The Catholic Church and the Pope are the reason that most Christian religions celebrate Sunday instead of the real Sabbath on Saturday. They just did that by fiat.
They also ignore Jesus' own words and claim that the Crucifixion occurred on what they call "Good Friday." Jesus said that proof of His being the Messiah would be that, just like Jonah was in the whale for three days and three nights, He would be in the earth for three days and three nights. "Good Friday" until the wee hours of Sunday morning is only a day and a half. The Crucifixion must have occurred on Wednesday. The Catholic Church knew what day it was and lied to all of us.
They have even implied that the Resurrection occurred on Sunday morning at sunrise, when the empty tomb was found before daylight, everything was quiet and still, the stone had rolled away, and the Roman troops had fled on fear of death. So the Resurrection might have occurred on Saturday evening just as the Sabbath ended.
These are facts, not "talking points."
Gematria is rubbish. You can convert words into numbers, but the reverse is make believe. Thousands of choices, and these people choose the "meaningful" ones. And there are gullible people who believe it.
It's similar to the "Bible Code" where you take the original text of the Bible, print it in columns, and find "messages" by skipping so many letters and picking letters to spell things. You can actually do the very same thing with any long text. I corresponded with the Amazing Randi about this many years ago. I took a chapter of "Moby Dick," put it in WordPerfect, deleted all the spaces and punctuation, capitalized all the letters, and created a huge rectangle out of the text. I found all kinds of words and "messages." Randi agreed with my findings.
I use Newshosting. They have great retention and it doesn't cost much. I have downloaded tens of thousands of books and hundreds of thousands of MP3 files, including music and old time radio shows.
Usenet is more than just girlie photos.
For William Cooper, go here on Archive.org: "https://archive.org/details/@truthintel'
This lists items posted by one user. Look for the items named as follows:
"William Cooper (Hour of the Time) Part ___"
Start with Part 1. You can listen to them online or download the MP3 files for later listening. Most of the shows exist, but a few are missing.
I am in the middle of downloading them for my own archive. This particular user has posted some other interesting broadcasts.
Here's my favorite recording with "almost" in the title.
"Almost" by George Morgan from 1952:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmgn7m2MVqQ
Clever lyrics.
I don't agree with the idea that people don't have enough physical time to read. They say "tldr" to anything over a couple of sentences. There is plenty of time, if they cut down on phones, tv, games, and sports.
I might have a good grasp of how an atomic bomb is constructed, but I can't tell you how in just a sentence or two. All I could tell you in a sentence or two is the rough theory. That little amount of knowledge could kill you.
I can set many more Mormons straight, if given the chance.
I have been reading since the 60s. That's time enough to read books I wanted to read, such as detective novels and science fiction, and books I needed to read, such as histories, religious works, sciences, and math. I have read thousands of books. I have a huge library at home. And I have many more years, hopefully, to read even more.
The blurb on that book you mentioned says "viewed through the lenses," which means someone else's ideas of what the books say. I'd rather read for myself and get it unfiltered by someone else's "lens."
There is more time than most people are willing to spend. They waste all day with their eyes glued to their phones, or playing video games, or watching sports. I don't do any of that, so I have plenty of time to read a lot, even opposing ideas so I know where they're coming from and I can refute them.
I read the entire Book of Mormon, even though I knew it was false. Then when the suit boys on the bicycles came by, I was able to refute them right from their own book. They gave up and left fairly quickly. Likewise, I have read works by Aleister Crowley and John Dee so I understand the evil they produced.
We can't fight what we don't know about.
Sometimes it takes a lot of words. It's bad that the current generation seems to all be ADHD with the attention span of a goldfish. I can't even watch TV because the scenes flash by so fast I can't even focus on anything.
Everyone needs to be able to read long passages, even entire books, to gain knowledge. It takes a lot of words to explain complicated things.
People are just watching super short TikToks and "reading" graphic novels that are almost nothing but pictures.
This is superficial and not in depth. This is why those people in the videos don't know how many states there are or how far you can go in an hour if you're going 60 MPH. They see knowledge go by, but don't grab any of it.
Slow down and read the words.
Read the Bible. Read some Shakespeare or Plato or Tacitus or anything other than cereal boxes and comic strips.
The guy in the drawing refusing knowledge is pathetic.
He looks nothing like Corn Pop. :)