Zone1 Imperialist Theocracies -- Mesopotamian Origins

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Many historians attribute the origins of simple lending to a time-frame about 5000 years ago. Likely measures of grain were loaned, to be repaid with equivalent measures of grain. Community survival prospects were likely enhanced, among the people creating Western Civilization. Then, within 200 years, the interest rate phenomenon happened. Famous "Usury" was being recorded, along with rules about it.

Old Testament regarded as history notes that Moses was born Jewish, then Imperialist raised and educated. New Testament Acts 7 repeats the historical data. Egypt was imperial, not so-called "Imperialist" at the time. Moses would go on to become world famous. For one thing, the peoples he led around aimlessly had literate scholar-level writers among them. Deut 23: 19-20, would better be said to expose the Deity-Fetish of Moses, in a certain re-phrasing.

"Jews, For God's sake(?), Don't gouge and screw the in-laws!" Don't charge other Jews usury. Next, "Jews, For God's Sake: Gouge and Screw everyone else instead!" Among the foreign, charge usury.

The more Hellenistic tradition of New Testament would record Matt 20: 1-16. Regardless if labor had worked all the day or not, an equal amount daily Living Wage was paid them all. The people working longest are recorded to have being felt cheated. All people working could participate however they wished in the daily life marketplace. Matt 25 14-30, however reports about arithmetic, without so-stating. Five Talents gets other five talents, two another two, and one gets tossed completely out of the community.

Two thirds of the community remain, 1/3 no longer in the marketplace.

Koran bans wealth from "Riba," but not consensual profit rates--maybe to be based in the old British LIBOR(?). The arithemetic is still regarded holy. Adam Smith in fact proposed government intervention in the marketplace, regulated usury, interest rates. Karl Marx proposed Centralized Usury, Credit, in the "Manifesto." Keynes was famously adoring of usury, interest rate based economics. Milton Friedman would advocate for a national Cost-of-Living Adjustment, usury indexed. U.S. Federal Reserve is tinkering with interest rates. The poor were abandoned before. The idea is to get them killed off in a Recession. After that the Rich remain rewarded with pricey investments.

Effectively, Deity-Concepts aside: They all do it, going back millenia.

"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred."
(See! They All Do It!)
 
Many historians attribute the origins of simple lending to a time-frame about 5000 years ago. Likely measures of grain were loaned, to be repaid with equivalent measures of grain. Community survival prospects were likely enhanced, among the people creating Western Civilization. Then, within 200 years, the interest rate phenomenon happened. Famous "Usury" was being recorded, along with rules about it.

Old Testament regarded as history notes that Moses was born Jewish, then Imperialist raised and educated. New Testament Acts 7 repeats the historical data. Egypt was imperial, not so-called "Imperialist" at the time. Moses would go on to become world famous. For one thing, the peoples he led around aimlessly had literate scholar-level writers among them. Deut 23: 19-20, would better be said to expose the Deity-Fetish of Moses, in a certain re-phrasing.

"Jews, For God's sake(?), Don't gouge and screw the in-laws!" Don't charge other Jews usury. Next, "Jews, For God's Sake: Gouge and Screw everyone else instead!" Among the foreign, charge usury.

The more Hellenistic tradition of New Testament would record Matt 20: 1-16. Regardless if labor had worked all the day or not, an equal amount daily Living Wage was paid them all. The people working longest are recorded to have being felt cheated. All people working could participate however they wished in the daily life marketplace. Matt 25 14-30, however reports about arithmetic, without so-stating. Five Talents gets other five talents, two another two, and one gets tossed completely out of the community.

Two thirds of the community remain, 1/3 no longer in the marketplace.

Koran bans wealth from "Riba," but not consensual profit rates--maybe to be based in the old British LIBOR(?). The arithemetic is still regarded holy. Adam Smith in fact proposed government intervention in the marketplace, regulated usury, interest rates. Karl Marx proposed Centralized Usury, Credit, in the "Manifesto." Keynes was famously adoring of usury, interest rate based economics. Milton Friedman would advocate for a national Cost-of-Living Adjustment, usury indexed. U.S. Federal Reserve is tinkering with interest rates. The poor were abandoned before. The idea is to get them killed off in a Recession. After that the Rich remain rewarded with pricey investments.

Effectively, Deity-Concepts aside: They all do it, going back millenia.

"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred."
(See! They All Do It!)
Moses was a Levite (tribe of Levi) not a Jew. The instruction against usury was given to all Israelites, not just the Jews (tribe of Judah).
 
The translators into English versions are what is included, if not directly cited. Israelites were instructed to be a tier not of peoples worldwide. Bank of Israel, like Bank of Dubai: Only charges profit from loans, at the rates agreed in advance, even last week.

The arithmetic problem continues therein(s): To be not noted. The arithmetic problem does get noted in Matt 25: 14-30, a kingdom of heaven of the prayers of the followers. Anyone notices or not another lampoon. Moses advanced his deity fetish, creating followers but not naming himself as a deity. New Testament takes notice. Where there are followers, then there is deity, so even self-proclaimed.

Imperial Rome created the similar lampoon. An Imperial theocracy was in place, and allowing of other theocracies.

One aside, also not recently noticed. The U.S. abortion-or-not ruling took notice of Red State Safe Haven baby abandonment statutes. The newborn can be placed in cubby-holes in public buildings to be retrieved by the bureaucrats. The abandonment is lawful. Many might conclude that the Floods of Kentucky, of recent months, make that an example of a really bad idea.

In the Imperial Roman theocracy, then in urban--and likely rural town centers--there were designated areas where babies could placed. Anyone could pick them up and keep them. Medieval Church Foundling Wheels adopted the same theocracy. Babies could be placed in church cubby-holes, retrieved by the personnel of the theocracy. The ordinary Romans of that era were allegedly using the Tiber River as the abandonment center. Love of Theocracy was in practice, even then.

Old times there, are not forgotten(?).

"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!"
(See! They All Do It!)
 
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You're saying Moses wasn't an Israelite?
Of course he was, but he wasn't a Jew. Only Judahites, those who descended from Judah, were "Jews". However, later when the Pharisees "sat in Moses' seat" anyone who claimed Judaism as their religion was referred to as a Jew, regardless of their nationality. They were "Jewish" by religion, not by birth.

All Jews are Israelites, but not all Israelites are Jews. Even the best scholars get this wrong, many deliberately so that the 'lost tribes of Israel' can remain lost and only the Jews remain.
 
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Levites are Jews.
Only descendants of Judah are Jews. Descendants of Levi are Levites. Even today there is that distinction.

The term 'Jew' was unknown in Moses' time. "Judaism" also didn't exist then, so no one was 'Jewish' by religion.
 
Only descendants of Judah are Jews. Descendants of Levi are Levites. Even today there is that distinction.

The term 'Jew' was unknown in Moses' time.
Words evolve. He was still a descendant of Abraham. By your reasoning, Abraham wasn’t the first Jew.
 
Then notice, (1) that simple arithmetic remains steady, and (2), widely ignored. The famous post-Hellenist prayer is for ". . .Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in (The Kingdom of) heaven. Any subsequent theocracy(?) got all that, and the death penalty to boot!

U.S. President, Richard Nixon: Had imposed usury arithmetic controls to limit inflation. Senator George McGovern would seek the Democratic Presidential nomination with basis in $1000.00, the equal amount payment for every man, woman, and child. Nixon had otherwise signed into law the bi-partisan fixed percentage, usury-computed, Cost of Living Adjustment. And to think that in family legend, one of my great aunts had been one of the Sunday School teachers==our people of Penn Quaker origins, USA.

My oldest brother married Catholic, an original member of the JFK for President committee on Capital Hill. They had front row seats at the inauguration, but she went on to do mommy-things instead. Attending the wedding was my brother's namesake, twice past Grand Master of Oregon Freemasons. Later on, my mom would get calls from the White House--from her brother--attending Masonic policy meetings, Gerald Ford a committee member.

So I had "Friends" on both sides of the aisle. Back to simple math, in Israel, subsequent Alexander the Great. The equal amount payments of Matt 20:1-16, can be created in a rectangle. The usury problem of Matt 25:14-30 can be drawn in as a left-right diagonal from the bottom to the top.

Post-Alexander Israel had no concept of a credit market. Federal Reserve, USA, had been created in 1913. Parallel the right and left sides of the box, a bisecting line can be drawn in. Even New Deal is shown. The CCC had recommended participants send the paychecks left over back home. The lower left-side quadrant had a pay raise deficit, compared to the bisecting line. The equal amount payments create a market-friendly remedy, with something left over to spread around the market-places.

The Ford Republicans would pass the equal amount per child Tax Credit. The Liberal Democrats, in the Reagan years: Raised and Indexed the Standard Deduction, and Personal Exemptions, in the Federal Tax code. The Clintons would raise that. Many would call the Bush family generations entirely clueless at any rate. Obama-Biden created the "Make Work Pay" equal amount, refundable income tax credit. Had Gore been president, it might have been possible to even create an equal amount national COLA, that amount indexed for inflation.

The Republicans took the Obama-Biden credit away.

Original Sin/Atrocity is becoming remedied. There has even been new remedy subsequent Obama-Biden.

"Crow, James Crow: Shaken, Not Stirred!"
(See! They All Do It!)
 
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Of course he was, but he wasn't a Jew. Only Judahites, those who descended from Judah, were "Jews". However, later when the Pharisees "sat in Moses' seat" anyone who claimed Judaism as their religion was referred to as a Jew, regardless of their nationality. They were "Jewish" by religion, not by birth.

All Jews are Israelites, but not all Israelites are Jews. Even the best scholars get this wrong, many deliberately so that the 'lost tribes of Israel' can remain lost and only the Jews remain.

Weren't they all descended from Abraham?
 

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