Evangelicals: You Need to Stop Believing In Stupid Things

[CFM]

We will be there!

Not if you are as smart as you pretend to be.

[CFM]

Self-awareness is not a feature in that psyche's bleak and bitter landscape. lol

Isn't that the pot calling the kettle black.

[Mason Melchizedek]

You idiots are the ones that envision Jesus holding a gun.

I'm not a Republican Evangelical

[Mason Melchizedek]

Not if you are as smart as you pretend to be.

We will be there!And you'll squat to piss!

[CFM]

I'm not a Republican Evangelical

I haven't seen any of them posting pictures with Jesus holding a gun.

[CFM]

We will be there!And you'll squat to piss!

Are you a sprinter?

[Iolo/Penderyn]

It's interesting, isn't it? I haven't yet begun working on my minor, which is anthropology, but I'm looking forward to it for that reason. Don't you suspect that our similarities as humans are much more numerous than our differences?

Very much so. It's not anthropology, but at the moment I'm fascinated by a book I'm reading about the period between the end of Roman dominance in Britain and the rise of the Mediaeval kingdoms. In it he gives fascinating detail on how each period from the Nineteenth Century on has projected its current concerns back onto this particular past and produced a totally different history. It seems to me that this is true of the study of the Old Testament too: at the moment we are preoccupied with 'facts' and the accuracy of statements (in the age of Trump you can see reason for this), whereas I think it would be more interesting and useful to look at the likely facts that gave rise to the stories. I think this would be true of most legendary material. It's clear that some of the stories in our Mediaeval Mabinogi, for instance, are originally about gods - but they are surprisingly sympathetic gods in sympathetic stories. One of them, for instance, with his brother's support, rapes a girl: the High God figure turns them into animals, and for three years they breed with one another, and each bears young (one of which is the first Dylan, son of the wave), which would seem to me a proper learning-experience (and the High God marries the girl, by the way). It would be fascinating to reconstruct the societies out of which these stories come!

[CFM]

Very much so. It's not anthropology, but at the moment I'm fascinated by a book I'm reading about the period between the end of Roman dominance in Britain and the rise of the Mediaeval kingdoms. In it he gives fascinating detail on how each period from the Nineteenth Century on has projected its current concerns back onto this particular past and produced a totally different history. It seems to me that this is true of the study of the Old Testament too: at the moment we are preoccupied with 'facts' and the accuracy of statements (in the age of Trump you can see reason for this), whereas I think it would be more interesting and useful to look at the likely facts that gave rise to the stories. I think this would be true of most legendary material. It's clear that some of the stories in our Mediaeval Mabinogi, for instance, are originally about gods - but they are surprisingly sympathetic gods in sympathetic stories. One of them, for instance, with his brother's support, rapes a girl: the High God figure turns them into animals, and for three years they breed with one another, and each bears young (one of which is the first Dylan, son of the wave), which would seem to me a proper learning-experience (and the High God marries the girl, by the way). It would be fascinating to reconstruct the societies out of which these stories come!

That's a lie. Looking at pictures isn't reading.

[saltydancin]

sorry....ran this through Google translate and it said it didn't know that language......

Resorting back into fire ants mode where if one bites then all of them will bite as those running Christiananality pedophilia not so Evangelical thieving US Constitution - old glory - old testament - absentee voting ballot arsonists for double negative entropy resulting into translate master race master plan language of suicidal super egos beyond the pleasure principle.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Very much so. It's not anthropology, but at the moment I'm fascinated by a book I'm reading about the period between the end of Roman dominance in Britain and the rise of the Mediaeval kingdoms. In it he gives fascinating detail on how each period from the Nineteenth Century on has projected its current concerns back onto this particular past and produced a totally different history. It seems to me that this is true of the study of the Old Testament too: at the moment we are preoccupied with 'facts' and the accuracy of statements (in the age of Trump you can see reason for this), whereas I think it would be more interesting and useful to look at the likely facts that gave rise to the stories. I think this would be true of most legendary material. It's clear that some of the stories in our Mediaeval Mabinogi, for instance, are originally about gods - but they are surprisingly sympathetic gods in sympathetic stories. One of them, for instance, with his brother's support, rapes a girl: the High God figure turns them into animals, and for three years they breed with one another, and each bears young (one of which is the first Dylan, son of the wave), which would seem to me a proper learning-experience (and the High God marries the girl, by the way). It would be fascinating to reconstruct the societies out of which these stories come!

All of our current events are built upon history, aren't they?

What is the Medieval Mabinogi?

[Iolo/Penderyn]

All of our current events are built upon history, aren't they?

What is the Medieval Mabinogi?

They're mediaeval 'Welsh' stories, some of which clearly go back before we became Christian under the Roman Empire. All current events are based on what happened in the past, yes. but 'history' is the way we tell the story of the past, and it changes all the time.

[PoliTalker]

Hello ThatOwlWoman,

You were remarkably patient. Maybe losing yet another person who would actually engage in a discussion will be a wake-up call, although I doubt it.

Thank you.

I make every effort to give people the benefit of the doubt, but when they take such consideration as leniency, to continue offending me, they remove all doubt. It was a simple thing. Just stop talking about me. Couldn't do it. Had to come right back with the snappy double-down. So be it. Now there will be freedom to say any shallow busybody thing desired. I will never see it. It will be as rewarding as building houses of cards in a big wind. Trolls are so easily dismissed it is a wonder they persist. I was not surprised in the least. Now reduced to a fading memory.

Onward to more meaningful discussions.

[TOP]

Still I Rise
By Maya Angelou
"You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise."

[PostmodernProphet]

setting AI back 100 years, non-entertaining fellows desperate for attention minus redeeming qualities seldom found in my master's posts but concern is not warranted

I know, right?....

[ThatOwlWoman]

Hello ThatOwlWoman,



Thank you.

I make every effort to give people the benefit of the doubt, but when they take such consideration as leniency, to continue offending me, they remove all doubt. It was a simple thing. Just stop talking about me. Couldn't do it. Had to come right back with the snappy double-down. So be it. Now there will be freedom to say any shallow busybody thing desired. I will never see it. It will be as rewarding as building houses of cards in a big wind. Trolls are so easily dismissed it is a wonder they persist. I was not surprised in the least. Now reduced to a fading memory.

Onward to more meaningful discussions.

Unfortunately some are much more interested in talking about others -- or you -- than exchanging ideas and opinions. You lasted much longer than most.