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Human history is a long, a very long line of unbroken tales
and images and information, passed from one group to another, grabbed up and run with periodically. Reassembled into newness and freshness for younger ears, it is re-sown.
It is always so and has always been so and will continue to be so.
Do you follow fashion at all?? It is the perfect example of my claim. From Neanderthal to the Moon, we dress as we did and will, based on what we did and redid and imagined into newness.
Unique thinkers and philosophers harvested and recreated. Unique dressers and acessorizers draped and wrapped and tied things in new ways, based on old ways.
posted by
benzinha
on January 16, 2009 at 3:25 PM
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Very Interesting
posted by
hazel_st_cricket
on January 15, 2009 at 4:53 AM
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Re: Re: some people have known that for quite a while now
Gome, I am reading the Quran this month and next, etc. and it also 'compiles ' much. Ancient tribal laws revived for their common sense and social calming aspect and the taking of the beliefs already circulating and fairly embraced into the new story, book, to vaidate all stories, including theirs own.
All stories have been told before and passed along and it will always be so. Some are more widely embraced and beloved and some will live longer and some shorter periods of time. We count things by the day nowadays, but life itself counts more slowly and many many centuries from now, only God knows, fun to say that, which religions (and in what forms) will lead the most hearts.
I only look for people who seek to place more love within themselves, their lives, their communities, countries and continents............I really like those people and those stories.
posted by
benzinha
on January 12, 2009 at 3:45 PM
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Re: some people have known that for quite a while now
Xeno-x - the problem with the videos is the attempt to draw a chart of the similarities between the mythologies of different cultures by force fitting them. The most obvious glaring error being the suggestion that all of the ancient cultures mentioned used the letter "M" in their alphabets and then derived names for the various virgin mothers of their respective messiahs that began with the letter M. That part is just nonsense, the mother of Mithras for example is anglacized as "Anahita" . . . Though that was the only part that jumped out at me with an initial viewing of the videos, I'm sure with a bit of study I would find many more errors.
The points made of Christianity being a distillation of ancient mythologies from various cultures, while borrowing heavily from different pagan traditions are however, well founded arguments.
posted by
gomedome
on January 11, 2009 at 6:20 PM
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not cantey -- Corbin
posted by
Xeno-x
on January 11, 2009 at 2:20 PM
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some people have known that for quite a while now
Isis and Osiris, Babylonian beliefs, etc.
Cantey -- no one is tearing down religon at all - just presenting a few facts.
posted by
Xeno-x
on January 11, 2009 at 2:20 PM
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kooka_lives - there is a fair bit of inevitable speculation found within
those 3 videos but nonetheless, they are interesting.
And to some degree offer a plausible and convincing set of arguments as to how the Christ mythology was assembled over time, then proliferated into the modern era. If we take the overview offered by these videos and compare it to what we know of the history, Jesus Christ becomes as I have often referred to him as "a persona" instead of a person. His persona may well have been based on a real person, I actually believe that it was but an objective view of history shows us that most of what we know of him is a long evolving fabrication.
posted by
gomedome
on January 11, 2009 at 2:00 PM
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Corbin
No, I am not like you. I respect other's beliefs and am not ridiculing them, as you and those like you do. Where in this post do I 'kick em in the groin" or "stomp their head". This post was about the actual origins of Jesus' story.
Did you watch the videos to see what they had to say?
Did you even think about what was said?
Is this really all you have to offer to defend your views?
What in those videos can you prove to be false?
posted by
kooka_lives
on January 11, 2009 at 8:33 AM
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I am just curious......
but, why are you compelled to ridicule others beliefs so severely? It's not like you're looking for a discussion involving an exchange of beliefs, it's more of a kick em in the groin, stomp their head in while you have them on the ground, type of thing..........is that really healthy???
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on January 11, 2009 at 8:00 AM
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