This post I saved, because it demanded a retaliation! I retaliate below! ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Deema To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:30 PM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: What went wrong to cause it. Philip M Yes -- you may call it 'making an assumption' and I won't argue since definitive evidence isn't available. But a supreme intelligence organising or staging a specific event is also an assumption, especially from a period so long ago. Which is an admission by Paul, that History is biased according to who writes it and who is in government. .. Please keep that in mind when you specifically refer to who did anything or what, or why, in the distant past, and/or the current world. The reason I exempt THE religion and its history of such bias, and separate the true religion from all of the contenders, is that moral honesty is reflected in self criticism.. From the Bible first, Judas records failure from within. Even Peter. Jump to later Catholic recorded history, when our church burnt a saint at the stake! And today, all of the failures of the modern vatican, all recorded, and to be preserved for the future in our own history. However Paul, more recent events are well recorded in media by both sides of history, both secular and religious, first at Lourdes, and later at Fatima 1917, that are undeniably supernatural.. Even my Protestant friends admit it, but blame the dark side... Concerning voluntary martyrdom -- I have a Sunday morning recollection from long long ago suggesting that the Pope of the day had spoken out or forbidden such actions as 'forcing God's hand'. Martyrdom was valid only when you resigned yourself to your fate when forced upon you by others. Yes, you have the true Catholic perspective on that. But it was never condemned as suicide, when thousands of missionary priests volunteered to go to Islamic countries to convert the pagans, knowning full well that over 90% of them would never last very long. Their heroic deaths did convert many. I think Islam has still to draw this conclusion. I would however, definitely question your suggestion that drugs are needed. We have three recent appalling examples demonstrating that this is not necessary -- Jim Jones, David Koresh and Do (of Heaven's Gate). I'm sure there are many other similar events. David Koresh ? What a horrible distorted knowledge of the Waco event you have! About the only thing he and his followers were killed for was their belief in the right to practise their own religion, and more specifically to bear arms, a right I defend in any free society. Even the openly available media release turned me against government agencies like the BATF. It is obvious to me that you have no idea of the horrible crimes the US government perpetrated on innocent civilians at Waco.. Which is typical of your usual blind faith and dependence upon a controlled media, for anything you believe. I do at least question even the Vatican and the Pope, when they are seen to deviate, as you well know, which is the correct way of religious faith. There is a video exposing the truth of Waco, of Russian involvement, US military weapons, (unconstitutional) Local media TV that was censored from the world at large, but I doubt your faith would allow you to view it. They were murdered cold bloodedly, with no chance to surrender.. Some tried to surrender and were shot at the fence. The FBI agents shot were shot by their own side, marked for assassination, because they were witnesses against Clinton in an upcoming charge. Philip. Paul D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: philip madsen <pma15027@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: geocentrism list <geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, 11 January, 2009 11:33:36 PM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: What went wrong to cause it. Paul said. "The council of Nicaea interests me because it is the forum which gave such weight to the views of Paul the Roman while sidelining Luke the Greek and others. It is from such random events that history is made and religious dogma develops. Had Luke et al been more politically acceptable in a Roman world, surely Christianity today would be quite different." Paul, nothing monumental about that statement? History is formed by events. But you make a presumption that every event is random, simply becauise you refuse to accept, for no real good reason, that a supreme Intelligence can organise events. Even intervene with a specific event, as happened 2000 years ago. I find it very difficult to believe that many thousands of quite ordinary, and some many thousands of quite extraordinary people would voluntarily throw themselves to the lions or the fire, without there having been some sort of extraordinary supernatural events driving them . Of course one could point out that others of another extreme will happily (we are told) volunteer for explosive suicide duty, which cannot be due to any such experience for Islam. But surely you can appreciate the different circumstances.. These latter came out of life long indoctrinated extremism of drug induced endorphins perhaps, whereas the former calmly made reasoned decisions based upon supernatural evidence presented, becoming born anew, and completely rejecting their lifelong held beliefs and life style. Philip. ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Deema To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 7:08 PM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: What went wrong to cause it. Philip M I missed the incongruity you highlight. Caught me he did. However I counter with the observation that many words in language are contractions of earlier expressions. Contemporary example (in advertising commercials) " ... Australia's favourite air! " (For those not living in this fair land -- for air read 'air conditioning'). Also "Put it in the microwave for 30 seconds," or "I saw it on the television." Microwave receiver? Television transmitter? I think you get the picture. The council of Nicaea interests me because it is the forum which gave such weight to the views of Paul the Roman while sidelining Luke the Greek and others. It is from such random events that history is made and religious dogma develops. Had Luke et al been more politically acceptable in a Roman world, surely Christianity today would be quite different. For the record, I'm not an "... antiCatholic antichrist, antiGod self confessed athiest ... " as you say. You would be aware of the difference between passive and active support for a given action. 'Anti' implies active. Somewhere in my memory of Sunday mornings, there is the recollection of a homily which drew attention to ... Jesus said "If they are not for us they are against us," and at another time ... Jesus said "If they are not against us they are for us." I just think that as people become better educated, more widely read, they will see religion for the invention that it is and support for it will decline further till eventually it will pretty much lose its influence in the world. That is not to say that the temporal values will be lost or abandoned. They exist in non Christian non Jewish non Islamic -- lumped together as pagan I suppose -- societies anyway. The values I speak of are utilitarian and will be discovered by any society eventually with or without 'divine revelation'. Paul D ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: philip madsen <pma15027@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, 9 January, 2009 7:39:18 AM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: What went wrong to cause it. Oh how they hate the Cross... Shame on you Paul. They , even Rome, who would help promote the lies, any lie, to change the tradition of a cross support the Jewish High Priest, who denied He was the King of the Jews.. There is no evidence other than some writings which need not be valid, to support your charge. Some even call the cross a tree. All of the scripture you quoted contradicts your final assertion, "It was written on a board and nailed to the crossbeam above Jesus' head giving rise to the erroneous notion that He was hung on a 'cross'." read it again... "And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. ..." Not the crossbeam.. Its strange to me that you an antiCatholic antichrist, antiGod self confessed athiest suddenly leaps to the defence of a jew loving, jew supporting antiCatholic Pope.. ????Or is it? not so strange after all. Nice to know you are reading all our religious stuff.. Hope for you abounds. You should revisit your catechism, before these protties get you... lol.... In geocentrism's name, Philip. ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Deema To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 3:42 PM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: What went wrong to cause it. Peter C As I understand it, the Romans crucified people by attaching the condemned to a cross beam which was then placed on top of a pole. That was all that was needed, and it cost less. If they wanted the condemned to linger, a seat and/or footrest was sometimes provided. When Jesus was crucified, Pilate "... wrote a title and put it on the cross ... " 19:19 And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS. 19:20 This title then read many of the Jews: for the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city: and it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin. 19:21 Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pilate, Write not, The King of the Jews; but that he said, I am King of the Jews. 19:22 Pilate answered, What I have written I have written. (King James Bible, John) Today this is given as INRI -- the Latin initialism for IESVS·NAZARENVS·REX·IVDÆORVM (Jesus Nazarenus, rex Judæorum). It was written on a board and nailed to the crossbeam above Jesus' head giving rise to the erroneous notion that He was hung on a 'cross'. Paul D -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: PETER CHARLTON <peter.nambo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: geocentrism@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, 8 January, 2009 5:18:18 PM Subject: [geocentrism] Re: What went wrong to cause it. I read that when the Jews where kicked out of Spain, the Sanhedrin told Jews to convert to Catholisism, in order to subvert it. The current Pope looks rather Jewish with his skull cap, ephod for the 12 tribes of Israel, and notice that his crucifix is now a blatent " T ", not even pretening to be a cross but the sacred T of the Sun God Tammuz who the Jewish Women used to weep over. Pete Charlton -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay connected to the people that matter most with a smarter inbox. Take a look.