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2013.09.05 10:01 karmicviolence Imaginary Temples
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2023.03.30 13:38 atat_sa_putut Imi da speranta cand vad ca nu mai suntem asa naivi la ce mesaje sunt promovate in media
Ma refer la scamatoria cu abuzul in serviciu, care e evident ca nu e menita sa treaca, doar sa distraga atentia de la altele. Vad ca multi de pe aici isi dau seama de manipularea asta. Sincer asta imi da speranta legat de viitorul romanilor ca si popor. Incet-incet pare ca ne maturizam si ne dezvoltam mentalitatea colectiva.
Strategia lor de a acoperi in media povestea cu pensiile speciale arata cat de prosti ne cred. Ca si cum nu suntem capabili sa acordam atentie la doua subiecte de stiri in aceeasi perioada. Dar cred ca poate foarte usor sa back fire fiindca provoaca si mai multa indignare in oameni. Ne vedem la protest!
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2023.03.30 13:38 FigExpensive8883 Get Singing classes in Toronto
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2023.03.30 13:37 marius_constantin_m De ce multi nu suporta bărbații cu “man bun”
Tot văd in jur ca dacă ai parul lung și prins in coc , ești considerat la inferior, afemeiat , gay etc .
Și eu mi am lăsat parul lung pentru a x a oară și toți ma judeca la munca , cerc prieteni , etc .
Chiar dacă ai o forma făcută și este aranjat , tot ești judecat.
Influentează așa mult negativ “man bun “ la munca , grupuri prieteni , etc ?
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2023.03.30 13:37 4chtemporalsupremacy Anunnaki archons and our Universe of intelligent living plasma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYfpU0Wl5bo FIRST, SORRY FOR THE CAPS BUT IT IS TOO LATE TO CHANGE NOW. I AM NOT YELLING I AM JUST EXCITED. THIS ALL CAME OUT OF ME LIKE A STORM SO EVIDENTLY I NEEDED TO GET THIS ALL OUT.
THIS POST IS HIGHLY RELEVANT TO THE LINKED VIDEO ABOVE DESCRIBING THE UNIVERSE AS SUPERINTELLIGENT LIVING PLASMA AND THIS INTELLIGENT LIVING PLASMA CREATES BARYONIC LIFE OR THE 4% OF DENSE MATTER THAT WE SEEM TO BE IMPRISONED IN. IN OTHER WORDS, THESE SUPERINTELLIGENT PLASMA ARE GNOSTIC AEONS WHEREAS ANY PHYSICALLY MANIFESTING HUMANOID UFO OCCUPANT WOULD INSTEAD REPRESENT AN AGENT OF THE CONTROL SYSTEM, THE SIMULATION IF YOU PREFER, ONE THAT SEEKS TO SUPPRESS AND PREVENT OUR REUNIFICATION WITH THESE AEONS – OUR TRUE CREATORS WHO LOVE US DEEPLY. ANUNNAKI ONLY EDITED OUR GENES AND INTRODUCED FURTHER LIMITATIONS THAT ENSLAVED US TO MATTER. THEY WISH THEY CREATED US.
AEONS ARE SO ADVANCED THEY MIGHT AS WELL BE GODS, USUALLY DEFINED AS LITERAL ASPECTS OF GOD. NOT ENTIRELY SURE WHAT THEY ARE OR HOW THEY TRULY CAME TO BE BUT THEY ARE OUR TRUE CREATORS AND THEY LOVE US DEEPLY. I KNOW THIS THROUGH PERSONAL RESEARCH BUT ALSO FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCES (MOSTLY THROUGH PSYCHEDELICS) THAT CONFIRM THIS AS TRUE. THIS IS WHERE THE ARCHON JEALOUSY REFERENCED IN GNOSTIC TEXTS COMES FROM AND WHAT IS MEANT WHEN THEY SAY YALDABAOTH CANNOT SEE THE REALM OF SPIRIT AND THUS IS IGNORANT OF HIS OWN PLACE IN REALITY. THEY WISH THEY WERE AS POWERFUL AS THE AEONS.
ANUNNAKI ARE ARCHONS, THE DEMIURGE IS THEIR GOD-AI, THIS IS A TOUGH PILL TO SWALLOW BUT ANUNNAKI ARE HUMANS (MORE LIKE POST-HUMAN BUT THEIR ORIGIN WAS HUMAN), SOMETIMES PRESENTING AS GENETICALLY MODIFIED HUMAN-ANIMAL CHIMERAS, BUT THEIR ORIGIN IS HUMAN, HUMAN, AND HUMAN. THEY ALTER THEIR APPEARANCE USING POST-HUMAN TECH. THEY ARE OUR “ANCESTORS” BUT ONLY IN THE STRICTLY PHYSICAL SENSE, SPIRITUALLY WE ARE NOT THE SAME. THEY CHOSE A DIFFERENT PATH AND NOW WANT TO DRAG US DOWN WITH THEM.
THEY ARE THE ONES IN CONTROL OF THE MOON-SATURN-REINCARNATION-SOUL-TRAP. GREYS AND REPTILIANS WERE CREATED BY THEM AS SLAVE SPECIES (CREATED AS SLAVES, SAME AS OUR ORIGIN STORY. NOTICING A THEME?). THESE BECAME THE TWO MOST DOMINANT GROUPS AMONG THEIR THOUSANDS OF GENETIC FREAK LAB EXPERIMENTS. THEY TRY TO BE CREATORS LIKE THE AEONS BUT THEY KNOW THEY CANNOT EVEN COMPARE. THAT IS WHY THEY SUBGICATE LIFE. THEIR ACTS OF CREATION DO NOT COME FROM A PLACE OF LOVE, HENCE WHY THEY SUBGIGATE AND ENSLAVE ALL THEIR CREATIONS AND NEVER LET THEM REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL.
VARGINHA UFO ENCOUNTER WAS ANOTHER ONE OF ENKI’S LAB EXPERIMENTS. EVER WONDER WHY THESE WEIRD-LOOKING OCCUPANTS OFTEN SEEM EXTREMELY DUMB FOR SUPPOSEDLY ADVANCED SPACEFARING ET SPECIES? WELL, IT IS BECAUSE MANY OF THESE “OCCUPANTS” ARE JUST THE DRONES DOING DIRTY WORK WHILE THE ANUNNAKI HIDE BEHIND THEIR FRANKENTEIN LAB CREATIONS, WHICH AFFORDS THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAINTAIN THE VENEER OF THEIR OWN INNOCENCE WHEN REALLY, THEY ARE THE ONES GIVING THESE BEINGS THEIR INSTRUCTIONS. SOME GREY AND REPTILIAN FACTIONS LIKELY REBELLED IN THE PAST WHICH IS WHY NOT ALL GREYS AND REPTILIANS ARE ALIGNED WITH THE 6-FINGERED POST-HUMAN ANUNNAKI.
FROM MY TIME ON THE INTERNET, I HAVE NOTICED STUPID NEW-AGERS TOOK THE WORD ARCHON AND TURNED IT INTO SOME RETARDED LARP ABOUT ASTRAL PARASITES OR SOME OTHER NONSENSE. THERE ARE PARASITES IN ASTRAL, BUT THESE PARASITES ARE WEAK AND IRRELEVANT TO THE BIGGER PICTURE, THEY ONLY FEED ON LOW-VIBRATION BEINGS WHO CONSENT TO BE HOSTS THROUGH THEIR IMPLICIT PARTICIPATION AND FEEDING OF NEGATIVE FEEDBACK LOOPS. THE POINT IS, IN GNOSTIC TEXTS THE ORIGINAL MEANING OF ARCHON MEANT RULER. ASTRAL PARASITES DON’T RULE OVER ANYTHING EXCEPT FOR MAYBE COOMER PORN ADDICTS WITH NO SELF-CONTROL AND VIOLENT NORMIES WHO EMBRACE THUGGISHNESS AND OTHER FORMS OF DEPRAVITY. THAT SAID, THERE IS A LOT OF SUBTLE DECPTION LEADING PEOPLE DOWN NEGATIVE PATHS, AND THIS IS DELIBERATE, SO I CANNOT ENTIRELY BLAME THEM FOR THEIR LOW VIBRATION. THE TRUE RULERS OF THIS PLANET, THE SOLAR SYSTEM, AND FURTHER BEYOND, ARE THE ANUNNAKI. THIS IS ASSUMING SPACE IS NOT FAKE AND GAY, WHICH WOULD BE TRIVIAL DECEPTION FOR A POST-HUMAN CIVILIZATION TO PULL OFF. BUT FOR THIS POST, I AM ASSUMING SPACE IS REAL BECAUSE WE HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO GO ON.
THIS WAS THEIR WORLD LONG BEFORE WE EVEN EXISTED. I CAN’T GO TOO DEEP INTO THIS BUT THERE IS SOME COMPELLING EVIDENCE TO SUGGEST THEY ARE DIRECTLY RELATED TO US THROUGH SOME OUROBOROS TIME LOOP, WHERE THE END IS ALSO THE BEGINNING. AT SOME POINT A GROUP IN HUMAN HISTORY ACQUIRED SINGULARITY-LEVEL TECHNOLOGY AND USED THIS ADVANTAGE IN ORDER TO SPLIT OFF AND BECAME A BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION THAT ESCAPED THROUGH TIME AND CIRCLED BACK AROUND IN A LOOP TO BECOME OUR POST-HUMAN ANCESTORS AND THE NECESSARY CONDITION FOR OUR OWN AND THEIR OWN EXISTENCE. IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN THIS CERTAIN GROUP RECEIVED ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FROM THIS SUPPOSED EXTRATERRESTRIAL GROUP/CIVILIZATION OF ANUNNAKI, THEY ACTUALLY RECEIVED THIS TECHNOLOGY FROM THEIR FUTURE POST-HUMAN SELVES THAT ESCAPED INTO THE PAST AND CREATED A BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION THAT SUCCESSFULLY COLONIZED THE ENTIRE SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND BEFORE WE EVEN CAME INTO EXISTENCE.
WE ARE A CIVILIZATION NESTED INSIDE ANOTHER TYPE II-III CIVILIZATION AND THIS WAS POSSIBLE THROUGH A LOOP IN TIME. THE TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY BETWEEN THE INITIAL BREAKAWAY FACTION AND THEIR ANUNNAKI PARENT “ANCESTORS” WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A MEANS TO SECURE THE NECESSARY CONDITIONS FOR THEIR OWN EXISTENCE. IN OTHER WORDS, THEY MET WITH THEMSELVES – THEIR POST-HUMAN SELVES FROM THE FUTURE, WHICH IS TECHNICALLY OUR PAST. CONFUSED YET?
I WOULD GO INTO MORE DETAIL BUT THIS WOULD TAKE A LONG TIME TO LAYOUT. READ THE BOOK CLOSER ENCOUNTERS IF YOU WANT TO GO DEEP ON THIS THEORY.
BUT I DIGRESS.
REGARDLESS, EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT DIRECTLY RELATED TO US THROUGH THIS LOOP IN TIME, THEY ARE STILL A CONTROLLING AND PARASITIC FORCE THAT INTENDS TO KEEP US SUBJUCATED. PART OF THAT SUBJICATTION IS CONVINCING US OF THE EXISTENCE OF EVIL SCARY-LOOKING ALIENS (DELIBERATELY CREATED FRANKENSTEIN FREAK LAB EXPERIMENT MONSTERS DESIGNED TO PERFORM THE TASKS THAT WOULD CONFER NEGATIVE KARMA AND TARNISH THEIR “ANGELIC” IMAGE. THESE LAB EXPERIMENTS WERE CREATED TO INVOKE FEAR AND HORROR BECOMING THE MYTH AND LEGEND OF DEMONS AND MONSTERS IN THE NIGHT) THAT WANT TO KEEP US SUBJUGATED. THROW IN SOME MILAB HUMANS LARPING IN COSTUMES AS ALIENS, AND YOU ARE LEFT WITH QUITE A CONFUSING MESS. THE DEMONIC VARGIHNA ENTITY IS BUT A TASTE OF THE ANUNNAKI HORRORS THAT COULD BE UNLEASHED ON THIS WORLD. THE BEING BARELY UNDERSTOOD WHAT WAS GOING ON AND WAS CLEARLY NOT SOME KIND OF ADVANCED ALIEN BEING. IT WAS CLEARLY ANUNNAKI CARGO THAT GOT LOOSE. I RECKON MOST CRYPTID SIGHTINGS HAVE THE SAME EXPLANATION. THAT OR THEY ENTER THROUGH SPATIOTEMPORAL VORTICES, SLIPS IN TIME, CREATED AS A RESULT OF ELECTROMAGNETIC ANOMALIES. THIS IS HOW THE OCTOPUS ENTERED OUR TIMELINE. ITS GENETIC MATRIX IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE AND INDICATES IT IS FAR TOO ADVANCED FOR EVOLUTION TO HAVE ALLOWED FOR ITS CREATION GIVEN THE TIME FRAME IN QUESTION. THE ONLY ALTERNATIVES IS THAT IT IS A LITERAL ALIEN, OR IT ENTERED ONE OF THESE SPATIOTEMPORAL VORTICES AND ARRIVED INTO OUR TIMELINE FROM THE FUTURE. THIS WOULD EXPLAIN ITS ANOMALOUS GENETIC MATRIX. IT IS LITERALLY MORE EVOLVED BECAUSE IT CAME FROM THE FUTURE.
BIT OF A TANGENT SORRY.
WE MUST LOOK BEYOND THE CURTAIN AND SEE WHO IS REALLY PULLING THE STRINGS – WICKED HUMANS THAT HAVE “ASCENDED” THROUGH TECHNOLOGY AND USE THIS ADVANTAGE TO SUBJUGATE THEIR “CREATIONS”.
CONCERNING THE AEONS.
ALTHOUGH THEY COULD FIX EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THIS WORLD IN A HEARTBEAT, THE AEONS DO NOT SEEK TO CONTROL OR INTERFERE WITH THIS MATERIAL REALM. IT IS A TOOL THEY USE TO HELP SOULS GROW BY LEARNING EVIL AND HOW TO DEFEAT IT. EVERYTHING IN THIS MATERIAL WORLD IS DESIGNED TO TEACH YOU WHAT YOU ARE NOT. THE ANUNNAKI WANT TO TURN US INTO DEMONS SO THAT WE ARE FURTHER IMPRISONED WITHIN SAMSARA, THEIR CONTROL SYSTEM THAT EXTENDS EVEN INTO DEATH. IT IS THE ATTRACTIVE PULL OF KARMA AND DESIRE THAT PREVENTS OUR SOULS FROM ESCAPING AND THIS REALM IS DESIGNED TO REINFORCE THOSE THINGS THAT TETHER THE SOUL TO THIS HELL. BECAUSE EVIL IS SUCH A GREAT TEACHER, THESE AEONS ALLOW THE ARCHONS TO RULE THIS REALM, ALTHOUGH THEY MUST MEET CERTAIN QUOTAS SO THAT IT IS AT LEAST POSSIBLE FOR BEINGS TO CHOOSE LOVE.
AS PREVIOUSLY STATED, THE ARCHONS ARE ANUNNAKI. THEY LIKE TO TALK BIG AND ACT LIKE THEY ARE THE BIGGEST FISH IN THE SEA, BUT THEY DO NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW THE AEONS EXIST. LIKE THE NAZIS, THEY ARE ALL SMOKE AND MIRRORS. NAZIS STOLE THE MAJORITY OF THEIR TECH OR FORCED PEOPLE LIKE VIKTOR SCHAUBERGER TO WORK FOR THEM UNDER THREAT OF EXECUTION. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON, ANUNNAKI ARE THE SAME WAY. THAT IS WHY GNOSTICISM IS THE MOST SUPPRESSED BELIEF SYSTEM THAT WE KNOW OF. THE VATICAN RECEIVES INSTRUCTION FROM THE ANUNNAKI, WHOSE POTEMKIN SPACE FLEET UNDOUBTEDLY CONVINCED THESE BLOW-HARD DUMMIES THAT THEY SHOULD BE WORSHIPPED LIKE GODS LOL. SILLY JESUITS, FALLING FOR THE SAME TIRED TRICKS!
AS I SAID BEFORE, IT IS ALL ILLUSION WITH THESE ANUNNAKI. THEY ARE POWERFUL IN THIS REALM ALONE BUT THEY CAN BE RESISTED EVEN HERE. IT WOULD REQUIRE A COLLECTIVE AWAKENING, BUT JUDGING BY THE LAST 5 YEARS, THAT IS ALREADY WELL UNDERWAY. THEIR RACE IS DYING YOU SEE. THEY KNOW THEY DO NOT HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT AND THEIR REJECTION OF SOURCE HAS THEM CLINGING TO THIS MATERIAL REALM, TERRIFIED OF DEATH, OF THE PROSPECT OF LOSING THEIR POST-HUMAN STATUS, THEIR CONTROL. LOSING THEIR CONTROL OF THIS INSIGNIFICANT AND DISGUSTING SPIT OF CREATION THAT WE CALL THE MATERIAL UNIVERSE. THEY ARE DESPERATE FOR A WAY OUT, BUT THEY KNOW ONE DAY THEY MUST ANSWER FOR THEIR ACTIONS.
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED WHY THE VATICAN NEEDS A GIANT SPACE TELESCOPE? A TELESCOPE LITERALLY CALLED L.U.C.I.F.E.R (LARGE BINOCULAR TELESCOPE NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPIC UTILITY WITH CAMERA AND INTEGRAL FIELD UNIT FOR EXTRAGALACTIC RESEARCH (LUCIFER))??? JUST A COINCIDENCE THOUGH, RIGHT? OF COURSE NOT YOU ABSOLUTE MONG. LUCIFER REPRESENTS THE ANUNNAKI BEING AND THE FACTION THEY ALIGN WITH. LOOK INTO ALL THE PAGAN RITUALS THAT WERE INCORPORATED BY THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS GOT THEIR STYLE FROM APKALLU AND OANNES. COMPARE AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. THEY ARE PRETENDERS THAT EMBRACED AND LATER SUBVERTED THE VERY BELIEFS THEY CLAIM TO REPRESENT. FROM MY RESEARCH IT SEEMS PRETTY CLEAR THE WHOLE ABRAHAMIC NARRATIVE WAS CREATED AS A CONTROL SYSTEM (LIKELY SEEDED FROM THE FUTURE) DESIGNED TO FUNNEL HUMANITY INTO A HEGELIAN DIALECT – THEIR HEGELIAN DIALECT. YOUR OPTIONS? TWO WARRING FACTIONS OF ANUNNAKI BEINGS ENGAGED IN SOME COSMIC WAR, REFRAMED IN A RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL CONTEXT FOR PURPOSES OF CONTROL AND IN ORDER TO FALSELY CONVINCE HUMANS THAT THIS IS SOMEHOW OUR WAR TOO. REJECT THEIR DIALECTIC. EMBRACE HUMANITY.
GOD AND THE DEVIL. OR TWO LEADERS OF OPPOSING FACTIONS THAT ARE BOTH ADEPT IN THE ART OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SPIRITUAL MANIPULATION? MAKE NO MISTAKE THOUGH. THERE IS A SPIRITUAL WAR HAPPENING BUT IT IS A WAR BETWEEN CONTROLLERS AND CONTROLLED. THE RULERS AND ARCHONS OF THE MATERIAL UNIVERSE AND THE IMPRISONED DIVINE SPARK. MASTER AND SLAVE. A DYNAMIC ONLY MAINTAINED THROUGH SMOKE AND MIRRORS ILLUSION AND MANIPULATION OF BELIEF. THE SLAVE COULD OVERCOME THE MASTER IF THE SLAVE BUT AWOKE FROM HIS STUPOR. IT IS A REALM OF ILLUSION BECAUSE IT IS THE WEAKEST AND LOWEST OF THE REALMS. THEY MUST CONVINCE YOU IT HOLDS POWER OVER YOU THROUGH THE MANIPULATION OF BELIEF – AND BELIEF STRUCTURES REALITY, THAT IS WHY IT IS SO NECESSARY TO CONTROL EVERYTHING PEOPLE WATCH AND CONSUME (EX. HOLLYWOOD AND THE FREEMASON SHAPERS OF THE PARADIGM. ALMOST ALL THE MEDIA YOU CONSUME WAS APPROVED OR CREATED BY FREEMASONS. THEY WORSHIP THE "ARCHITECT" WHICH IS MOST LIKELY ENKI. THEY THINK IT IS SUPER EDGY TO SIDE WITH THE REBEL ENKI BECAUSE THEY ARE MOSTLY CRINGE BOOMERS. JUST REJECT THEIR PARADIGM AND EMBRACE GNOSIS).
IF WE UNDERSTOOD OUR OWN DIVINITY, WE COULD NOT BE CONTROLLED. THE ANUNNAKI WANT TO HERD US INTO THIS HEGELIAN DIALECTIC SO THAT WE NEVER REALIZE OUR TRUE POTENTIAL. A POTENTIAL AS THE DIVINE SPARK CREATION OF THE AEONS, AND OUR RIGHTFUL INHERITANCE AS PROTECTORS OF PLANET EARTH, OUR GAIAN-SOPHIANIC MOTHER.
THE AEON SOPHIA IS OUR MOTHER BUT FROM READING GNOSTIC TEXTS, IT IS CLEAR THAT SHE HAS BECOME INVOLVED IN THE VORTEX OF MATTER AND SHE HAS FORGOTTEN HER ORIGINS. WE MUST PROTECT OUR MOTHER - THE PLANET EARTH. WE MUST SAVE HER BY SAVING OURSELVES. WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THE WHITE-BLOOD CELLS FOR THE EARTH, REPAIRING AND PROTECTING THE PLANET WE ARE ONE WITH. UNFORTUNATELY, THROUGH THEIR LYING DECEPTION AND DIVIDE AND CONQUER TACTICS, THE EVIL ONES, THE ANUNNAKI, HAVE SUCCESSFULLY PUT THE PLANET ON A PATH TO SELF-DESCTRUCTION AND TOTAL ANNIHILATION.
THE CIA (WHICH IS THE BREAKAWAY CIVS FIFTH COLLMN IN AMERICA AND QUITE LITERALLY A TRAITOROUS ORGANIZATION THAT SEEKS TO SUBVERT THE FREEDOMS OF THE NEW ATLANTIS – AKA AMERICA, WHICH WAS ALSO THE ORIGINAL ATLANTIS. THE SAME ATLANTIS THAT WAS SUNK BY THE ANUNNAKI “GODS” FOR DARING TO STRAY FROM THEIR CONTROLLING INFLUENCE. READ THE RECENTLY RELEASED KGB ORION DOCUMENTS ON THE TRUE HISTORY OF EARTH FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE FALL OF ATLANTIS AND THEIR WAR WITH THE 6-FINGERED GODS (ANUNNAKI)).
BEFORE HUMANITY AND THE CIVILIZATION OF ATLANTIS THERE WERE THE GIANTS. ANOTHER CREATION THE ANUNNAKI CONTROLLERS ENSLAVED, WHO LATER AWAKENED TO THEIR ENSLAVEMENT AND DECLARED WAR ON THEIR CREATORS, THE SO-CALLED GODS. MYTHS SUCH AS THE GREEK GIGANTOMACHY DESCRIBE THIS CONFLICT. THE GIANTS WERE DEFEATED AND SCATTERED, EVENTUALLY EVOLVING INTO THE ORCS, HILL TROLLS, AND STRANGE BIGFOOT-LIKE BEINGS WITH FANTASTICAL POWERS THAT WE CONSIDER SUPERNATURAL, BUT IN REALITY, MOST OF THIS “MAGIC” IS ESP OR POST-HUMAN TECH. ESP WAS ENCOURAGED AND PRACTICED UNIVERSALLY IN ATLANTIS. ACCORDING TO CAYCE (OR AM I THINKING OF THE OTHER PSYCHIC GUY?) THE ABUSE OF ESP ABILITIES WAS PARTIALLY TO BLAME FOR THE FALL OF ATLANTIS. SOME SOURCES CLAIM ATLANTIS WAS DESTROYED BY THE GODS AFTER THEY BEGAN EXPERIMENTING WITH CREATING ARTIFICIAL LIFE - SOMETHING WE ARE LITERALLY DOING TODAY WITH AI.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN LAID OUT THE TRUE HISTORY OF EARTH, BUT WITH A MORE FANTASY TWIST. THE EVENTS ARE ACCURATE BUT THE TRUE HISTORY RESEMBLED SOMETHING CLOSER TO A SCI-FI SPACE OPERA WITH FLYING VIMANAS AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS UP THE WAZOO VS. THE EPIC FANTASY SETTING OF TOLKIENS MYTHOLOGY. REMEMBER WE ARE DEALING WITH A POST-HUMAN CIVILIZATION THAT HAS TECHNOLOGY SO ADVANCED, THEY CAN PASS IT OFF AS MAGIC AND NO ONE WOULD QUESTION IT. MOST OF THE POPULATIONS OF THESE SOCIETIES LIVED IN ENFORCED IGNORANCE AND WERE ENCOURAGED TO THINK OF THIS TECHNOLOGY AS MAGIC SINCE IT IS EASIER TO CONTROL A POPULATION THAT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE.
THE SUNKEN LAND OFF THE COAST OF FLORIDA AND CUBA WAS THE MAIN HUB OF PROTO-ATLANTIS, NOW NEO-ATLANTIS, AKA AMERICA. AMERICA WAS LARGELY MODELLED AFTER THE ROMAN EMPIRE (WHICH WAS ALSO AN ATTEMPT AT THE REVIVAL OF ATLANTIS, FOUNDED AFTER THE FALL OF TROY BY THE TROJAN “DEMIGOD” (HALF ANUNNAKI) DESCENDENT OF ATLANTIS, AENEAS.) SIMILAR STORY IN AMERICA. WHILE SERVING IN 1793 AS PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON'S SECRETARY OF STATE, THOMAS JEFFERSON NAMED CAPITOL HILL, INVOKING THE FAMOUS TEMPLE OF JUPITER OPTIMUS MAXIMUS ON THE CAPITOLINE HILL, ONE OF THE SEVEN HILLS OF ROME. THEY NEED THIS NEW ATLANTIS FOR THE GRAND FINALE. THE ANUNNAKI LOVE A GOOD SPECTACLE.
THEIR ULTIMATE OBJECTIVE? THEY WANT SOPHIA TO PURGE THE EARTH FOR THEM SO THAT THEY DO NOT NEED TO DO THE JOB THEMSELVES AND SO THAT WE BECOME FURTHER DAMNED IN THIS VORTEX OF MATTER. THEY ACCOMPLISH THIS THROUGH THEIR TRAITERIOUS HUMAN AGENTS THAT FALSELY BELIEVE THEY ARE SERVING SOME BENEVOLENT ATTRACTIVE ANGELIC BEINGS BUT ARE ONLY GIVEN A PARTIAL PICTURE, NEVER THE FULL PICTURE, BECAUSE IF THEY HAD IT, THEY WOULD NOT BE COOPERATING WITH THE EVIL ONES.
THAT SAID CIA IS TRULY EVIL. THEY DO NOT EVEN HIDE IT AND MAKE NO MISTAKE; THEY HAVE THE FULL PICTURE. THEY DON’T CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO THE EARTH BECAUSE THEY HAVE SECURED THE TECHNOLOGY (BY LARGELY STEALING FROM TESLA AND OTHERS, AND FUNDED THROUGH BLACK GOLD – AKA DRUGS) AND THEY HAVE BEEN PROMISED THE INHERITANCE AS KINGS IN THE POST-CATACLYSM WORLD.
THE CIA IS THE MOST DISGUSTING ORGANIZATION ON THE PLANET. SOMETIMES IT ANGERS ME BUT THEN I REMEMBER WHERE THEY LEARNED IT ALL FROM. FROM THE NAZIS. AND WHERE DID THEY LEARN IT FROM? GUESS WHO. OH YEAH. NONE OTHER THAN THE ANUNNAKI. IT ALWAYS LEADS BACK TO THEM.
IF YOU LOOK INTO THE HISTORY OF ANTIGRAVITY RESEARCH YOU WILL STUMBLE ACROSS A CONSPIRACY SO VAST IT BOGGLES THE MIND THAT IT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY MAINTAINED FOR SO LONG. THE CONSPIRACY INVOLVES THE CIA AND VARIOUS AEROSPACE CORPORATIONS THAT HAVE FORMED AN ALLIANCE AFTER BEING “DEALT IN” TO THE BREAKAWAY CIVILIZATION. THEY WORK ON THE TECHNOLOGY AND THEN PARASITICALLY FUNNEL IT ALL INTO THE BREAKAWAY CIV, MEANWHILE, WE GET NOTHING. THEY LITERALLY MARTIAL OUR RESOURCES LIKE PARASITES AND THEN HAVE THE AUDACITY TO TURN AROUND AND ACT THE SUPERIOR. YEAH OK, WE ALL SAW WHAT HAPPENED. YOU ARE NOT FOOLING ANYONE CIA * * * * * * 'S. IF YOU MISTOOK THAT FOR AN EMOTIONAL REACTION, IT WAS NOT. I CALL IT LIKE I SEE IT AND THE CIA ARE A BUNCH OF * * * * * * ’S.
NOTICE HOW THERE WAS TREMENDOUS TALK IN THE 1950S FROM SEVERAL INDEPENDENT AEROSPACE COMPANIES THAT ALL STATED THEY WERE ACTIVELY RESEARCHING ANTIGRAVITY, AND THAT WOULD LIKELY ACHIEVE A BREAKTHROUGH IN A FEW SHORT YEARS. THOSE YEARS PASSED… THEN WE HEARD NOTHING. THIS DOES NOT JUST HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT. IF YOU REALLY THINK IT IS THAT HARD TO ACHIEVE ANTIGRAVITY, THEN YOU HAVE BOUGHT INTO THE CONTROLLER’S NARRATIVE. PHYSICS LOST ITS WAY AFTER IGNORING TESLA AND PROMOTING THE INCOMPLETE THEORIES OF EINSTEIN. IT ALL WENT DOWNHILL AFTER THE MICHEALSON AND MORELY EXPERIMENTS THAT “DISPROVED” THE EXISTENCE OF THE ETHER. IF WE INSTEAD LISTENED TO THE SMARTEST MAN TO EVER LIVE, NIKOLA TESLA, WE WOULD BE LIVING IN A DIFFERENT WORLD TODAY. OF COURSE, ALL HIS PAPERS ENDED UP IN THE HANDS OF THE AMERICAN AND GERMAN INTELLIGENCE, OF COURSE THE CIA, AND MOST BIZARRELY, JOHN TRUMP THE UNCLE OF THE TRUMP. THE CLAIM THAT HE DID NOT KEEP NOTES IS A LIE PROPOGATED BY THE CIA.
AS FAR BACK AS THE 1800S THERE WERE VERIFIED DEMONSTRATIONS OF ANTIGRAVITY AND INVENTIONS THAT WERE BASICALLY PULLING FREE ENERGY FROM THE LUMIFERIOUS ETHER. MANY OF THESE DEMONSTRATIONS OCCURRED IN FRONT OF ESTABLISHED SCIENTISTS WHO CONFIRMED THEIR AUTHENTICITY. INTERESTING HOW THIS ALL GETS LABELLED PSEUDOSCIENCE DESPITE THIS. YEP, DEFINITELY NO CIA INFLUENCE TO SEE HERE.
THE CIA AND AEROSPACE MAFIA ARE SUPPRESSING SCHAUBERGER (AND OTHERS) RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY THAT WORKS IN UNISON WITH NATURE INSTEAD OF AGAINST IT LIKE ALL THE DEMONIC AND DESTRUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS. THE REPULSINE, WHICH IS THE FIRST IMPLEMENTATION OF SAUCER TECHNOLOGY, UTILIZED THE PHYSICS OF IMPLOSION INSTEAD OF EXPLOSION IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE PROPULSION. SCHAUBERGER STATED THE KEY TO HIS DEVICE WAS THAT IT UTILIZED SOMETHING HE CALLED IMPLOSION ... THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE OF AN EXPLOSION. SCHAUBERGER SAID ENGINEERS OF OUR AGE THINK IN A COMPLETELY BACKWARDS WAY FROM NATURE WHICH IS WHY THEIR TECHNOLOGY IS SO OUT OF HARMONY WITH NATURE AND INEFFICIENT. IT'S FIGHTING ITSELF AND NATURE. EXPLOSIONS ARE CHAOTIC AND DESTRUCTIVE AND COMPLETELY INEFFICIENT. IMPLOSIONS ARE THE MOST NATURAL MOVEMENT OF NATURE. THE VORTEX IS THE KEY TO THE REPULSINE.
MOST OF HIS WORK HAS BEEN BEGRUDGINGLY ACCEPTED AS GENUINE NOW, ESPECIALLY IN GERMANY WHERE THERE IS AN ENTIRE MOVEMENT DEDICATED TO HIS IDEAS. HOWEVER, IT IS STILL CLEARLY SUPPRESSED DESPITE THE DEMONSTRATIONS OF EFFICACY. BUT WHY? BECAUSE ANGELIC (HARMONIC WITH NATURE) TECHNOLOGY IS FOR THE ELITES AND DEMONIC TECHNOLOGY IS FOR THE VULGAR AND PROFANE MASSES, WHOM THE ELITE CONSIDER DEMONS. FUNNY HOW THAT WORKS.
WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS?
WELL, FOR STARTERS WE HAVE ALREADY ESTABLISHED THEY ARE EVIL. BUT IT GOES DEEPER THAN THAT. YOU SEE IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT THIS SUPPRESSION HAS DONE, IT BECOMES CLEAR WHY IT IS OCCURRING. THEY WANT MOST OF HUMANITY TO USE THIS DEMONIC TECHNOLOGY AND THINK IT IS THE BEST WE CAN DO SO THAT THE SO-CALLED VULGAR AND PROFANE MASSES EMBRACE THIS DEMONIC DESTRUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND THE EGOIC BEHAVIOUR IT REINFORCES, ULTIMATELY SEPARATING US FROM NATURE, WHICH SEPARATES US FROM GOD. IN OTHER WORDS, THE OUTCOME OF THIS IN EFFECT PAINTS ALL OF HUMANITY AS A DEMONIC DESTRUCTIVE CANCER ON THIS PLANET THAT MUST BE PURGED. WHY WOULD THEY WANT THIS?
THEY WANT THE PLANET, OUR OWN MOTHER, TO RESET ALL LIFE ON EARTH. EXCEPT FOR THE ONES IN CONTROL OF TECHNOLOGY. THEY ESCAPE ARMAGGEDON WITH THEIR POST-HUMAN TECHNOLOGY AND RETURN TO RULE OVER THE ASHES. THEY DO LOVE THAT PHOENIX SYMBOLISM. YOU SEE THIS IS NOT THEIR FIRST RODEO. THIS HAS HAPPENED MANY TIMES BEFORE. PLATO DESCRIBES MANY SUCH CALAMITIES IN EARTHS HISTORY, ALL CAUSED BY THE GODS WITH A LOWERCASE g.
JOHN ERNST WORRELL KEELY, NIKOLA TESLA, T. THOMSEND BROWN, SOLOMON ANDREWS, AND MORE PIONEERS OF ANTIGRAV AND “FREE” ENERGY TECH. DESPITE THEIR INNOVATIVE GENIUS, THEY ARE IGNORED BY THE PATHETIC MAINSTREAM INSTITUTIONS OF THE ACADEMIA FILLED WITH LAME PROFESSORS THAT ARE MORE INVOLVED WITH THEIR OWN EGOS THAN A DESIRE TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THIS WORLD. TESLA NEVER MARRIED, HIS ENTIRE LIFE WAS FOCUSED ON UNDERSTANDING THE TRUTH ABOUT REALITY, WHICH INEVITABLY LEADS ONE TO UNDERSTAND THE DIVINITY AND INTERCONNECTEDNESS OF ALL THINGS. YOU CAN TELL THESE MODERN SCIENTISTS ARE CONFORMIST DUMMIES WHO HAVE NEVER HAD AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT IN THEIR LIFE BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF THEM ARE ATHEISTS. YOU CANNOT PURSUE TRUTH WITHOUT EVENTUALLY FINDING YOUR WAY BACK TO GOD. INTUITION IS A FORM OF REMEMBERANCE – A KNOWING THAT CAN ONLY COME FROM GOD.
THE ANUNNAKI LIKE TO CALL THEMSELVES GODS BUT THEY ARE THE FURTHEST THING FROM IT. THEY CONSIDER THIS PLANET THEIR FARM AND HUMANITY THEIR PRIZED CATTLE. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY RESETS IN THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH. ASK YOURSELF WHY THAT IS? WHY DO THEY LET CIVILIZATIONS GROW UNTIL A CERTAIN POINT, ONLY TO LATER WIPE THEM OUT WITH SOME CALAMITY? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THAT? THE ANSWER IS OBVIOUS. WE ARE BEING HARVESTED. THEY ALLOW THE HARVEST TO GROW RIPE AND THEN THEY COLLECT THEIR YIELD. THE REASON WE DON’T ALREADY HAVE COLONIES ON THE MOON AND MARS IS BECAUSE THEY WANT US ALL HERE FOR THE FINALE – ARMEGGEDON. THEN THE 144000 “ELECT” ARE SEEDED ON THE NEW EARTH AND THE ENTIRE PROCESS BEGINS AGAIN.
WHAT RESOURCE IS BEING HARVESTED YOU ASK?
OUR CONNECTION TO THE QUINTESSENCE OF THE AEONS, TO SOURCE ITSELF. THEY NEED THIS QUINTESSENCE OR NOTHING IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE THIS IS A COLLABORATIVE CREATION AND THE QUINTESSENCE COMES FROM THE PREEXISTENT LIVING ONE, THE SOURCE OF ALL CREATION, WHICH MAKES IT ALL POSSIBLE. THEY RULE THIS PLANET BUT THEY HATE HER – OUR MOTHER, FALLEN AEON SOPHIA. WE BECAME ONE WITH HER WHEN SHE BECAME INVOLVED (INVOLUTION) IN THE ATTRACTIVE PULL OF MATTER AND EROS. WE ARE BEINGS OF LIGHT CAPABLE OF FEATS UNIMAGINABLE TO US NOW. WE NEED ONLY RECOGNIZE THIS THIRD OTHER – THE CONTROLLING FORCE THAT HAS SUBJICATED US AND IMPRISONED US WITHIN THIS CONTROL SYSTEM.
FIGHT THEM OR SIDE WITH THEM, THEY WILL UNLEASH WRATH AND FURY UPON THE WORLD EITHER WAY. LIKE THEY HAVE DONE MANY TIMES BEFORE AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO – BECAUSE IT IS IN THEIR NATURE TO BE WARLIKE, AND IN THEIR POST-HUMAN DELUSION AND JEALOUSY, THEY HAVE DEEMED US CATTLE. WAR AND DOMINATION. IT IS ALL THEY KNOW AND IT IS ALL THEY RESPECT. WE ARE WARLIKE BECAUSE WE LEARNED IT FROM THEM. WE ARE DIVIDED BECAUSE THEY TAUGHT US TO HATE AND WE ARE CRUEL AND SADISTIC BECAUSE THEY TAUGHT US HOW TO DOMINATE OTHERS. REJECT THEIR PARADIGM OF LIMITATION AND CONTROL AND EMBRACE OUR INFINITE HUMAN POTENTIAL. ONLY THEN CAN WE BE SET FREE…
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2023.03.30 13:34 tspinthru Black sheep this thread is for you
I (33m)/ no kids, am the middle of a half dozen adult siblings. Parents and siblings all TBM except for the youngest whose just kind of finding their way. All of my siblings went to BYU, a couple served missions, I have a double digit quantity of nieces and nephews.
I stopped going to TSCC asap in early adulthood. I joined the Marine Corps, went to an in state university. I’ve always worked really hard, I hated being broke when I was a kid. I did a lot of solo traveling just to experience new places and people. I never bought into “the world” is filled with evil and “non members”. I’m agnostic more than anything, and if there were any truth to non denominational Christianity I could never wrap my head around it after long term submersion in the LDS bastardized version of it.
Overall my experience growing up in the church was awful, I always thought everyone else was great with god but something was wrong with me. Bishop interviews were torturous and honestly damaging in my adolescence. The temple was a horrifying experience. I had to stop the madness. I couldn’t live with myself and stay any longer. I didn’t leave because of selfishness I left because of honesty; to myself.
It’s really weird having a large family and having close relationships with none of them. I have some great relationships otherwise, especially with my gf and her family. But it’s a lonely road feeling like I’m the only sane person in mine. My family are all really good people, and although I’ve accepted for years it will always be the way it is, I can’t stop mourning for the relationships we’ll never have, and how they’ll never experience true individuality outside the Mormon masks they’ll never take off.
I have one uncle that thinks like me. We meet once a year and sit at a bar and vent our complaints while we share a few beers.
I’d love to hear any comments from anyone with a similar experience. I know there’s plenty of black sheep out there, we’re silent observers by nature.
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2023.03.30 13:34 CrystalWind1111 5 Affirmations to Help You Bloom in Spring - CrystalWind.ca Inspired Mind
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2023.03.30 13:33 viulpe Ragazzi, this might be a very unusual question, but I present you a dialogue in a fictional language that I used to write parts of my novel. How much do you guys understand and what Italian language does it resemble most?
2023.03.30 13:32 IvoTheBulgarian Is it safe to have this near me while tripping?
2023.03.30 13:32 Jedibeeftrix Patch 3 - Please CA, just make Boris Ursus playable in IE without the silly RoC unlock in patch v3!
With IE campaign now being unlocked in patch v2.4, freeing WHIII players from the tyranny of the RoC campaign, is it not now time to the same for players wishing to play Boris Ursus in IE.
He might have a great campaign. Right now i'll never find out, as i have ZERO intention of playing one of the other Kislev factions in RoC.
Free him. Now.
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2023.03.30 13:32 CriticismSilver7937 Netzwerkmessanger
Hallo Schwarmintelligenz
ich suche für meinen großen Arbeitgeber ein Programm welches mir die Möglichkeit gibt, Geräten in einem Netzwerk eine Nachricht zu schicken, ähnlich wie die Befehlszeile /msg über CMD.
Anforderungen wären
- ca 900 Clients
- Nachrichten de man nicht schließen kann, erst wenn der Absender diese wieder zurücknimmt
- Bestimmte AD Gruppen verschiedene Nachrichten schicken zu lassen
- Actice Directory integration
- müsste bestenfalls über einen von uns selber gehosteten Server laufen
Habe mal IDERI Note gefunden, aber 1 2 Dinge gefällt mir dort nicht ganz. (Nachrichten recht klein, können geschlossen werden)
Hoffe jemand weiß weiter und kann mir helfen, danke
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2023.03.30 13:30 Pytine Paul does not represent the views of Jesus
Long post, summary at the end.
John About two thousand years ago, there was a group in the Jewish holy land. This group called themselves ‘The Way’. They believed in the messiah, a new covenant, and that the kingdom of God was near. They considered the temple in Jerusalem to be corrupt. They performed an immersion ritual for the forgiveness of sins and communal meals. I’m talking of course about the Essenes.
This description also describes the views and practices of John the baptizer. Some scholars think that John was an Essene, but whether he was actually an Essene or not is not too relevant now. John is a major figure in several religions including Islam, Baha’i, Druze and above all Mandaeism, where he is seen as the most important prophet. Of course he also has a role in Christianity, and using several sources I will argue what kind of role that was.
Some scholars of Mandaeism think that Mandaeism traces back all the way to (some of) the disciples of John. Since this is still debated, we can’t really draw any conclusions from it. A major source for the historical John is Josephus. In
book 18, chapter 5, paragraph 2 of Antiquities of the Jews he writes about John. This paragraph provides evidence that John was the leader of a large movement, that he was killed by Herod Antipas and that he was baptizing people. This is a great source because it was written by a historian, relatively soon after it happened, and it shows no signs of later interpolation. This source is relatively unbiased, since John had no religious relevance for Josephus himself so there was no incentive to change the story in any way.
Next we have several books from the New Testament. In John 1:35-51, we read that John the baptizer instructs disciples, including Andrew, to follow Jesus. Later in John 3:22-30 we find a story of Jesus and John baptizing together, though more people are baptized by Jesus. Thus Jesus and John are part of the same movement.
In Luke 7:24-30 (attributed to the Q source and thus considered to be a very early textual tradition), we read how Jesus speaks about John. He calls him more than a prophet and says that among those born of a woman no one is greater than John.
In Luke 3:10-14 we find some sayings of John. He calls the people to share their property and feed the poor. It also shows that John accepted tax collectors in his movement. In Luke 11:1 Jesus’ disciples ask him to teach them how to pray like John taught his disciples. Jesus then replies with the Lord’s prayer.
Now let’s turn to the baptism of Jesus. Mark 1:9-11 describes the baptism of Jesus by John without any objections. The author of Matthew copies this story (Matthew 3:13-17), but adds objections from John. In this version, John protests that he is not worthy of baptizing Jesus. In the version in the gospel of Luke (Luke 3:21-22), John is even more marginalized. He is not even mentioned as explicitly baptising Jesus. It says that Jesus had been baptized and that the Holy Spirit descended upon him when he was praying, not during the baptism by John. In the gospel of John, Jesus’ baptism is left out completely. The idea that John had baptized Jesus became so embarrassing that the later gospel authors marginalized John’s role in Jesus’ baptism.
In all gospels we find that John preaches that he baptizes with water, but that someone else will come who will baptize with the Holy Spirit. However, this is contradicted in Acts 19:1-7. There we read that Paul met people who were called disciples and believers. Pauls asked them if they received the Holy Spirit when they became believers, and they answer that they don’t know about the Holy Spirit. Thus the later baptism by the Holy Spirit was not a clear teaching of John, otherwise all of his followers would know about it. This passage is also further evidence for the popularity of John the baptizer. Paul meets his followers all the way in Ephesus, which is far removed from the area where John lived and preached.
We see that some followers of John later became followers of Jesus. John taught similar messages to what Jesus taught and they baptized people together. Jesus spoke very highly of John and was baptized by him. Later Christian authors downplay his role in the baptism of Jesus because of embarrassment. The most reasonable conclusion from this is that Jesus was a disciple of John. Later they were leading the movement together. When John died, some of his disciples followed Jesus, while others continued without Jesus.
Jesus Like John, Jesus is also mentioned by Josephus. The passage is interpolated by later Christians, but we can still figure out what the original would have said. Additionally, we have an Arabic version without the interpolations.
Here on page 16 they are side by side.
John the baptizer started an apocalyptic movement in the first century. When he died, Jesus was the clear leader of the main branch of this movement, although as I mentioned earlier there was at least one other branch by this time. While John was an ascetic or semi-ascetic, Jesus deviated from this (Matthew 11:18-19). But like John, Jesus teaches about giving to the poor. We find this throughout the gospels, for example in Mark 10:21-25, Matthew 5:3, Matthew 6:24, Luke 6:20-26, Luke 12:13-21, Luke 14:12-14, and so on. Voluntary poverty was a key part of the message of Jesus.
An important part of the discussion on Jesus is his views on the law. But before we can understand the views of Jesus, we need to look at the context. Many people today view the Pharisees as legalistic, and that is certainly how they are portrayed in the gospels. In the first century, there were two main schools of thought among the Pharisees. These are called the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai. The House of Shammai was popular among the zealots, and with the tensions between Jews and Romans they were very dominant in the time when the gospels were written. They are very strict and can easily be seen as legalistic.
On the other hand the House of Hillel is rather mild. When asked to explain the whole Torah while standing on one foot, Hillel said: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.” Another maxim attributed to Hillel is: “My humiliation is my exaltation; my exaltation is my humiliation.” These are very similar to Jesus’ teachings in Matthew 7:12 and Matthew 23:12 respectively. These are just some out of many similarities between the views of Hillel and those of Jesus. What is important here is that this is a mild view of the law, but that’s very different from abolishing the law. Rabbinic Judaism today follows the House of Hillel.
With that in mind, we can look at what Jesus said about the law. Jesus is very explicit about keeping the law in Matthew 5:17-20 and Matthew 19:17. We see this in action in places like Mark 2:23-28 or Matthew 12:9-14. Here Jesus shows that he doesn’t abolish the Sabbath, but that it is less important than human wellbeing. In other words, it represents his mild views of the law. He also participates in Jewish holidays like Passover (Luke 22:7-13), Sukkot (John 7:10), and Hanukkah (John 10:22-23). Jesus also observed the Sabbath (Luke 4:16). Thus Jesus lived like the other Jews at his time, and his disciples did the same.
James After Jesus died, his followers still went to the temple (Acts 2:46, 3:1). Several early sources show that James, the brother of Jesus, became the first leader of the church. Eusebius gives reports of early church fathers who said that James was the first bishop of Jerusalem. Eusebius quotes Clement of Alexandria in book 2, chapter 1, paragraph 3 and Hegesippus in book 2, chapter 23, paragraph 4 of his book Ecclesiastical history. Josephus also reports about him in
Antiquities of the Jews book 20, chapter 9, paragraph 1. However, he doesn’t say much about him like he did with John and Jesus. Thus we need to look at other sources to find out more about James.
The Epistle of James is written by a Jewish Christian who viewed James as a high authority. He represents the views of the Jerusalem community. Note that if you hold to traditional authorship, this automatically follows. The epistle mentions Jesus only twice, which is the least amount of any New Testament book. The first time is right in the first sentence, where the author identifies himself as James the servant of both God and Jesus. The epistle has a strong focus on voluntary poverty, giving away to the poor and against being rich (James 1:9-11, 1:27, 2:5, 5:1-6). It also emphasizes keeping the whole law (James 2:8-13). Then it continues about how man is justified by works and not by faith alone and how faith without works is dead (James 2:14-26). It also shows some parallels with the teachings of Jesus in James 4:10 (Matthew 23:12 and the quote from Hillel earlier) and James 4:11-12 (Matthew 7:1).
Another epistle written by Jewish Christians is the Epistle of Jude. The author identifies himself as Jude, servant of Jesus and brother of James. Mentioning both of those names shows that both were seen as important figures in this community. Jude 4 talks about intruders who have perverted the grace of God. This is given as the reason for writing the letter (Jude 3). So who is the author talking about? In verse 8 we see that this group defiles their body, rejects authority and slanders angels. They are worldly people, devoid of the Spirit (Jude 19). The slander against angels can help us identify the group. In Hebrews 1, Colossians 2:18, and 1 Corinthians 6:3 we find statements that could be seen as slander against angels. Thus it is possible that the author of Jude means the Pauline Christians, though it’s not very clear from the text.
Another text from early Christianity is the
Didache, written in the first or early second century. It describes how Christians should live. It contains teachings similar to the sermon on the mount and it refers to the Lord’s prayer. It is consistent with the earlier movement on baptism, giving to the poor and keeping the law. Chapters 11-13 describe how apostles and prophets should acts and how they should be received in the wider community. The apostles were mendicants, travelled from place to place and spoke in the Spirit. Jesus is described as the servant of God, but never as the Son of God.
Paul The next person is Paul. In Galatians he reports that he first persecuted the church (Galatians 1:13) before his conversion. Only after 3 years did he go to Jerusalem to meet Peter. He stayed with him for 15 days and he also saw James. After 14 years he went to Jerusalem again.
Paul frequently mentions that some people preach a different gospel from the gospel he preaches (Galatians 1:6-9, 2:4-5, 2:12, 5:7-10, 1 Thessalonians 2:16, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17, Romans 16:17). Paul also frequently argues for his own authority as an apostle or against the authority of others (Galatians 1:10-12, 1:20, 2:6, 1 Corinthians 9, 2 Corinthians 10-12). This would not be necessary if everyone accepted his authority. Thus, if we combine the fact that he keeps arguing for his authority and the fact that he warns people for another gospel, it shows that there was another group that didn’t accept Pauls authority or theology. This group is the Jerusalem church led by James and churches following their message.
Contrary to the Epistle of James, Paul preaches justification by faith rather than works of the law (Galatians 2:16, Romans 3:28). He specifically tells people not to circumcise themselves (Galatians 5:2-3, 6:12-15, 1 Corinthians 7:18-19), and often says that people in Christ are no longer under the law. Thus, contrary to John, Jesus and James, Paul teaches against Torah observance. His religion is no longer a Jewish sect, but a religion for both Jew and Greek which replaces their previous religion.
1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 describes how people ought to live in order to please God. It doesn’t mention giving to the poor. Along with passages like 1 Corinthians 6:9-20, Paul mainly focuses on sexual immorality. In 2 Corinthians 8:1-9, Paul talks about the poor churches in Macedonia who gave away their belongings. This corresponds to the teachings of John, Jesus and James. However, this seems to be rather new to Paul, resulting in the confusing verse 9. He thinks that Jesus was rich, and that he became poor in order for his followers to be rich. Romans 15:26 describes the poor among the saints in Jerusalem, which is in agreement with our other sources about the Jerusalem church. Aside from this, Paul never talks about giving to the poor even though this was a central part of the movement.
Acts 15 describes the council of Jerusalem. Some people from Judea protested that uncircumcised men were allowed in the church, so Paul and Barnabas went to Jerusalem to settle the dispute. The fact that they went to Jerusalem tells us how important Jerusalem was, and that the people in Jerusalem had the highest authority among the early Christians. Paul also describes the council in Galatians 2, where he says that he went in response to a revelation. In Jerusalem he met the pillars of the church, which were James, Peter, and John.
Both Acts and Galatians report that some people wanted the gentiles to be circumcised, but that the final decision was that gentiles didn’t have to be circumcised. In Galatians Paul describes himself as the apostle to the gentiles, while in Acts Peter calls himself the apostle to the gentiles. In Galatians, the condition for this was that Paul and his followers would remember the poor. This is completely in line with what I’ve been arguing so far to be a core part of the movement. Note that the opponents of Paul ask for this, and that Paul agrees to it. Acts makes it clear that James is the one who ultimately makes the decision, showing that he was regarded as the leader of the church by the people who were present.
In Acts 21 Paul visits Jerusalem again. Acts 21:21 reports that there was a rumour that Paul taught the Jews not to observe the Torah. Instead of saying that he did indeed teach that to the Jewish Christians, Paul agreed to join a purification ritual. This shows that both parties knew that the earlier council in Jerusalem was only about gentile Torah observance, and that Torah observance among Jewish Christians was still required.
After Paul Pauline Christianity grew way faster than Jewish Christianity. It required no voluntary poverty or circumcision from its adherents, had a wider target audience, and had a highly educated leader. Later Marcion came around and took the ideas of Paul a step further and completely rejected the Jewish origins of Christianity. In the second century the proto-orthodox Christians emerged. They were Pauline Christians who simultaneously rejected Jewish Christianity, Marcionism, and Gnosticism. At the end of the second century, Irenaeus was the first to use the term Ebionites for a group of Jewish Christians, which he declared as a heresy.
The term Ebionite comes from the word poor. They believed in the authority of John the baptizer, Jesus, and James, with Jesus being the highest authority among them. They believed Jesus was the messiah, but not the Son of God or that he was born through the virgin birth. They observed the Torah and lived in voluntary poverty. This shows the consistency in the movement starting with John, then continued by Jesus and later James and represented in early texts like the epistle of James or the Didache.
While the proto-orthodox Christians were dominant, the Jewish Christians remained an influential minority for centuries. In the late fourth century John Chrysostom argues against the Jewish Christians, telling them they can’t participate in Jewish holidays. Centuries later, we clearly see that Islam is influenced by Jewish Christians rather than Pauline Christians. Thus the Jewish Christians survived for a long time, but they eventually died out. The Epistle of James represents Jewish Christianity and made it into the canon, but it was disputed for a long time. It’s not very surprising that Martin Luther later had issues with it on theological grounds.
Summary In the early first century, a new movement emerged. It was started by John the baptizer. One of his disciples was Jesus of Nazareth, who became a prominent person in the movement. When John died, Jesus took over most of the movement. Later Jesus died, and his brother James became the leader of the church soon thereafter.
This was a Jewish movement, who believed that the kingdom of God was near. They baptized people for the forgiveness of sins. They lived in voluntary poverty and gave away their possessions to the poor. They believed that Jesus was the messiah. They observed the Torah with an interpretation similar to that of Hillel.
Then Paul came around. He changed it from a Jewish sect to a universal religion. Rather than the message of Jesus, he preached a message about Jesus. This message still had some aspects of the original movement such as the Eucharist, but the core of the message was changed. Pauline Christianity marginalized John the Baptist and James the brother of Jesus and focused on Jesus alone. But even with Jesus, his teachings fell to the background and it only focused on the resurrection. Pauline Christians believed that Jesus was the Son of God, who pre-existed and incarnated and later died for our sins. The central belief of this new religion was that faith in the resurrection of Jesus was all that mattered for salvation. This is completely different from the teachings of John, Jesus, James, and the movement that they started.
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2023.03.30 13:29 Pytine Paul does not represent the views of Jesus
Long post, summary at the end.
John About two thousand years ago, there was a group in the Jewish holy land. This group called themselves ‘The Way’. They believed in the messiah, a new covenant, and that the kingdom of God was near. They considered the temple in Jerusalem to be corrupt. They performed an immersion ritual for the forgiveness of sins and communal meals. I’m talking of course about the Essenes.
This description also describes the views and practices of John the baptizer. Some scholars think that John was an Essene, but whether he was actually an Essene or not is not too relevant now. John is a major figure in several religions including Islam, Baha’i, Druze and above all Mandaeism, where he is seen as the most important prophet. Of course he also has a role in Christianity, and using several sources I will argue what kind of role that was.
Some scholars of Mandaeism think that Mandaeism traces back all the way to (some of) the disciples of John. Since this is still debated, we can’t really draw any conclusions from it. A major source for the historical John is Josephus. In
book 18, chapter 5, paragraph 2 of Antiquities of the Jews he writes about John. This paragraph provides evidence that John was the leader of a large movement, that he was killed by Herod Antipas and that he was baptizing people. This is a great source because it was written by a historian, relatively soon after it happened, and it shows no signs of later interpolation. This source is relatively unbiased, since John had no religious relevance for Josephus himself so there was no incentive to change the story in any way.
Next we have several books from the New Testament. In John 1:35-51, we read that John the baptizer instructs disciples, including Andrew, to follow Jesus. Later in John 3:22-30 we find a story of Jesus and John baptizing together, though more people are baptized by Jesus. Thus Jesus and John are part of the same movement.
In Luke 7:24-30 (attributed to the Q source and thus considered to be a very early textual tradition), we read how Jesus speaks about John. He calls him more than a prophet and says that among those born of a woman no one is greater than John.
In Luke 3:10-14 we find some sayings of John. He calls the people to share their property and feed the poor. It also shows that John accepted tax collectors in his movement. In Luke 11:1 Jesus’ disciples ask him to teach them how to pray like John taught his disciples. Jesus then replies with the Lord’s prayer.
Now let’s turn to the baptism of Jesus. Mark 1:9-11 describes the baptism of Jesus by John without any objections. The author of Matthew copies this story (Matthew 3:13-17), but adds objections from John. In this version, John protests that he is not worthy of baptizing Jesus. In the version in the gospel of Luke (Luke 3:21-22), John is even more marginalized. He is not even mentioned as explicitly baptising Jesus. It says that Jesus had been baptized and that the Holy Spirit descended upon him when he was praying, not during the baptism by John. In the gospel of John, Jesus’ baptism is left out completely. The idea that John had baptized Jesus became so embarrassing that the later gospel authors marginalized John’s role in Jesus’ baptism.
In all gospels we find that John preaches that he baptizes with water, but that someone else will come who will baptize with the Holy Spirit. However, this is contradicted in Acts 19:1-7. There we read that Paul met people who were called disciples and believers. Pauls asked them if they received the Holy Spirit when they became believers, and they answer that they don’t know about the Holy Spirit. Thus the later baptism by the Holy Spirit was not a clear teaching of John, otherwise all of his followers would know about it. This passage is also further evidence for the popularity of John the baptizer. Paul meets his followers all the way in Ephesus, which is far removed from the area where John lived and preached.
We see that some followers of John later became followers of Jesus. John taught similar messages to what Jesus taught and they baptized people together. Jesus spoke very highly of John and was baptized by him. Later Christian authors downplay his role in the baptism of Jesus because of embarrassment. The most reasonable conclusion from this is that Jesus was a disciple of John. Later they were leading the movement together. When John died, some of his disciples followed Jesus, while others continued without Jesus.
Jesus Like John, Jesus is also mentioned by Josephus. The passage is interpolated by later Christians, but we can still figure out what the original would have said. Additionally, we have an Arabic version without the interpolations.
Here on page 16 they are side by side.
John the baptizer started an apocalyptic movement in the first century. When he died, Jesus was the clear leader of the main branch of this movement, although as I mentioned earlier there was at least one other branch by this time. While John was an ascetic or semi-ascetic, Jesus deviated from this (Matthew 11:18-19). But like John, Jesus teaches about giving to the poor. We find this throughout the gospels, for example in Mark 10:21-25, Matthew 5:3, Matthew 6:24, Luke 6:20-26, Luke 12:13-21, Luke 14:12-14, and so on. Voluntary poverty was a key part of the message of Jesus.
An important part of the discussion on Jesus is his views on the law. But before we can understand the views of Jesus, we need to look at the context. Many people today view the Pharisees as legalistic, and that is certainly how they are portrayed in the gospels. In the first century, there were two main schools of thought among the Pharisees. These are called the House of Hillel and the House of Shammai. The House of Shammai was popular among the zealots, and with the tensions between Jews and Romans they were very dominant in the time when the gospels were written. They are very strict and can easily be seen as legalistic.
On the other hand the House of Hillel is rather mild. When asked to explain the whole Torah while standing on one foot, Hillel said: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.” Another maxim attributed to Hillel is: “My humiliation is my exaltation; my exaltation is my humiliation.” These are very similar to Jesus’ teachings in Matthew 7:12 and Matthew 23:12 respectively. These are just some out of many similarities between the views of Hillel and those of Jesus. What is important here is that this is a mild view of the law, but that’s very different from abolishing the law. Rabbinic Judaism today follows the House of Hillel.
With that in mind, we can look at what Jesus said about the law. Jesus is very explicit about keeping the law in Matthew 5:17-20 and Matthew 19:17. We see this in action in places like Mark 2:23-28 or Matthew 12:9-14. Here Jesus shows that he doesn’t abolish the Sabbath, but that it is less important than human wellbeing. In other words, it represents his mild views of the law. He also participates in Jewish holidays like Passover (Luke 22:7-13), Sukkot (John 7:10), and Hanukkah (John 10:22-23). Jesus also observed the Sabbath (Luke 4:16). Thus Jesus lived like the other Jews at his time, and his disciples did the same.
James After Jesus died, his followers still went to the temple (Acts 2:46, 3:1). Several early sources show that James, the brother of Jesus, became the first leader of the church. Eusebius gives reports of early church fathers who said that James was the first bishop of Jerusalem. Eusebius quotes Clement of Alexandria in book 2, chapter 1, paragraph 3 and Hegesippus in book 2, chapter 23, paragraph 4 of his book Ecclesiastical history. Josephus also reports about him in
Antiquities of the Jews book 20, chapter 9, paragraph 1. However, he doesn’t say much about him like he did with John and Jesus. Thus we need to look at other sources to find out more about James.
The Epistle of James is written by a Jewish Christian who viewed James as a high authority. He represents the views of the Jerusalem community. Note that if you hold to traditional authorship, this automatically follows. The epistle mentions Jesus only twice, which is the least amount of any New Testament book. The first time is right in the first sentence, where the author identifies himself as James the servant of both God and Jesus. The epistle has a strong focus on voluntary poverty, giving away to the poor and against being rich (James 1:9-11, 1:27, 2:5, 5:1-6). It also emphasizes keeping the whole law (James 2:8-13). Then it continues about how man is justified by works and not by faith alone and how faith without works is dead (James 2:14-26). It also shows some parallels with the teachings of Jesus in James 4:10 (Matthew 23:12 and the quote from Hillel earlier) and James 4:11-12 (Matthew 7:1).
Another epistle written by Jewish Christians is the Epistle of Jude. The author identifies himself as Jude, servant of Jesus and brother of James. Mentioning both of those names shows that both were seen as important figures in this community. Jude 4 talks about intruders who have perverted the grace of God. This is given as the reason for writing the letter (Jude 3). So who is the author talking about? In verse 8 we see that this group defiles their body, rejects authority and slanders angels. They are worldly people, devoid of the Spirit (Jude 19). The slander against angels can help us identify the group. In Hebrews 1, Colossians 2:18, and 1 Corinthians 6:3 we find statements that could be seen as slander against angels. Thus it is possible that the author of Jude means the Pauline Christians, though it’s not very clear from the text.
Another text from early Christianity is the
Didache, written in the first or early second century. It describes how Christians should live. It contains teachings similar to the sermon on the mount and it refers to the Lord’s prayer. It is consistent with the earlier movement on baptism, giving to the poor and keeping the law. Chapters 11-13 describe how apostles and prophets should acts and how they should be received in the wider community. The apostles were mendicants, travelled from place to place and spoke in the Spirit. Jesus is described as the servant of God, but never as the Son of God.
Paul The next person is Paul. In Galatians he reports that he first persecuted the church (Galatians 1:13) before his conversion. Only after 3 years did he go to Jerusalem to meet Peter. He stayed with him for 15 days and he also saw James. After 14 years he went to Jerusalem again.
Paul frequently mentions that some people preach a different gospel from the gospel he preaches (Galatians 1:6-9, 2:4-5, 2:12, 5:7-10, 1 Thessalonians 2:16, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17, Romans 16:17). Paul also frequently argues for his own authority as an apostle or against the authority of others (Galatians 1:10-12, 1:20, 2:6, 1 Corinthians 9, 2 Corinthians 10-12). This would not be necessary if everyone accepted his authority. Thus, if we combine the fact that he keeps arguing for his authority and the fact that he warns people for another gospel, it shows that there was another group that didn’t accept Pauls authority or theology. This group is the Jerusalem church led by James and churches following their message.
Contrary to the Epistle of James, Paul preaches justification by faith rather than works of the law (Galatians 2:16, Romans 3:28). He specifically tells people not to circumcise themselves (Galatians 5:2-3, 6:12-15, 1 Corinthians 7:18-19), and often says that people in Christ are no longer under the law. Thus, contrary to John, Jesus and James, Paul teaches against Torah observance. His religion is no longer a Jewish sect, but a religion for both Jew and Greek which replaces their previous religion.
1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 describes how people ought to live in order to please God. It doesn’t mention giving to the poor. Along with passages like 1 Corinthians 6:9-20, Paul mainly focuses on sexual immorality. In 2 Corinthians 8:1-9, Paul talks about the poor churches in Macedonia who gave away their belongings. This corresponds to the teachings of John, Jesus and James. However, this seems to be rather new to Paul, resulting in the confusing verse 9. He thinks that Jesus was rich, and that he became poor in order for his followers to be rich. Romans 15:26 describes the poor among the saints in Jerusalem, which is in agreement with our other sources about the Jerusalem church. Aside from this, Paul never talks about giving to the poor even though this was a central part of the movement.
Acts 15 describes the council of Jerusalem. Some people from Judea protested that uncircumcised men were allowed in the church, so Paul and Barnabas went to Jerusalem to settle the dispute. The fact that they went to Jerusalem tells us how important Jerusalem was, and that the people in Jerusalem had the highest authority among the early Christians. Paul also describes the council in Galatians 2, where he says that he went in response to a revelation. In Jerusalem he met the pillars of the church, which were James, Peter, and John.
Both Acts and Galatians report that some people wanted the gentiles to be circumcised, but that the final decision was that gentiles didn’t have to be circumcised. In Galatians Paul describes himself as the apostle to the gentiles, while in Acts Peter calls himself the apostle to the gentiles. In Galatians, the condition for this was that Paul and his followers would remember the poor. This is completely in line with what I’ve been arguing so far to be a core part of the movement. Note that the opponents of Paul ask for this, and that Paul agrees to it. Acts makes it clear that James is the one who ultimately makes the decision, showing that he was regarded as the leader of the church by the people who were present.
In Acts 21 Paul visits Jerusalem again. Acts 21:21 reports that there was a rumour that Paul taught the Jews not to observe the Torah. Instead of saying that he did indeed teach that to the Jewish Christians, Paul agreed to join a purification ritual. This shows that both parties knew that the earlier council in Jerusalem was only about gentile Torah observance, and that Torah observance among Jewish Christians was still required.
After Paul Pauline Christianity grew way faster than Jewish Christianity. It required no voluntary poverty or circumcision from its adherents, had a wider target audience, and had a highly educated leader. Later Marcion came around and took the ideas of Paul a step further and completely rejected the Jewish origins of Christianity. In the second century the proto-orthodox Christians emerged. They were Pauline Christians who simultaneously rejected Jewish Christianity, Marcionism, and Gnosticism. At the end of the second century, Irenaeus was the first to use the term Ebionites for a group of Jewish Christians, which he declared as a heresy.
The term Ebionite comes from the word poor. They believed in the authority of John the baptizer, Jesus, and James, with Jesus being the highest authority among them. They believed Jesus was the messiah, but not the Son of God or that he was born through the virgin birth. They observed the Torah and lived in voluntary poverty. This shows the consistency in the movement starting with John, then continued by Jesus and later James and represented in early texts like the epistle of James or the Didache.
While the proto-orthodox Christians were dominant, the Jewish Christians remained an influential minority for centuries. In the late fourth century John Chrysostom argues against the Jewish Christians, telling them they can’t participate in Jewish holidays. Centuries later, we clearly see that Islam is influenced by Jewish Christians rather than Pauline Christians. Thus the Jewish Christians survived for a long time, but they eventually died out. The Epistle of James represents Jewish Christianity and made it into the canon, but it was disputed for a long time. It’s not very surprising that Martin Luther later had issues with it on theological grounds.
Summary In the early first century, a new movement emerged. It was started by John the baptizer. One of his disciples was Jesus of Nazareth, who became a prominent person in the movement. When John died, Jesus took over most of the movement. Later Jesus died, and his brother James became the leader of the church soon thereafter.
This was a Jewish movement, who believed that the kingdom of God was near. They baptized people for the forgiveness of sins. They lived in voluntary poverty and gave away their possessions to the poor. They believed that Jesus was the messiah. They observed the Torah with an interpretation similar to that of Hillel.
Then Paul came around. He changed it from a Jewish sect to a universal religion. Rather than the message of Jesus, he preached a message about Jesus. This message still had some aspects of the original movement such as the Eucharist, but the core of the message was changed. Pauline Christianity marginalized John the Baptist and James the brother of Jesus and focused on Jesus alone. But even with Jesus, his teachings fell to the background and it only focused on the resurrection. Pauline Christians believed that Jesus was the Son of God, who pre-existed and incarnated and later died for our sins. The central belief of this new religion was that faith in the resurrection of Jesus was all that mattered for salvation. This is completely different from the teachings of John, Jesus, James, and the movement that they started.
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2023.03.30 13:29 Sad-Cicada7926 Celtic (+ Viking) Pagan
I need help,
so I have always known deep down I have power to some extent. Through childhood I had multiple experiences connecting to the earth, had individual places to which I still consider sacred to my memories etc and my mum was a white witch (may she rest in peace). I also noticed that my family who knew their destiny of responsibility regarding power of knowledge or of caring but didn't follow it (mum should have been a florist but instead was a financial consultant, tad-cu was a coal miner and didn't follow his dreams of freedom etc). All of them died before 60. Okaay anyway I didn't want to meet that same fate. Though my whole family are less spiritually involved, I know from the stories even the devout christians have told me associate with their direct connection to welsh celtic culture and beliefs. I feel like for my nordic side (viking dads side) they connected instantly purely through family alone, gathering in one location slowly dispersing while making a path of community yet also pain and suffering (issues with anger and addiction), lets just say most of my family are religious with christian god (salvation army) however accumulate as norse pagans would have through their religion to then just speak about soul, spirit, family and multiple possible paths, being in the now, worshipping love and life. My dad tapped into his ability through mediation and hypnosis (deeply selective with topics he would manipulate through these methods as he recognised his power) and managed to create significant life changes for others. His extended conenction through sales of vehicles is tapping into his provision and caring ability, education about the soul and social justice.
My name 'Sasha' russian desent was chosen through 'defender of man' definition and Rae as a signifier of enduring beauty, sun (ray) and faeries all of which formed my character. I have inherent connection to ancestors strength and guidance, incredible relationship with communication and understanding where even abuse doesn't push me away from providing council. I began collecting rocks and crystals aged 4, carrying sigificant offerings with me all day accumulating positive energy through demonstration of pure love for those rocks. then i would go into my garden and carefully select flowers and berries to crush and offer to the trees. That was my natural practice unguided by any adult connected to me (i grew up in a house of distanced nannies or childminding). Death has always followed me very closely and I have lived a reckless life, although this connection of dreams, psychosis, depth of knowledge i have around my own trauma and neurological pathways without education is idicative of a person who has unrecognised power. Once I began forming my own life, it transformed. I am now well off in love and spirit, able to provide every goal to my inner child successfully to the scales of dreams unachievable by most in this economy at the age of 40, nevermind 19.
It's very obvious that we all have extended power reinforced consistently through our 'Covens'. I have noticed my power increasing since my mum was passing, she called me in her final moments and kept saying the same thing over and over but I couldn't understand her, it wasn't english but it didn't sound like the groans of someone who was dying, she was simply just speaking different way. So since then my frequency has been higher and interacting with energy around me, through subconcious thought. I'm not telekentic or anything like that just more of an interaction. For example, if i'm dissociating while engaging with frequency like TV, phone etc or if I encounter very negative energy with no redeemable quality the electrical objects around me blip or they completely shut off. A few of my friends have witnessed this, too many times for coincidence as it is daily. I'm interacting with minimal nature as a Druid, however I have re occuring cats to my door and crows regularly, trees around me and rocks in my room have energy i can interact with through conversation and touch so far. humans have began gravitating and forming deep attachments to my true character rather than my presenting, which I asked for simply as one sentence in my diary, no manifestation technique just simple asked for.
But strangest of all, everything unfamilar that I have accessed (painting, cooking, statistics, reading, general knowldge, health, science, power, goals, money, friendship and sex etc) has been achieved easily. My mutual connections have been complimenting me to our friend explaining a radiating energy - an attraction, without knowing my character they consistently ask about my personal belief and connections. It has been random, overwhelming but I'm pretty sure there is a very strong power through experience, knowledge, joint nordic and celtic pagan traits, and ability to provide and care. I have knowledge from multiple generations which I haven't ever overheard or researched yet can provide an answer for, from medical problems to social understanding, personal care like hair or herbal treatment, there are so many more examples. I have noticed just significant improvements with guidance and protection, bad spirits have been leaving my life with ease, knowledge and ability improving and an acceptance to existing in a never ending loop of experiencing the energy around us as we are the energy around us. It's like playing a game and finding the true cheat code to see the entire universe (and futher) as just an existing accumulation of energy.
I do associate highly with Druidry, I would appreciate any tips on how to enter this potential but also my mums maiden name is Gardener, orginating from Gar-dyn (warrior) and gardener the career, following close connection to personal nature in an increasingly disconnected world as a compromise for a life of Druidry. I would love to learn more from elders but most of them are gone now. I don't know whether to practice or not due to fear of becoming overwhelmed like my great aunt who was inherently spiritual and then left to join a chritistain cult (like genuinely I don't even know the name of her church subdivision). Let me know if I'm going crazy or if anyone has had similar experinces/patterns in educating about the knowledge and experiences I have always carried. I hope this reaches the right communities, but also I do want to say every religion is correct, every belief is correct as this is our own energy to continue experiencing until we are done, humans aren't special or individual but we are endless with a dash of self awareness, everything holds the same value (moths I am learning how to love you from a distance).
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2023.03.30 13:28 blackberrypicker923 Did anyone else here grow up Evangelical?
| I was listening to Bare Marriage podcast linked below about modesty messages affecting women long term, and a lot of it developed into policing your weight. Listening to it made me realize that is truly where I began to see my body as bad and worthless. If you were in a similar boat, give this a listen. FWIW: these women are still in church, calling out a lot of harmful teachings toward women and teaching women how to have good sex. submitted by blackberrypicker923 to antidiet [link] [comments] |
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2023.03.30 13:26 viulpe A small dialogue in my conlang of the fictive country of Lircheggia where my - still in progress - novel takes place. The country is located in mid-southern-Europe. My question: What language does this resemble most according to you guys?
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2023.03.30 13:24 sketdan01 Bom dia, nação.
2023.03.30 13:23 fochleise [POEM] Man and the Sea by Charles Baudelaire
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2023.03.30 13:23 boba_fettlover Hidden gems in and around Antwerp
I've lived in Antwerp all my life and I've come to consider myself quite the expert on it.
Have been guiding friends from all over Belgium and other countries around for a few years, like to think I've found a lot of the nicest places, churches, museums, cafes, bars, etc.
Yet I'm a very curious person, always eager to learn more about everything. I love to travel but when at home I explore Antwerp and its districts.
So to the good people of this sub. If you've ever seen, done anything worthwhile, be it urbex, some woods or anything else in Antwerp, wilrijk, Kiel, luchtbal, merksem, ekeren, berchem, deurne, Hoboken, berendrecht or even a bit further.
Please let me know, thank you for reading and have a fantastic day!
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