Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 10:14 pm
Those Rabbis (there are many with YouTube channels) seem to me captured by their mythologies.
Of course they are captured by mythology.
Can there exist any hardcore proponents of any specific religion who
aren't captured by the religion's mythologies?
The fact that so many divisive and incompatible mythologies exist (and that includes materialism) is precisely why we are in this fine mess.
Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Fri Nov 03, 2023 10:14 pm
But right now all Israel is captured in dozens of layers of consequence. How this resolves itself is anyone’s guess.
Well, apparently, it's going to resolve itself in the self-fulfilling Armageddon prophecy that seems to have been pre-scripted in the Bible, which includes verses like this...
"And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened." -- Matthew 24:22
The question is, is it self-fulfilling because that's the way God wants it to go?...
...Or...
...Is it self-fulfilling because humans are simply acting-out what ancient minds have scripted?
Perhaps it's a little of both, in that the fulfillment of certain prophecies is one way for God to demonstrate to humans that there is something larger in control of reality without fully revealing what that "something" truly is.
For example, I personally think that this particular prophecy from the book of Revelation, 9:1...
"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit."
...was fulfilled when the
"key" to matter --
E=MC^2 -- was "given" to Einstein, which then helped usher-in quantum mechanics, which, in turn, has not only radically changed the world, but has also helped to reveal the illusory ("mind-like") nature of the universe.
(See my full exposition of that idea (i.e., a full interpretation of Revelation, chapter 9) in this post here:
viewtopic.php?p=335026#p335026)
Anyway, no matter what, as I have suggested many times before, all religions are nothing more than
"pacifying teats" for us worldlings to suckle-on until the ultimate truth of reality is revealed to us at the moment of death.
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