Updated: Our Corrupted Compass
We took for granted not that long ago, in the old days of the rule of law, the "Normal World Order," pre-LIES-Cov-2, Western sanctions and tariffs that are collapsing our economies, the now "dead horse" Ukrainian proxy war, and Zionist Israel's genocide, Iranian war, both having the potential to go nuclear, taking us and our nations into oblivion, that life would continue on, essentially uninterrupted, though increasingly rapid of late, getting worse before it would, by some unknown future miracle, get better. After all, are we not a Christian people? What harm can come to us? Well, more than we've bargained for if we don't get the false flag traditions of men, the evil that resides among us out of our nations.
"Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when one contemplates the mysteries of eternity. Never lose a holy curiosity."
"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness."
"Socrates told us, 'the unexamined life is not worth living.' I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge."
"Learning is by nature curiosity ... prying into everything, reluctant to leave anything, material or immaterial, unexplained."
"Curiosity sets us apart from the average lump of dirt."
"When holy curiosity is driven by passion, and critical thinking by perseverance, wisdom and truth emerge."
"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."
"Without curiosity, one does not think."
"Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."
"The spark of curiosity ignites passion in great minds."
"Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life."
"Curiosity is the deepest connection that we have with knowledge, wisdom and life. Incuriosity is cutting all these connections."
"I think I benefited from being equal parts ambitious and curious. And of the two, curiosity has served me best."
"Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it."
"People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle."
"A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education."
"It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance of the facts."
"There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions."
"Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act."
"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature."
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the young mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
"Curiosity without action is like a boat without water."
"There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
"Curiosity is an eager desire to know, or learn about something."
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
"Why am I so curious? I don’t know. But I’ll find out."
"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."
"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will."
"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance."
"People die when curiosity goes."
"Knowledge is not rooted in facts; it is rooted in curiosity."
"A person without curiosity may as well be dead."
"Curiosity is the ultimate power tool."
"Perhaps the greatest virtue of man is curiosity."
"He wrote as a young man that God's noblest gift was the gift of an inquiring mind."
"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute."
"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
"If we had known everything in this universe, we would have had to find another universe to feed our curiosity, because what keeps man alive is curiosity!"
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too."
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
"Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity."
"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."
Book Excerpts
At its most fundamental level, the story contained in the Biblical record is quite simple to understand as the Flow Chart at the back of the book shows. [Also see the chart at the bottom of the Feature article, A Tale Of Two Covenants]. It is totally and completely related to the two covenants, the one made with Abraham and his Seed, Christ and the law covenant made with the children of Israel and the relationship between them both through Christ.
Not understanding our place in Biblical history, we’ve lost track of who we are and our relationship to both covenants. Perhaps this is why one Christian author made the point that Christians disagree as to how to best go about following Christ in our everyday lives. What gets in the way of our understanding are the rogue ponies, the false traditions and fables that have ridden their way into Christianity over the past twenty centuries.
Sneakers
“Let’s leave Christ in Christmas,” proclaimed one religious studies professor. While this is a familiar plea on the part of some Christians, it is based on a fallacious understanding of history, both Biblical and secular. Christmas is not a Biblical sanctioned practice. It is a Biblically condemned practice whose mythical heathen roots are falsely connected to the Biblical record’s account of Christ’s birth. Neither Christ or the apostles ever celebrated the "birth of Christ." No maybes about it, according to the prophecies, it’s better that we include Christ, and ourselves, out of Christmas.
While most Christians probably think of Christmas as being a first century Christian observance, it’s not. Even the originators of "Christmas," the Roman Catholic church's Mass of Christ, acknowledge this. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, "Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of Christianity." In fact, the word for Christmas has not been found in written documents until 1038 CE. It was, in late Old English, Cristes Maesse.