Honest Prayers for the Victory of Mitt Romney

I'm praying for the victory of Mitt Romney. I won't say that I think he is the perfect candidate. For example, I don't like his running mate, all the while realising that his choice is wise. I have a general distaste for religious conservatives.

I am sold on Mitt Romney because he has proved that he is qualified as a leader who achieved getting good legislation passed when in government he was very much in the minority as a Republican. My wife pointed out to me that the differences between Republicans and Democrats have a greater amount of polarization at the federal level. However, for example, Romney has talked clean coal for example shows that he is able to think beyond the narrow confines of the state of his govenorship.

My worst fear of Romney has dissipated, and that was that he would be a trigger happy Republican. In the 3rd, and last debate, that Romney was constantly trying to shift his focus to the economy rather than talking about what countries he would attack demonstrates that once again, Romney is the candidate of evolution, that is, he evolves to what America needs as time changes. He is my choice because his changes are the right changes.

5th Zerah: Adam's Lineage; From the Bible to The Royal House of Troy to The Line from Zerah to King Alfred “the Great”

The line from Adam to Noah is very well known because it is in the Bible, Christian Bibles, Jewish Bibles, and this literature is sacred even to Islam.  In the Bible, Noah is primarily know for being the person who built an Ark, such that when a massive flood came, Noah was saved, and the rest of humanity drowned.  In the Bible, Noah is the 10^th generation where Adam is the first generation.  So, I am starting with a 10 next to Noah.

10. Noah

11. Shem

Several different sacred texts include a flood story in their history.  In fact, this story is not just in Hebrew literature, but also Greek, Roman, Norse and British legend contain a flood story.  For example Shem, the son of Noah is listed in the sacred British text, the Anglo Saxon Chronicle as, Sem, and in other places Shem is called Sceaf.

Shem is where the word Semite comes from.  Thus, in this lineage, I am establishing that the British Kings and the ancestors to these kings where of Semitic origin.

12.  Arpachshad

The line from Noah to Abraham is also in the Bible, but I will list it anyway.

13.  Shelah

14.  Eber

Eber means Hebrew.  Thus, Eber is thought to be the first Hebrew patriarch.

15.  Peleg

16.  Reu

17.  Serug

18.  Nahor

19.  Terah

20.  Abraham

Among Jews, Abraham is often called the first Jew though the word Jew derives from the Israelite tribe of Judah.  This is somewhat confusing.  However, Abraham is thought to be the father of monotheism, and in addition, Abraham is well known for his institution of the practice of circumcision, which is a practice that like Jews, the British are known to circumcise their males.  However, I do understand that this is arguable because certain Orthodox Jews believe that the circumcision of the Brits, and other peoples are invalidated for various reasons.

21.  Isaac

22.  Jacob who became Israel

In mythology, the patriarch Jacob is known as SATURNUS OF KRIT, where Krit is the Island of Crete. The historians Eusebius and Tacitus (see his book Histories 5:2) connect Saturn, Crete and Israel.  In fact, among the English Saturday, is Saturn's Day, where Saturday is the Israelite Sabbath.

22.  Judah

JUPITER in Persian mythology is Judah.  In other mythology, Judah is Jove.  For example, in the Iliad, Jove had a ruler's scepter.  This scepter is mentioned in [Genesis 49:10].  In the mythology, this scepter was made by Vulcan.

23.  Zerah is the son of Judah in the book of Genesis.  The word Zerah in Hebrew means, “Strange worship,” such that it is no wonder why such odd religious associations, such as polytheism are associated with this clan of Judah.  While Jupiter of the Persian Empire mean Judah, Zeus of the Greek empire meant Zerah.  Zeus came to be associated lightning bolts, and that was the priestly Zerahites, while in other circles Zeus the Olympiad referred to Zerah, as he, Zerah is mentioned first in the Bible as an Edomite, where being an Olympiad may be thought of as Edomite like behavior.

I understand that this literature puts the Israelite Exodus from Egypt at an impossible date, according to the Orthodox calendar, but I am pretty sure that before the age of 1,000 BCE the orthodox calendar is in fact wrong.  I have discussed this in other blogs.

24.  Mahol

1 Kings 5:11 “Darda the son of Mahol”

25.  Darda [Chronicles], Dara, is the son of Zeus in the Iliad, where he is called the phonetically similar Dardanus in the Iliad.

True to the scepter and the prophecy of Israel that Judah would rule, Darda founded The Royal House of Troy and Trojan race).

26.  ERICHHONIUS [Iliad]

Thus, for the continuation of the lineage of Darda, I turn to other sacred lineage, as the Bible stops with Darda, while the semi-legendary mythologies continue the lineage.

26.  TROS [Iliad]

27.  Laomedon [Iliad]

28.  Tithonus (mentioned in THE TROJAN WOMEN by EURIPIDES)

29.  Memnon [mentioned in Theogony by Hesiod]

30.  Priam of Troy [Iliad, Woden (Odin I) John D. Keyser]

31.  Troan m. Munon, Mennon, Memnon 

The Icelandic Langfedgatal and the Younger Edda continue this lineage as a migration to the north and the birth of Thor or Tror.

32.  Thor son of Odin/Priam

Like Saturn’s Day, or Saturday, Thor was given a day of week Thursday.  Also, his hammer may be associated with the property of resonance in science.

33.  Loridi

34.  Hloritha

35.  Einridi

36.  Einrid

37.  Vingethor

28.  Moda (Hebrew connection to Norse because moda is a Hebrew word.)

29.  Magi

This name brings a connection  of the Zoroastrian religion with this lineage.  Most importantly, it is a Chaldean connection to Norse, where the Chaldeans are Hebrews.  Magi is mentioned in the Christian Bible, and I believe it is at this point that there is possibly a migration to the north, and the so called gospel says that the Magi took a different root home, and in fact, I suggest that they never returned.

Sceaf, Seskef, Odin II = Sheaf of grain connection to Leviticus 23:9-14

30.  Bedwig

This lineage continues below as listed.  There are several different sources for this lineage through the Dark Ages, so it is hard to say which one is correct.  However, the lineages do seem to indicate the pattern mentioned roughly below.  Also, when I wrote this, I definitely know that there may have been omissions to this genealogy, but it is still thought that the general list is about as close as possible that can be achieved.

31.  Hwala

32.  Hathra

33.  Athra

34.  Itermon

35.  Itermann

36.  Heremod or maybe Heremot

37.  Sceldwa or maybe Scealdna

38.  Beaw or maybe Beaf

Beowulf is a legendary book where this person is the central character.

39.  Taetwa

40.  Eatus

41.  Geata

42.  Godulf

43.  Godwulf

44.  Finn

45.  Frithuwulf

46.  Frealaf

47. Voden, Oden, or Woden (Odin  III)

48.  Bældæg

49.  Brond

50.  Gewis

51.  Elesa

52.  Cerdic, King of Wessex

53.  Cynric, King of Wessex

54.  Ceawlin, King of Wessex

55.  Cuthwine

56.  Cuthwulf

57.  Ceolwald

58.  Cenred

59.  Ingild

60.  Eoppa

61.  Eafa

62.  Ealhmund

63.  Subregulus of Kent

64.  Ecgbeorht, King of Wessex

65.  Æðelwulf, King of Wessex

66.  Ælfræd “the Great”

From this point on the ancestry is well documented, and needs no further mention here.

***** The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis – Narnia Is as Fantastic as Jesus

I love how C.S. Lewis posits the trilemma of Mere Christianity, perhaps C.S. Lewis’s most famous apologetic work, to also support the idea that Narnia exists.

Lucy must either be a liar, mad, or telling the truth that Narnia is real in the same way that in Mere Christianity Lewis posits that Jesus must be Lord, liar or lunatic.  Clearly, there are more possibilities than these with regard to Jesus, lest we believe every fantasy our children tell us.

This writing is very much secretly evangelistic, but probably not in a way most people would expect.  I feel when an evangelist presents me with the Jesus story, and declares something like that Jesus must be Lord, liar or lunatic, it is not Jesus whom I am passing judgment upon, but the witness of a fairytale presented to me.  It is thus not Jesus that must be Lord, liar or lunatic, but the person or author that presents Jesus to me that is probably liar, lunatic or telling the truth.  But, as I believe happens in the case of the Jesus story, most people that believe in fairy tales are just honestly mistaken about their tale.  That is, they are neither telling the truth, lying, or insane, but that they are just plain honestly mistaken.  When someone tells me that if I don’t believe in a fairytale, such that my soul depends on it in order to escape eternal punishment, I won’t sell my soul to believe in Jesus anymore than I would subscribe to the idea that Narnia is a real place.  Strangely, C.S. Lewis seems to support that idea as upright, such that entering the fantastic world of Jesus and Christianity, even if it be lies, is still ideal to the alternative of denying Christian religious fantasies.

Of course, Jesus was a real person, but anything beyond that is anyone’s guess, and as mysterious as Narnia itself.  Three major religions have three stories about Jesus that are very much in conflict.  Christianity says that Jesus is Lord.  Judaism says that Jesus was the antichrist.  And, Islam says that Jesus was the humblest prophet, but not as great as Mohammed.  Therefore, what is to be made of this man’s story is anybody’s guess.  Absurdly, most Christians say that this decision is central going to either heaven or hell in the afterlife.  That much I am unable to accept.  

* The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris - Terrible

(Stopped reading this pile of dung.) – This book gets one star for inspiring me to criticize it.  In summary, the idea is to evaluate ethics with science.  First, to evaluate the data ethical experiments would give us would result in a mound of data so gloppy that one could only hope to find the needle in the haystack that is the truth.  Second, moral experiments are ethically wrong.  You can’t ask people to do something immoral and another group to do something moral to see if what we think is moral is in fact moral.  How ridiculous!  And, third, should we even trust such findings?  That is, we learn about the moral landscape as we gather knowledge in life naturally.  There is no need to have a scientific journal of moral findings.  One mistake in a journal article would call the entire system into account.  We learn about such ethical studies already by experience, age, and in order to receive moral data, we have to trust the source.  This means that there could be no science, meaning the scientific method, in the experiment because in order to trust the results, we have to trust the experimenter, and what reasonable person is going to trust an experimenter that asks people to do something that is immoral!  This idea has the same mentality as Nazi experiments during the Holocaust, as by its very nature it creates human guinea pigs.  Lastly, if we understand the history of evolution, then we already know the answers to all the moral questions.  Without writing a book on the subject, I will just refer you to Richard Dawkins whom addresses the subject of ethics in biology in his book, “The Selfish Gene.”

This book is about the moral landscape.  I believe landscaping – for example mowing lawns but generally not rearranging rocks - is immoral.  I probably need to give a dissertation on that claim, but I won’t.  I will leave it that at bare minimum, he is referring to mowing lawns.  What about me, aren’t I carving a moral landscape as I write this.  Well um, actually, I am carving rocks, not trees.  This is written to a magnetic recording device, not on paper.

Though I have done some landscaping, and sometimes continue to do so, I believe that it is immoral.  It helps pay the bills, and I only do it regrettably if someone gives me something to do it.  Generally, I would prefer to do something else for reward, and some things I do I believe are good with no expectation of reward.

I do not like the author’s suggestion that the truth is open to analysis.  The truth is the truth.  What is good is good.  Either you know what is good, or you don’t.  Otherwise you learn what is good, or you don’t.  Some people don’t know what is good that much I understand.  Some people know what is good and don’t do it.  Some people know the truth and do the wrong thing.  Some people know the truth and cling to it.  Some people know the truth and are moderate about it, sometimes choosing to do good, sometimes choosing to do evil.  Analyze that in an already massive multivariable experiment!

Let’s imagine Sam Harris’ idea in practice.  The experiment will be to evaluate if making species extinct is a good thing or a bad thing, or neutral.  Group A will attempt to make several species extinct.  Group B will try to make new species.  And, as a control, Group C will neither try to make species extinct, nor make new species.  How absurd to think Group C is a control!  What can we expect to find?  If Group A has a great amount of sociopaths in it, then they will report, making species extinct results in the most blessed feeling imaginable, maybe.  It will probably depend on the people involved and the wording of the experiment regarding extinction.  What if the people entering the experiment think that they will only be making species extinct such as the good for nothing tapeworm?  Do we differentiate between tapeworms and butterflies?  Doctors might enter this group to provide us with cures!  If Group B is able make some new species, we are left with an ethical conundrum.  Have they made pathogens, dinosaurs, house pets, and/or maybe food?  The control, Group C’s response might only be relative to the season of the year, where dark or cold seasons of the year often result in depression.  Then, we would have to add an experiment on top of it all to see whether or not it is good to feel good or if it better to feel terrible.  Then, we are probably likely to conclude that it is good to feel good when doing some things, but that it is good to feel bad when doing others.  But, then we might consider intent, and even accidents.  One conundrum leads to another.  The result of the original experiment is that the experimenters talked themselves into a pretzel and probably never found out whether or not it is good to make species extinct.  As for me, if tapeworms become extinct, I won’t fret, and if you make a new species of butterfly that is probably a good thing.  I’m sure some people would disagree with me.  I won’t say, let’s not pretend that we know what is ethical though because some of us don’t.

1st Jehovah's Witness: On the 613 Commandments of Torah - Unchanging Means Unchanging

The Gd that destroyed the earth, drowning the souls of the wicked in the time of Noah is the same God as He has always been. 

Malachi Chapter 3 (6) For I YHWH change not; and ye, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.  Tanach (Hebrew Scriptures)  Corrected JPS 1917 Translation

Fools I beseech thee not to act without care, and to not deem any part of the Bible dated, such that you proudly defend your sins and lawlessness.

I have recently been in discussion over religion with someone who is a Jehovah’s Witness.  For the most part it seemed like that we had a lot in common, but it was also said that Jehovah’s Witnesses do not observe Shabbat, and that really they don’t take the 613 commandments of the Bible seriously for all I could see.  That much, I found in agreement with what is said about gentiles, but then it was said that these are not the, “Gentile times,” which is sort of confusion, because they say it has been like this since 1914.  They also say that Jesus came back to the earth in Spirit during that time, but I am pretty sure that it was not this event in 1914 that was special, but actually the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution.  I hope that wasn’t too confusing.

It does seem that we, the Jehovah’s witness and I do share several things in common, mainly monotheism.  I had never before heard of a Christian that did not believe Jesus is a deity.  That was a belief that I never fully accepted when I was seeking to learn about Gd.  That horrible belief that Jesus it Gd that is taught in all the other Christian denominations that I know of.  So far as it concerns me, Abraham is the father of all monotheistic religions, and he loved both of his sons Ishmael, and Isaac, as any father would, and probably not favoring one over the other. 

So, you may wonder; what is my story?  What religion am I?  I, myself, can’t say that I am a Jew, but that is only in the way a happy man may or may not be gay.  The Jews whom I believe are the Shelahites and the Perezites are the two main branches of Judaism that are accepted as Jews, and though I do believe I descend from Judah, my ancestors fell away as kings in the House of Troy, and then the Persian Empire, such that they have pretty much been in power for the at least the last 3,000 years, practicing strange worship.  In fact, in the tractate Zerah of the Talmud, the word zerah actually means, “Strange worship.”  Since the ancestry of Zerah is my history, I do believe myself to be a Zerahite.

As for the Jehovah’s Witnesses, they do seem to take their religion seriously.  However, I am completely perplexed why they don’t follow all of the Torah’s commands.  For example, in the book I was given, and the movie I saw, the men are all clean shaven.

I plea to Gd for the redemption of Israel, such that it's lost may become found, and the lost tribes found, and regathered.  

Why do so many doubt the sovereignty of the Lord God. He destroyed all people except for the 8 on the ark. Even if you don't believe this story, if you research human ancestry there once was a time when humanity was mostly destroyed except for a theoretical 80 people. Why do people transgress the Sabbath so proudly? Why do people deny the 613 commands in Torah and the curses of transgression! Should we not fear a Gd who presides over the death of millions? What makes people so over confident when they transgress the Law warming the hot coals of hell?!

Hope for the Lost

My wish is that more people would wake up to the sovereignty of the Lord.  Too many have shaken their fists in anger at Gd.  Too many have judged Gd, and deemed that reality is controlled by an evil one or that because of holocaust they believe god to be weak in power.  They go to their graves in hideous drama.

It is sad that many worship a Gd that is constantly fails them, bringing pain.  The Torah couldn't make it any clearer that our condition is reflective of our relationship with Gd or lack thereof.  It is sad to read the writings of people that have severed the strings that bind us with each other and our maker.

A Reply to an Atrocity Reported on by Aayan Hirsi Ali, Head of AHA Foundation

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The AHA Foundation

‎14-year-old Malala, a Pakistani peace prize winner, was shot in the head today on her school bus for her activism fighting for the right for girls to be educated in Pakistan. The Taliban have claimed responsibility. She is currently fighting for her life in the hospital

At the AHA Foundation, we believe that women and girls everywhere, of all cultures, merit access to education and basic human rights.

We're rooting for you, Malala!

http://shelbyknox.com/2012/10/09/where-are-the-global-girl-activists/

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I don't believe this actually has anything to do with religion. If you look that the modern thinking behind Gobekli Tepi it is thought that the urge to be religious is the foundation of civilization, and that the desire to worship God wasn't as a trade that appeared as some sort of job in the movement toward civilization. What I am getting at is that most people think religion is about doing what is good, and because most of us believe murder is wrong in our hearts, the urge to worship Gd is mostly a good thing, and not only that, but that the desire to worship causes the majority to do good. It is unfortunate though that some people, mostly children themselves, have such a hard time wrestling with what is true and what is good, that in a society of children, as Packistan is, there is more likely to be tragedies that happen as a result of not having a population of elders that can help drive society to do better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe

I love the book of Deuteronomy.

Perhaps, no other Bible book makes it so clear that peril will fall to those who do not follow the Lord God’s commands.  The meaning of our state of existence is entirely described by Deuteronomy.  God is sovereign.  If we prosper, then He is the reason we prosper.  If we struggle, then He too is the reason why we struggle, yet usually most of us receive some grace, such that even if we do sin, the Lord God may overlook it.

I know for a fact that this very idea makes certain people such as atheists and Christians mad, but I hope that when Gd shows them their punishments they will see in their souls why they struggle.  Call this the evil of Gd if you will, but vengeance belongs to the Lord should one violate the commands he has given to us.

I think what most people are used to is the blessing of grace in their life.  Many people do not fear the Lord and the consequences for failing to keep all of his commands because they are used to a life of grace.  True, the Lord is gracious, but why take advantage of that?  Why do evil in any way if the Lord God sees all?  Also, the Bible talks of the evil of Gd with respect to King Saul.  Why invite the Lord to do evil in your life by failing to fear him?  This is the command to fear Him reverently (Deut. 6:13; 10:20).

The fact is that there are two kinds of believer, and these two kinds act differently based on how they perceive the nature of Gd.  Those that have no fear in one examination were more likely to cheat.  However, those that had fear did not cheat on a test, when given a chance.

There are 613 commandments in the Torah, and it is that if one doesn’t keep or attempt to keep all of them, then he or she is under a curse.  Christians are usually aware of some of these laws, but when it comes to the Ten Commandments, Christians that I know of say that the command to keep the Sabbath is no longer legitimate.  Let me tell you something: If you work out your back seven days a week, it will be sore, and possibly even crippling, and it is this way with so many other commandments that Christians seemingly do away with, declaring them null and void for whatever reason.  I try to separate myself from them.   

Deuteronomy makes it clear, you have to get your heart right with Gd and follow all His commands if you are to prosper.  If we worship the Lord, and I don't mean Jesus, Deuteronomy is 100% clear that there is paradise on earth for the obedient.  Why transgress the law and hope for grace, if you can be obedient and have goodness multiplied.

Look at me!  I am a creditor as I write this, and so is Blogspot!  I am under no obligation to write at all.  My payment is received via the spirit that the Lord grants to me because I am sharing freely what I know.

I have known of the blessing and the curse in my own lifetime.  When I was told by God that He was punishing me, I was elated for that.  I just simply couldn’t love a God that I didn’t fear and was told that I wasn’t required to fear, so I was an atheist.

Which way are you going to go? Most people I know believe that their Old Testament has been nullified, but that is as stupid as a person who believes that he can will God out of existence. It is not until fools stop blaming Satan for everything, and instead focus on doing good deeds and repent that we will see heaven on earth!

The physics of the Light that guides creation_Metabolic Light that Guideth

Spiritually and physically, Light derives its power from both positive and negative power, so to is it this way with Gd. Gd is as the Light that presides over the cosmic battle between good and evil.

The Role of Humankind

Physically and spiritually, one of the most profound ideas in this world is metabolism. That is, like a flame, we consume oxygen and digestible materials in order to shine light in this world. Animals too have this property that materials are consumed in order assist in providing the universe with light.

It is up to humankind to see that this occurs to creation, as Gd says, "Let them rule (humans)," and in addition our assistance is that Gd has given, Torah, which is entirely ecologically friendly, such that through Torah, Gd asks all of us to be environmental stewards, and we do this through our own light, metabolism. That we have light necessates that if we are alive that we have a special purpose, even at the animal level, where we rule over animals to see that good is accomplished.