9000 BC City of Jericho in Palestine inhabited
8000 BC City of Damascus in Syria inhabited
5400 BC Sumerian City of Eridu Founded
4004 BC The almighty God YHWH creates the universe
3150 BC King Menes unites the kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt. Begins the Dynastic Period 2400 BC The City of Babylon is built by Sargon.
1700 BC Abraham migrates from Mesopotamia. Father's all nations of Israel.
1393 BC Moses leads the Isrealites on an Exodus to Jerusalem. Gives them the Holy Covenant.
1000 BC David unites the kingdoms of Judah and Isreal.
776 BC First Olympic games are held. Time is measured in Olympiads
760 BC Homer compiles epic poems into Greek script. The oldest work of western literature.
753 BC Founding of Rome, by Romulus and Remus
586 BC Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
546 BC Cyrus unites the Median and Lydian Empires into the Persian Empire.
544 BC King Tarquinius of Rome, purchases three books of prophecy from the Cumean Sibyl
539 BC Babylon is conquered by the Persian Empire.
509 BC Rape of Lucretia by Tarquinius Sextus, Monarchy defeated, Rome becomes a Republic
459 BC Ezra compiles the Torah while leading the Jews from Exile
338 BC Phillip unites Macedon and Greek city-states to form the Leauge of Corinth.
333 BC Macedonians conquer Babylon and the Persian Empire
332 BC Macedonians conquer Egypt Alexandria is founded
323 BC Ptolemy rules Egypt as Pharoah after death of Alexander the Great
320 BC Manethos writes a history of Egypt in Greek for 30 Dynasties reaching back to Menes.
275 BC Fall of Babylon during Greek fighting following the death of Alexander
164 BC Jews revolt against the Selucid empire. Restore the Temple in Jerusalem
146 BC Rome conquers Macedon. Establishes province of Macedonia
133 BC Rome wrests control of Asia Minor from Greece
80 BC Alexandria formally comes under Roman rule. Province of Aegyptus established.
63 BC Rome conquers Syria and Judea
48 BC Caesar proclaimed Dictator of Rome, Defeats Ptolemy Theos Philopater in Egypt.
44 BC Caesar is assassinated in the Senate. End of the Roman Republic.
40 BC Parthians conquer Jerusalem. Antigonus becomes king of Judea.
37 BC Romans conquer Jerusalem from the Parthians. Herod the Great becomes king of Judea.
30 BC Octavian captures Alexandria. Egypt in conquered by Rome. Antony and Cleopatra killed
29 BC Octavian commissions Virgil to write epic of Aeneas, the Trojan ancestor of the Romans.
27 BC The Roman Senate votes Octavian the title of Augustus
4 BC Herod dies, Archelaus becomes ethnarch of Judea. Antipas rules Galilee and Perea
1 CE Jesus Christ is Born
The events in red are mythical.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
In the Beginning…
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” Gospel of John 1:1
The beginning of the evolution of Christianity, not surprisingly has its roots in the Old Testament and the ancient tribes of Israel. The Torah which chronicles the history of the Jewish peoples has been one of the most widely studied and reproduced books through the course of civilization. The archaeological record however, demonstrates that the events described in these Holy Scriptures have little basis in historical reality. Setting aside the absurd notion that the words of the Torah were spoken by the Lord YHWH himself directly to Moses, one must then search for the true human compositor of these works.
The earliest reference yet found to the Hebrew civilization is on a statue from the Syrian city of Alalakh, dated to about 1550 BCE. The inscription refers to hapiru warriors in the land of Kin’anu (Canaan). This is also confirmed by clay tablets from Pharaoh Akhenaten’s capital of Amarna, referring to marauders in the hill country of Palestine. The stele of Pharaoh Merneptah dated to 1207 BCE also records “Israel is laid waste, his seed is not”. However the title “Israel” is a reference to a people, not a territory.
The weight of evidence suggests the original Hebrews coalesced during the bronze age from successive migrations, from the periphery of the Nile delta and from across the Jordan and Euphrates rivers. In their Semitic tongue, “habiru” meant ‘beyond’, suggesting an origin elsewhere. In Babylonian script “khabiru” referred to a class of slaves. In the language of the Egyptians “apiru” translated roughly to “labourer”. As a people, therefore, the Hebrews combined Mesopotamian and Egyptian stock, almost certainly drawn from the lowest social order, conceivably including runaway slaves and homeless labourers.
As newcomers to what was the land of Canaan, the Semites, speakers of a tongue common to Syrians, Arabs and Mesopotamians, took up migratory occupation of the less fertile hill-country of the interior. Neither their culture, nor their social organization distinguished them from the other tent-dwelling tribes of the area. The only noticeable distinction between the Jews and their neighbours was the ritual blood sacrifice of circumcision. These early, polytheistic, Hebrews eked out a simple existence in a harsh desert landscape on the fringes of such major civilizations as Egypt, Phoenicia, and Babylon, occasionally moving with their animals into the Nile delta in times of draught.
It seems as if they were joined, over time, by refugees from the more sophisticated Phoenician coastal cities. The Phoenician migrants brought with them cultic practices and images of their traditional gods. A major Canaanite god was El, and the phrase ‘El has conquered’ gives us the word Isra’el. God-inspired names were common throughout the west-Semitic language region. Other Canaanite gods included, Shalem, a Syrian sun god – later to be honoured in the name Jeru’salem. The city of Ru’shalimum is mentioned in records of the Pharaoh Sesostris III (1872 - 1847 BCE). The settlement actually pre-dated the occupation of the tribe of Hebrews. The site then appears to have been unoccupied for three hundred years until the Jebusites, otherwise known as Philistines arrived.
But in the Torah we have a story, a tale of tribal fidelity, with a vengeful protector god Yahweh, who had chosen the Hebrews as his very own. For them, he has a divine purpose. In particular, their migration into Canaan is given a heroic re-interpretation. No longer do we have piecemeal migration of refugees over centuries but a single glorious conquest by a cohesive people. The whole land surrounding Jerusalem is promised to the Jews in perpetuity. They have, it would seem, arrived as a single group from Egypt, released from slavery by divine intervention.
The two primary books of the Torah, Genesis and Exodus, refer to the “Pharaoh” exactly 155 times. Curiously, not once is the Pharaoh actually identified by name, the holy books themselves, however are not lacking in excruciating detail of incidental character. For example, the grandmother, of the grandmother, of King Asa of Judah was Abishalom (1 Kings 15.10), but the mighty Pharaoh who was the adoptive father of Moses himself, remains unnamed.
The Egyptians have no record of ever having enslaved the Jews, Hebrews, Israelites or Canaanites. Not surprisingly there is also no reference outside of the holy texts to Abraham, Moses, or pretty much any other supposed historical figure represented in the early books of the bible.
This history, tracing the people of Judah, back through Hebrews in Canaan and Israelites in Egypt, to a noble ancestor called Abraham, and the whole dramatic story of the Exodus was concocted at a date some eight centuries later, after the nobility of the Judean tribesmen had been taken into exile by their Babylonian captors. The majority of the Old Testament was written, not at the dawn of time but in the sixth century B.C., when Greece was already a thriving civilization and Carthage had a maritime army.
In the year 586 BCE the Babylonians under their king Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem, and replaced Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king of Judah. Incidentally, Jehoiachin is one of the few biblical characters which can be confirmed to have existed from external sources. The Babylonians ordered the upper-class of the Jews to be forced to populate the territories surrounding Babylon, in modern-day Iraq, This exile was not technically enslavement as Babylon hoped to assimilate into its culture, those it conquered.
The Babylonian exile continues for about 50 years. The Persian Empire under King Cyrus the Great conquered the Babylonians. Cyrus issued an edict allowing the Jews to return to Jerusalem. For the Jews who chose to stay he appointed a high-priest from among them to administer the faith. The Persian emperor, wishing to promote Hebrew national unity, supported the standardization of the oral traditions of the Jews into a single written source. These tribal traditions contained rival histories, religious views, and law codes. The differing views had to be kept to avoid alienating each group.
Most biblical scholars believe that the compiler was Ezra, as he was the priest empowered by the Persian emperor to arbitrate and assert the state religion. Ezra was instructed to uphold the religious text that he carried back with him from the Babylonian exile. According to the Biblical Book of Nehemiah, when Ezra read it out to the assembled people returning from exile, many thought that certain things were new and had not been read before. In particular, a law, concerning the Festival of Booths, is reported as never having been carried out before.
Ezra was a priest claiming descent from Aaron, brother of Moses. Ezra was also a scribe and had a great interest in the Torah. "Set his heart on seeking out the Lord's Torah" (Ezra 7:10). An ancient tradition, recorded in the 2nd century CE in the Fourth Book of Ezra, claims that Ezra wrote the Torah himself as the result of a revelation from God, the original having been destroyed when the earlier temple was burnt down by the Babylonians. Jerome reports this tradition in the 4th century CE, stating that there was no objection to people stating Ezra had renewed the Torah.
So here we have a religious text written by a priest of a tribe of slaves, sanctioned by their conqueror, which tells a fabricated history which unlike the truth is pleasing to those other slaves who hear it. According to Ezra’s story the Jews were not a nation of cast-off’s enslaved by a succession of more advanced civilizations, they were God’s chosen people who descended from the greatest kings, which history has never known.
Stayed tuned for more of the story...
The beginning of the evolution of Christianity, not surprisingly has its roots in the Old Testament and the ancient tribes of Israel. The Torah which chronicles the history of the Jewish peoples has been one of the most widely studied and reproduced books through the course of civilization. The archaeological record however, demonstrates that the events described in these Holy Scriptures have little basis in historical reality. Setting aside the absurd notion that the words of the Torah were spoken by the Lord YHWH himself directly to Moses, one must then search for the true human compositor of these works.
The earliest reference yet found to the Hebrew civilization is on a statue from the Syrian city of Alalakh, dated to about 1550 BCE. The inscription refers to hapiru warriors in the land of Kin’anu (Canaan). This is also confirmed by clay tablets from Pharaoh Akhenaten’s capital of Amarna, referring to marauders in the hill country of Palestine. The stele of Pharaoh Merneptah dated to 1207 BCE also records “Israel is laid waste, his seed is not”. However the title “Israel” is a reference to a people, not a territory.
The weight of evidence suggests the original Hebrews coalesced during the bronze age from successive migrations, from the periphery of the Nile delta and from across the Jordan and Euphrates rivers. In their Semitic tongue, “habiru” meant ‘beyond’, suggesting an origin elsewhere. In Babylonian script “khabiru” referred to a class of slaves. In the language of the Egyptians “apiru” translated roughly to “labourer”. As a people, therefore, the Hebrews combined Mesopotamian and Egyptian stock, almost certainly drawn from the lowest social order, conceivably including runaway slaves and homeless labourers.
As newcomers to what was the land of Canaan, the Semites, speakers of a tongue common to Syrians, Arabs and Mesopotamians, took up migratory occupation of the less fertile hill-country of the interior. Neither their culture, nor their social organization distinguished them from the other tent-dwelling tribes of the area. The only noticeable distinction between the Jews and their neighbours was the ritual blood sacrifice of circumcision. These early, polytheistic, Hebrews eked out a simple existence in a harsh desert landscape on the fringes of such major civilizations as Egypt, Phoenicia, and Babylon, occasionally moving with their animals into the Nile delta in times of draught.
It seems as if they were joined, over time, by refugees from the more sophisticated Phoenician coastal cities. The Phoenician migrants brought with them cultic practices and images of their traditional gods. A major Canaanite god was El, and the phrase ‘El has conquered’ gives us the word Isra’el. God-inspired names were common throughout the west-Semitic language region. Other Canaanite gods included, Shalem, a Syrian sun god – later to be honoured in the name Jeru’salem. The city of Ru’shalimum is mentioned in records of the Pharaoh Sesostris III (1872 - 1847 BCE). The settlement actually pre-dated the occupation of the tribe of Hebrews. The site then appears to have been unoccupied for three hundred years until the Jebusites, otherwise known as Philistines arrived.
But in the Torah we have a story, a tale of tribal fidelity, with a vengeful protector god Yahweh, who had chosen the Hebrews as his very own. For them, he has a divine purpose. In particular, their migration into Canaan is given a heroic re-interpretation. No longer do we have piecemeal migration of refugees over centuries but a single glorious conquest by a cohesive people. The whole land surrounding Jerusalem is promised to the Jews in perpetuity. They have, it would seem, arrived as a single group from Egypt, released from slavery by divine intervention.
The two primary books of the Torah, Genesis and Exodus, refer to the “Pharaoh” exactly 155 times. Curiously, not once is the Pharaoh actually identified by name, the holy books themselves, however are not lacking in excruciating detail of incidental character. For example, the grandmother, of the grandmother, of King Asa of Judah was Abishalom (1 Kings 15.10), but the mighty Pharaoh who was the adoptive father of Moses himself, remains unnamed.
The Egyptians have no record of ever having enslaved the Jews, Hebrews, Israelites or Canaanites. Not surprisingly there is also no reference outside of the holy texts to Abraham, Moses, or pretty much any other supposed historical figure represented in the early books of the bible.
This history, tracing the people of Judah, back through Hebrews in Canaan and Israelites in Egypt, to a noble ancestor called Abraham, and the whole dramatic story of the Exodus was concocted at a date some eight centuries later, after the nobility of the Judean tribesmen had been taken into exile by their Babylonian captors. The majority of the Old Testament was written, not at the dawn of time but in the sixth century B.C., when Greece was already a thriving civilization and Carthage had a maritime army.
In the year 586 BCE the Babylonians under their king Nebuchadnezzar II captured Jerusalem, and replaced Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king of Judah. Incidentally, Jehoiachin is one of the few biblical characters which can be confirmed to have existed from external sources. The Babylonians ordered the upper-class of the Jews to be forced to populate the territories surrounding Babylon, in modern-day Iraq, This exile was not technically enslavement as Babylon hoped to assimilate into its culture, those it conquered.
The Babylonian exile continues for about 50 years. The Persian Empire under King Cyrus the Great conquered the Babylonians. Cyrus issued an edict allowing the Jews to return to Jerusalem. For the Jews who chose to stay he appointed a high-priest from among them to administer the faith. The Persian emperor, wishing to promote Hebrew national unity, supported the standardization of the oral traditions of the Jews into a single written source. These tribal traditions contained rival histories, religious views, and law codes. The differing views had to be kept to avoid alienating each group.
Most biblical scholars believe that the compiler was Ezra, as he was the priest empowered by the Persian emperor to arbitrate and assert the state religion. Ezra was instructed to uphold the religious text that he carried back with him from the Babylonian exile. According to the Biblical Book of Nehemiah, when Ezra read it out to the assembled people returning from exile, many thought that certain things were new and had not been read before. In particular, a law, concerning the Festival of Booths, is reported as never having been carried out before.
Ezra was a priest claiming descent from Aaron, brother of Moses. Ezra was also a scribe and had a great interest in the Torah. "Set his heart on seeking out the Lord's Torah" (Ezra 7:10). An ancient tradition, recorded in the 2nd century CE in the Fourth Book of Ezra, claims that Ezra wrote the Torah himself as the result of a revelation from God, the original having been destroyed when the earlier temple was burnt down by the Babylonians. Jerome reports this tradition in the 4th century CE, stating that there was no objection to people stating Ezra had renewed the Torah.
So here we have a religious text written by a priest of a tribe of slaves, sanctioned by their conqueror, which tells a fabricated history which unlike the truth is pleasing to those other slaves who hear it. According to Ezra’s story the Jews were not a nation of cast-off’s enslaved by a succession of more advanced civilizations, they were God’s chosen people who descended from the greatest kings, which history has never known.
Stayed tuned for more of the story...
Saturday, June 7, 2008
For the MTV generation...
It's edutainment...for those who couldn't be bothered to read here is a short video which contains the preface to my upcoming book...The Revelation of Domitian...The Voice is that of good ol Micrsoft SAM, used to protect the guilty...enjoy
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Some Interesting Facts About the New Testament
Fact - No contemporary reference currently exists outside of the Gospels which has not been shown to have been later forgeries the references Jesus Christ, or Jesus of Nazareth. (often cited passages of Josephus,Tacitus, Suetonius are vague and disputed and even supposing that they were part of the original text of these works(although early manuscripts say otherwise) none of the authors were actually alive during Jesus' alleged ministry.)
Fact - Nazareth did not even exist during the supposed time of christ, as did none of the other villages and towns mentioned in the gospels(excepting Jerusalem). Nazareth was a large graveyard in the first centuries B.C.E. and C.E. All of these places were later built to provide concrete outlets for a thriving industry of pilgramage from the 2nd and 3rd century to the present day.
Fact - The only supportable and externally referenced characters from the New Testament that can be shown to have existed are King Herod the Great the Jewish puppet king, who orders the massacre of first born male children after Jesus birth(wasn't there a Pharoah who did the same trying to kill Moses?). A heinous and thoroughly outrageous act that suspiciously goes unrecorded by the Jewish community who ardently passed on all other slights against their peoples for thousands of years. Pontius Pilate the roman prefect of Judea who supposedly for charges which were not illegal at the time, and by trial which broke all the conventions of historical roman-judeo rule executed Jesus. The Roman Emporers Augustus and Tiberius.
tune in tomorrow for an allegorical example to further illustrate the NT as historical fiction.
I will weave a tale of the messiah appearing in modern day America(oops the Mormon's beat me to it.)
Fact - Nazareth did not even exist during the supposed time of christ, as did none of the other villages and towns mentioned in the gospels(excepting Jerusalem). Nazareth was a large graveyard in the first centuries B.C.E. and C.E. All of these places were later built to provide concrete outlets for a thriving industry of pilgramage from the 2nd and 3rd century to the present day.
Fact - The only supportable and externally referenced characters from the New Testament that can be shown to have existed are King Herod the Great the Jewish puppet king, who orders the massacre of first born male children after Jesus birth(wasn't there a Pharoah who did the same trying to kill Moses?). A heinous and thoroughly outrageous act that suspiciously goes unrecorded by the Jewish community who ardently passed on all other slights against their peoples for thousands of years. Pontius Pilate the roman prefect of Judea who supposedly for charges which were not illegal at the time, and by trial which broke all the conventions of historical roman-judeo rule executed Jesus. The Roman Emporers Augustus and Tiberius.
tune in tomorrow for an allegorical example to further illustrate the NT as historical fiction.
I will weave a tale of the messiah appearing in modern day America(oops the Mormon's beat me to it.)
Monday, February 4, 2008
Fundamental Concepts of Existence
Key facts
The universe as we have the ability to understand it consists of matter which exists in the endless background of space.
Matter is made up of stable combinations of smaller particles(molecules), These in turn are made up of stable combinations of even smaller particles(atoms), which are made of even smaller particles(atomic particles) etc.
Matter can rarely be created or destroyed; it mostly changes forms and combines with other matter, to form other combinations, stable or unstable, inert or reactive.
The concept of Time can be expressed in mathematical terms as a function. Let us assume that x represents the smallest possible unit of measurement of seconds,
x= (0.1 × 10)∞ seconds
Time =∑∞
X + X
Or Forward from x through all numbers in the real-number system seconds.
Time is a conceptual measurement of the outward motion of the universe. Therefore the absolute beginning of time or the point,
0.1x 10∞ seconds would be the point when all the matter in the known universe existed within the same space, prior to an event which occurred that provided the energy with which the matter was to be set forward (the big bang).
There are 118 known combinations of atomic particles (elements) that exist in our universe. Only 94 of these occur naturally in the environment, the remaining elements are a product of modern human atomic manipulation and are unstable and collapse after a period of time.
Probability dictates that the majority of all possible stable combinations have been formed at some point since the measurable beginning of existence, as we comprehend it.(Random Atomic Probability)
Combinations most suited to exist within the conditions of the environment in which they are formed will exist, and those which are stable in structure but not suitable to exist in its immediate conditions at any given point in time will collapse, or dissipate.(Atomic Structural Suitability)
The galaxy, stars and planets, the sun and in turn the earth were created by random combinations which for whatever reason were suitable to exist in the environment in which they formed.
10. Terrestrial elements and compounds were also formed by the laws of random mathematical probability, atomic structural suitability, time, and the nature of matter and existence (Physics).
Key facts cont…
11. Life as we define it is a stable compound of matter that forms to make up cells that have the capability of reproducing themselves. Life formed on the earth due to random atomic probability.
12. The ability of life to reproduce itself has allowed development in different organic combinations (species), which are best suited to exist and reproduce within the conditions that exist in the environment in which they exist (see law 6).
13. Human beings exist due to random atomic probability, atmospheric conditions on the earth, the development of all other species since the beginning of life, the innumerable set of circumstances which probability has allowed to take place which has formed the modern universe and in turn the galaxy, solar system, and the earth.
14. Humans are suited to survive on this planet because our bodies are made up of cells that can use resources, which are available in the current environment to reproduce. We possess the physical and mental attributes to make use of those resources to continue our existence.
15. Humans possess intelligence because our genetic predecessors were creatures with intelligence. They proliferated because they could avoid danger, find food, and survive in the environment long enough to reproduce.
16. Those species, which were not as aware of themselves and their environment, did not survive because the environment has a limited number of resources and cannot sustain high volume, short-term depletion of any particular resource (natural selection).
17. Humans’ relatively high intelligence has allowed us to record memories, access those memories, relate that information to other stored information, formulate new information and store that new information for later retrieval and further processing. This has allowed humans to relate this information to another human in a way which is mutually understandable by using memory storage to teach and learn from each other a common way of relating that information (communication)
18. Communication has allowed people over millennia to share stored information and formulated new information with each other. This has allowed people access to information which they may not have had access to or that did not possess the related stored information to have formulated for themselves.
19. Humans as a species have been present on earth for 1.6 million years; recorded human history is measured in thousands. Therefore it took over 90% of all of the generations of humans to develop civilization, education, communication, technology, law and punishment.
20. Society, complex conceptual thought, the human personality, universal code of conduct, non instinctual emotion, and human desires, are products of communication, our memory storage and cognitive capabilities, our ability to preserve information, and related it to further generations(education).
Key Connections
If reverse logic is applied to law 2 then the universe is infinitely expansive and retractile. Just as atoms are groups of particles, and molecules are groups of atoms, galaxies are larger groups of molecules, and the universe is a larger group of galaxies. Each one of these steps is another dimension of existence. Our understanding of size and distance is a concept related to what our brains interpret the size or distance to be relative to our understanding of our personal measure of a unit of measurement. The differential of the relative size of each dimension is exponentially large and each dimension is independently unaware of each other dimension. Human civilization has manipulated this universal truth through technology and communication, and has become aware of these other planes of existence, which are too large or too small for us to be able to see unaided.
Human beings exist due to facts 1 - 20. We are a product of every event that has taken place, in sequence, since the beginning of all existence. If conditions formed slightly differently at any stage throughout the course of history humans, life, the earth, the sun, the galaxy, matter and the universe may have never formed. However if the majority of all possible combinations have formed (see law 5) then perhaps we are here because it is in the nature of the universe that we are here, as we are the product of an astronomical lottery, and we are suited to survive in our current environment at this current point in time.
Before a human can comprehend the true nature of the universe one must accept the seemingly impossible concept that at some point there once was nothing and then there was something. In the organized mind there is a creation or creator of things. You must also have material with which to create things. God is an ancient solution to this problem, God created the universe because he can do the impossible. The question then posed is: Who created god? Who created the thing that created God? This creates more impossibility.
Understanding of the nature of the universe is only significant to the point that we can practically comprehend it. It isn’t to the benefit of society to know the details of the absolute beginning. If we cannot answer the impossible riddle of creation should not we focus on the physical properties of our immediate environment, as we will only continue to exist as long as we are suited to survive in our current environment? As far as modern science can prove the universe as we comprehend it began with the big bang (see law 4). It isn’t of any immediate concern of human civilization to have an understanding of the details of the exact nature of other dimensions (see connection 1). If a cataclysmic event occurs in any dimension we are not aware of then it will occur on a scale too small or too large for civilization to be able to have any sort of effect on the outcome. The event will either have a negative effect changing the conditions of our current environment, making us unsuitable to exist, or it will have no negligible effect on our current conditions.
"People" sometimes forget that they are in fact homo sapiens, and like other species on the earth have classifiable behaviours and physical properties. Humans are just the most dominant species on the planet. Our modern civilization has so guided our perceptions and feelings as to have one believe that we are special and an all-powerful being created us out of love and infinite wisdom. Society tells us it is so, because an ancient scroll which has, of course been translated and edited several times, clearly explains it all. If one does not believe it is because one lacks faith. One is outcast not because of your disbelief, but because of your lack of faith. The almighty being has chosen not to reveal itself yet entreats your blind commitment, for life, before granting whatever reward is due.
Society is actually a multiple input-source, complex set of instructions which you either choose to accept or refuse. What choice you make is also determined by the programming of whatever influences you had exposure to during early childhood. The nature of most people is to trust their impulses and feelings which are determined at a very young age. Before one can become enlightened one must at some point grasp the truth about the nature of existence and realize that the programming of your influences is a product of society and the capabilities of your mind allow you to reprogram your feelings because feelings are just reactions to hormone chemicals secreted by glands as an automatic reaction to stimuli. Just as narcotic drugs and poisons can have an effect on your perceptions and emotions, the natural chemicals which cause emotions cause reactions based on a very rudimentary and ancient program within the mechanics of the human brain.
In modern society our primitive instinctual programming is not always the most appropriate reaction to circumstances. Feelings are a misconception; they are an abnormal reaction to a self-released stimulant and should be analyzed for the root cause of the release of the stimulant. All feelings can be categorized as either instinctual (fear, lust, etc.), or self-actualized (pride, compassion, resentment). Self-actualized emotions are society driven whereas if a child was not ever taught to understand the complexities of why an emotion should be felt it would never experience the emotion naturally. Once one determines which event was the trigger to the emotion then one can begin to formulate a response, analyse the impact of the response, and then take action.
The universe as we have the ability to understand it consists of matter which exists in the endless background of space.
Matter is made up of stable combinations of smaller particles(molecules), These in turn are made up of stable combinations of even smaller particles(atoms), which are made of even smaller particles(atomic particles) etc.
Matter can rarely be created or destroyed; it mostly changes forms and combines with other matter, to form other combinations, stable or unstable, inert or reactive.
The concept of Time can be expressed in mathematical terms as a function. Let us assume that x represents the smallest possible unit of measurement of seconds,
x= (0.1 × 10)∞ seconds
Time =∑∞
X + X
Or Forward from x through all numbers in the real-number system seconds.
Time is a conceptual measurement of the outward motion of the universe. Therefore the absolute beginning of time or the point,
0.1x 10∞ seconds would be the point when all the matter in the known universe existed within the same space, prior to an event which occurred that provided the energy with which the matter was to be set forward (the big bang).
There are 118 known combinations of atomic particles (elements) that exist in our universe. Only 94 of these occur naturally in the environment, the remaining elements are a product of modern human atomic manipulation and are unstable and collapse after a period of time.
Probability dictates that the majority of all possible stable combinations have been formed at some point since the measurable beginning of existence, as we comprehend it.(Random Atomic Probability)
Combinations most suited to exist within the conditions of the environment in which they are formed will exist, and those which are stable in structure but not suitable to exist in its immediate conditions at any given point in time will collapse, or dissipate.(Atomic Structural Suitability)
The galaxy, stars and planets, the sun and in turn the earth were created by random combinations which for whatever reason were suitable to exist in the environment in which they formed.
10. Terrestrial elements and compounds were also formed by the laws of random mathematical probability, atomic structural suitability, time, and the nature of matter and existence (Physics).
Key facts cont…
11. Life as we define it is a stable compound of matter that forms to make up cells that have the capability of reproducing themselves. Life formed on the earth due to random atomic probability.
12. The ability of life to reproduce itself has allowed development in different organic combinations (species), which are best suited to exist and reproduce within the conditions that exist in the environment in which they exist (see law 6).
13. Human beings exist due to random atomic probability, atmospheric conditions on the earth, the development of all other species since the beginning of life, the innumerable set of circumstances which probability has allowed to take place which has formed the modern universe and in turn the galaxy, solar system, and the earth.
14. Humans are suited to survive on this planet because our bodies are made up of cells that can use resources, which are available in the current environment to reproduce. We possess the physical and mental attributes to make use of those resources to continue our existence.
15. Humans possess intelligence because our genetic predecessors were creatures with intelligence. They proliferated because they could avoid danger, find food, and survive in the environment long enough to reproduce.
16. Those species, which were not as aware of themselves and their environment, did not survive because the environment has a limited number of resources and cannot sustain high volume, short-term depletion of any particular resource (natural selection).
17. Humans’ relatively high intelligence has allowed us to record memories, access those memories, relate that information to other stored information, formulate new information and store that new information for later retrieval and further processing. This has allowed humans to relate this information to another human in a way which is mutually understandable by using memory storage to teach and learn from each other a common way of relating that information (communication)
18. Communication has allowed people over millennia to share stored information and formulated new information with each other. This has allowed people access to information which they may not have had access to or that did not possess the related stored information to have formulated for themselves.
19. Humans as a species have been present on earth for 1.6 million years; recorded human history is measured in thousands. Therefore it took over 90% of all of the generations of humans to develop civilization, education, communication, technology, law and punishment.
20. Society, complex conceptual thought, the human personality, universal code of conduct, non instinctual emotion, and human desires, are products of communication, our memory storage and cognitive capabilities, our ability to preserve information, and related it to further generations(education).
Key Connections
If reverse logic is applied to law 2 then the universe is infinitely expansive and retractile. Just as atoms are groups of particles, and molecules are groups of atoms, galaxies are larger groups of molecules, and the universe is a larger group of galaxies. Each one of these steps is another dimension of existence. Our understanding of size and distance is a concept related to what our brains interpret the size or distance to be relative to our understanding of our personal measure of a unit of measurement. The differential of the relative size of each dimension is exponentially large and each dimension is independently unaware of each other dimension. Human civilization has manipulated this universal truth through technology and communication, and has become aware of these other planes of existence, which are too large or too small for us to be able to see unaided.
Human beings exist due to facts 1 - 20. We are a product of every event that has taken place, in sequence, since the beginning of all existence. If conditions formed slightly differently at any stage throughout the course of history humans, life, the earth, the sun, the galaxy, matter and the universe may have never formed. However if the majority of all possible combinations have formed (see law 5) then perhaps we are here because it is in the nature of the universe that we are here, as we are the product of an astronomical lottery, and we are suited to survive in our current environment at this current point in time.
Before a human can comprehend the true nature of the universe one must accept the seemingly impossible concept that at some point there once was nothing and then there was something. In the organized mind there is a creation or creator of things. You must also have material with which to create things. God is an ancient solution to this problem, God created the universe because he can do the impossible. The question then posed is: Who created god? Who created the thing that created God? This creates more impossibility.
Understanding of the nature of the universe is only significant to the point that we can practically comprehend it. It isn’t to the benefit of society to know the details of the absolute beginning. If we cannot answer the impossible riddle of creation should not we focus on the physical properties of our immediate environment, as we will only continue to exist as long as we are suited to survive in our current environment? As far as modern science can prove the universe as we comprehend it began with the big bang (see law 4). It isn’t of any immediate concern of human civilization to have an understanding of the details of the exact nature of other dimensions (see connection 1). If a cataclysmic event occurs in any dimension we are not aware of then it will occur on a scale too small or too large for civilization to be able to have any sort of effect on the outcome. The event will either have a negative effect changing the conditions of our current environment, making us unsuitable to exist, or it will have no negligible effect on our current conditions.
"People" sometimes forget that they are in fact homo sapiens, and like other species on the earth have classifiable behaviours and physical properties. Humans are just the most dominant species on the planet. Our modern civilization has so guided our perceptions and feelings as to have one believe that we are special and an all-powerful being created us out of love and infinite wisdom. Society tells us it is so, because an ancient scroll which has, of course been translated and edited several times, clearly explains it all. If one does not believe it is because one lacks faith. One is outcast not because of your disbelief, but because of your lack of faith. The almighty being has chosen not to reveal itself yet entreats your blind commitment, for life, before granting whatever reward is due.
Society is actually a multiple input-source, complex set of instructions which you either choose to accept or refuse. What choice you make is also determined by the programming of whatever influences you had exposure to during early childhood. The nature of most people is to trust their impulses and feelings which are determined at a very young age. Before one can become enlightened one must at some point grasp the truth about the nature of existence and realize that the programming of your influences is a product of society and the capabilities of your mind allow you to reprogram your feelings because feelings are just reactions to hormone chemicals secreted by glands as an automatic reaction to stimuli. Just as narcotic drugs and poisons can have an effect on your perceptions and emotions, the natural chemicals which cause emotions cause reactions based on a very rudimentary and ancient program within the mechanics of the human brain.
In modern society our primitive instinctual programming is not always the most appropriate reaction to circumstances. Feelings are a misconception; they are an abnormal reaction to a self-released stimulant and should be analyzed for the root cause of the release of the stimulant. All feelings can be categorized as either instinctual (fear, lust, etc.), or self-actualized (pride, compassion, resentment). Self-actualized emotions are society driven whereas if a child was not ever taught to understand the complexities of why an emotion should be felt it would never experience the emotion naturally. Once one determines which event was the trigger to the emotion then one can begin to formulate a response, analyse the impact of the response, and then take action.
Welcome fellow godless ones!
This blog is intended to provide an outlet for my furious philosopical contemplation. If you are offended by derogatory reference to deities, prophets, clergy or the evangelical faithful then you should leave immediately. However if you are interested in thought-provoking discourse then read-on.
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