Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Saturday, March 7, 2020
BEGINNING OF SORROWS
“BEGINNING OF SORROWS”
Studying historical truth long enough may reveal to you that our current existence is in a crass fraudulent world, whose 2000+ years’-old values have been inverted, been distorted, subverted, & turned upside-down, by occult conspiracies .
Such is the case because in our past centuries, past age’s religions taught philosophical perspectives “began”, not at ‘the beginning’ in the truth, in facts, in correct history; but in plagiarism, myth, hyperbole.
For the very first philosophers, now claimed to have been in our era were not the Africans: Egyptian or Ethiopian, but it is Socrates, supposedly; him being but an “apostrophe,” a literary device who was used, created and wielded by Plato, who contrived Socrates to be a dialectical foil to contrast with Plato or other raconteurs in Plato’s iconic “dialogues.”
Philosophy had existed countless ages before both Plato and Socrates, his effigy; so it is demonstrated in the papyri of Egypt. So it was written by Plato in his book ‘Timaeus’. Therein he writes that to the Egyptian priests, the “Greeks were like children “ in their limited understanding of nature, God, cosmos, mankind . Plato who also studied for decades in the nations of Africa, called the Nile River, “Father Nile.”
Beginning with the Greeks, for that is where our current distorted conception of civilization—Egyptology notwithstanding—begins; where our incorrect concept of God begins; where “Philosophy” begins, where mathematics, literature, astronomy, medicine, agriculture, navigation, music, architecture, begins—let the liars tell it—it is truly the “beginning of sorrows.” for the black man of Africa in history. Matt.24:8.
It is all untrue. It is plagiarized sophistry.
These thoughts were borne in mind by me privately until I continued reading today in THE AGE OF REASON by Thomas Paine.
Paine, the long defiled American founding father, English man, was the true author of the “Declaration of Independence,” not Thomas Jefferson as fraudulently claimed in history. Thomas Paine is author of the “Declaration of the Rights of Man,” whose revolutionary philosophy launched the French and a Haitian Revolutions, and by extension, the ‘Freedom War’ in America , more commonly known as the ‘Civil War.’
Paine writes:
“One thing, however, is much less equivocal, which is, that out of the matters contained in those books, together with the assistance of some old stories, the Church has set up a system of religion very contradictory to the character of the person whose name it bears . It has set up a religion of pomp and revenue, in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty.
“The invention of purgatory , and of the releasing of souls therefrom by prayers bought of the church with money; the selling of pardons, dispensations , and indulgences, are revenue laws, without bearing the name or carrying the appearance. But the case nevertheless is, that those things derive their origin from the paroxysm of the crucifixion and the theory deduced therefrom, which was that one person could stand in the place of another, and could perform meritorious service for him. The probability, therefore, is that the whole theory or doctrine of what is called the redemption (which is said to have been accomplished by the act of one person in the room of another) was originally fabricated on purpose to bring forward and build all those secondary and pecuniary redemptions upon; and that the passages in the books, upon which the idea or theory of redemption is built , have been manufactured and fabricated for that purpose . Why are we to give this Church credit when she tells us that those books are genuine in every part, any more than we give her credit for everything else she has told us, or for the miracles she says she has performed? That she could fabricate writings is certain, because she could write; and the composition of the writings in question is of the kind that might do it; and that she ‘did’ fabricate them is not more inconsistent with probability than that she could tell us, as she has done, that she could and did work miracles .
“Since, then, no external evidence can, at this long distance of time, be produced to prove whether the church fabricated the doctrines called redemption or not (for such evidence , whether for or against, would be subject to the same suspicion of being fabricated), the case can only be referred to the internal evidence which the thing carries within itself; and this affords a very strong presumption of its being a fabrication. For the internal evidence is that the theory or doctrine of redemption has for its base an idea of pecuniary Justice, not moral Justice.
“If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person can take the debt upon himself, and pay it for me; but if I have committed a crime every circumstance has changed; moral Justice cannot take the innocent for the guilty, even if the innocent would offer itself. To suppose Justice to do this , is to destroy the principle of its existence, which is the thing itself; it is then no longer Justice, it is indiscriminate revenge.
“This single reflection will show, that the doctrine of redemption is founded on a mere pecuniary idea corresponding to that of a debt which another person might pay ; and this pecuniary idea corresponds again with the system of second redemption, obtained by the means of money given to the Church for pardons, the probability is that the same persons fabricated both the one and the other of those theories; and that in truth, there is no such thing as redemption—that it is fabulous , and that man stands in the same relative position to his Maker as he ever did stand, since man existed, and that it is his greatest consolation to think so.
“Let him believe this, and he will live more consistently and morally than by any other system; it is by his being taught to contemplate himself as an outlaw, as an outcast, as a beggar, as a mumper, as one thrown, as it were , on a dung hill at an immense distance from his Creator, and who must make his approaches by creeping and cringing to intermediate beings, that he conceives either a contemptuous disregard for everything under the name of religion , or becomes indifferent, or turns whatever he calls devout. In the latter case, he consumes his life in grief, or the affectation of it; his prayers are reproaches; his humility is ingratitude ; he calls himself a worm, and the fertile earth a dunghill; all the blessings of life by the thankless name of vanities; he despises the choicest gift of God to man, the GIFT OF REASON; and having endeavored to force upon himself the belief of a system against which reason revolts, he ungratefully calls it ‘human reason’, as if man could give reason to himself.
“Yet with all this strange appearance of humility and contempt for human reason, he ventures into the boldest presumptions; he finds fault with everything; his selfishness is never satisfied; his ingratitude is never at an end. He takes on himself to direct the Almighty what to do , even in the government of the universe; he prays dictatorially; when it is sunshine , he prays for rain, and when it rains, he prays for sunshine ; he follows the same idea in everything he prays for; for what is the amount of all his prayers but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? It is as if he were to say: ‘Thou knowest not so well as I .’”
P. 22-24, AGE OF REASON by Thomas Paine (2014)
Thus, in summation is an explanation for the hypocrisy of America; for thus is explained the breach between creed and deed in our national existence. It dates all way back to Fourth Century B.C., Greece through the Fifth Century A.D., Roman Emperor Constantine’s successful ambit to preserve Romans’ historical power and legacy through the intermediary of Jesus Christ, as imposed, edited, and financed.