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I have just a moment here, but I recall reading fairly recently in a book about the development of agriculture, that animals were domesticated before grains were. that is, that we humans thought to pen and breed animals before we thought to purposefully raise grain to feed to them. I believe...

Ok, folks. I'm a little bit burned out on this topic for the time being. I'll pick it up again after my eyes stop smarting and my brain-fog clears. ;)

Woof. This is pretty profound, and it goes a far bit towards arguing the evolutionary basis for morality. That which enhances our (family, tribe, etc.) survival is "good", that which diminshes it is "bad". BTW, this calls to mind the practice in some societies of the suspension of all...

I'm going to remember this one, although in my own modified way, because it's pithy and deep. "We are not punished for harmful action, but diminished by the doing of it"

Y'kow, I'm beginning to wonder if I'm actually contributing anything to the original question of this topic thread by slogging through pages and pages of posts and replying to some of them. Perhaps it would be better to just read all the way through (over the course of a few days) and try to...

Oh, a further bit on the above. it's difficult to get the requisite permits to do a large-scale effigy burning, or even a large bonfire, so some folks have adapted this practice for indoor sork. My ritual working group, for example, has changed it, while carrying over the intent, by *rending*...

Are you referencing "The Golden Bough"? A word or two about effigy sacrifices. This is very very old. It has echoes in present-day things like Guy Fawkes Day and football rallies, or more seriously in the burning of political figures in effigy. There are two views of effigy burnings...

I almost hesitate to post on this topic, because of the plethora of 'it's just nonsense" feeling in the general public. I'm an astrologist - not for clients, anymore, but for friends. I stopped doing it for clients because I kept seeing things about people I really didn't want to know. I'm...

Spot on.

I just want to mention here that it's a lovely thing that you start your posts this way. Truly. Absolutely. Of course, there are many folks who will say that this is insufficient reason; that there *is* only one correct path. I'm not one of them. Ah, no. I'm Pagan; I acknowledge the...

BUMP so I can find this again. :)

Actually, there ain't no such thing as not killing, if you're alive. We kill things by breathing, by drinking water. I don't have a moral stand on this, except as to unnessary killing, and wasting of life (as in letting food spoil and throwing it away(, and in my tradition we dn't thank the...

That's all I've got for today. Perhaps after various and sundry tasks, and dinner and more dog-walking I'll feel ready to tackle page 13 of this topic.

*evil grin* The Rede is silent about doing harm...you have to decide for yourself. (For anyone who I've just lost, this refers to the topic discussion "morality within evolution).

Ah, a good article on witchvox, if you want to read more: http://www.witchvox.com/va/dt_va.html?a=usma&c=basics&id=2875

Meanwhile, here's a bit more, culled from my document files: The number 5 The number 5 has always been regarded as mystical and magical, yet essentially 'human'. We have five fingers/toes on each limb extremity.We commonly note five senses - sight, hearing, smell, touch and taste. We perceive...

The Star of David has six points. It is made up of two triangles, one point-side up, the other point-side down. A five-pointed star is called a pentacle. (pent = five) Also called a pentagram. If you want the esoteric meanings, a pentragram with one upward point is symbolic of matter informed...

This is quite good.

I don't think that human ethics arises completely from biological evolutionary development - and I do think it plays a large part.