The shape of New Jersey looks like a Pharaoh's bust, when you put it upside down. There is a New Egypt, New Jersey after all. The fire department of New Egypt, New Jersey even uses an ancient Egyptian camel on its banner. It's one of the few American fire departments to use Middle Eastern designs, Station 39.
New Egypt, New Jersey is in Burlington County, in Plumsted Township, as an unincorporated community. This is the part of New Jersey that puts the garden in the Garden State!
Really! This part of New Jersey looks like Nebraska and they grow the best tomatoes and blueberries.
All-doe' New York may be da' Big Apple, New Jersey is da' Zesty Tomato! The A to da' Z of America!
For youz who don't understand wit' da' dense skull... da' A represent da' A in Apple for New York, and da' Z represent da' Z in Zesty Tomato for New Jersey! Capeesh? Like' da' Alpha and Omega? And a don't forgidit! Interesing fact is dat' apples... are a from da' Asia, and da' tomato is a from da' America!!
So Watta' you likes betta' ... Apple Pie or da' Pizza Pie? You like da' Pizza' ... you like da' New Jersey! New Jersey a litta' mor' cheesy dan' a New York. Yeah, apple pie is a sweet and good, but a nutin' like a Jersey Pizza Pie! Don't believe me? You go to da' Jersey Shore, and trya' Manco Pizza...you see, its'a very good! And a rememba' New Jersey is a home to da':
Sometimes it feels like there are persons or entities out there that work against your intended desires and dreams, blocking your path on its intended purpose.
For instance, when five random extra-ordinary events happen in one day that change your destiny. Imagine if when you go to your dream job interview, and then, a car accident happens, followed by a construction crew that appears soon afterwards, after you pass the accident. This makes you late for the interview, of your dream job, you end up missing it, and you are denied entry into the building.
Is this a Miracle on 48th Street? And Notice Italian Flag
Or the one time you forget your cell phone because you were helping somebody in need, and then you miss a very important call for the deal of a life time! Are there spirits blocking your path? Angels? Or higher beings? Well, this is the plot of the Adjustment Bureau -2011.
Striving for your Destiny is common story telling device
Surely in the near future such technologies will allow people to play judge and jury as the gatekeeper to your ultimate destiny. As most youth already post nearly everything of mild to no importance online, an AI will be able to calculate your points of destiny and map out your life, without your consent, likewise everything you do online is absorbed and used in a multitude of ways with out your consent. It already happens with texting with the auto-fill spelling options. It's only a matter of time when machines are able to predict every permutation of human behavior.
Nonetheless, the Adjustment Bureau is thought provoking film that takes on these themes. Well made, it is a small treasure on the nature of human life. Part fantasy, yet it can be considered science fiction. This movie takes this the theme of path-blocking, and turns it into a homily of happiness.
((WARNING ENDING SCENE: Please watch the whole movie first))
The Homestead logo from the movie Passengers 2016 features a kind of bee hive like hexagonal structure. It has 38 hexagons in three different sizes. In a way it reflects the class system of passengers upon the ship, large sizes for higher classes near the center and small sizes for classes on the outer rims.
Class is an ancient structure of society and communal animals. In the modern day, many try to ignore and attempt to make it disappear. But the need the separate and judge others according to ability and awareness seems to be natural phenomena, be it academically, by physical capacity, or by organic nature with identity politics.
Often, children especially relish judging others by their capacity to be athletic, beautiful, or intelligent, demonstrating the human appetite to put others in different classes, subsequently forming different cliques or "classes." As with identity politics, wolf packs or any type of colonial insect, people are born or grow or fit into different castes.
Previously, new social perspectives would take decades to ferment and cause effective change. Usually younger generations would judge their ancestors as prejudiced-backwards thinking persons. However as we go forward, the restructuring of the social class class dynamic has accelerated to about a five year span, whereby view and opinions from 2013 are deemed old fashioned by updated by socially progressive leaders. Perhaps in the near future the dynamic will shift to a yearly cycle? Whereby, last years viewpoints are deemed inappropriate?
The logo of the homestead company, which is shipping Earthlings on a one way trip to another planet, can be seen on a screen. The hero/bad guy's name is seen on the screen, James Preston.
An officer is awoken to help rescue the ship. Only after a high ranking member is awoken can change be made. On his right arm, the logo of the Homestead company can just barely be seen.
Music is a strange type of speech that is a mix of prayer, chant, and release of spiritual energy. In the Needtobreathe's Something Beautiful, the hopeful enchantment of this song mixes into le land of prayer, making it a kind of Sprayer or Sprong?
The US flag appears in this song several times. Likewise there are also fireworks in this video. Making this so so appropriate for today's holiday, the 4th of July!
Mercer County, New Jersey has a humble flag. It is a green tree on a buff background, with ribbons announcing its name and established date, 1838. But there is something neato about the shape of the county. It looks like the head of a king!
The crown portion is mostly Hopewell Township, which runs into Hunterdon County. If you can imagine this king with a beard, then the city of Trenton is where the ear would be.
But the best association is, that, the nose is where Princeton Township is located. This is so appropriate since many (but not all) academic egg heads are snooty and stick their noses up at common folk who do not have a substantial amount of letters that follow one's name like Ph.D., M.S., LL.M., S.J.D., or MD. If you can't find the nose, it's sniffing Somerset and Middlesex Counties. Rumor has it the King of Mercer County is looking at NYC, in admiration, or is that jealousy?
As for the eye-ball of the Old King of Mercer County, it would be the area on the southwestern side of Mt. Rose, New Jersey. Specifically the three roads when you line them perfectly outline the eye: Carter Road, Elm Ridge Road, and Pennington Rocky Hill Road. Thus if you run around this area, you have run around the eye of King of Mercer County.
Before the Canadian tribar flag was adopted in 1965, other Canadian flags have were adopted soon after Canada was confederated in 1867. It was during the Wilfrid Laurier Era, Canada's French speaking founding father, that these flags were created.
Acadian-Canadians differ so slightly from the Quebec-Canadians, likewise Newfoundland-Canadians differ from the Continental-Canadians, since they were the last part incorporated into Canada after WWII. Every so often you hear that some of the old British Caribbean Colonies might join up with Canada some day? Like Turks and Caicos?
Although these flags have no official rank to represent geography, they are heritage flags that commemorate two honorable and distinct voices within Canada.
Finally a new inclusive flag that reflects of the diverse geographic regions that make up the USA, no one is excluded. Just like the current flag there are 50 stars for 50 states. However, there is also a badge with 16 stars which only have four points, since they do not represent fully fledged states.
Can you guess the other non states of USA? Most people know that Washington DC is a part of America, yet it does not get a star in the official banner. But the problem is solved with this flag. You probably know of Puerto Rico? More off the grid is the US Virgin Islands. Further down the limelight of the USA is Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. They are two similar yet very different places. Perhaps you heard of Saipan? Well, it's an island within the Northern Mariana Islands.
Now we are getting seriously off the grid. Only a few people know about the others, like American Samoa. After that you are entering the TOP SECRET level of American geography. Only a handful of people know these places by heart, including yours truly. And these places are not always inhabited, yet, they are as much a part of America as Mt. Rushmore, the Statue of Liberty, and Independence Hall.
The hidden bits of the USA are Navassa, Midway, Wake Island, Baker Island, Howland Island, Palmyra Atoll, Johnston Island, Kingman Reef, Swains Island, and last but not least my favorite, Jarvis Island.
Thus we have a total of 66 stars; 50 five pointed stars in the canton that represent the states and 16 four pointed stars in the badge that represent the external territories and Washington DC. Although some places are void of people, they do have rich histories to tell, especially during WWII. There was a racially charged slave-labor rebellion on Navassa. There was a juicy murder mystery plot on Palmyra Atoll. It really is fascinating.
It's high time that the United States acknowledges her Asiatic, Caribbean, and lands down under.
Now every one in America is represented with a star!
My Little Pony is an 80s reboot that has remade itself with a second life in the 20-tweens. It has a strong cult following. Out of all the state flags, the Pennsylvania State flag is the best suited to get a fun My Little Pony honor!
Official Flag of Pennsylvania
On the left is a brown pony, Liberty Bell, who represents the call of Providence. On the right is a periwinkle pony, Freedom Writer, whose words speak directly to the soul. These two little patriotic ponies appear when help is needed to set someone free from injustice, whether a physical or mental prison. Their primary passion for being, is, aiding people to follow their dreams, with one's heart as the compass, in the pursuit of happiness.
The divide between the North and South is enshrined with the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Long story short, slavery was an inherited institution found in all of the original 13 colonies. However, by 1860 the Union was divided into slave-states and free-soil states. Thus, the Mason-Dixon line became the de-facto dividing line between the North and South.
This flag is based upon the arms of Lord Calvert of Maryland and William Penn of Pennsylvania. Somewhat similar to the Maryland flag, however, the three white dots on the horizontal black stripe and two white field are the coat of arms of William Penn. While the black and yellow quarters represent Lord Calvert's arms. This flag is based upon the Crownstones that mark every 5th mile along the Pennsylvania-Maryland boarder. The north facing side has Penn's arms, while the south facing side has Calvert's arms. Note that every mile, excluding every fifth mile, it is marked with a P and M in the same manner for Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The Mason-Dixon line only goes so far, some historians have figured that it continued onto the Ohio River. When they do this, they are overlooking the fact that the Ohio river ain't a line. But if you really wanna' be a Mr. Smarty pants, the Mason-Dixon line technically isn't a line. Because, the world is curved; therefore it's an arc, so we could call it the Mason-Dixon Arc. No big deal, but what people are fixing at, is that it's the divide between slave and free soil. But people always overlook Delaware! Delaware was also a slave state back in 1860. Oddly the East-West Mason Dixon Arc of Longitude divides a slave state from the another slave state?
So no matter, this flag is to be flown along the divide of slave soil and free soil as it was in 1860. For the start, the flag can be flown anywhere along the border of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Then to the Ohio River, round' Pennsylvania. From where Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia meet, down the Ohio river, until it meets the Mississippi. Then upstream, northwards, up around Missouri, down along the western border of Arkansas. But then, we cut through Oklahoma, west, along the Arkansas River till it meets up with the Canadian River. Then around square hat of Texas.
The reason for cutting through Oklahoma's Canadian-Arkansas branch, is itsa' reminder of how divided the entire country was. We should never forget many of the Native American warriors in Oklahoma took the Confederate side, while just a minority took the Northern side. And yes, several battles took place in Oklahoma north and south of the Canadian River. Furthermore, the Canadian River is good a dividing point, because its name reminds us that we had two earlier wars against our own brethren to the far North, in 1812 and 1776.
Now back to the North-South, Calvert-Penn Flag route, once you go around Texas's square hat and hit 32 degrees north, you head due west along this line, or arc to be more scientifically accurate, of latitude. Reason being the first government to divide this western territory was the Confederate Government. By which, below the 32nd North, the Confederate state of Arizona was created.
Again, this a reminder of the deep divide politics can have, that another group of Americans were fixing to cut up New Mexico territory long different lines. The South even had a functional Confederate capital at Mesilla, C.S.A. Arizona, which is now officially a part of New Mexico. Finally the very west of the North-South/Calvert-Penn divide follows the modern west end of Arizona below 32 degrees north.
Oh yeah, finally, some consideration for Delaware. Since this flag represents the divide between free slave soil, it should be flown along the upper curve of Delaware from Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania to tri-state area of Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland.
So we have a new flag dedicated to the fallen from the US Civil War. It's good to never forget the past, yet we must to live and cherish the now. Sometimes it's hard to put the shoe on the other foot. You can only guess how another is feeling, only God knows. Memorial Day was originally created to heal the wounds between the North and South, and this is another flag dedicated to that memory and bring a glimmer of honor on all sides.
A classic long forgotten game is Bionic Commando 1988 for the original Nintendo. An enemy flag of red, yellow, and black is in the distance. You can see it in the background here; it features a black falcon on a yellow-orange sun, upon a field of red. The bad guys are known as the BADDS. You might be thinking it's vaguely similar to the Nazi. And if you ever beat the game, then you might remember fighting Hitler in the end. If you beat him, then you would have seen his head explode in graphic 8-bit graphic glory.
The original game was known as ヒットラーの復活 - トップシークレット (Hitler's Resurrection - Top Secret) as it was known in Japan. However when it hit the American market, a name change was in order. Apparently American kids were deemed too soft to handle the Nazi imagery? Game play consisted as you controlling a red haired American hero, fighting the Badds/Nazis.
Here is a side by side intro scene of the Japanese and English versions. Notice the change in the flags. In the Japanese version the Neo-Nazi group had a flash lighting bolt symbol underneath the swastika.
Bionic Commando illustrates cultural censorship through flags and symbols in video games, which continues onto this day.
Nevertheless Bionic Commando is a memorable experience, with great game play, challenges, and is fun to play. The end fight scene is amazing action that gives the player total 8-bit satisfaction.
The Hemp Knight, also known as Bluntman, is an off the wall superhero who appears in the movie Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 2001. The emblem of Bluntman has a yellow pentagon with a five leaved plant on top. The colours of his suit are black, yellow, green, and purple. His side kick is Chronic whose emblem features an irregular shaped disc with a cigarette of some sort in the middle. Chronic's superhero colours are grey, red, and black.
The nemesis of Bluntman and Chronic is Cocknocker, who uses the colours blue, yellow and black. Cocknocker has an oversized right hand and carries a flaming sword.
Sometimes you hit the lottery, and sometimes the lottery hits you. Never mind, since Kevin Smith was able to beat the system and become a trailblazer for the next generation, often ignored by the powers that be. Smith smashed opened the gates of Hollywood and was able to bring a voice to the hometown underdogs of New Jersey, the original Hollywood of America.
Mooby's is a fictional company in the Jay and Silent Bob universe. It is burger joint that has the colours of violet and yellow. Somewhat based upon American fast food restaurants, its feature role was from the movie Dogma 1999 as the place of the 'Golden Cow.'
US flag at Leonardo, NJ in the 1970s in front of Quick Stop Groceries - Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 2001. Jay and Silent Bob were a new type of campy and edgy comedy that the Big Wigs in Hollywood overlooked. However director Kevin Smith was able to rise to the top and showcase the life of people outside under the radar of Hollywood lights. Today such comedies are a mainstay. People always say, they should make a movie about "this and that". Well, Kevin Smith scrounged up the balls to follow through, and became pathfinder for a new generation.
The US flag makes a clear centered appearance 'during the filming of Good Will Hunting II - Hunting Season.' Here a snobby person is getting 'hunted' for being so arrogant.
You can just barely see a reversed American flag on the plexiglass sticker next to the clerk, Dante. It was the movie Clerks 1994 that started the launch of the legendary unsinkable duo: Jay and Silent Bob.
A celebration of crass, raunchy, yet honest American humor of the likes of George Carlin would love and did love... Jersey Style. Although seemingly stupid at times, it is also deeply intelligent when you look at it from the proper prospective.
A coat of arms appears on the knight in the Goonies II game for Nintendo. The arms are hard to make out but you can see it on the enemy shield. There was a Goonies I video game, but it was not released for the Nintendo console in the USA. It was released in Japan! However an arcade version of the Goonies I video game was made public in the USA.
A Goonies II movie is still possible! It's one reboot that I'd pay to watch.
In 1987 the movies featuring Hollywood actors spilled over into creative Cold War atmosphere of coin operated video games. Gun video games are an old thing, but perhaps the best original game that came with two buttons wasOperation Wolf by Taito. This game was truly one of the first first person shooters to hit a high mark in the 1980s. Although the standard thumb game controller is the main item of now, a controller that looked like a real life weapon was used in Operation Wolf.
Of vexillological consequence are the insignia upon our hero. A coat of arms appear as patch upon his beret in the first cut scene. It has dark green field with a three striped yellow sinister bend.
Our hero gets a new hat because the patch changes direction. In the later cut scene the beret arms patch changes unto a sinister yellow and red dexter bend.
In Matthew Sweet's song Girlfriend 1991, the Anime series from Space Cobra Adventure is in the background. Of vexillological significance is the triangle insignia from the series.
Sweet wrote this sweet song, that just opened the feels of the 1990s, distinct from the 1980s. Goodbye hair metal, rock took on a more soulful grunge character.
Upon the shoulder of one of the tech guys is circular insignia with two stripes indicating his allegiance and rank.
Here is another guy with a triangle insignia upon his hat. The insignia is gold with a small circle near the right side.
The United Ethnic Timor flag combines the flags of Indonesia and East Timor. Often it is after fierce political separation that painful horrors from yesterday are passed down to the next generation. Sometimes the hard memory increases with intensity and sometimes it dissolves. Yet, the time will come when a boy from East Timor should fall in love from a girl from West Timor. Consequently souls born of this union have the right to fly this flag.
You can't control it, love happens, and knows no boundaries. Black women fall in love with white men, Christian-Germans fall in love with Jewish-Israelis, Baptist men from Texas sometimes take Muslim wives from Arabia, and every once and a while a meat and potatoes Republican will marry a sexy Democrat. Love happens.
Some may not like it, but love is a slow kind of gravity that overcomes the other with a healing grace.
There is a good thing about the Old Testament, or rather the Original Testament. Basically all Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Bahia's, Mormons, Babs, Catholics, Moonie, Shia, Protestants, Druze, Sunni, Seekers, Copts, Samaritans, and Jews can all agree: that the Original Testament is of a divine nature. Ergo the Old Testament is a divine document.
Such a powerful document, the Original Testament has enchanted the tribes of the world and has cut itself across the ocean of time. It is a timeless, collective memory for half of humanity. In contrast, persons of the Hindu-Buddheic and Jain path have been totally circumcised from this holy text, as they have no familiarity with Adam, Eve, Abel, nor Noah. Usually, peoples and nations 'non-circumcised' to the original Patriarchy of Abraham have no concept of the story of Manu and great flood.
In 2014 Lifetime Television retold an Old Testament story about Dinah, the only sister from the founding fathers of 12 tribes of Israel. Not only is Dinah from the Old Testament, her story is in the first book of Genesis. Lifetime took the original source material and adapted it wonderfully for a modern story for the ages. Dinah is the singular founding mother of Israel. Lifetime takes a few liberties but adds a bit of 21st century lore. In the end, an elegant and honest story about love, hate, race mixing, national rivalry, and faith are presented.
Of consequence to vexillology are conjectured flags that may have been flown some 3,333 years ago. Flags appear when Dinah visits the royal family at Shechem. These flags are long and have yellow tassels at the bottom. Additional violet flags appear when she visits the Hebrew Oracle.
The story of Dinah will be retold, over and over, and with each new generation they will add their own version, twist and interpretation to this timeless tale of one of the founding mothers of faith.
(For Ishmael)
أعلام من خيمة الأحمر - 2014. قصة دينة
هناك الشيء الجيد في العهد القديم، أو بالأحرى العهد الأصل. أساسا
كل المسيحيين والمسلمين والسيخ، باهيا، والمورمون، بابس، الكاثوليك، مونى،
البروتستانت والدروز وطالبي والأقباط والسامريين واليهود يمكن أن نتفق
جميعا : أن العهد الأصلي هو من الطبيعة الإلهية. ولهذا العهد القديم وثيقة إلهية. هذه وثيقة قوية، وقد سحرت العهد الأصل قبائل العالم وخفضت نفسها عبر المحيط من الزمن . إنها، الذاكرة الجماعية الخالدة لنصف البشرية. في
المقابل، فإن الأشخاص المسار الهندوس و Buddheic وجاين تم ختان تماما من
هذا النص المقدس، وليس لديهم الإلمام آدم، حواء، قابيل، ولا نوح. عادة والشعوب والدول "غير الختان" الأصلي آلى البطريركية إبراهيم ليس لديهم مفهوم قصة مانو والطوفان العظيم. في عام 2014 مدى الحياة التلفزيون
سرده لقصة العهد القديم عن دينة، شقيقة الوحيد من الآباء المؤسسين من 12 أسباط إسرائيل. ليس فقط دينة من العهد القديم، هي في الكتاب قصتها الأول من سفر التكوين . عمر استغرق مصدر المواد الأصلية وتكييفها انها رائعة للقصة الحديثة للأعمار. دينة هي أم تأسيس فريدة من إسرائيل. عمر يستغرق بضع الحريات ولكنها تضيف قليلا من العلم القرن ال 21. في النهاية، يتم عرض قصة أنيقة وصادقة عن الحب، الكراهية، خلط السباق والتنافس الوطني، والإيمان. من ذلك إلى علم الرايات والأعلام التخمينية التي ربما تكون قد نقل جوا قبل نحو 3333 سنة. تظهر أعلام عندما يزور دينة العائلة المالكة في شكيم . هذه العلامات هي طويلة ولها شرابات صفراء في الأسفل . تظهر أعلام البنفسجي إضافية عندما تزور العبرية أوراكل.
سيتم سرده قصة دينة، مرارا وتكرارا، ومع كل جيل جديد أنها ستضيف الخاصة بهم نسخة ، وتطور وتفسير لهذه القصة الخالدة باعتبارها واحدة من الأمهات المؤسسين الإيمان للبشرية .
יש דבר טוב על הברית הישנה, או ליתר דיוק את מקור בברית. בעיקרון
כל נוצרים, מוסלם, סיקים, באהיה של, מורמונים, באבס, קתולים, ומונים,
פרוטסטנטי, דרוזים, מחפשים, קופטים, שומרונים, ויהודים יכולים להסכים: כי
בברית המקורית היא בעל אופי אלוהי. Ergo בתנ"ך הוא מסמך אלוהי.
מסמך כזה חזק, בברית המקורית הצליחה להקסים השבטי בעולם קצץ עוצמה מעבר לאוקיינוס של זמן. זהו זיכרון נצחי, קולקטיבי עבור מחצית מהאנושות. לעומת זאת, אנשים של נתיב הינדו-Buddheic ו Jain נימולים לחלוטין מהטקסט הקדוש הזה, כמו שאין להם היכרות עם אדם, חוה, הבל, ולא נח. בדרך כלל, עמים ואומות "הלא-נימול" למקור הפטריארכיה של אברהםאין מושג של הסיפור של מאנו ו שיטפון גדול.
בשנת 2014 חיים טלוויזיה שסופר סיפור התנ"ך על דינה, אחותו רק מן האבות המייסדים של 12 השבטים של ישראל. לא זו בלבד דינה מהתנ"ך, סיפורה הוא בספר הראשון של בראשית . חיים לקחו את מקור החומר המקורי והתאימו אותו להפליא לסיפור מודרני עבור הגילים. דינה היא האם המייסדת הייחודית של ישראל. חיים לוקח כמה חירויות אבל מוסיף קצת הפולקלור המאה ה -21. בסופו של דבר, סיפור אלגנטי וכנה על אהבה, שנאה, ערבוב גזע, יריבות לאומית, ואמונה מוצגים.
השפעה על הסיפור space מרווח הם שיערו דגלים שייתכן טס לפני כ 3333 שנה. דגלים להופיע כאשר דינה מבקר את משפחת המלוכה בשכם. דגלים אלה הם ארוכים ויש גדילים צהובים בתחתית. דגלים סגולים נוספים מופיעים כאשר היא מבקרת אורקל העברית.
הסיפור של דינה יהיה שסופר, שוב ושוב, ובכל דור חדש הם יוכלו להוסיף גרסה
משלהם, טוויסט ופרשנות לסיפור הזה נצחי של אחת האמהות המייסדות של אמונה.
The Universe gives Love, yet often that Love is never returned, except for moments like this...
