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Ishtar = Easter?
April 20, 2009, 05:27:34 PM »
I dont know on what basis alex says this, but in truth and the more standard interpretation of easter is this...The Ishtar one seems to be a conspiracy theorist answer thats pretty much devoid of any mystical/occult basis.
In the seasonal cycle, Spring(which signfies regeneration) is represented by the East(because the sun rises and "regenerates" itself daily from the east)
And thus the name
ER(the vernal equinox)
Perhaps Ishtar plays into this at a deeper level....Though, when he says Ishtar im not sure he realizes what hes referring to..The occult belief thats prevalent but probably too confusing to the ignorant is that Ishtar is the ancient babylonian name for the demonic feminine. Shes equal with Isis, rhea, athena etc in the other pagan pantheons. And so, the egg symbolism associated with Easter(which represents the cosmic womb) sorta dovetails with this festival of easter. It represents the insertion of the demonic masculine(the sun entering the first of the zodiacal signs, the ram(which was worshipped by all ancient peoples -especially the egyptians) uniting with the feminine(the earth) causing regeneration...So, i can definitely see the Ishtar relation with Easter..But more importantly, what can be proved without a problem is that the
er specifically refers to the power of the East.
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April 20, 2009, 05:29:14 PM »
Eater = East Star
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April 20, 2009, 05:45:16 PM »
The likelihood of a direct etymological connection between the Anglo-Saxon, "Easter" (goddess) and the middle-eastern "Ishtar" is pretty remote, but clearly early Christians, like the Jews before them, were attempting to co-opt/transform earlier pagan calendric ritual revolving around the spring equinox.
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April 20, 2009, 05:46:23 PM »
Easter = a day when an anthropomorphic bunny hides hard boiled painted eggs and chocolate effigy's of himself for children to find because Jesus loves you.
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April 20, 2009, 05:48:23 PM »
And I am sure Passover has nothing to do with other middle-eastern spring equinox rituals, right Heavy?
Why single out Christianity?
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Re: Ishtar = Easter?
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April 20, 2009, 06:05:47 PM »
Well, just as the early church built their temples on top of popular pagan temples, so too did they build their holidays on pagan holidays. To make the transfer that much easier. Bishops would write letters to group leaders relating an angel or prophet with one of the pagans saying "see were very similar to you". Take Christmas trees, this originally was a tradition done by the Egyptians in worship of the resurrection of Osiris.
Pagans didn't ask their traditions to be stolen so don't try to claim that they are trying to brain wash Christians hahaha.
Not sure why the author of this post kept says "demonic female, and demonic male" maybe its just me but that sounds very evil. I can't see how a goddess and god uniting to bring harvest and life to a planet is evil...but maybe I am missing something.
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April 20, 2009, 06:06:11 PM »
Quote from: db on April 20, 2009, 05:48:23 PM
And I am sure Passover has nothing to do with other middle-eastern spring equinox rituals, right Heavy?
Why single out Christianity?
Passover? I am sure it has to do with <insert random Sumerian/Egyptian god>. I singled out the Christian ritual because it is really, really funny when you think about it. Bunnys + chocolate + hard boiled eggs + hide & seek tied to the Ascension of God's Son who is actually God himself incarnate. Or something like that.
As far as ritual religious expression, whatever floats your boat, go for it. I was a kid last time I celebrated Passover. I would make fun of it if I could. Passover is boring, with the horrible food, the seat left open, remembering that our God inflicted ten horrible plagues upon innocent Egyptians for the insolence of one man (the Pharaoh, not Moses) oh and the food, did I mention our food sucks? Wait till Channukah comes back round. That holiday begs for being messed with. (I have Christmas envy, all Jews do)
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April 20, 2009, 06:06:24 PM »
Quote from: db on April 20, 2009, 05:48:23 PM
And I am sure Passover has nothing to do with other middle-eastern spring equinox rituals, right Heavy?
Why single out Christianity?
Passover has nothing to do with the equinox, and I'm not going to tell you how you come to the date of Passover because your not worthy.
But Easter is totally Pagan,
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April 20, 2009, 06:14:09 PM »
Oh and one last thing about Passover. It was hilarious, still is, watching people go into a housecleaning frenzy. God forbid someone finds a grain(?) of flour in a crack behind the refrigerator. Oh noes! What will we tell the rabbi?
Then there is the Seder or as I like to call it The Day of Formal Dining Ware and A Lot of Handwashing.
But you get horseradish!
And kids, you get to take part in the Afikoman! It is like an Easter egg hunt but, like Channukah, a poor relative with no chocolate. FIND THAT MATZOH!
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April 20, 2009, 06:14:15 PM »
Quote from: meekayel on April 20, 2009, 05:27:34 PM
I dont know on what basis alex says this, but in truth and the more standard interpretation of easter is this...The Ishtar one seems to be a conspiracy theorist answer thats pretty much devoid of any mystical/occult basis.
In the seasonal cycle, Spring(which signfies regeneration) is represented by the East(because the sun rises and "regenerates" itself daily from the east)
And thus the name
ER(the vernal equinox)
Perhaps Ishtar plays into this at a deeper level....Though, when he says Ishtar im not sure he realizes what hes referring to..The occult belief thats prevalent but probably too confusing to the ignorant is that Ishtar is the ancient babylonian name for the demonic feminine. Shes equal with Isis, rhea, athena etc in the other pagan pantheons. And so, the egg symbolism associated with Easter(which represents the cosmic womb) sorta dovetails with this festival of easter. It represents the insertion of the demonic masculine(the sun entering the first of the zodiacal signs, the ram(which was worshipped by all ancient peoples -especially the egyptians) uniting with the feminine(the earth) causing regeneration...So, i can definitely see the Ishtar relation with Easter..But more importantly, what can be proved without a problem is that the
er specifically refers to the power of the East.
Look at last year 2008....
Easter took place on a different week than passover. This year is was the same week.
Ishtar is a goddess of
, love, war, and
.[1] In the Babylonian pantheon, she "was the divine
personification of the planet Venus
Ishtar was above all associated with sexuality: her cult involved sacred prostitution
; her holy city Erech was called the "town of the sacred courtesans"; and she herself was the "courtesan of the gods".[2] Ishtar had many lovers; however, as Guirand notes,
The Babylonian goddess of love and fertility.
The rabbit is well known as a sexual symbol of fertility. In various parts of the world, religions which developed from Babel also associate the rabbit with periodicity, both human and lunar (Egypt, China, etc.). As you may remember, the Mother Goddess Semiramis (Easter) is associated with the Moon. In other words, the Easter bunny symbolizes the Mother Goddess. Annual Spring time fertility rituals are associated worship of the Mother Goddess and Tammuz, the reincarnation of her husband Nimrod.
we are probably saying the same thing but Easter does have a double meaning. Celabrating the resurection of Jesus and for the Pagan's Istar worship.
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April 20, 2009, 06:15:21 PM »
Quote from: DawnIsMyGoddess on April 20, 2009, 05:29:14 PM
Eater = East Star
Thats seems to be more of a linguistic coincidence. It has no meaning aside from sounding like east star(venus)
er actually refers to the power of the east thats in activity during the month of nissan(april/may).....Hence it being in its name
The Egg/bunny symbolism also dovetails with what i said earlier about the sexual connotation of the holiday...The demonic masculine(Osiris, Zeus etc) represented by the sun entering the sign of the ram(which is most powerful, containing the 11 signs in potentiality within it) enters the earth(symbolized by the egg, the cosmic womb) to fecundate and cause renewal...
To me this is probably the most meaningful day to the illuminati because it exactly mimics their own relationship to the divine. They know full well Good is obviously more powerful than evil. But evil still contains within it the potentiality to regenerate itself in the same way the sun regenerates nature in the spring.
This is why they seem to be so ballsy. They think despite what happens, they have the power to overcome it and possibly later on renew themselves.
if people only knew just 1 iota of what they do....The occult secrets theyve engaged in for thousands of years.
They dont die most of these people. The Tibetan/Egyptian books of the dead outline the process of preserving the personality(individuality) of the soul after death.. so no effing wonder theyre not bothered by threats of going to hell..Theyve got ways to temporarily avoid that.
However, the future messianic era wont be so accomodating for them. Those ignorant of the Judaic kabbalistic prophecies outlined in the torah/prophets are just being led by their lower nature still unwittingly aware of the horros that await them.
The more intelligent ones are obviously very aware of the threat Judaism poses to them; hence the antisemitism theyve created in the world.
People should check out the Zohar if you want to understand some more of the esoteric details of the era were living in.
G-d specifically wants an abode in this lower world. The world of action. Where literally the greatest divine powers are trapped(this is called in kabbalah the breaking of the vessels). Spiritual worlds are a sublte realm, and so, the physical, which is a condensation of the spiritual, contains within it a greater capacity for illumination. Likewise, it presents a greater potential for its opposite.
These guys at the top know that, Kissinger knows that. The perception of "evil" jews in power are only from the tribe of reuben, who Jacob said himself wouldnt last - "unbridled like water, you will not last" he says to reuben. Reuben - jacobs first born, lost the first born right(which went to Joseph), the kingship(which went to Judah) AND the priesthood(which went to levi) . The blood coloured RUBY actually derives its name etymologically from Reuben, which represents raw unbridled power. Rabbi Shimon Bar yochai in the Zohar also says these reubenites would spread to the 4 corners of the world and take over the governments(which theyve done in conjunction with amalek - the gentile illuminati pagans from the 70 other nations). though, for the purpose of amplifying antisemitism theyve created the perception that only jews run everything - which of course those reubenites gladly accept their role as.
Sorry, always get off topic
Ya, Easter is definitely a pagan day. all the 4 seasonal periods(the 2 equioxes and 2 solstices) represent a particular cardinal power. Since East is the most powerful, they consecrate a day to it. Though, interistingly, Christmas, the winter solstice, has santa(anagram for satan) coming from the NORTH(the power in activity) entering our chimneys(ie; our subconscious) and planting presents under our tree( a tree is a symbol for a world, and aptly - trees are literal worlds for many creatures - presents equal idoltrous thoughts - in our wicked world we actually put physical superficialities under our trees). so the birth of the christ is ACTUALLY the birth of Horus, the evil principle, the man transformed into a god. Christ represents this.
Its so hard knowing all these things and so many christians are just unable to see it. Religion = mysticism. tahts it. Jesus without a mystical understanding = superstition which = stupidity.
Unfortunately for those idolators emotionally attached to this figure cant break their mind from it. Christ is a PAGAN idea. Asclepius, trismigistus, the younger horus, all of these are simply metaphors for the man who transforms his lower animal soul into a splitting image of the divine. Hermes, and unfortunately, christ, thats just an ancient name of todays modern notion of satan.
Our lowest world, malkhut, is both good and bad; its the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This is who they worship tehse people.
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Re: Ishtar = Easter?
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April 20, 2009, 06:16:49 PM »
Man Babylonians were a messed up people. Take a totally hot piece of statuary and mess it up with eagles claw for feet. Really kills the visual.
Better than the Romans with their penchant for penis's everywhere.
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Re: Ishtar = Easter?
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April 20, 2009, 06:17:28 PM »
Easter is a pagan holiday associated with Ishtar, the godess of accient Babylon. Look it up.
Easter has nothing NOTHING to do with Passover. How some christians can be so gullible is beyond me!!
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April 20, 2009, 06:21:45 PM »
Then look at Easter. When means the term Easter itself? It is not a Christian name. It bears its Chaldean origin on its very forehead. Easter is nothing else than Astarte, one of the titles of Beltis, the queen of heaven, whose name, as pronounced by the people of Nineveh, was evidently identical with that now in common use in this country. That name, as found by Layard on the Assyrian monuments, is Ishtar. * The worship of Bel and Astarte was very early introduced into Britain, along with the Druids, "the priests of the groves." Some have imagined that the Druidical worship was first introduced by the Phenicians, who, centuries before the Christian era, traded to the tin-mines of Cornwall. But the unequivocal traces of that worship are found in regions of the British islands where the Phenicians never penetrated, and it has everywhere left indelible marks of the strong hold which it must have had on the early British mind. From Bel, the 1st of May is still called Beltane in the Almanac; * and we have customs still lingering at this day among us, which prove how exactly the worship of Bel or Moloch (for both titles belonged to the same god) had been observed even in the northern parts of this island. "The late Lady Baird, of Fern Tower, in Perthshire," says a writer in "Notes and Queries," thoroughly versed in British antiquities, * "told me, that every year, at Beltane (or the 1st of May), a number of men and women assemble at an ancient Druidical circle of stones on her property near Crieff. They light a fire in the centre, each person puts a bit of oat-cake in a shepherd's bonnet; they all sit down, and draw blindfold a piece from the bonnet. One piece has been previously blackened, and whoever gets that piece has to jump through the fire in the centre of the circle, and pay a forfeit. This is, in fact, a part of the ancient worship of Baal, and the person on whim the lot fell was previously burnt as a sacrifice. Now, the passing through the fire represents that, and the payment of the forfeit redeems the victim." If Baal was thus worshipped in Britain, it will not be difficult to believe that his consort Astarte was also adored by our ancestors, and that from Astarte, whose name in Nineveh was Ishtar, the religious solemnities of April, as now practised, are called by the name of Easter--that month, among our Pagan ancestors, having been called Easter-monath. The festival, of which we read in Church history, under the name of Easter, in the third or fourth centuries, was quite a different festival from that now observed in the Romish Church, and at that time was not known by any such as Easter. * It was called Pasch, or the Passover, and though not of Apostolic institution, * was very early observed by many professing Christians, in commemoration of the death and resurrection of Christ. That festival agreed originally with the time of the Jewish Passover, when Christ was crucified, a period which, in the days of Tertullian, at the end of the second century, was believed to have been the 23rd of March. * That festival was not idolatrous, and it was preceded by no Lent. "It ought to be known," said Cassianus, the monk of Marseilles, writing in the fifth century, and contrasting the primitive Church with the Church in his day, "that the observance of the forty days had no existence so long as the perfection of that primitive Church remained inviolate." * Whence, then, came this observance? The forty days' abstinence of Lent was directly borrowed from the worshippers of the Babylonian goddess. Such a Lent of forty days, "in the spring of the year," is still observed by the Yezidis or Pagan Devil-worshippers of Koordistan, * who have inherited it from their early masters, the Babylonians. Such a Lent of forty days was held in spring by the Pagan Mexicans, for thus we read in Humboldt, * where he gives account of Mexican observances: "Three days after the vernal equinox.... began a solemn fast of forty days in honour of the sun." Such a Lent of forty days was observed in Egypt, as may be seen on consulting Wilkinson's Egyptians. * This Egyptian Lent of forty days, we are informed by Landseer, in his Sabean Researches, was held expressly in commemoration of Adonis or Osiris, the great mediatorial god. * At the same time, the rape of Proserpine seems to have been commemorated, and in a similar manner; for Julius Firmicus informs us that, for "forty nights" the "wailing for Proserpine" continued; * and from Arnobius we learn that the fast which the Pagans observed, called "Castus" or the "sacred" fast, was, by the Christians in his time, believed to have been primarily in imitation of the long fast of Ceres, when for many days she determinedly refused to eat on account of her "excess of sorrow" (volentia maeroris), * that is, on account of the loss of her daughter Proserpine, when carried away by Pluto, the god of hell. As the stories of Bacchus, or Adonis and Proserpine, though originally distinct, were made to join on and fit in to one another, so that Bacchus was called Liber, and his wife Ariadne, Libera * (which was one of the names of Proserpine), * it is highly probable that the forty days' fast of Lent was made in later times to have reference to both. Among the Pagans this Lent seems to have been an indispensable preliminary to the great annual festival in commemoration of the death and resurrection of Tammuz, which was celebrated by alternate weeping and rejoicing, and which, in many countries, was considerably later than the Christian festival, being observed in Palestine and Assyria in June, therefore called the "month of Tammuz;" in Egypt, about the middle of May, and in Britain, some time in April. To conciliate the Pagans to nominal Christianity, Rome, pursuing its usual policy, took measures to get the Christian and Pagan festivals amalgamated, and, by a complicated but skilful adjustment of the calendar, it was found no difficult matter, in general, to get Paganism and Christianity--now far sunk in idolatry--in this as in so many other things, to shake hands. The instrument in accomplishing this amalgamation was the abbot Dionysius the Little, * to whom also we owe it, as modern chronologers have demonstrated, that the date of the Christian era, or of the birth of Christ Himself, was mover FOUR YEARS from the true time. Whether this was done through ignorance or design may be matter of question; but there seems to be no doubt of the fact, that the birth of the Lord Jesus was made full four years later than the truth. * This change of the calendar in regard to Easter was attended with momentous consequences. It brought into the Church the grossest corruption and the rankest superstition in connection with the abstinence of Lent. Let any one only read the atrocities that were commemorated during the "sacred fast" or Pagan Lent, as described by Arnobius and Clemens Alexandrinus, * and surely he must blush for the Christianity of those who, with the full knowledge of all these abominations, "went down to Egypt for help" to stir up the languid devotion of the degenerate Church, and who could find no more excellent way to "revive" it, than by borrowing from so polluted a source; the absurdities and abominations connected with which the early Christian writers had held up to scorn. That Christians should ever think of introducing the Pagan abstinence of Lent was a sign of evil; it showed how low they had sunk, and it was also a cause of evil; it inevitably led to deeper degradation. Originally, even in Rome, Lent, with the preceding revelries of the Carnival, was entirely unknown; and even when fasting before the Christian Pasch was held to be necessary, it was by slow steps that, in this respect, it came to conform with the ritual of Paganism. What may have been the period of fasting in the Roman Church before the sitting of the Nicene Council does not very clearly appear, but for a considerable period after that Council, we have distinct evidence that it did not exceed three weeks. * The words of Socrates, writing on this very subject, about A.D. 450, are these: "Those who inhabit the princely city of Rome fast together before Easter three weeks, excepting the Saturday and Lord's-day." * But at last, when the worship of Astarte was rising into the ascendant, steps were taken to get the whole Chaldean Lent of six weeks, or forty days, made imperative on all within the Roman empire of the West. The way was prepared for this by a Council held at Aurelia in the time of Hormisidas, Bishop of Rome, about the year 519, which decreed that Lent should be solemnly kept before Easter. * It was with the view, no doubt, of carrying out this decree that the calendar was, a few days after, readjusted by Dionysius. This decree could not be carried out all at once. About the end of the sixth century, the first decisive attempt was made to enforce the observance of the new calendar. It was in Britain that the first attempt was made in this way; * and here the attempt met with vigorous resistance. The difference, in point of time, betwixt the Christian Pasch, as observed in Britain by the native Christians, and the Pagan Easter enforced by Rome, at the time of its enforcement, was a whole month; * and it was only by violence and bloodshed, at last, that the Festival of the Anglo-Saxon or Chaldean goddess came to supersede that which had been held in honour of Christ.
Such is the history of Easter. The popular observances that still attend the period of its celebration amply confirm the testimony of history as to its Babylonian character. The hot cross buns of Good Friday, and the dyed eggs of Pasch or Easter Sunday, figured in the Chaldean rites just as they do now. The "buns," known too by that identical name, were used in the worship of the queen of heaven, the goddess Easter, as early as the days of Cecrops, the founder of Athens--that is, 1500 years before the Christian era. "One species of sacred bread," says Bryant, * "which used to be offered to the gods, was of great antiquity, and called Boun." Diogenes Laertius, speaking of this offering being made by Empedocles, describes the chief ingredients of which it was composed, saying, "He offered one of the sacred cakes called Boun, which was made of fine flour and honey." * The prophet Jeremiah takes notice of this kind of offering when he says, "The children gather wood, the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven." * The hot cross buns are not now offered, but eaten, on the festival of Astarte; but this leaves no doubt as to whence they have been derived. The origin of the Pasch eggs is just as clear. The ancient Druids bore an egg, as the sacred emblem of their order. * In the Dionysiaca, or mysteries of Bacchus, as celebrated in Athens, one part of the nocturnal ceremony consisted in the consecration of an egg. * The Hindoo fables celebrate their mundane egg as of a golden colour. * The people of Japan make their sacred egg to have been brazen. * In China, at this hour, dyed or painted eggs are used on sacred festivals, even as in this country. * In ancient times eggs were used in the religious rites of the Egyptians and the Greeks, and were hung up for mystic purposed in their temples. * From Egypt these sacred eggs can be distinctly traced to the banks of the Euphrates. The classic poets are full of the fable of the mystic egg of the Babylonians; and thus its tale is told by Hyginus, the Egyptian, the learned keeper of the Palatine library at Rome, in the time of Augustus, who was skilled in all the wisdom of the native country: "An egg of wondrous size is said to have fallen from heaven into the river Euphrates. The fishes rolled it to the bank, were the doves having settled upon it, and hatched it, out came Venus, who afterwards was called the Syrian Goddess" * --that is, Astarte. Hence the egg became one of the symbols of Astarte or Easter; and accordingly, in Cyprus, one of the chosen seats of the worship of Venus, or Astarte, the egg of wondrous size was represented on a grand scale. *
The occult meaning of this mystic egg of Astarte, in one of its aspects (for it had a twofold significance), had reference to the ark * during the time of the flood, in which the whole human race were shut up, as the chick is enclosed in the egg before it is hatched. If any be inclined to ask, how could it ever enter the minds of men to employ such an extraordinary symbol for such a purpose, the answer is, first, The sacred egg of Paganism, as already indicated (p. 108), is well known as the "mundane egg," that is, the egg in which the world was shut up. Now the world has two distinct meanings--it means either the material earth, or the inhabitants of the earth. The latter meaning of the term is seen in Gen xi. 1, "The whole earth was of one language and of one speech," where the meaning is that the whole people of the world were so. If then the world is seen shut up in an egg, and floating on the waters, it may not be difficult to believe, however the idea of the egg may have come, that the egg thus floating on the wide universal sea might be Noah's family that contained the whole world in its bosom. Then the application of the word egg to the ark comes thus:--The Hebrew name for an egg is Baitz, or in the feminine (for there are both genders), Baitza. Thus, in Chaldee and Phenician, becomes Baith or Baitha, * which in these languages is also the usual way in which the name of a house is pronounced. * The egg floating on the waters that contained the world, was the house floating on the waters of the deluge, with the elements of the new world in its bosom. The coming of the egg from heaven evidently refers to the preparation of the ark by express appointment of God; and the same thing seems clearly implied in the Egyptian story of the mundane egg which was said to have come out of the mouth of the great god. * The doves resting on the egg need no explanation. This, then, was the meaning of the mystic egg in one aspect. As, however, everything that was good or beneficial to mankind was represented in the Chaldean mysteries, as in some way connected with the Babylonian goddess, so the greatest blessing to the human race, which the ark contained in its bosom, was held to be Astarte, who was the great civiliser and benefactor of the world. Though the deified queen, whom Astarte represented, had no actual existence till some centuries after the flood, yet through the doctrine of metempsychosis, which was firmly established in Babylon, it was easy for her worshippers to be made to believe that, in a previous incarnation, she had lived in the Antediluvian world, and passed in safety through the waters of the flood. Now the Romish Church adopted this mystic egg of Astarte, and consecrated it as a symbol of Christ's resurrection. A form of prayer was even appointed to be used in connection with it, Pope Paul V. teaching his superstitious votaries thus to pray at Easter:--"Bless, O Lord, we beseech thee, this thy creature of eggs, that it may become a wholesome sustenance unto thy servants, eating it in remembrance of our Lord Jesus Christ, etc." * Besides the mystic egg, there was also another emblem of Easter, the goddess queen of Babylon, and that was the Rimmon or "pomegranate." With the Rimmon or "pomegranate" in her hand, she is frequently represented in ancient medals, and the house of Rimmon, in which the King of Damascus, the Master of Naaman, the Syrian, worshipped, was in all likelihood a temple of Astarte, where that goddess with the Rimmon was publicly adored. The pomegranate is a fruit that is full of seeds; and on that account it has been supposed that it was employed as an emblem of that vessel in which the germs of the new creation were preserved, wherewith the world was to be sown anew with man and with beast, when the desolation of the deluge had passed away. But upon more searching inquiry, it turns out that the Rimmon or "pomegranate" had reference to an entirely different thing. Astarte, or Cybele, was called also Idaia Mater, * and the sacred mount in Phrygia, most famed for the celebration of her mysteries, was named Mount Ida--that is, in Chaldee, the sacred language of these mysteries, the Mount of Knowledge. "Idaia Mater," then, signifies "the Mother of Knowledge"--in other words, our Mother Eve, who first coveted the "knowledge of good and evil." and actually purchased it at so dire a price to herself and to all her children. Astarte, as can be abundantly shown, was worshipped not only as an incarnation of the Spirit of God, but also of the mother of mankind. * When, therefore, the mother of the gods, and the mother of knowledge, was represented with the fruit of the pomegranate in her extended hand , inviting those who ascended the sacred mount to initiation in her mysteries, can there be a doubt what that fruit was intended to signify? Evidently, it must accord with her assumed character; it must be the fruit of the "Tree of Knowledge"--the fruit of that very * "Tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe."
The knowledge to which the votaries of the Idaean goddess were admitted, was precisely of the same kind as that which Eve derived from the eating of the forbidden fruit, the practical knowledge of all that was morally evil and base. Yet to Astarte, in this character, men were taught to look at their grand benefactress, as gaining for them knowledge, and blessings connected with that knowledge, which otherwise they might in vain have sought from Him, who is the Father of lights, from whom cometh down every good and perfect gift. Popery inspires the same feeling in regard to the Romish queen of heaven, and leads its devotees to view the sin of Eve in much the same light as that in which Paganism regarded it. In the Canon of the Mass, the most solemn service in the Romish Missal, the following expression occurs, where the sin of our first parent is apostrophised: "O beata culpa, quae talem meruisti redemptorem." * "Oh blessed fault, which didst procure such a Redeemer!" The idea contained in these words is purely Pagan. They just amount to this: "Thanks be to Eve, to whose sin we are indebted for the glorious Saviour." It is true the idea contained in them is found in the same words in the writings of Augustine; but it is an idea utterly opposed to the spirit of the Gospel, which only makes sin the more exceeding sinful, from the consideration that it needed such a ransom to deliver from its awful curse. Augustine had imbibed many Pagan sentiments, and never got entirely delivered from them. It is wonderful that one so good and so enlightened as Merle D'Aubigne should see no harm in such words!
As Rome cherishes the same feelings as Paganism did, so it has adopted also the very same symbols, so far as it has the opportunity. In this country, and most of the countries of Europe, no pomegranates grow; and yet, even here, the superstition of the Rimmon must, as far as possible, be kept up. Instead of the pomegranate, therefore, the orange is employed; and so the Papists of Scotland join oranges with their eggs at Easter; and so also, when Bishop Gillis of Edinburgh went through the vain-glorious ceremony of washing the feet of twelve ragged Irishmen a few years ago at Easter, he concluded by presenting each of them with two eggs and an orange.
Now, this use of the orange as the representative of the fruit of Eden's "dread probationary tree," be it observed, is no modern invention; it goes back to the distant times of classic antiquity. The gardens of the Hesperides in the West, are admitted by all who have studied the subject, just to have been the counterpart of the paradise of Eden in the East. The description of the sacred gardens, as situated in the Isles of the Atlantic, over against the coast of Africa, shows that their legendary site exactly agrees with the Cape Verd or Canary Isles, or some of that group; and, of course, that the "golden fruit" on the sacred tree, so jealously guarded, was none other than the orange. Now, let the reader mark well: According to the classic Pagan story, there was no serpent in that garden of delight in the "islands of the blest," to TEMPT mankind to violate their duty to their great benefactor, by eating of the sacred tree which he had reserved as the test of their allegiance. No; on the contrary, it was the Serpent, the symbol of the Devil, the Principle of evil, the Enemy of man, that prohibited them from eating the precious fruit--that strictly watched it--that would not allow it to be touched. Hercules, one form of the Pagan Messiah--not the primitive, but the Grecian Hercules--pitying man's unhappy state, slew or subdued the serpent, the envious being that grudged mankind the use of that which was so necessary to make them at once perfectly happy and wise, and bestowed upon them what otherwise would have been hopelessly beyond their reach. Here, then, God and the devil are exactly made to change places. Jehovah, who prohibited man from eating of the tree of knowledge, is symbolised by the serpent, and held up as an ungenerous and malignant being, while he who emancipated man from Jehovah's yoke, and gave him of the fruit of the forbidden tree--in other words, Satan under the names of Hercules--is celebrated as the good and gracious Deliverer of the human race. What a mystery of iniquity is here! Now all this was wrapped up in the sacred orange of Easter.
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Easter or Ishtar?
by Al Perez
The word Easter appears once in the King James version of the Bible.Herod has put Peter in prison, "intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people" (Acts 12:4). Yet in the original Greek text the word is not Easter, but Pesach, that is Passover. So why was the name changed? Please read on, and remember Exodus 34:14; For you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous G-d.
"Asherah" the Greek form of this word from the Septuagint is "Astarte", who is the Babylonian goddess of the sea, sea being symbolic of people, and consort of the god El. She was the mother of several gods, including Ba'al, the Babylonian god of the sun. These deities were soon adopted by the Canaanites when they named these female deities the Asherah or Asherim. These deities were made of wood carved from a type of evergreen tree, or often they were set up in Canaanite homes as full trees cut down from a forest. The Asherim normally were highly acknowledged during two specific occasions. First and foremost, they were the fertility gods of the spring equinox, when the days and nights were approximately the same in length, signifying the beginning of living things growing for the summer season. A very common practice in the Canaanite religion was performed on the first Sunday of the equinox. The families would face east to await the rising of the sun, which was the chief symbol of the sun god, Ba'al. Later on during the day, the children of the Canaanite parents would often go and hunt for eggs, which were symbolic of sex, fertility and new life. It was believed that these eggs came from rabbits, which in the pagan world were symbolic of lust, sexual prowess and reproduction. The Canaanites, however, were not the only ones who worshiped rabbits as deities. The Egyptians and the Persians (Babylon) also held rabbits in high esteem because they believed that rabbits first came from the divine Phoenix birds, who once ruled the ancient skies until they were attacked by other gods in a power struggle. When they were struck down, they reincarnated into rabbits, but kept the ability to produce eggs like the ancient birds to show their origins.
Other stories concerning the egg rose later in the Middle Ages by the Anglo-Saxons, where they believed the origin of the Universe had the earth being hatched out of an enormous egg. Decorating eggs came about to honor their pagan gods and were often presented as gifts to other families to bring them fertility and sexual success during the coming year. And secondly, they were highly worshiped and celebrated during the winter solstice. As according to Jer. 10:1-5; Is. 40:19-20; 41:7 and 44:9-20, the pagans would go out into the forest and do one of two things. Either they chopped down a tree and carved a female deity out of it, or they would simply bring the tree into the house and decorate it with gold and silver ornaments symbolizing the sun and the moon while nailing a stand on the bottom so it would not totter or tip over.
Out of this practice came many other variations of these pagan festivals until the Roman Catholic Church adopted the Asherah worship and named it EASTER around 155 A.D. According to the CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA, Easter was named after a pagan goddess of the Anglo-Saxons named Eostre, the goddess of the dawn. A great controversy arose between the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church in 325 A.D. on whether to celebrate Easter on Sundays or on whatever day the Jewish Passover fell upon. Unfortunately, the Greeks lost a lot of followers and the Catholics contended that keeping Easter on Sundays would stimulate the practices of both the Christian world and the pagan worshipers. Note that the word CATHOLIC means "universal" or "one world" in thought, concept and practice. Hence, since the original practice of Asherah worship we now have in our time the celebration of Easter, a counterfeit holiday to the true Christian festival of the Passover which was instituted in the Bible and completed in the New Testament when Christ died on the cross as our Passover Lamb.
"...For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us."
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The Pagan Origin Of Easter
Easter is a day that is honered by nearly all of contemporary Christianity and is used to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
The holiday often involves a church service at sunrise, a feast which includes an "Easter Ham", decorated eggs and stories about rabbits.
Those who love truth learn to ask questions, and many questions must be asked regarding the holiday of Easter.
Is it truly the day when Jesus arose from the dead? Where did all of the strange customs come from, which have nothing to do with the resurrection of our Saviour?
The purpose of this tract is to help answer those questions, and to help those who seek truth to draw their own conclusions.
The first thing we must understand is that professing Christians were not the only ones who celebrated a festival called "Easter."
"Ishtar", which is pronounced "Easter" was a day that commemorated the resurrection of one of their gods that they called "Tammuz", who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon-goddess and the sun-god.
In those ancient times, there was a man named Nimrod, who was the grandson of one of Noah's son named Ham.
Ham had a son named Cush who married a woman named Semiramis.Cush and Semiramis then had a son named him "Nimrod."
After the death of his father, Nimrod married his own mother and became a powerful King.
The Bible tells of of this man, Nimrod, in Genesis 10:8-10 as follows: "And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad,and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."
Nimrod became a god-man to the people and Semiramis, his wife and mother, became the powerful Queen of ancient Babylon.
Nimrod was eventually killed by an enemy, and his body was cut in pieces and sent to various parts of his kingdom.
Semiramis had all of the parts gathered, except for one part that could not be found.
That missing part was his reproductive organ. Semiramis claimed that Nimrod could not come back to life without it and told the people of Babylon that Nimrod had ascended to the sun and was now to be called "Baal", the sun god.
Queen Semiramis also proclaimed that Baal would be present on earth in the form of a flame, whether candle or lamp, when used in worship.
Semiramis was creating a mystery religion, and with the help of Satan, she set herself up as a goddess.
Semiramis claimed that she was immaculately conceived.
She taught that the moon was a goddess that went through a 28 day cycle and ovulated when full.
She further claimed that she came down from the moon in a giant moon egg that fell into the Euphrates River.
This was to have happened at the time of the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Semiramis became known as "Ishtar" which is pronounced "Easter", and her moon egg became known as "Ishtar's" egg."
Ishtar soon became pregnant and claimed that it was the rays of the sun-god Baal that caused her to conceive.
The son that she brought forth was named Tammuz.
Tammuz was noted to be especially fond of rabbits, and they became sacred in the ancient religion, because Tammuz was believed to be the son of the sun-god, Baal. Tammuz, like his supposed father, became a hunter.
The day came when Tammuz was killed by a wild pig.
Queen Ishtar told the people that Tammuz was now ascended to his father, Baal, and that the two of them would be with the worshippers in the sacred candle or lamp flame as Father, Son and Spirit.
Ishtar, who was now worshipped as the "Mother of God and Queen of Heaven", continued to build her mystery religion.
The queen told the worshippers that when Tammuz was killed by the wild pig, some of his blood fell on the stump of an evergreen tree, and the stump grew into a full new tree overnight. This made the evergreen tree sacred by the blood of Tammuz.
She also proclaimed a forty day period of time of sorrow each year prior to the anniversary of the death of Tammuz.
During this time, no meat was to be eaten.
Worshippers were to meditate upon the sacred mysteries of Baal and Tammuz, and to make the sign of the "T" in front of their hearts as they worshipped.
They also ate sacred cakes with the marking of a "T" or cross on the top.
Every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, a celebration was made.
It was Ishtar's Sunday and was celebrated with rabbits and eggs.
Ishtar also proclaimed that because Tammuz was killed by a pig, that a pig must be eaten on that Sunday.
By now, the readers of this tract should have made the connection that paganism has infiltrated the contemporary "Christian" churches, and further study indicates that this paganism came in by way of the Roman Catholic System.
The truth is that Easter has nothing whatsoever to do with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We also know that Easter can be as much as three weeks away from the Passover, because the pagan holiday is always set as the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.
Some have wondered why the word "Easter" is in the the King James Bible.
It is because Acts, chapter 12, tells us that it was the evil King Herod, who was planning to celebrate Easter, and not the Christians.
The true Passover and pagan Easter sometimes coincide, but in some years, they are a great distance apart.
So much more could be said, and we have much more information for you, if you are a seeker of the truth.
We know that the Bible tells us in John 4:24, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
The truth is that the forty days of Lent, eggs, rabbits,hot cross buns and the Easter ham have everything to do with the ancient pagan religion of Mystery Babylon.These are all antichrist activities!
Satan is a master deceiver, and has filled the lives of well-meaning, professing Christians with idolatry.
These things bring the wrath of God upon children of disobedience, who try to make pagan customs of Baal worship Christian.
You must answer for your activities and for what you teach your children.
These customs of Easter honor Baal, who is also Satan, and is still worshipped as the "Rising Sun" and his house is the "House of the Rising Sun."
How many churches have "sunrise services" on Ishtar's day and face the rising sun in the East?
How many will use colored eggs and rabbit stories, as they did in ancient Babylon.
These things are no joke, any more than Judgement day is a joke.
I pray to God that this tract will cause you to search for more truth.
We will be glad to help you by providing more information and by praying for you.
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Re: Ishtar = Easter?
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April 20, 2009, 06:28:00 PM »
It just needs to be understood that being pagan does not make a person evil. A person can be evil regardless of faith. Pagan religions were often beautiful and powerful and much older then the young Christian Order. Yes some cultures did brutal and horrible things like sacrifices because they were ignorant of how certain things worked and did what they thought was right. Even early Christian cults used animal sacrifices, it was just what people did back then. Today they eat and drink their savior which is cannibalism.
Today's pagan do not commit animal sacrifices....sure there might be some individuals who hold to those old ways, but the grand majority do not because as Christians our views of spiritualism has advanced with our understanding of science.
If Christianity never surfaced then Lucifer would of never of been worshiped (which is what fearing him is) and his influence would not of been felt. Maybe that sounds harsh, but its logical.
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Learn more about "easter" and Ishtar in this fabulous book.
The Two Babylons
or The Papal Worship Proved to be
the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife
By the Late Rev. Alexander Hislop
First published as a pamphlet in 1853--greatly expanded in 1858
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Quote from: db on April 20, 2009, 05:48:23 PM
And I am sure Passover has nothing to do with other middle-eastern spring equinox rituals, right Heavy?
Why single out Christianity?
ALL religions have mysticism as its basis "soul". without that its pretty much superstitious nosnense.
Read GRS meads hermes trismigistus. The ancient pagans are pretty much being represented by todays christians. Their views of G-d and religion were exactly verbatim like those of the ancient pagans. They believed that the gods were literally physical in the same way todays christians think Jesus(a man) literally was the son of god. If that isnt an idolatrous and ludicrous idea i dont know what is.
Now, thats not to say christians are bad people. Theyve just been mislead by very very evil men.
If youve bothered with kabbalistic/chassidic philosophy youd be hard pressed to find anything wrogn with it. The mystical insights are very similar to those found in Hermeticism/gnosticism, but the emphasis is entirely different.
They worship the powers beneath the shechina(presence of God) whom they call the logos - literally meaning word. The 72 archangelic powers beneath teh shecinah are respectively worshipped by all the nations on earth. watch Ong bak 2 and you'll find an incredible revelation of this most hidden of secrets(though its stated openly in the tanya and other chassidic/kabbalistic texts). In Ong Bok 2 the King of Thailand surrounded by the nobility says that he hopes to maintain his house(his royal bloodline) and him specifically as teh figurehead of the power ruling over thailand. This is the sad truth of reality. It seems nobody talks about this!
Effing absudity.
Conversely Jews worship YHVH who represents teh reality which trandscends our physical world.
Theres been an agenda for 3+ years against the Jews.
not piloted solely by the illuminati, but by the demonic powers above them and guiding them...
Kabbalah is true and Hebrew, is a language when studied will yield insights into our world that you would find astonishing. This world is a veritable matrix and literally its only been the jews who have known this. Hence why governments locked em ghettos, organized pograms against them..
alex always talks about not being led. Well, that applies to spirituality as well. Christians can either opt and believe that their religion is right - despite the evidence showing clearly that its simply a creation of the Hellenists. cloaking the same metaphysical beliefs that were hidden in Hermetic/gnostic texts. Or, have courage to go look and see what else there is.
Theres a reason why the first 2 patriarchs had 2 rejects for Children. The first, Ishamel, offspring of Abraham is islam(coincidentally, muslims believe Isaac to be the bad son), and esau from isaac represents Christianity.
how else can christians come to this understanding without being told their wrong first?
Must you die and reincarnate? or do you people still not believe that idea aswell?
Not trying tyo be insulting, i didnt even mean for this thread to turn into this.
My mind got veered off topic and now im sure ive created a monster!
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Quote from: heavyhebrew on April 20, 2009, 06:14:09 PM
Oh and one last thing about Passover. It was hilarious, still is, watching people go into a housecleaning frenzy. God forbid someone finds a grain(?) of flour in a crack behind the refrigerator. Oh noes! What will we tell the rabbi?
Then there is the Seder or as I like to call it The Day of Formal Dining Ware and A Lot of Handwashing.
But you get horseradish!
And kids, you get to take part in the Afikoman! It is like an Easter egg hunt but, like Channukah, a poor relative with no chocolate. FIND THAT MATZOH!
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honestly, all of you would be better served to do your own research. These conspiracy theorist books that try to "explain" ishtar etc never touch on the metaphysical beliefs underlying them hence why their garbage/propaganda designed to keep your heads stuck in the physical.
I read theosophical/hermetic/gnostic literature only for the purpose of understanding the mentality of the other side.
If you people dont believe arch angelic powers exist or dont have an understanding of the spiritual systems(like kabbalah and the model of the sefirot) than no offence, you dont deserve to have an opinion. Your ignorance makes you a dangerous weapon in the hands of the elite.
When you know and understand how it works, than and only than can you make an informed opinion.
I know im sorta offering nobody here any opinion outside of saying christianity is wronfg and judaism is right. No, do your own objective unbiased research into these mystical systems and if you are truly a G-d fearing person you should be led to the truth.
Kabbalah btw isnt what you people imagine it to be. that aswell is propaganda. Havign idiot celebrities like madonna push kabbalah is anethema to jews and any discering thinker knows its designed to cast a negative and pagan light on it. TRUE kabbalah is orthodox kabbalah. Sefer yetzirah, Sefer bahir, heichalot literature, Zohar, Etz chayim(the system of isaac luria)
The nonsense Cabbalah with a C and ESPECIALLY the hermetic hybrid Qaballah with a Q(Quf in Hebrew actually meaning monkey, Amalek - the hebrew name for the illuminati, is spelt with a Q, so aptly aleister crowley - whos name in gematria literally adds up to 666, called his hybrid Qaballah)
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I agree with you Meek, except the Q spelling did not originate with Aliester Crowely, had been around since Hermetic practitioners started using the Kaballah. Truth is, their is no correct spelling of the word which is true for most Jewish words, as you probably know. The C spelling was what the Christian church spelled it with to differentiate their from the Jewish version...but it was eventually banned. And im sorry but if Crowley was an anti-christ then most of America would be the same. Yeah he was a very esoteric and at times questionable person (I think his cat torture was the worse he did from the stories I read) but mostly he was called "The Beast" because he was very sexually active. But anyways, doesn't matter, he is a foot note to modern practitioners, he did us a service by indexing a lot of information from the East which had not previously been easily available as well as combining it with Western practices, such stuff mostly found in Occult Philosophy by Aggripa who actually was a very dedicated Christian.
Anyways, I appreciate your research and agree with just about everything you say.
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Quote from: Lex1t64 on April 20, 2009, 07:03:18 PM
I agree with you Meek, except the Q spelling did not originate with Aliester Crowely, had been around since Hermetic practitioners started using the Kaballah. Truth is, their is no correct spelling of the word which is true for most Jewish words, as you probably know. The C spelling was what the Christian church spelled it with to differentiate their from the Jewish version...but it was eventually banned. And im sorry but if Crowley was an anti-christ then most of America would be the same. Yeah he was a very esoteric and at times questionable person (I think his cat torture was the worse he did from the stories I read) but mostly he was called "The Beast" because he was very sexually active. But anyways, doesn't matter, he is a foot note to modern practitioners, he did us a service by indexing a lot of information from the East which had not previously been easily available as well as combining it with Western practices, such stuff mostly found in Occult Philosophy by Aggripa who actually was a very dedicated Christian.
Anyways, I appreciate your research and agree with just about everything you say.
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appreciate the kind words.
The Kaf in hebrew signifies kingship(keter, kohen etc) and hence why Orthodox Kabbalists use the english K to spell kabbalah.
The hebrew Qof is associated generally with evil, Qof literally means monkey. There are also many other examples of that. I think it was eliphas levi who introduced the Q spelling for Qabbalah.
As for Crowley, go to google type in Sepher Sephiroth(book of gematria), scroll down to 666 and se his name spelt out in hebrew literally adds up to 666.
Interestingly, Clinton in hebrew adds up to 239, with a 1(signifying the totality of the word) = 240, the gematria for amalek(ie illumianti).
People dont seem to realize how deep the elites are into the occult.
I happen to be reading agrippas Philosophy of magic right now. Im not sure if he was good a person though, cause truthfully, most nobility in europe only posed as christians..So many reverends and priests were and are actually satanists..Just like there are rabbis in the modern and orthodox movements who merely pose as rabbis, but are actually illuminates. one of them is this Chabad head of russian Jewry. I dont trust anyone who considers himself a close friend of vladamir putin.
Agrippa came from the nobility and engaged in espionage for various governments during his life so im not sure how worthy of trust he is. Though his sytem seems pretty consistent with the other kabbalistic works ive studied. So i dont doubt the authenticity of his works.
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Quote from: meekayel on April 20, 2009, 06:15:21 PM
Thats seems to be more of a
linguistic coincidence
. It has no meaning aside from sounding like east star(venus)
Maybe. Maybe not. Look up "Easter" in German if you don't believe me.
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Yeah According to a biography of him Agrippa got into the Occult as a young man but later in his life focused more on his Christian life, even though the Nobility would always want to use him for his Occult Knowledge. I don't doubt high officials using occult for their benefit, its a sound science with too many solid results to ignore. Even Christians use Occult Ideas in their practices, the use of color schemes, candles, chanting, prayers, body postures, holy healing and divining, elemental uses (water for cleansing, fire for purifying et cetera), the use of bells, and much more. I respect that the Kabbala originated with Jewish tradition and teaching but the form I use is more a blend with Western practices so I use the Qabala I guess you would say hehe, the monkey form lol. Its a spiritual map, not meant to be taken as The image of the universe and all things, just a great way to categorize and look at existence.
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Easter/Ishtar: Paganism Repackaged
In this teaching we will be focusing on the history of Easter, exploring its disturbing undeniable Pagan roots. To be objective I have endeavored to garner input from not only Christian sources but also Catholic and Pagan sources as well; and as you will see all three sides are in agreement as to Easters Pagan origin and history. We will explore exactly when the holiday of Easter was incorporated into the Roman Catholic Church at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD; whereby this practice then started to permeate and leaven many other branches of Christianity.
Of further note we will prove how the date of Easter is always determined by (the Biblically forbidden practice of) Astrology and how its date changes every year as a result. If this were the true date of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, HOW COULD IT CHANGE? We will also be looking at Easters close ties to Pagan goddess known as Ishtar and the specific associations and practices of Easter like: The Easter Bunny, Colored Eggs, Lent, Ash Wednesday, Hot Cross Buns, Spring Break, The Easter Ham, Wicker Easter Baskets, Easter Sunrise Service, Mardi Gras, etc. . . .
Lastly we will explore why only the King James Version translates the Greek word pascha to Easter (instead of Passover) in Acts 12:4; and how this is one more proof of the superiority of the Authorized King James Version.
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=====> ***Fall of the Republic*** [MUST SEE THIS AGAIN!]
=====> Invisible Empire by Jason Bermas
=====> Fabled Enemies by Jason Bermas
=====> Legislation being pushed through at light speed for Banker's Control Grid
=====> Even with Bribes and Intimidation, the NWO deathcare plan is exposed as a Nazi eugenics scheme and bailout for Big Insurance
=====> Finance Reform Bill is a surveillance plus Bailout plus Protection of Federal Reserve Bill
===> Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA): Slow takeover of the United States by False Flags and Asymmetric Warfare
=====> Rockefeller/Rothschild current false flag plans
=====> Cyberterror false flags used to promote scientific dictatorship (cyberterrorism is a racket)
=====> CSIS - We run the show, the government you see is fake
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=====> Ptech and the use of transportation (Planes, Trains, and Automobiles) for assassinations and false flags
=====> #OccupyWallStreet has grassroots transformed into #OccupyTheFed
=======> Smart Power! Smart Grid! Smart Genocides! Smart Exterminations!
=====> RAND Corporation 'Smart Mob' events to destabilize the United States of America
=====> Cybernetics
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=========> Over 570,000 pages on 9/11
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=====> Arizona's defiance of the Globalist agenda to bankrupt the United States
=====> Multiple Shootings Hyped by the MSM
=====> Anthrax Letters
=====> ***Austin, TX NRO "Plane in Building" False Flag as bragged by Cass Sunstein
=====> Times Square FF occured during NLE10 and during bomb drill exercise intended to stop anti-war and anti-opium trade sentiment and usher in precrime surveillance systems
=====> CASE STUDY: CIA's Underwear Patsy False Flag Plane Bomber
===> ***NWO Whistleblower Extermination Program in FULL EFFECT***
===> *GOVERNOR JESSE VENTURA'S Conspiracy Theory on TruTV
=====> CASE STUDY: Infragard
===> ***North Korea: An NWO puppet regime for MK Ultra studies and WWIII staging grounds
===> The People v. Elena Kagan...100% Proof that the Supreme Court is compromised and must be investigated
===> Absolute Proof that the CIA has staged a coup in the United States and Need to be defunded/prosecuted or as RP puts it: "Taken Out"
=======> Israel's blockade of Gaza, massacre at sea, and continued confrontations
=====> CIA's WAR IN AFRICAN NATIONS
=====> ***CIA WARCRIMES EXPOSED including TORTURE institutionalized by Pelosi/Bush/Cheney
=======> The Indictment of George W. Bush/Dick Cheney
=====> Fort Dix: Center Stage for New World Order Plots
=====> CIA and the G7 Banksters Exterminating US Soldiers in mass genocide projects
=======> PTSD, SSRI, Prozac, Zoloft
=======> Depleted Uranium
=======> Lt. Watada and other brave military men
=====> CASE STUDY: Blackwater/Xe = CIA, CIA = Blackwater/Xe
=====> CASE STUDY: CIA collaboration with Telecom... FISA Immunity
=====> CASE STUDY: Funding CIA terrorists at AIG
===> *Mainstream Media: Effects Based Operations uses Comcast/ATT/TimeWarner/FOX to provocate a Civil War!
=====> GE/MSNBC, ABC/Disney, CNN, ADL, and SPLC Demonizing Anti-War Citizens and Conditioning for a False Flag bragged about by Cass Sunstein
=====> MSNBC (GE) Chris Matthews slanderous documentary 'Rise of the new right' is an example of how GE is a complete 'Failure of the Old Wrong'
=====> CIA'S PROJECT MOCKINGBIRD: Mainstream Media / War and Tyranny Propaganda
=====> Predictive Programming for "Things to Come"
=======> Telegragh's Blackjack psyops
=====> Case Study: History Channel
=====> Glenn Beck - FBI Provocateur for Saudi/British/China backed businessman Rupert Murdoch
=====> CASE STUDY: Anti-Semites at the ADL fabricate evidence to protect Hitler's Supporters
=====> Lady Gaga and the rest of the illuminazi "super cool" media puppets
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=====> The 2010 Coup d'etat in Poland - Regime Change by Decapitation
=====> ***Current Genocide in Gaza***
=====> Is Costa Rica the next Vietnam? Bilderberg now owns the entire US armed forces
=====> *The Annexation of Haiti-SOUTHCOM running drill of Haiti disaster the day before the earthquake-How did they know?
=====> Asia-Pacific Union
=====> Thailand
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=====> Russia / Georgia War
=====> CASE STUDY: Kosovo-Manufacturing Fake Independence
===> PhD Investigative Reports (only for the hardcore)
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=> Off Topic / Faux Controversies / Whining Threads
===> This is like soooo gay
=> PP Forum Journalism
===> False Flag Alert
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===> Latest Googly "Hot Topic"
===> We are Change and Truth Confrontations
=====> Establishment is so scared of TOD they attack AJ
===> "V" for Victory Peace Campaign
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===> ***Hot Topics, Rants, and Information Threads, "Attn: Alex"***
===> ***The Second Amendment, Anti-Tyranny, Firearms Board***
=====> *Austin Gunshow Shutdown by BATFE using Open Racketeering - UPDATE: Back on at Target Center
===> ***THE INFOWARRIOR RADIO SHOW with Jason Bermas***
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===> ***Corbett Report***
===> ***A Lizard Free David Icke Forum***
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=> Ron Paul 2012
===> Ron Paul Supporters - The Originals!
=====> Ron Paul is now being recognized as the founder of the tea party movement
===> Ron Paul: The Revolution Manifesto
=====> 2008 Presidential Election is a total farce
=====> The real 2008 Presidential Candidates
===> Globalist Pigs and Liars are just a bunch of Jokers!
===> Obama Deception: New World Order has now given up on this puppet who is being forced to commit political Hari Kari
=====> ***Assassination Attempt Will Blackmail Obama Into Attacking Iran***
=====> ***President Barack Obama and the Global Objective***
=======> Inauguration Hype
=======> The DNC NWO Puppet Show
=====> "The Obama Deception" is going VIRAL!!!!
=====> Why do so many people connected to Hillary Clinton mysteriously die?
===> Rand Paul Nomination exposes Bilderberg Puppets Everywhere
===> The Faux Controversies and Case Studies
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=====> MIDTERM ELECTIONS: Politicians forced to acknowledge the constitution + Instant exposure of anti-constitutional Bilderberg puppets
=====> Attempted hijacking of the truth movement by Theosophian NWO Agents
=====> Medina's 9/11 truth flip flop cost her the governorship
=> The Rand Paul "SELLOUT" Operation: Extortion/Bribery/Mind Control...All of the Above?
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===> The Cover-Up
=> Frozen CIA Operative Tim Osmon/Osama bin Laden is re-killed for another fake narrative
===> CASE STUDY: CIA's Fake Bin-Laden Videos
===> NWO/Jay Rockefeller infiltrating the Truth Movement
===> Rockefeller/Brzezinski's Obama puppet's Secrecy of Government is worse than Stalin + Hitler
===> Sibel Edmonds
===> Pat Tillman
=> Other False Flags Throughout History
===> 7/7
===> Columbine
===> MI6 Mumbai False Flag
===> NATO's Simultaneous False Flags on Norway exposes how ruthless the New World Order is
===> Katrina/FEMA/Tsunami/Weather FF
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=> 9/11/11 - Ten year anniversary of the False Flag Terrorist attacks
===> Past 9/11 Anniversary Events, News, Pictures, Videos!
=> Faux Controversies and Case Studies
Globalization and the plan for NWO
=> Financial Crisis Forum
===> ***Stimulus Plans are meant to cause Federal Reserve Implosion***
===> ***Staged Financial Crisis Part of Socialist/Global Banking Coup
===> *Audit the Fed
===> G20 Pittsburgh - Rothschild/Rockefeller Plans to push world into total slavery with a New World Currency
===> Economical Crises - Solutions - Philosophical debates and Loads of (Self) Educational Info
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===> Unfair Trade Agreements-NAFTA/GATT/WTO/EU
===> LOST - Law of the Sea
===> Mexican/US border violence is off the charts
===> Swarzenegger and the Nazification of California
=> Eugenics/War on Family
===> Abortion is a key part of the eugenics agenda
=> Chemtrails/Geo-Engineering
=> Missing Children/Torture/Rape/Satanic Ritual Abuse
===> CASE STUDY: Baby Cheyenne and the CPS Terrorist Network
=> Mind Control
=> Vaccine information
=> Depopulation
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===> Census is only to find out number of citizens for distribution of congressional representatives
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=> Microwave Weapons
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===> CASE STUDY: US Nuclear Missle Defense Space Weapon Test
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===> Wars, Revolutions and Genocide
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They're better off I would say -- take a look at the at the numbers when it comes to median household income which is down every year for the last forty years.
Look at unemployment stuck above 8%.
Now for the last 43 months.
Let's look at what's happened of the number of people on food stamps going up up to 47 million now.
The lot of people hurting in this country in the president's policies are working.
You know I don't know whether that was the start but it could be because I really think it's time for -- -- Mormon to start -- and forget about sounding nice grab a Red Bull and go for the jugular.
Don't back down man out.
You are right to criticize the US embassies -- apology for stupid film -- vomit but doesn't make you insensitive all of makes -- of -- -- And recognizing the reality that nearly half the folks who paid -- taxes in this country doesn't make you in -- Just like -- matter of factly they might not be jazzed by -- guy wants to cut taxes in this country doesn't make you.
-- it it makes you real and it soon to reality.
The reality.
Taking on entitlement society -- -- you're gonna get from those who benefit from that society.
I don't care of your left or right what they're doing right now to Mitt Romney is wrong they're making and the issue.
But they're forgetting are hoping you forget the real it's.
Half of all Americans are they on the -- -- getting some -- from the government -- Creating an entitlement society that is bursting at the scenes and a sixteen trillion dollar debt that is choking us to death.
Frankly I think Romney should get angry about people -- getting angry it and and they're questioning him.
His facts are right who cares if his message seems mean.
The math is what's -- The debt we're piling on to support more and more Americans filing -- Is what's -- and beyond the pale.
Romney shouldn't say that doesn't mean some of those 47% saying no we cut taxes.
Are genuinely needy just that no way in L 47%.
Of Americans.
Are genuinely needy they're not not even close.
But now -- government -- of entitlement pushing parents who don't even ask who keep doling out money we don't have for programs that don't work assuming this.
Maddening merry go round won't and well well and -- that is what Mitt Romney should be screaming and loudly and even more loudly.
To that 47%.
Rupee seems to be dismissed -- it is in their interest to see this thing fixed work.
Well we're all in the ethics that's -- being debated again I don't care whether you're Democrat -- Republican.
But -- we focus on the tone of someone's remarks and not be accuracy.
Of those remarks that 47%.
Of us.
Aren't paying it.
We lose sight of the fact that some might genuinely be unable its.
So on the might be paying other taxes but there is something intrinsically wrong with the system.
-- its -- to nearly half not paying into that system for variety of reasons that go back to Ronald Reagan at a tax reform act.
Everyone needs skin in the game.
So let's stop this game and -- -- making a mockery out of other someone's comments were in elegant or not.
The truth of the matter is.
We are imploding.
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The challenge and achievement of Frank Mc Court's Angela's Ashes
Posted on Thursday, December 06, 2012 at 08:30 AM
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Interested in reconnecting with old friends and relations you may not have seen in years? Just write about them and then have it published somewhere. You'll hear from them before the ink dries. Believe me, nothing catches an Irish persons attention like the written word.
It won't actually matter if the words you write are complimentary or insulting, in fact it'll be beside the point. Irish people live in mortal dread of scrutiny. Call it a colonial consequence. The spud that rises gets the spade.
We know this in our DNA. It's why we're so leery of Irish writers. Successions of invading hordes have brought trouble to our shores, but no one makes our knees knock like a homegrown bard.
I discovered this fact for the first time whilst witnessing the outsized reaction to Frank Mc Court's masterful Angela's Ashes in the 1990's. At the time I had no idea who he was. I was just another blow-in in a bookshop in Connecticut in 1997 when that famous picture on the cover caught my eye.
Well there's a member of the tribe, I thought, looking at the barefoot street urchin on the dust jacket. Just look at the big head on him. I picked it up and read the opening paragraph. It felt a bit like discovering The Catcher In The Rye at 14. McCourt's mordantly funny memoir had me immobilized with laughter and recognition in about a minute. It really cast a spell, that book. I took it home and read it in one sitting.
Because McCourt's narrative voice was so strong you could sometimes forget what all of it had cost him; all that poverty, hunger, desperation and abuse in Limerick. A minute after each tragedy he described he'd have you laughing again with the absurdity of it. It's such an Irish reflex that, to contend with insurmountable despair by laughing.
Later, I lost count of the number of subway riders I noticed reading Angela's Ashes on their way to and from work. It seemed the whole of Manhattan had bought a copy. Quite a few of them appeared to be immigrants too, which might have pleased him.
Unfortunately it wasn't McCourt's achievement (that book will endure for centuries) that was remarked on by of some of his less forgiving Irish readers. It was what he had dared to say about Limerick and his poor Ma that caught their eye.
Locals declared he was a "con man" and a "hoaxer" who had "prostituted" his own mother for fame. How they claimed to know this better than he did always surprised me.
Limerick broadcaster Gerry Hannan waged a personal campaign against the book after it appeared. "'He knew the right things to say to get the result he wanted," Hannan lamented in The Daily Mail. "He's a darling on television. He's got this beautiful brogue and he can put the charm on. And don't get me wrong, the book is beautifully written. But it's not true."
Things got even weirder then. A former schoolmate confronted McCourt at a book signing and ripped a copy of Angela's Ashes in half. Threats against him forced Limerick University to step up their security when he visited the college. People who had accused McCourt of losing the run of himself in the book were losing the run of themselves in reality.
They were missing the point too. It was McCourt's story; it was up to him to tell it in any way he saw fit. If they didn't like what he had to say or if they disagreed with it, well let them write their own book. He often told them as much.
With hindsight now a lot of the grousing when the book appeared can be seen for what it was: stung irritation that anyone had dared to rake over those old coals at all. It was McCourt who had held the mirror up, it could have been anyone; but not anyone could have done it so well.
In legend, they say a Cygnus swan sings a beautiful song before it dies. McCourt did it in reality. McCourt began Angela's Ashes in his retirement, after spending three decades as an inspirational teacher in the city's classrooms. He changed young peoples lives for the better. He worked hard to do it. How many of us can say the same? It's miraculous, in a way, that we have his book at all.
In Ireland stories are often things that we think happen to other people. We're too modest or too meek to contemplate them happening to us. McCourt showed Limerick and Ireland and the world that we really were as good a subject as any. That was his challenge, but it was also his gift.
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johnshiel | Dec 10, 2012, 06:59 PM EST
young mr o'doherty, what made you bring out the McCourt in us'ns? Your piece is good, esp the big head reference... But the posters take the prize here. Lots of real stuff, personal and pithy. For me the book annoyed and angered me. Because of the pain to the children every time Franks da went off. Again and again. And again and again. Just too much stabbing at the sore that McCourt had opened up in my imagination. I eventually finished the damn book but am still just pissed at the guy. And yes it is also brilliant.
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seanomelb | Dec 09, 2012, 08:11 PM EST
mamaginnty Dublin in the 50's was no better. There were happy and sad times.Watching the dole queue in gGardiner Street snaking around the corner into Talbot Street was no fun.Nor was 6 people living in one room a piece of cake. McCourt overplayed the poverty angle thus turning the book into a novel and made him a very rich man. Get over yourself man maybe you should remember the lighter sideof your youth and do as I have move on.
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eiriamach | Dec 09, 2012, 02:05 PM EST
Mamaginty, my immigrant ancestors wouldn't tell their children which town they came from. When asked, they said, "It was the poorest place in Ireland." (It wasn't, but sure must have seemed so to them.) They went through the booms and busts of 19th century America, and their memories of poverty rippled down through the generations as secrecy, self-effacement and scorn for ambition. But things are changing. Look at Paddy Duffy's report on the speech President Higgins gave at the "Being Young and Irish" seminar: "in his barnstorming opening remarks said that 'There is no part of our lives that should not be subject to critical review.'" Cahir's article connects, for me, with that attitude. Trying to shed the light of self-knowledge on Irish history always seems to rake raw nerves. Still, every effort, Pres. Higgins', McCourt's or Cahir's, to help us understand our "barefoot street urchin" past helps begin anew, like the youth at the seminar, and like my immigrant ancestors, all through their lives into old age.
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mamaginnty | Dec 09, 2012, 11:30 AM EST
Mc Courts book was very true to life in more than just Limerick, ( you have to live it to know it )Any one with a farm small or large managed to survive, but in the towns it was horrible, I am elderly so remember what my mother and grandmother went through, no work so the menfolk had to leave, remember the women on the street waiting on a Monday for the postman. If a husband drank then you were in fear that the postman did not stop at your door, a starvation diet was the norm, one wet coat if it rained that day was your blanket, I actually cried when I read the book, I remembered as a child lifting coal from the street a few times. I am not ashamed to say it happened, and cannot understand why certain uppity people in Limerick did not want anyone to know the truth. I am quite sure the same thing was happening in America and Britain if people spoke honestly about it.
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anglo-norman | Dec 08, 2012, 05:40 PM EST
That book was way over-rated
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TisEyerish | Dec 08, 2012, 09:45 AM EST
I find that there are always pieces missing in these articles. For someone unfamiliar with Mr. McCourt or "Angela's Ashes" (although how that could be, I do not know), they would not realize that when you say "spent three decades in the city's classrooms...", you are referring to New York City, not Limerick. Maybe I'm just too picky.
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Proud Canadian2 | Dec 08, 2012, 01:12 AM EST
One of the finest books that I have ever read. Thank you Mr. McCourt, rest in peace.
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Willipotts | Dec 07, 2012, 09:31 PM EST
It was and is the most depressingly funny book I've ever read. Better than the Agnes Brown Trilogy by Brendan O'Carroll and that was a riotiously funny three books.
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edmundburke | Dec 07, 2012, 05:06 PM EST
I knew a couple from Limerick of McCourt's generation, and they routinely referred to him and his brother Malachy as derisively as "corner boys" due to the book. Interestingly, historian R F Foster wrote a lengthy essay critiquing the accuracy of Angela's Ashes and found it wanting in many respects. He suggests that given the clear inaccuracies in the book, plainly written to induce the reader's empathy, it was not improbable that McCourt greatly exaggerated or even invented the story of his upbringing and his family's plight in Limerick. Foster's conclusions were convincing to me and gave me a better appreciation of the blowback McCourt experienced from his old neighbors back in Limerick City.
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seanomelb | Dec 07, 2012, 04:50 PM EST
A very well written book for the gullilbe. Limerick people were insulted by the over exageration of poverty. The book made a mockery of poverty and the lives of us who lived in Ireland during 50's.Cahir does not have a clue and only relies on McCourt's written word.
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myhomenj | Dec 07, 2012, 02:19 PM EST
Very nice artical. I enjoyed the great story Frank had to tell. To RedBranch, I'll look in my library for that one.
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King55 | Dec 07, 2012, 10:42 AM EST
I have met a few Irish Americans who hated this book. It bothered them to hear about an unsentimentalized Ireland that didn't reflect their romantic notions about a tranquil, loving country filled with mirth and brotherhood. I don't know if this occurred because they have a overestimated sense of self worth (superiority)that makes it impossible for them to look at themselves as anything less than nearly perfect or if they have no personal experience with Ireland or its history outside of a couple of trips overseas and Notre Dame football games.
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RedBranch | Dec 06, 2012, 06:09 PM EST
Honest it may have been and I'm glad for his success, but Home Before Night by Hugh Leonard is a better, at least much better written account of an Irish childhood in that period. It has poverty, alcoholism and an unforgiving church. But it has great humour, gay soldiers, an anti clerical dog and a self depreciating central character who after accidently killing someone sets out to break the remaining 9 commandments. Read it and weep, with laughter!
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Rebelforce | Dec 06, 2012, 11:42 AM EST
Frank McCourt's "masterful" 'Angela's Ashes'? LOL The book is actually a long, dreary, depressing rant about having the misfortune of growing up in cold, wet, miserable, impoverished Ireland. But there is no doubt about it, the literary world just loves books by self-hating Irish-Catholics.
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jamieLM | Dec 06, 2012, 10:53 AM EST
@Mr. O'Doherty - well written column. Many of us become defensive and angry when our warts are exposed. We'd rather be portrayed by people wearing rose colored glasses instead of those armed with a spotlight. By writing about the legacy of poverty, alcoholism, abuse, and deprivation, McCourt touched a nerve in those who were all too familiar with those painful issues and were embarrassed and resented the exposure. Some forgot that this was MCCourt's life's story to tell.
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