David Bottomley's Blog

With the help of advanced AI, combined with my own research regarding translations of the Bible and other narratives, I have compiled a synthesized creation story which integrates the various creation stories from around the world, of which there are many, and the striking commonalities they all share.  I use citations primarily from the Septuagint, as that is the oldest version of the Bible's Old Testament that we have today and its accuracy has been confirmed by the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient versions we have discovered.  The Septuagint is also the version used by Jesus most often, when citing the Old Testament. In the beginning, before time as we know it, lay the Primordial Chaos , almost universally envisioned as vast, dark, Formless Waters or a Void . This state is explicitly described in Genesis (LXX Gen 1:2 – "invisible and unformed," "darkness over the deep [Tehom]"), directly mirroring the boundless waters of Nun in Egyptian cosmology from whic...

I was called to jury duty along with about 45 other people to form a jury of 14 people - 12 jurors and 2 alternate jurors.  The experience reminded me of the importance of understanding our history and our Constitutional rights.  This was a felony criminal case, so the defendant faced substantial punishment, and that person is depending on their fellow citizens to do their civic duty and find not only the truth, but justice .  As you will see, those two are not necessarily one and the same.  It is critically important for us, as citizens, to take jury duty seriously and understand what is being asked of us.  Unfortunately, the judge and the attorneys, during the jury questioning process, not only failed to explain those rights, but they go out of their way to imply that as a juror, you "can only follow the law" in deciding the case.  There were many questions of potential jurors from the attorneys asking "can you follow the law as the judge explains it" and...