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Welcome to the Matrix (i.e. the metaverse), where reality is virtual, freedom is only as free as one’s technological overlords allow, and artificial intelligence is slowly rendering humanity unnecessary, inferior and obsolete.
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, sees this digital universe—the metaverse—as the next step in our evolutionary transformation from a human-driven society to a technological one.
Yet while Zuckerberg’s vision for this digital frontier has been met with a certain degree of skepticism, the truth—as journalist Antonio García Martínez concludes—is that we’re already living in the metaverse.
The metaverse is, in turn, a dystopian meritocracy, where freedom is a conditional construct based on one’s worthiness and compliance.
In a meritocracy, rights are privileges, afforded to those who have earned them. There can be no tolerance for independence or individuality in a meritocracy, where political correctness is formalized, legalized and institutionalized. Likewise, there can be no true freedom when the ability to express oneself, move about, engage in commerce and function in society is predicated on the extent to which you’re willing to “fit in.”
We are almost at that stage now.
Consider that in our present virtue-signaling world where fascism disguises itself as tolerance, the only way to enjoy even a semblance of freedom is by opting to voluntarily censor yourself, comply, conform and march in lockstep with whatever prevailing views dominate.
Fail to do so—by daring to espouse “dangerous” ideas or support unpopular political movements—and you will find yourself shut out of commerce, employment, and society: Facebook will ban you, Twitter will shut you down, Instagram will de-platform you, and your employer will issue ultimatums that force you to choose between your so-called freedoms and economic survival.
This is exactly how Corporate America plans to groom us for a world in which “we the people” are unthinking, unresistant, slavishly obedient automatons in bondage to a Deep State policed by computer algorithms.
Science fiction has become fact.
Twenty-some years after the Wachowskis’ iconic film, The Matrix, introduced us to a futuristic world in which humans exist in a computer-simulated non-reality powered by authoritarian machines—a world where the choice between existing in a denial-ridden virtual dream-state or facing up to the harsh, difficult realities of life comes down to a blue pill or a red pill—we stand at the precipice of a technologically-dominated matrix of our own making.
We are living the prequel to The Matrix with each passing day, falling further under the spell of technologically-driven virtual communities, virtual realities and virtual conveniences managed by artificially intelligent machines that are on a fast track to replacing human beings and eventually dominating every aspect of our lives.
In The Matrix, computer programmer Thomas Anderson a.k.a. hacker Neo is wakened from a virtual slumber by Morpheus, a freedom fighter seeking to liberate humanity from a lifelong hibernation state imposed by hyper-advanced artificial intelligence machines that rely on humans as an organic power source. With their minds plugged into a perfectly crafted virtual reality, few humans ever realize they are living in an artificial dream world.
Neo is given a choice: to take the red pill, wake up and join the resistance, or take the blue pill, remain asleep and serve as fodder for the powers-that-be.
Most people opt for the blue pill.
In our case, the blue pill—a one-way ticket to a life sentence in an electronic concentration camp—has been honey-coated to hide the bitter aftertaste, sold to us in the name of expediency and delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet, cell phone signals that never drop a call, thermostats that keep us at the perfect temperature without our having to raise a finger, and entertainment that can be simultaneously streamed to our TVs, tablets and cell phones.
Yet we are not merely in thrall with these technologies that were intended to make our lives easier. We have become enslaved by them.
Look around you. Everywhere you turn, people are so addicted to their internet-connected screen devices—smart phones, tablets, computers, televisions—that they can go for hours at a time submerged in a virtual world where human interaction is filtered through the medium of technology.
This is not freedom. This is not even progress.
This is technological tyranny and iron-fisted control delivered by way of the surveillance state, corporate giants such as Google and Facebook, and government spy agencies such as the National Security Agency.
So consumed are we with availing ourselves of all the latest technologies that we have spared barely a thought for the ramifications of our heedless, headlong stumble towards a world in which our abject reliance on internet-connected gadgets and gizmos is grooming us for a future in which freedom is an illusion.
Yet it’s not just freedom that hangs in the balance. Humanity itself is on the line.
If ever Americans find themselves in bondage to technological tyrants, we will have only ourselves to blame for having forged the chains through our own lassitude, laziness and abject reliance on internet-connected gadgets and gizmos that render us wholly irrelevant.
Indeed, we’re fast approaching Philip K. Dick’s vision of the future as depicted in the film Minority Report. There, police agencies apprehend criminals before they can commit a crime, driverless cars populate the highways, and a person’s biometrics are constantly scanned and used to track their movements, target them for advertising, and keep them under perpetual surveillance.
Cue the dawning of the Age of the Internet of Things (IoT), in which internet-connected “things” monitor your home, your health and your habits in order to keep your pantry stocked, your utilities regulated and your life under control and relatively worry-free.
By the end of 2018, “there were an estimated 22 billion internet of things connected devices in use around the world… Forecasts suggest that by 2030 around 50 billion of these IoT devices will be in use around the world, creating a massive web of interconnected devices spanning everything from smartphones to kitchen appliances.”
As the technologies powering these devices have become increasingly sophisticated, they have also become increasingly widespread, encompassing everything from toothbrushes and lightbulbs to cars, smart meters and medical equipment.
Between driverless cars that completely lacking a steering wheel, accelerator, or brake pedal, and smart pills embedded with computer chips, sensors, cameras and robots, we are poised to outpace the imaginations of science fiction writers such as Philip K. Dick and Isaac Asimov. (By the way, there is no such thing as a driverless car. Someone or something will be driving, but it won’t be you.)
These Internet-connected techno gadgets include smart light bulbs that discourage burglars by making your house look occupied, smart thermostats that regulate the temperature of your home based on your activities, and smart doorbells that let you see who is at your front door without leaving the comfort of your couch.
Nest, Google’s suite of smart home products, has been at the forefront of the “connected” industry, with such technologically savvy conveniences as a smart lock that tells your thermostat who is home, what temperatures they like, and when your home is unoccupied; a home phone service system that interacts with your connected devices to “learn when you come and go” and alert you if your kids don’t come home; and a sleep system that will monitor when you fall asleep, when you wake up, and keep the house noises and temperature in a sleep-conducive state.
The aim of these internet-connected devices, as Nest proclaims, is to make “your house a more thoughtful and conscious home.” For example, your car can signal ahead that you’re on your way home, while Hue lights can flash on and off to get your attention if Nest Protect senses something’s wrong. Your coffeemaker, relying on data from fitness and sleep sensors, will brew a stronger pot of coffee for you if you’ve had a restless night.
Yet given the speed and trajectory at which these technologies are developing, it won’t be long before these devices are operating entirely independent of their human creators, which poses a whole new set of worries. As technology expert Nicholas Carr notes, “As soon as you allow robots, or software programs, to act freely in the world, they’re going to run up against ethically fraught situations and face hard choices that can’t be resolved through statistical models. That will be true of self-driving cars, self-flying drones, and battlefield robots, just as it’s already true, on a lesser scale, with automated vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers.”
Moreover, it’s not just our homes and personal devices that are being reordered and reimagined in this connected age: it’s our workplaces, our health systems, our government, our bodies and our innermost thoughts that are being plugged into a matrix over which we have no real control.
It is expected that by 2030, we will all experience The Internet of Senses (IoS), enabled by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), 5G, and automation. The Internet of Senses relies on connected technology interacting with our senses of sight, sound, taste, smell, and touch by way of the brain as the user interface. As journalist Susan Fourtane explains:
Many predict that by 2030, the lines between thinking and doing will blur. Fifty-nine percent of consumers believe that we will be able to see map routes on VR glasses by simply thinking of a destination… By 2030, technology is set to respond to our thoughts, and even share them with others… Using the brain as an interface could mean the end of keyboards, mice, game controllers, and ultimately user interfaces for any digital device. The user needs to only think about the commands, and they will just happen. Smartphones could even function without touch screens.
In other words, the IoS will rely on technology being able to access and act on your thoughts.
1: Thoughts become action: using the brain as the interface, for example, users will be able to see map routes on VR glasses by simply thinking of a destination.
2: Sounds will become an extension of the devised virtual reality: users could mimic anyone’s voice realistically enough to fool even family members.
3: Real food will become secondary to imagined tastes. A sensory device for your mouth could digitally enhance anything you eat, so that any food can taste like your favorite treat.
4: Smells will become a projection of this virtual reality so that virtual visits, to forests or the countryside for instance, would include experiencing all the natural smells of those places.
5: Total touch: Smartphones with screens will convey the shape and texture of the digital icons and buttons they are pressing.
6: Merged reality: VR game worlds will become indistinguishable from physical reality by 2030.
This is the metaverse, wrapped up in the siren-song of convenience and sold to us as the secret to success, entertainment and happiness.
It’s a false promise, a wicked trap to snare us, with a single objective: total control.
Orwell’s masterpiece, 1984, portrays a global society of total control in which people are not allowed to have thoughts that in any way disagree with the corporate state. There is no personal freedom, and advanced technology has become the driving force behind a surveillance-driven society. Snitches and cameras are everywhere. And people are subject to the Thought Police, who deal with anyone guilty of thought crimes. The government, or “Party,” is headed by Big Brother, who appears on posters everywhere with the words: “Big Brother is watching you.”
Here’s The True And Bloody Story Behind The Origins Of Thanksgiving
This holiday does not have as friendly a history as many people believe. Quite the contrary: the dark history of Thanksgiving is surrounded by tales of blood, brutality and slaughter.
We all know that Thanksgiving is an American holiday meant to celebrate and be grateful for our blessings and the friendship of others. What many ignore, however, is that behind this seemingly joyous occasion lies a dark story full of conflict, blood, and genocide.
The origins of Thanksgiving, like with most other traditional festivities, are rooted in old pagan rites. The holiday has its earliest source in ancient customs found throughout the globe that allocated a day of giving thanks for a successful harvest and the fortunes or blessings of the previous year. More specifically, however, it is often said that the current American tradition of Thanksgiving dates back to the establishment of the Plymouth Colony in what today is Massachusetts, in 1620.
Problems with the official story
Most schools teach that Thanksgiving was born when some English religious dissenters, the pilgrims, were struggling to settle in Plymouth and were warmly received by friendly, local Native Americans from the Wampanoag tribe, who taught them how to survive in the New World. To celebrate their success and to honor each other, everyone got together and threw an affectionate feast in which the pilgrims showed their gratitude.
That sounds like a lovely story! But, it falls way short of showing the whole picture.
As we mentioned before, celebrations meant to give thanks for the harvesting season (which mostly fall around the same dates) were plentiful and varied much before the pilgrim story, and it’s hard to pinpoint a single event as the actual birth of the contemporary version of the holiday. Other settlers in Virginia celebrated their arrival with an annual Thanksgiving day since 1619, for example. Decades before, some Spanish settlers in the colonies got together yearly with the Seloy tribe for a friendly feast. Yet others believe Thanksgiving truly began when, in 1637, Massachusetts colony governor John Winthrop declared a day to give thanks for the fact that colonial soldiers had recently slaughtered over seven hundred members of the Pequot tribe, including women and children, in Connecticut.
This is not a history of friendship
It is fairly well-documented that the English, and later Americans, didn’t in fact get along with their native neighbors. Actually, that’s an understatement. Native Americans were driven out of their land, hunted and virtually exterminated by the settlers during the centuries following the latter’s arrival, so it’s hardly surprising that the story surrounding Thanksgiving involves a bloody conflict.
Though it is true that initially the Plymouth settlers held rather good relations with the Wampanoag tribe—in fact, they had an official alliance against the French and other rivals—, this friendship eventually eroded. Little by little, the colonists of Plymouth, though indebted to the Wampanoag, took over their land, straining the locals’ way of life. If that was not enough, disease, spread by the newcomers, decimated the native population.
The Sad Truth: King Philip’s War
After enduring much oppression and injustice, a new leader rose to power among the Wampanoag. Metacomet, son of Massasoit, knew his people had had enough, and was willing to fight back. Known by the English as “King Philip,” the new leader ordered raids against the colonies after many of his men were executed for murdering a Punkapoag interpreter.
In 1675 the conflict led to a calamitous, all-out war. And the consequences, surely enough, were catastrophic.
On top of famine and disease, raids grew increasingly common. Abductions, slaughter, razing, and pillaging became everyday affairs, and on both sides the casualties were high. But whereas the colonists had the privilege of relocating to more fortified settlements, the Wampanoag were simply forced to leave their villages and flee to distant regions.
On August 12, 1676, Metacomet was returning home after a failed attempt to recruit allies in New York. A group of rangers under the command of Captain Benjamin Church had been hunting him for a while, and when he was traveling through the Miery Swamp in Bristol, he was finally shot dead. His body was quartered and hung from trees, and his head was mounted on a pike at the entrance of Plymouth, where for over twenty years it served as a warning for those who would rise against the conquering ambition of the colonies. The chief’s wife and nine-year-old son were subsequently sold into slavery. In the end of what has become known as “King Philip’s War,” colonists lost around 30% of their people, while nearly half of the Native American population was annihilated. A heavy toll indeed.
Thanksgiving as an ode to immigration
To say Native Americans suffered greatly with the arrival of ambitious conquerors is putting it mildly. Their homes were obliterated, their way of life was basically destroyed, and their community was massacred. There are no merits to this colonial genocide other than a tale of warning against the greed of a technologically superior civilization immigrating into exploitable land, where vulnerable communities have little chance against such foreign power. If there’s anything to learn from this tale, it’s that immigration by itself can be a great thing: the problem arises when those who pretend to settle in a new land are so greedy and powerful that they will do anything to get what they unduly want.
Be that as it may, Thanksgiving is, at its core, an ode to the wonders of migration, of human kindness and mutual friendship. Even more than celebrating the impersonal fortune of a good harvest, American Thanksgiving is about celebrating humanity itself. After all and above anything else, it intrinsically commemorates immigrants and immigration as a whole. Now more than ever, we must keep that in mind.
DARK SIDE OF THANKSGIVING — TRUTH ABOUT THE FIRST THANKSGIVING: SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT AT YOUR THANKSGIVING DINNER…
Much of what people know about ‘Thanksgiving’ is actually a blend of fiction, myth and history that has become widely accepted as truth. But events of what we call First Thanksgiving is nothing like the traditions today. According to Marshall Vian Summers; Thanksgiving are images of– good food, family, friends and times of celebration…
It’s images of the kindness of Native Americans helping newly arrived Pilgrims in struggle to become established in the New World… Yet, Thanksgiving has a dark side, a cloud of reality that overshadows its otherwise festive quality. Despite all cultural images, it retains an ominous significance of tragic and devastating consequences for Native Americans…
According to Scott Berkun; the history behind this holiday is shrouded in controversy, propaganda and myths… According to Howard Zinn; during the early 1600s the Native Americans and the Pilgrims were at constant war with each other; it was bloodshed not brotherhood that brought these communities together…
Remember, American history with Indians is fraught with terror, genocide, war, and deceptive practices with regards to treaties… Hence, when you sit down at the table for Thanksgiving and everyone is giving thanks, think about how this holiday started and think how many lives were lost…
In the article Thanksgiving–Alternate Version by Phil Zastrow writes: Every time we approach the modern Thanksgiving Holiday, with its food, football, and mythology based on a few unusual days in 1621, I ask myself: What is it all about? As a child I enjoyed the feast and as a teenager and young adult I overindulged on football and food. Now, having studied the myth of Thanksgiving I wonder why I did not ask earlier how the carefully crafted myth does not match the reality of the Native people of the Americas since 1621…
It’s called a myth because it meets Webster’s definition; a usually traditional story of ostensibly historical events that serves to unfold part of the world view of a people… Example: How do the rosy images of Indian and Pilgrim sharing the bounty of the land as brothers come to terms with genocide that characterizes the taking of the land? Surely something has been left out of the story… We wonder why there are not enough citizens with curious mind who would ask questions, e.g.; What really happened at that first Thanksgiving?
A more accurate accounting of history, based on written documents of the Puritans and those who came after, as well as the Wampanoag people’s oral history, paints ugly montage of conquest and genocide… Of course the interpretation of the documents and the thinking of the time leave a wide range of possibilities, but we argue that none of the histories would match what is common fair in schools and the mass media even today… But did this thanksgiving festival actually take place?
It seems that between mid-September and early December of 1621, Plymouth Governor William Bradford did invite local Wampanoag to a three-day gathering where food was shared, and mutual aid treaty was signed and harvest traditions of both cultures were observed… However, the modern images of today’s holiday don’t quite match the realities of the time… and school children are taught that Pilgrims served pumpkins and turkeys and corn and squash…
But according to Michael Dorris; On the contrary! It was the Native Americans (not the Pilgrims) who brought the bounties of the land, since all these foods are exclusively indigenous to the Americas…
In the article Real Story of Thanksgivingby Susan Bates writes: Most of Americans associate the thanksgiving holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And yes, that did happen just ‘once’… According to William B. Newell; Thanksgiving Day was first proclaimed by the Governor of the then Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 to commemorate the massacre of 700 Pequot Native American men, women and children who were celebrating their annual Green Corn Dance…which is the current day Thanksgiving celebration… The Pequot War was one of the bloodiest Indian wars ever fought, located near present day Groton, Connecticut…
For next 100 years every Thanksgiving Day, ordained by a Governor in honor of a bloody victory over the Pequots, thanks God that the battle had been won… This story doesn’t have quite the same fuzzy feelings associated with the one where the Indians and Pilgrims are all sitting down together at the big feast… Hence, this Thanksgiving, when you gather with your loved ones to be thankfully for all the blessings, think about those 700 Native Americans who suffered and died in 1637…
In the article Not Thankful for Thanksgiving by Michael Dorris writes: As the father of three Native American children, I am particularly attuned (but not resigned) to the huge store of folk Americana presuming to have to do with ‘Indian lore’, e.g.; from the– ‘One little, two little… Indians’ messages of nursery school… to the ersatz pageantry of boy scout/campfire girl mumbo-jumbo… to the ridiculous, irritating ‘Indian’ caricatures that are forever popping up…
Consider for a moment underlying meanings of some of the supposedly innocuous linguistic stand-byes, e.g.: ‘Indian givers’– take back what they have sneakily bestowed… or, in much the same way that ‘Indian summer’– deceives the gullible flower bud… or, unruly children who are termed ‘wild Indians’… or, the countless athletic teams, that have the emblems of Native Americans’ savagery and bloodthirstiness… and see fit to title themselves– ‘warriors’, ‘braves’, ‘redskins’, and the like…
Thanksgiving, like much of American history, is complex, multifaceted, and will not bear too close a scrutiny without revealing a less-than-heroic aspect… Knowing the truth about Thanksgiving, both its proud and its shameful motivations and history, might well benefit benefits us all… But glib retelling of an ethnocentric and self-serving falsehood does not do one any good…
And so, if one takes thanksgiving for what it is for most citizens, there seems only good to come of it. Celebrate it with family and friends! Who would argue that is a bad thing, if taken at face value, but it’s almost never allowed to be– just what it is. For some reason we have to invent a story to accomplish that… According to Felix Okoye; it would be better not to know so many things, than to know so many things that are not so…
Sometimes tradition is acceptable and perhaps even pleasing in the sight of YAHUAH. But other times it is not acceptable and can even be hated by Him.
When our Savior walked the earth in the first century, He didn’t seem to take a liking to tradition. Consider His response to the scribes and Pharisees here in Matthew 15:
Matthew 15:1- Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to YAHUSHA, saying,
2 “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.”
Just as YAHUSHA was asked about why He wasn’t observing their tradition, those who don’t participate in the tradition of Christmas observance will often hear the question, “Why do you not celebrate Christmas (transgress the traditions of our elders)?”
First of all, nowhere in the pages of Scripture do we find a command to keep the celebration of Christmas. Nowhere in the pages of Scripture do we find an example of any disciple keeping Christmas. It was actually never celebrated by believers in Messiah until sometime after 300AD.
If we are willing to take an unbiased Scriptural look at the observance, we will find a tremendously sad reality: The only time a tradition like Christmas is ever mentioned in the pages of scripture is to declare that we should not be practicing it.
Once we realize we shouldn’t be practicing it, our answer to this kind of question would be similar to how our Savior responded:
Matt 15:3 – He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of ELOHIYM because of your tradition?
Messiah didn’t like the traditions of the Scribes and Pharisees because they transgressed YAHUAH’s clear commandments.
This study will demonstrate that Christmas is actually transgressing the commandment of YAHUAH in favor of tradition. But first, please notice that He goes on to say:
Matthew 15:7 – “Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:
8 `These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with [their] lips, But their heart is far from Me.
9 And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ “
I am not condemning anyone who chooses to observe Christmas. I personally grew up celebrating it and have a number of fond memories spending time with family and the anticipation of gift-giving. But when it comes to seeking out my Savior’s will, the most important thing is not how I feel about it. The most important thing is how HE feels about it. After all, it’s all about Him… yes? It’s not supposed to be about us. It’s about HIM.
So we see here in Matthew 15 that it’s possible for a tradition to honor him with the lips, but actually be a vain thing that displeases Him. Just because it appears to give honor to Him doesn’t mean that He sees it that way.
Christmas has essentially become a commandment of men because, like the Pharisees expected Messiah to adhere to their practices, it is likewise expected that believers in Messiah observe Christmas. But this tradition was not authored by our Creator. There is no verse in the bible that asks us to celebrate the birth or even the resurrection of Messiah. Thus, to do so is purely an invention of men.
It is important that we take the time to question whether or not our traditions even if few dare to. I find it ironic that many Christians will speak against the Catholic traditions of Lent, Ash Wednesday, etc. but fail to recognize that pagan elements also exist in the celebration of Christmas and Easter. So how did the Christmas observance get its start?
Origin of Christmas
The following is a quote from the 2000 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 11 ; page 390.
“During the later periods of Roman history, sun worship gained in importance and ultimately led to what has been called a ‘solar monotheism.’ Nearly all the gods of the period were possessed of Solar qualities, and both Christ and Mithra acquired the traits of solar deities. The feast of Sol and Victus (open unconquered Sun) on December 25th was celebrated with great joy, and eventually this date was taken over by the Christians as Christmas, the birthday of Christ.”
Notice how it says “both Christ and Mithra acquired the traits of solar deities?” Pardon me, but do any alarm bells go off here?
The Christians were apparently trying to get more converts so they tried to make the Messiah more like the idols found in sun worship—all under the guise of making Him more attractive to pagans.
They even brought various elements of the December 25th “feast of the unconquered sun” into their worship by saying that December 25th was actually the Messiah’s birthday, which was simply not true. This is the origin of Christmas and this is why we have various pagan-rooted traditions accompanying this holiday.
When it comes to things like this, the real question for me is “who converted who?” Do we imitate the world to bring the world to the Messiah? Absolutely not. You don’t win the world by imitating the world; you win the world by imitating YAHUSHA the Messiah!
It seems to me that true believers should be teaching the unbelievers the true way of YAHUAH rather than the unbelievers teaching believers these pagan customs and practices. But Christians of former times not only learned these heathen ways, they also incorporated them into their worship.
When Paul was writing to the Ephesians, a group of believers who were surrounded by idol worship, he said:
Ephesians 5:11 – And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
So we shouldn’t be trying to copy idolatrous feasts. Rather, we should be exposing them for the fraud and lie that they are. Creating a new lie by saying the Messiah was born on Dec. 25th, the birthday of various sun gods, is preposterous. One of the last things our Savior would ever want is to “acquire the traits of solar deities.”
So when was His birthday? We can learn by studying the timing of the priestly course of Zacharias (Luke 1:5), John the Baptist’s father, and adding six months to that time period (Luke 1:24-26). This would place YAHUSHA the Messiah’s birth in either the spring or fall. The scriptures do not supply us with an exact date of birth, but it certainly was not in the winter.
We know the date of His death is on Passover. Scripture does tell us the time of many other important events in biblical history such as the founding of the temple (first day of the biblical year), the timing of the Exodus from Egypt, the date that the flood began and many other events. But the date of the Messiah’s birth? Scripture is silent.
To me this speaks volumes. Even though YAHUSHA could look into the future and know that there would be billions of people who wanted to celebrate His birthday, He never told us when it was. If He wanted us to celebrate His birthday, He surely would have told us when it was.
I realize that today, Christmas is a very popular holiday. However, as is often the case, what is popular is not always right and what is right is not always popular. We can’t follow the masses if the masses are wrong. We should have no fellowship with those things, rather we should reprove them.
Christmas means ‘mass for Christ,’ but the name of the holiday is much newer than the holiday itself. The customs associated with Christmas, in one form or another, have been celebrated for literally thousands of years. ‘Christmas’ is just a new name for an old holiday.
So there is no doubt that the customs that are associated with Christmas, as well as the idea of a deity being born on December 25th are of pagan origin. One need only look to an encyclopedia or even many local newspapers in the 12th month of the year to find this “truth so I don’t need to spend much time establishing that. The real issue is whether or not we should walk in these customs.
You may wonder what is so bad about it. You may say, “Oh but what about the children? They would feel left out if I didn’t celebrate Christmas.” But what should we be teaching our children? Truth or lies? Conformity to the world when the world is wrong or a rejection of worldly things that are rooted in idolatry?
The “truth is that the Messiah was not born on December 25th. December 25th is the birthday of numerous pagan idols. Why would we want to put the holy Son of YAHUAH in with them? He is holy, which means “set apart.” He is not like them at all! And He doesn’t want to be associated with them or the customs of those who worship them.
In fact, the pagan customs associated with Christmas are clearly condemned in the scriptures. Here is one of them:
Jeremiah 10:1-4 – Hear the word which YAHUAH speaks to you, O house of Yashar’el.
2 Thus says YAHUAH: “Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; Do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, For the Gentiles are dismayed at them.
3 For the customs of the peoples are futile; For one cuts a tree from the forest, The work of the hands of the workman, with the ax.
4 They decorate it with silver and gold; They fasten it with nails and hammers so that it will not topple.
First of all, YAHUAH is telling us in this verse “Do not learn the way of the Gentiles” Don’t even learn it, let alone practice it and incorporate it into the worship of YAHUAH! After all, shouldn’t the roots of our worship be in the scriptures, rather than paganism?
Secondly, it says that the Gentiles were dismayed at the signs of heaven.
History tells us that when the sun began to go further away from the earth and the days grew shorter in the winter, the sun worshipping Gentiles were “dismayed”, and feared that the sun would not return. So they held certain festivals just after the time of the Winter Solstice when it did begin to return. This return of the sun is why December 25th is the birthday of so many solar deities/gods.
One of the customs the pagans had was to decorate a tree that they had cut down and fasten it so that would not topple. The evergreen tree seemed to not be bothered by the winter so it would have been a logical choice. We see this same copycat custom existing even today–called the Christmas tree.
YAHUAH tells us not to learn the way of the heathen. And here He even goes so far as describe a custom that is a way of the heathen. Since He tells us that this is a heathen custom and He clearly condemned the practice of it, shouldn’t we avoid it? How can we delight in something that He despises? The placing of gifts under the tree is much like the heathen who offered various gifts to their idols, and then kneeling before the tree to receive them back again.
Think about it though—if this had never been done before, have you ever wondered why in the world someone would do something as strange as cut down a tree and put it in their house and then decorate it with all different types of ornaments? Not only is it odd, it is a custom that is clearly condemned in the scriptures. We don’t need a prophet to come and tell us today that this custom is wrong. Jeremiah said so a long time ago!
This is one of many other such customs, including the gift giving. Why on earth would we give each other gifts when it’s supposed to be the Messiah’s birthday? It isn’t our birthday, is it?
All of this has led to ridiculous commercialism, with various “Black Friday” sales in corporate America. But “Black Friday” sales are only a smokescreen. It may be the day when corporate America goes in the black, but most other Americans end up going in the red.
Because of this, credit card companies will get even richer and the poor man even poorer. All to buy gifts for people on a birthday that is neither theirs or the Messiah’s.
Santa Claus
All over the world, Santa Claus is God to the children of the world (move the n to the end of Santa). Others say ‘Father Christmas’.
Parents purposely and deliberately lie to their children and tell them that they should fear Santa Claus because “he knows if you’ve been bad or good”. These same parents also lie to their children about the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy. Then they wonder why their children become liars and don’t believe the Messiah is real later on in life.
This is clearly a total abomination to YAHUAH. You don’t have to look very far in the word of YAHUAH to find out how much he loathes idolatry and lies. YAHUAH is the only true Mighty One!
Our children look to us and believe every word we say. Don’t they deserve the “truth? How abominable it is for a believer to teach their children to fear Santa Claus, and in so doing, creep an idol into the conscience of a child!
Lies, lies everything is lies
The very foundation of the Christmas holiday is a lie. The Messiah was not born December 25th. He did not ask us to celebrate his birthday. He did not say to set up a tree in our house and decorate it and our houses with anything. Santa Claus does not exist. He doesn’t have reindeer that fly and he isn’t going to come down anyone’s chimney on December 25th and leave any gifts. Everything is a lie. Is YAHUAH the originator of this holiday? Or is it the father of lies? YAHUSHA condemned the leaders of that generation for teaching lies:
John 8:44 – “You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the “truth, because there is no “truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.
It’s high time that we forsake these lies and abide in the ” “truth! Let’s forsake this foolish practice of yoking the Messiah (who said “I am the TRUTH”) together with lies, for He has nothing to do with lies.
Revelation 22:14 – Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
5 But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
If we want to practice a lie, we need only celebrate Christmas and we will be doing just that. But if we want to abide in the “truth, we will avoid all lies.
The book of Revelation also predicts a future time when those who hate YAHUAH rejoice at the death of His two witnesses, for they will make merry and have a gift exchange:
Revelation 11:91010 And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.
Sound familiar? I don’t know for sure, but it sounds a lot like one day the two witnesses will die and the whole world will rejoice that they can keep Christmas again. I think it’s time we make sure we are on the side of “truth and righteousness.
Mixed worship forbidden in scripture
Not only is it wrong to practice these lying traditions, it is also a sin to take these traditions of pagans and try apply them to the worship of YAHUAH. Proof of this is in how YAHUAH dealt with the children of Yashar’el when they were about to enter into the promised land:
Deut 12:29 – “When YAHUAH your ELOHIYM cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land,
30 “take heed to yourself that you are not ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not inquire after their gods, saying, `How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.’
Notice that it doesn’t say, “Let us serve their elohiym (gods)” but “HOW did these nations serve their elohiym/gods”
31 “You shall not worship YAGUAH your ELOHIYM in that way; for every abomination to YAHUAH which He hates they have done to their gods; for they burn even their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods. 32 “Whatever I command you, be careful to observe it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.
“You shall not worship YAHUAH your ELOHIYM in that way.” Do not worship YAHUAH in that way, the way of the heathen! Don’t take heathen customs and try to honor Him with it. He is not honored by them. Do not add to His commandments and do not take away from His commandments.
Both Christmas and Easter take pagan festivals and traditions and apply them to the worship of YAHUAH. This practice is clearly condemned here.
Think about it though: Would it be right to take a Satanic holiday that Satanists have invented and then incorporate that holiday along with its customs into the worship of YAHUAH? Surely not. We need to realize that all paganism is Satanism. Satan is the one behind all pagan worship. And whatever god the idolaters worship, they are actually worshipping Satan.
1 Corinthians 10:20 – Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice they sacrifice to demons and not to ELOHIYM, and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons.
Now consider this next verse:
1Corinthians 10:21 – You cannot drink the cup of YAHUAH and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of YAHUAH’s table and of the table of demons.
We cannot mix the profane with the holy, and we cannot mix lies with “truth, and we cannot mix the table of YAHUAH with the table of demons. We must choose one, or the other.
FACTS CONCERNING THE NEW ROMAN RELIGION CALLED, “CHRISTIANITY.”
As early as 200 BCC, there were Pagan worshipers of Serapis that called themselves “Christians.”
There were “Christians” in Egypt, Gnostic Sun-worshipers who knelt before huge ankhs (resembles the christian cross, with a loop above the transverse bar)
The Serapis cult were worshipers of a Graeco-Egyptian sovereign and used this symbol at Alexandria, where the Emperor Hadrian wrote from Alexandria, saying: “Those who worship Serapis are Christians and those who call themselves Bishops of ‘christ’ are vowed to Sarapis.”
Alexandria was the launching point for this new fusion of a blended form of the Way of Messiah with Babylon-inspired religions as we know today called, ‘Christianity,’ with the word “Christos” directly related to Krishna, Crestos and Chreston. These words literally mean “shining,” as they refer to the sun, with Krishna being the sun deity of the Hindu religion.
Clement of Alenxandria said, “All who believe in Christ are called ‘Chestoi,’ that is good men.”
Rome was the center of Christos Mithras worship.
The word ‘Christianos’ was used in the Greek text as a device of scorn, since in the ancient world it conveyed a much different meaning that it does today.
The use of the word ‘Christianos’ was a derisive, scornful label than meant they were like gullible, dumb, ‘beasts’ or ‘cretins.’
Cretin: Noun — 1. A person suffering from cretinism. 2. A stupid, obtuse, or mentally defective person.; origin <French; Franco-Provencal dreitin, restin human being, literally, Christian (hence one who is human despite deformities) [Dictionary.com] Cretin: Noun — 1. Old-fashioned — a person afflicted with cretinism 2. Offensive — a person considered to be extremely stupid; From French cretin, from Swiss French crestin, from Latin Christianus Christian, alluding to the humanity of such people, despite their handicaps [Word English Dictionionary]
Osiris and Mithras were both called “Chrestos,” which meant “good.”
The word was adopted from Gnostic Paganism: The inscription “CHRESTOS” can be seen on a Mithra’s relief in the Vatican.
During the time of Marcion, which war about 150 CE, Justin Martyr said that “Christians” were “Chrestor,” or “good men.”
The Vatican was built upon ground that was previously devoted to the worship of Mithra (600 B.C.)
The Orthodox Christian hierarchy is virtuously identical to the Mithraic version. Virtually all of the elements of Orthodox Christian rituals, from wafer, alter, doxology, etc. were all adopted from the Mirtha and earlier Babylonian Pagan Mystery Religions.
Emperor Constantine brought leading religious leaders together to strengthen his kingdom by uniting them all through a common Faith of part Way of Messiah mixed together with part of his Babyonian-inspired religions, and then proclaimed that Christmas (Mirthras/Osiris/Baal-the Lord) was to be celebrated on December 25th, during the Winter Solstice.
Easter (Ishtar), also known as the mother of Baal (The Lord), which is pronounced, “Easter,” was a day that commemorated the resurrection of Tammuz, which is the sovereign of the Cross and represents the letter “T” in his name.
The Tau cross was a symbol of the Roman sovereign Mithras and the Greek sovereign Attis, with their forerunner again being Tammuz, the Babylonian solar or sun sovereign, who was associated with fish, and the “T” for the cross, and being a solar sovereign, his death and resurrection was celebrated every summer (Easter).
Christianity as we know it today is a blend of Catholicism and Babylonian Mystery Religions that all started with Nimrod, Tammuz and Semiramis, with Constantine demanding obedience to his mandates of all bishops, elders and teachers, all of which were appointed by him. If any Jew wanted to become a Christian, he must adhere to Constantine’s Creed — 325 C.E.
501c3 Christian churches, ministries, and organizations may not do the following:
1. Expose conspiracies.
2. Criticize the New World Order
3. Say or publish anything negative about ANY politician, Republican or Democrat.
4. Criticize government agencies and bureaus – the IRS, FBI, BATF, CIA, EPA, DEA, OSHA, DOJ, etc.
5. Criticize an institution of government such as the White House, the Congress, the Federal Reserve Board (even though this is a PRIVATE corporation) or the Supreme Court.
6. Encourage citizens to call or write their congressman, senator, governor, mayor, or other public official.
7. Criticize any proposed or pending bill or legislation that would take away the rights and freedoms of the people.
8. Make disparaging remarks about, or criticize, any other faith group, cult, or religion.
9. Expose or criticize the New Age Movement.
10. Support or encourage a law-abiding citizen’s militia (even though this is constitutional).
11. Support or encourage the Second Amendment, the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
12. Discourage young women from getting an abortion, or endorse the pro-life movement.
13. Teach that abortion, especially partial birth abortion, is murder and is the killing of innocent babies.
14. Identify homosexuality as a sin and an abomination to YAHUAH.
15. Express an opinion on any subject or issue.
16. Appeal to peoples’ emotions by employing an evangelization method (such as “fire and brimstone” preaching) not considered a “reasoned approach” by the IRS.
17. Discuss or identify threats to Christianity.
18. Discuss subjects or topics the IRS deems “sensationalist.”
19. Criticize well-known public figures or institutions the IRS deems “worthy,” such as the super-rich elite, international bankers, the Hollywood movie industry, etc.
20. Publish or broadcast information on any topic without giving credence to the opposing viewpoints of Christ’s enemies.
21. Publish and offer books, tapes, or products that expose the elitist plot against humanity and YAHUAH.
22. Criticize the Pope or the Vatican, or contrast the New Catholic Catechism with the truths found in the Holy Scriptures.
(Note: only liberal churches are permitted by the IRS to criticize the Catholic Church).
23. Criticize the United Nations or such globalist groups as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderbergers, and the Trilateral Commission.
24. Criticize the Masonic Lodge, the Order of Skull & Bones, or other Secret societies.
25. Highlight or otherwise bring attention to immorality of public officials or corruption in government.
26. Complain of government wrongdoing or injustice, such as happened at Waco, Ruby Ridge, and elsewhere.
27. Criticize the Jewish ADL or other Jewish lobby groups.
28. Say anything positive about the “religious right” or the “patriot movement.”
29. Support home schooling, home churches, or unregistered churches.
30. Spend money on missionary projects or charitable causes not approved by the IRS.
31. Promote or encourage alternative healthcare (herbs, vitamins, etc.).
32. Expose false teachings of any kind by anyone.
33. Support or encourage persecuted Christians suffering under anti-Christian regimes in Red China, Cuba, Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, the United States, and elsewhere.
34. Ordain a pastor whose training or qualifications are not approved by the IRS.
35. Advocate or teach any Scriptural doctrine that is politically or religiously incorrect, or is inconsistent with any “public policy” (abortion, feminism, gay rights, etc.) currently being enforced by the IRS.
Additional requirements for 501c3 churches are found in the Department of the Treasury Internal Revenue Service Publication 1826 (9-94) Cat. no. 21096G, churches must:
36. Have a recognized creed and “IRS approved form of worship.”
37. Have “IRS approved code of doctrine and discipline”.
38. Have ordained ministers educated in “state accredited colleges.”
39. Pastor must answer to the IRS as to “daily activities of the church.”
40. The IRS must be privy to “all financial transactions” of the church.
41. Pastor must supply “names of all donors” – make books, records available.
42. Be neutral on political issues.
43. Be engaged in activities furthering exclusively public purposes.
44. Open its services to the public.
45. Submit names of all church workers; pastors, teachers, clerks, counselors, educational directors, office help, associates, and maintenance personnel.
46. Not publicly oppose licensing of church ministries.
47. Give unlimited submission to civil magistrates pertaining to all laws – federal, state, and local – including public policy.
48. May only use “IRS approved” fundraising methods.
49. Pastor will be “called to account over any stand taken against the tax system.”
50. Church “must advocate and support racial integration.” (Multiculturalism)
51. May NOT engage in activities “opposing pornography.”
52. May NOT support legislation saying “children belong to parents” rather than “the state.”
53. May NOT form a Political Action Committee nor support legislation “opposing lotteries and gambling activity.”
54. May not “oppose the public school system.”
55. May “not publicly declare” we are to “obey YAHUAH rather than the government.”
56. May Not advocate support of the United States or state constitutions as the supreme law of the land. (Public policy takes precedence.)
1 John 2:15-17 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of YAHUAH ELOHIYM abideth for ever.
Conclusion
The whole conclusion of showing this information is to inform the world and reveal the truth about the 501c3. We have been heavily deceived by the 501 c3 corporations masquerading as churches out there. I say dump your tax- free privilege, trust the Most High YAHUAH ELOHIYM, preach against transgressions unashamedly and do not hold back (proclaim the evils of baby-slaughtering, sodomy, Bush, politics, Socialism, corruption in gov’t, etc.)
“I am not the only IRS employee who’s wondered why churches go to the government and seek permission to be exempted from a tax they didn’t owe to begin with, and to seek a tax deductible status that they’ve always had anyway. Many of us have marveled at how church leaders want to be regulated and controlled by an agency of government that most Americans have prayed would just get out of their lives. Churches are in an amazingly unique position, but they don’t seem to know or appreciate the implications of what it would mean to be free of government control” – Nestor, IRS Senior Revenue Officer (ret)
The Biblical Hebrew word אֶחָד – ’echad. is normally translated into English as ‘one’. It is a most essential word in Judaist belief. And a discerning one. Much of the conflict of Judaism and Christianity hinges on this one word אֶחָד – ’echad. According their reading of the Biblical Shema‘, Jews say that God is One, undivided and definitely not distinguish- able in the different ways in which He presents Himself according to Christian belief.
A bit of linguistic and Biblical history
The Shema‘ of Rabbinical Judaism derives from the Masoretic Text of Debharim/Deuteronomy 6: 4 ff. That text is a transliteration into the Imperial Aramaic script and redaction of the original Torah text as written down by Mosheh/Moses in the West-Semitic script of his age, the precursor to the Paleo-Hebrew script of the period of the Biblical kings. Lin- guists have studied the development of the Semitic languages for a very long time now. Biblical Hebrew was the living language of ancient Isra’el from the time of the Patriarchs or Moses/Mosheh to the temporal end of the Jewish state in 135 AD. That is a period of more than one-and-a-half millennium! When we analyze the Text of the Torah as penned down by Masoretes in the Middle Ages, we even have a time-span of two-and-a-half mil- lennia! Research has revealed that, like any language during such a long period, Hebrew underwent considerable change over this period.
The analysis of the word, and the explanation of ‘one’ as the meaning of אֶחָד – ’echad is based primarily on analysis of Biblical Hebrew in a flourishing period of Judaism: the first – יחד centuries of our era. Linguists generally agree that, just like its human equivalent jachad (mainly used for human aspects, as opposed to אֶחָד – ’echad, which is primarily used in relation to God), אֶחָד – ’echad derives from an ancient form וחד – wachad,1 in Paleo-He- brew: וחד. In Arabic this old wachad is preserved in وحد – wachada.
The meaning according the old West-Semitic root
The clear differentiation of West-Semitic into Arabic, Aramaic and Hebrew took place around 1400 BC (± 400 years), linguistic research has found.2 So that is: around the time of the birth of Isra’el as a nation. At the time of Moses/Mosheh, the script used was what I call the early West-Semitic script (also called Proto-Canaanite or Sinaitic script). In a still on- going research, I demonstrate that this script had pictographic features, in the sense that the letters had not only phonetic value but were also associated to basic notions that con- stitute the words formed with them.3 In this script, wachad was written like this: – a tent pin, a panel of tent canvas, and a door. There are strong indications from all kind of related words, that this refers to the construction of early doors, where a big pole or pin would stand and turn in a hole in the ground or in a stone in the pavement of the door-opening. To this pin or pole was attached a flat and thin piece of material (wood, or a structure, woven from palm fronds or the like) that served as the turning door, and this was mounted in an opening in the wall. That wall could be made of woven palm fronds or of stone or any other material as well.
From this graphic representation, I deduce that the original meaning of wachad was not so much the numeral ‘one’ at the exclusion of diversity or whatever. Much more was it the notion of that door-pin that – on its own – kept the door together with the wall, de- spite all its allowable movement. So: one-ness as together-ness. Or: unity in diversity and allowing flexibility. The pin alone ensures that the door does not fall apart from the wall.
There are a number of linguistic observations that seem to affirm this theory.
One is that several related words in Arabic still support that connotation of ‘keeping or being kept together’. One of the most significant of them is Arabic ’achad – ‘together’. Another is what we find in Exodus/Shemot 21: 2-6. In Isra’el, a slave who was released could choose to remain in the service of the house/family where he was. The ceremony by which he would promise his future loyalty to the house/family was by literally being pinned to the doorpost by his ear. That this was not just a practice in Isra’el is attested by the word for ‘slave’ in Akkadian. In old Akkadian (also adopted into Sumerian) the word for ‘slave’ was literally: ‘pin on the (higher) other’s door’ – – urdu/ardu/wardu. Com- pare also the Hebrew and Arabic עבד – ‘ebhed / عبد – ‘abd – slave or house-servant, ac- cording the old representation: someone overseeing the house-door; seeing that all that goes in and out goes well. Such a person also cares that the household does not fall apart…
In the recent article: ‘The Word for ‘One’ in Proto-Semitic’,4 Aren Wilson-Wright argues that wachad was even not the original word for ‘one’ in early Semitic. An original word for ‘one’ was replaced by the adjective wachad, much like in Greek and Tocharian, where Proto-Indo-European *oi-no was replaced by the adjective *sam – ‘together, the same’ (Aren Wilson-Wright additionally notes that “The same adjective with a different vowel grade is also the source of Greek monos ‘alone’”). What is argued, is a development in West-Semitic where wachad at first probably represented the notion of ‘keeping things together’, (then possi- bly came to represent aloneness) and finally was used for the numeral ‘one’.
So now, timing becomes critical. In which phase of the development of wachad → ’echad did Moses/Mosheh (or was it Musah at that time, as Arabic seems to indicate?) write the Torah? Was it when wachad was still the form and this was still associated to oneness in the sense of ‘keeping or being kept together’, or was it already in a later phase of develop- ment where this form of unity had developed into ‘being one’, as ‘undivided’?
Up until this moment I have not been able to ascertain this timing with enough precision – אֶחָד and certainty to reach a final conclusion. However, it is by far most likely that ’echad in the Masoretic text of Debharim/Deuteronomy 6: 4 was a reflection of a much earlier – wachad in the West-Semitic script of Moses’/Mosheh’s time, and that this wachad had the primary meaning of one-ness in the sense of: ‘keeping things together’.
The implication for the Shema‘
The Shema‘, as written in Debharim/Deuteronomy 6: 4 says:
וְּיהָוה ֶאָחדְשַׁמעִיְשָׂרֵאלְיהָוה ֱא ֵהינ
Or, in the older manuscripts that still wrote the glorious Name of God in Paleo-Hebrew:
I observe that the above attested primary meaning of wachad (or ’echad as its later repre- sentation) as ‘keeping things together’ would be most appropriate as describing the God of Isra’el: YaHUaH. Indeed He is the One, Who united the people of Isra’el as a people and a nation, as He also united Isra’el to Himself in the first place, while still giving them the room to move.
First, the text here calls Him ’Elohainu. That is the first person plural possessive form of ’Elohaim, which is the plural form of ’Eloha (God). This emphasizes that He is too great, too multi-faceted to be described by the singular ’Eloha. The greatness of His Personality requires a kind of majestic plural form. Next it says, that in all that plurality, He still is One. I see that even in His creation. It is awesome in its creativity and variability, yet from the unfathomable large stars to the smallest particles, there are design features that show that there is One Designer behind it all.
That leads to a reading that differs considerably from the one as explicated by Rabbinic Judaism. But that was also the case already caused by my suggestion to proclaim, and not hide, the glorious Name of God in the Shema‘, as according His explicit desire.5
The Shema‘ thus becomes a way to confess that all is God’s initiative. He is the One Who united us unto Himself and unto each other under His Kingship. We are His subjects. And so, it becomes all the more a way to glorify God and thus to proclaim His glorious Name.
Hallelu YaHUaH !
Source Notes:
1 There is general consensus among scholars that the ancient Proto-Semitic root of all of these words is W-Ch-D.
2 See e.g.: Geoff K. Nicholls, Robin J. Ryder, ‘Phylogenetic models for Semitic vocabulary’, in: D. Conesa, A. Forte, A. Lopez-Quilez (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Valencia, Spain, 2011. And: Andrew Kitchen, Christopher Ehret, Shiferaw Assefa and Connie J. Mulligan, ‘Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of Semitic languages identifies an Early Bronze Age origin of Semitic in the Near East’, Proc. Royal Soc. B 2009, 276, p.2703-2710 (doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0408; first published online: 29 April 2009);
3 For more on this old script, see: André H. Roosma, ‘The Written Language of Abraham, Moses and David – A study of the pictographic roots and basic notions in the underlying fabric of the earliest Biblical script’ , Hallelu-YaH Draft Working Document, 1st English version: 18 April 2011; Dutch original: January 2011; updated regularly.
4 Aren Wilson-Wright ‘The Word for ‘One’ in Proto-Semitic’, Journal of Semitic Studies, LIX/1, Spring 2014, p.1-13.
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