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    I’m curious if you work with the 72 names or any other esoteric entities? At any rate, I’m very much enriched by your posts that show up on my feed.

    “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.” Thank you.

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      the 72 names

      Looked it up The “72 Names” refers to a collection of 72 three-letter combinations in Kabbalah, believed to hold mystical power and be useful for various purposes like healing, protection, and spiritual enlightenment.

      I may have known it at one point, but not memorized currently.

      “When the student is ready, the teacher appears.”

      I believe in cherry-picking from every religion in the world… (or any story) … the Cherry Picking art symbol / religion teaching tool I use is the 1776 “Great Seal of the United States of America” (science thinking / non-instrumental reason thinking). I created a teaching website at www.GreatSealUSA.com and there is also a Lemmy Community at !GreatSealUSA@lemm.ee

       

      72 names or any other esoteric entities

      The Star of David / Solomon’s Seal is part of the USA Great Seal symbolism, as is the Egypt pyramid on the Nile river and many other symbols! It’s all about picking the best of everyone together on Pale Blue Dot.

       

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      “Esoteric spirit that moved not only the people who drew that [Great] Seal, but the entire philosophy the early republic was based upon. And how utterly deplorable and regrettable and terrible it is that all of this has been virtually totally forgotten by our days. And that we have held, The American People, have held in their very hands, handed to them by people like Franklin and Jefferson and all kinds of others… One of the most splendid treasures of spiritual philosophy - applicable to all manner of human purposes. And we have discarded it. And we are running around like beggars, the world over, picking up crumbs from every kind of anarchists, Marxists, this thing, fascists, this thing that thing, all over the world. All of which, put together, could never come close to the psychological spiritual wisdom that was given to us to begin with… and that we have simply forgotten about and thrown away. And how incredibly unfortunate and terrible this is. And, I know for a fact, that Joseph Campbell feels this very very keenly.” - Joseph Campbell: A Modern Sage - 1986 on “Inner Reaches of Outer Space” book - Dr. Stephan A Hoeller

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        I may have known it at one point, but not memorized currently.

        I don’t feel or think memorization is necessarily necessary, just grasping the general gist is enough, until one is ready to delve deeper.

        I believe in cherry-picking from every religion in the world… (or any story) …

        I’m almost Omni myself, I’m thinking “Deist” is the same and yes, the most appropriate tool available for the job at hand. “Almost” because Laveyan Satanism seems too Randian, for my particular tastes, but I haven’t gone that direction for a fresh look in several decades. A particular Watcher keeps popping up in my attention field, lately, but I’m very fond of the 72 names, in a general grasp kind of way.

        I’m extremely fond of Campbell/Moyers work with slight discrepancies in thought, which is always, always under revision – once “done” the Great Work is always refined, even torn down to be rebuilt, a Tower (of Babel?) in and of itself.

        And we are running around like beggars, the world over, picking up crumbs from every kind of anarchists, Marxists, this thing, fascists, this thing that thing, all over the world. All of which, put together, could never come close to the psychological spiritual wisdom that was given to us to begin with… and that we have simply forgotten about and thrown away. And how incredibly unfortunate and terrible this is. And, I know for a fact, that Joseph Campbell feels this very very keenly.

        I think Marx has plenty of to offer, cherry -picking, of course.

        Stephen Hoeller*, the tarot reader? Fascinating. I’ve used tarot as a tool for reflection, doing shadow work… The way it should be used, for “divinatory” purposes. That is, for knowing myself. Which TBH, is what I was hinting at, when I asked if you used any esoteric entities, which started this conversation. Imagine my delight when I recently learned, after three years of using tarot specifically to those ends, on learning a licensed practitioner also does , in the California. Iirc LA area, but I could be misremembering. Also Myss’ Archetypes Cards. Daily. Which brings us full circle. 🌀

        Thanks so much for your help most kind and detailed reply.

        Cheers!

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    Is there a specific event where a city stopped issuing permits to feed homeless or are we mad we can’t just show up and start handing out Kool-Aid?

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        Wow that website’s an absolute shitshow. I clicked the whitespace and it redirected me 3 times.

        Public feedings are often a target of the new laws. In Houston, groups need written consent to feed the homeless in public, or they face a $2,000 fine. Organizations in Columbia, South Carolina, must pay $150 for a permit more than two weeks in advance to feed the homeless in city parks.

        In Orlando, an ordinance requires groups to get a permit to feed 25 or more people in parks in a downtown district. Groups are limited to two permits per year for each park. Since then, numerous activists have been arrested for violating the law.

        So, once again, all you need is a permit. This old man wasn’t even arrested, he was prepping more food later that week.

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          So, once again, all you need is a permit.

          doesn’t match up with:

          Groups are limited to two permits per year for each park.

          Two permits per year per park. I eat more than 365 times, per year, myself.

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            That’s a fair criticism, but technically you could show up and feed exactly 24 people every day. Two of your neighbor could also do that, completely coincidentally.

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          What’s the point of these laws exactly? What do they prevent from happening? What is their key purpose that benefits the community inhabitants?

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            The ones that cost money or have additional barriers are purely malicious and attempt to make the city a worse place for homeless people to live, but the ones that are a simple vetting process are beneficial in that only professionals handle distributing food so as to prevent mass food poisoning events or the spread of bacteria and disease.

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      Is there a specific event where a city stopped issuing permits to feed homeless

      Super Bible thumping Texas - “Houston volunteers face thousands in fines for feeding homeless. Police have issued 44 tickets in a crackdown on food sharing after the mayor vowed to ‘retake’ the downtown public library”

      Anti-humanism abounds, mass dehumanization is popular in America.

      “a city ordinance passed in 2012 mandating that groups get permission from property owners, even if on public property, to distribute food to more than five people.”

      Bible verse Matthew 18:20: “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” - I’m sure they forget to Thump that verse in Texas along with “1 John 4:20” and “1 John 3:17”. Romans 11:32 upon them all!

       

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        So then a “no” to my question. The people only needed permission even if that law were upheld.

        Also, an update to your story HERE

        A social justice volunteer in Houston has filed a federal lawsuit against the city, arguing a law banning sharing food with people outdoors violates his freedom of expression and freedom of religion.

        On Friday, a jury found Food Not Bombs volunteer Phillip Picone, 66, not guilty of breaking the law for feeding unhoused people outside a public library.

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    “It is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs”, “Do not go among the Gentiles”.