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DO YOU KNOW SOMETHING I DON'T?
The pig or swine is a very popular food item with most Christians. Yet, Christians are unaware that the God they profess to believe in had condemned the eating of swine’s flesh. The condemnation based on some very sound biological principles. Here are some facts on pork that prove it to be a very unhealthy food to eat: A pig is a real garbage gut. It will eat anything including urine, excrement, dirt, decaying animal flesh, maggots, or decaying vegetables. They will even eat the cancerous growths off other pigs or animals. The meat and fat of a pig absorbs toxins like a sponge. Their meat can be 30 times more toxic than beef or venison. When eating beef or venison, it takes 8 to 9 hours to digest the meat so what little toxins are in the meat are slowly put into our system and can be filtered by the liver. However, when pork is eaten, it takes only 4 hours to digest the meat. We thus get a much higher level of toxins within a shorter time. Unlike other mammals, a pig does not sweat or perspire. Perspiration is a means of removing toxins from the body. Since a pig does not sweat, the toxins remain within its body and in the meat. Pigs and swine are so poisonous that you can hardly kill them with strychnine or other poisons. Farmers often pen up pigs within a rattlesnake nest because the pigs will eat the snakes, and if bitten the venom will not harm them. After butchering a pig, worms and insects take to its flesh sooner and faster than to other animals flesh. In a few days, the swine flesh is full of worms. Swine and pigs have over a dozen parasites within them, such as tapeworms, flukes, worms, and trichinae. There is no safe temperature for cooking pork to ensure the killing of all these parasites, their cysts, and eggs. Pig meat has twice as much fat as beef. A 3oz T-bone steak contains 8.5 grams of fat; a 3oz pork chop contains 18 grams of fat. A 3oz beef rib has 11.1 grams of fat; a 3oz pork spare rib has 23.2 grams of fat. Cows have a complex digestive system, having four stomachs. It thus takes over 24 hours to digest their vegetarian diet to purify its food of toxins. In contrast, the swine's one stomach takes only about 4 hours to digest its foul diet, turning its toxic food into flesh. The swine carries about 30 diseases easily passed to humans. This is why God commanded that we are not even to touch their carcase. - (Leviticus 11:8). The trichinae worm of the swine is microscopically small, and once ingested can lodge itself in our intestines, muscles, spinal cord or the brain. This results in the disease trichinosis. The symptoms are sometimes lacking, but when present they are mistaken for other diseases, such as typhoid, arthritis, rheumatism, gastritis, MS, meningitis, gall bladder trouble, or acute alcoholism. The pig is so poisonous and filthy, that nature had to prepare him a sewer line or canal running down each leg with an outlet in the bottom of the foot. Out of this hole oozes pus and filth his body cannot pass into its system fast enough. Some of this pus gets into the meat of the pig. There are other reasons grounded in biological facts that could be listed that show why pigs and swine should not be eaten. However, a true Christian should only need one reason why not to eat this type of food, because God prohibited it.
Their stomach not Scripture motivates those who say Christ abolished the law condemning pork. The problems with pork are biological, and Christ never changed the laws of biology. By Dick Wicken
A number of theories regarding the origin of the name “America” have been advanced, but none have been proved true. First, and most generally accepted, is that the name “America” is derived from the first name of Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian mapmaker and self-promoter who explored the seacoasts of North America in the decade following Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of the New World for her most Catholic majesty, Isabella of Spain. However, there has been no substantiation that this derivation of the name “America” is correct: and there is other evidence indicating that Amerigo Vespucci was not above turning to personal advantage an odd coincidence of phonetics in the sound of his first name and a composite word of ancient Norse invention, evidently in very current use by the North Atlantic sailing fraternity from about the year 1000 until well past the times of Columbus, Cabot and Vespucci. The claim that the name of the entire continent, North and South, was derived from a given name is odd in itself, for common practice at the time would indicate using a man’s family name to derive an identity for a locality. Secondly, and less generally accepted, is a theory emanating from Bristol, England, submitting that the name “America” was derived from name of one Richard Ameryke, a tax collector for King Henry VII as well as the city’s leading lumber merchant. Ameryke was an enthusiastic supporter and financial backer of the Italian navigator, John Cabot. Under letters-patent from Henry VII, dated 5 March 1496, Cabot set sail from Bristol in 1497, accompanied by his three sons. On 24 June 1497 he sighted Cape Breton Island and Nova Scotia, thus “discovering” the mainland of North America - about 600 years after the Vikings had done so. There is no more factual substantiation of the Bristol theory of the origin of the name “America” than the highly questionable claims of Amerigo Vespucci. Thirdly, the theory has been advanced that America was named for a Spanish sailor bearing the ancient Visigothic name of “Amairick” Since these unproved - and quite possibly, unprovable - claims and theories are being advanced and accepted, it seems only right to submit a fourth unproven, equally logical and far more possible theory of the origin of the name "America". Therefore, it is herewith submitted that the word “America” is simply a phonetic derivation of an ancient Norse compound word “omme-rike”. In its simplest translation from the largely four-letter language of the Viking discoverers of the New World, it means “the remotest land”. The various parts of the New World were referred to in the Icelandic Sagas as Helluland (Stoneland), Markland (Woodland) and Vineland (Wineland). “Omme-rike” would have been the logical name to apply to the great land mass as a whole. In support of this submission the following facts are listed for consideration: The long-used and familiar name occurring in classic writings, “Ultima Thule,” designating a mysterious distant land. The meaning of these two words is singularly interesting in itself. Ultima means “the end,” “remotest,” and Thule is derived from, not Latin, but from the old Norse word “Thyle,” which means to “speak”. It is safe to assume that when the Norse word meaning speech is used, the speech being referred to is Norse. The simplest translation of “Ultima Thule” is "the farthest out land where Norse is spoken”. The obvious conclusion is simply that “Ultima Thyle” means what it says. The analysis of the word in question, “America,” as to its possible meaning in old Norse, the language of the Vikings, still current in a slightly changed form in Iceland and in isolated parts of Norway is as follows:. in old Norse, the word “America” strongly suggests two separate words, "omme” and “rike”. “Omme” means “over,” “out,” “out there,” “the end,” “final,” “furthest out,” “most remote,” “very last,” or “ultimate” "Rike” appears in lively existence today both in contemporary Norse, and its use by the Vikings to designate large land masses is amply attested to today in the names of places in the areas of Viking operations. Sometimes the word is slightly modified, but its presence is as easily recognized as its meaning. In old Norse it is pronounced rica as in America, It is spelled in a number of ways, but always pronounced the same: rige, rega, rike, rikja, reykja. In German it appears as “reich”. It always means the same thing: country, land, kingdom, empire. Examples of the use of this ancient Norse word can be found in the following: Norege, pronounced nor-reeg-eh, meaning Norway. Sverige, pronounced sverreeg-eh, meaning Sweden. Frankrike, pronounced frankr-reeg-eh, meaning France. Osterike, pronounced oste-reeg-eh, meaning Austria. The above should be sufficient to prove that it was common practice for Vikings to use this word to designate countries. Combined, the old Norse words “omme” and "rike” would be pronounced “Oh-ma-reegeh” - virtually identical to “America” and would translate into an almost identical meaning with the oft repeated classic term “Ultima Thule (Thyle)” when one considers that Norse was a spoken, not a written, tongue, and that Latin was the only written language of the time; additional inferences are obvious. On one of Verrazzano's maps, the coast of New England is oddly named “Norumbega”. Naturally, one cannot expect a “segener” like Verrazzano to pronounce Norse words correctly, much less spell or understand them. Basic study on the possible Norse origin of the word “Norumbega,” bastardized by an ignorant Latin, suggests much support for the idea advanced: “Norum” is nothing else than the Norse word “naerom,” meaning “near under” (and contains the stem word “OM” from “omme”) and “bega” is merely a misspelled - and mispronounced Italian version of the Norse word “rege” or “rike”. I believe it is obvious that “Norumbega” is an Italianized version of the Norse word “Naerom-rega,” “Naeromrike,” or, possibly, “Naeromvikja” which would translate into the meaning of “the near-under regions” or “the near-under-harbor”. But its real meaning is even clearer: It is only a slightly modified version of “omme-rike”. Finn Magnussen has established that Columbus did visit Iceland at least once in 1477, fifteen years before undertaking his first voyage to the New World. He could have easily heard of Ommerike and could even have visited there in a Norse ship. Previous to the great plague, Iceland and Greenland - and the lands beyond - are believed to have supported a population numbering into the hundreds of thousands. One of the major ports doing business in this area was Bristol, England. It was the home base for John Cabot and source of the Bristol Theory of the origin of the name “America”. The first White man to see America was Bjarne Herulfssen, wind-blown upon it while bringing a cargo of wood (reader please make note of the cargo) from Norway to Iceland, 600 miles across open seas. It is rather naive to assume that what happened to Bjarne Herulfssen did not happen to others, Bristol traders as well as Norsemen. It is, I believe, quite safe to assume that Bristol ships had sailed the Ommerike coast long before John Cabot - if only by accident - and referred to the place by its Norse name. The key to the main reason that the Icelanders and Greenland Norse would never have abandoned contact with Ommerike can be found in the cargo of Bjarne Herulfssen's ship. As there are no forests on either Iceland or Greenland and wood was needed to sustain life (both to keep warm in the rigorous winter and as building material for shelter for humans and livestock as well as for building and repairing ships), a source of supply of lumber had to be maintained. It had to come either from Europe or Ommerike. Europe meant a six hundred mile voyage across the open seas, with plenty of chance of disaster from the elements, desertion of the crews on arrival and payment of some kind to secure lumber; while a voyage to Ommerike meant a two hundred and fifty mile open sea voyage from Iceland to Greenland with landfall almost certain, another two hundred and fifty miles to certain landfall on the Ommerike coast, and from there on a cold but relatively safe coastal voyage to endless forests that were free for the taking - with little chance that the crew would desert or refuse to return to Iceland. Any present Icelander, given a similar choice of voyages, would set his sails for Ommerike, not Europe. Vatican records in Rome are reported to establish that a Bishop Eric Gnuptson (probably Knutssen), Bishop of Greenland and neighboring regions, arrived in Ommerike in the last year of Pope Pashal II, stayed for at least one year and then returned to Rome via Greenland and Iceland. His ministry is said to have included seventeen parishes. There is also a reported Norwegian record granting the King's authority to one George Knutsen to recruit the sons of leading Norwegian families to go to the lands beyond Greenland to search out and induce to return to the fold those colonists that had drifted off to live with the natives. The Vatican could well have had very real practical reasons to be reluctant to place too great an importance to the Norse adventures in the New World or to publicize them. The Church's authority always diminished in direct proportion to the northward distance from Rome. The grip on the countries around the Norwegian sea was always precarious, and any real hold in Iceland or Greenland was virtually non-existent. Undoubtedly it seemed and proved to be - to the Vatican’s advantage that the discovery and all ensuing “rights” to the New World be credited to the enterprise and operation of nations ruled by devout Christians. The name of this wondrous land, Ommerike, was so well established, so totally known and accepted, such common knowledge that none of the Italian navigators, not Cabot, Vespucci or even Columbus himself, ever thought of calling the place by any other name but the already long established Ommerike - America. The political expedients employed in this great delusion worked very well indeed, for both the nations of Spain and Portugal and for the Catholic Church. However, the days of such reasoning and shenanigans are long past and no reason remains, except indifference, to continue to deny that someplace in forgotten archives of the Vatican exist maps and written reports of Bishop Eric Knutssen and many others who visited the New World long before Columbus, voyaging over the Icelandic-Greenland route, and perhaps even as far as the islands of the Gulf of Mexico or even Mexico itself. Bit by bit, in unexpected ways, the truth of the discovery of the New World surfaces, the last example of which is the authenticated Yale University Vinland map. There will be many more such scholastic breakthroughs and it is safe to predict that in some future rediscovered map or written report predating both the Italian Amerigo Vespucci and the Englishman Richard Ameryke, a name for the new lands will appear very close to “Ommerike”. As stated before, these submissions are mere theories, with no more substantiation than the theories of other origins of the name “America”. Proof of them must be left to better and more thorough scholars than the writer. But the meaning of the word “ommerike” in ancient Norse is sound, and should provide a new and different source to explore in searching out and authenticating a page of human history replete with all the ingredients of enchantment and subterfuge of a mystery novel. Courtesy of Orange Street Congregational Church The Sunday Times occasionally publishes material that few other newspapers dare to print. Its latest controversial article is headlined, “Revealed: Israel Plans Nuclear Strike on Iran” (Jan. 7, 2007). The first paragraph reads:
Such an attack, if it happens, does have historical precedent. In 1981 Israel destroyed Iraq’s nuclear reactor. However, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev formally denied the Sunday Times report (The Jewish Chronicle, Jan. 12, 2007). Yet the same article quoted Professor Uzi Arad, founding director of the Institute for Policy and Strategy, as saying The Spectator weekly magazine actually preceded The Sunday Times with a cover article titled “The Nuclear Option: Israel Can Stop Iran” (Jan. 6, 2007). It predicted a probable nuclear attack, possibly fairly early this year. The author, Douglas Davis, stated that he received information from a senior Israeli source who said: “We are the product of the Holocaust in Europe and we will do everything-and I mean everything-to prevent another holocaust recurring in Israel. If the Americans do not act, then we will act. And that moment might be closer than people dare to imagine.” (Sources: The Sunday Times,
GOD'S WAR FOR ULSTER AT THIS TIME TO THE D.U.P. WHO HAVE GONE INTO COALITION WITH SINN FEIN “Can two walk together except they be agreed.” - (Amos 3:3) “Shouldest thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord? “Thou mayest not set a stranger over thee which is not thy brother.” - (Deuteronomy 17:15) “Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help and trust in chariots because they are many....... but they look not “For the leaders of this people cause them to err and they that are led of them are destroyed.” - (Isaiah 9:16) “And your covenant with death shall be disanaulled and your agreement with hell shall not stand.” - (Isaiah 28:18) For some 60 years the “doomsday clock” has been ticking in Chicago, sponsored by the directors of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. They set it at seven minutes to midnight - midnight being a nuclear holocaust - back in 1947. Since then its hands According to Max Hastings, editor of the Daily Mail, “The clock’s hand is being advanced for the first time in four years” (January 17, 2007). Many atomic scientists think that the world is now entering a very dangerous nuclear phase. Once that nuclear line is crossed and someone again uses an atomic device, it will make repetition almost inevitable. In the wake of Iran’s feverish determination to achieve nuclear weapons, six Arab states have indicated a desire or intention to go nuclear. They are Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. Nuclear proliferation could be The American Hebrew leading Jewish newspaper in the United States in its September 10, 1920 issue: “The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia was the work of Jewish brains, of Jewish dissatisfaction, of Jewish planning, whose goal was to create a new world order. What happened in Russia, shall also, through the same Jewish mental and physical forces, become a reality over all the world.” It has already taken over one-third of the world’s surface and over 2-billion people, killing hundreds of millions in the process. When will our “brainwashed” majority wake up to this fact, that Jewish sources brag about!
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