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BURNING BOOKS
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I recently re-read a book from my personal library about the destruction of the greatest library of antiquity in Alexandria, Egypt, The Vanished Library, by Luciano Canfora. Because I write books, I also read books. Books are a gateway to intellectual and spiritual freedom.
Although my personal library shelves contain only several hundred volumes, it is estimated by various sources that the Library at Alexandria housed tens of thousands of scrolls amassed by Ptolemy that were added to the sacred library of Ramses II, Pharaoh of Egypt! (c. 1300 BCE) At the time of it’s destruction there were reported to be more than 45,000 hand-written books, gathered from all of the civilized word — translated into Greek — and housed in a single building.
In 640 AD, this priceless library was burned at the order of Muslim Caliph Omar. When the general of his army asked the Caliph what to do with the books of the library, the Caliph responded:
“If their content is in accordance with the book of Allah, we may do without them. If they contain matter not in accordance with the book of Allah, there can be no need to preserve them. Proceed then, to destroy them.”
At that time the city of Alexandria had 4,000 public baths. The water for the baths was heated by underground stoves or furnaces. “The books were distributed to the public baths of Alexandria, where they were used to fuel the stove which kept the baths comfortably warm. ….It took six months to burn all that mass of material.” Only the writings of Aristotle were spared from the flames.
As has so often been the case in the history of Earth, religious fanaticism — the enemy of knowledge and freedom — was the cause of destruction of precious accumulated knowledge, technology and wisdom recorded by literate scientists, mathematicians, artists, philosophers and scholars. The modern destruction by the United States of the priceless Library of Baghdad, the burning of books and burying of scholars under China’s Qin Dynasty, the destruction of Aztec codices by Itzcoatl, the Nazi book burnings, the Spanish Inquisition, and many others psychotic episodes serve to keep humanity stupid, superstition and enslaved by ignorance.
However, in 2013 we live in an age of unprecedented information access. There are thousands of libraries all around the world. The internet is a vast library of information that contains nearly every book that has ever been written! (Of course there are huge numbers of “heretical” books that have been burned by Caliphs or Nazis or hidden in the Vatican library or the Smithsonian Institute.) However, in spite of intellectual terrorism, superstition, religious fanaticism, and government mind-control agendas, we are living in an unprecedented age when books are freely available in abundance! All we need to do is read them.
GIMMERYERMONEY
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WESTERN SCIENCE
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Western Science is the religion of Matter. The “god” of Western Science is Force: financial, military, industrial, corporate, political and psychological force.
Western Science is the ally and defender of oppressive governments. Self-anointed practitioners of science deny any and all personal responsibility for their “products”, which will inevitably cause devastation on Earth and the eventual extinction of All Life Forms, including themselves.
Like the bankers, military madmen, and political puppets who employ them, scientists seek to conquer and control all creatures, and the physical universe itself, through material means.
The Dogma of Western Science is that “All is matter, energy, and space” can be measured by physical means: therefor any Spirit is superstitious mythology as it is not physical, and must be ignored — regardless of any observable phenomena, subjective or objective.
The Superstition of Western Science is that the material universe is a self-generated, accident of “nature”, for which there is no discernible definition or source. The universe appeared by “magic” in an theoretical explosion of energy, for which no origin existed.
The Doctrine of Western Science is “The Law of Nature”, which, like all religious doctrine, is written by their own priests, or “authorities”. No one may question this doctrine, their theories, data or conclusions.
Like any religion, Western Science creates power through lies, secrecy, intimidation, and unintelligible language of numbers and symbols. Western Science is empowered by force of arms, and immense financial wealth granted by tyrants, without which it could not exist.
“…do not look to scientists to save Earth or the future of humanity. Any so-called “science” that is solely based on the paradigm that existence is composed only of energy and objects moving through space is not a science. Such beings utterly ignore the creative spark originated by an individual IS-BE and collective work of the IS-BEs who continually create the physical universe and all universes. Every science will remain relatively ineffective or destructive to the degree that it omits or devaluates the relative importance of the spiritual spark that ignites all of creation and life.” — excerpt from ALIEN INTERVIEW, edited by Lawrence R. Spencer
THE AGE OF REASON
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“I read the most excellent treatise and critique of that superstitious body of mythology written by the American revolutionary, Thomas Paine. Although Mr. Paine is not a popular fellow in Britain, having fathered the uprising against King George which resulted in the loss of the greatest possession ever claimed by the throne of England, he is nonetheless a man of preeminent intellect and prodigious reasoning ability.
His book, The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and *Fabulous Theology, to my own system of logical assessment and evaluation represents the most thorough, factual and incontrovertible dissection of the Bible, which unfortunately serves our civilization as a guideline for survival. After having read his preeminent work of logical vivisection upon the content of the Bible, and by abstraction, a commentary upon the paradigm of Western Civilization, it is no longer a mystery to me that humanity has endured so great an extent of war, misery, chaos, greed, destruction and mayhem inflicted by Western imperialism upon the Earth at the behest of, and with regal and religious blessings.
As for my personal observation and conviction concerning the matter of religion, I concur with the statement most ably stated by Thomas Paine himself:
“I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavouring to make our fellow-creatures happy. I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. I do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who believe otherwise; they have the same right to their belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.”
(Definition of the word “fabulous” — adjective: based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity)
— An excerpt from SHERLOCK HOLMES: MY LIFE, by Lawrence R. Spencer
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