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    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(July 3, 2012 at 9:08 pm)Epimethean Wrote: (July 3, 2012 at 6:50 pm)LEDO Wrote: To extrapolate that love into sex and murder is inane. Campbell creates lofty ideas and principals that in all ser...
LEDO Religion 605 415358 July 4, 2012 at 7:43 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 30, 2012 at 9:44 pm)Epimethean Wrote: I think he did the myth of replacement great justice, which you did not do right up above, but which is much more supported by modern psychology than anyt...
LEDO Religion 605 415358 July 3, 2012 at 6:50 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 28, 2012 at 10:45 pm)Epimethean Wrote: Here is Campbell elaborating on that issue: Toward the end of close of the Age of Bronze and, more strongly, with the dawn of the Age of Iron (c. 1250 B...
LEDO Religion 605 415358 June 30, 2012 at 4:45 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 27, 2012 at 10:18 pm)Epimethean Wrote: I don't recall Campbell stating that he did not understand why heroes and demi-gods had enormous strength and performed great deeds. In fact, his thought...
LEDO Religion 605 415358 June 28, 2012 at 9:35 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 26, 2012 at 10:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote: No...it is either "real" or "made up." The fact that morons are willing to accept the absurd as real does not make it real. I have done my own research ...
LEDO Religion 605 415358 June 27, 2012 at 9:39 pm
    Thread: Abrahamic Relgions Ulterior Motives
Post: RE: Abrahamic Relgions Ulterior Motives

(June 25, 2012 at 9:59 pm)ElijahDrew Wrote: (June 25, 2012 at 8:59 pm)LEDO Wrote: My research Abraham was based on a popular god "Ishum." Ishum pleaded with the god Ira, after Ira destroyed 2 Bayl...
LEDO Religion 17 7095 June 26, 2012 at 9:50 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

(June 26, 2012 at 8:27 pm)Minimalist Wrote: But religious "salesmen" are not selling reality anyway. They do not need a real "jesus" any more than any other ancient religion needed a real Marduk, H...
LEDO Religion 605 415358 June 26, 2012 at 9:47 pm
    Thread: Scientific Evidence That God is Real
Post: RE: Scientific Evidence That God is Real

Existance is 60% of a more stable condition than non-existance. At the point of singularity, time does not exist. There is no "before" the existance of the point of singularity. Nor is there anything...
LEDO Religion 27 10349 June 25, 2012 at 9:12 pm
    Thread: Abrahamic Relgions Ulterior Motives
Post: RE: Abrahamic Relgions Ulterior Motives

My research Abraham was based on a popular god "Ishum." Ishum pleaded with the god Ira, after Ira destroyed 2 Baylonian cities for their sinful ways. Ishum became a local hero to the people of Ur....w...
LEDO Religion 17 7095 June 25, 2012 at 8:59 pm
    Thread: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
Post: RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?

The crucifixion of Jesus was a common cosmic myth of that age. It was centered around the stars one would see on Easter morning right before sunrise in Jerusalem 33 AD. It includes Libra, Scoripio, an...
LEDO Religion 605 415358 June 25, 2012 at 8:51 pm
    Thread: OKAY YOU BRITS, WHAT DID YOU THINK OF....
Post: RE: OKAY YOU BRITS, WHAT DID YOU THINK OF....

(June 7, 2012 at 9:59 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: (June 7, 2012 at 3:05 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: ...but I do know that Maggie has Alzheimer's and does indeed forget when and where she is and forgets tha...
LEDO Media 9 5003 June 7, 2012 at 3:20 pm
    Thread: OKAY YOU BRITS, WHAT DID YOU THINK OF....
Post: OKAY YOU BRITS, WHAT DID YOU THINK OF....

Two movies. 1) Iron Lady which shows Margret Thatcher walking around senile, dressed like Edith Bunker talking to her dead husband, still thinking she is prime minister and 2) Creation which is the s...
LEDO Media 9 5003 June 6, 2012 at 11:01 pm
    Thread: Fun Bible Facts II
Post: RE: Fun Bible Facts II

I would suggest that the absurdity of high numbers was done for political reasons. If we were to assume as some scholars do that these texts were written during the time of the Greek occupation then t...
LEDO Politics 21 6660 June 6, 2012 at 10:51 pm
    Thread: miami zombie
Post: RE: miami zombie

If you recall in the original "Day of the Dead" there is a specific area of the brain that must be destroyed. In the movies any head shot will kill a zombie...this is misleading. Also you can smell a ...
LEDO Skepticism & Pseudoscience 70 17977 June 4, 2012 at 9:33 pm
    Thread: Whats wrong with this picture?
Post: RE: Whats wrong with this picture?

In order to yield that ax, his body english needs to be different. His hands should be closer together. He is holding that ax more like a golf club. He is wearing a dress. No type of protective eye we...
LEDO Christianity 19 8166 March 11, 2012 at 8:20 pm
    Thread: 'Intelligent' design?
Post: RE: 'Intelligent' design?

Stupid design: Nerve endings in teeth.
LEDO Religion 79 26391 March 11, 2012 at 8:17 pm
    Thread: THE TREE OF LIFE
Post: THE TREE OF LIFE

Anyone else see this film? It is interesting and seems to play off the idea of the Omega point. It asks the question in the Book of Job. It appears that Brad Pitt as the father of this 50's family is...
LEDO The Arts 1 1155 March 10, 2012 at 8:51 pm
    Thread: Come to England
Post: RE: Come to England

I work with a guy whose daughter now lives and works in London. She loves it there (very religious family). She is going to marry a Brit. He loves it in America. Go figure. I would go, but I don't spe...
LEDO Atheism 103 26018 February 19, 2012 at 6:04 pm
    Thread: New Book
Post: RE: New Book

(February 19, 2012 at 4:48 pm)samconran Wrote: If I were to make a facebook page for the book I'm writing - "superstition: nemesis of scientific reasoning", could I rely on anyone from the atheistic...
LEDO Off Topic 5 2351 February 19, 2012 at 5:58 pm
    Thread: Ban the loser above you.
Post: RE: Ban the loser above you.

Banned for having an Avatar holding a dildo with the wrong hand.
LEDO Off Topic 17313 1564413 February 19, 2012 at 5:56 pm