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@Cynique If so, it's a damn good strategy because he's still in the news and focus of attacks make him the underdog since it was his kneeling that cost him his job. I'm not sure he ever was passionate about football. I think he's just so good at it the NFL had to have him just-in-case his skill made him a household name. He is a household name, now, since they made such a big deal of athletes kneeling in protest of DT administration. @Troy: What are you doing to attract the Black audience? Black folks are out there needing a site like AALBC.com; if for nothing more than to let off steam. It's hard to believe you're not effectively trying every possible avenue to get subscriptions of angry, discouraged, and activists Black folks. Are you at least appealing to Black politicians who share the views here?

@Troy, I did cite the source as well as include a hyperlink to the paper " Philipp Reisner (2017) Astrology and Reformation, Reformation & Renaissance Review, 19:3, 241-243, DOI: 10.1080/14622459.2017.1379206" First time I've heard this!!! Yes, I thought he was just being modest but I seriously doubt his extensive knowledge, as you assert. Otherwise, why would he be 'COY?'

OKAY, I'll never ask again as it is obviously not important. However, I'm guessing you probably have one those 'online - drug store' degrees where you had never had to write an academic paper or learn sentence structure. In which case you and your posts are no longer of any interest to me.

If you say so, fine!!! BUT YOU ARE STILL AVOIDING MY QUESTION: "What is your credentials in the subject of astrology and from where did you obtain your credentials?" Only then can you question my academic violation, who are you to say? I ask again, What is your credentials in the subject of astrology and from where did you obtain your credentials If it is something you're ashamed of or face criticism for, don't be that way. I promise not to attack or, use it against you!! Otherwise, your credibility is in jeopardy!

For the past 25-years (as a personal project of interest) I've been reading, staying abreast of controversial arguments surrounding "THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION " contents of which continue to raise questions about world domination attempts by Jews. Reduced to notions of a worldwide conspiracy theory, questions abound, for me, as to how such an effort effect Blacks, globally. My question remains, could such a doctrine exist in today’s reality? Economic Wars, State powers and Methods of Conquest, Materialism Replacing human values and Religion, Despotism and Modern Progress, World-Wide Wars, ideas of Provisional Government, Re-education techniques, control of the Press, Distractions from focus, Assault on Religions, Ruthless Suppression of voices, Brainwashing, Abuse of Authority, illegal Arrest of political Opponents, Financial Program's, Loans and Credit, Instilling forced Obedience, and power-Qualities of leaders. Is it possible a doctrine, a plan could come to fruition, could Jews and/or others really do it, or is it happening right now? “Of the Protocols themselves little need be said in the way of introduction. The book in which they are embodied was published by Sergyei Nilus in Russia in 1905. A copy of this is in the British Museum bearing the date of its reception, August 10, 1906. All copies that were known to exist in Russia were destroyed in the Kerensky regime, and under his successors, the possession of a copy by anyone in Soviet land was a crime sufficient to ensure the owners of being shot on sight. The fact is in itself sufficient proof of the genuineness of the Protocols. The Jewish journals, of course, say that they are a forgery, leaving it to be understood that Professor Nilus, who embodied them in a work of his own, had concocted them for his own purposes. Mr. Henry Ford, in an interview published in the New York World, February 17th, 1921, put the case for Nilus tersely and convincingly thus: "The only statement I care to make about the PROTOCOLS is that they fit in with what is going on. They are sixteen years old, and they have fitted the world situation up to this time. THEY FIT IT NOW." Indeed they do!” THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION: JEWS WILL BE SAFE 11. THIS HATRED WILL BE STILL FURTHER MAGNIFIED BY THE EFFECTS of an ECONOMIC CRISES, which will stop dealing on the exchanges and bring industry to a standstill. We shall create by all the secret subterranean methods open to us and with the aid of gold, which is all in our hands, A UNIVERSAL ECONOMIC CRISES WHEREBY WE SHALL THROW UPON THE STREETS WHOLE MOBS OF WORKERS IMULTANEOUSLY IN ALL THE COUNTRIES OF EUROPE. These mobs will rush delightedly to shed the blood of those whom, in the simplicity of their ignorance, they have envied from their cradles, and whose property they will then be able to loot. 12. "OURS" THEY WILL NOT TOUCH, BECAUSE THE MOMENT OF ATTACK WILL BE KNOWN TO US AND WE SHALL TAKE MEASURES TO PROTECT OUR OWN. 24. Our State, marching along the path of peaceful conquest, has the right to replace the horrors of war by less noticeable and more satisfactory sentences of death, necessary to maintain the terror which tends to produce blind submission. Just but merciless severity is the greatest factor of strength in the State: not only for the sake of gain but also in the name of duty, for the sake of victory, we must keep to the program of violence and make-believe. The doctrine of squaring accounts is precisely as strong as the means of which it makes use. Therefore it is not so much by the means themselves as by the doctrine of severity that we shall triumph and bring all governments into subjection to our super-government. It is enough for them to know that we are too merciless for all disobedience to cease. WE SHALL END LIBERTY 5. The intensified struggle for superiority and shocks delivered to economic life will create, nay, have already created, disenchanted, cold and heartless communities. Such communities will foster a strong aversion towards the higher political and towards religion. Their only guide is gain, that is Gold, which they will erect into a veritable cult, for the sake of those material delights which it can give. Then will the hour strike when, not for the sake of attaining the good, not even to win wealth, but solely out of hatred towards the privileged, the lower classes of the GOYIM will follow our lead against our rivals for power, the intellectuals of the GOYIM. 2. We shall surround our government with a whole world of economists. That is the reason why economic sciences form the principal subject of the teaching given to the Jews. Around us again will be a whole constellation of bankers, industrialists, capitalists and - THE MAIN THING - MILLIONAIRES, BECAUSE IN SUBSTANCE EVERYTHING WILL BE SETTLED BY THE QUESTION OF FIGURES. 3. For a time, until there will no longer be any risk in entrusting responsible posts in our State to our brother-Jews, we shall put them in the hands of persons whose past and reputation are such that between them and the people lies an abyss, persons who, in case of disobedience to our instructions, must face criminal charges or disappear - this in order to make them defend our interests to their last gasp. etc. READ MORE .....

WHY ARE YOU CONTINUING TO EVADE MY QUESTION? This is an informal forum; paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting without giving credit, identifying sources are perfectly permitted, and not necessarily plagiarizing! Astrology is about “ … according to recent research, astrology included both astronomy and astrology prior to the seventeenth century, and it is evident that it contributes to the persistent faith in modernity as a viable historiographical concept. Emphasize[ing] the religious significance of early modern astrology, relating the fear of a flood to actual weather conditions – which connects with both the deluge in Genesis and its eschatological dimensions in the sixteenth century. It is not clear why [there’s no relationship] to specific biblical passages to the findings. Thus one might conclude there have been shifts in the religious functions taken up by astrology; for example, Abraham’s counting of the stars as a prediction of the number of his offspring in Genesis 15:5 might have been of greater significance during the early-seventeenth-century with its more explicit orientation towards Old Testament theology ...” ( Philipp Reisner (2017) Astrology and Reformation, Reformation & Renaissance Review, 19:3, 241-243, DOI: 10.1080/14622459.2017.1379206). Hence, no significance to anything except some personal value predictions. Now it's your turn: What are your credentials in the subject of astrology and from where did you obtain your credentials?

That is true, please excuse me for being human but it was like high doses of epinephrine begging me to go after P1's jugular. However, as I stated before, it costs me absolutely nothing to apologize for the right incentive; $100 (and pay for the wire transfer: smile!!) or an apology for his insults, him FIRST. Once again, please excuse my human stubbornness!! Advise well-taken, brother Troy, in this case, because there's nothing lost or to be gained from continuing. Like Cynique, I never shy away from a good fight, especially when my opponent displays signs of soft-skin weakness.

No/Yes: I know little to nothing about the subject. But I can learn as Astrology is (mostly) a self-taught subject. However, Dr. Philipp Reisner, possibly a German/Jew who teaches as a coordinator for German as a foreign language in Maribor, Slovenia and as a lecturer at the American Studies Department of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf; focuses on New English and American literature, cultures, and theologies. His review(s) of The work of the New English theologian Cotton Mather (1663–1728) in early modern society is the subject of his dissertation, which appeared in the ‘Reformed Historical Theology’ Series with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht in 2012. His current habilitation project is a structural study of Genesis motifs in contemporary Anglo-American poetry. (citation: Philipp Reisner (2017) Astrology and Reformation, Reformation & Renaissance Review, 19:3, 241-243, DOI: 10.1080/14622459.2017.1379206). Though I still doubt 'astrology' has any meaningful impact on real life, I'd take the assessment of a Ph.D. over your's any day. Okay, asked you the question before and you never answered: "What is your credentials in the subject of astrology and from where did you obtain your credentials?

Yeah, brother Troy, I've been thinking a lot about sister Cynique's concept of the terms loser/winner; I too am having a really hard time seeing DT as a winner and, as you point-out, a panhandler/bum/homeless person as a loser; as much as I hate to concur, I have to because she's right. What the sister has done is, removed herself from the empathic nature of the word(s) - not from the person(s), simply look at the strict meaning of winner and loser. DT won the presidency, he's still fighting to win some inhumane/fascist policies, including his border wall and just won his travel ban, etc., he is winning, a winner. An awful human being to say the least, but he is a winner. Now, from the empathic nature of the person(s), the panhandler/bum/homeless person failed (lost) his effort(s) toward success, to be independent of poverty, but if he/she is still fighting they may be decent people who are fighters, but still losers. Making also right that every winner is not a good person and every loser is not a bad person. While this is something that'll be on my mind for quite some time, I think sister Cynique is onto something of philosophical importance here. It merits further, seriously considers!

Astrology is the study of patterns and relationships — of planets in motion, birth chart, synastry with others, the make-up of elements — and using that knowledge as a tool to find meaning. It isn't a Science and falls more in the category of metaphysics, the study of that which is beyond the physical. It's similar to other fields that are founded on ancient theories of energy patterns, like feng shui, acupuncture, and yoga. Astrology at high levels is a mastery of its particular science and the intuitive arts. As the earliest known ordering of existence, long before recorded history, it's been called the "Mother of all Sciences." It is a tool of (know thy self) self-discovery, no matter how far you decide to take it. Astrological information does not require delivery effectively or rapidly because it is not a major target of data dissemination. i.e., Urgent scenarios require data to be sent to specific locations at a designated time. Something not required of astrology.

Gallup, Inc., one of Americans' most respected research and strategic consulting firm's located in many countries, focuses on "analytics and advice to help leaders and organizations solve their most pressing problems," conducted a poll that offers some indication of the people's view of the state of America. GET A LOAD OF THIS!! 55% say America's best days are ahead, up from 47% in 2012 41% say the country's best days are in the past, down from 50% Republicans more likely than Democrats to say best days are ahead WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Fifty-five percent of U.S. adults believe the United States' best days are "ahead of us," while 41% say they are "behind us." Americans are more optimistic about the country's future than they were the last time Gallup polled on the question, in December 2012, when Americans were nearly evenly split in their views.

It concerns political theorists with how we ought, collectively, to live together. Their job usually involves bringing some precision to fundamental (yet contested) political concepts- like freedom, equality, democracy, and justice. The ideas and questions they come-up with are powerful things which can have great influence on the real world and help determine the fate of the lives of billions of people. Though many of them are confused white yoyo's working with limited honest insights/even more limited hindsight their work is important. A diverse range of social, economic and political arrangements can (and have been) defended by reference to abstract political values. And the theorist helps equip us with the analytical tools necessary to differentiate between legitimate functions of government and the arbitrary use of power. An astrology chart—also called an astrology natal chart—is a symbolic representation of the position of the planets, the sun, and the moon ... etc. Astrological charts report is produced without the time-sensitive data. For those interested in knowing the possible range of signs and degrees on a particular day according to her/his birth. I do not believe this kind of analysis serve any need except for how a person wishes to feel or believe at any given time. The GOP will always endorse DT and his policies but will throw him to the dogs to save their own butts, self-preservation is an instinct of target over all else; most of the time it is not personal, but only survival. Although, King George II, a despot, attempted to mimic his father (as does DT), with even similar accusations of subordinating American interests to those of China and Russia. Other than the landscape, technology, and the military little has shifted meaningfully. Political theorist designed the map that led us here, astrology is one of the distractions that'll stay the course of destruction and there's no politician, Black or white, capable of changing the course of America. Between 1683 - 1760 and now solutions are limited. With the Supreme Court largely punting on deciding the issues at the center of some of its biggest cases this term, Justices depend on 'concurrences' to fight for the future of the law. Good luck going that way! Faced with majority opinions of little to no precedential value, the court’s liberal and conservative wings have taken matters into their own hands, writing separate concurrences aimed at steering lower courts to their preferred outcomes on hotly contested issues. Indicate an American open-season on positive change where any and everything is fair game. By 2024, what's ever left is going to be resources for individual survival without organized "changing of the guards."

Well, according to your enlightening definition a loser can be a bad/negative trait in a person, but not necessarily, if used as an "incentive to be winner, etc.;" however, a winner who is of bad/negative character is (or can be) in actuality, a 'loser;' hence, lending to, or defining your concept of a 'loser' as possibly a bad/negative thing. YES or NO?

@Cynique: That's so true: The alarm sounded 400-years ago that America would never awaken from its self-induced slumber about the reality desparities against Black folk would bring to the country. That the very idea of involuntary servitude would trigger desparate policies that effect everyone; minorities and white folk alike. At last, proud, rich, and powerful white America didn't want see it was facing a grave danger, one that promises to destroy the United States and its dimensions and devious complexity, is just now coming into focus. Black folks aren't ready for whites rebelling against each other, and white folk isn't prepared to face squarely and honestly the most profound consequences of over two centuries of the enslavement and segregation of blacks in North America; because non-Blacks will never forget and remain cynical of their own fate/survival. The dehumanization, demoralization of Black Americans during slavery has continued long after the Civil War and now American finally fear the sting of autocracy like leadership. Yet, blacks and whites continued to cling to a range of fantasies about the true nature of the relationship between America and the world, even as the nation lurches inexorably toward a possible collapse over the fundamental question of social and economic justice for the despised Black American minority. "Among blacks, the centuries of abuse and exploitation had created ways of life marked by patterns of duplicity, including self-deception, [and] something far more forbidding and lethal. Slavery and neo-slavery had led not simply to the development of a psychology of timidity, passivity, and even cowardice among the [Black] American masses ... Although this added element was itself susceptible to fantasy and self-deception, what ... [makes it crucially important is the depth of estrangement from both Black and White cultures] sets [is] their hatred of each other, and their sometimes unconscious but powerful identification of violence against other human beings as the most appropriate response to the disastrous conditions of their lives. Within the confines of the black world, violence was easily directed at fellow blacks; but increasingly, this violence would be aimed at whites.

Actually not that simple, for some people, obviously. The key phrase you profoundly stated: "being a loser is by no means a permanent status, and can even be an incentive to become a winner. Also, no-where is it written that winners are automatically people of good character;" lends to the negativity of being a loser. Nobody wants to be a loser or they want to hide it and appear as a winner. Overcoming obstacles and odds, self-sustainability, respect for family, neighbors, and the environment favor winners.

@Chevdove More questions as to possible answers may be deduced via the tale of Cain & Abel who ignored a better life in exchange for human jealousy of his brother, or human 'survival by any means necessary,' responsible for the creation of powerful State governments that justify war and servitude for a better life. Yes, crazy as it is, matters have always been this way and; any other view is a mirage, a deliberate lie to deceive us. @Mel Hopkins: Right, and that's true for each and every media outlet in the world, especially America!! The media can no-longer feed folks BS because people do not even to be told what's happening. At all. Period. Anyone with eyes, ears, and the sanity to understand know what is happening. Thanks

@Chevdove: I've come to the opinion that we may never know, with clear certainty, true world history let alone our own true history. What it comes down to is a kind of 'deductive' reasoning; it is unlikely life started in the 'snow' or in hostile environments unfavorable, or unable to sustain human organisms and if it did humans could not strive; too long unless they were cannibalistic in nature; many Blacks want to believe this is the case. I disdain white folks too but creating what suits us is unreasonable; though ancient white folk must have been cannibals. Ancient Africans practiced cannibalism up to the 19th century and they lived in favorable climate environments. I wish you could see the caves in the desert areas here, they can totally sustain humans indefinitely. I've been doing a great deal of inquiring about purchasing some desert area; aside from the cobra's, scopion's, and bugs, conversion to modern living; with a dunes buggy and/or camel, comfort is truly possible. The only real setback is dealing with locals who see strangers as unwelcome intruders. Which tells me right-way whites could not have come out of the desert to people who considered them unwelcomed outsiders and, certainly not without, at least sunscreen, It's a lie that white European Jews ever lived in the desert before the last six-thousand years; the 1947 war establishing their so-called right to return home was the biggest vile they ever pulled over on the world's eyes. And it worked through history textbooks, folklore, and myths. The controversy between creationism and Darwin only adds to the confusion. Take the hegemonic power vacuum over the past few thousand years and people are left babbling who they are where they came from with a few groups actually in-charge. But it doesn't matter either because of world events of today; who's going to be left standing if James Balwin is right about destruction by "The Fire Next Time?"

Right, when humans adopt myths it's usually for convenience; passed down through history making its way into history textbooks is intended to only confirm white customs, their beliefs, and how they see nature. For white folk. Like the myth that the Middle East is the cradle of western civilization; when, in fact, in reality, there's little civilized here, unless one sees insincere greetings and mannerism civilized. It does, however, demonstrate racist, xenophobic mentalities of the West.

Thanks, your comment(s) make me want to be even stronger; you encourage my 'inner-being.'

I couldn't agree more, Chevdove, even a sheltered Black who never went to public elementary school have experienced the 'dozens' insult game we stupid adults indulge today. True, it only goes to show how we Blacks still tear down each other for no logical reason except for attention, or power; is childish by all means. After it became obvious the other party had no intention of moving beyond the petty rhetoric I decided to make the only move reasonable in such a situation. Stoy conversing to remain focused for the sake of other members here, if not entirely make peace. Great response, thanks for helping stay focused!!!

Everyone loses and wins over one’s lifespan. Trying to win using the same method(s) repeatedly, resulting in no change, may also show the person is borderline insane. Black folk looking for apology where there is none makes him a loser. The constant focus on a fault and blaming others makes him a sore-loser. The better person is one who walks away without looking back is on the road to winning. The loser unable to notice mundane challenges and focus instead on personal worthless matters may never be a winner; especially if the challenges and worthless matters lives with the loser. We Black men are always looking for a handout or apology never to receive neither; bitterness and anger turn to desperation turns to stupidity and live in a rut. View from the rut is limited, life in the rut is all they know while every else lives their head. Losers.

I'm afraid you are right; by the very definition a 'loser' is one who loses, does not win. Redemption: compensating for one's shortcomings is a personal 'winning' accomplishment, then; Apologizing to one's self without repeating the fault is true sincerity making her/him a winner; not apologizing to others for redemption because sincerity may be uncertain and who's embedded fault(s) render him a constent loser?

Someone with the ability to be strong but chooses to submit to mundane matters of the world. A follower too weak to walk alone. A Blackman who abuses women, etc.

From the lowest point on earth to the tallest mountain, no-one is listening. We're too busy watching sports, getting high, and chasing wealth. Attempts to overthrow America (rebellion), sister Cynique, has been going since the first American Revolution, right down to now; to recent attempts via Russian meddling in the 2016 elections. But this time it’s really going to happen, I think, and everybody’s involved, the American people, Europe, China, Russia, and the Middle East. She’s had it coming for over four-hundred years and; while I do not advocate mass civil unrest, I pray matters turn-around for the better. Mass rebellion is the only answer to problems of today, worldwide.

I do certainly hope I never have to also, brother; especially when countless others involuntarily make the ultimate sacrifice every hour of every day. How about you, brother Troy, where's the limit drawn with your loved ones, how far will you go 'where no man has gone before' to save one or all of them?