01-15-2016, 12:58 AM
I used to be of the same mindset... But really, Ra CONSTANTLY says stuff like "Bob sat in the chair, as the peoples of your culture vocalize it". I get they are a complex of extra-dimensional entities that most likely don't even use vocal language; so it makes sense they constantly make those clarifications. But we all know what a chair is. And really, what percentage of the people reading the material need an explanation of what a pharaoh is or that Egypt is the name of a location on this planet? I'm only talking about strike-through text on SUPER obvious stuff like that. It's not like the text isn't still right there in front of your face, in strike-through form. Not a single word would be removed from the material.
When I read the material, I try to carefully consider everything in a given line of questioning. Sometimes that includes complex / difficult to understand concepts that may have multiple follow up questions from Don. So I try to mash quite a bit into my short term memory and digest it is a whole. My mental processing speed improves when I'm reading the sentence as "In the Eighteenth Dynasty we were able to contact a pharaoh" instead of "In the Eighteenth Dynasty, as it is known in your records of space/time distortions, we were able to contact a pharaoh, as you would call him." Your brain is already going to filter out that stuff anyways. Using strike-through just filters it out for you up front (but still leaves the text there in case you want to examine the quote 'under a magnifying glass').
When I read the material, I try to carefully consider everything in a given line of questioning. Sometimes that includes complex / difficult to understand concepts that may have multiple follow up questions from Don. So I try to mash quite a bit into my short term memory and digest it is a whole. My mental processing speed improves when I'm reading the sentence as "In the Eighteenth Dynasty we were able to contact a pharaoh" instead of "In the Eighteenth Dynasty, as it is known in your records of space/time distortions, we were able to contact a pharaoh, as you would call him." Your brain is already going to filter out that stuff anyways. Using strike-through just filters it out for you up front (but still leaves the text there in case you want to examine the quote 'under a magnifying glass').