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When statements blatantly contradict each other or when they make absolutely no sense, it is usually a sign that someone is lying, and nowhere are lies told as much as in war or before war. On the one hand, it is a matter of motivating one’s own side by professing to be fighting for a noble cause; on the other hand, the alleged reason for war can make a big difference in terms of the political instruments available for waging war.
When President Trump threatened Venezuela with military action because of drugs originating in Venezuela or because of illegal immigrants from that country, it quickly became clear to me that this was pure bullshit.
The southern US border was closed and virtually no illegal immigrants and therefore no drugs were coming across the border, and all drug smugglers’ boats were blown out of the water by the US military. None of this made any sense.
When Maduro’s presidency was ended by the US military, it became clear what this was really about. Yes, it was also about ending the brutal oppression of the population, but that was only a secondary aspect. The main concern was to expel hostile powers such as Iran and Hezbollah and to end China’s influence and control over oil, which was an important part of China’s energy supply. It is to Donald Trump’s credit that, once Maduro was replaced by a less tyrannical president who was willing to cooperate, he spoke brutally open about the purpose of the whole exercise.
Despite the bullshit that President Trump has said in this case, I still consider him a great man, even one of the most significant figures in American history. You don’t have to be perfect to be a great person, and we can recognize a person’s greatness despite all their flaws.
One of Trump’s greatest strengths is his unpredictability, which has often served him well. However, it is also his greatest weakness, as it forces him to conceal his intentions not only from his enemies, but also from his voters and supporters. As long as he enjoys their trust, this is not a major problem, but when he refuses to make sensible statements on issues that are important to them, he has a problem, because where information is lacking, the void is quickly filled with rumors, insinuations, and wild conspiracy theories without any evidence, often spread by actors with malicious intentions.
Carl von Clausewitz, one of the most famous military theorists alongside Sun Tzu, once said: “War is merely the continuation of politics by other means.” However, one could also say that politics is often war by other means. We all know that the rules of war are brutal and unforgiving. In order to not only survive war, but also to prevail, one must be resourceful, cunning, and, yes, even deceitful.
Trump has all these Odyssean qualities, and like Odysseus, he must pay a price for utilizing them in his battle against his geopolitical enemies. When Odysseus, the hero of Homer’s epic, returns to his homeland of Ithaca, he is disguised as a beggar and must deceive his son Telemachus and even his wife Penelope, because if his cover were blown, the 108 suitors who had tried to murder his son would surely kill him. In a heartbreaking twist, his faithful dog Argus, who had waited 20 years for his master’s return, recognizes Odysseus, but Odysseus must pretend not to know the dog. Poor Argus dies of a broken heart.
The price President Trump has to pay is that part of the MAGA movement is confused, distrusts him, and suspects him of betraying his campaign promises. To be clear, not everything Donald Trump does is 4D chess. Sometimes it’s just human error and folly. However, I don’t believe for a second in the nonsensical theories peddled by an evil, demon-possessed piece of shit like Candace Owens, a Tucker Carlson who has lost all common sense and respect for impartial, objective truth, or a Nazi beta male like Nick Fuentes. The thing these three have in common is a pathological obsession and hatred of Jews that clouds their thinking and makes them blind and stupid. You want to criticize Israel, Jews, or Zionism? Have at it! I have no problem with that, as long as you base your criticism on objective truth and not on some demonically inspired, easily refutable lies or abysmally stupid logic.
When these three idiots claim that Donald Trump is a puppet of the Jews/Zionists/Israel/Netanyahu, they are willfully ignoring the facts. Trump is undoubtedly a friend of Israel, but he is nobody’s puppet. The proof? Trump ended the war in Gaza against Netanyahu’s will and pushed through a peace solution that effectively lays the groundwork for a two-state solution, something Netanyahu has always rejected. When Israel was unable to end the 12-day war against Iran, Trump launched Operation Midnight Hammer, the attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities, and forced Netanyahu to end Israel’s war against Iran. A visibly pissed and brutally frank Donald Trump made unmistakably clear who’s boss when Israel broke its ceasefire agreement with Iran.
Then there’s Tucker and, sadly, many other respected and otherwise intelligent people in the MAGA movement who somehow become complete idiots when it comes to Israel, claiming that the US is merely promoting the “Greater Israel Project” on behalf of the Zionist lobby, the Jews, or Israel. Do these idiots ever think about what they are saying? Well, let’s think this through! The “Greater Israel Project” is supposedly the project to create an Israel that includes all or parts of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. Even if we grant that such a project existed and enjoyed broad support in Israel, how the hell is a country with a tiny population of 10 million and a small standing army supposed to occupy such a vast territory with a population far larger than Israel’s? This is absolutely ridiculous and insane.
America is at war with Iran, and none of the reasons given for this war make sense. It is ridiculous when Rubio claims that the US attacked Iran because Israel was about to attack Iran, and that this would have triggered Iranian attacks on US military bases and interests in the region. The US would only have to ask Israel to stop, as Israel cannot attack without the green light from the US because it is heavily dependent on US support. Neither is Donald Trump being truthful when he claims that the US forced Israel’s hand or that Iran was preparing an attack. The mullahs are fanatics, but they are not stupid. Why would they attack such a vastly more powerful enemy? No reasonable reasons are given.
It is precisely this lack of sensible reasons for the outbreak of war that leads to all kinds of speculation and crazy theories. Those who reflexively hate Jews try to link everything bad that happens to the Jews. Israel benefits from the war, so it must have been the Jewish lobby that forced Trump to do it, right? Wrong! They deliberately ignore the totality of the facts. Israel is not the only one benefiting from the war; the Sunni countries in the region are also benefiting. As for the much-vaunted Jewish-Zionist lobby and groups like AIPAC, they are a joke compared to the influence of Sunni Muslims in terms of the amounts of money they spend in the US. And that’s not even counting the trillions of dollars in investments that Arab states have committed to.
President Trump has repeatedly stated that he wants to be remembered as a peace president. He has forged peace between Israel and Sunni Muslim countries on the basis of “Let’s stop killing each other and let’s make a ton of money together” and on the basis that the common enemy of the Sunnis and Israel is Iran. Peace in the Middle East is only possible if Iran is prevented from destabilizing the region and spreading terror throughout the region. The only way to achieve this is to significantly weaken the Iranian military and the power of the mullah regime.
“The fog of war” usually refers to the chaos and uncertainty of battle. However, there is another fog of war. It is the fog of misinformation and deception that has always accompanied war. Who was right and who was wrong? We will only know when the fog of war has cleared.
As I followed the events in Minnesota, I noticed the striking similarity between the tactics used by the left against ICE and those used by the Palestinians in their uprisings (intifadas), as well as the tactics used by Hamas after its mass-casualty attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
This should come as no surprise, as there is considerable overlap between those who agitate against ICE and those who protested Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip. In both cases, over-the-top rhetoric was used to demonize ICE and Israel and portray them in the worst possible light. While Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists has been called genocide, ICE is being called the Gestapo, wantonly executing innocent people.
Even more disturbing, however, is that it is not just the same rhetoric. It is also the same tactics on the ground. This thought occurred to me when I heard that the majority of activists against ICE in Minnesota are white, liberal women who even bring their children to protests against ICE.
In order to portray Israel or ICE as monsters, to utterly demonize and delegitimize them, they need dead bodies, lots of dead bodies. The more, the better. The more innocent and defenseless the victims are, the more useful they are for propaganda. It is a vicious circle of hatred. The more innocent victims there are, the greater the hatred towards the “perpetrators.” The greater the hatred, the more aggressive and violent the actions taken against the “perpetrators” become. This, in turn, leads to more innocent victims.
It is truly sick and demonic when people are willing to sacrifice their children because they are blinded by hatred. In the following video, you can see a Palestinian father urging his son to attack IDF soldiers.
What we can clearly see in Minnesota is that the radical left and the unDemocrats are deliberately putting people in danger in order to produce the corpses they so desperately need. These “protesters” who oppose ICE are nothing more than cannon fodder. Anyone who sincerely wants to protest would do well to listen to this guy. His language is crude and vulgar, but he is 100% right.
It’s eerie, and I almost feel like a prophet when I hear the rhetoric of the extreme Left about the self-inflicted death of an anti-ICE activist as a result of intimidation and violence by such activists.
Almost six years ago, I wrote a satirical blog post arguing for the right to bear arms from the perspective of the Left.
As befits satire, my rhetoric was over the top, bordering on batshit crazy.
Little did I know that six years later, the left would actually be using the same kind of language, as we can see here and here.
When Mark Kelly and others released a video nearly two months ago calling on members of the military to refuse illegal orders, many wondered what these former military personnel were talking about. The “Seditious Six” as they were also called, could not name a single illegal order that President Trump had allegedly given. As many active and former soldiers of all ranks had made clear, every soldier is taught to refuse illegal orders. It’s like asking Catholic priests not to praise Lucifer.
So why did the “Seditious Six” engage in this outrageous behavior?
Well, it was obvious to me that they were preparing the battlefield before THEY launched their attack. Just as an attacking air force destroys or neutralizes the enemy’s air defenses before the main wave of attack, the intention here was to make it impossible or extremely difficult for the federal government and the president to use the military to suppress a violent uprising or wave of violent unrest that the masterminds behind the “Seditious Six” wanted to trigger at some point in the future.
Deliberately fueled by the irresponsible rhetoric of governors such as Newsom and Waltz and many unDemocrats, violence against the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and against conservatives, who were portrayed as Nazis and fascists by the left, escalated dramatically. Don’t get lost in the details of the incident that triggered the current fanatical uprisings of the radical left mob. It was inevitable that a violent incident would occur that could serve as a trigger for widespread unrest or a violent uprising. In fact, there have already been several acts of violence. The real question is why a full-scale uprising did not occur sooner.
But first, let’s answer another important question. Who is behind the violence? Of course, it’s the radical left, Antifa, and the usual suspects, as well as the left wing of the unDemocratic party. However, it is the “deep state” and large parts of the Republican Party that are preventing the federal government from crushing this open rebellion. The last thing they want is for President Trump to implement the MAGA agenda and, equally important, to drain the swamp. That is why Republicans in Congress are doing nothing to overcome the blockade by the unDemocrats that is preventing Trump from staffing his administration with people who will implement the MAGA agenda. With the Justice Department, the FBI, and other agencies still staffed by the same old “deep state” people, there is still no accountability and no effective action against actors such as James Comey and Brennan, but also against the radical left, Antifa, and their network of financial and logistical support.
Back to the first question. Why wasn’t the uprising triggered earlier? My guess is that the masterminds were waiting for the right moment when such an uprising would have maximum impact, but were forced into action by Nick Shirley, a 23-year-old citizen journalist who uncovered the massive daycare fraud in Minnesota. The daycare fraud scandal threatened to bring criminal charges against Governor Waltz and many other unDemocrats. That’s why they had to start the uprising prematurely, which threw their plans into disarray. Let me be absolutely clear. I am NOT saying that the masterminds behind the activism decided to stage the deliberate killing of a woman, but that they can ALWAYS choose HOW they respond to such incidents. They can choose to go completely berserk and stir up a revolt, or they can try not to add fuel to the fire.
2026 will be a year of decision, determining whether a president elected by the people will be completely powerless to implement the will of the voters, whether he will be overthrown, whether violence will trump the ballot box, or whether the rule of law will prevail. Don’t expect any help from the Republican Party or from pundits and podcasters. The president is just one man with few loyal people around him.
The best thing to do is to become a citizen journalist and, armed with courage, a microphone, and a camera, frustrate the plans of those who want to overthrow the republic by exposing fraud, corruption, lies and treachery.
“I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not near. A star will come out of Jacob; a scepter will rise out of Israel.”
– Numbers 24:17
“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come for me one who will be ruler over Israel, whose origins are from of old, from ancient times.”
– Micah 5:2
A few months ago, I happened to embark on a search for the Star of Bethlehem. It is very fitting for the Christmas season to republish this post, which is a mixture of detective work, historical speculation, and the use of modern technology. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. The cool thing is that my post includes instructions on how you can follow each of my steps using the same technology.
There were only two podcasts that I went to great lengths to listen to. The podcast of Dinesh D’Souza and the podcast of Charlie Kirk. Due to EU censorship, I couldn’t download them directly. So I installed a VPN and downloaded the MP3 files via Japanese VPN servers.
The effort was worth it, because Dinesh’s and Charlie’s intellectual depth and logical abilities to not only treat a topic superficially, but to get to the core of the issue with common sense, historical and empirical evidence, and logical consistency, either provided me with new insights or stimulated me to raise new questions.
Seeking answers to these questions is a process that gives me further knowledge and understanding. It is a testament to Charlie’s depth and knowledge that I could listen to his podcasts a week later and still get so much out of them.
An impressive intellect, the ability to think and speak quickly, awesome debating skills, and articulation. He had it all, but what really set him apart was his passion and fire, which came from his faith which also caused him to try to live what he believed.
But in the end all the skills, the knowledge and the passions mean nothing if one lacks the most important virtue: courage.
As Aristotle said, “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
Above all else, Charlie Kirk had courage. He had it in spades.
He was assassinated by a coward, as almost all Antifa, trans, and left-wing terrorists and thugs are, but the cowards will not prevail. The horrific assassination of Charlie and the ensuing demonic deluge of hatred from the left has pulled off its mask and revealed its evil to the whole world. It has shocked, awakened, and appalled all those who are not blinded by hatred.
I’m no prophet but I predict that the demons who killed Charlie have made him more powerful than he already was.
Charlie has set the example and many young men will follow in his footsteps. They may lack his talents but they will have the courage.
Charlie, I will miss you but your voice will never be extinguished. It will only get more powerful.
Farewell Charlie. Now you are rolling home to your Creator.
This is revolutionary. Charlie Kirk interviews Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong who has developped a new method for fighting cancer. I put the word new in quotes because it has been tested for at least 10 years and If I understood correctly it has been already approved for bladder cancer. Basically, the injection of a protein stimulates the strong multiplication of killer cells, which are responsible for fighting cancer. This is really exciting. No mRNA poison. No harmful nano particles. Just boosting your natural cancer killer cells. Furthermore, the killer cells can be grown even ouside the body and then injected into the patient. You can listen to the full interview here:
“I have nothing to hide” is a phrase often uttered in discussions about privacy, especially online privacy, and smartphones as tools of surveillance. As I am in the process of “degoogling” a brand new Android phone, I asked myself why relatively few people take even the smallest steps to protect their privacy and why so many are okay with being spied on.
The only answer I could come up with was the silly phrase “I have nothing to hide”. Well, even those who think they have nothing to hide are making a fundamental mistake: Even if it were true that they have nothing to hide, those who spy on them do not always have good intentions, and as history shows and reality confirms, they very often have nefarious intentions.
You may go about your daily business perfectly legally, innocently and morally, but the first thing someone who wants to harm you would do is find out what your daily routine and typical behavior is in order to find the best ways to attack you.
Aside from that, it should also be noted that tyrannical regimes who are only interested in maintaining power or implementing their ideological vision don’t care if you are innocent and morally impeccable. In Stalin’s USSR, it didn’t matter one bit if you were innocent. If it was decided that you should be eliminated, the task of the KGB or the NKVD was to gather information about you that would facilitate this goal or make the work of the kangaroo court you would face much easier.
The other thing is that you may think that your behavior is perfectly normal or morally impeccable, but those spying on you may have very different opinions of what acceptable behavior is.
With that in mind, let’s consider the one person in history whose behavior was the definition of good behavior. You can guess who I’m talking about, can’t you? Although we Christians believe He was much more than a man, He is almost universally, even by Buddists, Muslims, followers of other religions and many if not most atheists, regarded as a great moral teacher, a wise man who lived an exemplary life and preached love. He had nothing to hide. He was completely innocent. He was without sin and still he was killed.
It’s a bit of a side note, but I can’t help observing that His killing was the greatest and most awesome example of spiritual jiu-jitsu you will ever find. In jiu-jitsu, as in so many Asian martial arts, the energy of the attacker is used against the attacker. It’s done so perfectly here that it’s simply amazing. All the evil, hatred, fury and demonic energy that Satan hurled at Jesus was ultimately the same energy that defeated Satan.
King Herod would have loved it if smartphones had existed at the time of his reign. He would have loved it if the GPS on Joseph and Mary’s smartphones had revealed their exact location in Egypt, so that he could have sent his assassins to kill baby Jesus.
Protecting your own privacy does not only protect you, but also those closest to you. A smartphone that spies on you by secretly recording your voice with its built-in microphone is also recording the voices of those around you.
You should care about your online privacy. You don’t have to take paranoid countermeasures, but you should at least make some effort, no matter how small, to improve your privacy, because one thing is for sure. If you don’t, no one will. Governments and big corporations don’t care about your privacy. Quite the opposite. They love the power and money that constant surveillance through your smartphone gives them.
Everyone has secrets. Having secrets is not necessarily a bad thing in itself. Some have small, harmless secrets, others have big, heavy secrets and still others have really dark secrets. The Epstein files no doubt contain secrets of the dark kind. Without question, Epstein’s enterprise was a blackmail operation, and there are compelling reasons to believe that he was tolerated by, if not working for, the U.S. government, because such a blackmail operation involving very high profile people would not stay undetected for long, and thus he needed the toleration of law enforcement and the judiciary to stay out of jail. Furthermore, Epstein not only needed the protection of one part of the government from another part of the government, but also protection from his victims.
You see, his victims included royalty, presidents and other very powerful people who would have crushed Epstein like a cockroach long ago had it not been for his protector, who is more powerful than all of them. Who was Epstein’s protector? Well, keeping secrets and using secrets to force people to do things they don’t want to do, like, I don’t know, betray one’s own country, is the typical business of spies and spy agencies. Therefore, it is a safe bet to assume that Epstein was acting with the blessings of US intelligence agencies or, more likely, that he was also acting on their behalf when they needed his services.
These days I hear from pundits, podcasters and commentators that the Epstein files have been destroyed. Really? Hell no. Those who leveraged the power that Epstein’s secrets afforded them perhaps destroyed the part of the files that show how they used those secrets to blackmail people, but they sure as hell didn’t destroy Epstein’s client list and other compromising information that had been obtained by Epstein.
We are dealing with power-crazed people who are most likely responsible for Epstein’s premature departure from planet Earth. Do you really think these kinds of people just throw away their power? You can bet your bottom dollar that most of the Epstein files have not been destroyed. They have merely changed hands.
Which brings me to the timeless wisdom I shamelessly ripped off from the lyrics of one of my favorite Greek songs. “To have your own secrets and to remember who knows them”.
Remembering who knows them is the more important part.
Digital forest sky planetarium. Created using an image generated by Grok from xAI.
It was literally an all-star ensemble. In the darkness of the forest at night, unobstructed by distracting artificial light sources, Orion, Sirius and the moon presented a magnificent spectacle that I feasted my eyes on. Standing next to a redwood tree that was once transplanted from America to Europe, I enjoyed the celestial spectacle and although the moon was only half lit, it was so bright that the tree and all other objects cast distinct shadows. Other old star acquaintances such as the mighty, enormously bright Jupiter had also come to the star show and lent it their inimitable brilliance.
Among the many places where one can find sanity and distance when the people around one have gone batshit crazy, nature is one of the best places to be. In the nocturnal forest, there is no need to be afraid of wild beasts. These creatures are infinitely more sane than the raging lunatics, the anxiety-ridden hysterics, the totalitarian, foaming-at-the-mouth, often violent mental defectives and those immunized by propaganda against all logic and reason that populate the Western world today.
Anyway, the star show wasn’t over even after the walk in the forest had ended, because during the drive home the heavens threw a large shooting star as an encore, which was clearly visible in the car.
Originally I was going to write a different post in relation to the experience I’ve just shared with you, but to hell with all the craziness. Instead, I’m going to share my joy with you and together we’re going to have a lot of fun and an interesting experience.
The change of direction came when I wanted to create a fitting image for the post by using a program called “skyglobe”, a planetarium/astronomy program I always loved because of its still unsurpassed speed and ease of use. The bad news: it doesn’t run on Windows 10. The good news: you can run the program within your browser. Yay! All you need to do is go to this web page, click on a button, press a key and the program runs. While playing around with the program, the idea was born to take you, dear reader, on a voyage through time and space and to provide you with a great tool for learning and entertainment, especially for kids.
What’s so great about skyglobe? Not only does the program show an accurate representation of the sky and all objects such as stars, planets, etc. as they can be seen at any chosen location on earth, but you can also set the time of this view into the starry sky as you wish. Skyglobe can go back to the year 30,000 BC or into the distant future to the year 30,000. It’s effectively a time machine. How exciting! How did the sky look like at my birthplace at the day I was born? That’s what you always wanted to know, isn’t it? 😉 But, my fellow explorer, I’m going to take you on a far more exciting voyage that goes back more than 2,000 years.
As we all know, every voyage needs a reason to not only be exciting and adventurous, but also to become a meaningful quest. Our mission is to solve a mystery that many have failed to solve. Our mission is nothing less than to answer the age-old question:
What was the Star of Bethlehem?
Now that you know the breathtaking scope of our mission, it’s time to warm up our time machine, but before we do, here’s some useful information to keep in mind before you click on the link below:
The program can capture the mouse pointer so that you cannot move it outside its window. Don’t worry, you can ALWAYS release the mouse pointer by pressing the ESC key. Press the key only ONCE if the mouse pointer is trapped. If you press the key twice, skyglobe will exit and you will have to reload the web page to start it again.
The link will open in a new browser tab, so you can easily switch between this post and our time machine.
Ready? Ok, click on this link and when you’re on the other web page click the green button.
When the browser is done with loading, the image will look like this:
Press any key. That’s it. The program is running now and waits for your input.
Determining our destination
Before we can get started, we need to determine the place and time we want to travel to. To this end, I have done some research of my own. The widespread use of the word “magi” to describe the three wise men who followed the star of Bethlehem suggests that they came from Persia, as the word “magi” has its roots in the Persian language.
Furthermore, Persia at that time was a highly developed civilization that undoubtedly had great knowledge of astronomy and the movement of the stars and planets, as well as mathematics. There were many contacts between the Jews and the Persians, and ancient Israel was once part of the Persian Empire. It is far more likely that learned and wise men in Persia were aware of the prophet Micah, who prophesied the birth of the Messiah in Bethlehem, than Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula. It is therefore reasonable to assume that the three wise men came from Persia.
Now, where would three very learned and wise dudes with a very high social status live? My guess is that they would live where all highly learned dudes with a very high social status live. As indispensable advisors to the king, his administration or his officials, they would naturally be at the center of power, not far from the royal palace.
The capitals of Persia have changed several times over the long history of the Persian empires. But whether Persepolis, Nisa or Ctesiphon, the typical route taken from all three cities to Jerusalem around the year 1 AD was via Damascus.
So Damascus is the place through which our three wise Persians passed. Damascus is the place where they would follow the star of Bethlehem. That is the place we want to travel to.
As for our target date, our job is much easier. It seems that many scholars agree that Jesus was born between 6 and 4 BC. We will settle on July 7 BC to be on the safe side.
We have all the information we need now. Are you ready for the voyage of your life? Good!
The voyage begins
As with any voyage, our travel will take time.’ It is best to take every step slowly and methodically. If you want to continue at a later point in time, just leave your browser open. This way you can resume where you have left and don’t need to start again from scratch.
Setting the location is pretty easy. As you can see from the list of commands at the right side of our time machine’s window, you have to press the L-key on your keyboard to set the location. In the list of locations select “More locations” and press ENTER.
Now select Damascus and press ENTER.
Don’t worry if the program looks different from the image below. After all, the output depends totally on the date and the time of day. What is important though, is that at the place I’ve marked with a red rectangle, the location is shown correctly. This is also the place where the selected time and date are displsyed.
At the commands list you can see this command: “U Millenium”. Pressing the key U will jump 1,000 years forward. The use of this program is very simple. Whenever you want a command to do the opposite you have to press the SHIFT-key together with the key assigned to a command.So to jump 1,000 years back in time you need to press the SHIFT-key, keep it pressed and press the U-Key. It’s the same as typing capital letters..
Since we need to go back 2,000 years, keep the SHIFT-key pressed and press the U-key twice. Next, hold the SHIFT key and press the Y-Key repeatedly until the program displays the year 7 BC. Here’s another useful information. If, for any reason, you have totally messed up time and date, you can always set the program to the current time and date by simply pressing the R-key (R stands for realtime). To continue setting time and date manually, press the R-key again.
Next, use the H-key to set the hour and the T-key to set the minutes. We set the time to 10:00 PM. It has to be dark night for our wise men to see the stars.
Next, set the Month to July using the M-key. If necessary you can adjust the day by using the D-key. The final result should be: 10:00 PM Jul 07 7BC
Isn’t it awesome? In a few minutes we have traveled more than 2,000 years into the past and a few thousand miles!
The sky over Damascus in the year 7 BC
We are standing in Damascus and looking south. The green line in the picture below is the horizon and the letter S tells us that we are looking south:
As Bethlehem is located roughly southwest of Damascus, we have to look southwest. To do this, we press the Right-Arrow-key a few times until the horizon looks like the one below.
The sky should look now exactly like the one shown below. The various lines (mostly orange) are not real objects, but a visual aid to help you quickly identify the constellations. For example, the constellation in the bottom right corner is Virgo, the Virgin. While these lines are normally a great help, in our case they are a distraction. That’s why we want to turn them off. Pressing the C-Key cycles trough through the various visual representations of the constellations. Just press the C-key a few times until the constellation lines disappear completely.
There should be only a red line visible.
This one red line remaining in the image above is called the Ecliptic and it is the plane on which all planets except Pluto are orbiting the sun. That’s why you will see them moving back and forth along the red line when you change the date.
The final stretch
We are now going forward in time in steps of one day by pressing the D-key again and again. Nothing spectacular happens at first, but then! From mid-September, we see a massive object moving down the red line. Actually, there are two massive objects. They are Jupiter and Saturn, but they are so close to each other that you can hardly tell them apart. Wow!
You ALL have seen Jupiter even though many of you might not have known what you were looking at. Because Jupiter, a giant gas ball, is the biggest planet in our solar system, it is extremely bright. In fact, it is so bright that it can be often seen even through a thin viele of clouds. Saturn, even though not as bright as Jupiter, is still pretty bright. On September 20, 7BC, this is where these two giants are:
With each passing day, these two bad boys move further down the ecliptic: Man, that must have been a spectacular sight. By December 2, 7BC, our duo is pretty far down the ecliptic. We are continuing one day after another.
Finally! The star of Bethlehem
On December 25, this very special day, we change our location for the last time. We teleport ourselves to Jerusalem..
We are now only a few kilometers away from Bethlehem. Although Bethlehem is more south than southwest of Jersualem, our celestial duo is still close enough to Bethlehem and because of the short distance to Bethlehem, the angle at which we approach the town makes a big difference in how the relative position of the two planets is perceived and because of the fact that this pair of planets was so low on the horizon, it is very possible that our planetary duo was perceived as stopping over a single house in or around Bethlehem. I would say that this great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is a pretty good candidate for the Star of Bethlehem.
Final thoughts
Great conjunctions, as the meeting of Jupiter and Saturn is called, take place every 20 years, but the likelyhood of a great conjunction ever happening again where all circumstances such as visibility, angle etc. are the same is practically zero. It’s like throwing a dice on a table. You will roll a six very often, You will practically never roll a six again that lands in exactly the same place.
The discrepancy of 7 years between the year 1 AD and our date doesn’t bother me in the slightest. People can misremember the year, calendars change, mistakes happen, etc. Basically, the year in which something happens is much harder to remember than the season or month. The year is just a number that, apart from its numerical value, is no different from any other year, whereas each season and month are unique. It is more difficult to confuse months and seasons than to confuse years.
I hope you have enjoyed our voyage as much as I have. May all your voyages be pleasant ones.
Artaxes' brainbench 
