(12-03-2025, 07:45 AM)Paul357 Wrote: Ex-Mason Reveals the Dark Reality Behind Freemasonry & Ritual Magic
I started watching the video, but it was long, so I read the transcript.
So, he starts out as a regular default atheist, materialist nihilist (no afterlife) guy.
Then gets into New Age thinking (human immortality), NDEs, demon stuff, ghost stuff.
Then after he's thinking about "other-side" stuff and is already being bothered by "demons";
that's when he goes Freemason, bringing his preconceived demonic with him.
Then he discovered that the Grand Master dude is really a fraud running a scam to seduce the ladies and get a load of money.
One could say that the fake Grand Master was "no true Mason" (alluding to the no true Scotsman Fallacy).
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I have ideas about the Gen 6 Nephilim:
Basically, the Book of Genesis is of late origin, about 350 B.C. The writers, compilers, and editors were very familiar with pre-existing Mesopotamian and Greek mythologies. The heroes of the myths were almost invariably hybrid divine/human characters "mighty men of renown".
Gilgamesh is the earliest hero that we know of. He was 2/3 god and 1/3 mortal. He sought immortality and discovered that the quest was futile so he built up his city and temples to the gods. He was the first Freemason that we know of. He wasn't completely free, he still had to be a king.
Solomon is most likely a completely fictional character. But he follows the Gilgamesh model of building temples and cities. As a bonus, it is pretended that he wrote the book of Ecclesiastes. That's important fact. Because Gilgamesh concluded that human immortality was unachievable. "Solomon" repeats that.
Quote: 19For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity. 20All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?” 22Therefore I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his works, for that is his portion; for who can bring him to see what will be after him?
Ecclesiastes 3 WEB
I'm not saying that building cities and temples is the only decent work worth doing. Rejoice, be happy. And don't think about demons or ghosts or such.
There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people. - Commander William Adama