Lauro Muller SC Brasil – um pedacinho

 

                                                Um pedacinho da Historia de Lauro Muller, SC Brazil

 

 

Álvaro Rodovalho Marcondes do Reis, um dos administradores da Estrada de Ferro Dona Teresa Cristina, em setembro de 1905 propos dar a area o nome ‘Lauro Muller’, em homenagem ao Ministro de Viacao e Obras Publicas (Industria, Transporte e Obras Publicas) Dr. Lauro Severiano Muller. Muller era um engenheiro e tambem um diplomata, alem de estar servindo dois termos como o Governador do Estado de Santa Catarina.

A ferrovia foi inicialmente projetada para o transporte de carvao mineral de Lauro Muller ate o porto de Imbituba. Curiosamente, foi a menor estrada de ferro do Brasil com 164 kilometros de extensao. Em homenagem a esposa de Dom Pedro II, a Imperatriz do Brasil D. Teresa Cristina de Bourbon-Duas Sicilias a ferrovia entao, foi nomeada.

Embora com um nome de origen aleman, a cidade foi colonizadda por Italianos ate o final do seculo 19, o que fez com que o local se desenvolvesse. 

A historia da ferrovia vai em paralelo com a descoberta de carvao no solo catarinense. A construção se inicia em 1880, pela empresa James Perry Co. A mão de obra empregada era em sua maioria de imigrantes italianos, que aportaram na região alguns anos antes.

Tudo indica que por volta de 1830 a mineracao seguiu fracamente, mas acerca de 1861, os Sr. Felizberto Calderia Brant Pontes (Segundo Visconde de Barbacena) recebeu concessão para a construção da Estrada de Ferro Dona Teresa Cristina (EFDTC), inaugurada em 1884. A estrada de ferro foi iniciada com involvimento de investidores ingleses, que criaram uma companhia de mineração, a The Tubarão Coal Mining Company Limited e uma companhia de transporte férreo, a Donna Thereza Christina Railway Co. Ltd.

No ano de 1887, a ferrovia teve grande parte de sua malha destruída por forte enchente do Rio Tubarão. As águas arrancaram a ponte da Passagem, paralisando a ferrovia por três meses.

O prejuízo decorrente iniciou o desinteresse dos investidores ingleses na região, aliado à baixa qualidade do carvão catarinense. Estes fatos culminaram com a desistência dos ingleses que nao viam um futuro promissor para continuar com essa companhia, assim Em 1922, os Irmãos Lage se associaram a Arnaldo Werneck e Augusto Rocha tornando assim a companhia CNMCBB uma sociedade anônima, com o nome de Companhia Nacional de Mineração do Carvão Barro Branco S/A. e  o direito de explorar foi repassado para a empresa Lage & Irmãos, do Rio de Janeiro.

 

Aos poucos, a Lage & Irmãos foi se tornando proprietária de todas as minas de carvão da região da atual cidade de Lauro Müller. A empresa mineradora ficou parada de 1887 até 1916 e, posteriormente, os ingleses perderam o direito sobre a estrada de ferro, que foi repassada para os norte-americanos, sob a administração de Farquhar. Mas a proposta não teve bons resultados e em 1918 a ferrovia passou às mãos de Henrique Lage, firma Lage & Irmãos.

Após novas descobertas de carvão na região de Criciúma, a ferrovia foi arrendada pela Companhia Brasileira Carbonífera Araranguá (CBCA) ate 1940. Um novo ramal foi construído, interligando as novas minas, em Criciúma, ao trecho já existente em 1919. Seis anos mais tarde outro trecho foi construído, desta vez ligando até Urussanga, passando pela estação de Esplanada. A cidade de Araranguá recebeu os trilhos da ferrovia em 1927.

A empresa carbonífera The Tubarão Coal Mining Company Limited    agora com novos proprietarios  passa a ser denominada CNMCBB—Companhia Nacional de Mineração de Carvão Barro Branco. Esta vinha sendo preparada para tornar-se uma sociedade anônima no ano de 1917, mas isso só aconteceu de fato em 1922.

 

A estrutura de produção da CNMCBB estava organizada com diversas minas espalhadas pela cidade de Lauro Müller e possuia:

 

·         Usinas que forneciam energia para todos as localidades de suas instalações, nas diversas vilas operárias e para todos os equipamentos da extração do carvão;

·         oficinas mecânicas bem aparelhadas para o concerto das ferramentas usadas no trabalho nas minas;

·         várias máquinas para a lavra do carvão;

·         olaria onde aproveitavam a camada de barro extraída do sub-solo para fazer tijolos e telhas;

·         depósitos para o armazenamento do carvão escolhido e lavado;

·         vagonetes para o transporte do produto extraído; lavadores que faziam todo o processo de beneficiamentodo carvão até o estoque;

·         reservas florestais plantadas sobre o rejeito do carvão; serraria que fabricava tábuas para a construção de vagonetes; trilhos, casas e também para os escoramentos das minas.

 

Em poucas palavras a CNMBB tinha tudo para fazer de Lauro Muller uma cidade exemplar de uma democracia socializada. Foi por influencia da CNMBB que Lauro Müller passou a ter movimentação com a nova atividade econômica. Veja este artigo: Jornal “O Direito” de Orleans, de 21 de novembro de 1926 sita o seguinte:

Lauro Müller, onde a opera firma Lage e Irmãos transformou aquele distrito outrora despovoado numa magnífica vila operaria. Oficinas bem notáveis lá se encontram, como sejam: serraria, ferraria, uma grande charqueada, estabelecimentos munidos dos mais aperfeiçoados aparelhos para a lavagem do carvão, uma ideal fábrica de telhas e de tijolos refratários, sendo tudo isso movido por uma colossal usina elétrica.

 

Lauro Muller tornou-se distrito em 1915, vila em 1922, passando a município em 20 de janeiro de 1957. Localiza-se a uma latitude 28º23'34" sul e a uma longitude 49º23'48" oeste, estando a uma altitude de 220 metros. Sua população estimada em 2013 era de 14.900 habitantes.

Lauro Muller se comportou como uma cidade socialista. Havia somente uma empresa e a mesma controlava tudo o que acontecia no municipio. A empresa por si criou varias amenidades para os funcionarios. Todos os residentes estavam de uma forma ou de outra interligados a unica empresa. Os que nao tralhavam para a empresa, faziam servicos a mesma empresa. Lauro Muller tinha tudo para ser uma cidade exemplar. Ate mesmo com um “monopolio,” ou seja uma so industria, exemplarismo poderia ter acontecido se nao fosse a ganacia dos empresarios.

Os empresarios ate criaram método de moradias para os empregados, mas com o objetivo  de dominação e de controle sobre seus empregados, para que esses não viessem a causar danos futuros aos seus negócios.

A empresa ignorou o planeta terra completamente. Retirava a riqueza do solo e jogava os entulhos pelo rio abaixo matando toda a flora e a fauna. Nunca se preocupou se os toxicos pudessem causar doencas de inflamcao pulmonar para os que ali residiam e trabalhavam.

Por um lado, a empresa criou amenidades, mas nao se importou com higiene ambiental.

Havia em Lauro Muller, no inicio dos anos 50, o Cine Lauro Muller, criado pela CNMBB como uma forma de entretenimento, porem visando um maior controle sobre o que os empregados faziam durante os momentos livres. Alem do cinema, foi criado o Clube Recreativo Cruz de Malta, aonde os empregados poderiam frequentar em bailes de gala e dancas semanais. Uns aproveitavam para usar o clube como um casino de cartas, e perdiam o dinheiro do mes todo num so dia.  Havia uma igreja catolica (religiao da epoca no paiz) que foi construida no centro da cidade. A cidade compunha de uma carneacao chamada Charqueada Sao Pedro Ltda no bairro do Arizona, em Lauro Muller. A carne vendida nos acougues era de melhor qualidade. Tudo o que era necessario pra sobreviver bem havia em Lauro Muller. Inclusive, existe pessoas que jamais tiraram os pes de Lauro Muller. A nao ser para uma viagem ate o litoral, duarante o verao, nao era necessario sair de Lauro Muller para nada.

Ate mesmo uma estacao de Radio ja existia no local. (Cruz de Malta com 1540 Klz)  O progresso havia chegado em Lauro Muller antes mesmo de todas as outras cidades ao redor. Eletricidade ja existia desde 1910, porem foi aperfeicoada depois de 1917 a dinamo.

Lauro Muller tinha menos de 5 mil habitantes e a maioria trabalhava para uma mesma industria carbonifera.

A Industria construiu vilas para os operarios, e casas individuais para os supervisores. A Industria sempre convidava circos para se apresentarem na cidade, ou ate mesmo teatros ambulantes.  Havia tudo de bom para se sobreviver.

O problema era o seguinte:

1-      Operarios eram discriminados e forcados a trabalharem muitas horas por dia

2-      Nao havia estabilidade

3-      Nao havia seguranca

4-      Nao havia equipamentos de protecao individual

5-      Nao havia leis trabalhistas adequadas.

6-      Os gerentes abusavam dos empregados, bypassando qualquer lei, com o objetivo de intimidar.

7-      As condicoes de trabalho eram teriveis

8-      Nao havia leis para insalubridade, e se houvesse, seriam obscuradas.

9-      Nao havia agua limpa.

Com estes problemas, e tendo chefoes com mentalidade do tempo de escravidao, nao era facil sobreviver com o baixo salario, qual nao era suficiente para se ter uma vida digna. Alem da falta de dinheiro, a igreja catolica determinava que filhos nao podiam ser evitados, fazendo assim a populacao dobrar entre os filhos dos empregados. O salario nao aumentava, e numa vila com apenas dois quartos, uma sala e uma cozinha, em cada casa, viviam familias de 10 pessoas.

A Agua potavel poderia ser boa, mas nao era tratada, e tinha muita acidez. A mortalidade infantil foi a uma das maiores do mundo durante os anos de 1940-1950. O problema era higiene. Nao que as pessoas nao fossem limpas. Pelo contrario, a cidade nao oferecia agua limpa aos empregados, e era muito dificil sobreviver quando ha todos os tipos de bacterias na agua.

De todos os problemas ate entao mencionados, o pior foi a calamidade causada na ecologia municipal. Mataram varios rios atravez dos toxicos. Nao havera peixes nem vida aquatica pelo menos ate 2030. Ninguem ate entao e responsavel por isso.

Um dos pontos turisticos da cidade e a Serra do Rio do Rastro. Esta foi asfaltada na decada de 80 e iluminada por completo na decada de 90. E uma das estradas mais lindas do mundo, e tambem uma das mais perigosas.

A cidade de Lauro Muller, no berco da Serra do Rio Do Rastro esta a 220 metros acima do nivel do mar. A  parte mais alta da cidade chega a 1460 metros. Na verdade a subida para a serra ja comeca em Tubarao, SC., onde o  nivel e de uns 5 metros , ou seja, o oceano e a cidade nao se tocam, mas estao pertinho em altura. Porem, em menos de 70 kilometros de distancia, seguindo o sentido oeste, ou seja, se afastando do mar (o mar esta no leste) ate lauro muller se sobe 220 metros.

A viagem ate Lauro Muller e espetacular. Se voce esta viajando pela BR-101 entre Florianopolis,  Santa Catarina, com destino ao Sul, ou seja, Rio Grande do Sul, assim que voce chegar a Tubarao voce tem 3 opcoes de chegar a Lauro Muller, SC.

Primeira Opcao – Em Tubarao –

Se voce fosse diretamente oeste, voce chegaria a Lauro Muller, que fica no sentido oeste de tubarao – indo em direcao ao centro do estado, ou seja, se afastando do mar. Porem, para chegar a Lauro Muller voce pega em Tubarao, SC  a rodovia SC-438 em direcao a Gravatal, Braco do Norte, Sao Ludgero, and Orleans e ate Lauro Muller. Nesta viagem voce vai bastante pro norte-oeste, pra depois voltar pro sul e chagar ao destino, porem com uma estrada asfaltada e vista e magnifica. Se ve a Serra ao Oeste por todas as areas desta estrada. Embora voce va pro norte pra chegar ao sul, esta estrada e mais rapida devido ser uma rodovia asfaltada criada antes da cidade se desenvolver.

 

Segunda Opcao –

Seguir o destino do Rio Tubarao, que desce a serra e passa por Lauro Muller em direcao ao mar, passando por Tubarao. Neste caso deve se entrar na cidade de Tubarao, SC. e tomar a estrada pra Orleans, SC. Basta perguntar pra qualquer pessoa qual e a estrada pra Orleans, que todos sabem. Em mapas ela e conhecida como a estrada geral da guarda, ou rodovia SC-440. Esta Rodovia, SC-440, foi construida ao lado da estrada de ferro, ou a estrada de ferro foi construida ao lado dela, o que seja mais provavel, porem acompanha o rio tubarao de uma certa forma inacreditavel. Isso tem haver com a compra das terras ao lado do rio Tubarao para a construcao da estrada de ferro. Esta estrada chega ate Orleans e continua ate Lauro Muller, porem em Orleaans ela muda de numero – o que antes era Estadual 440 – agora passa a se chamar Estadual 438, ou SC-438. Vejam que a Estadual SC-440 ate hoje nao foi asfaltada. Trata-se de uma estrada abandonada. Seja por motivos politicos, ou motivos ate entao nao clarificados, cada prefeito deve questionar direitos sobre estas areas, quais ao meu saber haviam sido vendidas ao criador da estrada de ferro.

 

Terceira Opcao –

Seguir a BR-101 mais uns 30 kilometros, ate o trevo de Icara. La tomar direcao a Criciuma, SC. pela SC-444. Em  criciuma tomar a SC-446 (Nao em direcao a Nova Veneza), em direcao Norte Oeste, ou Urussanga, e entao Orleans, qual voce ao ver Orleans da altura, voce toma a SC-438 em direcao a Lauro Muller. Esta viagem e a mais recomendavel devido a vista que proporciona das videiras e tambem da cultura.   

 

Dentre as 3 opcoes, eu crecomendo a opcao numero 2 – simplesmente porque e a mais direta, e leva mais tempo. Mais direta porque de Tubarao voce chegaria a Lauro Muller pela menos distancia, numa estrada indo sentido Oeste, aonde Lauro Muller se localiza em referencia a Tubarao.

Embora tenha curvas envolta do rio, esta estrada da uma grande ideia de como foi contruir a estrada de ferro.

Devido a contrucao das estradas de ferro envolta do rio que surgiu a cidade de Pedras Grandes que cidade viveu um período de extremo desenvolvimento depois da descoberta das minas de carvão em Lauro Müller e da construção da Estrada-de-Ferro Dona Thereza Christina, quando foi erguida no município uma estação ferroviária – depois transformada em Museu da Cultura Italiana.

O que aconteceu com a estacao rodoviaria de Lauro Muller?

Sim, esta e a questao que quero levantar a todos os leitores.

Porque nao torna-la num museu da estrada de ferro? Porque nao solicitar ao prefeito que veja verbas para tornar isso um monumento nacional, seja elas de onde virem.

Agora que comecei, gostaria de falar sobre o castelo.

Sim, foi criando por Henrique Lage, e supostamente doado a sua esposa, Gabriela Bensanzoni, que deve ter usado como um refugio de tudo e de todos, enquanto estando ao lado do marido Henrique Lage.  Ja e de sabedoria comum que o castelo serviu de moradia para engenheiros da companhia que atuava em Lauro Muller.

O castelo de Lauro Muller deve ser comprado devolta pelo municipio, com intervencao do estado para ser uma obra de utilidade publica. Sim, de uma maneira diplomatica o castelo deve voltar ao municipio, e com isso arrecadar ingressos de turistas que querem visitar. O castelo deve se tornar um MUSEU, com tudo o que teve na epoca de sua existencia. A fazenda deve se tornar algo para se visitar.

O Lago deve ser propriedade do Municipio.

Nao estou aqui me referindo que deve ser tomado, mas estou afirmando que deve ser de propriedade nacional, municipal, estadual e historica. Os donos devem vender, e receber o valor que pedirem, mas entenderem que se trata de algo historico. UM MUSEU

Lauro Muller merece um hotel de luxo – IBIS, preferivelmente, para hospedar turistas que vem visitar a mina modelo, e tambem o castelo, a radio Cruz de Malta, e durante o dia visitar a Serra Do Rio do Rastro. Porem, o castelo nao pode ser algo privado. Imagine se o dono comecar a cobrar 5 reais pra cada visitante? Ou se recebe dinheiro das empresas de TV que querem fazer uma reportagem da cidade. Que absurdo isso seria se nao fosse parte do municipio.

Isso nao teria cabimento!

Como Lauro Mullense, eu gostaria de saber!

Como trazer o castelo para as maos da cidade novamente? Digo de uma forma digna, sem apontar dedos!

Com Segunda Guerra Mundial em andamento, o governo brasileiro de Getúlio Vargas celebra com o governo americano os Acordos de Washington, criando o parque siderúrgico nacional e impulsionando novamente a extração de carvão no sul de Santa Catarina. A ferrovia Dona Teresa Cristina tem papel fundamental neste quadro, realizando o transporte do carvão das minas aos portos de Imbituba e ao Porto de Laguna.

Do periodo de 1922 ate 1945 Lauro Muller se mostrava um lugar promissor. Embora ainda nao tenha se tornado um municipio, e pertencia a Tubarao originalmente, a emancipacao ocorreu em 1957... olhe o mesmo ano em que...Em 1957, é incorporada ao patrimônio da estatal RFFSA – Rede Ferroviária Federal SA. O estabelecimento da Indústria Carboquímica Catarinense (ICC) em Imbituba, no ano de 1978, com o objetivo de aproveitar os rejeitos piritosos do carvão como fonte de enxofre, aumenta significantemente a demanda de transporte ferroviário.

A segunda crise do Petróleo aumentou o interesse pelo uso do carvão nacional, levando a um novo período áureo da ferrovia, entre os anos de 1983 e 1986, quando o transporte alcançou o nível de sete milhões de toneladas/ano.

Com a superação da crise do petróleo e o fim da obrigação, em 1990, das siderúrgicas de utilizarem o mínimo de 20% do carvão nacional, e também com a paralisação da ICC em 1992 a demanda de transporte reduziu-se às necessidades de suprimento do Complexo Termoelétrico Jorge Lacerda, situada no município de Capivari de Baixo, cuja primeira unidade iniciou a operação em 1965.

Em 1997 a ferrovia foi privatizada, sendo gerida pelo novo concessionário – Ferrovia Tereza Cristina SA (FTC), que a arrendou em leilão no ano anterior por R$ 18.510.000,00 por um período de 30 anos.

E assim, Lauro Muller fica a cidade que tudo teve! Teve uma industria que poderia ser a alma da cidade ate hoje, porem esta alma se mantem afastada. A alma reside no povo, que ate hoje mantem um senso religioso maior do mundo. Todos participam, seja de quaisquer religioes.

A Festa da Santa Barbra, Padroeira dos Mineiros, e a maior festividade da cidade.  Mas la no fundo, os moradores gostariam de fazer de Lauro Muller a cidade turistica antes de chagar a Serra.

Os moradores querem uma LAURO MULLER  (sendo a unica na rodovia Estadual 438) que leva ate a Serra do Rio do Rasto, e a primeira no Brasil a ter Mineracao de Carvao, que seja uma cidade TURISTICA! E para isso seria necessario a criacao de um bondinho de Guata ate o top da Serra, um aeroporto e tambem varios hoteis. Porem, antres disso tudo, e importante que o municipio compre devolta o castelo! Ele deve ser ser um patrimonio historico.

Ate entao!

Milton

 

um video - saindo de Orleans chegando a Lauro Muller -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Uf67-ZevA

Doping in Sports and a viable solution

Doping in Sports and a viable solution

The use of drugs to enhance performance (Doping) is considered unethical by most international sports organizations, and the reasons for the ban are mainly the health risks of performance-enhancing drugs, the equality of opportunity for athletes, and the exemplary effect of drug-free sport for the public. Anti-doping authorities state that using performance-enhancing drugs goes against the "spirit of sport."

It is wrong to strip anyone of their achievements simply for the fact that they were caught in a lie, our used stimulants before or during  past competition. If the competition already took place and was not reported any wrongdoings at that time, it is too late.

It is wrong to go back in time and strip Olympic participants who used performance enhancing drugs, unless we go back 2000 years ago and start scrutinizing all horses in competition to find out what they were fed, and if doping was present. Unless we go back and analyze the creation of the medication Benzedrine, and its relation to sports, we can learn that amphetamine (another name for Benzedrine) leads to a lack of judgment and a willingness to take risks, which in sport could lead to better performances. We also learn that this medication should not be used while trying to fly an airplane. To properly judge any wrongdoing or bad activity in sports, it must be done before the game.  If later, much later, some wrongdoing transpires, it must be dealt on a management level, by firing all those who were involved in covering it up with the big organ or facility that sponsored the event. It should not ever be dealt with the individual athlete alone, especially if such individual went through “medical tests”, and passed them. If Doctors were involved, they are accountable. Not the player.

Like any other drug, doping can be addictive, and lead to death. Any sportsman, when on top is under pressure from sponsors, fans, and specially the team management. Youngsters are influenced by hungry managers.

Once it is proved that a player who won the tour of France, for example, was using doping, everyone in charge should be accountable for allowing such disgrace to take place, but not Armstrong, all by himself. He holds little, if not zero accountability because he is another victim of the “doping athlete’s system”, in existence since the beginning of times.

Furthermore, doping should be allowed in sports.  Sports will be a more challenging competition  of  super humans, capable of running one 1000 miles, or endure days of starvation, or a six-hour tennis match in the hot sun.  Anabolic steroids have been used for decades by all types of people, and a few died because they took it on their own, without a proper guidance.

I vote for science! I want to see a doping that is designed for each sport. A doping that when taken, does exactly what it is supposed to do. I want to see a complete engineering of doping been explored, created and presented.

We are spending too much money screening athletes, when we know that the entire system of screening doesn’t work well. It makes mistakes. In the end, people’s consciousness speaks louder. The athlete will drink alcohol and tell the truth about doping, and the newsman calls it "what is trending today".  Others athletes are caught during screening and later exposed. One way or another most will confide into others what took place. No one likes to be a cheater forever.

The biggest problem with doping is that because they are illegal, most drugs are not available in any market, and are created by private organs with the purpose of dominating the doping business. Doping has many side-effects, more so because it changes the entire metabolism of the body affecting liver, kidneys, and ultimately the heart. It tells the body to endure certain tasks, mostly physical, but it doesn’t tell the user it is addictive, and when mixed with any other medication can affect the emotional side, sometimes creating a beast out of a man.

People are addicted to sports. Sport is the mass form of entertainment. People go to stadiums, gymnasiums, tracks, etc. to see a competition of endurance. Removing doping from sports will encourage the doping pharmacy to create the newest undetectable drug that will enhance performance, available to a few, while everyone else will be in disadvantage.

My point is: It is a waste of time to watch someone to “fall from grace” when grace was everything, but graceful. We should hide it and move on. It is not even fair to expose how such athlete was caught, when we know that he did not act alone. Shame on inspectors! Shame on the team (athlete) management! Shame on the Athlete!  More shame to the industry that creates such a drug and places it into a clandestine market. Yes, it is a shame because these industries may as well have people in various areas of the sport, as inspector of this or that department and maintain control of this entire business of making, showing and destroying an athlete, while making millions of dollars, if not billions each year to control the anti-doping screening process worldwide. Who knows?

It is very ironic for us to get entangled into a dispute between something as banal as doping. Like any illegal market, doping has a lord behind a bigger lord who controls the entire monopoly of that commodity. Because it deals with drugs, it should be legalized once and for all. Lords should deal among themselves the process of legalization of all drugs, making the user liable for his actions. Prohibition will not work because it divides society. Today society is divided in the war against drugs. The same people, who plow, plant and harvest the drug, are doing for a larger group, this larger group is so large that it is composed of complete infra-structure for mass distribution. If a member decides to boycott or create a small distribution, this member will be then exposed to the media, the drug will be recuperated and burned and everyone is appeased.  The fight to control the drug distribution should be minimum, but it escalates when greedy from the lords dissatisfy those who are involved. The business is so big that it creates an entire army of soldier ready to fight against another group who is interested in taking the distribution away from them. These fights are orchestrated by the lords, who furnish artillery to both sides, control the fight and win regardless of the outcome because both sides’ works for the same lord.  Sometimes, to make it good with the authorities, the lord calls the police and gives a tip about the traffic that is taking place. It is usually done to expose certain individuals who are becoming trouble makers within the organization. Most have no desire to expose their bosses, and end up incarcerated for a while, returning to the same life as before.

The drug business is so large that no Lord will allow any country, nation, or any organization to take control. This business belongs to the richest group in the world, and if it could be combined with the group that owns the banking industry, it is fair to say that they own the whole world.

Now we can get to the point of the story.

An Athlete who uses doping is a human being who needs enhancement in certain areas. Unfortunately, the doping is a mixed bag of cocktails and medications that no one can ever imagine what could result from such act. He won, but probably will die not old enough to solidify roots.

If all medication are exposed ---- all competitions will be about who can get the best results with what type of medication. Nothing wrong with that! We will see super-humans doing things unimaginable if they can keep focus. If not, don’t post it.

Until a time when we find out that our mind can control our body, we will be taking all sorts of medication to better one thing or another. By allowing doping, science can study the consequences of each drug and eventually create one that is less damaging. Eventually they will create a drug that will enhance the brain to do its job without any other drug-related interaction.

Milton    

 

Bird's Meeting the thirteen colonies of the USA

The first Meeting was taking place….

Let’s’ get rid of tyranny!

“Thus ever to tyrants.” The Cardinal said to his twelve friends. “Either they surrender, as General Lee surrendered to General Grant in Virginia or they will be dead.”

“I totally agree with you.”

Chickadee whispered to Cardinal, for agreement.  “By the sword we seek peace but peace only under liberty.” Chickadee is originally from Boston.

“Exactly.” said Purple Finch while trimming his feathers. “Live free or die”! I am tired of hiding during fast winds. Purple Finch came from New Hampshire for this meeting.

“Not so fast” Said Baltimore Oriole to Cardinal, Chickadee, and to purple finch. “Wait a minute… ‘Strong deeds, gentle words.”

I agree, lets’ be firm, but gentle. Robin said to no one in particular. “He who transplanted still sustains.” Let’s be thankful to God and also to Eli Whitney for making my state the birthplace of mass-production manufacturing. Robin is from Connecticut.

“Hey Robin, you are off the subject. But now that you started, King Williams School was the first school opened in this country, in 1696." Said Baltimore Oriole the rest of the flock. Baltimore Oriole is from Maryland.

“Who gave you permission to delegate this meeting?”

“No one”

“I just think we must work together and ‘hope’.” Said Rhode Island Red, already annoyed by the others. “I know I am the smallest, but not necessarily the weaker.”

“We are here to agree with ‘liberty and independency’. I know I am not the greatest either, but I was the first bird to ratify the Union, and also the first to ratify the federal constitution. I am a simple Blue Hen Chicken, but I am never late.” The Blue Hen Chicken said to the Cardinal. She turned around to face the others.   

“I am not finished yet. I did what I said, therefore I am. I am not sure about the rest of you.”

“I am with Blue hen Chicken”. The Cardinal 2 said to everyone. “I am from North Carolina, and I also think ‘to be, rather than to seem’.” She continued. “ My state was the home for the Wright Brothers, and they were the first to fly an airplane.

“You guys stop it”! I know for a fact that: ‘prepared in mind and resources while I breathe, I hope’. Said the Great Carolina Wren, “and I will make my state a leading shipper east of the Mississippi River.  

“I vote for ‘Liberty and Prosperity’, and I am sick and tired of military maneuvers that took place in here. Said Eastern Goldfinch from New Jersey while drinking water.

 “I am the bluebird from New York. I was the first capital city of the United States. As such I say: Ever Upward.”

“Ladies, Ladies”, clam down! The Mountain Laurel said to everyone.  He was munching chocolates, but when noticed by Cardinal,  he placed the remaining pieces under his wing. “I agree with ‘Virtue, Liberty, and Independence’.   I have nothing else to say.”

“Wait I minute. I did not make my point!”

“Go Ahead Brown Thrasher.”

“Thanks. I am sure that we will be great when we acquire ‘Wisdom, Justice and Moderation’, and do not forget that Georgia is a top producer of the three P’s – peanuts, pecans, and peaches.”

We will not forget!!!!!

The meeting was adjourned.

Men and UFO's

Men and UFO’s

 

 

For centuries we want to know whether we are alone in this universe or if there are other beings in different planets. Mathematically speaking, it would make no sense to imagine that we are the only beings in existence; yet, nothing so far proved with certainty that we are in contact with aliens, or that we have been visited by them.

 

As humans (people), we have three parts.

1-      Our body or carcass

2-      Our brain and mind set – which we call it our soul

3-      Our spirit – which is the only part of our being that doesn’t die when we die.

 

Our body, made up of a combination of reproducing cells, inherited traits of DNA belonging to our ancestors, such as our parents, grandparents etc. In other words, we are composed of the same DNA configuration, with a slight change inherited from our ancestors. This small variation on our DNA will either make our carcass susceptible to diseases or not, and it will decide the longevity of our life span. It all depends of what was inherited from our ancestors and if this inheritance is be trigged by environmental circumstances. One way or another, we have limited our existence to 100 years of life.

 

People’s body dies for a variety of reasons, but everybody dies. Death is a certainty! Death is the end of usage of a carcass.

 

The function of the brain is to exert centralized control over the other organs of the body. This centralized control allows rapid and coordinated responses to changes in the environment. What makes the brain special in comparison to other organs is that it forms the physical structure that generates the mind. From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, grief, despondency, and lamentations. It acquires information from the surrounding world, stores it, and processes it in a variety of ways. Our mind, when connected with our spiritual side, receives the name of soul.

 

Our spirit is the only part “in” direct communication with our Creator.
Our spirit is free to depart from a body at any time, and free to enter into a new body whenever it wants.  Because a spirit is in contact with the creator with a pure connection, such as a connection of light, a spirit is a pure particle of God, who accepts God’s plans for the entire universe, but wishes to experience this plan on a day-to-day experiment. God experiences himself though each spirit, each soul, each mind and each body.

 

How do we operate?

 

With the combination above, and the knowledge that we are born small, we know that our body plays a very good part in our existence. Once we start to experiment our mental capabilities, we grow as people. From 1 to 7 years old humans are spiritual. From 7 to 14 the environment takes charge to mold the mind, and people become more mind oriented. Mind oriented people can be also spiritual people. These are hard to find, but they learn and live in harmony with the main source throughout their entire life. When mind oriented people use this orientation towards the body and the environment in relation to their own body, they become personality people. Personality people are not good people! They are not in contact with the force, because as personality grows, spirituality shrinks. Personality people live their lives to satisfy their body needs. They seek recognition and they accomplish admiration as the greatest reward for existence. They live an entire life without spiritual growth. They waste a life because they could not even experiment and share it with their soul.

 

Soul is the desire of a balance between our complete body parts.

 

If a human being is more personality than spirituality, the soul is there, computing and processing to see if there is any sign of growth, but only finds repetition. Therefore the soul has not much to communicate with the spiritual side, and it starts to shrink. A life becomes greedier, more materialistic, more narcissistic, and more egotistical…and little attention is paid to others, if any.

 

There are children who are born into environments of disgrace, they are exposed too soon to violations of their bodies or their minds, and this can trigger into a life without soul. There is mind, body, but little communication between the soul and the spiritual side. These individuals lack empathy. They can commit a crime and feel as if it was nothing. We see many of them everywhere.

 

Now, if this understanding of our being, and an idea how we are composed, we can observe others and see which one is living a life of personality and which one is living a life of more spirituality. It is important to know that a balance is the best remedy. No one can be only spirituality while in a body. It simply cannot happen because there are other parts.

 

Mankind is developing a better understanding about life on earth. We have found traces of prior existences and prior cities before our times. We have read stories about gods and their power in various books. We have read about UFO’s and aliens in all corners of the world. It is fair to say that aliens exist and even fairer to say that they visit us. We have so many people claiming this to be true, that it is even silly to try to say the opposite.

 

The only problem is that we don’t know how many different types of visitors we have? Where are they from? Are they all from one single place?

 

If they come from different places with the same mind set as we have, they probably are in competition. Which one of them has the betterment of mankind in mind? Which one of them has a better balance among all parts of a body?  

 

We know that they are not 100% spiritual beings, for they do not come as a light. They appear, stay for a while, make designs on plantations, leave a message, crash, and are put away, leave, and take people with them… Whatever they do, it is a lot to grasp.

 

My understanding is that they are more developed than us technologically, and it means in all ways. Maybe they found the secret for eternal body life, or for a life with an undetermined number of years. They travel from constellation to constellation in a blink of an eye and they have acquired all the technology to prevent major disasters, such as a meteor encounter etc.

I still ask myself whether they are balanced or not? I mean, are they in connection with the creator? Are they against the creator? Are they a mix bag like us in this earth, yet with all technologic advances?

 

How many times have they destroyed us? How many times they refused to protect us from a calamity?

 

One thing is for certain. They cannot occupy our body because you can only do in a form of spirit, and they lack spirituality, they are in a body form.

How many races have developed their spirituality with a balance where the creator is present at all times?

Are we a balanced society?

 

It doesn’t matter who you are. I know that you have a connection with a source, and this connection makes the person that you are. You don’t have to know all lessons in truth to be an expert, for the truth lives within your soul. But it is necessary to understand that we have a choice to make this existence a life of spiritual growth, or not. It doesn’t matter how long you live in a body, you will not achieve 100% spirituality because a body has its limitations and a spiritual form has none. A body can however help a spirit to grow through experiments in a life span, if these experiments are not redundant. Although the spirit has all knowledge, it wishes to put it in practice. It doesn’t want to live only with an idea or a concept.

 

What would you like for yourself in this life? Would you like to live forever and be a slave of entities who are living for millions of years, yet never achieved a complete sense of spirituality, because they loved so much their body and shape, and also, they love to conquer? Or you would like to be able to return into your spiritual life and get the freedom to grow spiritually in harmony with the force of the creator?

 

Do not be so gullible to think that because they are smarter they are good. There are good and bad in every one of us, therefore the same goes to them. They are part of one creation; except that they live for a long time in a society they are not so happy, otherwise they wouldn’t be coming here to dictate advances.

 

But yes, they come here and they give us technology. Whatever they get in exchange I don’t know, but I am sure they take something. They like gold, for it is pure and the best conductor for technology. Through the usage of god man can create equipment that defies gravity. Through the usage of gold aliens can advance their journey into the universe.

 

Aliens know that we are sacred! They know that we were (are) created by God! They try to prevent catastrophic damages, for they have the knowledge and the technology to do so. They are aware of our life system of government and they do not interfere directly, for they would be violating the purest rule of existence. Trespass!

 

So, they were invited to visit, and they do so whenever possible. They guide leaders to protect themselves with equipment and machineries. They share time travel technology, or teleportation. They can only share mental stuff. They lack spirituality because they developed their personality and “guided it off” self-image, but into self-preservation.

Once a personality being decides that life is what matters, looks lose its appeal. Looks lost its appeal once a being achieved longevity. It is actually better to have everyone alike. The eyes are the door to the soul, and the soul is there, alive, but unbalanced, and afraid to dissipate and becoming nothing. It is lack of spirituality that takes over.

 

And so, life repeats itself on earth. A member of one family passes away and in another family he is re-born to start it all over again. The spirit takes a new body and continues its journey to balance itself. Some spirits may live 500 lives and still return with the same need of growth it had when it started this process. Spiritual growth is the objective! It can only be achieved as a body; for it needs to experiment what it always knew existed in theory.

 

If an entire population veers toward lack of spiritual growth, all members will suffer more, and life eventually is destroyed completely. God created beings to explore the universe and not to destroy it.

 

Religion has a tendency to approach people into a common balance with respect to the existence of a creator, and its operation. However, because on earth people are too much “personality”, they pay too much attention to material things and looks. Religion suffers because the same people are the ones coordinating the customs of each religion. If the leaders are personality guided, the population will follow it, until it breaks the rule of existence…which is spiritual growth. If spiritual growth is not possible, decimation is required, and it (in total) can only come from the creator.

 

I am not saying that man cannot destroy the entire earth. It can! But it cannot destroy people’s spirit, ever. The same goes to all aliens. They can come and visit and change everything, yet, never destroy what will be reunited with the creator. Man can even make this process longer, closer to infinity, but never near eternity. Eternity belongs to the creator.  

 

Spiritual growth happens only when one is connected to another, or one is connected to many other beings in harmony with understanding that the earth is a sacred place for humans to grow while passing for various, different, stages.

 

If leaders think it is not a good idea to share the information about alien visits, it is better this way! Really. How can we cope with visitors and at the same time maintain our minds balanced to the existence of a creator, when we can also deduct the aliens are our creators? It becomes too massy to decipher. Many Leaders have this understanding! Yes, they think that God doesn’t exist and aliens are gods because they are the ones responsible for our staying in this earth. Maybe they are responsible for human beings to have moved from Mars into earth, and maybe we are the continuation of a long last battle between beings in search of control. Yet, our spirit knows it and understands it, when we are connected, or…a little more balanced between our physiological needs and our soul desires.

 

Do not lose your faith in God. Do not let all this to move your thoughts into a place of denial. If you do so, you will be a leader with no empathy. We have enough people in control without practicing empathy. We do not need anymore!

 

And if things keep the way they are! I mean, if leaders keep on fighting for power and domination over the human race, an end is imminent.

 

Although not everybody believes that the bible has our story and also our destination, it is because most people were not introduced to bible lessons, and got cut up with developing their personality and forgot the core of their existence. It is an error, to act and be this way. Besides the bible, there are many writings that were inspired by our creator, and they teach us to accept others, even when we see ourselves different.

 

Can we achieve spirituality without believing in Jesus?  Yes, for spirituality is just a manifestation of growth of your soul while experiencing life. As long as you are not a personality, you are developing your spirituality, therefore coming closer to the creator. Jesus is the protector of our earth! Jesus is the owner of our earth! Jesus is the only salvation from this earth to eternal life. It means that without Jesus, your life is empty of the meaning of this earthly passage we are experiencing. You will exist, live day by day and be blind, death, and dead inside. It is a life without a soul; a life with body and mind only.

Why is Jesus important?

Jesus is important because there were many decimations of this earth before. Humanity has gone through at least 100 times what we are going through today. If the earth has 6 billion years and we only know the history of its last 150 thousand of years… you can deduct that it is not impossible for our creator to send a being who would not commit sins, yet leave a lecture of the end of our times written for us to see and understand it. If the bible was something to ignore, it wouldn’t be in every hotel desk you travel to. If the bible was a lie, why do we still keep on following its writing and discovering each day that it cannot be proved to be a lie?

 

This is a choice we have to make. Do we believe that God sent his son to die – so we could have a chance in understanding the meaning of life? If not! Why are we making the same mistakes over and over?

To help we identify the Messiah, God inspired many Bible prophets to provide about the birth, the ministry, and the death of this promised Deliverer. All these Bible prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus Christ.

 

 

 

 

PROPHECIES REGARDING THE MESSIAH

                               

EVENT                                                                                  PROPHECY                                          FULFILLMENT

 

Born of the tribe of Judah                                                       Genesis 49:10                                         Luke 3:23-33

Born of a virgin                                                                       Isaiah 7:14                                               Matthew 1:18-25

Descended from King David                                                   Isaiah 9:7                                                 Matthew 1:1, 6-17

Declared by Jehovah to be his Son                                         Psalm 2:7                                                                Matthew 3:17

Not believed in                                                                        Isaiah 53:1                                               John 12:37, 38

Entered Jerusalem riding an ass                                              Zechariah 9:9                                           Matthew 21:1-9

Betrayed by a close associate                                  Psalm 41:9                                              John 13:18, 21-30

Betrayed for 30 silver pieces                                                   Zechariah 11:12                                       Matthew 26:14-16

Silent before his accusers                                                        Isaiah 53:7                                               Matthew 27:11-14

Lots cast for his garments                                                       Psalm 22:18                                            Matthew 27:35

Reviled while on the stake                                                       Psalm 22:7, 8                                          Matthew 27:39-43

None of his bones broken                                                       Psalm 34:20                                            John 19:33, 36

Buried with the rich                                                                 Isaiah 53:9                                               Matthew 27:57-60

Raised before corruption                                                         Psalm 16:10                                            Acts 2:24, 27

Exalted to God’s right hand                                                    Psalm 110:1                                            Acts 7:56

 

 

 

Jesus Christ is the leader of an army of faithful angels.

 

A time of hope and restoration is coming upon us! It will happen right after the war of Armageddon, when Stan’s system on earth will be destroyed. After Armageddon, Satan and his demons will be imprisoned in an abyss for a thousand years. During that thousand-year period, Jesus Christ will “judge the living and the dead.” (2Timothy 4:1) “The living” will be the “great crowd” that survives Armageddon. (Revelation 7:9-17) The apostle John also saw “the dead . . . standing before the throne” of judgment. As Jesus promised, “those in the memorial tombs will hear [Christ’s] voice and come out” by means of a resurrection. (John 5:28, 29; Acts 24:15) But on what basis will all be judged? According to the Apostle John’s vision, “scrolls were opened,” and “the dead were judged out of those things written in the scrolls according to their deeds.” Are these scrolls the record of people’s past deeds? No, the judgment will not focus on what people did before they died. How do we know that? The Bible says: “He who has died has been acquitted from his sin.” (Romans 6:7) Those resurrected thus come to life with a clean slate, so to speak. The scrolls must therefore represent God’s further requirements. To live forever, both Armageddon survivors and resurrected ones will have to obey God’s commandments, including whatever new requirements God might reveal during the thousand years. Thus, individuals will be judged on the basis of what they do during Judgment Day. Judgment Day will give billions of people their first opportunity to learn about God’s will and to conform to it. This means that a large-scale educational work will take place. Indeed, “righteousness is what the inhabitants of the productive land will certainly learn.” (Isaiah 26:9) However, not all will be willing to conform to God’s will. Isaiah 26:10 says: “Though the wicked one should be shown favor, he simply will not learn righteousness. In the land of straight forwardness he will act unjustly and will not see the eminence of God.” These wicked ones will be put to death permanently during Judgment Day.—Isaiah 65:20. By the end of Judgment Day, surviving humans will have

“come to life” fully as perfect humans. (Revelation 20:5) Judgment Day will thus see the restoration of mankind to its original perfect state. (1 Corinthians 15:24-28) Then a final test will take place. Satan will be released from his imprisonment and allowed to try to mislead mankind one last time. (Revelation 20:3, 7-10) Those who resist him will enjoy the complete fulfillment of the Bible’s promise: “The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.” (Psalm 37:29) Yes, Judgment Day will be a blessing to all faithful mankind!

 

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What do the Aliens have to do with this?

 

We do not know whether they are good or bad. We don’t know which influence they are bringing to us. We don’t know whether they have been given a chance we have. We don’t know if they belong to a group of “personality” people, who rule to conquer the world at any cost.

 

The book of Revelation contains expressions that are not to be understood literally. (Revelation 1:1) For example, it mentions a woman with the name “Babylon the Great” written on her forehead. This woman is said to be sitting on “crowds and nations.” (Revelation 17:1, 5, 15) Since no literal woman could do this, Babylon the Great must be symbolic. So, what does this symbolic harlot represent?

 

At Revelation 17:18, the same figurative woman is described as “the great city that has a kingdom over the kings of the earth.” The term “city” indicates an organized group of people. Since this “great city” has control over “the kings of the earth,” the woman named Babylon the Great must be an influential organization that is international in scope. It can rightly be called a world empire. What kind of empire? Is it a religious one or an Alien one?  

 

Notice how some related passages in the book of Revelation lead us to this conclusion. An empire can be political, commercial, or religious. The woman named Babylon the Great is not a political empire because God’s Word states that “the kings of the earth,” or the political elements of this world, “committed fornication” with her. Her fornication refers to the alliances she has made with the rulers of this earth and explains why she is called “the great harlot.”—Revelation 17:1, 2; James 4:4.

 

Babylon the Great cannot be a commercial empire because the “merchants of the earth,” representing the commercial elements, will be mourning her at the time of her destruction. In fact, both kings and merchants are described as looking at Babylon the Great from “a distance.” (Revelation 18:3, 9, 10, 15-17)

 

Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that Babylon the Great is, not a political or a commercial empire, but a religious one or an alien. The religious identity of Babylon the Great is further confirmed by the statement that she misleads all the nations by means of her “spiritistic practice.” (Revelation 18:23) Since all forms of spiritism are demon-inspired, it is not surprising that the Bible calls Babylon the Great “a dwelling place of demons.” (Revelation 18:2; Deuteronomy 18:10-12) This empire is also described as being actively opposed to true religion, persecuting “prophets” and “holy ones.” (Revelation 18:24) In fact, Babylon the Great has such deep hatred for true religion that she violently persecutes and even murders “the believers of Jesus.” (Revelation 17:6) Hence, this woman named Babylon the Great clearly represents the world empire of false religion, which includes all religions that stand in opposition to God.

 

In summary, we should not worry so much about aliens. Whatever their schedule is, they will not change the course of life we have been presented by sacred writings. God is on our side. Do not feel ashamed of speaking about Jesus. Do not worry about aliens too much. Concentrate in your spiritual growth! Be good.

Hugs

 

Milton