• Welcome to Religious Forums, a friendly forum to discuss all religions in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to the following site features:
    • Reply to discussions and create your own threads.
    • Our modern chat room. No add-ons or extensions required, just login and start chatting!
    • Access to private conversations with other members.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon!

Search results

  1. Tamino

    Abortion

    First: bodily autonomy and individual freedom. Would you force any random person to donate a kidney without their consent? No? Then you should not force a woman to risk her life and health for the baby she might have. Second: nature. Have you taken a look around? Nature ist chock full of...
  2. Tamino

    Ancient Reality

    If you're that confident about your idea and methods... have you tried publishing in a journal? Presented it at a conference? Submitted it to peer review in some way?
  3. Tamino

    Ancient Reality

    I would waste my time pointing out evidence that you have clearly decided to dismiss already. I might do it anyway if I get terribly bored at some point...
  4. Tamino

    Ancient Reality

    Ok I think I do not want to engage in this discussion. You seem to believe that the people who built the pyramids were a different species?? With a fundamentally different mental structure? I have heard a great many conspiracy myths, but that's a new one and to be frank... I'm not interested.
  5. Tamino

    Ancient Reality

    I have noticed little fundamental differences between Egyptian and other languages. And where are you getting the idea that there's "almost no words" in the vocabulary? The TLA alone currently lists more than 55 000. All abstractions in language make use of metaphor, so how would you know if a...
  6. Tamino

    Let's Talk About Ganesh

    I like him! I seem to remember a story about how he got his elephant head ... Something about getting his head cut off by accident or because he was looking at the wrong thing? And it getting replaced by the elephant head. (I should read up on that) Does he have any association to protecting...
  7. Tamino

    Christianity - Sacrifice and Meal, Among Other Substitutions

    I still think you are confusing consequence with intent. Yes, one could characterize Christianity as "Judaism mixed with some pagan elements". But that doesn't mean that Christianity was intentionally constructed with this purpose in mind.
  8. Tamino

    If you believe in God AND evolution, why do you believe in God?

    Thx, sorry, I thought you were caught up on responses I know, that's how I learned about it as well
  9. Tamino

    If you believe in God AND evolution, why do you believe in God?

    I actually tried to provide you with an answer ... but you didn't react to my post. Why not? We're my reasons not good enough for you?
  10. Tamino

    Christianity - Sacrifice and Meal, Among Other Substitutions

    If you want to look at policies of the Roman Senate, of course "normal" must be seen from a Roman perspective. True. I checked the numbers... Estimates give around 6-7million Jews in the first century versus a total population of the Roman Empire around 60-75 million. So a minority at around...
  11. Tamino

    Christianity - Sacrifice and Meal, Among Other Substitutions

    I think you are vastly overestimating the importance of the province of Judaea. Would they seriously try to change ALL religious practice in the empire for the sake of integrating one small group of people with a weird religion? When they just could - and did! - violently suppress these people...
  12. Tamino

    Christianity - Sacrifice and Meal, Among Other Substitutions

    Ok I think you are conflating two unrelated things here. If I get what you're saying, "they" are the Roman elite and they wanted to unify religion in the empire? It's plausible to me that they wanted to calm the situation in Judaea and support such Jewish sects that would integrate into the...
  13. Tamino

    Christianity - Sacrifice and Meal, Among Other Substitutions

    That's an interesting theory about the origin of Christianity. However, I'm not convinced... I don't think that the whole development was intentional to that degree. I don't think that St. Paul or anyone else planned it all out in advance, I think they mostly made it up as they went. And...
  14. Tamino

    If you believe in God AND evolution, why do you believe in God?

    Why do I " believe in" my Goddesses and Gods? That is entirely based on my personal experience. I have experienced reality in a way that makes me assume the existence of multiple forms of divinity and spirit in this world. I cannot prove this with scientific method, and I do not try it. It's...
  15. Tamino

    What Age Did You Become Set In Your Religious/Spiritual Beliefs?

    Oh, I already found a lot of satisfactory answers. And then I threw some of those answers out again because I found better ones. I'm human, my brain is limited, I can only understand this world in bits and pieces - of course I plan on questioning indefinitely! Why should I stop? For one...
  16. Tamino

    What Age Did You Become Set In Your Religious/Spiritual Beliefs?

    Depends on how you define "become set". I started identifying as an Egyptian-flavored Polytheist at around age 20. But I keep questioning and adjusting my theological concepts and religious practice all the time, and I don't plan to stop.
  17. Tamino

    Wardrobe Malfunctions

    Every time I wear panty hose and a long skirt. The skirt will invariably rub against my legs and the panty hose will slip down my legs bit by bit. I spend half my time trying to unobtrusively shimmy the pantyhose back up . The solution is to wear panties or a leotard on top of the pantyhose...
  18. Tamino

    Having Children and my thoughts on why people are deciding not too.

    I think it comes down to choice. I have not kids because that's a choice that was available to me. Without access to contraception and a big social pressure towards motherhood, a lot of women don't really get to choose whether they want kids or not. I would probably have several running around...
  19. Tamino

    Where did Exodus 5:7 take place (needs a lot of straw)

    Only tombs and temples were built from stone. Private homes, storage houses and even royal palaces were usually built from sun-dried mud brick. Stone is far more expensive and difficult to obtain. You need to find a suitable quarry, extract the stone, transport it to your construction site...
  20. Tamino

    Nord Stream

    I just don't want to push this thread too far off it's original topic. It's about the position of Germany towards the Ukraine after the North Stream sabotage, and already took a detour to the party line of the German chancellor's party
Top