Family Guy

What would the world be like if religion never existed? There are so many creative theories that the possibilities are endless. Our ideals of right and wrong would certainly be effected. Aside from a moral guideline that we pretty much are born with, the things like sex before marriage, Gay marriage and so on would be looked at in a different light. Some possibilities are portrayed in the media, however rarely. The idea of religion never existing in the positive sense can be distasteful to some people. So the idea of a comical view can be down right offensive.

Me and my boyfriend have a very strong belief that comedy should not be censored nor should it always be nice. Some of the funniest comedians are rude and crude and even obnoxious. But the shock value in some things that are said may be the thing that makes us laugh the loudest and the hardest…or could hold some truth behind it. Which is why we love family guy so much.

The latest episode of family guy we watched was pertaining to the mulitverse theory.  The intellectual family dog, Brian, and the devious and passably gay baby, Stewie, travel the parallel universes and come across one where Christianity had never existed.

The writers of family guys take on what it would be, looked like an episode of the jetsons. Flying cars, moving sidewalks, even a program that allows dogs to ” number 2″ with out anyone having to clean it up. Stewie proseeds to tell brian all about this other universe. He explains that since christianity never existed “The dark ages of scientific ropression never occured and thus humanity is a thousand years more advanced.”

The idea of things being better of with out the ideals of religon and sin can be offensive to some who believe otherwise differently. We are all free thinkers and though this episode of family guy does hold creative ideas and humor, it doesn’t change anything. Yet people put off by this kind of humor. Should regilon be a taboo subject in comedy? before you answer this, remember George Carlon, one of the greatest comedians of all time.

Fear Mongering….

I was watching the daily show with John Stewart just now and had to stop to share a quick epiphonie with you.

As most know,  Johns way of approaching the news is from a comedians perspective from most Americans perspective, but still remaining informative. I use to watch his show back in my high school econ class so I am familiar with his style of sarcasm and silliness when he shows clips of the news and cuts away to make a comment.

He was talking about the swine flu vaccination and how the news was covering this supposed “cure”. John brought light on to the fear that the news was putting into the people.

“Should we get it?”" Is it safe?” “Is there enough?” “Can we trust the govt?”"Would you give it to your children?”… These where the questions that the news programs where putting in our head. Johns take on it was, how fear mongering can the news be. “Has anyone developed a vacciean that incoulates against scarying?” He goes on to talk about Dr. Gleneton Beck, MD’s statment of “How much do you trust your govt.” by saying,  not every thing has to be a conspericy; that the big bad govt. is out to inject us with some untested, potentially dangerous thing. He says ” Im sure the Vaccination isn’t perfact, science isnt perfect, but does everything have to be so spooky?”

I agree with him 100% because it is a fact that not only has the govt keeped us in fear before but the news is our main sorce to bring the fear to our living rooms every morning.

Fear is the main force that drives us to make certin choices.  After this news program brought all these doubts to the people many of them refused to get it. After September 11, we lived in fear of another attack, so we encouraged the invasion of the middle east.  the fear mongers made us war mongers

Much of what we do is out of fear. We fear death, we fear tarorist attacts, we fear  germs, we fear an eternity in a firey pit of hell…So we go to church. We pray and ask for forgivness from our sins. Could it be a possability that if somthing tramatic or life threatening happened like illness or a situation of emediate danger could bring us to pray and ask God to save us? Then when we come out victorious that we come out more spiritual, more Religous. Is it so hard to believe that fear is what drove us to this?

It says in the bible to fear God.  I’m curious to hear others take on this, but I cant help but connect that with the fear we live in every day. To do as God says so you can go to heaven. Why do we live in fear? Why can’t we just, as the beatles said “Let it be.”

The Ages

“When the moon is in the Seventh House
And Jupiter aligns with Mars,
Then peace will guide the planets
And love will steer the stars
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius…”

This medley written in the late ‘60s by 5^th dimension was created for the musical Hair. Despite how “groovy” the song was, it’s talking about a real event. We will be in the Age of Aquarius in the year 2150.

“The Age” is also brought to our attention and referred to numerous times in the bible as well. (“I am with you always to the end of the age” Matthew 28:20;“Either in this age or the age to come…” Matthew 12:32;“The harvest is the end of the age” Matthew 13:39;“Sign of your coming and the end of the age” Matthew 24:3;“In this age and the age to come” Luke 18:30 just to name a few…)

The age is what is referred to as the precession of the equinox. On the morning of the spring equinox, the sun will rise bringing in a new sign of the zodiac we refer to as the age of that time. It is called a precession because of the slow wobble the earth moves in while it rotates on its axis making the constellations in the sky go backward farther than through the normal yearly cycle.

The ancients referred to the complete cycle through the precession passing through all 12 of the constellations as the “great year” which is approximately 25,765 years. This was recognized and known by the early astrologists. They also acknowledged that every 2150 years brought on a new age. This was the amount of time it took for the earth to go through a house in the constellations. From 4300bc-2150bc was the age of Taurus, the bull, then came the age of Aries, the ram, in 2150-1ad. From 1ad to 2150 is the age of Pieces, the two fish, which is the age we are still in today. After 2150 and onto 4300 ad will be the Age of Aquarius.

The biblical reference of “the age” starts with Moses when he came down from mount Cyanide with the Ten Commandments. When he saw his people, The Israelites, worshiping a statue of a golden bull calf he became infuriated and shattered the stone tablets. It was against God to worship false idols as the Israelites did and so he instructed them to “go in and out from gate to gate and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion and every man his neighbor…” (Exodus 32) In reality, what this refers to is the ending of the age of Taurus, the bull. Moses represents the age of Aries, the ram which is why the Jewish still to this day blow the Rams Horn.

With this idea in mind, we could also say that Jesus represented the age of Pieces, the two fish. The symbolism of fish is aplenty in the New Testament. For example Jesus feeds 5000 people with bread and two fish (“we only have five loaves of bread and two fish…”Matthew 14:17). Also, when Jesus started his ministry and coming across two fishermen in Galilee whom he befriended and they followed him (“Jesus saw two brothers they where casting a net for they where fishermen”). And we all have seen the fish symbol on the back of people’s cars.

Not to mention Jesus’ supposed birth date is essentially the start of the age of Pieces.

Luke 22:11 when Jesus’ disciples ask him where the next Passover will be when he is gone, He replies “Behold when ye are entered into the city there shall be a man meet you bearing a pitcher of water…follow him in the house where he entereth in.”

This has to be the biggest astrological clue in the bible. The man baring the pitcher of water is Aquarius, the water barer who is always depicted as a man pouring a pitcher of water and when the sun, God son, leaves the age of Pieces, it will go into the Age of Aquarius as it follows the age of Pieces in the precession of the equinox

And lastly we are all familiar with end times, the end of the world as portrayed in the bible. Matthew 28:20 says, “I will be with you even to the end of the world.” Although in the King James Version, the word “world” is a misinterpretation. The word Aeon is the word being used and this translates to mean “Age.” Jesus the solar Pieces Personification, will end when the sun enters into the house of Aquarius, is what this scripture is telling us. The Idea of end times is an astrological misinterpretation.

What is your sign?

Your daily horoscope can be found in the Sunday paper or in the back of any Cosmo or teen people magazines. Purely for entertainments sake, we read these fortune-cookie-style predictions and advise for the future, not taking seriously the actual astrological bases of a horoscope. No, we don’t dig any deeper then the useless drivel we choose to read gaining no knowledge or facts.

The sign of the zodiac is more than a sell-out fun fact instrument of vanity. The Zodiac symbol its self is one of the oldest conceptual images in human history, dating back to Egyptian times, etched in stone and depicted in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. And believe it or not, astrology as more to do with the bible than you might care to believe. Clues in the bible and in Jesus’ words lead me to believe that the stories and characters are of mythical decent and are quite literally taken “from on high.”

So what is the Zodiac and what is it for, if not for fictional purposes? Back in earlier civilizations the zodiac was an artistic depiction of the suns passing through the 12 constellations (Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, and Aquarius) over a year. The zodiac also shows the 12 months of the year, the four seasons, the solstices and equinoxes.

For thousands of years the sun has been the central point of love and adoration to human kind because we knew, even before we discovered electricity, that without it, crops would fail to grow and humanity could not survive on earth. The sun was recognized then as the unseen creator, or God Sun, the light of the world.

The legend is that the sun, God, is at the central point of the zodiac, the 12 constellations are lined on the outer part of the circle representing the places of travel the sun will go through. The early ancients used this to determine and anticipate what natural events would happen during that time of year. For example, if you looked up into the night sky and see the constellation Aquarius, you would know that it meant the spring rains where coming.

In Egypt, the early people recognized this “unseen creator” and personified him as a man named Horus, the Messiah. Horus was depicted in hieroglyphics as a man with the sun circle around his head thus symbolizing him as the Son of God. Not unlike the christian depiction of the messiah with the light illuminated behind his head

Also, predating Christianity, the Pagan depiction of the zodiac symbol in its simplest form was the cross that you see in the center of the zodiac and the circle that you see surrounding the perpendicular lines at the center of the cross. With that, I can’t help but notice that this is the symbol I see all the time on the steeples of churches today.

The zodiac is not just an artistic expression. It is also a tool. If we look closely at the lines and symbols we can see specifically what the ancients would see when the sun reached a cretin point on its axes so many years ago. They personified each of the constellations giving then elaborate myths and legends.

Along with Aquarius, the water barer, we have Virgo, or Virgo the virgin also meaning the house of bread or better known to you as the virgin mother. Virgo is anthropomorphized as a woman holding a sheath of wheat. Virgo is usually seen in the sky around August and September bringing in the time of harvest. Mary, Jesus’ mother gave birth to him in Bethlehem. Bethlehem translated means house of bread. These are not the only signs that point to Mary being a mythical being. The ancient glyph for Virgo is the altered “M”. With similar characteristics to Christ, Adonis’ mothers name was Myrra who was a virgin mother. And then there is Budah’s mother, Maya. All virgin mothers all starting with the letter “M.”

The clues go even deeper  with Jesus’ 12 disciples. They are believed to be the 12 constellations in the sky in which the son travels. I notice that the reference to the number 12 continues through the bible with the twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve brothers of Joseph, the twelve judges of Israel, the twelve great patriarchs, twelve prophets, the twelve kings and princes of Israel, and Jesus being in the temple at 12.

There are more than enough clues that lead me to believe that there is a connection between the Christian bible and the zodiac. More of which I have to talk about in my next entries. What do you think of these coincidences? Do you think they are only just that? Or do you think that there could be something more?

Early religous voyage…

I don’t think my family decided we should go to church until I was around the age of 9 or 10. I remember I was sitting in my old living room and I was being told by my mother that we were gonna start going to church every Sunday.

“I was leaving the apartment complex I clean on Wednesdays, ” she said to me, “when I heard a loud thud on the roof of my truck. I got out looking to see what it was and there on the roof of my truck was this…” she held a pocket sized orange copy of the New Testament to me. “…Just out of thin air. What are the odds? It’s a sign.”

If you knew my mothers as well as I do, you would know what a fantastical person she is. Weather she likes to admit it or not she is impressionable, emotion driven, passionate, highly imaginative…and extremely naive. For example this past year she has devoted her every spare moment to becoming a true survivalist, watching shows on TV like “man vs. wild” and things of that nature, reading books and tips on the internet because she is convinced that in 2012 the world is going to end.

I never would purposely burst her bubble about this “sign” but to me it is a complete possibility that this was a coincidence. Perhaps someone on the top story of the building threw the bible out the window. Maybe they where frustrated, maybe they lost there faith.

But at that age I listened and I went to church with my mother. I did enjoy it at first, you know, minus the whole getting up at the ass crack of dawn.  But I got involved. I volunteered with the coffee and donuts in the morning, I joined the youth program, I helped with the annual Easter Passion play and Christmas play, I joined the church choir, I even started going to a private Christian school in my 6^th grade year. So you could say that I was involved in my religion.

Everything I did, thought, said, etc. was in the name of Jesus. My morals, my life style, my opinions all where direct results from what I learned from the bible. When I was questioned about my belief I answered with the typical “it takes more than something you can see to believe like I believe”. So what changed…..The only thing that changed was my age and location.

We moved in the summer of 2000. It took me and my mom some time to find a new church community. A few we tried didn’t quite sit well with us and after a while we just stopped trying.

Fast forward a couple years… I realized I didn’t have any answers to the most important question to myself. Who am I? Who do I want to be? Did I truly believe in Jesus anymore?  I had these moral standards which I constantly questioned; I didn’t know who I was. Why was I such a bitter, depressed person all the time?

There comes a time in everyone’s life where they realize there personalities are completely different form there parents. My mother’s lifestyle and religion was not right for me.

I was raised Christian practically, so I thought I had to be because my mom was a devout Christian woman. It wasn’t like my mom came up to me and said “hey…these are your choices!” I wouldn’t know the first thing about making choices at that age. I didn’t know what I wanted at that age except to make mom and dad proud.

So I did the thing most teenagers would do. I got mad. Mad at the restrictions I had put on myself for no reason, got mad at my parents for dragging me along with there decisions. Mad at God and all hated “Christians”. I didn’t have a clue why anger was the choice emotion. That would take a few more years to figure out.

I learned a lot in the next four years. I did a lot of growing up. From that point, I made a decision to take action. I did a lot of research and studied all different religions. I studied everything from Catholicism, to Hinduism, from paganism to Satanism, always keeping an open mind to try and find a religion that fit what I believed. I became obsessed with religions. I realized it’s one of the most important personal choices you could make. Someone could have a shit job, a crappy home life, be on the brink of bankruptcy, shunned from society, and still have their religion, their faith.

I tried Catholicism; I even tried a Baptist church, thinking the high energy level would get me into the groove. You can paint an elephant yellow and brown like a giraffe but it will still be an elephant. I just felt out-of-place.

I tried a few unorthodox paths. I had a brief stint in Buddhism which had a lot of enlightening and peaceful attributes but still didn’t fit. I tried paganism which did stick for some time. I found it very freeing, with choosing your stations, whether you wanted to practice alone or with others, if you wanted to work spell or not and I did enjoy being in touch with nature. I agreed with a lot of different points but the judgment and fear of being shunned by my own family and the misconceptions about the religion itself where endless.

In the end, I didn’t feel right about labeling myself as any one of them. To tie myself to any one faction seemed wrong. Soon I began to realize I just didn’t like labels. The idea of categorizing yourself seemed to me, like caging yourself somehow. Like putting your self in a mold so you are that and nothing else. Why pick a road and stick with it when you can travel off the beaten path and live free. So I choose not to choose and continue my search. Not for an answer but to better understand the world of myths, legends, the Historical Jesus, and where is all came from. I know to believe is to have faith even when you don’t see it but I am the kind of person who just has to ask “Why?”

My journey so far has taught me why I had such negative feelings for the Christian religion. It went against everything that I am; structured organized, restricted….controlled.

I’m sorry if I am making the religious search sound like buying a car, but honestly, shouldn’t it be like that? We only have one life. We have the right to religious freedom or as Aerosmith said “The freedom to choose what you choose to choose.”

God is not here….please leave a message!

“The more you begin to investigate what we think we understand, where we came from, what we think we’re doing, the more you begin to see we’ve been lied to……. we have been miss lead away from the true and divine presence in the universe that men have called God. I don’t know what God is, but I know what he isn’t. And unless, and until you are prepared to look at the whole truth, where ever it may go, who ever it may lead to, if you want to look the other way or if you want to play favorites, then somewhere along the line your gonna find out your messing with divine justice. The more you educate yourself, the more you understand where things come from the more obvious things become and you begin to see lies everywhere. You have to know the truth and seek the truth and the truth will set you free.”

Ever since I was young I have had questions. My math teachers in high school would hate me because I would as them “why,” so much. “Why do we take that step?” “why do we use that formula?” You would think a teacher would be thrilled with that kind of will to learn and understand, but not the ones who couldn’t give you an answer.  I find that I ask “why” to a lot of things in life but one thing that I cant even begin to grasp is Christianity. Why do they do, say, believe, worship the way they do?

I’m sure you don’t know me very well so let me tell you a bit about myself. I have never been known for my social graces.  I can come off  as abrasive when I am passionate.   I don’t pretend to be a God expert, and heaven knows I don’t have all the answers. In fact I rarely feel I need them. I just like to push people to think a little deeper.

I am hesitant in writing on this particular topic because it is a difficult subject for people to be open minded about. It is on such a personal level when you are questioned about your faith, it is only natural for you to become defensive. I completely understand the natural human reaction to fight for what you believe in. But with something so personal as faith, shouldn’t it be our own? Shouldn’t we all have our own takes on it and be open and accepting to others opinions? You would think that. I can’t tell you how many times I have been cursed at, told I’m going to hell (by my own family members), been told “God loves you, but I think your an asshole,” or just been flat out threatened from people who claim to be devoted to God. So I know by speaking on the Christian belief I am subjecting myself to scrutiny, and malice, but  I am not the kind of person to purposely offend people, my opinions are strictly that, and I do not mean to anger anyone. This isn’t about denying God or bashing anyone’s belief. this is a subject I feel very strongly about and I have been silent on for too long… I have questions. Lots of questions.

Also… I  ask that you give me an open ear and mind when reading my blogs for they will go into more detail about my past relationship with god, my opinions on certain modern methods in the christian churches, the bible, religion in movies etc., and how state and church are indeed intertwined. We, as Gods children, have been miss lead away from the truth and light of who we know as God, by the same people who gave us a secretive government and corrupt education.

[quoted unknown person from Zeitgeist]