Hey Madlookin, Im really hoping this doesn’t stoop to an argument - Ive been honest in my reply and though it’s a bit long and rambling I hope you read it through – I think ultimately we agree – and sorry if I get repetitive….
It isnt just this fella, its creationists of any stripe that I cant stand and yes, I have seen this stuff before, it is from the 90's - Ive been looking into this stuff for many years (I was 57 yesterday) and have researched most religions extensively, with this one its maybe 30 yrs ago that I discovered the Mahabarata as I used to want these things to be true but now I just know they cant be.... the only ones that are even close to dependable are the ones with no god head cos they dont wrap their teaching round trying to prove him which is what the happy clappy Hindus and Hare Krishnas do as we see in Forbidden Archaeology which is a book by anti evolutionists who are trying to make their research look credible which indeed it does to people who arent used to some of the rigorous methods of testing and peer review which are the basic academic norm - research is a discipline with set procedures, its a study module in its own right and these guys didnt adhere to those methods and so earned the disapproval of many who do honour the academic norm of theory testing which, if ignored, brings into question the integrity the research in question.
Most religions have at their hearts gems of wisdom and Hinduism is no exception but they all lose moral superiority when they use force, fear or any other dishonest technique to make their version of events more appealing.
None of this is to say that I accept the current versions of events - my belief is that history has been stolen and distorted by the jolly controllers down through the centuries. Its been rewritten more times than soft mick and always from the point of view of the victors of course and Im the first to hold my hands up to the probabilities that in the past, information didnt make it through the veils into the realms of common knowledge and this is probably because we wouldnt have understood it anyway en masse (or we would have been here sooner) as education was very much withheld from the masses by the very people who are now trying to use it to their own ends as a way to prove their various religions - we are talking here about the happy clappy chappies who dance around joyously in their orange frocks strewing people with petals or whatever, its a pull medium the same as their badly researched book is, they are saying what people in this day and age want to hear, its like the many rewrites of the (inerrent lol) bible in accordance with current criticism - I really like Hindu people, they are gentle and understanding and so helpful, one of my best friends is a Hindu and I delight in the days when Im asked to look after her little girl as she is one of the sweetest children I ever knew but this doesnt make their religion any more acceptable than any of the others and it doesn’t mean that because these guys are showing holes in generally accepted Christian version of history that what they proffer as alternatives is any better - Hindus arent the only ones to disagree with the current versions of history though its a great puller of those with rebellious tendencies like most of us.
We have traditionally believed in the bibles version of history but more and more in recent times those views are being questioned and challenged, the church kept a tight reign on the education system for that very purpose and we see echoes of this nowadays in Islam where the emphasis on faith and obedience is rigidly imposed and they are reinforcing the fear aspect to the degree where people will blow themselves up but is the ‘onward Christian soldiers’ notion really any better?
The vatican libraries must house miles of information which has been hidden from us, there is no denying any of this but to stop searching and start blind belief in a theory put about by a couple of biased scholars who were too afraid to go the usual academic rigors of peer review is somewhat gorgonzola to say the least - yep, Im not into creationism in the least and thats what these guys are getting at, they are saying that mankind has been here longer than we have been led to believe and this is where they veer off from the christian 6000 yr theory but that is all, they are starting with a conclusion and making the facts fit it...... most of us don’t believe the 6000 yr thing anyway………
Even the christians have started to make "scientific" claims relative to the universe and inner consciousness etc, they are distorting science to their own ends by making claims totally unsupported by the Bible, Id like anybody to show me a bit of the bible that mentions anything other than elephants all the way down or obeying commandments for all bodily urges - these people work on the old principles where the people hearing the claims didnt dare ask for proof and when they actually started to do so (after all the other fear techniques eventually failed) we got the inquisition to take our minds off any dissent - faith = fear and discourages questioning and reason so these guys come along and speak with seeming authority which taps into the faith meme which so many people react to automatically as they are conditioned to, its like that funny handshake that hypnotists or NLP'ers do and which the church is no stranger to, reason is removed when authority is asserted by those who are conditioned to obey their superiors, it’s the oldest trick in the book. They do it with the drugs thing nowadays too
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Have a look at this, its speaking of techniques used against the Hindus but in reality, they are all as bad as each other in their quest for power and supremacy over their fellow humans - mind manipulation is alive and well and is the tool of preference nowadays for all evangelical groups - they are perfecting it good style too, its like the battle has been renewed for our minds.
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The people who suffered at the hands of the various religions were our forbears, they were the ones of their day who like us lot, challenged the powers that be and saw through the rules which were imposed on the poor for the benefit of the rich and I think that falling for religious clap trap is dishonoring their memories........ the church were the politicians of yesteryear, till they had their balls severed they ruled even kings.........
Religion is great in its place for those who will, no problem whatsoever but if they decide to try to use the scientific principles to prove their notions then they had best do it to a standard which is beyond reproach or it will inevitably attract the attention of those whom they are attempting to discredit and this is exactly what these two were trying to avoid in their avoidance of publication in peer reviewed journals.
I also have to question why they need an actor to present their stuff (1996 version), the evidence should speak for itself surely - its the same with any god belief, if there was one we would know, it would be as obvious as the daylight and we would have no need for faith - we dont need faith in the sun and moon or rain or wind or birth and many other forms of natural beauty.... the jolly controllers have duped us for millennia and their way of doing so was via superstition - rebellion has also been a constant as has the cry of "off with their heads" in whatever language or era, those who disagree with the elite are the ones to pay the price till "order" is restored at which point folk knowledge goes underground once more for however long it takes till the next uprising - if we want to talk about hidden archaeology lets talk about it from the perspective of the people rather than the controllers. We cant just replace one set of superstition with another and Christianity and Krishna Consciousness are ultimately incompatible, its very clever how they have aimed this at a Christian market but possible that was a push from modern marketing technique masters making a push in their own interests, no doubt their own karma will catch up with them lol……
These guys are pushing their version of events like all the other religionistas do, they brush over the findings of their peers which is an academic no no, academically you have to reasonably present a case for your own perspective and this involves examining data from previous findings and saying why they disagree as well as opening oneself to criticism from peers before publication but theres none of that with this, they just say that they think this way and provide very inadequate reasoning and no justification which makes the whole book suspect in the minds of their peers who do work within the norms of the paradigm of academic integrity which proffers testable evidence .....
"This information was not presented because it would have destroyed the goal of the program: to attack science. The program was nothing more than a one-sided propaganda video with strong overtones of religious fundamentalism masquerading as science."
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The reference given above is an excellent refutation on a point by point basis of the original material of Forbidden Archaeology - and Ive only just found it after writing the above.
Yep, I do have a problem with this kind of research as I have a problem with any kind of lack of integrity…. But shit happens and we do find that eventually the truth will out – even archaeology isn’t entirely written in stone lol – I reckon we are in for an interesting few years archaeologically speaking if we don’t all get raptured off the planet - oops, I wont be going anyway will I haha… more and more underwater finds are being made and now that the churches don’t have complete control of findings its my guess that the genesis myth will be even further debunked – does anybody know for instance that it was Adam and Lilith before Adam and Eve? Or that the ten commandments aren’t the originals?
The churches are really fighting for control now and that’s why we are seeing a resurgence of their efforts aka the use of modern persuasion techniques - they have known all along that once education became the norm that they would lose power and control which is why they fought it so hard, witchcraft indeed! That just got rid of the opposition amongst the Christians for a few generations but the time is right and we are back to deal with this whole thing from a stronger vantage point, Hitler got rid of a few generations of the Jews cos they were threatening the wealth of Europe, Blair n Bush put the cat amongst the pigeons in the middle east and it all goes along like before, killing, killing and yet more killing…… and whats coming up for Iran, are they going to obliterate the remaining Persians and Zoroastrians next? – the whole thing simply sickens me…………
Im not sure if the common enemy of all religions is science but its beginning to look that way to me…..
Trish
ps I have no belief whatsoever in the biblical account of history and do believe there were flourishing civilisations long before we have been told - as Ive said, history is told by the victors - and ive also said before how much Id love to be let loose in the vatican archives for a few years with a big team of researchers...........