Greetings all you blogees out there. If I am the blog-ger then You must be the "Blog-ees". I was going to title this one "translation glitches" since anyone who reads my material is likely to come accross "translation glitches" all the time, like Jesus and his Parables. Yeah. We had those 9 - 11 defendants on trial yesterday at their arreignment in Guantanamo Bay and they refused to listen to the Arabec translation through their headphones and so the presiding judge ordered all translations to be spoken over the PA system in Arabec. Of course national security is of utmost concern in getting a proper translation. One time when Mike Wallace asked if he agreed with Mubarek's assertion that Bin Laden was insane, apparently the translator balked. Of course I let a paragraph "slip through" to one of my brothers that mentioned a whole lot of dead rock stars such as Syd Barret, Mal Evans, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, and Jim Morrison all in one breath. "It got garbled in the translation" will be my General Patton explanation, perhaps. To illustrate translation problems one time a missionary to some Micronesians or native Samoahs talked about how "My past can be divided into two different parts" and began talking about his life history and there was all this laughing and snickering in the audience and he wondered what was up and was informed he'd used the wrong word for "past" but instead said "My ass (as in buttox) is divided into two parts". You really gotta watch embarrasing stuff like that.
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We have translation problems with the Bible that almost constitute their own reality. For instance there is a line often mistranslated as "Let he who is without sin first cast a stone at the woman". This would seem to imply that Jesus is saying "To prove you don't have any sins - throw rocks at this woman", which is not what he was saying at all. Many mistranslate a passage of Revelation that goes "But I have This against you - - that you have abandoned your First Love". But what the verse should be translated as "You have abandoned the Love you had at first" (or at the beginning) Even in Spanish class I ran into this. There was a line in "En La Biblioteca" that goes "Pues, parace mal". And it's translated, "Well, is that bad" when a much more faithful translation would be "Does it seem bad to you?" And then we have the line of Jesus where he says 'Drink ye All of it' referring to the comunion cup. You have a lot of drunk Cholic priests feeling they have to finish the comunion wine. The proper translation that makes sense is "Drink of it - - all of you" since in context it was one common Cup that was being passed around from desciple to desciple". You have another problem with some people who translate one passage in Timothy as "Every scripture inspired by God - - - ". The correct translation is "All scripture is inspired by God". The Greek word for Love has nothing to do with the love of a parent for his children, That would be "Storge" or something. Agape, the word used, is used exclusively as a man's love for a Thing such as a masterpiece of gemstone of some sort. Or it could be used as "The love of a drug addict for his drug of choice". At any rate it's man on object love.
We have the old testament where in the Living Bible it talks about angels coming down and having sex with earth women. This is the only one that's ballsey enough to get it right. This is JUST what is referred to. In 2nd Peter and in Jeremiah it speaks of Alien Beings living on Earth before Man was created. These Beings were shipped off to a place called "Tarterus", which is a holding tank used exclusively for Fallen Angels and never for Man. In Genesis it says "And the earth Became Void and Waste". The word "was" won't work here and I'll prove it to you right now. It says later in Genesis that "Enoch walked with God 365 years and he was not for God took him". Walter Martin would infer "Then it says Enoch Never Existed", which is NOT what the scripture is saying. And by the way the term of "Sons of God" is used exclusively for Angels. The opening chapter of Job speaks of "The sons of God presenting themselves before God" and this is Angels. Exekiel is referred to by God as "Son of Man" as a way of God belitteling him and letting him know he's only human even though he's seeing visions of winged angels and UFO's and wherling discs and all that. We can thusly infer that when the Messiah is referred to as "The Son of Man" later on, it's said in the third person, and by an individual who regards the Messiah as fully human, even as Jews today believe he will be. Enoch expressly says that the Messiah or "Deliveror of Israel" will in fact be a "Son of Man". This book never got officially included in either the Jewish or Christian Bibles, but was in common use then.
In terms of the word Kristos this is the Greek word for Messiah and I'd like to look further at it. We also have the word "Christians" which is a diminuitive of Kristos. Kristos alluds to either a small something or more commonly the Singular of a noun. However in Latin the word "Crestus" is used as a proper name, I believe by an individual who was either alive or mistaken to be Alive in AD 50 when Claudius kicked "The Jews" (who followed "Crestus") out of Rome. The Timothy scripture takes on importance because followers of Marcion did NOT want the Old Testament included as inspired. So you had to have some desciple like Timothy - - pretend to be like Paul only change the meaning a little to make it more what is in fashion now. So "All scripture is inspired by God". One must understand Gnosticism - and the best way to do that is the Star Trek episode where "The One" gets taken aboard the Enterprize and in the mind of the Borg, got "brainwashed' or something. He was "The One". And others wanted to be LIKE "The One". They not only worshiped "The One" but wanted to be "The One" themselves. In Gnosticism you are a "New Creation" and even if you ripped somebody off for hundreds of dollars just last week, you aren't accountable now because since you had your "Born Again" new creation experiance, you are now Not That Person you were before any more. You reach an instantanious state of perfect moral Enlightenment and Clarity- - where you feel as though you'll "Never make another mistake the rest of your life" and feel that "no man need teach you anything" like it says in first John. Keep in mind that this "Knowing" is unexplainable - - and something you could not arrive at in your own efforts. It either "Happens" or it doesn't. You can't turn it off or on. As such it can be called "Grace". You are a New Creation - - which means you are now a Christian - - or in the words of Jethro Tull in "Wondering Aloud" you Are your Own Saviour. You by nature kind of HAVE to be under gnosticism and I'll explain later. You are not separate from God but are indeed in such a state of Oneness with God - - that you yourself have the RIGHT to be called God. Dimiinuitives are by nature lesser in Age or Size but NOT in kind. So you have Rick, with Ricky as the diminuitive. You have Dog, and then you have "Doggie". You have blanket and you have "Blankie". A Blankie is but a smaller blanket- - one made for a child. But none the less it is still a blanket. So it's a difference in size or age reference, but NOT a difference in Kind. Capish?
Up till now we have re-trenched fermiliar ground. However this morning I got a fresh insight which impelled me to even put this posting out. I thought of something called "Twords a 21st Century America". I am a fan of Joe Byden which Dr. Levy says he thinks "Has no credibility". I admire his thoughtfulness and direct frankness. But I got to thinking "Sometimes you have to re-vamp your whole vocabulary and Way of Thinking so as not to fall into a Trap. Catch this next point. The Gnostics believe in the utter Purity and Goodness of God and also the "Preciousness" of said Goodness and Purity. This is held to such an Extreme among Gnostics that it would be a Sin for God Himself to ever attempt to "dilute" his own goodness by reproducing (hence the view many Gnostics hold to abstain from sex) or for that matter to Create any other thing, which by Logical (?) necessity can NOT be a part of that goodness unless it is Compromized. I was in an Eastern Religion class 39 years ago taught by a Dr. Grouver where he said "There are two forms of Bhuddaism. There is the Mahayana Bhudaism - - and the Thereveda Bhudism. The latter follows the addage of Jesus that "Rocky and narrow is the way to Salvation and few there are who find it" (Selah) Dr. Grouver likened God to a fine wine that it would be a Sin to have it "diluted" and served up to the masses. So then how can anyone be saved. By returning to "The One" in Borg Startrek lingo or "The Point" as the pythagereans put it. This is a religious group apart from the geometric reference. It might be what Jimmy Page and Robert Plant were referring to when they wrote in Stairway to Heaven "- - - The Truth will come to you at last - - where All is One and One is All - - - To be a Rock and not to Roll". First of all riddle me this. Does a point really Exist? No - - it is a mathematical abstraction. Do lines have physical existance? No. They are mathematical abstrations. Some say Cartoon Characters are one dimensional like the Simpson's. But Cartoon Characters are in actuality Two Dimensional. But guess what? Two dimensional things don't have "Existance" either. No. To have Substance in this Universe you have to exist in three dimensions because this is a three dimensional Universe. Remember I had as an addage once "He who is incapable of three dimensional thinking - - is not worthy of having Both Sides looked at" in keeping with another adage of "A pancake no matter how thin - has two sides to it". Capish? So what we are saying is that Since - - - God CANNOT ever become like us- - Then we have to Become like Him. Which in essence would mean that we Cease to Exist as defined by the physical laws of this Universe. In this there is a bit of a Nirvana in reverse principle going on here. In both cases you have not conquered Karma by force of will - - but rather- - because you are no longer on the karmic wheel, and therefore not Subject to the wheel. Capish? You have returned to "The Point" which is the most revered thing in so called Pythagareanism that the Gnostics claim to have derived their origens from.
Some people in an attempt to learn my real name might look to really early "snail mail" letters and make the same "David' inference as in the Bible where it gives Another name of the man who slew Goliath, but has the words "the brother of" inserted. Gary is such a name that I quickly dropped. "Gary Owens" sounds a little suspect after all. Without telling you whether my first name is really Gary I will say the following varifiable facts. I have only known of one Gary ever to live in this place these past eleven years. Gary is the name of Gloria's husband but that Gary has never lived here. And Gary is living here now. I have never seen Gary either ahead of me or behind me in Money Draw line. Gary regularly attends Dr. Levy's class and is known for saying comments that much against his best intension are "Off Point" at times. Gary smokes. Gary has been known to lend people cigarettes when they were out of them.
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