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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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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.

 

 

 

 

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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.



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