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Built partly from questions people sent in, this session opens with a History Channel clip about the devil, which Ammon Hillman takes apart piece by piece. The television claims people in the Bible took their firstborn and passed them through fire for Moloch in a valley of torment. The response is blunt: according to the Greek, passing through the fire does not mean throwing a child into a pit. It is the old Hellenistic rite called burning off mortality, and it always appears beside pharmakeia (φαρμακεία) and mageia (μαγεία), the work of drugs and magic. A spooky Hebrew meaning, the argument runs, hides what the text is actually describing.
The questions then move to the people around Paul. In the Acts of Paul and Thecla, the apostle is followed by children and women, and a young woman named Thecla hangs on his words so completely that the text says she is struck out of herself. The name Christianos (Χριστιανός) is pointed out as an early use: not a church label, but the name for the people taking part in the Christing, a death-and-resurrection affair. The main exhibit is Matthew 17, the temple tax of two drachmai (δραχμαί). Because students under twenty did not pay, the collector asks only whether the teacher will pay, and the show reads that as proof the apostles were neaniskos (νεανίσκος), youthful followers, with Peter the oldest and barely at the edge.
The last page is a Latin one. Dracontius calls Medea a virago, the old word for a vigorous, heroic warrior woman, the same title the tradition gives to Minerva, Diana, and, in the story behind it all, to Eve (Eua, Εὔα). The claim it carries is that such a female warrior has no home in ancient Hebrew, because that language holds no female warriors, so Eve cannot live there; her cry belongs to the Bacchic shout instead. The closing note is quieter: in Genesis the devil is the one who lets Eve have the truth while the god tells the first lie, and the restored question left hanging is whether she ever left at all.
Full Video Transcript
You may feel a slight sting.
The lake of fire is clear, sing the muse
Ain’t no magic, death or noose
A true kiss is for you
Goat head suit, magic
Have a tight dress, whiplash
Droids dream of electric sheep
Mr. Sandman with the hot purple anointing cream
It knocks them out, the drugs weigh a ton
Snow blind, do your makeup
Be my private dancer, I could taste it, I’m her main squeeze, Lucifer the light bearer
Little bit of controversy. I’m gonna throw in nice little viddy here what we’re gonna try to do this
beginning of today’s bit
Video and I want to comment on this video now Chewie. This video is from oh the History Channel
Isn’t it History Channel good History Channel and it’s the history of the devil
Gorgeous court just absolutely love it
So we’re going to look at that, and then we’re going to look at a couple of passages, some that you have written in to me.
And you’ve said, hey, what about this, and how do I explain this?
What about that?
And you have all sorts of good questions.
So I took a few of your questions today, and I’m going to address them directly.
And hopefully, thank you very much.
Sounds good.
And hopefully we’ll be able to get in there and to get you maybe one of the questions that you’ve been meaning to ask to, you know, to throw out there for the roundtable.
I appreciate your company.
I appreciate everybody who’s here.
Right.
I thank you for coming.
And let’s get started, shall we?
I’m going to shoot now.
I’m new at this people, this whole video sharing business.
So I’m going to try this and see what happens.
just everybody give me a do you have the video up there fantastic let’s make it big and go like this
imagination or is he i did lurking ready to tempt us and possess our soul that’s what we’ll try and
find out okay so a little bit of a little bit of a extra make me small please a little bit of an
extra drama there at the beginning this bill shatner trying to figure out if the devil is
watching him right isn’t that great okay now drama aside let’s go to the two minute mark and i just
want to put a clip of this in here and discuss this with you boom here we go get rid of that
god get rid of that here people i’m gonna can you believe this i’m going to drive out these
appetizers take your insurance and get out of here people oh my god there’s more i’m look at
this people they meant they tried to infiltrate tried to infiltrate the channel which are oh
these money makers people are you have you been raised by money makers do you have a money making
philosophy of life we beat him chewie now let’s do it right boom and there’s going to be a terrible
punishment for this historically speaking in the days of the bible not everybody was faithful to
the lord satanism influenced the israelite community and what they would do literally
was they create a big pit of fire and they actually would sacrifice their first born
mail through the fire this was performed in the valley of hinom which is actually the hebrew word
today for hell i can’t all right did you hear that garbage none of that is real none of that people
is real did you hear what they’re what they said right now this is what remember these are priests
and preachers and rabbis these theologians we gotta be on we gotta be on the watch for these
people man these people are these people are will give you a lie to your face and you sit there
and your little reasoning brain says ah is this what this person’s saying is this factual yeah
are you ready what does he say we’re gonna do i want to hear it one more time people but i want
you to think what is he talking about what is he talking about we’re gonna put somebody through the
fire and wait a minute wait a minute people in the discussion people what do you think it means
he’s talking about taking your child and putting them through the fire and he gives you cart you
know the makers give you cartoons oh people oh jumping into the fire and you people have had
enough of me to know what is going on. You can hear it. Can you hear it? Say it to me.
Say it to me. What are they doing? What is the… Look, Moloch and drugs. Moloch and drugs. Oh,
right. He must be demon possessed. Remember the guy that said I was demon possessed officially
after the Catholics did? You remember the guy who said that? He also, all he could bring up
was the sacrifice of children to Moloch.
It is a Disneyland, people.
It never existed.
They are talking about the Hellenistic burning off of mortality.
That is what is in the text,
and that is why it is always accompanying Pharmakeia and Mageia.
But see, these people don’t understand that
because they don’t read the original.
What did he just tell you?
here’s the hebrew if the hebrew is not the original no wonder they’re so confused about
what was going on people stop for a minute just stop stop think about it what they’re trying to
ask you to believe from the pulpit from your church and from your synagogue and from your
mosque what are they trying what are the monists trying to get you to think that the the monist
reforms are important this is what they want you to think the monist reforms are important it’s
it’s hot people i’m sorry i gotta cool off my camera the monists want you to thank that people
got together did you see that picture and they just walked up just take timmy take timmy walk
him up and throw him the fucking pit oh i’m sorry throw him into that pit and let him past eight
minutes and let him burn baby seriously you’re gonna believe this fake world there are thousands
of people who watch YouTube and believe this fake garbage. Those of you who’ve been working
with the texts here, right, who’ve been watching me, you’ve seen these texts over and over. You
know what they’re talking about. They’re talking about burning off your mortality, not causing the
child to be passed through the fire. That’s what it says in the Greek. Oh, and this in Hebrew says,
in on the valley of hell oh and it sounds so impressive and you don’t know it but you are
being jacked you’re being historically mentally carjacked yeah and you got somebody around driving
and the stuff they’re telling you is bs let’s see it one more time should we we smell the drugs and
see the lies damn straight damn straight right you know i wouldn’t let you people go wrong what
right why is that because i feel i have a debt i feel i owe you from the email i get from from
everybody i feel like i i owe you to do what is right okay i’m going to do this again ready let’s
see and expresses that he is angry that there’s going to be a terrible punishment for this
historically speaking in the days of the bible not everybody was okay hang on a sec can they
hear me too people just think about it put me on the side here yeah people just think about this
for a minute in the days of the bible do you realize how that doesn’t float in any sort of
history or anthropology classics there’s no way in the days of the bible do you understand how
warped this person’s understanding of history has to be in order to just say in the days
of the bible excuse me fairy tale okay fairy tale right off the bat you’re looking at a theologian
who’s going to tell you a fairy tale that is meant to cause you to come to action through whatever
setup in your brain is being constructed right it’s getting you to act a certain way whether
it’s to eat some kind of vegetable not to eat some kind of vegetable right whether you can smoke this
or drink that or look at your wife at different times of the day regardless of her state of
cleanliness do you understand okay fantastic let’s keep going it’s faithful to the lord satanism
influenced the israelite community and what they would do literally was they create a big pit of
fire and they actually would sacrifice their first born male through the fire notice the emotional
appeal people right look at it look at it’s a wonderful if you set up something scary you can
get anybody to follow you you know what i mean all i’m gonna do is scare you into following me
no problem and if i tell you what hell is like oh my god this was performed in the valley of hinom
which is actually the hebrew word today for hell i can’t imagine what would cause someone to want
to sacrifice their own child there we go people did you see that here comes a guy on and he’s got
a title there right and it’s a religious studies guy so here’s religious studies guide number two
theologian number two and the first miraculously brilliant thing out of this goomba’s mouth
is that he what does he do i can’t imagine why somebody would say no we can’t imagine why
somebody would sacrifice one of their children either either especially when the overwhelming
majority of sacrifices are herbs being burnt in order to facilitate the prayer did you know that
mary herself the mother of god insisted on burning incense before she prayed did you notice that
No, you didn’t notice that it’s all over the Apocrypha though. And why are people like that should done that?
Why are people like that because they don’t realize what happened in biblical days. Oh my god
It’s awful. It’s absolutely awful. Okay. Does somebody want to comment chewy throw up?
Somebody’s comments about this video people. What are your impressions? Does this guy here’s my question
Does this guy look trustworthy? Does this guy look trustworthy?
let’s listen to him for another minute to anything for for any reason but this demonstrates how in
antiquity people believed that their crops wouldn’t grow that the rains wouldn’t come
if they didn’t offer sacrifices up to some satanic demons spirits whatever oh god do you know
what is disgusting having read so many manuals of farming just take oh god just take virgil
take somebody really like everybody’s gonna know all right look at what they say in antiquity and
compare it to what this idiot this moron is saying this man is a moron people in antiquity
really do you know that agriculture is a science by the time your biblical texts are out yes
trustworthy as a fart thank you pan is that pan thank you pan yeah fine right you might as well
just put farts out of that guy’s mouth right what are you saying fart fart fart fart fart people
so many advancements by these people do you know where your science of agriculture comes from it’s
from these people. You know where all your agricultural terms come from? It’s from these
people. You don’t think that in the 2,000 years between the Bronze Age and the time when Julius
Caesar is walking around, you don’t think that they had mastered everything there is to master
about agriculture. Do you know how many diseases I’ve read about in plants? Let me just give you
one, Rubigo, the god of the wheat rust, right? The wheat, when it goes bad and gets growths on it,
right? Fungal growths on it. They call that rust, wheat rust. And they have a festival every year,
every year, celebrating the advancement that they’ve made to avert the wheat rust.
Do you know why the Romans drain swamps? Because they know. Malaria from the Greeks. Bad air. Mal-aria. Bad air. These are not idiots you’re dealing with. Do you really think they dumped children into some big metal container burning them up?
Yay, bring your children for the crops. Do you know what they would have said in antiquity?
Are you stupid? If somebody from antiquity could have heard this moron from religious studies
say something so stupid, so stupid. Oh my God. Everything that they tell us is bad, right?
For us, you know, vice, it’s all vice versa, right? They want us to fear. That’s true. That’s
very true that’s very true let’s get one more clip one more clip of this people now i just want you
to see it’s all clearly bullshit and if they’re going to tell you about satan well surely they
surely you know they’re going to give some give us somebody who knows what the hell they’re talking
about ready watch another 30 seconds people and now you have introduced this new being that’s
responsible for the bad things and his name comes to be satan can explain the shocking events that
took place in the wait a minute his name comes to be satan so what was the other older versions
of satan and who did that do you see what i mean fairy tale people it’s all for okay bill tell me
something dramatic valley of enom thousands of years ago was it simply the result of human
wickedness or is it possible that as the biblical accounts suggest satan and his demons were and
still are real entities that have the power to influence people some people think of satan as
beelzebub or lucifer or the prince of darkness or the evil one or old nick and some of these
names come from scripture a lot of them come from okay wait a minute what did you just say
a lot of these names come from scripture scripture means something that’s written
lady okay well if you’re going to quote a source um you’re going to have to quote it accurately
i’m look you got a big office and everything lots of books i’m sure i’m sure you have students in
there look right find some find some time put up your winner find some time people find some time
to buy some books that are primary sources lady and put them stack them back here with all the
crapulence right that doesn’t mean what you think it means it means drunkenness right this is pure
drunkenness this this bookshelf back here right what has she gotten there some kind of bullshit
it didn’t tell her enough right okay keep listening folklore and if you think of satan
as this ubiquitous figure who’s constantly tormenting and tempting people then it makes
sense that the devil can be known by all of these different nicknames smooth okay let’s get out of
there what do i want you to notice i want you to be slowly gaining the ability to read through
the bullshit. When somebody comes to you on YouTube or elsewhere, and they’re saying
generalities like this, you’ve got to understand they are as far from the primary sources as they
can possibly be. As soon as somebody says scripture, written in scripture, you know where
they’re coming from. We’re no longer in science. We’re no longer in language. We’re no longer in
anthropology or archaeology or history we are now squarely in theology and the fact that the
history channel is interviewing theologians says a lot and hey people history channel interviewed me
right the chemical musings inspired a documentary called the stoned ages right and uh it was central
I went and worked with the producers, and they had great interviews, fantastic, did a nice three-hour show, okay?
So I know how the process works.
When you are interviewing and placing your life in the hands of the theologians, you are doomed.
You are doomed, absolutely doomed.
After six months of Lady Babylon, it’s obvious when somebody is full of it, isn’t it?
isn’t it so you can understand why when i turn on youtube and people say oh will you do this
will you do this will you go to this interview with this person no i won’t because i know just
from listening to that person people when kip davis stepped up there on on the show that was
hidden by by the bible bravo you realize right they sunk that thing right you realize as soon
as i was aware of it i searched him up said who is this guy and what does he do and within 20
seconds of listening to him talk i could tell he’s a flim flammer he doesn’t work with the
original sources if he does he does a little bit of one that’s not the original so when as soon as
he says something on the set okay let’s go people i want us to get a couple of texts then i’m going
to ask you all questions right there i think i got in trouble there people let me know if i’ve
come back here. Fantastic. Septuagint. That’s right. Right. If you don’t know how to pronounce
your own, like the data that’s in your own discipline, dude, dude. Oh God. All right,
let’s go. Chewy, I’m going to bring up the first, just, we’re just going to have a couple of these
today. People, I want your opinions. People look at something new with me. Look at this.
this is something um from paul right these are all documents from paul right and these are all
not accepted in the canon so here’s one and i just wanted you to see the greek form i want you to see
look at that second line stephanos kai soon auto praise beauty right now if you can hit the accents
they’re good for you right because they’re not shown what is this people this is original dude
this is how they’re writing it originally the only thing that’s a little bit off is the spacing
between the words look at that second line stephanos then there’s a space chi chi right
that space isn’t going to be there in antiquity so if you and i are sitting around reading greek
in antiquity like dude right here it is right theophilus there’s theophilus right love it
good counseling oh god i just wanted to see that people but further down because that’s how you’re
going to see it if you pick it up off a monument or if you had one of the real if you had one of
the real manuscripts one of the real scrolls from antiquity that’s what you get right a fantastic
And by the way, people, people use papyrology to make you feel stupid, right?
When people come on, let me say something to you.
When a scholar comes on to you who’s got his PhD, Huff did this, he’s got his PhD and he
starts talking about papyrology.
Papyrology is the one form of primary source work that you really can just talk bullshit
in.
You can bullshit and conjecture.
they think it’s a science i took that for a whole semester right and watched them watch
what the papyrologists do and we had good ones people it’s a big university university of
wisconsin we got a we got a good program good department right so i got to see what they do and
it’s good for them for editing texts and stuff like that but you know what it’s um it’s a way
of causing you as soon as i say oh this fragment this papyrus says this but this doesn’t say that
you have no ground to stand on, right?
Even as a classicist, you don’t, right?
It’s like the sedative they give the young kid
when he goes in in the satiricon, right?
Before they do anything, before they start beating him, right?
They give him a sedative.
And that’s really what papurology is.
It’s a sedative to keep you from a full comprehension of the sources.
Okay, let me go back to this.
I’m going to show you something new today, people.
It’s just for fun.
look at this look at this the acts of paul and who right and who who is she did anybody know that
paul has a devotee a virgin devotee no you didn’t i just wanted you to i just wanted you to see um
where is he he’s in a conium right what is he saying he’s he’s on he’s paul is constantly
getting into trouble and he’s in flight right so he’s fleeing from one place to another and
nobody questions this people why are the apostles constantly being uh legally persecuted and they’re
not being persecuted um the same way they are in rome as they are north africa as they are in
asia minor as one city that’s the stones throw away can they can persecute them
totally different totally different people what are these christians guarding oops
What are these Christians guarding? Look at this. Boom. Pantatologia. These are the prophecies of
the oracles. Who are they the prophecies of? They’re the prophecies of the Kurios, the Lord.
All right. Okay. And what are we talking about? We’re talking about teaching and we’re talking
about understanding the Evangelii, that promise, that promise of salvation, that efficacy. Those
are the things that we’re interested in right those are the things that we really want to know
right okay before we continue on right we’re going to talk about paul and a new woman and she
is uh here we go look people by the way look at the expressions here this is uh second century
right ace ion ionos you see that very same expression we see in the scriptures little
Mary Jane. You see that same expression? There it is. There it is, people. And surprise, surprise.
What does this say? Those gorgeous bodies of virgins. What? We’re starting off right with
virgins right from the beginning? Yep. Do you remember who the people are that are hanging
out with Paul and the apostles. They’re virgins and women. And a lot of the women, a lot of the
women are involved in things. Look at this name, people. Oh, goodness. Look at this name. Has
anybody seen Thecla? Thecla. Have you heard of Thecla? No. You know what this says? It says she’s
a certain Parthenos. There’s your virgin people, just like Mary. She’s a certain virgin daughter
of theocleia see what they did this is neat you learn more anthropology in two seconds
on lady babylon then you’ll learn in an entire hour of a history channel um history channel
bullshit about satan with theologians theocleia look at what happens if we just take out this
omicron and this epsilon iota what do we get we get thecla her name right what what funny parents
Her mother is, that’s her mother, Metros, right? And who is she? What is she currently, you know,
what’s her future? She is, oh God, she is engaged to this guy, Thameris, right? And what’s the story
about? Well, day and night, this girl, Thecla, is listening to Paul. And what does she do? She
doesn’t even leave her window. She doesn’t even leave her window, right? Because he’s talking
outside and she sits there. Here she is, this virgin. She’s sitting there listening to this
thing, right? And what he’s saying about stuff like, come on, right? Oh God. Okay. Now who’s
going to get mad? Thamris is going to get mad because this is her fiance. Now they’ve got this
12, 13, 14 year old girl who’s engaged, right? And the problem is somebody is stepping in between
and that somebody is Paul because this girl is enamored of Paul. And who else is enamored of
Paul? People? You’re not going to believe this. You know the word neoniscos is child, right?
These are just the kids. The kids are the ones coming to Paul. The kids. You didn’t know that
he was followed by children. You didn’t know. Something people have been asking me that I want
to set straight up right here. Monastery liars. Yes, they brainwashed everyone. Agree. Agree.
This inspired Romeo and Juliet. Nice. Nice. Nice little expression. Love that. That’s a good
thought i like that i like that okay um people have been asking me and somebody’s out there i’m
concentrating on on you now i know that you don’t know who you are yet but you have been asking me
about a verse from matthew that talks about the tax the temple tax of the two drachma right the
Drachmai. Two of them. And Jesus. What is this tax for? The adult temple tax. And what’s funny,
this is in Matthew. This is in Matthew. People, let’s find it. Somebody here. People have been
telling me, get the congregation to help you out. People, where is that? It’s Matthew what?
What is it? Should we flash it up there if somebody gets it? Temple tax in Matthew. Look at how good
we are with the bible people these are the scriptures oh is this 17 here it is okay 17
around 24 uh i’m gonna put it on bible hub so i can get you the greek people if you want a site
that’ll give you the greek bible hubs one go to the nestle allen greek text right nestle allen
it’s the best edited text nestle allen right nice here it is now people watch this i’m gonna bring
us up so you can watch me do this boom you can do a little research on your own if you want to see
you know what i mean i think it’s verse 24 verse 24 let’s see no one said anything are we alive
should we oh we are okay all right okay this is verse 24 people and you can bring up the greek
this way just push multi just push multi and it’s got little english translations here inside if you
want to look at the english translations and compare you know what i mean
isn’t that nice you say capernaum they said
look at the second line there’s those two it’s the two drachma that are your tax
right and it says those who were taking the tax came up to peter
and they said are you ready for the quote i’m gonna put it boom here’s the quote
is your teacher not paying the tax is your teacher not paying the tax now what does he
refer to jesus he refers to him as a teacher and notice the u is plural he’s not talking just
about Peter. And you’ll get that from the translations. This is plural, people,
right? Are the teachers of you kids not going to pay his two drachma? Because he’s going to own it.
He’s going to own it. Now, what was that tax paid for? Anybody over 20 had to pay a tax. Students
don’t pay taxes for the temple. Students don’t pay taxes. So when the dude sees Peter, he says,
is your teacher going to pay his tax? When he says your, he means the group. The apostles are
under 20. And Jesus says, just in case, we’ll pay for you and me. Why? Because Peter’s the oldest.
he says i don’t want to be scandalized right now of course jesus doesn’t have any money
because he never carries cash so he says there’s a fish in the lake with the you know you go get
it’s gonna have a coin in there i think it had a roman coin right worth two drachma i think it
was doubled right worth four drachma so that he said just for good form will pay for you and me
Why is that? Because Peter is the oldest of the youths that are the students of Jesus.
You mean every apostle is under 20? Let’s put it this way. The dude who takes the tax,
the dude who takes the tax, Peter doesn’t look old enough to pay it. That’s why he only asked
for Jesus. He’s not asking for Peter here. He’s asking for Jesus. Is your master going to pay?
his tax. Do you understand? So, in other words, the passage just reinforces everything we’ve been
talking about with the naioniscos. Peter’s the oldest, and it looks like he may be reaching the
age that he can be taxed. So, that’s why the guy comes and says, look, is your master going to pay
his tax? He’s got to pay his tax, right? What about all these students of his? They don’t pay,
Right there, people, is proof, undeniable, linguistic, and forever historic that Jesus
Christ’s apostles were youths. I showed you the passage with John sitting on his lap with his
head coming up to Jesus’s breasts. I showed you that, right? Peter is the oldest, right? And people
say he was married no it doesn’t say he was married anywhere says he had a female in-law
could have been a mother-in-law could have been a sister-in-law do you understand could have been
his brother’s wife he’s 20 and he is still well we don’t know that he’s 20 he looks like he falls
just under the tax for adults yeah okay everybody else younger than peter there’s not even a question
He didn’t say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
That’ll be 800 drachma, you boneheads.
Give it to me.
Right now, he says, is your teacher going to pay his tax?
And what is Jesus doing not standing there with tax people?
Why do you think he’s not?
He didn’t carry around any money.
He didn’t carry around any money.
Dude, the fish do, right?
Boom.
For this point, Jesus and his special boys.
Jesus and his special boys.
Okay, so does anybody have any questions there?
Does anybody have any questions?
Because I know one person out there is deadly, deadly serious about this point, right?
And it’s perfect evidence, so good.
There it is.
And people, it supports everything we’ve been saying the whole time.
All of the Bible does.
Do you think that, you know, as I was reading this, do you think that I said, let me construct a theory and I’ll use this over here and that over here?
No, that’s what theologians do.
Scientists don’t do that, right?
You read all of the material. You look at all of the evidence, right? Galen is indeed cool. Okay,
let me show you just a couple of more things about this. Boom, boom. These acts of Paul,
right? I want you to notice he’s being followed. He’s being followed, right, by young boys and
women, young boys and women, all right? What is this girl who is listening to Paul so intently,
this young girl who’s listening to Paul, how is she described? Well, when people are trying to
distract her, she is paraplex, paraplex, and you can hear paraplegic, the word paraplegic in that.
it’s coming from the same root right that plagues is a striking she struck outside of herself
that’s what the potter is doing like all of a sudden her soul is attracted to at the outside
of her body as she is listening to paul all right okay now where is the here are these two and they
turn paul um here’s your word for christian one of the earliest times that this word
appears, Christianon. So now the act of Christing has become so popular that the religion, the way
itself, is being called this way of Christing, Christianon. It’s not because of your denomination.
It’s not because of your church. It’s because of the fact that you are involved in the Christing,
and the Christing will bring you to death and resurrection. Fantastic. What are we doing?
we got more of these we got more children people as we’re evangelizing okay remember when jesus
said you have to come like a child thecla thecla is a child that he’s talking about
do you understand okay she’s the one who’s going to absorb the right and if we’re lucky we’ll end
up with ophites running around right and if we’re not then um the romans will take charge and they’ll
put us all in jail do you understand they say you know they say the persecutions were not let me say
this a lot of people have come out and said the persecutions of early christians were not as uh
were not as violent and not as prevalent as we think okay the number of christians that are
being killed in the circus environment any sign kind of arena games is minor tiny compared to
everybody else that’s getting killed in the games right so um the other problem is and scholars have
tried to point this out tried to question and it’s always unsuccessful because it’s a it’s a
political issue um how much were the blood sports that were in the arena in rome how much was that
actually happening right um we hear reports of it right we have all sorts of literature about how
common we have the was it actually we have the places where they did it right but how common
was it and the modern scholars in their complete and total lack of integrity in dealing with the
primary texts, came up with an idea. This is great. Religious scholars are behind this too.
Ehrman is behind some of this stuff, right? Not as many Christians were persecuted as we think,
right? Not as many Christians were persecuted as we think. Was it just propaganda? Was it just
propaganda? Were the arenas really not as violent as we think? Now, that’s an idea. I can just throw
those words out there and it’ll just put doubts in your head yeah and you’ll never be able to
prove it or disprove it and i can tell you for a fact how do i know that the scholars are wrong
the new scholars this new group is saying this how do we know that they’re wrong and that the
arena was incredibly violent and full of death full of death how do we know that right modern
scholars will say. Lawrence scholars will say, oh, we know it. We know it just wasn’t happening
because who would do such a thing? How could you go and watch these blood sports? How could this
be, right? We’re looking through our Christian lens and we don’t understand the world that was.
And let me tell you something about the world that was. I’ve read a doctor who talked at length
about the witches going out and collecting the organs that they would pile up they pile the
bodies in a place that people who harvested including doctors could go get tissues you
thought they were cave people idiots no they’re using the tissues and apparently there’s a big
enough supply that it’s well known what time they’re going to come out when they’re going to
bring the bodies and who can collect from them because people will fight do you understand that
this is the world of reality all right and by the way he goes into um uh this is scribonius he goes
into what you can do with different organs as well what can you do with different organs and
tissues remember i said my corneas my eyes are not my eyes they’re from somebody else right
And right, by the way, to the physician lady, what’s her name?
I can’t remember her name, but to the physician from University of Arizona who put my first eye in, my first corneal transplant in.
Oh, God, she did it so, so beautifully.
The dude that did it after her was an idiot and he screwed it up.
Anyway, doesn’t matter.
That’s my, yeah, right.
I had to do one with no anesthesia.
have you ever had somebody push a needle to the back of your eye without anesthesia oh my god
i ruined the chair it wasn’t because you think right i just broke it because i was squeezing
so hard um and take some questions from us yes yes yes yes who people oh god people give me some
of the stuff and i was gonna give you one more passage when we finish up let me see if i’ve got
the power i’ve got just a little bit power left people what do you think about the material today
on thecla we’re going to talk about thecla and her um i just want you to keep her in mind right now
i don’t know if you can find a translation for this to be honest um but um keep her in mind
because we’re going to talk about her she comes back to paul and they have quite a quite a
beautiful thing going on and i just wanted to talk about it because nobody ever talks about it
And this book was kicked out of the Bible for that reason.
Okay, we’ve got one pass.
We’ve got some time for questions.
I need, no, no, I want to put some people.
Okay, be looking, be looking.
What is this?
Golden material, right?
You got it, you got it, right?
My grandma’s name is Takla.
Fantastic.
Say hello to your grandma.
Give your grandma a big hug.
You know what I mean?
Be like, grandma, can you make me some pancakes?
my grandma used to make me pancakes i miss those days oh god almond what do you think about the
criticism of heraclitus the pocket mysteries right here i said i hate to give my opinion gabriel
thanks for asking i really hate to give my opinion because it’s like what the hell does it matter
what i think right 2500 years later what does it matter what i think um i have a lot of respect
gabe for heraclitus as one of the greatest of the greek minds right um who flourished under
greater greek minds like sappho um i wonder i wonder when he said the oracle can speak across
a thousand years he is illustrating a point he’s illustrating a point that i think our very next
text brings out i want to leave you guys with this today and i want to get more questions oh
my goodness we don’t have the draconius text what is that it’s a pdf no it’s not look nope it’s not
up there it’s not there nope there we go why is it not coming up i wonder let me see a screen share
okay people remember this is this is an epic poem an epic song written by the brilliance of three
different muses the muse of movement the muse of epic right right the muse of tragedy what happens
when you take those three gorgeous muses and you put them together right movement or pantomime epic
and tragedy you get the work of dracontius this is an old rock song this is latin right
people. Sorry, I forgot. This is Latin. I’m going to translate it for you people, right? And I don’t
know if there’s a translation of this either. This is Dracontius’ Medea. I think there is one out
there. Somebody told me there was. But I’m a classicist, so I’m going to go to the Latin,
right? It burdens my spirit to make common the abominations. What kinds of abominations?
The forced capitulation of the gods at the hands of the Arte Virginus.
Arte, where’d it go? Oh, I lost it.
It just fled. My goodness. Hang on, people. There we go.
What is she doing, this goddess?
She is making the gods captive.
She is using the elements as if they served her.
She is causing nature to be subservient to a Puella, to a girl.
How does this girl work?
Well, the stars of the pole and the course of Phoebus, that’s the sun, right?
Phoebus Apollo.
Et sidera caeli, and the stars of the sky, what do they do?
They are led by the will of a female.
and that female suspends the lightning oh god because medea orders such abominations
when she sends flames now people you tell me what this is here’s a question i have for you
what the hell does this mean in line when medea sends the flames she orders the flames
to be sent out of the ether, right?
She brings those ethereal flames
and her voice, her vox penetrates.
You see the penetrate per auras, through the air.
She makes dead and alive.
She makes people dead and alive.
What does it mean for people to say
that she sends the flame, the ethereal flames?
Does anybody know?
Here, I’m going to stop sharing.
i’m gonna go to the comments people what does this mean when it says medea is doing this somebody
says it’s her tears somebody let me take over burning purple errors arrows yeah some people
say look brings the lightning correct everything you’re recognizing they flow like lava that’s nice
like that comment fire right fire it’s gorgeous spit all right spitting hot fire from the heart
somebody said from the heart is that’s what’s going on is it a fumigation alex gregorio
alex i sense some creakling in you i bet your mother’s gorgeous and your father doesn’t doesn’t
know what he’s gotten right um calms the rage calms the rage fire breathing dragons okay let’s
go back let me ask another question right people please i just want to know the english
right i just want to know the english what is it i just want an english translation of this what does
she do kum fata ray torquette ray torquette what is it let me put some more what i’m like what does
she do she twists fate to her own courses to her own way and what has it given her to do leak at
She serves the slaughter of the stranger as she runs around the temples of Diana of Scythia.
You see this name?
Skuthikai.
Skuthikai.
Do you know what this is?
This is the name of the Diana that Medea is the priestess of.
and that gives her the job of slaughtering the stranger, okay?
What does that mean, her?
What does that mean?
You want to see Medea’s personality?
You want to see what her personality is?
She owns in her funereal breast the star-bearing sky.
Did you hear that?
she possesses, she contains in her own funereal chest. Her breast is funereal. What does she
possess there? The astrigerum cailum, the star-bearing skies. And she oppresses superos,
the gods, impune, with impunity. Who is this that’s doing it? It’s Medea, the virago. And
And what is a viadago?
What is a viadago?
Who’s doing this when the gods don’t?
I just want you to, I want to end with this and get your opinion, people.
You tell me.
Somebody please tell me what a viadago is.
And I am going to, I am going to get it in Latin for you.
Right here from the Perseus.
Are you ready?
Boom.
Switch over.
Here we go, people.
And what is a viadago?
Are you ready?
who is this person that we’re talking about? Medea, she’s a virago. Tell me, people,
what is the first savior? She is a vigorous, heroic, female, heroine, warrior. Look at it.
Look at it. She’s vigorous and or stout. God, who else do they talk about having these blessed
traits. Minerva, people. Look at Minerva in Aeneas, right? Apudvero in Vero. He’s the one
who quotes it. And Diana, right? They can talk about Jeterna this way. Look at the end, people.
Who else? Eve. Eve, people. Eve is the virago. And I can promise you that is not a Hebrew
expression. There is no female warrior in the ancient Hebrew language. Eve cannot and does not
exist in Hebrew. Can you believe that? Where is she? I’m going to get in trouble for that. People
are going to say, how can that be? Hail Sophia is how that can be, right? What’s the shout we make
for her? Ewa. That’s the bucket cry we make for her. You got no warrior gods in Yahoo’s realm,
especially no warrior females. Yahoo hates women. What did he do to all the women in the cult?
He kicked them out. He took their cult and he kicked them out. You think Yahoo was the one
that came up with the drugs that the devil gave to Eve? I’m going to tell you something about the
devil i’m going to tell you something who said that about march hang on i’m gonna let somebody
totally distract me somebody said something about march anyway the devil people as we have our last
minute here and i’m going to take questions as we have our last couple of minutes here i want
i want to tell you the devil is not who you think the devil is go to the book of genesis and read it
He’s the one who betrayed God because God was the first liar.
Jehovah, Yahu, was the first liar in the book of Genesis.
And the devil was there to make sure Eve had the truth.
It was he who opened her eyes and pissed off Yahu
because yahoo doesn’t want smart warrior women satan freed us from being sheep yes
yes and then hashem put us right back into the right back into the shepherding fold you know
what i mean right when will she return here’s a nice question is this elisha or lisha one or two
here’s a good question right right when will she return if she’s the christ the original
she’s bound to return sometime here’s the question i’m going to answer that with did she ever leave
did she ever leave ask boccaccio ask boccaccio isn’t that gorgeous
ravens fly through the clock dark lord melody shining through death inducer raining blood
bite your lip bellissima in the vampire dress cracking leather whips rain with your magic
hail satan spells of lucifer hail satan catherine of the wheel hail satan the lake of fire is clear
Sing the muse
Rain or magic
Death or nuisance
Come true
Kisses for you
Goat head suits, magic
You can have a
GOAT
Giant rope
Devil in a tight dress
Whiplash
Droids dream of electric sheep
Mr. Sandman with a
Hot purple anointing cream
It knocks him out
The drugs weigh a ton. Snow blind, do your makeup. Girl, be my private dancer. Hakate says I’m her main squeeze. Lucifer, the light bearer.
Source: Lady Babylon