“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
Hanukkah for the year 2022 is celebrated/ observed on sundown of December 18 ending at sundown on Monday, December 26.
Hanukkah is an eight-day Jewish festival with the first day known as Chanukah, Festival of Lights, and Feast of Dedication. In the Jewish calendar, the first day of Hanukkah is on the 25th day of the month of Kislev. In the Gregorian calendar, Hanukkah may occur between late November to late December.
Why do Jewish holidays start at nighttime?
According to the Torah, the story of creation in Genesis says “And it was evening, and it was morning day one”, “And it was evening, and it was morning; the second day”, thus night comes before day. So for the Jewish calendar all days begin at nightfall and end the next day at nightfall including holidays.
Days to Hanukkah 2022
Sunday, December 18th is day number 352 of the 2022 calendar year with 14 days until the start of Hanukkah 2022.
SO – Hanukkah starts on the night of December 18th this year.
You can start celebrating by enjoying this music video!
If you want to learn more about how to actually light a menorah (which apparently isn’t a menorah, technically, even though everybody calls it that), go here:
And left to right, right to left, add lit candles, subtract lit candles – there is a certain amount of flexibility, although some aspects are basically requisite (kosher).
Hanukkah reminds me of Melania, Ivanka, and Jared, in particular, because the ladies always looked so nice in those Hanukkah pictures from the White House.
Enjoy this gallery of photos!
One of the first images from the White House website!
Trump and Melania at their first White House Hanukkah celebration.
I always love this picture!
Ivanka and Jared and family on the first night of Hanukkah.
Apple and Android beating the media to the story!
Look at those well-behaved kids!
Arabella and Joseph lighting the first candle!
Ivanka and Jared’s window menorah, with a candle-filled one visible in the background.
Ivanka and Jared and family on the last night of Hanukkah!
So – there you have it!
Whatever your faith, enjoy the Festival of Lights!
REALLY? Should we take this criticism from an FBI agent?
Or is blaming Christians just more “Battered Christian Syndrome”?
More “blame the victim”?
Or are Christians SUPPOSED to actually risk some battering?
It’s certainly BRAVE to make this claim to fellow Christians.
And FBI?
Well…….
Complicated business.
I’ll be brief. This is a possibly tough or angering, but definitely necessary read, which argues very effectively that “pure politics” and “no politics” are not places where Christians should be. We must strive to CHANGE THE WORLD. It is our SLACK in doing so, which has led to the sorry state of the planet, with SATANISTS, SCOUNDRELS, and CRIMINALS in charge.
Yeah, that’s a tough message, after losing to CHEATING. But why are they cheating? BECAUSE THEY CAN and BECAUSE THEY WILL – and both of those are because we have not been culturally effective. This article actually “goes there in kindness” with the internal rightness and external wrongness of American Christianity’s “Church Lady” insularity, wrapped up in a slap of TURTLEHEAD McCONNELL.
So how can we integrate politics into Christian living without being corrupted by the mendacity and horror of current American politics?
Some of that may involve cementing and guarding the places where truth and justice are safe (the “Aubergine strategy” in real life, and the “Wolf strategy” in cyberspace), but some of it involves going out and winning the world for GOD, just like Paul did, armed with every weapon that CHRIST gave him.
Perhaps we have not been doing as much of the latter as we could.
And perhaps not “perhaps”.
I’m not saying I have the final answer, but I see that the region where the answer lies does NOT exclude POLITICAL SAVVY, SUBSERVIENT TO GOD.
We can whine about the lackluster results of the 2022 mid-term election cycle — there’s plenty of blame to share. Certainly top Republicans like Senator Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy bear direct responsibility.
Republicans seem poised to wrest power from the totalitarian Democrats in the House. This victory should not be discounted, despite the thinner than hoped for margin. …
…American Christians have desperately tried to believe that politics can be left to secularists who besmirch themselves with temporal concerns — as good fundamental, Bible-believing Christians, we’ll just lock ourselves in our prayer closets, cloister ourselves in our sanctified communities, and pull up the draw-bridge in front of our Christian schools.
At the risk of being branded a heretic, I must assert, good Christian, your prayers are not enough.
For far too long we’ve whistled past the graveyard, dithering about the inconsequential virtues like skirts versus pants, blind to the reality that we’ve succumbed to the same sinful myopathy that possessed medieval scholasticists, who quarreled uselessly about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.
All the while, the infernal forces of tyranny have marched forward, gobbling up the entire structure of American education, the arts, entertainment, and politics.
The Bible is replete with examples of men and women of what we would call political action. The Apostle Paul insinuated himself in the culture and, by extension, the politics of his time. …
…having arrived at Athens, Paul “disputed” with the Jews in their synagogues and “in the market daily with them that met with him.” (Acts 17:17) The Athens market would have been the equivalent of our public place of discourse.
That means, if Paul were still walking the face of the earth, you just might see his Twitter feed.
A suit and tie are ennobling things, but they are mere rags if they are a substitute for a monk’s habit. Far too many Christians mistake arrogance for piety and cowardice for meekness.
…..Christendom must rediscover the apostolic formula of prayer, piety, and action or watch liberty devolve into totalitarianism. Loosen your tie, hang up the frock, and become relevant again.
Christians have lost the culture, in part by lionizing “full-time Christian service.” Anywhere a Christian is called, is his or her place of “full-time Christian service.” There is no inherent virtue in teaching at a Christian school. Virtue lies in obeying the call of God, and what is sorely needed are men and women of faith in the “secular vocations,” impacting culture at its source. A wise man once said that for the Christian, “there is no difference between the sacred and the secular.”
It’s great knowing you’re on the winning side, but countless battles still rage wherein nations may rise or fall. Quit acting like you’ve won the war when the enemy still rages across the battlefield.
…..Christians possess the most powerful weapon in cultural warfare, The Word of God. But, if you’re not engaged in the culture or in politics, you’ve no standing to complain about lousy results or cultural rot.
[Final judgment STRAIGHT FROM THE WORDS OF CHRIST.]
This is where I am now seeing the need to BRING OUR COMMS INTO THE REAL WORLD.
That means networking – not only with the LIKE-MINDED, but with the WINNABLE – and trusting that GOD will finish the job, using CHRIST and the HOLY SPIRIT OF TRUTH.
The TRUTH we gain here must be SPREAD to the world, and the NEEDS of the world must be brought back here to share among ourselves, and with our readership.
We need to be a reactor of TRUTH that IRRADIATES and ILLUMINATES a cold and dark world.
It’s time to let that radiation and illumination SHINE.
You will see more specifics from me as we move forward.
Our purpose is unchanged, but we WILL be more effective.
LIGHT INTO DARKNESS.
W
NOTE: This piece was written BEFORE Trump announced his 2024 presidential candidacy, and apart from minor editing for style and notation of John Nantz’s background, it remains almost unchanged.
This year, Hanukkah is extra-special, because it coincides strongly with Christmas, beginning on sundown of December 22. And what better President than TRUMP to help us celebrate both Holidays!
Hanukkah isn’t a flashy holiday. It’s a quiet but important one – about keeping the faith, rekindling the faith, and celebrating the faith. So more than just being glad for Jews everywhere who will be celebrating – whoever you are – let me suggest that you think about taking a quiet moment to take in the Hanukkah spirit and renew your faith in God. Take your faith to the next level!
….and once I realized that the BIGGEST goal was inhibition of our SPEECH – well – I just rammed a CONSTITUTION-SIZED poison pill down that DRAGON THROAT….
Knowing what I know about how these people “grease the wheels” with MK, and seeing that they pulled off an airplane-wrecking chain of extraordinary incompetence in multiple people to make sure this guy “committed suicide”, I realized that we are up against WORLD-CLASS CAPABILITIES. This is WAR in ways that go beyond any kind of criminal activity this world has ever seen before, in my humble opinion.
These people pull off whatever they want, and leave a trail of plausible deceptions behind. It is, quite literally, “the event people” I keep talking about.
So at this point, I’m thinking that MAYBE whatever MK tech these people are using must be WAY beyond 1981 stuff. But that thought just sits there, unable to compute.
Then, for completely different reasons, I get blown away by THIS VIDEO:
This video, connecting secret nuclear and alien tech to science I was innocently interested in via the public sector, explained in a very general but still-mysterious way, WHY bad things started happening to me at a certain point in time. I had no clue that I was wandering into stuff that was going to get me into a LOT of trouble. WEIRD STUFF was definitely going on. I am STILL not sure how it all relates, but I definitely know it’s all connected.
So I run out to get a Bob Lazar DVD, which I cannot find, but I come home with something else:
….and THAT prompts me to realize that things are somewhat different than I thought, but in other ways a lot like I suspected. Prompting me to write THIS….
Ah, yes. HOT AUGUST. And yes. August was kinda hot.
But I think there is going to be a LOT of light in September.
SO – I have to start off with a question.
Is there anybody who wants to begin doing a DAILY THREAD one day a week? The available days are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Let me know if you want to do this A.S.A.P., because I’m going to begin preparing September’s daily open threads, on all the available days not covered by Wheatie and T3.
Now – WHY am I doing this? Well, the bottom line is that this last month has shown me WHY I need to be working on BATTLE POSTS every month – not just once in a while. I need to engage the other side promptly and strongly. And in order to write those battle posts, I need to have time away from creating and posting on the open threads.
Thus, I will again be creating “placeholder” Open Threads, before the next month begins. I may try to add a bit more diversity to these posts, but they are too good of a “thing” to pass up, and I need them! Quickly!
So – there you have it. Let’s bring MAJOR light to the darkness in September!
This DARKNESS TO LIGHT TUESDAY open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world.
"We have done battle w/the power of evil and can have compassion on those still within its grip. We have been freed from the kingdom of darkness and can bear witness to your Kingdom of Light. May the witness of all your people through these 40 Days for Life bear abundant fruit."
You can say what you want, comment on what other people said, and so on.
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Keep it SOMEWHAT civil. They tried to FORCE fake Orwellian civility on us. In response, we CHOOSE true civility to defend our precious FREEDOM from THEM.
Our rules began with the civility of the Old Treehouse, later to become the Wolverinian Empire, and one might say that we have RESTORED THE OLD REPUBLIC – the early high-interaction model of the Treehouse – except of course that Q discussion is not only allowed but encouraged, and speech is considerably freer in other ways. Please feel free to argue and disagree with the board owner, as nicely as possible.
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There’s a lot to pray about. But an extra prayer for FRANCE couldn’t hurt.
