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  1. amorphous_constellation

    EV Movement, Plastic Bag Bans, etc. - Is Motive Really Environment or Control? (solar, recycling)

    Good. Everyone should slow down and think more, and read a book or something.
  2. amorphous_constellation

    EV Movement, Plastic Bag Bans, etc. - Is Motive Really Environment or Control? (solar, recycling)

    They fertilize the land too, so farmers might benefit. And if they die, they would recycle back into the earth with relative speed, whereas a bike might take a long time to disintegrate My simulated world would have occasional, but rare, things like trucks in it. What is in the picture, some...
  3. amorphous_constellation

    EV Movement, Plastic Bag Bans, etc. - Is Motive Really Environment or Control? (solar, recycling)

    I don't know about you, but I hate cars, and hate driving. The roads they made around here are dangerous, and you are more responsible for the mistakes you make on them, than the designers ever will be. They are becoming overcrowded, and many people have made note of this. I would not care if...
  4. amorphous_constellation

    Trinity: Divine Mind Knowing and Loving Itself

    I guess my first inclination upon reading it, was to wonder about where the trinity might occur in the biblical sources, as I usually do when reading about the trinity, and see that one might seem to find it anywhere, where trios of interrelated, often powerful, concepts seem to converge. From...
  5. amorphous_constellation

    Immaculate birth of Jesus?

    This also apparently turns up in a Greek pagan source, which is found in a book on Origen vs. Celsus, which is on my list to read fairly soon.
  6. amorphous_constellation

    The Appeal to Order and Intelligent Agency

    It depends: when nature does that, would you say that it's making a radical, non symmetrical alteration, or is getting more definitive with a subject? If it is actually getting more definitive, then I guess technically the resolution increases. I guess what is subjective, is the fact that the...
  7. amorphous_constellation

    The Appeal to Order and Intelligent Agency

    Well, maybe it has something to do with an object being equalized and stabilized. Take the color red, they say it is a mix between orange and purple, right? From there, figuring out the perfect red is pure mathematics, you just find the midpoint. That midpoint would unarguably represent...
  8. amorphous_constellation

    List and organize your religious system's hiearchy of intermediary beings (like angels/demons/etc.)

    One wonders what the modern Orthodox thought when the Nag-Hammadi texts were discovered, if that raised any special concerns for them. Thanks for the tip, I'll keep that in mind in case I read in the direction again. Well in Tarology, we have the pentacle suit. And in the Tarot of marseille...
  9. amorphous_constellation

    The Appeal to Order and Intelligent Agency

    Well, I think we'd have to simmer and reduce these ingredients into a few more questions, before we can start to see the mechanics of the thing a bit easier. Order is the general starch, the binder of whatever else is in the pan. That we can put in at the end. We have to decide on what the...
  10. amorphous_constellation

    Why Aristotle rejected atomism

    I guess a weird thing about that though, is that aristotle would sort of be half right. The particulate nature of the material that makes up a liquid or a gas does seem to allow for other objects, composed of atoms, to leak through them.
  11. amorphous_constellation

    What Keeps You Coming Back to RF?

    It's just another social media site I guess, but only that it emphasizes useful dialogue at times, where you might start to learn something about what a random selection of people think, that are interested in sharing what they thought. So it seems like a better use of time, for one's brain...
  12. amorphous_constellation

    List and organize your religious system's hiearchy of intermediary beings (like angels/demons/etc.)

    So I take it that you answer the question with your family to serve as the intermediary beings. I suppose that's not an uncommon way to think of it, but I wasn't expecting that. Is this a general way that it is looked at in Judaism
  13. amorphous_constellation

    List and organize your religious system's hiearchy of intermediary beings (like angels/demons/etc.)

    That seems like a useful and common way to look at it. I guess my inclination was always to tie the worth of humans to the health of those other two things, though. I would say that humans, if they damage those other two things, lower their worth below them. So there would be a threshold where...
  14. amorphous_constellation

    List and organize your religious system's hiearchy of intermediary beings (like angels/demons/etc.)

    It had been a while since I read through the Gnostic texts, it can be interesting but complicated for me read about. The list seems like a very natural kind of extension of what Christianity might have turned into, it some ways, had it not been reduced in the pan. The text that I most recently...
  15. amorphous_constellation

    List and organize your religious system's hiearchy of intermediary beings (like angels/demons/etc.)

    I see. I guess it's somewhat difficult for me to think of it like that, because I tend to want to rank order things in nature. I was thinking about what you wrote though. It does seem like a mistake, if one was to decide that something small and ephemeral is less a key to the whole, than...
  16. amorphous_constellation

    Artic blast

    was -10F last night, with wind blasting around. I was doing a few minutes of shoveling in the morning, hopefully my skin is ok. How do the deer do it, and the rabbits
  17. amorphous_constellation

    List and organize your religious system's hiearchy of intermediary beings (like angels/demons/etc.)

    As I try to read more about how the ancient Greeks did it, it is of course apparent that the Christians came to do it too. That is, to seem to create intermediary groups of non-human beings, specifically between two poles. But of course, other religions seem to have intermediary beings as well...
  18. amorphous_constellation

    Is Christmas......

    People have to had been giving gifts for as long as humans existed, whether to kings, gods (votive offerings), or just for basic social cohesion. Does anything come up about cultural views on evergreens in a word search of shakespeare There's the rather morbid norse poem about volund in the...
  19. amorphous_constellation

    Is Christmas......

    I think so. This has been covered before in the forum, I think. I mean, hardly any of the practices we associate with celebrating Christmas are in the bible, barring maybe the gift giving. And gift-giving itself doesn't really stick to a specific tradition, and people probably gave gifts to...
  20. amorphous_constellation

    Historical vs Religious Interpretations

    Another scholar to listen to about this, might be Dale B. Martin, he had a podcast on biblical forgeries I listened to not long ago, yet he seems to retain some kind faith. It seems like it comes down to faith in something, no matter how much historical analysis you stack against it. One could...
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