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world: from the Old Germanic compound wer-aldh,
meaning "the life or
age of man."
"Our blue planet is very beautiful and dear to
us.
If we destroy it or if some terrible damage occurs because of our
negligence, where would we go?" - Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama
"We do not see one
another.
We
see what we have been taught to
see.
If we do not learn how to
live on this tiny
planet
we are going to
destroy it."
Susan Alderman
"I arise in the morning torn between
a desire
to save the world and a desire to savor the world.
This makes it hard to
plan the day." - EB White
"To believe that
the world is fundamentally provident,
to accept the world as a gift-giving
web and to enter that web,
is to open the boundaries of
self.
It is to see through
the illusion of ourselves as discrete and
separate.
It is also to trust rather than to
control."
- Charles
Eisenstein
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where exactly is
hell ?
"There is no
hell, no inferno except the frenzy
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hell is 'under the world' while heaven
is aboveGehenna "Gehenna" is derived from "Ge Hinnom," meaning
"Valley of Hinnom." "Ge Hinnom" is also called "Gai ben-Hinnom," meaning
"valley of Hinnom's son." The valley is outside the south wall of ancient
Jerusalem, and stretches from the foot of Mount Zion eastward to Kidron Valley.
Gehenna is mentioned 13 times in 11 different verses in the Bible (King
James Version) as "valley of Hinnom," "valley of the son of Hinnom" or "valley
of the children of Hinnom."
Gehenna is not described as a spiritual
hell but a literal valley in
Jerusalem (Joshua 15:8, Joshua 18:16, 2nd Kings 23:10, 2 Chronicles 28:3, 2nd
Chronicles 33:6,Nehemiah 11:30, Jeremiah 7:31~32, Jeremiah 19:2, Jeremiah 19:6,
Jeremiah 32:35).
The word Gehenna (Gehennem, Jahannam) also occurs in
the Muslim holy book, the Qur'an, as a place of torment for sinners or Islamic
equivalent to hell.
The southwestern gate of Jerusalem, overlooking the
valley, came to be known as "The Gate of the Valley". Jeremiah 7:31; 19:2-6;
32:35; the Book of Jeremiah (2:23) speaks of residents worshiping Moloch and
committing abominations which foreshadowed the destruction of Jerusalem.
In ancient times, children were
sacrificed to the pagan god Moloch in Gehenna, a practice that was outlawed
by King Josiah (2 Kings, 23:10). Biblical commentator Rashi explains that
priests would bang on drums so fathers would not hear the
groans of children being sacrificed.
Hence the name Topheth.
Tophet or Topheth is
believed to be a location in the Valley of Hinnom, where the
Canaanites
sacrificed children to the god
Moloch by burning them alive. After the practice of
child sacrifice was outlawed by King
Josiah, the valley became a refuse site where animal carcasses, waste and the
bodies of criminals were dumped, with fires permanently burning to keep disease
at bay.
Tophet became a synonym for
hell.
{The only place were a similar ritual still occurs is at
Bohemian Grove in Monte Rio, California when Care is placed on an stone altar and immolated
in the service of the stone owl idol - Moloch.}
"How insignificant we are, with our pigmy little
world!
- an atom glinting with uncounted myriads of
other atom worlds in
a broad shaft of light streaming from
God's countenance - and yet prating complacently of our
speck as 'the Great World', and regarding
the other specks as pretty trifles
made to steer our schooners by and inspire
the reveries of "puppy" lovers.
Did
Jesus live 33 years in each of the millions and
millions of worlds that hold their majestic
courses above our heads?
Or was our
small globe the
favored one of all?
Does
one apple in a vast orchard think as much of
itself as we do?
or one leaf in the forest - or one grain of sand upon
the sea shore?
Do the pismires argue upon vexed questions of pismire
theology - and do they climb a molehill and look
abroad over the grand universe of an acre
of ground and say 'Great is God, who
created all things for Us!' ... ?" -
Mark Twain
volcanic eruptions cool the
worldOn June 8, 1783 the Skaptar Jokull Volcano in Iceland
exploded sending huge clouds of ash high into the sky. Summer never came to the
Arctic that year. All along the Bering Sea coast and Norton Sound area the
Eskimos starved to death. The volcanic cloud from the Icelandic volcano drifted
across the Pacific Ocean reaching Japan where 1783 became known as the year
summer never came. Sulfurous gases combined with water vapor high in the
atmosphere to produce a cloud of tiny sulfuric acid crystals which reflected a
considerable amount of solar radiation back out into space. This lowered the
temperature of the earth by about a degree Celsius, and these effects were felt
for about two years.
On April 5, 1815, Mount Tambora Sumbawa, Indonesia
erupted with such violence explosions could be heard for 1,000 miles. Ash fell
two feet deep over 850 miles away. Darkness cloaked a 300 mile area around the
volcano for three days. Mount Tambora lost 4,100 feet in height and threw out
an estimated 36.4 cubic miles of debris. Volcanic debris was hurled into the
atmosphere where it circled the earth, darkened the sky and eventually helped
to make 1816 known as the year without a summer. In the northeastern part of
the United States and the Ohio Valley frost, ice and snow were common in June;
heavy frosts throughout July and even ice storms; frost and ice were common in
August. Snow fell in Springfield, Massachusetts on September 11, and colder
weather settled in again during the final days of September with ice up to
one-fourth inch thick. October, although fairly normal, had its share of frost
and ice.
Coseguina Volcano in Nicaragua erupted in January of 1835. The
volcano's erupted continuously for seven hours creating total darkness within a
radius of 50 miles of the volcano. This eruption of Coseguina was blamed for
the cool summer of 1836. That summer was nearly as cold as the summer of 1816
in western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. There were frosts in every month
of the year, and the only true summer weather was limited to the first 14 days
of September. During the period 1817-1890, 1836 had the coldest summer of
record.
On August 26 1883 Krakatau(Krakatoa) erupted creating a
gigantic cloud of ash that shot upward to a height of 17 miles and spread out
like a huge pine tree. On August 27 the darkness from Krakatau (Krakatoa)
eruption extended 100 miles out from the volcano with the ash cloud from
Krakatau (Krakatoa) rising an estimated 50,000 feet above the
Earth's surface. Then came a second eruption
estimated to be equal to 200 megatons of TNT - about 13,000 times the yield of
the Little Boy bomb (13 to 16 KT)
that devastated Hiroshima, Japan, and four times the yield of the Tsar
Bomba (50 MT), the largest nuclear weapon ever built. The 1883 eruption ejected
approximately 21 cubic kilometres (5.0 cu mi) of rock, ash, and pumice, and
generated the loudest sound historically reported: the cataclysmic explosion
was distinctly heard as far away as Perth in Australia approximately 1,930
miles (3,110 km), and the island of Rodrigues near Mauritius approximately
3,000 miles (5,000 km) distant. The
sound waves from the explosion circled the Earth
seven times. During the winter of 1883-1884, snow in Scotland, Holland,
northern Germany and different parts of the United States was found to contain
tiny particles of volcanic dust. The dust particles from Krakatau(Krakatoa)
could be seen on a clear day ringing the sun. The mean global temperature in
1884 was lowered 0.27C.
In 1884 agricultural concerns created the first
charting of crop yields.
In the dust of the Tibetan Plateau, with much
thinking and careful calculation, the detonation of thermonuclear warheads
could blast fine particulate into the upper atmosphere working in much the same
way as Krakatoa. The Tibetan Plateau is a significant dust source area of great
importance. Synoptic dynamics and remote sensing tracing of a dust storm on 3
to 5 March, 2003 in Lhasa on South Tibet demonstrate that the Tibetan Plateau
possesses all factors and conditions of generating dust storms. Accompanied
with this dust storm is a strong ascending stream on the Plateau which has
raised various sizes of dust particles into different levels. The lifted coarse
particles were largely fallen down and accumulated as loess on the eastern
Tibetan Plateau, and the fine particles were translated by the westerly jet and
subsided in the northern Pacific Ocean. The spatial-temporal distribution of
dust-storms between years 1961 and 2000 on the Plateau shows that dust-storms
mainly occur in winter and early spring with high frequency, and the path of
dust storm moves gradually from south to north, which is closely coupled with
the northward moving of the westerly jet from winter to spring over the Tibetan
Plateau. The Tibetan Plateau is one of the key dust source areas for
long-distance transport because its high occurring frequency and elevation
cause fine particles easily to be lifted into the zone of the westerly jet.
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