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 Travel › Re: Denial Of Licence To Airlines: Oduah Has Sectional Agenda - Rep by rhymz(m): 8:47pm On Aug 30, 2012 |
Katsumoto: You are being slimy.you should know sarcasm when you see it unlike the illogical claims of Nigerian "mobile execs" travelling abroad 3-4 times weekly all in an effort to win an argument. Na wa for una sef, even the few ones that use to be objective have been infected too with the tribalism disease |
| Travel › Re: Denial Of Licence To Airlines: Oduah Has Sectional Agenda - Rep by rhymz(m): 8:41pm On Aug 30, 2012 |
Lol. . . This has to be a joke! Did somebody imply that certain kind of execs travel 3-4 times per week? Hahahahahahah. . That has got to be a joke, right? |
| Travel › Re: Denial Of Licence To Airlines: Oduah Has Sectional Agenda - Rep by rhymz(m): 8:36pm On Aug 30, 2012 |
I wonder why there is so much veiled bigotry in addressing issues that concern Igbos. Some things will never change. |
| TV/Movies › Re: Picture: Nat Geo Wild Cameraman Films A Boy As Live Python Wraps Around Him by rhymz(m): 7:37am On Aug 30, 2012 |
nne3870: those documentators are fearless and weird. Oh poor boy! May b d snake ain't poisonous. But snake na snake o, i hate snakesthose documentators are sadisdtic at times. All because they want to get their audience wowed they resort to inhumane filming and mindless risk. Imagine if that black boy screaming prolly for help and from pains was a caucasian? Will they have the guts to film such nonsense. |
| Politics › Re: Barth Nnaji Resigns (Or Sacked) From Power Ministry? by rhymz(m): 1:08pm On Aug 29, 2012 |
chucky234: Put your garbage in shape because I couldn't grasp a thing from your debris,learn how to put together a constructive rebuttal then come back to challenge me on economy matters one-on-one.May Amadioha impregnate your miserable mother with quadruplet of bushbabies, Anuofia! Debating an ignoramus like you that can't articulate his argument coherently, or what na? Am not here for some silly ego ride like you, your I.Q is low to understand the issues being discussed, the best you can do post incoherent gibberish you get from anonymous googled sites. Yet we are supposed to take you seriously! What joke!! You don't know and do not know that you don't, what a malady. Get well soon, loser! |
| Politics › Re: Barth Nnaji Resigns (Or Sacked) From Power Ministry? by rhymz(m): 10:06am On Aug 29, 2012 |
chucky234: Guess you a have problem understanding written texts,in 2011 GEJ called NOI to take up the appointment but OBJ convinced her to join the GEJ administration. |
| Politics › Re: Barth Nnaji Resigns (Or Sacked) From Power Ministry? by rhymz(m): 10:06am On Aug 29, 2012 |
chucky234: Guess you a have problem understanding written texts,in 2011 GEJ called NOI to take up the appointment but OBJ convinced her to join the GEJ administration.hahahah. . What a goon parading himself as an intellectual. That Obasanjo made comments about NOI joining the GEJ's government, it therefore means she heeded to slimy OBJ and left her Job at the world bank abi. . You be real pretender with no knowledge of what is going on in the Nigeria polity no matter how hard you keep pretending. Do you know that GEJ had to first conceed to her demands that she be given full powers over the economy not just a mere minister of finance position as was the usual case. Why do you think she was made the co-ordinating minister of the economy a position way bigger and more powerful than being just the minister of the economy. All the other ministers indirectly reports to her before funds are disbursed to their ministeries. It is not enough to blab unsubstantiated nonsense like you do in all the threads you plague with your stupifying ignorance be ready to defend the mumbo-jumbo you spew here with verifiable sources, what a dolt! |
| Politics › Re: Barth Nnaji Resigns (Or Sacked) From Power Ministry? by rhymz(m): 8:17am On Aug 29, 2012 |
chucky234: Guy only discuss what you know,the same OBJ persuaded NOI to be part of GEJ's govt and the just GEJ as everyone believed.you seem to be only informed in falsehood. You sound like a broken record. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: Barth Nnaji Resigns (Or Sacked) From Power Ministry? by rhymz(m): 8:10am On Aug 29, 2012 |
I Resigned as Minister of Power 29 Aug 2012 Font Size: a / A Professor Bart Nnaji By Chika Amanze-Nwachuku, Ejiofor Alike and Chineme Okafor In a move aimed at salvaging the reform and privatisation programme of the power sector, President Goodluck Jonathan Tuesday in Abuja accepted the resignation of one of the key members of his cabinet, Professor Bart Nnaji as Minister of Power, with immediate effect. The president, who in a press statement by his Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, thanked the former minister for his services to the country and wished him well in his future endeavour, was said to have decided to accept the resignation, following Nnaji’s admission that companies linked to him had submitted bids for one of the successor companies created from the unbundling of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN). However, speaking to THISDAY Tuesday night on his decision to leave the cabinet, Nnaji said he opted to resign in order to save the privatisation and reform programme from those who might want to use ulterior motives to bring down the programme. Nnaji said he had met with the president Tuesday afternoon, during which he (president) informed him (Nnaji) that he was using his company as a proxy to buy shares on behalf of the president in Afam power station through the privatisation process. On hearing this, he informed the president that rather than drag him (Jonathan) and the entire process through the mud, he would prefer to resign but reminded the president that he had brought it to his attention two weeks ago that a company he owned was part of a bidding consortium that had submitted bids for Enugu Distribution Company. Nnaji explained that there have been all sorts of efforts to bring him down since his appointment as Special Adviser to the President on Power and later power minister, but decided Tuesday that it was best to leave rather that allow fourth columnists to mar the entire process. “It is a huge conspiracy to scuttle the programme, but rather than drag the president and the programme down, I decided to tender my resignation,” he said. On what would become of the reform process on which he had worked so hard, the former minister said he had managed to put the power sector on track and all key reforms in place, adding “it would be difficult to derail it right now and I hope it would proceed as planned.” When asked if the independent power company he owns, Gemetric Power, would withdraw from the consortium bidding for Enugu Disco, Nnaji said: “As far as I am concerned, the bid is still alive. “I know that they set up a new committee to re-evaluate the bids, but I don’t know if the process will still be fair after what has happened.” However, sources in the presidency told THISDAY last night that Nnaji had no choice than to resign, because had he failed to do so, he would have been sacked by the president. The president, THISDAY learnt, was said to have been very disappointed that his power minister, who should have known better, had gone ahead to bid for Enugu Distribution Company, despite the Code of Ethics of the privatisation process which bars staff of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) and members of the National Council on Privatisation (NCP) from buying shares in companies being privatised. “The president had made up his mind by this morning, so if Nnaji had not resigned, he would have been sacked,” explained sources in the presidency. Participation by two companies linked to Nnaji in the power privatisation process had compelled the NCP to cancel the technical bid evaluation process conducted for Afam and Enugu Disco last week. The NCP, after its meeting last Friday, had announced the results of the technical evaluation conducted for the 25 bids it received last month for the six generation companies (Gencos). From that process, seven bidders were said to have successfully met the cut-off mark of 750 and above during the technical evaluation process and were prequalified to have their financial bids opened on September 25. However, the NCP was silent on the bidders that were prequalified for Afam Power Station owing to the potential conflict of interest that had arisen during the privatisation process. An NCP source said that before the consideration of the report of the evaluation, Nnaji, who was a member of the NCP by virtue of his position as Minister of Power, had brought it to the attention of the council that O & M Solutions of Pakistan, a member of one of the consortia bidding for Afam, had worked as a contractor for Geometric Power. The consortium, in which O & M Solutions has a stake, is Skipper Nigeria Limited, which had submitted technical and financial bids for Afam on July 17, the deadline set by the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) for the submission of bids for the Gencos. The minister also notified the NCP that Geometric Power has a minority stake in Eastern Electric Nigeria Limited, which had submitted technical and financial bids for Enugu Distribution Company Limited on July 31. He went on to inform the council that owing tohis position, he had notified the president of his company’s bid for Enugu Disco, and brought it to their attention that although he has an interest in Geometric Power, he had resigned from its board and transferred his shares to a blind trust. Having been informed of Nnaji’s direct and indirect interest in two companies being privatised, the council decided to cancel the technical evaluation that had been conducted for |
| Politics › Re: Electricity Will Drop By 300MW After Rainy Season – NERC by rhymz(m): 8:16am On Aug 28, 2012 |
chucky234: You must be high on something cheap,you dumbly think I give poo about anonymity,ask the many Nlanders who have met me in the past three years.Listen Mr ignoramus, this will be the last time I will pay you any mind unless of course you post like you have got some sense. Stop peddling nonsense you read from blogsites and personal opinions of non-experts, one only has to compare the implemented part of the overall budget to expose the folly in your trite ignorant argument. You keep quoting billions like it is tissue paper, when did Nnaji come on board, abeg allow those of us that are following development in the sector to educate others that are interested jare through intelligent posts, nobody is interested in your over-bruised ego you trying so hard to treat hear. I care less if you have signed an MOU with America's GE for your death by electrocution, that one na your own palava, if you like beat your chest from January to december, all that bragaddacio only shows how personally inadequate and insecure you are. You need to get a job and let professionals with far more better knowledge of the system post, your diatribes and off-point rant is messing up the opportunity for others to learn one or two things about the reforms and the privatization process taking place. If you are so pained that people see things differently from you, you could as well calm yourself down into enternal abyss by drinking some Jim Jones kool aids. |
| Politics › Re: Electricity Will Drop By 300MW After Rainy Season – NERC by rhymz(m): 7:05am On Aug 28, 2012 |
[quote author=Americas_man]This guy is enjoying govt patronage. He has to say something to set his neck. Will your mom cook soup and you say its not delicious? Lets give this guy a break.[/quote]this is one of the reasons I don't like debating with stray intellectual cretins like you cos to you and your likes, it all boils down to we against them or Jonathan supporters vs AcN or whoever the Bleep your ignorant self supports. What will it profit you if the Jonathan administration fails? Would you rather you win your dumb ego boosting argument than see this administration succeed? It goes beyond blind partisan support for me, I want to honestly see Jonathan succeed, yes. His success will be Nigeria's success. Arguing endlessly with so much unbriddled malevolence for the federal government to the point you want them to fail just so you can be proven right is like cutting one's nose to spite one's face. You need to raise bar of your argument beyond the rhetorics of the pettiness we see everyday ob NL. |
| Politics › Re: Electricity Will Drop By 300MW After Rainy Season – NERC by rhymz(m): 5:07pm On Aug 27, 2012 |
kingoflag: When total Output is approximately 4500MW, it doesnt take Rocket Science to help you figure out that a loss of 300MW will create a significant (negative) impact.can you please explain how an estimated 300megawatts drop will take us back to the former era when we could hardly sustain a mere 2500megawatts? Besides, 300megawatts is just an estimated drop not actual drop. There is no how hydro-power plants with combined capacity of 300megawatts will lose all its generation just because there is a drop in water levels at the dams. The water only provides propelling force on the fins of the turbine which in turn rotates ammature or magnetic core connected to the wheel driven by the turbine. All the plant needs is propelling force, if there is a water level drop then the propelling force of course will reduce which of course will reduce the revolution of the magnetic core carrying wheel; if the total output of the power plant is say 300megawatts, its production will reduce as a result but it does not stop anyway. So why is everyone assuming the whole 300megawatts will be lost just on the basis of water level reduction? Besides, most of the plants that have contributed the to the national grid production are gas powered. You guys should tone down on the exaggerations jare. As I speak I still enjoy steady power in my own part of lagos just like in most part I have visited as well. People should be magnanimous enough to admit there is a sincere effort here, shikena! |
| Politics › Re: Electricity Will Drop By 300MW After Rainy Season – NERC by rhymz(m): 3:47pm On Aug 27, 2012 |
chucky234: My brother Nigerians will never contribute positively to the development of this country,all they do is sit behind their pentium 4 desktop computers to post garbage on NL.which investor in their right mind will take a nonentity like you seriously? You are even lucky they did not ask you to go and $hit. . Lol See mumu yapping about alternative power generation like he knows what it means or entails, ode.. . . Muhehehehe |
| Politics › Re: Electricity Will Drop By 300MW After Rainy Season – NERC by rhymz(m): 3:35pm On Aug 27, 2012 |
chucky234: Popular on NL? You must be high on some cheap alomo bitters to think that fame on annonymous forum mean anything to me,maybe you should go through my previous posts on this issue in the last few months to know my stand on this.hahahahaha. . .OMG!!! What a clown! So your best contribution to Nigeria are all these failed attempts? Muhehehe. . What else did you do for Nigeria that failed, LIED? You know one good thing about the internet, anyone can be anything so long as you maintain your anonymity. Imagine a riff-raff like yourself making spurious claims to intimidate people that are way informed and intelligent than you. I laugh in South Korea language, see monkey wey wan claim levels for NL. You prolly think I am one of your usual averages ekwa? Imagine an intellectual pretender like you referring me to your numerous petty posts that lack coherence and sensible arguments, why will I want to read the nonsense from a loser like yourself. I find it funny that you ignorantly used the statement, "the last time I checked" to refer to my contributions to Nigeria. . Muhehehe. . Last time you checked where na, O boy you know me anywhere besides this virtual NL space? Or you just wanted to sound fancy and scholarly to the point of making a joke out of yourself. By the way, cursing, insulting, trolling and making ignorant posts here on NL does not mean you are bright, my dear. What you have been doing since your recent activities on NL politics section is trolling on every thread in this section and making incoherent rants all over the place. That five people replied to your inflammatory posts only to scold and repremand you only shows how moronic your many posts have been. Almost everyone here is scolding and making minced meat outta your ignorant a$s. Bad enough, even well known !d!ots like Kobojunkie that NL has turned delusional can't seem to understand the crux of your useless arguments. I will tell you what few of my contributions to Nigeria and NL have been: 1. I have succeeded in making a minced meat out of your ignorant a$$ so other commentators know not to take you seriously when you howl and bark your ignorance like an animal 2. I have succeeded in exposing empty noisy urchins like you that think that trolling every thread in the politics section is the next best way to getting popular and spreading propagander. With these expositions I have helped Nigerians to recognize arguments with substance from unintelligent nonsense that slowpokes like you spew here on NL. Now compare our contributions to Nigeria and see who has made more impact, you the slowpoke or me, your superior. |
| Politics › Re: Electricity Will Drop By 300MW After Rainy Season – NERC by rhymz(m): 1:17pm On Aug 27, 2012 |
chucky234: What question are you talking about here,you must be an idio:t to ask me such question.hahahahahah. . . I see you are on an ego ride here, it is obvious you are not here to debate but to get popular by insulting everyone with contrary views. You prolly must have seen that thread about Nairalanders whose fights and posts made them popular, so now monkey like you with a less than average I.Q want to copy thesame method to climb to the ladder of ignominy . . .lol. In your own case you are not a good game, I would have played you. Just that your I.Q is far below in the lower rungs. The likes of Beaf you are trying so hard to imitate possess far more intellect in a strand of hair on their head than the entire brain in your thick skull can process. Go and try something else you are prolly good at. Politically Intellectual debates such as this one is obviously not your forte no matter how hard you pretend. Hurling insults and concocting spurious figures from your ignorant a$$ still does not make you any smarter than your currently below average mark. Any !d!ot can use google carelessly like you do and still come across as $toopid as you. Keep ranting on NL like a Dolt, apparently this is the closest you will ever get to discussing politics with your betters, relish this opportunity NL has granted you, when you are through with this rare opportunity you don't get in real life, don't forget that you are still a dolt and loser that can't surpass the average level of reasoning. |
| Politics › Re: Electricity Will Drop By 300MW After Rainy Season – NERC by rhymz(m): 12:06pm On Aug 27, 2012 |
chucky234: People like you are the reason why this country is in a terrible state,dose the fact that Nnaji hold degrees in system engineering or CEO of Geometrics System Ltd makes him the most informed human about power generation?why are you ranting ignorantly with your bad english? The question is this, do you submit that you are more informed, better positioned, privy to data and information about Nigeria's power sector than Prof Barth Nnaji, Yes or No? Just shut the hell up and answer the question, you rant too much nonsense. Writing BS per second does not neccessarily mean you are smart dude. |
| Politics › Re: Electricity Will Drop By 300MW After Rainy Season – NERC by rhymz(m): 12:01pm On Aug 27, 2012 |
Is it just me or did anyone notice that either the reporter or Amadi tried so hard to give the impression that afterall JEG has not achieved anything in the power sector. The report made it look like it was a Hoax. As far as I am concerned, the language used in this report is manipulative and intentional, Amadi prolly never conveyed the information the way this reporter did. I suspect some sinister motive here to discredit Jonathan's effort. If we have 4477megawatts of Electricity, how can the NERC chairman then submit that a 300megawatts drop will cause a significant drop in supply? Why was he so bent on making readers come off with a pessimistic feeling about the improvements? I suspect foul play in this report. And by the way, there is no how the hydro power plant will lose all its generation just because there will be a drop in water level after the raining season that argument is weak and unrealistic. There is too much embelishment and perssimistic exaggeration in this report that has dent the credibility of this report, only a credulous cretin will not see the handwriting on the wall here. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Exposed; Jesus Christ, The Greatest Lie Ever Sold by rhymz(op): 10:28am On Aug 27, 2012 |
Here is the audio download link of this very interesting interview with this new testerment scholar who has written extensively about the forgeries in the bible. He provides an interesting perspective: http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2005/12/20051214_fa_01.mp3?dl=1. All forged documents with barely literate scribes adding and removing portions that do not agree with their agenda for Jesus. I giggled when he said marks version of Jesus's crucifixion portrayed A Jesus who was in complete anguish and in shock in the face of his crucifixion as opposed to Luke's version that portrayed a Jesus that was calm and in control until the very end of his crucifixion. The story of the adulterous woman in the bible also was demonstrated to be a "pius fable" for one there was nothing said about the man that commited the act with her and more damning is the fact that it was not in the original text of mark's gospel; imagine this kind of "God's word?" another part that got me laughing was how Jesus got angry every time there was a situation that threatened to question his divinity and "godly powers" to the miracles. The story of the leper is even funnier as in the original mark text of the gospels it was reported that Jesus got angry as opposed to the "he showed compassion reported in the bible" before healing the leper. The question is why the need to change the accounts of the original texts? Is the new version of the text part of God's inerrant words too? The bible is a fable itself, christianity is one big Pius fraud. I will like to see christian apologists shit in their pants at this revelation. . Lol |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Exposed: The Characters That Make Up The Christ Myth by rhymz(op): 10:03am On Aug 27, 2012 |
plaetton: It is always good to put out the truth for those that seek it.My brother, you are very right. It is very unfortunate that most people are just christians by virtue of the fact that it is/was their parent's religion thus they were born into it. But that is where it all stops. All the resistence to opposing views that expose the fraud in their belief system is borne out of blind allegiance to what they have always known to be the truth even when it is not neccessarily the truth. Most christians know very little about the history of their religion and the bible; the inaccuracies of the accounts given, the exaggerated fables and the fact that it is much better for church fraudstars to have them soak their brains in the gutter illusion of faith than question the illlogicality and irrationality of their belief system and religion that seeks to hide their fraud in the guise of faith-believe it even if you do not see it. To be sincere, I had to question this whole Jesus-God BS when I lost my Mum to fibrod. My mum was an extremely strong christian, who did everything Pastor Chris asked her to do; attended the healing school, bought more than a dozen of his books, audios, and VHS yet that was not enough for Jesus. She barely slept or ate reasonable quantity of food, it was always night vigil prayers and fastings, despite all that, she died at the hospital even before she was taken to the operation theatre. I started questioning the existence of this "God" that was playing this kind of mischievious joke on the people that were worshipping him. You know it takes questions and willingness to be rational in your analysis to arrive at the truth. Questions like: 1. Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. 2. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. 3. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? 4. Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? To be honest, My mother's death gave me the impetus to question my irrational christian beliefs, I first started out by asking how possible it was for writers of the bible to give a detailed words for words, verbatim account of what Jesus did, even an eye-witness account could not be that accurate and detailed without the aids of memory enhancing technology. Where they going about with him with jotters, pen and some kind of medieval recording devices? I decided to look deeper, so I looked up the authors of most of the canonical gospels and discovered that almost all of the authors were not known, I was shocked! Then I became curious and did more research, reading non christian aunthored books that wrote extensively about the characters in the bible, the purported authors of books in the bible, the historicity of Jesus and the too glaring similarities of Jesus with god-men that lived way before his own fables-the revelation was just too damning to believe the hogwash in the bible. Everything about Jesus was deliberately done to be vague and vailed in ambiguity to increase the mystery around him, no physical evidence of him or any of his disciples, his crucifixion is not even on record yet Paul wrote more than ten books majoringing on his alleged crucifixion and ressurection, an ideology he prolly stole from the likes of Horus, Krishna, buddha and Mithra. The truth has always been there my brother except that people are not comfortable with it, as it runs contrary to what they want to believe or have always believed. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Exposed: The Characters That Make Up The Christ Myth by rhymz(op): 9:16am On Aug 27, 2012 |
cyrexx: the link was in my earlier post that i edited. just click and downloadMr cyrex I just finished listening to the audio interview of link you sent, wow, quite a perspective. I was hoping he would talk about Paul's epistles as well. All forged documents with barely literate scribes adding and removing portions that do not agree with their agenda for Jesus. I giggled when he said marks version of Jesus's crucifixion portrayed A Jesus who was in complete anguish and in shock in the face of his crucifixion as opposed to Luke's version that portrayed a Jesus that was calm and in control until the very end of his crucifixion. The story of the adulterous woman in the bible also was demonstrated to be a "pius fable" for one there was nothing said about the man that commited the act with her and more damning is the fact that it was not in the original text of mark's gospel; imagine this kind of "God's word?" another part that got me laughing was how Jesus got angry every time there was a situation that threatened to question his divinity and "godly powers" to the miracles. The story of the leper is even funnier as in the original mark text of the gospels it was reported that Jesus got angry as opposed to the "he showed compassion reported in the bible" before healing the leper. The question is why the need to change the accounts of the original texts? Is the new version of the text part of God's inerrant words too? The bible is a fable itself, christianity is one big Pius fraud. Thanks for the audio, realy nice insight there. .lol |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Exposed: The Characters That Make Up The Christ Myth by rhymz(op): 9:13pm On Aug 26, 2012 |
cyrexx: check your inbox, ive sent it.i just got the mail you sent me, thanks bro. Hope you have gotten the one I sent you. Could you please post the link to the interview, i could not find it in the mail you sent. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Exposed: The Characters That Make Up The Christ Myth by rhymz(op): 8:15pm On Aug 26, 2012 |
cyrexx: yes, i have the pdf. you can drop your email if you want it.ok....here is my email: incrediblestev@gmail.com drop your as well would like to give you "the christ conspiracy" by DM Murdock, you will find her insight very shocking and revealing. Thanks bro |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Exposed: The Characters That Make Up The Christ Myth by rhymz(op): 8:10pm On Aug 26, 2012 |
plaetton: Oh, I have been follwing the thread.ok. . . .what do you think of the excerpts I posted, did you notice how the christian apologists tried so hard to deflect off attention from the main issues raised, instead they first started off by attacking the credibility of the writer while turning a blind eye to the issue she raised. The woman in question has been peer reviewed by R.G Price and one Christian apologist Licone who was very critical of her work in "The Suns of God". Mind you, Dr Price holds a PhD in this field and is a respected authority, he was formerly a christian apologists before later turning to a free thinking Mythicist himself. He later retracted his critical review of Archaya's work and even gave her more props for her work. What the Christian apologists want is for her to take her book to a bunch of religiously biased christian sheeple peer review panels who will leave scientific facts and evidence and start talking about irrational belief system and christian fables. They spend more time defending Jesus than reeling out facts to prove he did exist. Archaya is not the only one that has written on the truthfulness of the historicity of Christ. Christ just like other god-men is a myth, is an unoriginal fable that can not withstand any rational scrutiny. Only a christ drunk believer will believe the fables told in the bible with the whole contradictions in dates, lack of geneology and uniformity in accounts. The authors or writers are largely unknown and it is intentional, they were all masterpieces work of myth and fiction concocted by 2nd and 3rd century church bishops and politicians. Imagine matthew a common tax collector writing the book of matthew and given such a vivide account in such a professional manner of a writer. The books of John we are told was written by the one jesus loves. .lol. .what a ruse. Mark himself was not a disciple but a friend of peter the disciple- so in a way, peters comes back home from a tiring trek and gallivanting with Jesus only to come back and relay all these beautiful tales of what Jesus said and did with such needle sharp memory to Mark who in turn wrote everything in details without mincing words. . What a hogwash. These books were deliberately written for the purpose they now serve, deception and mass control of people. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Exposed: The Characters That Make Up The Christ Myth by rhymz(op): 7:27pm On Aug 26, 2012 |
cyrexx: i have always known that the legend of Jesus was the handiworks of those greeks and romans who made christianity the official state religion in those days and remixed the bible to accomodate their ideologies. the words of Jesus must have been exagerrated and edited to make it sound like one of their gods'.My brother you could not have said it any better. The writers of the Pauline letters have ideologies totally different from whoever wrote those so-called Canonical gospels and narratives. The Jesus described in the Pauline letters is very different from the one claimed in the gospels. The writers of the Pauline epistles prolly never heard anything about the Jesus claimed in the canone Gospels because there was nothing like that in the first place, neither did they use quotes, names, or make any allusion to the teachings he was claimed to have taught in the canonical gospels. Dont forget too that the pualine epistles are older than the canonical gospels from the church fathers. The writers, drawing inspiration from religious practices that were prevailent at the time gave a Jesus that was very close the Gnostic Jesus of people like Marcion. Little wonder, a gnostic christian heavy weight like Marcion gave more preference to the pauline writings in his own version of the new testament( which was the first new testament bible to be compiled by the way) because in reality it talked mostly about gnostic christian ideology, something early christians started with before Church bishops in Rome decided to give their own account of Jesus stealing numerous accounts, fables from pagan mythos and using the Jewish belief in a messiah to form another mytho, the current Jesus christ. I will like to read the book you recommended, do you have the pdf? |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Exposed: The Characters That Make Up The Christ Myth by rhymz(op): 4:51pm On Aug 26, 2012 |
plaetton: Don't forget to add Appolonius Of Tyana, a historical figure and a near-contemporary of Jesus. plaetton: Apollonius of Tyana was a historical 1st century AD neo-pythogorean philosopher who would have been a contemporary of Jesus. He is reputed to have displayed extra-ordinary magical and healing powers. He had disciples and traveled around the known world preaching about virtue.My brother you have said it all. It is so convenient for Christian appologists to ignore this very glaring similarities between Jesus Christ and God-men whose myth had been known long before the whole story of Jesus started. Everything Jesus was alleged to have done had already been done by one of the very many god-men before his time, same goes for the stories that revolved around him. There is nothing original, factual or true about Jesus other than his is just like one of the many mythos that were once considered as God just like christians now do Jesus. I shall be posting more evidence from this book that exposes this christianity "Pius fraud". Also I will like you to visit this thread, this particular thread is an off-shoot of that one, it has some very revealing and thought provoking expose there: www.nairaland.com/1020513/exposed-jesus-christ-greatest-lie |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Exposed: The Characters That Make Up The Christ Myth by rhymz(op): 12:33pm On Aug 26, 2012 |
ATTIS OF PHRYGIA The story of Attis, the crucified and resurrected Phrygian son of God, predates the Christian savior by centuries, in the same area as the gospel tale. Attis shares the following characteristics with Jesus: · Attis was born on December 25th of the Virgin Nana. · He was considered the savior who was slain for the salvation of mankind. · His body as bread was eaten by his worshippers. · His priests were “eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven.” · He was both the Divine Son and the Father. · On “Black Friday,” he was crucified on a tree, from which his holy blood ran down to redeem the earth. · He descended into the underworld. · After three days, Attis was resurrected on March 25th (as tradition held of Jesus) as the “Most High God.” Doane provides detail of the Attis drama, which was a recurring blood atonement: Attys, who was called the “Only-Begotten Son” and “Saviour” was worshiped by the Phrygians (who were regarded as one of the oldest races of Asia Minor). He was represented by them as a man tied to a tree, at the foot of which was a lamb, and, without doubt also as a man nailed to the tree, or stake, for we find Lactantius making . . . Apollo of Miletus . . . say that: “He was a mortal according to the flesh; wise in miraculous works; but, being arrested by an armed force by command of the Chaldean judges, he suffered a death made bitter with nails and stakes. And in Christianity Before Christ, Jackson relates: In the Attis festival a pine tree was felled on the 22nd of March and an effigy of the god was affixed to it, thus being slain and hanged on a tree. . . . At night the priests found the tomb illuminated from within but empty, since on the third day Attis had arisen from the grave. The drama or passion of Attis took place in what was to become Galatia, and it was the followers of Attis to whom Paul addressed his Epistle to the Galatians at 3:1, “O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?” Since the Galatians presumably were not in Jerusalem when Christ was purportedly crucified, we may sensibly ask just who this was “publicly portrayed as crucified” before their eyes? This “portrayal” certainly suggests the recurring passion of the cult of Attis. Again, in addressing the Galatians, Paul brings up what is obviously a recurring event: “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us— for it is written, ‘Cursed be every one who hangs on a tree.’” (Gal. 3:13) As followers of Attis, the addressees would understand the part about “every one who hangs on a tree,” since they, like other biblical peoples, annually or periodically hung a proxy or effigy of the god on a tree. As is the case in the Old Testament with ritualistic hangings, this “cursing” is in fact a blessing or consecration. Attis was popular not only in Phrygia/Galatia but also in Rome, where he and Cybele, the Great Mother of the Gods, had a temple on Vatican Hill for six centuries. So similar was the Attis myth to the Christian story that the Christians were forced to resort to their specious argument that the devil had created the Attis cult first to fool Christ’s followers. Side Note: doubters you don't have to agree with the excerpts, please do your own research and come up with a version of this story different from this one. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Exposed: The Characters That Make Up The Christ Myth by rhymz(op): 12:29pm On Aug 26, 2012 |
BAALIM AND ADONAI The god “Baal” and gods “Baalim” are mentioned dozens of times in the Old Testament, as the Israelites are frequently castigated or murdered by “their own” priests for “going after Baal.” Like the Elohim, the plural Baalim or Baals were often represented by the singular “Baal,” or “Ba’al,” an Egyptian term combining “Ba,” the symbol of the planet and goddess Venus, with “al” or “el,” the designation of the sun. Thus, Baal was the name for the sun in the Age of Taurus (Bull), which was ruled by Venus. The Taurean age is one of 12 ages representing the astrological phenomenon called the “precession of the equinoxes,” whereby the sun rising at the vernal or spring equinox is backdropped by a different constellation every 2,150 years. The precession takes nearly 26,000 years to move through the 12 constellations, a cycle called the “Great Year.” The knowledge of the precession goes back many thousands of years and is found around the globe from China to Mexico, reflecting that the so-called primitive ancients were in reality extraordinarily advanced. In addition, when the sun was in Taurus, beginning about 6,500 years ago, the bull motif sprang up in many parts of the world, including the Levant, where it symbolized Baal. Like the other epithets for “God,” Baal is a title meaning “Lord” or “husband”; it is, in fact, a very old appellation for the Deity, and can be found not only in Egypt but also in India as Bala. In the ancient languages of Ireland and Sri Lanka, “Baal means “sun.” Baal is in reality the earlier name of the character later known as Yahweh, as is stated at Hosea 2:16, And in that day, says YHWH, you will call me, “My husband,” and no longer will you call me “My Baal.” Walker relates that Baal was “‘The Lord’ among ancient Semites; consort of the goddess Astarte . . . Every god was a Baal. The title was introduced into Ireland via Phoenician colonies from Spain . . . Old Testament Jews worshipped many baalim as past or present consorts of the Goddess Zion (Hosea 2:2-  . Yahweh shared theseother gods’ temples for a long time, until his priesthood managed to isolate his cult and suppress the others.”And Blavatsky says, “The Baal of the Israelites (the Shemesh of the Moabites and the Moloch of the Ammonites) was the identical ‘Sun-Jehovah,’ and he is till now ‘the King of the Host of Heaven,’ the Sun, as much as Astoreth [Astarte] was the ‘Queen of Heaven’—or the moon.” The other Baalim worshipped by the Israelites included “Baal Peor,” the “Lord of the Gap,” and “Baal Berith,” “Lord of the Covenant.” Another was “Baal Jehoshua,” also Joshua or Jesus, the “Lord of Salvation,” long before the Christian era. Another word basically the same as Baal is Adonis, which in the plural is Adonai, a term used for “Lord” over 400 times in the Hebrew bible. Adonis, like Baal and El, is an epithet for the sun. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Exposed: The Characters That Make Up The Christ Myth by rhymz(op): 12:26pm On Aug 26, 2012 |
Mithra of Persia Mithra/Mitra is a very ancient god found both in Persia and India and predating the Christian savior by hundreds to thousands of years. In fact, the cult of Mithra was shortly before the Christian era “the most popular and widely spread ‘Pagan’ religion of the times,” as Wheless says. Wheless continues: Mithraism is one of the oldest religious systems on earth, as it dates from the dawn of history before the primitive Iranian race divided into sections which became Persian and Indian . . . When in 65-63 B.C., the conquering armies of Pompey were largely converted by its high precepts, they brought it with them into the Roman Empire. Mithraism spread with great rapidity throughout the Empire, and it was adopted, patronized and protected by a number of the Emperors up to the time of Constantine. Indeed, Mithraism represented the greatest challenge to Christianity, which won out by a hair over its competitor cult. Mithra has the following in common with the Christ character: · Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25th in a cave, and his birth was attended by shepherds bearing gifts. · He was considered a great traveling teacher and master. · He had 12 companions or disciples. · Mithra’s followers were promised immortality. · He performed miracles. · As the “great bull of the Sun,” Mithra sacrificed himself for world peace. · He was buried in a tomb and after three days rose again. · His resurrection was celebrated every year. · He was called “the Good Shepherd” and identified with both the Lamb and the Lion. · He was considered the “Way, the Truth and the Light,” and the “Logos,” “Redeemer,” “Savior” and “Messiah.” · His sacred day was Sunday, the “Lord’s Day,” hundreds of years before the appearance of Christ. · Mithra had his principal festival on what was later to become Easter. · His religion had a eucharist or “Lord’s Supper,” at which Mithra said, “He who shall not eat of my body nor drink of my blood so that he may be one with me and I with him, shall not be saved.” · “His annual sacrifice is the passover of the Magi, a symbolical atonement or pledge of moral and physical regeneration.” Furthermore, the Vatican itself is built upon the papacy of Mithra, and the Christian hierarchy is nearly identical to the Mithraic version it replaced. As Walker states:The cave of the Vatican belonged to Mithra until 376 A.D., when a city prefect suppressed the cult of the rival Savior and seized the shrine in the name of Christ, on the very birthday of the pagan god, December 25. Walker also says: Christians copied many details of the Mithraic mystery-religion, explaining the resemblance later with their favorite argument that the devil had anticipated the true faith by imitating it before Christ’s birth. Shmuel Golding states, in The Book Your Church Doesn’t Want You to Read: Paul says, “They drank from that spiritual rock and that rock was Christ” (I Cor 10:4). These are identical words to those found in the Mithraic scriptures, except that the name Mithra is used instead of Christ. The Vatican hill in Rome that is regarded as sacred to Peter, the Christian rock, was already sacred to Mithra. Many Mithraic remains have been found there. The merging of the worship of Attis into that of Mithra, then later into that of Jesus, was effected almost without interruption. In fact, the legendary home of Paul, Tarsus, was a site of Mithra worship Of Mithraism the Catholic Encyclopedia states, as related by Wheless, “The fathers conducted the worship. The chief of the fathers, a sort of pope, who always lived at Rome, was called ‘Pater Patratus.’” The Mithraic pope was also known as Papa and Pontimus Maximus. Virtually all of the elements of the Catholic ritual, from miter to wafer to altar to doxology, are directly taken from earlier Pagan mystery religions. As Taylor states, “‘That Popery has borrowed its principal ceremonies and doctrines from the rituals of Paganism,’ is a fact which the most learned and orthodox of the established church have most strenuously maintained and most convincingly demonstrated.” |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Exposed: The Characters That Make Up The Christ Myth by rhymz(op): 12:23pm On Aug 26, 2012 |
BUDDHA Although most people think of Buddha as being one person who lived around 500 BCE, the character commonly portrayed as Buddha can also be demonstrated to be a compilation of godmen, legends and sayings of various holy men both preceding and succeeding the period attributed to the Buddha (Gautama/ Gotama), as was demonstrated by Robertson:. . . Gotama was only one of a long series of Buddhas who arise at intervals and who all teach the same doctrine. The names of twenty-four of such Buddhas who appeared before Gotama have been recorded. . . . It was held that after the death of each Buddha, his religion flourishes for a time and then decays. After it is forgotten, a new Buddha emerges and preaches the lost Dhamma, or Truth. . . . It seems quite probable in the light of these facts that any number of teachings attributed to “the Buddha” may have been in existence either before or at the time when Gotama was believed to have lived. . . . The name Gotama is a common one; it is also full of mythological associations. There was admittedly another Gotama known to the early Buddhists, who founded an order. So what proof is there that the sayings and doings of different Gotamas may not have been ascribed to one person? . . . Because of this non-historicity and of the following characteristics of the Buddha myth, which are not widely known but which have their hoary roots in the mists of time, we can safely assume that Buddha is yet another personification of the ancient, universal mythos being revealed herein. The Buddha character has the following in common with the Christ figure: · Buddha was born on December 25th of the virgin Maya, and his birth was attended by a “Star of Announcement,” wise men and angels singing heavenly songs. · At his birth, he was pronounced ruler of the world and presented with “costly jewels and precious substances.” · His life was threatened by a king “who was advised to destroy the child, as he was liable to overthrow him.” · Buddha was of royal lineage. · He taught in the temple at 12. · He crushed a serpent’s head (as was traditionally said of Jesus) and was tempted by Mara, the “Evil One,” when fasting. · Buddha was baptized in water, with the “Spirit of God” or “Holy Ghost” present. · He performed miracles and wonders, healed the sick, fed 500 men from a “small basket of cakes,” and walked on water. · Buddha abolished idolatry, was a “sower of the word,” and preached “the establishment of a kingdom of righteousness.” · His followers were obliged to take vows of poverty and to renounce the world. · He was transfigured on a mount, when it was said that his face “shone as the brightness of the sun and moon." · In some traditions, he died on a cross. · He was resurrected, as his coverings were unrolled from his body and his tomb was opened by supernatural powers. · Buddha ascended bodily to Nirvana or “heaven.” · He was called “Lord,” “Master,” the “Light of the World,” “God of Gods,” “Father of the World,” “Almighty and All-knowing Ruler,” “Redeemer of All,” “Holy One,” the “Author of Happiness,” “Possessor of All," the “Omnipotent,” the “Supreme Being,” the “Eternal One.” · He was considered the “Sin Bearer,” “Good Shepherd," the “Carpenter,” the “Infinite and Everlasting,”and the “Alpha and Omega.” · He came to fulfill, not destroy, the law. · Buddha is to return “in the latter days” to restore order and to judge the dead.” In addition to the characteristics of the “teaching/savior god” as outlined above, the Buddhistic influence in Christianity includes: Renouncing the world and its riches, including sex and family; the brotherhood of man; the virtue of charity and turning the cheek; and conversion. That Buddhism preceded Christianity is undeniable, as is its influence in the world long prior to the beginning of the Christian era. As Walker relates: Established 500 years before Christianity and widely publicized throughout the Middle East, Buddhism exerted more influence on early Christianity than church fathers liked to admit, since they viewed Oriental religions in general as devil worship. . . . Stories of the Buddha and his many incarnations circulated incessantly throughout the ancient world, especially since Buddhist monks traveled to Egypt, Greece, and Asia Minor four centuries before Christ, to spread their doctrines. . . . Many scholars have pointed out that the basic tenets of Christianity were basic tenets of Buddhism first; but it is also true that the ceremonies and trappings of both religions were more similar than either has wanted to acknowledge. As to Buddhistic influence in the specific area where the Christ drama purportedly took place, Larson states: Buddhist missionaries penetrated every portion of the then known world, including Greece, Egypt, Baktria, Asia Minor, and the Second Persian Empire. Palestine must have been permeated by Buddhist ideology during the first century. . . . The literature of India proves that Jesus drew heavily upon Buddhism, directly or indirectly, to obtain not simply the content of His ethics, but the very form in which it was delivered. Both Gautama and Jesus found parable effective. Indeed, it seems that a number of Jesus’s parables were direct lifts from Buddhism; for example, that of the prodigal son. The existence of Buddhism in the Middle East during the Christian era is acknowledged by Christian apologists themselves such as Cyril and Clement of Alexandria, who said the Samaneans or Buddhists were priests of Persia. Furthermore, a number of scholars have pushed back the origins of Buddhism many thousands of years prior to the alleged advent of Gautama Buddha. Albert Churchward also traces the Buddha myth originally to Egypt: The first Buddha was called Hermias, and can be traced back to Set of the Egyptians; he originated in the Stellar Cult. Later, however, the Solar Cult was carried to India, and the Buddha is there the representative of Ptah of the Egyptians. . . . . Sakya-Muni or Gautama, whose life and history were evolved from the pre-extant mythos, the true Buddha, . . . could become no more historical than the Christ of the gnosis. If Buddhism could but explicate its own origins, it would become apparent that it is both natural and scientific, i.e. the old Stellar Cult of Egypt. But the blind attempt to make the Buddha historical in one person will place it ultimately at the bottom of a dark hole. Higgins also evinced that true “Buddhism” is much more ancient than the legends of the Buddha, since in ancient Indian temples long predating the era of “Gautama” are depictions of the Buddha as a black man, not only in color but in feature. In Higgins’s opinion, Buddhism has been the most widespread religion on the planet, also found in England, where it was the religion of the Druids. He also states that the “Hermes of Egypt, or Buddha, was well known to the ancient Canaanites,” i.e., the people who preceded and in large part became the Israelites. Therefore, Buddhism was no doubt an early influence on Hebrew thought and religion. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Exposed: The Characters That Make Up The Christ Myth by rhymz(op): 12:19pm On Aug 26, 2012 |
KRISHNA OF INDIA The similarities between the Christian character and the Indian messiah Krishna number in the hundreds, particularly when the early Christian texts now considered apocryphal are factored in. It should be noted that a common earlier English spelling of Krishna was “Christna,” which reveals its relation to “Christ.” Also, in Bengali, Krishna is reputedly “Christos,” which is the same as the Greek for “Christ” and which the soldiers of Alexander the Great called Krishna. It should be further noted that, as with Jesus, Buddha and Osiris, many people have believed and continue to believe in a historical Krishna. The following is a partial list of the correspondences between Jesus and Krishna: · Krishna was born of the Virgin Devaki (“Divine One”) on December 25th. · His earthly father was a carpenter, who was off in the city paying tax while Krishna was born. · His birth was signaled by a star in the east and attended by angels and shepherds, at which time he was presented with spices. · The heavenly hosts danced and sang at his birth. · He was persecuted by a tyrant who ordered the slaughter of thousands of infants. · Krishna was anointed on the head with oil by a woman whom he healed. · He is depicted as having his foot on the head of a serpent. · He worked miracles and wonders, raising the dead and healing lepers, the deaf and the blind. · Krishna used parables to teach the people about charity and love, and he “lived poor and he loved the poor.” · He castigated the clergy, charging them with “ambition and hypocrisy. . . Tradition says he fell victim to their vengeance.” · Krishna’s “beloved disciple” was Arjuna or Ar-jouan (John). · He was transfigured in front of his disciples. · He gave his disciples the ability to work miracles. · His path was “strewn with branches.” · In some traditions he died on a tree or was crucified between two thieves. · Krishna was killed around the age of 30, and the sun darkened at his death. · He rose from the dead and ascended to heaven “in the sight of all men.” · He was depicted on a cross with nail-holes in his feet, as well as having a heart emblem on his clothing. · Krishna is the “lion of the tribe of Saki.” · He was called the “Shepherd God” and considered the “Redeemer,” “Firstborn,” “Sin Bearer,” “Liberator,” “Universal Word.” · He was deemed the “Son of God” and “our Lord and Savior,” who came to earth to die for man’s salvation. · He was the second person of the Trinity. · His disciples purportedly bestowed upon him the title “Jezeus,” or “Jeseus,” meaning “pure essence.” · Krishna is to return to judge the dead, riding on a white horse, and to do battle with the “Prince of Evil,” who will desolate the earth. The story of Krishna as recorded in the ancient Indian legends and texts penetrated the West on a number of occasions. One theory holds that Krishna worship made its way to Europe as early as 800 BCE, possibly brought by the Phoenicians. Higgins asserts that Krishna-worship in Ireland goes back even further, and he points to much linguistic and archaeological evidence of this early migration. Krishna was reinjected into Western culture on several other occasions, including by Alexander the Great after the expansion of his empire and his sojourn in India. It is also claimed that his worship was reintroduced during the first century CE by Apollonius of Tyana, who carried a fresh copy of the Krishna story in writing to the West, where it made its way to Alexandria, Egypt. Graham relates the tale: The argument runs thus: There was in ancient India a very great sage called Deva Bodhisatoua. Among other things he wrote a mythological account of Krishna, sometimes spelled Chrishna. About 38 or 40 A.D., Apollonius while traveling in the East found this story in Singapore. He considered it so important he translated it into his own language, namely, Samaritan. In this he made several changes according to his own understanding and philosophy. On his return he brought it to Antioch, and there he died. Some thirty years later another Samaritan, Marcion, found it. He too made a copy with still more changes. This he brought to Rome about 130 A.D., where he translated it into Greek and Latin. Thus, we have the apparent origins of Marcion’s Gospel of the Lord, which he claimed was the Gospel of Paul. In addition to the gospel story, the moralistic teachings purportedly introduced by Jesus were established long before by Krishna. These similarities constitute the reason why Christianity has failed, despite repeated efforts for centuries, to make headway in India, as the Brahmans have recognized Christianity as a relatively recent imitation of their much older traditions, which they have considered superior as well. Higgins relates: The learned Jesuit Baldaeus observes that every part of the life of Cristna [Krishna] has a near resemblance to the history of Christ; and he goes on to show that the time when the miracles are supposed to have been performed was during the Dwaparajug, which he admits to have ended 3,100 years before the Christian era. So that, as the Cantab says, If there is meaning in words, the Christian missionary admits that the history of Christ was founded upon that of Crishnu [Krishna]. |
| Christianity Etc › Re: Exposed: The Characters That Make Up The Christ Myth by rhymz(op): 12:18pm On Aug 26, 2012 |
HORUS/OSIRIS of Egypt The legends of Osiris/Horus go back thousands of years, and many people over the millennia have thought Osiris to be a real person, some claiming he lived up to 22,000 years ago. The cult of Osiris, Isis and Horus was widespread in the ancient world, including in Rome. In the Egyptian myth, Horus and his once-and-future Father, Osiris, are frequently interchangeable, as in “I and my Father are one.” Concerning Osiris, Walker says: Of all savior-gods worshipped at the beginning of the Christian era, Osiris may have contributed more details to the evolving Christ figure than any other. Already very old in Egypt, Osiris was identified with nearly every other Egyptian god and was on the way to absorbing them all. He had well over 200 divine names. He was called the Lord of Lords, King of Kings, God of Gods. He was the Resurrection and the Life, the Good Shepherd, Eternity and Everlastingness, the god who “made men and women to be born again." Budge says, “From first to last, Osiris was to the Egyptians the god-man who suffered, and died, and rose again, and reigned eternally in heaven. They believed that they would inherit eternal life, just as he had done. . . .” Osiris’s coming was announced by Three Wise Men: the three stars Mintaka, Anilam, and Alnitak in the belt of Orion, which point directly to Osiris’s star in the east, Sirius (Sothis), significator of his birth. . . . Certainly Osiris was a prototypical Messiah, as well as a devoured Host. His flesh was eaten in the form of communion cakes of wheat, the “plant of Truth.”. . . The cult of Osiris contributed a number of ideas and phrases to the Bible. The 23rd Psalm copied an Egyptian text appealing to Osiris the Good Shepherd to lead the deceased to the “green pastures” and “still waters” of the nefer-nefer land, to restore the soul to the body, and to give protection in the valley of the shadow of death (the Tuat). The Lord’s Prayer was prefigured by an Egyptian hymn to Osiris-Amen beginning, “O Amen, O Amen, who are in heaven.” Amen was also invoked at the end of every prayer. As Col. James Churchward naively exclaims, “The teachings of Osiris and Jesus are wonderfully alike. Many passages are identically the same, word for word.” Massey provides other details as to the similarity between Osirianism and Christianity: For instance, in one of the many titles of Osiris in all his forms and places he is called “Osiris in the monstrance”. . . In the Roman ritual the monstrance is a transparent vessel in which the host or victim is exhibited. . . . Osiris in the monstrance should of itself suffice to show that the Egyptian Karast (Krst) is the original Christ, and that the Egyptian mysteries were continued by the Gnostics and Christianized in Rome. Osiris was also the god of the vine and a great travelling teacher who civilized the world. He was the ruler and judge of the dead. In his passion, Osiris was plotted against and killed by Set and “the 72.” Like that of Jesus, Osiris’s resurrection served to provide hope to all that they may do likewise and become eternal. Osiris’s “son” or renewed incarnation, Horus, shares the following in common with Jesus: · Horus was born of the virgin Isis-Meri on December 25th in a cave/manger with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men. · His earthly father was named “Seb” (“Joseph”). · He was of royal descent. · At age 12, he was a child teacher in the Temple, and at 30, he was baptized, having disappeared for 18 years. · Horus was baptized in the river Eridanus or Iarutana (Jordan) by “Anup the Baptizer” (“John the Baptist”), who was decapitated. · He had 12 disciples, two of whom were his “witnesses” and were named “Anup” and “Aan” (the two “Johns”). · He performed miracles, exorcised demons and raised El-Azarus (“El- Osiris”), from the dead. · Horus walked on water. · His personal epithet was “Iusa,” the “ever-becoming son” of “Ptah,” the “Father.” He was thus called “Holy Child.” · He delivered a “Sermon on the Mount” and his followers recounted the “Sayings of Iusa.” · Horus was transfigured on the Mount. · He was crucified between two thieves, buried for three days in a tomb, and resurrected. · He was also the “Way, the Truth, the Light,” “Messiah,” “God’s Anointed Son,” the “Son of Man,” the “Good Shepherd,” the “Lamb of God,” the “Word made flesh,” the “Word of Truth,” etc. · He was “the Fisher” and was associated with the Fish (“Ichthys”), Lamb and Lion. · He came to fulfill the Law. · Horus was called “the KRST,” or “Anointed One.” · Like Jesus, “Horus was supposed to reign one thousand years.” Furthermore, inscribed about 3,500 years ago on the walls of the Temple at Luxor were images of the Annunciation, Immaculate Conception, Birth and Adoration of Horus, with Thoth announcing to the Virgin Isis that she will conceive Horus; with Kneph, the “Holy Ghost,” impregnating the virgin; and with the infant being attended by three kings, or magi, bearing gifts. In addition, in the catacombs at Rome are pictures of the baby Horus being held by the virgin mother Isis—the original “Madonna and Child.” As Massey says: It was the gnostic art that reproduced the Hathor-Meri and Horus of Egypt as the Virgin and child-Christ of Rome . . . You poor idiotai, said the Gnostics [to the early Christians], you have mistaken the mysteries of old for modern history, and accepted literally all that was only meant mystically. Moreover, A. Churchward relates another aspect of the Egyptian religion found in Catholicism: We see in the ancient Catholic churches, over the main altar, an equilateral triangle, and within it an eye. The addition of the eye to the triangle originated in Egypt—“the all seeing eye of Osiris.” |
| Christianity Etc › Exposed: The Characters That Make Up The Christ Myth by rhymz(op): 12:16pm On Aug 26, 2012 |
We have seen that there is no evidence for the historicity of the Christian founder, that the earliest Christian proponents were as a whole either utterly credulous or astoundingly deceitful, and that said “defenders of the faith” were compelled under incessant charges of fraud to admit that Christianity was a rehash of older religions. It has also been demonstrated that the world into which Christianity was born was filled with assorted gods and goddesses, as opposed to a monotheistic vacuum. In fact, in their fabulous exploits and wondrous powers many of these gods and goddesses are virtually the same as the Christ character, as attested to by the Christian apologists themselves. In further inspecting this issue we discover that “Jesus Christ” is in fact a compilation of these various gods, who were worshipped and whose dramas were regularly played out by ancient peoples long before the Christian era. Although many people have the impression that the ancient world consisted of unconnected nations and tribes, the truth is that during the era Jesus allegedly lived there was a trade and brotherhood network that stretched from Europe to China. This information network included the library at Alexandria and had access to numerous oral traditions and manuscripts that told the same narrative portrayed in the New Testament with different place names and ethnicity for the characters. In actuality, the legend of Jesus nearly identically parallels the story of Krishna, for example, even in detail, with the Indian myth dating to at least as far back as 1400 BCE. Even greater antiquity can be attributed to the well-woven Horus myth of Egypt, which also is practically identical to the Christian version but which preceded it by thousands of years. The Jesus story incorporated elements from the tales of other deities recorded in this widespread area of the ancient world, including several of the following world saviors, most or all of whom predate the Christian myth. It is not suggested that all of these characters were used in the creation of the Christian myth, as some of them are found in parts of the world purportedly unknown at the time; however, it is certain that a fair number of these deities were utilized. Thus, we find the same tales around the world about a variety of godmen and sons of God, a number of whom also had virgin births or were of divine origin; were born on or near December 25th in a cave or underground; were baptized; worked miracles and marvels; held high morals, were compassionate, toiled for humanity and healed the sick; were the basis of soul salvation and/or were called “Savior, Redeemer, Deliverer”; had Eucharists; vanquished darkness; were hung on trees or crucified; and were resurrected and returned to heaven, whence they came. The list of these saviors and sons of God includes the following: · Adad and Marduk of Assyria, who was considered “the Word” (Logos) · Adonis, Aesclepius, Apollo (who was resurrected at the vernal equinox as the lamb), Dionysus, Heracles (Hercules) and Zeus of Greece · Alcides of Thebes, divine redeemer born of a virgin around 1200 BCE · Attis of Phrygia · Baal or Bel of Babylon/Phoenicia · Balder and Frey of Scandinavia · Bali of Afghanistan · Beddru of Japan · Buddha and Krishna of India · Chu Chulainn of Ireland · Codom and Deva Tat of Siam · Crite of Chaldea · Dahzbog of the Slavs · Dumuzi of Sumeria · Fo-hi, Lao-Kiun, Tien, and Chang-Ti of China, whose birth was attended by heavenly music, angels and shepherdsccxl · Hermes of Egypt/Greece, who was born of the Virgin Maia and called “the Logos” because he was the Messenger or Word of the Heavenly Father, Zeus. · Hesus of the Druids and Gauls · Horus, Osiris and Serapis of Egypt · Indra of Tibet/India · Ieo of China, who was “the great prophet, lawgiver and savior” with 70 disciplesccxli · Issa/Isa of Arabia, who was born of the Virgin Mary and was the “Divine Word” of the ancient Arabian Nasara/ Nazarenes around 400 BCE · Jao of Nepal · Jupiter/Jove of Rome · Mithra of Persia/India · Odin/Wodin/Woden/Wotan of the Scandinavians, who was “wounded with a spear.” · Prometheus of Caucasus/Greece · Quetzalcoatl of Mexico · Quirinius of Rome · Salivahana of southern India, who was a “divine child, born of a virgin, and was the son of a carpenter,” himself also being called “the Carpenter,” and whose name or title means “cross-borne” (“Salvation”) · Tammuz of Syria, the savior god worshipped in Jerusalem · Thor of the Gauls · Universal Monarch of the Sibyls · Wittoba of the Bilingonese/Telingonese · Zalmoxis of Thrace, the savior who “promised eternal life to guests at his sacramental Last Supper. Then he went into the underworld, and rose again on the third day” · Zarathustra/Zoroaster of Persia · Zoar of the Bonzes This list does not pretend to be complete, nor is there adequate room here to go into detail of all these mythological characters. It should be noted that, as with Jesus, a number of these characters have been thought of in the past as being historical persons, but today almost none of them are considered as such. |
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