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The serpent, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
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RE: The serpent, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
January 24, 2015 at 4:52 pm
They're all symbols of God's inability to think things through.
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RE: The serpent, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
January 24, 2015 at 4:57 pm
I always wondered if there were any other trees. You know, like "the tree of social awkwardness" or "the tree of restless leg syndrome". Also god seems to have a prejudice against snakes. That's rude.
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RE: The serpent, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
January 24, 2015 at 5:29 pm
(January 24, 2015 at 2:59 pm)Alex K Wrote: Strictlt speaking it's not a sentence. It might qualify as a clause.

Yes, Virginia, there is a symbol clause.
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RE: The serpent, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
January 24, 2015 at 5:41 pm
I'm a big fan of the Tree of Walking Into A Room And Instantly Forgetting What You Went In For.
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.'
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RE: The serpent, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
January 24, 2015 at 5:44 pm
(January 24, 2015 at 4:57 pm)Xeno Wrote: I always wondered if there were any other trees. You know, like "the tree of social awkwardness" or "the tree of restless leg syndrome". Also god seems to have a prejudice against snakes. That's rude.

Apparently, I ate ALL the fruit off 'the tree of social awkwardness."
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RE: The serpent, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
January 24, 2015 at 5:50 pm
(January 24, 2015 at 11:10 am)Newtonscat Wrote: Three symbols of the same thing.

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"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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RE: The serpent, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
January 25, 2015 at 12:05 am (This post was last modified: January 25, 2015 at 12:05 am by KevinM1.)
(January 24, 2015 at 11:10 am)Newtonscat Wrote: Three symbols of the same thing.

It's trinities all the way down.
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RE: The serpent, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
January 30, 2015 at 7:42 am
(January 24, 2015 at 4:57 pm)Xeno Wrote: I always wondered if there were any other trees. You know, like "the tree of social awkwardness" or "the tree of restless leg syndrome". Also god seems to have a prejudice against snakes. That's rude.

I think this gets the prize for the best response.
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RE: The serpent, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
January 30, 2015 at 9:10 am
As it happened, the snake was the only one low enough to let the devil speak thru himself.

Today, we have lots of people to replace the snake.
All you have to do is watch the Super-bowl half time for the last 2 years. It's right there in your face.
Or any number of imams, or some Vatican spokesman, the big list goes on an on.

but I will get back on topic.
The tree was simply a test. Notice the snake led them to the tree of knowledge.
He does the same thing today.
Knowledge rather than Life is very popular in the cults.
All the BS of "Hidden knowledge" / "Secrets", that only the intimates receive- like a carrot dangled out before the horse and when he gets it- he finds it wasn't the whole thing, so more carrots are dangled out.
He spends a lifetime pursuing and the devil hopes he dies trying to find all the fake knowledge and never comes to the truth.
An "I gotcha" realized.
I see the same thing here.
No, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was a test, the devil was the teacher, the students failed miserably.
But the tree of Life is still beckoning- only from Heaven.
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RE: The serpent, the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life.
January 30, 2015 at 9:23 am
Suddenly I'm thinking that this is what it would have been like if there had been internet forums in Nostradamus' day.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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