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  1. Tamino

    Asselamu alaikum

    Welcome! I enjoy medieval Arabic philosophy in case you' d be interested to discuss Al Farabi or Abu Bakr Al-Razi or Al- Ghazali or some such.
  2. Tamino

    Why Do You Reject Jesus?

    HatHor, the Golden One, Lady of Dendera ... and I totally didn't see that coming, I never liked Ancient Egypt all that much as a child. But then I travelled to Egypt and my soul never left again. Fair enough. Me too, in some ways - my modern education sure informs my perspective on the ancient...
  3. Tamino

    Why Do You Reject Jesus?

    He had his chance with me, I followed him as a child. Then I grew up and started asking questions, and he had no answers for me. And in my darkest hours, it was another that reached out and saved me, so I follow Her now. Not by my theology. The Gods are a part of this world, we have never been...
  4. Tamino

    How did that happen from cats fighting Egyptians to Egyptians loving cats?

    Another story with a greater likelihood of being true: The Egyptian war chariots were drawn by pairs of stallions. At the battle of Meggido, the enemy chased a single unharnessed mare across the battlefield and into the ranks of the Egyptians.... imagine what happens to a battalion of light...
  5. Tamino

    How did that happen from cats fighting Egyptians to Egyptians loving cats?

    The actual story says that the Assyrians drove cats and other sacred animals in front of their army - like hostages and living shields. And that the Egyptians were unwilling to attack for fear of harming the animals in the chaos of battle. But again... I don't even believe that this happened...
  6. Tamino

    How did that happen from cats fighting Egyptians to Egyptians loving cats?

    Two points. One. Check the timeline. The alleged battle happened 525 BCE. The Ancient Egyptian culture with its appreciation of sacred animals dates roughly 3000 BCE to 300CE. So in the greatest part of Egyptian history people may have loved cats without any weird battle story interfering Two...
  7. Tamino

    The Pagan/Christian Immortal Soul

    Just switch languages again . Latin soul = Animus But it also means life, that's how we get the English word "animal" for a living being.
  8. Tamino

    I'm here to learn

    Welcome! I get the irreligious... but why are you apolitical? Do you not live in a society and do you not have a personal interest in how that society functions?
  9. Tamino

    Who Here Practises a Western Religion?

    But.... if, for example, Zeus can be demonstrated to be a later form of the Indo-European "sky father", while Athena is indigenous to the Aegean coast & islands and Hecate might be an import from what is today the Turkish coastline but technically West of the Black Sea... At which point does a...
  10. Tamino

    Some polytheistic skepticism

    Uuuhhhmm, could someone help me out here, what is RHP in this context?
  11. Tamino

    Exodus Archeology Evidence part 2 updated

    The collapse of what exactly? Religious Atenism? Amarna? The 18th Dynasty?
  12. Tamino

    Exodus Archeology Evidence part 2 updated

    Pure speculation. The Exodus story does not say that the pharao went to capture more Israelites. And if he did - where did those people come from, were they already living in their promised Land? We're they welcomed as kinfolk by Moses family? This hypothesis raises far more questions than it...
  13. Tamino

    Exodus Archeology Evidence

    No apparently not. Not my area of expertise, I don't read cuneiform, so I need to research this part a bit more. Which, to clarify, you see Akhenaten's religious shift as a reaction to Exodus? But it is a consequence. If you propose that the Exodus is a true historical account, you need to...
  14. Tamino

    Exodus Archeology Evidence

    Speak for yourself. I am in this thread because I 'm a nerd and I love Egyptology. I have no stake in this question. I don't really care if Yahweh exists or not.
  15. Tamino

    Exodus Archeology Evidence part 2 updated

    I'm fine with this evidence. Settlers, migrant workers and servants of Semitic origin exist in Egypt already in the Middle Kingdom - yes, I think there's a lot of finds pointing to this. Yes, but that is 18th Dynasty and it contradicts the bible. Per the Torah, the tribes came into Egypt...
  16. Tamino

    Exodus Archeology Evidence

    Uuuhhhmm, no offense to Sir Flinders Petrie, father of Egyptian Archaeology, but are you aware that he's a century out of date? So, according to the bible: Joseph invited the tribes in, they lived peacefully in Egypt for a time, then they were too many and the Pharao got scared and started...
  17. Tamino

    Exodus Archeology Evidence

    I'm sorry, I know this is your pet theory, but I still think your evidence is mostly speculation So maybe that's because it didn't happen at all? So, you are following a 1st century Jew, who's quoting a 4th century BC Greek about the Bronze Age origin of a people? I might do that if there is...
  18. Tamino

    Exodus Archeology Evidence

    I am not contesting an earlier migration, I am contesting the way that any Semitic people became slaves in Egypt. According to the story of Joseph, his people came into Egypt voluntarily, and then were oppressed and turned into slaves generations later. According to historical science, some...
  19. Tamino

    Why don't more people know about Edmonton ?

    You're right. I am from Germany, I have heard the name and I was aware that Edmonton is a city, but I couldn't even say if it's in Canada or the US . or in Australia ... Just that it is in an English speaking country.
  20. Tamino

    Why don't more people know about Edmonton ?

    Yes! UPS probably has a big logistics center there, because my company has boxes shipping via Louisville all the time when we export goods to Europe (And that is the one single fact I know about that city )
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