Pope Francis Hints at IT (E.T.)??? --- Contact! --- In the Near Future with E.T.s from Other Planets?

Second time in five years, the Vatican has alluded to extraterrestrial life and of course its mission to convert those "uncivilized" space aliens.

Ronald Reagan publicly alluded to Extraterrestrials twice, once in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly.

The bottom line is that they are probably there.

They will decide when they want to contact us. (Not the other way around.)

In all likelihood the universe is quite diverse and the technology to transverse the universe rather cheap once you get it. Not unlike the internal combustion engine in a Model “T” Ford automobile of yesteryear?

I would say that that kind of technology is possibly something like one to two hundred years in our future. That contact before that technology develops within the natural envelope of our various local civilizations and our new evolving global culture would be dangerous for all parties concerned.  

That our reaching the basic mechanics of interstellar travel will probably mark the point on the timeline where contact with “them” would have the least cultural shock for both sides or the many sides involved in the equation.

In the mean time, lets add some heat to those cold bath baptismal pools? LOL

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Decoding the Middle Class Bible – Baptism and John the Baptist

A pattern emerges as I look at the objects of my youth. A thought occurs to me as I look at the discarded by the RCC the once sacred objects of my youth before they are decommissioned from the so-called “sacred” thing and sold as scrap or recycled into other churches. 

That the death of my childhood parish and its church is not unlike the death of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Hebrew Temple in the year 70 C.E..

And like the Jews who only had one Temple, I only had one church building / temple and once destroyed I have to reassess the purpose of faith as learned in that temple in Philly. That what ended up from humble beginnings time traveling to the present, transpired into what is now generally called “Christianity” in the final form as authorized by the Emperor/God Constantine circa 325 C.E..

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I also cross reference this with two of my blog articles, one about the parable of the mustard seed and a quick mention of an Internet “News” item about the science and the domestication of camels in the bible.

The article about Camels generated a spam like comment from a fundamentalist type that is doing damage control regarding the article about the timeline of domesticated camels not being in Palestine at the time that Abraham and Jacob and such were supposedly using them in standard bible stories. I say spam like but since the comment was polite enough and had a return e-mail address I did not delete it. I welcome all reasonable comment even if I disagree with it.

I incorporated my own bit of personal opinion in response to the comment on the camel which with a displayed link (not connected), it was a fundamentalist argument that there were petroglyphs in Palestine at the so called timeline of Abraham and Jacob proving that the bible is written by a singular author labeled “God”.

Problem with the petroglyph argument is that objects like petroglyphs can be forged and I am not certain if they were also trying to use science regarding carbon dating in that argument. Using science when convenient and not always is unsound methodology or use of the science thingy.

My own bit of personal opinion to that comment was an article regarding the Parable of the Mustard Seed,that with a little bit of research had me conclude that that parable was written from a middle class Greek or Roman point of view and local to Rome or Athens and not one of an honest street view of the historic time and person of Jesus.

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Getting back to the loss Saint Joan of Arc Parish in Philly in favor of Holy Innocents Parish, the political parish with some off street parking for the Archdiocesan officials to visit and inspect with their Wharton Global Spreadsheet to determine what parish gets boarded up and torn down and which once survives in bland modern functionality. Whatever.

Now that the only lost temple or church I count as important in the culture of my life and progeny, I looked at a picture of the baptismal font from pictures of the Last Mass at Saint Joan of Arc before they board up the place and turn it into a tire warehouse or such. Can you imagine Caesar trying to turn Herod’s temple into a parking lot for chariots before 70 C.E.?

Well looking at that font, I am reminded that it used to be in a side out of the way room with stained glass, the baptistery. That in the decades since I attended services there, they had apparently moved the baptismal font out into the open of the church and amidst the congregation and out of the dark forgotten room of the old architectural design.

That baptism cross referenced with John the Baptist and he baptizing people in the river Jordan put me into mind of the middle class Greek and or Roman writers of the Greek and or New Testament.

That in all probability John the Baptist is ideally depicted in the midst of crowds, mostly middle class, in the countryside doing the Jewish cleansing with water thing.

That there are purifying bathes all around the Jerusalem Acropolis and the Temple building but I would imagine such baths required a fee and maybe a good second suit of clothing to go play holy on the mount and be seen by your other middle class neighbors doing their holy stroll around an Easter Sunday Fifth Avenue local like setting so to speak.

That much of the fire of the historic Jesus is a man, a day laborer, preaching to street people, poor farmers, in their only set of clothes etc. That John the Baptist is more like catering mostly to poor people in the heartland. These poor wanting a place at the table of the God Creator thing and John did not charge much if at all with a diet of grasshoppers etc.

That aside from a handful of curious tourists, John the Baptist like Jesus that followed him, was a preacher to the poor and disaffected and not the Middle Class people in the big city of Jerusalem.

That many of the paintings coming down to us from the Renaissance had John pictured with a middle to upper class of clientele.

While this level of poverty reached by John the Baptist’s mission is not verbally specific in the bible, not codified by middle class writers in Alexandria, Athens or Rome, the truth of the situation seems much clearer to me.

That even too with the visual media of stained glass etc. from the middle ages onward, the most readily available means to tell a bible story, that the story in the visual form could be interpreted and or have the message hijacked away from that of the poor multitudes down to vested middle class elites. 

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Mormons, Catholic Bishops and Boys on the Side

In these days of Orwellian Speak, MSM and the last days of Constantine’s Kristian Army Religion, it is sometimes difficult to communicate on a real eye to eye, in your face, in the gut with feelings to or with your “neighbor”.

In such an environment let me talk parable and or metaphor and start by talking about a chick flick and work my way around reality and try to make a point in old fashioned common/farm sense for us older types without all our fingers engaged on a joy stick/keyboard.

Back when or thereabout in time, AIDS was denounced by the living cadaver president Saint Ronald Reagan as being a punishment from God or some such similar scripted rhetoric from that “B” actor, I saw the movie Boys on the Side http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112571/ with Whoopi Goldberg, Mary-Louise Parker, Drew Barrymore and Matthew McConaughey wearing a shirt. 

Whoopi, who is an original, seems to have played a lot of Lesbian parts in Hollywood to establish a career there or maybe this was her only gay part. 

Mary-Louise Parker in this movie along with Angels in America http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318997/  seems to have put her safely in the must see by gays actress category at the box office.

And who cannot love Drew Barrymore? Did I mention McConaughey, still early in his career, had to keep his shirt on while “acting”?

Well anyway, getting back to my beloved dumbed down America and Hollywood’s approach to trying to educate the American public on the facts of the AIDS Virus. To in essence have an innocent like Mary-Louise Parker catch that life threatening, life killing virus, through straight heterosexual sex. That, rather than doing the whole gay scene thing through which that infection made its presence known on the North American and European continents.

First, I liked this chick flick, Boys on the Side, mainly for the scenery in Arizona, where much of the movie was filmed.  It was filmed in and around Tucson and having lived there I enjoyed the movie cuts that put certain timeline and geographical landmarks out of sequence as in a typical movie filmed in Manhattan where being in a taxi cab at Lincoln Center in one scene makes it virtually impossible to have actors do a two minute conversation and exit at Wall Street etc.

Hollywood’s MSM Orwellian Speak approach to educating dumbed down America only scratched the surface in the human tragedy of the AIDS plague.

Which brings my parable to the above pictured “baptisimal” device in the basement of the Great Temple in Salt Lake City.

It looks quite Pagan, a lot like the circus statuary in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.  It supposedly takes a description of Solomon’s Temple from Book of Kings 1, and from all the translations I have read a poor translation, for molten metal in “molten sea” in the manufacture of bronze of similar oxen described during the Babylonian Captivity when a lot of the Hebrew Testament first got manufactured, first written down IMO, in retro fitting the Hebrew past into words to a people in cultural crisis and in fear of losing that cultural identity exiled in a foreign state.

Well anyway, Jesus in the Greek Testament got baptized in the Jordan Creek/River depending on the translation of creek and or river etc.

The difference between the real Jesus and his teachings and the Mormon faith is something like the difference between the River Jordon in the sunlight and five tons of Bronze supporting a marble bath tub in some dark secret basement in Salt Lake City.

This brings me to my gripe.

 

First, I have some relatives that have in the past converted to Joseph Smith's Horse Stealing Religion of Mormonism.  Constantine had his perversions, murdering his rival general son and of course perverting the teaching of Jesus, merging them with Roman Pagan Sacred Tradition.  And Joseph Smith perverted Constantine’s idea of religion and found gold tablets in upstate New York (like winning the lottery in spiritual terms, possible but with the odds, highly unlikely).

As such, I hope that my parents, grandparents, great grandparents have not being re-baptized or been forced to participate from the grave of in a  post mortem Mormon baptism (necromancy) for the sake of propaganda to constantly prop up the Joseph Smith myth, myths, (sodomite rumors?), that kept following him all his life as he moved around a lot ahead of the local sheriffs and the local farmers missing their horses and the occasional odd sheep (emphasis on the word odd).  Forced to be baptized, post mortem, in a Demonic looking device such  as the above.

All this fuss in the Mormon church and the Catholic church about marriage is just a cover story. While it is debatable if Jesus was gay (let’s ask Mary Magdalene on that one), the male hierarchy of Temple Square in Salt Lake City and Saint Peter’s Square in Rome are such homophobes, that I truly suspect that Joseph Smith was light in his loafers and the whole sacred marriage tradition is merely cover for closeted gays and closeted gayness to hide behind  so-called sacred heterosexual marriage.

Now that the Mormons “Male” hierarchy has joinned Roman Catholic “Male” hierarchy at the hip(?) in this hate campaign against gays and against the civil right issue of marriage equality, I wonder why the MSM is of late advertising Salt Lake City as the "most gay friendly city in America" except that maybe "they" want to blend in with the tourists (gay) on weekends at their new City Creek Center gay tourist trap next to the Temple and that demonic baptism Halloween decoration device used to baptize dead Holocaust victims on a regular basis and now unofficial closeted manner (we’re sorry, we’ll stop, yeah right).

While the Mormons can deny that polygamy still exists on an official basis, the unofficial basis says otherwise.  And what better way to hide the facts of polygamy in the western United States than to deny “marriage” to the evil gays who don’t understand the whole straight, heterosexual, missionary sex Kristian/Mormon thing.

And of course the Catholic Bishops are married to the church and cannot marry women (yuk!) as actually written in the Greek Testament as a requirement to be a bishop, they can back up the Mormon Front on Marriage and “religious liberty” MSM public relations Orwellian speak thing.

So life is good for the Mormon Hierarchs and the Catholic Bishops these days.

Mormons.  Catholic Bishops.  That Official Marriage thing (Bullshit!). 


And Boys on the Side.

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