Spinoza: How God, Bible were invented

God is an old white man, right, Michelangelo? - Sure, for the right price. Who's paying the piper?

Is the Bible a lie? Spinoza reveals how God was invented to control us

(Wise Daily Reflections) April 25, 2025: Is the Christian Bible a lie? Spinoza reveals how the Judeo-Christian God was invented to control people within the empire.

Who was the old Jewish God? (God: An Anatomy)

This video dives into one of the most radical and clear-sighted ideas in the history of philosophy: Baruch Spinoza exposes the political function of religion and explains how the twisted concept of God was constructed as a tool for control.

This is a powerful, timely, and unsettling analysis that challenges everything traditionally believed about faith.

God: An Anatomy

God made into an earthy Man

This is an astonishing and revelatory history that presents the Judeo-Christian God as "he" was originally envisioned by ancient worshippers -- with a distinctly male body, superhuman powers, and earthy passions.

Drawing on her academic expertise and scholarly examination of the Jewish-Christian Bible, University of Exeter Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou (Ph.D., Oxford) paints a vivid portrait of a very human-shaped deity, a product of a particular society, a particular time, made in the image of the people who created him, shaped by their own circumstances and experience of the world.

This is a god of stunning surprise and complexity. Whether one is a believer or not, this fleshy uncensored (monotheistic) "God" has shaped our Western concept of life and death, our assumptions about sex and gender, even our perception of what it is to be a person.

Arresting, elegant and passionately argued, it is cultural history on a grand scale. More

• Author: Francesca Stavrakopoulou: books, bio, updates

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• Wise Daily Reflections, April 25, 2025; Prof. Francesca Stavrakopoulou; Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Vance admits Haitian pet story fake?

Trump's VP hopeful JD Vance appears to admit tale about Haitian immigrants eating pets is made-up as he loses his cool with [mechanical CIA asset] CNN host Dana Bash.

Meow, can you arm me so I can defend myself?

Can you imagine what the MAGA Central offices communications must be like?

How can we fan the fires of racist hatred, JD?

Don't worry, we'll find a way. Look around in your state for a stories or rumors we can use. We'll exploit the h*ll out of them.

Good idea, Sir. There is this one farfetched story from the TV.

The TV? That's a good source. What did The Box say?

Are the Haitians bothering you? - Meow.

We got a Haitian problem, too many migrants coming in to do the work Americans don't want to do, and the people are sick of it. So someone heard...

Someone?

Well, the someone's friend's daughter heard someone else...

So three people?

Yeah, I guess you could see it that way?

See, I'm always thinking.

What did they do?

They're eating pets.

Cats?

No, dogs, too, and critters from the...

Say no more! Dogs?! This is a bonanza. Run with it!

• CNN reports on the latest in this incredibly important story for Trump's reelection efforts.

Trump lies about his disaster, Swift for Dems

Cowardly Trump shakes hands with the Devil (VP Harris, who recently beat God's candidate in a debate so disastrous to the MAGA Movement that it has come to be called "Trump's 9/11"), tries to pull her in, fails, uses a second hand to try to show dominance and take her alpha status, but she pulls away and dismisses him -- all while the corpse of G-Joe Biden is propped there completely out to lunch and unaware of his surroundings. And why is JD Vance dressed like a clone of the puppet master, like a Midwest Mini Me? Jimmy Kimmel explains it all in:

Trump lies and whines after disastrous debate, Swift for Kamala, and do pro-lifers know the female body?

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Sept. 11, 2024: While everyone else is all still buzzing after the Big Debate last night, the only person who seems to think Trump did a good job is Donald Trump, even Fox News thought he lost bigly, Trump keeps walking around making stuff up, pulling nonsensical numbers out of adult diaper, he is terrified to debate VP Kamala Harris again, Taylor Swift announced her endorsement of Kamala and Tim Walz, Elon Musk weighed in on her endorsement in the creepiest way possible, JD Vance can’t stop spreading lies about Haitians eating pets in Ohio, Trump, JD Vance, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris were in lower Manhattan today for a 9/11 memorial ceremony, Trump has had a “concept of a plan” for healthcare for a very long time, and we head deep into the heart of Texas to find out what pro-lifers know about female anatomy. #Kimmel

How life on Earth began, according to science

David Nield, ScienceAlert via msn.com, 3/4/24; Skeptic Central, Wisdom Quarterly

In the beginning, the Vesicle Blob. Like it or lump it, but thou shalt not question it (ScienceAlert)

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We may finally know how the first cells on Earth formed

In the beginning, rebirth ad infinitum.

The story of how life started on Earth [called the Agganna Sutra in Buddhism and Genesis or the Garden of Eden in the Abrahamic faiths] is one that scientists are eager to learn.

Researchers may have uncovered an important detail in the plot of Chapter One: an explanation of how bubbles of fat came to form the membranes of the very first cells.

A key part of the new findings, made by a team from The Scripps Research Institute in California, is that a chemical process called phosphorylation may have happened earlier than previously thought.

This process adds groups of atoms that include phosphorus to a molecule, bringing extra functions with it -- functions that can turn spherical collections of fats called protocells into more advanced versions of themselves, able to be more versatile, stable, and chemically active.

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  Diagram of life beginning on Earth

  We howl with laughter at religion for believing in fairytales but bow in solemn obedience to the inerrant utterances of white lab coat-clad priests in their lab-temples doing their lab stuff and coming out with papers about it. The sacred word, peer reviewed by fellow priests, spins a yarn and we all say, "Well, that's the way it has to be because Science don't make no junk." The figurative and metaphorical language a visionary (rishi) like the Buddha, Mahavira, Shankara, Moses, or Mohammed might have used, hah, that's of no use to us. It's fine if we want to throw out ancient written texts for new, but to ignore that Science tries to get away with explaining the universe by saying, "If you allow us just one unexplained miracle, the Big Bang, we can explain everything after that" is pitiful. Then anything observed as happening now is used to say, "This must have been what happened the first time, originating from nothing to everything we see now with no miracle at all and no anything before the something we now live and enjoy." Go on, Science, what else happened?

These protocells are widely thought to have been vital building blocks for biochemistry more than 3.5 billion years ago, perhaps emerging from hot springs under the ocean along the way to the evolution of more complex biological structures.

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  WTH? Science claims to know how life started?

  Science observer Lloyd Pye says we have examples of microevolution but not a single example of macroevolution. Along with Michael "The Forbidden Archeologist" Cremo we are getting quite an alternative view to world history and biological origins. Yet, no one notices how Science behaves like storytellers around the campfire, making "reasonable" speculations from data like shamans spinning origin myths based on whatever is at hand to comment on? A vat of skepticism is in order and perhaps an eyeroll. Was it a good idea to trade in one set of priests for another? "God is dead" was a really good slogan if people understood what it meant, so how about we launch, "Data interpreters, get stuffed"? The first laments the loss of a guide, the latter echoes the Who's "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" lyric. To think we're going to base our lives on what some blanketyblank opines from an ivory tower, as we grovel before the feet of impersonal objectivity and total rationality, unquestioned assumptions and men with mental defilements in charge of what we are allowed to believe? It's untenable.

Ehem, our sacred garments are now blue

"At some point, we all wonder where we came from," says chemist Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, from The Scripps Research Institute. "This finding helps us better understand the chemical environments of early Earth so we can uncover the origins of life and how life can evolve on early Earth."

• Scripps Research scientists reveal how first cells could have formed on Earth (Scripps Research)

Krishnamurthy and his colleagues hypothesized that because the process is so widespread in the body's biological functions, phosphorylation ought to have been involved in early stages of protocell formation.

Replicating conditions likely to match Earth's early days in the lab, the team combined chemicals such as fatty acids and glycerol to try and create more complex vesicles -- bubble-like structures similar to protocells that facilitate cellular processes.

With some tweaking of temperature and acidity, the researchers were able to get the chemical reactions they were looking for, proving that phosphorylation may have been at work as protocells developed in the primordial ooze.

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  Agganna Sutra and science

  The "Discourse on Beginnings" (Aggañña Sutta, DN 27) is neither satire nor parody, claims author Dr. Sugunasiri, Ph.D., as viewed by Buddhist scholars. Drawing on cosmology, Darwinism, psychology, and linguistics, this sutra paints a historically and scientifically accurate picture of Devolution and Evolution, going beyond the Big Bang. Sentient beings emerge with defilements, such as passion and craving, physically nourished with greater and greater difficulty by devolving plant life. Compatible with Western science, Dr. S, had an insight, a breakthrough in his understanding of this origin myth. What if the "beings" that first came to this earth, the âbhassara brahmas (or "supremos," a class of devas, lit. "shining ones") are understood to be PHOTONS? Why? This is true if we take the term âbhassara in its literal etymological sense of "hither-come-shining-arrow," described as "self-luminous" and "moving through the air" (akasha, "space"), "glorious" (streaming), "feeding on delight," where they remain for a very long time, "mind-made" (spontaneous), floating above and around earth before the appearance of moon and sun, before night and day. However, as accurate as this picture may be, the Buddha’s point is that knowledge of Dhamma overrides it all, explaining the title [of Dr. S's book]. More

"The vesicles were able to transition from a fatty acid environment to a phospholipid environment during our experiments, suggesting a similar chemical environment could have existed four billion years ago," says chemist Sunil Pulletikurti, from The Scripps Research Institute.

The team describes it as a "plausible pathway" for the creation of phospholipids, the more complex type of vesicle membrane. However, there's lots more study to do before we can be sure about how life came to be on Earth, [science's favorite sentence].

Looking back billions of years isn't easy, of course, but scientists continue to make discoveries...

• [Do they, with their time machines or mystic powers? They see something now and project it back, neither understanding what they're seeing nor gaining evidence for what actually happened then.]

[And these "discoveries" are] about what happened right after Earth formed, and it all plays into our investigations into life on other planets, too.

• [Q: Oh, are we now allowed to believe in life on other planets, according to our gatekeepers? A: "It's out there, it just doesn't come here and has never been here in any way whatsoever" is the official word. So obey and repeat this mantra until told otherwise, and never mind those pesky tardigrades on the moon.]

"It's exciting to uncover how early chemistries may have transitioned to allow for life on Earth," says biophysicist Ashok Deniz, from The Scripps Research Institute.

"Our findings also hint at a wealth of intriguing physics that may have played key functional roles along the way to modern cells."

The research has been published in Chem. Source

Scientist explains Sedona vortex energy (video)

Ben Lonetree (Coast to Coast, 8/13/23); Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Modern Buddhist stupa in Sedona, Arizona

Last night on Coast with Host Connie Willis, scientific researcher Ben Lonetree (sedonanomalies.com) spilled the beans: Sedona's vortices are real and measurable. They pulse, come and go, are dampened by rain, affected by external conditions (who's standing around, what space entities are traveling through portals, what time it is in terms of the dimensional timeline at Bradshaw Ranch* that sees dinosaurs popping in and out, perhaps Silurians or their pet Reptilians behind a veil or props for creatures that still roam in the bowels of our hollow earth).

• Ben Lonetree's Magnetic Anomaly Research in Sedona, Arizona | Coast to Coast AM

The Sedona Effect

Vortex outlined on the ground by Natives

Coast to Coast AM.com, Aug. 13, 2023: Researcher and electrical engineer Ben Lonetree discusses decades of scientific studies on naturally occurring phenomena electromagnetic (vortex) energies and how they interact with human biophysical mechanisms.

He talks about the science of Sedona, Arizona, and his theory of the Sedona Effect and Sedona Vortex brainwave EEG synchronization. After hearing the small pink town of Sedona described decades ago as the place where "the Earth speaks," Lonetree was initially skeptical.

Is Lonetree jumping to his death or levitating over a vortex energy field during a pulse?

There's a Buddha Beach in Sedona, too!

But he noticed that his scientific instruments always registered elevated energy levels there. Armed with an array of very sophisticated equipment, Lonetree set out to investigate Sedona's Schumann resonance (the degree to which the area's electromagnetic frequencies or EMFs matched those of the human brain).

What he discovered, Lonetree claims, was remarkable. The naturally occurring magnetic energy coming from the ground at Sedona is "spinning like a tornado" in a vortex pattern.

How then, he wondered, did this phenomenon affect human consciousness? Lonetreee's subjects would react in strange ways to Sedona's magnetic environment, bursting into tears or getting giddy with laughter.

His instruments confirmed that each surge in vortex energy in the ground caused a corresponding surge in subjects' brainwave activity. By drawing human emotions out in this way, the vortex allows us to examine our feelings in ways that make them coherent and manageable, Lonetree suggests.

He also notes that it's significant that the Native Americans (the "Without-Water" or Sinagua) in Sedona have traditionally understood the area as sacred due to the unusual properties of the energy one experiences there. More + AUDIO

Beyond Skinwalker Ranch: Bradshaw Ranch, Sedona (History Channel)

Beyond Skinwalker Ranch: Suspicious Military Activity at Bradshaw Ranch (S1)

(HISTORY) July 12, 2023: Why are drones restricted in certain areas of Bradshaw Ranch? Could the U.S. government (Department of War, Pentagon, CIA, NSA, NSC, FBI, black budget programs) be hiding something? See more in this clip from Season 1, Episode 5, "Bradshaw Ranch Pt. 2." New episodes of Beyond Skinwalker Ranch, Tuesdays at 10/9c. Stay up to date on favorite The HISTORY Channel shows at history.com/schedule. #BeyondSkinwalkerRanch

• History Channel visits Sedona to explain Bradshaw Ranch (visitsedona.com)

*Time anomalies through a dimensional portal so vital the government took possession of land and closed it to the public: Bradshaw Ranch

Merging Dimensions (Tom Dongo, Linda Bradshaw)

Merging Dimensions: The Opening Portals of Sedona (new edition, 2020) On a secluded ranch near Sedona, Arizona, strange events mysteriously began in 1992.

What does it portend for us all? [Why has the government moved in and turned it into a new Area 51?] This new edition contains over 100 actual photographs of incredible events, otherworldly [extraterrestrial] beings, strange flying craft [UFOs, UAPs, vimanas], and unexplained light anomalies. More

Jan. 6th never happened: Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson desperately tries to spin Jan. 6th and cases of kids eating edibles soar

(The Daily Show) March 7, 2023. Marlon Wayans takes on the day's biggest news, including elevated instances of children eating their parents' cannabis edibles, which look like candy, Will and Kate's terrifying wax sculptures, and Tucker Carlson's unreleased footage from the Trump-led insurrection on January 6th. FOX News was given exclusive access to the footage by Republicans to spin now that the Democrats lost control of Congress. And they've run with the footage to put their own spin on it. #DailyShow #Comedy Subscribe to The Daily Show: @thedailyshow

Amnesty accuses Israel of war crimes

Is there already a new Holocaust being denied and debated in Palestine/Gaza?

Text: Amy Teibel (AP)

JERUSALEM – Israeli forces killed hundreds of Palestinian civilians and destroyed thousands of Gaza Strip homes in attacks that amounted to war crimes, Amnesty International charged Thursday [7/1/09], in the first in-depth human rights group report on the recent war in Gaza.

• Listen: Middle East in Focus (Pacifica)
• Mideast Video: Freezing Settlements? (FOX News)
• Video: Barak, Mitchell meet on settlements (Reuters)
• Raw Video: Protesters clash with Israeli forces (AP)
• Israeli minister wants settlements, peace (UPI)

Amnesty called on Israel to publicly pledge not to use artillery, white phosphorus and other imprecise weapons in densely populated areas. And it urged Gaza's militant Hamas rulers to stop rocket fire against Israeli civilians — attacks it also described as war crimes.

Amnesty — which first accused Israel of war crimes shortly after the fighting ended on Jan. 18 — said "disturbing questions" remain about why high-precision weapons like tank shells and air-delivered bombs and missiles "killed so many children and other civilians."

The group also deplored Israel's use of less-precise artillery shells and highly incendiary white phosphorous in densely populated areas. It also accused Israeli forces of using Palestinians as "human shields" and frequently blocking civilians from receiving medical care and humanitarian aid.

The pattern of Israeli attacks and the high number of civilian casualties "showed elements of reckless conduct, disregard for civilian lives and property, and a consistent failure to distinguish between military targets and civilians and civilian objects," Amnesty International charged. More>>