There is no such thing as pure culture so many influences went into creating the original software. From there everything else are expansion packs and updates. In literature Yahweh was allowed to have a pantheon but never was there allowed to be one as an intercessor to him. While the angles are said to plead causes for those who need it, at times he listened and at times he did not. This is shown in the literature and mythology on both the ascension of Moses and Enoch. In both cases the angels were repulsed by and protested, and tried to hinder them from entering the highest heaven but were rebuked by the Diety. Yahweh in literature was Anthropomorphic. This was later attributed also to Christ after the resurrection. The thief may represent the Evil and good Impulse. Forgiveness is always given quickly when asked for in Jewish literature. As for the other who would not was allowed to do so without question also follows literature. The quote from Christ as he died was a traditional Psalm quoted at death or in sickness or distress. Psalm 22. Which was common in the Ancient Near East. See the Prayer of Lamentation to Ishtar here: http://www.piney.com/LamIsht.html The texts of where it all comes from. Also I forgot to mention Oriental texts influenced such thinking. Pseudepigrapha http://www.earlyjewishwritings.com/ On Metetron: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatron From the text "PHILO: METATRON: WISDOM: "Two important ideas are enshrined here. Firstly, Metatron's existence is made to date from the Creation. A kind of pre-existence is accorded him--and the doctrine of pre-existence, or rather pre-existences, is a ubiquitous element in the old Rabbinic treatment of cosmogony. "Seven things preceded the Creation of the world, viz.: (a) the Torah, (b) the Divine Throne, (c) the Temple, (d) the Name of the Messiah, (e) Paradise, (f) Hell, (g) Repentance." Whether Metatron ought to be an eighth, or is to be identified with one among these seven, is a point for further research." : http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/jm/jm07.htm On Samael: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samael The Talmud: http://www.sacred-texts.com/jud/talmud.htm On Rabbi Joshua ben Levi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_ben_Levi#In_legend On what possibly influence the Rabbi Joshua legends: http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/myths/texts/classic/ishtardesc.htm The War in Heaven Shemhazai and Azael (Scroll down to the section on this link.) http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/relg/historygeography/TheLegendsoftheJewsVolume1/chap9.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azazel

Video from OneinMessiah.net showing you the plurality of God in scripture

A question I've never had a real, viable, answer to. Perchance you feel you could give one.

Video by OneInMessiah.net explaining the plurality of God in Scirptures part 3

Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series

Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series

James the Preacher discusses Mormon doctrine about plurality of Gods, etc.

I was a bit bored. Thought'd it be funny. Update: the sides of the banana have completely browned a few hours after its initial toasting experience.

the truth of Islam

A response to Hiveradical: Was Jesus forsaken on the Cross?

Opening for Oh My God

Another trance style piece with the HAPI drum, a few Korgs, bass, guitar and Garageband. Features on the cd 'Music from the HAPI Planet'.

Video by OneInMessiah.net explaining the plurality of God in Scirptures

Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series

Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series

This is our entry into the Math and Voting Awareness contest. We had a lot of fun making this and did our best to convey a message about math and voting with humor. The idea was that a college is using a preferential voting method where the voters could rank the five nominess from first to last. The methods of voting talked about are: Plurality Plurality with Run Off Plurality with Sequential Elimination The Copeland Method and The Borda Count

Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series

Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series

Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series

Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series

Pearl of Great Price Lecture Series

Video writting: This is not a social discussion about a or several topics and it does NOT give YOU excuses, information, or tips on how to be or act like a homophobe. This is simply the truth. Society forsees homossexuals has a plurality of species: Fashionable well mannered hunks, easy on the i's GAY Fashionably pink and femenin and look like men QUEER Queer's that look like girls FAGGOTS Easily mistaken by women QUEENS Normal "except" for liking men HOMOSSEXUALS The bondage version of homossexuals HOMOS Pretty well closeted homossexuals HETEROS Have you ever considered that every guy YOU'VE ever known, met, seen, fancied, loved, crushed, crossed, worshipped, or dated (girls) has a chance of being: a gay, a queer, a faggot, a queen, a gay, a homo, a homossexual, a hetero!? You can even be friends with one AND not even know it! It's the truth. Homophobes see homossexuals has a plurality of creatures: Pussies GAY Tom boys QUEER Girly girls FAGGOTS C**k sucker QUEENS Sinners HOMOSSEXUALS Worthy of hell HOMOS Normal people HETEROS Everyone loves cause loving means you have the right to hate. Stop the pain; hate the hate. A message by 5uMm0n3d and the music is his too, don't diss it. ------------------------------------------- The song was made on Mixcraft

Characteristics of the Postmodern: The plurality of meaning

The Cosmological Principal is a myth. The observations that inspire it's continued acceptance are an artifact of scale and not a reasonable characterization of the structure of the universe at cosmic scales. Initially devised to both eliminate the human propensity to center the universe on some astronomical object and to enable the universal applicability of the Theory of Relativity, the Cosmological Principal has outlived it's usefulness. Across forty orders of magnitude, from quarks to galaxy clusters, the universe exhibits an absolute, unambiguous adherence to a material hierarchy of smaller particles joining in profusion to make ever larger physical structures. Significantly, every human cosmology ever devised failed in precise resistance to the presumption that this same hierarchy continued beyond our ability to confirm it. Our latest effort to terminate the unambiguous continuity of the material hierarchy of the universe is embodied in the first two axioms of the Cosmological Principal: the homogeneity of the universe and the isotropy of the universe. Both are inevitable consequences of looking upscale in a physical hierarchy. When we look upsca;e our sample size plumments. When we look downscale it skyrockets. It is suggested the we replace these two axioms with the two Rules of Cosmology: 1) The Finite Rule: All material phenomena are finite in extent and constituent to larger structures. 2) The Plurality Pincipal: All material phenomena are multiply manifest. For a Bayesian numerical analysis of the probability of an ongoing material hierarchy beyond the Big Bang see: http://www.thegodofreason.com/rules-of-discovery.pdf http://www.thegodofreason.com

21st Century America is dangerously polarized. On Freedom's side and fighting for the Constitution are the Blue States, rebelling against the imposed "new world order" and "slavery" of the Corporate Elite controlled Red States. Is the American Experiment over? Will the Constitution be restored to all freedom loving men or will the Privitized Red Army of the Dominion States of America tramble the country from sea to shining sea? Only time will tell. (this is the preview trailer for a thirteen webisode series.) "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." AmericanNoteBook: The United States is the world's oldest surviving federation. It is a constitutional republic, "in which majority rule is tempered by minority rights protected by law." It is fundamentally structured as a representative democracy, though U.S. citizens residing in the territories are excluded from voting for federal officials. The government is regulated by a system of checks and balances defined by the United States Constitution, which serves as the country's supreme legal document and as a social contract for the people of the United States. In the American federalist system, citizens are usually subject to three levels of government, federal, state, and local; the local government's duties are commonly split between county and municipal governments. In almost all cases, executive and legislative officials are elected by a plurality vote of citizens by district. There is no proportional representation at the federal level, and it is very rare at lower levels. Federal and state judicial and cabinet officials are typically nominated by the executive branch and approved by the legislature, although some state judges and officials are elected by popular vote. Politics in the United States have operated under a two-party system for virtually all of the country's history. For elective offices at all levels, state-administered primary elections are held to choose the major party nominees for subsequent general elections. Since the general election of 1856, the two dominant parties have been the Democratic Party, founded in 1824 (though its roots trace back to 1792), and the Republican Party, founded in 1854. Within American political culture, the Republican Party is considered "center-right" or conservative and the Democratic Party is considered "center-left" or liberal, but members of both parties have a wide range of views. In an August 2007 poll, 36% of Americans described themselves as "conservative," 34% as "moderate," and 25% as "liberal." On the other hand, a plurality of adults, 35.9%, identify as Democrats, 32.9% as independents, and 31.3% as Republicans. The states of the Northeast, Great Lakes, and West Coast are relatively liberal-leaning—they are known in political parlance as "blue states." The "red states" of the South and the Rocky Mountains lean conservative. Poltical demographic sources: The Associated Press Poll Conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs/Project #81-5681-13. Ipsos Public Affairs (2007-08-08). ^ Number of Democrats Falls to New Low, Republicans Decline Too. Rasmussen Reports (2007-08-01).