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“Alex was scared beyond belief how did this guy know about his home planet or that he absorbed gamma radiation to remain healthy and get his abilities? Alex was tired of talking and he was now getting angry, this guy would not like him angry. The rage still came, and Alex's eyes began to glow. He could no longer hear Tasha in his head at that instance, and he just wanted this noob to go away. He raised his right hand and pointed his ring at the older man in front of him and that was when he heard the old man mutter something. Alex could not believe what he was hearing. “To Alexander, my son, you are our brightest star. Always remember the only future you are ever guaranteed is the one you make for yourself. Willpower, Wisdom and intelligence are the keys—Love Dad” These words echoed in his mind and these words were only known to him, Tasha, Wanda and his father even by Tasha's recollections. Alex's eyes turned back to the blue green beauties that Patrick and Jessica Wayne loved so well. They also welled up with tears. Tasha had lied to him.” LiesScaredSisterAlien Book:Souls' Inverse Source: Souls' Inverse
“For just as Jacob and Esau came from their mother Rebecca and their father Isaac, so also both zombies and werewolves came from rabies and blind blessings of theology.” BibleZombiesJacobWerewolvesEsau Book:Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives Source: Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
“We must nurture the lotus of knowledge, not play in the pond with it, and rip it apart like children. We must mature and discuss correctly what we mean by faith, by its definition and by its scientific and poetic effect on the human heart and psychology and the total nature of our humanity.” PoetryFaithKnowledgeHuman Nature Book:The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism Source: The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism
“a faith without works is an orphan without a home, without family.” HomeFaithFamilyOrphanWorks Book:The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum Source: The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum
“When we walk a mile in another's moccasins, we can sympathize in a way that one cannot with just a pure clinical perspective.” PerspectiveEmpathyExperience Book:Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives Source: Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
“My children are the survivors, and heroes that for so long have lived in an encapsulated environment that has rendered them caged Supermen that were not allowed to bleed, be human, nor show their talents to their fullest extent, be Supermen in public.” ChildrenHeroesDomestic AbuseCage Book:Heroes Have the Right to Bleed Source: Heroes Have the Right to Bleed
“Deep in the psychological caves of their mental platonic darkness, there is no rainbow colour or light of reason in many areas of their psyche, their inner mind. Instead they have married themselves to a dragon of a creature, so terrible that even Jupiter feared this monstrosity of pompous ignorance. Their hope of the beauty of Cupid is just a lovemaking session in the dark room of ignorance of both science and religion.” ScienceReligionMetaphorMythology Book:The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism Source: The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism
“A global society such as ours has created a spiritual meal not even fit for demons, a meal that they might call trash and throw to Cerberus as scraps from a table. This is the state of our society, we have damaged the teeter-totter, found no middle ground and the playground adventures have ceased to be shared by anyone. There are no great sinners or great saints, especially the latter.” SocietyDemonsSaintsSinners Book:The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism Source: The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism
“wisdom and the virtues are not goddesses only given to the old and experienced but often it is our children that hear them most acutely.” ChildrenWisdomVirtuesGoddesses Book:The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum Source: The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum
“An open mind does not censor truth, it discerns it through recognition, study, doubt, and faith. It recognizes it as complimentary to every truth in existence. When confronted with truth that makes one uncomfortable give yourself time to be open, but also time to acclimatize” TruthFaithOpenness Book:The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism Source: The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism
“Alex was enlivened by his father's love and felt energized. He knew he would return home; he had felt his strength return a soon as he put on his ring. It was this strength, he thought, that coursed throughout his body that travelled down his spine and then caused his leg muscles to spasm and convulse. The ring imparted more than love, either his father’s, mother's or unknown to him Kera's love. The ring with all its radioactivity could have powered a small city for almost 28 years and now that energy coursed through Alex and his alien physiology. The energy for a city had outlets, junctures and relays along with other electronic devices to distribute that energy and regulate it. Alex's body was new to the experience of this type of phenomenon and it distributed poorly. When his legs convulsed and shook and his spine became alight as fire running down an oil spill, Alex screamed in a ghastly howl that could be heard outside the tomb, as if some rambling soul or spirit had just arisen for vengeance upon those that placed him in the grave.” TombRingFather S Love Book:Souls' Inverse Source: Souls' Inverse
“I have such sympathy for the forerunners of science in religious circles. This especially true for clergy. Those that pursue both scientific methodology and fervent spiritual pursuit, are inevitably mocked by both sides. No one gives them a fair and unbiased assessment.” ScienceReligionSpiritualityBiasBoth SidesClergy Author:L.B. Ó Ceallaigh
“In many ways, the vampire was spared the gross suffering of the werewolf but that is only because they suffered in many other ways at the hands of the supernatural doctrines of religion. They, however, were connected to the hyperbolic voice crying in the wilderness.” ReligionVampireSupernaturalHyperbole Book:Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives Source: Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
“Patrick... now? Is it that important? We have more important things to do to figure out a way to save our son, your son.” “It is probably one of the most important things that we could possibly do Jess, not only Alexander's life might depend on it but the entire hospital” “what could be that important, tell me!” came back the reply behind Patrick as he ran two rooms down the hall. The only words he uttered, looking back at Jessica, was “the ring” SonLife SavingRing Book:Souls' Inverse Source: Souls' Inverse
“Cain was sent the raven to bury his brother's body and hide his transgression from God, the supposed truth still came out in various holy books.” LyingHidingRavensCainHoly Book Book:Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives Source: Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
“We get caught up in our own reflections on reality that we don't even realize that we are staring into a mirrored reflection anymore. Our internal reflections are not even checked with the external world.” Self ReflectionMirrorExternal World Author:L.B. Ó Ceallaigh
“Placebo effect is where the drug causes greater effect and thereby faith accentuates, prolongs and promulgates the strength of the drug. Faith in an object that is known creates a strength in the object's reaction in a more powerful manner, provided the object was intended to create positive in the first place. Yet if this faith is turned inward in a negative manner, it can hinder the effectiveness of the drug or creative power of the thing being used for the positive, this is called the nocebo effect.” FaithPlacebo EffectNocebo Effect Book:The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism Source: The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism
“This is the problem with our story, we have to prove ourselves according to a strict requirement it seems to the outside world, whether it is the extended family or strangers, or even yourselves.” StandardsProofBurden Of ProofRequirement Book:Heroes Have the Right to Bleed Source: Heroes Have the Right to Bleed
“Patrick Leonidas Wayne! you will explain yourself right now, or I will hand your ass to you on a silver platter like John the Baptist had his served up. Am I clear?” John The BaptistAngry Wife Book:Souls' Inverse Source: Souls' Inverse
“The vampire was the third theological concoction made for the culture to drink from the mixologists of religion and the main ingredient of rabies. The vampire throughout the world arose concurrently with the werewolf and its origin again stemmed from the tortures of being “zombies” tied down in the wilderness.” ReligionVampiresZombiesRabies Book:Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives Source: Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
“The earliest documented appearance of rabies on our planet has been in Mesopotamia around 2000 B.C. ... The symptoms of rabies were diagnosed throughout history, following its inception, as being a form of undead or cursed type of creature, revenants if you will.” ScienceZombiesUndeadRabiesRevenantss Book:Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives Source: Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
“We must realize the truth around our past and within it and how not being willing to question the status quo has led to horrific deeds to victims in the past.” TruthHistoryDiscriminationStatus QuoThe PastQuestioning Beliefs Book:Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives Source: Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
“...it should quickly pointed out that the Loup Garou legend of France is not only the French werewolf, and vampire but also the French zombie.” VampireFranceZombieWerewolfLoup Garou Book:Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives Source: Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
“The religions changed, the nuances of the demon, theologically, changed but the creature itself did not. So many diseases and illnesses were ascribed to demonic possession.” ReligionDiseaseIllnessDemonsCulture Change Book:Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives Source: Revenants, Retroviruses, and Religion: How Viruses and Disease Created Cultural Mythology and Shaped Religious Perspectives
“The dust on his face now turning to mild streaks of mud, where his tears fell, made him seem like an operatic clown character in Pagliacci when he looked at the inscription for the first time. To Alexander, my son, you are our brightest star. Always remember the only future you are ever guaranteed is the one you make for yourself. Willpower, Wisdom and intelligence are the keys—Love Dad Upon reading the words in the ring Alex realized that when he lost in his mental battle. He had given into fate, in all its entropic nonsense. He let it dictate his world. He had surrendered in what he thought was a victory and left himself at the whimsical and incidental forces of chance.” WisdomIntelligenceWillpowerPagliacci Book:Souls' Inverse Source: Souls' Inverse
“Bealtaine, the time of adolescent growth, where what was planted in the spring was given sustenance to grow. Where, just as plants, our souls are enriched with Light so that we may reach skyward toward heaven.” PoetryHeavenGrowthPlantsBealtaine Book:The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum Source: The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum
“the Divine is ever present before us and that evil need hold no sway over the life of humanity, for truth as light is ever before us. Even on the darkest night of our soul we know we are not alone.” LightTruthEvilDarknessDivineGoodPresence Book:The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum Source: The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum
“The Divine was not contained in a book alone or in a series of books, but that luminescence was found wherever truth could be found.” LightTruthDivineBooks Book:It Is Not Enough: Spiritual Reflections on Grief and Religious Rituals Source: It Is Not Enough: Spiritual Reflections on Grief and Religious Rituals
“When we let the light of truth, reason, empathy, and altruism shine enough, the clouds will clear. When our arguments are naturally reflected in pristine thought, like water, we will have the rainbow we seek. This rainbow will not be one that somehow reaches a burning Bifrost of Asgard nor has leprechauns dressed in green. For even if there were leprechauns, they would wear red, not green.” LightTruthLeprechaunsRainbows Book:The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism Source: The Bifrost and The Ark: Examining the Cult and Religion of New Atheism
“So, blessed be this season [Bealtaine], blessed be the light of Our Lady, for it is these that point to You. It is why we cherish our feast, and the time and seasons You have sent us. For in them, You teach and, in our ancestors, labours and traditions we learn.” LightTruthPoetryFeastBeltaine Book:The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum Source: The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum
“O that every season might be Bealtaine that we might see Your Light plainly. But no. For in each time and season we learn patience, prudence, temperance, and wisdom. If all seasons were the same, we would miss You in Your fullness.” WisdomLightTruthSummerSeasonsPatiencePrudenceTemperanceBealtaine Book:The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum Source: The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum
“The oils we used on our torches and in our lamps have kept the darkness of night and predators at bay in our corporate and singular lives. Residual oil was even found in our ancestors’ campfires that were most likely from a meal shared in common around said fire. Oil was in one sense a residual and sign of community and social and cooperative sharing.” LightCommunityOilSharingAnthropologyAncestorsPrehistoryCaveman Book:The Liturgical Sacramentary of Bealtaine Source: The Liturgical Sacramentary of Bealtaine
“In the evening, in the moon, we see only You reflected through our sibling. In the midday sun again, we see only You. The grace of the Cosmos reflected only the beauty of Your Light, For we are in the Season of Bealtaine ... Oh that every season might be Bealtaine that we may see Your Light plainly, but no! If all seasons were the same, we would miss You in Your fullness ... for every season has its purpose, and every time its lessons.” LightTruthPrayerSummerSeasonsPaganBealtaine Book:The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum Source: The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum