Quote:As far as Augustus is concerned, maybe he took to heart and embodied Jesus's words, "Ye are gods."
That'd be a bit tricky, given their respective time lines.
Boru
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Someone, Show me Evidence of God.
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 That'd be a bit tricky, given their respective time lines. Boru  Quote:The God I assert of has been asserted by many, long before me, long before the "guy in the sky" became a popular strawman. Good for them, and you. The same can be said of Santa.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (August 27, 2016 at 9:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:It was tongue in check, yet if true the potential exists in each of us.Quote:As far as Augustus is concerned, maybe he took to heart and embodied Jesus's words, "Ye are gods."
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting, I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder RE: Someone, Show me Evidence of God.
August 27, 2016 at 10:17 pm
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(August 27, 2016 at 10:16 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:(August 27, 2016 at 9:42 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: That'd be a bit tricky, given their respective time lines.It was tongue in check, yet if true the potential exists in each of us. I disagree - I haven't got the potential to conquer the Mediterranean world. Call it 'tongue in check [sic]' all you like, but it comes off as ignorance. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
RE: Someone, Show me Evidence of God.
August 27, 2016 at 10:22 pm
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(August 27, 2016 at 10:08 pm)Stimbo Wrote:Quote:The God I assert of has been asserted by many, long before me, long before the "guy in the sky" became a popular strawman. So the Babylonians, Hindus and Egyptians all had a version of Santa Claus? Surely you can support that with excerpts from their writings? Santa need be tracked no further than the Amanita Muscaria mushroom in Siberia. If you don't know the amanita, you don't know Santa or Christmas....and you'll certainly never understand the flying reindeer.  (August 27, 2016 at 10:17 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:You did back then, if you were born to the right family. But more to the point, Jesus was basically saying "you have the same potential I do" in response to being accused of blasphemy in claiming to be a God.(August 27, 2016 at 10:16 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: It was tongue in check, yet if true the potential exists in each of us.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting, I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder Quote:Jesus was basically saying "you have the same potential I do" in response to being accused of blasphemy in claiming to be a God. Yes, I know what you were getting at, but - even more to the point - Augustus died in 14 CE, long before the Jesus myth was established. In other words, Augustus wouldn't have known anything about Jesus at all. Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
(August 27, 2016 at 10:22 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:(August 27, 2016 at 10:08 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Good for them, and you. The same can be said of Santa. Now who's relying on a strawman, you condescending troll?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
RE: Someone, Show me Evidence of God.
August 27, 2016 at 10:56 pm
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2016 at 11:07 pm by Arkilogue.)
(August 27, 2016 at 10:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:So only when Jesus asserted it, it became true? What about the quote he was referring to in Psalms 82:6, written around 897 BC?Quote:Jesus was basically saying "you have the same potential I do" in response to being accused of blasphemy in claiming to be a God. https://www.blueletterbible.org/study/pa...aral18.cfm (August 27, 2016 at 10:36 pm)Stimbo Wrote:You brought up Santa, I brought up tripping balls on reindeer piss.(August 27, 2016 at 10:22 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: So the Babylonians, Hindus and Egyptians all had a version of Santa Claus? Surely you can support that with excerpts from their writings? Perhaps you're taking all this a little too seriously... ![[Image: princess_bride_6.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.denofgeek.us%2Fsites%2Fdenofgeekus%2Ffiles%2Fstyles%2Finsert_main_wide_image%2Fpublic%2F8%2F40%2Fprincess_bride_6.jpg)
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting, I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder  RE: Someone, Show me Evidence of God.
August 27, 2016 at 11:11 pm
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(August 27, 2016 at 9:13 pm)Arkilogue Wrote:What you said and what you quoted me saying are not connected.(August 27, 2016 at 9:01 pm)bennyboy Wrote: . . . and would make God relevant to our actual lives. Who wants that?And would you rather an existence where your every errant thoughts is instantly corrected/overruled by an inescapable omni-sentient God Mind? Or do you prefer autonomy, privacy and the ability to grow/learn on your own? Quote:Not like your autonomy lasts forever though.... . . ah yes, the shear[sic] thrill of making shit up and convincing yourself that you have learned something. . . and calling it "God." (August 27, 2016 at 11:11 pm)bennyboy Wrote:So...you want God, but not all of God, just enough to walk around with and talk too? Seems reasonable, how long have you sat still for?(August 27, 2016 at 9:13 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: And would you rather an existence where your every errant thoughts is instantly corrected/overruled by an inescapable omni-sentient God Mind? Or do you prefer autonomy, privacy and the ability to grow/learn on your own?What you said and what you quoted me saying are not connected. I have wrestled with God on my own, and worked out my salvation with fear(awe) and respect. I rely on no one else, no appeal to consensus, nor to scriptural authority, nor any individual cultural mythos. I can stand on the waters I have collected, clarified, and then dug for on my own, finding my own well spring inside me. And I can turn those water's into the wine of joy. I prefer the way I do, to the way you do not. That is all. 
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