As far as religion not being a lie, that is debatable. Is willful self delusion and willful ignorance a lie? And religion is full of lies regardless; believers tend to be quite casual about lying since by definition they care about faith, not facts .
Even if there was such a thing as genetic memory, for it to inform the Old World about the New would require that the entire population of the Old World be descended from the New. As opposed to the reality, where it was the other way around; the New World was empty of humans originally.
First published in Russia in 1903, this was a work that purported to describe a Jewish plot for world domination. In spite of the fact that it was a hoax, and was exposed as such by 1921, the damage had been done. The Protocols contributed to anti-Semitism in the early part of the 20th century, and were a large influence on Adolf Hitler. Though discredited in the west today, they apparently continue to be influential in Arab and Muslim lands.
Fair enough, I certainly didn’t think of that angle. But the OP said:
Which sounds to me like he thinks that all humans (or at just instinctively knew that something was ‘over there’, starting at least 10,000 years ago. I guess I just don’t totally understand what the OP is trying to say.
Also, I’d like to know how he knows that all nations and tribes survived the last ice age.
I gather “luck” is assumed to be a property of an object of person, like weight or volume or colour, hence a lucky guy who can have events come out in his favour or a lucky rabbit’s foot that will improve outcomes or a cursed object (i.e. a broken mirror) that will worsen them.
I second religion as the biggest lie. Communism a close second.
-Diet and exercise are an effective cure for obesity
-Hitler wanted war (he didn’t technically. He wanted conquest, just not for nations to fight back).
-Jesus existed (he seems to have been an astrological metaphor rather than a person)
This isn’t really correct at all. Hitler most definitely wanted war. He was disappointed when the West conceded the Sudetenland and there wasn’t a war.
I don’t admit that at all, except in the trivial sense that cats and dogs are physical objects. Gravity isn’t a physical object, nor is evolution, but both exist. Justice and mercy exist as a description of human relations. Human relations exist and can be described. I am certain that if you were defrauded you would have no problem identifying the act as unjust and if a court punished the offender and got you your money back you would describe that real act as just.
The success rate for losing 20% of body weight (which is the minimum to go from obese to a BMI of 25 or lower) and keeping it off for 5 years or more is almost 0. Diet and exercise do not work as long term solutions to obesity.
In the book ‘the young Hitler I knew’ his childhood friend said Hitler was extremely upset that war broke out and looked forward to it ending. He wanted conquest of eastern europe, but not the war that comes with it.
Who was born on the winter solstice during the transition from the age of aries to the age of pisces, and whose life was an almost exact duplicate of the myth of Horus from Egypt over a thousand years earlier?
Most professional historians believe most of that book was ghost written. The author, August Kubizek, knew Hitler back in 1903 to 1908 or so and was commissioned to write a biography in 1938. By 1944, he had managed to write two short pamphlets, jointly called “reminiscences”. In 1948, he on record as saying he needed a “real writer” to help him out. Barely two years later, the two brief pamphlets with a total of two direct quotes from Hitler expanded to a 300 page book with dozens of quotes. Hitler is portrayed as raving anti-semite in the original and he’s transformed into a very nice man in the revision. One of the most famous passages in the book Hitler being inspired to become the German leader after watching a Wagnerian Opera in Vienna. The opera in question was never staged in Vienna.
The book is an historical curiosity, but shouldn’t be used as a source of facts.
Could you please provide evidence that the myths concerning the lives of Jesus and Horus respectively are almost exactly the same? Or anything but remotely and superficially similar, even?
Really, Wesley, you ought to have known better than this. What you’re promoting here is a tiresome urban legend that’s been debunked on this message board and elsewhere countless times. Here’s our most recent thread on the topic if you’d like to refresh your memory. But just in case you don’t, here’s a handy summary of Horus from the Encyclopedia of Religions:
Do you see any basis there for your claim that the life of Jesus was an exact duplicate of the life of Horus? I don’t either.
Beyond that, whatever source you got that claim from probably told you that in Egyptian mythology Horus was born on December 25, had 12 disciples, had a father named Joseph, was baptized, gave a sermon on a mountain, was transfigured, was crucified between two thieves, and was resurrected after three days. Unfortunately it seems that you didn’t decide to check whether any of these claims are true. All of them are false. Now that you know the facts, I assume you won’t spread this stuff any more.
