Dropping the Gauntlet

I address this to two individuals and their following who have obviously been trying their damnedest to get in my face. I will not give any names but I am sure you know who you are. First of all, don't try to imply you know me when we don't even speak the same language. Thus trying to appeal to my ego will get you nowhere. Any admiration I do earn is through creative ability, meticulous work and above all, accountability and it's not like those of us who've been around in the world can't tell the difference. Aside from that, I have enough of my own pride and self-respect that I don't need a great hoard of sheeple to prove what to who, so go find yourself another sucker to flog your identity crisis on.

Secondly, it should be clear by now that I do not identify with your attention-seeking want to dictate your trend. Emotional blackmail through false flattery and politics of exclusion while trying to shame the objectors behind their backs (to what you mistaken for their peers) has only succeeded in proving what complete sheeple seeking narcissistic morons you really are. Here in continental Europe, we have quite different distinctions between public and private so save your breath. We are not afraid to be critical of things, because it is our democratic right to differ. So bugger off with your brain-washed god-fearing patronizing positivity NLP, “Global Village” and all the rest of that polemic. No, yours is not the way of the world. Nobody's is, so get over it.

Pseudomasonic Playganisms

Oh do tell me what it is, that compels this occult charade by existentialist wankers looking for a sacrificial cash cow? That old mystical allure of secret signs and sigils, on an inane quest for the holy grail of cocaine addled mysogyny. Just sit there and wile behind your shallow artisan guile, with all the rhetorical trappings of xenophobia behind a facade of theosophical gibberish. Waiting for us so-called philistines to buy into your cyber-schisms of plastic temple craft, à la all gods are one...about as enlightening as watching paint blister on a barn door.

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

A Dubious Story of Ethnic Racial Identity

Okay British Isles or whatever you aspire to call yourselves, wtf is going on? While I can understand cultural identity, things have sure been bordering on racism with too many of you, say nothing of the UKIP. Call it patriotism, national pride, but when it starts propagandizing terms like “Lebensraum” and “Urheimat” it's not like I can't hear the goose-stepping. Frankly, you should have known better to define religious tolerance properly, no matter how much your feudal church and state feels itself the historical exception to all the rest of the EU. Allowing Sharija, or any other form of religious fundamentalism the diplomatic immunity to harass and subjugate your citizens, can only seem criminal negligence, if not the intent to victimize any real individual freedom of choice...and failing this, the politics of exclusion by majority rule. Indeed I've seen this kind of isolationism played out on too many social networks not to notice. As for the question of racial identity, I see Anglo-Saxon reconstructionists and Odinists trying to preach some aryan genealogy to tell me the Celts are just a myth, while their Celtic opponents insist on some elite lineage going back to the Solutrean/Cro-Magnons, excluding anyone who doesn't speak some Brythonic or Goidelic language. My ancestors have many proud and colourful backgrounds, but it's not so much where they came from, as what they did to overcome such stubborn obstacles of religion and politics. So might I warn you, you're not doing yourselves any favours by preaching such nonsense at me, just to make your genetic bottleneck someone else's problem. Maybe you should worry more about the rising sea levels or is that why you are behaving like rats on a sinking ship? Think about it.

Fashion Statements

Why are so many wiccans hell bent on shoving their fashion statements down everyone's throat? Did they wear out their "Charmed" and "Harry Potter" DVDs to so blatantly assume that clichés like their rede, esbats and sabbats serve anything tangible outside of Christian myth, and its belief that the Kaballah has anything to do with black magic? Wicca is not an ancient pagan tradition, but a Rosicrucian muse contrived by Gerald Gardner back in 1949. Needless to say, marauding around in hooded robes like a bunch of 12th century monastic throwbacks is exactly where all that necromantic nonsense is really coming from, namely the erotic grimoires of Medieval Christian celebates; save all the rest of that pedantic Babylonian hocum, allegedly the spark of all human enlightenment. It would be nice if these people would actually read some proper anthropology, instead of emulating the pulp fiction of wannabe new age gurus.

The Sins of the Fathers

Since my mother died on December 26th of last year, things have been going to shit at the speed of light. It was bad enough having to watch someone very close suffer like that, for all the ineptitudes of the medical system when it comes to dealing with terminal cancer. I barely get the urn into the ground and there comes an eviction notice from our landlord via some mickey mouse court making all kinds of threats and accusations. Needless to say, I had to resort to my legal insurance as my brother couldn't get it together with his legal aid applications (still hasn't) when actually hoping some desperado on Facebook might offer him planefare to the promised land; and believe me this hasn't been the first time. Like his father, this man has a proverbial track record for avoiding any personal responsibility to the point of break, preferably running off to some foreign country before shit happens. How convenient his secret plans of dumping his wife on me in some ridiculously priced appartment like the state is going to pay for it. Say nothing of violating the terms and conditions of his insolvency by not only wanting to abandon his wife, but leaving Europe for a remote country in far worse financial dire straights than this one. In his own twisted mind, it's his revenge for me for not giving 200 percent for all his false promises, even though it nearly landed me in the morgue last June...and all the while I was in rehab, he plundered my mother's account until there was scarcely enough left to cover her medical bills- say nothing of the total 1000 euros overhead I had to pay in electrical bills and I don't even have hot water upstairs. In the meantime he's running up a fantastic phone bill with those seductive calls to New Zealand from my bathroom in the dead of night. Sneaking into my bedroom to surreptitiously use my skype has been taking its toll on my sleep yet he complains when I walk into his place to discuss unresolved issues that will never supercede the importance of his chatting up prospective galley slaves on facebook. Nonetheless, I can't imagine anyone buying into all those sugar coated lies, unless they're just as deluded as he is, or even worse a come-on for secret interests of their own. As for me, I'm out of here the minute I find a new place, come what will.

Pseudologia fantastica

There's a lot to be said about semantics. When someone says “Karma is going to get you”, I could read the implications any number of ways. Aside from the obvious undertones of self-righteous condemnation, what springs to mind is John Lennon, but alas, I was never much of a fan, nor impressed by his love-in in Amsterdam, especially after learning few things from insiders. It didn't take long before that whole scene struck me as an utter sham. The message would have been clearer if the benefits had gone to the survivors, instead of capitalizing on them just to make a fashion statement of himself...but then that's only typical of the double standards one is expected to live by for so-called social acceptability.

The irony is, he didn't even get the bit about karma right, and henceforth this inane western stigma that it should have something to do with retribution. I would have thought Maharishi Yogi taught them better than that, but then he wasn't exactly some half-starved fakir from the streets of Bombay either. Retribution is something better left to the Rudra, as Hinduism is not all love and light as some would like to believe, but sides with the trickster. Anyone who doesn't know this is likewise a sham, putting on the holier-than-thou, when really they are no less naïve sheeple, aspiring to be shepherd. Ah yes, how I remember that old turn-on and tune-in rhetoric, always telling me to drop out of things I wasn't even a part of, just a passing ship in the night. I didn't see the worth of even playing along with that futile paradox. The minions of the anti-establishment, just as mindless as the establishment. I felt no need to belong either way. I was considered an outcast, when actually I chose to be an outsider, but it makes no difference what you say to that old majority rule of “us versus them”. Third non-party non-partisanship is just too unfathomable to their brainwashed ideals of collective utopia, like who died and made them the god of destiny? Yes, I see you skulking around here on my activity feed. Have you nothing better to do with your life?

The History of Christianity as seen by a non-partisan

The Qumran caves were always a subterfuge for those trying to protect their heritage from the exploits of Greco-Roman occupation. So far 11 caves have been discovered to contain the scriptural Zeitgeist of this folk sealed up in various clay jars. Scrolls have also been recovered from the walls of their last stronghold in Masada, completing a history of at least three thousand years.

As far as Judaism is concerned, the Torah is essentially the five books of Moses. These histories revolve around the Babylonian exile and the struggle of the Israelites to be reunited as a nation of their own cultural heritage and law. However, this is also where fundamentalism descends into Zionism, when according to the original legend, Adam was not created of the earth from one place, but of the earth in general. Nonetheless, these early legends have been accounted for in the Dead Sea Scrolls with relative consistency until Alexander's conquest in 332 BCE. Texts following this period are predominantly written in ancient Greek with the obvious Ptolemaic and Seleucid influences, thus regarded as sectarian. This also includes those Aramaic texts mentioned by the Flavian elected high priest Josephus. They mark a period of civil unrest against a corrupt priesthood under Roman rule until the end of the Bar Kokhba uprisings in 136 CE. Typically, he blames much of Judea's misery on petty fanatics out to undermine the aristocracy, hence sees the Roman occupation as due retribution for having lost sight of the “prophecy”. He too would have liked to be seen as a messianic prophet of a new biblical age, but as an opportunist of the Roman regime, he was heeded as anything but. Rather, it was Greco-Roman scholars that latched onto his observations of what came to be regarded as a Christian movement. The problem of its veracity is that none of his original works can be found, and despite being quoted by various 3rd century scholars, copies date no earlier than the 11th century. On the other hand, what came to be interpreted as the New Testament were secular aspirations among so many others of the period and not necessarily representative of Essene practices. The Essenes were a sect that kept quite to themselves, far removed from public, let alone political involvements with other factions. Above all, the original prophecy defines the Messiah as an ordinary human born of Jewish patrilineage, and is traditionally ordained (anointed) as a leader who:

1. Builds the third temple(Ezekiel 37:26-28)

2. Gathers all the Jews back to the land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6)

3. Brings universal peace “Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall man learn war anymore." (Isaiah 2:4)

4. Brings universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. As it says: "God will be King over all the world—on that day, God will be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9).

What is meant by a false prophet is any attempt to change the original prophecy and its historical accounts, hence Judaism rejects the sectarian New Testament as impertinent to their cause.

The Old Testament says nothing of miracle working or rising from the dead being a messianic prerequisite. Simply because Moses performed miracles, did not necessarily make him a Messiah. Leading the Israelites out of Egyptian captivity was a miserable task fraught with dissent at every turn. Their generations had become too accustomed to the Egyptian way of life, expecting much the same wizardry from Moses, as demonstrated by its priests and god-kings. However, raised as the prodigal son of the Pharaoh, he knew all the parlor tricks. Even the Ark of Covenant bears an uncanny resemblance to Egyptian altar designs. Just the same, it is only typical that his following would resort to idolizing a golden calf to appeal their limited food supply. The blood bath that ensued to lay down the law, doesn't seem to stop until Moses dies upon finally seeing the “promised land” and that after 40 years of this drudgery.

Judaic beliefs are otherwise deeply rooted in the idea that divine intervention in the mortal world is more one of visionary experience than actual physical interaction, however this does not regard the physical as something rife with debauchery. Rather, like in Buddhism, ritual fasting and abstinence serves the purpose of achieving visionary focus. This is also known to involve mandala like formulas and geomantic layouts. Judaism rejects the idea of virgin birth because they see the divine as incorporeal, integral, eternal, above time and beyond space. To say god assumes human form is a diminution of divinity. Even the name Yahweh is unspeakable in that regard. Thus the Christian trinity of father, son and holy ghost can also only seem idolatry, say nothing of the countless saints or missionaries to deliver one's prayers. Rather, such ideas of gods breeding with mortals to make them their messengers are clearly Greco-Roman. This is what is really meant by the taboo “you shall have no gods before me” whereas conversely, Jesus is quoted as saying "No man cometh unto the Father but by me." In essence, Christianity seems so great a departure from its Hebraic roots that skeptics suspect its sources originated with the Mithraic mysteries; a Roman assimilation fashioned on the premise of ancient Persia being the root of all higher civilization. In fact, this ideology still doggedly persists in most western academic circles, despite all obvious fallacies raised by scientific evidence.

Now having said this, doesn't mean I side with either. Nor does having been raised non-denominational by atheistic parents compel me to religion bashing, let alone clinical views of human spirituality. To me it's more an observation of how spirituality based on ideals rather than real life experience is just a carrot on a stick. It has no regard for the individual's own sense of direction. Thus I find it wiser to trust my own instincts, than be misled by somebody else's promises of utopia.

I see much the same fallacy in Rosicrucianism and its spin offs such as the OGD, Thelema, and Wicca: much of their “magical ritual” a rip off of John Dee's Enochian styled Kabbalism and a whole hodge-podge of other assimilated Middle Eastern mysticisms to the tune of Mithras...and all that to justify the mysterious existence of some ancient secret witchcraft tradition? Is it not enough to simply be born with certain psychic talents? Does it have to have a profound connection to some all seeing/all knowing born and bred over generations by some supernatural master race in human disguise? It only makes me wonder what sort of megalomania motivates such outlandish compensations, or maybe they're really just sexually frustrated.

http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/jewsandjesus/
http://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/learn-about-the-scrolls/introduction