Friday, April 18, 2014

Astro video for the day/ Moses thought for the day extras


This video is better than I remember it.  It's a video of a descent module from the Cassini spacecraft.  The Cassini spacecraft is still orbiting around the Saturn system.

- There's some linguistic comparison of Moses to other cultures lawgivers.  This evidence casts doubt in the very existence of Moses. Indian lawgiver- Menu.  Syria and Egypt law giver - Mises/Menes. Minos is the Crete/Minoan law giver. - Acharya S/D.M. Murdock - "Did Moses Exist? The Myth of of the Israelite lawgiver", page 16

- Some more about Philo, who I mention in my "Gospel of Truth"(first post of this blog) . . . Philo's brother Alexander the Alabarch was the builder of the Jerusalem temple.  The very one who Philo's nephew Tiberias Julius Alexander helped Emperor Vespasian destroy and is mentioned in the Gospel of Mark(hence dating the Gospel past 66 A.D.). Related to Moses, Philo wrote a book about Moses to popularize him because the Pagan Roman world didn't know him so well.  Because of Philo's influence(once again, see my Gospel of Truth), there arose at the time all kinds of mythologized books about Moses - "Eighth book of Moses", "Key of Moses", and "The Hidden book of Moses on the great name, that for everything, in which is the name of the one who rules all."  These books combined Moses with various pagan gods, pre-Christian gospels. - Acharya S/D.M. Murdock - "Did Moses Exist? The Myth of of the Israelite lawgiver", page 12

- Jewish books before the Babylonian exhile, Amos, Habakkuk, Hosea, Isaiah, Jerimiah, Johah, Michah, Naham, and Zephaniah don't mention a Moses.  Well, Isaiah does; but, in a Psalm passage, it's revealed that Moses name is about a mythology water bringer. This link suggests that Isaiah is a play on a 'song of Moses.'  Just scroll down to the Isaiah section.  This is like Moses describing his own death(Dueteronomy Chapter 34), which is another piece of evidence that Moses is made up. Isaiah is a play on Moses mythology - Acharya S/D.M. Murdock - "Did Moses Exist? The Myth of of the Israelite lawgiver", pages 30-31

- Another biblical tidbit unrelated to Moses, is Psalm 78-2, "I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old" Parable is metaphor; mythology is analogy.  They will make up mythology.  It also says dark sayings of old.  This reminds me of an Egyptian mathematical papyrus which says it points out 'dark knowledge.'  Somehow knowledge is dark secrets.

Also in Isaiah 78 is a story similar to the Moses story of dividing the seas, but this does not have Moses.  It has God/Jehovah(whatever you want to call him) doing the dividing of the seas.  From 78-13 on, one sees a proto book of Exodus, only a God version and not a Moses version. This suggests the Exodus story is an elaboration of Isaiah 78. In fact, archaeologistsw have found that Canaanite stories are similar. So, the Hebrews clearly took this Canaanite mythology and recast it just like they did with the Babylonian "Epic of Gilgamesh" and everything else(the ten commandments for instance were taken from the Egyptians; see my "Gospel of Truth"). The original Canaanite version of the Exodus story would be the 'dark sayings of old.'

69 comments:

  1. Moses makes magical clothes,

    Dueteronomy 29-5, "And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot."

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    1. Readers of this blog need to be made aware that it is PLAGIARIZED from "Did Moses Exist"

      I got the link to here from Flashgordon's own comment at Amazon for this very book!!!

      Shame, shame, shame!!!

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    2. Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (Citadel, 1991), by Lloyd Graham

      http://www.preventingtruthdecay.org/3ms.shtml

      You're fucked Acharya S! You have "published" a plagiarism and have profited; you're going to jail! Not just kicked out of a University!

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    3. I was the one who pointed out your plagiarism but I'm not Acharya S.

      Thanks editing your blog with the 20 new source citations that supposedly weren't needed, liar.

      'preventingtruthdecay,' the Xian apologist, you're a genius. You have no idea what you're talking about at all do you.

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    4. Saying your not who you are and the ignoring what I've already said is a sure sign of a psychotic personality.

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    5. Going back and forth; saying you were 'being nice' even though you were flipping out. You're clearly psychotic.

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  2. In Joshua 2:3-6, Rehab hides some Israeltes so they can conquere Jericho. But, then the Israelites just bring down the walls of Jericho by means of trumpets!

    Even more odd is that Rahab is made to be part of one of the Geneologies of Jesus Christ(there's two conflicting genealogies). This is in Matthew 1-5.

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  3. The debate is do historical events get fictionalized? Or, do mythical figures get historiced(carnalised; once again, see my Gospel of Truh about one of the biggest smoking guns that Jesus Christ was made up).

    People often bring up Alexander the Great when criticizing the idea that Jesus Christ is not a historical figure. They say Alexander the Great didn't leave a shred of evidence for his existence, like Jesus Christ.

    Well the idea of history being fictionalized goes back to a Greek Euhemeros. And fictionalized history is called euhemerism. Plutarch wrote that Alexander the Great was born of a mortal woman and Zues.

    The problem with saying Jesus Christ was a real person mythologized is it makes him less the 'son of god.'

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    1. Euhemeros and Alexander the Great reference in Acharya S/D.M. Murdock - "Did Moses Exist? The Myth of of the Israelite lawgiver", pages 71-72

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  4. The construction of Pi-Ramses came about because of the Egyptians loosing control of the canaanites due to the Sea people. I've been mentioning the sea peoples recently.

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    1. reference in Acharya S/D.M. Murdock - "Did Moses Exist? The Myth of of the Israelite lawgiver", page 80 (although I'm sure this is not original to Acharya S/D.M. Murdock

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  5. The british museum has a fourth century silver coin from the Gaza. It has a deity labeled variously YHW or YHD seated on a winged chariot. Chariots in literal translation of the bible is merkabah. This throne-chariot is mentione in the dead sea scrolls and the Kabbalah. Also, in 2Kings 23:11, the merkahah term has these chariots meaning 'chariots of the sun.' And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire. Hence, the Exodus story is once again mythological and about sungods.




    Another interesting fact about the linguistics/archaeology of chariots is that one of the chariots of some Ugaritic texts is called ysril(Ugaritic language), or Israel. So, Israelites could be refuges from Ugarit after the sea peoples destroyed the state of Ugarit!

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    1. Chariots of the Sun reference Acharya S/D.M. Murdock - "Did Moses Exist? The Myth of of the Israelite lawgiver", page 133.

      Ysril reference Acharya S/D.M. Murdock - "Did Moses Exist? The Myth of of the Israelite lawgiver", page 134

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  6. Judges 5 is a "Song of Deborah." The Jews were trying to exterminate the canaanites(and everyone else for that matter that wasn't a Jew and followed their God's law; see Judges 1:19 for one of my favorite biblical quotes . . . o.k. I'll post it here, "1:19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron".




    The Song of Deborah from Judges 5 is apparently a general song to exterminate all enemies. It doesn't mention Moses or Joshua. Highlights of the "Song of Deborah" are an astrological decree to destroy sisera, 5:20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. And, that the Sun goes around the Earth, 5:31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

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  7. The Deborah of Judges 5 song might have been a Goddess from another culture turned into a Hebrew prophet,





    5:7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

    5:8 They chose new gods; then was war in the gates:

    Gerald Massey, A Book of beginnings, volume 2, page 145 points out much more about seven helpers of Deborah.

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  8. 4:4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

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    1. I deleted this one small comment because I couldn't find the reference.

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  10. Archaeologists have found a Ipuwer papyrus; it's an Egyptian writing from around the time of the Hycsos occupation(otherwise known as asiatics). It's a lamentations. There's a biblical book called the Lamentations. Archaeologists suggest there was a lamentations genre back in early Bronze age period.

    The Ipuwer papyrus also has messianic ideas. Seems there's lots of lamentations in Summeria and elsewhere. If so, could the sea peoples that brought an end to the late bronze age cultures be a kind of religious uprising?

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    1. Acharya S/D.M. Murdock - "Did Moses Exist? The Myth of of the Israelite lawgiver" , pages 142-143

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  11. Ezebiel 16:3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

    Israelites could have been caused by the sea peoples destroying the late bronze age cultures. Hittites were one such culture. The hittites would then come down to the Levant and mixed with the Canaanites(who may very well be from the Hycsos that ruled Egypt for a period around 1600 B.C.)

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  12. Genesis - 10:15 And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth,
    10:16 And the Jebusite, and the Amorite . . . Canaan begat Amorite; see the post above from Ezekiel 16:3

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  13. The Amorites were nomads hated by early Bronze age cultures such as the Akkadians. An Akkadian king Shu Sin built a 170 mile long wall from the Tigris to the Euphrates to hold them off. This is right from a Wiki about the Amorites, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorite

    The Amorites founded Babylon; but, they were soon kicked out of their own city. One of their main cities was called mari(Mary?).

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    1. Both the Akkadian King Shu Sin and Mari are "also" found in Acharya S/D.M. Murdock - "Did Moses Exist? The Myth of of the Israelite lawgiver", page 156

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  14. One civilization that went unknown for much of history after the fall of the late Bronze age is the Mitanni. These people remarkably knew about and worshipped Indian//Vedic gods. These Mitanni lived in contemporary Turkey.

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  15. Today, the suggestion that the Jews took their religion from the Egyptians seems sacrilegious. But, back two thousand years ago, it was well known,

    Acts - 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

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  16. Local Canaanites might have learned of 'aromatic gums' from the Egyptians. This is similar to manna. Also, Jesus Christ frankincense and myrrh is presented to the newborn Jesus Christ in Mathew 2-11. They are also aromatic gums.


    "2:11 And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh."

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  17. Egyptian texts refer to a Shasu of Yhw. The hieroglyphic of this corresponds to the well known Hebrew tetragrammation of YHWH. These record a pre or proto-Israelite group back to 1500 B.C.

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  18. The slaughter of Innocents as in Exodus - 1:22 And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive, appears over and over again throughout surrounding cultures.

    Sargon, Nimrod, Moses, Jason, Krishna, Mordred, Oedipus, Perseus, Romulus, and Remus, and Zues all have these stories of the slaughter of the innocents.

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  19. Jesus is described as going through an exodus in a couple of instances,

    from Luke 9:30-31, Jesus is mentioned in the same context as Moses and departing, "Two men, Moses and Elijah, appeared in glorious splendor, talking with Jesus. and They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem."

    But, Jesus Christ also has an exodus from Egypt. There's a parallel to Hosea 11:1 "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son." and Matthew 2:15 And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son."

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  20. Psalm 74:13-14 has dragons mentioned. Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

    There's many others birds and creatures mentioned that biology has never heard of. I'm forgetting those references - sorry.

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    1. Once again, her index wasn't even good enough to find the reference; the comment here was also kind of minor; it wasn't even biblical; it was just an extra goodie!

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  22. Ishtar(a god who's also known as the origin of the Easter mythology) is a Summerian/Babylonian god. Late bronze age tablets show that Ishtar opened the seas much as Moses was made to much later(like 600 B.C. at the earliest).

    "Ishtar, on arriving at the gate of Hades
    to the keeper of the gate addresses the word:
    Opener(keeper) of the waters, open thy gate!
    Open thy gat that I may enter!"

    Isaiah 19:5 confirms this clearly, "19:5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up."

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  23. I've avoided noting every occurrence of dragons and the parting of the seas of the Exodus in the bible(Revelation mentions dragons), but due to a Ezekial passage to be mentioned soon enough, I'll more or less point out this remarkable list,

    Apollo and Python(dragon; this is the point, the god battling the dragon),
    Baal and Yamm
    Bel and thamti
    Beowolf and Grendel
    Byelobog and Chernobog
    Daniel and the Dragon
    Dionysus and Pentheus
    Enki and the Dragon of Kur
    Indra and Vritra
    Kronos and Ophion
    Marduk and Tiamat
    Mithra and Ahriman
    Mordecai and Haman
    Moses and Pharaoh(that Ezekial quote is coming!)
    Osiris/Horus and Seth
    Perseus and Gorgon
    St.George and the Dragon
    St. Patrick and the snakes
    Yahweh and Leviathan
    Zeus and Typhon

    I should note also Rahab(who I've mentioned above and appears in the one of the Jesus Christ genealogy), also has a Dragon battle at Isaiah 51:9, "Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?"

    Ezekiel 29:3 has the Pharaoh as a dragon, "Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself."

    The real significance of the Jewish bible is that they carnalised or historicized all the mythology that came before them.

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    1. Flash, you have PLAGIARIZED this list from the new book "Did Moses Exist" from page 223-4 and you've done the same with much of your original post and in many of your comments.

      If you don't properly cite the sources where you got all this stuff immediately I will report you to the proper authorities and yes, it IS a crime because it is ILLEGAL. Do not ever do it again.

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    2. Acharya S/D.M. Murdock - "Did Moses Exist? The Myth of of the Israelite lawgiver" , page 223-224

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  24. Marduk is a Babylonian god. The Bible mentions it in Jeremiah 50:2 "Declare ye among the nations, and publish, and set up a standard; publish, and conceal not: say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces; her idols are confounded, her images are broken in pieces."

    This is saying Marduk is destroyed because Babylon is destroyed. There's other mentions of the Jewish god in association with God. El Shaddia and Baal are considered absorbed and names are changed to take over those peoples.

    Exodus 6:3 "I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty [El-Shaddai], but by My name the Lord [Yahweh—the redemptive name of God] I did not make Myself known to them [in acts and great miracles]."

    Hosea 2:16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.

    As cultures conquered one another, they took on each others gods and just changed names.

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  25. Macrobius(writing in the four hundreds A.D.) equates Apollo of Hierapolis with the Babylonian science god and of writing Nebo/Nabu. I posted an online image of a Babylonian sculpture of the Babylonian science god.

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  26. Josephus reveals that the twelve tribes of Israel comes from the twelve zodiacal constellations. Philo reveals that in this exodus passage 15:27 "And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters." the twelve stands for the twelve zodiacal constellations as well. - On flight and finding(De Fuga 33:184-186).

    I actually haven't confirmed this Philo passage. Philo's collective works is some more biblical archaeology/comparative mythology literature I need to get. I have Josephus's works and have confirmed what Josephus is said to have revealed. See my Gospel of Truth as almost always!

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  27. 1Corinthian 10:4 "And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ."

    Jesus Christ is a magic rock and a magic drink.

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  28. Exodus 25:40 "And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount."

    Here, Moses is instructed to make the ark in the form of arks of others cultures; hence, the Ark is not unique to the Jews. And, there were many arks; arks per peoples!

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  29. It's argued the giants mentioned in the bible are not 'giant people' but the constellations - most often Orion the hunter. The argument is linguistic and comparative mythology which I can't duplicate here(it uses Hebrew letter translations).

    Nephilim in Aramaic refers to the Orion constellation . . .

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  30. The first mention of Dionysus is the city of Pylos around the 13th century BC. There's little remains of Pylos today.

    Pylos is mentioned in Homer,

    "We left for Pylos, Nestor too
    the shepherd of the peoples,
    And He, receiving me the king,
    within his halls so lofty,
    Embraced me with all
    eagerness as father does
    his youngling
    His son back from long time abroad.

    Homer, Odyssey
    IX 108-112"

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  31. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roca_dels_Moros

    aurignacian cave art at cogul a crescent of nine dancing women . . . these are perhaps the biggest archaeological cave painting mystery I've ever found. There's some pretty wild comparative mythology speculation of the meaning. Some suggest a kind of lunar-solar cycle; i'm not going so far.

    The usual cave painting art is that of animals. The most exciting concept I can think of in terms of the animal cave painting art is the recent Göbekli Tepe ruins discovery. But, the nine women dancing is distinctively different. Some suggest a proto-Dionysus god connection. Of course, the name Dionysus is far from made.

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  32. Even more new archaeological mysteriies are clay tablets dated to 5,500 BC from Tartaria Romania.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%83rt%C4%83ria_tablets

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  33. John 6:1 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias.

    This biblical quote of the sea of Galilei recalled the sea of Tiberias has sparked the interest of a few people when it comes to the understanding that Vespasian sacked Jerusalem and destroyed the temple of Herod(with Philo money; see above).

    Other curious non-Jewish city names go back much further. For example 1 Samuel 31:10 "Then they put his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths, and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth Shan."

    Beth Shean is mentioned many times throughout the Samuel books. Beth Shean is reportedly founded by Dionysus. Of course, that's a Greek god; hence Beth Shean is founded by the Greeks!

    Pliny the younger(from 23 to 79 A.D.) equated Beth Shean/Scythopolis(the Greek word for Beth Shean) with Nysa(see my Gospel of Truth for more on Nysa).

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    1. Pliny, Nat. Hist. 5.18: Pliny/Holland, 1.71, the rest is "Primary sources."

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    2. Even when discussing "primary sources" you still need to properly cite the authors books discussing them.

      You win a gold star for being the most ignorant person on plagiarism I've ever seen.

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  34. Nysa and Dionysus are mentioned again far earlier than Pliny the Younger in Homer's Illiad. There's a Spartan King and Lawgiver Lycurgus who encounters Dionysus,

    http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.%20Il.%206.126&lang=original

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  35. Hi Flash,

    Did you know that copying quotes from a book without citing the source is called plagiarism? You need to edit your post and properly cite your sources.

    Please, do not ever do that again as it is a crime.

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    1. I've referenced everything numb-nut(whoever you are).

      And, this is not a commercial site; i can post whatever I want.

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    2. "numb-nut"???

      It's obvious you are PLAGIARIZING "Did Moses Exist" ... I got the link to here FROM YOUR COMMENT AT AMAZON FOR THAT VERY BOOK.

      I own the book and I'm looking at it right now and this entire blog is plagiarized from that book.

      You owe me an apology. I was just trying to help you out. You cannot take stuff from another authors work and pretend it's your own even if you add or minus a few words here or there, which is exactly what you've done here - that is the very definition of plagiarism.

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    3. I remembered last night some stuff about the linguistics(although I doubt very much those are original to you), and the Moses not appearing in Pre-Babylon exhile texts that well, for one you didn't reference them. So, I thought to take a harder look at those and everything else. Yes, I found a certain amount; but, as I had felt previously, I referenced "primary references". Those I leave.

      And once again, this is not a commercial site, or not a school university situation. There's nothing to be gained. There is nothing against the law; I didn't need to put any references. I once again say that I felt that these were primary sources, and those were the ones I meant to post(once again, I seriously doubt some of what you call your own; betcha I can find someone who you've "plagiarized")

      I give no apologies; in fact, I demand an apology from you for all your psycho behavior when I posted about at your yahoo group years ago . . . about how mathematics and poetry/mythology are analogies but poetry/mythology is vague(and because they refuse to reason, they are fear mongering), and mathematics is about solving problems the peaceful way. You went psycho about "I've use to like Spock and Star Trek; but now, I've found that rationality is evil".

      Between that yahoo encounter and every other blowup you've made, including this one where as I've explained already, you're wrong. Plagierism is about gaining something from others works; I'm not gaining anything here whether I reference you or not.

      Once again, because of this and your recent blowup again, this confirms to me you're crazy/immature and fanatical.

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    4. STOP blaming everybody else for your own ignorance and incompetence. Even junior high school kids are taught the rules and principles of plagiarism. A simple "thank you" would've been fine but, instead you have to insult me. Next time, I'll just report you and have your blog removed.

      Plagiarism:

      "Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work."

      "Plagiarism is considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics.'

      "it is a serious ethical offense and cases of plagiarism can constitute copyright infringement."

      "Instances of plagiarism that involve copyright violation may be addressed by the rightful content owners sending a DMCA removal notice to the offending site-owner, or to the ISP that is hosting the offending site."

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism#Plagiarism_on_the_Internet

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    5. Keep ignoring what I've said moron;

      "oh man, you can't just put my own stuff in your own words" Yes, I can! And with primary sources, I don't need "You"!

      All my posting is just like if I were posting your stuff in my own words on a messageboard! But, I doubt you'll understand this. But, once again, go ahead, see what happens plageriser!

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  36. When I first got into studying mythology, I hoped to find connections to science and mathematics. I hoped to see how mathematics/science grew out of mythology. I got excited about the common property of the two in analogy(mathematics calls it abstraction; mythology calls is poetry, or metaphor). But. after that, and sungods(the sun going around the twelve constellations of the zodiac), I pretty much gave up.

    I still don't think one can see how say numbers could be abstracted from mythology, but I've found one passage of the use of mythology for ritual purposes; purposes used for practical reasons,

    "But when Orion and Sirius are come into midheaven, and rosy-fingered Dawn sees Arcturus, then cut off all the grape-clusters, Perses, and bring them home. Show them to the sun ten days and ten nights: then cover them over for five, and on the sixth day draw off into vessels the gifts of joyful Dionysus." - Hesiod(Works and Days).

    I've never seen any such example. Most astrotheology back then is used for imperial purposes, for Kings and Queens to rule by divine right.

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  37. Nysa mentioned once again(once again, see my Gospel of Truth; first post of this blog), in a Homeric poem(attributed to Homer),

    "There is a certain Nysa, a mountain most high and richly grown with woods, far off in Phoenice, near the streams of Aegyptus(egypt)"

    http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:abo:tlg,0013,001

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  38. More Nysa and more India . . . what can I say!?

    A Megasthenes . . . ope, something else interesting about this guy; he was a Greek ethnographer and ambassador to India; this was back in 350/290 B.C.!) . . . he wrote a book called Indica. In it, much like Macrobius back in 500 A.D. who finds similarities amongst various peoples gods(because they all personify the sun and the zodiacal constelations; when, they meet each other, they're often astounded that they're religion shares these patterns), Megasthenes finds the religion he knows is similar to the Indian's gods.

    Some quotes from Measthenes, "On such grounds they called a particular race of people Nyssaians, and their city Nyssa, which Dionysos founded."

    Megasthenes apparently noted that Dionysus is a fiction of the poets. I'll need to look up a referncel, McCrindle, "Ancient India as described by Megasthenes and Arrian." page 180

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  39. Maccabees books are Jewish books left out of the Bible for no good reason. They were written sometime aroudn the rule of the Maccabees(lol!) from 164 to 63 B.C. Just one interesting quote from these books is

    2Maccabees 6-7 "But they were led by bitter constraint on the king's birthday to the sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they were compelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus."

    The implication is the inspiration for making up Jesus Christ goes back a century or more.

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  40. I've updated my September 30, 2011 post about coinage(or in this case lack thereof) disproving the existence of Jesus Christ.

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