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  • Politics Is Like Hiring A Hitman
    by Scott Woods inPolitical on2020-08-13

    For me, politics is like hiring a hitman. I have values and things I care about. I care enough about them to at least bother voting for 5 minutes every year for one issue or another. And because I care at least that much, I vote for people who align with the ability to realize the things I care about.

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  • Punching Above Our Weight
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-07-24

    I believe our vote is the punctuation of our voice. Without that resounding exclamation mark, I believe our voices are just incoherent noise.

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  • BLACK PROGRESS AMIDST SOCIAL CHAOS
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-06-16

    Recent events have raised the profile of historical injustice and inequities here in the USA. The entire world has taken note of the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER.   We invite all of our friends to engage in actions that result in the greatest movement for change in our history. It is imperative that we take advantage of this opportunity to affect a positive change by ACTING IN OUR SELF-INTERESTS.

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  • Living in a Black No-Man's Land
    by Roger Madison Jr. inOur Community on2019-10-28

    There are many narratives that define the Black experience in America in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. Our striving over the centuries of our sojourn in this nation is a tapestry of every human experience -- oppression, enslavement, forced assimilation, dehumanization, exclusion, segregation, isolation, struggle, perseverance, achievement, excellence, celebration, mourning, despair, progress, setbacks, lynching, assassination, genocide, terror, self-hatred, low esteem, pride,...

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  • Fighting Racism
    by Scott Woods inOur Community on2018-10-25

    I had a boss who was racist. Not an outright bigot, of course; her toolbox was more subtle than most. We bumped heads a lot over inconsequential things. She frequently couldn’t keep my name out her mouth. Lot of gaslighting. You know…2018 style. I tried a lot of ways to combat or navigate her issues. None of them worked, and that’s saying a lot because I’m really good at fighting racism. But at the end of the day – every day – she was my boss, I had to deal with her, and that was that. Finally I...

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King Solomon's amulets

King Solomon's amulets are unique among amulets in several ways. Solomon was a philosopher-king. There was peace during his reign and the kingdom prospered and served as a regional cultural center.
He occupied himself with problem solving and assistance through writing and other forms. As the father of the saying, "He who lives by sword shall die by the sword," he viewed every problem in two contrasting and complementary ways.
Many years before the scientific genius Sir Isaac Newton formulated his Third Law, which states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, King Solomon was aware of this fact and used it as the basis for his doctrine of amulet design.
In addition, he did not believe in one remedy or solution for all of life's problems, and thus his amulets were designed to solve specific problems such as overcoming illness, finding work, clarity of thought, becoming pregnant, etc. He viewed the issue of finding work and financial success in the wake of the job as two separate and different problems. Furthermore, according to his doctrine, the birth of many descendants requires special assistance, different from the assistance one needs simply to become pregnant and so forth. That is why there are so many amulets ascribed to him or according to his doctrine.
King Solomon's amulets are very ancient and are mentioned in the closing prayer of the Book of Formation as being of special quality.
People of other religions have also adopted Solomon's doctrines and indeed, there are non-Jewish signs on some of the amulets. The structure of a Solomon amulet is an outer layer on which mainly verses from the Torah are inscribed and an inner part, which is the operating engine. The outer layer directs the power and contains biblical verses, which offer two possibilities: success and failure. The inner layer pushes toward success.
The inner layer is composed of Torah verses as well, be they complete or composed of the first letter of each word alone.

Good Luck 2010

Respectfully,

Bishop Lee