The Brutal First Pharoah and His Relation to The Bible (video)

Is Narmer referenced in The Bible? Maybe. But his entire weltanschauung and legacy is DEFINITELY what the Bible came to dispute.

I’ve offered examples of The Bible’s clear and unmistakable opposition to Civilization, particularly The SINGLE Great One in its day - that of Egypt - many times.

See here:

I’ve also offered speculations about Egypt and the Bible, even just yesterday, such as here:

Evidence for whose point still stands proudly on the wall of The National Museum of Egyptian Civilizations:

On what is unfortunately among the most intelligent and wise social spaces on the internet, Astral Codex Ten, I was helpfully informed that Egypt was not in fact a slave-based society. A misunderstanding incredibly difficult to correct because we are STILL in a slave-based society.

The Torah reders to the Jews as “Avadim”, “workers”, usually defined as “Slaves” because translators can't admit that out society is ALSO one fiercely opposed by the Bible.

After all, in the aforementioned museum regarding Egyptian produce it says:

Which, of course, the “slaves” had too!

Plus meat and fish!

Go try explaining to people that THEY are enslaved and enslaving.

And that The Torah opposes OUR civilization just as much as that of The Tower of Babel and Egypt.

Nobody wants to hear that.

Which is precisely what makes the Dor Deiah (Understanding Generation) so great. Not only did they UNDERSTAND but they had the guts to EXIT and try to start anew.

Back to Narmer, the father of OUR civilization. For the Pharoahic system STILL RULES.

I was asked whether Narmer intersects with the Story of Exodus in some way.

It's a fair question. Before moving (literally) next door to The Great Pyramids I too viewed The Pharoahs as more literary than live.

But they were alive, oh so alive, and their beliefs and soul enslavements have never died or even rested.

Westerners have little concern with the Bible’s antagonism to Ancient Egypt but get queasy when they have to explain Chanukah and tend to mumble some modern nonsense about tolerance and multiculturslism.

It ain't so.

Those Hebrews who opposed the Greeks MEANT IT.

Those who didn't, moved back to Egypt and even built themselves a near replica of The Jerusalem Temple there!

It's easier to carry out rituals and mumble incantations than to have the bravery to UNDERSTAND and to actually LIVE DIFFERENTLY.

Narmer of course, if we are to place him in the Biblical context causes some concern — but shouldn't. The Torah is a whole lot more about How To Think, Feel, and Live, than it is about whether opening the ark will melt your face off.

Narmer ruled over 5,000 years ago so if we're to place him within the Biblical Timeline we’d have to say that if there was a worldwide flood that wiped out everyone out but Noah and his kids then it would have killed Narmer's descendants too.

Of course it's long been suspected -- well before modern historical and scientific study -- that whatever the story of the flood is referring to, there was no actual GLOBAL flood.

So whatever the Exodus was, Narmer predates it.

And whatever Abraham's Pharaonic story is about, Narmer's rule would predate that period as well.

The Torah offered a system of viewing ourselves and each other that's radically different from the Egyptian system, and seemingly very purposely so. The Egyptian system was much like the system in the world today. "Success", "Productivity", "Achievement", "Growth", "Advancement", and "Progress".

It's hard for us to understand what the Torah meant to negate because the water we swim in is just The Pharonic System gone global.

The Tower of Babel moral is precisely an ANTI-civilizational one. See also everything from the naked first people to the Jubilee Reset to all of the laws against enslaving -- even beasts -- too badly.

“Too badly" because, to use a metaphor, undoing the millions of tons of Pyramid Stone takes time. That's why this playlist is called "Socialist Capitalism" rather than "Let's all stop using money or working immediately and forever".

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL20zNTAn_sgd0xLaRq3Qafy_LCUc6_09M&feature=shared

Narmer was a builder. Heck, it wouldn't surprise me if the biblical Nimrod was a reference to Narmer. I've never seen anybody consider that due to the location being assumed to be Mesopotamia, but his relation to Kush is ignored or redefined into some mesopotamian context rather than redefining shinar to egypt (or otherwise working the kinks out in a way that supports his story being related to the known King Narmer).

So Narmer's proud artistic representation helps us understand the INTENTION of the Bible very well, but unfortunately most people's interest in the bible works backwards. They look for magic solutions or (lack of) evidence for some chosen overly literal reading of the book instead of understanding what was so powerful about it that it was canonized, spread around the globe and revered like no other in all of history.

So what matters most about Narmer isn't whether he was this Pharoah or that one mentioned in the good book (or none of them) but how lucky we are to see PRECISELY the values that the literal founder of Egypt. Of all the things the dude could have shown off on this beautifullly carved stone some 5,000 years ago...what you see in the video is what he chose.

Understanding the world that the FIRST Bible readers saw before them and rebelled against helps us to understand the true meaning of the Bible.

It's a meaning that's almost imperceptible as nearly every Bible Reading Person on Earth accepts the world that they live in as one that's more or less okay.

It's not.

It's slavery.

And it's murder.

In fact, that's the main theme of the entire 10 Commandments.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL20zNTAn_sgc5vsXwXuBKLVD4HBFfTEfz&feature=shared