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Ammon Hillman uses the word mainline deliberately, and the opening text is a passage from the second-century writer Aelian, a zoologist with clean Greek. Aelian says the cures for snakebite come in two forms: pomata (πόματα), the potions you drink, and chrismata (χρίσματα), the ointments applied to the body beside the songs, the epōdai (ἐπῳδαί). Hillman reports that this is the old pharmacology of the mystery, where the drug goes in by mouth, by skin, and in his reading straight into the blood, the act of christing at its most direct.
Then Aelian warns of something worse than the snakes. The woman who works the drugs, the gynē pharmakis (γυνὴ φαρμακίς), is more dangerous than the viper because she can kill with a touch. Hillman names Medea and Circe as the examples, and he connects the figure to the question already in play. He reports that Mary Magdalene and Medea share the role, that the maga and the magos are cousins in the titles of the cult, and that the witch came before the wizard.
The second half turns to the library rather than the street. Hillman walks through a nineteenth-century Leipzig catalogue of Greek authors, from epic and lyric poets through the healing and astronomical writers, using it to argue that Greek was a living literary language, while Hebrew was not written at the time. He names Hypatia, the Alexandrian philosopher killed for her learning, and holds her up as the cost when the old plural world was replaced by one authority. The closing claim is that what the apostle calls the logos, the spermatikos logos (σπερματικὸς λόγος), was the seed-word of the cosmos, the stream the initiates entered through the christing.
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Sunday morning, dark clouds rising. Oh, there’s no sunshine anywhere. Strong winds blow. Give us wisdom to grasp the message.
Welcome to Season 6, Episode 1, Wednesday Night Bible Studies at Lady Babylon.
This is fantastic. We’re going tonight, let me just introduce this by saying, get your gear ready.
tonight we’re gonna mainline with jesus yeah you heard me you heard me tonight on lady babylon
we are gonna mainline with jesus you didn’t know he was like that did you i’m gonna show you
how to get christed then i’m gonna introduce you to a vampire tonight on lady babylon here we go
here we go okay tonight before we push in i’m gonna start with a couple of comments and i want
to start by saying we’re always gonna have a good and a bad i wanted to start by saying uh snappy
thank you so much for letting me know that i needed to get you the source people were not
believing when i said medea was the queen of babylon they looked at me funny so um we got
the source eventually um and sometimes i oh philostratus yeah i almost see i almost forgot
him right there anywho says that she’s the queen of babylon thank you snappy for pushing on that
one right those sources are good i’m i’m i’m giving your guys in religious studies i’m giving
them a hard time i’m bashing them around but you sir you sir are attached to the sources and i
I respect that. I respect that. Tonight, let’s go to the good comment to start with. Who sent
me something nice? Just please, can I just feel, I want to feel good about myself. This is Humble
Thanker. I like that name. Dr. Amon, is Mary Magdalene to Jesus as Medea is to Jason? Wow,
that’s the most spectacular question, and I’m going to answer it linguistically. There is a
16th century cryptologist who talks about the Magdal being a Scythian word that is the equivalent
of the Maga, right? Not the Magos, but the Maga. This is the one that came before. Did the witch
come before the wizard? Yes, it turns out historically she did. Who else was going to
figure out all that stuff right it took a lot of brains here we go here we go i want to bring you
that maga that maga is the medwa and that medwa is in charge is in union with the iasus
yeah so is there a relation between them yeah these are all cult titles people
We’re gonna read these things over and over again, right? Wow until we see it. It’s all there. Love it. Great question
Great question. That’s what happens when you stay in the cult, right?
It’s what happens you get the you get the queen and the christ. Isn’t that nice?
Love it. Who do you think was supplying all the drugs?
Wasn’t jesus. Yeah, he knows how to make the punch
But he was getting it all from mary the maga
Yeah. Yeah. You can call her a prostitute if you want to. But tonight, since we’re going to mainline, we’re going to mainline with Jesus. And I know some of you are sensitive about using terms like that. We’re talking about historical mainlining. We’re going to find that place where you can take that Christed poison. You can get it right into the blood.
whoo fantastic fantastic yeah i mean i’ve got to give you the best stuff that’s why you’re here
i know your time is limited i’m stopping at 30 tonight i’m gonna stop myself so um let’s get to
the let’s get to the vampire that i’d like to bring you first let’s wash oh we need another
i forgot the bad we’ve had the good we have to have the bad okay throw up the bed okay this is
from naruto another interesting experience particularly unpleasant particularly unpleasant
not just unpleasant it’s particularly unpleasant i expected at least at very least something from
philo okay take it down take it down i cannot take this person seriously anymore i can’t no
i’m gonna laugh i’m gonna laugh and it’s rude it’s rude to do that but my children in the world
there are perpetrators with trench coats and they will take you places and do things to you
yeah yeah they that’s what they do that’s their nature if i were at a professional conference
in the middle of a bunch of classical philologists who had given the sweat and blood and earned
that spot if i pulled out philo right away right away right you lose your credibility right away
when you do that naruto you lose your credibility because naruto there are bible studies there are
studies of the Torah. There are Bible studies. There are seminaries. There are New Testament
departments. And in these departments, Naruto, there are no philologists. Philologists are those
who have reached a level of expertise where they are expected to go to the international gymnasia
and wrestle. That’s what they’re expected to do. You cannot get by on what Bible studies
does for you. It is a sinking ship that has been barely floating for the last 1600 years.
You see, because there’s a problem in the universe. The problem is the classical philologists are
the professionals with the classical texts right you should be able to throw a classical
philologist anything from homer throw them a little bit of tacitus a little curveball there
how about some juvenile can you slip in do you know how to do meter between both languages
okay those are the people that you consult what’s weird in this universe the watchers still haven’t
figured it out but what’s really weird here is that those experts are experts in everything but
the bible and the septuagint included when i say bible yeah yeah and do you know why let me just
tell you as a former prof myself you do not want to risk the engagement because a classical
philologist, I’m just telling you this tonight, a classical philologist can tear your BS apart
because for every second that you have read, they have read millions. It is their life.
They have devoted themselves to this sacred space. So when you pull out Philo, that’s what the
seminarians do. That’s what the religious schools do. And look, my children, when these people in
trench coats come to you, they’re going to open that trench coat. They’re going to open it up
with a big seminarian smile on their face. They’re going to show you the twins, the twins,
Josephus and Philo and you’re gonna gag on those twins you’re gonna gag on them what I recommend
you do um because the people at the time said hey you know that guy Josephus he’s making up sources
right right now that’s a huge problem this all culminates people please understand me why this
is so important this all culminates in julian the apostate we call him julian the apostate who
made a decree nobody can teach classics who’s an atheist interesting interesting and why would that
be julian because they corrupt the texts it’s their intention in establishing their own fake
history do you mean this is about power this is about power essentially about a power grab oh yeah
what do you think those humans do the the aren’t you guys the episcopal aren’t you the ones who
watching all of this go around oh god let’s hit some text let’s purify here’s the vampire
i want to purify us now with the vampire chuck bring chuck in chuck step up we see lady babylon
And again, I’m informed and in beauty.
Thank you.
Thank you, Chuck.
I appreciate it.
Everybody, a round of applause for Chuck Baudelaire.
Gorgeous.
Gorgeous.
Let’s bring in our first text.
I want to take you so we can mainline with Jesus.
Are you ready?
Are you ready?
Let’s go see Jesus mainlining.
I want to give you the first tonight of our text.
um yep go ahead and pull that up i want to just give you oh take it down real quick let me give
an intro while i’m talking sorry yes um alien alien uh who’s this person um to your philo see
that’s the thing you call it philo i’m gonna call it alien and unfortunately for you unfortunately
for you who by the way whatever that guy’s name is i want to give him the kip the kip award
of courage to pull out philo in a discussion of the logos is amazing and one you can take home
you can always take home everybody we can all take home that that little bit of xeno that little bit
zeno who said ho theos esti ho spermaticos logos to cosmo god is the spermatic logos of the
organization boom love it love it that’s the real stuff you get that um it’s a chronic and that’s
what nonus was trying to tell you last week ahronos those of you with ears to hear i know
you picked it up ah chronos love it okay boom let’s uh bring up our first text of elian this
oh bring it down again forgot to introduce them properly um we’re talking about you know a little
bit after time marcus aurelius um and elian comes into the picture and this guy is educated educated
educated and as a highly highly educated person his proficiency with greek is just phenomenal
they called him you know the honey tongued because his greek was so good good for you good for you
he’s he’s at a sizing a little bit here this is a little bit of second sophistic for those of you
who are into it now i’ve worked with this passage with several students i’m just going to give you
it i’m just going to translate it very quickly because we don’t have a lot of time we want to
face it right our attention let’s go bring it up what’s going to happen you know the bites
of the viper and of other types of snakes people say that you know we have curatives for this we
have drugs for this and i hear that these drugs are in two forms they’re either pomata they’re
They’re either potions or they’re hrimata.
They are things that you apply as christing.
Kai epoides.
So he goes on and he says, hey, you know, the epodes.
And by the way, Elian, take it down for a minute.
Who is this guy, Elian?
Just for those of you who are interested, he’s kind of he’s writing a work on zoology.
Yeah, he’s writing a zoological work.
And the good thing is, is his sources, which there are a ton of, we don’t necessarily have those surviving anywhere else, right?
Do you see, people, for a second, do you see how big it is?
Do you see how big it is?
We’re not looking for that scrap.
We’re not looking for the scraps.
Look, somebody threw away an old parchment.
It’s got a scrap, a scribble.
We’re not looking for that.
We’re looking for the stuff that was in the libraries.
we’re looking for the stuff that the people are working with right this is alien you’re dealing
with a major thinker of the day and i know that most of you and you shouldn’t most of you don’t
know who he is yeah yeah so zoologist just think zoologist here now we’re going to watch are you
ready we’re getting close we’re talking about two types of drugs we’re talking about the drugs that
drink those are the pomata right and then we’re talking about the drugs that you rio that you in
rio that you apply otherwise and this can mean to the eyes it’s any other application that you are
not swallowing if you there are those you swallow and those you apply otherwise otherwise and
mainlining and when i say mainline what do i mean historically some of you may absolutely understand
this and some of you may not but you are entering that stream you are entering that stream you’re
finding that blood and pushing into the blood that’s mainlining yes oh god that’s what jesus
is doing it’s what jesus is doing and you say oh my god you’re going to show me in text an alien
where jesus i’m gonna show you the christ you cannot be christ without injecting it right into
your veins what yes linguistically it’s gorgeous bring up the text again are you ready let’s keep
reading it let’s keep reading it he says what you know you can drink it or you can have it applied
as the christ and he says there are incantations that are effective at kind of mollifying or
softening softening what ton eon many of you see that line tone eon because you’re working on the
greek and you know that’s the toxin that they use with the arrow poisons when you take this thing
and you increase center it when it enters directly oh my god there is nothing better right you’ve got
to have a mollifying drug right and he’s saying the epodes help the incantations are part of it
you ask yourself take it down for a second why are these people why are these people going through
incantations you see even straight up in antiquity straight up doctoring where the doctor somebody
will have broken a limb and the doctor is repairing the limb putting the bone back to try to set
the bone and um while they’re doing it they are um incanting
singing a song while they’re doing it and the song helps them to reset yeah to reduce
the break isn’t that great that’s fantastic so the incantations are there and they help when
you’ve been christed i want you to put up that next should we put up that next greek yep i just
want you to look at this verb and rio and rio right look at notice at the top annoying what
kind of parts are you going to annoy look at the second line of thalmus the eyes right we ain’t
talking about boys in a gym we are talking about sending someone into the world of the christ
oh my god look at that look at number two take down the bible studies chewy look at number look
at number two okay just just roman numeral number two look sting or prick wait a minute to in christ
something means to prick yes yes poison injected by a sting number two at the very bottom to stick
in and they give you the word for the thorn boom you know what you can do you can put this stuff
on a on a thorn you can put this stuff on a thorn and you can get it in you can in christ yourself
you can in christ yourself isn’t that fantastic oh my god elaine what does he say well okay
look we’re not done with the drugs yet in that quote just bring it up i’ll go through it quickly
because i know people got to run quickly let’s do it look at this um he says look it’s okay
he said it he says it’s okay to hate something that you know these snakes that have this power
to kill right to do bad it’s okay he says but there’s something worse there’s a beast that’s
far worse and something you’re not going to be able to to guard yourself against and that is
the gune farmakis the gune farmakis what is the i’m looking for this woman like anthropologically
right i mean i hate to go ahead take it off i hate to blow my cover but i’m just a trans-dimensional
anthropologist and i’m looking for this woman because she is going to help me solve the case
of why jesus was arrested in a public park with a naked kid yelling i’m not a sex trafficker yes
wow we’re gonna find out you misspelled laces by the way nice nice i had to get that little dig in
there i’m sorry i can’t help it but if you’re going to be professional and refute bring the
you know bring the professional yeah love it love it let’s go back to the text there’s
something even more dangerous that gune that woman who is the pharmakis he says for example
medea and cersei right and why is that you can take it down he says why is that why is that
that snake is killing you with its bite that snake is killing you with its bite
it’s drugs boom direct application he said you know what’s even scarier than that the women
who have developed this science get this they can kill you with a touch they can kill you with a
touch now this isn’t a mystery initiate devotee who’s writing this it’s not a priest right it’s
not someone who’s going to have some kind of ax to grind this is oops sorry this is a person who
is writing about zoology and using sources that are telling him oh this plant is that plant this
animal is that animal yeah fantastic this one’s poisonous that was the most poison he says that
everybody knows the the egyptian cobra is the one that you can’t that you can’t stay away from right
we our antidotes will work on all of them but that one yeah isn’t that neat how scientific if that
doesn’t turn turn you on intellectually nothing will okay i want to give you a couple more texts
um look people were asking questions maybe the next text um people were asking questions uh
why is this significant about um the hebrew not being there in the society um i just want to show
you a work this is of course brought to you by 1840s german classical philological scholarship
in leipzig something those people were smoking something because the productivity was amazing
and their source work phenomenal phenomenal whatever those guys were doing whoo gorgeous
one of them put together you know lives lives of different types of writers now he put it together
in eight books and each of the books is dedicated to one type of skill we have epic poetry we have
lyric poetry we have rhetoric we have tragedy we have comedy yeah yeah and he talks about all the
famous people whose works you and i know because how are you and i educated we’re not from florida
yeah we were educated from tiny tiny on homer and other poets that language when somebody comes to
you and says i think this about the new testament or about the septuagint about the bible when they
do that ask them ask them where does it come through homer because that’s the standard grammar
if you’re going to be in the universe you better know homer yeah love it that’s why every classical
law you just have to take a certain amount of homer yeah uh-huh fantastic so i’m not going to
throw you any curveballs guys we’re still demon not monitored we’re not demonetized we’ve never
been monetized we’re not trying to get monetized okay i have nothing to sell you there’s no merch
i don’t want i don’t want any chats throwing money right i appreciate the fact that everybody’s got a
voice nobody has to attach money to it okay fantastic um hit us with the hit us with the next
yeah bring that up there here here’s just an example look nicander he’s going to talk about
on the candor and you know my god man there’s in each of the field there’s a few famous people that
we all recognize right and then he’s just got oodles and oodles and oodles of author after
author after author after author realize at the time there is no hebrew it doesn’t exist it is
not a literary language it has died and most of the people most of the people in palestine and
judea they don’t care they don’t care they love greek just fine thank you yeah it is always a
religiously zealous minority historically that will come along to turn the situation to their
political favor it was in the favor of that religious minority to revive this dead corpse
that was classical Hebrew, and again, remember, for those of you who want to travel, I’m not
talking about modern Hebrew. Modern Hebrew is flourishing. It’s flourishing. It’s blossomed.
Somehow, they brought life to the language in Israel. Yes, and it’s going to be happy and
healthy. Classical Hebrew, oh my goodness. It’s a mummified corpse. Oh God, it’s terrible.
it’s oh so um that’s why i ask people the reason that you’re not seeing in hebrew during the time
is it’s dead nobody’s writing in hebrew you’ve been using greek in the synagogues right nobody’s
writing in hebrew so what where are you going to go with the um where are you going to go with
your sources if you’re going to be um saying i’m expecting to find some kind of hebrew link
so that the language can be holy, the Bible can be correct,
and I can go to heaven or whatever.
Yeah.
But that is the joke.
The joke’s on you.
There are professionals who laugh at biblical scholarship, so-called,
and the agenda that it tows.
Julian the Apostate was right.
Nobody who’s an atheist, and by atheist they were talking about
any of the monists who are saying there are no gods but blank, any of those atheists
will corrupt the system. You cannot have them teach. What happens? You get Florida. You get
dark ages. You get banned things, and you get people saying this can’t be taught, that can’t
be taught, right? Yeah, sign of the times. Let’s hit that text again. I didn’t want to take this
long i’m sorry i value your time and i want everybody to get goodies out of this so i’ve
got a couple of more let me just hit you with a couple of more keep going down um here i just
wanted you to see here’s a couple of names right who are these people right they’re poets right
well that’s nice epipoyos that’s that’s an epic poet right here’s a this is has anybody heard of
ice rion no you haven’t right he’s a famous epic poet isn’t that nice that’s gorgeous let’s go to
next one no riot none of these so when you tell me you know antiquity you should be quiet because
look here’s three dionysius’s oh my god did you know these are sources no there’s one one of them
from byzantium one of them’s from corinth and the third one is from middle eny middle eny isn’t that
nice isn’t that nice that’s on the island of lesbos that’s on the island of lesbos my god man
You want culture? Go to a girl’s school in Lesbos where you’ve got people like Sappho.
We have no problem finding references to Sappho, quotes of Sappho.
Did you know that? Did you know that?
We have no problem because she has such a strong reputation.
We’re not worried about our sources.
We have established texts, people.
the bible is written in greek the whole thing we have established text we have people quoting
that greek old testament we have them quoting it we don’t have them quoting hebrew because the
hebrew is defunct it’s defunct yes look at all these authors give me the next give me the next
look at all these authors here that i want to introduce you oh look we ran across the sibyls
For those of you who are interested in the Sybil, the Sybil is listed among the classical authors within her genre.
She’s using dactylic hexameter, too.
She’s using the hexameter, too.
She belongs with the epic poets.
She belongs with them.
Yes, she’s the source of that dactylic hexameter.
Yeah, so it’s sort of they belong to her.
but let’s just see the civil real quick what did that say i just wanted to bring up about the civil
they’re talking about the civil adelphi what did they call her what did they call her they called
her ottoman artemis wait are you sure that it says that um yeah it turns out that they’re calling you
can take it down that they’re calling people gods try to grasp this for a minute break out of the
fairy tale and try to grasp the fact that there were people walking around in their civilization
who were considered dressed as and worshipped as gods yeah yeah well that is amazing right that
right there that’s something when you have been into the mystery and you have been through that
pharmacosexual initiation you have seen her you have seen lady babylon and now you know
why lady babylon is enemy number one of yahoo enemy number one have you have you ever thought
about that why why in the apocalypse why is it the way that lady babylon is is the enemy why
Why? Yeah. Yeah. It’s in the blood. It’s in the blood. If you want to be born again, if you want that in Christing, it’s going to have to come through the blood on a thorn. Yeah. Give me a little more Greek. Give me a little more Greek. Let me just throw out a couple more things. Those are beautiful, by the way.
Jewie, thanks. Fantastic. Yep, anything. There we go. Hey, I just want you to see here that this one Sibyl that is the Chaldean Sibyl, he says her name is Sambethe, right? Now, he says some people say that she is the Ibraia, right? Some people say that she is the Persis, right? And this is her real name of power, though. Her real name of power is Sambethe, yes.
and she comes from that genos of that holy priest we all know as noah you say noah no i said no way
before before you were ever given a noah you had noah the father of the sibyl yeah father of the
how long does she live a better question would be does she die and who are all the people in
history claim that she doesn’t yeah are you mainlining all right if you are mainlining
that logos you’ve got to get it you see why the christians can’t reach it why the orthodox
jews can’t reach it why the taliban throw an acid in the face of little girls you know why they
cannot reach that place because their ancestors all worshipped Aphrodite and Bacchus, and they
threw it away. They threw it away for the sake of greed, for the sake of a possession, for the sake
of 70 virgins. They threw it all away. You dishonor Aphrodite, you fundamentalists. You dishonor
aphrodite and you hate women as a result and how do i know that because i’m just talking history
man that’s what happens it always goes that direction yeah when you get rid of the elements
of aphrodite within the cult you get religions that are misogynistic ta-da shouldn’t be a surprise
shouldn’t be a surprise now you can go the other direction too you get an amazonian queen you get
get an Amazonian queen who perhaps has worshipped as a goddess. Yeah. Have you ever been, let me
just ask, the sisterhood of frustration, have you ever been worshipped? Yeah. Yeah. Special
dedication to my nun friend in Nazareth. Special dedication. You saw, you saw everything. Your eyes
were open and it was my pleasure to be able to give you that fruit that’s the power that’s the
power oh can you feel it can you feel that okay throw in that last let’s go quick these people
want they’re like shut up i need dinner um go uh yeah here more civil stuff look more civil stuff
um great uh look i just want you guys to notice this chaldean or persian sybil
right all of these sybils are following that structure that medea set up as the queen of
babylon did you see the tunnel she built a tunnel under the river can you believe this and it’s you
know she had to change the direction of the river she had to waterproof everything they had to put
up art designs oh my god it’s absolutely gorgeous absolutely gorgeous this is the most um this is
the greatest gem medea let me just say this medea is the greatest undiscovered treasure of humanity
the greatest undiscovered treasure of humanity yeah you are the product of her thoughts you are
the product of her thoughts if you are a christian and you are sitting watching billy graham with
your popcorn if you are in church if you are going to your synagogue to your mosque you are all
servants of the mind of a bronze age woman your religions were created by her they are corruptions
of what she did this is gorgeous gorgeousness and gorgiosity go to go to another one i hope you
i hope you don’t mind we didn’t invite philo because if we had philo sitting here this whole
time you know what we’d be talking about yeah yeah wouldn’t be this let’s go um yeah that’s
okay here’s another orpheus i want to show you look there’s orpheus one right this is the thracian
one go to the next one and look there’s a bunch of other orpheus’s here yeah did you even know
like many of us many people here be honest with yourself you’re studying these mystery religions
take it down you’re studying these mystery religions right you want to know that’s that’s
what’s driving us right you want to know so that you can say what jesus was doing with that naked
kid you want to know and right in the middle of all this you realize oh shit i didn’t know there’s
more than one Orpheus, yeah, it’s just a name, bro, right, and you mean these other ones are
poets, too, yeah, right, and nobody knows, no, look, we’ve got fragments from them, this is fantastic,
right, Bible scholars, they never touch this stuff, why would they never touch this stuff,
I don’t know, I’m asking genuinely, because I don’t know, it boggles my mind, whenever I come
across a biblical scholar who has no idea about anything outside of the New Testament. I’m always
shocked. I’m like, can you claim really to be an expert in this language if all you’ve read is
one thing out of thousands upon thousands upon thousands? There’s 400 pages of this text that
I’m showing you with these different authors, different ancient authors. There’s 400 pages of
it. And there’s two to three per page, two to three per page. My God, did you know there was
that many? There’s 500,000 copies, 500,000 scrolls in Alexandria alone. Yeah. Don’t think that there
aren’t books all over the place, right? If you are wealthy in antiquity, in Rome, you got scrolls.
You got scrolls. You send your kids to Athens. Why do you send them there? It’s for the Greek brah
It’s for the Greek this Greek can open your brain not modern Greek modern Greeks been enslaved by the church
Yeah, see what happens people Julian was right. We’re gonna lose it. We’ll lose everything
30% they told me in history. It’s gonna be 30% and kicks over go for it
Well, I’m a couple more and then we’ll we’ll oh here
i just gave you yeah so teddy hoss i just want to give you this is interesting because who is this
writer of epic poetry right he’s got soter in his name i just wanted you to see he’s got soter in
his name but um he’s going to be talking about some pretty cool stuff he’s writing about the
basarids you know or you know otherwise called the he’s writing a dionisiaca wait a minute what yes
another you said I thought there was only one no no there’s multiple all
right all of a sudden do you realize how small a view of antiquity you’ve been
getting you mean there are other epics other than knownest about Dionysus yep
yeah you mean the epithets that Jesus is using as Jesus Christ are all Bacchic
epithets yep you mean hallelujah is a greek expression yep yeah yeah you see what you have
to do is you have to build you have to build your own foundation if you don’t have one if all you
got sand you got to build a foundation you got to put something make it work right you can’t just
start on the sand all right it’s probably gonna sink anyway all right go somewhere else yeah take
philo with you right josephus was a liar he was an out and out liar it’s amazing people will believe
anything if you write it down and of course what are they all writing in greek anywho go go this
is i’m sorry do that do that i think it’s too i think it’s abusing the biblical scholars too much
can we get the excessive abusing the biblical scholars sound do we have that anywhere chewy
can you keep it up yeah exactly right come on man you gotta feel bad for him all they’ve got is a
text that’s from a defunct language that somebody propped up and shocked a couple times with battery
and it twitched come on man i want to show you a woman i want to show you a woman and this is
in response. This last little bit is going to be my response to Bart Ehrman. My response to Bart
Ehrman. Bart, you stepped in it. You stepped in it, Bart. You know you did when you said this week
that people in antiquity all thought that women were inferior to men. They were not finished
creations. And Bart, you know what you’ve done, Bart, right? You’ve taken a 2,000-year period,
bart with hundreds of cultures and you smashed them all together under the power of aristotle
and his misogyny you smashed it all together and you did that bart because i know what you
did you wiggled out from the generation the generation of scholars who were saying women
did nothing in the ancient world they did nothing yeah they were chattel they were chattel
oh sorry sorry bart but you know as well as i do or maybe they don’t teach you in biblical studies
but you should know that a generalization like that about antiquity you’re never there’s no
generalization that you can prop up right i can walk you over to the amazonians who are kicking
the athenians tails in battle and tell them hey what do you think you could tell medea that but
she wouldn’t care because she’s already sending out pithias all over the planet yeah yeah you got
them as far west as brittany they go beyond the hesperides beyond the hesperides oh my god oh my
god but that’s okay bart bart i know that you can’t help it because there’s a certain load of
stink that you have to bear within the discipline i get that um but that doesn’t that that doesn’t
mean that you aren’t doing something that is disrespectful to the muse right classical
philologists texts that’s what we are right we work with the texts we don’t dig in the dirt we
have to you have to a certain amount but we don’t dig in the dirt that we leave that for the
archaeologists we dig through the text we dig through the text i want to get you this woman
bring it bring her in finally somebody is this is this she that i was looking for just a minute ago
and you look at the top and the greek students look at that hypatia we’re going to be talking
about hypatia she’s one of the authors that um you know is mentioned and in this in this uh source
and i just want you to know um let’s put it up there i want to translate it for him because
oh yeah this is yeah she’s the daughter the hypatia is the daughter of the geometrician theon
yeah and um she was a full uh sorry he’s a philosopher in alexandria and she too
it was a philosopher yeah and famous was known by many people yeah yeah yeah she was the wife
no no sorry um um she grew to her acme oh isn’t that nice isn’t that nice she grew to her acme
in the kingship of uh arcadius okay cool and what does she do she wrote a notes she wrote notes or
a synopsis of the um these mathematical works of diophanties okay cool cool cool and some something
on astronomica yeah something about astronomy yeah and also apollonius right apollonius she
wrote a she wrote again some notes on that and what did she do she was killed by the alexandrians
and her body right was grossly maltreated cut up spread through the city yeah and she suffered this
he says duto de pep on the she suffered this why the thonon thonon thonon you atheists won’t
understand this phone on give me the next give me the greek for phone on yeah what is it ill will
or malice yeah a little bit of jealousy a little bit of jealousy a little bit of grudging feeling
why why did they grudge this woman what did what could she possibly begrudge them bring it back up
well because of her wisdom most especially you know because of the incredible astronomical
knowledge take it down what a bunch of dogs what a bunch of i can’t even say i love dogs too much
yeah i don’t know what kind of animal um acts that way i don’t but i do know that that animal
is traditionally carrying a cross or an eight-pointed star or a crescent moon
and usually somebody’s getting enslaved in the process and is typically women those sisterhoods
of the frustration i know you i know where you are yeah yeah hypatia what beauty right you notice
i didn’t read to you there’s descriptions of her and how she looked and all that stuff right but
what was beautiful about hypatia is that her understanding of the cosmos was so superior
that it made people hate her for it people who followed yahoo yeah when you take a polytheistic
society in which justice thrives when you take that society and give a third of the people power
over everyone else that third can turn that society upside down they don’t have to be a majority and
And that’s exactly what the Christians did.
And with the Christians having taken over the Romans, having taken over the empire and
having mismanaged it so poorly that it was falling apart, having done all of that, there
had to be built some kind of facade of scholarship.
And that scholarship came through the Masoretic sect, which provided that source that we didn’t have.
It finally solidified that this language is the language of God.
Yeah. Yeah. That’s how history is built. And that’s where you are.
But we’re going back to that original. Tonight, I had a couple.
I think I had one or two more things, but I wanted you to I wanted you to see.
I wanted us to end with the resurrection of that vampire
that Baudelaire is talking about.
Yeah, she, who Baudelaire is talking about.
Yeah.
These are the texts, people.
If you would like to refute, if you would like to critique,
or as some of the comments said, to debunk,
if you would like to debunk any of those texts, feel free.
How about it?
Yeah, go ahead.
But if you notice tonight, guys, all I did, all I did was bring you texts.
This is what Bible studies will die from when classicists stand up,
master those texts, and bring you the beauty.
Yeah, yeah, that’s the way.
We build that museum.
We build that museum.
Thank you guys for giving me so much time tonight.
I’m not going to take any more of your time.
It’s an honor.
Hail Satan.
Just maybe we gather again.
Source: Lady Babylon