(August 26, 2012 at 11:13 am)spockrates Wrote:(August 26, 2012 at 11:04 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: I don't remember. Why does that matter? To make an analogy, you're just getting distracted by the equivalent of little melodic figures and ornaments and missing the shared underlying harmonic progression common to all of them.
Well, isn't what you suggest akin to saying the British invented the baseball, because cricket preceded the game Abner Doubleday claimed to have invented? While one might argue there are some similarities between the two, they are in no way the same, I think. Baseball was the creation of an American, and never was the national pastime of Great Britian. Don't you agree? Or do you think Baseball was actually a British invention, and baseball is too similar to cricket to be reasonably considered as a different sport?
This is a false analogy. There wasn't some enormous natural barrier like the Atlantic ocean that would keep Jews ignorant of such beliefs. Ever heard of Hellenization?
Also, New BSG is much better than the original.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).