Tommy_Carcetti
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Thu Aug-13-09 09:12 AM
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Call me old-fashioned, but I think we should worship the sun and moon as powerful gods... |
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... and fear them.
(Whistling away)
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LibertyLover
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Thu Aug-13-09 09:22 AM
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Although I do tend to honor the moon as Goddess, I am well aware that in many ancient cultures, the moon was a god - for example, in Mesopotamia the moon god was Sin and in Egypt Thoth (or Djehuty to give him his Egyptian name)was a god of the moon.
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Thu Aug-13-09 09:50 AM
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Lex
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Thu Aug-13-09 09:52 AM
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3. Makes more sense than worshipping the imaginary. |
Brother Buzz
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Thu Aug-13-09 10:14 AM
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4. God had made the wind, and air, and sun. The man-world was made by man, and a rotten job it was. |
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She sat there, racking her brain, the smudge of Oakland at her back, staring across the bay at the smudge of San Francisco. Yet the sun was good; the wind was good, as was the keen salt air in her nostrils; the blue sky, flecked with clouds, was good. All the natural world was right, and sensible, and beneficent. It was the man-world that was wrong, and mad, and horrible. Why were the stupid stupid? Was it a law of God? No; it could not be. God had made the wind, and air, and sun. The man-world was made by man, and a rotten job it was. Yet, and she remembered it well, the teaching in the orphan asylum, God had made everything. Her mother, too, had believed this, had believed in this God. Things could not be different. It was ordained. - The Valley of the Moon by Jack London
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JustABozoOnThisBus
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Thu Aug-13-09 10:18 AM
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and what will happen when the Great Turtle gets wind of your blasphemy!
Infidel!
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Tommy_Carcetti
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Thu Aug-13-09 11:19 AM
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7. I have distracted the Great Turtle with a Size 8 shoe. |
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We will not be hearing from the Great Turtle for quite a while.
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Deja Q
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Thu Aug-13-09 11:38 AM
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8. I knew phallic worship would arrive, eventually! |
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Thu Aug-13-09 10:52 AM
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6. Not until you can produce the real, long-form birth certificate. |
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How do we know they didn't come from some other solar system?
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BB1
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Thu Aug-13-09 11:45 AM
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9. God(s) created the Earth, |
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but the Dutch made Holland. We have a trademarkstamp 14 miles wide and 6 long. It says: Here be civilised debate.
Besides that, there is the question of what these deities have done for us lately, being Supreme Beings and all.
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Thu Aug-13-09 02:39 PM
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10. Those gods have more influance over our lives than the god of Abraham. |
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