jumpy64 wrote:You're right about the Golden Rule, in all its variations, being the common denominator amongst practically all organized religions. But are you sure it applies also to Judaism? To the Torah, maybe, but certainly not to the Talmud.
It applies to the Torah exoterically only! It most certainly doesn't apply to any excerpts of the Talmud that I've read.
jumpy64 wrote:In fact, it seems to me that, referring to the phrase I find questionable in your post, what the Talmud says could be summarized as "Whatever thou hatest thyself, that do not to another... of your own race (or cultural/religious group). But yes, by all means, do it to all others, i.e. the Goyim or Gentiles".
Let me put it this way jumpy, I'm all for cultural, religious and national identity/kinship and whatnot but I revile supremacism/Darwinism of any sort. It's a direct violation of thr Golden Rule.
Supremacism is the worldview that a particular age, race, species, ethnic group, religion, gender, social class, belief system, or culture is superior to other variations of that trait, and entitles those who identify with it to dominate, control, or exploit those who do not.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacism
Here's a wiki link addressing Jewish supremacism:
Some academics and writers allege Jewish supremacism, often in relation to Israel and Zionism. Author Minna Rozen writes that 17th century Jews who lived in Jerusalem were supremacist in their views that they were superior over other Jews. Ilan Pappé, an Israeli historian, writes that the First Aliyah to Israel "established a society based on Jewish supremacy." Joseph Massad, a Professor of Arab Studies, holds that "Jewish supremacism" always has been a "dominating principle" in religious and secular Zionism. Kevin B. MacDonald, known for his theory of Judaism as a "group evolutionary strategy", has been accused by the ADL and his own university psychology department of being "antisemitic" and white supremacist in his writings on the subject. However, prominent rabbis have, in fact, explicitly made claims regarding purported Jewish superiority.
Zoroastrianism, an early monotheistic faith that influenced Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, originated among a people who called themselves Aryans, including the Persians. Friedrich Nietzsche's writings, such as Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Zarathustra being another name for Zoroaster), were interpreted by Nazis as a foundation for their ideas of the Aryan Übermensch and white supremacism. The Nazis also appropriated the Zoroastrian symbol of the faravahar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supremacism#Religious
I think the Abrahamic religions, in addition to most organized religions, are controlled/manipulated by Judaism which in turn is controlled/manipulated by the 'learned' elders of Zion.
jumpy64 wrote:I'm not sure about the Islamic religion, which is also influenced by a certain "ingroup Vs. outgroup" mentality, although probably a milder one. I haven't studied it, though, because I'm not a scholar of comparative religion. I was born into Christianity (catholicism, to be exact), and over the years I've been attracted, for spiritual reasons, by other religions you mention, like Buddhism and Taoism.
Every group, by definition, is influenced by a certain "ingroup Vs. outgroup" mentality which can be radicalized periodically. At the exoteric level all religions are appealing. Think of it this way, In order to get a rat to eat poison you must dilute it in something appealing (seemingly good). The poison is the esoteric agenda of the apex of the group.
jumpy64 wrote:The reason why I've started studying Judaism, a religion I've never had any spiritual interest for, is just because I discovered the disproportionate power of JPMs in our society and I wanted to understand their mindset.
I don't think the JPM's have any spiritual interest in Judaism either. The only god they trust in is the green one they create out of thin air. Sociopaths! As for the Jewish people I've personally interacted with, they've run the gamut from very nice to complete assholes.
jumpy64 wrote:That's exactly why I started "a topic about a conspiracy dominated by Jews".
So thank you for giving me the opportunity to spell it out.
The Torah is a collection/consolidation of multiple belief systems and sacred texts. It's a perpetual myth making machine.
The commonality of religious teachings derives from many sources.
One is the common experiences and (literally) world shaking events which have molded our consciousnesses. Whether it is the creation of the world itself, a Great Flood/Deluge, or an event which allows a massive exodus of a subjugated people from a powerful overlord,
these are the paradigm shaking moments which must be accounted for in any religion.
A second reason for the commonality of religions is that the ancients did a lot of copying of others works. Bernstein [3], for example has written: “When Moses led the Israelites out of the land of bondage, he carried with him the mysteries of Egyptian knowledge acquired by Moses himself at the court of the Pharaoh.” The Hebrews also took much of the knowledge of creation from the Babylonians, who had in turn learned their lessons from the Sumerians. The
Jewish Kaballah (aka Ha Qabala) is replicated in large part by the
Christian Caballah, and the
ecumenical Qaballah, and all may very well have originated from the
Sumerians’ “Table of Destiny”.
As Mark Twain has observed: “The ancients have stolen all our really good, new ideas.”
Differences in Religion are purely in the details and the facades we place around our core beliefs in order to appear unique. On the one hand, religion’s
exoteric doctrines (“for the many”) designed for the common man contains all manner of interesting and original notions of what’s important (i.e. “full of sound and fury and signifying nothing”). On the other hand, the
esoteric doctrines (“for the few”) are where the real meat is, and is limited to those willing to make the effort to pursue the higher truths of life. And the
esoteric portions are also the connecting links of commonality of all viable religions.
At the most fundamental level, all religions are pretty much the same. They are, after all, talking about the same Universal Creator, the same history of Earth (however much we argue about the sequence and dating of events), and the same humanoids, extraterrestrials, and interdimensional beings running amuck on the planet’s surface and surrounding space.
Everything is connected, everything is one. But everything is also disguised in order to make it interesting in finding out how everything is one and connected.
http://www.halexandria.org/dward181.htm
Dan Sewell Ward seems to be an intelligent and open-minded person. He’s also a physicist who happens to believe that ancient aliens created us in their own image (crossing their DNA with primates) which explains the ‘missing link’ in the evolution of
Homo sp. ( à la Zecharia Sitchin et al.
). With regards to mainstream science he's either 'in on it' or has 'bought into it' or a combination of both.
The power of fakery (journalistic/academic) is highly underestimated. Belief in the big bang, evolution, heliocentricity (which are continually reinforced) fundamentally limits and skews our depth/breadth of thought. Scientism, in essence, is a deliberate dumbing down and consolidation of multiple belief systems – a continuation of Sumerian swindle. The ‘full spectrum dominance’ (anti-Scientism <- -> anti-Semitism) of the Torah’s esoteric doctrines, IMO, fundamentally distinguishes it from other ‘sacred texts.’
Torah – Age of Taurus (Bull)
New Testament – Age of Pisces (Fish)
Scientism – Age of Aquarius (Water)*
*It’s important to note that during the European so called ‘Dark Ages’ the Islamic world was reaching the heights of its own ‘Scientific Enlightenment.’ For every European science god/polymath there’s a corollary Persian/Arab/Muslim science god as if to lend legitimacy (similar to Greek psi-gods).