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Originally posted by awake_and_aware
reply to post by undo
You interested in real science too? Read any of Prof. Stephen Hawkins work on black holes?
Origin mythology
Horus was born to the goddess Isis after she retrieved all the dismembered body parts of her murdered husband Osiris, except his penis which was thrown into the Nile and eaten by a catfish,[5][6] and used her magic powers to resurrect Osiris and fashion a gold phallus[7] to conceive her son. In another version of the story, Isis was impregnated by divine fire.[8] Once Isis knew she was pregnant with Horus, she fled to the Nile Delta marshlands to hide from her brother Set who jealously killed Osiris and who she knew would want to kill their son.[8] There Isis bore a divine son, Horus.
In ancient Babylon, the feast of the son of Isis (Goddess of Nature) took place on the 25th of December, wild parties, tons of food, and gift giving were the main staples of the feast.
Originally posted by awake_and_aware
reply to post by undo
What's Stephen Hawkin's work got to do with biblical scripture?
NOTHING.
ALl i see in this thread are people who can't stand the idea of common sense that Zeitgeist promotes - the kind of common sense that destroys religious superstition and dogma.
A small extract from the book of enoch is hardly convincing evidence for 1) God or 2) Advanced knowledge of blackholes or the universe.
.In Osiris the Christian Egyptians found the prototype of Christ, and in the pictures and statues of Isis suckling her son Horus, they perceived the prototypes of the Virgin Mary and her child.
Biblical scholar Bruce M. Metzger notes that in one account of the Osirian cycle he dies on the 17th of the month of Athyr (approximating to a month between October 28 and November 26 in modern calendars), is revivified on the 19th and compares this to Christ rising on the "third day"
Additionally, some scholars of comparative mythology argue that both Dionysus and Jesus represent the "dying-and-returning god" mythological archetype.
Other elements, such as the celebration by a ritual meal of bread and wine, also have parallels.
Their agenda was to show that all of these stories revolve around the 'sun'....but they would of been better off if they were just honest and showed the real connections between the stories and left out some of their stretched ideas.
Originally posted by undo
i think the priesthoods always used the sky as a calendar and a way to discuss in metaphor, their knowledge of the gods, either literally or figuratively. it's always a multilayered affair. some used the movements of these bodies as a fortune telling device because they had learned that if you studied them, they could be used to forecast when they would do other things, like eclipses. they came to be thought of as tellers of the future, and thus were used in a very literal fashion, in that way. such as the babylonian omens of the moon, which the priests used to give the king advice. even though it was totally unrelated to the events it was meant to predict -- if venus is in the shadow of the moon, the king should stay home and eat grapes -- for example, it does show an example of why they started using the sky to predict the future.
Originally posted by awake_and_aware
reply to post by LeoVirgo
Their agenda was to show that all of these stories revolve around the 'sun'....but they would of been better off if they were just honest and showed the real connections between the stories and left out some of their stretched ideas.
That's NOT the agenda of Zeitgeist. they point out many ancient religions that revolved around the sun, and some that have adopted myth of the sun or changed. Zeitgeist highlights vivid similarities between religious dogma.
Again, another user has mentioned it, it's to make people aware that there is a select few controlling the minds and money of the many. Religion is deception as God cannot be proved,(this doesn't mean God does not exist) faith is not a virtue despite what you have all been told. Religion is presubscribed beliefs or philosophy made by other men.
Originally posted by undo
reply to post by Wolfenz
dec 25th is nimrod (osiris) reference. the tree likely connected to the cedar osiris' body was found in, by isis, after he had been killed by set (the serpent god of egypt). but he wasn't found hung on the tree, but the tree grew up around him and enclosed his body.
so not horus but osiris, yes.
Ancient Babylonians believed the son of the queen of heaven was born around this time of the year. Ancient Egyptians believed the god-man and savior Osiris died and was entombed around this time of year and that his death gave life to the son of Isis who was born around — you guessed it — December 25 (the feast of the Son of Isis was celebrated on December 25).
Originally posted by awake_and_aware
It could be possible that those who created religious doctrine had the best intentions at the time, but a lot of the ideas and philosophy are now considered morally reprehensible.
Metaphysical claims are unprovable and therefore have conjured. They were not formed by objective maens.
Heaven, Hell and Reincarnation are irrational metaphysical claims created as fiction for what man doesn't understand. It's wicked preaching to teach any human, let alone a child - False fear and false hope.
The Antichrist (Extracts)
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Declaration of War against Christendom
"We should not deck out and embellish Christianity: it has waged a war to the death against this higher type of man, it has put all the deepest instincts of this type under its ban, it has developed its concept of evil, of the Evil One himself, out of these instincts--the strong man as the typical reprobate, the "outcast among men." Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self-preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation. The most lamentable example: the corruption of Pascal, who believed that his intellect had been destroyed by original sin, whereas it was actually destroyed by Christianity!--
It is necessary to say just whom we regard as our antagonists: theologians and all who have any theological blood in their veins--this is our whole philosophy. . . . One must have faced that menace at close hand, better still, one must have had experience of it directly and almost succumbed to it, to realize that it is not to be taken lightly. This poisoning goes a great deal further than most people think:
So long as the priest, that professional denier, calumniator and poisoner of life, is accepted as a higher variety of man, there can be no answer to the question, What is truth? Truth has already been stood on its head when the obvious attorney of mere emptiness is mistaken for its representative.
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Upon this theological instinct I make war:
I find the tracks of it everywhere. Whoever has theological blood in his veins is shifty and dishonourable in all things. The pathetic thing that grows out of this condition is called faith: in other words, closing one's eyes upon one's self once for all, to avoid suffering the sight of incurable falsehood. People erect a concept of morality, of virtue, of holiness upon this false view of all things; they ground good conscience upon faulty vision; they argue that no other sort of vision has value any more, once they have made theirs sacrosanct with the names of "God," "salvation" and "eternity."
I unearth this theological instinct in all directions: it is the most widespread and the most subterranean form of falsehood to be found on earth. Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth. His profound instinct of self-preservation stands against truth ever coming into honour in any way, or even getting stated.
Wherever the influence of theologians is felt there is a transvaluation of values, and the concepts "true" and "false" are forced to change places: what ever is most damaging to life is there called "true," and whatever exalts it, intensifies it, approves it, justifies it and makes it triumphant is there called "false."... When theologians, working through the "consciences" of princes (or of peoples--), stretch out their hands for power, there is never any doubt as to the fundamental issue: the will to make an end, the nihilistic will exerts that power...
The Christian concept of a god--the god as the patron of the sick, the god as a spinner of cobwebs, the god as a spirit--is one of the most corrupt concepts that has ever been set up in the world: it probably touches low-water mark in the ebbing evolution of the god-type. God degenerated into the contradiction of life. Instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yea! In him war is declared on life, on nature, on the will to live! God becomes the formula for every slander upon the "here and now," and for every lie about the "beyond"! In him nothingness is deified, and the will to nothingness is made holy! . . .
Christianity also stands in opposition to all intellectual well-being,--sick reasoning is the only sort that it can use as Christian reasoning; it takes the side of everything that is idiotic; it pronounces a curse upon "intellect," upon the superbia of the healthy intellect. Since sickness is inherent in Christianity, it follows that the typically Christian state of "faith" must be a form of sickness too, .... "Faith" means the will to avoid knowing what is true. ...... The impulse to lie--it is by this that I recognize every foreordained theologian.--
Do not let yourself be deceived: great intellects are sceptical.... The strength, the freedom which proceed from intellectual power, from a superabundance of intellectual power, manifest themselves as scepticism
..--With this I come to a conclusion and pronounce my judgment. I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian church the most terrible of all the accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worst possible corruption. The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul. Let any one dare to speak to me of its "humanitarian" blessings! Its deepest necessities range it against any effort to abolish distress; it lives by distress; it creates distress to make itself immortal. . . . . . a will to lie at any price, ,,,,Parasitism as the only practice of the church; with its anaemic and "holy" ideals, sucking all the blood, all the love, all the hope out of life; the beyond as the will to deny all reality; the cross as the distinguishing mark of the most subterranean conspiracy ever heard of,--against health, beauty, well-being, intellect, kindness of soul--against life itself. . . .
This eternal accusation against Christianity I shall write upon all walls, wherever walls are to be found--I have letters that even the blind will be able to see. . . . I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough,--I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race. . . .
edit on 19-2-2011 by Lucifer777 because: edited text
Originally posted by LeoVirgo
reply to post by Wolfenz
Hi there!
Could you please show us in Egypt where they linked Horus with December 25th? An example of this importance is as we read in the Bible no where is it clear of a time to celebrate the birth of Jesus and no where does it lead to the idea Jesus was born in mid winter. But today, we see a celebration of Jesus birth for Dec 25th which certainly was a popular time of celebration in Pagan celebrations. But there is no real reason to celebrate the birth of Jesus on this day. I dont consider just because this date became later tied to Jesus that there is real grounds to stand on (through the history that was left to us about Jesus) for Dec. 25th.
Just because Babylon later tied Horus to Dec 25th does not mean that Egypt, the root of the history for Horus...ever did such a thing. Later people that assimilate a 'man or god' to their already preconceived important dates...does not make a relevant connection enough for any of us to say 'Jesus and Horus were born on Dec 25th'.
What about al the other things zeitgeist says about Horus...can you show me where in Egypt that such things can be shown to us through the root of the people that Horus came from? Im very open and will observe evidence from Egypt about Horus....but not what a later culture mixed with their own preexisting celebrations and important days.
Originally posted by Malcram
reply to post by Chinesis
Before I take down your position: please state what IS your position?
Roflol
That's absolutely hilarious. Its clear you're thoroughly objective on the matter of Christianity and not at all simply trolling for conflict with anyone who might happen to disagree with you, right?