Episode 3: Exploring the Depths of Time

Welcome fellow humans born onto the nursery planet Earth. I am TA, your host on the why Are you here on Earth podcast, and this is episode three. Today we're going to talk about time and timing. There's two ways to measure time that we have defined, and that is kairos and kronos. Kairos is the qualitative method, in other words, when things happen, then that is an accomplishment. That is the way god sees things. He sees things as in the fullness of time. Um, if you've ever heard that song by Pete Seeger about turn, turn, turn, it's from Ecclesiastes 3. And it says, basically, everything has a season and will come into season and fullness of time and will be accomplished. Okay, that is kairos, which is a Greek term. Kronos, on the other hand, is the way humans measure time. Every second is like every other the number of seconds in a minute, the minutes in an hour, the hours in a day, the days in a week, the week in a month and then in a year. The number that we attest to something, we identify. That number and that time period is all within the circumlocution of the Earth around its primary star, and that takes for us a year. Well, this is fine for us, who are tied to this planet by the bodies that we live in, but God is not tied to this planet. He does not have a body to live in. But God is not tied to this planet. He does not have a body to live in. He is without need for a body to tie him into this sphere of reality. We, on the other hand, are. So that's the way we measure time versus the way God measures time. So that's the basics on timing. On time, rather, now we get to timing.

In the Bible, the Jews, who are our historians, wrote back when they were the Israelites, that they expected that there would be six, what they call God years. To them, a God year is 1,000 of our years. Now we understand, or we should understand, that God does not measure time this way. So this is a creation of theirs and we don't really know what's behind it other than their expectations. If you remember, from a previous podcast I mentioned that expectations are the detritus, if you will, of making decisions based on belief rather than reality. Now, if the only form of reality you know, other than the planet you live on, are the people that surround you, then I could see, maybe, where you would shift to the people, perception being a form of reality for you. But it is not reality. It is perception and because of it you can be led down the wrong path, which is why we're here. We have been led down the wrong path throughout our entire history.

Now, according to the Jewish folks who use the Masoretic text, it's been 5,784 years since man's induction onto the earth. Induction onto the earth. They don't start the earth's existence from Genesis 1, when everything was created, but only the portion where man was put, placed on earth. Okay, fine, but this is another form of unreality and this has informed their expectations which, if you remember, expectations are a result of making decisions based on belief rather than reality. All right, so they tell one another that there are six God years for man to basically mature. They don't use that. They say to exist, for going in and coming out, for doing all the human things, and that's okay, but it doesn't put it based on reality. It is still based on their perceptions. So, within the 6,000 years within, not at the end of they were they asked God to send them a leader, a Messiah. Now, in their minds because they equate this with the six days of the week, the seventh being Shabbat that it would come at the end of 6,000 years, but that's not what was agreed to by God. He said that he would send them prophets and, finally, a deliverer born into the Jewish faith, and he did. But there have been no prophets sent to the Jews since Jesus, whom they rejected. They weren't really friendly with the other prophets before that, but at least they recognized them as prophets. So this is a huge check on their perceptions, their perceptions gaining any kind of congruence with reality, but it appears that it is not something that they have decided to measure.

All right, what do we think? How do we think it, why do we think it and how close to reality is that? It's apparently not a subject that has ever come up that they have put into literature that non-Jewish people can read. So one of the things that they are looking forward to in the next 200 plus years is the year 6000. They have an awful lot of expectations from this. It's in a lot of their literary works the Talmud, the Midrash and the Kohar and you can get this information. If you want to check this out, I would suggest go to a Wikipedia just to get an idea of everything that's being discussed. Just look up year 6,000, and it should tell you, or at least be an entryway to what they expect.

But from all that I read, not just in this one article, but everywhere, just in this one article, but everywhere their expectations have never been checked with reality. They've never said all right, how do we measure up in our beliefs and our knowledge? How close are we to understanding? The only way you can find out how close you are to understanding is to check it with reality. If you recall from the first episode, the method that God wanted us to use, instead of the one we use, is to use logic to determine what we should do, reason to manipulate that logic so that we come up with solutions, and then wisdom to check which of these solutions are real and beneficial to us, so that three-step process logic, reason, wisdom is something, the check that God recommended to us and apparently we have ignored it to us and apparently we have ignored.

But it is one of the aspects that Catholic monks in the 11th and 12th century, studying the Bible for physical what do they call it physical theocracy, came to the conclusion that reality is something that God wanted us to address and that we were not fully addressing, which is why they developed this physical. I know it's not quite theocracy, but theology, physical theology, I think it's called. So that is where the Western civilization developed science from the Bible, from these monks who were the only learned people. Bible, from these monks who were the only learned people. The whole idea of learning and trying to understand what was said, and everything is centered around the Bible. We owe religion a huge debt of gratitude. Yes, they were messy and yes, they didn't do a great job, but they kept the Bible alive. Their translations are something we will have to go over, because they translated for religious purposes, their own purposes, which is fine.

Knowing that, going in, we can retranslate based on possibility and probability, and what I mean to indicate by that is all right. How probable is this? Is this, given this context, these people talking about it and the actions that showed up after they talked about it? Actions speak louder than words, so observed behavior helps us determine where belief intersected reality, and we need all that information. There are things in the Bible that will shock you and you have been set up by your current method for decision making, which is based on belief.

Every human ever known has done that, including Jesus known has done that, including jesus. Jesus, however, switched and we attribute that religious people attributed to him always being part of god. The rest of us attributed to that three-year session that he spent in the desert, perhaps, perhaps talking to God, but that he was human before and he was human throughout and also an obedient child of God. So, with him being our exception to the rule, who also followed the rule and acclaimed as the Messiah by Christians, not by Jews, we say, all right, if he was to show us the way, what way did he show us? And that is where the New Testament comes in, including people like Paul commenting on what they had learned. It's apparent Paul didn't get the entire message, but it's also apparent that he tried very assiduously. But the part about not being able to serve two masters that Jesus spoke about. Paul also mentioned. The part about being bought with a price Paul also mentions, but he does not tell you whom you were bought from. He expects you to know that and those of us, 2,000 years in the future, are not aware of that.

So, going back into the Bible, hammer and tongs context, reading for content rather than for religious iconography is what we need to do. We need to retranslate the Bible towards possibility and probability, because there's a significant portion of humanity that feels that the timing is coming up when we should be made aware. Now, if you read that article in Wikipedia, you'll get to different teachers letting you know their beliefs on what's happening, and one of them that's important to pay attention to is apparently this was a broadcast in Israel a broadcast in Israel and it was done by Esther Jungreis and it was on Israel National Radio. No-transcript. How was it? There was a low knowledge and a high knowledge, and that may have been Rabbi Kaplan.

But you'll look up the article and find out in the evening before the 6,000 year, the end of the 6,000 year and the beginning of God's Shabbat, and you'll see that there are various predictions that the earth will be laid waste or that it will just come to a complete rest and the messianic age will be here, which actually qualifies for the stuff that we're going through now. But the important part is that, according to them, this predicted and again this is reading after the fact that there would be a huge expansion of low knowledge, that humanity would expand rapidly their knowledge of the physical universe and their place in it from about 1860 on, which basically identifies with our industrial revolution. Now, this, to me, is fitting the facts, after finding it out, into your perception, your vision of the world, and this is not something that I am really fond of, because this is one of the forms of confirmation bias, because you expect something and it happens. It must be because A you expected it and B the reasons that you expected it are true. This is not always the case, and that's why you have to look at things from a scientific point of view, a reality-based point of view, the way God asked us to do. First, we have to be sent a Messiah to show us, ignoring the fact that 2,000 years ago, one was sent, as agreed to by God, into their midst.

Well, I think that my time for this particular episode is coming to an end, and this is not the last. We will talk about time or timing, because it's important. It's an important thing for us to understand and try and work to get better at and to use, as part of the, a pry bar, if you will, to get the information out of what's in the bible. The Bible has stuff that we have not discussed, that will shock you and that is part of what will be coming up in future discussions, but realize that you were set up with this decision-making process you have, which is to base things on perception and belief rather than reality, so that you would be shocked and you would be sundered and that, basically, you would give up on the opportunity for humans to grow and achieve. So with that I'm going to end this episode, episode three, and I'll talk to you again next week, episode four. Thank you. ©