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excerpts of the Video:
The Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) were the only piece of ancient Jewish literature from the 1st Century AD (or CE)
The characters in the Dead Sea Scrolls (DSS) were militaristic and fundamentalists. This movement wanted to push the Romans out of Israel. The characters in the the bible were different. They were pacifistic, they are "turning the other cheek", they are "giving unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar". How did a movement like Christianity come to exist in a region that was occupied by Roman soldiers and had Jewish Zealots within it that were going to push these Romans out? How was that possible?
Joseph Atwill did a side by side study of the New Testament and the Wars of the Jews, by Josephus who was a court historian, who wrote about the wars between the Jews and the Romans in the 1st century. While reading the works, side by side, he noticed an amazing connection between them. Certain events from the ministry of Jesus, in the bible, seemed to closely parallel the episodes of the military campaigns of Titus Flavius, whose events took place about 40 years after the events in the bible. Atwill's discovery is that Christianity has been created, or invented, by the Flavians and they left us documents to prove it.
Some photos of the Tel Yodfat caves.
http://golem.ws/yodfat/stills/content/_ALP4140_Edit_large.html
http://golem.ws/yodfat/stills/content/_ALP4200_large.html
http://golem.ws/yodfat/stills/content/_ALP4201_large.html
http://golem.ws/yodfat/stills/content/_ALP4208_large.html
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Is that why he said "give unto Caesar, what belongs to Caesar" ..or something like that. Is that why he said not to rebel against your master? Is that why he was relatively pacifistic?
Those are all interesting topics you mentioned and I have been rereading Joseph Atwill's Caesar's Messiah and watching that video on you tube that I just mentioned earlier.
this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RybZ0Tp5KU
I don't think many people will still believe that there really was a historical Jesus after they watch that video. Many religious scholars..like Robert Eisenman..doesn't even seem to me to believe in a historical Jesus. It's been quite a while since I read Eisenman's book "James, the Brother of Jesus"..but I still have the book.
Josephus created the mythical image of a pacifistic Jesus (who was really mirroring Titus). The "son of god" was Titus, the son of Emperor Vespasian (who was deified by the Roman Senate when Vespasian died and Titus became Emperor). It was about this time that the gospels were written.
The number of parallels to the gospel Jesus and Titus is so convincing that many biblical scholars believe that Jesus was made up as an inside joke and also a way to get the Jews (some of them anyway) to worship the Roman Emperors and not realize it. It also helped to pacify what had always been a militaristic, messianic, rebellious attitude against the Romans.
The only 1st century literature that has survived, The Dead Sea Scrolls, shows that the messianic Jews were not pacifistic but militaristic. The Romans had done a pretty good job destroying all the other evidence about how the messianic Jews were. But they kept one version of the Jewish Scrolls, after destroying all the rest, as a reference that Josephus was given by Titus to use to create the new religion.
The Sicarii were stabbing Roman soldiers in the backs, with their curved daggers, in crowded market squares. The Romans knew that they had to find a way to pacify the militaristic Jews so they invented a pacifistic savior (messiah--Christ). And their Paganized Jewish religion resulted a Christianity that carried on the ability of church's ability to control the minds of people to this day.
Incidentally, if you want to see the caves that Josephus and his 40 men were held up in before being captured by the Romans (although it was just Josephus and one other man who chickened out on killing each other after all the other men killed each other)..then check out these coordinates on Google Earth:
32deg 49min 52.07sec N and 35deg 16min 39.41sec E
but just type in: Tel Yodfat, Israel
Tel Yodfat is just 1/2 mile southeast of the town of Yodfat.
There is a 360 degree photo of a musical group performing inside the cave. The musical group's name is The Greatful Dead...just kidding..the real name of the group is Diwan Saz...very Middle East, of course. You can also hear them play if you search for them on youtube which shows the group inside the cave playing while the cave is packed with audience. I'm sure the ghost of Josephus would be very well entertained in that cave.
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Thom,
Again I could not agree with you more and would only wish that we could see a grassroots movement from the working 95% of our citizens. The issue at hand is how do we mobilize working American's, when using that phrase will give amunition to the 1 percenters to call this a socialist movement therefore losing a great portion of our religious right working class.
Also as you know organizations that represented workers before the immigration from the NE and Rust Belt to the solid right to work states in the southern regions of our country namely the unions do not have the numbers to amass the grassroot.
We also need to underestand that issues such as gun control wihile important will also alienate a lot of working American's to vote their own economic benefit. This issue just like abortion, church and state, and the evangilical right will make it very difficult to gain majorities in Fedral and Stae House of Representation.
Until then, the Wal Mart family, the Koch brother and Amway families of our country who have the dollars to defend there right to continue operating under the Reagan trinkle down economy will be able to control enough in Congress (even Democratic members) and of course their hold on a majority of our State governments to push their agenda.
I wish I had an answer, but I don't. I guess the best bet we have is to some how win the off year elections of 2014 and gain a filabuster proof Seante with a 65% plus majority in the House to be able to make Dodd-Frank stronger, increase stimulus investments in our county's infrastructure, expand health care for all, protect social security and to finally make college education more affordable.
That in itself means that the Democratic Party must utilize the Obama Machine, that President Obama himself will need to directly be involved in these elections in order to gain political control not only in the Federal system but to start to turn the State governments from red, to purple in 2014 to blue come 2016 if the Democratic Party can offer the nation a strong candidate like Secretary of State Clinton.
We need to be able to state the goal, invision the plan, spell out the pathway, and go to work from both the top down and the bottom up. Our Nation cannot afford another 30 years moving in the direction we have been moving since 1980's.
Keep on presenting the views, we are just waiting for the leadership to rally the working American's.
JND
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Palindromedary ~ Spiracha and Hoisin sauce are wonderful condiments. However, they are better ingredients made in your own kitchen. So are shitake mushrooms, soy sauce, chopped garlic, and freshly ground ginger root. Not to mention hot chili and garlic sauce; Hell the chinese stores are full of healthy and delicious alternatives. One only needs the time and desire to learn them. GOOD LUCK, MY DEAR FRIEND!!
I can't keep my eyes open anymore. Talk to you tomorrow!
DAM
The fact that there is a 1% means America has become a dictatorship.
There are people that rule you.
You call it what you want. It is what it is.
DAnnemarc: Yin Yang...that's a symbol I make in my little dish of Siracha hot sauce and Hoisin sauce whenever I eat at a Vietnamese Restaurant. Love their white meat chicken noodle soup! I like to dip my chicken in the sauce.
I can see from everyone's lack of response to my previous post that they may be in shock. Good for you! This is part of the recovery we need! Here are two other links that all may benefit from to strenghthen the spirit. Do not thank me! Thank God; and, The Grateful Dead:
Uncle John's Band ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP657ivCzOM
Estimated Prophet ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlhvNbadF8
There is more where that came from. Forgive me! I can only spoon feed a little bit at a time. This is quite a bit for one day! When all feel well with this--there is more! Happy Cinco de Mayo to all. Viva la Revolucion! a todos!!
Manana va a estar una Nuevo Dia, Amigos!! Hasta Luego!
BUENOS NOCHES. AMIGOS!!
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DAnnemarc: Sorry, man, just not into listening to songs by anyone. Can't understand the words! But I once learned now to play Quasi Una Fantasia on the piano. And since, I've played all kinds of music on my trumpet. Mariachi, Mariachi man....I wanna be... a Mariachi man. Ole!
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2950-10K ~ Thanks Buddy! Now check out Jerry and the gang and give me your IMHO. Thanks again!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftv0m3AAFWA
If the tax rate was returned to what it was at 70% it appears that the CEO's wouldn't be so intent on the higher % their income is now compared to workers. A regulation perhaps that the CEO pay shouldn't exceed a certan percentate of the lowest paid worker? Or perhaps have congress members have their pay based on 3 or 4 times the minimum wage? I bet the minimum wage would go up then!
It all looks good to me!
DAnneMarc, Hey I checked out the Boneshakers, I thought their soulful sound kind of reminded me of Curtis Mayfield.
"Should a CEO make 1700 times a worker's salary?" Only if he does 1700 times more work, which isn't going to happen. I think 17 times more is ample generosity. But even that much still requires a lot of pretending by the workers that one self- puffed person is worth 17 times more than each one of them.
Speaking of those who are obsessed with hoarding money, I recently finished reading a couple of history books with some coincidental overlap. One was on Cleopatra and the other was Gregory of Tours, a history of the Franks. In the Cleopatra bio it was mentioned that as Octavius' general, Agrippa, who led the Roman forces, closed in on the walls of Alexandria, Cleopatra had workers erect a domelike tomb for her. Before she entered the no windows and no doors structure, she ordered workers to place all of the royal treasure in it. Priceless mounds of gold, art objects, ivory, precious stones, etc. Basically she wanted all of the wealth of Egypt stored in this mausoleum that she planned on being lowered into even before her suicide.
In the Gregory of Tours book I came across a reference to Justin II, a sixth century Byzantine emperor. Gregory describing Justin II: "He was the most avaricious of men, giving nothing to the poor and bleeding his people dry. His cupidity was so great that he ordered iron coffers to be made and in them he amassed his wealth in gold coin. Not long afterwards he went insane and had to have Tiberius co-opted as Caesar to protect his provinces."
The moral of the story, I guess in a superficial way one could state the obvious, you can't really take it with you when you go, and the untreated obsession with wealth will eventually lead to insanity. But I have to side with Jesus on this one, Jesus disapproved of wealth because he thought it was wrong for some people to live in wasteful luxury while others starved...plain and simple!
Why do the same greedy and power hungry souls, only the names seem to change, continue to frequent, haunt, and torment, the vast majority of we the people, who simply want to live and love in peace, and die in peace?
My friend mentioned to me your blog, so I thought I’d read it for myself. Very interesting insights, will be back for more! CC&RS
The reality that we all must face is that a business organization can pay its employees whatever its officers want to pay them. Even if the organization is a public stock company, the stockholders are virtually powerless to control this. This is all about capitalism. Perhaps these quotes can sum up the issue about unethical and outragious CEO salaries.
“The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
"These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people." - -Abraham Lincoln
“Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.” - Al Capone
One thing for sure, no one can deny that Mr. Capone was a capitalist of the highest degree! I wouldn't be surprised to find his portrait in the offices of many of our fine, well-paid, hard fighting CEO's!! : )
Palindromedary ~ Today at work I was thinking about that song we discussed last night, "I Blew Up The United States," by WasNotWas and Boneshakers, and that word in the lyrics you found that I thought was different than in the song; as well as, your comments about it.
If the word is indeed "face" than you would surely be right about the song suggesting a Manchurian Candidate type influence on the action. Purely man-made influence. However, there are inconsistencies to that interpretation I need to address.
I believe the original intent was "fates". As you probably know "The Furies" and "The Fates" were spiritual powers created in ancient Greek mythology from the blood of Ouranos. They represent a universal supernatural power that supersedes even the power of the Gods of Olympus. However, their influences are strictly controlled by the rules of Divine Redemption. They are a form of Karma, The Holy Spirit, The Great Spirit, or Yin and Yang as expressed by other culture's folklore and mythology.
In the song, I don't believe the interpretation was to describe the actions of a lone nut, a Manchurian Candidate, a brainwashed patsy, or a misled ideologue. Because the action is the song was the total destruction of the United States and not an indiscriminate part of it, we must assume that whether the individual was inspired by a supernatural influence or a personal psychosis, that individual was responding to a conceived notion that they were acting on behalf of a cosmic consciousness.
In the past, you and I, have discussed the presence of demons in the Bible and history as well as my theory of psychology today. Today, many people who are diagnosed with psychosis of one form or another do indeed claim to hear voices in their head. The lead composer of The Beach Boys is one example. Despite his rare abilities to compose happy music he has been tormented his entire life hearing evil voices and commands from unknown sources or reasons. Nothing modern medicine has done has been able to help this man.
Therefore it is logical to imagine a scenario where someone commits a horrific deed--as described in that song--and has had the suggestion placed in there minds independent of any Government Black Op. The source of that suggestion is indeed a mystery and the subject of lengthy conjecture I don't want to get into now. Suffice to say, it is not a simple button down answer to this question. No evidence exists to prove either theory.
For this long winded reason, and one other, I conclude that the correct, original lyric in the song must be "fates." The other more simple reason is that "fates" rhymes with States better than "face." LOL
Finally, if you got a kick out of that song, you would really love, "Throwing Stones", by the Grateful Dead. In my opinion, "Throwing Stones" is the ultimate anti-military anthem/Redemption song I've ever heard. I loved it so much I learned to play and sing it--which I did on video at a birthday party of mine a couple of years ago. Check out the original version on youtube and check out the lyrics, I think you'd dig it too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WninWFtO0Gg
Don't bother looking for the video of me singing it, I never posted it. (Need more rehearsal ;-)
BTW Palindromedary, I know you don't believe in Prophecy but I'm sure you believe in coincidence. Some us believe Jerry was a very Great Prophet. On the day his keyboardist, Brent Mydland died he scheduled this video Brent wrote called, "Just A Little Light." It premiered on the day of his shocking death on public TV. I remember watching how shocked the pledge commentators were after seeing it. We all were! Share the shock if you will:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Q7CgBxRI4
DAM