Blondie Tells Tuco...

It's the end of that movie, right...

Anyway, Blondie says to Tuco: 'In this world, my friend, there are two kinds of people -"

We are going to mess here with what he says though; it now goes like this:

"In this world my friend, there are three kinds of people - those with loaded guns, and those who dig... ...and those with a golden gun."

Tweed wool Chanel handbag... Where do
we go after
the Kaiser (Karl) has left us?

That song recorded and performed by Rod Stewart in the last article is a good song - it has a great melody, fantastic and clever lyrics.

We all can 'get' the sentiment, the image behind the narrative in it. Except that for intelligent people it is only a 'talking point,' maybe a teaching point; it isn't a real moral lesson at all. And I'll tell you why.

See the 'poor old grand-dad' sweats to buy the handbag. Does he begrudge giving it? Not sure. Maybe he does. So why did sweat to buy it at all then? He's old - he should be wise - but he is still sweating though, to make some cash...

What's going on here?

The girl is/was apparently, in the narrative of the lyrics, going to school, maybe senior college, maybe even to University - but she is meant to throw her handbags and stuff away, because... ...what, because somehow the University will give her what her poor old grand-dad never got in his life? How would he know??

Perhaps he wasn't able to do arithmetic like the University kids can now. You know, wasn't able to add up.

He should have known that 'two plus two equals...' ...whatever Karl Popper says it is.

So yes, we could have a golden gun.

By Johnny Wujek - the
greatest stylist in the world today. 

Except we would never show it.

Now would we?

Here's something from out of a couple (it's actually in two different works, one of them being by Hesiod) of ancient Greek classic texts that you will never hear about nor learn from any University anywhere on the planet at all:

"You have heard it differently, but there was also he who said it one time this way - that in certain cases the half is more than the whole."

Now then, for those who want to know how come super advanced ET Alien beings regard humans as being of so little account -

"And how can he who has magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all time and all existence, think much of human life?" 

But the point is in fact rhetorically being made there, and the real intended meaning is not that life has no value, or that it is to be squandered, nor even, that it is some lesser thing at all.

IT GETS COMPLICATED FROM HERE...

It is placing some form of existence much higher than the forms of existence that human beings try to enshrine in the sets of priorities that they make for themselves due to an incorrect view of life and of existence at all.

It is not necessarily the fault of people that they have become what they are, and that human 'society' is what it is. People are handed a plate of highly manipulated ideas and instructions from a long line of 'leaders...'

And so how are they to know any better?

I will match my files with the best the CIA has to 
offer, any time, anywhere. Too late now, though.
Is that a Kennedy in the bottom left?

So. Another 'rhetorical' question. Star Wars, this is a Hollywood fantasy, right?

You think 'Old Ben Kenobi' is this pseudo-Hebrew mythic figure concocted from some ancient Jewish folklore by today's Jewish-laden Hollywood elite, forcing writers to come up with Jewish myth 'color-saturated' fictional narratives...

Bena ha Elohim.

Genesis 6:4

How many people ever told you that 'Ken' is in that verse too, in counter-position to 'Ben?'

Or, let me put it more accurately, the Ken, as opposed to the Ben...

Here is the complete verse:

"Ya bo u aser ken ahare wagam hahem bayyamim ba a res ha yu hannepilim haggiborim hemmah lahem weyaledu haa dem benowt el ha elohim bene (punctuation mark 'P') hassem anse meowlam aser."

I don't actually see 'bena ha elohim,' do you? (Or 'bene ha elohim' as some write it).

That's because it isn't there.

You imagine that those who run the lives of everyone on the whole entire planet think they don't know what they are doing? It's all just an accident, right? A little coincidence here, a little coincidence there...

Well, put it this way, they do know what they are doing. Same as a high speed race driver sees everything and he prolly sees it better than me, as well. That is, until he hits the wall at 'very very fast.' Or the tree.

How the Man With The Golden Gun died.

Yeah okay so maybe there's four types of people in the world - those with loaded guns (ha gibborim), those who dig (human servant beings, slaves; b'nai ha adamah), those with golden guns (hannepilim), and those whose weapons are unknown and unseen and work in secret for who knows whom and for who even knows what (Benai ha Ken'ai-o ha Elohim ha kadosh baruch-hu).

At first, beforehand, there were those who were (Ken) right, firmly established, and stable.

And then, it all turned into a mess when...

Long long ago, in a Galaxy far away...

LOL

And you think not, right?

Go down into the street, and look carefully, with your eyes and using your brain, and tell me how many 'human beings' that you can see there.

And then next, place your hand into the ground and lifting up the earth, check it and see if it is alive. (Then put it back, of course).

And then, go into your city, and see how much fantastic building goes on, look at all the tall buildings, the streets -, how much technology is there too; trains, buses, cars, even soon there will be 'flying cars.' 

"For know that I am like a powerful ruler, who took what others had built, and then used it, and kept it for myself."

You don't need to be on the side of the guy with the loaded gun, nor the slave 'who digs,' nor yet the man with the Golden Gun.

You need to be on the side of the people that are there, that no one else sees.

And you need to have the eyes, maybe develop the eyes, to see them.

Now don't ask dumb questions after reading this article! People get into a lot of trouble when they supply 'proof and evidence.' Or, as the Dawah Team down at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park London say it - 'proofs and evidences.' 'Where is your proofs and your evidences? LOLz

But Dawah Team, I am not going to supply 'proofs and evidences to the dirt in which I am going to bury you back after all...' You are just bits of sand; you think you are alive but you are dead. Why don't you prove that you are not... ...dead bits of nothing sand?

What have you got there? Anything?

They have nothing.

As for you smart ladies and gentlemen here, how about we just look out for the next 'new kid on the block' who knows how to design the really outstanding, the world-class, top, and most expensive no doubt as well, handbags.  

I can hear some of you saying right now: 'Jeez, Calvin, you really drive us nuts here. WTH are we worrying about designer handbags for, fergawdsake??!'

The girls aren't thinking that, however.

And neither were the German Industrial Trading Houses, decades ago now, when they snuck into China quietly and backed those crooks to make 'copy/paste designer real leather handbags!'

And now, now, the idiots out in West Hollywood, actually think 'vegan handbags' are a thing.

Having expensive handbags or leading the life more or less, of a playboy is not what is meant by the great classical texts when they warn against miss-using the amazing knowledge of advanced systems - they mean, don't go after some childish ambition to 'take over the state' and to rule it as a tyrant. Your knowledge, your education, is for the human benefit of other human beings. Your knowledge is for separating the wheat from the chaff, the sand from the diamond crystals; that is to say, the other way 'round, of course!

So, Nag Hammadi

One of our intrepid readers here, just raised the matter of the Nag Hammadi 'library' (as it is generally called now).

Now I promised to reveal some clues about some secrets closely guarded by the world's greatest 'master perfumers...' So, how we will be able to jam those two things together -, well, we'll see!

What is the Blog's intention?

Is this your house? Cool. We're all coming
over to make some noise at your place.

This Blog is intended to have you feel exquisite.

I mean I just came back from somewhere in the local city, after lunch with a couple of errant fashionistas - whose surgeon husbands thrill to the limitless expenditure on wild ideas generated by their women.

Apparently. Evidently - must be, anyway, you'd certainly think.

And there was only one word for lunch today: exquisite.

And I'm not even going to say what it was. We're going to talk about a different thing on a different kind of menu, and how those dishes are prepared.

Because 'the clues' are in there.

Anyway, Nag Hammadi.

Nag Hammadi is a town in Egypt. And there, in 1945, a local farmer found a very very large sealed jar in which were 13 actual leather-bound 'books' - and he attempted to sell them in the local markets - which attracted the attention of experts in antiquities.

Whether the 'sealed jar' part of the story is true or not who can really say - it must have been a very big jar, big enough to contain perhaps a serving maiden called Morgiana, and at least several or a dozen ranks of Jinn.

These days... ...are gone!

Actually there is a Jinn aspect to the story as told by the Egyptian farmer who found the cache but nevertheless, we need to get on to the contents and what they mean.

Neither the contents nor their dating, nor their construction are unique or unusual: the material parts being - cartonnage, papyrus, and leather.

It's just that because of public interest in the translations - what these might say, since after all, it was a 'rare antiquity' discovery - there was a wider interest after that in the Gnostic writings in the codices, and from there, the actual Gnostic religious ideas as they were expressed in those texts.

Gnostic ideas were well-known to all of the learned classes - whether they were Romans, or standard mainstream Christians, or even Jews, or just the scholastic literary people of the wealthy or educated circles.

'Cenobites' - monks, basically early communists (lol), people who lived in groups and held everything 'koinobiakos' ('in common'), spent a lot of time reading things other than the canonical texts, and during several phases throughout history, you get those groups who gravitate towards the 'Gnostic' ideas.

The Nag Hammadi manuscripts are neither particularly unusual, or especially more important in a philosophical sense, than works that had already been circulating among various well-read people. 

It is possible to extract, however, one key aspect that is interesting to look at, to consider, in metaphysical, Cosmological/Spiritual sense.

Which is basically, the perpetual existence of two 'Divine' forces - a good one, and an evil one; I do not subscribe to that idea, myself however. Nevertheless...

Fires are not for burning books! Julius, as you well
know!

There is of course, a lot of play made in actual Gnostic thinker circles, of the apparent Cosmological 'creation' narrative that is contained in the Nag Hammadi texts.

By the same token, you could also say that the explanation in there is not particularly any more, nor any less satisfying than that modern scientists' one -  you know, that one here: nothing, nothing, nothing... ...BANG! ...Big, bang. And then everything including Sharon Stone.

Gnostic Cosmology is an abridged version of the 'Primeval Egg and Snake' imagery.

The trouble is, that by the time that particular idea has emerged in manuscripts like the ones those Egyptian monks were reading, it has been through the hands of many people who never knew where the thing came from as an idea in the first place!

See, these books are not really old old...

It's very difficult to see in bold writing, for example, how old the Dead Sea Scrolls are - these being some 800 'books' of Hebrew scrolls found in a cave in 1947.

...They only date to at the earliest around 900 AD!

Not Gin, prolly Rum.

Jews make a big deal of these 'scrolls' but what's the big deal about them?? They're not old! I hate to say this, but it is the Septuagint that is the actual oldest form of the 'Torah!!.' And that was made by an Egyptian king! Not a Jewish one...

I mean sure, people will throw stones at you if you say this kind of thing, but, you know, facts being what they are, well, people don't like them, see. They'll *ing crucify you if you are not careful.

You see, the really significant thing about the Nag Hammadi texts, is that they clearly show early religious cenobite sects, possessing a fairly decent enough knowledge of much much earlier and really classic material like the works of Homer and other Greek writers, as well as Persian and Egyptian 'mythology.'

But there is another stark fact about all of these texts - which is that they never had any of the works of geometry and mathematics, design and art, and engineering among their codices.

Instead, we find - as in the Oxyrynchus Papyri and certainly the Nag Hammadi books - attempts to burn or destroy these works, that is, all the religious works.

And that is because, after Amr ibn al-As al-Sahmi, invaded Egypt in 639, he took all the 'good' and useful, practical/functional texts and preserved those, while setting out to have destroyed all those which would contradict the big thing they were working on then back in Basra - which was, namely, the Quran.

And which is also why you see Euclid and other great works of mathematics pass through the hands of Arab Islamic 'scholars...'

...But on the surface of things, not any of the metaphysical works. And which is why also you have this whole huge body of Eastern occult works then, handed down via the Andalusian situation, and on to Venice and to Western Europe more generally then, where they merged with existing occult teachings and writings.

There is nothing in Gnosticism that will produce for you a Jinn in front of your very eyes.

As there is nothing in modern science that will do that either.

...But go on, as I have been pressing here often, recently - tempt me.

Tempt me to do it for you.

'Gin-cured' trout...

Do not imagine for one moment that it is impossible.

You walk down any road, and you please tell me - the people that you see there, are they 'invisible,' or genuinely ephemeral to your senses? No.

So why are you throwing your 'philosophical lot' in with books of ideas that offer you 'invisible, intangible' nothingness - as an explanation for reality?

That isn't even in keeping with the self-evident reality of your own daily experience in front of your eyes.

On the one hand 'Thomas' is the guy who is famous for having doubted, and requiring the evidence of his plain senses, but suddenly now, in the hands of Gnostics, he becomes a different guy, with his almost metaphysical prose poetry 'Gospel of Thomas...'

Short of running a very great risk of being sued or shot, by some Spanish billionaire nazis, I could give you here, a recent history example, of something that is widely propagated, and is yet nevertheless all a pack of lies and thieved writing.

...And all thieved from Ian Hendry, Dennis Spooner, Dennis Price, and Anton Rogers.

Who? You say? As you go chasing into Wikipedia.

Anyway, back to the cooking.

Flounder almondine.

The French chefs have had this item of folklore, see, among themselves and their friends, that a fish needs to cook, in the same kind of 'sea' in which it lived...

Sea fish is cooked in salted sauce or salted butter, while say, a fresh-water fish like a trout, is cooked gently in spring water.

He he he he he he.

Sorry, Lorenzo Villoresi  - I promised our people here that I would give away some secrets. Couched, hidden, certainly, but it is in there, so - sorry Lorenzo.

The Stanford Torus

The Stanford Torus is a proposed NASA design for a space habitat to house several thousand humans.

It is not the only 'vision' for a space habitat that has been proposed using authentic engineering and technical methods for the design and constructing of such a thing in space.

Moving backwards in history now, way back to the 12th century AD, there was this fellow - Ibn 'Arabi - who lived in Andalusia, and who is generally termed a 'Sufi poet and mystic.'

Dubai - Arabic - perfume 'museum.'
Look at the money. Absolutely no clue...

I have heard the estimable Mufti Abu Layth recite the poetry of Ibn 'Arabi. (And btw, Muslims - 'who can even create one verse like it, right...? You know what I'm saying!)

On the one hand, ostensibly, even Sunni Muslims today regard him as a revered person, a 'hazrat' - whereas on the other hand, everything he did was contrary to Islamic law...

He is said to have composed and written 850 works, 700 regarded as 'authentically by him,' and 400 of which remain extant.

The fact is, he was an occult scholar and those works by him that are said to be 'missing' are secret underground texts decrying the foolishness of state religion, the frauds of 'recension' 'histories,' and various ideas and deceitful claims made by those in power at the time.

...Which is the main reason his works are said, even now, to be 'missing or lost.'

The plain fact staring Muslims and religious historians in the face however, when they want to claim Ibn 'Arabi as a Muslim and a religious personage - is that he himself begins his most famous work, by declaring that he has had a vision, in which the words and ideas in the book he was writing then, is given to him by a supernatural being and arising itself from a Divine source.

Now this cannot be, in Islam, since Muhammad was the 'last of the prophets,' the final messenger, the 'Seal of the Prophets' - and anyone saying afterwards, that they too 'received' or were receiving messages from a Divine source, is committing an outright heresy.

Anyone who makes such a claim is committing 'bid'ah' - that is, 'bringing an innovation,' mounting an heretical teaching, and also going against the self-proclaimed edicts of Muhammad that no one shall 'come after him with any other, or even any more message/s.'

Everything that is intended by Allah to be said, is already contained in the Quran.

Nevertheless, everyone wants to claim Ibn 'Arabi as 'theirs.'

Stanford Torus - interior.

Even very learned Zohar Jewish scholars do it... ...and this is because they well know that most of their most occult teachings emanate from Spanish sources.

The most prominent, the most acclaimed, of his works during his lifetime, was called 'the Circled Setting of Lights...'

In addition to this book, he wrote something called 'al-Futuhat. (That word is 'al - not the beginning of a quote with a forgotten inverted comma!)

Today, people have altered the title to say 'the Meccan Illuminations' but the original work is just 'the Illumination.'

It is this work which, heavily corrupted now, is his most 'famous' work.

Ibn 'Arabi made no secret that he was claiming to have been visited by Jesus when he was a child.

In his 'most famous' book, he goes into what Arab Muslim scholars have maintained is his Sufi metaphysics, about the idea that 'Muhammad' (a title word meaning variously 'the perfect Man' and the ideal human) is of a combined divine and earthly origin: and he metaphorically (according to these scholars) calls him an 'Isthmus.'

In fact, he also makes it very clear in his original language texts, that he is translating the Greek concept word 'Christos' into 'Isthmus.'

Ibn 'Arabi was an occultist Christian...

Roja! ...Favorite of the rich Arabs in London, and
the Middle East.

...who was very aware, that if his plain views were to become generally known by the blood-lusting ruling elites armed with Toledo metal blades, he would come to a brutal ending very quickly.

Nobody has ever said, how Ibn 'Arabi made a living, other than the presence of a curt note somewhere, that 'at a young age he became secretary to the governor of Seville.' Whether that 'governor' was at that time a local Spanish person, or, as had been the situation with the very first 'governor' under Islamic conquest and rule, in fact the Abd al-Malik ibn Umar ibn Marwan himself, an Arab, we are not told anywhere.

In fact, by the time of even just before the birth of Ibn 'Arabi, the then Arabic Muslim ruler of Seville, Al-Mutamid, was actually paying tribute to a Christian ruler in Castile - quite the reverse of the way Muslim invaders liked to have things go wherever else they invaded and 'conquered,' implementing the so-called 'Jizyah' taxation as they went; which is essentially a blood money protection and extortion racket.

Seville already had a two-level social/political structure - of those who pretended to 'convert' to Islam, and those who did not. It is entirely possible that by the time of Ibn 'Arabi becoming the secretary to the governor of Seville, the governor was in fact also a local Spanish person, not an Arab nor even a Muslim at all but only saying that he was.

In a few shorts years after that, the Arab Muslim 'conquerors' were completely wiped out altogether.

And... ...Ibn 'Arabi's 'lost' works, remained - er, 'lost.' 

LOL

Literally, a hand-tied satin bow
by women at Dior. Still.

So how did, indeed, Ibn 'Arabi, make a living though?

These, and other great exciting things, will be told in the next NFT Digital Dirham 'tethered text.' 

Meanwhile, here is a little something, on another subject altogether:

You know what makes a Seville orange, important to the professional maker of perfumes, don't you? That is, to the master perfumer, as opposed to the scientist who acquired a degree in rubbish somewhere - because you are not going to get this level of knowledge from those stupid places, and it is not in the hands or the heads of those stupid people!

I mean, you do know though, right?

I need to walk back something here though - please don't get the idea that this is all about something that it is really not about. I am trying to make this place as entertaining, as it might potentially, be annoying -, to some people certainly. Hell it would be annoying to me! ...If I were just reading it as an outsider. By now I would be swearing and carrying on, I'm sure.

'Come on, *'ing out with it!' You * bastard!' That's the kind of thing I would be saying.

In the next article, if you are really really clever, there will some clues - you still won't be able to work the main things out, but it will 'open your eyes,' as it were, to certain things that are 'relationships' of things.

And there are absolutely no human chemists alive, who would be able to advance any theory as to why these things work, in comparison to the evident clear fact, that they do not work, outside of those 'relationships.' Human knowledge of chemistry just ain't that advanced guys, sorry.

So... NASA and a bunch of scientists, intend making a thing that floats up there in space, where they expect y'all to live. Which presumes, of course, that they happen to know what 'living' actually is. Breathing, oxygen, blood flow, nutrition, energy, what else - Krebs cycle stuff. LOLz

Simple, right?

Joke: How many Princeton chemists does it take to make a Stanford Torus habitable for humans?

(I haven't thought of a funny answer yet - actually, I don't think there is one).

Industrial, Or Design?

I was talking with a friend of mine this morning -, someone who is an industrial chemist in a very specialized field, and who is based in Holland.

And she was telling me that when she has to work on something new (it's always new things she is doing; that's her role, it's a bit 'experimental' by intention), she locks her laboratory door and places an 'X' sign outside. This is possibly a bit risky, but still, it's what she does!

By Lorenzo Villoresi - a great
scientist and chemist. And an astute
judge of people...

Anyway, the reason she does that, is not simply just to try and focus on her own ideas and 'be creative,' but to make sure that she is not influenced by everything else around her - because:

...As she says it, today, people hide behind whatever 'doesn't make waves;' and they mill in groups or crowds, because it gives them a sense of safety which they are lacking within.

And not only do they 'mill in groups, or even very large crowds,' but they make sure that they think in ways that will not make waves, be confronting, and thereby run the risk of being ejected from those crowds and groups that they effectively, hide in.

If we go back a hundred years and a bit, and consider the beginnings of factories, and the Industrial Age, it is possible to see that the motivation for 'Industrial Design' was not the avoidance of risk, or an aversion to challenges, but the idea of streamlining, multiplying units, and functionality; that is, actual purpose.

Whereas now, the purpose of 'Industrial Design' is to 'fit in.'

You cannot find a new 'super-car' or sports car, for example, that is in any meaningful way different to all the other brand examples of the same thing, and worse - you will not find a 'latest edition' in a particular brand line that is radically different to anything that came immediately before it.

Brand new, but a homage to a 1965 car...

I mean there are very rare exceptions, and these tend to be those examples that the public instantly claims upon release, that it 'rejects.'

So we are in the post-Industrial Age. We have even shifted from the Commercial Era, through the 'Quorum-Seeking' Era - and on to something else. And that is a really big social problem because it implies in the first place, at the 'Quorum Age,' that a thing is not valid, unless it is widely-accepted.

Anything at all, that is a 'standard for the public' point of the dissemination of ideas, will have only 'sinusoidal' ideas, and very loose 'facts' and likely facts completely out of intelligent context.

And there are a lot of very dangerous people who operate behind the scenes in politics and in societies, and who know exactly what they are doing and why, and they are the ones who drive what seem like ridiculously silly ideas such as the internet meme of - for instance - 'the flat Earth.' Which somehow find group validation.

Do you know what peach blossom tea is for?

You don't know who they are because governments will never tell you or admit that such highly-focused groups even exist, not as a reality. As soon as you hear a politician say though: 'this is just an idea' - run like hell.

Politicians are in the business of ideas. Ideas are their tools, and sometimes, their weapons. 

Okay, let's get that straight though - it is the people behind the politician fronts, who actually are the ones using ideas as instruments and as weapons.

The reason politicians today speak from teleprompters is not, as is often assumed, because it makes 'better viewing,' but yes it is an 'Industrial Design' form of media delivery, which streamlines exploitational 'live' human expression as a tool - but because politicians have absolutely no independent brain at all; and they are incapable of thinking on their feet against something which challenges or confronts their pre-planned message.

You would be excused in thinking that leading politicians can handle the typical exchanges of ideas and words that goes with a real interchange between people - but they cannot; they are the kinds of characters that will lash out if challenged or if their claimed 'facts' are confronted with truth.

In other words, they are not interchanging with you, or with the electorate - and so we are not even living in a 'Quorum-Seeking Age,' either.

We've past even through Herman & Chomsky's 'Manufactured Consent' Age...

Nobody requires your consent for anything. And no one is really interested in creating 'boilerplate' consent.

So where are we?

Well I don't know where 'we' are because I ain't in 'we!'

...You see, you cannot do anything confronting or challenging, because you have lost the art of that. Or, possibly you have.

Sometimes it is going to look like that you are challenging something - but you are not: what you are doing is holding up the status quo and speaking for it without even realizing that you are doing that.

Latvian soup. You like?
There is a clue here but it is wildly cryptic.
Don't try, you'll hurt your head. I wouldn't
'get it' unless I knew everything else about the
surrounding intent. ...Just worry about the soup. It's good.

There are no two brains, two egos, on the planet, for which the whole planet is big enough for them to exist side-by-side.

When you are starting out in a relationship, you never tread on your putative 'partner's' toes. You stay quiet and you only say a lot of nice things.

Right now, you think that ET Aliens (a great example of what I am really talking about here) are not flying outside your house and calling out your name - and why? Why are they not? Maybe 'they' don't exist... Right?

But man! Let me tell you, within five minutes of you finding out what they are like, and them finding out what you are like, close up to you - you'll be harboring misgivings inside already.

Which is why, they know to stay out of your way, but then show up briefly every now and then to lend a hand and to be 'amazing.' And then run away.

Biggest mistake you are ever going to make is failing to take me at my word about what I am saying here, and what I have already said.

This track is 'For You' - by Matteo De Grandis.

The Reality - The Mirage

So... Anyone who thinks we are not able to deliver, here, is nuts. LOL

What you are going to learn shortly, will spin your head around and take it right off from your shoulders!

You think not? Really?

Won't be in this post, but will happen!

Ha! 

TL/DR warning:

(Quick Note, first, though: the 'PayPal' button you see in the top right hand corner is only for those who are looking at the NFT listings for Digital Dirhams. I think I probably already have pointed out here or somewhere, that there are several reasons why real physical dirham coins are not worth holding or selling at the moment - so it sure ain't anyone here doing that anywhere right now. Firstly, there is absolutely no market pressure at all that I can see, for silver dirhams numismatically, and secondly, Arabic silver coins, like Spanish silver, are all 'cheater's coins;' they claim to be a certain weight and never are. So it is only Indian silver dirhams that are the 'correct weight,' and what is really, the point of having those since actual pure silver bullion is much more easily bought and sold OTC anyway. The PayPal thing also entails us reserving - we already have for a few people - something that is a numismatic coin available locally to us, and which we think is being bought up by China interests until they will shove the prices through the roof. So, it is only ten bucks to get in on that, and I will undertake to 'buy back' if it doesn't go as I say that it will in the marketplace. Except that it will for sure. So you can't expect us to blurt it out what this thing is - the last time, the coins went from sixty bucks to three thousand dollars in a few weeks! Was a slightly different situation but it will amount to a definite as well as good profit all the same).

Back to the fun part.

Now I'm only 'beating up' on Muslims, because it is easier, and it is meant to indicate that people believe all kinds of nonsense, and when they do, widely, it tends to be a huge massive fraud lie - but which they fully swallow, and when they do that, it often means a truly interesting fact goes begging.

2 billion people on the planet 'believe' (whether they really do or not we don't need to worry about) that Muhammad went on a 'night journey' that no one saw, on the back of a flying buraq.

This is in a chapter of the Quran, called 'Surah Al-Isra.'

Does anyone know what 'isra' is meant to mean in Arabic? Doesn't mean 'night-time journey!' It just means traveling, or kind of traveling and it may contain a sort of pun about 'ra' meaning sun or light. 'Rijal' walking around. That's the root. How they get 'night-time journey' from that I will never know. Possibly because there is no such connection and Jamaat people have made it up.

In the 'Black Mansion.'

By now you all know - you should know - that there are some nine hundred currently itemized different versions of the 'Quran.' This is the book by the way, that rigid ideologues will tell you, butter still firm in mouth, that has been sent down by God, and is perfectly preserved, not a word, not a letter not a dot, removed or out of place.

Okay never mind that. There are 'officially' acknowledged 'mus'hafs' - which means variant 'readings.'

Actually though, some 'mus'hafs' are in fact physical, written text versions with accompanying exegeses and explanations of how to read them.

These are among the actual 'earliest hard copy' Quran texts/versions in real existence, as opposed to Wikipedia imaginary 'existences.'

Many of them, do not call 'Surah Al Isra' (the so-called 'Chapter of the Night Journey') 'Surah Al Isra, but Surat Bani Israel...

Oh.

Oh yes indeedy, for those Muslims around the place here, who are sure to quickly get something unnerving about that.

Surat Bani Israel is a copy in Arabic, written around the time of Mu'awiya II, of a Syriac version of the Babylonian Talmud. And in there, it details a 'real' journey by Enoch (not a 'visionary journey'), and also by Moses, up into the sky, and into the heavens, and into some 'furthest place' (which is what 'al-aqsa' means in Arabic) where there was a shrine or temple of some kind with preternatural or supernatural beings in it.

Word for word, the current 'Surah Al Isra' contains whole passages lifted straight off the Babylonian Talmud.

Moreover, Mu'awiya, who spoke, wrote and read Greek, found a way to explain what he could not comprehend in the rather occult Syriac Babylonian Talmud chapter, and inserted the story about a 'flying horse-like creature' taking this from Greek myths about Pegasus, who also transported various 'heroes' up to heavenly Olympus (not Mount Olympus') 'where the gods really were.'

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There are exactly no Arab, or Muslim scholars who have ever decided if the 'night journey of Muhammad' was only a vision, or if it was physically real.

The Babylonian Talmud, however (as well as the Torah and the Christian Bible), says that it was real. Additionally, Hebrew rabbis have all maintained this 'legend' about, either that Enoch and Elijah too, were not originally actually human anyway, and came from 'elsewhere,' or that in particular, Enoch, 'became' this 'super being' they call Metat-****. And they never verbalize the rest of it, but the 'New Ager's' all have, and it is this thing 'Metatron.'

Anyway the whole thing is in Menachot 29b: 3-5 of the Babylonian Talmud, and it was written long long long prior to 'the Quran.'

Now anyway, why is this important to current rational thinking about 'ET Aliens?'

Well because there exists in ancient historical written narratives, accounts of 'traveling into space' by particular 'witnesses,' actual human beings who were said to have existed as real people, and whom other people at the time knew.

'Enoch' is this guy known by the Egyptians as 'Akhnoukh.' Now 'Akhnoukh' had a relationship to the pyramids but it is not maintained that he built them, though some people say there are hieroglyphs to that effect. Who knows? I don't.

This 'night journey' in the Islamic standard narrative, is called 'the Miraj.' And that is very convenient.

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Only Sunni Muslims, however, believe in it. Shia Muslims say the whole thing is rubbish.

So but hang on, if the Shia Muslims adamantly do not believe the 'Dome of the Rock' fairy tale, then how come there was a fight yesterday out there, when several hundred Muslim women marched around the entrance to the place, blocking Jews from entering in there on a particular Jewish 'sacred day' to do with the Rock, and then the IDF dragging women around and people throwing rocks and pellets being fired and everything. Over the mirage, that none of them know anything about for real.

Sunni Muslims claim this place is theirs for all time because God gave it to Muhammad when he went there on the night journey that no one saw, but the Babylonian Talmud says Enoch and Moses went there first and God gave them... ...et cetera. 

Now please don't blame just Sunni Muslims! After all, it is the Jews that say that God invented the Ten Commandments that he stole from Hammurabi and gave to Moses...

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And you all here, certainly the majority of you, figure I cannot produce an ET Alien space ship out front of your window.

Right? I mean you do think that, right?

And of course all of you knew about the Babylonian Talmud... Right?

You knew all of this stuff.

So, boys and girls, since you already know everything (KP has already said as much that I should not think or assume 'he/we/someone' is not already connected up, more connected than I know...)...

...Can you please tell me why it is that the Zohar Jews, and the Talmud scholars, and the Christians all believe (well they should and if some don't then they are dumb as well as ignorant about their own traditions) - all say that Enoch's traveling around was 'real?' As in real physical material real?

Because you know the answer to that, right?

No you don't.

You've never heard any of this stuff before in your lives, other than very vaguely indeed.

You know, there's a couple of kids, who email me regularly, saying 'why can't the ET Aliens come down and give us a real version of what happened in history, wouldn't that be cool if they did that?'

Uh-huh.