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Thanks, Operacast! This is a really good post. Your thesis is consistent with my speculations in connection with The Hebrew Goddess by Raoul Patai, which I am now reading. It's an idea that is still fluid and hasn't completely formed yet, so I won't say anything more about it now. But it will be...

Wil, Chris and everyone, It's the totality, the gestalt, the pattern encoded in your DNA, and encoded likewise in the neural connections of your brain, that remembers. So even though your actual cells don't and can't remember, the totality of you remembers. In other words, what remembers is...

BB, Ummm...you may have noticed there is MORE than a little bit of Kali/Astarte in me, even though I detest gross violence and brutality. I am not 100% committed to nonviolence like my daughter is, but I definitely believe war should be a last resort--and only engaged in for defensive...

Brian, Thanks for the links...I'll take a look at them. Now I am NOT saying I'll find them convincing, let alone compelling. But then you already knew that. :p But I won't know one way or the other until I see what they have to say. --Linda

Wil, I wasn't kidding about that. I am seriously a channeler, and sometimes it happens spontaneously when I'm in the middle of posting a note on a discussion board. That was only very light channeling, just enough to make my writing a flow a little more easily than it usually does. There have...

BB, I bolded a portion of your response for a specific reason, and the reason more than anything is because of that little word "just." You say you are unwilling to revise your understanding of Deborah's position based on "JUST circumstantial historical and archaeological interpretation."...

dauer, I'm just not used to looking at my profile page and don't do it very often. I didn't know anything about graffiti until you posted this! Just sent you a PM, though!

Avi, I'm neither; I'm a pantheist. That is NOT the same thing as an atheist no matter what any theist tries to tell you!!! In the not-too-distant past, I USED to say I was a panentheist, but recently I've become wary even of saying that. I'd rather call myself a monist (not a monotheist...

BB, I'm sorry, but I'm not familiar with either of those analogies. I don't understand them. If I'm being compared with something, I'd at least like to know what it is! :) --Linda

BB, That's one thing I'll never do no matter how angry I get at you. I will never compare my pain with anyone else's or try to tell anyone I had it worse, not unless they are so insensitive as to start the one-upmanship games on their own. THEN I would probably defend myself, and I'd be pretty...

BB, HUH??? Apostate??? I don't know what you're talking about, but it has nothing to do with me. When my daughter first started getting interested in Wicca (she prefers to call it Witchcraft or Paganism) I made sure she would never be an apostate. I pointed out to her that "all the gods are...

BB, Well, yes...it *IS* an argument of post hoc rationalization (I use American spelling and presume you don't mind) and patriarchal cover-up. All I said was that the post hoc rationalization and and patriarchal cover-up was relatively thin at that point, making it fairly easy for me to...

Breeze, I *DO* hate Christian fundamentalists, and I'm not going to sugar-coat it. I hate, loathe and despse them. I know that statement will provoke FS into telling me she's going to "pray for me" and there's nothing I can do about that. I would much prefer that she DIDN'T pray for me, but...

BB, Okay, I started reading it and I'm not even finished yet, but I just have to say it...Is this guy out of his freakin' mind or what? It's even worse than I thought! Holy shee-it, the guy is a freakin' NAZI and he doesn't even know it!!! "Chosen People," my rear end! He has opted OUT of...

BB, THANK YOU!!! And I'll take YOU over that lot any day too, and that's BEFORE I click on your link! I think I can make a reasonably educated guess as to what I'm gonna find there when I do. NOW you're starting to get a glimmer of where I'm coming from, and I suppose I should be grateful for...

BB, One more parting shot, or afterthought to my last post: I have tremendous respect for Dauer on my own account, and I don't begrudge him or Avi that in the least. And it's not just for his phenomenal intelligence and the depth of his knowledge. It's because when I first posted about my...

BB, I'm going to have to copy and paste your note into MS Word and answer it over the next few days, because you covered a lot of ground in that post, and I simply don't write as fast as you do. Also, I have other writing projects I'd like to at least start on today, even if I don't finish...

Paladin, I agree with you. Truth can stand on its own two feet and has no need of a public relations department. OTOH illusions, especially collective illusions, need ALL the promotion they can get, and they inevitably get plenty of it. Ever noticed that? --Linda

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Only on my good days...or maybe it's my bad days. I can never remember this stuff...