Ēostre Festival

"Ostara" (1901) by Johannes Gehrts. The goddess Ēostre flies through the heavens surrounded by winged putto, beams of light, and animals. Peoples look up at the goddess from the realm below.

Billions of PEOPLE celebrated the Festival of Easter on Sunday. The celebration, by masses of Christians of the faith, as well as other participating paganites, wiccas and nature worshipers celebrating the feast of the Goddess Venus and others who just like to get down for a party.

CHECK IT. Ēostre or Ostara, is a goddess in Germanic antiquity, who, by way of the Germanic month bearing her name, is the namesake of the festival of Easter.

By way of linguistic reconstruction, the origin stems from the earlier Proto-Germanic goddess Austrō. As the Germanic languages descend from Proto-Indo-European, linguists have traced the name to a Proto-Indo-European goddess of the dawn, H₂ewsṓs, from which descends the Germanic goddess Ēostre or Ostara.*

The name H₂ewsṓs is derived from a root h₂wes, meaning “to shine”, or “the shining one”.

Shining Light Goddess Of Love

From the root word, h₂ewsṓs, a number of deities of the dawn goddess can be reconstructed, including wenos, from the Sanskrit vanas, meaning “loveliness; desire”, the Norse Vanir and the Latin Venus.

Transits of Venus

In Latin, from which the English word is derived, Lucifer (as a noun) means “light-bearer” (from the words lucem ferre). It was the name given to the Morning Star, i.e. the planet Venus when seen at dawn.

Image: Pentagram of Transits of Venus. Credit: CurtRenz.com

Easter and Displacement of Accent

Eosturmonath has become “Paschal month“, from the celebration which was once after the goddess Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated in that month.

Only the name of the celebration in the west retains its roots, now renamed as Easter, as the conquered pagan peoples traditions were absorbed into the dominant Levantine culture the celebrations were combined. The feast of Eostre the Goddess of the Dawn and shining light, replaced by the “shining light of Jesus”, with a promise of everlasting life and light of goodness. With the bringer of Light as Venus vilified in the demonization of the Pentagram, which is no longer seen as a beautiful symbol of math from nature, created by the transits of Venus.

Now the male figure of the Levant Christ replacing the Goddess of the East.

Happy Easter

Easter is the Christian feast and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion as described in the New Testament.

Easter and the holidays that are related to it are moveable feasts, in that they do not fall on a fixed date in the Gregorian or Julian calendars. Instead, the date for Easter is determined on a lunisolar calendar similar to the Hebrew calendar. The First Council of Nicaea (325) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon (the Paschal Full Moon) following the northern hemisphere’s vernal equinox. Ecclesiastically, the equinox is stated to be on 21 March (even though the equinox occurs, astronomically speaking, on 20 March in most years), and the “Full Moon” is not necessarily the astronomically correct date.

In Western Christianity, using the Gregorian calendar, Easter falls on a Sunday between 22 March and 25 April, inclusively.

Eastern Christianity bases its calculations on having Easter following the feast of Passover, since the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ took place after he entered Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. In the Western Christian Church, Easter sometimes precedes Passover by weeks.

References:

Mallory, J. P. (editor). Adams, Douglas Q. (editor). (1997). Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 1-884964-98-2

Transits of Venus. 2004 AND 2012 TRANSITS OF VENUS: NASA

The Cycle of Venus
Check it. “A Venus Transit occurs when we can see Venus passing directly in front of the Sun. This is similar to when the Moon passes in front of the Sun on a solar eclipse. Unlike the Moon, which covers most of the Sun, Venus appears as a small dot crossing the face of the Sun. A transit (sometime called a passage) can only occur with the inner planets–Mercury and Venus–because they are the only two that can lie between the Earth and Sun during their orbits.”

Easter Celebration of Rebirth and Love

As the Sun rotates, its magnetic field twists into a Archimedean spiral. The shape of the current sheet results from the influence of the Sun's rotating magnetic field on the plasma in the interplanetary medium (Solar Wind).

(Opinion) Easter is about renewel. Rebirth. The loving light of the Sun reborn. The loving light of the Son reborn.

Renewal is the transition of rebirth. Just as the plants flower and bloom, the fruit trees begin to blossom, the cold dark days of winter have given way to warm days, the animals give birth and nurse their young in the warmth of the love and spring.

Jesus to his disciples in Matthew 5:14:
“You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.”

A dit Jésus

s’ils vous disent ceux qui vous attirent

voici le royaume est dans le ciel

alors les oiseaux du ciel vous devanceront

s’ils vous disent il est dans la mer

alors les poissons vous devanceront

mais le royaume est à l’intérieur de vous

et il est l’extérieur de vous

quand vous aurez reconnu vous-mêmes alors vous serez reconnus

et vous saurez que vous êtes les enfants du père le vivant

si en revanche vous ne vous reconnaissez pas

alors vous êtes dans une pauvreté

et vous êtes la pauvreté

Consider, The Words of Ramakrishna

“As one can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope, so diverse are the ways and means to approach God, and every religion in the world shows one of these ways.

Bow down and worship where others kneel, for where so many have been paying the tribute of adoration the kind Lord must manifest himself, for he is all mercy.

The devotee who has seen God in one aspect only, knows him in that aspect alone. But he who has seen him in manifold aspects is alone in a position to say, ‘All these forms are of one God and God is multiform.’ He is formless and with form, and many are his forms which no one knows.

The Saviour is the messenger of God. He is like the viceroy of a mighty monarch. As when there is some disturbance in a far–off province, the king sends his viceroy to quell it, so wherever there is a decline of religion in any part of the world, God sends his Saviour there. It is one and the same Saviour that, having plunged into the ocean of life, rises up in one place and is known as Krishna (the leading Hindu incarnation of God), and diving down again rises in another place and is known as Christ.”

From another Time.

Whoever is near the light is near the protction of the fire from the darkness of the night, safe from the peering hunting eyes in the darkness of the woods, safe in the warmth of the glowing loving embers.

The protection of the fire and the burning light within.

Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds.

Science Spies Martian Vortex

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA

Check it. Massive “Dust Devil” observed on the plains of Mars at the Northern DMZ. A massive 20 kilometer (12 mile) ‘dust devil’ was documented twirling about the desert in the Amazonis Planitia region of Mars.

Check it. Huge Martian Dust Devil Churns in New Photo
“A gigantic dust devil races across the surface of Mars in a stunning new photo snapped by a NASA spacecraft.” Space.com

Twirling Whirling 20km Dust Devil

Amazonis Planitia @24.8°N 196.0°E is one of the smoothest plains on Mars.

It is located in the DMZ between the Tharsis and Elysium provinces to the west of the disputed Olympus Mons, in the highly volatile Valles Marineris Province of the Memnonia quadrangle. With a lull in the fighting at Marineris, scientists were able to document this rare event on the Red Planet.

Amazonis planitia

Dust devils are strong, proper-formed spinning whirlwinds made visible by the dust particles and dirt they suck off the ground. Dust devils occur on Mars and Earth.

On the Martian surface, the dancing dirty djinn’s range from a half a metre wide and a few metres tall, to massive ones more than 100 metres wide and more than 20 kilometers tall. The primary vertical motion is upward.

They are comparable to tornadoes in that both are a weather phenomenon of a vertically oriented rotating column of air. Most tornadoes are associated with a larger parent circulation, the mesocyclone on the back of a supercell thunderstorm. Dust devils are usually harmless, compared to their coiling cousins, but can on rare occasions grow large enough to pose a threat to people, animals, mechs, and physical structures. Dust devils usually form as a swirling updraft under sunny conditions during clear weather, seldom coming close to the power of a tornado.

Check it. NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

GOOGLE GLASSES

Check Da FUTURISTICS w/GOOGLE’s AUGMENTED-REALITY GLASSES. Pop the VIRTUAL REALITY Spectacles on your Dome to ENHANCE. Google bringin SCI-FI to LIFE.

GOOGLE (Nasdaq:GOOG) bringing the FUTURE to the NOW. From Google’s X LAB, the future-bringing research facility that developed a driverless car and is working on a space elevator, presents PROJECT GLASS.

Project Glass: One day…

Check it. Google unveils ‘Project Glass’ virtual-reality glasses
“The company on Wednesday unveiled a long-rumored concept called “Project Glass,” which takes all the functionality of a smartphone and places it into a wearable device that resembles eyeglasses.” –CNN

Check it. Google unveils virtual reality glasses
“Google has unveiled a pair of futuristic glasses – reminiscent of a Star Trek prop – as part of a bid to introduce wearable computing into the mainstream technology industry.” –Telegraph

Check it. Google Dabbles in Dream Tech in Hush-Hush X Lab
“Google is experimenting in some rather large-minded projects, if a recent report is to be believed. Somewhere in the San Francisco area, Google researchers are studying technologies that could lead to constructions such as a space elevator, according to the report. It’s also apparently where Google’s trying to make its driverless car suitable for mass use.” –technewsworld

Testimony

(FORBIDDEN)

You are in the afterlife. I know. Sounds crazy. Feels just like normal. But your mind does not know any different.

It has to still process what it knows. It, like this experience and the experience of your peers and those you know and love remains in the realm of normalcy in that it looks and feels very similar, for now. Of course there are much differences, which I shall explain and you shall experience in due time.

Yes it seems the same. What is to come is simple. You can have everything and anything you want. If:

Yes, if. If you have lived a noble and pious life.

How will you be judged? Well, by a jury of your peers of course. The jury is being selected as we speak. And all of your actions and indeed ALL of your thoughts, of the sum of the WHOLE of your life will be judged.

There will be Testimony.

From those whom you trespassed against.

And from those who will testify on behalf of you.

You should not have much to worry about, if you did not kill, and I already know you did not, or do wrong on such a grand scale, as to poison lives and cause suffering, on purpose.

But, you are being brought to trial by those whom you have wronged. As well as to make you accountable for evil thoughts, which most, if not all, are guilty of from time-to-time in even the most noble of lives. The temptations of the dark are great. And indeed, even now, the Prosecution is building its case against you.

Me? I am your guide as well as part of your defense. I am familiar with most of your case. Of course I have not gone through the sum of your thoughts; this will become available to all, in time, and yes, the same stands for all. This is a complex thing, of course, that causes some troubles initially and will take some getting used to. I will explain more later. There is much to learn, in time.

For now, the focus is your trial. Which will be soon enough, and of course it will be available for all to see and hear.

Now, I can say with confidence that you have a very good chance of remaining here, in paradise.

There is nothing on your record to preclude otherwise. But indeed, you may have some things hidden in the darkest and deepest recesses of your mind. Of your darkest thoughts, of the freedom of will which allowed you to think and not act. Only the most heinous of these thoughts without action can you be charged with and if necessary, dealt with.

Worry not of these things.

Viewing your character, I trust you will remain in the range of normalcy.

Now, as for testimony against you, yes, there are charges being brought against you and you will have the opportunity to defend yourself.

Do not look so worried. I have also seen and heard from those that will Testify before you, on your behalf.

And this testimony is great. We will hear from many of your loved ones. And even from your pets and animals that were in your care, or that you treated in one way or another. Funny! Yes! Here, like the concept of time, things are very different.

Insects? These things are complex. Again, if you tortured or caused suffering, on purpose, this will be addressed.

Please, do not worry.

However, it will of course take you some time to get used to what is going on here and the adjustments to this society are great.

For now, rest up.

Anything you wish to eat, drink, read or watch shall be yours. The trial will begin after you have settled in for some short semblance of time. And will last until it is done.

But again, worry not. The Testimony is great in your favor.

Welcome to Paradise.

Immortality Discovered

Scientists have discovered organisms with cells that can live “forever”.

A free-living, ciliated protozoa called Tetrahymena thermophilia has cells that are immortal.

Check it. Decoding Immortality
“The Fountain of Youth may have just been discovered, not in a Florida spring, but in a murky Australian pond. Far from myth, the findings of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Elizabeth Blackburn, an enzyme that can keep cells young, may just prove to be the key to immortality.” –Smithsonianchannel

Smithsonian Channel “Decoding Immortality” Narration

For da Nerdz:

Check it. Tetrahymena extract protects Paramecium from oxygen-free radicals
“Cells of Paramecium tetraurelia will age and die, while cells of Tetrahymena thermophilia are immortal. Both are free-living, ciliated protozoa. Whole cells and homogenates of both Paramecium andTetrahymena were treated with iron(+2) to induce peroxidation of membrane lipids and other cellular constituents. Paramecium is far more susceptible to such peroxidative damage than Tetrahymena. Indeed, addition of Tetrahymena extract protects Paramecium from peroxidative damage. Tetrahymena’s protective molecules block the initial attack of oxygen-free radicals on Paramecium constituents.” –AGE@springerlink.com

Photo Credit: CDC/Dr. L.L. Moore, Jr.

Check it. The Telomere Lengthening Mechanism in Telomerase-Negative Immortal Human Cells Does Not Involve the Telomerase RNA Subunit
“According to the telomere hypothesis of senescence, the progressive shortening of telomeres that occurs upon division of normal somatic cells eventually leads to cellular senescence. The immortalisation of human cells is associated with the acquisition of a telomere maintenance mechanism which is usually dependent upon expression of the enzyme telomerase. About one third of in vitro immortalised human cell lines, however, have no detectable telomerase but contain telomeres that are abnormally long. The nature of the alternative telomere maintenance mechanism (referred to as ALT, for Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres) that must exist in these telomerase-negative cells has not been elucidated.” –Oxfordjournals

Of Interest

How Stress Affects Our Telomeres (Chromosome / DNA)

Check it. Hayflick limit
“The Hayflick limit (or Hayflick Phenomenon) is the number of times a normal cell population will divide before it stops replicating due to the telomeres shortening to a critical length.

The Hayflick limit was discovered by Leonard Hayflick in 1961,at the Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, when Hayflick demonstrated that a population of normalhuman fetal cells in a cell culture divide between 40 and 60 times. It then enters a senescence phase (refuting the contention by Alexis Carrel that normal cells are immortal). Each division (mitosis) shortens the telomeres on the DNA of the cell. Telomere shortening in humans eventually makes cell division impossible, and it is presumed to correlate with aging. This mechanism appears to prevent genomic instability and the development of cancer.”

Check it. Schrodinger’s Dance
“At every given moment our body is undergoing cellular division, known as mitosis. To replace old cells, new cells grow, cells in our organs are replaced, our hair, our skin, our tissues, repaired and renewed, cells are replicating and dividing. replicating and dividing. replicating and dividing. Replicating and dividing.”

Hölle ist Erde

(Opinion)

En ce qui concerne ce peut-être, ou probabilité de la réalité actuelle est l’enfer, c’est parce que l’humanité elle-même.
Dans les vieux contes faustien, qui proviennent histoire avant est écrite dans leurs versions antérieures, le caractère, dans ce cas le docteur Faust,vend son âme au diable pour l’amour ou une femme, la richesse et la gloire.Histoire classique, bien sûr. Lorsque l’agent du diable, Méphistophélès,vient d’obtenir le contrat signé le bon docteur lui demande, ”qu’est-ce quevotre maître veut mon âme pour?”, En demandant, ”at-il simplement recueillir les âmes à faire de son royaume plus grand?” L’agent, Méphistophélès, les réponses en Latin ”Solamen Miseris Socios Habuisse Doloris”, ou, Misery Loves Company.

If the observer effect is true, which it is, according to people like Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg, reality itself is shaped by the observers. With the most powerful being collective humanity, the cat in the box is both dead and alive until it is observed, and in the case of humanity this cat is most often not just dead, but it suffers a terrible death. People love to laugh at others misfortune and like to read and hear about bad things, largely, more than they want to hear about good things and of peoples successes. Of course there are exceptions. The core of Christianity itself is based on Compassion, literaly, com-passion, “suffering with”. Instead of alleviating and eliminating suffering, the Christian joins in on the fun. Creating in this shared Universe of multiple observers wanting suffering is a living fucking Hell.

Hell

In Bergesadern, Mauergründen
Ist Gold gemünzt und zu finden,
Wer es zu Tage schafft:
Manns Natur- und Geisteskraft.

Heiligen Herz,
Erbat sich erst das Recht zur Macht,
Nun sind wir alle neugeboren;
Ein jeder weltgewandte Mann.
Zieht sie behaglich über Kopf und Ohren;
Sie ähnelt ihn verrückten Toren,
Es bleibt doch endlich nach wie vor
Mit ihren hunderttausend Possen
Die Welt ein einziger großer Possen.

Doch wo was Rühmliches gelingt,
Das Tiefe hoch, das Hohe tief,
Das Schiefe grad, das Grade schief,
Das ganz allein macht mich gesund,
So will ich’s auf dem Erdenrund.
Wie von magischer Laterne,
Schnaubt heran mit Sturmgewalt.
Dorthin, wo Schönes, Gutes nur gefällt,
Zur Einsamkeit! — da schaffe deine Welt.

O Jugend, Jugend, wirst du nie?
Der Freude reines?
Vernünftig wie allmächtig wirken?
Des Jammers Maß ist übervoll,
Ich weiß nicht, wer uns retten soll.
Ein Aschenhaufen einer Nacht.

Ich darf mein Wort nicht brechen,
Ich aber bin gequält zu tun,
Das Heidenvolk geht mich nichts an,

Nun ist es Zeit, die Schätze zu entfesseln!
Es haust in seiner eignen Hölle.

Towers of Inferno: пламя Башня Федерация

Photo Credit: korobkov http://instagr.am/p/I7dVG3EmqF/

Check it. Russian skyscraper blaze in Moscow. Check it . С горящей башни «Федерация» эвакуировали 14 рабочих.
Firefighters battled blaze at “Federation Tower” in Moscow, “evacuated 14 workers, none of them hurt.”

Check it. Hours-long blaze hits under-construction Moscow skyscraper; no injuries
“Huge flames danced for hours on the top floors of an under-construction Moscow skyscraper that is to be Europe’s tallest… No injuries were reported in the blaze.” –Washington Post

Photo Credit: Stanislav Kozlovskiy

Check it. Russian skyscraper set to be Europe’s tallest catches fire
“The fire at the eastern part of the Federation Tower complex was visible from much of the Russian capital’s western half. Two firefighting helicopters noisily circled the blaze, dumping huge buckets of water on the flames before the Emergencies Ministry said the fire had been stopped from spreading by about 11:30 p.m., some three hours after it broke out.” –USAToday

Check it. Горит башня Федерация (Москва-сити)

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Check it. Башня “Федерация” тлеет в Москве
“Пожар в здании башни “Федерация” потушен. Здание продолжает дымиться. Площадь пожара составила до 300 кв. метров, сообщает “Эхо Москвы”. Трём пожарным вертолетам долго не удавалось попасть струей воды в пламя из-за сильного ветра. Горел последний, 67-й этаж высотки делового центра «Москва-Сити». Пожару был присвоен четвертый номер сложности по пятибалльной шкале. Жертв и пострадавших нет.” –publicpost.ru

Of Interest

Check it. Башня Федерация
“The Federation Tower (Russian: Башня Федерация) is a complex of skyscrapers being built in Moscow on the 13th lot of the Moscow International Business Center in Moscow, Russia, being developed by Sergei Choban and Peter Schweger. The construction of the towers began in 2003. When completed it will be the tallest building in Europe. After various delays, construction resumed in August 2011 and is now expected to be completed in 2013.”

Check it. Fire Consumes WTC 7-Size Skyscraper, Building Does Not Collapse
“Giant flames engulf every floor of 44-story building and it remains standing, yet limited fires across just 8 floors of WTC 7 brought down building within 7 seconds on 9/11.” –inforwars.com

Check it. Why No One Could Have Predicted The Collapse Of WTC 7
“Aside from the fact that previous to 9/11 no steel framed building in history had ever collapsed due to fire damage, Building 7, otherwise known as the Salomon Brothers building, was intentionally designed to allow large portions of floors to be permanently removed without weakening the structural integrity of the building.” –infowars.com

Check it. Tower Fire Flames WTC Talk

Bird Science

Bird photography is an aerial photography technique invented in 1917 by the Prussian avephile Julius Frankenbööner, who also used pigeons to deliver drugs for his elicit business. A homing stooge was fitted with an adamantium chest harness to which a lightweight time-delayed miniature camera was attached. Frankenbööner’s Prussian patent application was initially rejected, of course, for sheer craziness, but was granted in December 1918 after he produced authenticated photographs of the patent office manager, Heinrick Bolk, having an affair with his intern, one Mr. Heirnonomous Fleish, taken from the air by his birds. He publicized the technique at the 1919 Volksscheinner International Photographs of Crazy Sexual Intercourse by Voyeurs Exhibition, and sold many of these images as postcards at the Wolfhausen International Bird and Stuff Convention, as well as at the Prestigious 1920 and 1921 LaFayette Airbird and Pornography Shows.

Initially, the military potential of bird photography for aerial reconnaissance appeared very attractive. Battlefield tests in the Great World War provided encouraging results, but the shittiness of the technology made the camera too heavy and the birds also needed gas masks for the crazy fucking humans that actually gassed the shit out of each other.

Birdz and aerialz

Due to the rapid perfection of aeroplane and space technology during the war, military interest in Bird photography faded and Frankenbööner abandoned his experiments. The idea was briefly resurrected in the 1930s by a Swiss dildomaker, Heinz Glossweiss, and reportedly also by the American and Soviet militaries. Although war birds were deployed extensively during the Second Great World War, it is unclear to what extent, if any, birds were involved in aerial reconnaissance other than for spying domestically on crazy sexual acts.

The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), no stranger to weird, crazy and unethical experiments, later developed a battery-powered camera designed for espionage via bird and hamster photography; details of use, like the hamsters in the study, remain rectally classified.

Presently, some researchers, enthusiasts, geezers, nerds and artists employ small digital photo or video cameras with various species of wild or domestic animals or robots. Of course drones make this all moot and hysterical. The construction of sufficiently small and light cameras with a timer or remote activated mechanism, and the training and handling of birds to carry the necessary loads, present major challenges, as do the limited control over the birds’ position, orientation and speed, especially when there are disgusting, rotting food scraps on the ground, which distract the birds when photographs are supposed to be taken.

In 2010, the Thoragie Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) used miniature television cameras attached to goldfish to obtain live underwater footage, although most of the footage was murky due to the goldfish diet of dried White Castle pellets, which ends up clouding the water around the Cyprinidae, due to the leaky, runny diarrhea, which is a natural result of White Castle in any form.