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Old 04-01-2004, 08:57 AM   #1
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Default Snakes dont talk

SNAKES DON'T TALK
At Least
Not When Youre Sober

The very beginning of the Bible declares quite clearly that this is mythology and in no way to be taken literally. A woman sits down and begins to have a very intelligent conversation with a snake.
This is after that woman is created from a spare rib taken from her sleeping husband.

From there on you have another story of a man having a conversaton with a donkey, and not a one way conversation mind you, that would be one thing but, the donkey talks back to him, a talking burning bush, a man whose walking stick turns into a snake. You have a man taking two of every kind of animal, insect, bird, worm, fly etc on to a boat. You have people walking on water, virgins giving birth, A woman giving birth at 90 years of age,

people resurrecting from graves, swords and fire issuing from peoples mouths, flames coming out of peoples eyes, axe heads floating on water, devils going into pigs, oceans opening up, horses flying in the sky, a third of all stars falling to the earth, (one million earths can fit in our nearest star the sun), a person turning into a pillar of salt, worms smoting gourds, smoting mind you, wow thats a scary word, a man living in a big fish for three days and then puking him out, then he becomes a minister, the sun and the moon standing still,

the sun turning black as sackcloth, and god loves the smell of dead and burning animals, God commanding people to eat baked dung cakes, and give God your first borns, he loves the blood and fat of them, a beast with seven heads and ten horns rises from the sea, angels sounding trumpets, oceans turning red, monsterous insects tormenting people, whaling and nashing your teeth together, holy crap, and no its not world war three or the end of the world either, heaven rolling up like a scroll, fire mingled with blood,

mountains being cast into the sea, horses with mens heads and fire coming out of them, and thousands of more obsurdities in the bible when taking it literally. Scary like hell for the kids though! Great for Popcorn for us adults, BUT REALLY!!! No there not MIRACLES either. When one understands the meaning of the symbolic words, the hidden meaning, then it makes sense, Because its all MYTHOLOGY.

And what has our culture done with all of this? We have taken it literally and will attack and kill anyone who dares challenge our interpretation. Look around at the insanity that pervades the world and you will see what the scripture meant when it said, be not a minister of the letter , for the letter kills. Its Mythology, just that religion and your local church never told you. Because they havnt a CLUE!!!! Why dont they have a clue?
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It is that the Bible

like other World Scriptures – is written in a particular metaphorical language full of imagery and symbolism. This very ancient language was designed to reveal deep truths, to convey metaphysical ideas, to describe super�*sensory states of consciousness and the spiritual experiences of exalted men and women. The authors who wrote in this allegorical manner wanted to reveal these deeply hidden mysterious truths and to describe interior mystical experiences.

They used actual historical personages and actual geographical places to weave a representation of eternal truths. All earth myths used actual geographical plces and personages to weave theier myths around, the Bible is no different in this regard. In the Jason and argo myth, Jason landed in georgia on the black sea, but its a myth, and everyone knows that, But you see the usage of actual geographical locations. Such is the nature of all myths.

In fact, not one single person portrayed in the Bible ever existed, including Jesus. Jesus is a picture of the sun, among a long list of past sun gods. All of the personages and places in the Bible relate to the physical body, the emotional body and the intellectual mind. As with all myths the river jordan the land of egypt etc, have their true meaning in the human psyche.
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Congratulations, I remember the exhilaration I felt upon discovering the absurdities of the Bible. It was a good feeling. I’ve since then moved on to higher things.
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I recently asked a Christian friend why she insisted on what grounds she accepted the Bible as literally true and rejected Aesop's Fables.

Her response? "Because animals don't talk."
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The majority of "the people" even those of the upper classes who are educated and hold college degrees are not immune, and are passive; blind, deaf, and dumb. They follow their mis-leaders into chaos and catastrophe. If one of these mis-leaders jumped off of a cliff, all the followers would do likewise, as evident in the Jim Jones case, David Coresh and the branch Dividians, Heavens gate, Applewhite and others. Most people are as lost sheep in the need of a shepherd, but unfortunately for these lost sheep the shepherd is always one who is a watch cap short of a full seabag, the shepherd is most of the time, a wolf in sheeps clothing, a meglomaniac, twisted psycho, schitzoid manic depressent, from reading the bible LITERALLY.
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Is there a real heaven and a real hell?
Remeber the Bible says dont be a minister of the LETTER (literal), but of the SPIRIT
And consider Proverbs 15:24 A word to the wise above (using your head) you can depart from Hell beneath, (being ruled by your lower nature).
You see Heaven and Hell are states of consciousness only and not literal, so relax.
Religion and Evangilists want you to believe its real so they can control you, so you will need them. And give them MONEY.

"One does not have to die in order to go to hell, any more than one has to die to get to heaven. Both are states of mind and conditions, which people experience as a direct outworking of their thoughts, beliefs, words, and acts. If one's mental processes are out of harmony with the law of man's [sic] being, they result in trouble and sorrow; mental as well as bodily anguish overtakes one, and this is hell".
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You see what happens when people read the bible literally, they believe that some god actually required the shedding of blood to appease it, imagine that, an all knowing, omnicient, omnipresent, God or creator would require such a thing. Its preposterous and ludicrous to imagine that a supreme being would require that his only son be killed for the sake of saving mankind. Its even more ludicrous that people would actually believe such a thing. If he was all powerful and knowing, then why would he even require such a thing. Unless of course its mythology, then anything can happen, myths are filled with gods kiliing and smiting the leseer peoples of the earth, Thats because the myths are trying to tell you something about your nature, but didnt actually happen.

Lets take a look at the stupidity of reading the bible literally: If you are a Jehovah witness, you are taught that you cannot touch blood, why, because of the bible verse "But flesh with the life thereof, which, is the blood thereof, shall yhe not eat." So thay let their children die, because they refuse blood transfusions, if one of their children or even themselves gets injured. So they die, why? because it was gods will, phooey, it was not the will of any god that cause the deaths of their children, it was their own will, because they were brainwashed by religion, and read their bible literally instead of looking for the higher meaning. Blood is a symbol of the life force, Jesus, God, the electrical current of the body. Blood everywhere symbolizes devine truth of the Lord. So atonements, shedding of blood, dont eat blood, dont touch blood, really means dont interfere with that which is the spiritual life force, dont eat it, dont consume it, let it flow through you. THATS WHY THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE BLOOD OF JESUS CLEANSES ALL SINS.

Its the electrical current flowing through you uninterupted. Its a symbol like all the other verses in the bible. But people who have been brainwashed into the Jehovah Witness Cult, have had their lives destroyed and their families too, because they go to other brainwashed people for answers, and they all fail, thay all dont get it. Its sad that one would have to go their whole lives not understanding the metaphysical symbolic truths in the bible, which are beautifully described in their hidden meanings.

THE LETTER KILLETH!!! We shall pray for the Jehovahs, and other followers of cults who have been led astray by wolves in sheeps clothings, and any one else that tries to teach spiritual books literally. The bible is not a nutritional book, it is first and foremost a spiritual MIND book. But they dont get it. So they dont eat blood, they dont eat fish without scales, they dont eat anything with split hoofs, they dont eat certain flying fowls, they dont square the corners of their beards, they dont cut their hair round. I dont see any Jehovahs walking around with their right hands cutoff, nor their right eyes plucked out. Why is this, their eyes have never affended them, or do they just conviently forget these verses exist.

Their are as of this time 140,000 or so genes in a strand of DNA, when the genome project is finished, dont be surprised to see the actual number of genes at 144,000. This is what is saved, its the mutant DNA, but they dont get that part. Why was the floppy disk 1.44 mb. Why was the first modem 14.4 kpbs, why does the bible say that the measure of a man is 144? You have twelve cranial nerves in your brain and their are twelve signs of the zodiac 12x12=144. Baalams ass has spoken!
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Holy rollers, handle live snakes and drink the venom, at their services, why? because the scripture that reads "Behold I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy and nothing shall by any means hurt you." This is like all bible statements a metaphysical statement, it really means if you raise the serpent energy kundalini to the third eye, pineal gland, you have seen god face to face, you are given power over your lower nature. But they dont get that part, so they go around picking up poisinous snakes, believing its some commandmnet from god, and many die every year, and they say well that person didnt have enough faith, or it was gods will that thet person died.

My god, people actually believe that, So then there was a giant called Goliath, A man living in a fish for three days, a man called hercules that sleyed twelve monsters, Zues, rides a white horse and hurls lightning bolts at the earth, And jesus will fly out of the sky riding on a white horse to save mankind. An axe head that floats in the bible, Burning bushes talk, a donkey that talks in the bible, Im sorry but donkeys dont talk, at least not when your sober, but they do in mythology. Its all myth, and yet its all true, because these thigs are talking about the human mind and the nature of the human being.

The book of leviticus is filled with all kinds of obsurdities, if taken literally. For example, dont cut your hair round, and dont square the corners of your beard. Dont eat anything with an split hoof, and dont eat fish without scales. These things do not mean what thay appear to mean, they have a much deeper meaning as they are symbolic statements. Yet people dont eat pork because a swine has a split hoof, people dont eat catfish, octopus and other saefood because they dont have scales.

The book of leviticus has many such commandments, but they are not literal commandments they are spiritual ones. The word eat means consume, to consume in the biblical context means to dwell on, to think about, or busy your mind with something, that keeps you from loftier thoughts of peace and love. Dont eat pork really means dont consume the mind with or think about lower nature things, like casting blame finding fault, premeditating horrific things to do to your fellow man, pigs are symbols of filth and dirt because they wallow in mud, so symbolically speaking dont eat pork, really means dont consume toughts of the lower mind. Oink Oink
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