Thursday, January 4, 2024

The God Culture: Youtube Mix and Other Ignorance

The God Culture is incredibly stupid. Whoever is running that show is just plain dumb as a bag of rocks.  We know that from their false history about the Philippines and their fake deep research which amounts to quoting Wikipedia and various blogs. But their ignorance shines through in other places as well like in the comment section of their Youtube channel.





See over in the right hand column there is a section titled "Mix - The God Culture?"



The God Culture is so stupid that they think the mix is another channel that has stolen their videos! They have even put a notice in their comments to beware of it.


AND BEWARE... BEWARE... "MIX - THE GOD CULTURE " CHANNEL BEWARE.. BEWARE... THIS NOT OUR CHANNEL!!
Beware....BEWARE!!!  You have to laugh at that quadruple beware as if the mix is so scary you should avoid it like the plague. 

So what is this mix? Is it another channel?  No! It's an auto-generated playlist of The God Culture's own videos created by Youtube based on the videos you have watched. 

A YouTube Mix is a nonstop playlist tailored to you.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9011078?hl=en 

https://thenextweb.com/google/2013/04/22/youtube-experimenting-on-new-video-discovery-feature-called-youtube-mix/
YouTube is experimenting with a new feature designed to help users better discover videos and channels on its site. Called “YouTube Mix”, it’s an auto-generated playlist that will display suggested videos based on what you’re reading. 
While the video service already has suggested videos displayed in the right-hand sidebar of each page, YouTube Mix offers users the ability to watch 50 videos continuously that it thinks they’ll be interested in. No additional work needed to click through each video one by one to watch it.
That article is from 2013 so the Youtube Mix is no longer an experiment. It is a part of the Youtube algorithm. Mix - The God Culture IS their channel! It's hilarious how oblivious The God Culture is to this feature so much so that they issue a quadruple warning to beware of their own channel.

It's just another reason to laugh at this ridiculous group. Listen to their videos and you will hear such paranoia thinking that Youtube is censoring them because some subscribers do not receive notifications about new uploads. 
Let's remember the paradigm in which we live as this platform supports and props up agitation and it suppresses the truth. Don't believe me? Then why do our over 80,000 subscribers, when we release a video, many of them never receive a notification? We know this because we are subscribers in at least five email boxes and they're not being notified. Simple as that. Especially during this time of lockdown? Why? Because they have tightened the rules and they just plain stop it before it goes out. But no matter we're not going to stop and they will not stop us.
They are certainly not alone with this problem and it probably has more to do with The God Culture's settings than Google attempting to censor them. Frankly Tim is neither brave enough nor smart enough to produce videos that those in power would want to suppress. Timothy Jay Schwab is no Alex Linder, Kevin MacDonald, Andrew Anglinor Alex Jones and The God Culture is not 8chan. Each of those men, as well as 8chan, have been censored across the internet in some form or other. The God Culture literally teaches nothing but lies and this only furthers the agenda of the NWO who want to keep everyone dumbed down and in the dark. People who spout lies are fine with them. Nobody is out to get them because they don't pose a threat to those in power. It just goes to show how much of a martyr complex Timothy Jay Schwab and The God Culture have.

This martyr complex is fundamental to the nature of schismatic groups like The God Culture, the Mormons, JWs, the Protestant Reformed Church, and the like. These small groups always pit themselves against the world. In a time of ignorance their group has been given the light of revelation and now stands all alone on the side of truth while the rest of the world has been hoodwinked by Satan. They are the remnant. They are the true Church.
The world will hate you and I if you are serving Him. He said so. If the world does not hate you may want to do some soul searching. Are you really serving Him?
https://youtu.be/EscrM4o-h4M?t=1446
The martyr complex is important to The God Culture and explains why so many Filipinos eat up their fake history. Filipinos have been colonized by two nations. Their early history has practically vanished. Their resources have been exploited. A foreign culture has been imposed upon them. They have no identity except the one foisted upon them. Some of the more savvy types, like Pedro Paterno, have balked at this declaring that Filipinos were once a proud maritime nation which even provided gold for Solomon's temple. A false yet uplifting and intricate spiritual history is concocted. These martyrs just have to wait and bide their time because one day they will Rise Up as God vindicates them. That is literally the message Timothy Jay Schwab and The God Culture are bringing to the Philippines.

Meanwhile the Philippines remains one of the most corrupt nations on the entire planet and anyone with any sense wants to be an OFW and escape these islands.

Here's another thing that The God Culture is completely ignorant about: accessing information about who owns a website.
No Tim's personal email is not available publicly until you published it you libelous fraud but you have done far worse than that and you will pay for that soon.
http://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-god-culture-book-of-jubilees.html?showComment=1588850866236#c3760581697376837706
All information pertaining to who owns a website including name, phone number, email, and address, are very public.

Website information for thegodculture.com

It's not secret at all.  This information did not come from the deep web and it does not require payment to access. It is plain for all to see and it is all free. Here is info for another website.

Website information for godculture.com

That The God Culture does not know how to access this information goes to show how inept they really are at researching anything. Tim defends this ineptness in his videos.

https://youtu.be/EscrM4o-h4M
16:55 -  This has not changed friends.  We deal with it the same today. We locate the ancient land of gold for instance. Ophir, Sheba, Tarshish, The Garden of Eden for that matter, ancient Havilah where Adam and Eve lived and most react as the crowd reacted because they are authentic and  genuine. They recognize the meaning.  
However a Pharisee looks at that and scoffs. "Heh! Well you could have used a better source. Why is your font so small on that screen? That one quote doesn't say that!" Though it always does say exactly what we represent by the way because it always vets, every single challenge has. "That map that shows those islands southeast of China's not really showing southeast of China. That's, well, India." Huh? No it's southeast of China. That's what the maps shows, duh. "And that map, and that map, and those directions, and those directions, and aww that font should be larger and yaw you should have quoted that differently, and..." 
I mean that's the kind of stuff that you get for going out, stepping out on a limb, and doing the research and telling people what is truth. And we prove it.  Those same people don't even bother to actually review the whole case. No. No, no. They'll watch one brief video or a few brief videos and then go and just ramble on and on and on.  And they are absolutely ignorant.  They don't even know what we prove, what we don't prove but all along they'll say "Ah see you didn't prove that." Well how will you know what we prove? You didn't even review the case. But it doesn't matter because it's not their point. They throw it all out in ignorance, haven't even reviewed the case yet they know because they know what we're going to prove because they have what basis? Absolutely none.  
"You used a font too small! Throw it out!"  Really? "You quoted a secondary source citing the original" oh which happens to be true and in representation actually match the original? Duh! I mean could you be more ridiculous? Yet we get all of this.
Bless Tim's heart.  He comes to my blog and leaves all kinds of nasty, ridiculous comments saying he is done with me and I don't deserve a response. Then he responds to me for three minutes in his video.

The gist of much of my criticism against the God Culture is that, contrary to what they claim, they have not done deep research. They literally quote from Wikipedia and other blogs using them as primary sources. The fact that they do this and don't bother to seek out primary sources proves that they are not researchers. They are quote miners. In some cases they have not even read the sources they cite such as the three they listed allegedly proving that Philippine gold jewelry was found in 1st century Egypt. If The God Culture was doing any real research they would have ordered those sources and quoted from them as I did.

They aren't doing any field work either. They are literally doing all their "research" on the internet.  They haven't gone exploring in Greece, Israel, or the Philippines to prove that the Greeks sailed here for gold. They claim that the Philippines is Ophir but offer no physical proof only circumstantial evidence based on their faulty reading of ancient maps. They claim The Garden of Eden is in the Philippines but no pictures of either it or its lone inhabitant Enoch have surfaced. They claim to have traced the journey of the lost tribes but they only do this virtually and not by actually trekking across Israel through Kurdistan and down to the Philippines showing us all the archeological proofs along the way. In short their claim to doing "deep research including history, geography, archeology, science, language, etc." is a total sham. They altered their website removing the word "deep" and replacing it with the word "discerning" but that doesn't change a thing. A discerning researcher would know that the Greeks never came to the Philippines and that the Aurea Chersonese is the Malay Peninsula and represents the limit of the Greek's geographical knowledge of the Far East.

"You quoted a secondary source citing the original." I am guessing Tim is mocking me in this instance for criticizing his use of a middle school teacher's class outline as his source for Dionysius Perigetes. 


https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED460920.pdf

He made an hour long video talking as if he were familiar with Dionysius when he had not read him at all. What a total fraud. If Tim was doing deep research as he claims he would have sought out the original source. I found an English translation of Dionysius with a few clicks of the mouse. Why couldn't he?  The fact that he did not belies any claim to doing deep research. A closer look at this source shows he most certainly took it from J.G. Cheock's research which again just shows Tim is copy/pasting from others and not engaging in anything original. 

The issue about font size is very important. Tim tells his listeners to check and see if what he is saying is true. How is anyone supposed to do that when the sources are listed in an unreadable font? That is not nit picking. If he really wanted people to check up on him he would be more forthright about his sources. That he thinks the issue of font size is ridiculous shows his utter disdain for his audience. He does not really want people to check up on him. As far as I know I am the only person who has actually taken up his challenge to test him and when I find fraud after fraud and report this he has nothing to counter with except name calling and deception as he altered three videos and even his own website!

Now Tim has even sunk to issuing veiled threats of violence against me because he did not like when I, quoting the words of Jesus Christ, called his marriage to his second wife (Tim is her third husband) adultery. He makes the false claim that I suggested he divorce her and says:
How dare he. He better hope I am able to follow the commandments if I ever meet him, that's for sure.
https://youtu.be/giLKvIPU118?t=2197
I never made such a suggestion at all nor was it to be implied. I only pointed out the hypocrisy of an active adulterer going around telling people they need to keep the law to be engrafted into Christ. True, we are all sinners but we are not all currently in an active state of adultery. How he gets out of that situation is up to him. I offered no advice nor do I offer any now.

That Tim takes the time to mock and threaten me publicly in his videos is flattering. He feels the sting of my criticism which is why he altered his videos and website. He knows I am right. It's also troubling because it shows that Tim does not take what he is doing very seriously. A serious researcher would not make the choices he does. They would not use Wikipedia as a source and they would most certainly be doing field work and not just Googling all day. The book that Tim is writing, will it be based entirely on Googling or will actual field work be included?

Tim has said previously that his Youtube videos are not scientific journals so I ought not to expect the same standards.
For instance this video deals with tons of history asnd was one of our first in our publishing on YouTube of our journey of research. The sources are not cited like a scientific journal and at that point, we didn't even know many would even watch. We did so in representing history accurately. This fraud only misrepresents.
http://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-god-culture-review-of-solomons-gold.html?showComment=1585353928872#c2685914059189261084 
Of course a YouTube channel is not a scientific journal but he applies such standard and yet, still fails.
http://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/03/god-culture-does-timothy-schwab-have.html?showComment=1584433157621#c7860336094334233399
Indeed the shoddy research in these videos would never be allowed in any reputable scientific journal. But I never once said anything about scientific journals. I only asked for clarity and honesty in using sources. Citing a source you have never read, like Farrisol or Dinoysius Perigetes, is dishonest.  It's amazing how Tim denigrates his own videos in order to excuse his sloppy, shallow, so-called "research."

I admit that he is right that I have not watched all of his videos. I did not do that at the first and I still have not done it though I have watched many of them at this point. But all? No. There really is no need. The older you get and the more steeped in scripture you are the quicker it becomes to sniff out heresy. From the beginning I knew Tim and The God Culture weren't right. Their motto, "Challenge Tradition," says it all! Their video titles scream heresy. Take the Name of God series which is obviously Sacred Namer nonsense.

The Name of God - Part 1: How To Pronounce YHWH May Surprise You



A little digging reveals that Tim was involved in the Sacred Name movement.
A perfect example is the Sacred Name Movement which we actually learned the accurate name of God but the movement just didn't stay the course as it really should lead to restoring the entire Bible and they did create a Bible but it's still based on Modern Translations just inserting names which is cool but doesn't really do much in restoring the translation which is so badly needed.
The Name of God Series 6: ORIGIN OF THE WORD JEW. NOT THE BIBLE
As I wrote before one need not scientifically investigate a turd to know it's a turd. Likewise one need not listen to all a group has to say to know whether or not they are heretics. Actually watching their videos and diving into their doctrine has confirmed my initial suspicions. At heart Tim is nothing more than an anti-trinitarian heretic. He finally belched out his blasphemy for all to smell in one of his new Sabbath Series videos.
Then espousing some doctrine of men like Trinity which is a word that never even appears in scripture once. That's why you don't see any videos from us on that. We could care less about the doctrines of men. 
https://youtu.be/EscrM4o-h4M?t=3644
While Tim does teach that the Father and the Son are both God his teaching about their relationship and equity is not exactly clear. Sometimes he sounds like a modalist and sometimes he does not. His teaching about the Holy Spirit is also lacking. From all accounts it seems as if he denies the personality of the Spirit and considers Him to be an impersonal active force of the Father. Or perhaps a force shared by the Father and the Son.

Tim does not teach what the scriptures teach and he rejects the ekklesia, the visible Body of Christ, which Jesus said He would build and the gates of hell would never overcome. Tim actually says the opposite of Christ and teaches that Satan wiped out and took over the church.
The synagogue of satan was installed and their doctrines as what we call the early church today but the true early church was wiped out. 
New Sabbath Series Trailer
He promulgates novel doctrines, such as Enoch living for the past 4000 years in the Philippines which he claims is the Garden of Eden, based on the apocryphal Book of Jubilees. His history of the Philippines and the ancient world is untruthful and ill-informed. But to hear him talk about Church history is a whole other level of ignorance. 
So get this, the Pharisee church, the false church, replaced His church in the days of Constantine especially was the complete takeover. And this is what we are told is the early church and that is false. Church history does not start in 300 AD. That is stupid. No one can say such a thing yet they do. They certainly do.
https://youtu.be/zCwDTRzkYqo?t=1344
What is Tim talking about? Why does he hate the Nicene Council so much? Next thing you know he will tell his listeners that Arius was unjustly condemned for speaking the truth and that Athanasius was the real heretic.

Who says Church history starts at 300 AD?  Nobody says that, Tim! Here are 10 volumes of church doctrine and history from before the Nicene Council. That is from about 70 AD - 315 AD.


If Tim bothered to read actual church history and doctrine he would find that the church NEVER placed importance in celebrating the sabbath like Jews. They celebrated the Lord's Day.


That is from the letter of Ignatius to the Magnesians which is in volume 1 of the series above. Ignatius was a disciple of John the Apostle! A much earlier reference is from the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles also known as the Didache. This can be found in volume 7 of the same series.


In his new sabbath series videos Tim makes the outlandish claim again and again that the church has neglected the 4th commandment. That is a lie! True the church does not celebrate the sabbath like Jews. Instead they celebrate the Lord's day, the first day of the week, the same day Christ rose from the dead. But Tim does not know any of that because he has not read church history or any of the fathers. He can't even be bothered to look and see what the modern day Catholic Catechism has to say about the matter of the sabbath.

In Christ's Passover, Sunday fulfills the spiritual truth of the Jewish sabbath and announces man's eternal rest in God. 
https://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c1a3.htm
A complete misrepresentation by Tim. Not only does he not know what the church teaches but he also does not know who are the church's teachers.
Take someone like Origen whom they call an early church father. But look into what he writes, what he says. He was a gnostic in thinking if you look at over all what he espouses. And he is even pictured, in fact, with a demon at his feet which is really odd. Don't know what that is all about. But it sure does seem like he was not a disciple.  
https://youtu.be/zCwDTRzkYqo?t=1395
Nobody calls Origen an early church father except for ignorant people like Timothy Jay Schwab. If Tim knew what the church councils teach he would know that the fifth ecumenical council condemned Origen and anathematized his teachings.  Here is the condemnation in the 11th canon:

Note that canon ten anathematizes Timothy because he denies that Jesus Christ is one of the Holy Trinity

And here are the 15 anathemas against Origen's teachings.

https://silouanthompson.net/2019/09/anathemas-against-origen/

One has to wonder, "Does God hate the Philippines?" The nation remains poor and backwards, powerful typhoons strike the nation every year killing many, crime is rampant, the government is corrupt, there has been a 50 year war against the communists, and now Timothy Jay Schwab has been sent to deceive the people with a strong delusion that the Philippines is the Garden of Eden, Ophir, Sheba, Seba, Tarshish, and Filipinos are members of the lost tribes of Israel. Not only that but Tim teaches that law is gracethe new covenant is the law and not the blood of Christ, and that to be grafted into Christ one must keep the law. He rejects the Godhead and the Gospel entirely and now spends his time in the Philippines spreading his anti-christian lies and nonsense deceiving and poisoning thousands of unsuspecting souls with videos and conferences.

What have Filipinos done to deserve a man like Timothy Jay Schwab and The God Culture?

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

The God Culture: Jesus Did not Finish His Work on the Cross

In an interview with Zen Garcia Timothy Jay Schwab, also known as The God Culture had a stunning revelation. Tim says Jesus did not finish His work on the cross.

Unlocking Hidden Truths with The God Culture - Zen Garcia & Tim Schwab

33:12 There's only one day of judgment and that's when all souls are judged. All of them. Billions. Uh, Messiah's greatest work is to come. Uh, the cross was wonderful and very significant no doubt but he did not complete his work on the cross and no scripture actually says he does. That comes out of our pulpits but actually his greatest works are to come.

What a lot of nonsense. Listen to how Tim snidely praises the cross by saying oh it was "wonderful and very significant no doubt" but then goes on to belittle Jesus' sacrifice by saying "he did not complete his work on the cross" and "his greatest works are to come." What greater work can there be than Jesus' sacrifice for us which defeated sin, death, and the devil and sealed our salvation and redemption for eternity? 

It is simply a lie that no scripture says His work is finished. Jesus himself said IT IS FINISHED.

John 19:30 When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost

God incarnated as a man, kept and fulfilled the law, and defeated sin, hell, death, and the devil by dying on the cross. There is nothing more for him to do. He is sitting on the right hand of the Father this moment because everything has been fulfilled. To say the last judgement has not come therefore "he did not complete his work on the cross" is unbiblical and blasphemous. Take it from the mouth of Jesus Christ Himself. 

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

The God Culture: Jesus Christ is Not The Passover Lamb Specifically

If you listen long enough to Timothy Jay Schwab of The God Culture it becomes rather easy to spot his heresies and predict what he will say next. Tim's method is rather simple: EVERYTHING the Church teaches is wrong. In his view the Church is actually the Synagogue of Satan and must be opposed at every step. That is why Tim is so keen on refuting long established Biblical doctrines such as the Trinity, the tripartite nature of man as body, mind, and soul, and the doctrine of eternal punishment in the lake of fire. 

What makes Tim exciting to listen to is not his dull, unoriginal heresies but his complex and original mental gymnastics which drive him to his heretical conclusions. This originality is exemplified in a video where Tim tells the world in no uncertain terms why Jesus Christ is by no means our Passover Lamb. Call it the anti-Gospel.

CORRECTING Jonathan Cahn's "When Was Jesus REALLY Born?" Pharisee Leaven

36:18  But is that Yahusha is the Passover Lamb? Is that true? Actually, no. What scripture says that? None. Now go search the KJV. None.

44:06 John Cahn says Messiah is the Passover Lamb as if that is ever a Biblical designation. Search it, it's never there. He is our sacrificial lamb all 59 times of the year not just Passover. This has, yes he is the Passover Lamb, he's every lamb, but he is not designated as the Passover Lamb in scripture ever specifically. Uh, this has always been false also no he did not die on Passover either. That is ridiculous because Passover only occurs at night during the dark hours and Messiah's crucifixion the sun was out and the Sun was darkened and that is illiterate to the passages.

45:16 Yes, 1 Corinthians 5:7 Paul does say Yahusha is the Passover but the Passover is not just about the lamb. That is illiterate. Understand not only is he the sacrifice for Passover, and he is because he is all 59 times of the year, however, there is far more to being the Passover than merely the lamb as well. How is it that this Rabbi doesn't know that Israel was delivered from Egypt on Passover? I mean this is what the event is all about it's not just about the lamb, duh. Talk about leavening a passage rebuking leaven even. Wow! But we can take this further. 

Hebrews 10 is abundantly clear Yahusha is our sacrifice for all 52 sabbaths and all seven feasts all not just Passover. All, okay? That's just feasts and sabbaths alone but he replaces all animal sacrifice in scripture period from from the time of his sacrifice Forward Forever. 

48:53 But wait Yahusha was not crucified, he wasn't, you know, put on the stake or the tree on Passover. No. That is absolutely ridiculous to say so is to not even know what Passover is because it's only an evening event. Can't possibly be.

52:21 Passover then ends to be completed basically uh it's finished. All remains of of the Lamb are to be burned because Passover is over. It's done. It's finished by the Morning, by Sunrise. Notice that did not happen with Yahusha either. So, if he was to follow the Passover Lamb he also should have been burned. Oops! And yet he wasn't. Oops! He wasn't following the Passover Lamb that is nonsense.

59:29 ...following Isaac's timeline exactly on the same day. Both Paramount events because this story is one of Covenant not following the Passover Lamb which is ludicrous. It's, it's a dumb statement never should come out of anyone's lips. He does not follow the lamb and is not fulfilling Covenant with the lamb. He fulfills the sacrifice so a lamb, a bull a goat yeah. It's not just lamb you do realize? He replaces all animal sacrifice all 59 plus times of the year. Duh.

What a lot of rubbish. But take a look at Tim's gymnastics. He says Jesus cannot be the Passover lamb specifically because the Passover happens at night and Jesus was crucified during the day. He also says the remnants of the Passover were burned therefore Jesus cannot be the Passover lamb. At least he recognizes that Jesus ate a Passover meal. But what happened at the meal? Jesus identified himself with it!

Matthew 26 KJV

The text says: AS THEY WERE EATING. Eating what? The Passover meal of course. As they were eating Jesus identified the bread and the wine as His body and blood which he was to shed in only a few hours. 

It is ludicrous for Tim to say Jesus was not burned up therefore he cannot be the Passover lamb. Must he be an actual lamb too?  Tim is correct that there is more to the Passover than just the lamb. There is also the deliverance of Israel. But what was that based upon? It was based upon the lamb being slain and its blood being applied to the doorposts of the house. There is NO deliverance without the lamb. Likewise there is no deliverance from sin without the shed blood of Jesus Christ who is our Passover as Paul says.

Tim does not have any real rebuttal to this verse except to agree that he is the Passover lamb because he is also all the lambs that were to be sacrificed through the year. That is not false per se but that is not what Paul is talking about. He mentions the Passover SPECIFICALLY. Why? The context is purging out the leaven which is what one did during the Passover. And what was sacrificed during the Passover? A LAMB! The identity of Jesus Christ as the Passover lamb in this verse is unmistakable. There is nothing else it could be because that is the only animal sacrificed during the Passover. 

Tim says Jesus Christ fulfilled all sacrifices so he is our goat and bull as well as our lamb. It sounds good but it is wrong. Yes, it is true that Jesus Christ fulfilled all sacrifices including that of bulls and goats but the Bible never calls Him a goat or a bull. He is always referred to as a LAMB.






What's Lamb gotta do with it? EVERYTHING!!  The Scriptures are crystal clear that Jesus Christ is THE LAMB sacrificed for us. Not the goat, not the bull, not the turtledove but THE LAMB!! Why is this? Because the Passover is a type which symbolized His coming and His sacrifice on the cross. We are saved by and through HIS BLOOD just as the Israelites were saved by the blood of the lamb on the doorpost.  Tim's rejection of that clear Bible teaching is because he has embraced the Book of Jubilees which teaches otherwise. He puts more stock in that book than he does in the Bible. 

The more appropriate question is: Who needs Timothy Jay Schwab of the God Culture when his theology is broken? 

Monday, December 25, 2023

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #29: Jason and the Argonauts Sailed to the Philippines

Welcome back to 100 Lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts. Timothy Jay Schwab claims Jason and his men sailed the Argo all the way to the Philippines. 



In his video "Greek Oceanus World River and Rivers From Eden lead to the Philippines" Tim says the following:

Greek Oceanus World River and Rivers From Eden lead to the Philippines? Solomon's Gold Series 16F

1:00:17 And this one is extremely curious check this out once again very ancient 7th Century BC folks. From Mimnermis Aeetes' city, now that's odd, uh, Aitis, Atus hmm hmm hmm, that's a tribe in the Philippines. How about that? Now that's very curious. Also there's a fruit there, uh, in the Philippines called atis so also that could be invoked but just curious. Uh, we don't know for sure can't make that connection hundred percent but boy we keep seeing such possible ties which don't seem to be coincidence. "Where the Rays of Swift Helios the sun lie in a golden store room." Why is it a golden store room? Because it basically encloses the Garden of Eden. The walls are lined with gold which is why Solomon did such with the temple. He was copying the Garden of Eden, wow! The land of gold literally being invoked right there. "At the edge of Oceanus Where God like Jason went." So Jason and the Argonauts is a story that goes geographically at some point as far as the Philippines which means they circumnavigated Africa because they left from Greece and they didn't fly helicopters.

1:13:54 Even the Aeetes mentioned could be very well the tribe from the Philippines likely. Ends in the land of gold and Garden of Eden Philippines firmly. From Africa goes to the Far East where Prometheus, Gadreel, stole knowledge of Good and Evil giving it to the man while that happened in the Garden of Eden. It all fits, it all ties and they had to circumnavigate Africa all these many times okay? These characters especially in the Odyssey and The Iliad they're going there physically in their ships even Jason and the Argonauts went to the Philippines. That's what it says.

There are quite a lot of unbelievable claims being made in these two clips. First let's deal with the citation of Mimernus which situates Aeetes in Oceanus which is far away from Greece. The fragment of Mimnermus to which Tim is referring is discussed by Strabo in his geography. He says placing that city so far away outside the inhabited world makes the quest of the Golden Fleece implausible because "the expedition is supposed to have taken place in well-known and populous regions."

https://archive.org/details/Strabo08Geography17AndIndex/Strabo%2001%20Geography%201-2/page/170/mode/2up?q=jason

Accordingly, it is by availing himself of some such basis of fact that Homer tells his story, agreeing in some respects with matters of history, but adding to them an element of myth, thus adhering to a custom that is not only his own but one common to poets. He agrees with history when he uses the name of “ Aeétes,” when he tells of Jason and the Argo, when, with “ Aea”’ in mind, he invents “ Aeaea,” when he establishes Euneos in Lemnos, when he makes the island of Lemnos beloved of Achilles, and when, with Medea in mind, he makes the sorceress Circe “own sister to the baleful Aeétes.” 

But he adds an element of myth when he transfers to Oceanus the wanderings that follow the voyage to Aeétes’ country. For if the facts above-mentioned be assumed, then the words, “the Argo that is in all men’s minds,” are also properly used, inasmuch as the expedition is supposed to have taken place in well-known and populous regions. But if the facts were as Demetrius of Scepsis maintains, on the authority of Mimnermus _ (Mimnermus places the home of Aeétes in Oceanus, outside the inhabited world in the east, and affirms that Jason was sent thither by Pelias and brought back the fleece), then, in the first place, the expedition thither in quest of the fleece would not sound plausible (since it was directed to unknown and obscure countries), and in the second place, the voyage through regions desolate and uninhabited and so out-of-the-way from our part of the world would be neither famous nor “in all men’s minds.”

But why would Mimnermus add "an element of myth" to the well known story of Jason and the Argonauts? Because as a poet he he adapted and embellished it to fit his own artistic needs. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimnermus

Like other archaic poets, Mimnermus adapted myths to his own artistic needs and Aelian recorded that he attributed twenty children to Niobe, unlike Homer, for example, who attributed twelve to her. According to Sallustius, Mimnermus was just as creative in his poetical account of Ismene, representing her as being killed by Tydeus at the command of the goddess, Athena, in the very act of making love to Theoclymenus—an original account that was soon accepted by an international audience, being represented on an early Corinthian amphora (pictured below). Imaginative accounts of the sun, voyaging at night from west to east in a golden bed, and of Jason the Argonaut voyaging to "Aeetes' city, where the rays of the swift Sun lie in a golden storeroom at the edge of Oceanus", survive in brief quotes by ancient authors.

Secondly let's take a look at Aeetes' City. Tim attempts to connect this word linguistically with the Aeta tribe as well as the atis fruit which is not even native to the Philippines but was introduced during the Spanish occupation nearly 2,000 years after Mimnermus lived! Both connections are wrong. Take a close look at the punctuation of the citation. 

Aietes' (Aeetes') city

Is Tim illiterate or did he simply miss that apostrophe which indicates possession? Aeetes is not the name of the city but the name of the ruler of that city. Aeetes is the son of the sun God Helios.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeëtes

Aeëtes was the son of Sun god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis, brother of CircePerses and Pasiphaë, and father of MedeaChalciope and Absyrtus

It is from him that Jason stole the Golden Fleece. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Fleece

In Greek mythology, the Golden Fleece is the fleece of the golden-woolled, winged ram, Chrysomallos, that rescued Phrixus and brought him to Colchis, where Phrixus then sacrificed it to ZeusPhrixus gave the fleece to King Aeëtes who kept it in a sacred grove, whence Jason and the Argonauts stole it with the help of Medea, Aeëtes' daughter. The fleece is a symbol of authority and kingship.

The Golden Fleece was found in Colchis which is also where Aeetes lived. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeëtes

Later, Aeëtes gave his kingdom to Bounos, a son of Hermes and Alkidameia, and went to Colchis, a country in western Caucasus

Colchis is by no means anywhere near the Philippines. It is located on the coast of the Black Sea next to Georgia. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colchis

In classical antiquity and Greco-Roman geographyColchis was an exonym for the Georgian polity of Egrisi located on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, centered in present-day western Georgia.

Here is a map detailing the travels of Jason and the Argonauts.

http://www.argonauts-book.com/maps.html

Jason and the Argonauts did not sail to the Philippines to find the Golden Fleece. Tim's ridiculous interpretation does not fit the facts of the story at all. 

Aside from the Argonauts Tim also mentions the "characters especially in the Odyssey and The Iliad" as visiting the Philippines. Again, this is more nonsense. The Iliad is all about the Trojan war which occurred in Turkey and not about epic traveling around the world. The Odyssey is about the wanderings of Ulysses after the end of the war. Here is a map of his travels. 

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/837042097440686080

Tim's claims about Jason and Ulysses sailing to the Philippines are preposterous. The travels of the Argonauts and the Odyssey are poetic and mythical and the action of those stories takes place nowhere near the Philippines. Tim points to these tales as absolute historical proof that the Greeks were circumnavigating Africa to sail to the Philippines. That is because there is no actual history to support his claims so he is grasping at anything he can get his deceitful paws around. That Jason and the Argonauts sailed to the Philippines is merely one more lie about the Philippines being taught by Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture.

Sunday, December 24, 2023

The God Culture: 100 Lies About the Philippines: Lie #28: Sinbad the Sailor Sailed to the Philippines

Welcome back to 100 Lies The God Culture teaches about the Philippines. Today's lie concerns Timothy Jay Schwab's claim that Sinbad the Sailor sailed to the Philippines.

In his video series Did the Ancient Greeks Sail Around Africa Tim relates the story of how Sinbad sailed to the Philippines and found sandalwood.

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43:58 But one last one and this is from Persia. It's not actually circumnavigating Africa but more the continuation of the journey to Ophir and Tarshish  This is the famous story of Sinbad the Sailor from Arabian Nights. He left Persia and set sail for the Indies. We all know where that is. That's Malaysia Indonesia and the Philippines. It includes the Philippines in their perspective and even if you go and look it up it will tell you today that the Philippines is part of the Indies, the East Indies, the islands in the East but this is really going to be a wow when you see it. Again, this is about 800 BC and he'll sail from the Persian Gulf, yes, not from even the Red Sea, and no he doesn't circumnavigate in Africa but he goes to this land and we'll see. They write, "We continued at sea for some time," they were lost in the Indies somewhere but where were they? Well, the answer becomes very obvious here. "Touched several islands and at last landed at that of Salabat where Sandalwood is obtained." 

Oh, wait a minute I think I just heard bell sound for our Filipino viewers? Yeah, you read that right, Salabat. That is a Tagalog word for their famous ginger tea Salabat. Wow! Now we know why most Filipinos drink it though not because it's good although it is. No, no, no. They drink it because it's widely believed to improve a person's singing voice. Ah, indeed. Just teasing but anyway. "And this is where Sandalwood is obtained." Oh that's also just so happens to be the Philippine national tree the narra which is red or yellow Sandalwood. Wow! Oh, Sinbad the famous sailor was in the Philippines, likely. Who would have known?

In this video segment Tim says it is "likely" that Sinbad the Sailor sailed to the Philippines but in a comment he claims it is definite history. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE3jc4oLbXw&lc=UgxrEqBIZtP1KfJfQ5d4AaABAg.9xDfHSfLuP89xEpdZkWKz_

You make an unsupported assumption you cannot. The East Indies in name never required them to be vassal states of a nation of India. They were the islands East of it. History has no such requirement. Even the Persian sailor Sinbad in about 700 AD, records the Philippines as part of the East Indies as did many. Again, not as a vassal state of India.

Is Timothy Jay Schwab out of his mind? Does he not know that Sinbad the Sailor is a fictional character from the 1001 Arabian Nights? 

Sinbad the Sailor is a fictional mariner and the hero of a story-cycle. He is described as hailing from Baghdad during the early Abbasid Caliphate (8th and 9th centuries A.D.). In the course of seven voyages throughout the seas east of Africa and south of Asia, he has fantastic adventures in magical realms, encountering monsters and witnessing supernatural phenomena.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinbad_the_Sailor

Sinbad does not exist! And yet Tim refers to his story for support that the Greeks were circumnavigating Africa to the Philippines for a thousand years from the time of King Solomon to the time of Jesus Christ. It's complete and utter nonsense. 

Not only is Sinbad the Sailor fictitious but Tim is lying about where Sinbad sailed. In the first part of the clip where Tim says Sinbad sailed to the Indies he is citing from Sinbad's first voyage. 

The part about landing on Salabat where sandalwood can be found is from Sinbad's third voyage. 

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081836466&seq=138&q1=Salabat

Why cobble these two very different voyages together? What is the point of lying about the voyages of Sinbad the Sailor? 

Tim makes a big to-do about the island of Salabat noting it is a Tagalog word for ginger tea and sandalwood is the national tree of the Philippines. But the story mentions an island named Salabat not a tea. In a different translation it is Salahat. Sandalwood is not exclusive to the Philippines but is also found in India and in other islands in Southeast Asia such as Sumba and Timor.

The sandalwood is indigenous to the tropical belt of peninsular India, the Malay Archipelago and northern Australia. The main distribution is in the drier tropical regions of India and the Indonesian islands of Timor and Sumba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandalwood

In fact, one editor of this story notes that Salabat is possibly Timor.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t2988ds9j&seq=52&q1=salabat

But where exactly is Salabat or Salahat? Ultimately it is irrelevant because the entire story is fictitious. 

Now, lest Tim cavil and say that Sinbad the Sailor is based on a real person that does not matter. Tim did not cite that real person who's name is Soleiman Siraf. He even wrote a book about his travels titled "An Account of India and China."

https://archive.org/details/ancientaccountso00sira/page/n3/mode/2up

But Tim did not cite this book in this video nor does he mention it elsewhere. The fact is he claims the fictional Sinbad sailed to the Philippines as a matter of historical record. It's not true in the slightest. It is simply one more lie about the Philippines from Timothy Jay Schwab who is The God Culture.  

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