Life Imitates Art

I vaguely remember that the Power Rangers were a kids craze on TV, having pushed the Teenage Ninja Mutant Turtles into the back ground.

The Power Rangers Were After My Time ....... Thank God!

This was in the early mid 1990s, and I was well past the age where it would have impacted me in anyway,

Peoples Of A Closed Book

Anyone deemed to be 'People of the Book' (Non Muslims, but who were following a monotheistic Abrahamic religion, that is older than Islam - But there are no hard and fast rules on this), and living in an Islamic nation, usually under Sharia Law, were given a number of rights ...

People Of The Book - May Not Share The Same God Or Beliefs ......

.... These rights were limited, casting them as dhimmi, a position not dissimilar to women and slaves in that they had restricted rights, and for the dhimmi this included such things as the right to freely practice their faith in private, and to receive state protection (sort of). 

Economic And Social - Electoral Brinkmanship

As we edge toward the US Presidential election day on November the third ....

Same Old Politics In The "New Normal" ....

... the political stakes grow higher.

The Last Broadcast

The final notes we hear just before Gabriel's trumpet sounds ....

The Last Broadcast? .....

..... and the dead prepare to rise (regardless of whether its a man made event, or at the last judgement itself), may well be a sign off by our TV presenters and Broadcasters ..... that alone is a rather chilling thought ... and what would they play?.

Dowsing For Beginners

Now I don't know about you .....

18th Century Illustration Of French Dowser ....

But I have always been fascinated by dowsing .... you know, two bits of bent wire crossing, apparently spontaneously, and signifying that something lies below, or that lines of a force exists.