When the Truth is Found to be Lies

WORDS

REDEMPTION
EXPIATION
ATONEMENT
SALVATION
SOTERIOLOGY
DELIVERANCE
LIBERATION
TRANSMUTATION from TRANSGRESSIONS and TRANSGRESSIVE NATURE
ENLIGHTENMENT NIRVANA to some
UNSPEAKABLE SIGHS AND GROANINGS
BURDENED
FREEDOM FROM BURDENS and “Enburdenment”
FREEDOM as in SET FREE
BLISS and ECSTASY
ATONEMENT
RECONCILIATION
PURGING
FORGIVENESS
EXPIATION
PACIFYING
APPEASING

Always a sense of
war and
enmity, a sense of
kowtowing,
grovelling,
begging, for
mercy and
grace. To save us from
ANGER and
WRATH
PUNISHMENT and
DEATH add to this a dimension of
ETERNITY and it is a big
SCARY PICTURE.
FEAR
ANXIETY

They are all highly valued universal concepts but are often either totally ignored by the new atheists or cheapened to their lowest level in trashy novels or movies.

YEARNINGS AND CRAVINGS for something BETTER, something STRONGER, something much HIGHER coupled with a Need for Healing for all the times we failed to live that yearning. 

Unfortunately that very deep human trait has also been preyed upon for eons.

Where there is a need there is a P.T. Barnum somewhere and a sucker is born every minute.

MORE WORDS

TRUTH
JUSTICE
PEACE above all INNERPEACE
LOVE (FAITH and HOPE since to have gone out of my dictionary)
JOY
HARMONY
UNDERSTANDING
KNOWLEDGE
RETRIBUTION
RIGHTEOUSNESS (hunger and thirst for)
BEAUTY
WISDOM
BOHEMIA and all that it represents from Jan Hus to Moulin Rouge
SERENITY way over courage and wisdom

For someone who has “lost” his “faith” I still have the lingo and the terminology for sure.

Fascinating also how our language is riddled with mythological and religious metaphors.

Even the staunchest atheistic scientists use expressions like the Holy Grail of this and of that or the Philosopher’s Stone even.  And we are all fighting our “demons” at times.  We get crucified over things and stuff becomes sacred.  We play Holier than thou and hypocrites are Pharisaic.  There is redemption everywhere even though Bon Jovi keeps telling us that we can’t buy back yesterday. J

Without the mythology and the religious words we would need a hundred or a thousand words to explain expression like Sisyphean or Herculean. Ariadne would just be a seamstress with her thread.

Myths are not bad in fact the biggest problem is when they are confused with Reality and enforced by some self established priesthood.  

Blood after all is a great imagery of myth for a reason.

They also have brought words that are long forgotten and the meaning lost and hidden somewhere.

Plus words are just not enough! For one thing many of them have lost so much in translation and overuse and misuse.  Especially when it comes to religious words I like to dig really deep down and decorticate to them to their finest and purest part.  I wish I had a deep knowledge of N.T. Koine Greek and also of Classic Greek to go down deep in the history and use of words.  The KJV which is well respected seems to me nothing short of a copy of previous brainwashed biased translations.

Who decides when the word means spirit or soul or simply wind and air? 

What about those old overused terms like repentance that seems to fall really short of the Greek meaning of Noia or the deeper meaning of Logos for that instance as well.

And so many other occasions where obviously the translators could absolutely not come to an OBJECTIVE view.

Bad enough that they are myths they also are poorly translated myths... leftovers of myths in fact.

In 5000 years of writing history and 500 short years of printed history the amount or written material that survived is highly unclean and only the tip of the iceberg too.  Most of it has been submerged or simply wilfully burnt rather a la Fahrenheit 411 by whoever thought they were the ultimate and final authority and inquisition at the time.

Anyway it is good that we still have a few words left, otherwise it would be quite difficult if not impossible to even conceive a thought and that is what differentiates us from monkeys and geraniums right?

I think Orwell was on to something here and politicians have certainly picked on it with newspeak now called spin and media being controlled by the state and big money down to the vocabulary they use.

One example in so many is reshaping global warming to climate change and being ordered to do so as well.  

Look at all the money invested now in training and paying PR 

people.  They are, after all, nothing but prestidigitators or rather “prestilinguatators” fooling you with their fast and clever tongues and pulling the wool over your eyes while the real deals are going on unaware. 

They are the modern Houdinis and David Copperfield but with words instead of images deceiving your ears instead of your eyes.

Finishing again with another portion of my favourite myth, another metaphorical source of inspiration for Isaac Asimov and Philip K. Dick, waiting for the dust to settle down so we can see a little:

1Co 13:12  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

P.S. The more I study this and the more confused I get but an increasing line of thought is that

MOST OF OUR TROUBLES AND PROBLEMS are caused by someone else’s BRAIN DAMAGE.

It would seem like someone needs to really mess up his temporal lobes before seeing the light.

Moses, Jesus, Paul, Ellen White, Muhammad and so many more: seizures, 40 days of fasting or a fall from a horse or a stone to the head will NOT do you any good but it sure seems to make you a great leader at times, the leader more crazy people like to follow blindly.

 

From Gilgamesh to the last hero, one might as well “believe” in Little Red Riding Hood also and Cinderella and Snow White and PLEASE DON’T FORGET THE DWARVES.

A MYTH IS A MYTH IS A MYTH.  

Thrust one out, THRUST THEM ALL OUT.