Streamed live on 15 Aug 2025 (The text is a painful illustration of AI writing.)
Join MythVision live with Dr. *Gad Barnea* for a fresh look at how Judaism and Samaritanism took shape under empire. We’ll start in Persian-period Egypt, where the famous “Passover Letter” from Elephantine looks less like a grassroots memo and more like a top-down **Ḥananiah decree**. Drawing on Barnea’s study, we’ll follow this imperial fixer as he issues orders, negotiates with governors, and navigates crises—right down to that unforgettable line, “**Khnum is against us**.” It’s a vivid window into how Yahwists in the 410s BCE lived, worshiped, and survived inside an Achaemenid system.
From there, we pivot north to identity: who got to call themselves “**Israel**” in the Persian and Ptolemaic eras? Using Barnea’s work on early Samarian identity, we trace the surprising revival of “Israel” as an ethnonym, shifts in divine-name spellings (YW → YHW), Samarian coinage that mirrors imperial iconography, and diaspora inscriptions from places like Delos and Egypt. The emerging picture centers on *Mount Gerizim* and temple-tax networks—evidence that Samaria often outpaced Yehud in the 4th century when it came to visible institutions and reach.
Why does this matter? Because it’s the machinery of identity being built in real time: imperial administration, names and coins, petitions and temples, propaganda and practice. If you’ve ever asked when Torah observance becomes historically tangible, or who drew the boundaries of “Israel,” this conversation connects the dots—with receipts.
Yesterday I had a dream about a Mossad agent blowing up a plane and parachuting like a boss. Writing it down to avoid the oopsie with the elephants swimming before the Al Aqsa flood.
While texting a person, I recalled that I don't truly believe existence to be limited exclusively to pain and pleasure. Because to me, also duty exists - to the inner feeling of beauty. In this vein, I would be inspired by Savitri Devi, Hitler's priestess; although I don't know how to deal with the general crass materialism of any successful blood collective (Koreans eating octopusses).
Era of total intel agency control (CIA over America)? [schizo warning]
I'm a follower of one Russian youtuber whose ideas are apparently like this. In the feudal age, the elite was changing itself in constantly bloodletting of civil strife. In the absolutist age, the remaining nobility could still kill the king/emperor, and eventually in the French and Russian revolutions the entire class was exterminated. This has led to what is today a democratic system where the president and ministers are superficially interchangeable but decide nothing because they're all controlled by intel services from behind the scenes with pedophile porn blackmail on every statesman.
What would your thoughts be on such a model? For the evidence, he points to how brutal the war in the Ukraine is, but Putin and Trump are both chums with each other. And how Russia could easily destroy the Dnieper bridges in the Ukraine, but chooses not to - apparently forbidden by the CIA/KGB intel service to disarm Russia for a NATO invasion.
Other cases of collusion between different statesmen for the sole purpose of advancing the interests of the compromised and cancer-ridden American state would be:
1) Yugoslavia's Miloshevich who signed the Dayton agreement in 1995 leading to a surrender in 1999;
2) Syria's Assad with the Astana accords in 2021 with deescalation zones for the rebels which allowed them to regroup and strike back in 2024;
3) Iran's ayatollah who allowed both the Hamas and Hezbollah to be destroyed peacemeal without helping them;
4) Russia's Putin who has only ever attacked in the only fortified region of the front for 3.5 years and is now trying to sign another rotten peace deal.
I'm likely sounding really silly right now, I'm downgrading myself to the Russian parts of my brain when talking about this. In English, it would likely be called "conspiracy theory"? But isn't the role of the CIA kinda common knowledge these days? And my question is about how WIAH never ever mentions it. Of course, there's another question as to how much any elite can control (and/or engineer?) a society without it breaking apart. According to some, the fall of the USSR was a controlled demolition, too.
Another aspect of his ideas is that America infected with the CIA finds China its enemy because China lacks the intelligence agencies and mercilessly culls its elite preventing corruption and is thus impervious to being infected itself. This is why America needs to start a nuclear war with China, but before that destroy the Russian nuclear arsenal - which is exactly what Putin is doing (alongside useless projects such as Poseidon, Avangard and Oreshnik or nuclear icebreakers).
Another blogger whom I follow has said that the Krokus terror attack involved a Russian policeman cutting off a terrorist's ear, and that it happened on Purim where cookies are baked in the form of ears (oznei haman), thus linking to a ritualistic significance. This line of thinking would view the Ukraine war not as disarming Russia but more in the way of religious slaughter (because again, destroying the Dnieper bridges or going around Donbass are never even considered by the Russians).
Again, apologies for copious schizo, but nothing of this can even be found in the Anglosphere. All you have is either the liberals saying Trump is Putin's slave, or the Z-anon bloggers such as MacGregor, Ritter, Napolitano, Mearsheimer or Jeffrey Sachs claiming Putin is playing 4D chess. Russians overall are at least diverse in their views, but I don't see any critique of their models.
1) 2016-18 I was just indoors getting less depressed and more relaxed;
2) 2018-23 I went to a tiny local uni which was fun;
3) 2020 was a corona time which was fun;
4) 2022 was the war time which was fun;
5) but 2023 it started being dull, I could no longer attend uni, AND a random allegedly JP girl contacted me and we talked for 2 months, and she was insanely intelligent but sorrowful and it impressed me really hard; thus making my previous existence no longer tenable since.
Streamed live on 15 Aug 2025 (The text is a painful illustration of AI writing.)
Join MythVision live with Dr. *Gad Barnea* for a fresh look at how Judaism and Samaritanism took shape under empire. We’ll start in Persian-period Egypt, where the famous “Passover Letter” from Elephantine looks less like a grassroots memo and more like a top-down **Ḥananiah decree**. Drawing on Barnea’s study, we’ll follow this imperial fixer as he issues orders, negotiates with governors, and navigates crises—right down to that unforgettable line, “**Khnum is against us**.” It’s a vivid window into how Yahwists in the 410s BCE lived, worshiped, and survived inside an Achaemenid system.
From there, we pivot north to identity: who got to call themselves “**Israel**” in the Persian and Ptolemaic eras? Using Barnea’s work on early Samarian identity, we trace the surprising revival of “Israel” as an ethnonym, shifts in divine-name spellings (YW → YHW), Samarian coinage that mirrors imperial iconography, and diaspora inscriptions from places like Delos and Egypt. The emerging picture centers on *Mount Gerizim* and temple-tax networks—evidence that Samaria often outpaced Yehud in the 4th century when it came to visible institutions and reach.
Why does this matter? Because it’s the machinery of identity being built in real time: imperial administration, names and coins, petitions and temples, propaganda and practice. If you’ve ever asked when Torah observance becomes historically tangible, or who drew the boundaries of “Israel,” this conversation connects the dots—with receipts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_Ahikar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok1dNzzmLDk
Yesterday I had a dream about a Mossad agent blowing up a plane and parachuting like a boss. Writing it down to avoid the oopsie with the elephants swimming before the Al Aqsa flood.
While texting a person, I recalled that I don't truly believe existence to be limited exclusively to pain and pleasure. Because to me, also duty exists - to the inner feeling of beauty. In this vein, I would be inspired by Savitri Devi, Hitler's priestess; although I don't know how to deal with the general crass materialism of any successful blood collective (Koreans eating octopusses).
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Era of total intel agency control (CIA over America)? [schizo warning]
I'm a follower of one Russian youtuber whose ideas are apparently like this. In the feudal age, the elite was changing itself in constantly bloodletting of civil strife. In the absolutist age, the remaining nobility could still kill the king/emperor, and eventually in the French and Russian revolutions the entire class was exterminated. This has led to what is today a democratic system where the president and ministers are superficially interchangeable but decide nothing because they're all controlled by intel services from behind the scenes with pedophile porn blackmail on every statesman.
What would your thoughts be on such a model? For the evidence, he points to how brutal the war in the Ukraine is, but Putin and Trump are both chums with each other. And how Russia could easily destroy the Dnieper bridges in the Ukraine, but chooses not to - apparently forbidden by the CIA/KGB intel service to disarm Russia for a NATO invasion.
Other cases of collusion between different statesmen for the sole purpose of advancing the interests of the compromised and cancer-ridden American state would be:
1) Yugoslavia's Miloshevich who signed the Dayton agreement in 1995 leading to a surrender in 1999;
2) Syria's Assad with the Astana accords in 2021 with deescalation zones for the rebels which allowed them to regroup and strike back in 2024;
3) Iran's ayatollah who allowed both the Hamas and Hezbollah to be destroyed peacemeal without helping them;
4) Russia's Putin who has only ever attacked in the only fortified region of the front for 3.5 years and is now trying to sign another rotten peace deal.
I'm likely sounding really silly right now, I'm downgrading myself to the Russian parts of my brain when talking about this. In English, it would likely be called "conspiracy theory"? But isn't the role of the CIA kinda common knowledge these days? And my question is about how WIAH never ever mentions it. Of course, there's another question as to how much any elite can control (and/or engineer?) a society without it breaking apart. According to some, the fall of the USSR was a controlled demolition, too.
Another aspect of his ideas is that America infected with the CIA finds China its enemy because China lacks the intelligence agencies and mercilessly culls its elite preventing corruption and is thus impervious to being infected itself. This is why America needs to start a nuclear war with China, but before that destroy the Russian nuclear arsenal - which is exactly what Putin is doing (alongside useless projects such as Poseidon, Avangard and Oreshnik or nuclear icebreakers).
Another blogger whom I follow has said that the Krokus terror attack involved a Russian policeman cutting off a terrorist's ear, and that it happened on Purim where cookies are baked in the form of ears (oznei haman), thus linking to a ritualistic significance. This line of thinking would view the Ukraine war not as disarming Russia but more in the way of religious slaughter (because again, destroying the Dnieper bridges or going around Donbass are never even considered by the Russians).
Again, apologies for copious schizo, but nothing of this can even be found in the Anglosphere. All you have is either the liberals saying Trump is Putin's slave, or the Z-anon bloggers such as MacGregor, Ritter, Napolitano, Mearsheimer or Jeffrey Sachs claiming Putin is playing 4D chess. Russians overall are at least diverse in their views, but I don't see any critique of their models.
1) 2016-18 I was just indoors getting less depressed and more relaxed;
2) 2018-23 I went to a tiny local uni which was fun;
3) 2020 was a corona time which was fun;
4) 2022 was the war time which was fun;
5) but 2023 it started being dull, I could no longer attend uni, AND a random allegedly JP girl contacted me and we talked for 2 months, and she was insanely intelligent but sorrowful and it impressed me really hard; thus making my previous existence no longer tenable since.