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Thread: From Fiction to "True Story"
Post: RE: From Fiction to "True Story"
| (July 21, 2012 at 8:02 am)Rhythm Wrote: We're perfectly capable of telling remarkably similar stories without ever having interacted with each other.
Apart from stories about gods, what other simila... |
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July 21, 2012 at 11:02 am |
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Thread: From Fiction to "True Story"
Post: RE: From Fiction to "True Story"
| (July 20, 2012 at 6:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You need to brush up on how humanity invents its heroes, dtango. William Tell is one example. Robin Hood is another. Then there is King Arthur. The ma... |
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July 21, 2012 at 2:57 am |
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Thread: From Fiction to "True Story"
Post: RE: From Fiction to "True Story"
| (July 19, 2012 at 10:59 am)Chuck Wrote: The every day language in Judea was Aramaic, not Hebrew.
Aramaic or Hebrew; Greek it was not!
(July 19, 2012 at 10:59 am)Chuck Wrote: There is evidence the ... |
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July 19, 2012 at 12:05 pm |
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Thread: From Fiction to "True Story"
Post: RE: From Fiction to "True Story"
| (July 19, 2012 at 8:39 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: I have no doubt that these other faiths did influence early Christians, or else where did these non-Jewish ideas come from?
And so we have a compelling... |
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July 19, 2012 at 9:22 am |
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Thread: From Fiction to "True Story"
Post: RE: From Fiction to "True Story"
| (July 18, 2012 at 4:38 pm)Minimalist Wrote: A far more modern example of the growth of legend.
William Tell
There is no relation whatever between the legend of William Tell, a simple local legend, ... |
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July 19, 2012 at 6:48 am |
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Thread: From Fiction to "True Story"
Post: RE: From Fiction to "True Story"
| (July 18, 2012 at 12:52 pm)Shell B Wrote: Why read anything other than the Bible to establish the veracity of the Bible?
The veracity of the Bible!!
Who cares about the veracity of the Christian li... |
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July 18, 2012 at 4:34 pm |
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Thread: From Fiction to "True Story"
Post: RE: From Fiction to "True Story"
| (July 18, 2012 at 10:12 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: Jesus himself shifts from being a modest holy man in Mark's Gospel who can't perform miracles in his home town for the lack of faith of the people ther... |
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July 18, 2012 at 12:43 pm |
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Thread: Was Hagar an Egyptian woman?
Post: RE: Was Hagar an Egyptian woman?
| (June 21, 2012 at 11:32 am)Minimalist Wrote: And in Star Wars, Luke Skywalker was from Tatooine.
Fictional characters can be from anywhere.
The point is what the fiction maker believed of his ficti... |
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June 21, 2012 at 1:02 pm |
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Thread: Was Hagar an Egyptian woman?
Post: Was Hagar an Egyptian woman?
| We are faced here with a problem for biblical scholars who are not used in solving problems! So, let’ see what can we accomplish by our non-educated brains.
Please note that:
[J] stands for Yahwist w... |
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June 21, 2012 at 5:09 am |
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Thread: “Inuma ilu awilu,” When gods [were] men.
Post: RE: “Inuma ilu awilu,” When gods [were] men.
| (June 10, 2012 at 6:59 pm)Rhythm Wrote: A "serious conversation" might just begin by mentioning that you have overreached......You may complain of overreaching when the entire story has been restore... |
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June 11, 2012 at 5:44 am |
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Thread: “Inuma ilu awilu,” When gods [were] men.
Post: RE: “Inuma ilu awilu,” When gods [were] men.
| (June 10, 2012 at 1:26 pm)Rhythm Wrote: In the case of gods being embellished stories about men, for example, they would still be the product of imagination.You were born and raised in an environmen... |
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June 10, 2012 at 4:23 pm |
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Thread: “Inuma ilu awilu,” When gods [were] men.
Post: RE: “Inuma ilu awilu,” When gods [were] men.
| (June 10, 2012 at 11:55 am)Rhythm Wrote: That's why it's so dissappointing, I didn't have to read any further than the first sentence to recognize the same over-reaching tendency you've expressed in... |
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June 10, 2012 at 1:00 pm |
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Thread: “Inuma ilu awilu,” When gods [were] men.
Post: RE: “Inuma ilu awilu,” When gods [were] men.
| (June 10, 2012 at 11:39 am)Rhythm Wrote: "Some gods", subtle but important distinction, the mistake coming right at the very beginning, same criticism as always, completely absent from your "opus" a... |
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June 10, 2012 at 11:52 am |
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Thread: “Inuma ilu awilu,” When gods [were] men.
Post: “Inuma ilu awilu,” When gods [were] men.
| Gods were reported to having been born in caves, to have taken their meals along with humans, to have made love to human women, to have behaved in the worst possible way (by introducing slavery, racis... |
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June 10, 2012 at 11:38 am |
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Thread: Understanding the bible
Post: RE: Understanding the bible
| (May 27, 2012 at 12:04 pm)Paul the Human Wrote: Nothing in your precious scriptures mean a thing unless your god is real. We "smart guy atheists" don't happen to believe that it is, so the scripture... |
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May 27, 2012 at 3:22 pm |
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Thread: Understanding the bible
Post: RE: Understanding the bible
| Understanding an ancient text is not easy. One has to have studied all the other ancient texts in order to be able to distinguish between stories transmitted by oral traditions, which deserve studying... |
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May 27, 2012 at 11:28 am |
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Thread: Religion for Atheists
Post: RE: Religion for Atheists
| (May 8, 2012 at 12:19 am)Epimethean Wrote: I like some of his earlier work, so I will probably read it. Alain De Botto Wrote:We can then recognize that we invented religion to serve two central need... |
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May 8, 2012 at 2:33 am |
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Thread: Shepherds –> Bulls –> Judges -> Angels -> gods -> God !!
Post: RE: Shepherds –> Bulls –> Judges -> Angels -> gods...
| (May 4, 2012 at 4:31 am)RaphielDrake Wrote: Read through it all. Could easily have been shortened as some parts aren't needed to back-up point.Thank you very much! What actually happens is that the ... |
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May 4, 2012 at 9:33 am |
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Thread: Shepherds –> Bulls –> Judges -> Angels -> gods -> God !!
Post: RE: Shepherds –> Bulls –> Judges -> Angels -> gods...
| (May 3, 2012 at 2:58 pm)Cinjin Wrote: You're right Christianity is not worth studying. The history of religion however is and Christianity takes up 2000 years of it.You mean that out of the 40,000 ... |
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May 4, 2012 at 3:43 am |
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Thread: Shepherds –> Bulls –> Judges -> Angels -> gods -> God !!
Post: RE: Shepherds –> Bulls –> Judges -> Angels -> gods...
| (May 3, 2012 at 2:58 pm)Cinjin Wrote: Actually, just because I don't choose to read his rambling copy & paste doesn't mean I don't like to read.Thank you for being frank. You did not read but yo... |
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May 3, 2012 at 4:13 pm |
