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And that, of course, is part of what this board is all about! Self-reflection may be THE distinguishing feature between us and animals. Who am I, really? What do I believe, really? Why is that important, really? Not caring about what anybody else thinks, but wanting to klnow yourself, deep down...

I like that, Dave the Web! IMHO, any god who feels threatened by 1. Questioning by his followers, 2. Critical observations by outsiders, 3. Secular fiction, 4. A joke Really has no business being a god in the first place! BigMacScanlan . . . I submit that kids ARE influenced by TV (and...

Okay, I'll bite! Speaking as a Wiccan and as a teacher of Wicca, I don't find the site as offensive as I find it ignorant. It's actually pretty funny and very obviously there as a con to make money. The "King of the Witches" crack is aimed at Alex Saunders, a disciple of Gardner who went on to...

Ah-HA! Now I get it! ;D

Dang. Still can't figure out how to pick up a quote! ??? Regardng Brian's statement: "I do not believe that every cultural on earth experiences a different reality - merely the same reality expressed through different tools of culture and society, or which language is but one. In which case...

Hi, Celine! Welcome! A couple of points. I agree with the admin decision to drop that link. There is another discussion forum I occasionally attend that recently got into a terrible internal war, Christian fundamentalists versus Mormons. One of the Christians persisted in using as source...

Great information there, Brian. Remember the books I recommended a while back by Newton—“Destiny of Souls” and “Journey of Souls?” I’m not shilling his books . . . but they have a LOT of information on the soul group concept, if you’re interested. In my experience, an intense interest in a...

Okay. Let's up the ante, here. In the book of Deuterononomy, it says: 25:11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: 25:12...

Hi, Siege. I am honored to be your soul-friend. A very close, perhaps identical, concept is the old one of soulmate. As usually expressed, the ideas is that two souls, one male, one female, are always looking for one another and, when they find one another, that life becomes one of bliss and...

Hi, Elizabeth! The autohypnosis I'm describing above is VERY light. You are in full control at all times, and can always tell yourself to stop. I tend to be a bit of a control freak myself (hate roller coasters, and have been known to mutter instructions beneath my breath at the pilot during...

Regarding the Greeks picking up myth from earlier sources. First, it is absolutely accepted now that the Genesis account of Adam and Eve and the later story of the flood all had their origins in ancient Sumeria, a good three to four thousand years before the Jewish version would have been...

Hi, Aerylon! Welcome to comparitive-religions.com!

I've got to go find the source--forget where it is--but recently I read an interesting article that tied the Dark Ages in with a comet or meteor strike in Europe. The evidence--a string of long, bitterly cold winiters through the 400s/500s, crop failures that led to barbarian migrations, and...

This question was one of the Big Ones for me, that helped drive me away from fundamentalist Christianity many years ago. Catholicism--not exactly what you think of as fundy nowadays--came up with the idea of limbo, a place for newborn babies who'd died before being baptized. It wasn't hell...

Fascinating article. Thanks, Brian. I see two areas in the movie that would seriously worry the Egyptian government. First, the issue of human creation WILL inflame Islamic fundamentalists. It will tick off Christian fundamentalists as well . . . but they don't have a history of rioting in the...

Various cultures have defined words translated as "soul" and "spirit" in very different ways. My favorite is ancient Egypt, which had a number--6, I believe? I'd have to go check--of noncorporeal critters running around inside a living body. Among these, the best known were the ka--a spiritual...

My belief is that evil is that which mutilates or destroys the soul. I do not believe in Satan. I find the theology shaky in the extreme, leading either to a Manichean philosophy with two equal and opposed gods, one good and one evil, or a bizarre situation where an omnipotent and all-powerful...

Victor, I'd appreciate a source linking specifics on Jesus' life and ministry to ANY texts related to the Dead Sea Scrolls. I'm aware of the controversy over Templar belief and of the so-called Grail bloodline notion that Jesus survived, married the Magdalene, and moved to France, but those...

Thank you, brian, for that original article. Nicely researched! I highly recommend C.S. Lewis' classic "The Great Divorce," which presents that Christian apologist's allegorical view of Hell--a kind of country chosen deliberately by its inhabitants, souls who frequently take day trips up to...

Purportedly true story: the very-Christian mother of a friend got VERY upset over that friend's apparently irreverent reference to an "eggsy Jesus." Brian, I LOVE this board! This time, though, I'm going to exercise discipline and not ramble for ten pages because I MUST get some work done...