Titling an article about Timothy Jay Schwab and The God Culture "Little Lies" is an understatement. Basically everything they say is a lie. From big lies like Greeks and Filipinos were trading with one another by circumnavigating Africa as far back 800 B.C. to little lies like, well isn't every lie ultimately a big lie? Nevertheless, in this article I want to take a look at a few of Timothy's smaller lies. That is, things that don't affect the foundation of his case positively or negatively but which are wholly untrue.
Let's start this off with a little lie Tim has recently spewed forth against two high-schoolers. It concerns a map of the pre-colonial Philippines which was drawn up by two friends, posted to Reddit, and then profiled in Esquire.
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| https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/pre-colonial-map-philippines-a00225-20210809-lfrm |
The map was posted on Reddit by Maharlikan_, who has just graduated from senior high school and will be taking a history-related course in college. He and his friend DeliriumMaps—an incoming Grade 12 student—have been working together on the map since February. While still young, the two have a passion for history and did the legwork of researching on their own.
“Pre-colonial history is something that has interested both me and Delirium as so much of it is not even taught in our schools,” Maharlikan_ explains. “It is what drove me to become a ‘cartographer’ in the first place. On the other hand, Delirium just told me that he was bored because of quarantine so he decided to do some reading.”
Part of Maharlikan_’s motivation for making a pre-colonial map is to dispel hoaxes and myths like the kingdoms of Maharlika and Ophir. The former involves claims by Marcos loyalists that before the arrival of the Spaniards, Filipinos were already united under a nation called Maharlika. Marcos’s ill-gotten wealth was supposedly earned when he provided legal services for the royal family of this fictional country.
“There’s a document in a Spanish archive in Sevilla, Mexico that describes how to get to the land of Ophir. Surprise surprise, it leads to the Philippine Islands (despite going through the islands towards China then back for some bizarre reason),” Maharlikan_ explains. “Certain groups of Filipinos discovered this and somehow located it in Northern Samar and [it] was called the ‘Lakanate of Lawan.’ At this point, the myth starts diverging into several versions, from the Lakanate somehow unifying the islands under the guidance of God/Bathala/Yahweh (enforcing the idea that we are God’s Chosen people) or that the Lakanate was established by Jews, which makes Judaism the first religion to ever land in the islands.”
“Of course, all of these are made up,” he continues. “There’s no archaeological [or] historical records ever mentioning some large unified kingdom in the islands, let alone a Jewish one. Although, there is a ‘Lakanate’ in Northern Samar named the Lakanate of Makarato, and they’re not some superpower empire that was worth coveting by the Kingdom of Solomon. Delirium’s grandmother even said she has never heard of this story despite being a Samar native, which shows that ‘Ophir’ is a modern conspiracy theory.”
While making the map, Maharlikan_ and DeliriumMaps referred to JSTOR and Academia articles, Wikipedia article sources, and government and municipal websites and archives. However, they do note on the map itself that new information has come to light that shows that some parts of the map may be inaccurate.
In this day and age in which facts are often twisted and social media users would rather dig in their heels than admit that they’re wrong, it’s nice to see senior high students practicing intellectual honesty and humility. Even if it’s not 100 percent accurate, the map makes a good jump-off point for learning more about pre-colonial Philippine society.
28:15 Esquire magazine in the Philippines just did a hit piece, in fact, on the Philippines as well because, well, a senior in high school, uh, created a map. Oh, that's historical right? I mean he's the source of all history don't you know? And he says well, the Philippines cannot be Ophir. Oop it's settled, that's it folks. It's over! Based on nothing credible not a single fact. Written by likely a Chinese uh Filipina or at least sympathizing communist if nothing else yet, an unacademic unscholarly article. It's trash. They just keep coming and we will keep coming back.
This is a project that me and a user named DeliriumMaps worked on since February of this year. It is meant to somewhat create an accurate depiction to counter the pseudohistorical myths such as the Kingdom of Maharlika, Ophir, and some cases like polities being larger than they really are.
Many seek this architecture in demand to prove this narrative and they are stuck in a false paradigm. There is none to be expected nor has any other nation on earth produced such nor will they.Ancient Ophir is never described as having temples at all whether alone ones of gold, it is never recored to have great infrastructure in any sense just a mega-abundance of resources. The humble lifestyle of the Filipino even fits the oath of a Rechabite as Farrisol said.
Tim is also very reactionary which makes his knee-jerk responses quite dumb. Here is his response to a comment he did not like:
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Amon one Noah(Untafishtim) had three wives Naama, Waala, and Mubiyna. When Noah was 500 Naama, he went into Naama, his wife, and she bore him three sons at once triplets Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Waala gave birth to a son named Raya, and they both died in flood. Mubiyna was killed by the ruler Zuhaks men; they were looking for Noah and found her in a field, and they tried to rape her; she killed 2 of them before she died.
The God Culture So where did Noah's wives come from? The Bible says only 1 wife was with him on the ark. Illiterate as usual. Would you look at that? These idiots at the communist channel dare set up a troll name as Amon one because they illiterately claim Native Americans descend from Amon because they can't read nor reason. After having their illiterate nonsense obliterated, they actually comment using the Epic of Gilgamesh as scripture above Genesis and Jubilees. Noah has 1 wife and only 1. Her name was Emzara. Certainly not Namaah the Nephilim breeder from Cain. They even throw in Waala which in Tagalog means not or NOT Noah's wife. Indeed Noah's supposed 2nd wife was NOT. He did not have one. See the way they just agitate and agitate in demonic form. They are the dumbest channel on YouTube and they mix the occult and the profane with the Word. They are liars. Of course, any can watch Nephilim Heritage Conservatory if they wish. What illiterate trash... No thank you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6xzz3IkRVs&lc=UgwcfzMD-3tRPpp04xt4AaABAg
Someone comments that Noah had three wives and gives their names sending Tim into a real hissy fit. If Tim had bothered to take the time to look up the names this commenter mentioned he would see that they come from the Holy Tablets.
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| https://archive.org/details/HolyTablets/page/n1209/mode/2up?q=waala |
He would also have learned that the Holy Tablets is the Holy Book of strange cult called the Nuwaubian Nation. But instead of taking the time to learn what this commenter meant he accuses the man of being a Communist and an agent of the Ophirian Heritage Conservatory. "Waala" is also not a Tagalog word meaning "not." Wala is but waala is not and that extra "a" makes all the difference because in Tagalog there are no silent letters. It's more fake etymology from a guy who falsely claims there is residual ancient Hebrew in Tagalog and in Philippine place names. Again there are multiple lies here just as in his criticism of the Esquire article and map. But Tim's ignorant response in the comment section is not enough because he actually mentions this in a newer video:
2:49 There were eight total on the ark, right? Isn't that what the bible says multiple times actually? Or, well, if you watch a certain communist channel who counts somehow uh ten well, because they claimed Noah had three wives on the ark. Illiterate! One, by the way, named Waala and that one they they actually are right on. Yep they sure are because “Waala” in Tagalog means NOOOOOT! Indeed, for Noah's second wife was not,
Listen closely and you will hear that Tim does not even pronounce the second "a" in "Waala." Yet we are supposed to buy that it's a Tagalog word. What an idiot. I think we all know by now that Tim is no linguist. HE himself admits it! Listen to him butcher the meaning of Sherpa.
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| First Cities After Flood. First Wives Club. Answers In Jubilees: Part 27 |
20:58 While we're here another observation. There are a people who live on Mount Everest. Let's just go there. And, around the area, called the Sherpa people. Very famous today. Uh, it was actually a Sherpa with Hillary who first climbed Mount Everest though you hardly hear his name you always hear, you know the, the white dudes, right? Looking at the Hebrew word "shir" means to sing. That's interesting. And "paam" means beat also perhaps music like a drum beat perhaps. In fact when you look at their music, so let's just go there, oh, wait what do they call it? Shebru. Now that is interesting. Can't connect it but again fascinating and something to think about.
The term sherpa or sherwa derives from the Sherpa language words ཤར shar ("east") and པ pa ("people"), which refer to their geographical origin of eastern Tibet.
It's just more fake Hebrew etymology from a man who admits he is not a linguist. In this video Tim also says that he cannot prove anything he is saying but it "makes sense and that's what we're going for." What an admission! He is not going for something that is actually true but only what SEEMS to be true.
Let's continue with the video, WIVES OF THE PATRIARCHS. There is one more little lie Tim makes that is very noteworthy. Now, the subject of this video is the name of Noahs's wife. Since Genesis does not tell us her name there has been much speculation over the years. In fact there are 103 recorded names of Noah's wife. Here are the first 9:
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| WIVES OF THE PATRIARCHS. No Cain There. Answers In Jubilees Part 26 |
14:42 So what is the origin of this claim many of you may have heard that Noah married someone from Cain? Well once again it's illiterate. It comes from the writings of the Pharisees who, well, made it up. The Midrash Rabbah on Genesis, Rabbi Abba Kahana said, well who really cares because that ain’t scripture is it? I mean that's that's the Midrash, that's the talmud. Well Rabbi ho ho says… so what? So what? They weren't prophets they weren't even serving the same god. Now, he said “Naamah was Noah's wife.” Based on? Well, fiction of course! He made it up. It's rabbi babel. See, that's what rabbis do, they just say whatever comes to mind and it gets printed and oh, that's called the Talmud and it's illiterate, absolutely complete nonsense many times. They lead you in directions away from scripture.
In the Bible it is not unusual for wives not to be mentioned and, if mentioned, not to be named. By contrast, Jubilees commonly gives the names of the wives of biblical personalities: one of the characteristics of Jubilees is the large number of proper names it supplies, particularly of women. In the case of Noah's wife, in Jubilees it is given as Emzara, his cousin (Jub. 4:33).
Genesis Rabbah 23:3 identifies Naamah, the daughter of Lemech and sister of Tubal-cain (Gen. 4:22), as Noah's wife. This is consistent with the rabbinic approach to identify unnamed biblical characters with pre-existing, named biblical characters. Since it is rare for the Bible to mention daughters by name, it was understood that Naamah must be significant. Additionally, since her name implies "pleasantness", and perhaps because her father had the same name as Noah's father Lemech, she was deemed an appropriate wife for Noah. Identifying Naamah as Noah's wife also serves to give purpose to the detailed list of Cain's offspring in Genesis 4:17-22, particularly since Naamah is the very last person mentioned in the genealogy, hinting that in some sense she is the culmination of the offspring of Cain. Also, it was important to find a name for Noah's wife to parallel the original first man and woman, Adam and Eve, who were both named.
Based on the different identifications of Noah's wife, we have two different views of the current ancestry of mankind. According to Jubilees, all of humanity is now descended only from Seth, Cain's offspring having been completely obliterated in the Flood. From the rabbinic perspective, humanity is descended from both Seth (on Noah's side) and Cain (his wife's side), and some Cain element still exists in the world. R. Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin, in his commentary Ha'amek Davar (Gen. 4:22), states that Naamah represents any good attributes in Cain that were considered important to preserve and contribute to the future of humanity. It is also worth noting that in the older amoraic literature of the Midrash (Gen. Rabbah 22:13, Lev. Rabbah 10:5) Cain is portrayed as a penitent, who then inspired his father Adam to repent as well. Thus, in the rabbinic view, there was some redemptive feature in Cain which may have been preserved through Naamah as Noah's wife.
https://jbqnew.jewishbible.org/assets/Uploads/422/jbq_422_5_zvironjubileesnoach.pdf
Here we see that the Rabbis did in fact NOT simply make up their interpretation that Naamah is Noah's wife. There is a very good reason for it. But Tim does not care. He does not care to actually interact with and understand the information he "researches." Instead he mocks and ridicules the Midrash without actually comprehending what it means. His critique is therefore ill-informed, illiterate, and ignorant. There is actually a lot more commentary about why Naamah is identified as Noah's wife but this is no place for that. However, I will leave this here:
The extraneous information about the family of Cain, and the missing information about that of Noah raise a question. If all the descendants of Cain perished in the flood why do we need to know their names? In contrast, the wife of Noah is the mother of mankind - a second Eve - mother of all who live - surely, we, her descendants should learn who she was and why she deserved to be saved from the curse of the flood ? Is she mentioned in the flood narrative and saved solely because she was "a part of the body" of Noah and therefore remains anonymous, without identity?
The identification of Na'amah, a descendant of Cain, as the wife of Noah, solves the structural flaw in Genesis as well as the above mentioned theological problem. The family of Cain is described at length in order to reveal the identity of the second mother of mankind.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040221180454/https://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/eng/noah/enoach1.html
Again, the point is not that the Rabbis are right and that Noah's wife name is Naamah. I don't know what her name is. No one does. The point is Tim has no idea what he is talking about. It is also Tim who is making up stuff when he claims that Naamah was a "Nephilim breeder" and that the whole of Cain's lineage was evil. The text simply does not tell us that.
As you can see each lie leads into other lies and creates a tangled web. While these lies do not affect his overall thesis they do indicate a pattern of how Timothy Jay Schwab works. In his books and his videos we see an unwillingness to thoroughly interact with the sources he cites. He will either twist them to fit his views or ignore them altogether except to dismiss them with ridicule. Anyone who comes to a different conclusion than him is either illiterate, stupid, a communist, or all those and more. Timothy Jay Schwab, the adman, is a horrible and dishonest researcher. The fact that he has a 300 page sourcebook is meaningless in light of the way he conducts his research. His sourcebook is also riddled with errors and lies as I have proven elsewhere.
However, there is one final lie from the comments of this video that I must bring up and I am sorry to say that at the time of this writing The God Culture has deleted it. Perhaps Tim realized how stupid it was. Someone posted a comment asking how Noah built the ark without using metal and Timothy responded with the comment that he could have used fire to cut the wood. That is an OUTRAGEOUS lie and I regret I did not take a screenshot before he deleted it. But he knows it was there.
You could possibly fell a tree using fire but you can't plane the wood and make precise measurements using fire. You need a sharp metal instrument to cut wood and build a ship. And pray tell if Noah did not use metal then how does its use survive the flood? Tim is on record many times saying Noah used no metal (this includes rivets as well as any sharp cutting instruments) in building the ark because the instructions from God mention only gopher word and pitch. It is such a ridiculous lie and bad argument but I will have to leave it here for now.
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