6 is not 8

O.K., let's face it: a lot of biblical folklore comes from Ethiopia.

"Israel has admitted for the first time that it has been giving Ethiopian Jewish immigrants birth-control injections, often without their knowledge or consent."

Oy Vey! Oy vey (Yiddish: אױ װײ) or "oy vey ist mir" is a German Yiddish (not Hebrew) phrase expressing "Woe is me!" Hebrew is a dead language - long lost in centuries and millennia gone by. There is a kindle book HERE. or a PDF HERE. Also, an Alternate New Land (Ersatz Israel) is HERE.

The old Ethiopian legend of the Kebra Negast tells the story of the Queen of Sheba's visit to Solomon's mighty kingdom to learn the secrets of being a great leader. While in his kingdom the Queen of Sheba bore Solomon a son, to which Solomon gave a jeweled ring to prove his descent from the seed of David. The Queen of Sheba returned to her land in, then southern Ethiopia, what is today Somalia, with her son to continue to rule the land (GORHAM 9). Between two hundred and three hundred kings are believed to have ruled between the time of Solomon and Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia.

Vintage collection of Ethiopia‘s emperor Haile Selassie I with his Lions. The lion is considered as Ethiopia‘s national animal and can be seen on various national artifacts such as the Ethiopian Lion of Judah flag...

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sent me yet another falsified widow's mite!

Many folks figure we are ignorant of history, folklore, numismatic evidence, and the like.

The greatest of the Indo-Greek rulers (actually a Macedonian general's son - Alexander the Great) was undoubtedly Menander, who is called Milinda in Buddhist texts. See: "The debate of King Milinda: an abridgement of the Milinda"... a PDF

Luke is full of parallels to Buddhist scriptures, and the story of the two mites is, no doubt COPPIED from the Buddhist original (which also contains the parable of the sower of seeds).

The bible has been plagiarized from other sources???

Certainly. The Buddhists borrowed scriptures from the Hindus and the Hindus borrowed scriptural folklore from the Animists. So what? Oh... the Flavians borrowed from the Buddhists to create the myth of Jesus, the Christ. Titus Flavius Vespasianus led the siege that razed Jerusalem in 70 A.D., then went on to succeed his father Vespasian as Roman emperor. The NT (written after 100 or 150 in the CE) is the effort of Titus to deify Vespasian. Indeed, it was Titus that rode into Jerusalem on the back of a colt!

Read: "The instruction of the Kalamas (Kalama Sutta)"

And get over it.

Even though many "Zionists" think Israel is in the wrong place at the wrong time, SO WHAT? To error is human. To forgive, is Buddhist.

I missed "it."

I mean "Going Clear" just last week as well as est four decades ago.

My friends tell me that it is a kind of updated replay of the TIME article from days gone by. Again, I missed it. I simply do not have cable/satellite TV (never have, never will). I lack the time, temperament, and taste for "1,000 channels of nothing to watch."

"The revelations in Alex Gibney’s new documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief won’t come as a huge surprise to anyone who’s read Lawrence Wright’s devastating, similarly titled book-length exposé. (Nor will your generic ethic officers bat an eyelash over the exposure.) But a movie is a very different thing than a book, for better and for worse."

As for est, it has been reborn yet again (and dies) in some new forms. It remains a tepid world - between heaven and hell. (YAWN) I will awake you when the time arrives.

Part of "Large Group Awareness Training," est was, in my opinion, a short shot at satori for the fools (and their recently separated money).

esties would buy a bumper sticker and drive around with this tangible representation of their gullibility on the ass-end of their CVC, BMW, or rent-a-wreck.

Besides, SOME derived an ersatz 'right of passage' from est where they had (1) failed to grow up, (2) failed to finish college (or high school) and/or (3) recently received a bad performance review (from either an employer or bed-partner - or both).*

Jim Jones was a MASTER of LGAT - to the bitter end.



BBC Documentary...



So, the Jonestown 'rite of passage' was - as they say - to the other shore.

Then there is that word: LITIGATION.

And the other word: CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY.

*There is evidence that many of those who sign up for LGAT programs such as Landmark Forum are having major problems in their lives. Y. Klar, R. Mendola, J. D. Fischer, R. C. Silver, J. M. Chinsky and B. Goff, reported in the Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology [990;58(1):99-108]

'google' your favorite LGAT and either the word "suicide" or the word "litigation."

O.K. - fair enough?

Your brain is your brain - be responsible for it!

Subcultures within subcultures...

CONTEXT

In the 1950s, the Beatniks were a youth subculture.

Bob Denver plays a Beatnik HERE

Within the transition from the Beatnik subculture to the Hippie Subculture (e.g. the 1960s), popularized SF Zen emerged. Zen, in the N.Y.C. area had arrived a decade or so earlier. That is/was the Alan Watts, D.T. Suzuki wave of Zen.

SF Zen Center was part of the Haight Ashbury Scene in San Francisco.

Another factor during that time was the "free love" movement

and, to a lessor degree, wife swapping.



FInal Scene...



So, to say that Richard Baker was "sleeping around" was only to say that Richard Baker did not divorce himself from the Scene in San Francisco - especially around the Haight.

What I am saying is that Rickard Baker was not evil. He simply did not detach himself from the world of hedonism that surrounded Zen Center. That was, at worst, a weakness on his part.

Hedonism's motto was: "Find your pleasures and maximize them." Drugs, sex, and rock and roll.

Do not make artificial distinctions based upon ignorance. Either educate yourself or withdraw from the useless activity of condemning others for that which you do not understand - or can not understand.

People who live in Glass houses...

So, when I mention a glass house, what is the obvious obtuse choice?

Well, Carter Glass was an unreconstructed rebel.

He was on the cover of TIME (June 9, 1924)

An obvious Southern Democrat (now a Republican ideologue), he was weaned on a pickle! He was "the Senate's last surviving member born in the antebellum South, Glass unapologetically fought to retain a society in which property-owning, white males sat at the top of the pyramid."

Carter Glass earned his fame by pursuing his ultimately successful goal of denying the right to vote to as many black Virginia as possible. As he told one reporter, “Discrimination! Why that is exactly what we propose. To remove every negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate.”

Runs on the banks were threatening the inherited wealth of the landed gentry! FDIC ended that! He's the Glass in the Glass–Steagall Act!

And his much coveted "Glass" mansion is where Jerry Fall-well died. (and his fatness is buried in the front yard)

We can't fault him for having fat friends...

This $100,000 gold certificate is "chump change."

Glass appears on the half-valued $50,000 Treasury note!

And now you know why the Xtian fat-man wanted to live in a Glass house!



People who live in Glass houses should not stow thrones!

"In one of those truly bizarre things that you really have to see to believe, multimillionaire “Reverend” Sun Myung Moon was crowned messiah on March 13, 2004 in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC. Attending the ceremony were apparently seventy-one congressmen, including two senators, dozens of ambassadors to the United States, and various other figures from the religious and political establishments of the nation."

How many gods are there?

You mean this week? I don't know, but PLENTY.

Adherents.com reports 22 "Major Religions" - each with half a million followers (or more) - throughout the world.

However, these 22 include secularism, atheism, and agnostics as "one group" and there may be no "god" in some segments. Buddhism also has no "god" in the western notion os the word (e.g. we are all gods or there is not a god that can be known to the vast majority of people).

Neo-paganism, as a group, is used to incorporate a large group of modern revivals of ancient religions. Most Neo-pagans would have multiple gods and/or goddesses thereby making counting gods nebulous.

Shinto has a multitude of gods - research that one yourself. Rei Hino is a Shinto priestess (Miko) who transforms into Sailor Mars...

Another problem comes from Hinduism which, according the their scriptures, has 333 million gods.

Some Hindu's will say there is only one god with 333 million avatars or manifestations, but enough believe in the 333,000,000 total that the total number of gods would be well over 330,000,000 gods. Others go for just 33,000,000. Yet others say 3003... or 33 Celestial gods?

Steve Jobs had some interest in aspects of Hinduism. We know he (Steve Jobs) eventually adopted ZEN BUDDHISM as a spiritual path.

Somewhere, there is a bottom line.

See also: HERE