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  1. Riverwolf

    My Defination of Relgion and Faith

    This one, all the way back:
  2. Riverwolf

    My Defination of Relgion and Faith

    @Ignorant Philosopher, I'm still waiting for you to answer my question.
  3. Riverwolf

    How do you decide what is fact and what is fiction?

    Put another way, our beliefs inform our behavior. When I was a Hindu, I tended to be much more gentle, kindly, and submissive; I was severely depressed. As a Heathen now, I'm far more assertive, argumentative, and irreverent; I'm recovering from depression (key word: "recovering"). But even...
  4. Riverwolf

    How do you decide what is fact and what is fiction?

    "May have been" being the key phrase. As a Legendary King (one of many), there may be some historicity behind the story, though it's worth remembering that Knights as we understand them today didn't exist during the time that King Arthur was supposed to have lived. From what I've seen, the most...
  5. Riverwolf

    How do you decide what is fact and what is fiction?

    Woden and Santa Clause are FAR more related to each other than Jesus and Horus. The former two are actually part of the same cultural continuum; the latter mostly related by geographic proximity and some thematic similarities. That said, I actually consider Santa to be a figure distinct from...
  6. Riverwolf

    How do you decide what is fact and what is fiction?

    Depends on how much you equate Woden with Gandalf, which I personally don't. They're certainly similar, but Woden isn't that nice.
  7. Riverwolf

    How do you decide what is fact and what is fiction?

    By now? Probably. I've heard he's in American Gods, though I've not read that book yet.
  8. Riverwolf

    How do you decide what is fact and what is fiction?

    Well, I determine whether something is fact by whether or not it is absolutely unarguable. For instance, it is a fact that it is currently Night where I am. I determine whether something is fiction pretty much by whether or not it's in the fiction section.
  9. Riverwolf

    Who Is Lucifer?

    I think of Lucifer (that is, the figure born from medieval and post-medieval Christian mythology) as one of the Friends of Humanity; a Promethean figure.
  10. Riverwolf

    If You Knew Someone Was Divine, Would You Be More Respectful?

    Oooo! Did someone call? :cool: ...darnit, guess not. :oops: Incidentally Saturday is so named because of an eponymous reason: it was Saturn's Day: the day where there was a major feast in celebration of one of the greatest of the deos. (Is that right for the plural of deus? I don't know Latin...
  11. Riverwolf

    How proto-religion was practiced

    Post-Christian European culture has a pretty bad track record when it comes to understanding religions other than Christianity. We actually can assume that many pre-Christians didn't see the Gods in omnibenevolent ways, because there are plenty of records that pretty much confirm divine...
  12. Riverwolf

    If You Knew Someone Was Divine, Would You Be More Respectful?

    Redbeard has already earned my respect as Friend of Humanity. ;)
  13. Riverwolf

    Your calling.

    Depends on what a "calling" is.
  14. Riverwolf

    If You Knew Someone Was Divine, Would You Be More Respectful?

    Depends on the person. Being divine doesn't entitle a wight to greater general "respect" by default.
  15. Riverwolf

    My Defination of Relgion and Faith

    According to you, does every one of these elements need to be present in order to count as a religion, or is it a case that a religion contains one, any, or all of them? Evidence, I'd say is more crucial here, than logic. I'd also say it's simply lacking in faith, rather than saying that it's...
  16. Riverwolf

    Do evolution and bigbang always have to be in conflict with religion/spirituality/Philosophies?

    It's still there, just more spread out.
  17. Riverwolf

    Do evolution and bigbang always have to be in conflict with religion/spirituality/Philosophies?

    It doesn't matter how close or far Earth is. How do you know what it was? I'm sure they all thought that, too. ...oh, I see what you're doing. 'Fraid that's not gonna fly with me. Not without some actual, physical evidence, presented in a peer-reviewed paper, that there was less water...
  18. Riverwolf

    Do evolution and bigbang always have to be in conflict with religion/spirituality/Philosophies?

    Some of it does. The Solar Wind's dance with Earth's magnetic spheres is what makes the Northern and Southern Lights. But you must understand: if Sun were a kickball, Earth would be a grain of sand by comparison. There's simply not enough... Earth. So the vast majority of it goes into Deep...
  19. Riverwolf

    Do evolution and bigbang always have to be in conflict with religion/spirituality/Philosophies?

    Solar Wind. Into Deep Space. Where else could it go?
  20. Riverwolf

    Do evolution and bigbang always have to be in conflict with religion/spirituality/Philosophies?

    And how, prey tell, do mere photons turn into hydrogen? Or methane? Such as in the Gas and Ice Giants. How do you know they're "older"? No it didn't. Then as now, Earth was mostly water. But do you understand it? Most people don't. Well, it could also be rendered as: m = e/c^2. (You can...
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