• Building Atlantis
  • King Canute on the Seashore
• The Sahara Woodlands

Building Atlantis

Eager for new experiences, you feel very open. Let it be for your own good. And the content of this page may help you evolve more realism than going on a wild goose hunt. Consequently, you may even decide to go for a clean break with marring faith that is unfit, unfruitful, and perhaps dangerous if acted on.

Where to put a nice assembly of mountains you throw into the sea, is suggested . . .

The sands of the Sahara desert have repeatedly been like a lush savannah, inhabited by humans and many kinds of animals. However, the climate has changed in great cycles, and since about four thousand years BCE, Sahara has been the greatest desert on the planet. Quite similar cycles appear to have happened earlier too. But there are vast resources of underground water.

[Sources: Ebu, "Sahara"; Wikipedia, s.v. "Sahara", and "Sahara can become green again" [paul-emil-rascu.blogspot.com/2008/01/3-sahara-was-inhabited.html]."

The Sahara region may again turn into a blossoming idyll, a huge blessing of plant life and animal life. Why not hasten the coming of such a fit garden? Why not let Christian believers spend some time and promised miracle-powers to set up Sahara as a lush, almost garden-like woodland with lakes and rivulets once again? They should try not to say manjana, but do it tomorrow. While the miracle-workers are at it, let them throw mountains carefully into the sea according to design, stilling the tsunami-waves they make in so doing, by other powers Jesus has promised - that of stilling winds and waves [Mark 4:39-40]. And see in passing: There should be no need of hurricanes where true followers of Jesus are around, for they are said to be able to do even greater things than Jesus . . . [John 14:12] Now, let us focus on the subject of building Atlantis for a while. Is that going against or along with all sorts of precious miracle powers promised by Jesus? Let them try and see just how fine - or vain, empty, and boasting - their faith in God is, for one thing. [Promised powers of real followers]

Some might think a new Atlantis will be built in such a way, but study the facts: There probably was no Atlantis at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean earlier. Believe scientists in the matter. Evidence is mounting. "Hurrah," you may say, "a good idea - nay, four, five, if not eight." Be on the outlook for good ideas throughout life. It helps. Some may also be implemented.

Also train yourself to consider and reflect. For example, is anyone known to really have thrown mountains thus, in full faith? It is written in the Bible and presented as one of the hallmarks of a good believer, but is it literally true? That is the question.

Jesus replied, "Truly, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, "Go, throw yourself into the sea," and it will be done. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer." [Matthew 21:21-22]

Many could have asked in secretive prayer for such things not to happen and received their answers to it, perhaps considering their very alarming tsunami effects -

Tasks fit for True Followers of Christ Too

"Are stunning feats really fit to show off?" some duped ones may ask. Well, don't be too shy to put God to the test. He might be eager for you to do it too [Malachi 3:10]. You can try to accomplish what those with faith are said to have got the power to do, and drop the hundred excuses. To start by commanding a pebble to make a hop-hop could be fine as well. That could teach you something. [John 14:12, etc.].

Specifically: Here is an admirable task to grow on for those with the right sort of faith: Command top suitable parts of Tibet and the Andes to gather in the sea outside Portugal to form another continent - Atlantis - well shaped, of strong build, perfectly adjusted to ocean currents, with large plains and a range of mountains in the north, middle and perhaps the north-east too, to make the climate almost too good. The size of this new land could be four or five times the size of Portugal, to give an indication (see the red dot on the map). There is place for it. It could be needed.

A future Sahara Garden?

Further, it is assumed that your dealings just lower a lot of mountains and plateaus in, say, Tibet and Andes, so that no one gets hurt, all get satisfied, and the climate in both places gets far better for thriving.

The gospel's Jesus tells that the true follower has faith to do things like these, so why on earth do they not happen?

Judged by the stark lack of such feats, there were never any full-faith followers awake to how they could benefit the planet. And do you know what the Holy Ghost and all the apostles agreed on right after Jesus were gone? They dispensed with the commandments and sayings of Jesus not to burden non-Jewish believers unnecessarily [Acts 15; Acts 21:25].

Allow others to build Atlantis too

It is said that co-work makes stronger. You can be like the Catholic Church in this: Reject nothing that is holy and true in other religions. The Hindu guru Paramahansa Yogananda (12893-1952) told his own guru had power over all the forces of nature. "That guru is dead," you might retort, as if it matters! You see, Yogananda tells somewhere that his guru came back from the dead to shoo Satan off Yogananda's chest so that he could breathe again . . . The story: [Link]

Jesus told someone, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead," according to Matthew 8:22. "Are the dead good at (for) something, set them to the tasks that matter," is the idea behind it . . . but is it seen to happen? Ask yourself: "Who arrange and manage funerals around here?" to adjust the faith a bit, as needed.

Or maybe you feel called to surpass Jesus as he said true followers could [John 14:12], and put dead ones to work to build Atlantis. Seeing is believing.

If you cannot accomplish what looks fine for a follower, cut the crap.

• "Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I . . . pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. Is not 2000 years of mountain-thrower failures enough? [Malachi 3:10]
• "Those who can, do. Those who cannot do, preach [Saying]."

To be a maker of Atlantis and Sahara Gardens means to have a fit faith. To claim to be a follower without showing any of the signs and powers that are to accompany followers, looks like functioning as a bluff and hypocrite, and being disoriented too, perhaps. I think it is common.

King Canute on the Seashore

The mighty king and the waves

It's an error to get tics if the friendly tide disobeys you.

A HUNDRED years or more after the time of Saxon king Alfred, the Danish king of England was called Canute. The great men and officers who were around King Canute were always praising him.

"You are the greatest man that ever lived," one would say.

Then another would say, "O king! there can never be another man so mighty as you."

And another would say, "Great Canute, there is nothing in the world that dares to disobey you."

The king was a man of sense, and he grew very tired of hearing such foolish speeches.

One day he was by the seashore, and his officers were with him. They were praising him, as they were in the habit of doing. He thought that now he would teach them a lesson, and so he bade them set his chair on the beach close by the edge of the water.

"Am I the greatest man in the world?" he asked.

"O king!" they cried, "there is no one so mighty as you."

"Do all things obey me?" he asked.

"There is nothing that dares to disobey you, O king!" they said. "The world bows before you, and gives you honour."

"Will the sea obey me?" he asked; and he looked down at the little waves which were lapping the sand at his feet.

The foolish officers were puzzled, but they did not dare to say "No."

"Command it, king! and it will obey," said one.

"Sea," cried Canute, "I command you to come no farther! Waves, stop your rolling, and do not dare to touch my feet!"

But the tide came in, just as it always did. The water rose higher and higher. It came up around the king's chair, and wet not only his feet, but also his robe. His officers stood about him, alarmed and wondering all at once.

Canute took off his crown, and placed it on the sand.
      "I won't wear it again," he said. "And do you, my men, learn a lesson from what you have seen."

THERE you have ample wisdom in handed-over Nordic traditions. As for Fathers of Orthodoxy, for many centuries in Europe, none or very few had the time to muse as they had.

One may suggest that you avoid trying something rash till your dear faith is strong and effective. Emulate Canute the Mighty first, for example. That should be better than drinking deadly poison in the name of Jesus and find out how the faith is. Compare the Korean girls who believed they could walk on water on the word of Jesus and were drowned according to their seemingly drastic and "first-class faith".

Sahara Woodlands

A good-looking idea should be tested - Are some of Yogananda's gurus almighty just because they say it or their emissary Yogananda decrees so? Ask for a wonderful Sahara Desert demonstration.

A Wonderful Sahara Demonstration

Let the man of "strong almightiness" take a plane (better: fly with wings or soar like a balloon as a fit token of doing greater works than Jesus [John 14:12, etc.] and thus having the faith Jesus said all his true followers must have - he who was merely "lifted up" above the clouds one say, the New Testament makers decree) - and fly, fly away to the Sahara desert and soak it with well sustainable freshwater till desert travellers cry "Hurrah!" and settle in a growing, park-like woodland with ponds, rivulets and such basics of good living. Freshwater is much wanted in other areas on earth too . . . Letting it flow could be done with no harmful side effects and so on. And such feats are what any regular, full-faith follower of the Christianity of Jesus is said to be able to. He is to cast mountains into the sea and better. Oh yeah. So there you are: At least great and overgrown promises are not wanting [cf. John 14;12.].

Why not let all those empowered followers allow a river of freshwater to flow permanently upwards from the salt ocean? Could that a big deal for a Christian who is told he should command mountains to cast themselves into the sea and do greater deeds than Jesus in the right spirit? Turning sea water into sweet water is such a noble feat [John 14:12, etc.]

Caring for the body, mind and spirit may go well along with these miracles, whereas much braying may not help very much. Allow yourself an idea: There is a difference between saying one is almighty and actually being it.

Further, if you want an idyll, conform to its conditions and slow down the abuse of nature and of people. Slowing down, stress little, and having an ample surplus may be had by peopling the arable and sparsely, but not too sparsely. Time will show what is enough. Getting trapped in consumerist living is no good deal. Many nowadays lose comrades and friends as a result of commercial business enveloping most of us - or consumerism. Nuisance deals often reflect our inward problems.

Well, go ahead; ask the great "faithees" to make the Sahara desert into a lovely garden overnight - with dams and nice floods - for "God can do it" is a typical refrain where they talk big without a shadow of substance. "Yes, we can," should not become another.

I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." [Matthew 17:20]

I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done [Matthew 21:21; see also Mark 11:23]. Compare [Malachi 3:10]

Away from Blind Gullibility at Bottom of Blind Beliefs

Please remember that if a guru says "Honesty will save you" or "Sincerity will save you," and similar things, it is generally unwise to put all your eggs of faith in that basket. Still the Sahara desert is lying there, spreading, spreading year by year. Believe as little as you can, is a better standard of living, and made plain by Buddha in the ground-breaking Kalama Sutta. Below that again is "Believe, but make sure." The latter can be used to climb upwards from blind beliefs, but the first one serves us much better.

To tackle bosses, hanker not for the religion they impose on others far and wide, or uphold and are served by somehow. That could be sound enough.

Alarming numbers of troubles, violations, starvation, bad sanitation and lack of good clothing happen daily, and the Sahara Desert is still sand and rocks. It should be fit to wonder why in the light of some of the points above.

Independent thinkers may appear offensive to cowed persons. And copious reading may not be to much help to slavish persons. Feel free to observe well; think for yourself, and dare to come out of your cocoon if you have any, when conditions are suitable for it.

Man is supposed to be better than a donkey for others to ride on top of. Savoury living is to be fit for the common man, or else there are dangers in the future, as was the case with Atlantis a long time back, according to Plato in two of his dialogues. [Link]

The good thing may be tested, and a notarised certificate for having done miracles may be issued. Read on about it.

❖ Some talk (too) big, and some get fooled by them. And so-called common folks are often not among them! - Well, beware of empty words, even if Jesus is credited with them, and show some common sense.