| The original earth goddess cult at Delphi in ancient | | | | themselves, which added to the natural euphoric |
| Greece has many similarities with today's eco-fascist | | | | state. No wonder they spoke a lot of gibberish. |
| earth loving cult. Both are pagan. Both rely on | | | | Yet people came from all over Greece and beyond |
| unscientific methods. Both are regulated by a high | | | | to have their questions about the future answered |
| priest caste. Both extract monies for their | | | | by the Pythia, the priestess of Apollo or one of her |
| 'prophecies'. Both provide gibberish dressed up as | | | | associates. Their answers were usually so vague as |
| intelligence. Both desire to manipulate politics for | | | | to be meaningless but the superstitious ethos of the |
| monetary advantage. Both are deranged. Yet the | | | | time, and the great desire to propitiate and ingratiate |
| Romans had to good sense to shut down the Oracle | | | | mother Gaia, meant that all utterances from the |
| at Delphi in 390 AD. I wonder if we have the good | | | | center of the earth were taken as serious |
| sense to shut down the modern version of the earth | | | | proclamations. It was this mystic cult worship that |
| goddess cult? | | | | kept Delphi in power and relevance. All the Greek |
| Al Gore's and the UN's new version of the Delphic | | | | gods were represented and worshipped there, and |
| Oracle goes something like this. We, the earth-cult | | | | they were all connected to Gaia and the birthplace of |
| pagan society, will decide on all affairs. Political, | | | | the world. |
| military, financial, civilian and economic issues must be | | | | Each year thousands would pilgrimage to Delphi - a |
| given to the high priest earth-goddess cult, to be | | | | great boon in taxation, wealth and trade for the |
| vetted and approved by Gaia. Once approved the | | | | town. The earth-cult thing was a great shakedown |
| elite will bless the policy and monitor its | | | | and the people at Delphi knew that as long as the |
| implementation. If you, the toiling knave, do not | | | | oracle was the center of the cult, their small town |
| follow the high priest's dictates, then you will be | | | | would remain incredibly wealthy. In fact the |
| destroyed or at least taxed to death. You must | | | | adornments, statues and wealth on display at Delphi |
| obey and interpret the earth cult oracle, not question | | | | were so fantastic that 2 Roman emperors sacked it, |
| or doubt it. | | | | carrying off literally thousands of items back to |
| The similarities with the paganism that helped shaped | | | | Rome - and yet much wealth still remained. |
| the Greek and ancient world from 1700 BC to 390 | | | | Like the current eco-fascist earth cult, the Delphic |
| AD [a long 2.000 years] are rather obvious, and are | | | | oracle was rather hypocritical. In 480 BC as the |
| extremely unnerving. | | | | Persians were advancing into Greece the oracle was |
| Looking back through history we can laugh at the | | | | supposedly pro-Greek in its prophecies. As the |
| cults but maybe our laughter is misplaced. Islam? Why | | | | Persians advanced into central Greece and |
| would anyone accept that a moon symbol is a god, | | | | threatened Athens the oracle began to change |
| and that this so-called god only spoke Arabaic to an | | | | political allegiance and began forecasting a Persian |
| illiterate war-monger named Mohammad? Yet this | | | | victory. With the Greek naval victory at Salamis in |
| nonsense of a cult is the greatest threat to | | | | 480 BC and later at Plataea in 479 BC the oracle |
| civilization since the rise of the twin fascisms of | | | | reverted to its usual pro-Greek interpretation of |
| Hitlerism and Russian Communism [yes fascism is an | | | | geo-political events. This subtle change in orientation |
| extreme left-wing ideology]. The earth-cult? Why | | | | was not lost on the ancient Greeks at the time. |
| would any ancient Greek run off to a mountain near | | | | But you can forgive the ancient Greeks their |
| the Corinthian Gulf and ask some half-clad hot looking | | | | subservient paganism and support of an earth cult. |
| chick for a prophecy or a forecast of the future? | | | | The scientific method, the rational revolution, the |
| Surely men are more rational than this. Then again | | | | Enlightenment and the creation of the modern world, |
| apparently not since the earth-cult had great | | | | built in part upon ancient Greek ideas were of course |
| influence in ancient affairs sometimes dictating the | | | | not existent during the Delphic cult. In the modern |
| entire fates of empires and the direction of history | | | | age of scientific inquiry, logical discourse and rigorous |
| and even today tawdry chicks command respect out | | | | methodology the question has to be asked, 'what is |
| of any proportion to their actual societal contributions. | | | | our excuse?' |
| Like today's Al Gore-David Suziki-UN eco-fascist cult, | | | | The only answer might be that the earth cult and |
| the Delphic oracle was considered to be the center | | | | other primitive paganisms are still as attractive today |
| of the world. Built on top of two geological fault lines | | | | as they were 2000 years ago. Simplistic answers, |
| the oracle emitted various gases including ammonia | | | | simpleton solutions, and simple programs to make |
| and C02 [can you imagine the UN's annoyance at | | | | sense out of reality and the world, still exert a |
| this]. In combination with a lack of oxygen these | | | | fascination. That is why it is safe to say that the |
| gases could induce a trance like state. Added to | | | | human genome has not undergone much in the way |
| these natural phenomena, the scantily clad | | | | of change in the past 100.000 years. |
| priestesses would chew on herbal drugs duly stoning | | | | |