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  1. Penelope

    The Green Moon of Sterrett-5

    01. The Green Moon of Sterrett-5 01.001 I cannot hate you, Leila. I have every right to hate you. You can see that? Can you not, Leila? Every right! You say you love me. But how can I know what that means? Yes. Perhaps I loved you once. But I cannot now. Given what has happened...
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    The Green Moon of Sterrett-5

    You don't need gods, or God, to have a religion. You just need a strong affirmative belief. & & & But where does the sense of the Divine - sense of being touched by the Divine - come from? I'm thinking ... from communication. (but not ... just any old communication)...
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    A GOD OF BLACK EMOTIONS - the birth of Monotheism

    Hi jahway Reality is fascinating and revealing, far more so than the fairytales we all grew up with, as delightful as some of those are. For you, or anyone intent upon diving into the subject of how Judaic monotheism actually developed, I've listed (below) a few books. (Some are better than...
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    Being and Non-Being in Eriugena

    Thomas, There is a basic logic here, isn't there? (If you accept a Platonic Idealism.) There is a simple hierarchy in space and time. Say you are traveling: - Where you have been has 'Being' - it exists to you. You have seen it. - Where you are going has 'NonBeing' - it has no existence...
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    The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bible &

    Re: The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bib No, Shawn. (No joking matter!) Binary systems are real (are rational). But metaphysical dualisms are bullcrap (a dreamworld). Ontology (theory of 'Being') is a deadend philosophy, embedded as it is in the...
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    The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bible &

    Re: The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bib Shawn, should I have added a smiley :) to let you know that my remark was tongue-in-cheek? & & & A simple lesson from linguistics: ('being' verbs and 'action' verbs) If God is a 'being' ... God 'does'...
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    The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bible &

    Re: The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bib Linda I found this Kabbalistic reference, by you, interesting. Like with each of my children ... I want to embrace each so firmly, that there is no distinction between me and them. I have to continually...
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    A GOD OF BLACK EMOTIONS - the birth of Monotheism

    Bananabrain I will argue concepts with you. But I will not argue details. It's petty. If you are genuinely interested in seeing the parallels between Egyptian religious rites and early Israelite practices, I suggest you look at the Byron Shafer ed. Religion in Ancient Egypt (1991, many...
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    The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bible &

    Re: The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bib Linda Don't tell anyone, but I'm actually reading some Kabbalistic writings (guilty pleasure). It's a kind of nonsense writing, to me, which perks up the ears. I'm so-so with Tech things, myself. Anything...
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    Creationism.

    Hi JFL The Earth is a magical planet. A miracle planet. There are hundreds of thousands of things which could have happened to prevent the Evolution of human life from occurring on this planet. But evolution somehow managed to skirt these problems ... and (by sheer luck or divine...
  11. Penelope

    Creationism.

    America has a really stupid streak in it, Wil. It does not surprise me that Creationism is a largely American phenomenon. & & & I have a thing or two to say about the Creationism subject. But I rather that anyone interested, read about it in a different context, my own: Creationists turn...
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    The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bible &

    Re: The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bib Hi Linda I wanted to thank you for your considered responses to my irksome remarks regarding "ancient wisdom." I, too, could once quote W.B. Yeats at length. Or T.S. Eliot. Great poets! (But questionable...
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    The original version of Genesis 1 went something like this ...

    Harold Bloom considers The Book of J - even mutilated as it is by the Redactor's scissors - to be one of the triumphs of world literature. On a par with the Iliad (Homer), The Divine Comedy (Dante), or Hamlet (and other central plays by Shakespeare). The J-author (or Yahweh-author) wrote much...
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    Is there a Religion based upon Monism?

    I don't know the history of Monism ... as a theological or philosophical idea (if Monism has such a history). But it sounds kind of close to what I believe. A core belief. & & & We - each (and perhaps collectively) - are a single substance. There is no body-soul dualism. (Dualism= The...
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    DEATH is the foundation of Theology. Not LIFE.

    LIFE is secular. (LIFE is also sacred. To be cherished.) All of human (and Humanist) Philosophy is an attempt to define and explain LIFE, and how it should be lived. More life. Ethical life. The scientific. The sociopolitical. The esthetic. Each are ... About LIFE. (The glories of LIFE. How...
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    Creationists turn their back on God

    I would only add, regarding God (in Genesis) creating "the Heavens and the Earth" ... The Earth (though formless) did not come first, followed by the Sun and stars. (God created the Heavens in a split-second with the Big Bang. God then waited 9 billion years or so before creating the Sun and...
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    In the beginning was Anxiety

    Hi Dogbrain Regis Debray is a (yes, macho) Parisian Frenchman (as a journalist in the 1960s, Debray hiked all over the mountains of Bolivia with Che Guevara's band of revolutionaries, and was jailed by Brazilian authorities for it). Debray's book was translated by David Macey from French to...
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    The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bible &

    Re: The testimony of the early church as toward the correct interpretation of our bib Mixed metaphors, Shawn? (Seem to remember a college Writing prof warning me against those.) Or is this like a metaphysical 'trick question'? You put three of the five human senses in one question ... then...
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    Dream to Tao

    Shawn In my pre-teen years ... Yes. I, as an individual, am defined mostly in terms of my membership in my family. Political and religious biases choose me (via my parents and their community of belief). But in my teens ... I harbor the illusion of freedom (in my rebellion against familial...
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