Professor Falcon Asks: Why Such Variety in Religion?

by Mr. Falcon 16 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  ProdigalSon

  The Tower of Babel metaphor makes it crystal clear.... pineal glands switched off, and universal consciousness taken away. Mass confusion is the result. Mankind was doing quite well, but Jehovah just couldn't handle it. He wanted slaves, not competition.

  Most religions teach the truth esoterically.... it's the interpretation for the masses that causes the problem.

  If all the Christian denominations would read the Bible as a metaphor for awakening consciousness, they would all get along just fine. They would also accept and embrace all the other races and religions as well.
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  james_woods

  The Tower of Babel metaphor makes it crystal clear.... pineal glands switched off, and universal consciousness taken away. Mass confusion is the result. Mankind was doing quite well, but Jehovah just couldn't handle it. He wanted slaves, not competition.

  Sorry, I was speaking of the Babel story with the assumption that practically everybody here viewed it as completely mythical nonsense.
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  ProdigalSon

  Sorry, I was speaking of the Babel story with the assumption that practically everybody here viewed it as completely mythical nonsense.

  Maybe they do, but that doesn't mean that myths are nonsense. They're only nonsense if they're read literally. The Bible is no different.

  When hundreds, maybe thousands of civilizations, races, and tribes spanning millennia all have the same myths, there might be something to it.

  There's real hard core evidence of past advanced civilizations all over this planet.... you might wanna check out books like this one....

  http://www.amazon.com/Atlantis-2012-Science-Civilization-Prophecies/dp/1591431123
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  unshackled

  Yo yo Mr. Millenium Falcon...ah The God Delusion, great read. That book set off a tornado of thoughts and ideas for me. What do you think of it so far?

  Having been breast fed WT doctrine from birth, can't say I recall thinking that religious diversity was directly because of Babel. But for the reasons already stated above the WT probably consider it a starting origin.

  Of course they're full of sh*t on that because Babel is just fable. The Bible places the events of its Tower of Babel story around 1000 BCE. Reality is there were many spoken and written languages prior to the Tower of Babel events. The oldest known text in the Sanskrit language, the Rigveda, dates to 1700-1100 BCE. Egyptian hieroglyphs date back to about 3100 BCE and Sumerian writings date as far back as 3200 BCE.
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  Mr. Falcon

  unshackled, Dawkins is dropping freight train loads of logic on my JW-scrambled brain. I love it.

  I agree with you on the BS of the Babel incident. If that was were all ancient religion was manifested, than why does the archeological record (as you've mentioned) show otherwise? Does not compute.
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  SweetBabyCheezits

  Having been breast fed WT doctrine from birth,

  Shack! That was no tittie, my friend.

  Fellas, I'm supposed to be sanding some drywall but I heard the cry of a distressed baby trilobite and had to check it out. And what do I find but a buncha questionable independent thinkin?! Where are you guys getting your so-called "facts" about other cultures and languages existing prior to the Tower of Babble? That sounds like sum that "archaeology" mumbo jumbo. The Holy Bible not good enough fo ya? Well it was good nuf fa King James and it's good nuf fa me!

  Now I know el Bibel is more or less a hodge-podge of archaeology itself but, hey, who do you trust - archaeologists and historians or... archaeologists and historians? Okay, sure, but what about archaeologists whose research is properly extruded through the puckering cornhole of the Governing Body?

  Now I'm just talkin sh [dolphin squeak] . (for the kids)

  I rather enjoyed The God Delusion... what I read of it. I can't say I ever finished it but I do remember the fascinating discussion of the cargo cults. And then I think I started Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (very interesting philosophical novel) about 3/4 of the way through TGD and quit reading it. Gotta go back and do that. It's on my list to complete along with, well, ZAMM and also a lengthy business-suspense novel entitled Who Moved My Cheeze?

  Anyways, I want a full set of Cliffs Notes, MFer, you literate sonofa [old car horn]. Same goes for you, Shack, on whatever Nietzsche work you set out to read next. I love his aphorisms since, like we talked about last week, they don't require a long attention span.

  Thus spake Cheezits.
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  sabastious

  The variety we have is exactly the kind of thing we should see in an evolving sentient species. I think it's very "yin yangy" that when we evolved verbal communication we were also simultaneously commissioned with the problems that verbal communication come with. Before verbal communication human interaction must have had had little chance of MIScommunicating purposeful or not purposeful.

  An inherent flaw with verbal communication is lying. When a lie is believed the believer's life can and will alter based off an erroneous peice of data. This can have catastrophic effects because if and when too many people believe the same, or similar, lie the lie gains in strength and vigor. A lie that has had time to be validated becomes a force like no other.

  -Sab