I believe nuclear war was censored because the song came out in 2003.

FCC had temporarily banned a whole bunch of songs from live radio broadcast after 9/11 (Learning to Fly by Tom Petty, literally everything from RATM, many more) and in 2003 a while lot of Americans were terrified that Saddam would nuke us, or Israel, or terrorists would get a suitcase nuke or assemble a dirty bomb and blow up Chicago or something, as basically every journalism outfit in America was credulously reporting everything Bush admin officials were claiming about threats (which they knew were of dubious legitimacy), while the Bush admin itself was basically fabricating a claim to invade Iraq.

The uncensored version released in their album, but the music video and radio versions was censored likely so it could reach a larger audience on MTV and be allowed to be broadcast by the FCC.

Obligatory reminder that Dick Cheney literally does not have a heart or a pulse, as his heart was replaced by a continuous flow pump.

So... ghoul indeed.

This has been obvious, and written about, for years:

The Atlantic, 2018:

The Cruelty Is The Point

archive link to avoid paywall

They are truly massive, but what's are missed or often falsely contradicted are a few important points:

They were quarried about half a mile away.

We know that because there are even larger blocks that cracked and were abandoned from being fully excavated, in said quarry, dated to the same time period.

Also, the quarry was uphill of the Temple site, meaning they had to move them downhill, not uphill as Ancient Aliens claims.

Yes, it would have been a serious accomplishment in engineering, but not impossible given the Roman's understanding of construction technology.

The trilithon stones supposedly far too heavy to lift, and also apparently part of just a giant landing/launching pad for spaceships, were placed at Baalbek during its renovation and expansion into a massive temple complex by the Romans.

Baalbek had been inhabited as a minor settlement since prehistoric times, being under the control of Phoenician, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian and Greek civilizations as history progressed.

At some point during Greek control of the area, a Greek style temple was built there, of different architectural style and smaller than the Roman temple complex that came later.

Eventually the Romans conquered the area and decided to significantly renovate and expand this Greek temple to build their temples to Jupiter and Bacchus, with construction nearing completion around 60 CE/AD, basically eminent domaining the existing settlement's population into the surrounding area.

The trilithon, and most of the remains that can be easily seen today, were put there by Romans.

Ancient Aliens does spend much more time attributing sites built by civilizations or peoples that are not today viewed as direct antecedents to white/western civilization, but Baalbek is a notable exception, one that, at least in the earlier days of Ancient Aliens, was quite a big deal to them.

Also Stonehenge is attributed to Ancient Aliens.

That was one of the foundational myths of Erik von Daniken, who basically (along with Zecharia Sitchin) is the granddad of Ancient Aliens and is featured in many of its episodes.

I mean, this story is obviously bullshit and has been debunked over the years.

Not to mention even on its face, the headline is just wrong.

Elon states he had an apartment, but also implies he lived in his office, coding 24/7.

So... he had an apartment and is exaggerating about how often he stayed late.

How much did that apartment cost?

???

Did he just walk to work?

Was he working but not earning a wage?

This is a total bullshit article even by its own text.

Maybe his food budget was about a dollar a day for a while. Sure, ok, that's maybe possible.

This is like those stories that were going around a while ago with various corporations just displaying absolutely absurd budgets for how a person could afford to live on their full time minimum low income job...

By assuming rent is 40% lower than it is, that they don't have to pay for car insurance, never have health problems, never need new clothes, barely eat and don't have a phone or internet plan.

The varying competing sects and later official churches did exactly that, cherry picking various texts as official canon, in either proposals or meetings of high church officials, for hundreds of years after the death of Jesus.

The first known to propose a list of canon texts was Marcion... who was ironically deemed to be a heretic as he rejected the Old Testament God and the Old Testament itself.

Then you had all kinds of local and regional and imperial Symposiums and Councils to decide what worked and what didn't...

And surprise surprise, this didn't even achieve a unanimous consensus!

Even today, major world and regional Christian denominations include books other consider apocryohal, omit books others consider canon, and divide or combine books differently, and a whole lot of that goes back to all of this squabbling in the 3rd century CE basically going unresolved and creating or laying the groundwork for major schisms.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon

Check out the Canons of various Christian traditions sections.

It gets especially strange when you end up with a canon book that explicitly quotes and refers to a book that ... isn't canon, in that particular tradition.

'Gnostic Philosophy' is actually ... basically an anachronistic term that modern scholars do not like to use.

It originated back when all that was really known was that people originally seen as 'proper' early Christians referred to various heretical groups as Gnostic.

More research has revealed that there were actually very many different 'heretical' groups, such that it only even makes sense to call them heretics after Orthodoxy was formally decided on.

The early Christian movement was extremely diverse and contentious with many groups including or discluding many different texts and theological elements, and basically all of them were simultaneously arguing with, reacting to, and borrowing concepts from each other.

There isn't really a singular Gnostic version of Christianity or Philosophy. Its an outdated catch all term for distinct and specific groups such as the Valentinians, the Sethians, the Marcionites, Manichaeans... many more.

Many of them actually do have, written down, the secret knowledge that is said to grant one enlightenment or a ticket to heaven upon death once one knows it.

Many others only describe ways of living, thinking and acting that lead one toward the goal of the 'secret knowledge' without actually describing the knowledge itself.

Also, a great deal of syncretism, or merging of other religious or mythical tales and philosophical ideas from outside of Judaism and what we now know as modern Christianity was going on, mixing in concepts from Greece, Egypt, Persia, etc.

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Gnosis means knowledge. Gnostic means one with knowledge or one who knows.

Agnosis mean ignorance. Agnostic means one without knowledge or one who does not know.

They are opposites, not equivalents.

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At least the Gospel of Judas seems very much to be written with the idea that Yahweh / The Judaic God is actually evil.

A good number, though not all, 'Gnostic' sects wrote about or just rewrote the story of Genesis to make it much more plain that God was actually the one who lied in that story, and viewed the various other cruel acts of the God of the Torah as irreconcilable with a fundamentally 'good' deity.

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Long story short, you couldnt reconstruct some kind of 'true, original' Christianity if we somehow had a copy of every text of what every various sect in the 1st and 2nd century CE held dear: There are irreconcilable differences and incongruities between the amount we so have.

But thats not so dissimilar from today's widely varying religions and theological concepts that all identify as Christian.

WHaT?!

Sorry I CAnT HeAR YOU, GOTTA TURN THE FRIES!

Seriously those things and half the other equipment at a fast food place basically has to be emitting alarms at DBs that are known to cause hearing loss and mandate hearing protection in basically any other line of work.

I mean, that's not that bad, here's my attempt at contextually inferring the meanings of the seemingly silly bits.

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Delicious Dress vs Cookable / Creamy?

Creamy almost certainly means 'Whites'

Cookable almost certainly means 'Steamable', as in, higher temps that won't cause wet clothes with heavy inks to run.

Delicious almost certainly means 'Delicate'.

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The two top quadrants are for different volumes of clothes to be dried, the left for delicates at a lower temp, the right for whites at a higher temp.

Cabinet Dry vs Wardrobe Dry to me implies drying a cabinet of delicate or white clothes vs just one outfit.

Outstanding vs Gentle... If I had to guess I'd say theyre the same characters being translated differently due to them having multiple contextual meanings but being absent of immediate context, the translator is confused. All of the other top quadrant settings are mirrored... except this one?

Probably Gentle is the correct translation for both sides.

Then you've got 'Dry them just enough to be wet enough to take out and Iron' for both delicates and whites.

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The bottom left quadrant is two different specifically timed dry cycles, one warm, one cold.

Its section title is on the bottom.

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The bottom right quadrant probably refers to settings that let the dryer run either longer, set amounts of time, or make use of a humidity detector in some way.

Its section title is on top: Mangrove Wet, ie, totally soaked like mangroves in a swamp.

As for smoothing and wool loosening... not sure about 'smoothing', but I'd bet its less intense than 'wool loosening', if thats referring to taking a heavy, stiff, wool garment and then totally soaking and then drying it to... you know, loosen it up.

Shockingly similar to Ben Shapiro, who seems to have wanted to be a concert violinist and later screenwriter, but had his screenplays rejected and found more luck telling the world that basically all Arabs and Muslims are savages and deserve to be collateral damaged.

At this point I wonder if Rush Limbaugh secretly wanted to be a painter but was rejected from art school.

If you're talking about the Gospel of Judas, that isn't from the Dead Sea scrolls, but was its own distinct finding.

The Dead Sea scrolls are a collection of texts of a cult based around a messianic figure, rooted in Judaism, but dated between the 3rd and 1st century BCE, discovered in the 1940s.

They do not mention Judas, but are interesting in that the actual messianic figure himself seems to have written some of the texts, that he uses some of the same verses and stories from the Torah to identify himself as the Messiah that would later be used by (attributed to being used by) Jesus, that some of the texts were written by others of the same cult after his death, and show how they theologically cope with their Messiah seemingly failing his own prophecies and claims.

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The Gospel of Judas, on the other hand, is dated to the 2nd century CE and was ....well, the story goes it was found in Egypt some point prior to the 1970s, then got traded around by black market antiquities dealers, spent about a decade in a safe deposit box, nearly totally disintegrated, and was eventually shown to a proper academic expert in greek and coptic, leading to it being painstakingly reassembled, radio carbon dated, linguistically verified as not being a much later forgery, and translated, first publicly widely available in English in 2006.

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The actual story in the Gospel of Judas is stunningly bizarre:

You start off with Jesus literally mocking and laughing at all his disciples other than Judas for seemingly not understanding anything he's ever said.

Later, privately, Judas confronts Jesus saying that he does understand Jesus... that Jesus is from the immortal realm of Barbelo.

Jesus then goes on to describe that yes, he was making fun of the other disciples because they think he is the Messiah of Yahweh / The God of Judaism, when in actuality Jesus is a human incarnation or avatar of a completely different divine entity, that Yahweh is actually Saklas / Yaldebaoth, a mad, malformed demiurge descended from a long line of other, superior, more wise and beneficent divine entities in an elaborate and historied pantheon (which Jesus admits his own knowledge of is not total and complete), that Saklas / Yaldebaoth falsely believes himself to be the supreme God of all reality when in fact he only has domain over the Earth, which is basically an innately evil realm, and that all humans were accidentally created with a tiny bit of the pure divine spark in them but are all here trapped and cursed to suffer as basically slaves and playthings of Saklas.

The fragment ends with Jesus explaining that basically his master plan for saving all of mankind involves sacrificing himself to help more people realize their true inner divinity, and that he only trusts Judas, his wisest disciple, to make that actually happen.

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To me, it reads like someone took acid or shrooms and wrote a fan fiction drawing from the 4 more mainstream gospels. Its truly wild.

The 'Judas was actually a good guy' part is basically a footnote compared to how totally out of left field everything else is.

IIRC, Saklas or Saklos basically transliterates to 'The Blind One', which is a name you'd expect a Lovecraftian entity to have.

https://www.gospels.net/judas