The Study Of Creation Stories

The Train Derailment in Ohio

NO. 1

On February 3rd, dozens of cars belonging to Norfolk Southern train went off track in East Palestine, Ohio, spilling gigantic amounts of toxic chemicals into the soil, water, and air, killing over 3500 fish have died; locals of the town affected are experiencing nausea, headaches, burning eye sensations and more. Residents have also reported that foxes, chickens, cows, and house pets are dying as a result of the toxin chemical release. The chemical released from the crash, vinyl chloride, is extremely toxic and can severely affect an individual’s liver, kidney, lung, nervous system, and blood. It is highly dangerous and can lead to cancer.

New York Post

Scientists warn of potentially serious health risks following Ohio train derailment

Residents of East Palestine, Ohio, may have been exposed to serious health risks — including cancer — from toxic materials carried on a trai

NO. 2

The government-controlled burned the hazardous chemicals, since left untouched could cause an even bigger explosion, and residents were asked to leave at first on February 6th. On February 8th, residents were asked to come back, with officials claiming the area was safe to come back to. Except, residents are claiming that this is not only a government and corporation issue but a massive ecological disaster from which we might not return. The derailment has caused massive environmental problems because scientists and scholars fear that the toxin waste will spread throughout the Ohio River, as it is connected to rivers and basins in 14 states, providing drinking water to over 5 million Americans. The smell of chlorine was reportedly lingering in the air days after the controlled burn and when residents were returning. When vinyl chloride burns, it decomposes into hydrogen chloride and phosgene, with the latter highly poisonous, used in WW1 as a choking agent. Hydrogen chloride is irritating and corrosive to any tissue with which it comes to contact. The viral video of a local news reporter quietly talking about the event and being arrested for doing his job has sparked state outrage.

NO. 3

So, how did this happen, and who is responsible? The horrible disaster is nicknamed Chernobyl 2.0 as residents feel fear and anger over Norfolk Southern and the government’s response to the devastation, which they feel is inadequate. Rail workers tried to strike over unsafe conditions but were forced back to work by the government back in 2011. Norfolk Southern announced a $10 billion stock in March last year while cutting their workforce down to the bones rather than investing in better equipment, more workers, and allowing sick days. Stricter environmental laws and regulations should be at the forefront, instead of the allowance of corporate greed, not to mention the blatant disregard for public safety. More attention should be devoted to this topic, not only for public awareness but to shed light on the role big business plays in increasing pollution and environmental degradation.

I love this movie. The book was great too #perksofbeingawallflower

i think actually the key to successfully doing tumblr (and especially doing fandom on tumblr) is realising that your blog is your little house and you can post about whatever you like there. once you realise you are just living in and decorating your very own silly little online house you start focusing on what makes you happy rather than constantly performing for & compromising your tastes for & placing all your self worth on little scraps of clout, and you will be a lot happier for it

The Federal Reserve

NO. 1

Today, we’re going to asking some questions all focused on the Federal Reserve. Who created the Federal Reserve? What is its purpose? And how does it continue to control us, poor and middle-class folks, today? The Federal Reserve Act was signed by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913. Generally speaking, it has five general functions, ‘‘like conducts the nation's monetary policy to promote maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates in the U.S. economy; promotes the stability of the financial system; promotes the safety and soundness of individual financial institutions; fosters payment and settlement system safety and efficiency and promoting consumer protection and community development.

NO. 2

The first myth about the Federal Reserve, is that it is controlled by the federal government, hence the name. But in actuality, it is a private institution whose shareholders are commercial banks, hence the term, ‘bankers bank’. The word ‘federal’ is designed deliberately to create the impression that it is a public entity. Indeed, misrepresentation of its ownership is not merely by implication or impression created by its name. More importantly, it is also officially and explicitly stated on its website: ‘The Federal Reserve System fulfills its public mission as an independent entity within government. It is not owned by anyone and is not a private, profit-making institution” [1]. To unmask this blatant misrepresentation, the late Congressman Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1930s, described the Fed in the following words: ‘Some people think that the Federal Reserve Banks are United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lenders.”

NO. 3

Henry Ford quoted, ‘It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” In simplistic terms, the Federal Reserve basically controls the money supply, and average citizens, like you and me, work for any valuable company, and in order to receive those paychecks, you used where only a fraction of bank deposits are backed by actual cash on hand and available for withdrawal. This is called fractional reserve banking, and it is done to theoretically expand the economy by freeing capital for lending. Every single person on this planet is working under the Federal Reserve.

For more information, please watch the documentary ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’, based on Thomas Piketty's best-selling book, on Netflix. They give a widespread selling of how far back the plans to implement the Federal Reserve goes.

In case anyone missed this VERY DISTURBING segment last night.

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This could seriously be a whole video essay series cause many folks raised in the Global North (Western-oriented countries and communities) will frame all history as a matter of black/white events when, in actuality, history is informed by our indigenous, immigrant, and diaspora pasts and their present day afterlives.

I'll keep my thoughts about executive director Pinkett's spiritual bypassing on private for now, BUT I will say this: Egypt is a part of Africa and Africa belongs in our garden of history cause there are enough miracles, memories, and magic across our African histories and their cultures that we don't have to produce miseducated docuseries that try to pass as Pan-African history pieces or afrofuturist reimagings (when in actuality they are just reinventing bougie versions of well-worn imperial histories).

Egypt is a part of Africa and Africa belongs in our garden of history.

the origin of the letter 🇦

(from the documentary The Odyssey of the Writing, 2020)

The teachings of Henry Highland Garnet vs. Fredrick Douglass

Henry Highland Garnet didn’t come up with the best ideas to counteract slavery and resistance against it, as his ideas were mixed with violence that critics like Fredric Douglass opposed for fear that it would ignite rebellions across the states that African-Americans could not win or face bloody white backlashes. But, something that black leaders like Douglass didn’t understand is that the demand for equal rights by appeasing the dominant elitist through morality, will simply not work. A great black activist during this time, Martin DeLaney explains that appeasing the dominant society through morality and common decency will not work because you cannot force your morals, no matter how right they are on a people, group, or individual who are unwilling to listen or hear. In other words, it isn’t morality that holds the reins, it is power, and that is true no matter what century we’re discussing.

First, we should get to know who Henry Highland Garnet was ‘‘born a slave on December 23, 1815, in New Market, Kent County, Maryland, and escaped with his family in 1824, was the grandson of a captured Mandingo chief. Garnet’s early education was in a segregated school on Mulberry Street in Manhattan. In 1835, he was in attendance at the Canaan Academy, a New Hampshire School, that was destroyed by a racist mob. Garnet, like other abolitionists during the 1840s, was critical in his assessment of the various emigrationist programs. That process, however, was an evolutionary one.’’

One of his best quotes, ‘‘Neither God nor angels or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical that promises success….(in Woodon 1925, 1969), one of his most radical statements in regards to slavery. The speech, the earliest extant speech by a black man advocating violence in America, entitled ‘An Address to the Slaves of the United States, was delivered before the National Convention of Colored Citizens at Buffalo, New York, in 1862. Despite its significance of the speech and the speaker, Henry Highland Garnet is virtually unknown to students of American history’’. Garnet truly believed that the only way for slaves to gain their freedom from slave owners was to take it by force, by any means necessary, and Fredrick Douglass fiercely opposed such views, as he wanted to have all slaves be freed through non-violence and appealing to people’s sense of morality. The two went back and forth, Douglass wrote that educated men who followed Garnet’s ‘backwatered and destructive’ stance had no stomach for continuing the struggle against prejudice and ignorance in this country, and thus it was that they sought more congenial places so they could live 'peaceful lives'.

Nevertheless, Garnet inspired his people when it seemed like all was lost, a talent of his, as his voice was awe-inspiring, and people who were tired of being crushed under the weight of oppression who didn’t think non-violence was going to work, flocked to him during his weekly sermons. ‘‘There was something about his personality which few leaders possessed—the commanding presence which inspires courage and the will to fight through difficulties. In his personality were reflected the fire to genius of African chieftains who had defied the slave catchers and later rankled Southern bondage.’’

Research on the Elongated Skulls

There is evidence of elongated skulls in many different places around the world. In Egypt, these skulls are often found in graves from the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. They are also found in Peru and have been used in religious ceremonies for centuries. In North America, many Native communities have traditionally worn these types of headdresses and jewelry. The presence of elongated skulls in ancient history proves that human anatomy has been changing for thousands of years.

The Egyptians appear to have used the elongated skulls as ornaments for their tombs. ‘‘The priests of the time believed that the gods would transfer their souls to the bodies of their ancestors after they died, so it was important to provide the deceased with nice things to help them reach the afterlife. They also may have had practical uses. They believed they used them to drain water from their underground temples, prone to flooding. The Indigenous people’s of Peru also used the elongated skulls as grave goods. Because they believed that the spirits of their dead ancestors resided inside the skulls, they were buried with these artifacts near the head of the body to aid their passage into the afterlife. According to the Inca civilization, it was up to the priests to pass judgment on whether or not a person was worthy enough to enter the afterlife. They also used the skulls for divination and a good luck charm to protect them from harm.’’

There are many theories about how elongated skulls came to exist. One theory is that they are the remains of an extinct race of people that lived on Earth thousands of years ago. These "giants" may have lived alongside the Native Americans or descended from an earlier human civilization during the Ice Age. Another theory is that they were created artificially using clay, metal, or wood molds. ‘‘As the Spanish colonized the Americas, many different cultures were exposed to new ideas about science and medicine. As a result, many of these people began experimenting with new ways to create artificial body parts. Besides tattooing, intentional scarring, piercing, and teeth sharpening, intentional cranial deformation is another form of mutilation of the human body and is associated with the cultural background of society. It has been related to religion, aestheticism, beauty, or facilitating tribal identity.’’

Nico Gets Into Character Too Much

*Halloween at Camp Half-Blood*

Will: *dressed as captain Phoebus*

Nico: *dressed as Frollo because he was having a kick with the Disney Villains*

Will: Oh man, Nico. You're on fire with scaring these campers!

Nico: Fire?

Nico: Like... Dark fire?

Nico: Hell fire?

Will: Oooookaaaay?

Nico: *starts singing out of tune* This fire in my skin! This burning desire is turning me to sin!

Will: Nico, people are starting to stare...

Nico: *runs up to people at the campfire and points at Will* It's not my fault! I'm not to blame! It's the Apollo boy, the witch who sent this flame!

Will: Nico, stahp! You're getting too into this!

Nico: *flails on the floor* It's not my fault! If in Fates' plan, they made the daimon so much stronger than a man!

Will: *grabs Nico by the arm but is flung away*

Nico: *prostrates himself in front of Annabeth* Protect me, Athena! Don't let this healer cast his spell! Don't let his light sear my flesh and bone!

Will: *looks apologetically at Annabeth and kisses Nico to shut him up*

Nico: *pushes away, aghast* GOOD SIR, I AM A MAN OF THE TEMPLE! HOW DARE YOU? *slaps and walks away*