Episode 16: Rethinking Belief and Reality with TA

Welcome fellow humans born onto the nursery planet Earth. This is the "Why Are We Here On Earth" podcast and I am your host TA. I usually start off by reading off two different things. I don't want you to believe what I tell you. And the second one switches up, but basically we need a scientific translation of the Bible from the original texts. The second one I came to Because I told someone to look up Elohim in their Bible and they couldn't find it. And I went to the King James, which was my first version of the Bible that I got. It is no longer in the King James. And I'm not talking about the new King James. I'm talking about the regular King James. The translations have gone away from the original. All the translations are done by religionists and they think that they're helping you. They don't realize that they don't know what they're doing and that they're actually hiding the Word of God, which they would say, "Oh, no, not me," but they are. They just don't realize it because they are manufacturing things to their specifications rather than God's. And that's the main issue. I think I've been going about this the wrong way. I've been telling you, just like I did now, about the things that upset me and that I've discovered are baloney and lead us down the wrong path by people who say nice things and are well intentioned but don't know what they're doing and they don't realize that they don't know what they're doing because all the other humans around them oh tell them oh yeah oh yeah go you go you're doing a great thing and they're not they are just repeating the same baloney that they've been sold and trying to call it "stake" and it's not. So that's why the first one we need to go back to the original declaration of the Bible and the second we need to have a modern translation. Now You don't know me, so I'll give you a bit of my background. In the middle of the 20th century, I tried my darndest to prove that religious people just wanted to control everyone else and they had a made -up compendium of stories that they call the Bible, and this is what they intend to use to control people, because people had a respect for the Bible. Well, two out of three ain't bad. I prove that the religious don't know what they're talking about. I prove that they did use the Bible to control or to attempt to control people, but they're using their version of what the Bible says, which is totally off base. The third part, however, that the Bible is just a book of made -up stories that has no internal structure that is not real and not from God. I proved the exact opposite of that. I was not looking for it. I thought I knew what I was talking about, even though I was young. And I was right on two -thirds of it, but the Bible truly is the Word of God for man through the eyes and mouths and ears of other men who were alive on the earth at the time. So you have to take into account their lack of sophistication and knowledge on many subjects and realize that they didn't necessarily understand what they were saying, but they felt compelled to say it. And they did so For the most part, without any kind of artifice, they were not trying to jimmy things around to their benefit. They did not have a benefit. They were just reporting what they thought was true about their interactions with God and mankind here on earth. The Bible is our remedial workbook, and it starts with Genesis 3, at least the part that we deal with, and that is that we have always made decisions that keep us in the dark, from Eve all the way up to today, which is almost 6 ,000 years later. We still make decisions based, as she did, on what looks good, what sounds good, and what we believe to be true. Rather than what is good, what proves out to be worthwhile, and then make decisions based on reality rather than what we want or think or feel or someone that respects tells us we should do. This is the major sticking point and I came to this realization after hearing some individuals with an agenda following the basically massacre at Sandy Hook. And the media was all over it with guns. We need to get rid of guns. It's the guns that did it. When instead, it was a crazy person who did it and who was allowed access, not only to the guns, but to everybody else in his neighborhood without being restricted. He had no restrictions. The restrictions he put in place would only be listened to by people who were not crazy, who actually wanted to be part of the solution. He did not, ever. And that's why they called him crazy, because he was. He was not socialized. He was not a part of our civilization, even though his parents were, and the people that they took him to see say that they are, but they let him go. And because of that, he killed a lot of children. Well, that very same day, half the world way in China, another crazy person took a knife to the same number, or pretty close to it, of children of the same age group and killed several, disfigured many, and horrified everyone. But it was in a different country, so we never heard of it. It happened the very same day. Now I don't know what their media made of it in China about And a crazy person should have been restricted, you can't tell them they can't have access to a knife because, you know, that's how you're going to cut your food without it, but still. Nobody was paying attention to them, and he was let loose into the civilized environment, and they have a very different way of administering their form of justice over there than we have here. And yet it was unprepared the same as ours was for someone who consciously acted not in their best interest or in the best interest of anyone else in the civilization. Now that continues today. We have lots of people like that. Unfortunately, we have people who come in from other aspects of their civilization and feel that they should harm ours because they don't like us or they don't like the way we do things. But all of these are possible only because we make decisions still based on belief. In other words, we or another human had to see the problem in advance and arrange to have it restricted so that it couldn't be a wider problem. And that hasn't happened. We are what? What? Innocent? Ready for the chopping block? We are ignorant to reality. We don't look for reality. We look to each other and that's part of the problem about growing up on a nursery planet where you are not attacked by anything or anybody that is not human, or that has not interacted with humans. Science fiction is an avenue where we get to deal with other thoughts of reality. Now, where did science fiction come from? The latter half of the 19th century is when it started showing up. That's also when the individuals who would change the 20th century, Einstein and other mathematicians, that's when they were being born. So science began, at least in Western civilization, with the monks describing what was in the Bible, what it said. People followed up on that and discovered, "Hmm, if we observe reality, even if it's something that we don't have anything to do with, then Perhaps we can figure out what's going on. Galileo did some of that. There were several others who did some of that, and I mentioned it, I think, in last week's podcast. The fact of the matter is that looking outside the Earth system is the first opportunity that we have to deal with reality that is not human inflected. There are no human issues outside of our particular solar system because there are no humans. This past week I saw a gentleman Neil deGrasse Tyson talking with someone and I think it was an older recording about time being and the speed of light being something that was not changeable. It was always the same. Now this was an older I believe by who he was talking to. This was an older recording that is put onto YouTube. And he may still feel that way. I don't know. But the thing that was missing from this particular short was that that is true within space -time bubble, which we call a continuum, the one we live in. All that is true. But, and here's the but, everything that exists does not exist within our space -time bubble. We know that there are things outside our space -time bubble. We just can't measure anything out there yet. So because this was an older version, he may have come to realize that to make a bold statement like that without qualifying it by saying, of course that's in our space time area. Outside, we have no knowledge yet, and that's the issue. When we look outside and are able to determine things that come inside, like light, radio, waves, muons, all the different things that we have been able to detect and have taught ourselves to detect, but they are things that come into our area so that we can measure them. We do not yet have the ability to go outside our area and measure things, and that's something that we're going to have to develop. But between now and then we have to realize that the decisions we make are so human -inflected that they are without doubt, not only compromised, they are inferior to reality. Now, if you want to say, "Well, you know, it's good enough for government work," Being in your area, okay, but you've got to qualify it. I don't want people to think that there is nothing else out there because we know that there is. Several times we've come up on our own inconsistencies and inadequacies when we measure things that happen outside our solar system. In an earlier episode, I mentioned the fact that we are being pulled farther and faster than we originally thought we were based on the Big Bang. The Big Bang started us going and we thought, well, it only happened that one time, so we must be moving at the same speed. People started observing and finding out different things. So when they found out the different things, they say, well, my calculations must be wrong? No, they looked to see what was happening and why they would be different. And they discovered that there is a supercluster that is on the other side of where we started, the Big Bang, and that is pulling us ever faster toward it. our speed is increasing. How did this thing get out in advance of us if it started at the same time we did with the Big Bang? This is something we need to figure out. Is it part of the Big Bang or is this something else that needs to be ascertained. So this is all well and good for people who call themselves scientists, and I think we all should, to some extent. And these are things that we need to be aware of and look into. But in the meantime, we need to understand that making decisions only based on belief, keeps you in what my buddy Gordon called the trick bag. That is, it's soft and warm and dark, and when you allow yourself to be put in there, you're never going to know anything about the outside world until reality pulls you out of the trick bag. The trick bag is what magicians Jews to put their tricks in and they go, "Aha! See? Well, we cannot afford for someone or something to pull us out of the trick bag and say, "Aha! See? We need to be aware of it in advance." So imagine my shock when I discovered that The Bible of all places this thing that's been around for hasn't been added to in 2 ,000 years been around for at least 1 ,500 to 4 ,500 years before that this book of People telling us things They told us things that we did not understand, but we put our own spin on it. And that's what religionists have done. If you look at it from the way the Bible represents, there is a level above. They put it above, and I agree, that's a good spot for it. and that is God's level. There is an area between God's level and the planet Earth. This is the ether, okay? We do not know what all inhabits this area. But then there's the planet Earth that humans live on. Now, the Bible tells it that this planet that we live on is owned and operated by someone they call the devil, the director of evil, and that evil is trying to destroy, get man to destroy his opportunity to ascend past them to God. Now this is what they believed. Okay? We need to study their beliefs and figure out why they believed it. Don't just ignore and say, "Well, I don't believe that." No one cares what you believe. What you believe is silly and small and childish. The same as what I believe is silly and small and childish. Reality will always trump belief. Period. Dead stop. I don't care how much you believe you can fly off a building. You jump off that building and very shortly afterwards gravity will introduce you to reality. We call it the ground. Now that's a simplistic one. Five, six hundred years ago, everyone believed all humans everywhere that even thought about it, believes that the world was flat. And if you went too close to the edge, you'd fall off. Oh, but don't worry, There are monsters there who will eat you before you fall off. That's silly. We know that now. But we had to figure out why people felt that way. And it was their fears. The reality of the situation is that we live on a planet. It's not quite round. It's more egg -shaped and that's because of the internal and external forces but it is a nursery planet because of all the things that allow us to live on it without any kind of major issues and then about 2 ,000 years ago Jesus said the time will come when there will be wars and rumors of wars there will be earthquakes there will be unease now was it just unease or disease or both but the fact is he told his followers you have to go through this There is no avoiding this. And on the other side of this will be an opportunity for all to contribute who wished to. And this is the thing that the early guys wanted to make Christians for. Paul and everybody wanted their followers to be prepared for this time thinking that it was coming within their lifetimes and they discovered of course that it was not. But it is still something that we should be prepared for in the way that one of the ways that we can be prepared for it rather than believing, because that is not a way, obviously. The way to be prepared for it is do what the Bible says, follow the instructions and directions, use the models and examples provided, and figure out what is going on and why it's going on, and what is your part to play in it. The only way you get to any of this is reality. By making decisions based on reality. Now this doesn't say you shouldn't have any beliefs. I do. I believe that my favorite team one day will win the Super Bowl. I just hope that I'm around to see it. There are lots of beliefs that you can have and that's all well and good. But I do I have not sold my house to buy those season tickets for now until I croak because I expect to be able to go to a Super Bowl. No. Making decisions based on belief is foolish. You should make decisions based on reality. The internet has famously told us that we make about 25 ,000 decisions a day. Not many are those that will or can change your life, but a few of them are for everyone. You just don't know which ones. That's the issue. The more decisions you make based on reality rather than belief, the more prepared you will be when reality strikes and you are not left crying in your beer if you have any. You go, "Okay, I almost saw that coming or I kind of saw it coming or I thought that that might happen." So you're not discombobulated. you are ready to react and respond to reality. Well, between now and that point, we need to get some more reality in our lives. And towards that end, we have to figure out how to manage our lives, how to administer the various entities that we've created to work on these things in a way that is productive and gets us structurally closer to reality for everyone within our civilization. I know that sounds like a lot but let me break it down. So just as the hierarchy is God above and man below. Man has created several things to deal with, to administer his take on reality. Religion was an early one. Unfortunately, they allowed people who were interested in this area to kind of take over for him and boss him around. So it's really not representative of the way things should be according to what God has said. God is not pro -religion. There are so many times in the Old Testament where he says that this is a foul stench. Religion is not a good thing for humans. He gave us the opportunity to screw it up on our own and we did. It was religion that killed his messenger, the one we acknowledge as his son, Jesus Christ. But when we do that, we kind of say, "Oh well that was him, not me." You are just as much his children as Jesus was. Jesus understood what was going on and Jesus was obedient, but Jesus was obedient because he understood what was going on. And that is the issue. You need to understand, not just know, understand what is going on and why it is going on. And that's addressing reality. That's everything I've been telling you. So if religion wasn't really a good tool that we developed, or if it was a tool that was one that we allowed to be turned against us by special interests within that arena, well, then we created another one-- civilizations. Now the civilizations actually started before the religion, but the religion took over and administered the civilizations. So we got rid of that and then did it again. We did the same thing. Western civilization, We allowed to be administered by a religion which has proved itself to have feet of clay, oh yeah, and that's being kind. So what else do we do? Well, we developed, within that civilization, we developed a way of administering our own civil affairs. And that's what we call them, civil affairs. And right now in the United States, we are living within a republic, which means that we elect representatives to go to a certain area and speak with one another and represent our interests. And we vote on these people every two, four or six years. And the same with judgeships. We vote on them too. And we some of us are more well assured than others that the votes are being tabulated properly, but the people that are chosen to be voted on are chosen by two individual groups who oppose one another, and those are pretty much the only two. Now who makes those choices? They make their choices based on who can get the most money. They don't have to come up with it on their own, but whoever can get the most money to advertise themselves and has the least downside so that they can become "electable," they go with that individual and they support them and they tell all the people that are used to voting from their side, "Hey, vote for this guy or girl." This is not a rational, reasonable, or wise way to pick people by how much money they can get up. So once this election is over and will be in a couple of weeks now. We need to start working on developing a method for finding and promoting people not based on how much money they can get to advertise themselves, but on how good a job they will do. They don't have to be the shiniest star or smile with teeth that sparkle. They just need to be capable of doing a good job and reflecting reality rather than telling people what they want to hear. So this is an aspect of dealing with our civilization that we need to rectify because I'm not sure there's enough time to build a third layer and that the reason I say that is be for two reasons one the Jews who were well they were the Israelites originally and they were created to be the historians to carry the message from God to man. They didn't make all of it public, and we know that. And they admit that, but they don't tell us what they didn't tell us. They're still keeping that in reserve. And they say, "Well, we didn't tell our people either. This is what we keep for ourselves so that we have something to bargain with. Okay? So that was the original foundational aspect of religion that is not in mankind's best interests, holding back on us. But we have ways we can discover what it is, but rather than focus on the facts that they held it back or it's shocking or whatever, we need to figure out what was said, why it was said, and what that means for our future. Now, the historians tell us that they feel using their method for calendar counting that we have 215 years left before whatever God set up for us is coming to an end. I don't know that I would depend on that, but that's what they're saying. That we were, God agreed with us to 6 ,000 years. Now we don't know why that agreement was set for 6 ,000 years from Eden. Could it be that there's gonna be enough people on Earth that that would be a problem or that the problems would get so severe that we'd have to do something about it? Is there something within the Earth's crust or out in the cosmos that is going to be an issue in 215 years. We don't know. We don't know if it's 185 years. We don't know. And as long as we only make decisions based on belief and we don't even look at anything that another human has not already considered, we are keeping ourselves in the dark. Ignorance is the one thing that absolutely kills, and I am concerned that we are going to work through all the time that we've been given, all the, for our opportunity to grow up and become something worthwhile Without having accomplished it because too many of us are only making decisions based on belief and that belief is what other humans tell us we should believe in So if another human doesn't think of it, you won't think of it. Well I'm human and I've thought of quite a bit and I'm trying to get that across to you and that is why this podcast exists. So it looks as though my time for the day has come to an end. I just want to leave you with that and that is that one and two, that the Bible definitely needs to be retranslated by scientists from the beginning for possibility and probability, not what does a shepherd 2 ,000 years ago think, or what is a religious person who is a wash and fervor feel that this really means instead of what it says. No, those can be put aside. People who like that kind of thing can enjoy it and play with it. But as far as reality concerns, we need to discover what is really being told to us and why. And then the first thing, make decisions based on reality, not on belief. Just because it looks good and sounds good does not mean that you should believe in it. And even if you do believe in it, it does not make decisions based on belief any better. Decisions based on belief are inherently fallible, period, because it's not taking into account the rest of reality. So with that, I'll leave you and look forward to talking to you next week. 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