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02/15/2023

TODAY IS NOT AN ANCIENT ROMAN HOLIDAY

I would like to correct some of your posts regarding St. Valentine, the Roman Empire and Valentine’s Day. Today is NOT the day the Roman holiday of Lupercalia was held.

Tomorrow is actually Lupercalia. Not today. Lupercalia was an ancient Roman festival held each year in Rome on February 15.

Unlike Valentine's Day, however, Lupercalia was a bloody, violent and sexually charged celebration full of animal sacrifices, random matchmaking and coupling in the hopes of warding off evil spirits and infertility.

The celebration involved the veneration of a statue of Lupercus. Lupercus was the god protector of the farmers, harvesting and packs of wild animals. He was the Greek counterpart to Pan. He was depicted n**e except for a goatskin girdle.

The statue stood in the Lupercal, the cave where tradition held that Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were suckled by the she-wolf (Lupa). The cave lay at the foot of the Palatine Hill. Lupercus was also said to have helped the she-wolf take care of Romulus and Remus.

The name of the festival most likely derives from lupus, "wolf", though both the etymology and its significance are obscure.

The life of Saint Valentine is actually not verified. There are many stories and possible multiple individuals who could have been the historic Valentine, albeit the skull of Valentine is currently in Rome or so the skull in question is believed to be Valentine’s. It is believed St. Valentine secretly married couples to spare husbands from war, but this is not verified history. This, however, would stand to reason why he was beheaded by emperor Claudius II. He was interfering with the Roman army, a big no no in Rome. However, his true identity and story was called into question even as early as 496 AD by Pope Gelasius I.

St. Valentine, if the story is true, was beheaded on February 14, 269 AD. Nothing to do with Lupercalia. Actually, St. Valentine is the patron saint of beekeeping, epilepsy, the plague, fainting and traveling. I think being the patron Saint of lovers was added much later.

12/21/2022

Blessed and good morning to everyone. May today bring you great miracles and God show favor upon you. May you see God’s work with your own eyes and hear the song of his angels praise his glory. May the scent of God’s breath linger in your lungs giving you health and prosperity.

Please let me share with you a story and why today is a particularly important day for me, a day of celebration and thanksgiving to God.

Today is the winter solstice. I call it the Day of Miracles. Why do I call it the day of miracles? Let me share with you an account of me actually seeing God’s miracle happen before me. It was a rare moment when time-space altered and I was in the midst of such things. The miracle I speak of, while it first took place on the day of the Winter Solstice, it has really nothing to do with the Solstice itself. It celebrates a great miracle I saw happen right before my eyes as a child while playing outside in the backyard with my sisters. I have talked about it before. I will share the story with everyone now once again, as I always do every year recounting this event.

On this day many years ago, my sisters (Jamie and Maria) and I were in the backyard (side yard) of the house we grew up in. On this day all those years ago, a plane flew over but right before it actually flew over the house and the neighborhood the engines on the plane all turned off. The plane appeared that it was going to crash in the neighborhood, potentially on our house. It was not a small plane but a commercial airliner (like a 757). As the plane was right overhead, I could see the faces of the people in the windows. I could see their fears and see their sadness for what they thought was going to happen. That is how low the plane was. There were county workers working on the street, and they dropped their tools and all ran. They left the trucks running and all the equipment. I did not run but stood there and began to pray and declared my desire for the plane to have its engines turn back on. I reached my hand to the plane with the sign of blessing. As soon as the plane glided over me, the engines turned back on and I could feel the heat of the engines on my face and the trees of the forest in front of the house all bent down from the thrust of the engines turning back on as the plane glided by. I simply stood there and watched and wished, prayed, and desired all the people on the plane to safety, and God being God, my intent was manifested. I stood with those people in the plane and simply wished them to be safe, and I believe God saw my intent and made it so. That is why to day is the Day of Miracles to me. That is why today I consider it a holiday.

Today is the winter solstice. It marks the shortest day and longest night but after tonight we begin to move to longer days. It is a day that reminds us of God’s miracles and how often the miracle is in the timing of things. We just have to have the vision beyond our temporal understanding of reality.

Today begins the day the sun starts to stand still and tonight marks the longest night and the return to longer days. The light brings life, and the Ein Sof, the unfiltered light, the true Light from light, gives life, life immortal.

So tonight after the sun goes down, I light the candle of life and burn the incense of immortality upon the foundation stone, in thanksgiving for the miracle of today, the great miracles, and God's blessings. I light the candle of life, which also represents the star of perpetual energy, and burn the incense, which also represents the conical white breads of immortality, upon the foundation stone, which represents the bond heaven and earth, as a gift to the Ein Sof, יהוה, the one true God, the Light from light whose word became flesh and dwelt amongst us in order to give us salvation and life eternal.

Let us remember that we are made in the image of the Light from light, the Ein Sof, so let us be lights unto the world and all people. Let us be the light the darkness can not overcome. Let our light be like the sun always standing still high in the sky giving life to the earth and causing our fields - our lives - to be fertile, fruitful and healthy.

Happy Solstice. Happy Day of Miracles. Merry Christmas.

Enjoy these photos I took of Stonehenge!

07/14/2022

I never seen a UFO (now called UPA - Unidentified Aerial Phenomena); however, I may have photographed one. I posted about this before, but I thought I would post about it again since I am watching the show ”Secrets of Skinwalker Ranch.” It is a documentary series on the History Channel.

The following images are the scanned negative and a zoomed in image of the negative.

About the Photos and the Image:

Many years ago, back in 1999, while visiting Washington, D.C., touring the law schools I got accepted to, I decided during this trip to also visit the Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria, Virginia. While there, I photographed the Washington Masonic Memorial with a 35mm film camera. I did not develop the film right away. It was not until a year or so after I took the photos that I actually got the film developed and it was a few months after developing the film I scanned the negatives. The film was developed by a trusted professional lab in New York City that I have often used. After I scanned the negatives, I noticed in one of the photos an anomaly in the picture left of the George Washington Masonic Memorial tower. I examined the negative thoroughly for any artifacts in the film (i.e., dust, knicks, hair, lint, particles of any sort, etc.), and there were no artifacts. The anomaly was part of the image. In other words, it was something photographed. I did prepare the film a second time, and scanned the negative using a drum scanner. I know how to professionally clean and prepare film for scientific analysis. So, I know that there is no artifacts in the film that are part of the film or attached to the film coming in as contaminants in the process of scanning the negative. The negative was not damaged in anyway, and was always keep in a sterile and protective, archival sleeve, and the sleeve was contained in an archival container meant to store negative and positive film.

Analysis of the Photograph Image:

I am professionally trained in photogrammetry and the scientific analysis of film and digital images.

After scanning the photo, I zoomed in on the object and I said to myself it looks like a UFO. Now, I do not recall seeing anything by the building when I took this picture so it was a surprise. Maybe someone could say it was a bird. However, it would have to be a really big bird, something the size of a plane. I did not hear any jets of a plane that day, and I did not notice any planes flying in the sky or any other object while taking the photos. Planes are something I specifically look for when photographing the sky or objects that would include the sky in the background. Further, in 1999, there was also not the use of drones in common practice. Using special photogrammetry software, I was able to confirm that the object was too big to be a bird, was not at the side of the building, but behind the building, and approximately 300 feet in length. There was also discoloration around the object that is indicative of differential heat emanating from the object. You could say it looks like a field around the object.

What could it be?

It could be anything. In the purest sense, it is an unidentified flying object. Is it extraterrestrial in origin? Well, it can not be excluded. However, it could be a military aircraft of some sort. This is certainly within the range of possibility. Think about this though. The object can be determined to be around 300 feet in length. A Boeing 747 is around 231 feet in length. This is a big object. There is no sign of a tale. It had a classic disc shape. It bulges at the center of the disc shape. It is whatever it is, but it certainly looks like an “off world” or other worldly flying object.

Back to Skinwalker Ranch: I should go over there and see what is up. They should make me part of the show. I get that place figured out for certain.

Keep looking up because the answer is out there.

07/06/2022

Hello Everyone!

Maybe you have heard in the news that someone this morning set off a bomb severely damaging the mysterious Georgia Guidestones.

The following is a video of me that I created while visiting the Georgia Guide Stones in May of this year (2022) with my friend Michael J. Fluno. I actually lost weight since the video; therefore, don’t judge me 😂. I will be doing a video on my weight loss journey returning back to my original thin self (Return to Fred) soon enough, but I digress.

A lot of people have heard about the Georgia Guide Stones, and have associated them with a New World Order conspiracy of depopulation. I would like to proffer to you a different interpretation, an interpretation that is probably the reality of what this monument is about. But, before I begin, who would like to work with me to raise money to restore this monument? Even if you do not like what it is written on the slabs, we should all be able to agree that people should not be destroying property that is not theirs. Maybe we can also agree on that mysterious should be kept around as they compel us to wonder about things beyond us.

So what are the Georgia Guide Stones? I interpret them as a post apocalyptic monument that is a product of the Cold War culture when global destruction was on the back of the minds of humanity and the brain child of one, rich eccentric man who we know nothing about. Potentially, that id even a story of fiction created by the stone company that made the monument. I tend to think the only conspiracy about this monument is that it was always meant (intended) as a tourist attraction. It is in the middle of nowhere off of some small rural road; not close to the interstate or any major transportation network; in the backcountry of Georgia (Elbert County, Georgia to be exact). Highly doubt some globalist cabal is going to put its agenda in the middle of a field in some backcountry of Georgia. These stones really serve no point for global conquest. Why would someone bent on taking over the world reveal their plans anyway? If you want people to be subjugated by words, you put the stela in the middle of a populated place for all to easily see and access. It could very well be a publicity stunt of the stone company that made the monument.

The Guide Stones were built by the Elberton Granite Finishing Company in 1979 and unveiled in 1980. The structure is aligned to the solstices and North Star. There are 10 guides engraved on the monument in eight languages. The languages represented on the four major blue granite slabs, the 10 guides to rebuild society are written, are Arabic, Chinese, English, Hebrew, Hindi, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili. On the capstone, it is written “Let these be guidestones to an age of reason,” in Babylonian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, Sanskrit, and classical Greek.

While some of the “guides” are pretty self-explanatory, others are a bit more eye raising and are open to discussion and interpretation. The first two are the most controversial.

The 10 “Guides” written in the eight languages on the four granite slabs are:

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

2. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.

3. Unite humanity with a living new language.

4. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.

5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.

6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.

7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.

8. Balance personal rights with social duties.

9. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.

10. Be not a cancer on the Earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

The first two are what everyone believes is a call for genocide, but no reading of the words used I argue suggest that. What it does suggest is that in a post apocalyptic world, it is beneficial to maintain a population that can survive within the context of such a world. Remember this was created during the Cold War when the threat of nuclear war was still present. In a post apocalyptic world after nuclear war, we would be lucky as a species to even have 500 million people with ability to procreate and produce healthy offspring. Context is really important when interpreting “material culture” aka artifacts, features and structures. Maintain population and guide reproduction does not have to be interpreted as something sinister. It could simply be a call for abstinence, use of contraceptives and only have children that you can take care of and raise into adulthood. The first two do not require or even necessitate an intentional and concerted effort to reduce, culling, the human population. These two guides could just be suggestions to consider after a population of humans has already been reduced by natural, global catastrophes or the effects of nuclear war for example.

I will be making a more detailed documentary on the Georgia Guide Stones soon.

06/10/2022

My friend Michael J. Fluno posted a wonderful history about the anniversary of President Kennedy’s “Peace Speech.”

I will post what he wrote in the comments section.

What he wrote and the comments on his post have served to cause me express my ideas about peace. Here is what I wrote as a reply to his post:

I thought I would share a photo I took while we were there of inside the chapel.

If I may, I would like to answer the question about what kind of peace and address some things mentioned.

Humans will always have greed and have to confront ego. These things are not a product of political ideology or economic system one believes in, etc. These are just part of the human condition. Despite these evolutionary flaws in our cognitive space, we could still achieve a great peace. I think this is achieved by transcending from a consciousness of separation to the internalization of the reality of the singularity of the species. We are individuals but Homo Sapiens Sapiens (yes, you say it twice). While we are one species, the diversity that does exist only truly exists on the individual level. It is not a group thing. We make it a group thing. It is all contrived. Therefore, we plaque our cognitive space with the current ideas we consume in our political discourse about diversity. There is only singularity and diversity that numbers equal the amount of Homo sapiens Sapiens living. So we abandon anything that reenforces a consciousness of separation and does not honor the individual. It is not a paradox. Someone may want to respond as such, but they would just be operating under a dated paradigm that can only frame the cognitive space in the current construct of a binary contrast. This is one thing we need to do; move to singularity in our cognitive space regarding how we see any human. The second thing to bring about the transcendence is to remove anger as a motivator. Anger is the seed that grows into a tree that bears poisonous fruit of hatred, conflict and discord. The third thing I would say is to begin to see each human individually as a divine expression. Finally, we have to address the culture. Culture along with natural selection and the environment are the three factors that direct evolution. Culture can be adaptive and mal-adaptive. There are a number of things I could say about culture, but I will leave it there for now.

Peace can be achieved but I think it requires an evolution and transcendence of consciousness.

Anyway, that is really a bit beyond the speech, but I just wanted to share those thoughts and my ideas about peace.

Peace, true peace is felt when there is tranquility that arises out of order and nature.

The Cultural Platform Fluno Files

06/08/2022

Advice to Myself and Blessings to You (Part 2 of 2)

06/08/2022

Advice to Myself and Blessings to You (Part 1 of 2)

06/08/2022

06/03/2022

I have had the opportunity now to see both the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the Mormon Temple in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area in Kensington, Maryland. While I was not able to experience the inside of the temple in Salt Lake City, I had the once in a life time opportunity to experience the inside of the Mormon Temple in Washington, D.C.

The Washington, D.C., Temple was built in a tranquil, suburban area in Kensington, Maryland, right outside the beltway. The land was originally going to be used for a mall, but the landowner decided to sell it to the Mormons and even gave them a $100,000 donation. The Mormons broke ground for building the Temple in 1968, and the Temple was finally dedicated on November 19, 1974. Before its dedication, it had an open house inviting the public to see the interior of the Temple. Around 750,000 guests experienced the sacred space before being closed to the public.

Since the Temple was recently renovated, it is once again deemed new and has to be rededicated (sanctified); therefore, the Mormon church has allowed for another open house to the public. The temple will be sealed and closed to the public on June 11th of this year (2022). From this point forward, access to the inside will only be available to members of the Mormon church who are deemed worthy in the Mormon faith.

I got to experience the inside of the Mormon Temple on May 11th of this year with my good friend Michael J. Fluno (Fluno Files). I will be making a podcast describing this experience and thoughts about the Temple and things I learned soon. I hope you stay tuned for it on my FredNation show at the The Cultural Platform.

This experience was important for me as I have a goal to experience the sacred spaces of all the religions in the world as part of my life long journey to chase after the divine in order to see if I can capture a portrait of God (a better understanding of the nature of the divine).

One of the things I have postulated is for God to be God, he has to be the same for this planet as well as some other planet on the other side of the universe. Therefore, the divine truly can not be planet or culture specific (per se) and God’s manifestation should be experienced through his creation like experiencing seeing an artist’s brush strokes in a painting he created. Hints of the creator should be experienced through his creation, and we being made in the image of the creator, should capture in many ways the divine through the construction of our sacred spaces. So as you can see, for me, to experience all sacred spaces is necessary for my life long work.

One of the benefits, or should I say goals, of this life long endeavor is to impart on the world a “portrait” of God (better understanding of his nature … as oppose to some spiritual teaching), and to break down walls (attitudes, etc.) used to fortify religions that keep people out of sacred spaces. Each religion may be capturing something of the divine. I do not have to believe or accept the teachings of the religion to appreciate and experience whatever truth they have captured of God. I am looking for that “capture” in these experiences.

I am trying to search for the universal aspects of God. I am hoping whatever I discover on this exploration brings people a peace and better understanding. I will leave it there for now, and I hope you continue to follow this journey at FredNation.

The following are photos I took of the eastern facade of each of the Mormon Temples I have visited. Photo of Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah (July 25, 2015 at 7:22 PM). Photo of Mormon Temple in Washington, D.C. (May 11, 2022 at 2:36 PM).

06/02/2022

Thank you everyone for liking and following the FredNation page. The page has achieved its 100 like and fellow.

FredNation is a content brand by Fred Pirone, Ph.D., J.D., dedicated to the mission of exploring the human experience, chasing after the divine, and creating tranquility and satisfaction. The product of these endeavors are to bring followers of FredNation substantive entertainment, answers to questions and guidance that generates within each person excitement, creativity, happiness and opportunity (ECHO).

“I want to echo the knowledge and joy I discover in you … So that you can take from it as you please, learn and grow, and become an explorer of the truth in your life.”

Let’s explore the world together!

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06/02/2022

All are welcome to celebrate the Month of Fred. To celebrate Fred is to celebrate you. For the next seven days, do something to celebrate living each day, to honor you as a sacred being, to give you permission to indulge in your desire and happiness, and to thank God (your higher power) for the gift of life. This latter part is most important.

👍 Light Candles;
👍 Burn Incense;
👍 Fill Your Spaces with Fragrances;
👍 Meditate on your desire and on God’s Name;
👍 Surround Yourself with Water;
👍 Gives yourself permission to be you and be happy; and
👍 Indulge in something that gives you pleasure.

Celebrate the Month of Fred. Celebrate Living.

05/25/2022

Be Adventurous

05/23/2022

Today’s good words:

Victory comes in the night when you submit to the dreams of your lover, and happiness arrives in the day when you wake up into the reality of being in service to the one you love.

- Fred Pirone

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05/23/2022

You are perfect!

05/22/2022

I have to always be traveling. I have to be on constant journey of exploration. I am a nomad. I am a hunter and gatherer; always hunting and gathering for new knowledge and experiences. I am always chasing after the divine. I am always exploring the human experience. I can not stay in Tampa. It is suffocating and lacks the intellectual and creative sophistication I long for out there in the world. I want to be seduced by the beauty of nature and by amazing humans. I want to experience God through his creation. I want this for FredNation. I want to take as many people with me, but a few physically at my side. Sounds contradictory but what I mean is I want to share with the world my discoveries but make those discoveries only with a few who I love. This leads me to one more thing; to find that love contemplated in Sonnet 116.

05/22/2022

New Content Coming Soon …

05/18/2022