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Siege! Shhh! This is the CHRISTIAN board! Low profile! Low profile!

Dead-bang on target, Eldanuumea! In my fundy days, we thought of the Bible as THE revelation of God to his followers. Lip-service was paid to the notion that He was found in His creation, as presented in Romands 1:20, but in my circles that was still a bit suspect. After all . . . how does...

Agreed, Talia. Most early cultural myths have the universe start with the mating of a primeval god and goddess--most often with an Earth goddess receiving a sky god. Some tales look back further than that, to a single deity who divides itself into male and female components, and THOSE mate to...

“Bill” is fine, Talia. Same goes for everyone here. There are bunches of different techniques for past life regression. The one most hear about is through hypnosis by a trained hypnotist. That can be a bit pricey and even embarrassing (“Uh, excuse me, but do you do past-life regressions AND...

. . . and here begins Part II. Sorry for the length, everybody! For me, the terms Pagan and Neo-Pagan, are far too broadly inclusive . . . kind of like a Baptist declaring himself to be a Theist. It’s true, but, ye gods! Something was lost in the translation! (By this I mean no disrespect to my...

You are most certainly not being offensive. As I understand it, the purpose of this board is to exchange frank views and questions. If someone here doesn't like what others post, or feels offended by it, s/he doesn't have to read them! You're right in that there's not a good correlation between...

I agree with Dave the Web. With the idea that Mark was a collection of sayings from which Matthew drew his source material came the tradition that Mark was in fact compiled no later than about 50, and possibly as early as 45 . . . meaning within the living memory of many who'd known Jesus...

Christ himself addressed the idea that his own people would reject him. Remember the verse about "No prophet is without honor save in his own country." He also made reference to an OT passage--Isaiah, I believe--as prophecy, the one about "The stone which the builders rejected has become the...

I suppose I could wax lyrical (and Lyrical wouldn't like that one bit!) about mother/Goddess archetypes and such, but that's fit meat only for the left sides of our brains. No feeling, not emotion, no power, and no point, really. At the risk of sounding obscenely cliched, I would have to say...

Three cats: Co-purrrr-nicus, Ne-fur-titi, and Yang.

Hi, all! Great idea, Brian, making this a general introduction thread. My name is Bill Keith. I'm--lessee--[counting quickly on fingers and toes...] 53 years old. Professionally, I'm a writer, with something like 60 [who counts?] books published so far. Most are either military SF or modern...

And I'm quite happy here in southern Maine. I'm 12 miles from the ocean, and about 15 from the White Mountains on the New Hampshire border. I live on three-and-some acres, most of it wooded, with house-sized boulders everywhere. Right across the dirt road leading to and bounding our property is...

BTW, I agree with you, Dave, that compassion is not gender-specific. Nor are all XXsholes male. But in terms of organizational strategy, it's interesting to note that female owned and operated businesses tend to emphasize cooperation and common cause within the ranks of the employed and with...

When dealing with religious belief systems dating back to Mesolithic or even Paleolithic times, we are on VERY shaky ground when it comes to solid proof. However, according to Margaret Murray and others, the very widespread discovery of female fertility figures—the various “Venuses” depicting...

Fun. I'm a priestess. Pretty good for a guy! Of course, when I took the test yesterday, I came up as a Dark Power. Maybe I was just feeling a tad off, then!

Excellent question, Elizabeth. I'm not sure how well I can answer. The simplest reply, I think, is that I call myself Wiccan because I am currently a member of a Wiccan coven. Even that isn't a completely honest answer, though, because one coven member is a shaman and emphatically rejects the...

Hi, bgruagach! Welcome. And may I call you Ben too? Your handle is a mouthful! At the risk of saying "Me, too," I strongly echo both Ben's and brian's statements. I possess a number of crystals that I use for various healing and/or magical purposes. They work. Is it because they possess a...

Damn, I didn't know I'd rambled on for so long. I'm sorry, everyone!

From what I've experienced myself, and seen with others, Talia, one doesn't have to deal with the emotional experience of being someone else. Memories of past lives are very much at a safe distance, with little emotional immediacy. I will promptly contradict myself by pointing out that in SOME...

Right you are. One problem with fundy narrow/literal mindedness is the assumption that a word we use in English is exactly and literally the same in Greek, or Aramaic, or Hebrew. When John quotes Christ as saying "as it says in the scriptures," they tend to assume he's talking about THEIR...