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Hebrew Bible;

Deu.: 32: 39–” see-you ! now that I > I he and there is no god with me I > I am putting to death and I am making alive I transfixed and I > I shall heal and there is no from hand of me one rescuing”.

Gen 47: 13- 27; NIV

Joseph and the Famine

¹³ There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was severe; both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine.

¹⁴ Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought it to Pharaoh’s palace.

¹⁵ When the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all Egypt came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? Our money is all gone.”

¹⁶ “Then bring your livestock,” said Joseph. “I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock, since your money is gone.”

¹⁷ So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle and donkeys. And he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock.

¹⁸ When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.

¹⁹ Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields, because the famine was too severe for them. The land became Pharaoh’s,

²¹ and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other.

²² However, he did not buy the land of the priests, because they received a regular allotment from Pharaoh and had food enough from the allotment Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

²³ Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you so you can plant the ground.

²⁴ But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves and your households and your children.”

²⁵ “You have saved our lives,” they said. “May we find favor in the eyes of our lord; we will be in bondage to Pharaoh.”

²⁶ So Joseph established it as a law concerning land in Egypt—still in force today—that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh.  It was only the land of the priests that did not become Pharaoh’s.

²⁷ Now the Israelite settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.

Joseph and the Famine an interesting story no one knows exactly when it came about in oral history.  Most scholars tend to believe that the events occurred around 1400 BC and found its edited form during the building of the second temple 500- 200 BC.

To understand what these scriptures are talking about then you must understand some of the verbiage involved:

1. Pharaoh— that is any government in the world today it does not matter what kind or form of government. Governments lacking morality or decency in everyday affairs of the people.
2. Egyptians— a majority of people that flock to a certain ideology or philosophy concerning their governess. Example; diversity, multiple genders, not concerned with individual morality or decency of their children. In their everyday affairs they follow the lemons over the cliffs.
3. Food is both a literal expression and a figurative expression a lack of morality or decency both constitute a famine within the person or the family as a whole. Death has two shades to it both literal and figurative.

Phrases to pay attention to;

1. “We will be in bondage to Pharaoh”, you will always be in bondage to a government, but it does not mean you have to be a slave to that ideology or its form of morality.
2. “Joseph established a law concerning the land of Egypt—still in force today”; land is an expression it means anywhere in the world where your dwelling is be it in America, Europe or the Middle East etc…Egypt simple means people in darkness.

In this narrative there was a famine across the land for a period of 3 years which correlates to the seasons of a man or woman.  Joseph had the knowledge and life experience to know how to overcome what looked like impossible odds.  He bartered one item for another and kept everyone moving along.  In the end it was those people closest to him that flourished that listened to him.

You weekend warriors will come along and state that it was the hand of god that helped Joseph, or some will even say it was the Lord Jesus Christ had a hand in the affair.

The problem with that assertion is that the ancient Semitic/Hebrew believed in the heavens and gods and angels and the like, but they also believed that no mortal could enter that realm.  It was the culture of the time to believe in gods demons and angels and the likes but for a few they did not worship the gods or existential beings.

Nonetheless because of the phrase, “still in force today” (Gen.42:26) that is talking present tense not future tense that is talking about today anywhere in the world.  The present tense is always in force because the future never comes no one ever the gods can predict the future.

Reading Gen: 42: 24 you read the allotment of wealth given to the government. “a fifth” the other four-fifths to the people and a fifth to the family to provide food and shelter. 

Remember Joseph bartered for land, animals (food, shelter, transportation) etc…

For those (priests) there was no allotment the government can take care of them and their gods and extraterrestrial beings.  There is no tenth in this narrative you see the word tenth put in by the early church.  You pay for lavish temples and pay for people not to work and teach you what they want you to know not how to survive. 

To those adherents to Christ the Redeemer look at the giant statue of him overlooking the city of Rio De Janeiro tell me in 2000 yrs. what he has redeemed in the land of Brazil.  The only thing that was redeemed was the Roman Catholic church who redeemed the land around the early 1400’s AD.  They have been redeeming the wealth of Brazil for 600 yrs.  

This is the famine in land that Joseph was talking about in the narratives still in force today.

It takes Fathers to help their families and children to survive for generations.

That is what I believe

A Father teaching His children to Create their Worlds

Court Records Ur 111, 22^nd Century BC

Case 1:

Claim presented by Geme-Suen against the wife of Ur-lugal regarding the payment of a debt of 2 minas of silver.   The wife of Ur-lugal argued that the claim had already been decided in her favor by the judge Ki ag, with Lu-Suen as commissioner.  Nevertheless, Lu-Suen was called and he declared that such a decision had not taken place.  As a consequence, the wife of Ur-lugal and his son Alulu recognized that they still owed Geme-Suen 10 and 5 shekels of silver respectively.  Additionally, the five children of Ur-lugal were called to take a declaratory oath, but they refused to swear.

Case 2:

Procedure recorded in this tablet probably originated in a claim by Sesani, who borrowed 20 and a half shekels of silver from Ur-kalagu.  Sesani sold his son as part of his debt, and his claim would be related to the purchase price.  To solve the litigation, Ki ag, the judge before whom the sale was made, now before the governor, asked the creditor to swear that the purchase price had been of 10 shekels of silver, so Sesani still owed him 10 and a half shekels.

Case 3:

Lu-Ninsubur was accused by Lu-Damu of having bought a stolen millstone from Luduga.  Lu-Ninsubur declared he would bring back the thief, and Ti-emahta pledged his own person to guarantee it.  As Lu-Ninsubur was not able to bring the thief, Ti-emahta was obliged to pay the price of the millstone to Lu-Damu.

FYI; Lu-Damu; Damu refers to an elderly woman of the house of Lu a wife, she was taking care of the affairs of the running of the house.

In Sumerian religion, the most powerful and important deities in the pantheon were the “seven gods who decree”: An, Enlil, Enki, Ninhursag, Nanna, Utu, and Inanna.

1. An- god of heaven
2. Enlil- god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms.
3. Enki- god of water, knowledge, mischief, crafts and creation later known as Ea in Akkadian and Babylonian mythology
4. Ninhursag-  Mother of Gods and Mother of Men
5. Nanna-  God of the Moon and Wisdom one of the oldest gods in ancient Mesopotamia
6. Utu-  is the ancient god of the sun, justice, , morality, and truth, and the twin goddesses Inanna the Queen of the Heaven
7. Inanna- Queen of the Heaven

Provided you a cursory look at the judicial life of ancient Sumer and the gods that they walked with daily.  You had to abide by the laws of the land as well as perform the ablations required of the temple priests to provide them with food and wealth to run their temples.

It bodes well with my assertion that evolutionary processes have changed little over the thousands of years, only the names have changed.   If your young people think you are recreating a society, you are dead wrong.  Everything has been done before in past times.  You are going to destroy yourself and your nation for the common good and go back into slavery you have never known before.  For that evolution will stay its course, nations come, and nations go and from the ashes something equally as vile will take its place.  New gods will rise up and stand before you and you will bow to them it is human nature and instinct for an existential entity to take care of your everyday affairs.

Hebrew Bible;

Deu.: 32: 39–” see-you ! now that I > I he and there is no god with me I > I am putting to death and I am making alive I transfixed and I > I shall heal and there is no from hand of me one rescuing”.

Gen 47: 13- 27; NIV

Joseph and the Famine

¹³ There was no food, however, in the whole region because the famine was severe; both Egypt and Canaan wasted away because of the famine. ¹⁴ Joseph collected all the money that was to be found in Egypt and Canaan in payment for the grain they were buying, and he brought it to Pharaoh’s palace. ¹⁵ When the money of the people of Egypt and Canaan was gone, all Egypt came to Joseph and said, “Give us food. Why should we die before your eyes? Our money is all gone.”

¹⁶ “Then bring your livestock,” said Joseph. “I will sell you food in exchange for your livestock, since your money is gone.” ¹⁷ So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and he gave them food in exchange for their horses, their sheep and goats, their cattle and donkeys. And he brought them through that year with food in exchange for all their livestock.

¹⁸ When that year was over, they came to him the following year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord the fact that since our money is gone and our livestock belongs to you, there is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land. ¹⁹ Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Buy us and our land in exchange for food, and we with our land will be in bondage to Pharaoh. Give us seed so that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”

²⁰ So Joseph bought all the land in Egypt for Pharaoh. The Egyptians, one and all, sold their fields, because the famine was too severe for them. The land became Pharaoh’s, ²¹ and Joseph reduced the people to servitude, from one end of Egypt to the other. ²² However, he did not buy the land of the priests, because they received a regular allotment from Pharaoh and had food enough from the allotment Pharaoh gave them. That is why they did not sell their land.

²³ Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have bought you and your land today for Pharaoh, here is seed for you so you can plant the ground. ²⁴ But when the crop comes in, give a fifth of it to Pharaoh. The other four-fifths you may keep as seed for the fields and as food for yourselves and your households and your children.”

²⁵ “You have saved our lives,” they said. “May we find favor in the eyes of our lord; we will be in bondage to Pharaoh.”

²⁶ So Joseph established it as a law concerning land in Egypt—still in force today—that a fifth of the produce belongs to Pharaoh.  It was only the land of the priests that did not become Pharaoh’s.

²⁷ Now the Israelite settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.

The moral of the story Joseph took care of the people around him and the people became in servitude to him not to a god or a pharaoh.  Fathers take care of their family with knowledge and wisdom to be able to survive harsh times that come every 400 hundred years they never go away.

That is what I believe

A Father teaching His children to Create their Worlds

One of the conundrums facing me over the last couple of years is the question of how thoughts never change in appearance for over thousands of years. Thoughts appear to become stillborn stationary in time.  If time is linear past to present then should not an evolutionary change take place ? Is time stationary or static?

Example; You have two subjects (X, Y) thousand of years apart one lives in Akkad city, 3500 BC and they both suffer depression. Your second subject lives in present day America 2019 AD.  They both have the same malady and the same predisposition into their outlook on life.

The earliest accounts of depression appeared around the 2^nd millennium BC in Mesopotamia. Depression was seen as a spiritual condition not a physical condition caused by demons, demonic possession. Treatment was left up to the priests rather than physicians. Culturally the idea of depression caused by demons and evil spirits has existed in many societies, the ancient Greeks, Romans, Babylonians, Chinese and the Egyptians to name a few,

There were a number of ancient Greeks and Roman doctors that believed that depression was a biological and a psychological illness.

Hebrew Bible;

Deu.: 32: 39–” see-you ! now that I > I he and there is no god with me I > I am putting to death and I am making alive I transfixed and I > I shall heal and there is no from hand of me one rescuing”.

Deuteronomy was written around the 7^th millennium BC for a reference point. What this verse is saying the absence of god heal yourself. So the ancient Hebrews before the Jewish exile believed that depression was a psychological happening. Remembering the past blog the Jewish Pentateuch and other historical records were changed to reflect Hellenization Greek traditions.

So depression on an evolutionary scale only budged a notch or two over thousands of years going from demonic forces to being either biological or psychological.

The ancient Semitic/Hebrews believed it was a psychological problem that had a cure. You healed yourself.

It is not my predisposition to explain how to erode the effects of depression but to explain how thoughts become embedded in our mind.  To heal yourself of depression is to reverse engineer your thoughts.  Thousands of years of a rote exercise in behavioural modification you were told you are depressed because of X (horizontal) and you became Y (vertical).  It was the male/child that created depression.

In theoretical physics the problem of time is a conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics. Quantum mechanics believe the flow of time is universal and absolute whereas in relativity the flow of time is malleable and relative. So then we have to ask the question what time really is in a physical sense or a truly distinct phenomenon or does time flow in a singular direction? There are no known physical laws that would dictate that time flows in a single direction.

In quantum entanglements you have two particles ( X & Y) who share the same existence even though they are physically separated by time and space.  Time is for me reversible it goes by the name of thermal time where physical time flow is not a given property but a microscopic feature of thermodynamic origin. Since we are all quanta particles of time ( matter & energy) this makes perfect sense to me.

In a recent experiment in Turin Italy two scientist confirmed that time is an emergent phenomenon for internal observers but absent for external ones.

They created a toy universe entangling two photons with an observer that can measure their states in one of two ways. The first way the observer measures the evolution of the system by becoming entangled with it.

This is where I have always stated you can pray for someone but if you do not become entangled then you words are meaningless.

In the second a god like observer measures the evolution against an external clock which is independent of the toy universe.

The details are pretty straight forward. The entangled photons (X & Y) each have a polarization which can be changed by passing it through a birefringent plate (mirror). In the first set up the observer measures the polarization of one photon, thereby becoming entangled with it. He or she then compares this with the polarization of the second photon. The difference is the measure of time.

If the observer does not become entangled with one or the other and there is no difference, the system appears static, then time does not emerge it becomes stillborn.  The future never occurs because tomorrow is the present once you cross midnight.  An hour can be the future once it gets here it is the present, five minutes from now once that time gets here it is in the present.   The future exists to help you to plan for the present.  You cannot change the present time if you do not change the past time a thermodynamic origin of time and thought (Depression) the Twilight Zone between heaven and earth.

Mathematical Solution;

X= subject 1

Y= subject 2

D= Depression

d= 32. 39

D (X -Y) +d = U

D(0) + d = U

+d – d = U + d (32. 39)

U = Deu.: 32: 39–” see-you ! now that I > I  he and there is no god with me I > I am putting to death and I am making alive I transfixed and I > I shall heal and there is no from hand of me one rescuing”.

d is always in the present tense it is linear from X to Y you need to meet it in the center of the beam your heart. Where X crosses Y in the Twilight zone between you feet and your mind between heaven and earth in the absence of god as it is written.

 When memories of you no longer exist in the minds of people, then you no longer exist.

That is what I believe

A Father teaching His children to Create thier Worlds