mudra wrote:I love it you call Siri Obiwan eMonkey
Thank you for the smile this brings in my heart
Love from me
mudra
I should really say "Master Kenobi"
Smile away Sister
mudra wrote:I love it you call Siri Obiwan eMonkey
Thank you for the smile this brings in my heart
Love from me
mudra
magamud wrote:You cant be binary with extraterrestrials Floyd. They exist or they don't. Thats ridiculous right? There is enough proof to at least extrapolate what our relationship to it can be.
We have mythologies of antiquity for every culture.
"Ancient relics of a primitive religion."
Your not identifying our relationship to Myth, to theGods and extraterrestrials, an evolved position, less allowing someone to do so or be free and on their way... So your trying to throw it all out, imprison it and lock it up in solitary confinement. Well that will be the next Religion for the next millenia to answer your question.
"Perhaps if Planet X"
You dont even want to be concerned that we could be wiped out by a Foreign Body? Even though there is numerous text of antiquity reporting a cycle and planets being pounded by asteroids everywhere and no less next to the Kuniper belt. Is it not strange that this Planet is not bombarded by asteroids? Earth is the only pristine balance that can hold life.
"In the meantime."
Your pissed that we cant even stop the wars or feed our people and people are watching mork and mindy. I get it...
There is no doubt eMonkey, that the beginings of any religion are dubious not helped by them being lost in antiquity. Alienism however is much more traceable as no doubt you will find in your researches. Much of it is extremely ugly. Then again. Much of religion is an extremely ugly business.
Brook wrote:Stitchen's work, fiction or not certainly somewhat flies in the face of Christian religion...and that is a fact.
I will add this about Dr. Michael Heiser who perhaps might be a bit biased as his current job is working for a company who's "Mission" is to serve the church. I believe the Church recently came out of the closet so to speak and suggested the possibility of ET's? Or am I mistaken?
Michael Heiser also believes ET might be something much more sinister....
http://www.sitchiniswrong.com/about/about.htm
Mike has taught over two dozen courses over the span of 15 years of undergraduate teaching. He is currently the Academic Editor at Logos Bible Software in Bellingham, WA. In 2007 the Pacific Northwest region of the Society of Biblical Literature awarded Mike its Regional Scholar award. You can learn more about Dr. Heiser by visiting his homepage or viewing his resume/CV.
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Home page:
Mike Heiser is a scholar in the fields of biblical studies and the ancient Near East. He is the Academic Editor of Logos Bible Software. Mike earned the M.A. and Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and Semitic Languages at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. He has also earned an M.A. in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania (major fields: Ancient Israel and Egyptology).
Mike's main research interests are Israelite religion (especially Israel’s divine council), biblical theology, ancient Near Eastern religion, biblical & ancient Semitic languages, and ancient Jewish binitarian monotheism. He maintains three blogs: The Naked Bible (biblical studies), PaleoBabble (weird beliefs about antiquity), and UFO Religions (how belief in ETs intersects with religion). He teaches ancient languages online at MEMRA. For more information, see his FAQ and CV.
http://www.michaelsheiser.com/
The Facade: Special Edition
Mike is also well known as the author of his supernatural thriller, The Facade. Mike blends academic biblical scholarship and his knowledge of the ancient world, alternative spiritualities, and the paranormal in The Facade to create an enthralling read.
As readers of the The Facade already know, one of its plotlines concerns how a genuine ET reality would affect the traditional Judeo-Christian faith and worldview. Another utilizes Mike's academic specialty, the divine council, when the story's characters are confronted with a different question: what if what everyone thought was extraterrestrial is something else much more sinister.
The divine council...
http://www.thedivinecouncil.com/HeiserIVPDC.pdf
348-353. They followed her to the great apple tree in the plain of Kulaba. There was Dumuzid clothed in a magnificent garment and seated magnificently on a throne. The demons seized him there by his thighs. The seven of them poured the milk from his churns. The seven of them shook their heads like ……. They would not let the shepherd play the pipe and flute before her (?).
Dumuzid let out a wail and wept. The lad raised his hands to heaven, to Utu: "Utu, you are my brother-in-law. I am your relation by marriage. I brought butter to your mother's house. I brought milk to Ningal's house. Turn my hands into snake's hands and turn my feet into snake's feet, so I can escape my demons, let them not keep hold of me."
376-383. Utu accepted his tears. {(1 ms. adds 1 line:) Dumuzid's demons could not keep hold of him.} Utu turned Dumuzid's hands into snake's hands. He turned his feet into snake's feet. Dumuzid escaped his demons. {(1 ms. adds 1 line:) Like a saĝkal snake he …….} They seized …….
2 lines fragmentary Holy Inana …… her heart.
384-393. Holy Inana wept bitterly for her husband.
4 lines fragmentary She tore at her hair like esparto grass, she ripped it out like esparto grass. "You wives who lie in your men's embrace, where is my precious husband? You children who lie in your men's embrace, where is my precious child? Where is my man? Where ……? Where is my man? Where ……?"
394-398. A fly spoke to holy Inana: "If I show you where your man is, what will be my reward?" Holy Inana answered the fly: "If you show me where my man is, I will give you this gift: I will cover ……."
Frankly Sitchin cannot be taken seriously but I have a full understanding that some rely on him to prop up other theories.
It doesn't really matter if Heiser is a Christian or not. Hes not the only person to take Sitchin the cleaners. It seems the only people who take him (Sitchin) seriously are alienists. It is easy to see why that is. His (Heiser's) Christianity is his own problem. Does him being a Christian necessarily mean he has an agenda or lessen his ability in any way to successfuly tackle a charlatan?
As readers of the The Facade already know, one of its plotlines concerns how a genuine ET reality would affect the traditional Judeo-Christian faith and worldview. Another utilizes Mike's academic specialty, the divine council, when the story's characters are confronted with a different question: what if what everyone thought was extraterrestrial is something else much more sinister.
http://www.michaelsheiser.com/
From Medicine dot net:
Alienist: French term for a psychologist, a psychiatrist, or another practitioner who cares for the mentally ill.
Wikipedia:
Alienist is an archaic term for a psychiatrist or psychologist.
Websters online:
Definition of ALIENIST
: psychiatrist
Origin of ALIENIST
French aliéniste, from aliéné insane, from Latin alienatus, past participle of alienare to estrange, from alienus
First Known Use: 1864.
Bias is an inclination of temperaments or outlook to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of (possibly equally valid) alternatives in reference to objects, people, or groups. Anything biased generally is one-sided and therefore lacks a neutral point of view. Bias can come in many forms and is often considered to be synonymous with prejudice or bigotry.
A cognitive bias is a pattern of deviation in judgment, whereby inferences of other people and situations may be drawn in an illogical fashion. Individuals create their own “subjective social reality” from their perception of the input. An individual’s construction of social reality, not the objective input, may dictate their behavior in the social world. Thus, cognitive biases may sometimes lead to perceptual distortion, inaccurate judgment, illogical interpretation, or what is broadly called irrationality
In psychology, heuristics are simple, efficient rules which people often use to form judgments and make decisions. They are mental shortcuts that usually involve focusing on one aspect of a complex problem and ignoring others.
The Oxford Movement was a movement of High Church Anglicans, eventually developing into Anglo-Catholicism. The movement, whose members were often associated with the University of Oxford, argued for the reinstatement of lost Christian traditions of faith and their inclusion into Anglican liturgy and theology. They conceived of the Anglican Church as one of three branches of the Catholic Church.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Movement
The technical term še “barley (figure)”, which a
lso occurs in lines 16018 of Susa
mathematical text no. 3, is a symmetrical figure surrounded by two quadrants.
magamud wrote:Nice post Brook. I'm finding this dynamic very present today. There are a lot of lazy intellectuals not evolving with the times. And their using shock and awe tactics to cover it up. Glossing over objectivity, assuming platitudes that are no longer there. Manipulating their argument into some groupthink to make it so. Its a bad habit. And Whats sad to see is good people are falling for the traps. Thinking people are really objective, following the illusion of what pure science is supposed to be about. It's the foundations of a Technocracy were in and just another Con job to keep people herded.
Zecharia Sitchin was a fraud and a monster
This is a message to all the fans of the Ancient Astronaut Theory about some very disturbing facts about Zecharia Sitchin, who is best known for his books about how an ET race called the Annunaki came from their planet Nibiru to Earth and created humans as a slave species to mine gold for them.
I regret to inform you all that Sitchin was a fraud. And to make things even more creepy, he was both a member of the Illuminati and a shapeshifting reptoid! In David Icke’s 1999 documentary “Revelations of a Mother Goddess,” Ms. Arizona Wilder explained to Icke that Sitchin was a reptoid and he had the job of disinforming humanity. After Wilder told him this, Icke said that would explain why Sitchin warned him not to push the reptilian idea in his work. When Icke met Sitchin face to face way back in the day, Icke asked him why he never said anything about ancient Sumer’s numerous reptilian motifs in his books (such as the fact that the Annunaki were sometimes shown to be human while at other times were depicted as having reptilian or fish-like skin), and after Icke asked him this Sitchin warned him, “Don’t touch the reptoids Icke!” It wasn’t until Arizona Wilder exposed these facts that Icke found out why Sitchin said this. And by the way, the Annunaki were actually the reptoids, as Icke explains in his 1999 book “The Biggest Secret.”
Further, Leo Zagami, an ex-Freemason, explained in the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwFY5Y6NEiw that the Vatican played a big role in telling Sitchin what kind of disinformation to write. This only shows all the more that Sitchin truly is an Illuminati member since the Vatican is one of the most powerful division of the global New World Order spider web.
http://planet.infowars.com/weird-news/zecharia-sitchin-was-a-fraud-and-a-monster
Zecharia Sitchin was an author famous for "The Earth Chronicles" series of books about the writings of the ancient Sumerians (circa 5,000 years ago) as he interpreted them. He was one of perhaps 200 people in the world, if that many, who could translate cunieform, the language of the Sumerians. His work has been very influential on my own.
A Message From Lloyd Pye
Since the death of Zecharia Sitchin on Oct. 9, 2010, his critics have come out in droves on the internet to try to trash his work and his legacy. Because of my well-known regard for his work, which I heavily incorporated in Part IV of my book "Everything You Know Is Wrong," several people have asked me to come to Zecharia's defense now that he can no longer do it himself in the vigorous way he was known for. With that said, here is my nutshell defense of his work against any and all criticisms. It is simple and it is true. Please use it to respond to any critic you care to address:
Anyone who says Zecharia Sitchin is a fraud or mistaken in his translations of Sumerian texts, or anything in that vein, is busily grinding a heavily worn axe. They base all of their complaints on the fact that in certain key areas of the Sumerian writings, he deviates markedly from the "classical" translations, the vast majority of which were completed before 1947, before the terms "UFO" or "alien" came into common usage.
When the early translators came upon passages that could have been and should have been interpreted the way Sitchin interpreted them, they had no conceivable frame of reference for such terminology. Thus, they shoehorned it to fit into their own restricted world views, and because this nonsense was created by "experts" of that time, modern experts have inevitably been brainwashed by their education process to believe that no other translation is needed, much less preferable.
This intellectual claptrap has become established as the "preferred" and "accepted" translations that critics claim Stichin should have respected and stuck with in the way they are obligated to do. Sitchin rightly jettisoned the nonsense and translated the texts more like they were actually written, calling an alien an alien, so to speak, and this gross offense to modern academic sensibilities is what classic scholars considera sacrilege to their mindset.
I have no doubt that, in the fullness of time, historians will consider Zecharia Sitchin vastly more correct than any mainstream pundit in alive at this moment. Why? Because modern scholars endure years of intense training to consider the work of prior scholars sancrosanct, which turns out a virtual army of close-minded sycophants who, ultimately, will be dismissed as the laughable fools they are.
An adab to Enlil for Šulgi (Šulgi G): c.2.4.2.07
Enlil, the eminent one, the sovereign lord, whose utterance is trustworthy; Nunamnir, the eternal shepherd of the Land, who hails from the great mountain; the great counsellor, the first and foremost in heaven and on earth, who is in control of all the divine powers; lord, who is imbued with great fearsomeness in accordance with his nobility, a perfected heavenly star, who takes good care of the primeval and choice divine powers, who alone is the lofty god; lord, life-giving light, who leads the people all over the world along one track; huge net spread over heaven and earth, rope stretched over all the lands! Who ever instructed Enlil, who ever rivalled him?
A šir-namursaĝa to Ninsiana for Iddin-Dagan (Iddin-Dagan A): c.2.5.3.1
As the lady, admired by the Land, the lone star, the Venus star, the lady elevated as high as the heaven, ascends above like a warrior, all the lands tremble before her ……. The faithful black-headed people bow to her. The young man traveling on the road directs himself by her. The oxen raise their heads in their yoke to her. { (2 mss. add:) The melody of the song of those tending the cattle resounds …… on the plain. The farmer …… the cattle …… their yoke in the Land. } With her the storehouses of the Land prosper.
Enlil in the E-kur (Enlil A): c.4.05.1
You, Enlil, are lord, god, king. You are a judge who makes decisions about heaven and earth. Your lofty word is as heavy as heaven, and there is no one who can lift it. The Anuna gods …… at your word. Your word is weighty in heaven, a foundation on the earth. In the heavens, it is a great ……, reaching up to the sky. On the earth it is a foundation which cannot be destroyed. When it relates to the heavens, it brings abundance: abundance will pour from the heavens. When it relates to the earth, it brings prosperity: the earth will produce prosperity. Your word means flax, your word means grain. Your word means the early flooding, the life of the lands. It makes the living creatures, the animals (?) which copulate and breathe joyfully in the greenery. You, Enlil, the good shepherd, know their ways (?). …… the sparkling stars.
How grain came to Sumer: c.1.7.6
Ninmada, the worshipper of An, replied to him: "Since our father has not given the command, since Enlil has not given the command, how can we go there to the mountain? How can we bring down the barley from its mountain? How can we introduce the innuḫa grain into Sumer? How can we make barley known in Sumer, which knows no barley?"
How grain came to Sumer
1-12. Men used to eat grass with their mouths like sheep. In those times, they did not know grain, barley or flax. An brought these down from the interior of heaven. Enlil lifted his gaze around as a stag lifts its horns when climbing the terraced …… hills. He looked southwards and saw the wide sea; he looked northwards and saw the mountain of aromatic cedars. Enlil piled up the barley, gave it to the mountain. He piled up the bounty of the Land, gave the innuḫa barley to the mountain. He closed off access to the wide-open hill. He …… its lock, which heaven and earth shut fast (?), its bolt, which …….
13-20. Then Ninazu ……, and said to his brother Ninmada: "Let us go to the mountain, to the mountain where barley and flax grow; …… the rolling river, where the water wells up from the earth. Let us fetch the barley down from its mountain, let us introduce the innuḫa barley into Sumer. Let us make barley known in Sumer, which knows no barley."
21-27. Ninmada, the worshipper of An, replied to him: "Since our father has not given the command, since Enlil has not given the command, how can we go there to the mountain? How can we bring down the barley from its mountain? How can we introduce the innuḫa grain into Sumer? How can we make barley known in Sumer, which knows no barley?"
28-31. "Come, let us go to Utu of heaven, who as he lies there, as he lies there, sleeps a sound sleep, to the hero, the son of Ningal, who as he lies there sleeps a sound sleep." He raised his hands towards Utu of the seventy doors (?).
32. Utu …… table (?) …….
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.1.7.6&display=Crit&charenc=gcirc&lineid=t176.p3#t176.p3
His work, which draws comparisons between the Judeo-Christian religion and the Egyptian religion, is not considered significant in the field of modern Egyptology and is not mentioned in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt or similar reference works of modern Egyptology
TRANCOSO wrote:
nb: In my next post I will tell about my 'dream-abduction' by these 'Fish People'