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Yes. Military force is immensely more expensive. By the time of Constantine it was a Tetrarchy....Having several Despotic Rulers each trying to destroy the other in an attempt to reunite the once great Roman Empire It was a peace agreement to facilitate negotiations between both sides as the South fought for its independence Until Garang died in a fiery crash They did not speak the same Language and often fought each other...They were not a even Federation but a Confederation at the most - Alliance Yes....an Offshoot - an offshoot is not the same as the Original If the British Government move to NY.....Would still be the British Government True If that be the case one can still finds influences of Ancient Egypt in nearly all Western Countries.....Does that make them part of the Ancient Egyptian Empire? You are confusing Peoples and Countries with Government and Empires....They are related and do overlap but not the same. They are claiming a Heritage to create an aura of legitimacy. Religion is a Useful facade....The Vatican is Primarily a Bank and a Library(Information Media outlet/Inlet) - Both are repository of Power. You think Constantine cared about religious truths or power?

yeah @frankster ever since the 1970s, the usa went full into the idea of financial manipulation through the market though again, the military helps. without military power this does not happen exactly @ProfD exactly, its genius as long as its true but @frankster the roman empire rebounded and retained itself under justinian. the move from roma to nova roma had a financial element, but also a militaristic + cultural element, militaristically the roman empire had overreached but culturally, the christian community had become a menace that forced potent changes of the roman empire from a publicly multiracial government to a christian government and that eventually led to its end. The banking wasn't what killed it. I will also add, the roman empire centered at roma + nova roma didn't know how to operate as a small country. leading is one thing, but following is another and the roman empire had a problem following.

@Pioneer1 If both of us have money + the willingness to finance movies, I will finance the ones I want and you will too. And both are acceptable. Both will have an audience. Why doe you treat that as a problematic scenario? I will not finance such a film. BUT, I will support you financing such a film with your money. Wish it the best. See it if in truly interest me. And second, what are the other four films you will produce? I stated my five, why can't you state yours.

frankster Take it from me....The media say they are lying Oh, the MEDIA says they are lying???? The Christ(deity) within you has Arisen(kundalini). I know about the Kundalini. Connecting it with Christ......not so sure of. Seems like two separate concepts from two separate religions/belief systems....that somehow got merged in the West. Christ is a Greek term that early Christians used instead of Messiah. Somehow a lot of spiritualist have coined the term "Christ consciousness" to describe a type of enlightenment, however I question if that was the original meaning behind the word Christ. I was on the path....life women alcohol drugs laziness family and fear distracted me. LOL.....I definitely hear that! Actually, for me personally....women and wealth is what DROVE me and is DRIVING me on the path of deeper Spirituality. I wanted and still want both however I want to get them the RIGHT way....not in a way that will cause more damage or destruction. I wanted nice cars, money, and to be surrounded by women.....but I didn't want to sell dope or engage in illegal activities to do it because I saw the end results of that activity. So I sought out other means. This is why I can't get with religions and spiritualists who insist that people live lives of poverty and want. If you claim to be on the right spiritual path but are poor and have to beg from those LESS spiritually enlightened for money and food....to me that's evidence that you might not be on the right path. You claim you got the right religion....but you're on food stamps. You're working on a job owned by atheists or people of a different religion, relying on THEM to support you and your family. Come on man........ It very well may.....diet heavily influences mood and mood influences thought and vice versa - hence may lead to a change of environment. Correct! However him changing HIS mood alone....while the rest of his community survives off a diet of junk food, poison vaccines, and dope....does little to change the environment. Perhaps a change in diet and attitude will give HIM the good sense to MOVE away from such a destructive environment, lol.

Lol....Black men wearing dresses. I think many Black men in this society grow up secretly wanting to be a WHITE WOMAN. As the young people say "no cap". I truly believe that many Black men in this society really believe that if they were a White woman their lives would be so much easier. They look on television, in the movies, and in society and see how much more respect and dignity and support White women get....compared to them. The society in general holds White women up as smarter, more educated, more moral and with a higher ethical standard. Whether you're on the job at the work place, or on a college campus.....all you have to do is have a group of White women behind an idea cheering it on and it becomes policy and the rest of the people will just go along with it. Including Black women, Asians, and certainly White men. And don't even talk about the violence and how White women are seen as so fragile that they often get more protection from civilians as well as police than other groups. White women aren't expected to fight or even know how to fight. They aren't expected to be tough and brave. A Black male growing up in the hood where there is tremendous pressure on him to be violent and show he's not a punk....often constantly.....will look at this with envy. Black boys grow up looking at this and saying to themselves that if they were a White woman...things would be so much easier for them and next thing you know they are putting on dresses and blonde wigs and acting like....not just any woman...but a WHITE woman.

frankster To many of a Spiritual Inclination this physical life is a sojourn in Hell....Now there are caveats. I've heard others say this. I don't believe it however. This physical life contains both bad and good. I'm more inclined to look at this particular physical life as sort of a "kindergarten" where you graduate from it to move to a higher grade/level of Reality. Yes....Who knows what happens behind Palace doors and in Palatial homes. True. However we KNOW what happened to Dr.King on that motel balcony. His fate in this world wasn't done in secret and left up for assumption and guess-work. Hoover....on the other hand....we have do wonder and hope he "got his".

Oh, poor Pioneer. He's gearing up for another childish burp of personal insults. Did some Bible-toting old lady bump into you and make you drop your sex magazines? Listen here, silly. I do not owe you an explanation for anything. Now, let me remind everyone of your greatest hits: In a rant, you declared all Black people should leave southern California because you were still miffed over a jaywalking ticket you received years ago. This was at the tail end of a frenzied polemic from you. Hmmm, tell us. How many Blacks quit their jobs, sold their homes, abandoned their schools and left the region? You also declared that all Black people should give up their religious beliefs and return to the worship of African spirits because this move would wipe away centuries of something akin to bad karma and bring us all prosperity. How many actually did that? The problem with you is your emotions. You think you're a Leader-in-Waiting. But you know what? There's actually a scripture that is so apt for this situation: "But sanctify the Christ as Lord in your hearts, always ready to make a defense before everyone who demands of you a reason for the hope you have, but doing so with a mild temper and deep respect." (1st Peter 3:15)

@Pioneer1 Exactly , exactly. The point is whomever is the producer, can override directors /actors or anyone else... the money is in control. I comprehend your point completely. If I was the producer of the upside I still would do what i said. but, in parallel, as producer, if I had five movies that I was certain to finance and begin preproduction in 2024, none would be like the upside. My five would be: 1) a high john the conqueror film[you will not want to produce this] - animation +fantasy 2) a fantasy film concerning ancient nubia- fantasy+history+live action 3) I admit, a science fiction film of my own writing:) 4) a film copying the basic idea of blood syndicate of milestone [you will not finance this film and will probably speak against it in media:) ]- superhero+action 5) and while I don't care to remakes in general. I am a big fan of three the hard way, not a fan of dolemite, so we can co produce, a new three the hard way. action film, live action In things I would like to produce I have preferences. And i prefer, more positive depictions of black people than in the upside than in white produced media. What you have to comprehend is I grew up with positive black images in media. I realize you and most black people sadly didn't, but I did. And I would oppose financing a film where a black billionaire helps a white felon. Not my money. well, to the films that involved black people in the 1970s. first, most of those films were written or directed by whites. I made whole post in this community, But from a fiscal perspective, most were what we will call today independent films. What i think you miss is that as black wealth in the usa increased, the larger studios made black films, but larger studios come with a less genre based style. You talk of three the hard way, that movie wasn't made by paramount or disney or mgm or universal or 20th century fox or columbia pictures. Sweet sweetback independent, distributed by small distributor. Cotton comes to harlem, samuel goldwyn, small producer Shaft which is from a white author which black people seem to not realize, was small too, mgm distributed. but they didn't finance. foxy borwn, american international pictures, again small uptown saturday night produced by first artists cooley high, american international again corn bread earl and me, american international Even the wiz was produced by motown , distributed by universal sparkle was independent like sweetback superfly was independent produced, warner bros distributed. So I hope I proved my point. You speak of the 1970s films usually financed or written by whites that involve black characters, but most of the post 1980s films that have black characters are not produced by small studios, these are major studio films and with that comes a different angle. Major studios are not going to make films like small independent studios. That has always been the truth. And to be blunt, black movie goers, don't help. whereas black movie goers in the 1970s were willing to see superfly. They were not as interested in low budget meteor man I think no less quality than foxy brown but had an epiphany with black panther. So independent films don't resonante with the modern black film going audience as in the 1970s. @ProfD I have been fortunate to learn a little bit about the film industry. The blunt truth is, Oprah/Pioneer or anyone black could produce that movie. I know it could be produced in NYC 100%. 100%. Now would it be circulated in theaters, advertised all over the world? that requires far more money than making the film in a lot of cases. Making films is in parts. Getting the money to finance to make a film is doable, even for black wealth. But getting the movie advertised plus shown is .. expensive. The barbie movie for example, spent more money on the advertisement and campaigns than the movie. And, to the OWN network, well, networks work by advertisers. The OWN network is a poor example to use. But, online their are film hosting sites for nollywood or owned by black people. They could easily host the film. But will it get advertised. Will people buy subscriptions for this one film. I don't know. BUT, the film, black billionaire+ white felon, can be made. Remember, white man's burden 1995 is functionally in the same zone as the film pioneer1 talks about producing. MAking films is not as hard as people think but it is the adveritising, the showing all over the world which is very expensive, really doubles the money and for non special effects laden films, most producers/advertisers/accountants will oppose as the revenue on return is usually calculated as not good enough

And why is that? Because they don't want to see THEIR OWN people being portrayed as monkeys and buffoons before the world. Not at the expense of a Black man. You have your Forest Gumps and others, but even those characters have smart successful White folks in the film to balance off the clowns. Arabs and Indians are the same way. How many riots have started in the Middle East over movies portraying them in a less than flattering way? So then the question is, if THEY know the importance of keeping the White character positive and powerful while the Black actor portrays the negative and powerless..... Then why don't so many of OUR people understand the importance of it? Say what you want to about the Blaxploitation films of the 70s, but atleast the Black characters would kick the ass of the racists while calling him "honky" and then proceed to screw as many Black AND White women as possible....lol. Never losing a fight and always getting away with the bag....lol. Those movies were simple. Sometimes unrealistic. But they FELT GREAT. Brother @richardmurray you want to talk about a "feel good" movie? Go watch a DOLEMITE flick...or Three The Hard Way.....lol. It'll make you feel so GOOOOOOOOOOD to be Black!!!!

richardmurray If you, Pioneer1 are the producer of said film, based on your words, and with the only change left you can make to manipulate kevin hart's characters background, you demand writers make kevin hart a construction worker laid off or college student dropped out, am I correct? your answer in comments please Yes. I would. For a number of reasons....... For one thing, not only do adults watch these movies but BLACK CHILDREN watch them. And children often watch adults in real life as well as in the movies and on television to LEARN THEIR ROLE in society. Just like children learn how to talk, groom themselves, and eat by watching adults do the same.....especially those who look like him.... If all Black boys see on television and in the movies are Black men being criminals, felons, and con artists....psychologically he feels this is telling him this is HIS role in society. He can't picture anything else because that's all he sees when he goes to the movies or turns on the television. White social engineers and psychologists know and understand this; which is why they used to promote Westerns and G.I. Joe soldier toys during WWII and the Vietnam Era. To encourage boys to want to grow up and be soldiers. No sir. If it's just a movie...... If it's artistic fantasy..... Then let's imagine and fantasize what WE want to see.....a successful Black billionaire who stoops down into the gutter and helps a poor ignorant White felon. How about that.....since we wanna play make believe.

@Pioneer1 It's funny, in the movies that move we review, Nike seconds your sentiment. This is based on a true story, which was made into a french film and then a usa film. In france as in the usa, labor is designed to place people based on phenotype into a solid form, a stereotype. In the real story, the french film or the usa film a key plot point is that he is an exconvict who through opportunity , a rare thing given to exconvicts the world over, is lifted. If you ask me, does the upside film continue the stereotype of financially downtrodden black men in white european produced film, not all media,not all types of produced film, but white european produced film? yes. Now I could argue black people need to stop watching white produced film if they don't like how white money usually accepts portraying blacks but... I find all the black images i need in black produced artwork: books/music/graphical representatons/film I don't require white produced art to show black people positively. Sequentially, for me, black excon's isn't a stereotype in the media that matters most to me. If you ask me, if I was the producer , would I demand the story plot point remain the same? yes. I would not accepted writers making kevin hart a construction worker recently laid off or a college drop out. Not my produced film. Maybe cause in NYC I know fully well what incarceration has done to the black community in NYC, I like a black man from prison, getting opportunity, and using it successfully to a positive end. If a writer says to me, the producer, the money, they want to change kevin hart's characters background to a college dropout or construction worker laid off, I will reply no way. A white excon is able in real life but in fiction a black excon can't? I don't like that messaging and not with my money. If you, Pioneer1 are the producer of said film, based on your words, and with the only change left you can make to manipulate kevin hart's characters background, you demand writers make kevin hart a construction worker laid off or college student dropped out, am I correct? your answer in comments please my evidence cause I know among black people in the usa, this is always needed. https://www.gala.fr/stars_et_gotha/abdel_sellou

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An Open Letter from Participants in the Palestine Festival of Literature Ta-Nehisi Coates, Molly Crabapple, Natalie Diaz, Maaza Mengiste, Solmaz Sharif, et al. "We call for the international community to commit to ending the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza and to finally pursuing a comprehensive and just political solution in Palestine." "We are writers and artists who have been to Palestine to participate in the Palestine Festival of Literature. We now call for the international community to commit to ending the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza and to finally pursuing a comprehensive and just political solution in Palestine. We have exercised our privilege as international visitors to move around historic Palestine in ways that most Palestinians are unable to. We have met and been hosted by Palestinian artists, human rights workers, writers, historians, and activists. We have stood on stage with them. Many of these people, including the festival organizers based in Palestine, are in fear for their lives right now. One festival organizer is locked down with their child in Ramallah, sharing updates about the people killed by armed settlers last night. One partner in Gaza, a magazine editor, is no longer answering messages."

And that somewhat agrees with the answer Dr. Wesley gave in how arrogant and quite foolish White folks are to think they can either battle a Higher Power than them or even try to wipe out humanity. That's dumber than a street gang thinking they can take on the nation's military. But towards Brother Rich's question........ I'm hearing a lot of TALK from brothers about these ETs and Saucers are this, can do that, about to do this, will establish that......ok. SOMEBODY knows the truth. However like Brother Rich said, White folks are still violent and dominating and still appear to be somewhat in control over much of the darker peoples of this planet. So the question is when are the Higher Powers going to make Their move on the White Power Structure? I know that YOU (ProfD) can't answer that question, but that wasn't a rhetorical question but a sincere one.

ProfD Why not simply EXPAND the economy? Why should the old fight with the young over limited jobs and positions when we could just INCREASE the amount of positions and services in our society? In a nation of 400 million people, who said we need only ONE city treasurer in each city? Infact, why not just do like China and build more cities to make more treasurers or mayors or civil engineers! It's funny how people are fighting with eachother over limited jobs WHILE they're shutting down factories and jobs and closing schools and moving them overseas. The population is GROWING but the resources are being cut.....more things that make you go: -Hmmmmmm There is PLENTY of land....empty land.....in the United States for PIONEERS to move to and build up whatever we'd like. The LIMITS set are man-made limits. Zoning laws. Billionaires or those in government who OWN the land and are preventing people FROM building on it and expanding this economy. They do this intentionally just to PIT people against eachother....needlessly. If @Cynique is jealous because Pioneer is getting so much attention and love and respect for HIS posts and she feels he doesn't deserve all of it...... Cynique doesn't have to leave out of anger and jealousy; all we have to do is EXPAND the site so that Cynique has a forum where SHE can be "that guy" who is getting all of the love and respect.....lol. This planet is big enough for everyone to do their thing IN PEACE. There is enough KNOWN resources (let alone UNKNOWN recourses) for everyone to have enough and do their thing IN PEACE. No need to fight and argue over that which is abundant. What's why in my signature I wrote that it's important to expand you CREATIVITY. A lot of problems in this world could be solved if we simply used our Creativity and Resourcefulness.

Slippery slope because you'll have too many people working longer. There's only a finite number of jobs. Old folks should move out of the way and enjoy the remainder of their Iives. Let younger folks do the heavy lifting.

ProfD The Democratic party takes the Black vote for granted without having to deliver anything tangible. Absolutely. Black folks are waking up quick fast and in a hurry now a days! Thanks to brothers like Tariq Nasheed who started demanding that we see TANGIBLES for our vote. No more "taking and shaking you booty to the polls" without being promised and getting something of substance that will benefit us and our children. Troy Really? Ofcourse. Vaccines are INVASIVE and most people in general are hesitant to accepting invasive procedures into their bodies. It's human nature. But Black Americans especially are anti-vaccine because for the most part we don't trust the White dominated medical system and usually only go to it when there is no other viable alternative. You've heard those statistics about how so many Black folks don't go to the doctor until it's "too late". One of the reasons is because most of our people don't fully trust the medical industry, especially when procedures are being administered by a Caucasian in some rubber gloves....lol. Regarding blacks being pro immigration. On my old block the house next to the one I owned (119st off Lenox) is being used to house migrants and the folks there are protesting this. Yeah, NOW a lot of Black people are anti-immigration over these past 15 or 20 years because they've seen so many Asians and Latinos move into their communities and be more racist towards them than even White folks. But HISTORICALLY Black folks have been pro-immigration for a number of reasons. 1. As I said before, most Black folks are aligned with the Democrat Party which is a pro-immigration party. 2. Most Black folks ASSUMED that Asian and Latino immigrants...being of color....would "side" with us against Caucasians and help us defeat racism. We didn't expect for them to be MORE openly racist than Whites themselves....lol. But a lot of our people are waking up fast. I’m not sure what you mean by being “pro-lgbt.” what would you have done with gays and lesbians @Pioneer1? The same thing we BEEN doing with them... Making them keep that shit in the closet....LOL. Homosexuality has existed among Black people for THOUSANDS of years. It's nothing new. But it wasn't promoted and welcomed in our communities. They were encouraged to do it in private and in secret among eachother, not promote it on television or in the schools. Caucasians introduced that to promote their agenda of de-population among people of color.

Most people like to hang out in popular spaces whether in the real world or virtual. Same goes for consumption of things whether it's music, books, movies, clothes, shoes, cars, etc. It's has little or nothing to do with quality of content moreso than mental accessibility. Again, many people like to be in the crowd. Anything that requires a deeper dive or heavier lift mentally will be an acquired taste from an engagement or participation perspective. However, make content simple and plain or crass and vulgar; folks will eat it up like McDonald's food. Cheap entertainment. Brotha @Troy, stay the course. I know you've been rocking AALBC for a long minute now. The site will grow as it's meant to happen.

Well, the reality is that today most people, certainly those under 40, tell me that AALBC HAS to be on social media. So the Brother may have actually believed what he was telling me. TicTok is often cited as one of those platforms. I tried TikTok for a couple of months hot minute and the number of views my videos got was decent, but the problem still remains. TikTok's goal is to boost engagement on their platform and that is how success is measured. I measure success by how many people come to AALBC.com as a result of my activities on the platform. TikTok did not result move the needle when it came to new visitors. Maybe I did not give it enough time, maybe I did not do it correctly... I dunno. I trying to figure all that out for the website I have no time trying to figure that out on TicTok. The reality is that I will get 10K people to open an email this week -- many more will visit this discussion forum alone through organic search. By any measure that is excellent, but no one cares unless it is happening on a social platform. If a few celebrities decided to post here from time to time I can't even imagine what it would do for the website

Her sexual orientation has nothing to do with her ability and it's not pulling black people down in any way. LGBTQ people are just as much part of the black community as anybody. We've got to move beyond the idea that authentic blackness whatever that may be is only straight male cisgendered and patriarchal. My only concern is that Barabara Lee whose been in the House for several years and lives in California wasn't chosen. But this woman has a strong background in labor and community organizing in addition to abortion rights. Give her a chance. She might surprise us in a good way.

OCTOBER 14-Upcoming Solar Eclipse! Ancient Halloween & Black Themes Coming Soon: A “Ring of Fire” in the Sky On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular total solar eclipse will be visible to millions across the globe as it sweeps through the skies of the northwestern United States through Mexico and Central America and into South America, exiting the continent in Brazil. Even if you are not in the path of annularity, you will still be able to see a partial solar eclipse if weather conditions are right. https://blogs.nasa.gov/Watch_the_Skies/2023/09/14/coming-soon-a-ring-of-fire-in-the-sky/ The ancient October festivals are one of my favorite topics as most people that know of my research probably know now! The most crucial reason why this topic becomes supreme for me would be because, although still a great kept secret, the ancient scripts pinpoint this month and day, OCTOBER 14, to be the very month and week of the Crucifixion. It continually amazes me though, that the Black Church still does not profess this truth from the pulpit, yet the entire faith revolves around this very Passover festival of the First Coming and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Still today, and although the ancient Saturnalia Festival detailed in the Gospel that occurred on the very same day that marks the Crucifixion, nevertheless, this truth is almost completely ignored. Although the ancient Romans changed this Saturnalia festival about thirty years later after the Crucifixion to occur at a different time, albeit astronomy and other scientific and historical facts should prove that the original pagan festival occurred during the middle of October and did so for thousands of years. Even more astonishingly would be that the Crucifixion happened during an incredible Total Solar Eclipse that lasted for three (3) hours and crossed the entire globe when the continental plates had not separated into the seven (7) continents that we have today! That makes the timing of this upcoming solar eclipse even more interesting to note. Even though many scientists do not highlight the effects that eclipses can possibly have on our earth, there does seem to be a possibility that eclipses can affect the earth from time-to-time. In the recent past Great American Total Solar Eclipse that happened in August of 2017, amazingly four (4) tropical depressions developed immediately afterwards out of which eventually spurned four (4) major hurricanes and other rare phenomena happened such as red tides as well. And after the Crucifixion, about thirty years later, the ancient scriptures reveal that the earth’s plates separated eventually, and the north pole and south pole formed. Interestingly too, many ancient festivals revolve around historical and scientific phenomena and therefore the history behind ancient festivals like the Saturnalia festival may be beneficial to know. For thousands of years, the ancient pagan Saturnalia Festival of which would also be the same Halloween festival observed today, was not a solar festival nor a winter’s solstice festival like today, rather, just like most of its’ symbolism reveal, it would be A LUNAR FESTIVAL. Halloween symbolisms such as ‘a full moon’, an orange moon, bats, owls, nighttime themes of cemeteries, witches depicted on brooms and in a moon silhouette, etc. and reveal that this would be an ancient moon festival in relation to death themes. Astronomically, exactly thirteen (13) days after a crescent new moon of every month begins THE FIRST EVENING OF THE MONTH ON A LUNAR CALENDAR. And so, every month and after the 13th evening begins the first day of a scientific calendar and the 14th day, technically becomes the FIRST DAY OF THE LUNAR MONTH. For the ancient Hebrew Israelites, SEPTEMBER 14 became their annual New Year’s Day except for their leap year. So every third year, their new years’ festival, Passover, began on OCTOBER 14 and therefore, Jesus Christ became Crucified during a leap year and during the very same week as the Saturnalia festival. According to scripture too, he died on the cross on the second day, on a Thursday, October 16 after a three-hour total solar eclipse, and then after three days, he was resurrected early Sunday morning, October 19, the first day of the week. Surprisingly, this month too, OCTOBER, has been observed in the Middle East as a significant holiday, the SIMKAT FESTIVAL. On a Gregorian lunar/solar Calendar, however, the actual day changes and at times, it will be on October 19. The 19th day in Ethiopia becomes the most major holiday as well, known as ‘the Timkhet (Timkat) festival’ however, unlike in the Middle East Simkhat, moreover, the month of January would be the time for this holiday. Furthermore, just as the First Coming was marked by an astronomical phenomenon of a total solar eclipse that marked the October event, this upcoming Ring-of-Fire eclipse becomes a reminder of this very historical time of year and helps to understand more about leap years and how our equinoxes are aligned with ancient festivals. So, even though today, Halloween has been moved and observed on October 31, to mark a Solar Calendar, however, the theme still reveals its’ ancient origin with being a lunar festival with black themes of human sacrifice. Ironically, the First Resurrection and the dark themes of mummies, skulls of decapitated heads, and skeletons that come to life go together, yet the Black Church almost completely ignores this concept. Even though the Holy Bible states that graves were opened, and the dead came to life at this very time when Jesus was Crucified, nevertheless, this has not taught in the Church. The Saturnalia festival and Halloween was observed as one theme in ancient times; however, certain aspects were divided up and observed in different ways over time. The Jews Passover Week was moved about thirty years later after the Crucifixion to be observed during the springtime and began to coincide with the Roman pagan Easter festival, but the Saturnalia festival became a winter’s solstice festival observed in December or January. Howbeit, the same dual theme of Halloween and Saturnalia has remained the same as it has been for thousands of years even before Moses ordained the Passover festival way back during the time of the Exodus. Surprise! The very institution of the Passover Festival was a seal, a hidden prophecy. This seal about the Saturnalia Festival was opened during that fateful week when the Passover Festival fell on the same week to mark this dark ritual that had occurred for thousands of years. Jesus came to mark this ritual of human sacrifice aimed against the priesthood of the living God. So now when Easter occurs every spring and a purple cloth has been draped across a Church symbolism of the planet Saturn, therefore, it now becomes the mark of the very Star of Bethlehem that also marked the advent of the babe born during that springtime when the star appeared in our solar system during the Festival of Booths! And then the babe became a man and that same star revolved around the sun about thirty years later to mark him again. Three and one-half years later, that same star stood over Calvary too: [22] And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. [23] And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, … ST LUKE 3:23. A Saturn Return happens approximately every 29.5 years (i.e., the duration of Saturn’s orbit around the sun), which means it lands in the same place in the sky it did when you were born roughly around the time you turn 29. Generally, it “returns” for approximately 2.5 to three years. https://www.thecut.com/article/saturn-return-what-it-is-what-to-expect.html#:~:text=A%20Saturn%20Return%20happens%20approximately,approximately%202.5%20to%20three%20years. This ancient Saturnalia Festival that revolves around ‘the pagan god Set’ [i.e. Saturn], that marks a theme of human sacrifice goes way back in time, much farther in time than when Moses instituted the Passover festival. It goes back even before ancient Egypt when the dual Opet festival occurred between Osiris and Set. This theme of good and evil not only marks the Nicolaitan rituals observed in ancient Turkey Anatolia that included the goddess Cybele but, has been played out in so many early cultures that spread from the Near East all over the world in antiquity. And so, by the time of the Roman Empire, the Etruscan bronze or wooden statue of Saturn remained bound in the treasury temple of Mercury in Italy and was revived again to become a live human sacrificial ritual in Jerusalem. Jesus Christ became the captive god Set [i.e., Saturn, Seth] that became conquered by Mercury [i.e., Herod], the god of trade and mercantile and sacrificed at the end of the triumphant parade. This Black-on-Black violent ritual marks the sacrifice of Black males that have become victims of genocidal attempts, mass incarceration, miseducation, and rape, and spiritual death by way of homosexualism now introduced at birth; their souls being robbed in the cradle by a system that introduces this ideology before they have the human right to know why they are born genetically as males. Satan’s movement, his unisex government, has been set up to attack anatomically straight males, not only of Black males, but ultimately males of all walks of life. This would be the purpose of the sacrificial ram of God Almighty; the enmity of God that came to bruise the head of the matriarchal government that began in the Garden of Eden at the time of the Original Sin. Soon the temple of Mercury became changed to become the temple of Saturn many years later after the Crucifixion. The Diwali festival and its doomed god Narak-Asura that becomes an effigy burned at the end of a parade echoes the same dual theme of good versus evil, and light versus darkness. These dual themed rituals of Woden’s Dag [i.e., Magog’s day; Wednesday] took on so many other symbolisms but the same theme of human sacrifice remains the same even today. Whether the theme was about the gender conflict of Ops and the wedding day of Oden [i.e., Wednesday] when the evergreen tree became a central theme and symbolism of Opalia [i.e., goddess Consiva; conceives from a sexual encounter after eating the forbidden fruit of the tree] and Saturn, or whether it focuses on the other dual theme of the two opposing Black males, the dual themes became universal to mark the Original Sin and the world that came from it. Live victims were selected to be ‘the god Saturn’ for a day, given the robe of Herod or an ethnic puppet ruler, given the rulers clothes, such as a crown, scepter, etc. But eventually, the most supreme god Jupiter would emerge and cause both to be sacrificed. Whether Magog represented his feminine form and a matriarchal dominance or his male form, he ultimately reflects a dual theme within himself. Out of Magog would emerge the prince of Magog, that would be Gog and he reigned supreme. And so, strangely one day, during the Roman Empire times, the Jews’ Passover Week aligned itself with the Saturnalia Festival and the Ram was sacrificed at the end of a parade on a hill of skulls. And that day was marked astronomically to be during a total solar eclipse in October. Whether the moon theme depicts an orange moon [lunar eclipse] or a black moon [solar eclipse] this festival defines death and autumn not springtime. Interestingly, this upcoming and rare Ring-of-Fire solar eclipse will occur in North America and remind us of an ancient time when major grain festivals occurred during the middle of October and when it became regarded as a leap month. And six months later, another total solar eclipse has been predicted to occur on April 8, 2024, along with a periodic comet known as Pons-Brooks. Even more of an intrigue will be that next year, during the middle of the month of October, another comet has been detected by the Purple Mountain observatory, and will attempt to make an entry into our inner solar system and move towards the sun. The original day was given over to the Opalia, honoring Ops, who personified abundance and the fruits of the earth, and was the consort of Saturn. As the two deities represented the produce of the fields and orchards, so they also were thought to represent heaven and earth. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/calendar/saturnalia.html#:~:text=The%20original%20day%20was%20given,to%20represent%20heaven%20and%20earth. Ops, Roman goddess (originally perhaps of the Earth’s fertility) with an ancient shrine in the Regia, the office of the pontifex maximus, which only he and the Vestal Virgins might enter. She was early equated with Rhea, wife of Saturn, and like her was later identified with Cybele. She also had connections with the rustic god Consus. Her title, Consiva, and the nomenclature and dating of her festivals (the Opalia on December 19 and the Opiconsiva on August 25) illustrate her affinities with the Saturnalia (December 17) … https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ops#ref1256767 …On October 14, a rare annular solar eclipse will be visible from eight states in the United States. … For the first time ever, this type of eclipse will be visible in North America. The eclipse begins on October 13 in Oregon and crosses through Northern California, Nevada, Utah, northeastern Arizona, southwestern Colorado, and New Mexico before it ends in Texas on October 14. From there, it will travel to Central America and South America, NASA reports. https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/a-ring-of-fire-solar-eclipse-will-be-visible-in-the-us-for-the-first-time-ever-here-s-how-and-when-to-see-it/ar-AA1fgj3F?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=661c59a806ed43d5ba3bc55061e2e301&ei=35 THE TIMKAT FESTIVAL IN ETHIOPIA Taking place in Ethiopia every year on 19th January (or the 20th on leap years!) Timkat (also known as Timket) is an Orthodox Christian celebration of the Ethiopian Epiphany. It celebrates the baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan River and is best known for its ritual re-enactment of the baptism.Jan 19, 2023 https://www.cpafrica.org.uk/african-culture/timkat-timket-ethiopia-christian-festival/