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Entering Heaven Alive

This is also called ascension, assumption, or translation. This is the belief that’s held in a variety of religions.

Sine death is the normal end to an individual’s life on Earth & the beginning of afterlife, entering Heaven without dying 1st is considered exceptional & usually a sign of a deity’s special recognition of a person’s piety.

In the Hebrew Bible, there are 2 people, Enoch & Elijah, who are to have entered Heaven alive. But both wordings are subject to debate. Genesis 5:24 says, “Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.” But it doesn’t say whether he was alive or dead nor where God took him.

The Book of Kings describes the prophet Elijah being taken towards the Heavens in a whirlwind. But the word can mean can mean either Heaven as the home of God or the sky.

According to the post-biblical Midrash, 8 people went to, or will go to, Heaven alive. This is also referred to as the Garden of Eden & Paradise. The 8 people were: 1) Enoch, Noah’s great-grandpa (Genesis 5:22-24). 2) Elijah (II Kings 2:11). 3) Serah, the daughter of Asher, the son of Jacob. 4) Eliezer, the servant of Abraham who chose Rebecca to be Isaac’s wife. 5) Hiram I, King of Tyre, who helped Solomon build the First Temple. 6) Ebed-Melech, the Ethiopian 7) Jaabez, the son of Judan ha-Nasi, who was the editor of Mishnah 8) Pharaoh’s daughter, sometimes called Bithiah

There were also 4 rabbis who visited Heaven. 4 entered the orchard: Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma, Acher (also known as Elisha Ben Avuya) & Rabbi Akiva. One looked & died. One looked & was harmed. One looked & cut down the trees. The last one went up in peace & went down in peace.

Jesus is considered by vast majority of Christians to have passed away before being resurrected & ascending to Heaven, bodily, to sit at the right hand of God with a promise to someday return to Earth.

There are some people who believe that Jesus didn’t die. These are known as the Swoon hypothesis & Docetism. The Virgin Mary is thought in Eastern Orthodoxy to have passed away before being translated into Heaven. Roman Catholicism believe this also.

Protestants generally believe that Mary died and passed away naturally like another mortal person. Then Mary entered Heaven in a pretty usual manner. But certain observers belonging to the Evangelical Catholic tradition of Lutheranism & the Anglo-Catholic tradition of Anglicanism believe in the Assumption of Mary. Others in these traditions reject the Assumption of Mary.

With the adoption of the Nicene Creed in 325, the ascension of Jesus into Heaven has been officially taught by all Christian churches. It’s celebrated on Ascension Thursday. In the Roman Catholic Church, the ascension of the Lord is a Holy Day of Obligation. In the Eastern Orthodox Church the ascension is 1 of 12 Great Feasts.

In the Reformed Churches, which teaches Calvinist theology, belief in the ascension of Christ is included in the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Heidelberg Catechism, & the Second Helvetic Confession.

Dispensationalists believe in a “rapture.” The rapture is rejected by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, & most Protestants. The rapture comes from a reference to “being caught up” that’s found in I Thessalonians 4:17. This passage says that when the “dead in Christ” & “we who are alive and remain” will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord/God. Christians differ on the interpretation of this Bible passage.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church teach that Mary died a natural death like any other human being. She was buried by the Apostle, except for Thomas (of Doubting Thomas fame), who was late. 3 days later, after Thomas arrived, Mary was found to be missing from her tomb, just like her son Jesus.

They also teach that the Apostles got a revelation during which Mary appeared to them & told them that she’d been resurrected by Jesus & taken body & soul into Heaven. They teach of Heavenly bliss that other saints will experience only after the Last Judgment.

In Mandaeism, the Left Ginza (1 of their holy books) mentions that Shitil (Seth), the son of Adam, was taken alive to the World of Light without a masiqta or death mass.

In the Hellenistic religion, Apollonius of Tyana was said to have been “assumed” into Elysium by Philostratus.

In Hinduism, Yudhishthira, of the Mahabharata, & Lakshmana, of the Ramayana, are believed to be the only humans that were able to cross the plane between mortals & Heaven/Svarga while still in their mortal bodies. Nahusha was admitted to Heaven in his human body, as were several other kings. Tukaram is believed to have taken to Vaikuntha on Garuda. This event is reported to be seen by villagers.

In Islam, Muhammad was transported from the Great Mosque of Mecca to Al-Aqsa during the Night Journey. After he lead prayers at the mosque, Muhammad ascended into Heaven alive. In Heaven, he greets, individually, previous prophets. Later, he speaks to Allah. Allah gives Muhammad instructions regarding the details of prayer. Muhammad’s ascent into Heaven was temporary. He came back to Earth later. Islamic texts deny the idea of the crucifixion or death accredited to Jesus by the New Testament.

The Quran says that people (Jews & Romans) sought to kill Jesus. But they couldn’t crucify or kill him. Although “this was made to appear to them.” Muslims believe that Jesus wasn’t crucified but instead he was raised by God into the Heavens. This “raising” is often understood to mean through bodily ascension.

Some Islamic scholars have identified the prophet Idris to be the same person as Enoch from the Bible. This is because the Quran states that God “raised him to a lofty station,” & that has taken to be term for ascending, on which it’s concluded that Idris was Enoch.

Members of various Ascended Master Teachings, a group of New Age religions based on Theosophy. They believe that Francis Bacon underwent a physical ascension without experiencing death. He then became the deity St. Germain.

They believe that there were a lot of others that have undergone Ascension. They were called the Ascended Masters & act as spirit guides to human souls on their spiritual path. The leaders of these religions claim to be able to receive channeled messages from the Ascended Masters, which they then relay to their followers.

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Local elections 2025: Rotorua rural ward councillor Karen Barker reelected unopposed

“I’m very grateful I get the chance to serve again, because it’s been a particularly enjoyable experience,” said…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #2025 #barker #campaigning #candidates #council #councillor #Elections #feet #gear #karen #Local #months #NewZealand #NZ #reelected #rotorua #rural #unopposed #ward #whirlwind
https://www.newsbeep.com/44528/

Before experimenting with magnetic cores for transient storage, #JayForrester was casting around for other potential electronic devices which might function as fast memory for the real-time #Whirlwind #Computer. The team had discounted mercury delay lines and magnetic drum memory, with their serial access, as too slow for Whirlwind. The team was working on their own implementation of Williams tubes, but these were endlessly problematic and not as fast in practice as theory indicated.

In 1947 Forrester even had briefly considered using interconnected "gas glow discharge cells" in three-dimensional array, for these offered such advantages, at least theoretically, as "high initial breakdown voltage," "...low holding voltage, and low forward impedence [sic] after breakdown..." But investigations were "soon dropped because of the variability of the individual cells with time and from sample to sample."

From the 1967 manuscript "PROJECT WHIRLWIND: A Case History in Contemporary Technology" by Kent C. Redmond and Thomas M. Smith available at http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/mit/whirlwind/history/Redmond_Project_Whirlwind_A_Case_History_In_Contemporary_Technology_1975.pdf published in 1975 by The MITRE Corporation and republished in 1980 by Digital Press (yes, that Digital) in a gorgeous hardback edition with superbly reproduced black and white photos.

There's little technical information about the development of the computer in the book; instead, the book is about the institutional, systemic and political pressures that gave Project Whirlwind the complexion that it had.

#vintagecomputing #corememory

El 14 de julio de 1918, nació Jay Forrester, pionero de la informática que junto con Robert Everett, dirigió y trajo a la vida la Whirlwind. También fue inventor de la memoria de acceso aleatorio (RAM) y de la Dinámica de Sistemas.
#retrocomputingmx #JayForrester #whirlwind #computerhistory

El 26 de junio nace Robert Rivers Everett, un pionero de la computación, reconocido por su trabajo en el proyecto Whirlwind, uno de los primeros ordenadores electrónicos en tiempo real, junto con Jay Forrester. Fundó MITRE Corporation y fue su presidente desde 1969 hasta 1986. Recibió la Medalla Nacional de Tecnología en 1989 por sus contribuciones al desarrollo de sistemas de computación
#retrocomputingmx #roberteverett #whirlwind #computerhistory

Tracing back #programming language history to the root of the very first (mnemonic) #GOTO instruction (jump/branch) I found two different sources:

1. In 1954 Nathanael Rochester developed the "first" mnemonic #assembler for the #IBM 701 #mainframe computer that uses "TR" jump commands: https://shrtn.escalar.pt/ZuE5

2. In 1947 the "manual" for the #Whirlwind computer contained the "sp x" mnemonic: https://shrtn.escalar.pt/FdYC

So, which one was actually the "first" to use mnemonics for branching?

MIT #Director auf dem Computer #Whirlwind

1955-03-08

https://www.techradar.com/pro/happy-birthday-director-the-first-operating-system-in-the-world-turns-70-today

D.C. U.S. attorney #Ed #Martin’s
‘#Operation #Whirlwind,’

which targets statements by Democrats and others about

"Free-Speech Advocate" Elon Musk,
justices and government workers,

is meant to stifle criticism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/19/trump-justice-operation-whirlwind-democrats/

D.C. U.S. attorney #Ed #Martin’s
‘#Operation #Whirlwind,’

which targets statements by Democrats and others about

"Free-Speech Advocate" Elon Musk,
justices and government workers,

is meant to stifle criticism
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/19/trump-justice-operation-whirlwind-democrats/

#GuyFedorkow on restoring software for #Whirlwind, the #1950s #MIT prototype for what became the #SAGE air defence system:

https://youtu.be/YLoXodz1N9A

I really enjoyed this one. It's amazing how primitive it seems today - both in terms of the capabilities of the hardware, but also the software, consisting of just 256 words to do some pretty basic geometry calculations, but it's also clear that there wouldn't have been a better option at the time.

#CaptainAmerica issues 127-130 neat stuff. #StanLee #GeneColan #WallyWood #RedSkull #TheHulk #NickFury #DumDumDugan #Batroc #Whirlwind #marvelcomics

Old Testament Reading: Job 38:1-7, 34-41

YHWH answered #Job from the #whirlwind.

« God Answers Job From The Whirlwind » by William Blake

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/730111762000674816/god-answers-job-from-the-whirlwind-by-william

#arts #artshare #paintings 🎨 #WilliamBlake #DivineIntelligence #whirlwind #Job

Finally Here! #whirlwind #laineywilson

#VicePresident #KamalaHarris’ sudden #political #rise echoes that of another #female #politician, #NewZealand’s #JacindaArdern

Ardern’s #whirlwind #campaign and #tenure also shows some #pitfalls other #Female #leaders, like Harris, might face, including being compelled to appear as #competent and #likable while fending off #hateful #attacks.

https://theconversation.com/kamala-harris-sudden-political-rise-echoes-that-of-another-female-politician-new-zealands-jacinda-ardern-235922

Harris’s whirlwind, high-pressure VP process that landed on Walz

Kamala Harris faced a dramatically compressed timetable for choosing a vice-presidential nominee as powerful Democratic factions jockeyed for their favorite #Harriss #whirlwind #highpressure #process #landed #Walz

https://telecastindia.in/harriss-whirlwind-high-pressure-vp-process-that-landed-on-walz/

#ArtFight2024 attack number 2 was against Lysander Voxis from AmbiguousSyntax.

A fun half-air-elemental showing how REAL wind surfing is done. They had so many fun companions, I couldn't help but draw them, too :)

#ArtFight #AirElemental #TeamSeafoam #Revenge #FriendlyFire #gazer #meowl #whirlwind #windsurfing #surfing

« God Answers Job From The Whirlwind » by William Blake

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/730111762000674816/god-answers-job-from-the-whirlwind-by-william

#arts #artshare #paintings 🎨 #WilliamBlake #DivineIntelligence #whirlwind #Job

TODAY! #Supai, #Ute, #Dine', #Lakota Testify on #Uranium #Exploitation before Inter-American Commission on #HumanRights

by Brenda Norrell, #CensoredNews
February 28, 2024

WASHINGTON -- "The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear testimony from Navajo, Ute, and #Oglala Lakota, on the impacts on #IndigenousPeoples' human rights from uranium exploitation in Washington on Feb. 28, 2024.

"'#NahasdzáánShimá — #MotherEarth—provides everything we need to keep us alive—the four things we Navajos talk about —air, water, soil, and light—and it is our home,' said #EdithHood, President, of #RedWaterPondRoadCommunityAssociation.

"'We have been living with this silent killer without knowing the dangers. Once the #mining started, after the drilling, we didn’t realize we were being contaminated.'

"'When we were children playing and herding sheep we didn’t understand we were being exposed to dangerous #radiation,' Hood said.
Hood thanked the commission for the hearing and added, "Our own #Tribalgovernment doesn’t listen to us.'

"The #InterAmericanCommission on Human Rights agreed to hold a thematic hearing on how U.S. uranium exploitation policies have resulted in human rights abuses in Indigenous communities across the country. This coincides with an upsurge in #UraniumMining, said the #NewMexico #EnvironmentalLawCenter.

"'As the United States doubles down on the misguided notion that #NuclearPower is a solution to the #ClimateCrisis, the uranium development industry is beginning to benefit from generous #taxpayer giveaways to the nuclear industry as a whole.'

"'Subsidies from the #Biden administration have spurred uranium mining production to restart in at least 3 mines in the last few months, in #Utah, #Wyoming, and in Arizona near the #GrandCanyon. As has been the case since the dawn of the #AtomicAge, the impacts of uranium mining are largely left out of the debate over nuclear power.'

"#EnergyFuels said it is increasing U.S. uranium production as prices reach a 16-year high. Energy Fuels said in December that it is ramping up uranium production at three mines #PinyonPlain in in the Grand Canyon, and #LaSal and #Pandora uranium mines in southeastern #Utah.

"Ore mined from the three mines during 2024 will be stockpiled at the Energy Fuels #WhiteMesaMill in Utah for processing in 2025. It is also preparing two mines, #Whirlwind in southeastern Utah, and #NicholsRanch in central Wyoming, to begin uranium production within one year, Energy Fuels said.

"Pinyon Plain began uranium mining and is now threatening the water of the #Havasupai in their homeland in the Grand Canyon. The mine is now endangering Navajo, #Hopi, Ute, and southwest residents, on the uranium haul route, from the Grand Canyon to the Energy Fuels mill in southeastern Utah.

"The White Mesa Mill is poisoning the water, land, and air of White Mesa Utes in southeastern Utah. It is now bringing in #radioactive waste from Europe. Nuclear waste at the site was transported here from the Nuclear Test Site in Nevada because it was too deadly to leave there. The Nevada site poisoned the ancestral land of #WesternShoshone."

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/02/navajo-ute-lakota-to-testify-on-uranium.html

#WaterIsLife #UraniumMining #IndigenousActivism #CulturalGenocide #EnvironmentalRacism #NoNukes #NoNewNukes #RenewablesNow #NoMining