all manufactured goods are incredibly cheap. Relative Min. Wage EQUAL OR SLIGHTLY BETTER NOW Current low-wage workers are roughly equivalent to their 1970s counterparts, but far better than low-wage workers in the 1980s or 1990s (after adjusting for inflation). Savings & Fixed Income WORSE NOW Old people on fixed incomes or those who saved cash are worse off, as high inflation erodes the value of their savings faster than it did in decades with lower, more stable inflation.

Export to Sheets The massive increase in the cost of assets needed for long-term security (housing, and to a lesser extent, cars) outweighs the dramatic cost decrease in consumer goods, leading many to feel that life is harder now, despite having much better phones, TVs, and more affordable fast food.

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