I've been looking for things to do before finally getting out of Tokyo, the walls are really starting to close in on me here, even after having met some great people and finally going to a party that Tatsuya, the one Japanese friend I've made thus far, threw at this amazing place right on the river. That was a necessary experience for me, really. Even so I cant stay in this megalopolis forever, there's so much to see! Tokyo is cool and all, but if you think its all you need to see in Japan I need to know what you've been smoking?
The exhibition I found was centered, no pun intended, around the History of the Heliocentric model, or in other words, the model of the Earth rotating around the Sun, instead of the entire universe around the Earth, and also, the real mind blower, that our Sun also revolves around an even bigger sun, and that sun around another and another, etc... And of course, being in Japan, there was an anime movie which explained the whole thing and its impact on our world.
The anime takes place in a fictional European town around the 1600’s, where every scientist worthy of the name is working explicitly for the church, and are only allowed to do what they do so long as their work perpetuates church doctrine. When it doesn’t, they are supposed to forget or deny what their measurements had proved, else be executed for blasphemy. Most do, some don't, and many battles across many decades following key characters ensues. This is the film in a nutshell.
True to form the moment I decided to go to this exhibition, one of my followers on Instagram felt a disturbance in the dark side of the force and sent me a message asking me if I'd ever seen the curvature of the Earth, and that it definitely isn't a ball, and even though she knows I'm totally not into the flat earth model, I should be. I didn't even dignify the comment with my own. There's no reaching some people through an exchange of words. Sometimes the simplest silence is the greatest of all answers.
In case you haven't already met a "saucer sectarian," I just made that up and am coining it, or Flat Earthers as they're more commonly referred to, you probably soon will, because they are the fastest growing branch of Christianity and indeed any religion on Earth today, already claiming 10% of people in the United States. This cult of limited perspective is the perfect example of how just a little bit of knowledge can have disastrous effects on the mind, especially when distributed to the masses via every dark corner of the internet where no one has or claims responsibility for their positions. Its practically a leaderless, multi platform turkey shoot, which derives its actual, not perceived power from those it infects with that sliver of knowledge, wrapped in layers of magical thinking. It is, in my opinion, a pure creation of military intelligence to sway as many people away from true knowledge, and thus a mass awakening with potential to unseat the power structure.
"But D, they just want to worship the pancake planet and drink caramel lattes with ice shaved from the walls of the snow globe surrounding the space crepe. They're mostly well meaning sudo Christians who just want to bring back the golden age of pre-enlightenment Europe where they can join with the perfect one, the golden child born without sex. The sandal wearing table turner who turns water to wine and can die but come back... Into heaven... Because he was done with the money changing globetards and all their shit. Whats wrong with that?"
The damage such blatant disregard for common sense can and has had on this planet is what we colloquially refer to as history, it's endless wars, superstitions and genocides included. Its simply the continued division of people at every possible angle and another self policing mindless horde which aims to bring all of civilization towards its own enslavement.
Sadly, even with how far we've come as a people, this sad state of affairs is simply a continuation of the norm, and shall forever be, so long as the everyday people allow themselves to be lulled into fairy tales which for obvious reasons require the silencing, slaughter or enslavement of those who can see through them for what they are.
Does anyone really think that a plethora of religions all claiming singular authority over God and thus the hearts, minds and souls of everyone and everything on Earth can end well? Especially when each of these "faiths" controls those in charge of 21st century 6th generation weapons and the armies to use them?
"But Daniel, Flat Earthers are one thing, but don't drag down Judeo-Christianity with the likes of them..."
"What role did the Jews play in Christianity again? Serious question."
"Okay, Christianity then. Surely its the most perfect form of religious doctrine, wouldn't you agree?”
"You might be surprised to hear me say yes, actually. But not as its interpreted. Christianity, when used as a pure form symbolic self assessment and guiding through life contains the pinnacle of spiritual teachings. But again, not as its practiced, or pretended to be practice as is the case today, but this is true of almost every religion.
Look, the Sun is our light, our life, and our salvation. It is the only one we have, and without it, even if we could survive, it would be the coldest, bleakest existence one could imagine. A frozen, lightless hell, if you like. Which is why on December 21st, when the Sun seems to stop moving for 3 days in its arch in the sky, it seems to die... rising up in the other direction on the 4th day, the 25th, signalling the return of light and life of our world and the defeat of the death and the darkness of winter...
"Wait... What?”
"Oh you didn't know?"
"But that's..."
"Yes? That's, what?”
Long before there was any talk of the Earth revolving around the Sun, if you discount the Sumerians and their perfect depictions of our solar system thousands of years before telescopes, the church strung up and executed millions of people who worshiped it, instead of their son, their light and their savior. For clearly if the greatest amount of power over people is to be achieved, there can be only one God, one source of power on earth, and it must pass through men's hands first, before any mere mortal may benefit, or know peace through it.
Part of dethroning the Sun and replacing it with a fisherman's son born from a virgin mother in a shack outside of Jerusalem was also replacing the Suns place in our universe in another way, namely that of making Earth the center of everything, for naturally it would be since Jesus was born here, and nowhere else, and one can hardly imagine creating a brick and mortar temple to collect tides on the surface of the Sun... Neither could there be any talk of possible life elsewhere in the cosmos.
"Wait a minute Daniel. Are you making a late April fools day joke because the pope just died on Easter Sunday? I thought your blog is about Japan..."
"Not at all. I'm just giving some back ground to the exhibit I just went to in Tokyo. Besides the Japanese faith is Shinto, they've worshipped nature forever. In fact there's a great film about their interpretations of Christianity during the Shogun era in a nightmarish film called Silence."
"Oh, but there's an exhibit in Tokyo that denies the existence of Christ?”
Not to my knowledge, but they really do love mushrooms in this country, and you know out of all the people allowed to read the dead sea scrolls, the one researcher who wasn't affiliated with the church was John Allegro, and he wrote a book about what the scrolls said, called The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross... But that's a whole other kettle of fish we might get into later. Until then, happy Easter, and await my next writing, with the dawn...