I actually want to take the time today to touch on things other than the original meaning behind Easter.
First of all, I want to explain that the true meaning behind Easter isn't that we should respect prostitutes or wanton sex with strangers. That wasn't what the pagans believed at all, though it was incorporated into their teachings. The original Ishtarians (those who believed in the Goddess Ishtar) believed in the sanctity of union and they respected sex. They didn't just go out and have it for no reason, though eventually there came believers of the faith that did so, not understanding the meaning of it all.
They gave of themselves to embody the living Goddess and to honor her; they enabled equality insofar as any woman may be the embodiment of the Goddess and, in fact, they made it mandatory that every woman do so before settling down with a man, to give honor and thanks to the Goddess of Fertility. Child Birth was viewed as a sacred thing and rightly so. It wasn't a slur to call women prostitutes back then, but to give honor to those women that gave of themselves to the Goddess.
I also wanted to touch on Jesus' original teachings; which I think the church has left out for too long. It conflicted too much with what Rome wanted at the time and what Catholics and Christians wanted. In the way of men, they sought to change what was taught to suit what they wanted to believe.
Jesus did not teach any one religion or view any one God as THE God. The Catholic church; for it had yet to split and become the Christian church AND the Catholic Church for the Holy Wars had yet to happen in that regard; is the religion that Jesus knew the best and did use it in examples he used for his teaching. It was shown throughout the bible that Jesus didn't necessarily agree with the teachings of that bible or the people that improperly represented those teachings. He did see the goodness inherent and buried within, though.
Jesus mostly taught goodness toward your fellow man; love and understanding. He sought to destroy the differences between men and to show them the similarities they all shared. His mission was one of peace and was filled with much sadness because he saw what men were like; too unwilling to be peaceful and reasonable; too wild for power to give up that power for the sake of those around them.
Jesus was marked as heretic; not because he taught the same things the church did; but because he sought to teach things that the church and the people in power did not like. All of the under-privileged people loved Jesus and promoted him as a hero in their hearts. He was intelligent and thoughtful and while it seemed that he worked miracles, he only worked with what was already available to any human who was able to see the power behind the simple mechanic. He used psychology and peoples own minds to heal the people; he lived a lie so that others could believe. And they did, and what they believed became true.
When you want to know what Jesus taught, since those records have been stricken from the bible; remember that Jesus taught pure goodness; he taught that it didn't matter what you believed so long as you believed in goodness and good things. He did not judge his neighbor, though he often wished they would find ways to better themselves and move past their mental blocks of ignorance. He did not hate anyone; in fact, he felt sad for all of the people in the world at that time and all of the people that came after, because he could see the line of trouble and tribulation that lead to each person and would lead away into the future. He saw patterns and recognized the importance of those patterns and allowed them to lead his life.
In the end, Jesus was just a man; nothing extraordinary. The one difference in him is that he actively searched for goodness in his heart and all around him. He would not lay down and let darkness devour his soul. 16 years are missing from his life when you read about him in the bible; 16 years of finding himself and making mistakes that the catholic church left out of the bible to keep alive the image of perfection that they wanted; knowing that as long as people believed that Jesus was perfect; that nobody else would become like him and come so close to ruining their control of everything.
He did make mistakes; he did live life; he was confused and lost and he sinned over and over again; until he found himself in the desert, staring down an illusionary mirage of the devil created from the struggle within his own mind.
The fact is that while Mary may have still been a virgin after birthing Jesus; immaculate conception and all; Joseph did not believe that she was true to him. He became vicious and mean and all talk of Joseph after the conception ceases because of this. He probably took up drinking and became abusive to Mary and Jesus, calling her a whore and not recognizing Jesus as his son. Jesus suffered a lot in his life. He had to have, to be able to see life the way he did.
You know, I could make theories at this point that it was some alien that visited Mary and that the immaculate conception was nothing more than advanced technology and embryo placement within the womb. We're close to that stage, now; where we would be able to place an embryo within a womans womb without surgery and without sticking something up her vagina; with our own technology. The fact is, though; that nobody knows for certain what happened back then in that regard. Whether it was an Angel from God or Advanced technology.
Humans are the same no matter what age we live in, though; and we can reasonably sit here and acknowledge the simple facts of human psychology that had to have been present to make Jesus into the icon that he became.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
The History of the Temple of Ishtar a.k.a. The Origins of Easter
In Her Temples in many lands from Egypt to Assyria to Babylon to Crete to India, in Rome and Greece and many Celtic lands, Her Temples had Sacred Priestesses who were also called Prostitutes by those of body denial religions. Her worship was in the arms of the Priestess who embodied and represented The Goddess(s). These worshipers are sometimes known as pagans.
A fundamental difference in the concept of worship is important to note: In the Temples of the old ways people would go to the temple TO BE WORSHIPPED not to worship. Women would go to the temple to serve the Goddess to embody Her, to represent Her, to be worshipped as Her. Women would spend a day, or a week, or a year serving at the Temple as a priestess, as a sacred Prostitute, as a whore in service to the Goddess. There they would be worshipped as the incarnation of the Goddess, as The Goddess Herself.
Men would come to Her Temple TO BE WORSHIPPED. Men would be welcomed and served by the Priestesses and men would represent the divine male principal, the Horned One, the Sacred Bull, The God. Men would come to the temple to give their love and passion to The Goddess, and would receive the passion, love, and affection of The Goddess.
But some three millennia ago there came monotheists who refused Her Worship preferring instead to be diminished in body and spirit. They called Her, "The Whore of Babylon, who leads men into fornication." They called our sacred sexuality "sin," and cast shame on Her sacred Priestesses. They held up a "virgin" as the ideal that women should imitate instead of the sacred Goddess that they had always held as the most sacred image of Woman. This is essentially the state of things in the modern world.
The two principal deities of ancient Babylon were Baal and Ishtar. Baal was the god of war and the elements and Ishtar the goddess of fertility - both human and agricultural. These two deities have roots going back before Babylon to Nimrod at Babel and to Assyria. Through the ages they were imported into other nations and under different names but always retaining the same basic characteristics. Baal was also called Bel, Baalat, Molech, Merodach, Mars and Jupiter, and was frequently represented as a bull. Ishtar was also called Aphrodite, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Cybele or Sybil, Diana, Europa, Isis, Semiramis and Venus. The two main elements in the worship of Baal were fire and human sacrifice, usually children.
Ishtar was worshipped via offerings of produce and money as well as though fornication with temple prostitutes. It is this last characteristic that helps make the tie between religious Babylon and kings and merchants. In his book The Secret of Crete, H.G. Wunderlich reports that before marriage, every woman in Babylon was required to go to the temple of Ishtar and lie with a stranger. We have a similar report from Gerhard Herm in his book, The Phoenicians (1) , where women in the Canaanite cities of Tyre, Sidon and Byblos were required to become prostitutes for a day and give themselves to foreign guests during the spring festival. This festival survives today in the name of "Easter", which is derived from the word "Ishtar". Note that the women were to prostitute themselves with strangers or foreigners. In ancient times, the foreigners in these cities were mostly composed of traveling merchants and political dignitaries. In the third century A.D. the historian Eusebius described the patrons of these temples in this way: "It was a school of godlessness for those dissipated men, who had ruined their bodies in the pursuit of luxuriousness. The men were soft and effeminate, were no longer men; they had betrayed the honor of their sex; they believed they must worship their god with impure lust."
so, I hope everyone has a good Easter holiday full of goddess-loving prostitutes and lots of fertile sex.
A fundamental difference in the concept of worship is important to note: In the Temples of the old ways people would go to the temple TO BE WORSHIPPED not to worship. Women would go to the temple to serve the Goddess to embody Her, to represent Her, to be worshipped as Her. Women would spend a day, or a week, or a year serving at the Temple as a priestess, as a sacred Prostitute, as a whore in service to the Goddess. There they would be worshipped as the incarnation of the Goddess, as The Goddess Herself.
Men would come to Her Temple TO BE WORSHIPPED. Men would be welcomed and served by the Priestesses and men would represent the divine male principal, the Horned One, the Sacred Bull, The God. Men would come to the temple to give their love and passion to The Goddess, and would receive the passion, love, and affection of The Goddess.
But some three millennia ago there came monotheists who refused Her Worship preferring instead to be diminished in body and spirit. They called Her, "The Whore of Babylon, who leads men into fornication." They called our sacred sexuality "sin," and cast shame on Her sacred Priestesses. They held up a "virgin" as the ideal that women should imitate instead of the sacred Goddess that they had always held as the most sacred image of Woman. This is essentially the state of things in the modern world.
The two principal deities of ancient Babylon were Baal and Ishtar. Baal was the god of war and the elements and Ishtar the goddess of fertility - both human and agricultural. These two deities have roots going back before Babylon to Nimrod at Babel and to Assyria. Through the ages they were imported into other nations and under different names but always retaining the same basic characteristics. Baal was also called Bel, Baalat, Molech, Merodach, Mars and Jupiter, and was frequently represented as a bull. Ishtar was also called Aphrodite, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Cybele or Sybil, Diana, Europa, Isis, Semiramis and Venus. The two main elements in the worship of Baal were fire and human sacrifice, usually children.
Ishtar was worshipped via offerings of produce and money as well as though fornication with temple prostitutes. It is this last characteristic that helps make the tie between religious Babylon and kings and merchants. In his book The Secret of Crete, H.G. Wunderlich reports that before marriage, every woman in Babylon was required to go to the temple of Ishtar and lie with a stranger. We have a similar report from Gerhard Herm in his book, The Phoenicians (1) , where women in the Canaanite cities of Tyre, Sidon and Byblos were required to become prostitutes for a day and give themselves to foreign guests during the spring festival. This festival survives today in the name of "Easter", which is derived from the word "Ishtar". Note that the women were to prostitute themselves with strangers or foreigners. In ancient times, the foreigners in these cities were mostly composed of traveling merchants and political dignitaries. In the third century A.D. the historian Eusebius described the patrons of these temples in this way: "It was a school of godlessness for those dissipated men, who had ruined their bodies in the pursuit of luxuriousness. The men were soft and effeminate, were no longer men; they had betrayed the honor of their sex; they believed they must worship their god with impure lust."
so, I hope everyone has a good Easter holiday full of goddess-loving prostitutes and lots of fertile sex.
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Mosaic of Life
See the mosaic picture of life as a whole; hanging on a wall. Imagine each piece leading into each other; each with different information and different images painted upon them. Imagine all of the things you can not know forming a part of that puzzle and see that everything has a pattern; every single minute thing adds to the whole of the larger picture in ways that we can't ever fully understand.
At this point, look for all of the hate and negativity that you can view in the world today. Know that it stemmed from one of those pieces that you can't possibly know and that it has a pattern to it just the same as the larger picture has a pattern. Imagine a mosaic within a mosaic and within that smaller mosaic of things you can't possibly know, fill in the gaps with what you can know and imagine the line of sorrow and tragedy that must have lead to that inevitable outcome that you know.
Imagine all of the painful times in your own life and imagine that times 1000. You now know the pain that many people had to endure to procure the end result of a single bad event.
Now imagine how much good you could do by changing the pattern of the mosaic that is your own life. Instead of adding your own negativity combined with the negativity leading up to you into a future accumulation of negativity greater than your own; you could convert the negative to positive and create a new pattern; a new mosaic within a mosaic.
Now imagine that it never ends; that there continues to be a mosaic within a mosaic no matter how closely you wish to view the picture; there is always one step more; more details you could view. And as much as you backed away to view the larger picture, it kept going and going and you continued to realize just how much comes into play in deciding the outcome of any given situation and just how much you don't know and don't understand about the world around you or how we all came into being.
This is reality and this is truth and if you want the world to change, then all you have to do is simply be the change you wish to see and fight to stay that way no matter what is thrown at you; converting it into what you wish to put out. Be the butterfly flapping its wings on this side of the world today; causing the winds to blow years after the butterfly ceases to exist.
At this point, look for all of the hate and negativity that you can view in the world today. Know that it stemmed from one of those pieces that you can't possibly know and that it has a pattern to it just the same as the larger picture has a pattern. Imagine a mosaic within a mosaic and within that smaller mosaic of things you can't possibly know, fill in the gaps with what you can know and imagine the line of sorrow and tragedy that must have lead to that inevitable outcome that you know.
Imagine all of the painful times in your own life and imagine that times 1000. You now know the pain that many people had to endure to procure the end result of a single bad event.
Now imagine how much good you could do by changing the pattern of the mosaic that is your own life. Instead of adding your own negativity combined with the negativity leading up to you into a future accumulation of negativity greater than your own; you could convert the negative to positive and create a new pattern; a new mosaic within a mosaic.
Now imagine that it never ends; that there continues to be a mosaic within a mosaic no matter how closely you wish to view the picture; there is always one step more; more details you could view. And as much as you backed away to view the larger picture, it kept going and going and you continued to realize just how much comes into play in deciding the outcome of any given situation and just how much you don't know and don't understand about the world around you or how we all came into being.
This is reality and this is truth and if you want the world to change, then all you have to do is simply be the change you wish to see and fight to stay that way no matter what is thrown at you; converting it into what you wish to put out. Be the butterfly flapping its wings on this side of the world today; causing the winds to blow years after the butterfly ceases to exist.
Face of the Deep
When you look upon the face of the deep; whether in our own earthly waters or those that we refer to as space; it is impossible to remain unchanged. What you view and what you see when you look through the looking glass to what lays on the other side will irrevocably change your life forever. They are mirror images; one going forever inward and one going forever outward; with currents and cross-currents that we fail to fully understand; and we lack the technology to scour the deeps for that understanding to cross the threshold that needs to be crossed.
But what if evil rests in the deep? What if the viewing of certain parts of the deep caused evil to take root in man and that all of our foibles, etc. stem from the simple act of viewing a malevolent force which we never expected to encounter? Think of it as opening Pandora's Box. Curiousity begged us to look inside even though we were warned of the danger and expressly told not to do so. As we viewed the inside, we realized a deeper, more powerful truth that we weren't ready to face and in that hour of truth, we formed a new truth based on it. That truth is functional, yet extremely limited and is not the pure truth.
It remains truth uncompleted; truth cut off in mid-viewing. Truth seeking to be completed yet never finding purchase upon mankind for the truth that they have taken in hand from the initial viewing and basing all other things on that incomplete truth. It would shake the very foundations of the world we created for that truth to be completed and people now fear the crumbling of the faulty world they've come to know.
This is the deep within ourselves. It moves as surely as the waters move; as surely as space moves. It moves within us, defining us in ways we can't know or see or fully understand so long as we put constraints on our thoughts. It has personality; so why should we assume that the deep of the ocean and the deep of space don't also have personality? Perhaps they are prone to mood-changes the same as we are and perhaps that is why they seem random.
Do not fear the deeps; whether they are of your own mind, the waters upon the earth, or the very space that surrounds everything. There are scary and terrifying things in the deep, and they should definitely be avoided until one is able to see them for what they are; but there are great and awesome things there as well; things you will never know about or view if you allow fear to stop you from viewing.
Never be so afraid of what might happen that you cease looking entirely. Take it in small steps and don't rush; be the pioneer, savoring the adventure and each step of the journey; look at everything as if it were new and profound and as if it might hold possible danger. Prepare yourself and be ready, but also be ready for beauty and things never witnessed before.
Our minds are as inward and expansive as the space that rests outside of this planet and encompasses everything. There is so much to explore; so much that is limited by our very 'truths' that remain incomplete; and you will never know until you let go of those truths and search for new ones, better ones that make more sense.
But what if evil rests in the deep? What if the viewing of certain parts of the deep caused evil to take root in man and that all of our foibles, etc. stem from the simple act of viewing a malevolent force which we never expected to encounter? Think of it as opening Pandora's Box. Curiousity begged us to look inside even though we were warned of the danger and expressly told not to do so. As we viewed the inside, we realized a deeper, more powerful truth that we weren't ready to face and in that hour of truth, we formed a new truth based on it. That truth is functional, yet extremely limited and is not the pure truth.
It remains truth uncompleted; truth cut off in mid-viewing. Truth seeking to be completed yet never finding purchase upon mankind for the truth that they have taken in hand from the initial viewing and basing all other things on that incomplete truth. It would shake the very foundations of the world we created for that truth to be completed and people now fear the crumbling of the faulty world they've come to know.
This is the deep within ourselves. It moves as surely as the waters move; as surely as space moves. It moves within us, defining us in ways we can't know or see or fully understand so long as we put constraints on our thoughts. It has personality; so why should we assume that the deep of the ocean and the deep of space don't also have personality? Perhaps they are prone to mood-changes the same as we are and perhaps that is why they seem random.
Do not fear the deeps; whether they are of your own mind, the waters upon the earth, or the very space that surrounds everything. There are scary and terrifying things in the deep, and they should definitely be avoided until one is able to see them for what they are; but there are great and awesome things there as well; things you will never know about or view if you allow fear to stop you from viewing.
Never be so afraid of what might happen that you cease looking entirely. Take it in small steps and don't rush; be the pioneer, savoring the adventure and each step of the journey; look at everything as if it were new and profound and as if it might hold possible danger. Prepare yourself and be ready, but also be ready for beauty and things never witnessed before.
Our minds are as inward and expansive as the space that rests outside of this planet and encompasses everything. There is so much to explore; so much that is limited by our very 'truths' that remain incomplete; and you will never know until you let go of those truths and search for new ones, better ones that make more sense.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Genesis: Chapter 3
"Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil."
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The serpent is just a metaphor. No snake actually came to Eve and spoke to her, but the person that did was akin to a snake in his mannerisms. Smooth and mesmerizing in his approach. Words dripping with honey for those who hear them to be drawn in. 'God' Most surely did know that Adam and Eve would not perish from eating the fruit from the tree, but as we went over before, probably put the rule and the warning in place as a test of sorts.
This shows more a collaboration effort of sorts to breathe life into the human race and that some wished to undermine the wishes of the others by pushing Adam and Eve toward knowledge of good and evil so that it could take advantage of the naive confusion that would stem from it; feed from the angst and anger and bitterness. Perhaps, in some ways, the person did take on the aspects of the snake; perhaps in their genetic make-up, they had a lizard appearance, but could shift back and forth and appear to be human.
He played to humans egotism in this hour and said that God was afraid of humanity being more like him. Far be it from the truth. It was wanted that we be spared as much as possible from the evils that have plagued other species in the past before that point. But, like the child that has been denied a piece of chocolate, Adam and Eve were easily swayed into believing something that wasn't true and thus began the disillusionment of our species.
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"And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat."
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In the hour that they ate of the fruit, they became aware of their own selves. They had been given knowledge through the breaking of a trust and the breaking of a simple rule. They knew that what they had done was wrong, but could not explain why and thus were brought into an awakening of the mind that they were ill-prepared for, given the process of being inducted to it in the manner they were inducted. The fruit itself did not give knowledge one way or the other, but the act of eating the fruit opened up the mind to view things in a different fashion; and they were afraid of the consequences of what they had done. Negativity first got its hooks into humanity.
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"And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."
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I believe 'God' to have been disappointed by Eve's answer. Instead of taking personal responsibility for eating the fruit regardless of the rules; she sought to instead blame the serpent; and certainly the serpent was partly to blame; but she should not have listened to him for it most certainly did ruin her and Adam's paradise.
To me, this is more a story of the snake in general and is just legend given to how the snake came to be without feet and hands; arms and legs; cut off from its lizard brethren. And The man that acted like a snake was given a similar fate to that of the serpent: He was to be without hands and feet; arms and legs; in a metaphorical sense; and was to be cut off from his brethren; those like him in Eden. At this point, one could easily presume that he followed Adam and Eve and continued to speak his poisons to them in various ways; spreading discontent through them at their lot in the rough world outside of paradise. He caused them to fight while they raised their children Cain and Abel and caused Cain to be ostracized for his personality while Abel was exalted in the eyes of his parents for his. He pushed Cain's anger and bitterness to new heights and caused him to murder his brother Abel and thus, true evil finally had a place in this world.
It was not a punishment that Adam and Eve were thrown out of the garden, though; but to save them and every future inhabitant of the world. If they had eaten from the tree of life in that moment, then evil would have been eternal on Earth and there would not have been an answer for it. All the negativity and insecurity released into the world by the consumption of the apple would have had prominence in the world and would have soon and easily established its dominance with immortality.
With the long road approach, there was time and ways to push goodness to the progeny of Adam and Eve and to reduce the evils to nothing.
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The serpent is just a metaphor. No snake actually came to Eve and spoke to her, but the person that did was akin to a snake in his mannerisms. Smooth and mesmerizing in his approach. Words dripping with honey for those who hear them to be drawn in. 'God' Most surely did know that Adam and Eve would not perish from eating the fruit from the tree, but as we went over before, probably put the rule and the warning in place as a test of sorts.
This shows more a collaboration effort of sorts to breathe life into the human race and that some wished to undermine the wishes of the others by pushing Adam and Eve toward knowledge of good and evil so that it could take advantage of the naive confusion that would stem from it; feed from the angst and anger and bitterness. Perhaps, in some ways, the person did take on the aspects of the snake; perhaps in their genetic make-up, they had a lizard appearance, but could shift back and forth and appear to be human.
He played to humans egotism in this hour and said that God was afraid of humanity being more like him. Far be it from the truth. It was wanted that we be spared as much as possible from the evils that have plagued other species in the past before that point. But, like the child that has been denied a piece of chocolate, Adam and Eve were easily swayed into believing something that wasn't true and thus began the disillusionment of our species.
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"And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat."
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In the hour that they ate of the fruit, they became aware of their own selves. They had been given knowledge through the breaking of a trust and the breaking of a simple rule. They knew that what they had done was wrong, but could not explain why and thus were brought into an awakening of the mind that they were ill-prepared for, given the process of being inducted to it in the manner they were inducted. The fruit itself did not give knowledge one way or the other, but the act of eating the fruit opened up the mind to view things in a different fashion; and they were afraid of the consequences of what they had done. Negativity first got its hooks into humanity.
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"And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them. And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life."
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I believe 'God' to have been disappointed by Eve's answer. Instead of taking personal responsibility for eating the fruit regardless of the rules; she sought to instead blame the serpent; and certainly the serpent was partly to blame; but she should not have listened to him for it most certainly did ruin her and Adam's paradise.
To me, this is more a story of the snake in general and is just legend given to how the snake came to be without feet and hands; arms and legs; cut off from its lizard brethren. And The man that acted like a snake was given a similar fate to that of the serpent: He was to be without hands and feet; arms and legs; in a metaphorical sense; and was to be cut off from his brethren; those like him in Eden. At this point, one could easily presume that he followed Adam and Eve and continued to speak his poisons to them in various ways; spreading discontent through them at their lot in the rough world outside of paradise. He caused them to fight while they raised their children Cain and Abel and caused Cain to be ostracized for his personality while Abel was exalted in the eyes of his parents for his. He pushed Cain's anger and bitterness to new heights and caused him to murder his brother Abel and thus, true evil finally had a place in this world.
It was not a punishment that Adam and Eve were thrown out of the garden, though; but to save them and every future inhabitant of the world. If they had eaten from the tree of life in that moment, then evil would have been eternal on Earth and there would not have been an answer for it. All the negativity and insecurity released into the world by the consumption of the apple would have had prominence in the world and would have soon and easily established its dominance with immortality.
With the long road approach, there was time and ways to push goodness to the progeny of Adam and Eve and to reduce the evils to nothing.
Legal and Illegal Drugs
I actually want to take the time to address the health care professionals and politicians of the world. Don't care if they're listening, cause, you know; obviously they won't be; but seriously...
If Cigarettes and Alcohol are known to be dangerous to your health and dangerous to the health of the people around you, how come they're legal? Alcohol is known to inhibit the part of our brain that makes rational decisions, yet it's still legal while pot is vastly illegal in most states and on a federal level. These two combined easily kill 10x as many people as guns kill a year, yet they're still fucking legal and there is no other use for them other than killing yourself slowly and putting others at risk.
Percocet; a pain-killer; and Methodone; which is used as an anti-addiction and for people addicted to opioids; are both legal and legitimate medications that doctors prescribe people, yet both are very addictive and habit-forming and the long term health issues related to using them are just as bad if not worse than what they're used for. Yet, the downsides of using these medications is significantly underplayed while drugs that AREN'T government controlled, such as meth, cocaine, crack, speed, etc. are all significantly overplayed to stress the risks of such to children.
American hypocrisy at its finest; not to mention definitive proof that our government and corporations couldn't give two squirts of piss about the population so long as they can gouge us for our money at the expense of our lives.
Weed is illegal throughout most of the US, yet it has more curative properties than not, is not very addictive, and actually stimulates philosophical thinking and peacefulness. Just seems backwards to me.
If Cigarettes and Alcohol are known to be dangerous to your health and dangerous to the health of the people around you, how come they're legal? Alcohol is known to inhibit the part of our brain that makes rational decisions, yet it's still legal while pot is vastly illegal in most states and on a federal level. These two combined easily kill 10x as many people as guns kill a year, yet they're still fucking legal and there is no other use for them other than killing yourself slowly and putting others at risk.
Percocet; a pain-killer; and Methodone; which is used as an anti-addiction and for people addicted to opioids; are both legal and legitimate medications that doctors prescribe people, yet both are very addictive and habit-forming and the long term health issues related to using them are just as bad if not worse than what they're used for. Yet, the downsides of using these medications is significantly underplayed while drugs that AREN'T government controlled, such as meth, cocaine, crack, speed, etc. are all significantly overplayed to stress the risks of such to children.
American hypocrisy at its finest; not to mention definitive proof that our government and corporations couldn't give two squirts of piss about the population so long as they can gouge us for our money at the expense of our lives.
Weed is illegal throughout most of the US, yet it has more curative properties than not, is not very addictive, and actually stimulates philosophical thinking and peacefulness. Just seems backwards to me.
Freedom
Freedom is something no person should ever give up or ever stop fighting for, no matter how small. As long as it doesn't hurt other people, what's the harm. As long as it doesn't allow good morals and values and goodness toward each other to become twisted and corrupted through manipulation and scheme, what's the big deal?
When a country; or any group for that matter; decides they would rather be secure against something they can not fully secure themselves in lieu of freedom; then they deserve neither and will not have either one. We all die; bad things happen to each and every one of us; there is no way to circumvent or prevent; the only thing we can do is prepare and deal with each situation as it comes and train others to do the same.
When we have survival of the fittest in society due to the fear-mongering and power-hungry control-grabbing greedy mofos, then our society is doomed to failure. When we have people too afraid of death and disease that comes whether you want it or not, then we have people who will allow worse things to happen in their pursuit of avoiding the inevitable. It's lunacy; pure and simple. Greed is a by-product of a past we no longer need; in a present that is swiftly dwindling and a future that is ours to reach out and, not only grab, but change for the better.
As a human being with no allegiance toward any government; having never been given a proper choice; I believe we need to be free of all of these things so we can focus on whats important in life: each other. With the technology we have today, there is no reason for any person to go hungry, yet they do; there is no reason for anyone to be homeless, yet they are; there is no reason why any person should grow to become a person who harms others in any way, yet they do. Too few people care; too few people have something worth living for and I think it's high time that we give them something to live for and something to care about; that we return to a way of living that allows each person to pursue what they're passionate about; and to dispel the insecurities and such that have been passed down from generation to generation for far too long so people stop being confused; stop going down the wrong paths where they wind up hurting themselves and others; and stop dragging down the people around them.
Freedom to live as we were intended to live; Freedom to protect ourselves from the real threats in the world instead of just being told we're being protected. Freedom from lies and manipulation; freedom from doubt and from insecurity; freedom from every single tyrannic device whether mortal, immortal; material or immaterial. Freedom from doubt and negativity. We chose, as a species, to dig this grave we now find ourselves in; and it's up to us to choose to dig ourselves out again.
When a country; or any group for that matter; decides they would rather be secure against something they can not fully secure themselves in lieu of freedom; then they deserve neither and will not have either one. We all die; bad things happen to each and every one of us; there is no way to circumvent or prevent; the only thing we can do is prepare and deal with each situation as it comes and train others to do the same.
When we have survival of the fittest in society due to the fear-mongering and power-hungry control-grabbing greedy mofos, then our society is doomed to failure. When we have people too afraid of death and disease that comes whether you want it or not, then we have people who will allow worse things to happen in their pursuit of avoiding the inevitable. It's lunacy; pure and simple. Greed is a by-product of a past we no longer need; in a present that is swiftly dwindling and a future that is ours to reach out and, not only grab, but change for the better.
As a human being with no allegiance toward any government; having never been given a proper choice; I believe we need to be free of all of these things so we can focus on whats important in life: each other. With the technology we have today, there is no reason for any person to go hungry, yet they do; there is no reason for anyone to be homeless, yet they are; there is no reason why any person should grow to become a person who harms others in any way, yet they do. Too few people care; too few people have something worth living for and I think it's high time that we give them something to live for and something to care about; that we return to a way of living that allows each person to pursue what they're passionate about; and to dispel the insecurities and such that have been passed down from generation to generation for far too long so people stop being confused; stop going down the wrong paths where they wind up hurting themselves and others; and stop dragging down the people around them.
Freedom to live as we were intended to live; Freedom to protect ourselves from the real threats in the world instead of just being told we're being protected. Freedom from lies and manipulation; freedom from doubt and from insecurity; freedom from every single tyrannic device whether mortal, immortal; material or immaterial. Freedom from doubt and negativity. We chose, as a species, to dig this grave we now find ourselves in; and it's up to us to choose to dig ourselves out again.
The Nameless One
The nameless one has come countless times
before to mankind in various different forms, for varying reasons. The
biggest reason was to guide mankind and to be as a beacon of light to
those that view it. The nameless one has had many names, but has no name
at the same time, having satisfied those names that others had given.
The nameless one is without sex and may show up as male or female;
depending on the situation and what it
calls for; but the situation must be grave; mortal life must be in
danger. The Nameless Ones true name remains a closely guarded secret;
because a true name grants power over the person/persona to which it
belongs. It is said that each man has three names given to him; one that
he inherits; one that is given to him by others, and a true name that
he must find within himself.
There is a battle going on, whether people wish to acknowledge it or not; a battle on a spiritual plane as well as the physical; both in our minds and outside of them. Sadly, humanity has been losing the battle; manipulated in their actions and daily lives by unseen forces which spread negativity and self-destruction; pouring down on our very essence as a deluge from the sky which we are all but powerless to avoid. Dark forces are at work to keep hidden the light of information and knowledge and goodness from the minds of the masses so that they may keep control of us and keep us in darkened places where we can not fight.
But, we are not powerless; we can fight within ourselves and it is our territory and we can win that fight. We have it in us to destroy the evil as it resides; to quarantine it from poisoning our thoughts; and to return to a frame of mind that is guided by peace and friendship and nature. For too long has this darkness reigned over man and over our planet; stinting our growth and corrupting it and deciding for us the course that we should take.
Throughout history, The Nameless One has been a constant champion of the people and of goodness. He has been Jesus Christ, Buddha, and countless others; he has been the wise man at the top of the mountain; he has been King and he has been beggar; he has been all things, for he must have understanding of all things to be able to guide the human race back to the path it should be on. Always, he has been surrounded by his twelve and they have come back with him multiple times as well in various forms and places and times.
Forget what you know of Religion and science and everything you've been taught from birth. Forget what you know. It is vitally important to your own growth as well as the growth of the human species that you do so. You must restart from a blank slate and leave your mind open; untainted; and allow the world around you to bring you ultimate truth through peace and happiness.
The Nameless One and his twelve have fought for a long time and their battles are not always won. The dark forces at work have continually learned and bettered themselves in dark ways and overwhelmed the goodness taught; twisting it and corrupting it so that many who have thought they were on the path to goodness have been lead astray and those sent to lead them back have been lead astray. They can not fight the fight on their own.
At this point in time, Earth enters a stage from which it can go one of two ways and from both ways there is no return or transference over to the other. We must make our decisions now and so The Nameless One and the twelve have returned to guide the human race toward awakening their minds and freeing themselves from the enslavement that many have never acknowledged, being too content with their minor distractions though the world around them continues to turmoil and annihilation.
Every person is important in this endeavor and it will define the human race and all who view it for ages to come. If you look within yourselves for the answers you search for, you will find them; and you will know what to do.
“Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” (Gandalf) ~J.R.R Tolkien, The Hobbit
Please, help take our planet and our species back and return to them the freedom to live as they were intended to live. There is nothing to fear as long as we have love and each other, because we will endure and we will stand as giants; untouched by darkness.
There is a battle going on, whether people wish to acknowledge it or not; a battle on a spiritual plane as well as the physical; both in our minds and outside of them. Sadly, humanity has been losing the battle; manipulated in their actions and daily lives by unseen forces which spread negativity and self-destruction; pouring down on our very essence as a deluge from the sky which we are all but powerless to avoid. Dark forces are at work to keep hidden the light of information and knowledge and goodness from the minds of the masses so that they may keep control of us and keep us in darkened places where we can not fight.
But, we are not powerless; we can fight within ourselves and it is our territory and we can win that fight. We have it in us to destroy the evil as it resides; to quarantine it from poisoning our thoughts; and to return to a frame of mind that is guided by peace and friendship and nature. For too long has this darkness reigned over man and over our planet; stinting our growth and corrupting it and deciding for us the course that we should take.
Throughout history, The Nameless One has been a constant champion of the people and of goodness. He has been Jesus Christ, Buddha, and countless others; he has been the wise man at the top of the mountain; he has been King and he has been beggar; he has been all things, for he must have understanding of all things to be able to guide the human race back to the path it should be on. Always, he has been surrounded by his twelve and they have come back with him multiple times as well in various forms and places and times.
Forget what you know of Religion and science and everything you've been taught from birth. Forget what you know. It is vitally important to your own growth as well as the growth of the human species that you do so. You must restart from a blank slate and leave your mind open; untainted; and allow the world around you to bring you ultimate truth through peace and happiness.
The Nameless One and his twelve have fought for a long time and their battles are not always won. The dark forces at work have continually learned and bettered themselves in dark ways and overwhelmed the goodness taught; twisting it and corrupting it so that many who have thought they were on the path to goodness have been lead astray and those sent to lead them back have been lead astray. They can not fight the fight on their own.
At this point in time, Earth enters a stage from which it can go one of two ways and from both ways there is no return or transference over to the other. We must make our decisions now and so The Nameless One and the twelve have returned to guide the human race toward awakening their minds and freeing themselves from the enslavement that many have never acknowledged, being too content with their minor distractions though the world around them continues to turmoil and annihilation.
Every person is important in this endeavor and it will define the human race and all who view it for ages to come. If you look within yourselves for the answers you search for, you will find them; and you will know what to do.
“Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. I found it is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” (Gandalf) ~J.R.R Tolkien, The Hobbit
Please, help take our planet and our species back and return to them the freedom to live as they were intended to live. There is nothing to fear as long as we have love and each other, because we will endure and we will stand as giants; untouched by darkness.
Depression and Insecurities
I want to talk about depression and
insecurities. Some seem to think that they can't be overcome, that it's
something you have to deal with your entire life. Others believe it
takes time, but it can be done. Further still others don't even believe
in the possibility of depression because they either inherently deal
with it extremely well, or have never faced it.
Here's what I have to say: It can be beaten; it is as simple as training yourself to think positively and view life in a positive manner. It is as simple as letting go of all negativity and being happy with what you have and where you are. You have to find things to be happy about. They're always there. No amount of money can make you happy; no amount of living can. Nothing can make you happy except you. Keep in mind that all people want one more, but one more is never enough; so you have to be satisfied with what you get and not constantly yearn for more or fear the cutting off of it.
It's not easy; it takes time. It can take decades depending on the mind. The important factor is that you never give up fighting; you never give up trying; because when you do, you only give up on yourself. You have to go through and replace hate with love; sadness with happiness and you have to keep doing that until it becomes automatic. Once you open your heart to goodness and find a way to keep it open, it will continue to funnel in on its own.
It will be tough; at times you will hit your lows and you will forget things you should remember and forget to remember to forget things that should be forgotten. I repeat: never give up. No matter what happens in life; there is nothing to fear because all you can control is yourself and that's all you need to control. People will learn from watching you; they will reciprocate your kindness. Maybe not right away, but eventually they will. You have to be patient and understanding that other people are hurting as much as you are if not worse and that the only way of winning that battle is not to engage it at all or even recognize it as a threat. Persist in being a good person and when you stumble, pick yourself up; when you fall, dust yourself off.
It's not a crime to be a good person; it doesn't hurt anything. People will continue to try to drag you down to their level instead of putting the hard work into finding their own path to the light just so they can continue to avoid the truth. You can't let them get to you and you have to continue to treat them with love and understanding so that they may eventually see a better way.
Do not despair, do not give up hope. Do not ever stop searching for positivity in your daily life and the happiness therein. In your darkest days, let that be your guide.
Here's what I have to say: It can be beaten; it is as simple as training yourself to think positively and view life in a positive manner. It is as simple as letting go of all negativity and being happy with what you have and where you are. You have to find things to be happy about. They're always there. No amount of money can make you happy; no amount of living can. Nothing can make you happy except you. Keep in mind that all people want one more, but one more is never enough; so you have to be satisfied with what you get and not constantly yearn for more or fear the cutting off of it.
It's not easy; it takes time. It can take decades depending on the mind. The important factor is that you never give up fighting; you never give up trying; because when you do, you only give up on yourself. You have to go through and replace hate with love; sadness with happiness and you have to keep doing that until it becomes automatic. Once you open your heart to goodness and find a way to keep it open, it will continue to funnel in on its own.
It will be tough; at times you will hit your lows and you will forget things you should remember and forget to remember to forget things that should be forgotten. I repeat: never give up. No matter what happens in life; there is nothing to fear because all you can control is yourself and that's all you need to control. People will learn from watching you; they will reciprocate your kindness. Maybe not right away, but eventually they will. You have to be patient and understanding that other people are hurting as much as you are if not worse and that the only way of winning that battle is not to engage it at all or even recognize it as a threat. Persist in being a good person and when you stumble, pick yourself up; when you fall, dust yourself off.
It's not a crime to be a good person; it doesn't hurt anything. People will continue to try to drag you down to their level instead of putting the hard work into finding their own path to the light just so they can continue to avoid the truth. You can't let them get to you and you have to continue to treat them with love and understanding so that they may eventually see a better way.
Do not despair, do not give up hope. Do not ever stop searching for positivity in your daily life and the happiness therein. In your darkest days, let that be your guide.
Genesis Chapter 2
THUS the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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This explains that God rested from his toils on the seventh day. (read, his seventh day; or the seventh day worth mentioning in the history of the creation of earth and the cosmos.) Before creation, plants did not grow because there was not any rain and no man to till the ground to help it grow. This drives home that the purpose of man is to till and tend for the earth and all the fruits that it holds and bears.
Interesting to note is that at this point, it goes into detail about the creation of man; that he was made from the very dirt and dust of the earth. This, science has supplied itself by stating that all organisms (at least on our planet) are comprised of the same basic components and all are born of the earth. Or, one could take this to show that at this point of human history; the dawn of man; we had a shove into humanity by an outside force, most probably alien interference which is supported by Mayan and Aztec symbols and stories; Greek and Roman Mythology; the Egyptian Pyramids and many other legends and religions. Possible, also, is the idea that time travel exists and our own future descendants are responsible for our past growth.
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And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second rive if Gihon; the same is it that compasseth the land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel; that is it which goeth toward the rest of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
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At this point, it is a point that must be made to show that this must obviously be an orchard of sorts; obviously well-regulated in terms of temperature, weather, etc. This tends to point more toward the possibility of a bio-dome wherein man is placed to tend to the fruits of the Orchard. The tree of life; which is the basis of many stories and legends; is in the center; and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is there as well.
What is interesting to think about is the idea of the tree of knowledge approached with modern thinking. Would it have been the tree of the knowledge of good and evil if God hadn't forbade Adam and Eve to eat its fruit? Probably not. Because God did forbid them from eating the fruit, when they inevitably did eat it; not seeing the harm of it in their naivety and innocence; they became suddenly aware that they had done wrong and sought to hide from God what they had done. But, it was too late, because that was now in their head, like a tumor.
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And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, though shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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This seems like a harsh lie coming from God; since we know Adam and Eve did not die from eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge; but I believe that 'God' did this for a reason. Mankind had a chance to live in peace and happiness, insofar as they were able to follow a simple rule. The fear of death was there to make sure that man did not break the rule due to simple folly; that he thought it through and made sure it was the choice he wanted to make. At the same time as wanting man to live a life free of misery and pain; God wanted to give man a choice in the matter; the ability to exercise free will. Obviously, the true God of everything would have had to have known ahead of time what would happen and was happy with the end result of both scenarios. But, we'll get to that later on when we get more into the story of Adam and Eve.
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And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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Obviously, God did not bring every beast to Adam, because we're still finding animals and such today that we've never encountered before; whether that was due to the fact that they didn't exist before or because they've evolved since then into something else, I don't know. This really drives home, though, that whoever made us; whether God or Alien; intended us to have dominion over this planet, to allow us to name each animal ourselves instead of using the names they must have already given to them.
It also stands as a point that we were intended to view animals as equals, as they were brought forward to ease Adam's loneliness as friends. A deep sleep overcame Adam; i.e., he was knocked out and then operated on, and they removed his rib to create a female of his species. This definitely shows advanced technology in quite a few ways; as God would not have had need to knock Adam out nor to remove a rib from him, if he sought to create a mate for him.
It does show that Man was intended to protect woman as if she was a part of him; that meeting of the two was meant to be indefinite; that this is the reason why man should leave the company of his parents, so that he may have a family of his own. Doesn't say anywhere, though, that man and woman are not equal.
It also points out that in this era of pure innocence and naivety; self-consciousness has not played a part. Being naked wasn't a big deal and was natural. Only later, when they eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, do they realize their nakedness, and there are a variety of reasons for that which I will get into at the appropriate time.
As a side note, my interpretation shows a confliction of ideas and thoughts and that's not my own doing, but the doing of people who have written the bible. They have take multiple things, lumped them all up to the same benefactor and packaged them as a whole when they should most likely be taken as separate things. The creation of the Eden and Adam and Eve, for example; are most likely signs of interference from advanced technology. Even the creation of the Earth could be attributed to that; or at least the creation of Earth into a habitable planet.
My belief in God has always been that if there is one, it is the embodiment of goodness; otherwise we all would have already been dead eons ago; and it exists in and around and through us all and everything else in existence, both within our world and outside of it. Everything. God would not appear in a physical form anywhere at any time, because it would undermine the rules of non-engagement that he set himself; allowing his creations to rule themselves. If anything, God would send agents to advise and warn, but inevitably it would be up to man to make his own decisions.
At any point in time where it says that God appeared physically, or manifested in some way; we have to assume that this is due to the individual fancy of the person claiming that this has happened (give the nature of man today to deceive with stories to make himself sound better, this is utterly believable.) or that those that have appeared have been agents of God; or that they are alien/future versions of our own race, as none of the manifestations are perfect and God is perfection. That is not to say that God may not send some of these things as manifestations with messages for people to hear. God always has open-minded individuals and vessels carry his work into the physical realm so that we may better understand things. While God has allowed us our free will, he still cares about us enough to want us to do well by ourselves. Of course, with the counter-force of the devil; or the demons that mankind unleashed upon themselves by eating of the fruit from the tree of knowledge; opening Pandora's box; some of these messages get waylaid, or misinterpreted, or altogether corrupted.
At any rate, that's enough for today.
THUS the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew; for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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This explains that God rested from his toils on the seventh day. (read, his seventh day; or the seventh day worth mentioning in the history of the creation of earth and the cosmos.) Before creation, plants did not grow because there was not any rain and no man to till the ground to help it grow. This drives home that the purpose of man is to till and tend for the earth and all the fruits that it holds and bears.
Interesting to note is that at this point, it goes into detail about the creation of man; that he was made from the very dirt and dust of the earth. This, science has supplied itself by stating that all organisms (at least on our planet) are comprised of the same basic components and all are born of the earth. Or, one could take this to show that at this point of human history; the dawn of man; we had a shove into humanity by an outside force, most probably alien interference which is supported by Mayan and Aztec symbols and stories; Greek and Roman Mythology; the Egyptian Pyramids and many other legends and religions. Possible, also, is the idea that time travel exists and our own future descendants are responsible for our past growth.
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And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison; that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second rive if Gihon; the same is it that compasseth the land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel; that is it which goeth toward the rest of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
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At this point, it is a point that must be made to show that this must obviously be an orchard of sorts; obviously well-regulated in terms of temperature, weather, etc. This tends to point more toward the possibility of a bio-dome wherein man is placed to tend to the fruits of the Orchard. The tree of life; which is the basis of many stories and legends; is in the center; and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil is there as well.
What is interesting to think about is the idea of the tree of knowledge approached with modern thinking. Would it have been the tree of the knowledge of good and evil if God hadn't forbade Adam and Eve to eat its fruit? Probably not. Because God did forbid them from eating the fruit, when they inevitably did eat it; not seeing the harm of it in their naivety and innocence; they became suddenly aware that they had done wrong and sought to hide from God what they had done. But, it was too late, because that was now in their head, like a tumor.
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And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, though shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
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This seems like a harsh lie coming from God; since we know Adam and Eve did not die from eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge; but I believe that 'God' did this for a reason. Mankind had a chance to live in peace and happiness, insofar as they were able to follow a simple rule. The fear of death was there to make sure that man did not break the rule due to simple folly; that he thought it through and made sure it was the choice he wanted to make. At the same time as wanting man to live a life free of misery and pain; God wanted to give man a choice in the matter; the ability to exercise free will. Obviously, the true God of everything would have had to have known ahead of time what would happen and was happy with the end result of both scenarios. But, we'll get to that later on when we get more into the story of Adam and Eve.
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And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said, this is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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Obviously, God did not bring every beast to Adam, because we're still finding animals and such today that we've never encountered before; whether that was due to the fact that they didn't exist before or because they've evolved since then into something else, I don't know. This really drives home, though, that whoever made us; whether God or Alien; intended us to have dominion over this planet, to allow us to name each animal ourselves instead of using the names they must have already given to them.
It also stands as a point that we were intended to view animals as equals, as they were brought forward to ease Adam's loneliness as friends. A deep sleep overcame Adam; i.e., he was knocked out and then operated on, and they removed his rib to create a female of his species. This definitely shows advanced technology in quite a few ways; as God would not have had need to knock Adam out nor to remove a rib from him, if he sought to create a mate for him.
It does show that Man was intended to protect woman as if she was a part of him; that meeting of the two was meant to be indefinite; that this is the reason why man should leave the company of his parents, so that he may have a family of his own. Doesn't say anywhere, though, that man and woman are not equal.
It also points out that in this era of pure innocence and naivety; self-consciousness has not played a part. Being naked wasn't a big deal and was natural. Only later, when they eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, do they realize their nakedness, and there are a variety of reasons for that which I will get into at the appropriate time.
As a side note, my interpretation shows a confliction of ideas and thoughts and that's not my own doing, but the doing of people who have written the bible. They have take multiple things, lumped them all up to the same benefactor and packaged them as a whole when they should most likely be taken as separate things. The creation of the Eden and Adam and Eve, for example; are most likely signs of interference from advanced technology. Even the creation of the Earth could be attributed to that; or at least the creation of Earth into a habitable planet.
My belief in God has always been that if there is one, it is the embodiment of goodness; otherwise we all would have already been dead eons ago; and it exists in and around and through us all and everything else in existence, both within our world and outside of it. Everything. God would not appear in a physical form anywhere at any time, because it would undermine the rules of non-engagement that he set himself; allowing his creations to rule themselves. If anything, God would send agents to advise and warn, but inevitably it would be up to man to make his own decisions.
At any point in time where it says that God appeared physically, or manifested in some way; we have to assume that this is due to the individual fancy of the person claiming that this has happened (give the nature of man today to deceive with stories to make himself sound better, this is utterly believable.) or that those that have appeared have been agents of God; or that they are alien/future versions of our own race, as none of the manifestations are perfect and God is perfection. That is not to say that God may not send some of these things as manifestations with messages for people to hear. God always has open-minded individuals and vessels carry his work into the physical realm so that we may better understand things. While God has allowed us our free will, he still cares about us enough to want us to do well by ourselves. Of course, with the counter-force of the devil; or the demons that mankind unleashed upon themselves by eating of the fruit from the tree of knowledge; opening Pandora's box; some of these messages get waylaid, or misinterpreted, or altogether corrupted.
At any rate, that's enough for today.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Religion or Science?
At one point in time, I did want to get this off the ground. Sadly, reviewing websites didn't hold my interest. If anyone is still actively checking this blog for updates, I apologize for my long stint of inactivity. I am going to re-purpose this blog and move on to other things, mostly my philosophy, my theories and my religious views. If you don't like it, tough shit. There's other blogs out there you can read. If you want to debate, I'm down for that, but keep in mind that I will shut you down if you start arguing instead of debating; twice as fast if you start insulting me specifically. And, if you can't keep your mind open and know it, don't bother.
Lately I've been hard to reach, been too long on my own
Everybody has a private world where they can be alone
Are you calling me? Are you trying to get through?
Are you reaching out for me, like I'm reaching out for you?
I will be working on my own interpretation of the bible; not to disprove God based on the assumptions or limited understanding of past civilizations or the assumptions and limited understanding of our own, current civilization; but to prove that God can still exist when coupled with modern-day thinking and scientific analysis; and, as a bonus, point out to people in general how much of an asshat they've been for perpetuating ignorance and close-mindedness.
Anywho:
Genesis
Chapter 1
"IN the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. And the Earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day and the darkness he called Night And the evening and the morning were the first day."
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Basically, this explains the beginning of everything. The Creation of the cosmos. Earth did not exist, yet. Darkness was on the face of the deep and the deep was space. Water, I think, was a euphemism given to space to symbolize the nature of it; the vacuum that causes men to suffocate, so when it says God's face moved upon the waters; it tends to point to it moving across space; which, in turn, symbolizes that something major occurred at this point in time, much like a big bang. This is supported by God's creation of light and that it divided the night and day; as now there existed a contrast to the darkness of space.
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"And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day."
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This tends to point to the fact that at some point in time, Earth began to develop an atmosphere; due to the magnetic pull of its inner core; thus separating the waters of our planet from the 'waters' of space; i.e. Heaven.
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"And God said, let the waters under Heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear; and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth and the gathering together of waters called he seas; and God saw that it was good."
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With the creation of an atmosphere, the waters upon the Earth are now able to settle and sit in one place; thus land would appear for the first time and stay in view.
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"And God said, Let the Earth bring forth grass, and herb yielding seed, and the tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the Earth; and it was so. And the Earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind, and God saw that it was good. And the evening the morning were the third day."
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After the atmosphere appeared and the waters settled; and dry land appeared from beneath the waters; life began to grow.
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"And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days, and years; And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the Earth; and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the Earth. And to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day."
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Before this moment, one has to assume that the 'Big Bang'; or whatever you wish to call the creation of everything; had created some form of lesser light; as God had already created light in the universe and this light is different; more defining. One would have to assume that at this point, our sun, and the suns of other worlds that we call stars; come into existence. It also points out that Earth had a moon already at the time that the stars first came on the scene; which makes sense when you consider that Earth already had its own source of gravity.
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"And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the sea and let the fowl multiply in the Earth. And the evening and morning were the fifth day."
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At this point of history; all the things were in place for the creation of more complex organisms. Before there had been plants, but now there was more oxygen, more water; a more liveable habitat for things that have lungs and need to feed. Does this discredit the dinosaurs? No. Simply put, most of the animals in existence today have evolved from dinosaurs or from early mammals that existed during the age of the dinosaurs and were able to survive. This also points to the fact that all life stems from the waters; which science has also stated. One has to understand that the early age of man had no knowledge of Dinosaurs when creating these stories and simply could not fathom such a thing because they had no knowledge of it and could not observe it themselves. They named creatures they did have experience with.
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"And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind; and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind and cattle after their kind and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind; and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat; and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."
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Even more complex creatures came into being; basically the cattle, insects, bugs and crawly things and then finally man at the very last. It states that God created man in his image and in the image of the angels and gave dominion of the earth to man. This could be taken in a variety of ways; usually man's own egotism comes into play; but I think that we were created to be the shepherds of this planet, to care for it and to expand and multiply so that we could continue to be able to tend for everything. This says nothing about mankind eating meat and instead points to the idea that we should eat vegetables and fruits while keeping in mind that the animals and everything else also eat vegetables and fruits and that we are all equal, even though God gave us the intelligence and bodies to be above all others. Time has proven our egotism to be fruitless and in the pursuit of being better than everything, we show how much worse we are.
This ends Chapter 1 of Genesis. I just have to say that the 'days' that God worked; were probably not days in the sense that we think of days. There is no telling how much time entered into a single day back then. Also, one has to keep in mind the simple nature of story-tellers, to gloss over a large amount of time in their story-telling and make it appear to be less. It is also said that a day in God's life is a thousand years, or more, in our lives, so... give and take there. No matter what, all of this could not have happened in six days time. It takes millions of years for life to grow on a chunk of rock in space; let alone the amount of time for that rock to develop its own atmosphere and gravity.
Of course, one could also point out that at the beginning of everything, we were closer to the source and thus time and everything else moved at a faster pace; and as we get further and further away from the source; the slower time goes. We don't know. We don't know anything for sure and it's impossible to prove anything, though logic and reason do a go a long way to sorting things out and seeing the possibility for multiple things to exist within the same sphere.
Lately I've been hard to reach, been too long on my own
Everybody has a private world where they can be alone
Are you calling me? Are you trying to get through?
Are you reaching out for me, like I'm reaching out for you?
I will be working on my own interpretation of the bible; not to disprove God based on the assumptions or limited understanding of past civilizations or the assumptions and limited understanding of our own, current civilization; but to prove that God can still exist when coupled with modern-day thinking and scientific analysis; and, as a bonus, point out to people in general how much of an asshat they've been for perpetuating ignorance and close-mindedness.
Anywho:
Genesis
Chapter 1
"IN the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. And the Earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light; and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light day and the darkness he called Night And the evening and the morning were the first day."
----------
Basically, this explains the beginning of everything. The Creation of the cosmos. Earth did not exist, yet. Darkness was on the face of the deep and the deep was space. Water, I think, was a euphemism given to space to symbolize the nature of it; the vacuum that causes men to suffocate, so when it says God's face moved upon the waters; it tends to point to it moving across space; which, in turn, symbolizes that something major occurred at this point in time, much like a big bang. This is supported by God's creation of light and that it divided the night and day; as now there existed a contrast to the darkness of space.
----------
"And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day."
----------
This tends to point to the fact that at some point in time, Earth began to develop an atmosphere; due to the magnetic pull of its inner core; thus separating the waters of our planet from the 'waters' of space; i.e. Heaven.
----------
"And God said, let the waters under Heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the dry land appear; and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth and the gathering together of waters called he seas; and God saw that it was good."
----------
With the creation of an atmosphere, the waters upon the Earth are now able to settle and sit in one place; thus land would appear for the first time and stay in view.
----------
"And God said, Let the Earth bring forth grass, and herb yielding seed, and the tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the Earth; and it was so. And the Earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind, and God saw that it was good. And the evening the morning were the third day."
----------
After the atmosphere appeared and the waters settled; and dry land appeared from beneath the waters; life began to grow.
----------
"And God said, let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days, and years; And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the Earth; and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night; he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the Earth. And to rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness; and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day."
----------
Before this moment, one has to assume that the 'Big Bang'; or whatever you wish to call the creation of everything; had created some form of lesser light; as God had already created light in the universe and this light is different; more defining. One would have to assume that at this point, our sun, and the suns of other worlds that we call stars; come into existence. It also points out that Earth had a moon already at the time that the stars first came on the scene; which makes sense when you consider that Earth already had its own source of gravity.
----------
"And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the sea and let the fowl multiply in the Earth. And the evening and morning were the fifth day."
----------
At this point of history; all the things were in place for the creation of more complex organisms. Before there had been plants, but now there was more oxygen, more water; a more liveable habitat for things that have lungs and need to feed. Does this discredit the dinosaurs? No. Simply put, most of the animals in existence today have evolved from dinosaurs or from early mammals that existed during the age of the dinosaurs and were able to survive. This also points to the fact that all life stems from the waters; which science has also stated. One has to understand that the early age of man had no knowledge of Dinosaurs when creating these stories and simply could not fathom such a thing because they had no knowledge of it and could not observe it themselves. They named creatures they did have experience with.
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"And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind; and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind and cattle after their kind and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind; and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them and God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat; and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day."
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Even more complex creatures came into being; basically the cattle, insects, bugs and crawly things and then finally man at the very last. It states that God created man in his image and in the image of the angels and gave dominion of the earth to man. This could be taken in a variety of ways; usually man's own egotism comes into play; but I think that we were created to be the shepherds of this planet, to care for it and to expand and multiply so that we could continue to be able to tend for everything. This says nothing about mankind eating meat and instead points to the idea that we should eat vegetables and fruits while keeping in mind that the animals and everything else also eat vegetables and fruits and that we are all equal, even though God gave us the intelligence and bodies to be above all others. Time has proven our egotism to be fruitless and in the pursuit of being better than everything, we show how much worse we are.
This ends Chapter 1 of Genesis. I just have to say that the 'days' that God worked; were probably not days in the sense that we think of days. There is no telling how much time entered into a single day back then. Also, one has to keep in mind the simple nature of story-tellers, to gloss over a large amount of time in their story-telling and make it appear to be less. It is also said that a day in God's life is a thousand years, or more, in our lives, so... give and take there. No matter what, all of this could not have happened in six days time. It takes millions of years for life to grow on a chunk of rock in space; let alone the amount of time for that rock to develop its own atmosphere and gravity.
Of course, one could also point out that at the beginning of everything, we were closer to the source and thus time and everything else moved at a faster pace; and as we get further and further away from the source; the slower time goes. We don't know. We don't know anything for sure and it's impossible to prove anything, though logic and reason do a go a long way to sorting things out and seeing the possibility for multiple things to exist within the same sphere.
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