You know, over the last few years as I've taken what turned out to be a "journey of discovery" (but was really no more than Forrest Gump going out for a jog one day and never stopping), and what I found most striking as the biggest practical blocks in research, in getting the picture correct, is that people have the metaphorical arrows pointed the wrong way. Well, WTH does that mean? I'll explain with some big examples.
First, I'm totally open to immaterial forces. (I prefer rather think of them as material forces we have not yet investigated and characterized. Like, what did cavemen think was going on with magnetic rocks? Not magnetism!) But when I started looking into the Anunnaki, I consciously thought, "If I'm ever going to tell anyone else about any of this, I've got to keep it a down-to-earth and materialistic as possible." And when I adhered to that discipline--surprise!--I never had to go beyond it.
For example, many would say that God in the Bible basically magics people into existence. But if you study very, very carefully, you find quite a bit of evidence--both in the Bible and outside--that the Anunnaki genetically engineered us. Then you're faced with the choice, "These advanced aliens have genetic engineering like we do," or "God magic'ed people into existence and all evidence otherwise is mere coincidence." I know which one I'd pick. Also, it explains all the fucked up genetic diseases we're prone to as being from imperfect engineering, does it not?
Then the idea that "the gods" are simply a race of alien beings, flesh-and-blood, much like us, leads to righting another wrong-way arrow: we think the "gods" and "angels" have human-like characteristics. Exactly wrong! It is we who have Anunnaki-like characteristics. "We learned it from you, Dad! We learned it by watching you!"
So I came to find evidence that what we think of as the source and substance of the ills of the world and our society (wars, hierarchy, government, organized religion, money, patriarchy, etc) all were handed down from the Anunnaki. They gave us our culture, and still do. Look around--what human being would invent what we have?
We get hierarchy because they were obsessed with it, so to your question that is probably the original source of what we receive as the distinction between "gods" and "angels". The Anunnaki had a royalty of twelve members, each of which had an individual rank between 5 and 60, counting by fives. The overall expedition numbered 600, who basically just became described as "angels". (By the by, the crew size of 600 combines with the one-third swept from heaven to become the 200 Fallen Angels on Mt. Hermon. See how the pieces fall together?)
As regards the concept of a "training ground", well, before we address anything of a more cosmic significance, there is a contest underway that I mentioned before and we have to get past it. In brief, Satan feels that humans are no more than cattle, and that he is within his rights and wishes to dominate and use us freely as one does livestock. TBH, when you look around that idea isn't entirely without basis, is it? Yahweh, on the other hand, feels we should be free and independent, even working in harmony with him. But the contest is underway to show that Yahweh is correct and that we are worthy.
Can we free ourselves from Satan's domination? We can see (in the negative) that his fundamental approach is to convince us he doesn't exist, that everyone believes we are doing this to ourselves, and that tyranny is by choice and consent. If you want to pose the big, cosmic questions, there's one right there: Is Satan correct?
I would add that in this contest, Satan was disallowed from using any advanced alien tech, but must seduce and convince us, exercising our own free will. Deception is allowed. On the flip side, a small number of us have been granted full consciousness to use to defend the human race. And here we are doing just that.
You know, over the last few years as I've taken what turned out to be a "journey of discovery" (but was really no more than Forrest Gump going out for a jog one day and never stopping), and what I found most striking as the biggest practical blocks in research, in getting the picture correct, is that people have the metaphorical arrows pointed the wrong way. Well, WTH does that mean? I'll explain with some big examples.
First, I'm totally open to immaterial forces. (I prefer rather think of them as material forces we have not yet investigated and characterized. Like, what did cavemen think was going on with magnetic rocks? Not magnetism!) But when I started looking into the Anunnaki, I consciously thought, "If I'm ever going to tell anyone else about any of this, I've got to keep it a down-to-earth and materialistic as possible." And when I adhered to that discipline--surprise!--I never had to go beyond it.
For example, many would say that God in the Bible basically magics people into existence. But if you study very, very carefully, you find quite a bit of evidence--both in the Bible and outside--that the Anunnaki genetically engineered us. Then you're faced with the choice, "These advanced aliens have genetic engineering like we do," or "God magic'ed people into existence and all evidence otherwise is mere coincidence." I know which one I'd pick. Also, it explains all the fucked up genetic diseases we're prone to as being from imperfect engineering, does it not?
Then the idea that "the gods" are simply a race of alien beings, flesh-and-blood, much like us, leads to righting another wrong-way arrow: we think the "gods" and "angels" have human-like characteristics. Exactly wrong! It is we who have Anunnaki-like characteristics. "We learned it from you, Dad! We learned it by watching you!"
So I came to find evidence that what we think of as the source and substance of the ills of the world and our society (wars, hierarchy, government, organized religion, money, patriarchy, etc) all were handed down from the Anunnaki. They gave us our culture, and still do. Look around--what human being would invent what we have?
We get hierarchy because they were obsessed with it, so to your question that is probably the original source of what we receive as the distinction between "gods" and "angels". The Anunnaki had a royalty of twelve members, each of which had an individual rank between 5 and 60, counting by fives. The overall expedition numbered 600, who basically just became described as "angels". (By the by, the crew size of 600 combines with the one-third swept from heaven to become the 200 Fallen Angels on Mt. Hermon. See how the pieces fall together?)
As regards the concept of a "training ground", well, before we address anything of a more cosmic significance, there is a contest underway that I mentioned before and we have to get past it. In brief, Satan feels that humans are no more than cattle, and that he is within his rights and wishes to dominate and use us freely as one does livestock. TBH, when you look around that idea isn't entirely without basis, is it? Yahweh, on the other hand, feels we should be free and independent, even working in harmony with him. But the contest is underway to show that Yahweh is correct and that we are worthy.
Can we free ourselves from Satan's domination? We can see (in the negative) that his fundamental approach is to convince us he doesn't exist, that everyone believes we are doing this to ourselves, and that tyranny is by choice and consent. If you want to pose the big, cosmic questions, there's one right there: Is Satan correct?
I would add that in this contest, Satan was disallowed from using any advanced alien tech, but must seduce and convince us, exercising our own free will. Deception is allowed. On the flip side, a small number of us have been granted full consciousness to use to defend the human race. And here we are doing just that.