This generation is suffering from things they did in their teen years because the Great Wisdom given so lavishly in The Book of Yahweh was withheld from them. Look around you. Hear your neighbors crying. Watch the news, you will see there is anguish everywhere you turn in today’s world.

Wars? Yes! The nations are filled with hatred for each other. Men, women, and children are murdered with bombs and weapons of all kinds. Many times, men and women commit suicide in the process of murdering others out of hatred or grief. Suicides are on the increase.

Man Crashes Plane Into Texas I.R.S. Office

AUSTIN, Tex. — Leaving behind a rant against the government, big business and particularly the tax system, a computer engineer smashed a small aircraft into an office building where nearly 200 employees of the Internal Revenue Service were starting their workday Thursday morning, the authorities said.

The pilot, identified as Andrew Joseph Stack III, 53, of north Austin, apparently died in the crash, and one other person was unaccounted for. Late Thursday, two bodies were pulled from the site, though the authorities would not discuss the identities of those found, The Associated Press reported. Two serious injuries were also reported in the crash…

…Mr. Stack was described as generally easygoing, a talented amateur musician with marital troubles and a maddening grudge against the tax authorities.

“I knew Joe had a hang-up with the I.R.S. on account of them breaking him, taking his savings away,” said Jack Cook, the stepfather of Mr. Stack’s wife, in a telephone interview from his home in Oklahoma

In a six-page statement signed “Joe Stack (1956-2010)” and posted on a Web site connected to Mr. Stack’s wife, the author singled out the tax agency as a source of suicidal rage, concluding, “Well, Mr. Big Brother I.R.S. man, let’s try something different, take my pound of flesh and sleep well.”

From relatives, friends and neighbors, a portrait emerged of Mr. Stack as a man pushed over the brink by retirement dreams deferred by a long series of financial setbacks.

He never spoke of his troubles with the I.R.S., though his wife related them. The family assembled in Austin at Christmas, and Mr. Stack seemed fine, Mr. Cook said.

But in recent weeks Mrs. Stack complained to her parents of an increasingly frightening anger in her husband, straining the marriage, Mr. Cook said. On Wednesday night, Mrs. Stack took her 12-year-old daughter, Margaux, to a hotel to get away from her husband.

They returned on Thursday morning to find their house ablaze, their belongings destroyed. Officials said the house fire was deliberately set, casting Mr. Stack as the primary suspect. But by that point he was gone, airborne.

“This is a shock to me that he would do something like this,” Mr. Cook said. “But you get your anger up, you do it.”

NYtimes.com

Addressing suicide among seemingly successful college students

By Susan Snyder, Inquirer Staff Writer

Posted: February 10, 2014

Christopher Aiello broke into tears – again – when he got a call last month about Madison Holleran, a promising scholar-athlete at the University of Pennsylvania who jumped to her death from a Center City parking garage, stunning her family, friends, and campus community.

The call came from a friend, who in an eerie coincidence, knew Holleran’s father. Aiello lost his own daughter, Paige, the same way nine months earlier.

Tennis team captain and an ‘A’ student at the College of New Jersey, she was weeks shy of graduation and had been accepted to nine law schools when her body was recovered from the Hudson River.

“I just don’t understand what’s happening to these high-achieving kids,” said Aiello, a New Jersey lawyer. “How did we get to this spot? The whole thing, for me, will never make any sense.”

Two recent suicides at Penn and a smattering of others at college campuses over the last year – including a student who jumped off a parking garage at Pennsylvania State University in December – has brought renewed attention from administrators and talk on how to ramp up prevention and awareness.

Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for college students.

And when popular, high-achieving students, who seemingly have everything to live for, take their lives, it sends nothing short of a shock wave through their campuses and leaves families and friends grappling – even years later – for answers.

“You won’t really know what triggered this in anybody,” said Donna Ambrogi, whose son Kyle, a Penn football player, killed himself in 2005. “That’s the hardest part for families.”

‘Vulnerability’

When a student commits suicide, it’s often the result of multiple factors, said Victor Schwartz, a psychiatrist and medical director for the Jed Foundation, a New York-based suicide-prevention group aimed at college students.

“It’s more often personal- and family-relationship disruption,” he said. “In many cases, alcohol or other substances are involved.”

College age, he said, is also the time when many mental illnesses, including depression and schizophrenia, surface. Up to 90 percent of suicide victims have a diagnosable psychiatric condition, he said.

Colleges aren’t required to report suicides, so the problem is hard to track.

Penn officials said they don’t know how many students died of suicide over the last five years.

“The university doesn’t keep records like that,” said spokesman Ron Ozio.

About 7 percent of students nationally report having experienced suicidal thoughts in the last 12 months, statistics show. About 1 percent attempt suicide. For Penn, a school of 24,000 undergraduates and graduates, that would translate to 240 students.

philly.com

Bullying and Suicide, a Guide Released Today by NoBullying

NoBullying.com releases today the ultimate guide to bullying and suicide.

London, UK (PRWEB) March 26, 2014

From the many and quite recent bully-related suicide reports from every part of the world, it has become quite clear that the connection between suicide and bullying is getting stronger. While bullying may seem like a minor and childish behavior to many, it has gradually risen into one of the leading causes of suicide and other very negative effects among teenagers. To put it more clearly, many victims of bullying are turning to suicide as the way out of the terror, humiliation and pain caused by bullies. NoBullying releases today the ultimate guide to Bullying and Suicide/.

The article mentions the sad fact that according to a recent study that took place in Britain, half of the teenage suicides were discovered to be related to bullying. This same study showed that the teenagers who were more at risk were girls between the ages of 10 and 14. Another study suggested that 30% of all students are either bullies or victims of bullying. It was also discovered that a significant number of students avoid school every day for fear of getting bullied.

Macartan Mulligan, Co-Founder of NoBullying.com, said, “Bullying is not a rite of passage. It is not sticks and stones anymore. Bullying hurts so much lives and puts teenagers into such a state where they feel they need to take their own lives.”

prweb.com

Healing the ‘Invisible Wound’

By:Elizabeth Harrington

March 28, 2014 12:00 pm

Lt. Col. (Ret.) Dar Place was two feet away when his friend and fellow soldier took his own life during the Gulf War. Two decades later, like so many other veterans, Place is still haunted by the plague of suicide in the military.

“I personally saw my driver after Desert Storm in his tank put a gun underneath his mouth and pull the trigger, while I was no further away from him than I am from you right now,” Place told the Washington Free Beacon at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Thursday. He was one of the dozens of activists with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) who planted thousands of flags to honor veterans who had killed themselves.

By noon, 1,892 American flags graced the Mall, representing the number of veterans who have taken their life this year alone since January 1st—an average of 22 per day.

Former soldiers and survivors gathered to raise awareness about the epidemic, and lobby Capitol Hill to pass a bill addressing gaps in mental health.

Nearly 50 percent of IAVA members know someone who served in Iraq or Afghanistan who has either committed or attempted suicide.

The number of suicides among active-duty military personnel eclipsed the number of casualties in the War on Terror in 2012. The number of young veterans taking their own life has increased dramatically since 2009, and a record 349 active-duty service members committed suicide last year.

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Drugs

I have noticed, the world never makes a change until the people get so fed up that they start taking action and making demands. As long as the corporations bring in the money, stock holders hear nothing of the pain and agony that come with the drugs, from which their largest sum of money comes. The general public may never hear of the anguish, except within their own families, because they almost never speak out. However, a couple did, which I will tell you about. The troubles, pain, and anguish in the families stay in the families, fearing their neighbors will think evil of them. But every family, every household, in the world is suffering behind closed doors at this time. Outside of close friends or relatives, the secret of misery stays hidden in every home of America in this generation.

Two Mothers Speak Out—Two Billion Should

Two mothers out of six billion people finally speak out against prescription and recreational drugs. Susan Cyr’s son, Eric, died of an overdose at the age of 32. Lori Gonsalves’ son suffers brain damage from heroin. These two typical families of America from Tounton, Massachusetts, work to make a living and bring up their families. They trust in their doctors and religions. They never dreamed they were being led into a religious drug trap that would cause them anguish that would haunt them as long as they live. Susan and Lori are only two of many.

Anguish spurs moms of heroin addicts to speak out

TAUNTON, Mass. — In a kitchen in Taunton, Mass., two mothers sit, bound by pain and confusion.

Each woman says she thinks every day, “Oh my God, how did I get here?”

“Here” is dealing with their sons’ heroin addiction. CBS News met Susan Cyr the day after she buried her son Eric, dead of an overdose at 32.

“Everybody says he is at peace,” Cyr says. “But I am in the nightmare.”

Lori Gonsalves discovered her son Corey was using four years ago, when he was moody on Christmas Day.

“My husband knew something was up, and so my husband broke the door down and walked in on him with a needle in his arm,” Gonsalves says.

Asked how she can make sense of her child shooting up on Christmas Day, she says, “You can’t even make sense of it.”

Corey lived but suffered brain damage. Once a high school pitcher, quarterback and National Honor Society student, he is now disabled.

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His troubles started with painkillers prescribed for a pitching injury. Gonsalves says the little pill that made him feel better was actually a gateway to heroin.

“And then he went to oxy, and then oxy becomes too expensive, and so that’s when they go to heroin,” she says.

“I mean, it’s $5 — it’s the same price as a Happy Meal,” Cyr says.

Cyr and Gonsalves were there when White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske held a town hall meeting at the Taunton fire house last month. But before he could even finish, he was interrupted by a 911 call — another overdose.

“You couldn’t have staged it better,” Cyr says. “It’s like, this is true. This is really a problem.”

For these two moms, silence is the enemy.

“I have two choices: I can stay in bed or I can fight,” Cyr says. “Staying in bed isn’t going to help anybody.”

In their anguish, they’ve found purpose: making sure we hear about the horrors of heroin from those who’ve suffered most.

CBS News

From Prescription Drugs to Heroin Overdose

We were able to conduct a telephone interview with Lori Gonsalves where she gave us a glimpse into the events that led up to the devastating day her son overdosed on heroin. Son, Cory Palazzi, 25 experienced heroin overdose on July 15, where he suffered brain damage resulting in him becoming legally blind and with decreased motor skills.

Below are the interview questions and answers from our phone conversation with Lori Gonsalves on 3/24/14.

*Interviewer: Was your son ever exposed to marijuana?

Gonsalves: Yes, I knew Corey’s friends smoked marijuana. I wasn’t concerned. I didn’t like the idea nor was I happy about it. I thought it was no big deal. Based on personal exposure and experiences during teen years at parties, marijuana joints would be passed around, I would take a hit and pass it on. I never was interested in doing drugs, just did so to fit in.

*Interviewer: Did your son ever smoke marijuana?

Gonsalves: Yes. Corey said he tried marijuana once. Corey and I discussed his using marijuana. This had taken place before his injury and he said that he only tried it once and did not like it. He said he would never do it again. I also tried marijuana when I was in college. I never really liked it, and never tried any other drugs. It wasn’t that big of a concern to me. I never investigated further and believed him when he told me this. I know I was very naïve in not checking any further.

*Interviewer: Were you or your son taught prescription drugs were safe?

Gonsalves: Physician never explicitly instructed us of the danger of drug other than general warning. Knew of dangers, but never really educated on the subject. Cory was prescribed Percocet for pain management after surgery.

Mrs. Gonsalves says her son started turning to the pills after his chances for a baseball scholarship were no longer available and his depression and anxiety started to get worse. He remembered how better he felt emotionally when he was taking the pain pills. He used the pills to help deal with all his emotional pain and disappointments.

Gonsalves: He still went to college and majored in nursing. But with the loss of his baseball scholarship opportunities, his interest in college changes.

She noticed his grades were slipping, anxiety, depression, but thought it was because of her son living away from home. She did not attribute it to her son’s abuse of drugs.

* Interviewer: Did your son ever use prescription drugs before?

Gonsalves: My son didn’t like taking medicine. He wouldn’t even take Tylenol if he had a headache or any kind of cold medicine if he was sick. He didn’t want to take anything that would fog his mind.

He was an Honor Society student, varsity athlete, and had no problems. Corey’s parents were shocked when they became aware of their son’s drug problem. His mother expressed it with the familiar saying, “If there’s no problem, don’t go looking for one.” She said her son turned to the pills when he was anxious, stressed, depressed, because he remembered how they made him feel when he was taking them for the pain. He changed from Percocet to Oxy from dealers, and when he couldn’t afford the Oxy, he turned to heroin. Mrs. Gonsalves said that Oxy goes for $30.00 per pill on the street, heroin goes for $5.00 a bag.

* Interviewer: Was your son involved in any gang related activities?

Gonsalves: No

*Interviewer: Are you aware of current drug overdose statistics?

Before this tragic situation with her son, Gonsalves was not aware of how close the drug problem was. She informed us that there have been at least 8 deaths from heroin overdose this year in the city of Tounton alone and 113 overdose deaths from other drugs.

* Interviewer: What denomination are you, and do you and your family attend church regularly?

Gonsalves responded saying they are Catholic and her husband is a Eucharistic minister at St. Jude the Apostle Parish, and she volunteers at St. Vincent DePaul. Neither the church, nor St. Vincent DePaul, have any programs or ministry dealing with drug abuse/overdose for adults or youth.

Another point she made was the solution that was discussed and implemented from the closed-door town council meeting attended by White House drug czar Gil Kerlikowske, several Massachusetts mayors, DA, and U.S. Senator Edward Merkey. It gave first responders, EMTs, firemen, and police officers a tool to stop the overdose symptoms. It’s an overdose-reversal medication, Naloxone, known by its trademark name Narcan. Also, the “Good Samaritan law” that offers immunity to anyone calling in an overdose victim to 911.

We asked if there was any way to get the notes from the closed-door meeting in February. Mrs. Gonsalves and Susan Cyr went to the meeting as concerned mothers of children who had overdosed on heroin, but were not able to participate, as this was a round-table discussion closed to the public and media. They were able to attend the news conference afterwards. They received more attention from the media than the town hall participants.

100 Americans die of drug overdoses each day. How do we stop that?

By Harold Pollack

February 7 at 1:06 pm

By now, virtually everyone has heard that actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died last Sunday of an apparent heroin overdose. What fewer people know is that, on the same day, roughly 100 other Americans also likely died from drug overdoses — statistically speaking.

The rise of fatal overdoses over the last 15 years is startling. In 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were 38.329 fatal drug overdoses in the United States, more than double the 16,849 fatal overdoses observed in 1999.

Overdosing is now the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, accounting for more deaths than traffic fatalities or gun homicides and suicides. Fatal overdoses from opiate medications such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methadone have quadrupled since 1999, accounting for an estimated 16,651 deaths in 2010.

washingtonpost.com

Deadly epidemic: Prescription drug overdoses

Mark Koba, CNBC 7:19 a.m. EDT July 28, 2013

A growing epidemic of overdoses of prescription painkillers is leading to a record number of deaths, especially among women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“More women are dying at rates that we have never seen before,” CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said about the findings, which were released earlier this month.

“Stopping this epidemic in women—and men—is everyone’s business,” Frieden added.

More Americans now die from painkillers than from heroin and cocaine combined, and since 2008, prescription drug-induced deaths have outstripped those from automobile accidents, according to the CDC.

The CDC’s latest figures show that 16,500 people died from overdoses tied to common narcotic pain relievers — such as Vicodin, OxyContin, Opana and methadone — in 2010. Of those, 40% were women.

In the past 11 years, deaths from overdose increased more than 400% among women, compared with a 265% rise among men.

“Patients get prescriptions for pain drugs and then they get addicted, making it very hard to get off them,” he said.

Americans consume 80% of opiate painkillers produced in the world, according to the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. Every hour, a baby is born in the United States with symptoms of opiate withdrawal, according to a study published in April by the Journal of the American Medical Association.

“I think it’s our culture,” Runyon said. “We are so oriented to finding easy solutions to problems, prescription drugs have become part of those solutions.”

A record 4.02 billion drug prescriptions were written in the U.S. in 2011, up from 3.99 billion the year before, according to the journal ACS Chemical Neuroscience.

Antidepressants such as Zoloft and Celexa were the most prescribed class of drugs in 2011, with 264 million prescriptions filled. Slightly more than 131 million prescriptions were written for generic Vicodin.

Some 31.9 million prescriptions were written for generic Percocet, while 29.3 million were were written for generic Neurontin, which is frequently prescribed to manage long-term pain.

In the $600 billion worldwide pharmaceutical industry, for every dollar a company spends on “basic research,” it puts $19 toward promotion and marketing, according to a report last year by BMJ, a London based medical journal.

“Manufacturers and prescribers have overestimated the benefits of these drugs,” said Dr. Leonard Paulozzi, an overdose expert at the CDC. “The risks from these drugs were thought to be small for noncancer pain, but they are substantial,” he added.

“A lot of patients don’t ask about medications, and doctors might assume people know what they’re getting into when taking the drugs,” Runyon said. “There’s no strategy on either side to get off them.”

Some 45 deaths from prescription drug overdose are recorded daily in the U.S.—quadruple the number in 1999, according to the CDC.

Until more people in pain realize what they’re getting into with prescription drugs, the situation will only get worse, said Runyon.

usatoday.com

Fatal drug overdoses in U.S. increase for 11th consecutive year

February 19, 2013 By Joseph Serna

According to a research letter published Tuesday from the National Center for Health Statistics, 38,329 people died of drug overdoses in the United States in 2010, an uptick from the previous year and the latest sign of a deadly trend involving prescription painkillers.

In 2010, 57% of overdoses, or more than 22,000, involved known prescription drugs. Three-quarters of those involved painkillers like Oxycontin and Percocet while another 9,400 involved some unidentified drug cocktail.

More than 74% of all prescription drug deaths were accidental, statistics show. Only 17% of overdoses were suicides. The numbers show how drugs in the opioid family, like Oxycontin, methadone and codeine, were often implicated in fatal drug cocktails.

An opioid was found in 77% of overdoses that involved benzodiazepine, a central nervous system depressant like Valium, Xanax or Ativan. The addictive narcotic was also involved in 65% of overdoses with antiepileptic or anti-Parkinsonian drugs; 57% of overdoses with antidepressants; and 56% of overdoses with anti-inflammatory and fever-reducing drugs.

The paper buttresses a Times investigation last year that showed a surge in painkiller prescriptions in California and across the nation has had fatal consequences.

Fatal prescription drug overdoses over the last decade have outnumbered deaths from heroin and cocaine combined, The Times reported. In nearly half of all accidental prescription drug deaths in Southern California, the deceased had a prescription for at least one of the drugs involved in the overdose.

latimes.com

What’s Worse?

What would be worse for a mother or grandmother than to experience the loss of a child by suicide or drug overdose, or a child born with a birth defect. Read the following articles.

Women urged to curb lifestyles as birth defects rise

by TIM UTTON, Daily Mail

Tuesday, May 13th 2014

Women trying to have a baby were warned yesterday to moderate their lifestyles to cut the risk of their children being born with defects.

The Birth Defects Foundation … showed that the number of babies born with certain defects has risen by up to 50 per cent in four years.

It is launching a campaign urging women to change their lifestyles long before they start trying to get pregnant.

The foundation published figures showing that one in 16 babies born in Britain – about 45,000 a year or 124 a day – is affected by a different defect.

Sheila Brown, chief executive of the foundation, said: ‘We recognise that, in today’s society, promiscuity and unplanned pregnancies are on the increase and the phenomenon is highlighted on holiday island TV programmes and the unprecedented rise in sexually transmitted diseases.

‘Drinking and smoking to excess seem to be the norm. But personal action is essential to give our children the very best chance of a healthy start in life.’

The incidence of cleft lip or palate, requiring several operations to repair, rose from 5.9 cases per 10,000 births in 1995 to 9.2 cases in 1999.

Gastroschisis, a weakness in the abdominal wall that leaves the baby with its intestines protruding at birth, rose from 1.3 to 1.9 cases per 10,000 births.

Cases of hypospadias, a malformation of male genitals, have risen from 7.5 to 8.5 cases per 10,000.

Professor Michael Patton, medical director of the foundation and a geneticist at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, South London, said: ‘One idea has been that perhaps it is the use of recreational drugs by teenage mothers that is behind this rise.’

mailonline.com

Inherited Disorders and Birth Defects

Genetic Disorders

A genetic disorder can be caused by a problem in one or more of the gens.. This means that the information in the gene is faulty. This problem can disrupt the normal function of a vital system – such as the immune system or the endocrine system– or prevent normal development of an organ, bones, or skin. It can also significantly increase a person’s chances of developing a particular disease, such as diabetes or breast cancer. Birth defects or genetic disorders can also be caused by a problem with the number or structure of chromosomes. Usually this results in multiple body systems being affected.

Collectively, genetic disorders account for a significant portion of human disease and conditions and can present themselves in several different ways. The most widely recognized genetic disorders include Down syndrone, spina bifida, and sickle cell anemia. Also, more information is available about the genetics of common diseases such as cancer. There are more than 6,000 known genetic disorders.

Statistics on Genetic Disorders

Approximately 4 million babies are born each year. About 3 to 4% will be born with a genetic disease or major birth defect.

Approximately 1% of all babies will be born with chromosomal abnormality, which can cause physical problems and mental retardation.

More than 20% of infant deaths are caused by birth defects or genetic conditions (e.g. congenital heart defects, abnormalities of the nervous system, or chromosomal abnormalities).

Approximately 10% of all adults and 30% of children in hospitals are there due to genetically related problems.

Genetic disorders can be lethal or result in conditions that require significant medical care. For example, children and adults who have cystic or sickle cell anemia, two of the most common inherited disorders, often need to be hospitalized for treatment of these diseases. Increasingly, scientists are learning that many common diseases that typically arise later in life – diabetes, some types of heart disease, cancer, and arthritis – may run in families and have a strong genetic component.

netwellness.org

…how do STDs affect the body and cause birth defects?

Infections during pregnancy, including some sexually transmitted infections, can cause birth defects and other problems such as miscarriage, premature (early) delivery, and low birth weight. These include rubella (german measles), varicella (chicken pox), parvovirus B19 (Fifth disease), toxoplasmosis (a parasite found in cat feces), syphilis, cytomegalovirus (CMV which is a type of herpes virus), herpes simplex virus and HIV. If the mother has an infection during pregnancy, the virus or bacteria or parasite can be passed on to the developing fetus (via the placenta) so that the fetus becomes infected as well. Using the principles of teratology, the infection can lead to birth defects, poor growth, mental retardation, miscarriage or stillbirth.

netwellness.org

What is worse, lose a child to an overdose or lose a child in a shooting? Children and adults, alike, are doing some really crazy, unheard of things in this generation. They are displaying unimaginable behavior against themselves and others. Who would have ever thought that anyone would fly a plane into a building, ending their own life and those of many others.

On a clear, sunny late summer day in September 2001, Al Qaeda terrorists aboard three hijacked passenger planes carried out coordinated suicide attacks against the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., killing everyone on board the planes and nearly 3,000 people on the ground. A fourth plane crashed into a Pennsylvania field, killing all on board, after passengers and crew attempted to wrest control from the hijackers.

History.com

Would it be more devastating if your child took a gun or knife and killed family members or children at school?

Jan 28, 2014 3:37PM ET /National

January’s Epidemic: 11 School Shootings in 19 Days

January 2014 is threatening to become the month when gun violence became a matter of routine in America’s schools. Since the start of the month, there have been at least 11 active shooting incidents on a high school or college campus, one for every two weekdays of the month (including New Year’s Day.) Those shootings — all on or near school grounds while students were present, and most perpetrated by students themselves — have claimed at least two lives and injured at least 11 students.

But in addition to the actual shootings, the number of shooting scares and threats are on the rise as well. Reports of “active shooters” and precautionary lockdowns have become a part of every school’s standard procedures. If it feels like there’s “another one” every day now, that’s because that’s very nearly true. In fact, the latest school shooting (the wounding of a 17-year-old in Hawaii) happened while this very post was being edited.

For comparison, there were as many as 28 school shootings during the entire year of 2013, the 12 months after Adam Lanza shot and killed 20 first-graders and 6 teachers in Newtown, Connecticut. In other words, the year our nation had supposedly had enough and was finally going to do something about gun violence.

ThinkProgress also noted the frequency of school shootings this month, concluding that there’s been a shooting pretty much every other day so far. When you factor in lockdowns and scares, and note that most schools were on holiday break until at least the 6th (and that January 20th, Martin Luther King Day, was also a national holiday) gun incidents have become an almost daily occurrence at American schools this year.

If you count the double incident in Georgia, there has now been a shooting, lockdown, or gun scare somewhere in the United States for the last 12 consecutive weekdays. (There have only been 19 full weekdays this month, and that’s counting MLK Day.) And this tally doesn’t even take into account this month’s mass shootings in other public places. Like last Saturday, for instance, when a 19-year-old opened fire at a Maryland mall, killing two people before killing himself.

thewire.com

School stabbing: Are parents desensitized to school violence?

As the nation learns of a school stabbing in Pennsylvania and prepares to mark the 15th anniversary of the Columbine school shooting, a question creeps into mind: Are parents and kids used to bracing for violence in schools?

By Lisa Subay, Correspondent / April 10, 2014

When a high school boy in Murrysville, Pa., stabbed and injured 22 people, many of us reading the news may have expressed the post-Columbine world view of, “At least it wasn’t a gun.”

Reports says Alex Kribal, a sophomore, used two kitchen-type knives in the attack, which started shortly after 7 a.m. on Wednesday. By late Wednesday afternoon, I began to see postings by parents on Facebook and Twitter, not expressing fear, outrage, or support, so much as dark humor.

One mom on Facebook actually commented on the incident, “Well they don’t say ‘he brought a knife to a gun fight’ for no reason.”

As I watched the news and read reactions on Facebook and Twitter, I began to see a pattern emerge which suggests that, culturally, we have become more desensitized to this kind of mass school attack by a student.

This morning, Twitter was already a place to find mock reactions of concern for school violence, rather than a place to pour out fears. I did find at least one concerned tweet from a non-media account that lamented, rather than mocked, those who are still sensitive to school violence.

It seems as if parents nationwide are becoming more desensitized to this kind of school violence, and the National Parent Teacher Association, headquartered in Alexandria, Va., has noticed the cultural shift as well.

“We hate to say ‘desensitized,’ but from a cultural perspective it does seem like people just aren’t having the same kind of reaction they did to Columbine,” says Heidi May, National PTA media relations manager. “This is still a very key national issue for us, even if, culturally, many people are tending to react to it as a localized event.”

For days, parents were in a state of what I called “horror hypnosis” and could not get enough news on what had happened. For years afterward, every time something happened at a school, no matter where it happened in the country, my phone didn’t stop ringing as friends, neighbors, and relatives called to talk about the news. Schools were awash in metal detectors, guards, and new policies designed to keep our kids safe.

Now, nearly 15 years later to the day, it seems that parents were over this school stabbing news faster and with less debate than an incident involving a pop star’s indiscretion.

While I don’t want to be alarmist, I believe we need to take the time to absorb and react to these ongoing acts of violence in our schools.

Gallows humor may be some people’s way of coping with this kind of shocking violence by a student, but when it comes so close on the heels of an attack, perhaps we need to reevaluate the ripple effect these kinds of posts have on our culture and our kids.

The Christian Science Monitor

If you watch your local news, as in Abilene, Texas, you will see people being gunned down on the streets or in restaurants where they went with family members to dine out for the evening. You will see car-to-car shootings, drive-by shootings, armed robberies, burglaries, people murdered in their own homes.

What the world needs to realize is that the whole world is suffering from mass confusion, and you need to understand why

The confusion in this generation is a result of 6,000 years of adding sin upon sin. I know at this point that many will shut their eyes and ears to this information, but if you are one who can stand up to truth in a world of make-believe, The Book of Yahweh has the only answers far and above any other source.

What the world calls the bible, the Inspired Writings of the Prophets of Yahweh and the Disciples of Yahshua Messiah, was originally called The Book of Yahweh. That was before the Roman Catholic Church and its violent army forcefully took control of and destroyed the temple, which was originally called The House of Yahweh. They passed laws that carried the death penalty, making it illegal to use the Name Yahweh, to own a Book of Yahweh or an Inspired Manuscript containing the Writings of Yahweh’s Prophets or the Disciples of Yahshua Messiah.

The Roman Catholic Church, when they were still calling themselves Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Herodians before they changed their name to the ‘holy’ Roman Empire, ordered its army to destroy the temple around 70 CE and had their general, Titus, move all of its artifacts to Rome. You can request information about this subject by calling, writing or emailing us. It is provided in many of our newsletters, Prophetic Word magazines, and sermons.

For over 1500 years, the Roman Catholic Church and its army, forbid the printing, ownership, or use of The Book of Yahweh. This cut mankind off from the Greatest Wisdom and foresight, straight from Yahweh, ever written for mankind.

Families/parents are starved for guidance to train up their children in the way they should go. They see their children dying in all manners and know not what to do or the way to peace, even in their own families.

The Roman Catholic Church has worked for years to cast doubt on creationism and the Plan of Yahweh, because Satan knows that if you do not believe all that Yahweh’s Prophets have spoken, you remain a fool and will eventually destroy yourself.

Luke 24:25—

Then He said to them: O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken!

If you truly believe all that the Prophets have spoken, you will believe that Yahweh created mankind.

After the Roman Catholic Church and its violent army were wounded with a severe wound, called the black plague, that wiped out most of their priests, their members started leaving in droves. People were dying by the millions and, as today, the church had no answers. The vatican lost its power over the people. Certain brave men started printing copies of the Inspired Writings given to them by the king of England. Yet, these copies had already been greatly altered by the Roman Catholic Church. The Names of Yahweh and Yahshua had been removed and replace with the titles of lord and God. For details about the removal of the Names Yahweh and Yahshua and the changing of the names of the Prophets and Disciples, whose names carried the Name Yahweh, call, write or email us.

The Roman Catholic Church and its armies still have no answers to the problems families suffer today, because now, as then, they still reject the Great Wisdom of Yahweh which is the Only Source of Wisdom that will solve today’s six billion problems.

The Book of Yahweh is Back and its Ours for Eternity

In the very first chapter of Genesis in The Book of Yahweh, we are told why Yahweh made mankind.

Genesis 1:26—

Then Yahweh said: I will make man in My Image, according to My Likeness; they will have Authority over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

In the second chapter of Genesis, we are told that Yahweh sets before us the way to live, without dying. We are shown that dying you will die if you follow the Gods. I’ve set before you Life by Righteousness, The Book of Yahweh tells us.

Dying You Will Die

Yahweh, the Creator, shows in the beginning that sin starts a process of death in the micro-kingdoms that form and make-alive all the different organs of your body.

Certain animals, sea-life, birds, and insects are called unclean in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 because their flesh contains microbes that are harmful to the microbes that keep your body functioning properly. If those microbes enter your eye, the symptoms will soon make you aware that your sight is being impaired. If they set up home in your lungs, the symptoms will show you that breathing is becoming difficult. Why? Because the microbes in your eye or your lungs are being attacked and killed by the unclean microbes that were made to survive only in those things called unclean.

Genesis 2:16-17—

16 And Yahweh commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of Righteousness and evil you must not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die.

The true meaning of the original Hebrew writing means dying you will die.

Each organ in your body is made up of many micro-kingdoms. When these kingdoms are killed off because of sin, your eyes will see less, your lungs will become weaker, your kidneys will be much less effective, your other organs won’t function properly, until the dying organ stops completely. Dying you will die.

Eating unclean ‘foods’ is just one cause of death in the body. The warning against eating unclean animals is only one of thousands of tips to keep you alive and healthy. That Great Wisdom was, and still is today, forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church, whose priests eat swine’s flesh.

Isayah 65:4, 7—

4 Who assemble and spend the night keeping memorials for the dead, who eat swine’s flesh, and the broth of abominable things is in their vessels,

7 You and your fathers have transgressed My Laws together, says Yahweh. You have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed Me upon the hills. Therefore your reward for what you have done will be measured into your nakedness which you have shamefully exposed.

Isayah 66:17—

They who sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens, following after the priest in the midst of those who eat swine’s flesh, that which is offered to gods (elohim) and the rodent—will be consumed together: says Yahweh.

Today’s lifestyles also contribute to the death and defilement of mankind, as The Book of Yahweh warns in:

Leviticus 18:3, 6, 17, 19-20, 22-23—

3 After the doings of the land of Egypt where you dwelt, shall you not do; and after the doings of the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you, shall you not do; neither shall you walk in their ordinances.

6 None of you shall approach anyone who is near of kin to him, in order to have sexual relations. I am Yahweh.

17 You shall not marry a woman and her daughter, nor shall you take her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter; her granddaughter, to have sexual relations. They are her near kinswomen; it is wickedness and lewdness.

19 Also, you shall not have sexual relations with a woman during the uncleanness of her monthly period; niddah, nor during any similar uncleanness; zavah.

20 Moreover, you shall not have sexual relations with your neighbor’s wife, to defile yourself, along with her.

22 You shall not have sexual relations with a man, as with a woman. It is an abomination.

23 Neither shall you have sexual relations with any animal and defile yourself, along with it; neither shall any woman present herself to have sexual relations with an animal. It is confusion and perversion.

Keep this information in mind, and notice that we have a choice today in America to practice Yahweh’s Health Laws. Compare:

Deuteronomy 30:15—

See, I have set before you this day Life by Righteousness, and death by destruction—

Please understand that there is destruction; it’s increasing and will end soon in nuclear wars. But Yahweh promises a Protected Place.

Deuteronomy 30:16-20—

16 In that I command you this day to love Yahweh your Father, by walking in all His ways, by keeping His Laws, His Statutes, and His Judgments, so that you may live and multiply, and so Yahweh your Father may bless you in the land which you go in to possess.

17 But if your heart turns away, and you are not obedient, and you are drawn away to submit to Gods (elohim), to worship them by serving them—

18 I declare to you this day that you will surely perish; you will not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Yardan to possess.

19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Therefore choose Life…

In verse 15, we see that we only achieve Life by Righteousness. Make sure you compare that with:

Genesis 2:16-17—

16 And Yahweh commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of Righteousness and evil you must not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die. (Dying you will die.)

In The Book of Yahweh, the twelve Disciples teach what Righteousness is. Notice:

I Yahchanan 3:4, 7-8, 10—

4 Whoever commits sin, transgresses also the Laws; for sin is the transgression of the Laws.

7 Little children, let no man deceive you; he who practices Righteousness is Righteous, just as He is Righteous.

8 He who commits sin is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of Yahweh was manifested; that He might destroy the works of the devil.

10 In this the Children of Yahweh and the children of the devil are manifest. Whoever does not practice Righteousness is not of Yahweh, and he does not love his neighbor!

Are Satan’s preachers lying when they say, as Satan said, you won’t die, you have an immortal soul (life) abiding in you? Every parent needs to ask themselves this question before they turn to the Roman Catholic Church and let them teach your children to disobey the Laws of Life. Notice the Words of the Disciple Yahchanan, whom they call John in the Roman Catholic Church’s authorized version of the Inspired Scriptures.

I Yahchanan 3:15—

Whoever hates his neighbor is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has Eternal Life abiding in him.

Notice closely what this verse says. He who hates does not have Eternal Life abiding in him. He who hates is classified as a murderer. Now read again Yahweh’s Plan for man.

Genesis 1:26—

Then Yahweh said: I will make man in My Image, according to My Likeness; they will have Authority over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.

Genesis 2:16-17—

16 And Yahweh commanded the man, saying: Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

17 But of the tree of the knowledge of Righteousness and evil you must not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die (dying you will die).

Accepting evil into one’s life or practicing evil in one’s activities makes that person unacceptable for the purpose he was created. Notice what Yahweh said to Cain in this regard.

Genesis 4:6-7—

6 So Yahweh said to Cain: Why are you angry? Why are you downcast?

7 If you do Righteousness, will you not be acceptable? And if you do not do Righteousness, sin is crouching at your door. The desire to sin is with you, but you must overcome it!

Think, please think! The only plan for man is Yahweh’s Plan. The Book of Yahweh gives us Laws to follow and to teach our children that will make, not only ourselves, but also our children acceptable for Yahweh’s Plan. These Laws will keep your mind, and their minds, and bodies healthy.

These Laws Prevent Confusion

Yahweh has given Laws, that if taught and followed strictly, would prevent the confusion we see in the world today from entering the minds of your children. These Laws would prepare your children to face the challenges of the world and to resist the evil of the religions striving to pull them into activities that will confuse their minds and have them doing things to destroy their lives.

I am speaking of the Great Wisdom of Yahweh’s Laws. It’s the path that Yahweh, Himself, follows. He has given this Wisdom to mankind in order to make them in the Image and Likeness of Himself. The Book of Yahweh shows that you must teach this Wisdom (His Laws) to your children to prevent what we see taking place today in our children. Every child born today, without doubt, has one or more birth defects—some are evident to the eye, some are not.

The First and Greatest Commandment to All Parents

Yahshua Messiah’s life-saving, guiding Words of life, health, and peace to all parents, should be taught to all children to keep them from evil.

Mattithyah 22:34-38—

34 But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they came together,

35 And one of them, a lawyer; asked to test Him, saying;

36 Teacher, what is the greatest Commandment in the Laws?

37 Yahshua said to him: You must love Yahweh your Father with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

38 This is the first and greatest Commandment.

The Book of Yahweh gives this Law that the Savior quoted in:

Deuteronomy 6:5—

And you must love Yahweh your Father with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.

Why does the Roman Catholic Church hate that Law so much? Why did they remove the Name Yahweh from the bibles before allowing them to be printed? Read on. Notice what else.

Deuteronomy 6:7—

And you must teach them diligently to your children, and talk about them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the road, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

And notice what else.

Deuteronomy 6:25—

And it will be our Righteousness if we observe to do all of these Laws before Yahweh our Father, as He has commanded us.

It is that Righteousness, that Great Wisdom, that guides a child and keeps that child, and parent, on the way to Life Eternal. And notice what else.

Proverbs 6:20-23—

20 My son, keep Yahweh’s Laws, and do not forsake the teaching and instruction in the Law (Torah) given by The House of Yahweh.

21 Bind them in your mind forever, and tie them around your neck.

22 When you go, they will lead you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak with you.

23 For the Commandments are a Lamp, the Laws are Light, and reproofs of instruction are the Way to Life.

In this generation, children receive evil from so many different sources, it’s almost impossible for parents to keep up with their children’s activities. Evil is taught in your own home if you have a television, computer, or radio. Evil is taught in schools all over America, as well as the rest of the world.

It is still illegal to teach the Laws of Righteousness, due to the old laws of the roman empire and the Roman Catholic Church that were set up in America in an effort to kill off anyone who would not yield to the evil rebellion of the Roman Catholic Church or who would not attend their schools.

Today, your children are learning evil from every location, but what your Savior says is not taught at all. In fact, it’s taught against by the religions. Therefore, children are left blind and confused, not knowing what direction to choose when they come face-to-face with evil.

Again I say, parents today are suffering from what they did in their teen years because they had no training in the Wisdom given in The Book of Yahweh. They are bearing children carrying birth defects in many organs of their body, even their brain, that cannot be overcome with pharmacology. In fact, drugs add to the existing problems.

When pharmaceuticals are given to a person who’s already confused, the possibility of extreme pressure being added to the confused cells already present in the brain can create both physical and/or mental distress. This can drive many to even more damaging circumstances, which bring about another even stronger God than that of silver or gold.

The Love of Money

The Book of Yahweh shows that men leading the world to destruction in this generation involve themselves with the love of money as a means of fulfilling their lusts. The majority seem to care little or nothing about the harm they’re bringing upon the world with their drugs that bring in the mighty dollar.

Parents, wake up! If you think you can depend on those who govern the drug market to look out for the safety of your children, read again the articles of anguish that parents, like yourself, are suffering.

The Best Defense is Prevention

The Book of Yahweh shows you how and what to teach your children to give them the moral character to make right choices that will keep them from most sickness, disease, fighting, and war. If you, as a parent, would have had the answers in advance concerning the harmful choices you made, you would not have acted in such foolish manners. How often have you said, or heard others say, “If only I had known” or “If only someone had told me”?

The Book of Yahweh has the guiding Instructions that show parents and children easy to follow guidelines that will build lasting, positive moral character. These guidelines will keep your children from making further mistakes and will teach you what you should have been taught by your parents.

For information on how to find and use these perfect guidelines, call, write, or email us. You will be forever thankful and so will your children.

Love, True Love

Yisrayl Hawkins

Yahweh’s Branch.com