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  1. Penelope

    Dream to Tao

    Dream Yes. (Debray is French.) He talks about culture as 'language.' (And vice-versa. Whole chapters. But he describes culture/language pretty much as you do, Dream.) Political groups and religious groups promote their belief ... thru the (sanctified) topography of the discourse they employ...
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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 I write parables ... (posted 5 on this site alone: one here, and 4 here) So I think I know how parables work. & & & (But frankly, Shawn, I need to feel anger and whimsy beneath the figurative...
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    Dream to Tao

    Been thinking about this dilemma for several days, without resolution. & & & Before high school, I think it is the 'gang we grow up with' (in the 'hood) which is the gang we run with. It is not a conscious choice. But by high school, we choose what snobbish little rat-pack we want to run...
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    In the beginning was Anxiety

    A human being is genetically hardwired with a long childhood, compared to other animals. Did years of dependence upon parents (and their adult substitutes) as a child, condition the human individual to rely upon this emotional feeling of protection? A necessary, life-long hedge against...
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    A GOD OF BLACK EMOTIONS - the birth of Monotheism

    Avi A note on the Egyptians: The Israelites got circumcision and many other notions of hygiene from the Egyptians, as well as many of their ethical principles (much of Mosaic Law, in fact, is Egyptian in origin). But much of Israelite legend and lore originates from Sumerian and Babylonian...
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    A GOD OF BLACK EMOTIONS - the birth of Monotheism

    Hi Avi I don't mean to disillusion you ... but most credible historians put the actual birth of Monotheism ... long after Abraham's time of 1700bce or thereabouts. Some (including amateur historian Penelope) claim that true Monotheism (not henetheism - one god above all other gods, where these...
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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 Interesting stuff. Origen ... is someone worth delving more deeply into. But I'm biased, here. & & & When it comes down to the question of accepting literalism versus accepting allegory, I will go with...
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    Lucia and the Snake ... (a fable)

    After awhile the villagers, on the rocky bluffs above, break out their lunches and eat. Those with excellent eyesight are telling the others that your body - now joined to the snake - is turning blue. Down in the shallow waters of the lakeshore, your lifeless cadaver remains wrapped in the...
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    Lucia and the Snake ... (a fable)

    Lucia and the Snake ... (a fable) The year is 1853. Lucia, Isabel, Fatima, and Joelle leave their convent school in San Miguel, Portugal. Lucia sails for Bora Mukai. Isabel leaves for Kenya. Fatima books passage for Brazil. And Joelle heads out to New Guinea. Each depart with devout...
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    A GOD OF BLACK EMOTIONS - the birth of Monotheism

    horizon event Monotheism was born in Babylon (not Jerusalem), 26 centuries ago. This was a God of Hate. A God of Retribution. A God of Punishment. & & & The polytheistic gods of Sumer and, later, of Egypt ... were temperamental. They had their good days and their bad days. But humans...
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    "don't touch our trees" ... (the real conflict in Eden)

    Hi Nativeastral. Thanks for the tip on Nassim Haramein and his "Crossing the Event Horizon" lectures. A number of Haramein's interests do appear to parallel mine. If I had 8 hours of spare time to toss to the wind, I'd dive in and listen to the other 44 (11-minute) segments of his lecture...
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    Jesus' miracles ... contesting a core assumption of Judaic Law - 'the unclean'

    Primitive Christianity - in its contemporary setting (1956) by Rudolph Bultmann (section on "Judaism"). Various writings by John Shelby Spong on "the Jewish Jesus" (e.g. Jesus for the Non-Religious). Bananabrain, These are both liberal, tolerant Christian thinkers. Not Jew-bashers...
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    "don't touch our trees" ... (the real conflict in Eden)

    Eden is many places. Across Turkey. And not just in Turkey. Rohl is playing a game. It is like a puzzle. I just read about someone who is making the Eden-claim about the Gobekli Tepe site. Silly game. (Philosophically and psychologically, the need to find 'the one place' is bred of an...
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    "don't touch our trees" ... (the real conflict in Eden)

    Avi, Should you (or others) take a hard-edged interest in these Turkish archeological discoveries, a good place to dive into the subject is at Catalhoyuk. This is probably the largest and best preserved Neolithic site, anywhere. It's located in south-central Turkey. Here is the...
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    "don't touch our trees" ... (the real conflict in Eden)

    Hi Avi. Friend, who illustrated a couple of my online stories over the summer, did the avatar for me. Sorry about the lack of references. Bad habit. But also computer problems. (Old desktop computer died, 2-year-old laptop's motherboard is going. Otherwise, could have given you 20 saved...
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    Jesus' miracles ... contesting a core assumption of Judaic Law - 'the unclean'

    Miracles are never miraculous - never supernatural. Miracles are either ... 1. Something natural, but misunderstood. 2. A fraud - magician's trickery. Or ... 3. Sheer coincidence. & & & A male member of my family on my mother's line, 200-some years ago, was laid out in church at his...
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    "don't touch our trees" ... (the real conflict in Eden)

    horizon event To my reading of modern archeology, Eden is not a mythical place. It was a real one. This place was bounded: - On the east by the Caspian Ocean. - On the north by the Caucasus Mountains and by a (then) mammoth freshwater lake (which is, now, an even larger body of water - the...
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    Moses's Escape from Egypt

    To Freud, there are two Judaisms: 1. The religion of Moses. This religion is derived from the highly sophisticated Egyptian religion in its most advanced form: the One God of Akhenaten. This religion is ethical, all sorcery and "magic" is removed from the ritual priestly practice. God is...
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    Moses's Escape from Egypt

    Hi Avi Thanks for your kind comments. Originally I read the essay in college in Freud's Totem and Taboo (1913), a thin volume, but I believe the essay in question was written much later and added to the book by the paperback publisher, to thicken it out. (I lent the book to a friend, and...
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    Moses's Escape from Egypt

    There is not much archeological evidence that Moses even existed. So the Egyptians may well be entirely justified in ignoring what may be just a fabricated story, of a People needing a Foundation epic. Even if true. Think about it... A royal personage (a lord who directs public works in the...
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