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Positively Paying It Forward's avatar

Librarian,

I'm still plowing through your series on Khazarians.

You mention them as predominately of Jewish origins, but the struggle of finding archaeological findings of their existence remains a mystery (maybe as I get beyond reading 4, more will become clear as only the burial site mention was shared thus far).

My curiosity is in learning why such a strong people of history would leave no trace of their being there for literally hundreds of years.

Was it due to their professions of simply being merchants and traders and there was no sense of permanency as they survived?

I'll finish all of the postings and circle back if I have more questions. Amazing information and historical capture thus far. Thank you.

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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

Hello and well-met, Librarian! Greg, who posts as Walking the Dog, sent me a long quote from your response on Matt Ehret's thread. I sub Matt (and have done three episodes on him) but there are places where our views diverge. Greg wrote of your comment, "Her depth of the history of Khazaria was stunning (to me) and she had quite a different take (much closer to yours) with amazingly solid supporting statements, etc."

And yes! I think our takes have much in common. What I say is that people are inherently good, and when they behave badly, systems and stories are to blame. My book, How to Dismantle an Empire, is about changing the system: https://www.amazon.com/How-Dismantle-Empire-2020-Vision/dp/1733347607. And much of my research is on challenging the stories, especially in the form of scripture.

I'll link some of them below but mention an interesting similarity between your statement about the Talmud and the gospels. People often think that the story of Jesus started out pure and kind but has been twisted by subsequent editing and translations. In fact, the reverse is true. The New Covenant is translated by Willis Barnstone directly from the Greek, which is the original language of the story, verbal or written (I'd put that in italics if I could). He decided to not to 'soften the blows' of the vicious and hateful things said by 'Jesus' to his fellow 'Jews'. Although Willis is a believer, he's also an honest scholar. And subsequent translations have covered up the vitriol that would contradict the idea we have of a benevolent and loving teacher.

Here's the article where Greg left the comment mentioning you, followed by some others:

https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/fiddler-on-the-truth

https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/genesis-and-the-naked-deception

https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-genesis-of-the-dysfunctional

https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-curse-of-babel

https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/lies-that-kill-the-words-of-god

https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/jesus-rebel-or-imperialist

https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/hot-and-cold-hatred

https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/empire-and-religion

https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/talmud-tricks-and-torah-curses

https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/the-devil-and-naomi-wolf

https://thirdparadigm.substack.com/p/jesus-is-the-og-psy-ops

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