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Stone Kingdom Ministries Tabernacles Bible Conference
Our third annual Sweetwater Tabernacles Bible Conference will be held the weekend of September 24-26, 2010 at the same location as last year, Sweetwater, Tennessee. Make your reservations now. Confirmed speakers include: Rob Corry, Stephen Jones, Ron Oja, Allen Snow and James Bruggeman.
Our Conference will be held at the Magnuson Hotel off I-75 at exit 60 (midway between Knoxville and Chattanooga, nearest major airports).The location is a lovely, affordable, rural setting away from the (sometimes insane) hustle and
bustle of major cities. Come be refreshed in body, soul and spirit and breathe the crisp autumn air in the peaceful foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Please pre-register with us (see form below), then make your own hotel reservations with the Magnuson by calling 423-337-3541. The owner is a gracious lady named Millie Burton. Be sure to mention you are coming for the Stone Kingdom Ministries conference and ask for our special Group Rate of only $59/per night for a room with two double beds for one or two persons (or one king-size, upon request). Extra adult in same room @ $10/night/each. Free breakfast buffet and free supper buffet. You can find pictures of the facility, a map and other features of the hotel online at <http://www.magnusonhotels.com/magnuson-hotel-sweetwater>. The pool is heated and indoor under a canopied atrium.
We will commence the teaching on Friday morning at 10 a.m. and, with ample time for meals, we will go into the evening hours. Ditto Saturday. On Sunday, we will probably conclude in the late afternoon. If you wish to arrive at the hotel on Thursday evening and leave on Monday morning—as many did last year—owner Millie Burton will honor the group rates for those nights as well. As with our conferences elsewhere, we will audio and video-record the main talks, but there will also be unrecorded sessions to allow for a freer flow of information and ample time for fellowship. (The canopied atrium is ideal for that.) No other recording is permitted.
Carrie Somerfield (from our SK-Tennessee Fellowship) will conduct a Healing Oils of the Bible Seminar at some point during the conference. Attendees will be able to sniff and even sample a drop of the dozen or so essential oils which were used in Old and early New Testament times for healing the sick. The oils—including frankincense, myrrh, spikenard, myrtle, hyssop, cedarwood, etc.—are a powerful gift from God for physical, mental-emotional and spiritual healing even today.
Heart and circulatory problems are a virtual plague on our people. I believe there is an answer to prevent or reverse those problems. As we did last year, we will have two people, Mike Farris (from our SK-Atlanta Fellowship) and Carol Cooper (from our SK-Tennessee Fellowship) at a table doing DPA Screening. DPA is Digital Pulsewave Analysis and it is a painless, 5-minute test that will give you a good “snapshot” of the relative health of your heart and circulation system. Mike and Carol will also tell you about the L-arginine product which I take which has dramatically improved my circulation. I plan to have another re-check with the DPA. Those of you who had the DPA done last year and have been on the product might also want to get a progress DPA check.
To be fair to all and avoid hurt feelings, our policy is that only the invited speakers and presenters are permitted to display their products. We realize many people have their favorite product, MLM, or publication and I do not like to be a “hard nose” by refusing you at the conference, so please understand the policy in advance. Of course, outside the conference premises, promote, sell, or recruit as you wish—that’s your right.
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Dr. Bruggeman asks:
Is the Mideast conflagration foretold
by the prophet Jeremiah near?
Israel stations nuclear missile subs off Iran
By Uzi Mahnaimi in Tel Aviv From The (London) Sunday Times Online Edition, May 30, 2010
Three German-built Israeli submarines equipped with nuclear cruise missiles are to be deployed in the Gulf near the Iranian coastline.
The first has been sent in response to Israeli fears that ballistic missiles developed by Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, a political and military organisation in Lebanon, could hit sites in Israel, including air bases and missile launchers. (For the rest of the story, click here. If it has been purged, we have it stored here.)
The submarines of Flotilla 7 — Dolphin, Tekuma and Leviathan — have visited the Gulf before. But the decision has now been taken to ensure a permanent presence of at least one of the vessels.
The flotilla’s commander, identified only as “Colonel O”, told an Israeli newspaper: “We are an underwater assault force. We’re operating deep and far, very far, from our borders.”
Each of the submarines has a crew of 35 to 50, commanded by a colonel capable of launching a nuclear cruise missile.
The vessels can remain at sea for about 50 days and stay submerged up to 1,150ft below the surface for at least a week. Some of the cruise missiles are equipped with the most advanced nuclear warheads in the Israeli arsenal.
The deployment is designed to act as a deterrent, gather intelligence and potentially to land Mossad agents. “We’re a solid base for collecting sensitive information, as we can stay for a long time in one place,” said a flotilla officer.
The submarines could be used if Iran continues its programme to produce a nuclear bomb. “The 1,500km range of the submarines’ cruise missiles can reach any target in Iran,” said a navy officer.
Apparently responding to the Israeli activity, an Iranian admiral said: “Anyone who wishes to do an evil act in the Persian Gulf will receive a forceful response from us.”
Israel’s urgent need to deter the Iran-Syria-Hezbollah alliance was demonstrated last month. Ehud Barak, the defence minister, was said to have shown President Barack Obama classified satellite images of a convoy of ballistic missiles leaving Syria on the way to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister, will emphasise the danger to Obama in Washington this week.
Tel Aviv, Israel’s business and defence centre, remains the most threatened city in the world, said one expert. “There are more missiles per square foot targeting Tel Aviv than any other city,” he said.
END OF STORY
Commentary by Dr. Bruggeman:
If the Middle East goes crazy and ignites in a nuclear conflagration, not only will it bring untold deaths in that region of the world, but it is likely to threaten lives of many around the globe by reason of the radioactive fallout carried by weather patterns. In short, the fallout can cause your thyroid gland to “burn out” and unless you have a steady supply of thyroxin(e), you will succumb within a short time.
We have been urging people to have a supply of potassium iodate (KIO3 ) on hand, should such an event happen. You can order it from us, but do not wait until a nuclear event happens because then it will be too late. One bottle is enough for two adults—but it is ONLY to be taken in a nuclear emergency.
(Complete instructions and a free CD accompanies each order. The CD is a 30 minute discussion / interview I had with the manufacturer some years back. Except for the headlines about the threat, the dosage, when to take it, how long potassium iodate can be stored, differences between potassium iodide and iodate, etc. are all still valid. Order here.)
Stone Kingdom Going on the Radio!
Beginning Sunday evening, May 16, 2010, Stone Kingdom Ministries is going on the air to North America! This is a means of outreach which we have considered a number of times over the years. We feel that now is the time for this message to be heard by a much larger audience—the message of God’s Plan (in progress for the past 2,000 years) to use Christianized- Israel to bring the good news of the ultimate salvation of all to all.
Our broadcast can be heard on Sunday evenings at 11 p.m. Eastern, 10 p.m. Central on WWCR (Worldwide Christian Radio). This is a shortwave (SW) station which is one of the industry leaders, broadcasting on four transmitters which cover various portions of the globe. Our program, “Feed My Sheep,” will be broadcast at the frequency of 5.890 mHz on the SW band and has coverage over most of North America.
We are starting small—one hour, once a week—sponsoring it ourselves. Our hope is to find businesses who will want to advertise so that we can grow the voice trumpeting God’s Stone Kingdom on the airwaves. Obviously, we also welcome donations from individuals who are willing to help underwrite the costs (see box below). Finally, we are in the process of researching to find quality shortwave radios to offer to you through this website. We should have that information within days. We are very excited about this new outreach. Please pray that this gospel of God’s plan to save all will bear much fruit for His Kingdom.
Antony Flew, Philosopher and Ex-Atheist, Dies at 87
[NOTE: All boldface and underlining emphases (except underlined hyperlinks) are by me. These emphasized portions provide the interface for my commentary—Dr. James Bruggeman]
Here is the source link, but we have reproduced the entire story below for the sake of my commentary: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/arts/17flew.html?ref=obituaries
By William Grimes Published: April 16, 2010
Antony Flew, an English philosopher and outspoken atheist who stunned and dismayed the unbelieving faithful when he announced in 2004 that God probably did exist, died April 8 in Reading, England. He was 87 and lived in Reading. His death was confirmed by Roy Abraham Varghese, with whom he wrote “There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind,” published in 2007.
Mr. Flew, the son of a Methodist minister, embraced atheism as a teenager. “It just seemed flatly inconsistent to say that the universe was created by an omnipotent and perfectly good being,” he told The Sunday Times of London in 2004. “Yet there were evils in abundance which could not be put down to a consequence of human sin.”
[Aha! There it is. Flew is another example of many brilliant men (including Bertrand Russell and Thomas Paine) who rejected God because what “religion” taught about God did not make sense to them. Flew’s sentiments expressed in the previous paragraph are but another way of positing the supreme question—the seeming paradox—that nearly all deep-thinking individuals encounter at some point in their lives. It is the question that philosophers and theologians have grappled with for centuries: the simultaneous existence of horrendous evils and an omnipotent, omniscient God.
However, this same God did not leave us without the answer to this dilemma. The solution to the paradox is in His Word, the holy Christian Bible. I, of course, was not the first, but I have set forth this solution to that troublesome enigma in my book, Sacred Secrets of the Sovereignty of God. This solution, oddly enough, is not a solution which a lot of “church folks” and their leaders want to hear! Why? Apparently because they do not like the idea of God’s salvation being universally applied to all. Because God’s end-game is summed up in the phrase shouted out at the end-of-the children’s game, “all-ee, all-ee in free!” Hmmm...did not Jesus say that “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven,” (Matthew 18:3)? Children understand the concept of all-ee, all-ee in free. Why can’t “religious” adults accept it? Obviously, it was not in the Father’s plan for Mr. Flew to find this solution to the paradox, but rather to spend his life looking for reasons to justify his rejection of God.]
The rejection of religious faith, he said, was the start of his career as a philosopher. His philosophical interests were wide. He was an expert on the Scottish philosopher David Hume, about whom he wrote the indispensable “Hume’s Philosophy of Belief” (1961). But in more than 30 books he also explored topics as varied as evolutionary ethics, psychic phenomena, logic, education, crime and egalitarianism.
He was best known, however, for his books arguing against the existence of God and for atheistic principles. “Theology and Falsification,” a short paper presented to the Socratic Club at Oxford and published in 1950, brought him immediate attention. In a little more than 1,000 words, it argued that the idea of God is philosophically meaningless, since it cannot be falsified — that is, believers cannot posit an instance that would cause them to deny the existence of God. Genuine assertions, by contrast, can be falsified.
Mr. Flew elaborated his thinking about atheism and religious belief in “God and Philosophy” (1966), “The Presumption of Atheism” (1976) and “Atheistic Humanism” (1993).
In 2004, however, he announced on a DVD titled “Has Science Discovered God?” that research on DNA and what he believed to be inconsistencies in the Darwinian account of evolution had forced him to reconsider his views. DNA research, he said, “has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved.”
In “There Is a God” he explained that he now believed in a supreme intelligence, removed from human affairs but responsible for the intricate workings of the universe. In other words, the divine watchmaker imagined by deists like Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.
In a letter to The Sunday Telegraph of London in 2004, he described “the God in whose existence I have belatedly come to believe” as “most emphatically not the eternally rewarding and eternally torturing God of either Christianity or Islam but the God of Aristotle that he would have defined — had Aristotle actually produced a definition of his (and my) God — as the first initiating and sustaining cause of the universe.”
[Here again we have the truth-seeker, Mr. Flew, rejecting as nonsensical what he heard being taught in Christianity as the reality of the character of the Creator of the universe; namely, that He would eternally torture some (the vast majority) of His creatures. We, too, reject eternal torture as nonsense. That is not our Father’s character! The seminaries, theologians, priests and ministers have taught falsely for centuries about our just and loving heavenly Father. For the Bible truth on this subject, obtain our 10-lecture series entitled It’s Hell...or Nothing! It is currently available as a CD album. This lecture series will be the basic kernel of our forthcoming follow-up book to Sacred Secrets of the Sovereignty of God—which is currently many months yet from going to press.]
Antony Garrard Newton Flew was born on Feb. 11, 1923, in London. During World War II he did intelligence work for the Royal Air Force and spent a year learning Japanese at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
At St. John’s College, Oxford, where he received a master’s degree in 1949, he studied under Gilbert Ryle, whose linguistic approach to philosophical problems, derived from Wittgenstein, was a decisive influence. At the Socratic Club he also engaged in spirited debate with C. S. Lewis, the renowned Christian apologist.
After lecturing in philosophy at Oxford and the University of Aberdeen, Mr. Flew accepted a professorship at the University College of North Staffordshire (now Keele University) in 1954. He taught at the University of Reading from 1973 until his retirement in 1982.
Early in his career he edited some of the first anthologies of analytic philosophy, notably the series “Logic and Language” and “Essays in Conceptual Analysis” (1956), and wrote “An Introduction to Western Philosophy” (1971), widely used in classrooms. In 1952 he married Annis Harty, who survives him, as do their two daughters.
Mr. Flew was a mild-mannered polemicist, respectful of his opponents and driven, as he often said, by simple curiosity and a determination to go where the facts led him. An early work, “A New Approach to Psychical Research” (1953), suggests an instinctive attraction to the inexplicable.
Politically, he was a conservative libertarian, opposed to immigration, egalitarianism and the European Union. He explored some of these interests in “Crime or Disease?” (1973), “Sociology, Equality and Education” (1976) and “The Politics of Procrustes: Contradictions of Enforced Equality” (1981).
Although rumors had been circulating for several years that Mr. Flew had begun to question his atheism, “There Is a God” came as a shock. For Christian apologists, it was a welcome counterblast to recent antireligious best sellers like “God Is Not Great” by Christopher Hitchens, “The God Delusion” by Richard Dawkins and “Letter to a Christian Nation” by Sam Harris.
Some reviewers found Mr. Flew’s reasoning less than impressive. “Far from strengthening the case for the existence of God,” Anthony Gottlieb wrote in The New York Times Book Review, the book “rather weakens the case for the existence of Antony Flew.”
A long article in The New York Times Magazine by Mark Oppenheimer suggested that Mr. Flew, his mental faculties in decline, had been manipulated by his co-author and other Christian proselytizers. Mr. Flew, in a statement issued through his publisher, reaffirmed the views expressed in the book, which did not include belief in an afterlife.
“I want to be dead when I’m dead and that’s an end to it,” he told The Sunday Times of London. “I don’t want an unending life. I don’t want anything without end.”
[True to form, isn’t it, how the detractors of the glorious gospel cannot tolerate one who was formerly one of their own finding at least a some faith in the Father? They resort to suggesting that Mr. Flew flew to faith in the Father only as a result of his supposedly deteriorating mental faculties. ...Which implies that all believers are mentally impaired. In desiring oblivion after death, Mr. Flew has inadvertently desired the actual biblical reality: when he dies; he will be dead—which is contrary to what most of Christianity teaches. They aver that when you die, you go on living in heaven or hell. Mr. Flew got his wish. He is dead and the Bible says:...the dead know not any thing...” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Thus, Mr. Flew will “rest in peace,” in a state of non-existence until the Father calls him forth at the “great white throne judgment” (Revelation 20:5). I would be curious to see Mr. Flew’s facial expression when he awakens in the resurrection. Will he say, “Doggone it, this isn’t what I want; send me back to oblivion (which is theologically known as Final Annihilation, also covered in my It’s Hell...or Nothing! album).”? I doubt he will say that. Rather, he will surely be grateful that he was wrong and that the Father’s Plan is so wondrously perfect!]
Free Will and Backward Causality
by Jo Anne Mead
For those of you who have read Dr. Bruggeman’s Sacred Secrets of the Sovereignty of God, you might be interested in an article that appeared in the April 2010 Discover magazine titled, “Back from the Future, Does the universe have a destiny—and could the laws of physics be pulling us inexorably toward our prewritten fate?”
If you believe as I do that God’s sovereignty is total and that He controls every aspect of our lives, then it appears that science is now bumping up against the idea that perhaps we do not have “free will” after all—that the future—destiny—is affecting our present.
Believing in God’s sovereignty for the past twenty plus years, I have wondered about His control over my decisions and actions. I have blithely imagined that He looked upon me much like a pawn on a chessboard. I thought that when He wanted me to make a particular decision or perform a particular action, that He simply created the desire within me to decide or to act in accordance with His objective.
However, it now appears that science is challenging my simplistic concept of how God influences us. Corroboration of God’s sovereignty has suddenly come from an unexpected source. After reading of the experiments conducted by physicists Jeff Tollaksen and Yakir Aharonov in the above referenced article, it appears that His influence over me extends down to the smallest cellular particles of my body. Quoting from the article, “Tollaksen’s group is looking into the notion that time might flow backward, allowing the future to influence the past. By extension, the universe might have a destiny that reaches back and conspires with the past to bring the present into view. … On a personal scale, it may make us question whether fate is pulling us forward and whether we have free will.” These experiments in quantum mechanics (the theory that governs the motion of particles in the subatomic world) have prompted them to term this phenomenon as “backward causality.”
To give you a brief idea of how backward causality works, Tollaksen and Aharonov experimented with radioactive atoms. “Tollaksen says, ‘Take two radioactive atoms, so identical that “even God couldn’t see the difference between them.” ‘Then wait. The first atom might decay a minute later, but the second might go another hour before decaying. … [this] can really be seen in the laboratory. There is nothing to explain the different behaviors of the two atoms, no way to predict when they will decay by looking at their history, and—seemingly—no definitive cause that produced these effects. … Nature is trying to tell us that there is a difference between two seemingly identical particles with different fates, but that difference can only be found in the future.’”
Tollaksen and Aharonov carried out some upside-down experiments in which outcome was determined by events occurring after the experiment was done. They ran experiments that had three steps, and in each step, they measured the spin in a set of particles at separate pre-set times. To quote from the article: “First the physicists would measure spin in a set of particles at 2 p.m. and again at 2:30 p.m. Then on another day, they would repeat the two sets, but also measure a subset of the particles a third time, at 3 p.m. If the predictions of backward causality were correct, then for this last subset, the spin measurement conducted at 2:30 p.m. (the intermediate time) would be dramatically amplified. In other words, the spin measurements carried out at 2 p.m. and those carried out at 3 p.m. together would appear to cause an unexpected increase in the intensity of spins measured in between, at 2:30 p.m. … Just last year, physicist John Howell and his team from the University of Rochester reported success. … Searching for backward causality required looking at the impact of the final measurement and adding the time twist.” This and many other tests were run, and the results confirmed their findings.
“For Tollaksen, the results are awe-inspiring and a bit scary. ‘It is upsetting philosophically,’ he concedes. ‘All these experiments change the way that I relate to time, the way I experience myself.’ The results have led him to wrestle with the idea that the future is set. If the universe has a destiny that is already written, do we really have a free choice in our actions? Or are all our choices predetermined to fit the universe’s script, giving us only the illusion of free will?”
Exactly! Dr. Bruggeman had written: “In very fact, man’s free will is an illusion. But the astounding irony of it is that it is an illusion necessary to the Plan of God! ‘Surely not,’ someone is thinking. ‘Does God deceive us?’ Yes, God deceives us! ‘Isn’t that a sin?’ No. It is not.* God keeps men in ignorance of His Plan lest they not play out their predestinated roles. He allows men to think and believe that they are doing their own will, while all along they are precisely carrying out their parts of His great Plan. Once again, we refer you back to our two primary examples [in the Bible]...” [from Chapter 5: Do We Have Free Will?, pp. 113-114, Sacred Secrets of the Sovereignty of God] The footnote (*) says: See Appendix 1 for more examples of where God deceives man and further discussion of God “sinning.”]
As I pondered the ramifications of these experiments, it appeared to me that the results of these tests revealed that “backward causality” described the actual mechanics of how God predestinated all things. In other words, rather than simply creating a desire within me to decide or act one way or the other, He controls the subatomic world of my cells and has caused His predetermined outcome – the future – to influence the behavior of those cells. The cells within my mind have worked in concert with each other to create a desire that determined – and continues to determine – my course of action. With each cell having a predetermined future, and when multiplied by the number of cells within my body, that raises the level of His control beyond my calculation and comprehension.
This leads us philosophically and theologically to the questions of our personal responsibility and liability for sin, and how could a just God condemn anyone to an eternal hell fire if all our actions were “set in concrete” before we are even born! Dr. Bruggeman addresses these questions in Sacred Secrets of the Sovereignty of God.
The article in the April Discover is far too technical for me to do it justice in this brief discussion, but it certainly gives Christians food for thought.
Political Correctness to the Nth Degree
The year 1984 may have come and gone, but the predictions of George Orwell have been coming to pass in an increasing and swelling tide. The latest incident to parallel Orwell’s frightening vision of a totalitarian world is this case which mimics the Orwellian “memory hole.”
For those who have never read this classic (don’t watch the old movie, read the book to get the full impact!), the memory hole describes the authoritarian regime’s commands to its underlings to remove from all libraries and any repositories of knowledge, and hence, from all public knowledge anything which is contrary to the lies which support the regime. Here’s the current, real-life example.
An academic journal has removed an article about a study which concludes that Jews and Palestinians are genetically nearly identical. The lead author of the article, who has written articles for the prestigious journals, Nature, and Science, said that this “has never happened to me” previously and that he was “stunned.” An obvious implication of the findings is that “Rivalry between the two races is therefore based ‘in cultural and religious, but not in genetic differences.’”
Such a conclusion drew the ire of many, to the extent that the editor of Human Immunology, Nicole Sucio-Foca, of Columbia University, New York, claims that “she was forced to repudiate it.” The article has been also been censored (oops! I mean…) removed from the journal’s website. Here is the link to the story. (We hope the story doesn’t go down the memory hole, too!)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/nov/25/medicalscience.genetics
The ancient prophet, Jeremiah, castigated the people of Israel, specifically, those of the southern kingdom of Judah before they were carried off into the Babylonian Captivity. “And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD [YWHW].” (Jeremiah 9:3)
Peering through the Dung
by Dr. James Bruggeman
KJV 1 Samuel 2:8 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: …
I love reading science journals and magazines (unless they get too technical). Over the years, I have noticed in many and varied examples how what they thought was truth last week or last year or last century has now been overthrown by new data and new studies. …which I am not complaining about, that is what science is supposed to be about. Seen from the proper and Biblical perspective, science is man’s ongoing attempt to discover the amazing wonders of God’s creation, which naturally leads to man paying homage and worship to the Creator, not to the created things. My most recent issue of New Scientist magazine had several articles which caught my eye.
If you have become familiar with this ministry or with Dr. Stephen Jones and his God’s Kingdom Ministries, and/or with the work of Ron Oja (pronounced Oh’-juh), then you have noted that we do not shy away from the shall-we-say, the less than beautiful things written about in the Bible. For example, did you know that the Bible has a lot to say about dung? Dung symbolizes idols in the heart. And the flip side is that dung is also necessary as natural fertilizer in order for plants and trees to bring forth good fruit. We have all discussed this from a spiritual perspective: Steve wrote a book called The Ministry of Wormwood and Dung, which you can find at Steve’s website: http://gods-kingdom-ministries.org. We still carry a pair of CDs by Ron Oja entitled The Ministry of Dung ($10 ppd) from our offices.
As for my own connection, well, my roots are deep in dung (chuckle, grin). For any of you in farming, you might be familiar with the New Idea brand of farm equipment? Yes? Well, it was founded by my great uncle back in my home town area of Coldwater, Ohio. (I call Columbus my home town as well, because I grew up there from my teen years onward.) Anyhow, my great uncle Ben invented the manure spreader ca. 1903 and that was the beginning of the New Idea Corporation. I know that online you will not see him mentioned in the company history, but that is because he had no money to bring it to market, but his father-in-law did, and so my great uncle got no credit—ah, life’s just not fair, is it? And isn’t that a good example of how people “dung” you? So that is my claim to fame in the dung department. I know it’s not pretty, but hey, look at it as fertilizer. (And until I find those nifty little emoticons with the smiley faces and winks, etc., I shall have to inform those of you who do not know me personally that even though all the above is true, I am writing it grinning ear to ear.)
So anyhow, what does dung have to do with New Scientist? Just this: One of the cover articles is entitled: Beetle vision: Night-sight secrets of the humble dung diners. It seems that a scientist in Australia began studying the dung beetles in 1985 and never looked back. Now his discoveries of how the little cow patty critters can see while immersed in a pile of dung are being developed by Toyota to one day allow our automobiles to have full-color night vision camera capability. And to me, it is just marvelous to learn how God created these insects with such phenomenal vision faculties. Praise God for his wondrous works! Here is a link to the article online.
Farmer Jack and Son with their New Idea Manure Spreader
In response to my announcing my familial connection with the dung business, one farmer friend sent us this photograph of him and his son standing proudly in front of their New Idea dung spreader. He wrote: “Brother James, We have five New Idea manure spreaders: one horse drawn, one 12A and one No. 213 tractor drawn and two tandem axle with slop gates, so your folks at Coldwater, Ohio kept our farm fertile. Bill Crabtree [now deceased], our farm implement salesman always warranted the equipment he sold, but he said he ‘would not stand behind those New Idea spreaders.’” I italicized the words there so you readers would “get it” quicker than I did. It wasn’t until I was asking Jack on the phone for permission to post this photo and I asked him why Mr. Crabtree would not warrant New Idea equipment, and Jack replied, “Oh, he warranted all the New Idea equipment, including the manure spreaders. He just was letting me know that he would not stand behind the spreaders, otherwise he would get sprayed in the face!”
James Bruggeman, Ron Oja and Stephen Jones at the pulpit of First Covenant Church at the Dallas Conference in December 2009.
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Where did the AMEGA button go?
May 15, 2010
by Dr. Bruggeman
How “Big” is the god/God you worship?
Here is what mine did. This is what was discovered when professional astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at what appeared to be absolutely nothing and left it there, first for 10 days, and then a second time for 11 days. Then they made the images into a 3-D presentation. The video is only about four minutes long, but it can be an act of worship of the one true God just to witness this and then silently tell your heavenly Father how truly awesome and majestic He is! Watch this!
Choosing healthy foods now called a mental disorder
[Natural News] In its never-ending attempt to fabricate “mental disorders” out of every human activity, the psychiatric industry is now pushing the most ridiculous disease they’ve invented yet: Healthy eating disorder.
This is no joke: If you focus on eating healthy foods, you’re “mentally diseased” and probably need some sort of chemical treatment involving powerful psychotropic drugs. (Full article here or, if missing, we’ve cached it here.
[Mike Adams of Natural News is right, this is no joke. He later asks the critical question: “But why, you ask, would they attack healthy eaters? People like Dr. Gabriel Cousens can tell you why: Because increased mental and spiritual awareness is only possible while on a diet of living, natural foods.”
We carry a DVD with the full story concerning what we call “the drugs of Mystery Babylon.” To read more about the DVD, click here.]
More on Facebook
A couple weeks ago, I “vented” in my Journal (May 4th) about Facebook and in general about all “social network” websites. After duly posting my article immediately below, my friend and webmaster sent me a link from a Facebook discussion group. The forum was under the title: How to permanently delete your Facebook account. (Kind of emphasizes my point, doesn’t it, that it would even be necessary to have a discussion forum dedicated to that question?) Here is the first post in that forum:
“Ever tried to leave Facebook and found out they only allow you to ‘deactivate’ your account? All your personal data, including photos, interests, friends etc will still be saved indefinitely! You don’t have to be a conspiracist to find this quite fishy (or simply annoying)!
“Maybe you see no reason to leave Facebook yet? In any case, information about how to close an account should be easily available to all members. Join this group to keep the information handy the day you appreciate your privacy more than updating long lost ‘friends’ of your life.”
And then are given instructions on exactly how to permanently delete your Facebook account...which consists of the same thing I already did, where you come to a point which tells you that your account is “deactivated,” and they hope you will come back soon. It was time-consuming enough for a Facebook rookie like me just to find out where one goes to close the account, because I prefer not to “share” (wonderful politically-correct word these days) my personal data, photos, interests, etc. with the world. (Yes, I know there are options to only share with a closed circle, etc. But that is only if you believe Facebook would never “share” your information with those outside your defined circle of friends. Really? Then please read my aforementioned Journal entry.)
As it turns out, according to a post in the forum, if you do not log back into your “deactivated” Facebook account for two weeks, then Facebook actually purges your data from their memory banks. Except that I don’t see on Facebook where it tells you that (and I am not going to spend any more time looking for it). Perhaps the forum poster discovered that when he emailed Facebook. In any event, I successfully logged back in—which was not a good sign, since it had been past two weeks since I first deactivated it—and I went through the process again of deactivating. I will check again in three or four weeks to see if my account is truly closed. Of course, it could be technically “closed,” but whether my information is actually purged and erased from Facebook’s corporate memory banks is a question which neither you nor I can ever answer. Only someone who actually works inside Facebook could tell us that. And then one would wonder: Is this person telling me the truth? Pardon my cynicism, but as liberties are fading on every side, I can’t help but being cynical and skeptical? How about you?
History of social network use reveals your identity
I post this story because it provides more reasons regarding your and my personal privacy and why I closed my Facebook account. See my Journal posting for May 4, 2010. Incidentally, when I actually tried to close it, I discovered that you cannot actually close the account. No, you can only “deactivate” it. Which means that all the information you have already freely given to them remains in the memory vaults of Facebook and who-knows-where it went from there: numerous marketers? Government databanks? How would you know?
Fortunately, I had given Facebook only the barest of details to open my account, so I am not worried about that information. But I do have grave concerns for your and my young relatives and their friends who are growing up in an Orwellian world and who innocently provide all kinds of personal information to “the Borg.” Now comes this from New Scientist magazine:
When you sign up to a membership group on a social networking site you may be revealing more than you bargained for. An experimental website has managed to identify the names of people who visit it, by harvesting information about the groups they belong to. It's a trick marketing teams and scammers would love to copy. (The remainder of the article is here:) http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18924-history-of-social-network-use-reveals-your-identity.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn18924
New Bible Lecture Available
Dr. Bruggeman has recuperated sufficiently to enable him to begin traveling to his Tennessee and Atlanta Fellowships where he has commenced a new lecture series entitled Mystery Babylon and the Stone Kingdom. This series will encompass a wide range of topics which is as up-to-date as the headlines. Among numerous other vital issues, the teachings will incorporate a discussion of the nexus of the current destruction of our money, the moves towards authoritarianism and how both relate to the coming Stone Kingdom of God. Click here for more information.
Allergy and Asthma Relief
by a YL distributor*
“I used to have all kinds of allergies and asthma and was on everything from Seldane, Sudafed, steroid inhalers that caused heart palpitations, dry eyes and mouth and even on a breathing machine (nebulizer) at one point. Now, with the help of these oils, my allergies are non-existent. (Note: This has saved me thousands of $$ on allergy medications, allergy shots & in the past, missed time from work. Needless to say, no more side effects from those horrible drugs and over the counter meds!)
I got a Young Living diffuser and diffused Purification Oil into a room with the door closed for 20 minutes a day while relaxing in the room. This is for the chronic cough. Any molds and allergy causing bacteria in the air cannot live in the presence of this oil.
I used 2-3 drops of R. C. Oil Blend (10% off in April), in my hands, Rubbed them together, cupped over nose and inhale 3 times deep. Also put 2 drops on chest and throat. This is a blend of 4 different kinds of eucalyptus and other oils. This is incredible for breaking up mucus, in the head, the lungs and anywhere else it builds up. This is the one that stops me from wheezing and coughing and lets me breathe so much better.
You can also get Peppermint Oil. If you ever get stopped up and can’t breathe through your nose, you’ll love this one. My husband puts 1 drop on his tongue and then inhales it in. Then with the oil still on his fingers he rubs a little on the end of his nostrils and inhales again. He can breathe in 1 second after putting it on.
One more oil you should know about is Lavender. Not only is it called Nature’s antihistamine, but it great for depression. It lifts me up in 3 seconds...When my nose won’t stop dripping, it dries me up right away.
Since using Young Living Products: cleansing, oiling, supplementing and eating a good diet over the last 4 years I can honestly say I AM ALLERGY FREE, and in Texas, where there are trees, molds, dust, grasses, hay, etc.!!! I would have never believed it!
I try to eat as healthy as I can - no sugar, no white flour, no dairy, organic vegetables, hormone free chicken, little meat, no coffee or pop, no white bread, no processed foods, and also no chemicals in the household products or personal care products. I believe this has all helped.
I’ve begun ingesting Eucalyptus Radiata and R. C. blend before bed and for the first time in my life, I am able to sleep with a cat on my bed and still breathe well; no wheezing or sneezing. WHAT A MIRACLE!! I thought I’d never be able to have furry pets.
At this point in time, my Young Living monthly check pays for all our products, and we use everything, including personal care products and toothpaste. We are saving $$$ on our grocery bills and medical bills by substituting healthy products from Young Living for chemical laden items found at the grocery store; and it gets delivered to our door. What a wonderful blessing this has been for us!”
*Not reviewed by the FDA. Always see your doctor for health issues. For education purposes only. We do not diagnose or prescribe.
Note by Dr. James Bruggeman:
If you would like to purchase any of these oils, click here www.youngliving.org/stone_kingdom. Of all the MLM (multi-level marketing)/network marketing businesses I am presently involved in, or have been involved in, Young Living Essential Oils offers the best opportunity for building a business with real, sustainable income. If you are interested in such an opportunity, or simply want to make enough income as a distributor to cover your own purchases, then please contact me.
We have an opening right now in my Young Living organization for a person who would like to build a business (full or part-time) with products that are superior in every way and which really work, unlike oils one might find at the local health food store. Believe me, I’ve tried them. There is a difference. Email me at feed.back@stonekingdom.org and put “Essential Oils” in the subject line; or phone my office and leave a message (828-277-7733).
The “Bloom Box:” A Step Towards Energy Independence?
A Silicon Valley engineer/entrepreneur has invented a little box which might someday soon (5-10 years) be powering our homes. He takes the very abundant and cheap beach sand, makes thin ceramic squares of them, then coats them with his secret formula and stacks them to create a square. The little box looks to be an approximately five inch cube...large enough to power a home. Already, FedEx, Staples, Wal-Mart, Google, EBay and other large companies have bought and installed them at their facilities in California—and are finding the savings in electricity costs well worth the investment. Here’s a link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/
watch/?id=6228923n
AMEGA
This is in reference to “Warning” below. As of April 2nd, I have now begun receiving replies to my emails from the AMEGA staff—received a reply to my second email yesterday. It seems things are working better. I just placed an order with no problems. I still cannot say how long it might take to receive your order, but I am feeling much better about the company now, at least in regard to their being responsive. —James
Warning
This concerns the Amega Company (see my replicated website by clicking on the logo at left).
I signed up with the Amega Global company on February 24th. I received my wand about a month later. I know from personal experience that it works. (No time for details here now.) No doubt due to the fact that people find out it works and is not a scam product, the US offices have been flooded with new customers and distributors, so much so that they cannot keep up with demand.
I have had a number of people contacting me and telling me that they tried to purchase the wand, but get an error message at the “Confirm order” stage. Happened to me, too. I tried to buy three more wands through my “Back Office,” but no luck. Then I tried to contact someone at HQ via the Back Office Messenger emails and via the phone. No response to either or to any of the five emails I have sent to them since March 20th. I have become very annoyed at the lack of response, and therefore I am suggesting to any and all who have an interest in the Amega wand and/or other products to just wait until they “get their act together.” As soon as I know they are doing so, I will announce it here.
I have sent emails to my upline and their upline outlining my complaints, and have been counseled to have patience for a while. Okay, I will, but it is not indefinite, and hence my warning to you lest you encounter the same frustrations.
Missed the Sweetwater Conference?
We have made the lectures available for purchase through our new digital download store. Please visit the Sweetwater 2009 page for more information!
Please realize that this is a different store than the standard Stone Kingdom Store, and will require a new logon in order to make purchases. In addition, digital downloads are all that is available at this time, so for the time being, you will need to purchase any other merchandise separately.
