It's not a "Genie lamp". It's an oil lamp, of the type people of dozens of cultures used for millenia. That would be like if the whole genie story were found in the future and they thought all coleman lanterns were genie lamps. Seriously----you're reaching. Even more than usual.
Genie-ology
by cameo-d 29 Replies latest watchtower bible
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cameo-d
Avishai....
There is more here than meets the eye. These symbols are messages.
In Islam and pre-Islamic Arabian folklore, a genie (also jinn, djinn, from Arabic???jinni) is a supernatural fiery creature which possesses free will. Genies are mentioned in the Qur'an, wherein a whole Sura is named after them (Al-Jinn).
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Jinn in the Bible
In several verses in Old Arabic and Old Persian Bible translations, the words: Jinn(??) Jaann(?????) Majnoon(?????) and Iblees(?????) are mentioned as translations of familiar spirit or ???(obe) for Jaann and the devil or δαιμ?νιονdaimonion for Iblees.
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The Quran states that King Solomon ( Sulayman ) is said to have compelled the jinn into his service and given them dominion over 25 parasangs of his realm. [23] In his court, the jinn stood behind the learned humans, who in turn, sat behind the prophets. Solomon’s wife, the Queen of Sheba , was reportedly born of the marriage between a jinni and a human. However, it is not clear whether it was her mother or father who was a jinni. Those authorities who believe that her mother was a jinni further tell us that her name was Ray?ana. It was this connection of her with the jinn that made people apprehensive about Solomon’s marriage to her. They feared that if their master Solomon married a half-jinni, they would be forced to remain in the service of the offspring of that marriage forever.
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"It's an oil lamp, of the type people of dozens of cultures used for millenia"
The Spirit of the Lamp in the story of Aladdin, a familiar djinn to the Western world, was such a jinni, having been bound to an oil lamp. Ways of summoning jinn were told in The Thousand and One Nights: by writing the name of God in Hebrew characters on a knife and drawing a diagram, with strange symbols and incantations around it.
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(The oil lamp as well as the torch is used symbolically to represent association with this evil angel/alien.)
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cameo-d
Toronto Society for Masonic research
Just thinking....if all of these institutions are called "Society"...
Why is WT called a "Society" and not a church?
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sir82
Genie
genetics
Genesis
genocide
Genetics... created beings still being created. Evolution and culling is ongoing. After the culling...another quantum leap.
Loonie
Lunatic
Loco weed
La La Land
Lame brains....people who think similar-sounding English words and common symbols are indicative of some sort of hidden conspiracy. Another not-so-quantum leap.
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BabaYaga
Avishai said: It's not a "Genie lamp". It's an oil lamp, of the type people of dozens of cultures used for millenia. That would be like if the whole genie story were found in the future and they thought all coleman lanterns were genie lamps. Seriously----you're reaching. Even more than usual.
Sorry, Cameo, I have to agree with this one absolutely. These logos show the lamp, NOT the "magic genie" inside.
In the immortal words of Aladdin... "Sometimes a lamp... is just a lamp."
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Robdar
Avi is correct. You are looking at oil lamps. Flame has symbolic meaning to many religions.
In Judaism, flame represents, among many things, a path to the divine light.
As we sing every Friday during Shabbat:
"Let us light these lights and see our way to you. And let us say amen. "
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quietlyleaving
I thought Prometheus gave us fire
Prometheus fashioned humans out of clay. In his dialogue Protagoras, Plato asserts that the gods created humans and all the other animals, but it was left to Prometheus and his brother Epimetheus to give defining attributes to each. As no physical traits were left when the pair came to humans, Prometheus decided to give them fire and other civilizing arts. [ 15 ] and here he is having his liver eaten out for his pains
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BurnTheShips
winged genie Lamassu (Louvre)
That is not a genie. It is a sort of winged sphinx or centaur representing the god Lamassu.
The other things are lamps, as has been noted.
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cameo-d
Burn: That is not a genie
Burn...I just gotta know...
have you seen a real genie to know for sure?
Do you not realize this name of 'genie' is symbolic for a demonic entity?
Oh, and btw...I did not presumptiously name it "genie". That is how it is labeled at the museum.
In Islam and pre-Islamic Arabian folklore, a genie (also jinn, djinn, from Arabic???jinni) is a supernatural fiery creature which possesses free will. Genies are mentioned in the Qur'an, wherein a whole Sura is named after them (Al-Jinn).
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Jinn in the Bible
In several verses in Old Arabic and Old Persian Bible translations, the words: Jinn(??) Jaann(?????) Majnoon(?????) and Iblees(?????) are mentioned as translations of familiar spirit or ???(obe) for Jaann and the devil or δαιμ?νιονdaimonion for Iblees.
