Similarities that predate the jesus story

Krishna:
Virgin birth
Son of God
Carpenter
Sent from heaven to earth in the form of a man
Visited at birth by wise men and shepherds, guided by a star
Parents had to flee to protect him
Went into the wilderness to fast
Baptized in a river
Sin free
Performed miracles
Raised the dead
Cast out demons
Resurrected
Ascended into heaven
Referred to as the shepherd of God, the lion, Lord of Lords, the Redeemer, Alpha and Omega
Second person (or item) in the Trinity
Said he was the way to the father
He is to return to do battle with the "Prince of Evil," who will desolate the earth

Mithra:
Virgin birth
Son of God
Carpenter
Sent from heaven to earth in the form of a man
Visited at birth by wise men and shepherds, guided by a star
Given gold, frankincense and myrrh
Born on December 25th
Died on a Cross
Put in a rock tomb
Went into the wilderness to fast
Sin free
Performed miracles
Raised the dead
Cast out demons
Resurrected on the 3rd day
Ascended into heaven
Referred to as the truth, the light, the lamb, the savior, the messiah, the good shepherd, the lion
Had 12 companions or disciples
Celebrated on the date we now call Easter

Dionysus (Osiris Dionysus):
God was his father
Born in a cave that housed farm animals
Virgin birth
His birth was prophesized by a star in the heavens
Converted water into wine
His followers were born-again through baptism in water
He rode triumphantly into a city on a donkey
He had 12 disciples
He was accused of licentious behavior
He was killed near the time of the Vernal Equinox, about MAR-21
He died "as a sacrifice for the sins of the world."
He was hung on a tree, stake, or cross
After death, he went into hell
On the third day after his death, he returned to life
The cave where he was laid was visited by three of his female followers
Ascended to heaven
Referred to as Savior of the world, Son of God
He and his father (God) are one
He will return in the last days and judge the human race
He died for our sins

Horus:
Virgin birth
Father is God
Born on December 25th in a cave/manger, with his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men
He was a child teacher in the Temple and was baptized when he was 30 years old
He was also baptized by "Anup the Baptizer," who becomes "John the Baptist"
He had 12 disciples
He performed miracles and raised one man, el-Azar-us, from the dead
He walked on water
He and his father (God) are one
He was transfigured on the Mount
He was crucified, buried in a tomb and resurrected
He was also the "Way, the Truth, the Light, the Messiah, God's Anointed Son, the Son of Man, the Good Shepherd, the Lamb of God, the Word" etc.
He was "the Fisher," and was associated with the Lamb, Lion and Fish
HE was called "the KRST," or "Anointed One,"

You know how you hear a bible story over and over so many times that it becomes second nature. You tend to repeat it, with out a second thought. You never question the validity, you trust that the preacher is telling you the truth.

I am guilty of this as well. I got up really early and went to Bible study before school and had heard and read the Noah's Arc story 9 trillion times and yet I just learned that what I knew was rubbish.

We are all familiar with Genesis 6 19-20
19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

This story is surely a fable. How could a 600 hundred year old man, build a ship big enough to hold two of EVERYTHING. Let alone be trapped with it for 40 days and 40 nights and everyone and everything make it out alive.

This ship would have had to be ginormous right? Well, it would be eclipsed by the Arc he would have had to build in order to follow the exact orders he was given.

When we look at Genesis 7 more closely, we find that the size of the Arc would have had to be astronomical, especially based on the time and location. It would have needed to be visible from space.
1 And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth.

5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.

6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

First, lets tackle the age issue. We can only barely make it our of the hundreds, and we have Antibiotics, snake venom, vitamins, clean water, and actual food. We have artificial limbs, walkers, wheelchairs. Yet, I am to believe a dessert dweller lived to be 950 years old and at 600 was spry enough to build a skyscraper of a boat?

Now we all now the song
God told Noah there's going to be a floodie, floodie
God told Noah there's going to be a floodie, floodie,
Get those animals out of the muddie, muddie
Children of the Lord.

God told Noah to build him an arky, arky
God told Noah to build him an arky, arky
Build it out of gopher barky, barky
Children of the Lord.

The animals, they came in, they came in by twosies, twosies,
The animals, they came in, they came in by twosies, twosies,
Elephants and kangaroosies, roosies,
Children of the Lord.

It rained, it rained for forty nights and daysies, daysies,
It rained, it rained for forty nights and daysies, daysies,
Almost drove poor Noah crazy, crazy,
Children of the Lord.

Well, Genesis 7 has quite a different equation. Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.

This means that he will need to collect 7 pairs or 14 individual representatives of every species. So if you think the Arc was big at twosies, imagine how big it would need to be at fourteensies. Lyons and Tigers and Bear oh my.. indeed

The bible says the Arc shall measure -- And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. In Inches - If you accept that Noah's value for a cubit is 20.3 inches, the ark was over 507 feet long, almost 85 feet wide and almost 51 feet tall.

To put that into terms we can relate to. A football field measures Length: 360 feet or 120 yards
Width: 160 feet or 53 1/3 yards. So the Arc was only half the width of a field and 1 1/2 times the length. Is that big enough for Fouteensies?

The story becomes even more unbelievable, when you take into account the directions for clean and not clean.

When we look at Genesis 5 5-7 We see that the Lord found his own creation repulsive and therefore decided to destroy it, including the beasts.

5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.


If you have an opportunity to wipe the slate clean, why don't you. If your purpose it to start fresh, why give orders to include, what you know to be unclean.

Later in the Bible, Leviticus to be exact, God will list all the unclean animals that we are not to eat as they are unclean or abominations. If you are all knowing, and you know they are unclean and will need to point them out as such, why even bring them in to the New. Why destroy the old to make the new just like the old. Seems like, you may have set yourself and mankind up for failure again.

The original set up failure was Eden. If everything is "perfect" and you want it to be perfect and last forever, then why put the tree of life within reach. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

Seriously, who needed a tree of knowledge? You are god, you already have all the knowledge there is. For whom did you create the tree? There were no people, so there was no need for that tree to exist. Seems like a design fail.

This goof is often blamed on the serpent, but you must take responsibility for your own actions. Serpent didn't put the tree there, nor give the original order of temptation. You tell them how awesome the tree is, how much knowledge you will gain, and show them where the tree is, and then double dog dare them not too.

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

When examined closely the Arc story is nothing but that, a story. Can this story teach anything?

I think it can. I think it tells us that the author of this book was as high as Cheech and Chong. That desert heat causes hallucinations and that the math back then was horrendous.

But, seriously......

At any time you can also take an account of your life, and make necessary changes and start fresh.

Rep Akin: Unicorns and hatred for god!

Representative Todd Akin has a penchant for saying outrageous things, but this one may take the cake. In a conversation with Family Research Council president Tony Perkins about NBC cutting the phrase "under God" out of the pledge of allegiance during coverage of the U.S. Open, Akin said the following: Perkins: Why would NBC do this? Akin: Well, I think NBC has a long record of being very liberal and at the heart of liberalism

Is ignorance subjective.. He fails to realize that the rest of the pledge, " justice and liberty for all" not just those that believe in his GOD.

For the record I do not hate GOD. As with Mr Akin's relationship with GOD it is personal, wish he would keep that way.

I choose not to believe in fairy tales and such. I do not believe a 950 year old man built the biggest boat ever, that we can't find, and rounded up 2 of every species and managed to live together 40 days and nights and everyone made it. ( there are 38,000 species of spider alone)

I choose not to believe a man lived inside a while (big fish).. I choose to believe that racism and slavery are wrong, even when the bible says it's good.

I choose to eat bacon, shrimp and lobster, clams, when the bible says they are an abomination.

I choose not believe in Unicorns, even though the bible says they are real.

'God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a unicorn.' (Numbers 23:22)

'His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns.' (Deuteronomy 33:17)

'Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Can'st thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? (job 39:9-12)

'Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.' (Psalms 22:21)

The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.' (Psalms 29:5-6)

'But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn.' (Psalms 92:10)

'For the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea. And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls.' (Isaiah 34:6-7)

That's the amazing thing about America, we get to choose. Mr. Akin can choose to believe in every crazy thing he wants, but what he can't do is make policy or laws based on his beliefs, that effect the "justice and liberty for all"

You are free to believe whatever you like, but you are not free to to impede on my rights, based on those beliefs, no matter what religion it's based on.

Tipping - do's and don'ts

gra·tu·i·ty (gr-t-t, -ty-)
n. pl. gra·tu·i·ties
A favor or gift, usually in the form of money, given in return for service.

A tip is a voluntary extra payment made in addition to the advertised price of the transaction.

I am always taken aback, when I hear people complaining about whether or not they were tipped, and how little they received.

When, as a society did our conscience shift in regards to tipping. When did it become a requirement instead of voluntary act of kindness?

I recently read a comment, that was rather shocking ..

People need to learn how to tip. Don't go out if you can't afford ALL aspects of going out, that includes tipping.

What did you do to deserve a tip? You already get paid to bring my food, refill my drink, and get me ketchup or make me a cocktail. Why should I tip you for doing your job?

What exactly did you do "above and beyond" your regular duties to deserve EXTRA money? Just showing up, doesn't warrant a tip. Just doing you job, isn't tip worthy either.

If your work attitude was anything like your comment, I am sure you got exactly what you deserved... nothing!

Do: Do get off you high horse and stop thinking that your so grand, that people should just give you extra money.

Don't: Don't expect to be rewarded for just doing your job.

DO: Do provide amazing service every time if you want to be rewarded

Don't: Don't be a whiny ungrateful bitch, if the person doesn't tip or you don't get what you think you deserve.

Do: Do remember that the tip is based on the customers interaction with you, not what you think of yourself.

Have said that....

I realize that servers aren't paid much if anything above minimum wage. Most rely on tips to survive.

I also know from experience it is a thankless job and you have to take a load of crap from everyone.

Knowing this ... I tip. I even over tip on purpose. What the public could learn is that if you frequent an establishment often, the servers will remember you and if your a shitty tipper, they know it.

I also will NEVER tip crappy service.. In fact I make sure to leave a Penny, face down to indicate that the service was horrible.

If service was amazing I tip well and leave a penny face up, indicating how good they were.

Servers also remember a good tipper. A healthy tip will get you better service the next time.

So tip.... tip the wait staff. If your the one being tipped, please do "something" worthy of my money.

Tipping isn't just a place in China, but if you provide poor service, then you should consider moving there.

H8TER or Hated On

I am really struggling to care enough to give a shit.....

I can't seem to wrap my head around the noise that, is being generated to vilify this comedian for a rant that apparently wasn't funny.

Assuming that you know who Tracy Morgan is, then you had to have been aware of the type of material he puts out. So, to go through the trouble of purchasing a ticket, getting dressed up, find parking, etc..... to be angered, by what you heard, seems shocking to me.

First, I wasn't at the club, so I didn't see the rant. If you were a patron of this club and you were offended, then treat it like any other customer service experience.

As a customer you paid for a service.. laughter. If you didn't get the service you think you paid for, then by all means, complain to management, get your money back and shut the fuck up.

Personally, I don't care enough about him to buy a ticket. I don't think he or Tina Fey are funny and I certainly don't care what he said at a venue, that I was not at.

I question, why he isn't allowed to have the freedom of speech, gays strive for? If, he hates gays, so what. Don't go see him. don't reward him with your money... SOLVED.

He was at a gig, that paid him to be there as a comic. The "gays" and the media are treating him the same as the Westboro Baptist Church.

He wasn't protesting, he didn't seek his audience out, they sought him and he didn't disrespect our heroes.

Why is he being vilified in the court of public opinion, for having one?

Having said, that!!!

I am annoyed at his response... 2 apologies and the PSA... it seems very disingenuous. If he never went to a pride parade or did a PSA for 'It Gets Better" prior to this, then doing it now seems very contrived.

I am calling BULLSHIT !!!!!!

I am calling on Tracy to give everyone the fucking finger. Please stand your ground as a comedian. I will stab you, if you tell me you are going to rehab for this crap.

Just remember....... Funny is supposed to be funny!

NO HOMO ?????

NO HOMO = Phrase used after one inadvertently says something that sounds gay.

Okay, so I couldn't post this to facebook... as i seriously violates terms of use.

Hoping for feedback on this one .. thought it was clever, but didn't "LOL" as others have exclaimed.