Christmas True Meaning and Traditions

Christmas True Meaning and Traditions

Christmas has had a long and varied history. It has been celebrated for centuries by different people, at different times, in different places, and in many different ways. Here you will find links to information about the different ways that the holiday we know as Christmas has been celebrated, or not celebrated, over the years.

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An Ancient HolidaySome of our modern Christmas traditions have much older roots, going back to pagan European traditions.

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SaturnaliaSaturnalia was a Roman celebration in honor of the god Saturn.

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An Outlaw ChristmasThe Puritans didn't believe in the jovial Christmas holiday, so they banned it.

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Christmas ReinventedAmericans embraced Christmas in the 19th Century, even inventing some of their own Christmas traditions.

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A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens' classic tale reflected and influenced changing ideas about the nature of Christmas.

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The True Meaning of Christmas

"The Real Truth About Santa Claus

"Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus!

A famous letter from Virgina O'Hanlon to the editorial of The New York Sun, first printed in 1897.

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

Dear Editor---

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun, it's so.

" Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?Virginia O'HanlonVirginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

"IF TOMMORROW NEVER COME"

"The Time of My Life" by Patrick Swayze and Lisa Niemi

"IF TOMMORROW NEVER COMES" If I knew it would be the last time that I'd see you fall asleep, I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep. If I knew it would be the last time that I see you walk out the door, I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for one more. If I knew it would be the last time I'd hear your voice lifted up in praise, I would videotape each action and word, so I could play them back day after day. If I knew it would be the last time, I could spare an extra minute or two to stop and say "I love you," instead of assuming, you would know I do.If I knew it would be the last time I would be there to share your day, well I'm sure you'll have so many more, so I can let just this one slip away. For surely there's always tomorrow to make up for an oversight, and we always get a second chance to make everything right. There will always be another day to say our "I love you's", And certainly there's another chance to say our "Anything I can do's?"

But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get, I'd like to say how much I love you and I hope we never forget, Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike, And today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved one tight. So if you're waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today? For if tomorrow never comes, you'll surely regret the day, That you didn't take that extra time for a smile, a hug, or a kiss and you were too busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last wish.So hold your loved ones close today, whisper in their ear, Tell them how much you love them and that you'll always hold them dear, Take time to say "I'm sorry," "please forgive me," "thank you" or "it's okay". And if tomorrow never comes, you'll have no regrets about today.

"Somewhere in Time", we'll shareone love,one life.And with each gentile touchi knowthis much,its true.And when we kiss,i see forever,and in your arms,im lost, you find me again.No words, no writes,describe this pain inside,no matter how hard i tried,i die inside,to let you go,To say goodbyemy heart breaks foreversomewhere in time, i knowwe'll meet againYou're in my heartYou're in my souland if you go away from mei cant let go.Until begin,i know,we'll meet againSomewhere in time.

"Two Wolves - Cherokee Words of Wisdom" , An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life... "A fight is going on inside me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. "One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, self-doubt, and ego. "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. "This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old chief simply replied, "The one you feed."

Meg Energy Home Generator - Zero Point Energy - Off the Grid

MEG Generator
"FREE ENERGY Home Generator - Zero Point Energy Off the Grid"


Is this the end of the internal combustion engine? Will we finally be able to drive past gas stations with a friendly wave and a honking horn? Will we be disconnecting from the power grid or even selling power back to the electric company? We're about to find out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgQXYBRYwbg

Note: Elected representatives regard their constituents' comments with a high degree of respect - If you are sending an email be sure to enter: American Energy Independence into the subject line.Here are links that will provide you with your representatives name and address: http://www.usa.gov/ http://www.house.gov/ http://www.senate.gov/ http://www.whitehouse.gov/American Energy Independence Day 2008 - America Get Involved! http://www.americanenergyindependence.com/

The MEG Generator is an electromagnetic device without moving parts, which includes a permanent magnet and a magnetic core. The core includes two circuits (magnetic paths) which are alternatively pulsed in order to provide induced current pulses in the output coils. Driving electrical current through each of the input coils reduces a level of flux from the permanent magnet within the magnet path around which the input coil extends. The pulsing is critical, in accessing the Zero-Point Energy, and in using The Fifth Element aspect of repeatedly getting into the system for energy extraction and out again before it has to pay the energy conservation price.

The inventors -- which include Thomas E. Bearden -- claim a coefficient of performance (C.O.P.) of five or more. This C.O.P. is effectively an efficiency, but one which is allowed to exceed unity. (The idea of a C.O.P. was originally developed for use with heat pumps, which yield energy in the form of heat which is several times that of the electrical energy input -- but where the additional energy is acknowledged to come from the earth’s heat.)

The MEG Generator has received a great deal of Inter Net publicity, but precious little from the mainstream media. The paper on the device has appeared on numerous websites, only to be removed. Currently, the only available access is via the Naudin website which provides a convenient link http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/meg.htm to “The MEG paper : Extracting Energy from a Permanent Magnet with Energy-Replenishing from the Active Vacuum”, http://www.cheniere.org/, by Thomas E. Bearden, et al.

Meanwhile, from: , Bearden is quoted as saying: “Heaviside and Poynting independently and simultaneously discovered ElectroMagnetic (EM) energy flow, in the 1880s after Maxwell was deceased. It is known that, from the terminals of a generator (from the source dipolarity, once created), there pours out a continuous stream of EM energy flow, filling all space around the conductors of the external circuit. Poynting's theory considered only that component of this external energy flow that is intercepted by the external circuit and diverged into the conductors to power [the circuit].

“Heaviside, on the other hand, included not only that ‘caught’ component, but also included the remaining component that is not intercepted by the external circuit, but misses it and is wasted. The wasted energy flow is orders of magnitude greater than the energy flow caught. However, this meant that from every generator there already pours out far more EM energy than the amount of mechanical shaft energy input to the generator --- and that is indeed true. Since no one could explain what could possibly be furnishing such a torrent of excess energy, obviously there was a bit of a problem with the law of energy conservation as it was understood at the time.

“Since then, the broken symmetry of opposite charges --- such as the opposite charges on the ends of the source dipole, once formed between the generator terminals --- has been proven in particle physics. In short, now it is known (in particle physics, not electrical engineering) that the source dipole, once formed, continually absorbs virtual photons from the seething vacuum [the Zero-Point Energy], transduces (coherently integrates) it into real observable photons, and pours out that torrent of real, observable photon energy streaming from those generator terminals. This is the solution to the problem that so puzzled Heaviside and so vexed Lorentz, goading him into creating a neat little trick to get rid of the problem itself.

“Unable to solve the problem of the source of that enormous EM energy flow from the terminals of every generator or battery, H.A. Lorentz, who understood the work of both Heaviside and Poynting, reasoned that the excess nondiverged Heaviside energy flow component had "no physical significance" since it did not power anything. So Lorentz integrated the energy flow vector around a closed surface assumed around any volume element of interest.

“This little trick arbitrarily and neatly disposed of all accountability of the bothersome Heaviside component, while retaining and accounting the Poynting energy flow component. All EM textbooks and electrical engineering to this day repeat Lorentz's integration trick, and dutifully (and arbitrarily) dismiss that Heaviside component. It is still present in every field/charge reaction and outside every electrical circuit, since the Bohren experiment proves its existence, and is readily replicated at any proper university laboratory.

“So the irony is that electrodynamics and electrical engineering -- as they are still being taught in university --- arbitrarily dismiss this very large nondiverged, nonreacting component of EM energy surrounding every field/particle reaction. Even the EM fields are misdefined in terms of what is diverged or wrenched out of them -- a gross non sequitur. My point is that every EM interaction involves far greater EM energy than is presently accounted for, since Lorentz discarded that huge Heaviside non-diverged component.”
Basically, the MEG Generator allegedly captures this Heaviside component.
This free energy device was patented on March 26, 2002 (US Patent Number 6,362,718 -- which can be verified at http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html. mailto:wmorgan@nycap.rr.com reports that production should begin in 2003. Morgan goes on to write an excellent description of this extremely newsworthy event. His e-mail message has received is given below:

“A patent was granted on March 26, 2002 for "The Motionless Magnetic Generator," MEG) US Patent 6,362,718, which is likely to become the first commercially available free energy device in history in about one year from now. The machine will provide free electricity from the vacuum, for the life of the device, which should be a very long life since it has no moving parts. You can see a picture of scientist Jean-Pierre Naudin's MEG replication model at: http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/meg.htm.

It has strong magnets, coils, and a controller unit with the electronics. Naudin made the announcement to the MEG-builder's Yahoo group. The announcement has significance since the patent office has always been skeptical of devices which seem to ‘get-something-for-nothing.’ But according to the new science of scalar electromagnetics, the MEG doesnot break the law of conservation of energy. It's just that the energy is conserved in the fourth dimension, time, and not our 3-space world.

The MEG provides electrical energy by tapping the longitudinal electromagnetic (EM) waves which exist in almost infinite abundance in the vacuum of space. This ocean of energy which permeates everything is sometimes called the ‘zero point’ energy, since it remains there even at absolute zero temperature.
Four inventors are listed: Stephen L. Patrick, Thomas E. Bearden, James C. Hayes, Kenneth D. Moore.

Tom Bearden has explained the operation of the MEG http://www.cheniere.org/, and also speaks about the new fearful weapons that can and have been made using the same ‘longitudinal waves’ of the vacuum.

The complicated physics of how the MEG works is explained in the Paper ‘The Motionless Electromagnetic Generator: Extracting Energy from a Permanent Magnet with Energy Replenishment from the Active Vacuum,’ which can be found at Tom Bearden's website; http://www.help4all.de/energy/MEGpaper.pdf.”
[Currently, http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/meg.htm is the only place where the paper can still be accessed. But this accessibility continues to be in a state of flux.]

“The first MEG units to be produced for sale will output 2.5 kilowatts of free electricity. Forever. They should be in production about a year from now. Facilities for manufacturing the device are being set up in an unnamed ‘friendly nation.’

This free electricity will flow indefinitely, without much, or any maintenance. The units may be hooked together to provide more wattage, so four of them would provide 10 kilowatts. After some production experience units will be made which output 10 kilowatts each. With a couple of those units a house could get off the electrical grid.

Tom Bearden, one of the inventors has said, ‘I will admit that the chief scientist of an important experimental group in a large company was rather stunned at the type of output we were able to obtain. The MEG may look like just a transformer, but it is not. It is a completely different breed of cat.’ This cat, it would seem, is out of the bag now. The ordinary EM waves we are familiar with are called ‘transverse’ waves, to distinguish them from the new ‘longitudinal’ EM waves of the vacuum.

Bearden has explained in depth on his website cheniere.org that wherever there is a dipole (battery, generator, magnet) there is an unseen flow of longitudinal EM waves in that local vacuum, the only problem is in tapping that energy and ‘transducing’ it to electricity. Bearden says that the problem with all the electrical circuits we have is that they are two-wire circuits, a loop by which half the energy goes back to destroy the dipole. In the MEG that closed loop is never made. So the dipole is not being destroyed.

Patents are not granted on devices which do not work, so in a sense this announcement proclaims a new era. The MEG device itself proclaims and proves that energy is abundantly available everywhere, for free. We only have to build the devices to tap it. MEG type devices could be put into a car with an electric engine to make a truly fuel-less automobile. Electricity can be available in very remote places. People will be able to get off our very terrorist-vulnerable power grids. In an era of terrorism a highly dispersed power system would be most desirable rather than our centralized systems.

What is somewhat astonishing to me is the discovery by Bearden et. al. that Time itself is actually compressed energy, and that this free energy is actually coming from the time domain, the ocean of longitudinal EM waves which fill the empty vacuum of spacetime. In fact, time is energy compressed by the same factor that matter is compressed energy: the speed-of-light squared. Thus there is a new companion to Einstein's E=mc2. Can you say ‘E equals delta-tee-cee-squared?’ The ‘tee’ is time and delta-tee is change in time.

A company has been set up to manufacture the MEG called Magnetic Energy Limited.
The New Energy Ramifications are enormous. The oil wars are not necessary. If we threw as much money at this technology as we are spending on the oil wars we would be free of the need for oil in less than a decade. With fuel-less cars air pollution will be greatly lessened. Third world nations can raise their standard of living eventually. And the energy is free. And it never runs out.
http://www.prahlad.org/pub/bearden/scalar_wars.htm is a "Bearden for Beginners" article which explains some of the basic concepts of the current state of scalar technology.
The granting of the MEG patent is the herald of the new era of Scalar Electromagnetics, and the free energy which flows forever and never runs out.”


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