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This edition also features online play as well. The ability to play in a Battle of the Bands competition, which pits two virtual bands against each other, will allow a total of eight players to play against each other. Being able to do so, party on party, is a pretty cool feature of which too few players actually take advantage. But again, this is nothing new for the franchise.
Guitar Hero: Smash Hits is a very well executed expansion to Guitar Hero: World Tour that brings many of your favorite tunes from the original games up to snuff with the latest peripherals. Unfortunately, the game really seems like an expansion, yet it is retailing for full price across all platforms. This is the game's biggest weakness. It seems like players should be able to download these titles as add-ons to World Tour for a bargain price rather than having to shell out cash as if it were a hot new release. Paying a $1.00 to $1.50 per song (depending upon which platform you purchase the game for) is certainly not ideal. In fact, I would have liked to have seen another twenty to thirty songs included in this disc; then I would pay the full price for Smash Hits without any qualms. However, this is not the case.
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BioWare's Champions trailer for Dragon Age II asks players a very fundamental question: Which combat style will your version of the hero Hawke embrace?
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The Empty Child was the ninth episode of series 1 of Doctor Who.
It was the first part of a two-part story, and writer Steven Moffat's first episode of Doctor Who. Furthermore, it introduced Captain Jack Harkness into the DWU. The idea of alien interference during the Second World War would be revisited later in the Eleventh Doctor story Victory of the Daleks.
It's the first of the Revived Series to have a child being responsible for the bizarre goings-on in the episode, due to gaining some kind of extraterrestrial powers. This pattern would be repeated in future stories such as Fear Her and Night Terrors.
Synopsis Edit
Chasing a metallic object through the Time Vortex, the Ninth Doctor and his companion, Rose Tyler, arrive in London during the Blitz. While Rose meets "Captain Jack Harkness", the dashing Time Agent responsible for bringing the object, the Doctor finds a group of homeless children terrorised by Jamie, an "empty" child wearing a gas mask.
Plot Edit
The Doctor's TARDIS chases a metal cylinder displaying mauve alert, which prompts Rose to ask why they are chasing it. The Ninth Doctor explains that mauve is the universally recognised colour for danger, and that "red's camp" — only humans considered red a colour for danger.. The Doctor hacks into the flight program of the cylinder and keeps the TARDIS locked on it. However, the cylinder begins jumping time tracks. Coming out of the vortex, they find the cylinder is thirty seconds from the centre of London.
The TARDIS materialises in a narrow alley between some brick buildings at night. The Doctor and Rose step out in search of the object; the Doctor notes they have arrived a couple of weeks to a month after the cylinder's impact — it was jumping time tracks, which made it hard to keep up. He hears music coming from behind a locked door and uses the sonic screwdriver to open it. He steps inside, but Rose hears a child calling for his mother. She looks up and sees a young boy wearing a gas mask on the roof.
The door the Doctor enters leads to a makeshift cabaret. After the singer ends her set, the Doctor steps up to the microphone and asks if any object has fallen from the sky in the last few days. Everyone laughs, and the Doctor finally spots posters showing that it's 1941 — the middle of the Blitz — and closes his eyes in embarrassment.
In the meantime, Rose has reached the roof of the building where the young boy is standing on a cargo container. A rope dangles in front of her. She uses it to climb up, not realising that it is attached to a barrage balloon above. It rises, taking Rose with it, clean off the roof and hanging on for dear life. Rose sees bits of the city of London in flames, spotlights sweeping through the sky, the sound of anti-aircraft fire and bombers flying right at her.
The Doctor returns to the TARDIS and sees no sign of Rose. Petting a stray cat, he rather sarcastically remarks that one day, he'll get a companion that actually does what he says. He pulls up short when the exterior telephone of the TARDIS rings; it's not a real phone. He prepares to examine it with the sonic screwdriver when a young woman appears and tells him not to answer it. The Doctor asks her how the telephone can be ringing, but when he turns back she has disappeared. He picks up the earpiece, but all that comes through is a child's voice asking, "Mummy? Are you my mummy?" several times before the phone falls dead again. Hearing clattering down the alley, the Doctor looks over a wall into a residential garden and sees a woman ushering her family into an air-raid shelter. He also spots the young woman he saw moments before entering the house. Once inside, she begins to raid the cupboards for tinned food.
Rose is still hanging by a rope over a blazing London. From a balcony below, a man dressed in RAF uniform peers through binoculars up at her. A British Army officer addresses him as "Jack" and asks if he is going to the shelter, but Jack is distracted by the sight of Rose's bottom in his sights. Jack mutters, "Excellent bottom", and grins at the officer, before saying that he has to meet a girl, "but you've got an excellent bottom too."
Rose loses her grip on the rope and falls, screaming, until she finds her descent halted by a blue beam. Jack's voice tells her to deactivate her mobile phone and to keep her limbs inside the light field as she slides rapidly down the beam into Jack's ship and his arms. Rose stares at the handsome Jack and gets out a couple of "hellos" before she faints.
Back at the house, the young woman has been joined by other children. They start to eat the dinner left on the table. The Doctor appears suddenly and deduces that all of them are homeless, but notes that, as it is 1941, they should have been evacuated to the country long ago. The children say that they were, but they returned to London for various reasons. Nancy, the young woman who told him not to answer the phone earlier, finds them food this way, waiting for families to hide in shelters before stealing their food. The Doctor thinks it a great idea, but isn't sure if it's "Marxism in action or a West End musical".
The Doctor asks the children if they have seen the cylinder, drawing them a picture, but before any can answer, there is knocking on the window, accompanied by a child's voice asking for its mother. Outside is a child in a gas mask. He wanders over to the front door, repeating his query. Nancy hurriedly bolts the door before he can get in. Nancy tells the Doctor that he is "not exactly" a child, and then orders the other children to leave via the back entrance.
The child sticks his arm through the mail slot; he has a strange scar on his hand. Nancy tells the Doctor not to let the child touch him or he will become just like him — empty. The telephone on the mantelpiece rings. When the Doctor picks it up to hear the same plaintive request for its mother, Nancy grabs the receiver and hangs up. The child has the ability to make telephone calls.
The Doctor asks the child through the door why the other children are frightened of him, but he keeps asking to be let in, saying he is scared of the bombs. The Doctor agrees to open the door, but when he does, the street is empty.
Rose wakes up in Jack's ship, which she says is very "Spock", a reference he does not understand. He introduces himself as Captain Jack Harkness, an American volunteer with No. 133 Squadron RAF. He hands her an identification card which Rose identifies as psychic paper — it shows her whatever he wants her to see, which is apparently that he is single and works out. To Rose's embarrassment, when she hands the paper back, Jack reads it as showing that Rose has a boyfriend but considers herself "very" available. Jack uses his ship's nanogenes to treat Rose's hands for rope burns. He also tells her to stop acting, he can spot a "Time Agent" a mile away and has been expecting one to turn up. Jack invites her for a drink on the "balcony"; opening the hatch, they step out onto the invisible hull of the ship, floating next to Big Ben.
Nancy makes her way across an abandoned rail yard to a locomotive, where she unloads the tins she took from the house. The Doctor surprises her again, having followed her. He has made the connection between the fallen cylinder and the empty child. Nancy tells him about a "bomb that was not a bomb" falling near the Limehouse Green station. It is now guarded by soldiers and barbed wire. Nancy says that if he wants to find out what is going on, he needs to talk to "the doctor".
On top of his ship, Jack and Rose continue to flirt. He tells her that he has something the Time Agency might want to buy and asks her if she is empowered to negotiate. Rose plays along, saying that she should talk to her "companion" first. Jack tells her that what fell on London was a fully equipped Chula warship — the last of its kind — and offers to get it for her if the Agency names the right price. However, the deadline for a decision is in two hours — because that is when a German bomb will fall and destroy it. He proceeds to look for her "companion" by scanning for alien technology. Rose gives an approving smile — the Doctor had earlier refused to do just that.
The Doctor uses his own binoculars to monitor the cylinder's crash site from afar with Nancy. She encourages him to go speak to the doctor at nearby Albion Hospital. The Doctor remarks that Nancy is looking after the children to make up for something and she admits that it is because her brother Jamie died during an air raid.
In the wards, the Doctor finds the beds apparently filled with corpses wearing gas masks. An elderly man in a doctor's coat appears. He tells the Doctor that there are hundreds of masked people in the hospital. Dr Constantine invites the Doctor to examine them, warning him not to touch their flesh. The Doctor finds that, impossibly, all of them have identical injuries to the skull and chest cavity. The gas masks are also seemingly fused to their flesh, although there are no burns or scarring. They also have lightning-shaped scars on the backs of their hands. Constantine has the same scar, but the Doctor does not notice.
Constantine explains that when the "bomb" dropped, it claimed one victim. Those in contact with it soon suffered the exact same injuries, the symptoms spreading like a plague. The Doctor asks what killed them. Constantine responds by telling him that they are not dead. When he raps his cane against an empty pail the "corpses" come to life.
The Doctor takes a startled step back, but Constantine tells him they are harmless: they just sit there. They have no life signs, but they do not die. All Constantine can do is make them comfortable. Constantine states that before the war, he was a father and a grandfather; now he is neither, but still a doctor. The Doctor, having been through a similar experience, tells Constantine that he "knows the feeling". Constantine suspects the Army has a plan to blow up the hospital and blame it on a German bomb, as isolated cases are now breaking out all over London. Suddenly, he enters a coughing fit; when the Doctor moves to help him, Constantine tells him to keep back. He directs the Doctor to Room 802 on the top floor of the hospital, where the first victim, Nancy's brother, was housed; afterwards, he must find Nancy again, as she knows more than she is saying.
Before Constantine can say anything else, he grabs his neck and starts to choke out the words, "Are you my mummy?" The Doctor watches aghast as Constantine's features shift and change into a gas mask and he slumps in his chair, as lifeless as the rest of the plague victims.
Rose and Jack enter the hospital. Jack introduces himself to the Doctor, calling him "Mr Spock", to the Doctor's puzzlement. Rose privately tells the Doctor that she had to tell Jack they were Time Agents and give him a false name. She tells the Doctor about the Chula warship. The Doctor demands to know from Jack what kind of warship it is, but Jack insists that it has nothing to do with the plague. Jack confesses that the cylinder was just an ambulance — an empty shell which he was trying to pass off as valuable. Jack realises now that Rose and the Doctor are not really Time Agents. The Doctor explains that human DNA is being rewritten by an idiot — but for what purpose?
Back at the house, Nancy has returned to raid the kitchens, but the child gets inside. She does her best to hide, but the child eventually finds her in the dining room and asks her, "Are you my mummy?" Nancy backs away, calling the child "Jamie" and pleading, "But you're dead!"
In the hospital, the gas-mask virus carriers suddenly get up and start advancing on the trio of time travellers, all calling for "Mummy"...
Cast Edit
- Doctor Who - Christopher Eccleston
- Rose Tyler - Billie Piper
- Nightclub Singer - Kate Harvey
- The Child - Albert Valentine
- Nancy - Florence Hoath
- Mrs Lloyd - Cheryl Fergison
- Mr Lloyd - Damian Samuels
- Jack Harkness - John Barrowman
- Algy - Robert Hands
- Jim - Joseph Tremain
- Ernie - Jordan Murphy
- Alf - Brandon Miller
- Dr Constantine - Richard Wilson
- Voice of The Empty Child - Noah Johnson
- Computer Voice - Dian Perry
Crew Edit
|Executive Producers Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Mal Young
|Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.
References Edit
The Doctor Edit
Individuals Edit
- Rose wears a Union Jack T-shirt.
- The Doctor states that if he was Hitler, he would be scared of Britain.
- The Doctor's jacket matches the style worn by U-boat captains.
- Rose uses the word "flash" as slang.
- Rose tells Jack that the Doctor's name is Spock.
Mammals Edit
- The Doctor says about milk, "Of all the species, in all the universe, it has to come out of a cow."
- The Doctor talks to a cat about his companions "wandering off".
- The Doctor describes the United Kingdom standing up and fighting against Germany as "a mouse in front of a lion".
Foods and beverages Edit
Music Edit
- Moonlight Serenade and In The Mood are heard.
- Jamie makes "Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens" play on the radio. The Doctor then references the song name to Jamie, soon correcting himself — this chicken — when he realises the song's stopped playing and everybody else has left.
Psychic paper Edit
- The Doctor's psychic paper says that he's Doctor John Smith from the Ministry of Asteroids when Rose reads it.
Story notes Edit
- This story introduces John Barrowman as Jack Harkness. Although slated to become a companion, Barrowman's name is not added to the opening credits. The notion of adding a third name to reflect an "expanded roster" would not be introduced until Barrowman's return to the series two years later in Utopia.
- The only words the Empty Child says not in relation to his mummy are "balloon" and a mention of his fear of "bombs".
- The Empty Child shows an ability to make telephones ring even when they are not really connected to anything, such as the fake police box phone. Steven Moffat would later reuse this device in his series Jekyll, in which Mr Hyde develops the ability to make his alter ego, Tom Jackman, believe that phones are ringing even if they are turned off or disconnected, and can then communicate with Jackman through these phones.
Ratings Edit
- 7.11 million viewers (UK final)[2]
Filming locations Edit
Production errors Edit
- When the Doctor opens the TARDIS' telephone compartment, it's blue but both the inside of the TARDIS doors and the phone compartment are white.
Continuity Edit
- Jack is a Time Agent. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang, Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, The Pandorica Opens, PROSE: Eater of Wasps, Trading Futures, Human Nature)
- Jack will later return to an earlier point in World War II and meet the real Jack Harkness. (TV: Captain Jack Harkness)
- The Chula ambulance jumps time tracks. (TV: The Space Museum)
- Albion Hospital becomes involved in another incident when, in 2006, the alien body found in a spaceship that crashed into the Thames is taken there for study. (TV: Aliens of London)
- According to Gwen Cooper's police colleague, Yvonne, a detailed search of UK records revealed that Captain Jack Harkness failed to report for duty on 21 January 1941. (TV: Everything Changes)
- The Tenth Doctor quips "Are you my mummy?" when given a gas mask to wear, (TV: The Poison Sky) as does the Twelfth Doctor when he sees the mummy-like Foretold. (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express)
- The Doctor relates to Constantine's statement that he was once a father and a grandfather, but is still a doctor despite being neither now. In doing so, the Doctor indirectly references his own granddaughter, Susan. (TV: An Unearthly Child et al.) The Doctor would later offhandedly tell Rose that he used to be a dad. (TV: Fear Her)
- During his first incarnation, the Doctor and Susan also visited London during the Blitz in 1941. (AUDIO: The Alchemists)
- While Rose hands Jack the psychic paper it says she has a "sort of" boyfriend but that she considers herself to be available, alluding to the stress on her and Mickey's relationship travelling with the Doctor has caused. (TV: Rose, Aliens of London / World War Three) The topic is revisited in TV: Boom Town.
- In his sixth incarnation, the Doctor met a future version of Jack who had been abandoned by the Ninth Doctor. At the end of their premature encounter, the Doctor assured Jack that he would "edit" his memory and, indeed, the Ninth Doctor seemingly fails to recognise the younger Jack here. (AUDIO: Piece of Mind)
Home video releases Edit
DVD releases Edit
- This story was released on a vanilla DVD with The Long Game, Father's Day and The Doctor Dances on 1 August 2005. This episode and Father's Day were the focus of the front cover.
- It was also released as part of the Series 1 DVD box set on 21 November 2005.
- This story was also released with Issue 5 of the Doctor Who DVD Files.
Blu-Ray releases Edit
- This story was released in the Series 1 Blu-Ray set in November 2013 along with the rest of the series. Despite not being filmed in HD, the Blu-Ray features an upscaled picture and fewer compression artefacts. The release was initially bundled with the first seven series of the revived Doctor Who.
Digital releases Edit
- This story is available for streaming via HBO Max. It can also be purchased on iTunes, Amazon Video, Google Play, and other online video stores.
- In 2015, it was released by BBC Worldwide on BitTorrent and iTunes, in A Decade of the Doctor bundle to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the new series. It included introductions by Peter Capaldi, Earth Conquest: The World Tour and an episode guide.
External links Edit
- BBC - Doctor Who - Episode Guide - The Empty Child
- The Empty Child at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: The Empty Child at The Whoniverse
- The Empty Child at Shannon Sullivan's A Brief History of Time (Travel)
Footnotes Edit
- ↑ In TV: Everything Changes, Yvonne states that Jack failed to report for duty on the morning of 21 January 1941.
- ↑ Doctor Who - consolidated ratings


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My other account had been disabled.
I provoke my rights that I didnt violate any laws.
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I put my keylogger to my computer and to my childrens computer.
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My account contain many important files including bussiness transaction and appointment.
Have been using that almost a year.
Please Act fast I need to get my accounr back.
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Guidelines for the Appointment of Doherty Research Staff to the DEES Adjunct Faculty
The purpose of these guidelines is to establish a process for the appointment of members of the Doherty Research Staff to the DEES Adjunct Faculty. These Adjunct Faculty positions are here referred to as Lamont Adjunct positions and Lamont Adjunct appointments.
1. Background
The Lamont Adjunct Program is a long-standing cooperative program between DEES and LDEO that supports their educational missions. By serving as Lamont Adjunct Faculty, members of the Doherty Research Staff make a long-term commitment to teach DEES courses, to advise graduate students, to attend faculty meetings, to staff DEES committees and otherwise to participate fully in department activities. The cost of the Lamont Adjunct Program is shared between LDEO and DEES.
2. Searches and Appointments
The DEES bylaws authoritatively regulate all DEES Faculty searches and appointments. A search to fill a Lamont Adjunct position may be considered when (1) an existing Lamont Adjunct resigns or retires, or (2) a teaching need is identified that can best be met by such an appointment, or (3) the offer of such a position is necessary to achieve a critical appointment to, or retention within, the Doherty Research Staff, or (4) new resources designated for the Lamont Adjunct Program are identified. Before a search is initiated, the DEES Chair and the LDEO Director must certify that adequate funds are available to support a new Lamont Adjunct appointment, since they have the joint responsibility to insure the long-term financial well-being of this cooperative program.
3. Procedure for External Recruitment or Internal Retention
When an offer of a Lamont Adjunct position is part of the recruitment or retention of Doherty Research Staff, the LDEO Director and DEES Chair together develop a written Case Statement supporting a Lamont Adjunct appointment that includes discussion of the candidate's scholarly excellence, importance to both LDEO and DEES instructional and research programs, and contribution to diversity goals. The case for considering the candidate must be approved by a majority vote of both the LDEO ExCom and the DEES Faculty before the normal process of soliciting external letters of evaluation and completing the candidate's dossier is finalized. All letters of evaluation are jointly solicited by the DEES Chair and the LDEO Director.
4. Procedure for an Open Search
A Lamont Adjunct appointment not related to recruitment or retention is made via a search open to all Doherty Research Staff. In this case, the DEES Chair and LDEO Director, under advisement of the DEES Faculty and the LDEO ExCom, jointly appoint a Search Committee and develop its charge, a written Search Statement. The Search Statement sets out (1) instructional areas that will receive consideration in the selection process; (2) instructional duties associated with the position; and (3) selection criteria. The Search Committee has the responsibility to (1) advertise the position within the Lamont Community, (2) invite and process applications, (3) identify candidates for whom letters of evaluation should be solicited, (4) interview selected candidates, and (5) make recommendations to the DEES Faculty. All letters of evaluation are solicited by the DEES Chair.
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Appointments must be approved by a two-thirds majority vote of the DEES Faculty.
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Adam writes, "It's truly amazing what Nintendo has just pulled off. In 35 minutes, they have finally convinced the world that they have a game plan for Wii U and announced eight new games as well as gave updates on previously announced titles."
I am very interested in a bunch of the games on this list
Smash Bros
New Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD
JRPG by Monolith Soft
Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem
3D Mario
just for starters
mmm , Finaly convinced the world ? I will just say who ever was doubting Wiiu was Stupid and haven't learnt their lesson by now. Not to mention the wiiu is on 3M and they expect to sell 5M by the end of march, fail ? no lol.
I kept using the Lackluster 3DS launch as an example and where it is now. Same thing will happen to wiiu but with better games.
Nintendo DOES NOT need to sell 100M consoles to be successfull. They could sell 50M and be very happy as long as the installed base buys a lot of software and they are making a decent amount of money of Consoles sold and software sold.
With wiiu Nintendo Looks like it's gone back to its roots a bit more. Almost like the Wii was an experiment ( a fantastic one) and Now with Wiiu they aim to try and bring back the core gamer.
Wii stands for a group of gamers , U stands for you the core gamer.
I think we all knew that when Nintendo would be ready to talk about their own stuff they wouldn't hold back.
Nintendo is gonna hit E3 hard. Sony and Microsoft better show off their consoles and what they can do. So far tho at least Nintendos E3 looks like it could be their best in YEARS.


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How do launchers work?
It is a launcher's job to carry satellites into space, far enough away from the Earth to ensure that they are not pulled back into the Earth's atmosphere, where they would burn up on re-entry.
Weight is all important. The heavier the payload the more fuel the launcher must carry to ensure liftoff; but more fuel means bigger tanks and yet more weight. A delicate balance has to be sought between weight and fuel to ensure that the launcher has enough fuel to create the power needed to reach the orbit required by its payload before the launcher falls to the ground.
For this reason most launchers have a number of stages and each stage falls away once it has fulfilled its purpose. This makes the launcher progressively lighter so that it requires less fuel.
Launching into geostationary transfer orbit
Huge 30-m tall boosters are attached to either side of the first stage of the Ariane-5 launcher to increase the thrust at liftoff. Each booster contains approximately 230 tonnes of propellant. Tremendously powerful engines are needed to ensure liftoff and even though they work for only 2 to 3 minutes, they need a great deal of fuel.
First the main Vulcain engine under the main stage is ignited and some seven seconds later the boosters ignite to enable liftoff. These seven seconds allow a last verification of the Vulcain engine before the boosters are ignited, an irreversible process, which marks the point of no return.
The launcher lifts off vertically and after approximately five seconds banks progressively towards the east to put it into geostationary transfer orbit. It takes about 2 minutes to reach a height of around 60 km, at which point the two boosters separate and fall into the sea.
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It is during upper stage burnout, which lasts approximately 13 minutes, that the launcher reaches its highest velocity of around 8 km per second. At this point the launcher's upper stage engine is cut and the computer on board the launcher commands the satellites(s) to spin on their axis. This puts them into the correct position to continue their journey into space alone.
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Live Above The Systems The life the Master lived here on earth was so impressive. Jesus was far removed from the decadence of the world, the penury around Him and the corruption and failure of His society. He lived far above, and beyond the government and systems of the day when He walked the earth. We don't find Jesus interfering with their politics or trying to do something about their economy. In other words, He didn't bring some strange or heavenly currency into their system, yet He was never limited by money. Money was His slave. He was self-sufficient. Whatever He required, He didn't need to call out to heaven; He brought it forth from within. This is the life that He's given us: He's made us self-sufficient, to function above and beyond the systems of this world. He said you're in the world, but not of the world. That means you're not to be ruled, dominated or influenced by the systems, that is the crippling and corrupting influences in today's world. You play by a different set of rules. Many around you may be influenced, and provoked to compromise as a result of the corruption in today's world, but be like Jesus. Be independent of circumstances. Think and talk like Paul, who said, "But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19). In the eleventh verse, while in prison, he wrote: "Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content (independent of circumstances) " (Philippians 4:11). He was self-sufficient. Furthermore, he said, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me" (Philippians 4:13). Refuse to be enslaved by the system of this world; live above and beyond it. That's the only way. Learn God's Word and operate a law that's higher than the law that runs in the systems of this world. Job 22:29 says, "When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up…." Keep your head up high and maintain your faith-composure. When it seems like you're beginning to feel the pressure, don't give in; keep doing the Word. Shut yourself in and talk the Word. Hallelujah!
Agree With The Word Confession in our opening text means speaking the same thing in consent. If God has said something, and you say something that's in consonance with what He has said, that's confession. For example, the Word says the Lord is with you always until the end of the age. Therefore, never say, "O God, be with me"; to speak like that is to be in conflict with God's Word. You ought to say, "Lord, I thank you for you're with me always." The Bible says, "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" (Amos 3:3). The way to walk in agreement with God is to do His Word or act in line with the Word; that's where the blessing is: "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed" (James 1:25). Our opening text says, "…if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Anyone who, in response to that, declares the Lordship of Jesus, believing that God raised Him from the dead, is saved and will never go to hell. However, if after making that declaration someone goes ahead to say, "I don't know whether I'm saved or not," they repudiate their salvation. Never speak against the Word. Don't invalidate your faith by speaking words that conflict with the will of God for you. The way to an ever vibrant, ever glorious and successful life is talking the Word only, regardless of circumstances. There're not enough problems in the world to hinder your progress if you'd speak and live in consonance with the Word.
An Entirely New Life The term "born again" isn't a religious cliché, which connotes turning over a new leaf. When you ask some Christians how they know they're born again, some would reply, "I know I'm born again, because the bad things I used to do, I do them no more. I've changed my ways, and now, I behave differently." Being born again is much more than that. What you receive when you're born again is an entirely new life. There's no such thing as "The bad things I used to do, I do them no more," because the person who did those things is dead. He doesn't exist anymore. When you received Christ into your life, something actually happened: your spirit was recreated. You were born of the Word of God and of the Spirit of God. You now have the life, nature and character of God. And when a man has the life, nature and character of God, he can only live like God. So, being born again is actually receiving the God-nature; becoming an associate of the God-kind. Your old life or nature isn't suspended; it's dead; you've come up a new man; a new species of being; one that never existed before; one without a past. In the presence of God, everything you were before you were born again, and everything you did before you were born again has no record. This isn't a promise. This is a statement of fact in the Word. Learn more in today's Rhapsody. www.rhapsodyofrealities.org
PRAYER Dear Father, I thank you for your Word and the power therein to make me what it talks about. I live the transcendent life, walking in your glory and in the dominion of the Spirit. I live in victory, righteousness, peace and joy forever, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
PRAYER Dear Father, I thank you for the Lordship of Jesus over my life; the lordship of His love. I cast myself into your loving arms, trusting you to lead and guide me in your perfect will for my life. I walk the path of success and victory only, because Jesus is Lord of my life, my mind, body, finances and all that concerns me; He's my master, lover, and friend. Glory to His Name forever.
PRAYER I live and walk in health, prosperity, and in all the benefits of salvation in Christ. The Name of Jesus is named upon me, and I live triumphantly, from glory to glory, heaping success upon success, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Perpetual Victory And Glory In Christ Jesus For those who understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the reason Christ came, life isn't full of "ups and downs," but one of perpetual victory and glory in Christ Jesus. As a child of God, you're called to live each day of your life in glory, in victory over every situation. The victorious life is your birthright, for God has raised you up, and made you to sit together with Christ in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6). ... Nothing in this world could successfully stand against you, for "…greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4). You've been delivered, transferred, from the powers of darkness, and translated into the Kingdom of God's dear Son, who leads us in the triumphal excursions of life; a perpetual victory parade! Take your stand in faith against sickness, disease, poverty, death, Satan, and his manipulations. Maintain your victory in Christ Jesus. Life in Christ is a super-life; it's a daily expression of victorious and triumphant living! Learn more in today's Rhapsody. Click here to download the January Edition of Rhapsody of Realities http://bit.ly/2lIyckr
Ordained To Be Productive Jesus brought us into a life of power, fruitfulness, and productivity. This truth is expressed in John 15:16 where He said, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you." He lets you know that you've been chosen, ordained, commissioned and appointed to bring forth lasting results. This means He has made you efficient and effective: ... This is the mind-set with which you must approach every assignment this year. There's increased grace for you. The Lord is at work in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure (Philippians 2:13). Read again the Psalmist's beautiful description of this extraordinary life of productivity and excellence that God has brought you into: "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper" (Psalm 1:3). Make this your daily contemplation and confession. Declare every so often, "I'm like a tree planted by the rivers of water, and I produce excellent results. I'm fruitful and productive!" Learn more in today's Rhapsody. www.rhapsodyofrealities.org
CONFESSION I'm strengthened, fortified, and energized for victory, success and excellence through the power of God's Word, and the might of the Spirit. I'm ordained unto a life of fruitfulness and productivity, flourishing in the courts of the Lord, bringing Him honour, and bearing abundant fruits unto Him in righteousness. Blessed be God!
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CONFESSION I go forth today, in victory and dominion over Satan, and his cohorts of darkness, and the circumstances of life. I experience the power and supernatural grace of God today, as I make manifest the savour of the knowledge of Christ, in every place, in Jesus' Name. Amen.
Absolutely Victorious In Christ The scriptures are replete with information that let us know that God has given us an absolutely victorious life. 1 John 5:4 says, "For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." 2 Corinthians 2:14 emphasizes the great, notable and consistent victories we have in Christ: "Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place." Refuse to accept anything short of a life of glory and success in Christ Jesus, for that's your heritage as a child of God. Jesus died for you, and it wasn't for nothing. To keep cringing, bawling, wailing, crying or begging through life, after His death, and triumphant resurrection on your behalf, is to make the cross of Christ of none effect. Jesus shed His blood for you; and since He's already done it, all you need do is enjoy the triumphant life. This is the grace of God. When He hung on the cross, God saw you hanging on that cross; you died in Him, and rose up triumphantly from the grave with Him. Therefore, you have legal rights to righteousness, divine health, a sound and excellent mind, and an extraordinary life, because of what Christ has done for you. ... The world may be facing economic hardship, but we live the higher life. Job 22:29 says, "When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up…." There's lifting power in you; power to rise over and above the crises of life. That power is Christ in you! Learn more from today's Rhapsody. www.rhapsodyofrealities.org
CONFESSION I'm eternally victorious in Christ. I have power over crises; I'm prospering exceedingly, manifesting the righteousness and dominion of Christ everywhere. I live above, and far beyond the distracting elements of this world, because I live in Christ! Blessed be God!
PRAYER Dear Father, I thank you for showing me the truth of who I am in Christ. As Jesus is, so am I in the world. I'm glorified, and conscious that the life of God is in me, and evidently manifested in and through me. Thank you for making me the effulgence of your glory, and the revelation of your righteousness, in the Name of the Lord Jesus. Amen.
Understanding His Perfect Love Loving the Lord, and knowing that He loves you, is perfect love, and that perfect love rids your life of fear. This means the one who lives in fear isn't perfected in love. You really don't need to try to fight fear or doubt if you'd walk in God's love. There'll be no need for an effort on your part to walk triumphantly over the darkness and adversities of life if you'd trust His love for you, and love Him in return. Sometimes, Christians and even ministers of the Gospel may have fears; it could be fear about their health, about their finances, about their ministry, etc. If you ever find yourself in such a state, don't despair. Rather, meditate on the Father's love for you, until it takes a hold of your spirit. If you do, no matter the troubles, you'll have boldness and courage for victory in the midst of the trouble. When someone says, "I'm afraid of this or that," that person is yet to comprehend the love of God, for perfect love drives away fear: fear of being rejected by others, fear of the future or fear of life itself. What you need to realize is that God is love and you don't have to be afraid of Him, despite all the wrong things you may have done. Learn more from today's Rhapsody. www.rhapsodyofrealities.org
CONFESSION Dear Father, thank you for your love in my heart; I walk in dominion today, because you've given me the spirit of power, love, and of a sound mind! I walk worthy of you unto all pleasing, rejoicing that you've caused me to triumph over fear, Satan, and the world. Hallelujah!
You Mirror Him The Lord Jesus gave us the clearest picture of God possible. In John 14:7-9, when Philip said to Him, " …Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us," the Master gave a profound response. He said, "…he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father." He wanted them to know that He was the express image of the Father—the clear example and expression of the Father's character. So, back in Bible days, the disciples saw and knew the Father in Jesus. Someone might say, "We aren't as privileged as the disciples who were with Jesus as He walked the streets of Galilee, Nazareth, or Capernaum, revealing the nature and love of the Father; how then can we know the Father?" Yes, Jesus is in heaven, but He isn't expecting that you physically see Him like those in His days did. The Holy Spirit lives in you today, taking the place of Jesus who is in heaven, and He looks, talks, acts, and loves exactly like Jesus. This is wonderful because just as Jesus mirrors the Father, being the express image of the Father's person, the effulgence of His glory, you also are the icon of the Father. If today you want to see or know what God looks like, all you have to do is look at God's mirror—His Word—and see Him in you.
We Reign With Him And In Him The Lord Jesus is the Head over the Church, which is His body. The head and the body are one, and they go by the same name, which is Christ. Having been baptized into the body of Christ through the new birth, you've become one with Christ. What, and who He is, we have also become. Hallelujah! No wonder the Bible says as He is, so are we in this world (1 John 4:17). Ephesians 1:22 says God has put all things under His feet: "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church." So, if Jesus is the head over all things, and we're one with Him, then we're also head over all things. We reign in Him and with Him. The Bible says, "…he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet" (1 Corinthians 15:25). This isn't about Him reigning in heaven, but in the earth. As a member of the body of Christ, you rule and reign in His stead. Revelation 5:10 says He's made us kings and priests—to reign on the earth. Take your place of dominion, and reign in the Name of Jesus over circumstances. Refuse to be sick, broke, or poor. Refuse to be a victim. Take charge and win every day. Reign and rule in life as the king that you are.
PRAYER Dear Father, thank you for the presence of your Spirit on earth, and His greater move in the lives of many around the world today. Indeed, your glory fills the whole earth; your power is touching lives all around the world, and your righteousness is revealed, more than ever, in expectation of our Lord's soon return. Amen.
CONFESSION I take possession of all that belong to me in Christ, enjoying my triumphant life to the full, to the glory of His Name! I take my place of dominion, and reign in the Name of Jesus over circumstances. I'm in charge and in control, winning every day. Blessed be God!


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Morning Brief: February 11
A big day for news anchors, both serious and satirical. Jon Stewart will be stepping down from The Daily Show before the end of the year where he's served as anchor for nearly two decades (this, of course, months after his protégé Stephen Colbert left his eponymous show to take over for David Letterman). And Brian Williams has been suspended from NBC Nightly News for six months, effective immediately in the wake of a changing-story scandal. The story's been written before, but it seems the satirical news media has gotten the best of the "real guys" once again.


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Riding to Lose: Paul Prosser is Making it Happen
Talk about Making it Happen, Paul Prosser writes about how riding his bike and a healthy diet enabled him to lose 35 pounds (along with his belly and excess fat), to get to a healthy 22.1 BMI.
Riding to Lose
by Paul Prosser
In February, after an adult conversation with my wife Susan, I started thinking real hard about my body and how I viewed it. My 55th birthday was approaching fast and I was thinking, "An over-burdened 6'-1" frame with an ample and sagging front porch is not the architecture of longevity."
So I took stock. Emotional eating is my number one problem. I eat when I'm happy, stressed, depressed or angry. Every emotion had a food as a compliment or comfort. Portion control was my second big issue. Too much of a good thing quickly becomes a bad thing. Number three was too many fatty and carb-heavy foods, two few fruits and vegetables. Number four was eating too fast for my body to recognize it was full.
Somewhere I read that savoring every bite of food, letting it linger in your mouth as you chew it slowly, helps your body send the appropriate "fullness" signals to your brain. So I tried that and the additional suggestion that you should think about the source of the food, the people who helped produce or cook it while savoring. I know this sounds crazy but thinking about the people and the process led me to appreciate the fact that, unlike many, I wasn't risking hunger every day. Savoring and appreciating food made eating much more enjoyable.
Calmness slowly became the emotion I associated with food because I was full with less food and, I took the time to enjoy it. And, I decided that if food was in my mouth longer, it had better be flavorful and healthy. Since Susan and I are pretty handy in the kitchen, we started spending more time cooking and less time eating out.
Net result: healthy, tasty food + smaller portions + emotional control = more enjoyment and fewer calories per day. Bonus: more time cooking with Susan.
A friend of mine was asked " How did you lose that weight?" He replied, "Move more, eat less." For me, the "eat less" part of the saying was addressed by savoring, the "move more" part of it is bike related.
Riding my bike is a mental health issue for me. If I don't ride I become mentally unstable (cranky old man unstable, not "stabby" unstable). My wife prefers the non-cranky me. So when I ride it's a win-win for us.
Riding with the purpose of losing weight and increasing mental well-being changed the way I approach cycling. My riding before was confined to three or four rides a week of dubious quality. Two of those were 20-mile long weekday rides, one was a 40-50 mile Saturday ride and Sunday I "might" ride 25-30 miles if I felt like it. Most Sundays I didn't. That added up to 90 to 120 miles a week, a lot of it at an easier pace and no real purpose but the delivery of endorphins to my brain.
February's epiphany got me thinking, I didn't want to just ride a lot and feel worn down all the time. I wanted to be strong AND fit. So in about three months time I slowly worked my way up to a 160 to 170 mile per week schedule.
This is the schedule now. Tuesdays and Thursdays, I ride 20 flat miles at a 120-130 BPM average heart rate. Wednesdays I ride 30 flat miles at a 135-140 BPM average heart rate. Saturday is my long ride, 55-60 miles with some hills back at a 135 BPM average heart rate. Sunday is a 35-40 mile ride at a 130 BPM average heart rate with a little less hill work.
In each of those rides I try to hit the 150-160 BPM range in random intervals. For 3-5 minutes I'll go hard on hills or long straits (tailwinds make them more fun). Sometimes it really hurts, other times I'm killin' it.
Every day, I stretch post-ride and do some yoga moves for about a half hour. Monday and Friday, I stretch and do core exercises for about an hour. Most of the yoga and core work was taken from Bicycling Magazine's web site.
The end result is not just physical fitness, but peace of mind.
Yes I've lost 35 pounds, all of the belly and excess fat to get to a healthy 22.1 BMI. My abs are visible for the first time in …um…ever. At 165 lbs, I can safely say I've never been this light since long before I reached my final 6'-1" height. But, those are only physical effects of examining and correcting years of ruinous behavior. A sustainable physical edifice now houses a more peaceful mind.
The compliments and surprise on the faces of people who have known me for years are great mental rewards. (I'm still learning its okay to accept compliments.) After the wake up call conversation with my wife Susan and the inner struggle with my body image, my self-esteem is on the rise. The fact that I look pretty good naked helps, but that is not what brings the most inner peace.
What brings inner peace is knowing, I did this myself. Yes, Susan asked me some tough questions, but she didn't hold my hand, design a program and monitor me. Controlling all the moving parts and motivating myself was my responsibility. My peace now flows from my accomplishment. My joy comes from riding up and down hills, faster than ever before, on the Cervelo R3 I bought in celebration.
More Information: If you'd like to read more about how to use cycling and good nutrition to lose fat and trim up, download the min-e-book that Kelli and I put out a little while back.
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Markets Staying in a Buoyant Mood
Jobless claims have dipped down, and markets are reacting positively to signs that politicians seem more willing to make concessions on the fiscal cliff. Dow Jones Newswires Managing Editor Michael Casey reports. Photo: AP Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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The following represents, for now, our final installment on Petrus Romanus ("PR"). Not that there is very little left; however, much of what remains, from the point we last stopped, consists of tendentious anti-Catholic rants, which places the commentary outside my scope of expertise. I will only say that since they rely on popular writers like Dave Hunt and John MacArthur for much of their information (and barely interact with any Catholic scholarship) I would be disinclined to trust Horn and Putnam, even if they happened to be right.
Mayan Mess
Starting on page 157, the authors appeal to the work of another fringe theorist, David Flynn. Flynn, it so happens, died in January 2012, so we won't see any new material from him, which is just as well. His own specialized lunacy relates to the alleged "face" on Mars, and he was also into the usual Roswell conspiracy nonsense.
In PR, though, he is used for reference to alleged satellite images which found "a vast network of patterns that surround Lake Titicaca in Bolivia…". Appeal is also made to "the megalithic ruins of Tiahuanaco", which are alleged to exhibit "technological skill that exceeds modern feats of building." Both of these are used in service of a notion that these things were built by Nephilim (i.e., giants).
How much is all of this worth…really, nothing. Horn's website features airborne images of the "patterns" and Flynn's analysis, but doesn't mention that someone else more qualified decided that these were not what Flynn thought them to be. The patterns were determined by a scientist to be the remnants of an enormous agricultural project – one pursued by normal, everyday farmers (see link below). Flynn was aware of this interpretation, and while he admitted that some of the patterns are related to agriculture, he assured us that:
The raised farming fields (viewed above) are distinctly labyrinth in design and though extensive, constitute a small portion of the patterns that appear more 'ritualistic' in design.
We are also assured that one particular feature "is not consistent with any Inca farming technique," though what qualifications Flynn has to assess and report on such a specialized topic is not explained.
What then of the ruins of Tiahuanaco? On this, it seems clear that Flynn and Horn are simply uncritically repeating folklore. One example will suffice: It is said that one of the larger stones was about 400 tons, and was moved to the site from over 200 miles away. Multiple sources (including David Browman's Advances in Andean Archaeology) indicate that the heaviest stone at the site weighs 131 tons – and was taken from a site a mere 6 miles away. If this simple fact is gotten wrong by Flynn, what more needs to be said of the rest of his analysis, which attributes this feat to a race of giants?
Again, I won't say much about the anti-Catholic rants in PR, but there are a couple of points worthy of note. One is the complaint that the Catholic Church excommunicated Martin Luther, but not Hitler or Mussolini. Thus it is said, "Rome's record of spiritual fornication is unparalleled."
There is, although, a big problem here; namely, this PR position is incorrect. Of Hitler, Margherita Marchione says in Pope Pius XII: Architect for Peace:
Because of their apostasy and violent actions against German clergy, Hitler and the other Nazi leaders, who were born Catholic, incurred automatic excommunication under Canons 2332 and 2343, which state, in part: "Those who, either directly or indirectly, impede the exercise of ecclesiastical jurisdiction…persons who lay violent hands on the person of a Patriarch, Archbishop or Bishop…incur excommunication….
Of course, it is important to note that Hitler, as an adult, had long since abandoned Catholicism, so in a way, there was no basis on which to "excommunicate" him. One may as well try to excommunicate Farrell Till, from the Church of Christ, decades after his apostasy.
By the same token, just how relevant an excommunication would have been to Mussolini is open to question. Multiple academic sources report that Mussolini was an avowed atheist, and a fan of Nietzsche. This is a simple matter to discover, which says volumes about the lack of competence of Horn and Putnam as researchers.
2012: Later Additions
In Ticker posts we explored some claims of Horn from Apollyon Rising that in 2012 was predicted as an end by certain factors. To this he now adds that Jonathan Edwards – using Harold Camping-like mathematical shenanigans – predicted 2016 as an end date, and since this is 3 ½ years after 2012, it could fit in with a Tribulation period. As the authors unwittingly admit, though, Edwards' prognostication was based on shaky premises; namely, that he interpreted the 1260 days of Rev. 12:6 as years, and then counted up 1260 years from two dates he assigned significance to (i.e., the AD 606 recognition of the bishop of Rome, and the AD 756 acceding of temporal power to the Pope, the latter leading (+1260) to 2016). Though these are significant events, this is simply the same process used by Camping, in which he selected events and counted forward, merely picking the events randomly when others would do as well. Whatever virtues Edwards had as a preacher, he was clearly too creative when it came to eschatological exegesis. Although, and to Edwards' credit, he also admits that his ideas were speculative (see link below for a copy of a letter reflecting his views).
The authors also managed to find a Presbyterian minister in 1878 who selected 2012 as an end date for the world, based on the same mathematical premises Edwards used, but selecting AD 752 as his start date, and so ending up +1260 at 2012. Unfortunately, the event he chose as his "start," the Donation of Pepin, which organized the Papal States, didn't occur in 752 (as the authors admit, but not clearly enough, when they refer to "a little disagreement" over the date). Instead, it consisted of two donations, in 754 and 756, but of course, the authors have the expedient for 756 of also using the 3.5 years of the alleged Tribulation.
Failure is already evident for PRs 2012 predictions by the authors' use of rumors they heard in February 2012 that Pope Benedict would step down in April 2012. Rumors of Benedict's resignation at that time, of course, proved false, and there is currently no sign of any resignation. The authors will be in for quite a time if Benedict remains pope as of 1/1/13, but we are sure that, like Harold Camping, Edgar Whisenant, and so many before them, that they will have excuses ready.
We also find a few new "2012" markers that have been added and, some others from Apollyon Rising, no longer present. Appeal is made to the Jewish Zohar, which is a forgery (link below), but which also contains this:
In the year seventy-three (5773 or 2012/2013) the kings of the world will assemble in the great city of Rome, and the Holy One will shower on them fire and hail and meteoric stones until they are all destroyed, with the exception of those who will not yet have arrived there.
Horn and Putnam were so excited about this one that they failed to notice a problem connecting it to their own ideas. They believe Petrus Romanus will destroy Rome, but here, it is not the city that is destroyed, it is the "kings of the world." In addition, they fail to report the manifest failure of surrounding prophecies. If indeed, as they say, "73" is 2012-2013 (which is also far from clear, but we will leave it at that), then this prophecy should have been fulfilled in 2005/2006 -- and obviously has not been:
In the year sixty-six the Messiah will appear in the land of Galilee. A star in the east will swallow seven stars in the north, and a flame of black fire will hang in the Heaven for sixty days, and there shall be wars towards the north in which two kings shall perish. Then all the nations shall combine together against the daughter of Jacob in order to drive her from the world.
Another point, which I may have missed in Apollyon Rising, is a reference to the "Cherokee Indian calendar" and a set of prophecies that allegedly see an end coming in 2012. A problem arose at once when I could find no reliable academic sources that recorded these alleged prophecies. Eventually I dug out an astrology website (! – link below) that made these claims:
The Cherokee Rattlesnake Prophecy, also called the Chickamaugan Prophecy, is part of the Cherokee prophesies of 1811 made by "Charlie" and two women of the Cherokee tribe. They had visions in early February of 1811 near Rocky Mountain in Georgia. These prophesies are all over the internet, and from what I can gather, they were originally documented by missionaries and then finally published in 1993 in the American Indian Quarterly [1].
I ordered this magazine -- which surely ranks as the oddest thing I have ever ordered for the ministry -- and the article does not list any of these alleged prophecies reported by Horn and Putnam (see below). Thus I am now without even any proof that these prophecies they appeal to are authentic.
But what does it all mean, even if it did? Not much. The prophecies allegedly say, "In the year 2004 and 2012 an alignment will take place both on the Cherokee Calendar and in the heavens of the Rattlesnake Constellation both. It is the time of the doublehead serpent stick. It is the time of the Red of Orion and Jupiter against White Blue of Pleiades and Venus." The astrology site connects this to a rare occurrence called the transit of Venus, in which Venus slides right in front of the sun (from our perspective). The rub of this: This isn't a common phenomenon, but it does happen in a predictable cycle. Stargazers have been observing it for centuries, and the last instances occurred in 1761/1769 and 1874/1882. Quite frankly, it would not have been that hard for even an amateur stargazer to have calculated that the next one would be in 2004/2012.
Siri Thesis
As noted, we won't comment extensively on issues related to Catholicism, but we would comment on the authors appeal to the so-called "Siri Thesis" – the idea that Cardinal Giuseppe Siri was elected as Pope in two conclaves, but refused the office because of some outside pressure. Horn and Putnam relate the pressure to "Masonic influences," but are there any grounds for this "Siri Thesis"?
No, none at all. This is yet another fanciful conspiracy theory, and you can find it debunked in several places (links below), which also connect the alleged refusal of Siri to potential pressure from the Communist bloc (Siri was anti-Communist). One of the links also deals with the one scrap of real evidence Horn and Putnam allude to for this thesis, which is a quote from Siri in which he says he cannot reveal any secrets.
Horn and Putnam also appeal to rather questionable evidence by Malachi Martin, who claimed to have been an eyewitness to the conclave and seen this happen. However, apart from Martin's questionable reputation as a conspiracy-monger (see earlier entry in this series), Horn and Putnam quote Martin as saying that there was influence by an "emissary of an internationally based organization" and then add in parentheses after the quote, "the Freemasons." Martin himself does not name the Freemasons as the "organization" and there is no argument given for why they should be. It should also be noted that their chief source is one "Dr. William G. von Peters," of whom nothing is said (in the online document) in terms of qualifications, or what that doctorate is in, and the only person by that name I can find is a doctor of alternative medicine.
Finally, a shameful note: Horn and Putnam incredibly buy into the proposition that the Spanish Inquisition killed around five million people, saying: "the death toll of the inquisition is difficult to ascertain largely because of Rome's penchant for revisionist history." Not surprisingly, they do not use a real scholarly source, like Kamen, for this claim; rather, their source is a horrifying-looking KJV Onlyist website (jesus-is-lord.com) which in turn cites J. A. Wylie, a 19th century Scottish Protestant commentator with no relevant credentials.
Our present interactions with Petrus Romanus conclude here, with the ultimate disproof being only a few weeks hence.
And while we're at it, here's the rest of the E-Block's contents:
- The Gospel According to Chick, Part 2 -- a series looking at Chick tracts and their theology.
- Target Bart -- a look at Earl Doherty's replies to Bart Ehrman, Part 3.
- Near Death Checks, Part 3 -- a series evaluating near death experiences.
- Is This Not Appalling Scholarship? -- a detailed look at Is This Not the Carpenter?