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March 20, 2015
‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group membership tops 700
Membership of our lively ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group on the popular Goodreads.com literary site has now topped 700 — little wonder given the controversial nature of many of the topics being discussed!
Some of the more contentious discussion threads follow. (Click on any links that appeal to view members’ comments):
Is the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) another invention of the West?
Finding (hiding) a cure for cancer
Earlier historical versions of Jesus Christ?
Are aliens visiting Earth or not????
Was 9/11 a false flag attack and ‘Inside Job’? 62% of you voted YES
The US Military’s proposal to kill Americans
The political apathy of today’s youth
The Big Bang Theory – Debunked?
Obama, Murdoch & the Bush/Clinton clans
The Queen’s position in modern Britain
Big Pharma & the Medical Mafia
Can we trust news media outlets?
The truth about international aid
November 22, 1963. Dallas, Texas.
Hurricane Katrina and African-American communities
The overpopulation myth (part 1)
The multi-trillion dollar WW2 cover-up
(Profiting from) The War on Drugs
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Our ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group is aimed at those with an interest in the world we live in and a desire to learn or to uncover “underground knowledge” on important issues of our times.
Everyone’s welcome to join! All you need is an enquiring mind. Our members include scientists, teachers, historians, authors, military and intelligence agency personnel, bankers, housewives, whistleblowers, students, former police officers and many more.
Visit the group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group
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March 19, 2015
Evidence to suggest Al Qaeda created in the West
Was Al Qaeda an intelligence construct used by Washington to destabilize and destroy sovereign countries while sustaining the illusion of an‘outside enemy’ that threatens the security of the Western World? That’s the assertion made in an article originally published by Global Research in 2005, shedding light on the nature of Al Qaeda.
Al Qaeda terrorists.
We ran the article in a discussion thread titled “Evidence to suggest Al Qaeda created in the West” in our ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group on the popular literary site Goodreads.com.
As one member observes, “That should be a must read! Especially with what’s going on right now in Syria/Iraq et al. ISIS, ISIL, IS… Al Qaeda… The ‘enemy’ keeps changing. The ‘enemy’s’ name and location keeps changing. We’re getting more and more used to a war that doesn’t really bother a lot of the West, when the video of someone’s cat on YouTube is more important.”
Meanwhile, an interesting excerpt from the aforementioned article follows: “The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the ‘devil’ only in order to drive the ‘TV watcher’ to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US and the lobbyists for the US war on terrorism are only interested in making money.”
The article, which we ran in full, prompted a flurry of comment from members of our Underground Knowledge group.
A sample of those comments (names withheld) follows:
It seems like once the media repeats the names and evil intentions of these often-fabricated organizations enough times, the masses believe it and nobody (not even investigative journalists) researches the true origins of these groups.
Al Queada weren’t even ever mentioned in mainstream news (hardly) before 9/11, just as other groups that now spring up weren’t known about- but it’s a complex subject.
This story is just one of numerous pieces of evidence pointing toward Al Qaeda being created in the West (specifically in New York, actually). And when all those evidences are added up, it equates to an absolute fact that Al Qaeda was yet another fabricated enemy we built in the US for sinister purposes. And yet now there’s a new enemy in ISIS and still people never study history before reacting to the exact things in the present that the globalists want us to react to.
Bin Laden’s death highly suspicious in my opinion. Check out this post here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/… ”
What the truth is about Bin Laden’s alive or dead status is anyone’s guess, but there’s not a shadow of doubt in my mind that the official raid and quick burial was just utter bollocks. A classic example of where one country just feeds something to the news (their little cabaret act in Pakistan on video and mention of some undisclosed intelligence) and lo and behold, the press and subsequently the people take it as being true.
To view all the comments and/or to have your say go to our Underground Knowledge group’s discussion thread at: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2028159-evidence-to-suggest-al-qaeda-was-created-in-the-west
Related Underground Knowledge group threads that may also be of interest include:
Is the Islamic State (IS/ISIS) another invention of the West?
Was 9/11 a false flag attack and ‘Inside Job’? 62% of you voted YES
The US Military’s proposal to kill Americans
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What or who are aliens? Another ‘Underground Knowledge’ group debate unfolds…
Conjecture over what or who are aliens has prompted another lively debate in our ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group on Goodreads.com with some members saying they (aliens) are beings from far away galaxies while others believe they are multidimensional or interdimensional beings; others claim they are time travelers from the future and still more say they are delusions of the insane and therefore don’t exist.
Sample comments from group members (names withheld) follow:
The breakaway civilization angle is interesting. Author William Gibson has a great quote. It goes something like “The future is here it’s just unevenly distributed.” I’m sure there are some technologies that are closely held somewhere. I don’t know what or who. I’m sure some private groups are guarding some secrets.
I’ve recently read Karla Turner’s last book, Masquerade of Angels. It was published right before (or after?) she died. From what I understand, she was very outspoken that the intentions behind abductions were to use or harm humans. Through the experience of the subject in her book, he was dealing with a hostile race of reptilians. The procedures performed on him would match some of the statements made about human’s being referred to as containers – which in my own research and experience I am finding holds a lot of credibility.
I also have a pet theory that humans produced an advanced technological society prior to the last ice age. Real evidence is lacking but there are a lot of clues that point to it – especially artifacts produced in Egypt that are best explained by advanced machining.
I do not know if these beings are from other planets or other dimensions. I do believe that there are creatures that reside within the realm of Earth, just outside our perception, and are responsible for some of the spiritual abduction encounters. This is actually my current focus in my new project.Anatomically modern humans have been around for at least 200,000 years with brains that worked as well as ours do. Is it really logical to assume they spent 190,000 of those years just hunting and gathering? So given that, I wonder if some group of humans developed some technology and are still around somehow. It could be something banal like space travel technology or something weirder.
I’ve recently been leaning toward the angle that aliens are denizens of the inner planes. I mean that in the Neoplatonist/Hermetic sense. Not sure how it translates into out materialist world view. Also, Jung’s Collective Unconscious is close to what I mean.
Alternately, I haven’t entirely abandoned the tulpa idea. Perhaps we have collectively created aliens and given them some sort of existence without consciously meaning to.
There are theories that the rest of the universe is not as dense or physical…and that other lifeforms out in space are therefore interdimensional.
I spent much of the past two decades as a futurist, trying to forecast future trends in technology. I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s an awful lot of mass media work taking place to prepare the public not to panic when there’s an official “first contact.”
To view all the comments, or better still to have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2137716-what-or-who-are-aliens?comment=116358097#comment_116358097
Related discussion threads in our Underground Knowledge group include:
Underground Knowl…: Antigravity propulsion: human or alien technologies?
Underground Knowl…: Other UFO theories
Underground Knowl…: The argument for manmade technologies
Underground Knowl…:*Amazing UFO quotes from world leaders, NASA astronauts & other prominent figures
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March 17, 2015
Many poll respondents question whether Christ real
The latest poll in our ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group, which asks the question “Do you believe Jesus Christ was a real historical person?” has proven the most popular yet. Surprisingly, 43% of poll respondents to date have indicated they either don’t believe or they are unsure.
Interim results are: 57% say Yes (he is a real historical person); 25% say No; and 18% are Unsure.
Understandably, respondents’ comments are also among the liveliest and most passionate received to date with the group’s Christian members clashing with others.
One of the latest comments posted makes for interesting reading:
This from a historian/lecturer (name withheld) who has just posted the following (unabridged) on LinkedIn.com in a discussion thread I started on ‘The Authenticity of the Bible’ in that forum’s American History group. (Note his comments are posted here as they are very relevant to the topic of this poll)…
As for the history of the Bible and the accuracy of the information, if we are talking about the canonical Gospels in the New Testament, every Gospel treats the story of Jesus’s life differently, especially the most important events in that life, his birth and death.
Read Matthew and Luke on the birth of Jesus and marvel at the discrepancies (in both John and Mark Jesus is a young man when the story begins). Obviously, in both Gospels Jesus is born in Bethlehem because that fulfills Scripture. But in Matthew, Joseph and Mary have been living in Bethlehem when Jesus is born and the Wise Men follow a star that somehow settles over the house where Jesus was born (no shepherds mentioned in Matthew). But because the Wise Men had earlier gone into Jerusalem to inquire about the birth of the King of the Jews, this alerts Herod that he has a threat that needs to be taken care of. So after Jesus is born Joseph and Mary must flee Bethlehem for Nazareth, where Jesus grows up and begins his Ministry (hence “Jesus of Nazareth.”).
In Luke, Joseph and Mary are traveling from Nazareth because Caesar Augustus has decreed that for purposes of taxation all inhabitants of the Roman Empire must register for this tax in the home of the ancestor that began their family lineage. Since Joseph was from the house of David, and David lived in Bethlehem 1,000 years earlier, that is where Joseph and the pregnant Mary must go, and in Bethlehem, in a manger (no room at the inn for these travelers), Jesus is born. And then, after his birth and Mary’s ritual purification rites, they return to Nazareth (no mention of any Wise Men in Luke).
As for Jesus’s death, read Mark and Luke. In Mark Jesus is totally out of it; he seems unaware, or downright stunned, about what is going to happen to him. When Pilate asks him if he is King of the Jews he replies in a daze, “You say so.” On the cross, his last words are “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?”
In Luke, Jesus is cool as a cucumber. He even has a conversation with the two other criminals on the cross, in which one of them mocks Jesus while the other says to his fellow criminal (I’m paraphrasing), “Back off, man. This is the son of God.” After which this criminal says to Jesus, “Lord remember me when you come into your Kingdom.” And Jesus replies, “Truly I tell you, you will wake up with me in Paradise.” And what are this Jesus’s last words? “Forgive them Father for they know not what they do.” And then he says, “Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.” And he dies.
The problem with the accuracy of the Gospels has always been that they come from the oral tradition. Mark, the first Gospel, was written some 30 years after Jesus died; Matthew and Luke 40 – 45 years later, and John around 60 years later. All authors of the Gospels, whoever they were, wrote them in a different country, and in Greek, whereas Jesus spoke Aramaic.
The stories of Jesus originally came from Christian missionaries wandering the Mediterranean seeking to convert people to Christianity. Those stories were then passed along to others, who passed them to others, and so on, until whoever Mark was decided to write them down in a book. It was like the kids “Telephone game” in which the kids in a circle whisper a story around the circle until the last kid tells a story that is completely different from the first kid’s story. And the kids don’t have an agenda. Missionaries seeking to convert people to Christianity obviously do, so it is likely they altered their stories to play up Jesus’s divinity.
Faith is faith and all religious faith is based on beliefs that can’t be proven. Nothing wrong with that, but it does mean the accuracy of all religious texts can be suspect.
To view all comments received to date, or better still to have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group?type=group
The poll closes March 27.
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March 13, 2015
Nearly two thirds of respondents believe Christ a real, historical person
Our latest ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group poll on the popular literary site Goodreads.com asks: Do you believe Jesus Christ was a real historical person? Interim results show that 60% of poll respondents say Yes; 23% say No; and 17% are Unsure.
Christ as depicted by artist Heinrich Hofmann.
The poll was inspired by a lively new discussion thread titled Forbidden history of the Bible in our group.
That thread in turn has spawned the following debates:
Earlier historical versions of Jesus Christ?
Extensive biblical revisions made by the Romans
Biblical conspiracy theory re Adam & Eve
Book of Genesis – not an original document?
and last but not least…
Before voting in the poll, members were advised, “For anyone wanting to read more on this subject before voting, here’s a discussion thread in the group on “Earlier historical versions of Jesus Christ”: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/…”
A selection of poll respondents’ comments follow (names withheld):
No offense but the question to me is nonsensical, so I didn’t weigh in. No genuine scholar denies that Jesus existed. That leaves pretty much only propagandists and pseudo-scholars, who know nothing about history, that deny that He did. There is way more proof for His existence than there is for many other people that we accept as historical. People can argue about what His significance is, but that He was a historical figure is unquestionably so.
I am obligated to be honest with respect to my Christian brethren and friends here. My “YES” Jesus existed is qualified by the separation of what is ascribed to him in the Gospel. It is problematic to align with Paul’s advocating that a Jew of the first century would claim divinity when the Jews challenged Rome over the same issue to the very end of a disastrous conclusion, and without surrendering their belief: they rather faced a holocaust than surrender their belief before Rome. The followers of Jesus rejected Paul, not Jesus.
I don’t ALTOGETHER believe Jesus Christ existed as such, but the question, with only Yes, No and Unsure options, imposes limitations on the answer. By that I mean that it’s perfectly plausible that a man, or many men existed at that time called Jesus of Nazareth, and it’s wholly plausible that one or more might have been regarded as Jesus Christ. What I don’t believe is that a ‘Jesus Christ son of God’ existed, any more than I believe God himself existed. I hope I’ve explained that clearly. (Gulps)
I believe there is a true person behind the legends and stories. Just not that every action, event, or saying ascribed to him in the canonical or other writings is 100% accurate.
Way too much historical evidence for him. See Josephus.
It’s my understanding that many (or most?) historians now believe Josephus’ documents that name Jesus are forgeries: http://www.truthbeknown.com/josephus.htm
It is very possible the Church threw in the forgery. I don’t disagree with that. I do disagree that Jesus is a figment of some one’s story telling ability.
Are you aware of all the Pagan Gods who came before Christ – like Mithra, Horus and Osiris – whose lives are remarkably similar to the story of Jesus? I find the history (or lack of, depending on your take) surrounding Jesus gets really convoluted the deeper you research.
Agreed. Lot’s of stuff borrowed. There was even a second messiah around 100 AD.
To see all the comments, or better still to have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group?type=group
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March 11, 2015
Christ’s life story remarkably similar to early Pagan spiritual figures?
The discussion on ‘Forbidden history of the Bible’ in our Underground Knowledge group has taken an interesting turn with one member of the group claiming “numerous biblical scholars and historians have pointed out that Jesus’ life story seems to be remarkably similar to earlier Pagan spiritual figures.”
Jesus as we know him…but would we recognize the real man?
In a new discussion thread titled ‘Earlier historical versions of Jesus Christ?’ the same member says:
According to my research, it appears there most likely was a man called Jesus Christ who lived when the Bible said he did but that we probably would not recognize him or his life story if we could time travel back to that time. Reason being is it appears that once again the numerous biblical revisions, especially by the Romans in 4th Century, mixed fact with fiction – the editors of the Bible seemed to have overlaid earlier accounts of Pagan spiritual figures with Jesus’ life.
One of many examples of earlier historical figures with parallels to Christ’s life is the religious (Zoroastrian) character of Mithra who lived in Persia in about the 5th Century BC. He was born a virgin birth also on December 25th and had 12 disciples, performed very similar miracles to the ones Jesus was said to have done. Some historians and religious scholars also believe Mithra and his followers used the sign of the cross/crucifix…
…Besides Mithra, there are older Gods especially Egyptian Gods who Biblical writers appear to have taken from. For example, there were tales of Egyptian Gods who were killed in a similar manner to Jesus and were also resurrected.
So the Jesus story gets very complex the more you study history…
Predictably, this has prompted further lively debate, which can be viewed at: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2246325-earlier-historical-versions-of-jesus-christ
Christ’s life story remarkably similar to earlier Pagan spiritual figures?
The discussion on ‘Forbidden history of the Bible’ in our Underground Knowledge group has taken an interesting turn with one member of the group claiming “numerous biblical scholars and historians have pointed out that Jesus’ life story seems to be remarkably similar to earlier Pagan spiritual figures.”
Jesus as we know him…but would we recognize the real man?
In a new discussion thread titled ‘Earlier historical versions of Jesus Christ?’ the same member says:
According to my research, it appears there most likely was a man called Jesus Christ who lived when the Bible said he did but that we probably would not recognize him or his life story if we could time travel back to that time. Reason being is it appears that once again the numerous biblical revisions, especially by the Romans in 4th Century, mixed fact with fiction – the editors of the Bible seemed to have overlaid earlier accounts of Pagan spiritual figures with Jesus’ life.
One of many examples of earlier historical figures with parallels to Christ’s life is the religious (Zoroastrian) character of Mithra who lived in Persia in about the 5th Century BC. He was born a virgin birth also on December 25th and had 12 disciples, performed very similar miracles to the ones Jesus was said to have done. Some historians and religious scholars also believe Mithra and his followers used the sign of the cross/crucifix…
…Besides Mithra, there are older Gods especially Egyptian Gods who Biblical writers appear to have taken from. For example, there were tales of Egyptian Gods who were killed in a similar manner to Jesus and were also resurrected.
So the Jesus story gets very complex the more you study history…
Predictably, this has prompted further lively debate, which can be viewed at: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2246325-earlier-historical-versions-of-jesus-christ
March 10, 2015
Forbes article debunking global warming sparks another ‘Underground Knowledge’ group debate
A recent Forbes article titled ‘Record Cold And Snow Destroy Global Warming Claims’ has prompted one of the liveliest debates yet seen in our ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group with the various factions defending their beliefs quite vehemently in some cases. No surprises there given the passionate claims and counter-claims surrounding this most topical of issues.
Excerpts from the Forbes article, which was dated Feb. 25, 2015, follow:
Yet another bitterly cold, snowy winter is destroying alarmist global warming claims, proving once again that over-the-top global warming predictions are proving no more scientifically credible than snake oil…
…Connecticut is experiencing its coldest February in recorded history. So is Michigan. So is Toronto. Cleveland and Chicago are experiencing their second coldest February in recorded history. Frigid and record cold temperatures are being set from Key West to International Falls. At the same time, blizzard after blizzard is burying much of the nation with record winter snow totals, with winter snowfall records beings set from Boston to Denver. Global warming activists are in full-throttle damage control, desperately claiming global warming causes record snow and cold…
…The most meaningful lesson from the unusually cold and snowy recent winters is that global warming is so minor as to be barely noticeable…Global warming alarmists will still try to sell their snake oil, hoping you will forget that tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, floods, snow, and heat waves all really did occur prior to 1988. Most of these events actually occurred more frequently in decades past. And global warming activists will try to induce you to forget their prior snake-oil predictions, like the warm and snow-free predictions issued by the IPCC.
For the full Forbes article go to: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2015/02/25/cold-and-snow-destroy-global-warming-claims/
Predictably, the Forbes article sparked a flurry of comments from our fellow Undergrounders (members of our Underground Knowledge group) including one from a learned member who says, “The global discussion on Global Heating has moved way, way beyond the whole ‘is it real?’ stuff.” He claims, “To still be pondering that is akin to still being debating whether the Earth is round or flat, purely because the Flat Earth Society insists that its view be heard. Flat Earthers get laughed out of town these days.”
Members’ randomly selected comments follow:
The point that I was trying to make, regarding Global Warming, is that it’s important not to allow deniers to sow doubt where none exists. It’s a typical Big Brother tactic. If facts don’t suit your agenda, and the evidence for them is such that you can’t deny them outright, sow doubt among the population at large about them. Start a “debate” which distracts attention and energy from worthwhile discussion and progress… exactly what is happening here. It’s a little disappointing to see that you’ve swallowed the Big Brother bait on this one.
The Forbes article – yawn. More establishment doubt-sowing. “Some Snow Destroys Global Warming Claims” is about as good as “Some Cheeseburgers Destroy Global Hunger Claims” or “Some Money Destroys Global Poverty Claims”. You’re correct, Forbes hasn’t run any articles lately questioning whether the Earth is round or flat, but then, the Flat Earth Society don’t have media and political lobbyists backed by billions of oil money, either.
This article in London’s leading newspaper The Telegraph with the headline ‘The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever’ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth… The first paragraph from this mainstream media article is perhaps telling: When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.
The “debate” that exists in mainstream media is fossil-fuel company sponsored diversion of public attention from the fact that their industry is wrecking the planet. Among the scientific community there is overwhelming consensus on the issue. If you still need evidence for global warming, here is as good a place to start as any: http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
It seems like every one has an opinion, but only the best scientists have the data. Those scientists provide a large set of data that would suggest global warming is real. No where though did anyone say it was linear, which it isn’t.
We (Earthlings) are either in an Ice Age or between Ice Ages. If we are between, as is the case now, we are either coming out of the last Ice Age or heading into the next one…so we either warm up or we cool down. In other words…we’ve seen it all before. Any takers? No? Too simple perhaps? The thing that worries me about this whole global warming debate is the amount of money up for grabs. Even IF the naysayers are wrong about global warming, I smell something…the whiff of corruption perhaps?
I find it a bit curious that anybody is still questioning the existence of human induced climate change. Some people might believe that some US president first realised this, but the first scientist to recognise it, as far as I know, was Tyndall in about 1850. Newspapers are worthless sources of information. They can’t get anything right. Journalists are not scientists.
Group member and author Dr. Stephen Martino posted the following: “Global warming has become a fact in today’s public school curriculums. People who deny its existence are considered “deniers” and/or ignorant. However, we must ask: Is global warming indeed factual or is it some myth that is perpetuated by our government to further control our lives, finances and daily activities? “Some facts that contradict the global warming theory include: 1. The earth has not gotten any warmer since 1998 2. The Northern Polar ice cap is getting larger despite Al Gore’s prediction that it would be absent by 2014 3. The amount of CO2 in our atmosphere is almost negligible at 0.04%.”
If you want a proper assessment of climate issues you need to get information from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change or the scientific literature. IPCC reports are balance reports written by 1000 scientists worldwide with no political axe to grind. IPCC reports are free of charge as are the data from which the climate assessments are made. Those reports explain why, e.g., ice ages are not an issue.
Greenhouse Effect: The radiative effect of particular gases in the atmosphere (h2o, CO2, CH4, N2O) which act in concert to raise the global temperature and cause other climate effects.
global warming: the change in global temperature.
climate change: the change in the earth’s climate.
These terms are not vague: it is you that is ignorant of them.
Blah, blah, blah again. At best and very magnanimously, a continuation of “scientific fact until next revision.”
To view all the comments, or better still to have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/2244487-global-warming—is-it-real
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Membership of our rapidly growing ‘Underground Knowledge’ group on the popular Goodreads.com literary site has now topped 660. Do visit the group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group
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March 8, 2015
‘Forbidden history of the Bible’ discussion opens up debate on Christianity
Yet another interesting confab is unfolding in our ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group on Goodreads.com – this one relating to the authenticity of the Bible and the accuracy of the information contained within its hallowed pages.
The discussion was sparked by one of the group’s moderators who claims it is historically proven many or all of the books in the Bible were edited (revised, rewritten, added to and subtracted from) at later dates. He refers to “the extensive Council of Nicea biblical edits in the 4th Century AD conducted by the Romans under Emperor Constantine.”
His post continues:
So to believe the Bible as we now know it is the pure “word of God” means one must also believe that the political and militant Romans who revised the Bible had no other agendas when they decided on what to include in the finalized Bible and what to remove from its content…
That belief would be a very big call when you think about it as it requires a faith in some very corrupt and militant Roman rulers…Today’s equivalent would be believing a spiritual text edited/revised by say George W. Bush, Oliver North, Henry Kissinger and Tony Blair retained the original word of God…
…The oldest bible ever found is the Sinai Bible which from memory was written on donkey skins in the 3RD Century AD. It differs radically from the modern (edited) Bible, which is further testimony to the changes Man has made to the “word of God” over the centuries. Apparently the Sinai Bible does not contain any mention of the Resurrection of Christ, which may indicate that was added later (probably in the Council of Nicea).
Here’s an article from VatiLeaks (January 02, 2013) about the Sinai Bible (headed) ‘A glaring omission in World’s oldest Bible':
“It is a fact of Christian history that the earliest Gospels did not record a resurrection of Jesus Christ, and that claim is supported in the oldest known complete Bible available to mankind today. Called the Codex Sinaiticus, or Sinai Bible, it was named after Mt. Sinai, the location of St. Catherine’s Monastery where it was discovered in 1859 by Dr. Constantine Von Tischendorf (1815-1874). The discovery of the Sinai Bible provided biblical scholars with irrefutable evidence of wilful falsifications in all modern-day Gospels, and a comparison identified a staggering 14,800 later editorial alterations in modern Bibles…
“…With the Sinai Bible, Christian history is traced back as far as it can conceivably go, but it was still written, at best, more than 350 years after the time the Vatican says Jesus Christ walked the sands of Palestine.
“The ‘Catholic Encyclopedia’ agrees to this extraordinary late composition of the world’s oldest Bible: ’The earliest of the extant manuscripts [relating to Christianity], it is true, do not date back beyond the middle of the fourth century AD’.”
The group moderator concludes by saying, “For anyone who believes the modern version of the Bible is the irrefutable and pure word of God, I would simply ask them then what were the older Bibles? Surely the Bibles written closer to the time of Christ should be more precise?”
The above discussion thread runs under the heading Extensive biblical revisions made by the Romans
Under the umbrella heading of “Forbidden history of the Bible,” other discussion threads have been established including Banned books of the Bible / Earlier historical versions of Jesus Christ? / Book of Genesis – not an original document? / Biblical conspiracy theory re Adam & Eve
To view the discussions, or better still to have YOUR say, go to: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_folder/266160
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Membership of our rapidly growing ‘Underground Knowledge’ group has now topped 650. Do visit the group at: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-underground-knowledge—a-discussion-group
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March 7, 2015
‘Confessions of an Economic Hit Man’ nearly didn’t happen
In a revealing interview John Perkins, bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, published in 2004, has divulged he began writing the book in the 1980’s, but “threats or bribes” always convinced him to stop.
Economic hit man Perkins.
The interview, part of a short documentary, is featured in our ‘Underground Knowledge’ discussion group on the popular literary site Goodreads.com – and it’s well worth a look.
In it, Perkins maintains his function was to convince the political and financial leadership of underdeveloped countries to accept enormous development loans from institutions like the World Bank and USAID. Saddled with debts they could not hope to pay, those countries were forced to acquiesce to political pressure from the United States on a variety of issues. Perkins argues in his book that developing nations were effectively neutralized politically, had their wealth gaps driven wider and economies crippled in the long run.
His definition of economic hit men (EHMs), incidentally, is highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars.
To view the interview in full go to: https://www.goodreads.com/videos/80849-confessions-of-an-economic-hitman—john-perkins-short-documentary
The interview is compelling viewing and the book (below) is compelling reading.
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Membership of our ‘Underground Knowledge’ group has now topped 650, making it one of the fastest growing groups on Goodreads; it’s also one of the most, if not the most, active. To check it out go to: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/142309-29-conspiracy-theories—a-discussion-group
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