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Was it the one by Siku?

As far as I'm aware, the earliest copy of Mark carbon dates to, at earliest, 430 CE. Given that our various versions of Mark have a fair bit of differences between them, who knows how much the text changed over 4 centuries after the death of Jesus? And Mark is generally seen as the most...

Two newer songs that I've found in my hunt, both of them are soothing and slow: "Space Song" by Beach House "Sugar for the Pill" by Slowdive For the first one, I found it through this video, which is an ambient edit of the song and it goes really well in a quiet place with head phones...

I think you may have meant to link this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasideans

This planet is the only world that exists. All of the other planets and stars are flaming rocks fixed in our upper atmosphere. Sometimes they fall down and create craters in the form of meteorites.

To add to this a bit tangentially, early Gnostic sects did seem to believe in reincarnation, according to accounts of them given by heresiologists and their own texts recovered from the Nag Hammadi library. The reason for this is closely connected to their belief that the soul came from the...

Where did he sleep?

This image is certainly within the top 10 percentile rank of cute images I have seen online.

I found this article about evaluating whether a source is a "baloney sandwich" https://www.skeptic.com/skepticism-101/baloney-detection-kit-sandwich-infographic/ It has a nice infographic that serves as a decent reference. I sent this to someone I know who is trying to get into critical...

Here we are, from "The Master and Keshab" in Volume 1. Sounds a lot like the Stoic notion of the "unconquerable mind" of the virtuous

While there's not enough evidence for me to claim that God exists, and I think I could make positive arguments for why he doesn't, I still hope that if God is real then I am learning to understand his Logos through his Works in Nature. Many people would say that logic itself is the language...

I have heard of him, but I don't know much about him beyond that he was supposedly gifted from a young age and had an interpretation of Christianity that essentially discounted the notion of sin entirely so long as someone was devoutly focused on God.

I think Jesus would probably dig Freemasonry just because they essentially bow to him, but I imagine his takeover of it wouldn't be peaceful. This is the guy that had his followers sell all of their belongings and threatened them with hellfire for questioning or disobeying him, while claiming to...

You have to be a cishet male for the most part and, for some older lodges, your father also had to be a Freemason to get in.

...but it isn't? Freemasonry spawned out of the Knights Hospitaller, a Catholic order, and their main themes center around Christian Cabala. They view themselves as the builders of the Third Temple, a reflection of Heaven on earth, awaiting Christ's second coming. Luciferians certainly aren't...

No problem, welcome to the forum! "Yoga" is often translated as "union." I sometimes recommend "bhakti yoga" to those interested in Christian worship because I think it can really add something to someone's experiences. It's essentially a deeply meditative way to worship through union with God.

Every time I see this image I think it looks like the Ren Fair is hosting a music fetsival

I agree and I definitely don't think we should forget about that. I'm merely pointing out that there are some decent local congregations when the priests are genuinely devout rather than despots.

My paternal grandfather was a Scottish Rite Freemason. There was nothing honorable about that man. He was a drunkard and a wife-beater, but his charisma carried him to the top of the boys' club. He held at least a 31st degree. In my opinion, I think his existence demonstrates how vapid Masonry...

Mine, too