This is fast becoming my favorite subject: How the minions of the father of lies confuse us into believing in a false image of the world around us.
Notice the mention of Plato. The point is that brain-washing, mind-control, mass-hypnosis is nothing new. It's an idea that goes back, literally, to the Garden of Eden.
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Speaking of which ...
Sheep, that is, not brainwashing. Babe is on, and I'm tired of working tonight.
This is probably my all-time favorite movie. Well, it may be a three-way tie with Ephraim's Rescue and The Emperor's New Groove, but it's way, way up there.
So, I'm hangin' up my spurs. (Just as soon as I finish this.)
Wait ... What? What's so special about Babe?!
It's a metaphor for us!
Think about it.
Farmer HOGget represents God, the master of the barnyard, especially ... HOGS!
The dogs are the angels. (Oh, yes they are!) (You haven't been paying attention. If you ever see an angel, you know the fun is done.)
The cat is the devil. (Just ask any dog.)
The goose is cooked. (HA! Just kidding.)
The sheep are us. (obviously)
And Babe? Babe is the prophet.
And just what does the boss tell Babe at the end?
That'll do, pig. That'll do.
(Translation)
Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
Watch Babe again when you get some time.
Ok, now I'm hangin... uh ... wait. No. One more thing...
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Red Cross
I've heard rumors about the Red Cross for decades. I recall my mother telling me that they couldn't be trusted, but never went into any detail.
We're finally beginning to find out what's really been happening, and it's ugly.
I've long distrusted all charities, trusting only the church.
That attitude is stronger now than ever. Do not trust or donate to anything or anyone but the church. And that lead into yet another epistle I've been meaning to write for years on the true nature of the United Order, God's socio-economic order.
Ok, enough for ton... no ... Here's something else:
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Anthony E. Larson
In case I've somehow failed to do so recently, allow me to herewith promote my dear, departed, friend, Anthony E. Larson's work to you.
I was introduced to Tony's work back in 1988 after having read Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds in Collision. That books so radically altered my paradigm, that I talked about it whenever I could, especially how it changed my entire perspective on my brush with NASA and the Apollo program. One day, I got into a discussion with someone who just happened to have a copy of Tony's first book, And the Moon Shall Turn to Blood, which they lent me. And the rest is history.
In what is yet another of the many epistles I still need to get written, I argue that the real meaning of wisdom is connecting the dots, combining all the disparate bits and pieces of knowledge that we glean in church, find in the scriptures, learn in school, etc., stitching them together into an entirely new, much larger (and wholly surprising) picture than we had before with only its components, in what I've labeled one of the three, grand, keys of engineering:
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
(The other two being: "Every part seems born of the same mind." and "Nothing more could be removed.")
Tony gave me that big picture. I gained, through him, a bigger picture, far greater than the sum of its parts. In fact, it would not be at all exagerrated to say that he played a role in my salvation, turning, for me, myth into fact, belief into testimony.
I recommend to you, all of his books, his video courses, his blog, his web-site.
Just one more!
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Whose day is it, anyway?
Maybe you've noticed that I try to link to a different diety in the sub-title every day. I do this to underscore a few different concepts, first and foremost being the very fact that there are SEVEN days of the week.
This number, seven, is important. How we wound up with seven days in a week is pretty interesting. It's pretty revealing. Whenever it turns up in scripture, it's tied to the temporal life-span of the earth. Yes, even the seven candlesticks/angels/stars/churches in Revelation refer to, not locations, but the individual days of the earth's sojourn. Yes, even when it appears to refer to the seven different churches by location, John is actually referring to the same church in its seven different ages, each characterized by attributes ascribed to people of a particular place and time.
And that is only further reinforced by its (the seven-day week) global nature, proving its extremely ancient origin. There have been a couple of outliers who've attempted to adopt and promote a 10-day week, but nothing ever came of any of them. And what this suggests is the same thing as the idea of an original, Adamic language that linguists keep coming back to, and that is that they both point to the very ancient, and very common, very local (meaning limited in both time and space) point of origin. And, by that, I mean that neither language, nor the number of days in a week, or even the very idea of a sub-division of time between a day and a month, both of which are cosmically (celestially) ordained and defined, arose in different places at different times; they both happened at once, and in the same place. But why? And why then? Why there?
Second is that each of those days in this ancient measure of time we call a week are named (as opposed to being numbered, like our months originally were) for different dieties. And everything suggests that they always were named for dieties. And, furthermore, they were named for the dieties who would rule over the earth during each of the earth's seven days. (What 'god' rules over the earth today? And what is the 7th day of the week in our time?) But this raises some questions regarding the next part, and that has to do with what was known, or seen, by mankind at that point in our history when the week was ordained. How were all those dieties known? AH! How indeed! And that goes back to my oft-repeated argument that the end was known from the beginning. Adam knew the entire story of his children. He knew the entire gospel. And he told it to his children, using some language, but his children wrote it down, using a written language, which was a concept taught to the children of men by the finger of God.
Third is that each of those dieties is almost universally believed by practically every ancient society to be a celestial body, i.e. the sun, the moon, Mars, Venus, etc.
Fourth ... oh, I'm not nearly done yet ... is that all those ancients who believed the gods to be planets/stars also believed those same gods to have human forms. The statues to the Athenian pantheon Paul passed on his way up their hill of judgement, MARS' hill, are well-known by scholars today to have been planets, but those statues were not planets; they were statues of human beings. And so it was for all the ancients. And this was due to their belief that, with one notable exception, these gods all walked for a day on this earth as (more or less) mortal human beings.
Finally, we come to my last point, and that is that two of those days are duplicates of one another. The various names of the same diety worshipped by people all over the earth as the father of the gods, the master of time, the first and best sun is, under one name, our Saturday, and, under another name, our Wednesday. Just spend some time researching Odin and Chronos, and you'll soon enough find that they are the same being called by different names.
And that's the point. All the dieties I point you to, are all the same for that day of the week, just called by different names. In fact, Odin/Wotan/Saturn/Cronus/Chronos/Adam were known to have multiple names, or names with multiple meanings. What does Adam mean? Red. Man. First. Many. Father. In fact, Marduk (Jupiter, Zeus, Iapetus, Japeth) was said to have fifty names. And Zeus, the Greek name for the same being, was no slouch in the name department either. In fact, that's one of those things that helps us sort out all those pantheons. Some of them were associated with colors, usually red, white, and blue/green, while others were associated with agelessness or warrior, hunter, farmer, etc. They all have attributes that are fairly consistent wherever we look.
Wait! One more!
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Tara Calico
This mystery has bothered me for years.
But we may soon be getting new information leading to a solution.
And the clue is in the name of the town.
Their need for symbolism will be their downfall.
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