GLOBAL AWARENESS 101 - Let your VOICE be heard and get involved. OUR future depends on it!
We can do the right thing to create positive change within ourselves and the world around us! I have created this blog with the intention of keeping you informed of news that is affecting humanity and nature throughout the world! There is no better time than the present to become a global participant and not just an innocent bystander. I have provided you with several websites to help empower yourself and a list of global organizations that you can choose from to make a difference.
YAAAY... It's FRIDAY NIGHT! Time to kick back, relax with jammies and slippers on and a glass of wine in hand or beer if that's your preference. Oh yeah, and listen to some awesome tunes! Always remember... Life is GOOD, always. Before you go saying, "no it's not." You have a choice about how you feel in this moment regardless of your circumstances. Don't give in to your negative thoughts or your negative circumstances. F.E.A.R. is the acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real. You do have control over how you respond to a person, or situation. No one can hurt you without your permission. Take control of the vehicle that is your life. It's okay to have a good time while taking care of serious matters. In fact, loosening up will help you clear your mind and put things into better perspective. Giving you BIG HUG.
Enjoy! ❤
Have a great night everyone doing whatever it is that puts a smile on your face. Hugs :D
Off The Wall
~ by The Legendary King of Pop, Michael Jackson
When The World Is On Your Shoulder
Gotta Straighten Up Your Act And Boogie Down
If You Can't Hang With The Feeling
Then There Ain't No Room For You This Part Of Town
'Cause We're The Party People Night And Day
Livin' Crazy That's The Only Way
So Tonight Gotta Leave That Nine To Five Upon The Shelf
And Just Enjoy Yourself
Groove, Let The Madness In The Music Get To You
Life Ain't So Bad At All
If You Live It Off The Wall
Life Ain't So Bad At All
(Live Life Off The Wall)
Live Your Life Off The Wall
(Live It Off The Wall)
You Can Shout Out All You Want To
'Cause There Ain't No Sin In Folks All Getting Loud
If You Take The Chance And Do It
Then There Ain't No One Who's Gonna Put You Down
'Cause We're The Party People Night And Day
Livin' Crazy That's The Only Way
So Tonight Gotta Leave That Nine To Five Upon The Shelf
And Just Enjoy Yourself
C'mon And Groove,
And Let The Madness In The Music Get To You
Life Ain't So Bad At All
If You Live It Off The Wall
Life Ain't So Bad At All
(Live Life Off The Wall)
Live Your Life Off The Wall
(Live It Off The Wall)
Do What You Want To Do
There Ain't No Rules It's Up To You
(Ain't No Rules It's All Up To You)
It's Time To Come Alive
And Party On Right Through The Night
(All Right)
Gotta Hide Your Inhibitions
Gotta Let That Fool Loose Deep Inside Your Soul
Want To See An Exhibition
Better Do It Now Before You Get To Old
'Cause We're The Party People Night And Day
Livin' Crazy That's The Only Way
So Tonight Gotta Leave That Nine To Five Upon The Shelf
And Just Enjoy Yourself
C'mon And Groove (Yeah)
Let The Madness In The Music Get To You
Life Ain't So Bad At All If You Live It Off The Wall
Life Ain't So Bad At All
(Live Life Off The Wall)
Live Your Life Off The Wall
(Live It Off The Wall)
So Tonight Gotta Leave That Nine To Five Upon The Shelf
And Just Enjoy Yourself
C'mon And Groove (Yeah)
Let The Madness In The Music Get To You
Life Ain't So Bad At All If You Live It Off The Wall
Life Ain't So Bad At All
(Live Life Off The Wall)
Live Your Life Off The Wall (Live It Off The Wall)
Let's continue to send trucks loaded with hugs to our friends.
If no one has told you they Loved you today, God LOVES you soooo much and so do I. I hope you had a FANTASTIC week and enjoy a fun, lighthearted, relaxing weekend... :)
"No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys."
~ by Doug Horton
[So very true! ♥]
"Make laughter your prayer.
Laugh more.
Nothing releases your blocked energies as does laughter.
Nothing makes you innocent as does laughter."
~ by OSHO ♥
"I love people who make me laugh.
I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh.
It cures a multitude of ills.
It's probably the most important thing in a person."
To think that "I am the mind," is unawareness. To know that mind is only a mechanism just as the body is, to know that the mind is separate.... The night comes, the morning comes: you don't get identified with the night. You don't say, "I am night," you don't say, "I am morning." The night comes, the morning comes, the day comes, again the night comes; the wheel goes on moving, but you remain alert that you are not these things.
The same is the case with the mind. Anger comes, but you forget -- you become anger. Greed comes, you forget -- you become greed. Hate comes, you forget -- you become hate. This is unawareness.
Awareness is watching that the mind is full of greed, full of anger, full of hate or full of lust, but you are simply a watcher. Then you can see greed arising, becoming a great, dark cloud, then dispersing -- and you remain untouched. How long can it remain? Your anger is momentary, your greed is momentary, your lust is momentary. Just watch a little and you will be surprised: it comes and it goes. And you are remaining there unaffected, cool, calm.
The most basic thing to remember is that when you are feeling good, in a mood of ecstasy, don't start thinking that it is going to be your permanent state. Live the moment as joyfully, as cheerfully as possible, knowing perfectly well that it has come and it will go -- just like a breeze comes in your house, with all its fragrance and freshness, and goes out from the other door.
This is the most fundamental thing. If you start thinking in terms of making your ecstatic moments permanent, you have already started destroying them. When they come, be grateful; when they leave, be thankful to existence (God). Remain open. It will happen many times -- don't be judgmental, don't be a chooser. Remain choiceless. Yes, there will be moments when you will be miserable. So what? There are people who are miserable and who have not even known a single moment of ecstasy; you are fortunate. Even in your misery, remember that it is not going to be permanent; it will also pass away, so don't get too much disturbed by it. Remain at ease.
Just like day and night, there are moments of joy and there are moments of sadness; accept them as part of the duality of nature, as the very way things are. And you are simply a watcher: neither you become happiness nor you become misery. Happiness comes and goes, misery comes and goes. One thing remains always there -- always and always -- and that is the watcher, one who witnesses.
Slowly, slowly get more and more centered into the watcher. Days will come and nights will come... lives will come and deaths will come... success will come, failure will come. But if you are centered in the watcher -- because that is the only reality in you -- everything is a passing phenomenon.
Just for a moment, try to feel what I am saying: just be a watcher....
Do not cling to any moment because it is beautiful, and do not push any moment because it is miserable. Stop doing that. That you have been doing for lives. You have not been successful yet and you will never be successful ever. The only way to go beyond, to remain beyond, is to find a place from where you can watch all these changing phenomena without getting identified.
Everything passes, but you remain. You are the reality; everything else is just a dream. Beautiful dreams are there, nightmares are there... But it does not matter whether it is a beautiful dream or a nightmare; what matters is the one who is seeing the dream. That seer is the only reality.
I added the maps above to highlight Turkey and Cappadocia for you.
National Geographic UK published March 19, 2021: Cappadocia’s Fairy Chimneys. Take a hot air balloon ride over Cappadocia, Turkey with Vural Demircioglu, one of the region's 200 hot air balloon pilots. Our unique aerial perspective allows us to look over these incredible capped pillars called "fairy chimneys” and discover the world's most unusual high rise neighbourhood.
Travel to Turkey to explore hot air balloons over Cappadocia, a record-breaking bridge and Europe's last nomads in Europe From Above S2.
NTV published October 29, 2026: Terrifying Moments in Cappadocia: Footage of Fairy Chimney Collapse Emerges! Three people died and five were injured when a fairy chimney collapsed near the Gรถreme Open Air Museum in the Cappadocia region of Nevลehir. Among the deceased were a young couple who had married four months ago and a French tourist. A large-scale investigation has been launched into the tragedy.
CRUX published October 29, 2026: Shocking Scenes as Fairy Chimney Crashes Down in Cappadocia, Visitors 'Trapped Under Falling Rocks'. Tragedy struck Turkey’s famous Cappadocia region after heavy rainfall triggered a rockfall from one of its iconic fairy chimneys. At least two people were reportedly killed and five others were injured near the Goreme Open-Air Museum, a major tourist attraction and UNESCO-listed site. Rescue teams rushed to the scene as authorities searched through the rubble following the deadly collapse.
Turkey's Cappadocia region, a magnet for tourists from around the world, is home to cone-shaped rock formations known as "fairy chimneys", created by ancient volcanic activity.
"According to initial findings, two people were killed and five others injured in the incident," Justice Minister Akin Gurlek said on X.
"Search and rescue teams are continuing intensive, coordinated operations to locate any other victims who may be trapped under the debris," he said.
The incident occurred at 3:15 pm local time (1215 GMT) when a landslide triggered a rockfall in the town of Goreme near the open-air museum, local governor Huseyin Kok said.
The area was closed to the public following the collapse, according to reports.
Eyewitnesses reported hearing a loud noise as the rock spire near an open car parking lot fell.
Television footage showed heavy machinery digging through the rubble as rescue teams gather at the site in an effort to recover people trapped beneath the debris.
"Our search and rescue operations at the scene are ongoing. The government is continuing its efforts at the scene with all available resources," Kok said.
Turkey's culture and tourism ministry has launched restoration work in the region to help preserve the fragile rock formations from climate-related damage, natural erosion and human activity.
In 2024, another rockfall was reported in Cappadocia, although no deaths or injuries were recorded.
The Cappadocia region, a major tourist attraction known for its rock-carved underground cities and early Christian churches, is also famed for hot-air ballooning, a thriving industry that sees dozens of balloons take to the skies on clear mornings.
But concerns have been raised about safety following a series of accidents.
NBC news published October 23, 2026: Kenyan authorities are searching for survivors after a high-rise building collapsed while it was under construction. NBC News’ Valerie Castro reports.
AP Archive published October 28, 2026: Many feared trapped as multi-story building collapses in Nairobi, Kenya.
NAIROBI, Kenya — Many people were feared trapped as a tall building collapsed Friday in Kenya’s capital, leaving a huge mound of concrete and more than a dozen floors stacked like pancakes, with little space between them.
The building was under construction when it collapsed at about 1 p.m. along a busy commercial street in Nairobi’s Eastleigh area, which is often crowded with thousands of traders and residents.
Nairobi police chief Issa Mohamud said the building had more than 10 upper floors under construction. Rescue operations were complicated, with police firing tear gas at people who had begun looting neighboring shops, as officers sought to clear the area and provide access to emergency response teams.
Joseph Kaula made it out just in time. A plasterer working on the fifth floor, he said he heard screams and spotted other workers rushing outside, shouting that the building was collapsing.
“I was the last person to walk out before it collapsed and the whole area was filled with dust,” Kaula said.
Kaula suspects a few of his colleagues were trapped in the basement.
One injured woman was rescued and hospitalized, and another person who was crying for help had gone silent, the police chief said.
Mohamud also warned of a possible secondary collapse, as the collapsed building was leaning on its neighbor.
There was little in the way of heavy equipment immediately available. Hours later, a group of rescuers in hard hats were using poles stripped from trees to poke at the huge pile of rubble. One excavator began to move concrete bound with steel away. By evening, at least two more back shovels arrived.
Rescuers were hoping to reach into any spaces left in the basement and the ground level, which had been rented out for an electronics shop, a butchery and a grocery while construction continued on the upper floors.
Residents said some of their loved ones who were trapped had made phone calls calling for help immediately after the collapse, but that their phones later became unreachable. A tent was set up where people could report the missing. How many might be inside the wreckage wasn’t known.
Building collapses are a recurring problem in Nairobi. County officials responsible for issuing building permits have been accused of failing to conduct adequate inspections to ensure developers comply with safety guidelines and construction standards.
“Investigations will be carried out,” Mohamud said. “We’ll make sure people face the law for any negligence.”
Nairobi Gov. Johnson Sakaja said the building had been approved for construction, but did not have a certificate of occupation, so opening shops on the ground floor was against the law. Kenya’s county governments need stronger enforcement powers, he said, arguing that lenient penalties for non-compliance are just a “slap on the wrist” for developers that violate regulations.
NAIROBI, Kenya — The first body was recovered on Friday from the rubble of a multistory building that collapsed a week ago in Kenya’s capital, with 16 people still missing. Authorities had deployed thermal imaging technology to help search through the debris.
The body of a woman was found badly mutilated after being crushed by the heavy concrete and steel that made up the 18-story building in Nairobi’s busy Eastleigh commercial area.
The building, which was under construction, collapsed last Friday.
Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja said the building did not have the required construction approvals. He added that renting out completed shops on the ground and basement floors was illegal, as regulations require buildings to undergo inspection and obtain an occupation certificate before being occupied.
Families who believed their loved ones were still trapped beneath the rubble have been camping at the collapse site for a week, hoping for positive news.
However, some had begun losing hope after the critical 72-hour window following the collapse had passed. They said they were increasingly doubtful that their loved ones could survive more than three days under the rubble.
Since Saturday, no other survivors had been pulled from the debris. The four people rescued earlier recounted their traumatic experiences of being trapped beneath the collapsed structure.
Earlier this week, authorities deployed thermal imaging technology provided by a team from China to assist in the search. Officials said the equipment had detected two human beings beneath the rubble.
Search and rescue operations at the site of the collapsed 18-story building on 9th Avenue in Eastleigh could end on Thursday.
National Disaster Managment Unit Director Duncan Onyango said the multi agency team had cleared about 80 percent of the rubble, but had neither rescued anyone nor recovered any bodies since Saturday.
"We are racing against time, but since Saturday, we have not been able to rescue anyone. We hope to achieve our objective by the end of today (Thursday) or tomorrow, depending on the technical challenges we encounter." Mr. Onyango said.
The prospects of finding the missing people alive continue to diminish as families, relatives and friends wait anxiously at the site for news of their loved ones.
Nairobi North Regional Commissioner Simon Osumba said the number of people reported missing had dropped from 20 to 16 after verification. Phone signals indicate that 9 of them may have been inside the building when it collapsed.
Reuters news published October 26, 2026: Celebrations as Serbia waits to see how new leaders will govern. Tens of thousands celebrated in Belgrade and across Serbia after populist leader Aleksandar Vucic stepped down following a landslide win for a student-backed movement. All eyes are on how the new leaders will govern.
France24 news published October 27, 2026: 'They should be afraid': Serbia's student-led victory over Vuฤiฤ sends warning to 'corrupt' leaders. Franรงois Picard welcomes Helena Ivanov, associate research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, a London-based foreign policy and national security think tank advocating liberal democracy, strong transatlantic alliances, robust Western defence capabilities and the international promotion of democratic institutions. Ivanov describes the election result in Serbia as a historic turning point in the country's politics. After 14 years of Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ's political dominance, the victory of a student-led movement represents more than a challenge to an entrenched political establishment.
written by Andrรฉ Rhoden-Paul,Jaroslav Lukiv, and Paul Kirby,Europe digital editor
Monday October 26, 2026
Serbia's long-standing leader Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ has admitted defeat to a student-led protest movement in snap parliamentary elections.
Celebrations erupted as crowds descended on the centre of Belgrade, Novi Sad and other cities.
The student movement was formed less than two years ago in response to a railway station disaster blamed on corruption and negligence, but fought the election with candidates from a cross-section of Serbian society.
"It is clear we have lost these elections," right-wing populist leader Vuฤiฤ said as he conceded. With 97% of polling stations counted, Serbia's election commission said the students had won 2.25 million votes and the former ruling party 1.67 million.
The students had secured 52.7% of the vote, while Vuฤiฤ's Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) was on 39.2%, according to its preliminary figures late on Monday morning.
Vuฤiฤ had spent two terms as president and could not seek a third term, so was leading his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) with the aim of returning to the post of prime minister, which he left in 2017.
He called the snap elections after two years of protests triggered by the collapse of a canopy in front of Novi Sad station which killed 16 people.
The Student List's lead candidate Ilija Srdanoviฤ told BBC Serbian: "This will be a free state."
He said the anti-corruption movement, which had attracted anti-government voters across Serbia, hoped to "free the country from tyranny".
There were celebrations on the streets of the city, with people dancing and chanting "victory", cars honking, and fireworks set off. "Serbia is free," one student told the BBC. "It's a miracle."
During a celebration speech, Student List candidate Radomir Saicic said Serbians had shown "no obstacle was greater than their will", Reuters reported. "No force can forever overpower a people who have decided to take their destiny into their own hands," he added.
Amid scenes of people dancing in the streets Belgrade, Selena Lebovic said the result was "really fabulous".
"We are all crying, and what to say. We couldn't believe that it would be so easy," she told Reuters.
Vuฤiฤ made his announcement at the headquarters of his Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in the capital Belgrade.
The centre of Novi Sad - the northern city that triggered the student-led protests - was crowded. "Everything is going to get better now," David Vasiฤ, one of those celebrating, told BBC Serbian.
The Student List - which has no obvious leaders and whose members are not used to politics - had attracted anti-government voters across Serbia.
It decided to field candidates to the 250-member parliament from across Serbian society including doctors, actors, academics and sports personalities.
"This is not an ordinary election victory, this is an avalanche that has wiped out an authoritarian regime and entire political scene," said Nebojลกa Vladisavljeviฤ, professor of political science at the University of Belgrade.
There were now two big political groups in Serbia, and the Student List had "absolute legitimacy" to govern for the coming years, he told BBC Serbian.
The anti-corruption movement campaigned on a manifesto that included purging officials who broke rules cracking down on protesters, stopping party loyalists from leading public enterprises, and freeing the public broadcaster of political control.
Vuฤiฤ and the SNS party have repeatedly denied corruption.
Vuฤiฤ, who backed Serbia's candidacy for the European Union while refusing to impose sanctions on Russia over its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, had pledged to increase pensions and public sector salaries, and investment in state healthcare.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov praised Vuฤiฤ's contribution to relations with Russia and hoped "the new political force" in Belgrade would understand that co-operation with Moscow was in Serbia's interests: "But, as you know, it takes two to tango."
His defeat was welcomed by Hungary's prime minister, Pรฉter Magyar, who said he was delighted to hear from the Student List's leaders "how much strength our victory in April had given them". Magyar's party ended 16 years of Viktor Orbรกn rule, while Vuฤiฤ's SNS party had been in power since 2012.
European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos said "a new chapter can begin for Serbia. The door to the EU is open, and we are ready to move forward together".
Earlier in the day, long queues were seen outside polling stations in cities and towns across Serbia.
This was also the case outside booths in a number of countries with sizeable Serbian communities - including Slovenia's capital Ljubljana, Germany's Munich, and Los Angeles and Chicago in the US.
In France, Serbian voters waited in line in heavy rain in Paris.
The election was held amid high tensions across Serbia, with police sealing off streets around the Republic Electoral Commission (RIK) in Belgrade.
Attention will now turn to who will lead the Student List as prime minister. Presidential elections are due to take place in December, with parliament speaker Ana Brnabiฤ currently filling the role in a caretaker capacity.
Serbia's victorious student-led movement has called for top figures in the police, intelligence and judiciary to stand down, days after ousting ex-president Aleksandar Vuฤiฤ's party from power.
Standing in Pioneers' Park opposite parliament, newly elected MPs on the Student List demanded the immediate dismissal of all police officers who had broken the law, singling out the heads of the police, the BIA security agency and anti-terror unit.
It is not often a European country votes to fully reset its political system overnight, and Serbians have voted to hand the task to a group of novice politicians, made up of intellectuals, professors, artists, athletes and as many as 12 medical doctors and surgeons.
But the handover of power will take weeks, and the students' movement is concerned that evidence of possible wrongdoing could be destroyed in that time.
Just a few days ago, the park they were standing in on Thursday was a tent camp, filled with Vuฤiฤ loyalists outside his office.
Within hours of him admitting defeat on Sunday night, the camp was dismantled, and a team of volunteers moved in on Monday morning to clean up the mess.
"This is just the first wave of spring cleaning, the new ones are coming now - we are very excited but ready to do it too," said Marija Milovanoviฤ, 25, as she scrubbed a park bench.
The student movement emerged from protests following the fatal collapse of a railway station canopy that killed 16 people in November 2024, in Serbia's second largest town Novi Sad.
Their desire was to bring those responsible to justice, and investigate widespread corruption claims blamed for one of the most tragic events in Serbia's modern history.
They have made some bold promises.
Under their Student Plan, they promise to "halt the plunder, return stolen goods to the state budget, and invest directly in education and the economy".
The purge of Vuฤiฤ loyalists has already begun at Serbia's state broadcaster RTS, where director Manja Grฤiฤ has stepped down.
Newly elected MP Mirjana Nikoliฤ said Serbian citizens had the right to truthful information and RTS had served the interests of the government for years.
The new MPs have also set their sights on replacing the head of Telekom Srbija, Vladimir Luฤiฤ.
Vuฤiฤ loyalist Ana Brnabiฤ, who is currently Serbia's acting president, has accused her opponents of choosing "revolutionary justice, not rule of law," and of aiming to shut down "all of the media they dislike".
But one of the next government's best-known MPs, Dejan ล oลกkiฤ, argues that key reforms need to be in place fast.
"In the first six months, I would like to see the media scene liberated, fighting against corruption on the way, the institutions operating as prescribed by laws and a lustration law introduced," said ล oลกkiฤ, an economist who served as governor of the central bank between 2010 and 2012.
By lustration, he means banning from public office members of the Vuฤiฤ government or party apparatus who are found to have violated the rights of Serbians.
That kind of purge will take time, as all of Serbia's main pillars of authority have been held by Vuฤiฤ and his party for so long, warns Strahinja Subotiฤ of Belgrade-based European Policy Centre.
Ultimately, he believes the new administration will have to "build bridges to the segments that have been operating well in the past".
All 141 successful candidates were chosen by students from universities across Serbia through a lengthy, secretive and carefully crafted process, and tasked with implementing the movement's plan for a complete rebuild of the country.
That political agenda took months for a highly diverse group of students to agree to. Now it is up to the equally disparate team of successful candidates to put the plan into practice, rather than the students themselves.
Another prominent figure on the Student List, is Radomir Saiฤiฤ, a professor of organic chemistry at the University of Belgrade.
"While the practical mechanisms will be developed on the go, the new MPs will stick to the students' 1200-page long and detailed plan," he told the BBC.
"Parliament is making decisions, but since this change was led by students' efforts, we would highly value their opinion and work closely with them," he promised.
Not only are they newcomers to politics, but Serbia's election winners have no obvious leader and are faced with a series of complex challenges, including taking on the country's highly complex balancing act on the international stage.
Serbia is both a candidate to join the European Union and maintains close relations with Russia. Its bid to join the bloc has long been on the back-burner, while its Western Balkan neighbours press ahead.
WatchFringe published May 21, 2008: Fringe Trailer Season 1.
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I just started rewatching the sci-fi TV series, Fringe, that ended 13 years ago after 5 seasons. There are a lot of revelations in that series happening now. ๐ฅบ
Great cast, acting, writing, production. I need to add Fringe DVD box set to my DVD collection. ๐ฅฐ Screw you WEF, I will own this and be happy.
I circled the message.
Look at what we find ourselves fighting for right now.
Great cast and acting. Love everything about this show.
Fringe had plenty of critical success during its five-season run, but that didn't stop the show from meeting an untimely end.
Fringe is a sci-fi series created by J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci that premiered on the Fox Network and concluded in 2013 after five seasons and 100 episodes. The series follows FBI agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), who teams up with a former mad scientist Walter Bishop (John Noble) and his estranged son Peter (Joshua Jackson) to investigate paranormal and unexplained occurrences.
Influenced by shows like The X-Files, Lost, and Altered State, Fringe's first season initially received lukewarm reviews, but subsequent seasons were met with critical success, and the show received numerous awards and developed a passionate fan base. Unfortunately, these elements didn't guaranteeFringe's longevity, and the series was renewed for a final shorted fifth season in late 2012. Let's look at what Fringe was and why the series ended after five seasons.
What Was Fringe?
Fringe follows the trio of Olivia, Walter and Peter as they form the Fringe Division and investigate mysterious phenomena, such as parallel worlds, time travel, precognition and human experimentation. While early episodes took on a monster-of-the-week type format, later seasons focused on the show's own mythology and fictional universe. After Walter and an old friend William Bell (Leonard Nimoy), discovered the means to cross dimensions, they inadvertently set their universe on a cosmic collision with a parallel universe.
By Season 3, Fringe focused mainly on the plot involving the parallel universe (with the opening title sequence changing to reflect whatever universe an episode was set in) created by Walter. Later seasons also introduced evolved humans known as Observers, who use time travel to initiate "the Purge," an event meant to wipe out humanity and modify Earth's environment to better suit themselves. The team is able to reset the timeline, thanks to a sacrifice from Walter, preventing the creation of the Observers in the first place and saving Earth from invasion. Fringe ends with Olivia and Peter living their lives peacefully with their daughter Etta.
By Season 3, Fringe focused mainly on the plot involving the parallel universe (with the opening title sequence changing to reflect whatever universe an episode was set in) created by Walter. Later seasons also introduced evolved humans known as Observers, who use time travel to initiate "the Purge," an event meant to wipe out humanity and modify Earth's environment to better suit themselves. The team is able to reset the timeline, thanks to a sacrifice from Walter, preventing the creation of the Observers in the first place and saving Earth from invasion. Fringe ends with Olivia and Peter living their lives peacefully with their daughter Etta.
Why Was Fringe Cancelled?
Falling ratings and an expensive production are to blame for Fringe's end after Season 5. Due to declining viewership by Season 3, the Fox Network moved Fringe to the "Friday Night death slot," which is often attributed to the failure of shows. While series like the X-Files flourished in this spot, critics were worried Fringe couldn't replicate that success, even though a high number of viewers were catching the show through their DVRs.
By Season 4, viewership continued to slip, and the series was only airing a limited number of commercials during its air-time. That made it somewhat of a surprise when the series was renewed for a fourth season, though the Fox Network attributed this to the show's passionate fan base. Unfortunately, come Season 5, the series' long-term future looked to be in jeopardy, with Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly noting that the show was especially expensive to produce. Dealing with diminishing returns, Fox pulled the plug on Fringe, leaving Abrams, Kurtzman and Co. to set their sights on new projects.
From the Disney movie, Song of the South. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah is without a doubt the most well-known song of the movie. It won an Academy Award for best motion picture song.
I don't have a care in the world. Shift your focus. Right now you can be sad all night long because of an unfortunate situation you find yourself in OR you can realize that you can't fix whatever is bothering you tonight so you're going to decide to lift your spirit up, be happy and dance a little. Then revisit that whatever you want to call it later. Don't let the cares of this world steal your joy. Screw the Commie NWO globalist evil monsters trying to cull and enslave what's left of humanity. Karma is a bitch. Our God in Heaven wins. Remember there are tons of "gods". We need to be specific.
I hope you're having a great night too doing whatever it is that puts a smile on your face. ๐
BIG hugs! Dance. Enjoy yourselves. Life is way too short. ๐๐✨๐
People of the world, let's feel the energy of the dance floor together wherever we are and dance, dance, dance...the evil ones hate to see us happy. ๐ ENJOY!
I would love to hear song suggestions from all of you that I should add to my Long Live Disco playlist I created on YouTube. These songs bring back such great fun filled memories for me. I have no regrets. All of my past experiences, both the good and the bad, have made me who I am today and for that I am grateful. Each experience was a puzzle piece to my life story. The message I share with you below helps us to realize life puzzle pieces falling into place as they should. Even when we don't understand the why of an experience. Love you! ๐
๐๐ LOVE this great video. ๐๐
This was before deadly diseases came out of
government funded laboratories
and before highly addictive lab crack cocaine
and lab fentanyl hit the streets
and before climate change totalitarians burned down
our forests and cities and killed off wildlife and farm animals en masse.
and then had the nerve to blame us for killing the earth because
we exist.
Don't ever forget they refer to us humans as useless meat eaters.
As we begin this series on joy in the letter of Paul to the Philippians, it seemed good to me that we should probably begin with a definition of joy. Definitions are simply descriptions of the way people use words. Words don’t have intrinsic definitions. They are given definitions by the way people use them. When I say I want to define joy for you, I am asking, Whose joy are we talking about, or what use of the word are we talking about?
I mean joy as the apostle Paul uses it in his letters, and particularly in the book of Philippians. I am not just asking about the meaning of joy in general. I am talking about Christian joy, as Paul the apostle describes it. So let me give you my definition and then take it apart one piece at a time:
Christian joy is a good feeling in the soul, produced by the Holy Spirit, as he causes us to see the beauty of Christ in the word and in the world.
A Good Feeling
Christian joy is a good feeling. By that, I mean it is not an idea. It is not a conviction. It is not a persuasion or a decision. It is a feeling. Or — I use the words interchangeably here — an emotion. One of the marks of the difference between an idea and an emotion or feeling is that you don’t have immediate control over your feelings or your emotions. You can’t snap your fingers and decide to feel something.
For example, say you are going camping. You wake up, and there is this gigantic silhouette of a bear outside your tent, a grizzly bear. He seems hungry. You don’t say, “Now, let me think about this. There is a bear. Bears are big. Bears are dangerous. Conclusion: I should feel fear here, so I will now decide to be afraid.” Emotions don’t work like that. Thinking works like that, but feeling doesn’t. It happens to you, which means that the Bible is filled with commands that we do things that are immediately outside our control to do — commands to rejoice, to fear, to be grateful, to be tender-hearted.
One of the reasons I am the kind of Christian I am, with the theology that I have, is that I know the Bible requires of me things that I cannot myself immediately produce by my own power. I am fallen. I am sinful. And yet I know I should be feeling the emotions the Bible expects me to feel. I know myself guilty.
Saint Augustine said, “Father, command what you will and grant what you command.” He knew God commanded certain emotions of him that he couldn’t make happen on his own. So he prayed, Oh God, if you are going to command me these things, grant that you would give them when you command them.
So, the first part of this definition is that joy is a good feeling.
In the Soul
The second part of my definition is that the good feeling is in the soul. By that, I am drawing attention to the fact that it is not in the body. The soul, the immaterial part of my personhood, experiences joy. The body may feel the effects of that. I may get butterflies in the stomach. I may have a spring in my step. There may be tears of joy rolling down my face. None of those effects in my body, though, is itself joy. They are all distinct from joy.
The body is chemicals, muscles, and nerves. It’s made up of electrons, atoms, and molecules. And when those molecules move, that is not a moral event. The body doesn’t have right and wrong. A movement of my arm back and forth has no moral significance, until I tell it by my will or my emotion to punch somebody. Then it becomes bad. Or hug somebody in need. Then it becomes good. My soul imparts virtue, right or wrong, to the physical parts of my life. And the Bible clearly says it is right to feel joy in God. Or, it is wrong to be anxious about the situation. There is a rightness and a wrongness to these emotions, and these emotions precede the bodily movements that follow. The feelings are movements of the soul.
Produced by the Spirit
The third part of the definition is these movements of the soul are produced by the Holy Spirit, which is clear because I cannot make these things happen. They are called the fruit of the Holy Spirit. “The fruit of the [Holy] Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, [and] self-control” (Galatians 5:22–23). Therefore, the joy in my soul overflowing towards God is coming from the work of the Holy Spirit.
A Sight of Jesus
The fourth piece is that the Holy Spirit does this work, not magically without my mind being engaged, but by causing me to see the glory and beauty of Jesus Christ.
Philippians 3:1 says, “Rejoice in the Lord.” How do you rejoice in the Lord if you don’t know anything about the Lord? How do you rejoice in the Lord if you are not seeing things about the Lord that cause joy to rise up in your heart? That is the work of the Holy Spirit.
He doesn’t just flip a switch, and you rejoice with no mental content whatsoever. The Holy Spirit is given, according to John 16:14, to glorify Jesus Christ, which means the Holy Spirit opens the eyes of my heart to see the beauty of Christ. When I see Christ in all that he is doing, and all that he is, then my heart is drawn out in joy towards him.
The Holy Spirit bears this fruit by causing us to see the beauty of Jesus Christ.
In the Word and the World
The last piece is that we see him in his word and in the world. It is obvious that the most authoritative and clearest place where we see the beauty of Christ is in his word, the Bible. That is why the Holy Spirit inspired the word, so that we could read the word and know Christ. The Spirit gives us eyes to see the beauties of Jesus that call joy up out of our hearts.
It is not just in the word that we see Christ. We see him in his gifts and in people. We see him in his gifts of nature. We see him in his gifts of food and in all of the good things that our Father in heaven gives to us. Every gift of Christ to us is intended to be a communication of something of himself. So we see Christ not only — we taste Christ not only — in his word, but also in his works.
As we take up joy in Philippians now in the next five videos, the definition that I am working with is that joy is a good feeling in the soul produced by the Holy Spirit as he causes us to see the beauty of Christ in his word and in his work.
Do you feel discouraged? Sometimes when we feel challenged by some problem, we may think that we have to give up being joyful, and get upset.
But the ability to feel and show joy doesn't come from the favorable circumstances of our human lives; it comes from God. We can't lose joy any more than we can lose God. And we're forever in the presence of God. He is all-powerful and totally good. Joy, as a spiritual quality, lasts forever. We always have it.
Having joy includes feeling good cheer and a vibrant happiness. But joy, in its fuller, spiritual meaning of expressing God's goodness, involves more. It is a deep-rooted, inspired happiness.
The Holy Bible says, "The joy of the Lord is your strength" (Neh. 8:10). The Bible says God gives us joy and peace. It tells us that real joy comes from God and is ours forever. The joy that is found in God's presence isn't static; it transforms and regenerates us.
Paul, a follower of Jesus Christ, wrote in a letter that joy is a "fruit of the Spirit" (Gal. 5:22). Spirit is another name for God. Spiritual joy from God gives us a sense of the presence of good, showing His infinite power to govern the lives of men and women. As we learn more that God is All, that He is good, and that there is no power besides Him, spiritual joy will be ours more and more, bringing healing and happiness into our lives.
At the heart of joy is an unshakable awareness that we possess good from God. Joy is part of God's kingdom. Harmony and painless being are spiritual qualities, and expressing joy brings these qualities into view in our lives.
Sometimes, though, it may seem like hard work to feel a spiritual, consistent joy. The task gets easier when you recognize that you have the power to govern how you think. There isn't anything that can really take away your knowledge of God or stop you from feeling spiritual joy. You can let this spiritual sense be yours, instead of thoughts of discouragement or despair. If it still seems difficult to express joy, you might even need to argue with yourself that you have power from God to do it.
Mary Baker Eddy, the woman who discovered Christian Science and founded this newspaper, once told an audience: "Let us remember that God - good - is omnipotent; therefore evil is impotent.... If you wish to be happy, argue with yourself on the side of happiness; take the side you wish to carry, and be careful not to talk on both sides, or to argue stronger for sorrow than for joy. You are the attorney for the case, and will win or lose according to your plea" ("Christian Healing," Pg. 10).
I remember a time when I had to do this. A member of my family was very ill, and I was afraid for him. The whole family had been praying earnestly to God for his healing. During this experience I silently prayed, asking to understand more of God's unshakable goodness and to know the joy that comes from Him.
In that moment I became free of fear for this individual. Peace came to my thought, and I felt the assurance of knowing that God's goodness is always present with His children, governing us all. I felt sure that all was well with this family member, because the joy that came to my thought showed me that we were safe in the presence of God. The healing power of joy brought a change in me. And it wasn't too long afterward that he began to feel better, too.
If you are facing trying times and want to feel the presence of God's healing power instead of discouragement, argue with yourself that you can know the joy God is giving you right now. Don't believe that you have to feel desperate about any problem. All that God gives you is always present, ready for your recognition and expression. You will find that when you look for the joy that comes from God, you will find it and express it. Greater peace and harmony will follow.
I have heard an ancient parable--it must be very ancient, because God used to live on the earth in those days. One day a man came to him, an old farmer, and he said, "Look, you may be God, and you may have created the world, but one thing I must say to you: you are not a farmer. You don't know even the ABC of farming. You have something to learn."
God said, "What's your advice?"
The farmer said, "You give me one year's time, and just let things be according to me, and see what happens. There will be no poverty left!"
God was willing, and one year was given to the farmer. Naturally, he asked for the best, he thought only of the best--no thunder, no strong winds, no dangers for the crop. Everything was comfortable, cozy, and he was very happy. The wheat was growing so high! When he wanted sun, there was sun; when he wanted rain, there was rain, and as much as he wanted. This year everything was right, mathematically right. But when the crops were harvested, there was no wheat inside.
The farmer was surprised. He asked God, "What happened? What went wrong?"
God said, "Because there was no challenge, because there was no conflict, no friction, because you avoided all that was bad, the wheat remained impotent. A little struggle is a must. Storms are needed, thunder, lightning is needed. They shake up the soul inside the wheat."
This parable is of immense value. If you are just happy and happy and happy, happiness will lose all meaning. It will be as if somebody is writing with white chalk on a white wall. Nobody will ever be able to read it. You have to write on a black board, then it comes clear.
The night is as much needed as the day. And the days of sadness are as essential as the days of happiness. This I call understanding. Once you understand it, you relax--in that relaxation is surrender. You say, "Thy will be done." You say, "Do whatsoever you feel is right. If today clouds are needed, give me clouds. Don't listen to me, my understanding is tiny. What do I know of life and its secrets? Don't listen to me! You just go on doing your will." And, slowly slowly, the more you see the rhythm of life, the rhythm of duality, the rhythm of polarity, you stop asking, you stop choosing.
This is the secret. Live with this secret, and see the beauty. Live with this secret, and you will be suddenly surprised: How great is the blessing of life! How much is being showered on you every moment!
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