Ma Anand Puja the Filipina Nurse Who Poisoned An Oregon Town

Wild Wild Country is a documentary currently streaming on Netflix about a cult that took over an Oregon, USA town in the early 1980's. At six hours the series is largely comprehensive but leaves out a lot of details and barely scratches the surface of how evil this cult was. Based around an Indian guru named Rajneesh the devotees were called Rajneeshees or sannyasins. 

The documentary is readily available and there are other videos about this cult all over Youtube. If you know nothing about them go watch the Netflix series or some of the other videos or read the Wikipedia entry. What I want to discuss here is one particular follower of Rajneesh known as Ma Anand Puja. 

  

Was born in Manila in 1947 as Diane Ivonne Onang, and grew up in California. She became a registered nurse in California in 1976 and trained at the LA County Hospital. In the years following her certification, Puja claims to have worked in clinics around Asia including the Philippines and Indonesia from 1977-1979, but in other interviews she claims to have been the director of Kern Country Medical Centre for several years during the same period. Whatever the case, she was in India in 1979 where she came into contact with sannyasins and the Pune one ashram.  After becoming a sannyasin,  astonishingly quick,  she became Director of the Rajneesh Health Centre in 1980,  until she fled with Sheela from Rajneeshpuram in September, 1985.

http://sannyasnews.org/now/archives/4933

The personal details about this lady are scant. She was born in Manila, immigrated to America at a young age, trained as a nurse, joined the cult, and eventually became the Director of the Rajneesh Health Centre. That is an ironic name because it was at the health centre where Ma Anand Puja cultured germs which she used to poison the town The Dalles, Oregon. It is also where she stored the Haldol which was used to drug the beer given to homeless people the cult invited to live with them. This was to keep them subdued. She also attempted to cultivate and weaponise the AIDS virus. In effect the health centre was a laboratory of death and disease.

The background story to all this is that in 1981 The Rajneesh cult immigrated en masse from India to Oregon. After a few years they attempted to take over the county. To do so they needed enough votes to change the county board. Oregon has a law that one only need live in the state for 20 days to become a registered voter. In a flash of genius the leaders of the cult sent out members around the country to bus in hundreds of homeless people who would in turn register to vote and consolidate the cult's power in the county. But the plan backfired and none of the homeless men were allowed to register to vote. In retribution it was decided to poison the town so no one would be able to show up on election day. 

The documentary Wild Wild Country does not answer the question of how the cult was able to obtain drugs and germs. But the book Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War gives us a lot more detail. I will quote at length from this book.

The investigation eventually established that the cult had experimented in 1984 and 1985 with poisons, chemicals, and bacteria. The commune's germ-warfare chief was a thirty-eight year-old American nurse of Philippine origin who had been a close ally of Sheela's since their days in Poona, India. Ma Anand Puja, whose real name was Diane Ivonne Onang, supervises medical care at the commune. One of the "Big Moms," as the commune's three women leaders were known, Puja wielded enormous power. 

A stocky woman with narrow eyes, a fixed sneer, and jet-black hair, Puja was known to some sannyasins as "Nurse Mengele." She was obsessed with poisons, germs, and disease. 

David Barry Knapp, known as Krishna Deva, or K.D., the mayor of Rajneeshpuram, later testified for the prosecution after being taken into a federal witness-protection program. He said that Puja had given Haldol, a powerful tranquilliser, to many of the violent. mentally disturbed homeless people whom the cult had brought to the ranch to help win the county elections. Acting under orders from Puja and Sheela, sannyasins had injected hypodermic syringes filled with the prescription drug into tea consumed by the homeless. They has also stirred it into their mashed potatoes.

Another key witness told prosecutors that when state medical authorities asked Puja to account for the large Haldol purchases, she ordered her assistants to fabricate records to disguise its actual use. Several had left the commune rather than break the law. 

Puja was responsible for buying the prescription and over-the-counter drugs that the Rajneesh Medical Corporation kept in the Pythagoras pharmacy, as well as its medical supplies. 

Because she headed a medical corporation, she was entitled to buy such products from commercial medical supply companies like VWR Scientific and even obtain dangerous pathogens from the American Type Culture Collection, the giant private germ bank located first in Maryland and later in Virginia from which doctors, clinics, and hospitals order germs for research and standard diagnostic tests. 

An invoice from the ATCC shows that the cult ordered and received a variety of such pathogens, among them the Salmonella type, said Skeels, people would almost certainly have died in the outbreak. 

The invoice also listed Salmonella paratyphoid, which causes a similar illness, though not a severe, and, most startling of all, Francisella tularensis, which causes tularaemia, a debilitating and sometimes fatal disease. U.S. Army scientists in the 1950s had turned F. tularensis into a weapon, and is still remains on the nation's list of germs a foe might use in a biological-warfare attack.

Finally Puja had obtained orders of Enterobacter cloacae, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and Shigella dysenteriae. Fewer than one hundred organisms of shigella are needed to cause very sever dysentery-profuese diarrhoea, bloody mucoid stools, and cramping-and death in as many as 10 to 20 percent of all cases, even in previously healthy persons. 

The ATCC invoice was dated September 25, 1984, indicating that the agents had been delivered between the two waves of the salmonella outbreak. 

No pathogens ordered from the germ bank were ever found at the ranch, and the order's implications got little attention. The investigation had begun more than a year after the poisonings, giving the cult time to destroy evidence before the authorities obtained search warrants. When the invoices were seized in the search, they were not shown to health officials who would have understood their significance. But those officials, who learned of the orders only years later, considered both the agents and the timing of their arrival at the ranch ominous. Skeels said that Francisella tualarensis, Salmonella typhi, Salmonella paratyphi, and Shigella dysenteriae were all unnecessary in a clinical lab the size of Puja's. And all these bacteria, he said, could have been used for bioterrorism. 

Puja was also particularly fascinated by the AIDS virus, about which relatively little was known at the time. The Bhagwan had predicted that the virus would destroy two-thirds of the world's population. For Puja, it was a means of control and intimidation. She repeatedly tried to culture it for use as a germ weapon against the cult's ever-growing enemies. Her apparent failure was not for lack of effort. After she was told by a technician at the ranch, for instance, that her lab lacked the necessary equipment to stabilise and dry the virus, the corporation promptly bought a "quick-freeze dryer" in September 1984. 

Experts doubted that Puja had the skills, expertise, or supplies needed to culture the AIDS virus or the other dangerous pathogens she had ordered, But several sannyasins told the police that in at least one instance she had injected blood drawn from a homeless man who had tested positive for the AIDS antibody into the veins of a cult rival. The fate of the man is unknown.

State and federal investigators eventually concluded that the plot to poison people in The Dalles with a biological agent, which involved about a dozen people, had grown out of the cult's legal war with the county and its determination to win control of the country government in the November elections. 

Sometime during the spring of 1984, according to sworn affidavits and court testimony in 1985 and 1986, the commune's inner circle began brainstorming about how the commune's four thousand or so members could defeat the roughly twenty thousand residents of Wasco County. At one meeting, Sheel fastened on the idea of making non-Rajneeshees too sick to vote. Together, she and Puja began reading books like How to Kill:Volumes 1-4, and The Handbook of Poisons, trying to locate various bacteria that would sicken people without killing them. They also asked a urologist at Puja's clinic about poisons and bacteria that would be difficult to trace. The urologist, apparently unalarmed since he was told the women were trying to defend the commune against germ attacks by the Rajneeshees' numerous enemies, mentioned salmonella as a possibility.

Rajneeshpuram's mayor, K.D., told another cult member that Puja did some experiments with a hepatitis virus and had initially considered using it to sicken local residents. Puja also proposed using Salmonella typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever, which she wound up purchasing for the lab. But a Rajneesh Medical Corporation lab technician warned her that orders of typhoid cultures would be easy to trace if an outbreak occurred. As far as K.D. knew, the plan was never implemented. 

K.D. also testified that Puja had considered sickening people by putting dead rodents-rats and mice-into the water system. Puja believed that daed beavers would be especially effective because they harboured a natural pathogen-Giardia lambda, which causes diarrhoea. When other plotters complained that the county's water reservoirs were covered by screens, K.D. recalled, someone "jokingly" suggested that the beavers be put in a blundered and liquified.

Sheela and Puja finally settled on Salmonella typhimurium as their germ weapon of choice, known by the American Type Culture Collection's designation 14028. Before they began plotting in the spring of 10984, the cult ordered bactrol disks from VWR Scientific, the Seattle-based company. Puja then used the bacteria in the disks to culture and produce large amounts of the bacteria in a part of her lab known as the "Chinese Laundry." Ava Kay Avalos, known as Ma Ava, another star prosecution witness who was granted partial immunity, said that the lab was later moved, at another technician's insistence, to a complex closer to where people with AIDS and other infectious diseases were kept-a more isolated part of the ranch. 

Two rooms in the A-frame housed the production unit, with its gloves, masks, white robes, pills, syringes, containers, a large freeze dryer, and what Ava described as a small, green "apartment-type refrigerator" in which Puja kept the petri dishes filled with colonies of salmonella.

Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War, pages 26 - 29.

Known as Nurse Mengele this lady was obsessed with germs and disease. Her status as director of the health centre enabled her to purchase bacteria and germ cultures in large quantities.  She was also able to purchase large doses of Haldol. She attempted to culture the AIDS virus and even injected a rival with AIDS infected blood. And it was all in an effort to control and intimidate people both cult members and Oregonians.

More can be read about her doings at the cult in eyewitness testimony given by Ava Kay Avalos. Watching the documentary one gets the sense that Ma Anand Sheela was the brains and brawn behind the activities of the cult but the testimony points to Puja being the real wielder of that power.

Puja subsequently plead guilty and was sentenced to almost 20 years in prison.

Another commune leader, Ma Anand Puja, was sentenced to 4 1/2 years for conspiracy in the salmonella poisonings, to be followed by 3 years probation for wiretapping. Puja, a 38-year-old Filipino who led the commune’s Rajneesh Medical Corp., is not required to leave the country. 

On the state charges, Wasco County Circuit Judge John Jelderks sentenced Sheela to 20 years in prison and Puja to 15 years for attempting to murder the doctor and assaulting the county officials. Sheela also was sentenced to 20 years for arson. Prosecutors said, however, that Sheela would be in prison only about 4 1/2 years.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-07-23-mn-21578-story.html

Remarkably she only served 39 months in prison before she was released.

Ma Anand Puja, 40, also known as Diane Yvonne Onang, was released from the federal prison at Pleasanton, Calif., Thursday after nearly 39 months behind bars, including time spent in a German jail before she was extradited to the United States in late 1985. 

Puja's plea bargain called for her to serve three years' probation following her release from prison for her role in the electronic eavesdropping network, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Baron Sheldahl of Portland.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/12/31/Gurus-ex-aide-back-in-Oregon-after-prison/1337599547600/

What happened to her subsequently is not very clear. She is not interviewed in the documentary and the filmmakers do not focus on her but rather on Ma Anand Sheela. It is rather strange that this lady who poisoned an entire town only served 39 months of a 20 year sentence. Very strange indeed. Unless, that is, this cult was infiltrated by the CIA and run like their MKULTRA operations and Puja worked for them as some have opined. Stranger things have happened.

The God Culture: Jewish Fables

What do you get when you romanticize and fetishize a people overlooking their inherent qualities and ignoring their actual state of being? You get the myth of the noble savage. In the Philippines no one is more guilty of holding to that myth than Timothy Jay Schwab of the God Culture and Kyle Jennerman of Becoming Filipino. Those two men are like peas in a pod. While they inhabit different ends of the ideological spectrum both treat Filipinos the same way. To Tim and Kyle Filipinos as they are cease to exist and instead become the idealized fantasies they wish for them to be.  Let's take a look.

First up, the God Culture. From the 100 Clues Series, Clue#25: Philippines is Ophir: Magellan, Pinto, Barbosa, King of Spain, Cabot KNEW - Ophir, Tarshish. 

https://youtu.be/NGz-gWv46K4

The majority of this video is a justification of Magellan's falsification of Barbosa's book as if that is evidence that Magellan was prescient and knew the location and identification of the Philippines as Ophir and Tarshish. That does not concern us here. It is the first few minutes which are important. Tim quotes an Anglican churchman quoting a Jew who allegedly located some of the lost tribes in the Philippines.

Starting at 2:00

First to follow up on Columbus from our last video. We said Columbus in his margin notes and journal had initially found in his research the location of Ophir, Tarshish, the Garden of Eden, and some of the lost tribes of Israel all in the Philippines in fact. He was not the only one however in his era. 

Now, this original writing is lost to history but preserved in an 1846 book by Rev. Thomas Stackhouse.  Stackhouse records that Italian-Jewish scholar and contemporary to Columbus, Farrisol, reached the very same conclusion regarding the lost tribes. He says the lost tribes of Israel are in, for one,...THE PHILIPPINES!  Huh? Ever hear that one in your history class? Yeah. Us either. 

Gee, these Italian-Jews were searching hard for the lost tribes in the Philippines. And why? Well just look at what Columbus did to what he thought were the lost tribes of Israel in Haiti. He enslaved them and took their gold and resources. That's pleasant. And Magellan was headed in the same direction until of course he lost his head that is.  

The Spanish continued to repeat the same pattern. Columbus is cited to acquire this gold for the rebuilding of Jerusalem. Yet the funny thing is if he believed these were lost tribes, knowing the prophecy that they are to return to Jerusalem would they not be a brother to a fellow Jew? It makes one wonder if Columbus and his brand of Jew were even Hebrews in the first place. Hmm. We'll leave that one for another time.   

If Tim had actually read the source he is quoting he would have saved much time and effort because he would have ended up chucking it into the garbage and not giving it another look. By this point it should be no surprise that Tim does not thoroughly read his sources, gleans from them whatever supports his thesis while tossing the rest, and that he manipulates them rather shamelessly to make them say what he wants them to say. Sometimes he disdains the need for sources entirely! In the video for Clue #53 he makes this incredible statement at 18:00:

Thomas Suarez's book just to glean something that is actually common knowledge and doesn't require a source even. Talk about a non-issue!  

https://youtu.be/ffA5sWIdXI4?t=1075

Talk about fallacious reasoning! Who knew the the locations of Chryse and Argyre and the Turin map, all things he "gleans" from Suarez, are just plain old common knowledge like how rubbing Vicks on your feet will cure everything?  Is it any wonder that one cannot reason with this guy when in pursuit of his thesis he chucks all reason to the curb?

The section of this book Tim quotes from actually starts on page 648 and is titled, "Of the Transportation of the Ten Tribes and Their Return." After briefly discussing the dispersion of the Ten Tribes Stackhouse writes:

Such, with very small exception, has been the case of this unhappy people, ever since the time of the Assyrian captivity; and yet, such is their pride and arrogance, that instead of owning the truth, they have devised fables of their living all along in great prosperity and grandeur in some unknown land, as a national and united body, in an independent state, and under monarchies or republics of their own. So, that before we begin to inquire into the real places of their transportation, and some other circumstances thereunto belonging, it may not be amiss to examine a little the merit of these pretensions, and what foundation they have for such mighty boasts. 

It is the pretension of the Jews to locate their lost brethren as living in the nether parts of the world in prosperity and grandeur.  Before discussing where the tribes have been located he mentions the oft quoted passage from 2 Esdras 13:40-45 which it would not be amiss to quote here:

40 Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land.  

41 But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt,  

42 That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land.  

43 And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river.  

44 For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over.  

45 For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth. 

https://biblia.com/bible/kjvapoc/2-esdras/13/40-45

These are the key verses which serve as a prooftext for any number of lost tribes theories, Tim's included.  Rev. Stackhouse is less enthusiastic about the entire book of 2 Esdras than Tim.

In short, this counterfeit Esdras, who seems to have been a Christian, and to have lived about the end of the first, or the beginning of the second century, is not only so inconsistent in his account of this, and several other transactions, but so fond of uncertain traditions, and so romantic and fabulous about the divine inspiration which he boasts of, that there is no credit to be given to what he says, a concerning the retreat of the ten tribes into an unknown land.

It is not only Esdras whom Stackhosue accuses of being fond of the romantic and fabulous. He also accuses Farissol, a man whom Timothy thinks is telling the absolute truth, of spouting fantastic nonsense and forgeries.

Another Jewish author, in his description of the world, has found out very commodious habitations for the ten tribes, and in many places has given them a glorious establishment. In a country which he calls Perricha, inclosed by unknown mountains, and bounded by Assyria, he has settled some, and made them a flourishing and populous kingdom. Others he places in the desert of Chabor, which, according to him, lies upon the Indian sea, where they live, in the manner of the ancient Rechabites, without houses, sowing, or the use of wine. Nay, he enters the Indies likewise, and peoples the banks of the Ganges, the isles of Bengala, the Philippines, and several other places, with the Jews, to whom he assigns a powerful king, called Daniel, who had three other kings tributary, and dependent on him. But this is all of the same piece, a forged account to aggrandize the nation, and to make it be believed, that the sceptre is not departed from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, and that Shiloh consequently is not yet come. 

Stackhouse then describes other alleged locations of the lost tribes such as in the New World among the American Indians, rejects them all, and concludes:

Thus we have endeavoured to find out the situation of the ten tribes of Israel, and yet can meet with nothing, but either the fabulous accounts of the Talmudists, or the uncertain conjectures of modern critics; let us now have recourse to the Scriptures, and know what the information is that they can supply us with, in this our inquiry. 

Rev. Stackhouse dismisses the writings of Farissol and the rest of the Jews concerning the lost tribes out of hand as nothing but "the fabulous accounts of the Talmudists." On Farissol's Wikipedia page there is a link to the book "Chapters on Jewish Literature."  

Chapters on Jewish Literature

Chapter 20 of this book is titled "Traveller's Tales" and is all about the fabulous tales of Jews and how they located the lost tribes in sundry places throughout the world during their travels. Farissol is mentioned in this chapter very briefly. The point here is to say that the writings of Farissol and his fellow Jews, including Columbus, are nothing but fantastic falsehoods. The dreams of a dispossessed people longing to regain their former glory. The Jews have placed the lost tribes in every nook and cranny of the world, the Philippines included. But no one believes any of their fevered fantasies just like no one believes in the legends of Prester John, El Dorado, Sir John Mandeville, Chryse and Argyre, or the Fountain of Youth. Except perhaps Tim and the God Culture.

Contrary to what Tim claims in his video Farissol's book is not lost to history. In fact here is the Latin/Hebrew edition on Google Books.

Abraham Farissol

This Renaissance-era tome is referenced in the 2013 book "The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History" by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite. A PDF of that book can be downloaded from this link. The "Philippines" does not appear in its pages despite the author discussing where Farissol, Columbus, and other writers locate the lost tribes. He writes the following on page 133:

Farissol’s actual treatment of the ten tribes is rather disappointing, despite the fact that they appear as a distinct item in the title page of the Igeret and although he dedicates a whole chapter to David. Farissol does not have much new to report and, by his own admission, resorts to the familiar Talmudic “India.” The big change is that he includes the tribes for the first time within a real charted geography.

On page 180:

In Farissol’s Igeret (which he cites), the ten tribes are in the old southern location somewhere between Arabia and India. 

"Somewhere between Arabia and India." Not the Philippines. Either Benite is not telling us everything Farissol wrote about the locations of the lost tribes or Stackhouse is reading Farissol wrong. Either way Tim has not read Farissol and should not be citing him. That he does so is more evidence of the poor research which permeates his videos. No serious researcher would use hearsay as evidence for his claims yet this is what Tim does by quoting Farissol. He bases many of his assertions that the Israelites made their way to the Philippines in this video and in others on one paragraph in Stackhouse's book which is not even a quotation from Farissol but is only a brief summation of what he allegedly wrote. I challenge Tim with all his Hebraic linguistic skills to translate Farissol into English so we can read what he actually wrote about the lost tribes being located in the Philippines.

What's really interesting to note here is that Tim presents Stackhouse as an authority.

A vicar of the Church of England no less. Yeah, we'll keep an eye on this guy too as he quotes a Pharisee trying to figure out the markers but there is something to this once again and his interpretation is not necessarily off it's actually pretty good so we wish to share it.

https://youtu.be/xv3QPH4UGOI?t=2382

But he declines to tell his listeners about Stackhouse's negative remarks concerning Farissol and all the other Jews who attempted to locate the lost tribes. With this partial quote it appears as if Stackhouse is presenting Farissol in a positive light when just the opposite is true. He completely misrepresents the good Rev. Thomas Stackhouse. As with all the other sources Tim uses they are only authoritative insofar as they further his agenda. He "gleans" what he will and tosses out the rest as chaff. It is simply more deception and intellectual dishonesty on Tim's part. He can be found using this source in the same way in the following videos:

Where Did the Lost Tribes of Israel Go? Part 2C: Ophir, Philippines? THE HISTORY Continued

Lost Tribes Series Part 2G: The Landing of the 2nd Exodus In Ophir, Philippines

In those two videos he takes Stackhouse's account of Farissol's work and put's it to a historical test resulting in some of the silliest linguistic gymnastics like in the following slide:

https://youtu.be/xv3QPH4UGOI?t=2558

Farissol allegedly located some of the tribes in a place called Perricha. Tim shows just what a cunning linguist he is by telling us that Perricha sounds like Pharisee which sounds like Persia which means Kurdistan! Tah-dah! The Kurds are also part of the lost tribes. It must be heard to be believed and I encourage all to click the link beneath the slide.

What Timothy Schwab is doing by referring to Farissol as a genuine historical source is perpetuating Jewish fables.  Why did Thomas Stackhouse dismiss Farissol and other Jews locations of the lost tribes as "the fabulous accounts of the Talmudists" but Timothy Jay Schwab embrace him? Why are Jewish fables which the Apostle Paul said to reject (Titus 1:4, 1 Tim 1:4) exalted to the status of Gospel truth for Tim? Because Tim is at heart a Judaizer. He takes his Christianity scattered, smothered, and covered with Judaism and he encourages others to do the same. Timothy Jay Schwab's message is not simply that Filipinos are members of the lost tribes but that they must also worship God in a Jewish manner. They can begin to do this by keeping the Sabbath and the Biblical feasts. Look at this comment from one of Tim's videos about the Feasts of YHWH.

https://youtu.be/IfDwuaXYnTc

Worshipping on the Sabbath and lighting a shabbat candle gets an, "Awesome!! Yah Bless," from Tim. But far more than Saturday worship is on Tim's mind. He envisions the Philippines as being of vital importance to all of humanity in learning the correct manner of worshipping God.

Starting at 22:08 in the video "Feasts of YHWH: Spring Feasts in New Testament? Part 1A."

Obviously there is no temple in Israel today so no actual need to go there although certainly visit that's fine. But we don't need that anymore. In fact watch our Solomon's Gold series and you will find His Holy of Holies on earth has always been permanently in the Garden of Eden which we locate in the Philippines. And the one in Israel was very temporary of course. Thus everyone should really travel to  the Philippines for these feasts. How about that? Something to think about. And this is why we say that the Philippines is where they will reinstate these feasts in full especially.

If that is not fetishizing and romanticizing Filipinos and the Philippines then I don't know what is. Not only are Filipinos members of the lost tribes but the Holy of Holies is right here in the Philippines in the Garden of Eden and everyone should travel here to keep the feasts. The Philippines is not only the home of God's people, it is the home of God Himself! 

How much more ludicrous can this guy get? In an earlier post I wondered if Tim might be an actual heretic and here he is being an actual heretic, a Judaizer! Telling people to keep the feasts, which Jesus fulfilled, despite admitting to not even knowing the proper calendrical calculations. (Feasts of YHWH 1A). Telling people to return to the schoolmaster which was supposed to lead us to Christ. Telling people that they are both children of the bondwoman and the free. (Galatians 3-4) Telling people that there has been no changing of the law even though there has been a change of the priesthood. (Hebrews 7:12) He is so Judaized that he can not even bring himself to use the names Jesus, God, or Lord but resorts to using his own Hebrew configurations of Yahua and Yahusha. Listen at 7:52 of Feasts of YHWH 1A where he reads from Matthew and corrects the name of Jesus with the fake name of Yahusha. Better still go watch his Name of God video series and hear just how Judaized the man really is as he tells us all what the REAL names of God and Jesus are.

Watching Tim's Feasts of YHWH videos is quite painful. It is painfully obvious he does not understand basic Christianity or Church History. When he speaks about Easter Tim makes the outlandish and easily disprovable accusation that Constantine entered into a conspiracy with the Bishops to censor and cover up the truth of Passover. Since he rejects what was decreed at Nicea concerning Easter it is almost certain that he also rejects the faith which was promulgated at Nicea and enshrined in the Nicean Creed. Does Tim believe in the Trinity or not?

 Let's hear in their own words why the Bishops rejected the Jewish Passover:

When the question relative to the sacred festival of Easter arose, it was universally thought that it would be convenient that all should keep the feast on one day; for what could be more beautiful and more desirable, than to see this festival, through which we receive the hope of immortality, celebrated by all with one accord, and in the same manner? It was declared to be particularly unworthy for this, the holiest of all festivals, to follow the custom of the Jews, who had soiled their hands with the most fearful of crimes, and whose minds were blinded. In rejecting their custom, we may transmit to our descendants the legitimate mode of celebrating Easter, which we have observed from the time of the Saviour's Passion to the present day [according to the day of the week]. We ought not, therefore, to have anything in common with the Jews, for the Saviour has shown us another way; our worship follows a more legitimate and more convenient course (the order of the days of the week); and consequently, in unanimously adopting this mode, we desire, dearest brethren, to separate ourselves from the detestable company of the Jews, for it is truly shameful for us to hear them boast that without their direction we could not keep this feast. How can they be in the right, they who, after the death of the Saviour, have no longer been led by reason but by wild violence, as their delusion may urge them? They do not possess the truth in this Easter question; for, in their blindness and repugnance to all improvements, they frequently celebrate two passovers in the same year. We could not imitate those who are openly in error. How, then, could we follow these Jews, who are most certainly blinded by error? for to celebrate the passover twice in one year is totally inadmissible.

http://www.futuresgood.com/council_of_nicea.html

The Bishops of Nicea set the date of Easter the way they did in the name of unity and to separate themselves from the Jews. Tim on the other hand wants to be a Jew. He even wants to discover lost Jews. As of this writing he has made almost two hundred videos just to prove Filipinos are members of the lost tribes of Israel.  Tim has swallowed the Talmudic fables of Farissol, Columbus, and others to the point that he proclaims the Philippines as being the Garden of Eden wherein resides the Holy of Holies! Never mind that man will NEVER RETURN to the Garden of Eden. (Genesis 3:23-24) Never mind that the Holy of Holies is not on earth but in heaven where Christ entered in to obtain eternal redemption for us. (Hebrews 9) Never mind that all Tim believes about the Philippines and Filipinos is "a farrago of nonsense that is contravened by a multitude of eyewitness accounts, inconvenient facts, and simple common sense." Never mind any of that. Filipinos are Israelites. Farissol says so. Columbus says so. Magellan says so. Timothy Jay Schwab says so. End. Of. Story.

It should come as no surprise that Tim would utilize one of Kyle Jennerman's videos in his own video series. After all these two are practically cut from the same cloth. Here is Kyle "Kulas" Jennerman starring in Clue #14.

https://youtu.be/2wOr9SHludQ

If you look closely you can see in TINY FONT at the bottom of the title cards for each of the God Culture's videos a copyright notice telling the viewer:

Re-uploading this video to Youtube in part to whole is prohibited.

Did Tim receive Kyle Jennerman's permission to use his video about Romblon? Or is Tim doing to Kyle exactly what he prohibits others from doing to him? He did place a notice in the bottom corner  of this video while Kyle was on screen saying:

Editorial use only 

As if that excuses him from cribbing Kyle's entire video minus 30 seconds.  The original can be viewed here.

See also how Tim places Kyle's information in TINY FONT in the bottom right corner which blends into the background sometimes and is partially obscured by the God Culture logo? That is all the mention Kyle gets. Not once does Tim bother to thank Kyle or mention him either in the video or in the description or any of the links he posted in the comment section. How rude is that? To use this man's video to further his agenda and barely acknowledge him!

To make matters worse this video is monetized!

That means Tim and the God Culture are making money, however little, off Kyle's video! And they can't even give him a proper shout-out!? Incredible!

Kyle is very different from Tim because Kyle actually wants to become a Filipino. Now that may be a little hyperbolic but not really. I don't think it's a schtick either.  My take is that Kyle hates himself. He has grown up in Canada being bombarded by all the propaganda telling him that the White Man is the bane of all existence, the root of all evil and he has taken that to heart.  He is alienated from himself and his culture which the media has constantly told him is the worst thing on Earth. You see Kyle, just like Tim, has also believed in Jewish fables. During his travels he ends up in the Philippines and he falls in love with Filipinos and Filipino culture which he sees as more innocent, more pure, and thus morally superior to his own people and culture. Filipinos love "Kulas" and he loves them.  He loves them so much that he wants to be one of them even going so far as to excuse their glaring faults, like a penchant for violence, as stereotypes.

Remember that time in May 2017 when Kyle whined on Facebook about how his parents could not visit him in Mindanao because the Canadian government issued a notice to avoid all travel to that island?

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2017/05/canadian-blogger-dismisses-terrorism-in.html

I believe that the first step is changing perception here in the Philippines... because from personal experience that word has a lot of negative stereotyping and generalizing attached to it here locally and spread by local people. If we can all start spreading positive education about this part of the Philippines, I believe it can help fight back at these incredibly difficult advisories

And then do you remember how after writing all that the Marawi siege happened and Mindanao was placed under martial law only two weeks later? Some stereotype, huh! Just goes to show how boneheaded Kyle is and that despite having lived here for so long he knew nothing about the people of Mindanao. Has he learned anything in the past 3 years? Probably not.

Tim has also moved to the Philippines. No more Mr. Florida. Now he is Mr. Somehwere North of Manila. Even though both Tim and Kyle live in this nation they really don't live here.  They live in a Philippines of their own making populated by Filipinos created in their own image. For Tim they are God's chosen people, Israelites, who are asleep to their true origin and ultimate destiny and need to be awakened so they can Rise Up. For Kyle they are noble savages untainted by the stain of modern civilization, always smiling and full of love for strangers. Of course there is much to be said for the theory that we each live in a Philippines, nay a world, of our own perceptions.

The God Culture: Dishonestly Edited Videos

It was my intent in three blog posts to look at the God Culture's claims and give them an honest critique.  I posted links to two of those blogs on the God Culture's Facebook page so they would have a chance to respond. Instead of dealing with the issues I raised they insulted me and made emotional appeals while copping an attitude of victory as if my criticisms were nothing and they did not care what I had to say. All the while behind the scenes it appears I really struck a nerve so much so that Tim and his gang have taken the time to remove and edit three of the very videos I criticized. I am aware they edited a few other videos too but I didn't watch those so I won't comment on them.

Here is the message they left on my previous post:

There is nothing erroneous in our research. A YouTube Channel quoting a source is normal. It is rare a YT channel sites anywhere near as much as we have and this is a ludicrous track of negative nothing. We have been updating our videos with more extensive sources and even page #s so thank you for pointing this out but let us not pretend you have a gotcha because you do not and you can stop with the act. What is truly laughable is we went back and listened and we never mention Suarez in that slide at all but the Periplus. We have removed Suarez completely and we have added quotes from Nowell proving your thinking that Suarez was right is wrong and Magellan proved that. You found nothing. Enough. We have more than satisfied your questions and we changed our videos already accordingly as one seeking truth should and would. We are also focused on larger print for the sources as the one you criticized was actually even larger than 30 pt but 40 pt in our program but we do get your point on that and we are responding to that as we have responded to your questions fully. There is nothing further to discuss on these

http://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-god-culture-100-clues-philippines.html?showComment=1581003123603#c7535920846141965828

They changed their videos! I couldn't believe it but it's true.  They deleted videos 2, 3, and 4 from their 100 Clues series in order to alter them. You know I feel a little flattered.  Now if only I could get the Senate to launch a proper investigation into the causes surrounding the Marawi siege!

What did they change?  Let's take a good hard look. Here is the playlist once again.

Clue #2

This is the video where they claim that the Philippines is the ancient source of Greek gold. Here is the very first change in their slides.

Original:

Edited:

You see what Tim did here?  He excised the reference to Thomas Suarez's book "Early Mapping of Southeast Asia" from the slide. But that does not matter because he is still referencing it in the audio when he talks about Chryse and Argyre.

Contrary to what the God Culture says their reference is not in 30 or 40 point font but is in VERY TINY FONT at the bottom of the slide. If you do go to the link they provide which is https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/periplus/periplus.html you will find nothing about Argyre, the legendary island of silver, in the whole text of the "Periplus of the Erythaean Sea." Because the audio has not been changed from the original any talk of Argyre in the edited video still comes directly from Suarez who mentions Argyre by quoting Pompoinous Mela. Tim also falsifies what Mela actually wrote about Argyre by claiming it is "placed beyond the Ganges" rather than "in the vicinity of the Ganges."  Here is the quote from Saurez:

Gold and silver, in fact, characterize the earliest extant specific Western Reference to Southeast Asia. Pomponius Mela (37 - 43 A.D.), a Roman geographer and native os Southern Spain, largely carried on the Greek tradition about the East, perpetuating stories about Amazons, people without heads, griffins, and other such characters, but adds two lands which lay to the east of India. One was Chryse, said to boast soil of gold, the other, Argyre, said to have soil of silver: 

In the vicinity of Tamus is the island of Chryse, in the vicinity of the Ganges that of Argyre, According to olden writers, the soil of the former consists of gold, that of the latter is of silver and it seems very probable that either the name arises from this fact or the legend derives from the name.

Early Mapping of Southeast Asia: The Epic Story of Seafarers, Adventurers, and Cartographers Who First Mapped the Regions between China and India, Thomas Suarez, Pg 62-63

This makes the God Culture's claim:

"we never mention Suarez in that slide at all but the Periplus"

just another lie. Did Tim not realize there is no mention of Argyre in the "Periplus?" At 2:20 he says the following:

"Periplus of the Erytheaen Sea in the first century records Chryse and Argyre as being located in "the last part of the inhabited world toward the east, under the rising sun itself beyond the land of China which brought silk to India." Gee, umm I don't know which islands are east of China? Wait! Ethiopia? Nope, that's not it! Yemen?  No. India? Ugh! Someone must know their geography very well in speculating that those guys could possibly be this ancient land of gold. It's the Philippines. Oh yeah! And they also map it.  So really this is not rocket science folks."

The section highlighted in red italics shows just how condescending Tim is to his listeners. He talks this way in every single one of his videos. Here is the section from the Periplus he is referencing.  

63.   After these, the course turns toward the east again, and sailing with the ocean to the right and the shore remaining beyond to the left, Ganges comes into view, and near it the very last land toward the east, Chryse. There is a river near it called the Ganges, and it rises and falls in the same way as the Nile. On its bank is a market-town which has the same name as the river, Ganges. Through this place are brought malabathrum and Gangetic spikenard and pearls, and muslins of the finest sorts, which are called Gangetic. It is said that there are gold-mines near these places, and there is a gold coin which is called caltis. And just opposite this river there is an island in the ocean, the last part of the inhabited world toward the east, under the rising sun itself; it is called Chryse; and it has the best tortoise-shell of all the places on the Erythraean Sea.

Not only does the Periplus not mention Argyre but it locates Chryse as being near the Ganges. "Just opposite this river" in fact. Tim claims this text says it is located "beyond the land of China." Did he even read the Periplus? Or did he pick through it, combine information from elsewhere, and make up his own facts? Let' compare where Tim, Mela, and the Periplus' locate Chryse and Argyre.

Tim: Chryse is beyond the land of China and Argyre is beyond the Ganges. 

Mela: Chryse is in the vicinity of Tamus and Argyre is in the vicinity of the Ganges. 

Periplus: Chryse is near the Ganges just opposite of it and there is no mention of Argyre. 

See how Tim does not agree with the sources he is quoting? He says something completely different from both Mela and the Periplus.

Tim kept the same audio which refers to Suarez and changed the slide to appear as if he did not. He also misrepresents the Periplus as saying it mentions Argyre and that the island of Chryse lies "beyond the land of China" when it makes no mention of Argyre and clearly says Chryse lies just opposite of the Ganges. That is deception. But why be so deceptive? It doesn't make any sense and it doesn't further his cause.  It only exposes him as at best a poor researcher who misrepresents and does not read his sources and at worst a liar.

Starting at 3:26 in this video is where we get an entirely new section. In this part he quotes from a different  source, "Magellan's voyage around the world; three contemporary accounts," by Charles Nowell.

This book contains the account of Pigafetta and other documentation. Tim does not quote from any of the primary sources but only from the introductory material by Nowell. This is all rather dumbfounding because the subject of this video is the Philippines being the ancient source of Greek gold and Nowell's book says absolutely nothing about the Greeks. It's totally out of place.

Tim quotes a bit from pages 21 and 22 but I think it would behoove us to quote a little more starting on page 20 and going to page 23.

Duarte Barbosa, who wrote a geographical account of the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean and those within range of the ocean, has this to say of the Ryukyu inhabitants:  

From Malaca they take the same goods as the Chins [Chinese] take. These islands are called Lequios [in one version ‘Liquii']. The Malaca people say that they are better men, and richer and more eminent merchants than the Chins. Of these folk we as yet know but little, as they have not yet come to Malaca since it has been under the King our Lord.”  

The Duarte Barbosa who wrote this book has been identified by some with the Portuguese of the same name who became Magellan's cousin by marriage and accompanied him on his great voyage. Medina has shown that this was probably not the same man, but it makes little difference.” The Barbosa book was finished by 1516 and was available in manuscript to Magellan as he studied to complete his plan in Portugal before transferring allegiance to Spain. Magellan digested Barbosa's work and with his own hand rewrote one passage, which consisted of a list of places between the Cape of Good Hope and the Lequios that were known but not yet occupied by the Portuguese. Magellan's version substitutes for Barbosa's “Lequios” the words “Tarsis” and “Ofir.”” 

These are, of course, the biblical Tarshish and Ophir associated with Solomon and his trading partner, Hiram of Tyre. In I Kings 10:11 the statement is: “And the navy also of Hiram, that brought gold from Ophir, brought in from Ophir great plenty of almug trees, and precious stones.” II Chronicles 9:21 says: “For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.” Elsewhere these Old Testament books agree in saying that Solomon received more than four hundred talents of gold from Ophir. 

We shall not enter into the centuries-old debate as to what and where these lands actually were. The writer of I Kings certainly meant that the journey to Ophir began by way of the Red Sea, because in connection with Ophir (9:26) he says: “And the king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.” Later Christian writers for centuries associated the gold of Ophir with East Africa, but at the time of the Portuguese discoveries Ophir was thought of as the Aurea Chersonnesus (Golden Peninsula) of Ptolemy, in which that Greek geographer also placed Cattigara, mentioned by Pigafetta as the immediate transpacific goal of Magellan. But Magellan connected Solomon's treasure with something else he had read in Barbosa:  

"Facing this great land of China there are many islands in the sea, beyond which [on the other side of the sea] there is a very large land which they say is mainland, from which there come to Malacca every year three or four ships, like those of the Chins, belonging to white men who are said tobe great and rich merchants: they bring much gold, and silver in bars, silk, rich cloth, and much very good wheat, beautiful porcelains, and many other merchandises.”  

Barbosa, in mentioning this great land across the water from China, might have been referring to Japan. More likely, though, he meant the island of Taiwan, or Formosa, separated by the Gulf of Fukien from mainland China. At the time Barbosa wrote, the Portuguese can scarcely have had information about Japan. They had some regarding Formosa and the Ryukyus, whose exact latitudinal position they did not know but correctly placed northward of Malacca and the Moluccas and hence north of the equator. These are obviously what Magellan took to be Tarshish and Ophir.  

If further proof is needed that he sought these places in addition to the Moluccas, we have it in the agreement between the Spanish crown and Sebastian Cabot. On April 4, 1525, less than six years after Magellan sailed, Cabot, now pilot major of Spain, signed a contract to make much the same voyage, though with objectives more concisely stated. He offered to go with three ships through the Strait of Magellan to reach the Moluccas “and other islands and lands of Tarshish and Ophir and eastern Cathay and Cipangu.” “The Spanish government had preferred to leave the names Tarshish and Ophir out of the earlier Magellan contract, but now that the western route to the Orient had been discovered, security regulations could be relaxed to the extent of openly mentioning the biblical lands. 

We now see what Magellan's aim in the Far East was: He expected to claim for Spain the Moluccas and the lands known to Solomon and Hiram of Tyre. It remains to be shown how he expected to reach those lands, and for this we must understand his mental image of the New World across the Atlantic.

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822013755558&view=1up&seq=34

It is a long quote but rather necessary. What we see here is Magellan himself falsifying Barbosa's text and inserting "Ophir" and "Tarshish" when Barbosa had written no such thing. We also see that Nowell refers just as everyone else does, including Suarez, to the Aurea Chersonnesus as being the Golden peninsula. That is literally what the name means. But Tim discounts everything Nowell has written, admits he is a good scholar, and calls his conclusions wrong. He says at 8:44

"One blogger even said, "Why use an author if you do not agree with his conclusions?" Well, a lot can still be gleaned from the research many times so obviously it's a good thing to do that.  It is unwise not to."

Tim is not just gleaning from one author. He is gleaning from multiple sources and no one of any repute identifies the Aurea Chersonnesus as anything except the Malay peninsula.

Yes I know Tim does not quote this book. The title and subtitle is what is important.

However Tim doesn't care what any scholar says. It is Timothy Jay Schwab, (a man who is no trained cartographer, geographer, oceanographer, historian, linguist, or theologian), who is right, and all the academics who have dedicated their entire lives to studying history, languages, cartography, theology, or geography are wrong. Don't misunderstand me here. Sometimes the scholars, academics, and experts are wrong. Case in point Heinrich Schliemann the amateur archaeologist who discovered the ruins of Troy.  But what Tim is doing is rejecting a solid body of geography and history stretching back to Ptolemey which identifies the Aurea Chersonnesus as the Malay peninsula and twisting it to fit his pseudo-history of the Philippines being both the Garden of Eden and Ophir and Tarshish and Filipinos being members of the lost tribes of Israel.

Tim mentions Columbus and says the following at 9:27

Are we to now call America "Southeast Asia" because Columbus said it was Southeast Asia? Of course not. 

But this is exactly what Tim is doing with the Philippines! He is calling this place Ophir because Magellan falsified Barbosa's book and introduced the names Ophir and Tarshish. Tim is ok with this falsification.  In fact in the video "Solomon's Gold Series - Part 6: Little Known History of Ophir. Philippines History" at 7:46 Tim says the following:

https://youtu.be/12tOU7Szbpk

"In "Magellan's Voyage Around the World" the author Charles E Nowell, notes that Magellan himself had rewritten part of Barbosa's book referring to the Lequios and in his version Magellan substituted "Tarsis" and "Ofir" for the word "Lequios." So "Lequios" equals "Tarshish" and "Ophir." This is huge."

Wow this really is huge!  Magellan falsifies a book and Tim thinks what he wrote is the truth. In Tim's world truth is whatever you want it to be. Lequios is Ophir and Tarshish because Magellan said so. Just as, despite the Philippines being comprised of 7,000 islands, two tiny islands on an old map are the Philippines because Tim says so.

In numerous videos Timothy Schwab claims the two mythical islands of gold and silver, Chryse and Argyre, are Luzon and Mindanao respectively and he uses Mela's map as proof. However not only does Mela have Argyre located at the mouth of the Ganges near India while Mindanao is nowhere near India but none of the rest of the Philippines is accounted for! Tim expects us to believe that the Greeks visited the Philippines and accurately mapped the Philippines BUT somehow forgot to include the Visayas and misplaced Mindanao thousands of miles away at the mouth of the Ganges River!

The next edited slide is the one with the Greek armor.  

How can Tim with a straight face tell us at 13:56

"The thing is these are indisputably Greek from the symbols and structure and they are dated all the way back to 800 B.C. up to about 480 B.C."

when on the slide he has written "Archaeology confirmation pending?" Is it confirmed and indisputable or is the confirmation still pending? As with the first edited slide he keeps the original audio and only changes the slide. The result is a contradiction between the audio and the visual. What a boner from Tim the Joker!

Thankfully Tim listed the place where he saw this armor which is the Balanghai Hotel and Convention Center Museum in Butuan. Sadly there is no website for this hotel/museum and thus no online collection to look at.  However I was able to find a picture of the armor displayed in a glass case outside the entrance to the museum.

Why not just tell everyone the first time around where he saw it? How is anyone supposed to confirm all things when information is being withheld? 

That's it for Clue #2. Let's recap everything we have learned so far.  Tim excises Suarez as a a source but still utilizes him when talking about Argyre because the Periplus of the Erythaean Sea does not mention Argyre. He misrepresents the Periplus' location of Chryse and Mela's location of Argyre. He quotes from Nowell but ignores everything he says especially his identification of the Aurea Chersonnesus. He is ok with the fact that Magellan inserted "Ophir" and "Tarshish" into Barbosa's book thus falsifying it. He says the armor is indisputably Greek while on the slide he contradicts himself by having written "Archeological confirmation pending!"

This edited video is worse than the original because it contains blunder after blunder as Tim tries to cover up his tracks, like removing Suarez from the slide but not from the audio, and it is also about 10 minutes longer because he added the totally unnecessary section with Nowell!  Moving on.

Clue #3

This is the video where we are told Philippine gold was found in first century Egypt. My criticisms of this video were that Tim did not quote from any of the three sources he cites and one of them, J.T. Peralta, he cites erroneously. So what does Tim do to rectify this mess? Does he make a correction of the Peralta citation? No! He gets rid of Peralta altogether!

Original:

Edited:

Let's look at his new sources which are still in the same VERY TINY FONT!

Sources: Wikipedia, Ancientblogspot.ph cite 

1. Legeza, Laszlo, "Tantric Elements in pre-Hispanic Philippines Gold Art," Arts of Asia, July-Aug, 1988, pp 129-136. 

2 Villegas, Ramon N. "Ginto: History Wrought in Gold", Manila: Bangko Central ng Pilipinas", 2004

Tim in his infinite wisdom eighty-sixed the Peralta citation as if that clears everything up. If he was attempting to be honest he would have corrected the citation and not deleted it. He still does not prove to us Philippine gold was found in first century Egypt by quoting the relevant matter from the two remaining sources he listed. It is also still badly cited. What Wikipedia page is he sourcing? What is Ancientblogspot.ph? That is not even a website! It is just another boner on Tim's part. How many more boners can Tim make?

Towards the end of the video he inserts a new section which is a timeline. 

This timeline is supposed to prove that the Philippines has more gold than any nation in the world at any time. I never disputed that. What I did dispute is Tim's baseless assertion that Philippine gold has been found in first century Egypt. Since he took the time to edit this video and still did not include any quotations from Legeza or Villegas it's a safe bet he has not actually read those sources.

Clue #4

Tim edited this video but I don't care because I never took any issue with what was in the original.  The Boxer Codex shows Filipinos decked out in gold. That was never under question.

Summation and End

I only have a few more things to show before I close out. In my original post I wrote:

I can just hear Tim now excoriating me for watching only 6 videos in the 100 Clues series rather then the whole Solomon's Gold series and saying I am uninformed, a hack, and a fraud. Such would be pure deflection on Tim's part as I have already demonstrated his research is incredibly biased, faulty, and downright dishonest. If he cannot deal honestly with his sources here he won't be dealing honestly with them there either. 

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-god-culture-100-clues-philippines.html

Sure enough I was called all of those names and Tim's editing of these videos shows his outright dishonesty in dealing with sources both in the 100 Clues series and elsewhere. He may have edited out Suarez from Clue #2 and Peralta from Clue #3 but these two sources are scattered throughout the rest of his videos including the Solomon's Gold series. 

In the video for Clue #30 at 12:11 we see Timothy quoting Suarez. 

https://youtu.be/mCM371q6_AU

Of course in discussing Argyre he is compelled to cite Mela via Suarez because the "Periplus" does not mention Argyre. Remember every slide that follows which claims the Periplus locates Chryse "beyond the land of China" and Argyre "beyond the Ganges" is a lie. As I demonstrated above the Periplus does not say that nor does Mela.

Clue #33 at 21:23 contains this same quotation from Suarez.

https://youtu.be/q0zY1NYsJCA

In the video "Solomon's Gold Series Part 1C: UPHAZ GOLD & OPHIR. Origin of Gold Sheba, Tarshish, Havilah" at 8:27 we see the following slide:

https://youtu.be/jQWp_OPfEXA

In the video "Let There Be Light... Philippines? Origin of Ophir, Sheba and Havilah. 12G" at 12:58 we see this slide:

https://youtu.be/Xm6REaRW7nw

Suarez is quoted again in the video "Solomon's Gold Series - Part 6: Little Known History of Ophir. Philippines History" at both 18:19 and 19:29.

https://youtu.be/12tOU7Szbpk

https://youtu.be/12tOU7Szbpk

It is pretty clear that Thomas Suarez's book "Early Mapping of Southeast Asia" is an important source for Tim. So why did he delete it from Clue #2 when he includes it in several other videos? He still rejects what Suarez has to say as to the identification of Chryse, Argyre, and the Aurea Chersonnesus but that is no big deal to Tim who picks and chooses, or rather gleans, what will confirm his thesis like any good and honest scholar.

At 32:03, and for almost seven straight minutes, in the video "Solomon's Gold Series - Part 6: Little Known History of Ophir. Philippines History" we see the same three citations that were used to claim Philippine gold was found in first century Egypt which are Legeza, Peralta, and Villegas. But again no actual quotations from them.

https://youtu.be/12tOU7Szbpk

Look closely because those citations are in VERY TINY FONT underneath all the text. At 41:40 in the same video we see this slide:

It's the same claim of Philippine gold being found in first century Egypt with the same three citations and with no actual quotations from those sources. Tim goes on to show us not actual Philippine gold found in Egypt but the similarity between a Philippine gold necklace and an Egyptian gold necklace. As if similarity of style proves his claim. 

In the video "Solomon's Gold Series Part 1D: Testing the RESOURCES of Ancient Ophir, Tarshish, Sheba" we see the following slide at 21:39:

https://youtu.be/gG39WFEYfiU

The same claim about Egypt with the same three sources as were in the video Clue #3 before he edited it is to be found right here.  Obviously Tim thinks these three sources are important which is why they are included in the main series Solomon's Gold which he tells everyone to watch!

What is going on here? Why is Timothy Schwab and the God Culture being dishonest about their sources? Why edit information out of some videos when other videos include the exact same information? These edits do not make any sense whatsoever. They are totally absurd and don't add to the veracity of their claims. They are not even good edits because, as in Clue #2, the original audio is kept and only the slide is changed!

The God Culture has been posting HUGE BLOCKS of text in the comment section on this blog. They have insulted me, they have made appeals to emotion (like the testimony of the lawyer), and they have manifested a triumphalist attitude ignoring everything I wrote about their poor research and documentation. In comment after comment they disdain what I have written as the work of an ignorant hack. They even called me a communist agitator twelve times!

But in private it is obvious I struck a nerve or they would not have edited their videos. They put up an offensive front when they knew I was right all along as these edits prove. But the edits cannot obscure what is in the main series Solomon's Gold which is Thomas Suarez and J.T. Peralta being used to bolster their claims.  Is Tim going to edit those videos too?  Will he be an honest man and quote the Periplus accurately? Will he be a good researcher and actually order the articles by Legeza and Peralta from Arts of Asia? The burden of proof lies squarely on Tim, not me. It would be better if Tim and the gang simply believed the sources they cite rather than make up their own facts, like Magellan did when he rewrote Barbosa's book, in order to propagate their pseudo-history.

As I wrote before, "If he cannot deal honestly with his sources here he won't be dealing honestly with them there either." Tim's quick editing and reposting of his videos without the same sources he utilizes elsewhere reeks of dishonesty. This is just a tiny sampling of the God Culture's output. I can't imagine what duplicitous twisting of facts lies in their other videos. And yet thousands of people are being taken in by this garbage.

P.S. 

After writing all of the above I must add a postscript. The God Culture is adding links to their videos which have sources for people to check up on and confirm. That's a good thing. Why didn't they do this earlier? However they are still making blunders.

https://f2568e15-4b6b-4cbb-b68a-3d729eeed9e4.filesusr.com/ugd/e23929_c5850fbfa12d4a3390a6a541db01540d.pdf

Let me this get this straight. Tim edits Suarez out of the video for Clue #2 saying he wasn't quoting Saurez anyway but now he includes him in this PDF as a "Supporting Research Source!?" Then why did he edit him out of Clue #2?  It makes zero sense!

The little note requires our attention.

NOTE: Under Fig. 31 is the exact quote we cited for the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea (1st Century C.E.)

“the last part of the inhabited world toward the east, under the rising sun itself”

The note says the exact quote is "“the last part of the inhabited world toward the east, under the rising sun itself.” But in this video Tim says much more than just that. He says at 17:36

"the last part of the inhabited world toward the east, under the rising sun itself beyond the land of This (China) which brought silk to India"

https://youtu.be/12tOU7Szbpk

Tim says this making it appear as if he is quoting the Periplus as locating Chryse beyond China! It doesn't. It says it is just opposite of the Ganges. Why doesn't he tell us exactly what he is quoting and what are his own words? It's simply confusing and dishonest. See above where I already discussed this.

In this PDF mention is made of Peralta and the Philippine gold allegedly found in Egypt. See the relevant slide above.

16. PH Gold found in Egypt: Wikipedia, AncientBlogspot. ph and many others cite 1 Legeza, Laszlo. “Tantric Elements in pre-Hispanic Philippines Gold Art,” Arts of Asia, July-Aug. 1988, pp.129-136. 2 Villegas, Ramon N. Ginto: History Wrought in Gold, Manila: Bangko Central ng Pilipinas, 2004. (FYI. Peralta is out of print but cited as well.)

This is basically the same edit as was made in the video for Clue #3. Instead of correcting the erroneous Peralta citation they leave it in the video and remove it from the sources listed in this PDF. Why didn't they just give the correct citation?

They also mess up the citations again. What Wikipedia article or articles are they sourcing? AncientBlogspot.ph IS NOT A WEBSITE!!  The FYI about Peralta being out of print is a non-issue because so is Legeza and it is Legeza, though not cited here as such, that has the reference to Philippine gold being found in Egypt.

"Legeza, Laszlo. "Tantric Elements in pre-Hispanic Philippines Gold Art," Arts of Asia, July-Aug. 1988, pp.129-136. (Mentions gold jewelry of Philippine origin in first century CE Egypt)" 

Both Legeza and Peralta can be ordered and shipped to the Philippines for $15 per article. I'm not going to do any research for Tim and order those articles. The burden of proof lies on him not me.