It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: OveRcuRrEnteD
a reply to: imthegoat
I have a hard time expressing myself anyway but lately with my mind in overdrive it's nearly impossible. It's actually not strange to me that besides my family, it's my dog and an anonymous Cranky old man that have really kept me grounded the past few weeks. I did have a few "signs" today that helped calm my thoughts about what could be "bigger than anyone can imagine". I drove past a street sign that said "Patriots Way" and less than a minute later pass a car with the license plate "IR 17". I've been noticing a lot more synchronicities the past few days that have also helped guide my attention the more positive aspects . There definitely is a dreamlike quality to reality right now especially at night and I find myself soaking up all of the silence till the wee hours. I'm going to admit that our visitor here the other night had a...hmmm, what's the word? not profound but I'll say cosmic effect on my psyche for a couple days.
originally posted by: dashen
a reply to: 666yrasrevdA
Welcome to the party. We wear purple robes and Adidas sneakers and The Kool-Aid is fine.
Enjoy the show
Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.
This well known verse is perhaps the most famous of the Beatitudes. Unlike the previous two, however, this one has no parallel in Luke's Sermon on the Plain. Luke's Sermon contains four Beatitudes and four Woes. There is considerable debate over whether this Beatitude was in Q, and Luke left it out, or if it is an original addition by the author of Matthew.
The Q source (also called Q document, Q Gospel, or Q from German: Quelle, meaning "source") is a hypothetical written collection of primarily Jesus' sayings (logia).
In the two-source hypothesis, the three-source hypothesis and the Q+/Papias hypothesis, Matthew and Luke both used Mark and Q as sources. Some scholars have postulated that Q is actually a plurality of sources, some written and some oral.[5] Others have attempted to determine the stages in which Q was composed.
The gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are referred to as the synoptic Gospels because they include many of the same stories, often in a similar sequence and in similar or sometimes identical wording. They stand in contrast to John, whose content is largely distinct. The term synoptic comes via Latin from the Greek σύνοψις, synopsis, i.e. "(a) seeing all together, synopsis";[n 1] the sense of the word in English, the one specifically applied to these three gospels, of "giving an account of the events from the same point of view or under the same general aspect" is a modern one.[1]
The longstanding majority view favors Marcan priority, in which both Matthew and Luke have made direct use of the Gospel of Mark as a source, and further holds that Matthew and Luke also drew from an additional hypothetical document, called Q.[4]
originally posted by: F2d5thCavv2
a reply to: RelSciHistItSufi
Rel, I was thinking about Chero's "negative vortex" comment. Maybe what's coming will be like an opposite of the rapture: the vortex will grab all of those outside and take them to the nether regions ...
Cheers