Monthly Archives: May 2011
Cisco, Wireless Router Producer: Does the Company Help China Locate and Torture Falun Gong Members, Artists, and Freedom Fighters?
Do you have a Cisco Wireless Router? Are you thinking of buying one? Bear this in mind: The [law]suit claims that additional Cisco marketing presentations prove that it promoted its technology as being capable of taking aim at dissident groups. … Continue reading
Filed under War, Violence & Business
Kim Kardashian Has an Enormous Ring, Inscribed With Bible Verses
After dating giant U.S. basketballer Kris Humphries (6 ft 9 in, 235 lb) for only six months, television celebrity Kim Kardashian now has an enormous ring. Kris Humphries gave the $2M engagement ring to Kardashian this week. According to news reports, Kardashian’s ring is … Continue reading
Filed under Ancient Jewish texts
Chuck Missler: Giants are the key to understanding the Old Testament
For many Evangelical Christians, if there is a new development in human technology, it must have been predicted or mentioned in the Bible. For Chuck Missler – Christian apologist and speaker, a “Dr” of a pseudo-academic institution, a Christian Zionist, … Continue reading
Filed under 1 Enoch, Ancient Jewish texts, Fallen angels, Genesis 6.1-4, Joshua 11, Nephilim, Rephaim
Netanyahu: The Land of Our Forefathers… or not
In today’s Ha’aretz, Jonathan Lis sorts out the truth from the lies in Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s speech before the U.S. Congress on Tuesday: [Netanyahu:] “We’re not the British in India. We’re not the Belgians in the Congo. This is the … Continue reading
Filed under Ancient Jewish texts, Goliath
Imagined Communities: Netanyahu’s speech to US Congress
In his speech before the US Congress on Tuesday 24 May, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, notes how he suffers at the thought of having “to give up parts of the ancestral Jewish homeland”. Very graciously – acting … Continue reading
Filed under Ancient Jewish texts, Goliath
David and Goliath – Israel and Palestine
Some 55% of Americans believe in the Rapture, some 64% believe we are living in the End Times, both beliefs structured by dispensationalism, which was largely constructed in the nineteenth century. These are some of the views which buttress American … Continue reading
Filed under Ancient Jewish texts, Goliath, War, Violence & Business
Roland Boer’s Scurrilous Display of the most Vulgar Marxism on Bible & Interpretation Tears Apart the Foibles of Biblical Scholarship. This could be the beginning of a new method of interpreting the biblical text.
The problem illustrated: If what I write could help in any way towards the establishment of justice and peace there [in Israel and Palestine], or indeed anywhere else, I would be deeply grateful. – N.T. (“Tom”) Wright, Jesus and the … Continue reading
Filed under Ancient Jewish texts
The French Discover Giants in Australia
Just off Shark Bay in Western Australia in 1803, a group of terrified French sailors returned to their ship. They had met a group of locals – but not - as we might expect – Australian Aborigines. Instead, the sailors claimed to have seen a “race … Continue reading
Filed under Biblical Giants
When Prophecy Fails…
Have a read of some well considered and balanced comments on confirmation bias / cognitive dissonance – from Vaughan Bell, clinical and neuro-psychologist, at Slate.com: … For those who draw their inspiration from the Bible, there is some small print … Continue reading
Filed under Ancient Jewish texts, Conspiracy theorists
