“Brightest fast radio burst ever detected traced to nearby galaxy”

Astronomers have just caught the brightest fast radio burst (FRB) ever recorded, and it has been given a nickname worthy of its power: RBFLOAT, short for “Radio Brightest Flash Of All Time.” The extraordinary event, formally catalogued as FRB 20250316A, was spotted this past March by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, better known as CHIME. This massive telescope in British Columbia has made a name for itself by finding thousands of FRBs, but none quite like this one.

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Live a Balanced Life that is Material as well as Spiritual

“Only through the building up of a moral world order by intelligent self-conscious individuals can the world process be led towards its goal. … True existence is the incarnation of the Godhead; the world process is the Passion of the incarnated Godhead and at the same time the way of redemption for Him who was crucified in the flesh; morality, however, is the collaboration in the shortening of this path of suffering and redemption. Here, man does not act because he wants to, but he shall act because it is God’s will to be redeemed. Whereas the materialistic dualist makes man an automaton whose actions are only the result of a purely mechanical system, the spiritualistic dualist (that is, one who sees the Absolute, the Being-in-itself, as something spiritual in which man has no share in his conscious experience) makes him a slave to the will of the Absolute. As in materialism, so also in one-sided spiritualism, in fact, in any kind of metaphysical realism inferring but not experiencing something extra-human as the true reality, freedom is out of the question.

“Metaphysical as well as naïve realism, consistently followed out, must deny freedom for one and the same reason: they both see man as doing no more than putting into effect, or carrying out, principles forced upon him by necessity. Naive realism destroys freedom by subjecting man to the authority of a perceptible being or of one conceived on the analogy of a perceptible being, or eventually to the authority of the abstract inner voice which it interprets as “conscience”; the metaphysician, who merely infers the extra-human reality, cannot acknowledge freedom because he sees man as being determined, mechanically or morally, by a “Being-in-itself”.

-Rudolf Steiner

Moral World Order

It is true that we need to build up a moral world order in order to reach that state where the world can be one with the Godhead. Unfortunately, the number of people doing that is quite small, although growing. It is God’s Will that humanity be redeemed, but God is not going to force us to do so. God gave us a certain degree of free will so that we can choose to serve Him, or not. Without that free will, we would be little more than automatons doing what we are programmed to do.

Materialist and Spiritualist

The materialist acts according to what is happening in the physical realm, with no regard for the spiritual. As a result, they lack empathy and humility and are likely to be greedy and unkind. Most of them don’t believe in an afterlife. A few do, but their idea of an afterlife is probably something very similar to life in the material realm. You can see example of this on social media where they post memes of dogs with the message “This is what I think Heaven is,” or an image of fishing with the text, “I hope the fishing is good in Heaven”. None of that shows Heaven as the spiritual place that it truly is.

On the other hand, the pure spiritualist concentrates so much on the spiritual that he becomes ineffective in the physical realm. They may find it impossible to keep a job or to stay physically healthy.

Neither of these extremes is good. We all need to know that there is a God and we must obey his will, even in the physical realm. We must also recognize that while we are in the physical realm, we need to function in it to the best of our abilities.

“Astronomers find hidden channels of hot gas connecting our solar system to distant stars”

When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows that the region surrounding our solar system is far from empty. Instead, it may hold hidden channels of hot gas that connect our neighborhood of the galaxy to distant star systems.

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“The Messy Habits Of Small Black Holes”

The best opportunity to study black holes is when they’re actively accreting matter. During these times, matter gathers in an accretion disk around the black hole, where it heats up and emits electromagnetic radiation. At other times, there’s simply no light.

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“Is A Young Exoplanet Warping The Disk Around Fomalhaut?”

Fomalhaut is one of the brightest stars in the night sky and is about 25 light-years away, making it a galaxy amenable to detailed observations. It’s also a young star, only about 440 million years old. At that age, stars like Fomalhaut are surrounded by active debris disks made of rock and dust from collisions between planetesimals. Exoplanets form in these disks, and one of the hot topics in exoplanet science concerns how planets form in these circumstellar disks.

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The Wise Person is Humble

“The first step towards being wise is to acknowledge the extent of your ignorance. Concern yourself with the vast amount of knowledge that you lack, and place no undue importance on that, which you possess. As womanly loveliness is best displayed in a modest garment, so is quiet behavior and unpretentious bearing best becoming the wise.

“Remember that all men are born equally into ignorance, and no man, whatever his estate, lacks the means to knowledge. True wisdom comes not from books and instruction but from observation and enquiry.

“The learned scribe knows a thousand books, but what knows he about the ways of the grasshopper? The knowledge of a gardener brings him more joy than does knowledge to a magistrate. The life of a wilderness wanderer depends not on his knowledge of books but on his knowledge of the ways of the wilderness.

“If you would not be deemed foolish in the eyes of others, then cast aside the desire to appear wise to your own edification. If you would appear wise among the foolish, then you will appear foolish among the wise.

“A wise man speaks but rarely, and each word is a precious stone. The fool pours forth a torrent of words, but they are all dross. Words spoken with calm forthrightness are burnished with the luster of Truth.

“The wise man turns a deaf ear to his own praise; he does not know his own worth and is the last in discovering the greatest of his achievements.

“No man is wise enough to know his own folly before he has committed it, but nothing is lost to the wise, for failure becomes his guide to success.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:20:1-7)

The First Step

The first step for gaining true wisdom is to admit that you are ignorant in certain ways, no matter how great a formal education you have. Formal education is good for learning about the physical world, but in most cases, teaches nothing about the spiritual. If they do have any classes on spirituality or religion, it is from the churches that have lost their way and embraced materialism. A good rule of thumb is that if a church or religion teaches that it is acceptable to kill other people under certain circumstances, such as when the government declares war, that is a lost church.

All Born Ignorant

Whether our parents are rich, poor, or middle-class, we are all born ignorant. We have to gradually learn about the world around us by observation, and by what our parents tell us. It is worth noting that very few infants are prejudice in any way, unless they have been taught prejudice by their parents. More importantly, we need to awaken our dormant spirit and develop our spiritual Self. Only by developing our Spirit can we gain True Wisdom, the kind that comes from God and was called Gnosis by the Gnostics.

Do not try to Appear Wise

No matter how wise you think you are, you should avoid trying to appear wise. One reason is because doing so indicates that you lack humility, and humility is needed for spiritual growth. Another reason is it may anger others and cause them to send negative energy towards you, which can cause harm.

Speak When You have Something to Say

I remember years ago, before I retired, that a manager told me after a staff meeting, that I rarely said anything during the meetings. He said that I needed to say more, even if it was trivial, just to show that I was participating. That is the attitude of the materialistic world. Spiritual people know it is better to remain silent if you have nothing significant to say, or if you realize that the people you are with would not listen to what you said anyway.

Not Wise Enough

None of us is wise enough to always know when we are making a bad decision. But the wise person learns from their bad decisions, and pledges to do better in the future.

“NASA’s Webb Observes Immense Stellar Jet on Outskirts of Our Milky Way”

A blowtorch of seething gasses erupting from a volcanically growing monster star has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Stretching across 8 light-years, the length of the stellar eruption is approximately twice the distance between our Sun and the next nearest stars, the Alpha Centauri system. The size and strength of this particular stellar jet, located in a nebula known as Sharpless 2-284 (Sh2-284 for short), qualifies it as rare, say researchers.

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“Particles Shot Out of The Sun Reveal Distinct Patterns, Scientists Find”

Our sun can seem deceptively peaceful from Earth, but only because we have the luxury of living 150 million kilometers away. Up close, it’s a nuclear-fuelled carnival ride of terror, launching countless tiny particles at speed far into interplanetary space.

“The Sun is the most energetic particle accelerator in the Solar System,” writes a team of researchers behind a study on the energetic particles that stream forth in solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs).

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“Mystery of fastest white dwarfs solved?”

White dwarfs are the remaining small, dense cores of dead stars. Some white dwarfs move through the Milky Way at incredibly high speeds.
A new study reveals their origins. The study suggests that, when two rare types of white dwarfs collide, the resulting supernova explosion slingshots a remnant of the least dense white dwarf out into deep space.
The white dwarfs’ unusual temperatures and brightness can also be explained in this scenario.

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The Rich Must do more than just make Small Donations to the Poor

“If God has endowed you with riches, then regard them with pleasure, for the means to good deeds is in your hands.

“It is not sufficient for a rich man to give to the poor or to alleviate the distress of the needy. He who, having received abundance from God, doles out a pittance to the poor, does but salve his conscience and is not truly walking with God.

“It is the duty of the rich man to cast the weight of his riches in the balances, that goodness may outweigh evil.

“It is the duty of the powerful man to range his might alongside the forces of good in the struggle against evil. He shall protect the poor against the exploiter and defend the weak against oppression of tyrants.

“It is not so important to give to the poor man as to remove the cause of his poverty. To help the weak is good but of lesser importance than to attack their oppressor.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:9:1-5)

Regard Wealth as a Means to Good Deeds

It is good to regard wealth as a means to do good deeds for others, and not just as motivation to go after more and more money. We can look for examples to some of the wealthy of the past and present. Andrew Carnegie, the American industrialist, used most of his money to build public libraries. He built around 2,500 total, about 1,600 in the United States. Singer and actress Dolly Parton has donated millions of books to poor children. That’s how wealthy people should act.

Goodness Outweighs Evil

At the present time, it seems to many that evil far outweighs good, but that is only because we are paying more attention to the evil than we used to. That is a good thing because we can’t eliminate evil if we don’t recognize that it exists. Of course, wanting to get rid of evil doesn’t mean it’s going to happen, but we can at least start by avoiding evil in our own behavior. We can also encourage others to do the same. The quote says it is the duty of the powerful person to use his “might” to aid the forces of good. What we are seeing instead is that the rich and powerful are being greedier than ever, wanting more and more for themselves, rather than helping others. But as we are in the End Times, and the Sun of Righteousness now shines down upon us, the evil will be slowly “burned” out of the world, not only in people, but in everything. Those foolish enough to cling to their materialistic ways will die because the changing world will not support such people. Their low rate of vibration won’t allow them to function in the higher vibration world that is coming.

Remove the Cause

The quote says that rather than help a few individuals suffering from poverty, we should seek to remove the cause of their poverty. While some don’t seem to realize it, the fact that we have a dozen or so people in the world who are hoarding so much wealth that they have more money than the rest of the world together is the primary cause of poverty. Unfortunately, those very wealthy people pay off politicians to pass laws that are advantageous to them, but take more and more from the average person. We need politicians who put the general population ahead of a few wealthy people. We also need laws that prevent the wealthy from essentially buying politicians to favor them. We need to ensure that the wealthy pay a fair share of taxes.