“This is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother…For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” (I John 3:11-12, Galatians 5:14)
“Among the Hottentots it was the custom for one who had more than others to share his surplus till all were equal. White travelers in Africa before the advent of civilization noted that a present of food or other valuables to a “black man” was at once distributed; so that when a suit of clothes was given to one of them the donor soon found the recipient wearing the hat, a friend the trousers, another friend the coat.
“Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him…keep the commandments. The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.” (Matthew 19:16-22)
The Eskimo hunter had no personal right to his catch; it had to be divided among the inhabitants of the village, and tools and provisions were the common property of all.
When Turner told a Samoan about the poor in London the “savage” asked in astonishment: “How is it? No food? No friends? No house to live in? Where did he grow? Are there no houses belonging to his friends?The hungry Indian had but to ask to receive; no matter how small the supply was, food was given him if he needed it; “no one can want food while there is com anywhere in the town.”
The North American Indians were described by Captain Carver as “strangers to all distinctions of property, except in the articles of domestic use…They are extremely liberal to each other, and supply the deficiencies of their friends with any superfluity of their own.” “What is extremely surprising,” reports a missionary “is to see them treat one another with a gentleness and consideration which one does not find among common people in the most civilized nations.
In 1587, a group of English settlers established a colony on Roanoke Island, now part of North Carolina. Eleanor White Dare, daughter of Governor John White, gave birth to Virginia Dare—the first English child born in the Americas. Governor White returned to England for supplies but on his return found the colony abandoned, with only the word “CROATOAN” carved into a wooden post as a clue to their fate.
Native American author Maynor Lowery of the 2018 book “Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle,” argued that “The Indians of Roanoke, Croatoan, Secotan and other villages had no reason to make enemies of the colonists. Instead, they probably made them kin.”. The whole premise that assumed the colony was lost implied that Native people had disappeared too, “which we didn’t.”
The men arrived expecting a new Eden with fruit falling from the trees and friendly natives by their side. They soon found they had to tame the forest to grow food and that they were actually invaders facing hostile natives.
Isolated immigrants are especially vulnerable to a loss of hope. In 1880, suicides on the Western frontier ran a hundred times higher than they do across America today. Within the first year at Jamestown most recruits had died from disease and starvation. During sixteen years of bringing in fresh recruits, eighty percent of some six thousand would-be colonists died from what historians deem depression-induced suicide, whether or not there was an overt act to destroy a life.
And there were also overt acts of murder.
Without settled agriculture – think Cain’s predicament – within nine months all but 38 settlers are dead, replaced by more settlers on supply ships from England.
The last supply ships of 1608 were lost in a hurricane, and the settlers resorted to stealing food from the neighboring Powhatan tribe. In the absence of reciprocity, they of course defended their means of survival by besieging the fort, now containing 300 settlers. The besieged ate the horses, dogs, cats, mice until they were gone. George Percy wrote: “nothing was spared to maintain life and to do those things which seem incredible, as to dig up dead corpse out of graves and to eat them, and some have licked up the blood which hath fallen from their weak fellows.”
Endocannibalism is where a group eats its own members. This type of cannibalism can be practiced if a group is starving and very young or very old members might be eaten in order that the effective (i.e., working and reproductive) members of the group may survive.
Archeologists found the dismembered bones of a 14 year old girl from a trash pit at Jamestown with cut marks on the facial bones showing clear signs of cannibalism, and two different types of cut scars on the skull and leg bones indicative of two different butchers – one more experienced than the other.
By Spring only 60 out of the 300 people trapped in James Cittie survived to greet the next resupply ship. The remaining 240 skeletons have not been found, which is far more indicative of mass murderers hiding their kills than Christians respecting the dead in a quasi-“this is my body, take, eat”.
Archeology validates the biblical timeline of a oppression-based civilization beginning east of Eden shortly after Creation ~4,000 BC.
From Louis Ginzberg’s collection of Jewish legends (published 1909)
He first of all set boundaries about lands: he built a city, and fortified it with walls, and he compelled his family [tribe, not necessarily kin] to come together to it; and called that city Enoch, after the name of his eldest son Enoch.
The mix of people brought together in Cain’s city provided the first opportunity for diversification of labor, freeing some people from the daily grind of food production to engage in cerebral pursuits, inventing technologies and creating the arts. “in the city are gathered, rightly or wrongly, the wealth and brains produced in the countryside; in the city invention and industry multiply comforts, luxuries and leisure.”
Catalhoyuk housed 3,000 – 8,000 people in 32 acres. It had no streets, instead, houses were packed together wall to wall, no windows or doors, the only access was through a trapdoor in the roof.
A typical Catalhoyuk module contained a single 20-by-20-foot room which was occupied by five to ten members. This allocates a maximum of 8×10 feet floor space per person for minimum occupancy of five members – the size of a walk in closet – with a minimum of 7×6 feet floor space – the size of a king size bed – per person for maximum occupancy of ten members.
This is what the International Committee of the Red Cross recommends as the minimum space allocations for prisoners where bunk beds are used, and without kitchen, bathroom, sick care activities being performed, or children being birthed and reared.
The living spaces at Catalhoyuk were found to be embedded in extensive middens of fecal material and rotting organic material in which archeologists can still] identify details such as corpses buried inside the houses while the premises were still inhabited by the occupants. One dwelling at Catalhoyuk was found to have 64 skeletons buried underneath the floors which were made out of soft mud brought from the surrounding marshes. When a house reached the end of its practical life, people demolished the upper walls…which then became the foundation of a new house.
These are not homes for families! The picture that emerges is that of a concentration [of persons in a] camp for forced labor, exactly as the Nazis implemented as the productivity basis of its war machine.
[In a boxcar] which was designed to transport ‘eighteen horses’ according to the sign on the door, we were a hundred of us – adults, children, sick, elderly…
The overcrowding in the cars was unbearable, the feeling of suffocation overwhelming, and a desperate struggle ensued for proximity to the narrow window. Growing hunger and thirst magnified the anguish. The necessity to relieve themselves inside the railcar was a nadir for the humiliated deportees. The journey in the freight cars was…often three to four days…occasionally seven to eight days…while some deportees were shuttled around for more than two weeks on boats and trains…
When we finally arrived at “our destination” and the train stopped… the doors suddenly opened…and the Germans started beating us indiscriminately, shouting…Stunned to the point of insanity, people were thrown out [of the car]. I held my child in my arms the entire time. The boy was faint, half dead. At some point…by rampaging Germans…the child slipped out of my arms and disappeared. A mighty wave of people propelled me, trampling everything underfoot. The wave washed over me, too. I didn’t see my child or my family again. In one instant, everything was swallowed up; my whole world vanished as if it had never existed.
These deplorable conditions continue to be prevalent in the 21st century, most conspicuously in the Third World countries where desperation forces people to accept starvation wages with consequent substandard living conditions, but even in First World cities where workers are routinely used up and discarded on our own middens of homelessness.
Nearly 13% of the homeless adult population are veterans. Already stressed by an increasing need for assistance by aging post-Vietnam-era veterans and strained budgets, homeless service providers are deeply concerned about the influx of combat veterans from the Gulf Wars. Despite having hazarded their lives, veterans are at a greater risk of homelessness due to lingering effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as well as consequent substance abuse.
The map below shows that Catalhoyuk is within walking distance to Gobkli Tepe.
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Göbeklitepe, one of the most important archaeological discoveries of our time, might be the first temple in the world made by man and may deliver a message to us from the ancient past.
Yeah – how the few at the top exploit the masses at the bottom.
“Woe to…the oppressing city!…Her princes within her are roaring lions…Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up…to pour upon them mine indignation.” (Zephaniah 3)
Catalhoyuk was occupied for about 1,700 years. From a biblical perspective, this dates the site from the beginning of the way of Cain until the Flood wiped out the wicked.
And when Cain had traveled over many countries, he, with his wife, built a city Nod [meaning wanderer, homelessness] which is a place so called [obviously in defiance] and there he settled his abode; where also he had children. However, he did not accept of his punishment in order to amendment, but to increase his wickedness; for he only aimed to procure every thing that was for his own bodily pleasure, though it obliged him to be injurious to his neighbors.
The posterity of Cain became exceeding wicked, every one successively dying, one after another, more wicked than the former. They were intolerable in war, and vehement in robberies; and if any one were slow to murder people, yet was he bold in his profligate behavior, in acting unjustly, and doing injuries for gain.
This can only be Sumer (the translation of this word is unknown), east of Eden following the Euphrates River through Turkey. Sumer is the earliest known civilization, noted for taxation, regulation, and specialization of labour, AKA oppression by the state, AKA wars of conquest.
Sumerians believed that the gods created the rules of Sumerian society and the reason for humanity’s existence was for the gratification of the gods. This is because the false gods, once separated from the Singularity’s infinite source of energy, need humans to exploit our renewable sources of energy. This fact alone in the Enuma Elis betrays the Sumerian religion serves only a few humans – the elites – while exploiting the masses.
Cain’s Sumerian culture continued throughout history, easily recognized in the Nazis who believed that the purpose of a country’s economy should be to enable that country to fight and win wars of expansion. As such, almost immediately after coming to power, they embarked on a vast program of military armament funded mainly through plundering the wealth of conquered nations.
The Nazi government developed a partnership with leading German business interests, who supported the goals of the regime and its war effort in exchange for advantageous contracts, subsidies, and the suppression of the trade union movement. Even before the war, the paramilitary Schutzstaffel security staff (SS) set up concentration camps next to quarries, where inmates had to quarry construction materials under inhuman conditions.
Nazi Germany’s supply of slave labor was composed of prisoners and concentration camp inmates…In Poland alone, some five million people (including Polish Jews) were used as slave labor throughout the war. Hundreds of thousands were used by leading German corporations including Thyssen, Krupp, IG Farben, Bosch, Blaupunkt, Daimler-Benz, Demag, Henschel, Junkers, Messerschmitt, Siemens, and Volkswagen, as well as the Dutch corporation Philips. By 1944, slave labor made up one quarter of Germany’s entire civilian work force, and the majority of German factories had a contingent of prisoners.
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During the war the Nuremberg train station became the point of departure for the two largest deportations of Jews from Northern Bavaria to their deaths. More than 150,000 prisoners of war, civilians and forced civilian laborers during World War II were dispatched to various work crews throughout Northern Bavaria, most of them compelled to work at armaments factories in Nuremberg. More than 5,000 people would lose their lives due to the grueling work conditions.
By the eve of the American Civil War, the Mississippi Valley was home to more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in the United States. Cotton grown and picked by enslaved workers was the nation’s most valuable export. The combined value of enslaved people exceeded that of all the railroads and factories in the nation. New Orleans boasted a denser concentration of banking capital than New York City. What made the cotton economy boom in the United States, and not in all the other far-flung parts of the world with climates and soil suitable to the crop, was our nation’s unflinching willingness to use violence on nonwhite people and to exert its will on seemingly endless supplies of land and labor. Given the choice between modernity and barbarism, prosperity and poverty, lawfulness and cruelty, democracy and totalitarianism, America chose all of the above.
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In the United States, the richest 1 percent of Americans own 40 percent of the country’s wealth, while a larger share of American working-age people (18-65) live in poverty than in any other nation belonging to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D.).
Kingdom Come 