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Adrian · Post by **Adrian** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:23 pm

Whats the point of using the Bible for anything? Except throwing it at my cat? The Nephilim is a new-age myth that surfaced due to architectural discoveries and like Döniken, people are merging space & Christianity together. The Bible has been translated, added and cut out for millenias. Hard to imagine anyone trying to find something sane or provable from there.

Lagwolf · Post by **Lagwolf** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:52 pm

Well a lot of us might agree with your, but alas there are lots of people who (scarily) take it literally.

decadence · Post by **decadence** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 4:08 pm

The Bible is nothing more than a tool to keep a large chunk of grazing humans cowed and in search of a humility that, quite frankly, scares me more than anything else in the world. Complacency breeds the domination of the weak by those without the delusion

nortonew · Post by **nortonew** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 7:14 pm

Adrian wrote:Whats the point of using the Bible for anything? Except throwing it at my cat? The Nephilim is a new-age myth that surfaced due to architectural discoveries and like Döniken, people are merging space & Christianity together. The Bible has been translated, added and cut out for millenias. Hard to imagine anyone trying to find something sane or provable from there.

I think the Bible can sometimes be used in stories to good effect. If you can tie your subject into several well-known historical and/or literary items you can give a tale a bit more of a mysterious/quasi-real aura. The Bible is always a good item to tie things into since most everyone knows what it is.

decadence · Post by **decadence** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:29 pm

see?

Post by **Aleister** » Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:54 pm

Written word came about long before most earthly events were even slightly understood.

Humanity in its fearful existence has always needed explanations for everything. The only way to offer up such consolation to mankind in those days was to create such works.

Of course before the age of the written word there were traditions of story-telling, but such stories were given much more credibility once these ideas were written down. I think it bestoed a higher degree of credulity than had ever existed before.

The whole purpose of any such text is primarily to give comfort to a world that needs it, and also in some cases to blend in a standard set of morals and rules which will be gladly accepted by most, who receive these new explanations of the world.

Would the bible be such a cherished (by some) work if it had not outlined creation and events surrounding the world? Or would it simply be seen, as many documents over time, as a simple book of rules?

bill · Post by **bill** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:40 am

What I find fascinating about the nephilim and such is the similarites between various ancient religious texts. What I was studying was the connections between the Norse tales of Ragnarok, the book of Gotterdammerung and Revelations. It is certainly true that the ancient tales were passed on by word of mouth until the written word and no doubt expanded upon with each telling but the fact that the basics of these stories have coherency makes them all the more compelling.

I have found and been told more than once that my own writing is disturbing. In my first book I rooted the tale in factual events in order to give the reader a more comfortable foothold while viewing the Inferno, the devil and death as she walks side by side with mankind. In the following books of the series I am taking away what gives most people a sense of comfort. I'm turning their own basic religious beliefs against them leaving the reader nowhere to turn to escape the twisted nightmare. One reviewer after calling my work bizarre and disturbing listed my story of the devil as an autobiography. Flattery will get them nowhere.

Lagwolf · Post by **Lagwolf** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:06 am

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nortonew · Post by **nortonew** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:31 pm

bill wrote:What I find fascinating about the nephilim and such is the similarites between various ancient religious texts.

Actually, I've thought the similarities between many Pagan pantheons and the Nephilihim was rather interesting. It almost makes me wonder if there is something behind the story. Perhaps the "Angels" in the story were actually a colony of aliens that landed on Earth far back before the last Ice Age.

The Nephilihim may have been the result of genetic experiments that the aliens performed on humans.

The parts of the book of Enoch that described what Enoch saw in heaven seemed to be mostly nonsense. But then in occurred to me that perhaps Enoch was actually taken up in an Alien ship and just thought he was in heaven. All the weird stuff he described may have actually been parts of the ship that he completely misunderstood.

I think some named something like Zechariah Stechin wrote some books about this kind of stuff, but he was talking about Sumerian myths.

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