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Royal Blood – Royal Scam

Why do some people feel they are special, better than the rest of us, superior, elevated, Royal? To understand this we need some background, we must go way back in history.

Two thousand years ago the Jewish religion had one group that split off and became the Christians. This religion grew, became a thorn in the side of Rome, was persecuted and then for political reasons in 324AD the Roman Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Empire.

Christianity had many different forms in 324 so in 325AD Constantine held the Council of Nicaea and declared which form would be allowed and which forms would be banned. All the other diverse religions where still allowed to be practiced at this time so there where many many different Gods and Goddesses. Then the Roman Emperor Theodosius (reigned 379-395AD) banned all religions except the official form of Christianity and interestingly Judaism as it was the father of Christianity.

By 440AD under Leo 1st the Popes in Rome where in firm control of Christianity; if you wanted to be in charge of society you needed to connect yourself with this religion so royalty endeavored to prove that they where somehow descended from the divine order imbedded in the religion. This connection to the divine past gave royalty legitimacy in the eyes of the people.

Now we need to go even farther back in history. Since Christianity sprang from Judaism if you wanted to connect yourself to Christ you needed to prove your connection to the Jewish past. Remember that the story is that the Hebrews where taken out of Egypt by Moses and that they settled in Palestine as twelve tribes descended from one man. Time passes and the tribes become two nations, Israel and Judah. Around 1000BC David of Judah took control of all twelve tribes, since his people wrote the official history the story sounds like all the tribes loved him. This I doubt as he made slaves of some of the people and his empire only lasted two generations then they became two separate nations again.

In 722BC the Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom of Israel and carried off the ten tribes that lived there. Why the two other tribes in Judah did not help them is a mystery unless you understand the animosity between them. In 597BC the southern kingdom of Judah is conquered by the Babylonian Nebuchadnezzar and the Jews where taken away.

Remember that Christ’s followers assert that he came from the “House of David” or Judah so it is very important for David’s line to be divine and here is where the root of claims to the divine rights of European royalty derives.

According to the beliefs of these people when Nebuchadnezzar carried away Judah he killed the last king Zedekiah, however his daughters and the prophet Jeremiah escaped to Egypt and then going west they crossed over to Spain and from there they went to Ireland. They supposedly brought with them the Ark of the Covenant along with other things biblical. Since the daughter of Zedekiah was a direct descendent of David she carried Divine Blood with her. And every king and queen and all the so-called royalty of the British and European families claim a connection to her so they all claim they are divine and therefor “Royal”; that their blood is different from all the “common” people. It is interesting that they are revered to as ‘Blue Bloods’ and patriots are considered “Red Blooded”. Blood is pumped from the heart after it is oxygenated in the lungs and is red, after it is used by the body it returns to the heart and is referred to as blue; so ‘blue blood’ will not sustain the body.

Well if the above where not enough proof for the royalty to claim the right to be our rules we must now jump ahead and add a second link to this incredible claim.

There are people that claim that Jesus had an evil twin brother and that it was this twin that died on the cross and that Jesus came to London and lived with his wife and children. They claim that the English royalty are descended directly from Christ. Another group claims that Jesus had a child with Mary Magdalene and she started the royal bloodline of the Merovingian’s making them divine and royal; this is the basis of the book the “DaVinci Code”. All of this is necessitated by the need to appear divine or holy so that the common people will let you rule.

It is high time that all this silly nonsense ends. No one is divine, no one is inherently better than anyone else is, and some people are only lucky to have been born rich, giving them power. The world need to wakeup and say “You are not royal you are only lucky. We will chose or leaders not have them imposed on us!”

Dr Marlin Creasote 2009AD

The Birth of the Jewish Religion

To understand the history of the Jews we must go back to the beginning in Sumeria. About 3250 BC the Sumerian civilization began when these unknown people arrived from the north, they where the first to build cities, and had the first written language thus they left the first written records and this allows us to start official history. Their language was not related to any other on earth and they where not Semites.
There where probably Semitic tribes living in the area before the Sumerians arrived and about 2330 BC the Semitic King Sargon I conquered them and started the Akkadian civilization.
Around 2000 BC a group of Semitic Aramaean Tribes went north to the area that is now Turkey, and around 1800 BC some of these tribes moved south to the area of the Jordan River. These tribes spoke Aramaic, a language similar to Hebrew. Just one of these many tribes was the tribe of Abram, who we know as Abraham.
At this time history was passed from generation to generation orally and it would be perfectly normal for any tribe of people to embellish their history to make their ancestors seen greater and more important; I take these stores as a grain of salt.
The Jewish Bible tells us that the Patriarch Abraham was sent as a soldier to Palestine by the powers in Mesopotamia. I believe the powers at the time would not have recruited individual soldiers but whole tribes.
We are told a drought forced them to move to Egypt and it was in 1470 BC that the island of Thera exploded with such force it destroyed civilizations all 0ver the eastern Mediterranean. At this point they where not yet Jews but could have been called Hebrews (those who pass from place to place). They would have had the same religion as their fatherland in Mesopotamia.
Sometime around 1379 to 1362 BC the Egyptian king Akhenaton starts a new religion that states that there is only one god, the Egyptian Sun God. He tries to stamp out all the other religions ala later Eastern Roman emperors.
It is becoming very clear that some of the Hebrews became members of this religion. After Akhenaton dies the old religions are reinstated and a campaign to eliminate the One God religion is started.
Close to one hundred years later, we are told that, Moses (a very Egyptian name) led the Hebrews out of Egypt after ten plagues had devastated the kingdom.

I will layout a possible scenario.

The Hebrews that where members of Akhenaton’s religion where being persecuted and when a plague of some sort happened the bulk of the Egyptians where told (by the competing religions) that the cause was those people that believed in the One God Religion and that they must go (this has got to be the first of many times that Jews have been expelled from a nation).
Now remember that this was around 1275 BC and the Jewish Bible was not written down until some six hundred years later so the oral stories had been passed down and embellished for many generations and a story satisfying to the tribe would have been created.
Let us step back from the religious rhetoric and use simple logic to try to get a better picture of the birth of this new Hebrew religion.
The One God people where told to get out of Egypt, or else. They left with good riddance but when it was found that they had taken with them the wealth of the One God Temple the army went after them. Somehow they got into the Sinai Peninsula and had to hide out for forty years until Rameses II died and the heat was off. The copper scroll found with the Dead Sea scrolls described where they had buried the treasure (long recovered) and was kept as a part of their secret past. It is written in Hebrew and Egyptian with a cryptic reference to Akhenaton.
After forty years they emerge into the area of Palestine and conquer the territory. They kept the One God Religion but did not want it to be an Egyptian god. The religious leaders made up (and borrowed) the entire story of the bible to justify their conquest of the land (their God gave it to them because they where His chosen people). It is a highly embellished historical myth, some fact, some combining and retelling of old myths and facts; a little truth and a lot of stories that where just made up. Without a written record a story told today would be very different from the same story told five hundred years earlier.

How did these Hebrews become Jews? It is truly a family affair. Moses was the leader of this Cult; he made sure his family through his brother Aaron where totally in charge by making them hereditary Priests. When they left Egypt there where many different peoples and tribes, some broke off from Moses’ group and went north. Moses’ group was composed of many tribes however the Jews are descended from one man through his twelve sons that became the twelve tribes. After spending forty years hiding out in the wilderness (hills and deserts) waiting for Rameses II to die this group moves into Palestine and conquers it under Joshua.
Here things get a little confusing. The Jewish Bible tells us that Abraham had a son with his wife (his half sister) named Isaac and Isaac had a son named Jacob who had twelve sons (through four wives) that became the twelve tribes that controlled all of Israel. That would only be three generations and we know Abraham was around 1800 BC and Jacob was around 1200 BC, that is 600 years! So once again the history is a myth.
Nevertheless around 1200 BC these Hebrews move into Palestine and take over. The twelve tribes each have a kingdom and they appoint an over all king as the King of Israel. Around 1020 BC Saul is the King of Israel and the King of the tribal territory of Benjamin (Jacob & Rachel)
David is the king of the tribal territory of Judah (Jacob & Leah) David takes over as King of Israel when Saul dies and unites all twelve tribes into one Nation, his son Solomon continues the united kingdom, however about 922 BC the thing falls apart and they are divided into the Northern Kingdom of Israel and the Southern Kingdom of Judah.
Eventhough they where all Jews they could not get along and when in 734 BC the Assyrians conquered the Northern Kingdom of Israel it seems that Judah did nothing to help them. In 598 BC the Babylonians conquered Judah and the Nation of Israel came to an end. However the religion of Judaism continued in Babylon and Egypt. Later some Jews returned and rebuilt the Temple in Jerusalem but they where a subject peoples to the Babylonians and later the Greeks. This gave the Jews the right to live anywhere in the Greek world so they spread out.
The Maccabean revolt of 165-142 BC gave the Jews their independence again and they formed the Nation of Judah until they came under the control of Rome who defeated them in 70 AD and again in 135 AD. In the 700s AD Islam took control of the area yet the Jewish Religion continued. It was in Babylon that the Jews developed a new set of religious books called the Talmud that is revered as much as the Old Testament Bible (Torah) by many Jews.
Up to this point all Jews where of the same Semitic stock as their ancestors however today ninety percent of Jews are not Semitic.
In 740 AD in the steppes of SE Russia and the Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian Sea lived a people called the Khazars (also Chazars). Sandwiched as they where between the competing powers of Islam and Christianity they decided to become Jewish so as not to become involved with either side. They grew and where very powerful up to about 950 AD when they where driven out and moved to Poland and Russia. They where mostly a Turkish and Georgian people. They retained their Jewish religion and are today known as Ashkenazi Jews as opposed to the original Jews know as Sephardic. These Ashkenazi Jews where the leadership of the Bolsheviks in the Communist revolution in Russia and control Israel today. They discriminate against the Sephardic Jews in Israel and are the people that are hated by most people that they would call Anti-Semites eventhough they are not Semites themselves.
So there you have it. Abraham took his people to Palestine, they then went to Egypt and got involved with the One God of Akhenaton’s religion, later they where chased out of Egypt and started their own One God religion. This Hebrew God is now the God of the Jews, Christians, and Moslems; half the earth’s population.
What are we to do with half of the population that bases their religious beliefs on a made up story? Nothing can be done until these people are educated with the true fact and they see their beliefs for the religious philosophy that it truly is. Many large and powerful religions have come and gone, replaced by new religions. When will we see this ancient religion replaced by a new one? For the one thing I know is that most humans desperately need some sort of religious believes.

Marlin Creasote 2007AD

Christianity, most widely distributed of the world religions, having substantial representation in all the populated continents of the globe. Its total membership may exceed 1.7 billion people. Died 33AD

Christ was a Jew and his message was to the Jews. His followers, later leaders, of this new Jewish sect where driven by the Jewish belief that a leader from the "House of David" would be the Jewish King. If they could pull it off they, the leaders of this sect, would be royalty. The other "Houses" of Israel did not like this.

From this center Christianity radiated to other cities and towns in Palestine and beyond. An important source of the alienation of Christianity from its Jewish roots was the change in the membership of the church that took place by the end of the 2nd century. At some point, Christians with Gentile backgrounds began to outnumber Jewish Christians. The work of the apostle Paul was influential in this change. He formulated many of the ideas and terms that were to constitute the core of Christian belief. The early congregations were based on an orderly transmission of leadership from the first apostles to subsequent "bishops."

When differing interpretations of the Christian message arose, official church councils during the 300s and 400s produced definitive formulations of basic doctrines, which are still accepted by most Christians. Christianity also had to settle its relation to the political order. Some of the Roman emperors persecuted the Christians, whom they saw as a threat to unity and reform. Despite the persecutions, Christianity had grown considerably by the 300s.

Emperor Constantine the Great decided to accept the new religion. The conversion of Constantine assured the church a privileged place in society. Some Christians began to feel that standards of Christian conduct were being lowered and that the only way to obey the moral imperatives of Christ was to flee the world. Christian monasticism began in the Egyptian desert and spread to many parts of the Christian empire during the 300s and 400s. In 330 Constantine moved the capital of the empire from Rome to Byzantium, which he renamed Constantinople. While Western Christianity became increasingly centralized under the pope of Rome, the principal centers of the East developed autonomously. The emperor at Constantinople held a special place in the life of the church. It was he, for example, who presided over the general councils of the church.

Paul, Saint (AD 3?-62?), (reincarnation?) a missionary of Christianity and its first theologian, called Apostle to the Gentiles.

Saul (Paul) was a Jew that came over to the "House of David" side, and to gain more converts (power) he wanted to take in the "Non-jew". This could not stand with the other Jews so a new religion was born. 58AD

So just 25 years after Christ’s death he is the figurehead of a new religion that appeals to both Jews and the followers of the polytheistic Roman religion. Now you no longer need to fear the Roman Gods or the Jewish God, because Christ loves you and you would go to a paradise after death. Could that be all there was to this new religions appeal? Why would large numbers of people convert to this new religion?

Life

Born to Jewish parents in Tarsus (now in Turkey), Paul was originally named for the ancient Hebrew king Saul. Paul's letters reflect formal training in the Jewish Law as preparation for becoming a rabbi. By his own account Paul excelled in the study of the Law (Galatians 1:14; Philippians 3:6), and his zeal for it led him to persecute the nascent Christian church. The book of Acts portrays him as a supportive witness to the stoning of Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr.

Paul became a Christian after experiencing a vision of Jesus Christ during a journey (Acts 9:1-19, 22:5-16, 26:12-18). In referring to this event, Paul never uses the term conversion, which implies shifting allegiance from one religion to another; he perceived the revelation of Jesus Christ to mark the end of all religions, and thus of all religious distinctions (Galatians 3:38). He was convinced that Christianity was God's call to all the world, and that God was making this call apart from the requirements of the Jewish Law.

According to the account recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, Paul carried out three well-defined missionary journeys. From Acts it is also known that Paul was arrested in Jerusalem after riots incited by his Jewish opponents, and that he was finally taken to Rome. He was probably executed in Rome in AD 62.

Theology

Every attempt to summarize Paul's thought encounters obstacles, especially the fact that each of the letters was written to a specific church, and Paul slanted his teachings to address each church's unique problems. Certain themes, however, are repeated with sufficient frequency to be considered the core of his thought.

Paul consistently assumes the basic temporal scheme of Jewish apocalyptic speculation, which posited two ages: the Old Age, under the dominance of Satan and his hosts, and the New Age, which God will inaugurate at some point in the future through his superior power (see Apocalyptic Writings). He quoted the formulations of earlier Christians that focused on a sacrificial view of Christ's death, but the essence of his view of Christ lies in the assertion that God made Christ the victor over the power of sin. He affirmed the Law to be holy, just, and good, but after he turned to Christianity, Paul no longer believed the Law to be powerful enough to vanquish sin and death (Romans 8:3). For him, Christianity begins not in something people decide to do, but rather in something God has already done by revealing his Son and by sending his Spirit.

The first meeting of Christians that could be called a council was the so-called Council of Jerusalem, a meeting of Peter, Paul, and the leaders of Jerusalem's Christians about AD 50.

Ne·ro (nîr¹o, nê¹ro)

A.D. 37-68

Emperor of Rome (54-68) whose early reign was dominated by his mother, Agrippina the Younger. He had his mother and wife murdered, and he may have set the Great Fire of Rome (64). His cruelty and irresponsibility provoked widespread revolts, which led to his suicide.

Nero (AD 37-68), fifth emperor of Rome and the last of the Julio-Claudian line. Born in 37 at Antium, Nero was the son of Agrippina the Younger, great-granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. In 49 the widowed Agrippina married her uncle, Emperor Claudius I, and persuaded him to adopt her son. Claudius married Nero to his daughter Octavia. On Claudius's death in 54, Nero became emperor at the age of 17. The initial five years of Nero's reign were marked by moderation and clemency, but in 59 he had his mother put to death and in 62 he divorced (and later executed) Octavia and married his mistress.

In 64AD much of Rome burned. So as Paul is starting this new religion they are already being persecuted as trouble makers.

Nero rebuilt the city, but the building programs, like the spectacles and free grain he provided for the populace, were financed by plundering Italy and the provinces. Meanwhile, the empire was in turmoil. Revolts broke out in Britain (60-61) and in Judea (66-70). In 68 the Praetorian Guards and several legions rose against Nero. He fled Rome and committed suicide on June 9.

My question remains. What did this religion have that made it so popular with the people?

Yet they grew and prospered from 58AD until 200AD when their refusal to do as they are told leads to more trouble.

Decius (201-51), emperor of Rome (249-51), best known as the instigator of the first thoroughgoing persecutions of the Christians. He was born Gaius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius in Lower Pannonia (modern Hungary). He was in command of troops along the Danube River in 249, when his soldiers, against his will, proclaimed him emperor. The reigning emperor, Philip I, subsequently led an army against him, but was defeated at Verona and killed in action. Decius was then accepted as emperor by the Roman Senate. He persecuted the Christians by ordering all inhabitants of the Roman Empire to signify their willingness to worship the pagan gods. Among the victims of this persecution were Pope Fabian, who was martyred; Cyprian, bishop of Carthage, who was forced into exile; and Origen, the church father, who was imprisoned and tortured. The Christian church was long divided on the question of the proper treatment of those Christians (called Iapsi) who publicly accepted the orders of Decius but afterward returned to the church. In June 251 Decius led a Roman army to engage the Goths, who were attacking in the Dobruja. Although surrounded, the Goths refused to surrender, and in the final assault on them Decius was killed, reputedly through the treason of Gaius Vibius Trebonianus Gallus, who then became emperor.

Cyprian, Saint (200?-258), leader of the Christian church in Africa. He was of noble origin, and when he became a Christian in his mid-40s, he gave much of his fortune to the poor. In 248 he was chosen bishop of Carthage. Shortly thereafter, Decius, emperor of Rome, instituted a persecution of the Christians, and Cyprian fled. The persecution ended after 251. During a new wave of persecution, conducted under the Roman emperor Valerian, Cyprian was tried and beheaded. He is regarded as one of the most authoritative of church fathers, especially because of the doctrine in his On the Unity of the Catholic Church, an exposition of the hierarchical organization of the church. His feast day is September 16.

Political Events, 305

The Roman emperor Diocletian abdicates May 1 at age 60 and retires to Salona after a reign of nearly 21 years in which the last vestiges of republican government have disappeared. Diocletian is succeeded by the Thracian Galerius Valerius Maximanus, who persuaded the emperor to persecute Christians in 303. He assumes the title Augustus and begins an 8-year reign with his Illyrian colleague Flavius Valerius Constantius.

Constantius I, full name Flavius Valerius Constantius, called Constantius Chlorus (AD 250?-306), Roman emperor (305-06). He was a general and administrator under Emperor Maximian, who adopted him and gave him the government of Gaul and the rank of caesar in 293. When his coemperors, Maximian and Diocletian, abdicated in 305, Constantius became emperor in the West and prepared to conquer the Picts of Scotland. He died at Eboracum (modern York, England) during the campaign, after proclaiming his son Constantine the Great his successor as emperor.

Constantine the Great (AD 274?-337), Roman emperor (306-337), the first Roman ruler to be converted to Christianity. Constantine was born in Niø, in what is now Serbia. He became emperor in 306. In his early life he believed that the Roman sun god, Sol, was the visible manifestation of the principle behind the universe. In 312, on the eve of a battle, Constantine dreamed that Jesus Christ appeared to him. The next day Constantine saw a cross superimposed on the sun and the words "in this sign you will be the victor." He then won the battle. Thus, Constantine now looked upon the Christian deity as a bringer of victory. Persecution of the Christians was ended, and Constantine's co-emperor, Licinius, joined him in issuing the Edict of Milan (313), which mandated tolerance of Christians in the Roman Empire.

A struggle for power soon began between Licinius and Constantine, from which Constantine emerged victorious in 324. The army was reorganized, and the separation of civil and military authority was completed. The central government was run by Constantine and his council, while the Senate regained the powers that it had lost in the 3rd century. Constantine presided over the Council of Nicaea in 325. He also began the building of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) in 326 on the site of ancient Greek Byzantium, and he built churches in the Holy Land. The emperor was baptized shortly before his death

Now the Christian Church had an Emperor in its corner. It must have grown popular with the ruling class now.

Nicaea, Councils of, two ecumenical councils of the Christian church, held at Nicaea in Asia Minor (now Iznik, Turkey). The first council convened in 325 under Constantine the Great, emperor of Rome, to settle the Arian dispute concerning the nature of Jesus Christ (see Arianism). The Nicene Creed, defining the Son as consubstantial with the Father, was adopted as the church's official position regarding Christ's divinity. The council also fixed the celebration of Easter on the Sunday after the Jewish Passover and granted authority in the East to the bishop of Alexandria, Egypt. In 787 the second council, convened by Irene, empress of the East, validated the veneration of images and ordered their restoration in churches throughout the Roman Empire.

Arianism, Christian heresy of the 4th century that denied the full divinity of Jesus Christ. It was named for its author, Arius, a priest in Alexandria, who became involved in a controversy with his bishop concerning the divinity of Christ. Debate over his doctrine agitated the church for more than half a century. Although Arianism was eventually outlawed throughout the Roman Empire, it survived for two centuries longer among Germanic tribes that had been converted to Christianity by Arian bishops.

Arius sought to safeguard the absolute transcendence of God by teaching that God is unbegotten and without beginning. The Son, because he is begotten, cannot be God in the same sense as the Father is. Arius taught that the Son was created like all other creatures and exists by the will of the Father. His teaching was condemned in 325 at the first ecumenical council at Nicaea (see Nicaea, Councils of), which drafted a creed stating that the Son of God was "begotten not made" and consubstantial (of the same substance) with the Father. Despite its condemnation, Emperor Constantine the Great and his successor, Constantius II, were attracted to the Arian doctrine, and by 359 Arianism was the official faith of the empire. However, Nicene orthodoxy triumphed with its recognition by Emperor Theodosius I in 379 and reaffirmation at the second ecumenical council, held in 381 in Constantinople.

Theodosius I, called Theodosius the Great (346?-395), Roman emperor of the East (379-395) and of the West (394-395), the last person to rule a united Roman Empire. Theodosius was born in Spain, the son of a Roman general. When Eastern Roman emperor Valens died in 378, Western Roman emperor Gratian chose Theodosius to rule in the East. Theodosius championed orthodox Christianity, persecuting the Arians (see Arianism) and discouraging the practice of the old Roman religion. In 392 Valentinian, the emperor in the West, was murdered. Theodosius marched to Italy, where he defeated Valentinian's murderers in 394. During the following four months he ruled over both East and West. After his death he was succeeded by his sons Arcadius in the East and Flavius Honorius in the West.

It took almost 400 years but here we have it; the Christian Church has outlawed all other religions (except the Jewish). Complete control of religion (and much more) would remain in the hands of the Catholic Church for 1000 years. Marlin Creasote 2009

Political Events, 421

The eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II sends his army against Persia’s king Varahran, who has been persecuting Christians.

Justinian I (483-565), called The Great, Byzantine emperor (527-565), who extended Byzantine rule in the West and completed the codification of Roman law. The nephew of Emperor Justin I, Justinian was born in Illyria. On the death of his uncle, Justinian was elected emperor.

Justinian inaugurated a policy to restore the Roman Empire, the western part of which had been lost in the barbarian invasions of the 5th century (see Rome, History of). Internal unrest was crushed by the general Belisarius. The Vandal kingdom in North Africa was reincorporated into the empire in 534, the imperial army attacked the Ostrogoths in Italy (see Goths) in 535, and a third campaign reconquered southeastern Spain.

The centralized empire envisaged by Justinian required a uniform legal system. Therefore, a commission worked for ten years to collect and systematize existing Roman law. Their work was incorporated into the Justinian Code, promulgated in 534, that remains the basis for the law of most European countries.

Church Censorship

In AD 313 Roman emperor Constantine the Great decreed toleration of Christianity. Twenty years later, however, he set a pattern of religious censorship by ordering the burning of all books by Greek theologian Arius. After Christianity became the established religion of the empire, the Roman government and church began persecuting those who deviated from orthodox doctrine (see Heresy; Inquisition). Beginning in 1487 printers were required to submit all manuscripts to church authorities, and a work could be printed only after it had been approved.

In England King Henry VIII supplanted the pope as head of the Church of England. The Act of Supremacy (1534) vested in the king power to declare and punish heresies. He persecuted both papists and reformers, and he burned copies of the English translation of the New Testament. He also established a licensing system requiring printers to submit all manuscripts to church authorities for approval.

Exerts from "Microsoft Bookshelf 98"