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To: average joe who wrote (33838)	3/4/2013 12:34:15 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

One sees Egyptians for that time the big show in town, nothing could equivilate to those massive super structures which were meant to be the eternal resting places for those kings. The secrets of the priesthood & rituals of immortality were first reserved only for the Pharoah, then later for a fee of course these same ritual burial rites could be had by the nobility, surprise surprise? Theres always the starting obvious metaphors of the divine , that which is good & life sustaining like the rivers around which civilizations sprang and the sun . Everlasting life, free of disease & suffering a basic aspiration from which all rituals are born, these revolved the same for any tribe you can name, its all there in the history books. Naturally the rules are modified later, changed so heaven is now more accessable to the common man, like the recent 1820s Christian revival movements . Looking for a new lease on the keys to the kingdom, choose to stress which had been done so many times before, the return of the king which showed how desperate things had become again . But when in doubt & in total confusion break out the old tricks that had worked so many times before? Here's where direct contact with your favorite angel or the old man himself comes in very handy now that the crowd of followers has accepted the new rules will apply. But the new rules were old rules & tactics, the tendency of not wanting to be left behind as old as the human psyche, fear of death & being seperated from loved ones. Of course these 'charmed' ones knew every aspect of that trickery , those nebulous threats & imaginary spaces from the original story, which was never original or very deep in the first place.

To: average joe who wrote (33838)	3/4/2013 1:23:51 AM
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In the case of Waco Texas & David Koresh they had all planned for a day of peaceful resolution , agreed upon finally by all involved as i recall but then Koresh had one more "revelation', which as it turned out was one revelation too many. The Revelation 22 below that Koresh felt he had direct contact with God over is just so darkly ironic and the of the danger of words & so called holy books in the hands of morons. What is commonly accepted as deeply religious is a pathetic oxymoron in this society for its born more racial prejudice, hate & exclusionary doctrines than any vision of peace ever created for mankind. You read this below, Koresh might have spent more time planting trees on earth than worrying about his sorry ass in some imaginary heaven. Surely they could have made money with organic gardening, sold veggies rather than automatic weapons, since being vegetarians was already a doctrine of the sect? (Whole Foods was doing very well by that time over in Austin, the market had been very much established for organic produce, alas...) Revelations 22 "The River of Life" And he showed me a pure[ a] river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. 2 In the middle of its street, *and on either side of the river, was* the tree of life,** which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. 3 And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him. 4 They shall see His face, and His name shall be on their foreheads. 5 There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign forever and ever. The Time Is Near 6 Then he said to me, “These words are faithful and true.” And the Lord God of the holy[ b] prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly take place. 7 “Behold, I am coming quickly! Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.” 8 Now I, John, saw and heard[ c] these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. 9 Then he said to me, “See that you do not do that. For[ d] I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.” 10 And he said to me, “Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. 11 He who is unjust, let him be unjust still; he who is filthy, let him be filthy still; he who is righteous, let him be righteous[ e] still; he who is holy, let him be holy still.” Jesus Testifies to the Churches 12 “And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.”[ f] etc etc