"and what were miracles but the divine hand of God at work upon the earth?"

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The Simpsons Season 12 Episode 7

The Great Money Caper

Aired Sunday 8:00 PM Dec 10, 2000 on FOX

AIRED: 12/10/00



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Springfield! Springfield!


The Simpsons

The Great Money Caper


How'd you get wise to us?

[ Grandpa Simpson: ] Are you kiddin'? They used to call me Grifty McGrift. I wrote the book on flimflammin'.

Wow! He did!

[ Grandpa Simpson: ] Yeah. In the Depression, you had to grift. Either that or work.

So what's the pitch, old man?

[ Grandpa Simpson: ] Team up with me, boys and we'll go for the biggest honey pot of'em all!

[Gasps] Oh, my God! I don't know. Fleecin' old people?

[ Grandpa Simpson: ] Oh, why not? If we don't take their money, they'll just give it to some televangelist.










From 4/21/1926 ( my biological paternal grandmother Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II ) To 10/25/1954 ( premiere US TV series episode "Big Town"::"Semper Fi" ) is 10414 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 5/8/1994 is 10414 days



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Stephen King's The Stand

Season 1, Episode 1

The Plague

Air Date

Sunday May 8, 1994










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Stephen King

The Stand - The Complete & Uncut Edition


Chapter 52


And then the weasels were scattering, they had run squeaking into the night, leaving the contents of the sack half-devoured, and she thought exultantly: God has saved me after all! Praise His Name! God has saved His good and faithful servant.

Not God, old woman. Me.










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


Retroactive continuity

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Overview

There are various motivations for applying retroactive continuity. The changes may occur to accommodate sequels or derivative works, allowing newer authors or creators to revise the diegetic (in-story) history to include a course of events that would not have been possible in the story's original continuity. Retcons allow for authors to reintroduce popular characters and resolve errors in chronology.










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Springfield! Springfield!


Queen, The (2006)


Tony, Robin Janvrin on One.
He was listening in.
Robin?
I understand how difficult
her behaviour must seem to you,
but try and see it
from her perspective.
She's been brought up
to believe it's God's will.










http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=10201

The American Presidency Project

Dwight D. Eisenhower

XXXIV President of the United States: 1953-1961

72 - Radio and Television Address to the American People on the State of the Nation.

April 5, 1954

[Delivered from the Broadcast Room of the White House at 8:30 p.m.]


But I say, again, that it is the American belief in decency and justice and progress, and the value of individual liberty, because of the rights conferred upon each of us ,by our Creator, that will carry us through, as we study and plan these things. There must be something in the heart as well as in the head. So as we do this, as you and I approach our problems in this way, I assure you we don't have to fear. I don't mean to say, and no one can say to you, that there are no dangers. Of course there are risks, if we are not vigilant. But we do not have to be hysterical. We can be vigilant. We can be Americans. We can stand up and hold up our heads and say: America is the greatest force that God has ever allowed to exist on His footstool.










http://www.chakoteya.net/movies/movie6.html

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)


VALERIS: We must inform Starfleet Command.

SCOTT: Inform them of what? A new weapon that is invisible? Raving lunatics, that's what they'll call us! They'll say that we're so desperate to exonerate the Captain that we'll say anything.

SPOCK: And they would be correct. We have no evidence. Only a theory, which happens to fit the facts.










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George III of the United Kingdom

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until the union of the two countries on 1 January 1801, after which he was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until his death. He was concurrently Duke and prince-elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg ("Hanover") in the Holy Roman Empire until his promotion to King of Hanover on 12 October 1814. He was the third British monarch of the House of Hanover, but unlike his two predecessors he was born in Britain, spoke English as his first language, and never visited Hanover.

His life and reign, which were longer than any other British monarch before him, were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. Early in his reign, Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War, becoming the dominant European power in North America and India. However, many of Britain's American colonies were soon lost in the American Revolutionary War.


American War of Independence

Main articles: American Revolution and American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War was the culmination of the civil and political American Revolution resulting from the American Enlightenment. Brought to a head over the lack of American representation in Parliament, which was seen as a denial of their rights as Englishmen and often popularly focused on direct taxes levied by Parliament on the colonies without their consent, the colonists resisted the imposition of direct rule after the Boston Tea Party. Creating self-governing provinces, they circumvented the British ruling apparatus in each colony by 1774. Armed conflict between British regulars and colonial militiamen broke out at the Battles of Lexington and Concord in April 1775. After petitions to the Crown for intervention with Parliament were ignored, the rebel leaders were declared traitors by the Crown and a year of fighting ensued. The colonies declared their independence in July 1776, listing grievances against the British king and legislature while asking the support of the populace. Among George's other offences, the Declaration charged, "He has abdicated Government here ... He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people." The gilded equestrian statue of George III in New York was pulled down. The British captured the city in 1776, but lost Boston, and the grand strategic plan of invading from Canada and cutting off New England failed with the surrender of the British Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga.

George III is often accused of obstinately trying to keep Great Britain at war with the revolutionaries in America, despite the opinions of his own ministers. In the words of the Victorian author George Trevelyan, the King was determined "never to acknowledge the independence of the Americans, and to punish their contumacy by the indefinite prolongation of a war which promised to be eternal." The King wanted to "keep the rebels harassed, anxious, and poor, until the day when, by a natural and inevitable process, discontent and disappointment were converted into penitence and remorse". However, more recent historians defend George by saying in the context of the times no king would willingly surrender such a large territory, and his conduct was far less ruthless than contemporary monarchs in Europe. After Saratoga, both Parliament and the British people were in favour of the war; recruitment ran at high levels and although political opponents were vocal, they remained a small minority. With the setbacks in America, Prime Minister Lord North asked to transfer power to Lord Chatham, whom he thought more capable, but George refused to do so; he suggested instead that Chatham serve as a subordinate minister in Lord North's administration, but Chatham refused to cooperate. He died later in the same year. In early 1778, France (Britain's chief rival) signed a treaty of alliance with the United States and the conflict escalated. The United States and France were soon joined by Spain and the Dutch Republic, while Britain had no major allies of its own. Lord Gower and Lord Weymouth both resigned from the government. Lord North again requested that he also be allowed to resign, but he stayed in office at George III's insistence. Opposition to the costly war was increasing, and in June 1780 contributed to disturbances in London known as the Gordon Riots.

As late as the Siege of Charleston in 1780, Loyalists could still believe in their eventual victory, as British troops inflicted heavy defeats on the Continental forces at the Battle of Camden and the Battle of Guilford Court House. In late 1781, the news of Lord Cornwallis's surrender at the Siege of Yorktown reached London; Lord North's parliamentary support ebbed away and he resigned the following year. The King drafted an abdication notice, which was never delivered, finally accepted the defeat in North America, and authorised peace negotiations. The Treaties of Paris, by which Britain recognised the independence of the American states and returned Florida to Spain, were signed in 1782 and 1783.










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Christ myth theory

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Christ myth theory (also known as the Jesus myth theory, Jesus mythicism or simply mythicism) is the hypothesis that Jesus of Nazareth never existed; or if he did, that he had virtually nothing to do with the founding of Christianity and the accounts in the gospels. The Christ myth theory contradicts the mainstream view in historical Jesus research, which accepts that there are events described in the gospels that are not historical but which still assumes that the gospels are founded on a basic historical core.

Different proponents espouse slightly different versions of the Christ myth theory, but many proponents of the theory use a three-fold argument first developed in the 19th century:

that the New Testament has no historical value

that there are no non-Christian references to Jesus Christ dating back to the first century

that Christianity had pagan or mythical roots.


Notable proponents


20th century

During the early 20th century, several writers published arguments against Jesus' historicity, often drawing on the work of liberal theologians, who tended to deny any value to sources for Jesus outside the New Testament, and limited their attention to Mark and the hypothetical Q source. They also made use of the growing field of religious history which found sources for Christian ideas in Greek and Oriental mystery cults, rather than Judaism. Joseph Klausner wrote that biblical scholars "tried their hardest to find in the historic Jesus something which is not Judaism; but in his actual history they have found nothing of this whatever, since this history is reduced almost to zero. It is therefore no wonder that at the beginning of this century there has been a revival of the eighteenth and nineteenth century view that Jesus never existed."

The work of social anthropologist Sir James George Frazer has had an influence on various myth theorists, although Frazer himself believed that Jesus existed. In 1890 he published the first edition of The Golden Bough which attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief. This work became the basis of many later authors who argued that the story of Jesus was a fiction created by Christians. After a number of people claimed that he was a myth theorist, in the 1913 expanded edition of The Golden Bough Frazer expressly stated that his theory assumed a historical Jesus.

In 1900, Scottish MP John Mackinnon Robertson argued that Jesus never existed but was an invention by a first-century messianic cult. In Robertson's view, religious groups invent new gods to fit the needs of the society of the time.










http://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar-eclipse-myths.html

timeanddate.com


Myths and Superstitions Around Solar Eclipses

Solar eclipses have caused fear, inspired curiosity and have been associated with myths, legends and superstitions throughout history. Even today, an eclipse of the Sun is considered a bad omen in many cultures.

Ancient cultures tried to understand why the Sun temporarily vanished from the Sky, so they came up with various reasons for what caused a solar eclipse.


Angry Sun

The ancient Greeks believed that a solar eclipse was a sign of angry gods and that it was the beginning of disasters and destruction.










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


Jesus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jesus (7–2 BC to AD 30–33), also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Christ, is the central figure of Christianity


In all four gospels, Mary Magdalene goes to Jesus' tomb on Sunday morning and is surprised to find it empty. Jesus, she learns, has risen from the dead. Despite Jesus' teaching, the disciples hadn't understood that Jesus would rise again. After the discovery of the empty tomb, Jesus makes a series of appearances to the disciples.










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


Christianity

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as presented in the New Testament. Christianity is the world's largest religion, with over 2.4 billion adherents, known as Christians. Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the savior of humanity whose coming as Christ or the Messiah was prophesied in the Old Testament.


Jesus


The central tenet of Christianity is the belief in Jesus as the Son of God and the Messiah (Christ). Christians believe that Jesus, as the Messiah, was anointed by God as savior of humanity, and hold that Jesus' coming was the fulfillment of messianic prophecies of the Old Testament. The Christian concept of the Messiah differs significantly from the contemporary Jewish concept. The core Christian belief is that through belief in and acceptance of the death and resurrection of Jesus, sinful humans can be reconciled to God and thereby are offered salvation










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Obsessive–compulsive disorder

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder where people feel the need to check things repeatedly, perform certain routines repeatedly (called "rituals"), or have certain thoughts repeatedly. People are unable to control either the thoughts or the activities. Common activities include hand washing, counting of things, and checking to see if a door is locked. Some may have difficulty throwing things out. These activities occur to such a degree that the person's daily life is negatively affected. Often they take up more than an hour a day. Most adults realize that the behaviors do not make sense. The condition is associated with tics, anxiety disorder


Treatment for OCD involves the use of behavioral therapy and sometimes selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). The type of behavior therapy used involves increasing exposure to what causes the problems while not allowing the repetitive behavior to occur. While clomipramine appears to work as well as SSRIs it has greater side effects. Atypical antipsychotics may be useful when used in addition to an SSRI in treatment-resistant cases but are also associated with an increased risk of side effects. Without treatment, the condition often lasts decades.










http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1512/18/cnr.02.html

CNN


TRANSCRIPTS


CNN NEWSROOM

Obama Year-End News Conference; Mother Teresa A Saint; Feds Join Hunt for "Affluenza" Teen; "Concussion" Controversy: New Film Takes on Issue of NFL Head Trauma. Aired 9:30-10a ET

Aired December 18, 2015 - 09:30 ET


And the Catholic Church will soon have another saint. Pope Francis now recognizing a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, paving her way to sainthood. CNN Vatican correspondent Delia Gallagher live for us today in Rome with more.

[09:35:03] I would say it's about time.

DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: Well, yes, great celebrations in India happening today. The archbishop said they had been waiting a long time for this announcement, Poppy. The pope approving the second miracle required in order to make Mother Teresa a saint. The Vatican's not releasing the details of that miracle, but according to the Italian bishop's newspaper, it has to do with a Brazilian man who back in 2008 was apparently spontaneously cured of several brain tumors. This is in addition to an Indian woman in 2002 who was also apparently cured of tumors on the abdomen. That was the first miracle










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder


Obsessive–compulsive disorder

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Signs and symptoms

Obsessions

Main article: Intrusive thought

Obsessions are thoughts that recur and persist despite efforts to ignore or confront them. People with OCD frequently perform tasks, or compulsions, to seek relief from obsession-related anxiety. Within and among individuals, the initial obsessions, or intrusive thoughts, vary in their clarity and vividness. A relatively vague obsession could involve a general sense of disarray or tension accompanied by a belief that life cannot proceed as normal while the imbalance remains.


Compulsions

Main article: Compulsive behavior

Some people with OCD perform compulsive rituals because they inexplicably feel they have to, others act compulsively so as to mitigate the anxiety that stems from particular obsessive thoughts. The person might feel that these actions somehow either will prevent a dreaded event from occurring, or will push the event from their thoughts. In any case, the individual's reasoning is so idiosyncratic or distorted that it results in significant distress for the individual with OCD or for those around them.










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CNN


TRANSCRIPTS

CNN NEWSROOM

Pope Francis's Last Celebration of Mass in the United States. Aired 4-5p ET

Aired September 27, 2015 - 16:00 ET


POPE FRANCIS: Let us pray. Lord -- lord God, manifest your almighty power










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_disorder


Obsessive–compulsive disorder

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Management


Medication

The medications most frequently used are the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). Clomipramine, a medication belonging to the class of tricyclic antidepressants appears to work as well as SSRIs but has a higher rate of side effects.

SSRIs are a second line treatment of adult obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) with mild functional impairment and as first line treatment for those with moderate or severe impairment. In children, SSRIs can be considered as a second line therapy in those with moderate-to-severe impairment, with close monitoring for psychiatric adverse effects. SSRIs are efficacious in the treatment of OCD; people treated with SSRIs are about twice as likely to respond to treatment as those treated with placebo. Efficacy has been demonstrated both in short-term (6–24 weeks) treatment trials and in discontinuation trials with durations of 28–52 weeks.

In 2006, the National Institute of Clinical and Health Excellence (NICE) guidelines recommended anti-psychotics for OCD that does not improve with SSRI treatment.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 7:57 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 03 May 2016