If you really want to know something about Empedocles and what he meant, you may like to read "Reality" by Peter Kingsley. Empedocles, who lived 2500 years ago, is his teacher and one of the people who conciously created this Western civilisation, which we live in the death throes of...
Buddhis cut their hair becuase they are not spiritual. They are a bunch of weirdos giving up the body and only focusing on the mind. On the kabbalistic tree of life buddhist idea of enlightement of only one of the low sephiros that of mercury. Mercury is also the closes t planet to the sun (the youngest). And if thats not enough buddhism and all their sh** is everywhere on the internet. TRUE traditions are not even mentioned on the internet nowadays but buddhism and meditation is everywhere>??!?!?! think again, the elites do control the internet but they make it seem like they dont, unless you have eyes to see (real knowledge to check upon)
An elongated cranial vault would allow for much larger brain size without the need for larger pelvic sizes for mothers.
What if we have all of our ideas of evolution wrong and instead of evolution "up" from some missing link, we in fact devolved from a larger brained ancestor?
If humans evolved under much more favorable conditions than today and a catastrophe altered the Earth's climate and atmosphere, then the fossil record would show mutations for thousands of years, resulting in our current form.
Why, when a Christian festival or practice and a pagan festival or practice coincide, do we assume that Christians took it from the pagans? Why not the other way around.?
I believe there is good evidence that Jesus was born on or around 25 December, although it is not conclusive and one's faith need not depend on it.
THE BIBLICAL EVIDENCE
What does the Bible say about the date of Jesus’ birth? Luke 2:6 tells us that “the days were accomplished that she should be delivered,” so we assume Jesus was a full-term baby, born nine months after His conception. Luke 1:26 says the angel Gabriel announced the conception of Jesus to Mary in the sixth month of her cousin Elizabeth’s pregnancy with John the Baptist. So Jesus was conceived about six months after John the Baptist was conceived.
So when was John the Baptist conceived? That’s more difficult, but the Scriptures suggest some answers. John’s father was Zacharias, a Levite priest “of the course of Abia [Abijah]” (Luke 1:5). According to I Chronicles 24:7-19, King David had divided the priests into 24 orders, and these orders took turns serving in the temple for a period of eight days twice a year, separated from their wives and children. During their Zacharias and the other priests of the course of Abia served during the 10th and 24th weeks of the Jewish year.
The angel of the Lord spoke to Zacharias “while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course” (Luke 1:8), that is, while he was performing his service in the temple. After his course was finished he left the temple, returned to his wife, Elizabeth, and John was conceived (Luke 1:23-24). If this was after the second course, that is, the 24th week of the year, John would have been conceived around September or October and born around June or July. Jesus’ conception six months later would have occurred around March or April and His birth around December or January.
There is no certainty to this theory, especially given that the Jewish calendar (of only 360 days) may have been different from King David’s time to Jesus’ time. But based on the scriptural account of Zacharias’s service in the temple, it is well within the realm of possibility that Jesus was born in December.
THE EXTRA-BIBLICAL EVIDENCE
St. John Chrysostom (347-407 A.D.), whose status in eastern Orthodoxy is comparable to that of Augustine in western Roman Catholicism, argued strongly for a Dec. 25 birthdate because of the course of Zacharias’ priestly service. But he also based his conclusion on the findings of Pope Julius. Bishop Cyril of Jerusalem (348-386 A.D.) had asked Pope Julius to ascertain the date of Christ’s birth “from the census documents brought by Titus to Rome” after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Julius then determined the date of Christ’s birth to be Dec. 25.
Julius, Cyril and Chrysostom were not alone in their reliance upon the census documents. Justin Martyr (100-165 A.D.), in a detailed statement of the Christian faith addressed to Emperor Marcus Aurelius, stated that Jesus was born in Bethlehem “as you can ascertain also from the registers of the taxing.” (Apology, I, 34). Likewise, Tertullian (160-250 A.D.) wrote of “the census of Augustus – that most faithful witness of the Lord’s nativity, kept in the archives of Rome” Contra Marcion, Book 4, 7).
Unfortunately, we do not have access to these census records today. But perhaps the better part of wisdom bids us to assume that these church fathers had access to information that we do not possess, and that they knew what they were talking about.
Some have said that Jesus couldn’t have been born in December because shepherds did not keep their sheep in the fields past late autumn. But Alfred Edersheim, in his classic work “The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (1883) ,” cites ancient Jewish sources to the effect that flocks of sheep “remain in the open alike in the hottest days and in the rainy season – i.e. all the year round” (Book 2, p. 186). There was also a special class of Levitical shepherds who kept sacrificial lambs in the field all year round because they were used for sacrifice every month of the year.
Winters can be cold in Palestine, but they vary greatly, and some Decembers are rather mild. A recent study of stalagmites and stalactites in caves near Jerusalem strongly suggests that the average annual rainfall dropped nearly 50 percent from about 3 feet in 100 A.D. to about 1.6 feet in 700 A.D. Average winter temperatures may have varied as well. If Mary could have given birth to a baby in a Bethlehem stable, then hardy shepherds could have watched their flocks in the fields at the same time.
Edersheim concludes, “There is no adequate reason for questioning the historical accuracy of this date (Dec. 25). The objections generally made rest on grounds, which seem to me historically untenable.”
Even the very OLD writings as the Bible and the Torah it is stated that there were GIANTS in the world in those days. When the "SONS OF GOD" came down and saw the "DAUGHTERS OF MAN" they found them FAIR and they took them for wives. The babies that were born were "GIANTS".
Go to the BIBLE and study Genesis 6.
Don't forget the Lovelock, Nevada, giants. They have been mentioned repeatedly. Just check YouTube. Someone found them in a cave, then took them away to where they have never been seen since. There always seems to be this "they have disappeared" in so many accounts of giants or of artifacts for that matter.
This myth is a Story of Creation and not a story of “how the city of Rome was founded”. As “sons of Mars” this of course cannot be “sons of planet Mars” but sons of an archetypical deity of creation.
Mars and the she-wolff represents the two hemisphere celestial images of the Milky Way where the northern contours shows a huge male-like figure with a weapon in his hand – and where the southern Milky Way figure shows a huge female-like figure, sometimes mentioned as an animal creator and sometimes as a celestial goddess, the roman goddess Venus. This goddess often is depicted with many breasts as a symbol of life-giver and life-sustainer.
- It is very common for scholars to confuse these ancient tellings and legends, mixing the archetypical myth with geographic locations. This takes part because the interpretator haven´t the cosmological knowledge of connecting the correct myth to the correct cosmological contents. This is a huge problem in all mythical interpretation.
Also of course, human nature being what it is, if there were female warriors then it is not out of the bounds of possibility that certain young men might want to join that elite group, specially if they were of the effeminate type ! We do not inspect people's genitalia to make sure their gender is 'correct' even now !
“Santa Claus” is the giver of gifts and he must have derived from the archetypical myths where the primary deities are the cause of life itself and everything which is needed in order to sustain the life.
The very celestial image of Santa Claus and Krampus are carved in stones and rock surfaces and they can be compared mytho-cosmologically all over the world as the comparisons of an ancient Bronze Age rock carving from Sweden and the mythical image of the Egyptian god, Seth, as seen on my linked personal Mytho-Cosmological website.
I enjoy finding out the history to present times of witches and witch craft. History's true stories . Probably my favorite is of Greek Myth's as well as Roman Myth's.
I enjoy finding out the history to present times of witches and witch craft. History's true stories . Probably my favorite is of Greek Myth's as well as Roman Myth's.
I believe the purpose of religion is to pass down knowledge. Also, we will never understand the past, because their "world" and our "world" are totally different, and no matter how much we think we know of it we kind of don't. Also, I believe religion and myths are all connected. I wish to know the truth of everything including the past. Also, I'm a Christian, but I believe each (old) religion has a grain of truth in it and I believe the bible is incomplete.
Yes, I heard this some years ago. At the time, it was suggested that it was not enlarged for transportation as no suitable pullers (excepting humans) were available.
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If you really want to know something about Empedocles and what he meant, you may like to read "Reality" by Peter Kingsley. Empedocles, who lived 2500 years ago, is his teacher and one of the people who conciously created this Western civilisation, which we live in the death throes of...
Buddhis cut their hair becuase they are not spiritual. They are a bunch of weirdos giving up the body and only focusing on the mind. On the kabbalistic tree of life buddhist idea of enlightement of only one of the low sephiros that of mercury. Mercury is also the closes t planet to the sun (the youngest). And if thats not enough buddhism and all their sh** is everywhere on the internet. TRUE traditions are not even mentioned on the internet nowadays but buddhism and meditation is everywhere>??!?!?! think again, the elites do control the internet but they make it seem like they dont, unless you have eyes to see (real knowledge to check upon)
An elongated cranial vault would allow for much larger brain size without the need for larger pelvic sizes for mothers.
What if we have all of our ideas of evolution wrong and instead of evolution "up" from some missing link, we in fact devolved from a larger brained ancestor?
If humans evolved under much more favorable conditions than today and a catastrophe altered the Earth's climate and atmosphere, then the fossil record would show mutations for thousands of years, resulting in our current form.
Why, when a Christian festival or practice and a pagan festival or practice coincide, do we assume that Christians took it from the pagans? Why not the other way around.?
I believe there is good evidence that Jesus was born on or around 25 December, although it is not conclusive and one's faith need not depend on it.
THE BIBLICAL EVIDENCE
What does the Bible say about the date of Jesus’ birth? Luke 2:6 tells us that “the days were accomplished that she should be delivered,” so we assume Jesus was a full-term baby, born nine months after His conception. Luke 1:26 says the angel Gabriel announced the conception of Jesus to Mary in the sixth month of her cousin Elizabeth’s pregnancy with John the Baptist. So Jesus was conceived about six months after John the Baptist was conceived.
So when was John the Baptist conceived? That’s more difficult, but the Scriptures suggest some answers. John’s father was Zacharias, a Levite priest “of the course of Abia [Abijah]” (Luke 1:5). According to I Chronicles 24:7-19, King David had divided the priests into 24 orders, and these orders took turns serving in the temple for a period of eight days twice a year, separated from their wives and children. During their Zacharias and the other priests of the course of Abia served during the 10th and 24th weeks of the Jewish year.
The angel of the Lord spoke to Zacharias “while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course” (Luke 1:8), that is, while he was performing his service in the temple. After his course was finished he left the temple, returned to his wife, Elizabeth, and John was conceived (Luke 1:23-24). If this was after the second course, that is, the 24th week of the year, John would have been conceived around September or October and born around June or July. Jesus’ conception six months later would have occurred around March or April and His birth around December or January.
There is no certainty to this theory, especially given that the Jewish calendar (of only 360 days) may have been different from King David’s time to Jesus’ time. But based on the scriptural account of Zacharias’s service in the temple, it is well within the realm of possibility that Jesus was born in December.
THE EXTRA-BIBLICAL EVIDENCE
St. John Chrysostom (347-407 A.D.), whose status in eastern Orthodoxy is comparable to that of Augustine in western Roman Catholicism, argued strongly for a Dec. 25 birthdate because of the course of Zacharias’ priestly service. But he also based his conclusion on the findings of Pope Julius. Bishop Cyril of Jerusalem (348-386 A.D.) had asked Pope Julius to ascertain the date of Christ’s birth “from the census documents brought by Titus to Rome” after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. Julius then determined the date of Christ’s birth to be Dec. 25.
Julius, Cyril and Chrysostom were not alone in their reliance upon the census documents. Justin Martyr (100-165 A.D.), in a detailed statement of the Christian faith addressed to Emperor Marcus Aurelius, stated that Jesus was born in Bethlehem “as you can ascertain also from the registers of the taxing.” (Apology, I, 34). Likewise, Tertullian (160-250 A.D.) wrote of “the census of Augustus – that most faithful witness of the Lord’s nativity, kept in the archives of Rome” Contra Marcion, Book 4, 7).
Unfortunately, we do not have access to these census records today. But perhaps the better part of wisdom bids us to assume that these church fathers had access to information that we do not possess, and that they knew what they were talking about.
Some have said that Jesus couldn’t have been born in December because shepherds did not keep their sheep in the fields past late autumn. But Alfred Edersheim, in his classic work “The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah (1883) ,” cites ancient Jewish sources to the effect that flocks of sheep “remain in the open alike in the hottest days and in the rainy season – i.e. all the year round” (Book 2, p. 186). There was also a special class of Levitical shepherds who kept sacrificial lambs in the field all year round because they were used for sacrifice every month of the year.
Winters can be cold in Palestine, but they vary greatly, and some Decembers are rather mild. A recent study of stalagmites and stalactites in caves near Jerusalem strongly suggests that the average annual rainfall dropped nearly 50 percent from about 3 feet in 100 A.D. to about 1.6 feet in 700 A.D. Average winter temperatures may have varied as well. If Mary could have given birth to a baby in a Bethlehem stable, then hardy shepherds could have watched their flocks in the fields at the same time.
Edersheim concludes, “There is no adequate reason for questioning the historical accuracy of this date (Dec. 25). The objections generally made rest on grounds, which seem to me historically untenable.”
For more information, I suggest you go to the website of The Brothers of John the Steadfast,
http://steadfastlutherans.org/2014/12/redeeming-holy-days-from-pagan-lie...
and read a series of articles by Pastor Joseph Abrahamson titled "Redeeming Holy Days from Pagan Lies."
Even the very OLD writings as the Bible and the Torah it is stated that there were GIANTS in the world in those days. When the "SONS OF GOD" came down and saw the "DAUGHTERS OF MAN" they found them FAIR and they took them for wives. The babies that were born were "GIANTS".
Go to the BIBLE and study Genesis 6.
Don't forget the Lovelock, Nevada, giants. They have been mentioned repeatedly. Just check YouTube. Someone found them in a cave, then took them away to where they have never been seen since. There always seems to be this "they have disappeared" in so many accounts of giants or of artifacts for that matter.
This myth is a Story of Creation and not a story of “how the city of Rome was founded”. As “sons of Mars” this of course cannot be “sons of planet Mars” but sons of an archetypical deity of creation.
Mars and the she-wolff represents the two hemisphere celestial images of the Milky Way where the northern contours shows a huge male-like figure with a weapon in his hand – and where the southern Milky Way figure shows a huge female-like figure, sometimes mentioned as an animal creator and sometimes as a celestial goddess, the roman goddess Venus. This goddess often is depicted with many breasts as a symbol of life-giver and life-sustainer.
- It is very common for scholars to confuse these ancient tellings and legends, mixing the archetypical myth with geographic locations. This takes part because the interpretator haven´t the cosmological knowledge of connecting the correct myth to the correct cosmological contents. This is a huge problem in all mythical interpretation.
A Mytho-cosmological link:
http://www.native-science.net/Forefather.Worship.htm
Also of course, human nature being what it is, if there were female warriors then it is not out of the bounds of possibility that certain young men might want to join that elite group, specially if they were of the effeminate type ! We do not inspect people's genitalia to make sure their gender is 'correct' even now !
“Santa Claus” is the giver of gifts and he must have derived from the archetypical myths where the primary deities are the cause of life itself and everything which is needed in order to sustain the life.
The prime deities of creation is closely connected to the Milky Way as seen and illustrated here - “God, Man and animal” - http://www.native-science.net/Antropomorph.God.Man.Animal.htm
The very celestial image of Santa Claus and Krampus are carved in stones and rock surfaces and they can be compared mytho-cosmologically all over the world as the comparisons of an ancient Bronze Age rock carving from Sweden and the mythical image of the Egyptian god, Seth, as seen on my linked personal Mytho-Cosmological website.
Weather in Bethlehem (Israel) is very similar to Seattle Washington, minus the rain. I have been there and yes December is cold. Even snow at times.
Does anyone know any Eyewitness Accounts of the Kraken?
I enjoy finding out the history to present times of witches and witch craft. History's true stories . Probably my favorite is of Greek Myth's as well as Roman Myth's.
I enjoy finding out the history to present times of witches and witch craft. History's true stories . Probably my favorite is of Greek Myth's as well as Roman Myth's.
Haha, even back then they were thinking the same as we do now! Always thought the heavens sounded a bit boring myself and hell was too dark.
I believe the purpose of religion is to pass down knowledge. Also, we will never understand the past, because their "world" and our "world" are totally different, and no matter how much we think we know of it we kind of don't. Also, I believe religion and myths are all connected. I wish to know the truth of everything including the past. Also, I'm a Christian, but I believe each (old) religion has a grain of truth in it and I believe the bible is incomplete.
In all of the above post, there is one item that is definitely not true.
The Native American Vietnam Tracker story has been proven to be not true.
It is an urban legend which has been floating around the internet for years.
You guys need to fact-check your stuff before you post it.
They learned writing and the alphabet from the Greek colonists in Cuma, a frazione of the comune Bacoli in the Province of Naples, Campania, Italy.
Follow up and send to Evans!
Yes, I heard this some years ago. At the time, it was suggested that it was not enlarged for transportation as no suitable pullers (excepting humans) were available.
love reading about ancient history...
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