Go ahead and argue, it’s good for your health!
Go ahead and argue, it's good for your health | MSNBC
"People who held in tension had higher levels of stress hormone the next day, study says. The results show when people experience tension with someone, whether their boss, spouse, or child, sidestepping confrontation could be bad for their health. Avoiding conflict was associated with more symptoms of physical problems the next day than was actually engaging in an argument."
Anger Fuels Better Decisions | LiveScience
"Despite its reputation as an impetus to rash behavior, anger actually seems to help people make better choices—even aiding those who are usually very poor at thinking rationally. This could be because angry people base their decisions on the cues that "really matter" rather than things that can be called irrelevant or a distraction."
Hmmm... so maybe it is GOOD for the health of Ephraimites to occasionally engage in some tense arguments and disagreements? Such a notion is certainly a radical change of perspective... for in the last decade or more, the argumentative and opinionated nature of many within the ever-growing Messianic/Hebraic-roots movement has garnered quite the bad wrap.
In the process of the last few years, I've tried to observe Jew-dah's perception on the value of disagreements. Generally, Jew-dah seems to have perfected this art and tapped into its power without destroying themselves and their relationships (which seems to be more a cultural manifestation than a genetic one). However, Ephraim has trained the sword of passionate dissent with the grace and elegance one would expect from a toddler on ice skates. We certainly have much to learn, but my fear is that we may swing to the other extreme of NEVER engaging in heated discussions because of the pain we've seen and felt in the past. I've been guilty of this more and more... where I've chosen to remain silent out of fear, not out of wisdom.
The instruction to "be angry, but sin not" (Psalm 4:4; Ephesians 4:26) would be an invaluable insight in this. If we're able to remove our own individual sin of pride, arrogance, self-centeredness, and malice before entering heated discussions, then I think we would fair much better at the END of those discussions. For example, if we try to use words like "we," "our," and "us" during the conflict, instead of words like "I," "you," and "me," individuals are less likely to perceive the conflict as a personal assault and the subject at hand is better compartmentalized. Unfortunately, many times hidden malice is involved... which makes the process much more dangerous to relationships.
The first study above also found that avoiding conflict was associated with having more physical symptoms of nausea or aches and pains the morning after. This also reminds me of Psalm 4:4/Ephesians 4:26 which both indicate we shouldn't go to bed without dealing with our anger (which usually entails a confrontation with someone).
Shalom mishpacha!
Your non-accredited social scientist,
Hanok ben-Isaak
VIDEO: Caroline Glick on Iran and Israel, After the Bomb
The Center for Security Policy's Senior Middle East Fellow Caroline Glick recently spoke on the subject of Iran at Moses Montefiore Anshe Emunah Synagogue in Baltimore, MD. She offered a very sober assessment of the Obama administration's policy of appeasement toward the Mullahs-- and what happens next.
Lessons from the mountain-side
Here is a quick lesson I learned from today's climb in the mountains:
Never trust your hands or feet to anything dead or anything alive which is growing in shallow soil (think dead trees, branches, and roots) ...especially when traversing dangerous cliffs.
We can probably apply that lesson to many practical day-to-day and spiritual matters... and could help save us from needless suffering (or death in some instances). For example, there are many people out there who appear to be alive, but on the inside, they are rotten and full of death. Going to one of those individuals for counsel and support could be a very dangerous endeavor. Instead go to someone who is UPRIGHT, strong, and alive... who walks in the LIGHT, strength, and spirit of Torah. Their wise-counsel will steady our hands and feet! =)
Selah!
Hanok ben-Isaak
AUDIO: Imagine the lights going off suddenly…and having no power for as long as ten years
After pondering what John Kappenman describes in the following interview, I find myself questioning what kind of long-term effects an event like this would have on Daughter Babylon. Would this be THE demise of her (i.e., suddenly) or could it be the thing that weakens her so much that her more prepared enemies are motivated to bring the final blows? The timing of her destruction is a key point for Jews and Joes... for it is at that time that Jeremiah 50:1-51:59 indicates many of us will return to Tsiyon. - Hanok
Source: Off the Grid Radio | August 13th, 2010
Imagine the lights going off suddenly…and having no power for as long as ten years. This is NOT some conspiracy theory, it is a fact and our government is concerned about the EMP's that will be hitting the earth within the next 2 to 3 years.
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In all the years we've been working to develop solutions for self-reliant, independent people such as yourself, I've never been as worried as I am right now, and that's because of the interview in today's edition of Off The Grid Radio.
Our guest today is John Kappenman, the owner and Chief Analyst of Storm Analysis Consultants. John has a resume and list of professional accomplishments the length of my arm and is one of the world's leading experts on the dangers from geomagnetic storms, or what is commonly known as an ElectroMagneticPulse (EMP).
His testimony before the US House of Representatives was so compelling that the House voted unanimously to accept John's new recommendations to protect the grid, and yet the legislation appears dead in the US Senate. Think about that-unanimity in the US House of Representatives. Even Ron Paul supports this.
If our leaders fail to act, John and others experts have predicted that:
- A solar storm of extreme strength will hit within the next few years
- The entire global electric grid could go down
- The most at-risk components are hugely expensive and take years to replace
- We may live without electricity for 4-10 years
And tens of millions of people will die as their medications expire and are not replaced, as food rots on the farm and hospitals turn into morgues.
Just imagine waking up tomorrow to discover that the electricity is off and isn't coming back on. City water will run out within a day or two. Grocery stores will be out of food within 72 hours... if it lasts that long. No banks are open. Gas stations can't pump the gas they have, and nothing more will be delivered. There are no telephones, TV and Radio stations are off the air, there's no internet. And your local hospital is overwhelmed with the sick, injured and elderly...imagine the ER without electricity, medicine or a reliable way to sanitize equipment. It's horrifying.
In short, we're talking about an apocalyptic time machine that will take us back 100 years, and while your grandparents may have been accustomed to life before modern technology, polling here at OffTheGridNews.com suggests that even those of us who are aware of and working towards total independence have a long way to go. (One poll showed that half of all readers estimated they would starve within a month!)
What about the hundreds of millions in our own country who are blindly stumbling forward through life, oblivious to the coming darkness.
I want to urge you to take an hour out of your time, right now, to listen to this life-changing interview with John Kappenman, and after you've heard it, forward this to everyone you know. There is no charge to listen, but the price of ignorance could be beyond imagination. This crisis is right around the corner, and history has shown us it's not a matter of 'if', but when, so please, click through and listen.
http://offthegridnews.com/2010/08/13/interview-with-john-kappenman/
Regards,
The Team at Off The Grid Radio
VIDEO: Two Films That Blew Bilderberg Wide Open
Source: PrisonPlanet.com
Paul Joseph Watson
Friday, August 20, 2010
The Bilderberg Group is receiving fresh and timely attention after Cuban president Fidel Castro published an article warning of the fact that the globalist clique, “has become a kind of global government, controlling not only international politics and economics, but even culture,” prompting the term “Bilderberg” to shoot to the top of the Google Trends rankings.
This is part of a global awakening to the new world order in which millions of people around the globe are finally discovering where the true power lies and why the world is being driven headlong towards serfdom and dictatorship,
Castro quoted almost verbatim from Daniel Estulin’s 2006 book The Secrets of the Bilderberg Club in his regular newspaper column, sparking a fresh round of international media coverage some four months after the Bilderbergers last met in Spain, something the publicity-shunning gaggle of globalists were completely unprepared for.
Castro drew attention to Bilderberg’s plan to “install a world government that knows no borders and is not accountable to anyone but its own self,” reported the Associated Press. The Cuban leader went into further detail, quoting Estulin on his research about how the “Frankfurt School of socialist academics worked with members of the Rockefeller family in the 1950s to pave the way for rock music to “control the masses” by diverting attention from civil rights and social injustice". READ FULL ARTICLE
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VIDEO: Israeli Innovation
The thing that caught my attention the most in this video... is the reality that: cultural acceptance to question and freedom-of-dissent was/is a major driving factor in Israeli innovation. In the past, I remember hearing that Israeli corporate environments were less sensitive to what most Western-societies consider insubordinate behavior. Of course, we're talking more about non-factious or non-mutinous insubordination here. Personally, I perceive this as "unity of dissent" or "unity permitting dissent". Of course, these realities play out in the Jewish synagogue as well... or maybe... such could be attributed (at least partially) to the founding cause for the Israeli penchant to take the risk in asking the question: "Why?" - Hanok
"Two Jews, Three Opinions!" =)
AIPAC Policy Conference 2010 (COURTESY: Some footage provided by Weizmann Institute of Science, Technion--Israel Institute of Technology, Google Israel).
VIDEO: Extreme Weather Worldwide 2010
Of course the following video alludes to so-called man-made "Global Warming" and/or "Climate Change" as the impetus to what is being experienced worldwide... but strangely (as usual) no mention of changes being detected on most all planets in our entire Solar System. Interesting, yes? When listening to the banker-owned lame-stream media, remember this: the human-hating satanic elitists want the emphasis to be on "mankind is evil" or "mankind is a cancer", NOT "mankind needs to repent" of their Torahlessness, perversion, and greed. - Hanok
VIDEO: Vitamin D3 | One of the most critical nutritional supplements
The following is my Youtube playlist for Vitamin D. There are several hours worth of information from various researchers, doctors, and scientists. You may be asking, why am I sharing this here? Well... because I think it is probably one of the most critical nutritional deficiencies that is plaguing the body of Messiah today... especially those living further from the equator and/or those living the modern-indoor lifestyle (which is basically the reality for much of Ephraim in the nations). Take a little time to at least listen to the first few videos. - Hanok
VIDEO: An Important Swine Flu Update!
Dr. Joseph Mercola and Barbara Loe Fisher of NVIC discuss last years swine flu pandemic and projections for this coming year.
My hope is that fewer and fewer Joes (and everyone for that matter) will be duped and endangered by Big Pharma in the future!
Hanok ben-Isaak
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VIDEO: Disputes in the Hebraic-Roots Movement
You've got to admit... this video is totally reminiscent of the emotional nature of many disputes found within various flavors of the Hebraic-Roots movement. =)
Things we divide over:
- Are we allowed to pronounce the Divine Name?
- How to pronounce the Divine Name
- How to pronounce the name of Messiah
- Yeshua Divine or not Divine? Yeshua the same as the Father, or just the Son?
- Yeshua a Karaite, Rabbanite, or just plane ole' Torah-LIGHT?
- ORAL Torah or just WRITTEN Torah?
- How to determine the Calendar and Festival days
- 7-Day fixed Shabbat or Lunar-based Shabbat?
- Leave house or stay in house for Shabbat?
- Head-coverings or no head-coverings? Men or women?
- Meat or no meat?
- Torah "required" for "Gentiles" or not?
- New or Renewed Covenant? Currently (re)newed or a future event?
- Messiah returning bodily near the start or near the end of this Millennium?
- Jubilees in 49-year or 50-year increments?
- Mystery Babylon, a city, religion, empire, system, or all of the above?
- Beast of Revelation, a man, religion, empire, system, or all of the above?
- Flee Mystery Babylon now or later? Slave or free? Live in the system or outside the system?
- Eliyahu(Elijah) coming, already come, already here in Spirit, or all the above?
- Temple or no Temple? Blood sacrifices or no blood sacrifices?
Others can surely think of many more major rifts experienced amongst our family and fellowships... but the above I skimmed off the top of my head. Feel free to add your thoughts in the comment section if you wish.
By the way, I'm NOT suggesting we not discuss or not enter semi-heated discussions about some of the matters above... but I will contend that it is unnecessary to enter and leave such dialogs as children would. In other words, it is true we are to go to the Father "as Children", but maybe we shouldn't fight with each other as children. Dissent and non-uniformity is okay... BUT we can depart with hugs (Ephraimites could learn alot from JEW-dah in this regard). =)
Desiring unity, not uniformity!
Hanok ben-Isaak
VIDEO: Systemic Usury: the Global Monetary System
I don't think it can be overstated just how important these concepts and realities are for we the serfs to understand. After watching this video, you'll better understand why usury was FORBIDDEN in the Torah (Exodus 22:25-27; Leviticus 25:35-37; Deuteronomy 23:19,20; Nehemiah 5:10,11; Psalm 15:5; Ezekiel 18:13,17)! Just one more proof that the TORAH was/is LIGHT to the NATIONS!
Watch this and pass it around!
Max Kieser interviews Damon Vrabel of CSPER.org.
Now... Dr. Michael Hudson explains to Max Keiser how the Pentagon 'accidentally' pulled off the biggest heist in history. In my mind, this is how Daughter Babylon pays for her Empire! Still amazed that Dr. Hudson wrote his book in '72.
Two-House Movement an offshoot of British-Israelism?
The Two-House Movement is NOT an offshoot of British-Israelism. In fact, British-Israelism AND the modern Two-House Movement are BOTH offshoots of the Two-House REALITY. The former was more of a mutilated, incomplete, and racist offshoot... while the latter incorporates more of the Jewish perspective without the racial undertones and without the British Empire's agenda and propaganda.
Is the Two-House Teaching an innovation of British-Israelism? No, it was a historical/scriptural reality that persists into end-time prophetic texts.
Has British-Israelism influenced the Two-House Teaching and the Two-House Movement? Yes, of course... especially in the West. However, there have been much needed and well-accepted corrections provided by many sources, most notably non-Messianic non-Christian Jews who have confirmed the ongoing separation between JEW-dah and 10-Israelites in current times.
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VIDEO: Christian or Nazarene? | Nazarene Israel: the original faith of the apostles
If I had to categorize myself with one word, Nazarene (or Netzarene) would probably be it. If I could use two words, it would be "Netzarene Joe". Here is a great short video by Norman Willis of NazareneIsrael.org on the differences between the terms "Christian" and "Nazarene". - Hanok
You can find out more about the book "Nazarene Israel: the original faith of the apostles" at nazareneisrael.org or find it at Amazon.com.
Historic Worldwide Earthquakes on the rise
Updated July 26th, 2010. Originally posted January 3rd, 2009.
See also: Earthquakes Are Increasing – It's Not Your Imagination | Significant Earthquake and News Headlines (USGS)
Of course, the global human population is growing exponentially, thus the impact on mankind is more easily felt by earthquakes. Not to mention, our ability to record earthquakes has significantly improved in recent decades. Yet, the frequency in "Great" earthquakes has dramatically increased in the last decade compared to previous, recent decades... and that reality should catch the watchful eye of End-Time prophecy students.
Luke 21:10-11
10 Then He continued by saying to them, "Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom,
11 and there will be great earthquakes, and in various places plagues and famines; and there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.
List of "Historic" Earthquakes obtained from the US Geological Survey. A more complete and detailed listing of quakes can be found here: Significant Earthquake and News Headlines | USGS.
Please note:
Selected earthquakes of general historic interest.
All earthquake dates are UTC, not local time.
- 2010 05 09 - Northern Sumatra, Indonesia - M 7.2
- 2010 04 13 - Southern Qinghai, China - M 6.9 Fatalities 2,267
- 2010 04 04 - Baja California, Mexico - M 7.2 Fatalities 2
- 2010 03 08 - Eastern Turkey - M 6.1 Fatalities 51
- 2010 02 27 - Offshore Maule, Chile - M 8.8 Fatalities 577
- 2010 01 12 - Haiti region - M 7.0 Fatalities 222,570
- 2010 01 10 - Offshore Northern California - M 6.5
- 2010 01 03 - Solomon Islands - M 7.1
Abraham, Chaldean or Semite sojourning in Chaldea?
From Genesis 11:10-32, we know that Abraham was a direct y-Chromosomal descendant of Shem, one of the three sons of Noah. He nor his father Terah were simply 'Chaldeans'. In fact, there were likely no truly pure-breed Chaldean... in a similar way that there is no truly pure-American (all Americans are immigrants, including so-called "Native" Americans).
From Genesis 10:32-11:1, we also know that most all of mankind moved to the region of Chaldea at some point after the Great Flood. Then their common language was divided during the Tower of Babel episode.
Terah was either from one of the Semite clans that stayed in Chaldea after the language divisions or he moved his family back to Chaldea for some other reason at some later time. We simply do not know from the Torah what reason or purpose Terah's family started there.
When Abraham received his call from the Creator to depart the household of his father, they were no longer living in Ur of the Chaldeans. They were living in a region named Haran quite a distance away in what is now southeast Turkey (Genesis 12:1-4).
Important Questions
Is the y-Chromosome of Abraham of little importance? If it is not of any importance, why so much attention given the direct paternal ancestry of Yeshua, connecting to Abraham and to Shem (Matthew 1:1-17; Luke 3:34-36)? Though the precise reason so much attention is given to Abraham may be unknown, there is obviously some significance even if the reason isn't immediately apparent to all now. However, should we diminish or belittle something that is given so much textual real estate within the Scriptures? Or should we ponder, question, and search this out?
Pondering the adenine, cytosine, guanine and thymine of Abraham's goyim!
Hanok ben-Isaak
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