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What would the Kemetic people think?

1) What would the people of KMT think of our way of life? Quote from Ancient Egyptian Religion by Stephen Quirke, pg.70: "The priestesses and priests of KMT performed rituals in order to maintain harmony in our universe." They knew according to centuries of collecting empirical data that those practices, beliefs, actions, knowledges, etc., etc., would hold back Chaos. Who is doing the rituals today? I have read that there are people still living an indigenous lifestyle who continue in their ways but have no empirical data that they are doing rituals to hold back Chaos. Quote from Myth and Symbol by R.T. Rundle-Clark, pg.27: "Religious ritual (among the people of KMT) is not just a series of actions performed for their own sake. These acts are symbolic. That is, they refer to some things other than themselves and this reference is always something in the world of the Gods" (NTRW). From Myth and Symbol pp.11 & 12: "In Egypt the terminology is mythological but not quite in the way we usually understand myths. They concern gods (NTRW) who are not blown up human beings but forces of nature. They used their myths to convey their insights into the workings of nature and the ultimately indescribable realities of the soul." Our current day "rituals" i.e. the super bowl, MLK Day, Labor Day, Christmas, Easter, 4th of July, Cinco de Mayo, sunday dinners with our family and others keep us on mental lockdown. Those of us who live in cities of steel and glass are participating, at various levels, in the creation and maintenance of Chaos. Our participation is, for some of us, involuntary but quite automatic. Our jobs, shopping, education, family, friends, lifestyle, and more all contribute to the success of this chaotic system.

2) What would the people of KMT think about our economic system? The reasons for my thoughts on this are contained in my reasons for #1.

3) What would the people of KMT think about our fear of dying? Let's look at what Kemetic people thought about dying. Quote from A.E.R by Quirke, pg.141: "The Egyptians were not interested in death itself but in an afterlife... Death was not an enemy or an obstacle but a doorway to another existence. The aim of the Egyptian was not our foolish aim of not dying but the more poignant hope of not repeating death, of finding beyond death the life that they could enjoy so fully on this side." Quote from M&S by Rundle-Clark, pg.165: "The ancients thought of death as an essential prelude to life. The two form a (complementary) polarity; one is meaningless without the other. Death is a passing from one kind of time to another - from life yesterday to life tomorrow. What is in the Dat (we call this the Duat) belongs to death but it is in a state of becoming. Life can be seen, becoming is hidden." No one in KMT wanted to die but they saw and communed with their ancestors all the time. Every home had a shrine. The entire population was either educated in the Temples or by someone who was educated in the Temple. The priestesses and priests also communed with the NTRW. Those who lived righteously knew how to come back and communicate with family and friends. Nowadays, when our deceased loved ones come back to us they usually do it without our help. This can be very scary for most of us. One last quote on this subject from Middle Egyptian by James P. Allen, pg.95, para. 3 sent.1: "The Egyptians thought of the afterlife not as a kind of continual angelic state in some paradise but as a daily non-physical existence on Earth." Wow, "...a daily non-physical existence on Earth." Kinda sounds like a separate reality or dimension don't it! How does that compare with the western concept of death? In this paradigm only Jesus came back and Jesus is God so none of us can come back 'cuz we ain't God! What do you think the people of KMT would think of the participants and believers of a cultural paradigm that promotes such a line of thought and behavior? Do you think Kemetic folks could or would support such nonsense?

4) What would the people of KMT think of our mixing teeny-tiny bits of Kemetic thought with BS and trapping souls? I have read reports that at one period in their history the Kemetic people would kill any person with red hair on sight. Supposedly a person with red hair was an embodiment of Set. I can't find the book right now. I agree with you that they were "spiritually enlightened". Being so would not give them the option to allow evil, strife, and discord to grow if they were aware of it. Doing the spiritually correct thing does not always promote a peaceful, non-violent, self-sacrificial lifestyle. Invaders beat the Kemetic people down and took their land. They ran it for several hundred years during the intermediate periods. Each time the Kemetic people eventually fought back and kicked them out. They also fought with the traitors within their country who worked with and on behalf of the invaders. Sometimes fighting is the "spiritually enlightened" thing to do. I will quote from the Bhagavad Gita to support this cuz I’m tired of looking for it in my Kemetic books. WAIT, the Bhagavad Gita may not have been written in KMT but considering that the Temples of KMT sent people all over the world to teach and the many common threads in the spiritual teachings of KMT and Ancient India is it a stretch to think that both countries shared spiritual beliefs as well? Anyhow, in "Black Athena" by Martin Bernal Chap V, pg. 224 he details the efforts of racist European scholars, from 1740-1880, to promote India as older than KMT. Until this "published brainwashing" all knew KMT was the oldest civilized land.

In the Bhagavad Gita the hero, Prince Arjuna, is having doubts about fighting the final decisive battle of a war. He has family on both sides and will kill some of them and see many of them die at the hands of others. He is despondent and asks Lord Krishna what he should do because it doesn't seem right to take all the lives of friends, family, and followers. The Bhagavad Gita Trans. by Shri Purohit Swami, Chap. 16: Divine and Demonic Civilisation: "The godless do not know how to act or how to renounce. They have neither purity nor truth. They do not understand the right principles of conduct. They say that the universe is an accident with no purpose and no God. (They say that) Life is created by sexual union, a product of lust and nothing else. Thinking thus, these degraded souls, these enemies of mankind come into the world only to destroy. Giving themselves up to insatiable passions, hypocritical, self-sufficient and arrogant, cherishing false conceptions founded on delusion, they work only to carry out their own unholy purposes. Perplexed by discordant thoughts, entangled in the snares of desire, infatuated by passion, they sink into the horrors of hell." But wait, there's more! B.G. Chap. 2: The Philosophy of Discrimination: "Why grieve for those for whom no grief is due, and yet profess wisdom? The wise grieve neither for the dead nor for the living. Those relations which bring about cold and heat, pain and happiness, they come and go: they are not permanent. Endure them bravely, O Prince. That which is not, shall never be; That which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise these truths are self evident. The spirit which pervades all that we see, is imperishable. Nothing can destroy the Spirit. The material bodies which this Eternal, Indestructible, Immeasurable Spirit inhabits are all finite. Therefore fight, O Valiant Man. He who thinks that the Spirit kills and he who thinks of It as killed are both ignorant. The Spirit kills not nor is it killed." There is more on having the proper understanding but i ain't going there. The battle is joined and lasts for 18 days. Nearly everyone is killed except Lord Krishna, Prince Arjuna and the five sons of Pandu.

So it is very possible that the people of KMT would laugh at us for fearing death. It is very possible that our beliefs would lead us to act in a very aggressive and unholy manner that would give the Kemetic people reason to "kill us all". Look at how the good old U.S.A. is going around the world fighting and killing and they ain't even taking names.

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