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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 20, 2023 19:29:40 GMT -5
Kind of reminds me of this classic Bill Hicks routine:
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 23, 2023 17:44:41 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 25, 2023 18:03:53 GMT -5
I've been so wrapped up in Halloween nonsense the last few weeks. How are things going in the Middle East (birthplace of three of the world's major religions) these days?  |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 2, 2023 19:55:23 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 3, 2023 21:53:24 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 4, 2023 8:52:51 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 4, 2023 10:04:29 GMT -5
I'm not going to lie, it looks fun. Wish it was something you could just do on weekends or on vacations, though. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 4, 2023 17:36:22 GMT -5
I'm not going to lie, it looks fun. Wish it was something you could just do on weekends or on vacations, though. I would want to set up a global conspiracy of balloonists to send up hundreds of thousands of pseudoraptures simultaneously in every country. Go big or go home |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 4, 2023 20:24:46 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 4, 2023 22:03:24 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 5, 2023 13:02:10 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 8, 2023 21:30:20 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 11, 2023 19:56:43 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 11, 2023 21:21:06 GMT -5
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Post by El Santo on Nov 13, 2023 15:32:31 GMT -5
This struck me as the sort of unwarranted intellectual masturbation that Internet Atheists habitually engage in, so I looked it up. And I was right. Here's the real situation: The Egyptian Book of the Dead contains a list of 42 affirmations about your conduct during life that you'll be expected to make before various gods during the vetting process for the afterlife. Among the things you should be able to affirm not having done are the slaying of men and women, a whole checklist of dishonest practices that might be collapsed into "lying," a similarly extensive catalogue of nitpicky nuances of theft, and so on. Some of those can be mapped with greater or lesser effort onto the divine commandments in Exodus 20; others map much more cleanly onto one or another of the Roman Catholic Church's Seven Deadly Sins (especially Wrath). A few concern sexual matters that were treated as moral issues all over the Afro-Semitic world, but not necessarily elsewhere ("I have not lain with men," "I have not polluted myself"). A few others bear very particularly on aspects of Egyptian culture or religion ("I have not slain the cattle belonging to the god," "I have not carried away the khenfu cakes from the spirits of the dead"). Only the latter category are sufficiently distinctive that literally any other society within the same very broad cultural sphere couldn't have arrived at them without inspiration from Egypt specifically, and those are the very ones that have absolutely no analogues in the Abrahamic tradition. And the most distinctive elements of Exodus 20-- the ones pertaining to exclusivity of worship and the special covenant between Yahweh and the Israelites-- have no analogues in the Book of the Dead, either. |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 16, 2023 21:18:01 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 16, 2023 21:28:49 GMT -5
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 19, 2023 15:34:18 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 19, 2023 16:48:03 GMT -5
Apparently word salad was the appetizer at the last supper? |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 20, 2023 22:39:18 GMT -5
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