tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post8135969386229422717..comments2024-03-22T11:14:05.861-04:00Comments on UncleBob's Treehouse: Talismans, Spells and Idols, Oh My! Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-47800249798064865332016-03-01T14:38:23.683-05:002016-03-01T14:38:23.683-05:00, "the founders followed up on that with the ..., "the founders followed up on that with the Alien and Sedition Acts"<br /><br />John Adams did that and Jefferson repealed it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16046202647270439670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-16518623721737818352016-03-01T13:44:53.717-05:002016-03-01T13:44:53.717-05:00The Constitution sucks in a number of ways, but we...The Constitution sucks in a number of ways, but we would vastly better off it were followed. Everything the anti-federalist said has come true. <br /><br />As one wag said, in less than 3 year after the hologram known as the Constitution was passed, the founders followed up on that with the Alien and Sedition Acts and the father of the country led an assembled national army to put down a tax rebellion in Western Pennsylvania. It was directly downhill from there. <br /><br />http://bionicmosquito.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-constitutions-fatal-flaw.htmlsth_txsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-52521576340976341772016-03-01T10:22:19.004-05:002016-03-01T10:22:19.004-05:00Google IQ and Victorian, and you will find article...Google IQ and Victorian, and you will find articles (and eventually papers). They've been looking at the U.K. population and they have a pretty good case that IQ has been declining since the Victorian age. It makes a lot of sense. The old order was good for genetics, while the ensuing revolutionary movements removed the old order and set up a very dysgenic system of selection. Augusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08758314961163692341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-75202938161031442482016-03-01T09:52:31.952-05:002016-03-01T09:52:31.952-05:00I looked up this talisman...it points out the diff...I looked up this talisman...it points out the difference between that and an amulet.<br /><br />'A talisman is an object which is believed to contain certain magical or sacramental properties which would provide good luck for the possessor or possibly offer protection from evil or harm.<br /><br />Amulets and talismans are often considered interchangeable despite their differences. For example, the amulet is an object with natural magical properties, as opposed to a talisman which must be charged with magical powers by a creator. It is this act of consecration or "charging" that gives the talisman its alleged magical powers. The talisman is always made for a definite reason whereas an amulet can be used for generic purposes such as averting evil or attracting good luck.'<br /><br />So with the Bible example the power itself would come from God (the creator). Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16190484330802907362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8497093028548856666.post-36745723158973427122016-03-01T09:42:16.735-05:002016-03-01T09:42:16.735-05:00'Someday, hundreds or maybe thousands of years...'Someday, hundreds or maybe thousands of years in the future, people are going to look back at us and shake their heads and laugh. "Those foolish people," they are going to say, "they thought they were so smart, yet they didn't realize how backward they were with their foolish superstitions and their beliefs in talismans, spells and idols." <br /><br />St. Paul eludes to something like that in 1 Corinthians 10: 1-10...there's nothing new under the sun.<br /><br />For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea; and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ. Nevertheless, with most of them God was not well-pleased; for they were laid low in the wilderness.<br /><br />Now these things happened as examples for us, so that we would not crave evil things as they also craved. Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and stood up to play.” Nor let us act immorally, as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in one day. Nor let us try the Lord, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the serpents. Nor grumble, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the destroyer. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16190484330802907362noreply@blogger.com