There are times,,,,

Where it feels like there is some symblance of sanity holding things together,,, just barely mind you, but there nonetheless.   Right now I feel as if its one of those moments.    Things could be so much worse than they are, maybe are worse than the guy on the street (IE, Me) sees.    

Example being what is being said about the state of Russia and the world,, more like the EU/Kraine situation.    BCE mentions that in his feeds, that even Russian Troops are saying ‘make every capitol city into a glowing glass ashtray’ but Putin holds the reins tightly still.   For how much longer is the real question, no?   We will see, (so long as the canned sunshine stays in the cans, and not released into atmo)

But I don’t think I am the only one seeing mass insanity being the norm these days.    And there are those that say its because we have lost our way, that we no longer apply the teachings of christianity to our lives.   etc etc etc,,,,

I’m not going to go all in on that line of thought, but what if, the lines of teaching are compromised by the same mentalities that make up our power mongers in the elected classes (are they elected? or are they mere puppets played for our ‘reality’ to keep us placid and quiescent?  Does the question answer itself?)    The more I have learned over the years, the more I walked away from organized religion for that very reason.   The more I learn NOW, the more I think that from the word GO, the church has been compromised and only continues to get worse.   And this isn’t JUST the Christian faiths, but the Jewish one as well.   There is plenty of evidence that the Jewish faith, at one point was polytheist, and that about 300 years before the advent of Christ, there was a purge to remove all but one, and that texts were rewritten to show “ONLY ONE” with only brief mentions of any other dieties.   

If you are curious, there are deep dives available from serious researchers on these very lines.   Heres just one and the man was a pastor that educated other pastors prior to this evoluton.   Some of them are even from the Catholic faith, from within the Vatican itself. (and that first link has an entire section with one of them.)

Why was the bible edited?   Was it because the books were bunk, or that they were counter to current teachings?    Why are there so many similarities within other texts, that put lie to some of the chapters as currently accepted in translation?   

On and on and on, the questions only raise more questions, and ultimately, the answers only lay in the past, likely to never be discovered/recovered.

We all have our beliefs.   Some are devout about theirs, maybe not as devout as the jihadii Muslims, but still, quite defensive of them.

MY FAVORITE QUOTE was along the lines of an answer to a question presented to a retired preacher.   The question “Do you believe in God as portrayed in the Bible?”  and the answer was, “I believe in the father that Yeshuah believed in.”    Now, that seems pretty straight forward until you realize that in ALL of the writings of Jesus/Yeshuah, he never ONCE mentions Yahweh, the God of the old testament as translated by the Greeks from Hebrew.   The answer was a loaded gun handed to a quizical kid, and it went off in this kids hand, after many many years.

When I picked up the Gnostic texts, was when my education of where things went sideways started.   When I read the book of Thomas,,,   The Sophia of Christ,,,     I started seeing parallels with buddhist teachings.   

And then there is the whole 18 years Christ was ‘lost’ in the original texts.   12yo blowing the minds of the elders in the temple, then nothing until he returned at 30 to begin his ministry.   

And there were ‘roads’ to the far east even then,,,,

and Buddhism is over 500 years older,,,   It had plenty of time to aggregate into a solid belief system.

And many of the teachings are not just parallels, but damn near verbatim translations of early teachings of Siddhartha,,,

Its the translation of passages like “The only path is through ME”, followed by ‘We are all sons of God’     Those counterpoint ideas were what caused me to question even the most basic of teachings…

Not that I feel the ethics are wrong, quite the opposite. Certainly worlds above most of the teachings in the Qu’ran (where killing/Subjagation of enemies is the epitome of the entire text,,,)   I did learn right from wrong by Christian education,  even my public school years had mostly still Christian ethics built in, with a goodly dose of Patriotism/Propaganda built of course (not that that is all a bad thing,,, far better than the ‘hate  your country, hate yourself for being white and male’ that seems to be the core of whats in our public educations system these days.

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I just re-read Jonathan Livingston Seagull again.   Only this time, its the original intended story, with a fourth chapter that Richard had held back (and even he is unsure why now, as he writes in the epilogue.)   (spoiler alert) IN that chapter, the original teachings of Jonathan are lost to sloth and manipulations, and only towards the very end, are the ‘new lessons’  questioned and rejected.  

Reading it, felt almost like Richard had seen the future of religions and had a good feel for where things had ‘gone wrong’ and that the new future would be exactly that, Questioned and Rejected for better simpler truths, not Dogma and Mythos.

I wonder if that stage isn’t coming to fruition even now on the world stage, that older Orders are on the verge of collapse from within, and the ‘simpler truths’, the ones that can’t be refuted by myth and dogma, stand bold and clear.  

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I’m prattling on now, aren’t I?     I will tell you this much though.   When I had my epiphany was right after my parents split, and my mother was a member of a new Church.   There was a picture of the pastor of that church with the contents of the offering plate taped over his entire body (he was clothed, you can see the suit in places between the bills)   My reaction, even then in my early years ( I believe I was 10 at the time) was “Whuduhfuck, what a friggin’ ego that shit has!”    And,,,, This was years before the whole Evangalist meltdowns of the 80’s,, I think it was before the Kool-aid Pastor wiped out his entire flock,,,,   But think about that,,, If a 10yearold kid could see the hypocrisy of the one pic, and start to question every ‘leader’ afterwards,,, Are my points above so ‘crazy’?    Maybe they are ‘wrong’ on some level, but how ‘right’ are our current teachings????   

That’s the real question in my mind.

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