First they put away the dealers, keep our kids safe and off the street. Then they put away the prostitutes, keep married men cloistered at home.
Then they shooed away the bums, then they beat and bashed the queers, turned away asylum-seekers, fed us suspicions and fears. We didn’t raise our voice, we didn’t make a fuss. It’s funny there was no one left to notice when they came for us.
Looks like witches are in season, you better fly your flag and be aware of anyone who might fit the description, diversity is now our biggest fear.
Now with our conversations tapped and our differences exposed, how ya supposed to love your neighbor with our minds and curtains closed? We used to worry ’bout big brother, now we got a big father and an even bigger mother.
And you still believe this aristocracy gives a fuck about you. They put the mock in democracy and you swallowed every hook.
The sad truth is you’d rather follow the school into the net ’cause swimming alone at sea is not the kind of freedom that you actually want.
So go back to your crib and suck on a tit go bask in the warmth of your diaper. You’re sitting in shit and piss while sucking a giant pacifier, a country of adult infants. A legion of mental midgets, a country of adult infants, a country of adult infants. all regaining their unconsciousness
The Ethiopian Bible, or Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Bible, is a sacred text of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and includes 81 books, a broader canon than Protestant Bibles. Written in the ancient language of Ge’ez, it contains additional books like 1 Enoch and Jubilees that were excluded from Western Bibles, preserving ancient Christian writings and influencing faith and theology.
Key Characteristics
Ge’ez Language:.Opens in new tabThe Bible is written in Ge’ez, a liturgical language that is no longer spoken but remains significant in Ethiopian Orthodox tradition.
Broader Canon:.Opens in new tabThe Ethiopian Bible contains more books than the Protestant Bible. While the Protestant Bible has 66 books, the Ethiopian Orthodox Bible includes 81 books (46 Old Testament and 35 New Testament).
Inclusion of Apocryphal Books:.Opens in new tabIt features texts such as 1 Enoch, Jubilees, and the Book of Covenant, which are considered apocryphal or lost in other Christian traditions but hold canonical authority in Ethiopia.
Historical and Cultural Significance
Preservation of Ancient Texts:.Opens in new tabThe Ethiopian Bible was preserved in a region that remained apart from many of the Western Christian theological and political conflicts, allowing it to hold onto early Christian writings that were excluded from other canons.
Foundation of Faith:.Opens in new tabIt is the foundational scripture for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, connecting to early Christian beliefs and practices.
Influence on Thought:.Opens in new tabThe unique information and insights found in its additional texts have shaped Christian thought within Ethiopia and have been studied by researchers seeking to understand early Christianity and Jewish tradition.
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“When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God“.
It feels like every day lately, we get more news of newsroom hemorrhage.
Last week, self-appointed media emperor Jeff Bezos wrote a letter to his employees at TheWashington Post asserting in no uncertain terms that the paper’s opinion page will no longer welcome all opinions. “We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets,” he told staff—and later, all of his followers on X.
We’ll cover other topics too of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others. There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views. Today, the internet does that job.
This statement was yet another strike against our increasingly imperiled free press.
The Post economics reporter Jeff Stein wrote a qualified assurance on Bluesky. (“I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know.”) But if billionaires keep billionairing, we have every reason to suspect this cycle will continue. Writers of conscience will leave their papers, subscribers will follow suit, and the once-titanic newspaper brands will continue to go the way of the dodo bird.
It’s not great news.
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Of course, the current climate is not an overnight phenomenon. According to a Statista report compiled by Amy Watson, the US has seen a 70 percent drop in newsroom employees over the past fifteen years. “In 2021, just 104,290 people were employed in the US newspaper industry…in 2006, the industry employed over 365 thousand people.”
Ten years ago, we could chalk this all up to the big, bad internet. Newsrooms shrank as budgets slashed. But now journalism also has a morale problem. According to a Poynter survey, an unprecedented amount of safely employed reporters have left their posts over the past five years, citing staggering levels of burnout.
We can hardly wonder where that comes from, when writers cite fear of censorship and loss of institutional faith in their resignation letters. And as billionaire paper owners like Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong of The Los Angeles Times tilt to promote an aggressive Silicon Valley agenda, it’s harder and harder to call the press free in the first place.
When both the Post and the Times gave Trump a by, dozens of journalists from both papers resigned in protest, or accepted buy-outs. We could also knock the New York Times in the same sentence, for its disingenuous and cowardly coverage of the genocide in Gaza. That led to the edging out of reporter Jazmine Hughes.
Former Los Angeles Times writer Carla Hall lamented the trickle down effect such losses have on a readership.”The city has lost a base of knowledge and expertise on the most pressing and important issues: homelessness, housing, criminal justice, water and drought, environmental issues, and education,” she told the Columbia Journalism Review. I assume the same can be said for all papers with leaky mastheads. It’ll be hard to tally the effects of so much institutional knowledge lost.
And to add insult to injury, the crisis call is not merely coming from inside the house. The kind and quality of coverage reporters will have access to is suddenly on the line too, thanks to some unprecedented White House tinkering with the press pool.
As Politico reported last week, moving forward “the administration—not an independent group of journalists—will determine which outlets have access to the president.” AP, Bloomberg and Reuters will no longer have a guaranteed spot in the press corps. And if the Pentagon’s booting of most traditional news outlets is any kind of harbinger, we can guess that Breitbart will get breaking stories before Reuters does.
Eugene Daniels, the president of the White House Correspondent’s Association, decried the change. As he told Politico, “this move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States.” Again? Not great.
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So how do we support journalists these days? How do we hold a free press together, with all these tearing hands in the mix?
The good news is that when trusted reporters make a stand, readers tend to follow. Many established writers have turned into compelling free agents, easy to find as long as the internet stays free. More and more of them seem to be offering independent analysis, from podcasts to newsletters to good-old-fashioned blogs. Consider the two former Post writers behind The Contrarian.
And let’s hope we’ll always have the happily un-billionaire-tethered, Guardian.
But if you love a US paper for its integrity? There’s never been a better time to show your support, in subscription dollars or vocal endorsement. In the meantime, let’s read local, follow the whistle-blowers, and keep the lines open. If democracy dies in darkness, readers keep the lights on.
You don’t even have to watch the news to know that things are not going well in our world. The signs of collapse are all around us. There are two ways most people respond: (1) Close your eyes, put your head in the sand, and pretend that all is well, or hope that some magical solution will be invented to fix things quickly and easily (2) Redirect your fear, rage and despair to someone or something you can blame for our problems, or try and escape into one diverting fantasy after another and temporarily calm your nerves.
There is another choice that is more effective, but not for the faint of heart. It begins when we face the truth about our present situation. I got my own wakeup call more than thirty years ago. Here’s how I described it in my latest book, Long Live Men! The Moonshot Mission to Heal Men, Close the Lifespan Gap, and Offer Hope to Humanity:
“In 1993 I attended a Men’s Leaders’ Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. One of the activities offered was a traditional Native-American sweat lodge ceremony where we ask for guidance and support for ourselves and our communities. I had the following life-changing vision.
We are all on a huge ocean liner. Everything we know and have ever known is on the ship. People are born and die. Goods and services are created, wars are fought, and elections are held and disputed. Species come into being and face extinction. The ship steams on and on, and there is no doubt that it will continue on its present course forever.
There are many decks on the ship, starting way down in the boiler room where the poorest and grimiest toil to keep the ship going. As you ascend the decks, things get lighter and easier. The people who run the ship have suites on the very top deck. Their job, as they see it, is to keep the ship going and keep those on the lower decks in their proper places. Since they are at the top, they are sure they deserve to acquire more and more of the resources of the earth.
Everyone on the lower decks aspires to get up to the next deck and hungers to get to the very top. That’s the way it is. That’s the way it has always been. That’s the way it will always be. However, there are a few people who realize that something very strange is happening. What they come to know is that the ship is sinking. At first, like everyone else, they can’t believe it. The ship has been afloat since time before time. It is the best of the best. That it could sink is unthinkable. Nonetheless, they are sure the ship is sinking.
They try to warn the people, but no one believes them. The ship cannot be sinking, and anyone who thinks so must be mentally ill. When they persist in trying to warn the people of what they are facing, those in charge of the ship silence them and lock them up. The ship’s media keeps grinding out news stories describing how wonderful the future will be. Any problems that are occurring will surely be solved with the wonders of our civilized, technological lifestyle.
The leaders of the ship smile, wave, and promise prosperity for all. But water is beginning to seep in from below. The higher the water rises, the more frightened the people become and the more frantically they scramble to get to the upper decks. Some believe it is the end and actually welcome the prospect of the destruction of life as we know it. They believe it is the fulfillment of religious prophesy. Others become increasingly irritable, angry, and depressed. Like caged rats they bite their own tails and those of their cage mates who appear to be a threat.
But as the water rises, those who have been issuing the warnings can no longer be silenced. More people escape confinement and lead others toward the lifeboats. Though there are enough boats for all, many people are reluctant to leave the ship. Many questions are asked. “The old stories tell us that we’ve been on this ship for more than six thousand years, isn’t it safer to stay aboard? Could things really be so bad that we must leave? Where will we go? Who will lead us? What if this is all there is?”
Nevertheless, the Ship is sinking. Many people go over the side and are lowered down to the boats. As they descend, they are puzzled to see lettering on the side of the ship: T-I-T-A-N-I-C. When they reach the lifeboats, many are frightened and look for someone who looks like they know what to do. They’d like to ride with those people.
However, they find that each person must get into their own boat and row away from the ship in their own direction. If they don’t get away from the ship as soon as possible, they will be pulled down with it. When everyone who wants to leave, each in their own boats, rowing in their own direction, reaches their own place in the ocean, they begin to create a new, partnership, web. It will be the basis for a new way of life that will replace the life that was lived on the old ship of civilization.“
Here’s What I’ve Learned That Has Helped Me Survive and Thrive
1. “Civilization” is a misnomer. Its proper name is the “Dominator Model.”
In her international best-selling book, The Chalice & The Blad: Our History. Our Future, originally published in 1987, historian Riane Eisler said,
“Underlying the great surface diversity of human culture are two basic models of society. The first I call the dominator model, what is popularly termed either patriarchy or matriarchy — the ranking of one half of humanity over the other. The second, in which social relations are primarily based on the principle of linking may best be described as the partnership model.”
In 1992, I was given the book Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn. I got a clear sense of the two worlds that are competing for our attention: A world where hierarchy and dominance rule (Quinn calls it the world of the Takers) and a world where equality and connection rule (Quinn calls it the world of the Leavers. In his book, Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure, Quinn says,
“Beyond civilization isn’t a geographical space up in the mountains or on some remote isle. It’s a cultural space that opens up among people with new minds.”
This is not a time to give up. It is time to reach out!
3. Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes, author of Women Who Run with the Wolves, wrote this inspiring letter to all of us who are concerned about the future. She said in part:
“My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people.
“I grew up on the Great Lakes and recognize a seaworthy vessel when I see one. Regarding awakened souls, there have never been more able vessels in the waters than there are right now across the world. And they are fully provisioned and able to signal one another as never before in the history of humankind.
“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.”
4. Rethink our relationship with planet Earth.
According to world-renowned author and social scientist, Jeremy Rifkin,
“We have long believed that we live on a land planet, when in reality we live on a water planet, and now the Earth’s hydrosphere is taking us into a mass extinction as it searches for a new normal.”
In his important and timely book, Planet Aqua: Rethinking Our Home in the Universe, Rifkin says that we must give up our belief that it is our duty to dominate and control nature and reconnect as partners in all life on Earth. He says,
“We must rethink the waters as a ‘life source’ rather than another ‘resource’ to exploit and learn to adapt to the hydrosphere rather than trying to get the hydrosphere to adapt to us.”
5. Find your tribe outside the confines of civilization.
The rulers of civilization would have us believe that even if the Ship is sinking, we might as well go down with it because there really are no better choices. That is the big lie of civilization. As my vision showed me, there are millions of alternatives and more and more lifeboats in the water every day, but you won’t learn about them in the corporate-controlled media. You can learn more here.
6. Claim your path of service.
We must act now, or we will be swept away by the currents of change. In her book, Who Do We Choose to Be? Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity, my longtime colleague and friend, Margaret J. Wheatley says,
“My aspiration is for you to see clearly so that you may act wisely. If we don’t know where we are, if we don’t know what to prepare for, then any path we choose will keep us wandering in the wilderness, increasingly desperate, increasingly lost.”
The Astrology Podcast Aug 31, 2025 A look at the astrological forecast for September of 2025, focusing especially on eclipse season, with astrologers Chris Brennan and Austin Coppock of The Astrology Podcast. We spend the first hour of the episode talking about the astrology behind news and events that occurred since last month’s forecast, and then in the second hour we transition into talking about the astrology of September, starting at 53 minutes. This month’s news discussion focuses heavily on the themes of “reality distortion” and “bubbles popping,” which manifested over the summer during the peak of the Saturn-Neptune conjunction. On a more positive note, we also discuss the auspicious Venus-Jupiter conjunction in August and its connection to the engagement of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. The forecast for September is dominated by eclipse season, which is just getting started as the month begins, with a lunar eclipse in Pisces and a solar eclipse in Virgo. Other major alignments this month include Mars square Jupiter, Mars square Pluto, Saturn returning to Pisces, and Uranus stationing retrograde in Gemini. Bunny Song & Covers ???? “Bunnies” song by Oliver Richman @olivesongs11 on TikTok ???? Bunnies cover by Fifi Koro @fifikoromusic on TikTok ???? Bunnies cover by Sem Noa Verhaere @semnoaverhaere on TikTok ???? Bunnies cover by Thyrell Smith @thyrellsmith on TikTok Austin’s Websitehttps://austincoppock.comChris’s Courseshttps://theastrologyschool.comPatreon for Elections and Bonus Content / astrologypodcast This is episode 505 of The Astrology Podcast: https://theastrologypodcast.com/2025/…Timestamps00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:41 Quick overview of September astrology 00:03:24 News segment begins 00:03:41 Saturn-Neptune, peak reality distortion & bubbles popping 00:08:37 Viral AI video of bunnies on a trampoline 00:23:02 AI Psychosis 00:26:22 Mars-Saturn opposition and militarizing the Capitol 00:29:46 Violent events under the Mars-Saturn opposition 00:35:40 New moon discovered orbiting Uranus 00:37:07 Taylor Swift engagement on Venus-Jupiter conjunction 00:47:33 Chris’ personal news about Leisa 00:53:48 Forecast segment begins 00:54:13 Saturn retrogrades back into Pisces 01:01:36 Lunar Eclipse in Pisces September 7 01:02:52 Uranus stations retrograde in Gemini 01:07:03 Mars-Jupiter Square 01:19:26 Eclipses through the 12 houses axis pairs 01:40:15 Auspicious electional chart for September 11 01:46:18 Solar Eclipse in Virgo September 21 01:57:42 Mars-Pluto Square 02:09:46 Mars enters Scorpio 02:14:45 Final thoughts on September 02:17:29 Announcements and Credits 02:24:31 Bonus bunnies
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