Comte de Sats Germain on Nostr: My best stab at your ending questions are : I think the link between technology and ...

My best stab at your ending questions are : I think the link between technology and consciousness are much deeper than the materialist assumption. Technology doesn't only come from ideas expressed in material form - they're an extension of our consciousness itself. I think the whole world, to some degree, in some way, is a product of our minds. The spooky action of quantum physics seems to support this.

IIRC the army that marched around Jericho had the ark with them. The ark did all sorts of cool things, but it seems like it was just a box made of wood (I want to say Cedar, but Acacia would make more sense) with some gold artwork on it. But the ark was a symbol, and everyone believed in its power or holiness, so in a way, it was technology. It was conscious intention stored up somehow like potential energy and it did work in the real world.

This fits with my theory about the Jews - that they were actually the entire priest class of Egypt. Or maybe the Levites were the priests themselves and the other tribes had something to do with organization. I have no support for this theory, and it could be formulated in a million ways, but that's just how it seems to me. They claimed they were in bondage in Egypt - "slave" is used, but that wasn't like slavery in the US was. In Egypt a slave paid 20℅ of their product to their master, but was otherwise mostly free. But a priest would equate worldly life with bondage, so it could have meant that, too. Now, if you look at the "King's chamber" in the great pyramid at Giza, there's a broken stone box that archaeologists claim held a sarcophagus. But its too short. It looks to me like it would hold the ark perfectly. I'd really like to go measure it... Bucket list. When the Jews left Egypt, the pharaoh was determined to stop them. People moved around a lot - a lot more people were nomads back then. I doubt the pharaoh got pissy every time some nomads crossed his land. He seemed too upset in the story, like he was losing the most valuable thing he had, maybe the source of his legitimacy. That would be the priests, the magicians. "Moses" is a very Egyptian name, and he was a priest. So Moses was taking the magic out of Egypt. And we see that magic at Jericho. We also see it on the cross. "Christ" is also an Egyptian name. Most people think its Greek, and it is, but not originally. The word comes from the Egyptian initiation ritual. I don't know what it meant to them, but it was used after the initiate passed the stage where they see Osiris' mummy.

For me, these things actually strengthen my belief in Jesus Christ, even though they aren't taught in church.

I forgot most of what I'm responding to, but I remember you said something about charity potentially causing companies to not want to hire Christians. I'd agree, if the Christian employee has a misunderstanding of what charity is. Its not necessarily selfless giving. In one sense, Christian charity means giving the benefit of the doubt and being civil, usually in conversation. And you can give away things and call it charity, but only if its not pity. And most importantly, selling things in a free exchange is also a form of charity - that's actually the easiest way to begin to see the unseen world. If its a free exchange, both sides would say they profited. The end result is a whole greater than the sum of its parts. Simply moving things around and getting paid for being a merchant is creating an increase in wellbeing in the world, so that's charity. The word got maligned after it got a legal meaning, which flattened it and made it a target.