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It's Friday the 13th so don't walk under any ladders or do any other dumb stuff today! Might be a good day to stay home from work and hide under the bed.
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It's Friday the 13th...
- Thread starter Big Black Dog
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It's Friday the 13th so don't walk under any ladders or do any other dumb stuff today! Might be a good day to stay home from work and hide under the bed.
We're getting new carpets installed. Ooo-err!!
mal
Diamond Member
I may bust out the Original and Watch it tonight after Lola Black @ the Gothic.
peace...
peace...
Si modo
Diamond Member
I'm afraid of triscadecaphobia, especially today.
mal
Diamond Member
I'm afraid of triscadecaphobia, especially today.
I have a Fear of having Fear...
I wonder what it's like?
peace...
mal
Diamond Member
http://www.usmessageboard.com/general-discussion/94714-tomorrows-saturday-the-14th.html
^Don't forget!...
peace...
^Don't forget!...
peace...
mal
Diamond Member
I love it. Its my B-Day!!!!
Well then Happy Freakin' Birthday!
peace...
I love it. Its my B-Day!!!!
Happy Birthday!
Mr. H.
Diamond Member
I'm afraid of triscadecaphobia, especially today.
Try it with a little mustard. Works for me.
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The Real Story of Friday the 13th
Most of what you’ve heard about this day is simply wrong.
Some say that the number 13 is a source of bad luck and hardship and thus started the legend; but if this were true, why didn’t you feel a chill through your marrow on Wednesday the 13th? The reason why Friday the 13th resonates in the collective unconscious relates to very real events that occurred on Friday 13, 1307.
The Dark Ages had ended; the 12th and 13th Centuries had seen the Holy Land change hands between the Muslims and the Crusaders. When the first Crusaders conquered Jerusalem one small group, the Poor Christian Knights and Guards of Solomon’s Temple, better known as the Knights Templar asked permission to make camp at the ruins of King Solomon’s Temple, which has stood deserted since 70AD when the Romans legions under Titus leveled the city. Isn’t it curious that a group of Christian noblemen would want to make camp at Solomon’s Temple which had been deserted for over 1,000 years? Is it at least possible that some of the Templars had a deeper connection with Judaism than is currently acknowledged and that at least one of them was a keeper of knowledge passed down through generations?
While the debate presently rages over what, if anything, the Knight Templar discovered at the Temple, there is no doubt of the following: they returned from the Holy Land and were granted complete authority unto themselves by the Pope, and they were so rich they invented modern merchant banking. During the 12th and 13th Centuries the only sure way for a merchant or nobleman to transfer funds around Europe was to either carry it and risk theft, or far better, make a deposit at the local Templar lodge. The Lodge would then give the Nobleman an encrypted Check, which could be drawn on at any other Templar Lodge in Europe.
I suspect they found the “Wealth of Solomon” but not in gold bars themselves, rather in “esoteric” knowledge and trading routes to the gold-rich but yet “undiscovered” New World -- the Templars maintained their own fleet of ships.
In the early 1300’s the King of France Philip the “Fair” was busily bankrupting France in a long, protracted war with the Spanish. In 1306, Philip had gathered up all of France’s Jews, stolen their wealth and expelled them. Still desperate for money, Philip set his sights on a bigger prize, the biggest in all of Christendom: the wealth of the Templars.
King Philip sent out secret, sealed orders to his Army in France with strict instruction that the orders were not to be unsealed until Thursday night Oct. 12, 1307. When unsealed it’s quite likely that the orders left more than one French officer breathless and staggered.
The French Army was ordered to start the next day, Friday the 13th, by raiding all of the local Templar lodge and arrest every Knight! The most powerful group in Europe was brought to its knees on Friday the 13th.
But the story doesn’t end there. The captured Knights were brought to Paris University and made to confess their sins, thereby legitimizing the charges against them. In the basement of the University they were stripped of their footwear and secured to a board; after the bottom of their feet were coated with oil, a brazier full of hot coals was brought in close contact and they were asked to confess to blasphemy, sodomy and heresy and virtually all confessed. The process was known as “holding their feet to the fire.”
The Knights were an organized Brotherhood, much like modern Freemasons so the higher-ranking members were tortured accordingly. While “ordinary” Knights had their feet held to the fire, higher ranking Knights were give “the Third Degree” also indicating their ranking within the Order. While difficult to imagine, the Knights were subject to worse then having the flesh on their feet seared off in order to gain a confession.
The Grand Master of the Order at the time Jacques DeMolay was also captured and tortured into confessing, and confess he did. He remained a prisoner of Philip the Fair, but as the years passed his conscience would not allow the coerced confession to stand and in 1314, with nothing left to lose and his pride and Spirit to regain, he fully recanted the coerced confession. Philip threatened to burn Jacques at the stake in full view of the public if he remained on this foolish course of action, but the Grand Master could not be dissuaded.
On March 18, 1314 Jacques and another Knight were put to the stake in front of Notre Dame Cathedral. In his dying confession, Jacques not only swore that the charges against him totally false and coerced, but that if his dying words were indeed true, then may those who conspired against him meet the Lord within a year.
Pope Clement, whom Dante had already reserved a place deep down in the 8th Circle of the Inferno for his treachery in the betrayal of the Knights, died within 5 weeks, and Fair Philip died in a “hunting accident” later that fall. Dick Cheney may be far older than any of us realize.
Curiously, on the morning of Friday the 13th, the Templar Fleet, a substantial fleet of trading ships was no longer in Rochelle Harbor. Obviously alerted to the pending disaster, a good number of the Knights set sail for parts unknown. One clue as to the travels and possible whereabouts of the fleet presents at the Templar stronghold in Scotland at Rosslyn Temple where there are carvings of Maize and cacti, two plants indigenous to the Americas which was supposed not “discovered” until almost 200 years later.
Most of what you’ve heard about this day is simply wrong.
Some say that the number 13 is a source of bad luck and hardship and thus started the legend; but if this were true, why didn’t you feel a chill through your marrow on Wednesday the 13th? The reason why Friday the 13th resonates in the collective unconscious relates to very real events that occurred on Friday 13, 1307.
The Dark Ages had ended; the 12th and 13th Centuries had seen the Holy Land change hands between the Muslims and the Crusaders. When the first Crusaders conquered Jerusalem one small group, the Poor Christian Knights and Guards of Solomon’s Temple, better known as the Knights Templar asked permission to make camp at the ruins of King Solomon’s Temple, which has stood deserted since 70AD when the Romans legions under Titus leveled the city. Isn’t it curious that a group of Christian noblemen would want to make camp at Solomon’s Temple which had been deserted for over 1,000 years? Is it at least possible that some of the Templars had a deeper connection with Judaism than is currently acknowledged and that at least one of them was a keeper of knowledge passed down through generations?
While the debate presently rages over what, if anything, the Knight Templar discovered at the Temple, there is no doubt of the following: they returned from the Holy Land and were granted complete authority unto themselves by the Pope, and they were so rich they invented modern merchant banking. During the 12th and 13th Centuries the only sure way for a merchant or nobleman to transfer funds around Europe was to either carry it and risk theft, or far better, make a deposit at the local Templar lodge. The Lodge would then give the Nobleman an encrypted Check, which could be drawn on at any other Templar Lodge in Europe.
I suspect they found the “Wealth of Solomon” but not in gold bars themselves, rather in “esoteric” knowledge and trading routes to the gold-rich but yet “undiscovered” New World -- the Templars maintained their own fleet of ships.
In the early 1300’s the King of France Philip the “Fair” was busily bankrupting France in a long, protracted war with the Spanish. In 1306, Philip had gathered up all of France’s Jews, stolen their wealth and expelled them. Still desperate for money, Philip set his sights on a bigger prize, the biggest in all of Christendom: the wealth of the Templars.
King Philip sent out secret, sealed orders to his Army in France with strict instruction that the orders were not to be unsealed until Thursday night Oct. 12, 1307. When unsealed it’s quite likely that the orders left more than one French officer breathless and staggered.
The French Army was ordered to start the next day, Friday the 13th, by raiding all of the local Templar lodge and arrest every Knight! The most powerful group in Europe was brought to its knees on Friday the 13th.
But the story doesn’t end there. The captured Knights were brought to Paris University and made to confess their sins, thereby legitimizing the charges against them. In the basement of the University they were stripped of their footwear and secured to a board; after the bottom of their feet were coated with oil, a brazier full of hot coals was brought in close contact and they were asked to confess to blasphemy, sodomy and heresy and virtually all confessed. The process was known as “holding their feet to the fire.”
The Knights were an organized Brotherhood, much like modern Freemasons so the higher-ranking members were tortured accordingly. While “ordinary” Knights had their feet held to the fire, higher ranking Knights were give “the Third Degree” also indicating their ranking within the Order. While difficult to imagine, the Knights were subject to worse then having the flesh on their feet seared off in order to gain a confession.
The Grand Master of the Order at the time Jacques DeMolay was also captured and tortured into confessing, and confess he did. He remained a prisoner of Philip the Fair, but as the years passed his conscience would not allow the coerced confession to stand and in 1314, with nothing left to lose and his pride and Spirit to regain, he fully recanted the coerced confession. Philip threatened to burn Jacques at the stake in full view of the public if he remained on this foolish course of action, but the Grand Master could not be dissuaded.
On March 18, 1314 Jacques and another Knight were put to the stake in front of Notre Dame Cathedral. In his dying confession, Jacques not only swore that the charges against him totally false and coerced, but that if his dying words were indeed true, then may those who conspired against him meet the Lord within a year.
Pope Clement, whom Dante had already reserved a place deep down in the 8th Circle of the Inferno for his treachery in the betrayal of the Knights, died within 5 weeks, and Fair Philip died in a “hunting accident” later that fall. Dick Cheney may be far older than any of us realize.
Curiously, on the morning of Friday the 13th, the Templar Fleet, a substantial fleet of trading ships was no longer in Rochelle Harbor. Obviously alerted to the pending disaster, a good number of the Knights set sail for parts unknown. One clue as to the travels and possible whereabouts of the fleet presents at the Templar stronghold in Scotland at Rosslyn Temple where there are carvings of Maize and cacti, two plants indigenous to the Americas which was supposed not “discovered” until almost 200 years later.
cf are you a freemason? i knew the story....but mostly its known to mason and such
masquerade
positivity
Superstitious mumbo jumbo.
No need to worry about Friday the 13th!
I think I may just have to give the movie a watch later this evening.
Booooooowaaaahahahahahahahaha!
No need to worry about Friday the 13th!
I think I may just have to give the movie a watch later this evening.
Booooooowaaaahahahahahahahaha!
masquerade
positivity
I love it. Its my B-Day!!!!
My first child was born on a Friday the 13th!
Happy Birthday!
mal
Diamond Member
cf are you a freemason? i knew the story....but mostly its known to mason and such
Ask not of things Masonic...
peace...
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