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“Let me tell you about the very rich”, Scott Fitzgerald once said. “They are different from you and me”. One way they are different, the New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos reports, is that they own yachts - very very big, expensive yachts. In The Haves and The Have-Yachts, Osnos' dispatches about today's ultrarich, he takes us on board these boats to reveal the obscenity of our new gilded age. From Mark Zuckerberg's obsession with Augustus Caesar to the thin-skinned grievances of figures like Marc Andreessen and Elon Musk, Osnos explores how the personal quirks and anxieties of just 19 American plutocrats - the 0.00001% - are now reshaping our entire society. He argues we're living in an era of "flamboyant oligarchy," where billionaires openly flaunt their wealth. Citing the extraordinary tableau of tech moguls lining up in homage to Trump at his inauguration, Osnos describes our age as "the complete and total fusion of politics and plutocracy in the United States." five key takeaways1. We're Living in an Era of "Flamboyant Oligarchy" Unlike past wealthy elites who stayed hidden ("a whale that never surfaces doesn't get harpooned"), today's billionaires openly compete for attention and flaunt their wealth, fundamentally changing the relationship between extreme wealth and public life.2. Just 19 People Could Control 18% of America's Wealth The 0.00001% - currently 19 Americans - control 1.8% of national wealth today. If current trends continue, this could reach 18% within 40 years, representing an unprecedented concentration of economic power in human history.3. Personal Quirks Have Massive Social Consequences Billionaires' individual obsessions and blind spots shape society at scale - from Facebook being blue because Zuckerberg is colorblind, to his Augustus Caesar fixation influencing how he thinks about power and empire-building.4. The Complete Fusion of Politics and Plutocracy Trump's inauguration, featuring tech moguls "lined up in homage," represents the total merger of political and economic power in America - what Osnos calls a "sultanistic oligarchy" where billionaires have elevated Trump to rule on their behalf.5. Billionaires Are Surprisingly Thin-Skinned and Aggrieved Despite their wealth, figures like Musk and Andreessen are easily offended and resentful about public criticism, leading them not to retreat but to actively seek control over politics and media to reshape the narrative in their favor. BiographyEvan Lionel Richard Osnos (born December 24, 1976) is an American journalist and author who has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2008, specializing in politics and foreign affairs coverage in the United States and China. Osnos continues to be one of America's most prominent foreign correspondents and political journalists, known for his deep reporting and narrative storytelling that bridges international and domestic affairs.Current PositionsOsnos is currently a staff writer at The New Yorker, a CNN contributor, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, based in Washington D.C.Early Life and EducationOsnos was born in London when his parents, Susan (née Sherer) Osnos and Peter L.W. Osnos, were visiting from Moscow, where his father was assigned as a correspondent for The Washington Post. He graduated with high honors from Harvard University with a Bachelor's Degree. Career HighlightsEarly Career: In 2002, he was assigned to the Middle East, where he covered the Iraq War and reported from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, and elsewhere. In 2005, he became the China correspondent. Chicago Tribune: Prior to The New Yorker, he worked as the Beijing bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune, where he contributed to a series that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. The New Yorker: Osnos joined The New Yorker in September 2008 and served as the magazine's China correspondent until 2013, maintaining a regular blog called "Letter from China" and writing articles about China's young neoconservatives, the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, and the Wenzhou train crash. Major Publications* "Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China" (2014): Won the 2014 National Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. * "Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now" (2020): Published in October 2020, based on lengthy interviews with Biden and revealing conversations with more than a hundred others, including President Barack Obama. * "Wildland: The Making of America's Fury" (2021): Published in September 2021, about profound cultural and political changes occurring between September 11, 2001, and January 6, 2021. The book was a New York Times bestseller. * "The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich" (2025): His latest book, published in June 2025, exploring American oligarchy and the culture of excess. Awards and RecognitionOsnos has received the Asia Society's Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia, the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, and a Mirror Award for profile-writing. He received two awards from the Overseas Press Club and the Osborn Elliott Prize for excellence in journalism from the Asia Society. Personal LifeHe has been married to Sarabeth Berman since July 9, 2011. He lives with his wife and children near Washington, This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

This week Scott, Patrick and Bobby Tamburro continue our Rome Chronicles, this time focusing in on the activites of Octavian (later Augustus Caesar) dealing with an Antonine insurrection led by Lucius Antonius (Marc Anthony's Brother) and Fulvia (Marc Anthony's wife)This episode was sponsored by Plunderworld, the world's greatest trading cards! Preorder Series 2 NOW at www.plunderworld.com and use code HOMOS for 3 extra packs with your order!Check out Patrick's stuff at www.cantgetfooledagain.comDon't forget to join our Telegram channel at T.me/historyhomos and to join our group chat at T.me/historyhomoschatFor programming updates and news follow us across social media @historyhomospod and follow Scott @Scottlizardabrams and Patrick @cantgetfooledagainradio OR subscribe to our telegram channel t.me/historyhomosThe video version of the show is available on Substack, Rokfin, bitchute, odysee and RumbleFor weekly premium episodes or to contribute to the show subscribe to our channel at www.historyhomospod.substack.comYou can donate to the show directly at paypal.me/historyhomosTo order a History Homos T shirt (and recieve a free sticker) please send your shirt size and address to Historyhomos@gmail.com and please address all questions, comments and concerns there as well.Later homos

#Londinium90AD: On Syracuse, Plato recommends a half-baked tyranny, such as Augustus Caesar,  is best. Michael Vlahos. Friends of History Debating Society. @Michaelis_Vlahos 1712 AD

Comparing the characteristics of both Julius and Augustus Caesar to Donald Trump and Alexander the Great. Repeats of the Great or Notable Horn on the He Goat of Daniel Chapter 8?

The Ideas of March is March 15, a day in the Roman calendar that became infamous for the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. Jacob Sider Jost, Associate Professor of English at Dickinson College, joined The Spark to share more about the Ides of March. Where did the phrase, beware the Ides of March, where did that come from? "Beware the Ides of March is a line from Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar… And so, Shakespeare wrote, he wasn't the first to write a tragedy on this topic, but he wrote a tragedy about the assassination of Julius Caesar, and it's really two tragedies because it's the story of Caesar and his death, and then the sort of greatest conspirator Brutus, and then he dies at the end of the play." What was the reasons behind the plot to kill him? "Rome had for the couple of centuries up to the life of Caesar had been a Republic, and it had a Senate, and it had some things that sound a bit like modern American democracy, but it was basically an oligarchy, a powerful elite of inherited senators sort of dominated Roman political life. But it was unstable. There were power struggles through the first century BCE where individuals tried to sort of take full power in Rome. And when Julius Caesar came back to Rome in that fifth decade BCE, he had just defeated Pompey, who was another sort of general fighter. And it looked to the conspirators that Caesar was going to take over, become a single ruler just in himself, become an emperor, and abolish the republic. Now, in the end, that's what happened. His grandnephew Augustus Caesar took over, became emperor, and the Roman Empire went for hundreds of years after that. But that's what the conspirators were trying to prevent. They were trying to keep Rome a republic." Why do you think Julius Caesar’s assassination still captures people’s imaginations hundreds of years later? "It's been performed on multiple stages in multiple countries and has been with us for almost, you know, over 400 years. And so, the language of Shakespeare and the power of the story keep people coming back to Julius Caesar in the Ides of March." Listen to the podcast to hear the entire interview. Support WITF: https://www.witf.org/support/give-now/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The lads pledge to the Phoenix Club and destroy democracy as they cover David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's 2010 techbro parable: The Social Network. Topics include Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' iconic score, the polarizing nature of Sorkin's writing, and what it means to live in a world ruled by Augustus Caesar wannabes like Mark Zuckerberg.   TICKETS TO GO SEE JOSH'S PLAY AT THE TANK IN NEW YORK CITY!   Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full back catalogue of premium/bonus episodes by subscribing for $5/month at Patreon.com/worstofall!   Media Referenced in this Episode: The Social Network. Dir. David Fincher. 2010 “10 Years Later, Author Ben Mezrich On The Book Behind ‘The Social Network'” by Anhar Karim. Forbes. October 20th, 2020. “A Young Mark Zuckerberg's Early Mistake” by Shachar Bar-on. 60 Minutes. January 13th, 2008. “CONFIRMED: Aaron Sorkin Creates Facebook Page, Writing Facebook Movie” by Dan Kois. Vulture. August 27th, 2008. “Facebook's Other Privacy Issue” by Eriq Gardner. The Hollywood Reporter, November 30, 2007 “Joe Rogan Experience #2255 - Mark Zuckerberg.” “Mark Zuckerberg: How to Build a Future” by Y Combinator. “Tell-All Book: Zuckerberg Set Up Facebook To Get Laid” by Nick Douglas. Gawker. May 22nd, 2008. “What Producers Do: Explaining The Social Network's Social Network” by Claude Brodesser-Akner. Vuture. February 24th, 2011.   TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com   Interstitial: “The M.A.R.K.-BOT” // Written by A.J. Ditty // Feat. Brian Alford as “Mark Zuckerberg”

This lecture discusses key ideas from the ancient Stoic philosopher Seneca's work, On Anger, book 2 It focuses specifically on his discussion of famous people who showed restraint and thoughtfulness in relation to their own anger, keeping it under rational control. These include statesmen and political leaders like Antigonus and Philip of Macedon, Augustus Caesar, and Cato the younger, and philosophers like Plato and Diogenes the Stoic. These people provide us with helpful examples which we can model ourselves after To support my ongoing work, go to my Patreon site - www.patreon.com/sadler If you'd like to make a direct contribution, you can do so here - www.paypal.me/ReasonIO - or at BuyMeACoffee - www.buymeacoffee.com/A4quYdWoM You can find over 3000 philosophy videos in my main YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/user/gbisadler Purchase Seneca's On Anger - amzn.to/3smh6M8

Can certain failures possess a nobility that surpasses success? Join us as we journey into the mystical world of Henry Van Dyke's "The Story of the Other Wise Man," where we unravel the tale of Artaban, the fourth wise man. This episode invites you into the spiritual and philosophical quest of Artaban, set against the backdrop of ancient Persia under Augustus Caesar and Herod. As Artaban embarks on his pursuit of knowledge and truth, his story becomes a tapestry of moral dilemmas, trials, and the relentless pursuit of enlightenment, inviting you to reflect on your own life's journey.Transport yourself to the opulent surroundings of Ecbatana, where Artaban's introspective saga begins amidst a gathering of Parthian followers of Zoroaster. Listen as we explore the profound themes of faith and perseverance, reflected in Artaban's journey to Babylon, guided by celestial signs and accompanied by his faithful horse, Vazda. As Artaban grapples with skepticism from his peers and the solitude of his mission, he remains steadfast in his quest, embodying the courage to walk his path alone.Feel the tension as Artaban faces poignant decisions: aiding a dying stranger or continuing his quest to find the Messiah. Set against the striking landscapes of Egypt and Alexandria, Artaban's narrative unfolds with themes of patience and love, guided by the wisdom of a Hebrew rabbi. His story, rich with the promise of a kingdom founded on unconquerable love, becomes a powerful reminder of the transformative power of storytelling and the deeper meanings behind our pursuits.Support the showThe American Soul Podcasthttps://www.buzzsprout.com/1791934/subscribe

My takeaways and endnotes from the life of Augustus Caesar. Plus a conversation with Alex Petkas, and a review of Gladiator II! ---- Come join us at the Austin Cost of Glory Retreat - Use code Takeover for $200 off. Subscribe for the full episode at takeoverpod.supercast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Wir schreiben das Jahr 40 Augustus Caesar - vor 9 Jahren ist ein kleiner Messias geboren, der bald die Welt erobern wird. Doch die römische Legion kämpft einen ausweglosen Kampf in den germanischen Wäldern. Julius Caesar hat die gallischen Barbaren erobert, doch sein Sohn Augustus und seine ehrenvollen Offiziere verzweifeln an der rauen Natur rechts des Rheins. Die Varusschlacht hat mehr als drei Legionen vernichtet und nun darbt der Kaiser in seinen Gemächern, will seine Männer wiederhaben, die ihm Arminius gestohlen hat.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 40 Augustus Caesar - vor 9 Jahren ist ein kleiner Messias geboren, der bald die Welt erobern wird. Doch die römische Legion kämpft einen ausweglosen Kampf in den germanischen Wäldern. Julius Caesar hat die gallischen Barbaren erobert, doch sein Sohn Augustus und seine ehrenvollen Offiziere verzweifeln an der rauen Natur rechts des Rheins. Die Varusschlacht hat mehr als drei Legionen vernichtet und nun darbt der Kaiser in seinen Gemächern, will seine Männer wiederhaben, die ihm Arminius gestohlen hat.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 40 Augustus Caesar - vor 9 Jahren ist ein kleiner Messias geboren, der bald die Welt erobern wird. Doch die römische Legion kämpft einen ausweglosen Kampf in den germanischen Wäldern. Julius Caesar hat die gallischen Barbaren erobert, doch sein Sohn Augustus und seine ehrenvollen Offiziere verzweifeln an der rauen Natur rechts des Rheins. Die Varusschlacht hat mehr als drei Legionen vernichtet und nun darbt der Kaiser in seinen Gemächern, will seine Männer wiederhaben, die ihm Arminius gestohlen hat.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 40 Augustus Caesar - vor 9 Jahren ist ein kleiner Messias geboren, der bald die Welt erobern wird. Doch die römische Legion kämpft einen ausweglosen Kampf in den germanischen Wäldern. Julius Caesar hat die gallischen Barbaren erobert, doch sein Sohn Augustus und seine ehrenvollen Offiziere verzweifeln an der rauen Natur rechts des Rheins. Die Varusschlacht hat mehr als drei Legionen vernichtet und nun darbt der Kaiser in seinen Gemächern, will seine Männer wiederhaben, die ihm Arminius gestohlen hat.

Luke chapter 2 has to be one of the most exciting, important, and special chapters in all the Bible! Luke has done his research, no doubt interviewing Mary personally, and even possibly talking with the shepherds mentioned in this chapter. He gives more details concerning the birth of Jesus Christ than any other of the Gospel writers. Matthew gives only a little description of Jesus birth at Bethlehem with the wise men visiting Him with gifts and Herod the local king attempting to kill Him. Mark leaves out any details of Jesus birth and simply tells us that He is baptized by John and He begins His ministry preaching. John highlights Jesus' divinity as the Word becomes Flesh with no mention of His birth at Bethlehem.   While Luke 1 gives us the theme of joy and rejoicing at the coming of Jesus, Luke 2 highlights the sovereignty of God behind the scenes in the events of the world and the birth of Jesus Christ! While Jesus was born as weak as any other baby humanly speaking, He was also the center of power as far as heaven was concerned.   First His birth drew Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem (vv. 1-7). Augustus Caesar was ruling, but God was in charge, for He used Caesar's edict to move Mary and Joseph eighty miles from Nazareth to Bethlehem to fulfill His Word. Rome took a census every fourteen years for both military and tax purposes, and each Jewish male had to return to the city of his fathers to record his name, occupation, property, and family.   When Mary said "Be it unto me according to Thy word" (Luke 1:38), it meant that from then on, her life would be a part of the fulfillment of divine prophecy. God had promised that the Savior would be a human, not an angel (Gen. 3:15; Heb. 2:16), and a Jew, not a Gentile (Gen. 12:1-3; Num. 24:17). He would be from the tribe of Judah (Gen. 49:10), and the family of David (2 Sam. 7:1-17), born of a virgin (Isa. 7:14) in Bethlehem,' the city of David (Micah 5:2).   All of this occurred just as the Scriptures said, and Caesar unknowingly played an important part. A great pastor of yesteryear used to say, "History is His story," and even one of our U.S. Presidents, James A. Garfield called history "the unrolled scroll of prophecy." If God's Word controls our lives, then the events of history only help us fulfill the will of God. "I am watching over My word to perform it," promises the Lord (Jer. 1:12).   The tax that Caesar Augustus imposed required that every person go to the city where he was born to be registered. Joseph and Mary, married now, and the Babe who was soon to be born, had to return to Bethlehem, the ancestral home of David, Israel's greatest king. Like it or not, Joseph and Mary set out on their journey, which must have been tiring and uncomfortable for Mary. That she should be left behind in her condition was unthinkable.   The hand of God was in the whole business. The journey put Mary in Bethlehem in time for the birth of her child. Just where the prophet Micah had declared some six or seven hundred years earlier that Christ would be born (Mic. 5:2). Mary and Joseph were already husband and wife but since they did not consummate the marriage until after Jesus was born, she is called his "espoused wife" (Matt. 1:18-25).   Bethlehem means "house of bread," the ideal birthplace for the Bread of Life (John 6:35). Its rich historic heritage included the death of Rachel and the birth of Benjamin (Gen. 35:16-20; also see Matt. 2:16-18), the marriage of Ruth, and the exploits of David. It is worth noting that the name Benjamin means "son of my right hand," and the name David means "beloved." Both of these names apply to our Lord, for He is the Beloved Son (Luke 3:22) at God's right hand (Ps. 110:1).   Yes, my friend, we can be assured that even today in a world full of corruption, chaos, confusion, and war, our God is sovereign, and He is engineering circumstances for the soon coming again of His Son! We should be looking up!!!!   God bless!

The history of Rome is perhaps best known and most famous for its days as a vast empire, the largest of the Ancient World. But before Augustus Caesar declared himself its first emperor, it was a republic and had been for some five centuries. Though it served its people well, it soon became steeped in corruption and political turmoil, perhaps none more so than in the subject of this week's episode. Join me for the first part of a two-parter all about the greatest political event of the Roman Republic...the notorious Cataline Conspiracy! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historylovescompany/support

This episode explores the assassination of Julius Caesar, depicting the dramatic event on the Ides of March in 44 BCE led by Roman senators and its profound impact on the transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire under Augustus Caesar. It delves into Caesar's rise to power, his dictatorship, the motives behind the plot, and the aftermath that led to further political chaos and the establishment of the Roman Empire.

Send us a Text Message.This is the second part of the interview with Brother Gregory Williams.Does the early church's role in societal welfare hold lessons for us today? Brother Gregory Williams joins us to explore this profound question. Learn how the first-century church's commitment to caring for widows and orphans stands in stark contrast to our modern reliance on government aid. Through historical accounts from figures like Justin the Martyr and insights into the political landscape of Augustus Caesar's era, we dismantle common misconceptions about the legalization of Christianity under Constantine. This episode promises to shine a light on the true essence of Christian service and personal responsibility.Our exploration of Roman history continues with an intriguing look at Julius Caesar's conquests and the translation of ancient texts. Discover how Caesar's actions intersected with biblical principles and Judaic laws, and how early Christians practiced social welfare through free will offerings, in stark contrast to Rome's compulsory system. This conversation also delves into biblical interpretations, the Ten Commandments, and the societal structures of Abrahamic times, emphasizing the power of love and mutual care in maintaining societal bonds. We provide additional resources for those who wish to explore these themes further.Brother Gregory also takes us on a journey of spiritual growth and social responsibility, discussing the importance of caring for parents and the elderly, aligned with the teachings of Jesus and the Ten Commandments. Reflecting on societal shifts towards selfishness, he underscores the need for repentance and a return to communal thinking. Personal anecdotes bring home the value of hard experiences in fostering growth and wisdom. This episode rounds off with a critical look at misconceptions about biblical interpretations, urging listeners to engage deeply with the unaltered teachings of the Bible for a more authentic spiritual experience. Join us as we uncover the timeless principles of truth, love, and community welfare.Follow Brother Gregory Williams at...https://hisholychurch.org/https://www.preparingyou.com/wiki/HomeIf you want to be a guest on my podcast, please click at the link here.https://www.joinpodmatch.com/politically-high-techSupport the Show.Follow your host atYouTube and Rumble for video contenthttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUxk1oJBVw-IAZTqChH70aghttps://rumble.com/c/c-4236474Facebook to receive updateshttps://www.facebook.com/EliasEllusion/Twitter (yes, I refuse to call it X)https://x.com/politicallyht

AMDG.  We live in unprecedented times—or do we?  Can a classics degree set you back in the job hunt? What do you do when primary sources seem daunting?  Longtime friend of Kolbe Academy Abigail Palmer joins Bonnie and Steven to talk about these big questions and more.  She describes how lack of familiarity with history leads to fear and how being fearful leads to being malleable, she explains how studying antiquity gives perspective, and she highlights overlaps between Latin and classics on one hand and coding and tech innovation on the other.  Relevant Kolbecast episodes:  100 In the Beginning with Kolbe Academy co-founder Mrs. Dianne Muth  175 A Both-And Approach at The University of Dallas with Dr. Jonathan Sanford  144 The Word Made Known with Mark Brumley of Ignatius Press  61 Middle Ground  Links:  Abigail's website  Abigail's book Faelan and the Miracle Machines   Kolbe Classics Conference complete set  Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham  Genevieve Foster's Augustus Caesar's World  Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne  Christine MIller's All through the Ages  Have questions or suggestions for future episodes or a story of your own experience that you'd like to share? We'd love to hear from you! Send your thoughts to podcast@kolbe.org and be a part of the Kolbecast odyssey.  We'd be grateful for your feedback! Please share your thoughts with us via this Kolbecast survey!  The Kolbecast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and most podcast apps. By leaving a rating and review in your podcast app of choice, you can help the Kolbecast reach more listeners. The Kolbecast is also on Kolbe's YouTube channel (audio only with subtitles).  Using the filters on our website, you can sort through the episodes to find just what you're looking for. However you listen, spread the word about the Kolbecast! 

Augustus Caesar may be the name etched in history books as Rome's first emperor, but behind every great leader is an even greater right-hand man. This week, we delve into the life of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, the unsung hero who helped build and maintain the vast Roman Empire. Agrippa, a brilliant military strategist and gifted engineer, was instrumental in Augustus' rise to power and the subsequent Pax Romana. From crushing rebellions to designing architectural marvels like the Pantheon, Agrippa's contributions were as diverse as they were vital. Join us as we uncover the fascinating life of this overlooked figure. We'll explore his military conquests, his enduring friendship with Augustus, and the whispers of a potential dynasty that could have changed the course of history. So grab your toga and a goblet of wine (or a cup of coffee, we don't judge) and settle in for another History for Weirdos adventure. Trust us, this is one Roman tale you won't want to miss. - **Join our Patreon

TONIGHT:  The show begins in Pennsylvania with Salena Zito, in order to explore the inquiry, can a Third Party candidate such as Joe Manchin carry Pa.  Then to Conrad Black in Toronto, to celebrate his new book: The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol I: From Antiquity to the Caesars, 14 A.D.. Then to Philadelphia, to Yemen, Las Vegas, Boca Chica.  To Mars equator, to the bin Laden compound 2011.  To Lancaster County Pa and breakfast at the Park City Diner.  And last to LEO, MEO, GEO and space war prep. 1913 GETTYSBURG 5OTH ANNIVERSARY CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9-915 #KeystoneReport: Can a Third Party win in Pennsylvania? Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.com https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2799639/we-can-elect-a-third-party-candidate-but-not-the-way-you-think/ 915-930 #Canada: It is possible to construct a political history of civilization from antiquity to the Death of Augustus Caesar, 14A.D. Conrad Black. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMCP8SKC?psc=1&smid=A37DFYOENRKCVH&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp 930-945 #SmallBusinessAmerica: Housing starts down but builder confidence up. @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer https://www.nahb.org/news-and-economics/press-releases/2024/01/builder-sentiment-surges-on-falling-interest-rates 945-1000 #SmallBusinessAmerica: Boomers Rule Small Business, Still.  @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer https://genemarks.medium.com/dont-laugh-boomers-still-rule-the-world-for-now-fce85df76fac SECOND HOUR 10-1015 ##Houthis: The correct meaning of "genocide" and the Houthis are a genocidal cult. Cliff May, FDD https://www.fdd.org/analysis/op_eds/2024/01/17/the-blood-libel-at-the-hague/ 1015-1030 #PacificWatch: The Sphere goes to the super Bowl@JCBliss https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-12984131/Super-Bowl-LVIII-CBS-Sports-chiefs-reveal-Las-Vegas-Sphere-used-coverage-NFL-showpiece.html 1030-1045 #SPACEX:  Boca Chica Mall and Diner. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/spacex-files-for-permits-to-build-a-shopping-center-and-restaurant-at-boca-chica/ 1045-1100 ##Hubble: #JamesWebb: Early galaxies were not normal shapes.. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/webb-confirms-the-unusual-shape-of-early-galaxies-as-seen-by-hubble/ THIRD HOUR 1100-1115 5/8: The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA Hardcover – October 17, 2023 by  Liza Mundy  (Author) https://www.amazon.com/Sisterhood-Secret-History-Women-CIA/dp/0593238176/ref=asc_df_0593238176&mcid=d8b024f8944a3cfb869a04c0b84ba964?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80608071597838&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584207596928557&psc=1 Created in the aftermath of World War II, the Central Intelligence Agency relied on women even as it attempted to channel their talents and keep them down. Women sent cables, made dead drops, and maintained the agency's secrets. Despite discrimination—even because of it—women who started as clerks, secretaries, or unpaid spouses rose to become some of the CIA's shrewdest operatives. They were unlikely spies—and that's exactly what made them perfect for the role. Because women were seen as unimportant, pioneering female intelligence officers moved unnoticed around Bonn, Geneva, and Moscow, stealing secrets from under the noses of their KGB adversaries. Back at headquarters, women built the CIA's critical archives—first by hand, then by computer. And they noticed things that the men at the top didn't see. As the CIA faced an identity crisis after the Cold War, it was a close-knit network of female analysts who spotted the rising threat of al-Qaeda—though their warnings were repeatedly brushed aside. After the 9/11 attacks, more women joined the agency as a new job, targeter, came to prominence. They showed that data analysis would be crucial to the post-9/11 national security landscape—an effort that culminated spectacularly in the CIA's successful effort to track down bin Laden in his Pakistani compound. Propelled by the same meticulous reporting and vivid storytelling that infused Code Girls, The Sisterhood offers a riveting new perspective on history, revealing how women at the CIA ushered in the modern intelligence age, and how their silencing made the world more dangerous. 1115-1130 6/8: The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA Hardcover – October 17, 2023 by  Liza Mundy  (Author) 1130-1145 7/8: The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA Hardcover – October 17, 2023 by  Liza Mundy  (Author) 1145-1200 8/8: The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA Hardcover – October 17, 2023 by  Liza Mundy  (Author) FOURTH HOUR 12-1215 #MrMarket: #SoftData: Breakfast plates as big as hubcaps and the Apple Store jammed in Lancaster County.   Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barrons. @MCTagueJ.  Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series."  #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/us-retail-sales-report-2024-030eaa0a 1215-1230 #Italy: Italy struggles to fend off  the migrants from Tunisia rescued by NGO migration activists. https://apnews.com/article/italy-migration-rescue-ships-meloni-52d3137cb7a88aff6c169d52d1ea830e 1230-1245 #Ukraine: Out of ammo as the US Congress and the GOP turn away. Josh Rogin Wasington Post. also''https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/19/ukraine-aid-cut-likely-johnson-house-republicans/ 1245-100 am ##SpaceForce: Preparing the battlefield in LEO, MEO, GEO. Henry Sokolski, NPEC https://x.com/nuclearpolicy/status/1747659993388900534?s=46&t=hKg5MoZJk-45c078Ps82KA

#Canada: It is possible to construct a political history of civilization from antiquity to the Death of Augustus Caesar, 14A.D. Conrad Black. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMCP8SKC?psc=1&smid=A37DFYOENRKCVH&ref_=chk_typ_imgToDp 1885 HERCULANEUM The Political and Strategic History of the World, Vol I: From Antiquity to the Caesars, 14 A.D. Hardcover – December 5, 2023 by  Conrad Black  (Auth)

At times, it can seem like God isn't with us, but God is there with, ‘and it just so happened' moments to bring about a larger story going on.  I often listen to people's stories and wonder where God is in them. Often the stories tell of mess. There is brokenness, hurt, and pain.  I listen for two things. One is for what is happening in the here and now. Their Red Dot.  The Red Dot is a concept I learned from Larry Crabb. You go into a shopping mall, and you want to find where a particular shop is, and at the entrance, there is a map of the building. You notice a large arrow pointing to a location on the map, and there is a large red dot. The arrow says ‘You are here'.  It's that central ‘You are here' groundedness that I'm listening for. Where are they in their soul right here, right now? The second thing I am listening for is what is going on around them. What is God up to in this mess? They are often so captured by the mess that they can't see outside of themselves. An outside perspective is needed. If there is a ‘You are here' knowing, then I want to express a ‘You are within' connection to them. You are held; you are known; you are loved. A larger story One of the concepts that surprised me many years ago is that I am part of the meta-narrative of God. The Big story of what God is up. Part of the eternal flow that has and will continue to go on forever. The Bible expresses stories of people just like ourselves caught up in this gulf stream of God's goodness. This three person dancing trinity sweeps me along and seems to at times sneakily in the background orchestrate things to bring about perfect symphonic harmony. Paul alludes to it in Romans 8:28  And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him. Romans 8:28 We can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. Romans 8:28 (Message) There is a little phrase that I think points to this background movement of God. Have you noticed this subtle little phrase acting itself out in your life? And it just so happened I read these words ‘And it just so happened' in the Bible and I have a sneaky suspicion that God is up to something. Something good. It's like the boyfriend that ‘just so happens' to turn up at the girlfriend's place around an hour before dinner. There is a kind of background motivation going on that we need to sit with and let it be revealed. There are many examples of this in the Bible, but I want to focus on two of them. These two are so entwined in how they point to the larger story of God. Ruth in the fields A mother and her daughter-in-law, both widows, return home from a foreign land. They are poor. The mother-in-law, Naomi, is bitter and angry at God. Ruth, her foreigner daughter-in-law, is trusting and hopeful. They are in deep need of something to happen. Something good. They have no one to care for them and to look after their needs, but God is at work, in the background. They need food, and it is harvest time. One of the laws that God set down for the people of Israel was that the landowners were to leave the edges of their fields as places for the poor to go and harvest from. God cared for the poor. Still does. “When you reap the harvest of your land, don't reap the corners of your field or gather the gleanings. Leave them for the poor and the foreigners. I am God, your God.” Leviticus 23:22 So Ruth goes to harvest from that which was left behind. Now Naomi had a rich relative named Boaz, from Elimelech's family. One day, Ruth, the Moabite, said to Naomi, “I am going to the fields. Maybe someone will be kind enough to let me gather the grain he leaves behind.” Naomi said, “Go, my daughter.” So Ruth went to the fields and gathered the grain that the workers cutting the grain had left behind. It just so happened that the field belonged to Boaz, from Elimelech's family. Ruth 2:1-3 The rest of the story goes on to a love story of Boaz and Ruth marrying and having a baby. Oh, and the name of the town where this story was unfolding? It was Bethlehem. Yes, that Bethlehem of the Christmas story. Pregnant Mary She was a pregnant teenager. She had been told by an angel that she was going to be pregnant with God. That she would have a baby, but it wasn't going to her fiances. Her fiance, Joseph was also told that it wasn't going to be his, but he was to look after Mary and to carry on to marry her. A lot of mysterious stuff going on. Probably everyone thought it was terrible having a baby outside of marriage, but God was on the move. Luke doesn't record the words ‘And it just so happened', but I think it would fit into the Christmas story. At that time [And it just so happened], Augustus Caesar sent an order that all people in the countries under Roman rule must list their names in a register. This was the first registration; it was taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to their own towns to be registered. So Joseph left Nazareth, a town in Galilee, and went to the town of Bethlehem in Judea, known as the town of David. Joseph went there because he was from the family of David. Joseph registered with Mary, to whom he was engaged and who was now pregnant. While they were in Bethlehem, the time came for Mary to have the baby, and she gave birth to her first son. Because there were no rooms left in the inn, she wrapped the baby with pieces of cloth and laid him in a feeding trough. Luke 2:1-7 It just so happened that a census was being taken. It just so happened that Joseph was from Bethlehem and, according to the rules of the census, he had to return to his hometown. It just so happened that Mary gave birth to Jesus there in Bethlehem, the same place Naomi returned home to with Ruth, who had just so happened to glean in a field owned by Boaz. It just so happened that there is a direct genealogical connection between Boaz and Joseph. Read the family tree in Matthew 1: 5-16. It's a mystery, unfolding It's interesting. It brings an assurance to know that there is a bigger picture to be seen and there is a larger story going on. But it's not something to get obsessed with. I don't believe God would want you to look at every little thing to see if there is a secret meaning, code, or theory. No, I simply believe that God can use the most seemingly hopeless of situations to bring about the larger story going on. There is a pilgrimage, not a plan of precision perfection. There is a path, not a tightrope where you worry about falling off. There is a dance not a demand to follow in rigorous legality. God doesn't take away our free will to choose. Ruth still had to choose to go to a field and gather grain. Joseph and Mary still had to choose to take the long pregnant journey to Bethlehem. You still have to do the work, get out and L.O.F.O. (Look Out For Opportunities). But perhaps in your grain fields there might be instances of ‘and it just so happened.' Quotes to consider Often times we're looking for nice clear linear logical explanations about why we feel this compulsion and need to give efforts to something. There might not be any explanations other than something within you that says if I don't head in this direction something within me will die. Rob Bell https://robbell.podbean.com/e/a-hymn-for-the-curve/  A full search into our soul causes life to begin, not end. And then it's as if we've never lived before. Dark nights may not go away, but they hold the promise of a bright morning. This world's sunsets become another world's sunrises. And joy comes into sight. Larry Crabb Soultalk Every hard thing we endure can put us in touch with our desire for God, and every trial can strengthen that desire until it becomes the consuming passion of our life.   Larry Crabb Soultalk Whether life is bumpy or smooth, the most supernatural thing we can do is to want to know God better, to value his pleasure and his purposes above everything else, and to want directions for the journey into his presence more than a plan for making life work. Larry Crabb Soultalk Immature spirituality focuses on experience. Mature spirituality focuses on seeing and knowing. David Benner Mysticism is simply the longing for heart knowing of God. David Benner Questions to consider How does it feel to be part of something much larger going on? Can you reflect back on your life and notice some ‘And it just so happened' moments? What part does you taking action have a role in God being able to orchestrate those ‘And it just so happened' moments?   Further reading   Barry Pearman Photo by Héctor J. Rivas on Unsplash     Get a weekly email full of help for your Mental Health and Spiritual formation * indicates required Email Address *   First Name * Last Name *     Read this further here FOLLOW ME! Email me: barry@turningthepage.co.nz Website: https://turningthepage.co.nz/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/turningthepage1atatime Twitter: https://twitter.com/barrypearman Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/barry_pearman/ Podcast https://turningthepage.co.nz/podcast-listen-mental-health/ Support Turning the Page with a Donation https://turningthepage.co.nz/give/

I once presented a documentary for Italian TV which declared that Jakob Fugger - Fugger the Rich - was the richest man in history. He was a German who made his fortune in the 16th century through gold and copper mines, lending money to kings and popes and, above all, by selling absolution. By the time he died his net worth was equivalent to nearly 2.5% of European GDP, tantamount to half a trillion dollars in today's money.But, according to the internet (and we all know the internet is never wrong) there was someone even richer - a Malian gentleman, Mansa Musa the Ninth, or King Musa IX.The BBC deems his wealth “indescribable”, placing him above the likes of Augustus Caesar, Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, William The Conqueror and Colonel Gaddafi in its Wealth Hall of Fame. Fugger doesn't even get a look in.So who was this Mansa Musa the Ninth?Musa was born in 1280 in Mali in West Africa. At some point in his early 20s he became Mansa. The eighth Mansa, his brother Abu Bakr, had wanted to go and explore the edge of the Atlantic Ocean and Musa stood in for him while he was gone. Bakr never came back and so did Musa become Mansa. Many of those out there with a dark view of human nature argue that Musa actually saw to it that Bakr never came back. The whole “exploring the edge of the Atlantic Ocean” thing was just a ruse. Who knows? Perhaps Bakr did make it to the edge of the Atlantic Ocean, also known as Brasil, found it to his liking, as many visitors there do, and decided to settle there.At the time the Mali empire extended through 2,000 miles of West Africa - from what today is Niger in the east, through parts of Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Senegal, Mauritania, Sierra Leone and Gambia. With land ownership came ownership of the natural resources that lay within - and that's how Musa came to be so rich. Salt, gold and slaves. He sold hundreds of thousands of slaves to the Middle East, pioneering a pan African slave trade that still exists to this day. Those slaves he didn't sell he put to work in his mines.  West Africa has always had lots of gold. Even today Ghana is Africa's second largest producer, beaten only by South Africa, whose premium deposit, the Witswatersrand Basin, was only discovered in 1886 by an Australian mining prospector called George Harrison. Harrison, by the way, in what must be considered among the worst business deals in history, worse even than record label Decca passing on Harrison's namesake's band, the Beatles, seventy years later, sold his stake for £10. Harrison was never heard of again, but his discovery would provide the world with over 20% of all the gold ever mined. But, until the Wits Basin, West Africa was top dog. Indeed, according to the British Museum, something like half of the Old World's gold came from the Mali Empire. Musa sure did enjoy the trappings. He had tens of thousands of slaves to his name and in 1324 set off with 12,000 of them and a retinue of 38,000 others, including soldiers and entertainers - all of them dressed in gold, brocade and silk, apparently - on a pilgrimage to Mecca. Like today's mega billionaires, Musa liked attention. He didn't have rocket ships, Twitter or appearances on Saturday Night Live to get it, so Musa's means was this hajj - a pilgrimage to Mecca, the spiritual home of Islam. The 2,800 mile round trip took him some two years. Each slave carried some four pounds of gold, while camels behind towed as many as 300 pounds of gold dust, so that the entire transit had some 18 tons of gold in tow. There were heralds who bore gold staves, and, en route, every Friday, this devout servant of Islam had a mosque built, so the story goes.When he arrived in Cairo, he went shopping. He did the same in Medina and Mecca. The sudden, dramatic rise in the supply of gold in those cities caused an inflationary collapse that took some 12 years to recover from.Ever the businessman, the devaluation of the gold price because of the sudden new supply was apparent to Musa, so on his way back from Cair,o Musa then borrowed from money-lenders all the gold he and his retinue could carry. Cynics out there argue that his strategy - causing inflation then collapse - was a deliberate ploy to undermine the Cairo economy and relocate Africa's commercial centre out to Mali in the West - to Gao or Timbuktu.Over the course of his reign Musa conquered some 24 cities (and their surrounding districts) - among them Timbuktu, which he took on his way back from Mecca. Once back in Mali, Musa started throwing about his gold there too. For 440 pounds of gold, he hired the services of poet and architect, Abu Isaq Silla, to give Timbuktu a makeover. Universities and mosques were built and Timbuktu became something of a cultural centre - the “Paris of the Medieval World”, according to some. One of Musa's buildings, the Sankore Madrassah, where maths, science, languages and the Koran were taught, is still operating today in the same capacity.Musa died in 1337, at the ripe old age of 57, and the Mali empire began to fall apart soon after. The inescapable laws of unsustainable spending applied as much then as they do today. If buying gold to protect yourself in these uncertain times, my recommended bullion dealer is The Pure Gold Company, whether you are taking delivery or storing online. Premiums are low, quality of service is high. They deliver to the UK, US, Canada and Europe, or you can store your gold with them. More here.My show on gold at the Edinburgh Fringe this August will take place at Panmure House, in the room in which  Adam Smith wrote Wealth of Nations. You can get tickets here. Last show is Aug 20. 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The modern calendar owes its existence to the most famous of all Roman emperors, Julius Caesar. In 46 B.C., he ordered the creation of a new, highly organized calendar to replace the messy system that was in use at the time. With a few minor revisions, we still use that calendar today. One of those revisions is the names of the months of July and August. Under the original Roman calendar, the year began with March. The two hot summer months were called Quintilis and Sextilis — names that mean the fifth month and sixth month. But soon after the new calendar was introduced, the Roman Senate honored its benefactor by changing the name of Quintilis to July. Then, in the year 8 B.C., emperor Augustus Caesar decided that he should have his own month, so Sextilis was changed to August. Scholars disagree on whether other changes were made when August was named. Some say that Sextilis originally contained only 30 days, but Augustus added a day so that his month would be as long as that of Julius Caesar. Incidentally, August 1st is the date of an ancient English festival called Lammas. It's a “cross-quarter” day — a day that's roughly half-way between a solstice and an equinox. In some cultures, the cross-quarter days marked the beginnings of the seasons, not their mid-points as they do today. Lammas was a day for celebrating the first harvest — marking an important date on the imperial summer calendar. Script by Damond Benningfield Support McDonald Observatory

Michael Knowles and my son Spencer Klavan (no relation) join me to discuss what the future of conservatism may look like, and whether the right is breaking ground in the ongoing culture wars against leftist imperialism.  Extra 10% Off Summer Skincare Essentials Bundle Featuring the Dark Spot Corrector + FREE SHIPPING for new customers!  https://genucel.com/KLAVANYT

Frank Murphy is joined by his friend Becca James, who asks Frank about the company-wide sale on merch. Support the Frank & Friends Show by purchasing some of our high-quality merchandise at https://frank-friends-show.creator-spring.com From now until Wednesday, July 12, 2023 at 11:59 pm EDT, use the promo code "SUMMERVIBES20" at checkout to unlock a 20% discount on all merch.  Frank and Becca hosted the Karns Fairest of the Fair Pageant this past weekend. The Karns Fair organizers asked Becca if she and Frank would host the livestream of the Karns Christmas Parade again this year.  Madison Clabough was chosen as Fairest of the Fair and Bailey McNew was chosen as Junior Fairest of the Fair. They make their first official appearance at the Karns Community Fair on July 15 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Karns High School. Details at https://www.karnsfair.org/  Frank mentions that July is named for Julius Caesar and August is named for Augustus Caesar. September through December are named for the numerals seven through ten.  Becca wore her ballgown to Walmart to buy vanilla extract because her husband was making zucchini bread while she was at the pageant.  Frank had researched and memorized a list of fireworks displays in East Tennessee and in the Adirondacks for his radio shows. His wife asked him to research things for her to do in the Washington DC area on the Fourth. He suggested they visit George Washington's Mount Vernon.  Becca and her family went to a friend's house for the Fourth of July. Frank stayed home from about 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 2 to about 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, July 6.  This episode is sponsored by BoneZones.com (don't forget the S). Buy books and other merchandise autographed by Body Farm founder Dr. Bill Bass at https://bonezones.com/ including Body Farm t-shirts. You can also get several of Sam Venable's books, signed by the author and the new book by former UT counsel Ron Leadbetter.  94-year-old Marshal Andy Smalls recently recorded his final episodes of Riders of the Silver Screen at East Tennessee PBS with a live studio audience and a cake to celebrate Andy's retirement. Frank went to the event and got an apron with Marshal Andy's picture on it.  Frank asked Becca about some of the current events questions for the next season of Tennessee Scholars' Bowl. One of the questions is about a huge pile of unsold clothing in the Atacama Desert. Becca helped Frank reword a question about Dua Lipa.  Two of Frank's grandchildren, Charlie and Lucy, are visiting this week. Last night they had scrambled eggs and bacon for dinner. Jere cooked uncured bacon, which reminded Frank of a Scholars' Bowl question about feral hogs being poisoned with a chemical used to cure bacon.  Charlie reminded Frank that they planned to share a breba crop fig from the Negronne fig plant. Frank recorded a video of them picking the fig and later cutting it into four pieces.  Frank is annoyed that the bronzer makeup he uses now has ridges under the product as a way of putting less in each package. He recently bought more bronzer for Scholars' Bowl and for Up Close with Frank Murphy. Laura Beth Wells is Frank's guest on the next episode of Up Close, which will air at 12:00 a.m. on Wednesday, July 26, 2023 on East Tennessee PBS.  Sign up for a 30-day trial of Audible Premium Plus and get a free premium selection that's yours to keep. Go to http://AudibleTrial.com/FrankAndFriendsShow  Find us online https://www.FrankAndFriendsShow.com/  Please subscribe to our YouTube channel at https://YouTube.com/FrankAndFriendsShow  and hit the bell for notifications.  Find the audio of the show on major podcast apps including Spotify, Apple, Google, iHeart, and Audible.  Find us on social media:  https://www.facebook.com/FrankAndFriendsShow  https://www.instagram.com/FrankAndFriendsShow  https://www.twitter.com/FrankNFriendsSh  Thanks!

Augustus Caesar, also known as Octavian, was a pivotal figure in ancient Rome. His reign as the first emperor of Rome was a transformative period in history. His political reforms, cultural patronage, and long-lasting peace left an indelible mark on the Roman Empire, shaping Western civilization for centuries to come. Early Life and Rise to Power Augustus Caesar was born on September 23, 63 BCE, in Rome. He was the adopted son of Julius Caesar, who later named him as his heir. After Julius Caesar's assassination, Augustus emerged as one of the key contenders in the ensuing power struggle. With strategic alliances and military prowess, he successfully defeated his rivals, establishing himself as the unchallenged ruler of Rome. Reign as Emperor In 27 BCE, the Roman Senate bestowed the title of "Augustus" upon him, meaning "the revered one." Augustus ruled for over four decades, implementing significant reforms that transformed Rome. He focused on strengthening the military, initiating public works projects, and implementing social policies to improve the lives of Roman citizens. His rule marked the beginning of the Pax Romana, a period of relative peace and stability throughout the empire. Political and Administrative Reforms Significant political and administrative reforms characterized Augustus Caesar's reign. He reorganized the Roman provinces, established a civil service, and implemented a system of taxation. Augustus also initiated the construction of key infrastructure, including roads, aqueducts, and buildings, which boosted trade and communication within the empire. These reforms solidified his authority and laid the groundwork for the subsequent emperors, shaping the Roman Empire's structure for centuries to come. Cultural Revival and Patronage Augustus recognized the importance of arts and literature in promoting Roman culture. He encouraged the revival of traditional Roman values and sponsored renowned writers like Virgil, Horace, and Ovid. This period, known as the "Augustan Age," witnessed a flourishing of Roman literature and architecture. Augustus' patronage of the arts enhanced Rome's cultural standing and contributed to the preservation of influential works that continue to be studied and admired today. Legacy and Influence Augustus Caesar's impact on Rome and subsequent Western civilization cannot be overstated. His establishment of a stable government and effective administration laid the foundation for the Roman Empire's long-lasting dominance. Augustus' reign marked the transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire, setting a precedent for subsequent emperors. The Pax Romana ushered in by Augustus ensured peace and prosperity across the empire, fostering economic growth and cultural development. His legacy as the first emperor and a visionary leader continues to inspire historians, political theorists, and leaders today. Show notes at https://thedigressionpodcast.com/107 Sound Off! With a comment or a question at https://thedigressionpodcast.com/soundoff Like the show? Leave a 5-star rating and review: https://thedigressionpodcast.com/review Help us keep the engine running at https://thedigressionpodcast.com/donate Or just share our podcast with a friend! It's the best way to grow the show!! “MaxKoMusic – Dark Ages” is under a Creative Commons (cc-by) license. Music promoted by BreakingCopyright: http://bit.ly/maxkomusic-dark-ages NOTES: Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy

The birth of the Roman Empire was fraught with war and bloodshed. At the heart of the struggle lay the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 B.C at the hands of some of his most trusted friends. This was followed by a season of internal strife which culminated in the crowning of Caesar's adopted son Octavian as Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome. Rome went on to dominate the world, covering millions of square miles of territory at its peak. Empowered by its ruthless military might and most powerful empires the world has ever seen. Within the folds of this new empire, another kingdom was born. One that was founded on peace and self-sacrifice. One that rejected bloodshed and nurtured relationships. While Rome was hedonistic and militarisitc this new kingdom was spiritual. Join us as we take a look at the birth of the Roman empire and the birth of the Christian church, exploring how each movement made its impact and changed the world. 

Hello Great Minds!Today, we are finally covering Cleopatra VII Philopator, Queen of Egypt, someone that I have been trying to cover for three seasons!  So, how has the popular memory of Egypt's last queen, this Titan of the Hellenistic World,  impacted her legacy?  Were her rather actions justified, pragmatic, or ruthless?   Listen to find out all about the treacherous waters Cleopatra was forced to navigate in her magnificent reign! Key Topics: Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar, Marc Antony, Ptolemaic Egypt, Roman Empire For more DGMH just head on over to Patreon Land to get access to soooooooo much more Great content here: patreon.com/dgmhhistoryBe sure to follow me on Facebook at "Drinks with Great Minds in History" & Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter @dgmhhistoryCheers!Music:Hall of the Mountain King by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3845-hall-of-the-mountain-kingLicense: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Artwork by @Tali Rose... Check it out!Support the show

During today's conversation on Back Porch Theology – the second of three podcasts we recorded live in Israel - we'll discover how one of Peter's prophetic dreams was fulfilled in a beautiful city overlooking the Mediterranean called Caesarea By The Sea, or Caesarea Maritima. This bustling harbor town on the coast of Israel was one of the most prominent cities in the ancient Roman world, built by Herod to schmooze his patron, Augustus Caesar, and it's also where Pontius Pilate spent most of his down time. Remember Roman rulers were from Italy so unlike the Jewish citizens they governed, they much preferred the coast of Israel to the dusty hills of Jerusalem. But Caesarea By The Sea isn't simply a gorgeous place to soak in the sun and enjoy the surf, it's also a significant city in biblical history because it's where the first post-Easter Gentile conversion takes place, meaning it's where God's merciful plan to redeem all of humanity – not just Israel – begins to take shape. Which means if you love Jesus and you're not Jewish, it's the very spot you can trace your spiritual DNA back to! Therefore, today's going to be a family reunion of sorts, so please grab a big ole' cup of coffee and your Bible – unless you're practicing Around The World on your yoyo, of course – and come hang out on the porch with us! Follow Us On Instagram! @BackPorchTheologyPodcast @LisaDHarper @AllisonAllen @Jim.Howard.Co

Heroes. We all have them. But what determines the heroes of a given culture? In short, what is deemed heroic is based upon what a culture values. Prior to the life of Jesus, heroes were people who had the power to conquer and dominate others. Men like Alexander the Great and Augustus Caesar come to mind. However, the cross of Christ changed everything. Jesus replaced brutality with love, and pride with meekness, and domination of others with self-sacrificing service. His example transformed our whole concept of heroic behavior and the world is a better place because of it!

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Introduction - James 5 Today the Bible is going to talk to us about money and our attitude toward acquiring it. In every modern society there have always been three classes of people: The poor, The middle class, and The wealthy. And for as long as those classes have existed people have bemoaned the economic disparity between these classes. Now, interestingly the Bible doesn't comment very much about the systems which create the economic disparity. The Bible almost feels carelessly indifferent toward the harsh machinery that causes the massive wealth gaps. The Bible just seems to accept the fact that these classes will exist. The rich will exist. - Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. Augustus Caesar died in 17 AD so Jesus grew up under this emperor. Did you know that Augustus Caesar was the richest man that ever lived. He personally owned 1/5 of the wealth of the Roman empire. That's like the equivalent of 4.6 trillion dollars. And Jesus just says, render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. - "The poor you will always have." - To the Roman soldier he says, "Be content with your wages." - Paul says, "If you find yourself a slave, obey your master not only to the just but also to the unjust." - If you are a master, he says, "Masters, treat your bondservants justly and fairly, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven." Instead of commenting on the system that creates these economic disparities, he just gives commands on how to honor the Lord in your station of life, wherever you find yourself. Because, after all, most slaves complain. Most rich people are selfish. Most middle class people complain about their pay. So if you can be different, the light of Christ will shine brightly. Now that doesn't mean that the rich, middle class and poor are the same. These different classes will struggle differently. There are different temptations associated with those different social positions. So depending on where you are in the Bible, you will have different commands to different social classes. Today James wants to address the wealthy. He wants to address the rich. The rich are generally respected in the world, but James is reminding us that it is scary possible to be very wealthy and be very weak in faith or to have no faith at all. It is very common for those things to go together. And there's a reason they go together. Consider a natural habitat like a jungle. Every natural habitat has its own unique species of plants or animals that thrive in that habitat. A jungle is perfectly suited to grow giant trees, giant spiders, fruit, jaguars, wild boars, etc. Jungle conditions are required for these things to survive. Well, the habitat of wealth, the environment of wealth is very conducive to self-indulgence. It just breeds it. It just cultivates it. It's the perfect conditions for self-indulgence to thrive. And self-indulgence, 10 times out of 10, puts out the flame of faith. Now, wealth doesn't guarantee self-indulgence. There are plenty of wealthy people who are not self-indulgent. But talk to any one of those people and you will discover that to have wealth and not be self-indulgent takes constant weeding, constant maintenance, constant pruning to cut back that unwanted natural tendency. So let's see what James has to say about wealth. James, tell me what you really think. James is being quite direct. There are certain temptations associated with wealth and at the top of the list is self-indulgence. And James is warning you, if you succumb to that temptation, it will rot your soul. So what we are going to observe in the passage is four characteristics of this corrosive self-indulgence. To avoid self-indulgence, here are four things you are going to have to constantly prune and weed and cut back. Here's four characteristics of self-indulgence. The clear idea here in the first three verses is that this rich person whose core heart sin is self-indulgence has acquired more than he needed. At the end of verse 3 the ESV translates it, "you have laid up treasure in the last days." But I like the way the NIV does, "You have hoarded wealth." You have hoarded treasure. It's a better translation because hoarding is a negative term. So this becomes for us another test of genuine faith. Genuine faith does not hoard wealth. If your faith is weak, then you hoard. That's what weak faith does. Now HOW hoarding and faith are related is important to see and we can easily illustrate this from the OT. Do you remember the children of Israel when they were out in the wilderness, the Bible says that God would provide for them manna every day. But they were only supposed to gather a day's worth. They were not to gather any more than one day's worth of manna. What was the purpose of that exercise? It was to teach them to trust that God would provide for them. He said to them, "I don't want you to hoard. I only want you to gather what you need for that day. I don't want you to gather into the pantry a month's worth of food because then you are going to forget about me. You will trust in your pantry instead of in me." So he intentionally told them to trust in God BY NOT HOARDING. I will provide for your needs. Now very predictably we are told that some of them did not have faith. Well, I know God said this stuff will come tomorrow, but what if doesn't. There's plenty now and I don't want to be hungry. And so they hoarded. They took more than they needed for the day. And God made that food rot. Worms came pouring out of the manna. He graciously allowed the resource to fail them so that they would learn to trust not in the manna but in the God of the manna. To trust in Him instead of His gifts. Over time, as God proved himself faithful, again and again, every day there was the manna, they learned to trust and they stopped hoarding. So do you see how faith is related to hoarding? Genuine faith doesn't hoard. Genuine faith doesn't worry that it's up to me to provide for tomorrow and I've got to worry, worry, worry because right now it's pouring money and I've got to strike while the iron is hot, I've got to make hay while there's sun, and who knows how long this season of plenty is going to last, and I've got to fill my barns because the drought might come. I've got to live like Joseph in the 7 years of plenty because famine is coming. - I am in charge of my future security. - I need to fortify myself against danger. - I need to insulate myself with every conceivable financial advantage so that the unforeseen disasters of the world don't destroy me. That's faithless living folks. Genuine faith doesn't think like that. Now it's easy to get upset at this point, and perhaps you are upset right now, "What are you saying? Are you saying I'm not supposed to save? I'm not supposed to work hard? Should I just empty my 401k? Live paycheck to paycheck? Is that the idea? The easy way to answer that is by making a distinction between hoarding and saving. The Bible is pro-saving and anti-hoarding. In fact, there are plenty of places in the Bible where God rebukes those who do not save and do not work hard. God wants us to be like ants. Do you remember the Proverbs? Some people hear, live by faith and they think, "Sweet, I never liked work anyway. I'm going to trust God." That attitude is the attitude of the sluggard. Paul says, "You don't work; you don't eat." The sluggard never thinks about tomorrow. They are buried in debt, paycheck to paycheck, reckless spending. If you know a rent payment is coming, then don't go buy that new toy. Save for expenses you know will be present. Some day you will not be able to physically work so prepare. That's a basic concept that the Bible approves of. The Bible is not against saving; it's against hoarding. Now here's where this gets real. When we hear this, everybody says, "Okay, I hear what you are saying, but this is so unclear. Where does it turn from necessary spending to greedy self-indulgence?" How do I distinguish between a need, a want, a luxury? - If I buy a $5k car is that self-indulgence? What about $10k? What about $10,001? - Is it okay to buy a 40" TV, 50", 60" 70"?  See you are legalistic. All these decisions are so arbitrary. And in kicking up all this sand, in demanding precise answers to unanswerable questions, in demanding all this nuance, we nuance away the command. This is what is known in formal logic as the fallacy of the beard. The fallacy of the beard goes like this. How many hairs make a beard? Does one hair? No of course not. Does two? No. Does 10?  Some JH boys think so. And so the reasoning goes, if you can't tell me the exact number of hairs that make a beard, then I've caught you! Beards don't exist. Just because you can't name a number, doesn't mean that there isn't a point where it becomes a beard. And just because you can't easily define self-indulgence, just because you throw your hands up and say, "Well, who could possibly define that?" Doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. As soon as you start challenging the concept of self-indulgence, you are probably self-indulgent. The point is you need to draw a line. You better figure out between you and the Lord what that means in your life. If you haven't drawn those lines, you will become it. Where's the lifestyle cap? Where's the limit where enough is enough. The more money you make, the greater a distance there ought to be between the lifestyle you live and the lifestyle you're capable of living. No Christian should live as well as they're capable of. Nobody. Why? Because, Christ commands us to give some away. Do you have a way of answering the question, "What is a necessity and what is a luxury?" If you don't have a way to do that, then your lifestyle will eternally creep up with your income. If you have not created a cap, then there is no cap. At the peak of Rockefeller's wealth he had 1% of the wealth of the U.S. economy. He had in today's money the equivalent of around 300 billion dollars which makes our modern day billionaires look like paupers. When asked how much is enough, his answer was, "A little bit more." Corrosiveness of Wealth   Now why is James/God so concerned about acquiring too much? Is he trying to destroy our happiness? ON THE CONTRARY! He's trying to protect it. He says, if you hoard wealth, it will rot you from the inside out. Look at the imagery here. He talks about the gold, the silver standing in judgment against them. He talks about that hoarded wealth corroding. Let me ask you, when do things corrode? Things corrode when they are not in use. If you take a brand new car, purchase it, park it in your driveway and come back in 30 years, it won't start. It will be worthless. The engine will have seized up. And everybody will look at that purchase and say, "That was a waste!" Why? Can't you do what you want with your money? No, we all know that money needs to be applied to noble, worthwhile purposes. And you know what is a terrible purpose. Self-indulgence. Money spent on pampering self is a bad use of money. When that money just sits in the bank, unused for God's purposes, it just has a corrosive effect on your heart. If you are not taking your money and using it to awakening people's hearts to the glory of Christ, helping people, using it to undo the ugly effects of sin, helping the poor, if you're not putting your money into people, using it to make a difference in the lives of people, it's corroding. If you just take your talent and bury it in the ground, just sort of sit on it, the money will rot your soul like Gollum in the cave with his precious. But we can go even one step further. You know what that is really saying? It's not so much cause and effect. It's not so much, love money and it will cause your soul to rot. It's more a statement of fact. It's saying if you love money, I'm sorry to say, but your soul has already rotted. It's saying if you sit on piles of money and have no plans to use that money for God and his people, it's a sign your heart is dead. The only kind of flesh that rots is dead flesh. So if you see the vultures circling, there must be something dead. Here's a test that never lies: When all you have to live for is money, you know your soul has died. Cheating Others   So the first characteristic of the corrosive nature of self-indulgence is desiring more than we need. If you have wealth, that's something you are going to have to constantly prune in your life. There's a second thing he says here. Now notice what the text says here. When you love money, you have a tendency to take people for all they're worth. You have a tendency to step on people for your own financial gain. People are tools. You treat people like tools. People are like drills. How do you think about drills? You think about a drill like this: I don't want to use my precious fingernail to bore a hole into this beam. So I'll abuse my drill instead. You toss it on the ground when you aren't using it and let it get rained on. When you do need it: - you just run them at max RPM, - you ignore the horrible screeching sounds it's making and you plow them into your project, - you let them do all the hard work, - you burn them out, - and the poor thing is smoking hot, it's burnt wires and you throw them aside and say, "This piece of junk burnt out in 2 years. - They don't make 'em like they used to. - Oh well, there's more where that came from." James is saying, "If you think of people like that, that's criminal." That's the expression of self-indulgence. If you are boss, do you have a tendency to underpay people, to pay the minimum you can get away with. Or maybe the wage is fair, but you keep trying to extract more and more out of your employees. You under-appreciate. You demand more and more. Expectations for availability and response time increase. What is driving that? Is it, really at the end of the day, concern for self or is it concern for others? Is it concern for your bottom line and not theirs? That's the corrosive self-indulgence James warns against. The opposite of self-indulgence is others-indulgent. So to indulge your employees is to pay more than they would normally get. You are indulging them in greater benefits than the competition. You are indulging them with more time off than other comparable jobs. Instead of asking more of your existing employees you hire at your expense. So that's the second characteristic of self-indulgence that James points out. Here's the third. Now we see this at two points in the text. Back up in verse one there's this really interesting point. What's up with that phrase, "In the last days." You've stored up treasure "in the last days." It's a really intriguing phrase. We see another hint of it in verse 5. You have lived in luxury ON EARTH. You have fattened your hearts in 'A DAY OF SLAUGHTER.' What is this last day and the day of slaughter he is referencing? How is that related to hoarding wealth? The imagery all through here is imagery of judgment. Notice in verse 4 The Lord of hosts. In Hebrew the word host is literally the word for armies. And it's used to describe God as this powerful leader of both earthly and heavenly armies. So James is saying, "In the name of the Lord Almighty, in the name of the God of the armies of Israel whom you have defied, in the name of the Lord of the heavenly hosts who you have defied..." REPENT before the day of judgment falls. This is a call to repent. God is holy, powerful and determined to judge those who infringe his commandments. And one of his commands is to not love money. Here's the entire point James is making. People who have too much concern for money or whose lifestyle is so important they are willing to sacrifice others, their eschatology isn't straight. They are living for luxury ON EARTH. But that's all going to end in a blink of an eye. To be greedy IN THIS LIFE is to accumulate indictments and charges against yourself in the day of judgment. All the self-indulgence of this life will be evidence of your love of money rather than your love of the Lord. That wasteful spending on self, or that wasteful saving without any purpose, will come back as a witness against you in the "last days." James is making the point that the rich here, instead of acting to avoid that judgment, are, by their selfish indulgence, incurring greater guilt. They are like cattle being fattened for the kill. Think about the judgment day. Repent! Give, give, give it away. Many card games are set up like this. When the first person goes out, you count up your points. And all those cards left in your hand count against you. That's how God wants you to think about your wealth. Sure you need those high face cards to make purchases, buy a house and car, but you have more than you need so give, spend, go out giving. Have nothing left in your hand. That's the Bible's view of money. James is basically saying, "If you hoard wealth, - you've forgotten about the fact that Jesus Christ could come back any time and the curtain could come down. - You've forgotten all of your gold and all of your silver will rust. - You've forgotten those high face cards will be counted against you not for you. - You've forgotten the distinction between temporal value and eternal value." Don't be like the rich fool who spends his entire life investing in wealth to be stored. He put all his money in barns, realized he didn't have big enough barns, so he tore down his barns to build bigger ones and then he died. What good is his money now? Every Christian ought to believe in prosperity theology. It's just a question of timing. Do we prosper now or in heaven? Here's the problem with this last verse. The translators here have made a decision for you and you can't see it. So your understanding of the text is hijacked by a decision that a translator made for you. You didn't even know there was translation decision to be made. When you read this you assume that the rich person used his power and influence to murder the poor, right? But there's an alternate way of translating this text. Here's a little Bible study tip. If ever you want to know the most literal possible translation of the Bible, open up a translation called the Young's Literal Translation. Robert Young translated this in 1862 for this exact purpose. He was pretty frustrated at the number of translation decisions that translators made for you. What this guy did was just literally translate word for word without any attempt at readability. So if you don't know Greek, this is kind of the next best thing. It's helpful sometimes to see the kinds of decisions translators have made in order to make the text more readable. Here's YLT. Literally, in the Greek, this is what James says, "You have condemned and murdered the righteous One (singular) who does not oppose you. You have condemned and murdered the righteous One." The "righteous One" is what it says, literally. "who does not oppose you." You see, most of the translators say, "Well, in the context here, James must be talking about the rich person somehow killing the poor." First of all that would be pretty extreme behavior going on in the church. There's not really any evidence of this. But secondly, and more importantly, it doesn't say that. It says you murder the "righteous One." - It doesn't say you have murdered "the righteous ones." plural. - It doesn't say you have murdered "the righteous poor." - It says you have murdered "the righteous One." I would expect if he were talking about a poor man, it would say, you have murdered him and because he was poor he was not able to oppose you. But that's not what it says. It says, "you have murdered the righteous one who does not oppose you." It's saying that righteous one who was murdered could have opposed you but chose not to. He voluntarily did not oppose. I think this is a reference to Christ. So what is he saying? James says ultimately the reason - you're so concerned about money and the reason - you're grasping at it - you're abusing your employees like drills - you're stepping on people - you're fretting about money You know why? Because you have forgotten the RIGHTEOUS One who was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver, but he didn't resist. He voluntarily died for you. You have forgotten what he has done for you. Your behavior in self-indulgence is the behavior that put Jesus on the cross. Have you forgotten that it was self-indulgence that put him there? The GREAT sin, the greatest sin, the sin of sins is loving self. It's indulging self. It's making the world about self. It's worship of self. You want to know what ultimately rots your soul? Loving yourself. Don't forget what Jesus has done. Jesus died to save you from loving self. This whole deal about money is just a symptom at the very top. Get to the root. The root issue is that God wants you to look at that man hanging on a cross and see him bleeding, see the thorns. Stare at them. Look at the spear in the side. Fix your eyes on it. Jesus died that death to save you from the sin of self-indulgence. From the sin of thinking that you are the center of the universe and that all the wealth and money and riches of the world ought to be funneled to you to make you happy. Jesus died to save you from thinking that God gave you money to elevate and deify self. That's what he died for. He died for self-worshipers. Let that sink in. That's why the bloodied Jesus hangs on the cross. Will you now, say "Thank you Lord for dying for my self-indulgence and then continue to use your money for self in a self-indulgent way?" Are we now just going to go about life thinking about how to pamper ourselves? Are we just going to lazily spend without a budget and not think about the RIGHTEOUS One who is worth more than all the gold and silver, who died and did not resist because he loves you. Take Responsibility I want to end with a call to be courageous. What is courage? Courage is the ability to do something that is frightening. Here's something that takes incredible courage. Stand up and speak the words, "I take full responsibility for my idolatrous heart. I am the self-indulgent sinner who nailed Christ to the cross. My credit card statements say so. My bank balances say so. Look at my receipts." We need to take full responsibility for how we think/believe and act. You and I are not robots forced to respond to the stimulus around us. We are free-standing moral agents. And as free standing moral agents we have been given the ability to love differently. - We have been given the ability to set our affections on things above, not on things that are on earth. - We have been given the ability to look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are unseen. - We have been given freedom to love the Lord our God with all our hearts all our souls and all our minds and love our neighbor as ourselves....to not indulge self. So, as Americans, most of us are wealthy. Most of us need to prune, prune, prune, weed, weed and weed these ugly self-indulgent attitudes out of the heart. Let's do that right now as we close.

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On this week's show we journey through the snowy streets of Palestine, Egypt and the Alex Jones' recording studio to reveal a rich tapestry of mythology concerning the rise and fall of the archetypal “Savior Messiah” who, depending on who you ask might be a warrior, a healer or a world dictator. In the free show we focus our discussion on Jesus Christ and his relationship to both the Roman Empire and the prophesied Jewish Messiah in a story which was first told in both the sky and religious mythology of ancient Egypt. In the extended show we make a hard pivot toward the controversy surrounding Kanye West and how, strangely, it relates to the memetic legacy of David Bowie, Stanley Kubrick and the Egyptian deity of Horus who, the deeper we look begin to overlap in a way that suggests either a multi-generational psyop or a chillingly prophetic spirit of destruction looming just upon the horizon.This week we discuss:Augustus Caesar and the Pax RomanaThe Jewish MessiahMaimonidesKing HerodThe Three Wise MenOrion's BeltThe Seven Sisters of the PleiadesArchangel Gabriel and ThothThe Seven Lamentations of MaryThe Constellation of OrionThe Star of BethlehemAlderbaranIn the extended, uncensored show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go even further and discuss:Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from MarsThe Blackstar, Kanye WestDavid Bowie and Hitler“Love Thy Enemy”Net and YahooWardrobe ChoicesThe Power Music VideoMilk of HathoorA Clockwork OrangeThe Ludovico TreatmentOde to JoyEach host is responsible for writing and creating the content they present.Where to find The Whole Rabbit:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0AnJZhmPzaby04afmEWOAVInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_whole_rabbitTwitter: https://twitter.com/1WholeRabbitMusic By Spirit Travel Plaza:https://open.spotify.com/artist/30dW3WB1sYofnow7y3V0YoSources:PBS, From Jesus to Christ:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN8FM1NCOSkVirgin Births:https://humanjourney.us/sons-of-god-and-virgin-births/Caesar Messiah:https://kairoscenter.org/good-tidings-caesar-jesus/Utterance 442 of Pyramid Texts:http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/pepi1text.htmMetternich Stele:https://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/leg/leg11.htmSupport the show

When Aeneas visits the underworld in Virgil's Aeneid, he sees great heroes who have died and great heroes yet to be born. Here is Caesar, and all the offspring of Julus destined to live under the pole of heaven. This is the man, this is him, whom you so often hear promised you, Augustus Caesar, son of the Deified, who will make a Golden Age again in the fields where Saturn once reigned, and extend the empire beyond the Libyans and the Indians....” It's no surprise that Virgil wrote such extravagant praise of Caesar Augustus into his epic. After all, Caesar Augustus gave him the job of creating the founding myth of the Roman Empire that had supplanted the Roman Republic. As he has been teaching The Aeneid to our Wyoming Catholic College sophomores, Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos has been thinking a great deal about that transition.

Show Notes: Ancient Roman Worship of Jupiter: Jupiter, also called Jove, Latin Iuppiter, Iovis, orDiespiter, the chief ancient Roman and Italian god. Like Zeus, the Greek god with whom he is etymologically identical (root diu, “bright”), Jupiter was a sky god. One of his most ancient epithets is Lucetius (“Light-Bringer”); and later literature has preserved the same idea in such phrases as sub Iove, “under the open sky.” Later Roman Worship of Emperors: Octavian himself took the name Augustus, a term indicating a claim to reverence. This did not make him a god in his lifetime, but, combined with the insertion of his numen and his genius (originally the procreative power that enables a family to be carried on) into certain cults, it prepared the way for his posthumous deification, just as Caesar had been deified before him. Both were deified by the state because they seemed to have given Rome gifts worthy of a god. Pergamos was a city of heathen temples and a pantheon of pagan deities. Jupiter was said to have had his origin there, and to him and other Greek and Roman gods were erected many beautiful and costly temples, giving it the name of "the city of temples." It was the metropolis of heathen deities. Temples were built and dedicated to Jupiter, Zeus, Athena, Dionysius, and Aesculapius, the Greek god of medicine, and also called "the god of Pergamum." It was also the center of emperor worship. In AD 29 a great temple was erected to the worship of Augustus Caesar, who was to be prayed to as "Lord Caesar." Domitian decreed that all peoples should address him as "Our Lord and our God.” The Temple of Zeus was the most celebrated of all the temples of Pergamos, and was dedicated to Aesculapius, "the serpent god" or "god of healing." It was also known as the Temple of Aesculapius, who was called "the Great Physician" and "the Savior." He was also given other titles showing that he was a counterfeit of Christ. In this temple a living serpent was kept and worshiped. Serpent worship was so universal in Pergamos that many coins have been found with a picture of a serpent entwined around a pole. It is unfortunate that this pagan emblem of healing has become the caduceus of the modern medical profession. In the Temple of Zeus many miracles of healing were supposed to have been performed. In connection with this temple was also a famous school of medicine. Scripture References: All Scripture references are cited from the King James Bible. Daniel 2:31-36, Daniel 2:37-42, Daniel 7:1-7, Daniel 2:44, Revelation 13:1-5, Matthew 13:10-17, 2 Thessalonians 2:7-10, Luke 4:5-7, Psalm 115:16, Genesis 1:26, Matthew 4:16-17, Acts 26:16-18, Revelation 2:12-13a Takeaway: Symbolic aspects of the Roman Empire remain all around us, but its origins are as satanic as satan himself. Rome worshipped Jupiter and the emperors, a picture of the dragon and the beast to come. Mystery Rome is alive and well, especially in the United States empire of global hegemony.  Links: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jupiter-Roman-god https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(mythology) https://theologycurator.com/roman-empire-during-time-jesus/ https://www.lewrockwell.com/2022/09/gary-d-barnett/a-solution-for-the-masses-does-not-exist-perceived-reality-is-in-fact-only-theatre/ Website: utbnow.com Podcast: https://bible-mysteries.captivate.fm Subscribe: https:/https://biblemysteries.supercast.com Email: unlockthebiblenow@gmail.com Donate: ttps://secure.subsplash.com/ui/access/BDJH89

Hoy narraremos junto con mi hermano Carlos nuestro viaje a Portugal. Hablaremos de historia y arte del otro gran país de nuestra Península, el país del color.  Imagen: Torre de Belem (Fernando Espí Forcén) Música: Fado Portugues; Chant of the Templar: La Pacem Domine;  Augustus Caesar; The Conquer of Paradise: Vangelis; Top Gun Maverick. 

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This week Beau and Carl discuss the life and times of Marcus Agrippa. As the right hand man of Augustus Caesar and pre-eminent general in the entire Roman world, Agrippa is undeniably a pivotal figure in ancient Roman history. From the earliest days following Julius Caesar's murder, through all the civil wars, and deep into middle age, Agrippa was always there to win battles and hearts and minds on behalf of his emperor.

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Rome at the dawn of the first century AD was an empire on the rise. As the civil wars of the late Republican period faded into the past, the new government of Augustus Caesar looked set to assert its will on an ever-growing amount of territory and peoples. Yet in 9 AD the Roman Army suffered a defeat so total that it permanently altered the fate of Roman expansion on an entire frontier. On this episode of No One is Competent we're discussing one of the most important battles in European history, the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

I want to start with something I want to go back to the days of the ancients. I want to go back to the days with the with Nero and Caligula and Augustus Caesar and all those, all those sorts of folks, there's a term that's thrown around a lot, especially on days like today, when you've got elections happening in a number of different states. And the phraseology, very common in the world of political science is bread and circuses. No, not Brett and circuses, bread and circuses. It goes back all the way to the days of ancient Rome. And what we know about bread and circuses is these were utilized to be a distraction from an otherwise restive population. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Professor Barry Strauss and Dan talk about Cleopatra, Mark Antony, Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar and a host of historical luminaries in a tale worthy of Shakespeare as the Roman Republic goes down with the ships at Actium. Show Notes: 1. “The War That Made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium” by Barry Strauss 2. “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu 3. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History “Death Throes of the Republic”  

How can a physical space be designed to support well-being? While museum galleries might seem a world away from barbershops, to Josh Livingston, both are places for people to gather and connect. Josh is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the American Studies Department at Bard College, and he's spent many happy hours exploring The Met with his wife and young daughter, Jude. He also hails from a long line of barbers, and in 2020, he opened Friend of a Barber with his business partners. Built for more than haircuts, Josh's barbershop is also a vibrant community hub that showcases work by local artists, and welcomes children and pets, too. Learn how for Josh, spaces can be purpose-built to support meaningful connections that impact the whole community. Guest: Joshua Livingston, barber and visiting assistant professor of American Studies, Bard College Objects mentioned in this episode: John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925). Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), 1883–84. Oil on canvas, 82 1/8 x 43 1/4 in. (208.6 x 109.9 cm); Framed: 95 3/4 x 56 5/8 x 5 in. (243.2 x 143.8 x 12.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1916 (16.53) The Temple of Dendur, completed by 10 B.C. Egypt, Nubia, Dendur, West bank of the Nile River, 50 miles South of Aswan, Roman period, reign of Augustus Caesar. Aeolian sandstone, Temple proper: H. 6.40 m (21 ft.); W. 6.40 m (21 ft.); L 12.50 m (41 ft.); Gate: H. 8.08 m (26.5 ft.); W. x 3.66 m (12 ft.); D. 3.35 m (11 ft.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Given to the United States by Egypt in 1965 and awarded to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1967 (68.154) www.metmuseum.org/frameofmind #FrameofMind

What was Augustus Caesar's impact on biblical history? Is Augustus Caesar mentioned anywhere in the Bible?

We can be tempted to think of the word "gospel" as a private, spiritual word. But in Jesus' day, "gospel" was public news with implications for the whole world. When Jesus was born, he entered a world that already had it's own gospel: the good news of Caesar and the Roman empire. The similar language is striking, and shows that the announcement about a Jewish Messiah directly confronts the Roman story. The Institute for Bible Reading is a nonprofit ministry. Support our work, including the production of The Bible Reset podcast, by joining ChangeMakers: https://instituteforbiblereading.org/changemakers/Records and sources showing how Rome told their story:Roman statesman Pliny the Elder declared that Rome was a universal gift to the world: The Roman peace has a boundless grandeur, a peace which takes in not only men in their different lands and tribes, but also the mountains and peaks soaring into the clouds, their offspring and even the plants. May this gift of the gods last, I pray, forever! Truly the gods seem to have given to the human race the Romans, as it were, a second sun. Later, Aristides, another historian, added this about the rise of the empire:  Before the rule of the Romans the dregs came to the surface and everything happened through blind chance; but since your appearance confusion and revolt have come to an end. Order has returned everywhere and in everyday life and in the state there is clear light of day. Cities now gleam in splendor and beauty, and the whole earth is arrayed like a paradise. A decree about Caesar Augustus, written just a few years before Jesus was born: The birthday of the most divine emperor is the fount of every public and private good. Justly would one take this day to be the beginning of the Whole Universe . . . for when everything was falling into disorder and tending toward dissolution, he restored it once more and gave to the whole world a new aspect. Justly would one take this day to be the beginning of Life and Living for everyone. Virgil, a friend of Augustus, wrote in the Aeneid:This, this is he whom so often you hear promised to you, Augustus Caesar! Son of a god, who shall again set up the golden age in Latium,Amid the fields where Saturn once reigned,And shall spread his empire past Libya and India, To a land that lies beyond the stars And in the Eclogues he says: He will live as god and observe the heroes of ancient times;walking among the gods: they will behold him in amazement.Peace he will bring to the world, governing it with the Father's power.  The goats themselves will come home with udders full.No longer will the herds of grazing cattle fear the lion,Even from his cradle sprouts a wreath of flattering flowers.The serpents will disappear; harmful, poisonous plants will vanish; the fields of Assyria will yield balsam in abundance.  Now, offspring of Jupiter, dear child divine,Already comes the time; assume the dignity sublime!See the heavy burdens of the world convulse and heave, Lands and seas' breadth alike, and the depths of heaven, See how they all rejoice at the golden age that now appears. A Roman inscription found near Ephesus, written in 4 BCE:[Caesar is] the god made manifest, the universal savior of human life. Land and sea have peace, the cities flourish in harmony and with an abundance of food, there is an abundance of all good things, people are filled with happy hopes for the future and with delight in the present.An inscription found in Asia Minor from 9 BCE: The Providence which has ordered the whole of our life, showing concern and zeal, has ordained the most perfect consummation for human life by giving to it Augustus, by filling him with virtue for doing the work of a Benefactor among men, and by sending in him, as it were, a Savior for us and those who come after us, to make war to cease, to create order everywhere; the birthday of the god Augustus was the beginning for the world of the gospel that has come to men through him. 

The first of five advent messages this season. Pastor Harris delivered these messages not too long ago in 2018. In this episode we will learn how Augustus Caesar unknowingly enabled several ancient prophecies allowing two insignificant peasant people to be in the right place at the right time.