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Doc Reeves

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  1. 26 minutes ago, Viper said:

    It's really interesting to study how Yahweh started out as one of the sons of El the head of the Canaanite pantheon (Elohim) and the personal deity of the proto-Israeli tribes and then later evolved to merge with El, and then to become the only God. There's some good answers I've read on quora that go into this. I'll see if I can find them.

    One of the hallmarks (and imo one of the most beautiful) of early Christianity was the notion the one true God wanted you to discover him. It allowed and even fostered the absorption and expansion of many differing philosophies because those individual prices of truth were in effect a road map to the divine. 

    I think one of mankind’s greatest philosophical accomplishments is the development of early Christianity. 

  2. 39 minutes ago, Horn_Spanker said:

    I've been working on my genealogy for at least 20 years and have never found an ancestor to be a slave owner even though all my roots are southern, until today.

    I was researching through a 1840 Baton Rouge newspaper and found the police report section stating they had picked up a black guy named Bob who said he belonged to Horn_Spanker's GGGG-grandfather, and for GGGG-grandfather to come pick him up.  There was a list of other held slaves to be picked up so it looked common for the police to do this.

    The reason it struck me to post this is, GGGG-grandfather had immigrated from Germany just a few years earlier.  As far as I know, slavery was not a thing in early 1800s Germany.  What prompted him to buy slaves when his upbringing frowned on such practices?  Was he thinking back in Germany, "when I get to Louisiana, I'm gonna buy some slaves" or, when he got here he realized he needed them?  Maybe he was just an asshole?

    Family is German came over in 1840’s to the Chicago/Wisconsin area with a large group of other Southern Germans and Austrians. 

    While they were all Lutheran (slavery was a big no-no) some of my family did marry into families that had slave holdings

    My understanding, the way it was explained to me, was that while most Germans at the time were culturally predisposed abolitionists, there were other stron  cultural influences that called for Germans in a new land to adopt the ways of the land they emigrated to. Plenty of stories of Germans in Texas participating in the institution against their ideals because it was the law of the land.

  3. Meh, as a Lutheran I’ve heard all that before.  It’s not about what you say it’s about what you do.

    I have yet to find an American church where theological principles out weigh the necessity to run a business. That’s not meant to be a critique of religion rather a comment on our country’s culture. 

     

     

     

  4. Welp, it’s official. Solo is the first Star Wars Movie to bomb. 

    After 2 weeks the move has made $156M and cost a staggering $250M to film. 

    Probably shouldnt have fired the first directors after the movie was 3/4 shot. They practically made the entire movie twice

  5. One of my favorite stories from my neuroscience class:

    Guy had terrible bipolar depression. Battled it for years with meds and Drs. but nothing worked. One day it became to much and he took gun and put it to his temple and pulled the trigger. 

    Incredibly not only does he survive, but the bullet fixes his brain and cures his Bipolar depression 

  6. 23 hours ago, TheBryMan81 said:

    Would, would, would, and would

    When that .gif came out I was at 2/4. Now I have a smoke crotch and would probably take a crack at that weird guy in the back with the glasses. 

    So yeah, being old sucks

  7. 5 minutes ago, SDG said:

    I’m short and at moments have little mans syndrome but his shit is ridiculous by even my standards.  

    CSB, I was just in a Vegas elevator with a 4'10" diamond encrusted Chinese Billionaire and 3 toothless streetwalking whores he was taking up to his room.

    i think this shit is ridiculous by his standards too. 

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