War between christian humanism & jewish materialism


Creation: Chaos gave birth to of Ge(earth), Tartarus(underworld), Eros(love and sex), Erebus(darkness), and Nyx(night) Adam and Eve



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Creation: Chaos gave birth to of Ge(earth), Tartarus(underworld), Eros(love and sex), Erebus(darkness), and Nyx(night)

Adam and Eve: could be comparable to Eros. The first people lived in a perfect world with no pain and no sadness, this place was called the Garden of Eden. The first people lived in a perfect world with no pain and no sadness, this was called the Golden Age. Mans relationships with God and Zeus, both falls from grace were the products of trickery, deceit, and temptation. In both cases, the temptation was in the form of food. In both is the negative role that Woman plays.

Great Flood: In both, God (Zeus) becomes angry with men and decides to destroy them as revenge for their impieties. His intention is to destroy all of mankind. However, Prometheus, who tells his son, Deucalion, to build an ark so Deucalion and his wife could escape Zeus' wrath, thwarts Zeus attempt. In this story, Prometheus assures that mortal life will go on.

[The similarities are so parallel one must wonder as to the actual origin of these stories. One may even go so far as to say the stories in the bible are stories of Greek mythology changed to suit the belief system of new religion.]



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The Roman Republic was wealthy, powerful and stable before it became an empire. According to tradition, Rome became a republic in 509 BC. However, it took a few centuries for Rome to become the great city of popular imagination, and it only became a great empire after the rule of Augustus (Octavian). By the 3rd century BC, Rome had become the pre-eminent city of the Italian peninsula, having conquered and defeated the Sabines, the Etruscans and most of the Greek colonies in Sicily, Campania and Southern Italy in general. During the Punic Wars between Rome and the great Mediterranean empire of Carthage, Rome's stature increased further as it became the capital of an overseas empire for the first time.

Chechnya Ruins (when?)

Roman Gods - Jupiter - King of the Gods; Juno - Queen of the Gods; Neptune - God of the Sea; Pluto - God of Death; Apollo - God of the Sun; Diana - Goddess of the Moon; Mars - God of War; Venus - Goddess of Love; Cupid - God of Love; Mercury - Messenger of the Gods; Minerva - Goddess of Wisdom; Ceres - The Earth Goddess; Proserpine - Goddess of the Underworld; Vulcan - The Smith God; Bacchus - God of Wine; Saturn - God of Time; Vesta - Goddess of the Home; Janus - God of Doors; Uranus and Gaia - Parents of Saturn; Maia - Goddess of Growth; Flora - Goddess of Flowers; Plutus - God of Wealth. [These gods are easily interchangeable with other early religions.]

****Hercules is son of Zeus and can be identified by his attributes, the lion skin and the gnarled club (his favorite weapon). Hera held a spiteful grudge against Hercules and sent Hercules into a blind frenzy, in which he killed all of his children. When Hercules regained his sanity, he sought out the Oracle at Delphi in the hope of making atonement and receiving immortality. The Oracle ordered Hercules to serve Eurystheus, king of Mycenae, who sent him on a series of tasks known as the Labors of Hercules. These tasks are told in this order: 1.To kill the Nemean lion; 2.To destroy the Lernaean Hydra; 3.To capture Cernean hind alive; 4.To trap the Erymanthian boar; 5.To clean the Augean stables; 6.To get rid of the Stymphalen birds; 7.To capture the Cretan bull; 8.To round up the mares of Diomeds; 9.To fetch Hippolyte's girdle, or belt; 10.To fetch the cattle of Geron; 11.To fetch the golden apples of the Hesprides; 12.To bring Cerberus from Tartarus. While he was a champion and a great warrior, he was not above cheating and using any unfair trick to his advantage. However, he was renowned as having "made the world safe for mankind" by destroying many dangerous monsters. As a reward for finishing these twelve treacherous tasks, he was given the gift of immortality after his death by his father Zeus. Hera forgave him and gave him her daughter Hebe for his bride.

Tacitus records a special affinity of the Germanic peoples for Hercules. “... they say that Hercules, too, once visited them; and when going into battle, they sang of him first of all heroes. They have also those songs of theirs … they rouse their courage, while from the note they augur the result of the approaching conflict. For, as their line shouts, they inspire or feel alarm.” In the 5th to 7th centuries, during the Migration Period, the Hercules' Club amulets rapidly spread from the Elbe Germanic area across Europe. These Germanic "Donar's Clubs" were made from deer antler, bone or wood, more rarely also from bronze or precious metals. They are found exclusively in female graves, apparently worn either as a belt pendant, or as an ear pendant. The amulet type is replaced by the Viking Age Thor's hammer pendants in the course of the Christianization of Scandinavia from the 8th to 9th century.



The Furies (Roman) - In Greek mythology (the Erinyes, "the avengers") were female chthonic deities of vengeance. A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "those who beneath the earth punish whosoever has sworn a false oath". When the Titan Cronus castrated his father Uranus and threw his genitalia into the sea, the Erinyes emerged from the drops of blood, while Aphrodite was born from the crests of seafoam. The heads of the Erinyes were wreathed with serpents (compare Gorgon) and their eyes dripped with blood, rendering their appearance rather horrific. Other depictions show them with the wings of a bat or bird and the body of a dog.

Building on Greek culture, the Roman culture was predisposed to accept Christianity. The Roman system of roads and the unity of the Empire speedily spread Christianity.



Greek-Jewish Merchant Rivalry:

The word Shekel literally means something that is weighed. Early coins were simply weights and measures and used initially in barter. The first bankers were the Assyrians and Babylonians over four thousand years ago. The Greeks were the main rivals of Jewish merchants around the Mediterranean. Being a Mediterranean nation, at a juncture between Europe, Asia and Africa, and with an early Talmudic attitude towards Gentiles, considering them as inferior and abhorring physical labor, Judah and associates began as early Insiders to International Trade and banking. The Court Historians claim that the Church relegated the Jews to these occupations, but the Jews themselves took an early interest and continued on, increasing their Diaspora into the Greek and later Roman worlds.



Diogenes the Cynic (412 or 404 BCE - 323 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. Diogenes was one of the few men to ever publicly mock Alexander the Great and live. He intellectually humiliated Plato and was the only pupil ever accepted by Antisthenes, whom he saw as the true heir of Socrates. Diogenes taught his philosophy of Cynicism to Crates who taught it to Zeno of Citium who fashioned it into the school of Stoicism, one of the most enduring branches of Greek philosophy. Diogenes of Sinope was always controversial. Exiled from his native city for defacing the currency, he moved to Athens and declared himself a cosmopolitan (in defiance of the prevailing city-state system). He became a disciple of Antisthenes, and made a virtue of extreme poverty, famously begging for a living and sleeping in a tub in the marketplace. He became notorious for his provocative behaviour and philosophical stunts such as carrying a lamp in the daytime, claiming to be looking for an honest man. He regularly argued with Plato, disputing his interpretation of Socrates and sabotaging his lectures. After being captured by pirates and sold into slavery, Diogenes eventually settled in Corinth, where he was admired by Alexander. Diogenes was a staunch admirer of Hercules. He believed that virtue was better revealed in action than in theory. His life was a relentless campaign to debunk the social values and institutions of what he saw as a corrupt society. None of his many writings have survived, but details of his life come in the form of anecdotes (chreia), especially from Diogenes Laërtius, in his book Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. He believed that the Jews were descended from an ancient race of evil magicians.

Cynicism, in its original form, refers to the beliefs of an ancient school of Greek philosophers known as the Cynics. Their philosophy was that the purpose of life was to live a life of Virtue in agreement with Nature. This meant rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, health, and fame, and by living a simple life free from all possessions. As reasoning creatures, people could gain happiness by rigorous training and by living in a way which was natural for humans. They believed that the world belonged equally to everyone, and that suffering was caused by false judgments of what was valuable and by the worthless customs and conventions which surrounded society. Many of these thoughts were later absorbed into Stoicism.



Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato's teacher), Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle's writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy, encompassing morality and aesthetics, logic and science, politics and metaphysics. Aristotle's views on the physical sciences profoundly shaped medieval scholarship. In metaphysics, Aristotelianism had a profound influence on philosophical and theological thinking in the Islamic and Jewish traditions in the Middle Ages, and it continues to influence Christian theology, especially the scholastic tradition of the Catholic Church and some strains of Eastern Orthodox thought.

In the Politics, Aristotle argues, “There are two sorts of wealth-getting, as I have said; one is a part of household management, the other is retail trade: the former necessary and honorable, while that which consists in exchange is justly censured; for it is unnatural, and a mode by which men gain from one another. The most hated sort, and with the greatest reason, is usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from the natural object of it. For money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of any modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.”




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