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Ancient Art: Flying Aircraft, Helicopters And Dinosaurs?
Why Does Ancient Art Contain Depictions Of Flying Aircraft, Helicopters And Dinosaurs?
The history of our
planet is far more complex than most people would dare to imagine.
According to the commonly accepted version of history that is taught in
high schools and colleges all over the United States, ancient man was a
very simple creature with extremely limited knowledge. Unfortunately for
those that promote this flawed version of history, archaeologists keep
digging up stuff that directly contradicts it. The truth is that there
is a tremendous amount of evidence of great intellectual achievement in
the ancient world. For example,
just consider the Great Pyramid of Giza. It is a true technological
marvel. It is such a massive structure built with such extraordinary
precision that modern technology is only just now starting to catch up
with it. We think that we could possibly build a similar structure today
if we wanted to, but modern man has never actually constructed anything
like it. And as you will see below, the Great Pyramid of Giza is far
from the only example of advanced technology in the ancient world that
we find in Egypt.
Posted below is a photograph of a wall in an ancient Egyptian temple at Abydos. Look at the hieroglyphics very carefully.
Do you see anything strange?
Researcher Lyn Leahz wrote about these incredibly bizarre hieroglyphics the other day. The following is what she had to say about them…
Decorating an Egyptian temple wall at Abydos are strange hieroglyphics which depict what appears to be modern day aircraft. This finding has caused much controversy among Egyptologists and archaeologists who are not sure what to think. How could people 2-3,000 years ago possibly have known about modern-dayaircraft?When Dr. Ruth Hover and her husband took a trip to the pyramids and temples of Egypt, they were shocked when they discovered, in the temple at Abydos, hieroglyphics depicting modern-day aircraft. She photographed a wall panel in a section where an overlaying panel with Egyptian hieroglyphics crumbled and fell, revealing an older panel beneath it. This older panel, shown above, contains images of what appear to be modern-day technology—a helicopter, a submarine, a glider, and another unknown type of aircraft (some believe resemble the Hindenburg).
So how do those promoting the commonly accepted version of history explain this?
They can’t.
In the video shared below, Lyn Leahz shares even more about these hieroglyphics and discusses additional “out of place artifacts” around the globe…
Posted below is a photo of an ancient engraving on a Buddhist temple in Cambodia known as the Ta Prohm Stegosaurus. According to the commonly accepted version of history, such an engraving should be absolutelyimpossible because dinosaurs died out millions of years ago and modern scientists only started digging them up a couple hundred years ago. And yet this engraving is there…
Deep in the jungles of Cambodia are ornate temples and palaces from the Khmer civilization. One such temple, Ta Prohm, abounds with stone statues and reliefs. Almost every square inch of the gray sandstone is covered with ornate, detailed carvings. These depict familiar animals like monkeys, deer, water buffalo, parrots, and lizards. However, one column contains an intricate carving of a stegosaur-like creature. But how could artisansdecorating an 800 year old Buddhist temple know what a dinosaur looked like? Western science only began assembling dinosaurs skeletons in the past two centuries.
Very strange stuff.
Another unexpected
place where we find “ancient dinosaur art” is on the ancient Ica Stones
that were discovered down in Peru. These stones were originally found
by the Spanish in 1535, and Spanish explorers sent some of these stones back to Spain in 1562.
The art on many of
these stones is extremely beautiful, but what makes them extremely
controversial is the fact that many of them appear to contain clear
depictions of dinosaurs. Here is one example…
And here is another example. If you look closely at this one, you can see what very much looks like a Triceratops…
Once
again, those promoting the commonly accepted version of history are at a
loss to explain this. Most commonly, they attempt to explain this
phenomenon away as a hoax because locals did start creating fake “Ica
stones” in recent years once they discovered that tourists wanted to buy
them.
But the Ica stones
that are considered to be authentic contain some remarkable details. In
fact, much of the anatomical knowledge about dinosaurs depicted on these stones was only discovered by modern scientists just very recently…
Other items of anatomical accuracy that attest to the authenticity of these Ica Stone depictions include the positioning of the tail and legs. Early critics said the Ica Stones were fakes, in part because their tails were sticking out while walking. Paleontologists in the 1960s were confident that dinosaurs dragged their tails. The paleontologists were wrong and the Ica Stones were right. Scientists now believe dinosaurs held their massive tails off the ground while walking, because there are no drag marks on dinosaur trackways. The dinosaurs on the Ica Stones are depicted standing upright, rather than with legs splayed out in a lizard-like position. That, according to dinosaur experts, is “dead on” accurate.
Of
course the Ica Stones are just one of the incredible examples of
ancient dinosaur art that have been discovered all over the world. For
many, many more examples of this phenomenon, just check out the article
that you can find right here.
Anyone that
attempts to convince you that humans that lived thousands of years ago
were bumbling dolts that were lucky to build mud huts and cover their
genitals with grass skirts is lying to you.
The truth is that
human history is incredibly complex. There are monolithic structures all
over the planet that are still standing after thousands of years that
remind all of us that great civilizations with amazing technologies once
thrived.
And there is
actually evidence that modern humans are actually getting dumber. A
Stanford University biology professor recently published a work in which
he expressed his conclusion that humans have been getting dumber for thousands of years.
Also, Dr. John
Sanford of Cornell University has conducted groundbreaking research that
demonstrates conclusively that the human genome is steadily degenerating and is eventually heading toward extinction.
So perhaps we
should not think of ourselves as so superior to ancient humanity. The
reality is that they may have been physically and mentally superior to
us in many ways.
Saturday
From Moses to Jesus: A lot has changed!
We are now to study the first five books of the Bible, known as the
Pentateuch. This word "Pentateuch" is not in the Bible; it is a Greek
word signifying literally the Five-fold Work; from penta, five, and teuchos, which in the later Greek means roll or volume.
The
Jews in the time of our Lord always considered these five books as one
connected work; they called the whole sometimes "Torah," or "The Law,"
sometimes "The Law of Moses," sometimes "The Five-fifths of the Law." It
was originally one book, and it is not easy to determine at what time
its division into five parts took place.Later criticism is also inclined to add to the Pentateuch the Book of Joshua, and to say that the first six books of the Bible were put into their present form by the same hand. "The Hexateuch," or Six-fold Work, has taken the place in these later discussions of the Pentateuch, or Five-fold Work. Doubtless there is good reason for the new classification, but it will be more convenient to begin with the traditional division and speak first of the five books reckoned by the later Jews as the "Torah," or the Five-fifths of the Law.
Who wrote these books? Our modern Hebrew Bibles give them the general title, "Quinque Libri Mosis." This means "The Five Books of Moses." But Moses could never have given them this title, for these are Latin words, and it is not possible that Moses should have used the Latin language because there was no Latin language in the world until many hundreds of years after the day of Moses. The Latin title was given to them, of course, by the editors who compiled them. The preface and the explanatory notes in these Hebrew Bibles are also written in Latin.
But over this Latin title in the Hebrew Bible is the Hebrew word "Torah." This was the name by which these books were chiefly known among the Jews; it signifies simply "The Law." This title gives us no information, then, concerning the authorship of these books.
It is certain that if Moses wrote these books he did not call them "Genesis," "Exodus," "Leviticus," "Numbers," "Deuteronomy;" for these words, again, come from languages that he never heard. Four of them are Greek words, and one of them, Numbers, is a Latin word. These names were given to the several books at a very late day. What are their names in the Hebrew Bible? Each of them is called by the first word, or some of the first words in the book. The Jews were apt to name their books, as we name our hymns, by the initial word or words; thus they called the first of these five books, "Bereshith," "In the Beginning;" the second one "Veelleh Shemoth," "Now these are the names;" the third one "Vayikra," "And he called," and so on. The titles in our English Bible are much more significant and appropriate than these original Hebrew titles; thus Genesis signifies origin, and Genesis is the Book of Origins; Exodus means departure, and the book describes the departure of Israel from Egypt; Leviticus points out the fact that the book is mainly occupied with the Levitical legislation; Numbers gives a history of the numbering of the people, and Deuteronomy, which means the second law, contains what seems to be a recapitulation and reenactment of the legislation of the preceding books. But these English titles, which are partly translated and partly transferred to English from older Latin and Greek titles, tell us nothing trustworthy about the authorship of the books.
How, then, you desire to know, did these books come to be known as the books of Moses?
"They were quoted," answer some, "and thus accredited by our Lord and his apostles. They are frequently mentioned in the New Testament as inspired and authoritative books; they are referred to as the writings of Moses; we have the testimony of Jesus Christ and of his apostles to their genuineness and authenticity." Let us see how much truth this answer contains. It confronts us with a very important matter which may as well be settled before we go on.
It is true, to begin with, that Jesus and the Evangelists do quote from these books, and that they ascribe to Moses some of the passages which they quote. The soundest criticism cannot impugn the honesty or the intelligence of such quotations. There is good reason, as we shall see, for believing that a large part of this literature was written in the time of Moses, and under the eye of Moses, if not by his hand. In a certain important sense, which will be clearer to us as we go on, this literature is all Mosaic. The reference to it by the Lord and his apostles is therefore legitimate.
Jesus quotes the law of divorce from Deuteronomy xxiv.1,2. "When a man taketh a wife and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house. And when she is departed out of his house she may go and be another man's wife." These are the words of a law which Moses is represented as uttering by the authority of Jehovah. This law, as thus expressed, Jesus Christ unqualifiedly repeals. "I say unto you that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress, and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery."
The law of revenge is treated in the same way. "Ye have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." Who said this? Was it some rabbin of the olden time? It was Moses; nay, the old record says that this is the word of the Lord by Moses: "The Lord spake unto Moses, saying [among other things], If a man cause a blemish in his neighbor, as he hath done so shall it be done to him; breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be rendered unto him." (Lev. xxiv.19,20.) So in Exodus xxi.24, "Thou shalt give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe." It is sometimes said that these retaliations were simply permitted under the Mosaic law, but this is a great error; they were enjoined: "Thine eye shall not pity," it is said in another place (Deut. xix.21); "life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." This law of retaliation is an integral part of the moral legislation of the Pentateuch. It is no part of the ceremonial law; it is an ethical rule. It is clearly ascribed to Moses; it is distinctly said to have been enacted by command of God. But Christ in the most unhesitating manner condemns and countermands it.
"When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shalt cast out many nations before thee, ... then thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them." (Deut. vii.1,2.) This is the spirit of much of this ancient legislation; and these laws were, if the record is true, literally executed, in after times, by Joshua and Samuel, upon the people of Canaan. And these bloody commands, albeit they have a "Thus said the Lord" behind every one of them, Jesus, in the great discourse which is the charter of his kingdom, distinctly repeals.
Such is the method by which our Lord sometimes deals with the Old Testament. It is by no means true that he assumes this attitude toward all parts of it. Sometimes he quotes Lawgiver and Prophets in confirmation of his own words; often he refers to these ancient Scriptures as preparing the way for his kingdom and foreshadowing his person and his work. Nay, he even says of that law which we are now studying that not one jot or tittle shall in any wise pass from it till all things be accomplished. What he means by that we shall be able by and by to discover. But these passages which I have cited make it clear that Jesus Christ cannot be appealed to in support of the traditional view of the nature of these old writings.
But did not Jesus say, "Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they that testify of me?" Well, if he had said that, it would not prove that the Scriptures they searched were errorless. The injunction would have all the force to-day that it ever had. One may very profitably study documents which are far from infallible. This was not, however, what our Lord said. If you will look into your Revised Version you will see that his words, addressed to the Jews, are not a command but an assertion: "Ye search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have eternal life" (John v.39); if you searched them carefully you would find some testimony there concerning me. It is not an injunction to search the Scriptures; it is simply the statement of the fact that the Jews to whom he was speaking did search the Scriptures, and searched them as many people in our own time do, to very little purpose.
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Wednesday
Sunday
Astral Projection: Truth of Fiction?
Insidious Part I and II have, in my opinion, done a great job of glorifying the supernatural and making an entertaining introduction to the discussion of astral projection. Can, we as humans, as so much of the content, including the title of this site, really actually sleep and project ourselves into someone else's mind? It has been debated and argued and written about since the beginning of our time.
We so badly long to be more than what we are. It's the "god" gene in us. Just take a look at a few of these examples:
We so badly long to be more than what we are. It's the "god" gene in us. Just take a look at a few of these examples:
Astral Projection
Saturday
Sunday
What's the story on Lilith, Adam's "first wife"?
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Dear Straight Dope:
What's this I hear every so often about Lillith, Adam's (as in adam and Eve) first wife?
— Jack-E in killeen
We dunno what you've heard. You could have heard Lilith is a model for
Oppressed Womanhood. You could have heard she's a succubus who gives
men wet dreams. You could have heard that she's a demoness who murders
babies. You could have heard that she's a goddess, the wife of Death.
On the one hand there are all these (and likely other) interpretations.
On the other hand there are the legends themselves, which are also
quite varied, from Jewish folklore. Let's start with a paraphrase of the
most familiar legend, which dates to medieval times, from the
controversial work known as the Alphabet of Ben Sirah, including a few of our own interjections:
When God created Adam, he was lonely, so God created Lilith from the
same dust from which Adam was molded. But they quarrelled; Adam [the
proverbial domineering male] wished to rule over Lilith. But Lilith [a
militant feminist] was also proud and willful, claiming equality with
Adam because she was created from the same dust. She left Adam and fled
the Garden. God sent three angels in pursuit of Lilith. They caught
her and ordered her to return to Adam. She refused, and said that she
would henceforth weaken and kill little children, infants and babes. The
angels overpowered her, and she promised that if the mother hung an
amulet over the baby bearing the names of the three angels, she would
stay away from that home. So they let her go, and God created Eve to be
Adam's mate [created from Adam's rib, so that she couldn't claim
equality]. And ever since, Lilith
flies around the world, howling her hatred of mankind through the
night, and vowing vengeance because of the shabby treatment she had
received from Adam. She is also called "The Howling One." You can see how this legend could lead to various interpretations,
depending on whether you think she is noble (in rebelling against male
domination) or evil (in vowing vengeance against innocent babies.)
But where does this legend come from? The author of Ben Sirah basically wove together three separate threads from centuries earlier works, because Lilith is a very ancient legend.
Let's start with the Bible as primary source material. Genesis of
course mentions Adam and Eve, but -- please note -- doesn't mention
Lilith. The idea of Lilith as a "prior first woman" before Eve arises
much later. The only reference to Lilith in the Bible (Old or New
Testaments) is Isaiah 34:14, probably written around 540 BC; it's a
description of desolation, jackals and ravens among nettles and briers,
etc.: "Goat demons shall greet each other; there
too the lilith will repose." Most of the other creatures referenced in
this poetry cannot be positively identified. The KJV, following the
Vulgate, translates "the lilith" as "the night demon," confusing the
lili- with the Hebrew word for night. But presumably Isaiah meant some
sort of demon.
The notion of a lilith as a demon is probably Assyrian (say around 700
BC), incorporated into Isaiah by way of the ancient Israelite contacts
with the mythologies of Babylonia and Chaldea. The Assyrians had three
female demons, Lilit, Lilu,and Ardat Lilit. There's little doubt that
the Hebrew lilith-demon mentioned in Isaiah was a folkloric adaptation
of the Assyrian demons.
Several hundred years after Isaiah, we find Talmudic writings that
describe Lilith (now as a named demon, rather than a broad category) as
an irresistibly seductive she-demon with long hair (presumably worn
loose, a sure sign of wantonness) and wings. Terey wants us to be sure
to say that she's a succubus. She seduces unwary men, then savagely
kills the children she bears for them.
From this, she becomes the demon responsible for the death of babies.
In ancient times, one needed to protect against such demons; today, we
blame other factors for the death of infants. To guard against Lilith,
superstitious Jews would hang four amulets, one on the wall of each room
of a newborn babe, with the inscription "Lilith - abi!" ["Lilith -
begone!"] which some think is the origin, much later, of the English
word "lullaby." OK, that's legend one: a she-demon who kills babies.
Legend two: early rabbinic writings about Adam and Eve. There are
rabbinic midrashim, stories filling in the gaps in the text, that tell
of Adam and Eve after they leave the garden. Adam is angry with Eve for
causing so much trouble, so he leaves her, and is beset by demons
(called "lilith"; the name is still a generic category of demon). A
particular lilith called Penzai seduces Adam and becomes pregnant. Got
it? So that legend associates a lilith
with Adam. Legend three: an early midrash that puzzles about why Eve is created
from a rib of Adam, why not created equally with him? The midrash
suggests the creation of a prior "first woman" (unnamed) who doesn't
work out as a fitting companion for Adam. OK, so around a thousand years later (give or take a few centuries), the Alphabet of Ben Sira
creates the story we started with, tying together all three legends,
merging (1) Lilith the child-slaying night-demon story with (2) Penzai
the lilith who seduces Adam with (3) the "prior first woman" story. This mingling of legends provided a good Jewish context for the ancient
custom of making the Lilith amulets (thus exonerating the custom from
the taint of superstition or witchcraft.) That's why the legend of
Lilith as Adam's first wife doesn't emerge until medieval times,
although the strands of the story are much earlier. The Zohar, the great book of Jewish mysticism from the 12th Century,
adds yet another dimension. The Zohar generally doesn't mention Lilith
by name, but refers to her as the wife of Samael, the Angel of Death ...
and sometimes as the wife of Satan. She sleeps with men, causing wet
dreams, and she collects semen from the marriage bed. (Flowing semen is
a symbol of life, the white fluid, contrasted with flowing blood as a
symbol of death, the red fluid,
so the demoness who kills children collecting semen is symbolically
very neat.)
So that's the legend(s) and their origin(s). A little confusing, but demonology is not an exact science.
Now, a brief footnote in Modern Times. You can imagine that modern
feminists would latch on to the rabbinic story of punishment for
resisting male domination, and use Lilith as a symbol. It's a two-edged
symbol, of course, since Lilith as a demon who destroys newborns
pre-dates the medieval explanation of Lilith as a rebellious wife.
However, the modern use of Lilith as a symbol of oppressed womanhood remains
quite strong and with every modern interpretation of ancient history, a new legend is born.
Wednesday
Age Of Deceit_Fallen Angels and the New World Order
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Age of Deceit: Fallen Angels and the New World Order is a biblical look at the history of fallen angels and the relationship to the New World Order and the New Age Movement. Recommended for advanced truth-seekers. Topics covered are the fall of mankind, the pre-flood world as Atlantis, the new age through theosophy, the fallen angels and their origin of planting the seeds to society, UFO's, E.T.'s and abduction cases, demonic possession, channeling, and more.
Friday
The Seals of the Apocalypse: Revealed!
There has been an intriguing discovery. Ancient codices inscribed on lead plates and bound together may describe events from the earliest point in Christianity. I’m skeptical. If these were discovered by archeologists, I’d be happier. Instead, there is a story of these being found by a Bedouin in Jordan who then passed it on across into Israel. Sounds suspicious, and there have been forgeries of religious artifacts in the past.
However, assuming this is the real thing, we can speculate that these small codices may be the books mentioned in the Bible’s Book of Revelation.
Could this be the biggest find since the Dead Sea Scrolls? Seventy metal books found in cave in Jordan could change our view of Biblical history
“Adding to the intrigue, many of the books are sealed, prompting academics to speculate they are actually the lost collection of codices mentioned in the Bible’s Book of Revelation.”
Could this artifact actually be the book described in Revelation 5:1-4?
“And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.”
Since these are made of lead, I assume we’d have to break the seals to open and read them. We can’t use an X-ray. The problem is in Revelation, breaking the seven seals will lead to the apocalypse as expressed by the metaphor of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse. As described in Revelation 6, break the first seal and the White Horse appears, break the second seal, the Red Horse arrives, the third seal, the Black Horse, and so on.
Is this discovery a Christian Pandora’s Box? In Greek myth Pandora’s Box contained the world’s evils, all its devils, and when Pandora opened the box this evil was unleashed on the world. If one of these sealed codices is actually the book mentioned in Revelation, could breaking the seals usher in the end of the world?
One of the sealed books pictured has seven rings sealing it, along with rings acting as a hinge on one side. Let’s hope they are forgeries! If not, then the appearance of these codices may not be a literal Pandora’s Box, but instead may be a sign, a portent, and an omen of doom. To break the seals may be a fulfillment of prophecy! If so, I suggest we don’t break the seals, and let the books remain sealed, mysterious artifacts.
Tuesday
HUMANKIND-DOOMED FROM THE START
Egyptians
And then there is Egypt. Home of some of the world's greatest historical monuments, ancient civilizations and most importantly, home of Moses, author of the Tanakh; "inspired" by a "source not of this world". - DeMaster Thomas
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