THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

HISTORY: GARBAGE DUMP HISTORY | nationalsalvation.net

Our version of history developed because of the Bible. Christianity was already a huge group by the second century, AD. Even then people were going to Israel to find relics. Probably before that the same millions of Hellenic Jews who became the Christian Church had been making regular pilgrimages to Jerusalem.

When Constantine became a Christian the hunt began in earnest. The Emperor Justinian's wife, Theodora, made her own travels to Palestine and she found the True Cross, the Birth Place of Christ and a lot of other things. A modern historian who says, "I'm a PhD and my peer PhDs agreed this very convenient fact is true so shut up."

Theodora said, "I'm the Emperor's wife and this is the True Cross and you had better believe it or you'll see what a non-true cross feels like." Exactly the same thing, just different times, different mores.

But as atheism took over academia, they needed somewhere besides the Old Testament for everything to come from. They found it right next door. Mesopotamia was on one side of Palestine and Egypt was on the other. Do the arithmetic. What is the statistical probability that all things really originated within a few miles of where archeologists were already digging?

Nobody questioned it. It is still our official history.

My explanation is a bit different, and it is not cloaked in abstractions and details to show you how academic I am. Egypt and Mesopotamia had become colored lands and their advances had died. But if you just say that colored folks did all the stuff you are halfway to Political Correctness already.

But there is more to it than that. I have written about Garbage Dump History. I said that, if a catastrophe wiped out civilization tomorrow, historian of the future would say that everything was invented in the New York City Garbage Dump. Like Egypt, that would be the place everything would be found. We could get a theory that twentieth-century Harlem was the fountain of all greatness.

We find colored people in the dead, dry lands where nothing has moved for a thousand years.

Do you think there would be any WHITE people living in such places? The very absence of whites there should give you some indication of what REAL history is like. White Flight began a LONG time ago.*

But I am the only person who has made that observation.

And I won't be here forever, gang.

The Garbage Dump History of the future would come to the same conclusion pesernt historians do. It would be found that huge garbage dumps were placed away from the ritzy parts of town. Anyway those ritzy parts would be built over and archeologists would be looking for OLD stuff. They would find it in the dumps. The population nearest the dumps would be largely ghettoes. So obviously civilization was a product of minorities.

An almost unbelievable amount of NEW history was found when they discovered one single Ice Man in Europe. His corpse date from the time the first pyramids were being built. History had built a whole story of the development of weaving from the fact that his clothes should have been invented over two thousand years later in the Middle East. His tattoos, a method history had said developed in the Middle East much later, showed the needle-point therapy, acupuncture, that was supposed to be developed a couple of thousand years later as part of Oriental Wisdom in China.

That was ONE body. Instead of causing history to be questioned, it was tossed into a sort of "Ripley's Believe It or Not" category in some documentaries and then carefully forgotten.

As so often happens, there is an alliance between Old Testament "Christians" and atheistic Political Correctness professors that neither one knows about. The Old Testament types want everything to be developed in Palestine. You will never hear an accurate description of where Mount Ararat is in a Sunday School class and no professor will talk about it.

So if you say that everything started in Egypt and Mesopotamia, the "Christians" will scream foul. If you say it all came from Palestine the atheist professors will raise hell.

But if you say that things came from OUTSIDE the Middle East, both groups will join the lynch party or the laughter at the idiotic theory, whichever mode is in fashion at the moment.

What is important about the Ice Man, for instance, is not the breathless news we hear. If anybody else will join me in CLEAR, BASIC thinking, he will see a whole new world of history opening up to him.

* There was a stele at the Second Cataract of the Nile, which survived into modern times to be photographed repeatedly before it was flooded over by the Aswan Dam, that said, "No Nubian shall cross this line except to buy provisions and return."

MORALS: SHARI AND WHAT JESUS WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT | nationalsalvation.net

"Never lose sight of it." Losing sight is what makes thinking all of life is a series of carnival rides does. Not merely enjoying something. And then there are Christ's words about it not profiting to gain the whole world and losing your own soul. Not a good trade off.

Comment by Shari

ME:

It's interesting how AFKAN and myself are more and more taking Shari's comments as our starting point. As we say down South, That gal is about half BRIGHT." I read her summation and it gets my brain into action.

As usual, I am not agreeing with or disagreeing with what she says. There's too much common sense (common sense is never common) in what Shari says to leave any room for disagreement. Good comments provide a springboard. The above statement hit me between the eyes because it reminded me of how professional preachers use Christ's words as a springboard for them to prove their own importance, their own detailed Biblical knowledge, and how little they read what he said and then THINK about what HE meant.

Take the Lord's Prayer. We are told that the thing to do is to repeat it endlessly, or, as Jesus said, "Many think they will achieve salvation by much saying." But if you look at the context, that is exactly what he was NOT advocating.

What Jesus was saying when he recited the Lord's Prayer was, "It is enough to call a fish a fish." He was contrasting what one should say to God to what was being done at the Temple, where endless hours were spent praising God and talking, talking, talking.

No wonder they ended up having to crucify him. Nothing could have been as infuriating to the Temple priesthood as Jesus' reducing all their endless chants to a simple, bare, stark petition to God for what a person needed while he DID good things. We need bread to keep us going, forgive us IF and to the extent that we do the same for others and provide as few temptations to us weak humans as you can.

One minute long. All those endless hours Temple priests made their living on meant very little.

Then there is the rich young man. How many sermons have been devoted to Jesus's instructing the young man to give all he had to the poor? They build whole social systems and Marxist Liberation Theology on that. But what Jesus said was, "If you would be PERFECT, sell all you have, give it to the poor, and FOLLOW ME." Listening to the average sermon you would think the last three words were never spoken.

The question Jesus was answering was NOT, "Lord, what is the ideal socioeconomic system?" The question was, "What must I do to be SAVED?" The answer was, "Follow me, and nothing else." The man's property was a detail, and earnest of really abandoning all and following Jesus.

Modern "Christians" intensely dislike the idea that Jesus really meant it when he said, "My kingdom is not of this world." One of the perversions that have destroyed the "Christian" right has been their turning him into a fanatical Israeli nationalist. That was precisely what frustrated the Jews of his own time. The rejection of Zionist nationalism is EXACTLY what Jesus was renouncing when he said, "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's."

The Modernists were terribly upset with the idea that Jesus was really as obsessed with the Next Life. Now the "Christian" Right is rejecting that same idea. They are deeply upset at the idea that Jesus was betting everything on the Next Life. How can they keep their dues-paying congregation in church if they don't give them a Guide to Better Living and Political Truth, and just keep talking about some Next Life?

Sorry, gang, that is what Jesus WAS obsessed with. Every word he said to the rich young man and to everyone else had nothing to do Political Relevance. When he speaks to us, he speaks of what is needed to save our particular souls. It is altogether personal.

Frankly, I have not the slightest need of one more political philosopher. If Jesus was wrong about the eternal future of the soul, he was openly, totally, gloriously wrong. The woods are full of worldview philosophers like me. But Jesus, to use Lawrence Brown's words, "towers above history" precisely because he had a unique message, a total, uncompromising commitment to the idea that he, and he ALONE, knew how to save my personal soul.

Jesus was that absolutely unique phenomenon, a man who was either totally right or totally wrong. And he put EVERYTHING on the line for it. No Buddha, no Confucius, no Aristotle is fit to tie his shoes in terms of pure moral courage.

WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD | 2005-03-29

The Enemies of Good Things ALWAYS Claim to Be the Friends of Good Things

Again and again I hear people say, "People who say they are for freedom of speech..." or "People who talk about love and brotherhood are the ones who are the cruelest."

My reply is, "Welcome to the real world."

Lenin took power with slogan, "Peace, land, and bread."

Under Lenin, the Ukraine, which had been Europe's bread basket, starved. The Soviet Union was a hungry country from the day the Communists took power and for the seventy years of Communist rule.

Lenin's rise to power began a civil war that was even worse than the disasters of World War I. After that the Soviet government conducted one long war against its own citizens, killing tens of millions of them.

So much for Peace and Bread. What about land?

The Soviet Government collectivized all land. In plain English, it took all the land for itself.

But there is nothing special about Communism. The Inquisition was conducted in the name of a loving Christ.

The courts tell us that the people do not matter. People born in America have no more rights than illegal immigrants. When Californians voted overwhelmingly to deny welfare to illegal immigrants the courts said they couldn't do that.

The Supreme Court, you see, is the Constitution. The Constitution says that its only reason for existence is to secure the blessings of liberty for the people of the United States and OUR posterity."

The Supreme Court declared that it makes no difference whether you are one of "the people of the United States" or not.

And the person who screams most about Freedom of Speech will censor every word you say in the name of Political Correctness.

In His last agonies on the Cross, Jesus said, "Forgive them, Father, for they know not what they do."

Saint Paul said we should be "all things to all men." He said specifically that we should bend on matters of doctrine or ritual so that our brothers' faith will not be weakened.

There is no one more unforgiving of doctrinal difference or of a different ritual who says he follows Christ and St. Paul.

And no one is as unforgiving as a Christian who thinks he has The Only True Faith.

Hypocrisy is not something unusual. It is routine.

Welcome to the real world.

IMRE NAGE | 2008-03-06

Hungary's post-WWII puppet government under Stalin made Imre Nage dictator. In 1956, when Hungary rose up against the Soviets, Nage took Hungary's side and ran off to the West when the Soviets, using Oriental troops, crushed the Hungarians.

The token Communist grad student in the uniquely free market econ program at the University of Virginia when I was there knew Nage personally. It never occurred to anybody to suppress Communists, only racists like me. You know how it is.

The Commie was delighted with Nage. Nage made it clear that he was not just a good Communist, but a great STALINIST.

Hungarians who escaped from Soviet Occupation remained good leftists. The list of civil rights activists after 1956 always included the Hungarian Refugees. Like Israeli Jews, they were good solid anti-whites. When I was in Hungary trying to liberate their people they were in American doing their part in doing away with whites.

Do you get anything from this?