sumpin a little different
(in honor of the holiday)
I’ve talked about my beliefs here a time or two. I would like to point you to a post by Francis first,,, GO read please
I’ve said I am more pagan than christian, and a lot of that has to do with how the Roman Catholics absconded certain holidays to ease reforming the pagan religions. Easter was spring rite, Hallows Eve was another,,, Saints day, same, you name, there is a pagan equivalant somewhere. Not going to go into that too much, just pointing out that there were some things like that in the faith that made me begin questioning the integrity of the whole.
Fact is, the whole argument is a negative assumption, not provable, not disprovable. Too many points where witnesses outnumber the written facts, but, as Francis points out in that article; those that would be writing down the events were under different constraints, different motives, different GOALS,,, Those that wrote the events as described in the bible and other records were the devote, and those that were not, might have been impelled to massage or outright quell the event ‘for reasons’,,,,
It wasn’t until I started diving into Quantum mechanics (and I am no expert by any degree, just an avid hobbiest at best) that I started to put some questions to myself that started to add up, along with the beliefs of the Christian faith to ‘THAT MAKES SENSE NOW’ There are still aspects that I take as “propaganda manipulation’ and I think I am justified in that since Religion in all its aspects is about as old as the human race is,,, some say the oldest profession ever (harlotry being the second,,,,) And why not, those that were smart enough to scare the tribal leaders, but weak enough that they needed an edge; sure, make up some mumbo jumbo about spirits that do evil if you don’t do this,,,etc etc etc,,,,
Funny how that works out to “maybe there IS a bit of truth out there”. Such as boiling water, or not eating pork, We know now why those are correct, but back in 500BC, how did the clerics of the Jews know,,, Simple observation and deduction; then twist in a bit of starry eyed reverence and make it Taboo for relgious reasons,,, Yeah, I might be putting some bias in my thinking since I hold little regard for organized religions.
More wars, death and misery have come from the various religions over time. Will again if things continue along certain paths,,,, The Crusades were never ‘finallized’ ya-know,,,,
But let me pass on all of that for a moment. Let me tell ya how I started to ‘come around.’ The whole Quantum Cloud thing started making me formulating my theory that we are “interfaces” or, to parrot a movie “Avatars” of our quantum selves, that we visit this realm for lessons, or vacation, or something, but that, due to the nature of the physical, we can’t bring all of our aspects with us, like our REAL memories. (and that explains some of the stories of very young children having “wierd memories” that they lose very quickly as they gain deeper harmony with the world around them. I know there are ‘memories’ that I have, that ‘aren’t mine’ perse,,, Things that there is no way I could have experenced the events I recall, and details that can’t be ‘explained away’. I won’t go into that here though.)
Now, we have this quantum cloud thing that is slowly being proven as fact, we know that the quantum do not ‘recognize’ time, or space like most particles and atoms, we know and have (mostly) proven and disproven many theories in quantum mechanics,
but there is one aspect that rings true across two places. One is the research itself, the other is the bible. THe deeper we look, the more we find and that rabbit hole looks to be infinitely deep. There is a quote in the bible of “the deeper you look, the more you will find ME.” (and apologies, I do not recall where that quote is ot to whom those words were intended, but I firmly recall hearing/reading them in my past. Maybe someone more learned in such things than myself can enlighten us in comments)
There is also the fact that more and more Quantum scientists, who usually start of as athiest or agnostic, become quite firmly Christian in short order,,, I don’t think that is accidental, or conspiracy, I think they find “Faith” is the ultimate answer at the end of the day,
Why? Because the more they uncover, the less the ‘rules’ work,,, Something directs those particles to do what they do (and why the search for the “God Particle’ is ongoing.) And that time and space are seemingly meaningless to the particles,,, Like Tachyons, that are ALWAYS detected BEFORE a nuclear reactor starts; almost as if it travels backwards in time,,,, There was some discussion in a group of friends about creating a nuclear war sensor using tachyon dectecton. but was shot down fast, since the detection is usually in microseconds,,, thats too short a time frame to be of use against nuclear war,,,,
Let me make a suggestion, totally hypothetical on my part. What if our history that we call ‘our history’ back to such and such a point, isn’t COMPLETE? That there is lost knowledge from long before our written histories, (and there is evidnce of this in some of the Seven wonders of the world) And that those that came before some collapse that didn’t make it thorugh to the pages we know, (like some epic flooding or something,,,) that was MUCH MORE IN TUNE with the quantum realm. Look around for the Circle of Life markings, that show up with regular frequency, all around the world, in archeology.
And what if some of that knowledge DID make it through and became religous teachings,,, such as the Chakras of asiatic medicine. We DO KNOW that the Old Testament is taken from the Torah of Jewish heritage. What we don’t know (but can make the assumption) is how much of that was orginially and STRICTLY oral traditon? and for how long? What was lost in translation? How much was INTENTIONALLY lost in translation because some group didn’t like some aspect?
No one knows. I don’t believe anyone can know because any that would be guilty of such have been dust longer than the tablets and scrolls ‘the word’ was taken from.
Keep the important stuff, cull the dregs,,, except someones definition of dregs might have held something important, that tied other things together, and the rot would spread,,,,,
And I digress,,,
What we know, and this is still growing: muscle memory is real. ‘Gut instincts/gut feelings’ are real. We know that what was thought of how the brain functions is woefully inadequate to explain what it actually does, and that its not just what is held within the cranium, but along much of that path as described in the Chakras. Either the ancients were far better at physical observation than we (YES!) or they were privy to communications with God/Creator/Author/The Cloud, that we are not.
and oh, you have no idea how that “why?” goes through my brainium in the wee darks,,,,,
Let me talk about the person that this day is in honor of, his death to be precise. Died on the cross, laid in a tomb, rose from the dead, appeared before congregations of people (supposedly world-wide by some modern peoples beliefs.) than ascended to heaven.
One thing that keeps coming back is how Christ, was not a solitary individual, but a TRINIITY,,, God, Son and the Holy Ghost. That could be another way of saying “strongly connected to the cloud” in words to convey an idea that didn’t exist at that time. Just my thoughts on that, BUT, that many many witnesses of the events prior, the miracles, then the roll out of events after death,,,, All could be explained by someone that was strongly connected to the quantum realms and able to manipulate the particles that have no respect of time or space, and that make up MATTER,,,, If I had that sort of ability, Yeah, I could make water solid enough to walk on, or ‘create’ food at will, I could see/sense illness and affect the causes of it and CURE the afflicted,,,, I could stall the separation of the quantum chord and my body, so that I could reanimate it. I would imagine the release of energy to do that would be strong enough to alter cloth so that it could form an image,,, (the shroud for those in question)
I can also see how some Groups in Power at the time would not want such word spreading to widely or at all. (the lack of records of a person of Christs’ nature by the Romans who were meticulous records keepers.) And that explains much of why the disciples were “outlaws” and treated as such when caught. And maybe Christ was able to pass on some of his ability/nature/whatever it is, on to his disciples, so that they too, could effect miracles (and were recorded as doing such in a few cases)
Maybe what he taught them was that ‘This reality isn’t real, only your thoughts are,,,,”
And that takes a HEADY amount of faith to transcend into.
So, lets make a small assumption that there is some meat on the bones of my hypothesis,,,, WHAT IS HEAVEN? WHO/WHAT IS GOD? Where does ‘Hell’ fall into this line of thinking? Start with the first one, and that one leads into the second, and THIS IS ALL MY OPINION, but it works for me and keeps my spirit/soul content,,, (faith!)
Heaven is THE CLOUD, a Cloud of Quantum material that is scattered about the universe. Its not ‘visible’, only recently been detectable, and no one knows just how big or dense or, well, nothing much known, and leave it at that. BUT, if that cloud were consolidated thoughts of creatures, than the cloud is US,,,, ALL OF US,,, some more complicated than others, some less, some more intune with things, some fast, some slow: and when I say “US”, I mean every single human, furrie, fish, plant, and rock. EVEN THE EARTH (though I have yet to figure out how that would work,,,,but Gaia does ‘vibrate’ and show long movements as if alive so to speak.) “Heaven” would then be that cloud where we combine with the group, share our experiances, whiz about the universe and do different things as different sorts of beings.
So WHO/WHAT is GOD? We are,,, even here, where we are but a miniscule part of our real selves, we make up a part of that thing called Heaven and Heaven IS God,,,, WE were created in his image, and in doing so, we took a part of him as ourselves,,,, TO ABUSE THAT IS THE WORST SIN!!!
Is that blasphemy? Probably to some, but I find peace in it, and I have used it to ‘correct’ some wayward drogues I had the ‘pleasure’ of being in close contact with. Prefacing that idea as “we are all GOD, and we need to act as such” really seemed to hit them sideways with a clue bat. That could be part of that ‘heady amount of faith’ to transcend into.
Now, What the Hell is Hell? Hmm,,,, First off, the whole idea of Hell really was what turned me off from the teachings when I was a kid. For the preacher to say “God is unbridled love” then to follow it up with “but you’ll burn in hell for,,,,,” Let me just say that a 6YO could see the fallacies and discrepencies in the teachings,,,, Now, with that in mind, I do think GOD has some way of punishing us (we punish ourselves really) and that way is, IN SOME INSTANCES, Right here,,,,, On earth,,, we get tortured, torn, destroyed mentally and spiritually, RIGHT HERE< RIGHT NOW, at least some of us do. I can think of one right now, that even though he knows the solution, can not back out of his personal Hell,,,, He may go his entire life in that Hell,,, And as a quantum being, that knows neither time nor space,,, that may seem like an eternity,,, OR even the blink of an eye, and I would imagine the CLOUD has some say in the perception. So, yeah, I think in some ways, Hell is right here, right now, and those of us that seem ‘middlin’ in pain and discomfort are in the Purgatory side of things, Learning some lesson that needs learned for whatever purpose,,,
And IMO, those purposes are to make us ‘closer to God’.
And some of us have a long road ahead to that end. Maybe even multiple trips ‘here’ to do so. (explains the reincarnation side of Eastern philosophies, no?)
I think all religions older than ‘the birth of Christ’ have some merit and are tied together in some way shape or form. Most of those after that fact are either factions of an older one, or some silliness created in a cave by some loser pedophile who was on the run,,,, Most of the modern religions (like evangligcal baptists herebouts) seem twisted to me and really buried in dogma that contradicts the purpose of a religion. My opinion, YMMV.
And I will leave you with those thoughts for the day,
((as for the “Demons” and other agents of evil,,,, All I have to say on that is “They are real” and you only need to look around to find it in action. That aspect is covered by ‘fallen angels’ and such: they are the same as us in fact, but warped maligned and dangerous to the GOOD,,,,))
Histories,,,,
I found a copy of a book I read waybackawhen,,, Like prepubescent age (I think I was 12 when I read it then, so 43 years ago,,,,) This book is no lightweight book either,,,, Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa no affiliate link there, I was reading Stephen King and many others for years and at that time, I was into the Japanese thing hardcore,,, James Clavells Shogun, among many others. (by the way, in re-reading this book, I was sort of shocked at the type face,,, something like 8 point microprint,,, and the book is still 970 pages in length,,,, I need my readers for this one and I don’t normally,,,Certainly did not as a kid,,,,)
But it got me to thinking about things, historical and what not. Look at Japan, centuries of being a Country, a set of ethics, A CULTURE for cripes sake. Look at Russia, A thousand years of history dating back to the collapse of The Holy Roman Empire and the breakup of the Church between Roman Catholic and the Orthodox church ( When Constantinople was a place, ‘Istanbul not Constantinople, its Istanbul not Constantinople’,,,, thats nobodies business but the Turks,,,,’ ). China,, same: thousands of years of history, going back as far as the Roman Empire, even so far back as to Alexander in some areas. India much the same. Maybe the borders have changed some over decades/centuries, but the Cultures are much the same,,,,
Its why I think China was so readily absorbed into communism of their own flavor and why the Soviet flavor didn’t sit well for very long. The cultures make it or break it. (and why Japan did not fall under Communism seeing how tiered their people have been for centuries,,, maybe it was the militant tiering that kept them safe,,, dunno)
But think about the time periods of those people. There were, ARE, towns in Russia that have history that goes all the way back to the Mongol Hordes, towns that didn’t collapse, but surrendered and paid the tithe to maintain a certain amount of sovereignty during that time. (You did know that Genghis offered that to every city/state, right? Refusal was a death sentence,,,). Doing so allowed them to survive and keep their culture. Culture that, yes, has evolved some over the decades/centuries, but is still very much a part of the people. Culture that transcends borders, culture that molds thought processes.
Think about the Samurai of Japan, the mindset that is still very much alive today in the way they deal in business (well, to some extent, it was much more prevalent in the 70’s and 80’s)
Thousands of years of culture,,, thats a force multiplier in some theaters. In some ways, its also an issue. Like that situation in the Kraine,,, Many on both sides of the front speak Russian, are Russian in thinking, and the problem really boils down to Government, not the people themselves. But I digress,,,, (and why the FUCK are we still playing these Cold War mind games? Seriously, that shit is DEAD DEAD DEAD!!!! )
Look at us though: Here we are, Fresh meat on the world stage in many ways. Canada is another such (as is pretty much any one country on the American Continents; north south or central.). Less than 500 years in the making. Our own country is only 248 years old. We have a culture, kind of, one that is the ODD of the children of the world, Some of European or Asian culture would even say we are the Autistic brats on the playground,,,,
Gotta say, I kinda take a certain amount of pride in that, seeing how I am a contrarian at my deepest core,,,, (Think about it, I was the wyrd kid in school that carried ‘Fun’ reading material around that wieghed more than my Textbooks did,,, and had a backpack that had all my AD&D books for when I wasn’t at school, that weighed even MORE,,,,)
And yet here we are,,,, Being torn apart from the inside by bad actors of our own making (so to speak,,) they look like us and talk like us, but they AIN’T AMERICAN in my humble opinion,,, They invite in ‘replacement peoples’ to displace those of us that were born here or came here to BE AmeriCAN’s, not drag those shitholes we fled with us (Keep that in mind, those fleeing the bluehives,,, You voted for that shit, and it drove you out; don’t bring it with you dammit!!!).
I go back and watch the Tucker/Putin Interview and I see that HISTORY, I see the,,, I want to say ‘contempt’ but I think that is too harsh a word, more like the Elder looking at the fumbling of the young and just shaking heads at the foolishness. That Putin has thrown in his ‘bid’ for Biden actually tells me he would rather see America Fail without a bullet fired than have to face a strong America,,, Can you blame the man? He is a ‘world leader’ and while maybe he does, or doesn’t have Empirical goals for his country, EMPIRE is the natural evolution of Government, and CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT at that,,,, Russia definitely has that Centrailized thing going. Every Government out there does currently,,,
BUT
I see that trend dying as we watch. I think that is what is driving all of us just a little bit batty right now. We are a Young Country that grew way too damned fast, thanks to Technology and the timing of WW2, and the fact that we have one big landmass surrounded by LOTS of ocean to deter invasion.
UNLESS, we invite the invasion IN,,,, As our Current Shaminstration has been doing the last three years,,,
And the fact that we keep electing people that actually HATE the idea of Freedom of the People,,,, These people in office, both in front with names known and those behind the scenes that make the actual decisions; they despise people being autonomous and individual. THEY want widgets, slaves, cogs that pay; NOT PEOPLE because they are only interested in one thing
POWER. Power as explained by Orwell. “Power for powers sake, nothing else, ULTIMATE POWER.”
And they can feel it slipping from their grasp,,, That’s the point of all the talk of censorship across world nets. The continuing grab at the 2A, even now going through SCOTUS, yet again,,,, The ‘don’t give a damn’ spending that goes against 80% of the populace’s opinion, left and right combined,,, THEY WANT US DESTROYED because we are the ‘outlaw that shows the hole in their ideology’. THEY have to destroy America, or THEY will find they are the hunted when the rest of the world figures it out, AND THEY KNOW IT!!!! Even Putin is in on this in some way.
And this country is about to be made a laughing stock of the world yet again, very soon. Kraine and Russia are in talks with the House of Saud acting as mediator,,,, Maybe the characters involved are part of that Centralized Government thing that is taking a hit, but when its all said and done, the people will still see how fallible the Big Gov’s truly are,,, (Wanna know just how fragile they are? Look deep into the House of Saud and find out how much that group pays their people to NOT riot,,,, Eye opening that one was,,,,)
Ok, Had to get that stuff outta me head,,, may be I am overthinking shit again, (usually) but I look at current events and the insanity that is the ‘norm’ currently has me looking for solutions to a future that is decidedly “unclear, check back again soon”
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