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Grex > Synthesis > #132: Love and Death Across a Chasm (very, very long) | |
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bjorn
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response 23 of 48:
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Oct 16 18:59 UTC 1998 |
Unfortunately, the Bible not only contradicts itself from Old to New
testament, but also withing the same chapter. Gensis, for example.
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jazz
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response 24 of 48:
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Oct 17 13:31 UTC 1998 |
So it's acceptable to use inflammatory statements about Christianity,
but not others about your beliefs? I see.
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brighn
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response 25 of 48:
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Oct 17 13:35 UTC 1998 |
That's not a flame. That's the truth, stated simply and not in a hostile
or condescending manner.
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bjorn
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response 26 of 48:
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Oct 17 13:51 UTC 1998 |
Thank you, brighn. (failing to resist the urge to use a gaming reference):
Jazz, you critically failed your interpretation/perception check.
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jazz
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response 27 of 48:
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Oct 17 17:48 UTC 1998 |
There's a difference between "flaming" and "inflammatory", Paul -
I'm sure you're aware of it.
#26: That's so twittish that there's just no reply.
See, that was flaming. :)
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brighn
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response 28 of 48:
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Oct 18 02:06 UTC 1998 |
You're right, John, there is.
the comments that you made some time ago, that bjorn critized, were flames
and flame-baits.
the comment bjorn made was inflammatory.
happy?
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mta
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response 29 of 48:
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Oct 18 17:10 UTC 1998 |
re: resp:21 (which was re resp:19)
My point is that the suggestion was made that I submist my essay to Reader's
Digest ... and it's so thoroughly pagan in outlook that I can't see how I
could rewrite it keeping the point and still making it palatable to RD's
self-selected audience.
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birdnoir
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response 30 of 48:
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Oct 19 03:17 UTC 1998 |
The Xtian bible was much better befor the Esclesiastical (spl?) Council
of 485 AD, this papal group re-wrote major parts of the original, writting
out such thing that they believed werr common knowledge, givens like
re-incarnation and the many god and goddess involved with Yahweh.
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bjorn
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response 31 of 48:
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Oct 19 12:58 UTC 1998 |
Your spelling looks right, birdnoir.
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brighn
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response 32 of 48:
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Oct 19 13:56 UTC 1998 |
29> I knew what your point was. I'd already said the article has nearly no
chance of being accepted by RD, but it's a strange strange world.
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jazz
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response 33 of 48:
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Oct 19 15:34 UTC 1998 |
Ecclesiastical. I think you're referring to the Deuteronical
revisions, which occured almost eight hundred years earlier, and consolidated
two different sets of polytheistic (but worshipping one diety, and with
notable theological differences) legends, those of the Baalist and the
Yahwist. The Yahwists were the monotheistic-seeming ones, but both the
Baalists and the Yahwists worshipped the same diety, often known by a host
of different names. The Yahwist disgust for the Baalist polytheism is evident
throughout the OT.
Now the Council of Constantine was responsible for the removal of a
lot of apocrypha and for any hint of Gnostic bent in the NT. Many Gnostics
did believe in reincarnation, and later incarnations of Gnosticism worshipped
the Goddess Sophia, or, Wisdom, if somewhat obliquely. But that wasn't really
a part of the popular religion.
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bjorn
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response 34 of 48:
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Oct 19 16:43 UTC 1998 |
All very interesting points, but perhaps it is time that this particular
discussion move to its own item?
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font
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response 35 of 48:
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Nov 24 02:42 UTC 1998 |
Misti:
Your article is very beautiful. It has brought new understanding to me.
<font wipes tears from her eyes>
I wish I'd had more of a bridge to my father before he died... The bridge
had fallen when I wasn't looking. I'm still fighting with how to honor
him without making myself uncomfortable.
Have you considered sending this article to "The Sun" ?
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mta
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response 36 of 48:
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Nov 24 13:36 UTC 1998 |
What's _The Sun_?
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brighn
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response 37 of 48:
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Nov 24 19:38 UTC 1998 |
It's a large yellow-white ball of fire that provides light for our planet,
Misti.
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robh
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response 38 of 48:
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Nov 24 19:45 UTC 1998 |
It's also an alternative religious mag. Check the Utne Reader
for contact info, they usually have an ad and/or article in it.
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mta
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response 39 of 48:
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Nov 25 18:08 UTC 1998 |
OK, thanks Rob.
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aldous
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response 40 of 48:
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Jun 15 18:16 UTC 1999 |
Well, to update anyone who wants to know, this article was published in JULES-
The Journal of Unusual Learning and Esoteric Studies, Vol 4, No 2. It was
an excellent piece, and quite a welcome submission.
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kami
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response 41 of 48:
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Jun 15 18:34 UTC 1999 |
Hey! Life in this item, what do you know...
Anyone else have thoughts about life, death or relationships?
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jazz
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response 42 of 48:
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Jun 15 19:48 UTC 1999 |
Good to see you're back, Kami. If anyone can resuscitate this
conference, it'd be you!
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aldous
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response 43 of 48:
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Jun 22 11:24 UTC 1999 |
Given the conference topic, perhaps "reincarnate" would be a better term?
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kami
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response 44 of 48:
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Jun 23 05:27 UTC 1999 |
No, Jazz- I'm not that fond of my own words. One person does not a
conversation make. Generally...<g>
Cute, Aldous.
So- say something...
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jazz
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response 45 of 48:
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Jun 23 14:59 UTC 1999 |
Don't dash my hopes, Kami. :)
Allright ... I had an unsual experience recently wherein I was outside,
reading, for about an hour or so, and during that period of time, a
blue-and-gray dragonfly kept lighting upon me, and upon the book I was
reading. It was bizaare. I'd never had a dragonfly get that close, or stay
that close for that long. Possibilities?
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aldous
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response 46 of 48:
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Jun 23 16:52 UTC 1999 |
Jazz-
Any number of possibilites come to mind, from the dragonfly deciding you
resembled a rock or branch (for whatever reason), to the state of mind your
reading material put you in being conduscive to attracting dragonflies
(especially blue-gray ones), and those are just two of the myriad
possibilities.
Would you know how you might have "smelled" at the time? Perhaps you were
close enough to moss-covered structres that the moss "odor" of the
environment masked the scent that dragonflies get from most humans. More
interesting still, it might have had a "human fetish". :-)
Hopefully, you weren't resembling a mosquito in any way. It didn't
attempt to bite you, did it?
Perhaps this should go in a new item: invertabrate phenomena.
Aldous
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jazz
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response 47 of 48:
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Jun 23 17:11 UTC 1999 |
No, I thought it curious, though, and wondered if any with a greater
knowledge of folklore might care to draw a parallel. I'm not aware of any
examples of dragonflies in folklore, to be honest.
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