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All religions promise a reward ... for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding. - Arthur Schopenhauer What is even more certain is that religions punish those that challenge their sacred cows and shibboleths. - Site author Armstrong Enshrined Ignorance The following is just a small sample of significant questions leading to information that our religious and cultural educational agencies fail to enlighten us with. Get the picture? After reading the questions and the supporting material, ask yourself if these did not plow your belief ground a little, loosen your belief system and challenge your paradigm a little. Do you know that the ancient Greek word "hypocrisy" means not using your natural and legitimate judgment or critical thinking? See: Hypocrisy Analysis Do you know that galactic rotation is axial wherein the parts−stars and globular clusters−rotate around the galactic axis and do NOT revolve around the center galaxy's of mass? See: Galactic Rotation Do you know that Jesus defines sin, not as bad behavior, but as missing the mark in terms of concept or understanding of God? See: Translation Issues and Sin Paradigm Do you know why there is a profound difference between the concept of a creator and the concept of a God that is never appreciated nor dealt with? See: Site Approach and Article on Something Meaningful Do you know that there are 3 different types of photosynthesis in the plant kingdom? See: Sequence of Earth Life Forms Do you know why the city of Rome was first known as "Saturnia" and why the first temple built was the temple of Saturn? See Ancient Saturn Worship Do you know that the words of Jesus, "Take up your cross and follow me" should be translated as "Pull up your tethering stake and follow me", wherein tethering stake refers to all the trappings−forms and spiritual influences−of the old religion? See "take up your cross" Do you know that most if not all Ancient populations worshipped the planet Saturn as God, and why? See: Saturn-Jupiter-Mythology Do you know that Satan and the Devil are not the same, and why? See: The Devil and Satan Do you know the history of Bible canon development? See: Canon Information and Editing the Bible and Inventing the Bible-Talmud. Do you know that the word "religion" means binding people together again with logic? See: Key Term Definitions - Religion Do you know that electricity powers the formation and function of tornadoes, waterspouts and hurricanes? See Electrostatic and Electrodynamic Tornado Factors, Electric Waterspouts, Electric Tornadoes and Electric Hurricanes Do you know that belief is the wellspring for feelings and behavior? That without proper belief, one cannot have proper feelings and behavior? See: The Problem of Belief and Thoughts on Faith and Belief Do you know that essentially all ancient populations worshipped "the Bull of Heaven" and why? See Misc Ancient Myth Material Do you know that modern geological theory was devised as a reaction to the heavy handed non-scientific creationism dogma of the Church of England, and was formulated by armchair activists that weren't even geologists? See Origin of Modern Geology Do you know that the human female menstruation cycle is tied to the lunar month of 29.5 days, and that this was not so during the Golden Age? See: Saturn-Jupiter Material Do you know that Italy was first known as the land of Saturn, and that the Latins considered themselves to the the children of Saturn? "Be not unaware, Virgil writes, "that the Latins are Saturn's race, righteous not by bond or laws, but self-controlled of their own free will and by the custom of their ancient god." Do you know that the first Christian martyr was killed by his contemporaries because he denounced the prevailing religion as just Saturn worship? See Sanctuary was Moloch's Tent Do you know that Globular Clusters are groups or "bubbles" of stars within galaxies that maintain their structure wherein the internal stars just remain in place seemingly oblivious to the force of gravity? See Globular Clusters Do you know that we most often make our ethical decisions not between what is good and what is bad, but between the lesser of the two evils? See: Definition of Life Do you know that "When NBC featured Forbidden Archeology in its 1996 program The Mysterious Origins of Man, hosted by Charlton Heston, establishment scientists lobbied the FCC to fine NBC for airing this opposing view"?!* Do you know that the universe does NOT exist in time, but that time exists in the universe? See Definition of Time Do you know that while the Originator may have created the beginning of the physical universe, it is unfathomable that any agency worthy of the term God created the predatory competition system that we find nature to be today? See Violence of Nature, Source of Creativity and Meaning of Evolution Do you know what is the most powerful religion in the world? See Scientism Religion and The Modern Mythology
A little learning is a dangerous
thing; Do you know that the multifarious languages on Earth did NOT develop from a language that God gave humans, or even from a mother tongue? See Linguistic Development and Linguistic Roots Do you know that there is tropical vegetation beneath the ice cap of Antarctica? See: Antarctic Fossil Questions Do you know that some Bibles say, "Thou shalt commit adultery" as the seventh commandment? See: https://infogalactic.com/info/Wicked_Bible Do you know that the summit of Mt. Everest, ostensibly the highest place on Earth, is composed of marine limestone? See https://infogalactic.com/info/Mount_Everest#Geology Do you know that Christianity is founded mostly on the concepts of Peter and Paul, not on what Jesus taught? See: Christendom's Twin Pillars and Subversion of Christianity and Christendom Idolatry Do you know that Jesus said that when he departed there would not be true belief on the Earth? See Luke 18:8 "However, with the Son of man passing, will he really find faith [πίστιν] on the earth? Evidently not!" (Commentary - The phrase in question is asked in a Greek rhetorical mode where the answer is always negative, hence "obviously not" is built in and the " Evidently not!" has been added to give the true meaning of the text.) Do you know the essential difference between Protestantism and Catholicism? See Do you know that the evidence shows that Augustine circa 400 CE seems to be the first person in all of recorded history to fully embrace self consciousness or to achieve a higher level of self identity, and why? See Loss & Recovery of Self-Consciousness Do you know that the phrase "kingdom of heaven" in the Gospels should be translated as "kingship of the heavens", and why? See Kingship of the Heavens Do you know that the universe does NOT exist in space, but that space exists in the universe? See Nature and Definition of Space Do you know that Jesus said that if you fast and pray you will bring sin unto yourself, and why? See: Sin of Fasting/Praying - Thomas 6,14,104 Do you know that the opposite of love is not hate? See Meaning and Existentialism Do you know that the words "Ecclesia", "Parousia" and "Apocalypse" are seriously mis-defined and misunderstood by modern Christendom? See Ecclesia Definition and Parousia, Apocalypse Definitions Do you know that Jesus told us what he wants from us in the strongest possible terms, and it isn't what you think? See Thoughts on Unity Do you know about the five categories of knowledge and their descending level of validity and certainty? See Knowledge Categories Do you know that in every normal human being the bicameral brain-mind is the seat of not one but two distinct forms of consciousness? See Jaynes-Bicameral Mind and Bicameral Mind Paradigm Do you know that Jesus at the last advised his followers to literally buy and carry swords as weapons? See Synoptic Text Combination - Luke 22:35-38 Do you know the difference between ethics and morality? See Ethics versus Morality Do you know that the disaster known as the "Great Chicago Fire" burned an area about half the size of Oregon, wiped out the town of Peshtigo, with its population of about 2000 all killed, 200 miles away, and was caused by a comet? Nobody knows the total that died in that phenomenon. See Great Chicago Fire I, Great Chicago Fire II and Great Chicago Fire III Do you know what are the 3 levels of volition? See Free Will Article, Levels of Volition and Human Volition Do you know that Meteor Crater in Arizona was NOT excavated by a meteor impact? See Meteor Crater Do you know what is the most fundamental and unquestioned theological assumption that is held in common by almost all religions? See Truth Barriers Do you know that the "Big Bang" theory is primarily a religious one? See Religious Big Bang, Big Bang "Science" and The Fingers of God Do you know that the eyewitness Gospel writer John says 4 times in the first 3 chapters that Jesus' ministry on earth was a failure at that time? See 4 Laments on the Failure Do you know that radiometric dating (carbon 14, potassium-argon, etc.) is generally and usually invalid? In 1986, lava came out of Mt. St. Helens volcano. In 1997, five samples of the lava flow were analyzed and dated by the method of radioisotope ( potassium - argon method to be exact) : the result was not only that contemporary events were dated differently, but that the actual date (just 11 years) yielded dates ranging from less than half a million years to almost 3 million years . The maximum percentage error committed in this "measurement" is about to 2,000,000,000% , two billion percent! Do not laugh at the thought of ancient fossils are dated using this " advanced scientific technique." Do you know that the entire structure of Protestant theology hinges upon 3 fundamental assumptions, which are among many others? See Common Theological Assumptions Do you know that the celestial power invoked by the world's first religions as the "sun" god is not the body we call sun today. See The Central, Polar Sun I Do you know that the Grand Canyon in the SW USA is a giant electric arc scar on a huge raised blister ridge known as a fulgamite? The canyon was probably gouged, or Electric Discharge Machined, out of underlying material hundreds of thousands of years old, in less than 20 minutes. See: Origin of Grand Canyon and Origin of Grand Canyon II Do you know that there is another canyon a few hundred miles away in NW Mexico, machined out by the same type EDM process, that is about 4 times as big as the Grand Canyon? See https://infogalactic.com/info/Copper_Canyon Do you know that "ring nebulae" visible in space are not really rings but only look like rings when we are staring down the barrel of hourglass-shaped Birkeland currents feeding the electric stars? See Nature of Ring Nebula Do you know that the ancient empire of Rome existed right alongside a sometimes more powerful empire, the empire of Parthia, to which they generally lost the wars and battles? See https://infogalactic.com/info/Parthia Do you know that not only is Christendom divided into Catholicism and Protestantism but increasingly and more importantly is divided into quite disparate "Northern" and "Southern" versions? See Religious Diversity Do you know that hourglass shaped or conical shaped nebulae may actually be the norm, showing the diffuse electrical current necked down on and feeding the stars with energy? See Wings of a Butterfly and Impossible Cosmology Do you know why in about 20 common modern Indo-European languages the word for "night" is always the contraction of "no eight"? See The "No Eight" Pattern * quote taken from Human Devolution, Joan D'Arc interviews Michael Cremo |
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