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    An interesting take on politics, conspiracies, and prophecies

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    @JOHN BUTLER  Well... that would be in "good standing" within the JW community which as you are well aware.... means they would be a "friend of the GB" as you put it above.

    @admin who owns this site doesn't care what religion one is...he is agnostic at best. He wanted this club to be off in it's own corner...

    I asked him to make my own "JW's only" club to accomodate like minded people in their own area. 

    This Public Club will stay here where I am more relaxed on people questioning etc....

    I do get ticked off though when people's comments are completed unrelated and off topic (oh.. and spammers)

    The halo, an influence of this pagan worship of the sun?

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    In Hellenic and Roman art, the sun-god Helios and Roman emperors are often depicted with a radiant crown. The latter was not used in primitive Christian art because of its pagan origins, but from the mid 4th Century, Christ is thus represented. It was only from the 6th Century onwards that the halo began to be seen in most representations of the Virgin Mary and other saints.

    “The halos that artists during 
    the Middle Ages put around
    the heads of saints are
    a remnant of sun worship.”

     - Will Durant 
     

    “From the 4th Century, Christian artists began 
    to paint Jesus with a halo of light, 
    and later Mary and the Apostles. 

    It is also characteristic of the representations 
    of Buddha and Mohammed.”

     - Sven Achen  
     

     The halos, a remnant of sun worship

    24 Abbé Ména Cercle auréole [].jpg

    Panel of Christ and Abbot Mena

    E 11565

    Location in the Louvre:

    Denon Entresol room C showcase 6

     

    The church of the monastery 
    of Bawit is reconstructed
    in part in this room.

    Suspended from the wall
    of the altar is one of the oldest images of Christ, showing him
    in the company of an abbot.

    It is also one of the first appearances of a halo of light around the head of the saints.

    Icons form an integral part of the Orthodox world. The worship of these two-dimensional images of Christ or of the saints took effect in the religions of Babylon and Ancient Greece. Believers considered the image used for worship as a divinity in itself. Christian artists adapted this syncretism and used pagan symbols which they introduced in a new context without however totally purifying them.

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    Sun in the Bible

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    In the Bible, the sun is never deified because, as an impersonal force, it was created by God as a great light to light up the Earth and set a calendar. The existence of sun worship in the Kingdom of Judah is reported by the Prophet Ezekiel. “They were bowing down to the east, to the sun.” (Ezekiel 8:16).
     
    This apostate behaviour went against the Law (Deuteronomy 4:19) and the words of the psalmist, “For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield; Favor and glory are what he gives.” (Psalm 84:11). Years earlier, the King Josiah had however abolished worship of the sun-god. - 2 Kings 23:5.
     
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    The Temptation of Christ      MI 285
     
    Location in the Louvre:

    Ary Scheffer

    Sully 2nd room 63

    The sun, source of life and fertility, is nevertheless revered  in most cultures. A149

     

    The incarnation of light in the form of the Egyptian god Ra, it would be Helios then Apollo among the Greeks.

    The worship of the Persian sun-god Mithra is at the origin of the feast of Christmas.

    The influence of this pagan worship of the sun also explains the presence of a ring of light, the halo, around the heads of icons of Christendom.

     

    Scene of Libation to the God Shamash

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    22 Scène Libation shamash [].JPG

     God Shamash

    Louvre Location:

    Sb 7

    Richelieu room 3

     

    • A sovereign pours libation on an altar before a seated god, recognisable by his tiara (crown) with several rows of horns.
    • The god holds a ring and a rod, symbols of power and justice.
    • A rayed sun disc dominates the scene.

    These symbols are often associated
    with Shamash, sun-god but also god of justice. 

     

    The symbolism in the Bible is identical.
    Judah gives his signet ‘ring’ and the ‘staff that is in thy hand’, both personal and precious, as a pledge to Tamar (Genesis 38:18). The rod of Moses became a symbol of his authority. - (Exodus 14) In his blessing on his deathbed, Jacob said to Judah that ‘the ruler’s staff’ shall not depart from between his feet until Shiloh comes (Genesis 49:10)
    This detail is an indication of future extended authority. 

    “The rod of your strength Jehovah 
    will send out of Zion, [saying:] ‘Go subduing in the midst of your enemies’ ” (Psalm 110:1, 2). 

    Paul the Apostle was to apply 
    these verses to Jesus Christ 
    who came as the representative 
    of God (Hebrews 10:12, 13).
    It is said that this 'King of kings' made war with justice with a rod of iron (Revelation 19:15).
     
    In Babylon, the Hebrew form of the name Sheshbazzar, governor of the Jews returning from exile, meant: “Oh Shamash, protect the Father”. He is identified with Zerubbabel. - Ezra 1:8
     
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    Shamash and Code of Hammurabi

    John F. Kennedy Assassination

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    First news reports of JFK's assassination:

    News coverage of the JFK assassination, starting with the interruption of "As the World Turns" at 10:00 during the first hour and ten minutes after the shooting occurred. For the next several minutes, the network alternates between the soap opera/commercials and the bulletin. Then at 17:43, the network stays with the bulletin and at 30:14 the news anchor appears. Starting at 40:00 came the first of many unconfirmed reports from a Dallas affiliate reporter that Kennedy was dead. Finally at 1:06:43, the news anchor makes the sad official confirmation that Kennedy died 38 minutes earlier. Many people have posted in the comments section how old they were when this horrific event occurred. I wish to add that I was an eleven-month-old baby.: From 12:18 to 12:25 CBS did a plug for "Route 66."

    Teresa Graves - My Story

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    TERESA GRAVES DIED IN A HOUSE FIRE

    On October 10, 2002, the home that Teresa lived in with her mother, caught on fire while Teresa was trapped inside. The fire was caused by a space heater and sadly there was nothing the neighbors, nor fire department could do to get to her before she succumbed to the fire. As far as we know, she didn’t have children and she died just how she’d lived her life in her later years- without much fanfare and shrouded in her religious faith. Ms. Graves was just 54 years young. 

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