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17 hours ago, Hermanator said:

Try some Daoism and Buddhism. Siddhartha Gautama tackled the whole existential crisis thing way better and different than the Jesus nonsense. More applicable to your life as it deals directly with the suffering we all face daily. Lao Tzu attacked the issue in a very practical way. 

Maybe you just need a change of scenery as it were. Learning about other beliefs helped me deal with the negatives of indoctrination easier. We're all humans dealing with the same shit existence. 

I’m not into religion at all, but there are aspects of Buddhism that I can get with. Some of the connection with nature just chill out and be cool stuff seems legit. 

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Posted
10 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Abraham was surprisingly cool and unsurprised about the whole “go burn your son alive” thing; that story doesn’t make any sense outside of a people with a cultural memory of child sacrifice. 
 

This is one of those things that always stood out growing up. Doesn't anyone think it's weird that Abraham didn't question God requesting a human sacrifice? 

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This is one of those things that always stood out growing up. Doesn't anyone think it's weird that Abraham didn't question God requesting a human sacrifice? 

I once used that story as a “values moment” in a management meeting to demonstrate the relationship between commitment and sacrifice. There were no follow-up questions.
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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Whose legs were featured in the opening of the Richard Diamond show?

Come on man, that’s Mary Tyler Moore, the “prettiest legs in Hollywood.” 
We also saw her hands and heard her voice. 
That’s one of two “Richard Diamond” trivia questions. The other is what show did David Jansen star in as the title character before The Fugitive. 

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Posted
2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Come on man, that’s Mary Tyler Moore, the “prettiest legs in Hollywood.” 
We also saw her hands and heard her voice. 
That’s one of two “Richard Diamond” trivia questions. The other is what show did David Jansen star in as the title character before The Fugitive. 

Lost a fairly epic game of TP on that one once.  Had never heard of the Richard Diamond show prior to that, or really since other than in connection with that question.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

never heard of the Richard Diamond show prior to that, or really since other than in connection with that question.

Originally created for radio by Blake Edwards. 

Posted
5 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Not only that, but Judaism had only been mostly Monotheistic for a little over 5 centuries in the time of Christ. In other words, the core of the Old Testament is written from the perspective not of Rabbinic Judaism of Yahwism, where Yahweh is the regional God and there are others around, almost 1000 years before it became mostly monotheistic Judaism in the 6th century BC, when the Torah was sort of retconned into its current form.
So not just the violence but the jealously makes a lot more sense when Israelites are considering throwing some burnt ends towards Baal.

Also, Yahweh had a girlfriend, a creation deity named Ashereh, who was previously the wife or baby mama to the supreme god of the Canaanites, El, when Yahweh first emerges out of the  desert as a storm god from the Peninsula before ultimately merging with El, like an Arabian Mr Ripley. 

And then Jesus shows up a a few hundred years later and says essentially- “stop arguing about the law, lawyers. The law is love. Love God, love your neighbor. That’s literally the whole thing.”

And now 2000 years after that, fundamentalists are still confidently citing Leviticus when they explain how Jesus didn’t really mean what he said. 

Where does Jeff the God of Biscuits come into the story?

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If yall are real into sicko mode, then might I suggest subscribing to Church History

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history

 

Once a quarter I'm on the edge of my seat with articles like...

"Local Patterns of Relic Veneration in Late Antiquity: Reassessing Alleged Distinctions between Greek and Roman Customs"

Or who could forget

"Stettin Revised: Redating a Major Medieval Inquisition of Heresy"

 

Panty droppers on every page.

 

 

 

 

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Posted
13 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

If yall are real into sicko mode, then might I suggest subscribing to Church History

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history

 

Once a quarter I'm on the edge of my seat with articles like...

"Local Patterns of Relic Veneration in Late Antiquity: Reassessing Alleged Distinctions between Greek and Roman Customs"

Or who could forget

"Stettin Revised: Redating a Major Medieval Inquisition of Heresy"

 

Panty droppers on every page.

 

 

 

 

becoming-your-parents-dr-rick.gif

 

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Posted
3 hours ago, Tuco said:


I once used that story as a “values moment” in a management meeting to demonstrate the relationship between commitment and sacrifice. There were no follow-up questions.

Back when I was working in power plants, I had to attend an OSHA meeting due to an accident that happened on-site. 

The dude explaining safety held up an OSHA handbook and said "This book like the Bible was written in blood, just not the blood of Jesus." Then he explained the difference but nobody seemed to mind and nodded along to his sermon/safety speech. 

It was odd.

Posted
10 hours ago, Clintonaldo said:

We can’t have nice things 

I'm going to point out that you aren't the only one reading this. It's already at 9k+ views with only 200+ comments. There's a lot of lurking going on. That's good imo. The mental health thread is similar. You never know who might be getting something from the thread and its reach exceeds the active participants.

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20 hours ago, ruitxn said:

Troph made an interesting statement…your soul really is just being human.  In discussions like this one thing rarely mentioned is the soul. Really the belief in soul as defining who you really are separates physical man from spiritual man. Richard Rohr (Catholic Franciscan Priest) discusses  this better. “When we move to the level of soul, the externals are not as defining; roles, titles, costumes, age, and race are no longer the most important questions.   
You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

 

When I am deeply present, usually in nature, sailing, fly fishing, sometimes hiking, and some times during sex - all of the past and the future and all of that unique attributes that make me wish I was not here, not me, that I was not in connection with the world of humans vanish and all that is left is the eternity of the moment and the ambiguity of the boundaries and definitions of myself as I meld into the natural world. It’s in places like the river and the marshes where who I am is without any label and subject to no social constructs.  It’s really then that I feel the most peace and the most alive. 
 

I think it’s a little Buddhist though I desire no formal tag for it.

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3 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

I'm going to point out that you aren't the only one reading this. It's already at 9k+ views with only 200+ comments. There's a lot of lurking going on. That's good imo. The mental health thread is similar. You never know who might be getting something from the thread and its reach exceeds the active participants.

I was being facetious and I am actually impressed how well this thread is going and some of the honesty.

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Posted
11 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

If yall are real into sicko mode, then might I suggest subscribing to Church History

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history

 

Once a quarter I'm on the edge of my seat with articles like...

"Local Patterns of Relic Veneration in Late Antiquity: Reassessing Alleged Distinctions between Greek and Roman Customs"

Or who could forget

"Stettin Revised: Redating a Major Medieval Inquisition of Heresy"

 

Panty droppers on every page.

 

 

 

 

I might actually want to read this one.

 

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/church-history/article/baptist-identity-and-elusive-interracialism-in-the-segregated-south-d-v-jemison-e-p-alldredge-and-the-work-of-a-black-baptist-seminary/A3FF62907A276EE4B5BADCCE4A420F01

Posted
38 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Which is also quite Buddhist

goddammit (oops, sorry probably not allowed to say that in this thread). I want to be a unique snowflake.



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