"... Jusitinian thought sodomy caused earthquakes ..."
*blink*
Ok, I don't care where science was or wasn't in Jusitinian's time, but that should result in an F, and instructions to have a long think in the playground about what ey just said and how they came to that conclusion. ...or maybe more enlightenly, some practical instruction about human anatomy. Seriously, what did ey think vagina's had to prevent penile insertion into them causing cataclysmic disasters?
(...or was ey actually saying that god had an OCD about punishing sexual adventurers with indiscriminate tectonic activity in their vague locality? ...still an F though {unless ey could show his workings})
"... But some of what I learned as a child has resonance for me still ..."
For a number of year ...actually a decade... I've posited that many such resonances and 'reflections of (foundation-level) humanitarianism' in christian texts (and similarly in other abrahamic religions) are there for the very simple reason that such humanitarian thought or ethics theory is like maths, a natural and inevitable result of careful thoughtful deduction. The latter being with spacetime dimensions, and the former being with human interrelations. I put forward the fact that both of these have been independently discovered/"invented", and then lost, repeatedly through time and across the planet, as evidence for them being mere memetic understandings deduced from the study of inherent systems, as opposed anything that someone or some culture once "invented" to fill a priorly eternal void.
Sorry, I hope that doesn't sound patronising or such like.
As per Jesus fact v. fiction, I think there could have equally been a Jesus who was a leading philosopher and medic, as one who was, to be blunt, psychotically delusional yet charismatic, but short of some en-mass timetravel tech, we've done to dust that we will never know and that the only Jesus that is with us, is the meme attached to various Abrahamic dogmas and texts.
To go internety on you: what is Ceiling Cat? - Ceiling Cat is simultaneously the idea of Ceiling Cat in everyone's head, and, the potentially multiple conglomerations of similar ideas in the shared discourse.
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*blink*
Ok, I don't care where science was or wasn't in Jusitinian's time, but that should result in an F, and instructions to have a long think in the playground about what ey just said and how they came to that conclusion. ...or maybe more enlightenly, some practical instruction about human anatomy. Seriously, what did ey think vagina's had to prevent penile insertion into them causing cataclysmic disasters?
(...or was ey actually saying that god had an OCD about punishing sexual adventurers with indiscriminate tectonic activity in their vague locality? ...still an F though {unless ey could show his workings})
"... But some of what I learned as a child has resonance for me still ..."
For a number of year ...actually a decade... I've posited that many such resonances and 'reflections of (foundation-level) humanitarianism' in christian texts (and similarly in other abrahamic religions) are there for the very simple reason that such humanitarian thought or ethics theory is like maths, a natural and inevitable result of careful thoughtful deduction. The latter being with spacetime dimensions, and the former being with human interrelations. I put forward the fact that both of these have been independently discovered/"invented", and then lost, repeatedly through time and across the planet, as evidence for them being mere memetic understandings deduced from the study of inherent systems, as opposed anything that someone or some culture once "invented" to fill a priorly eternal void.
Sorry, I hope that doesn't sound patronising or such like.
As per Jesus fact v. fiction, I think there could have equally been a Jesus who was a leading philosopher and medic, as one who was, to be blunt, psychotically delusional yet charismatic, but short of some en-mass timetravel tech, we've done to dust that we will never know and that the only Jesus that is with us, is the meme attached to various Abrahamic dogmas and texts.
To go internety on you: what is Ceiling Cat? - Ceiling Cat is simultaneously the idea of Ceiling Cat in everyone's head, and, the potentially multiple conglomerations of similar ideas in the shared discourse.