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  1. Riverwolf

    Where is Mount Sumeru?

    In my experience, cynical declarations of certain terms being "just" a way of covering one's butt are rarely accurate. But I figured it was just a given that we don't really know what's going on. There's still much to learn. Good scientists are fully willing and able to admit to any problems...
  2. Riverwolf

    If a god wrote a book ...

    First of all, not what I meant by "our region." I was referring to our Urheimat. I'm not Karkin. Second of all, hail to Vinland! And it was exposed well over 60 years ago, and taught the scientific community to be far more diligent and skeptical of new discoveries. Lesson learned, move on.
  3. Riverwolf

    If a god wrote a book ...

    And these stories only have cognates in that region of the world. Direct cognates and equivalents, such as the very notion of "prophet", are not found elsewhere in the world. Certainly our region never got one. How come only the ones who contributed to that hoax are brought up in these...
  4. Riverwolf

    I am Shaul, Shalom

    Wes hal. :) Welcome to the forums.
  5. Riverwolf

    what turns you off from Christianity?

    Yeah... the King James Bible may be an outdated mess, and grossly inaccurate, but... it does contain some of the finest Early Modern English poetry. DX I don't like pretzels either, BTW. From America, thanks for that inheritance, by the way. :P
  6. Riverwolf

    Was America ever great?

    Far as I can tell, it's whatever time the given speaker is most nostalgic for. Beyond that, I don't even know what this "greatness" is even supposed to mean.
  7. Riverwolf

    Can Religion and Science work together?

    Wrong context. The scientific method of deduction has less in common with philosophical argumentation, and more with detective work.
  8. Riverwolf

    "All Notions of Deity are Necessarily False"

    And yet make a statement that seems to contradict that. Since it has to do with being able to communicate a concept with words, then it's entirely possible to conceptualize something that's ineffable, because the language that one speaks doesn't have the necessary vocabulary to accurately do...
  9. Riverwolf

    If a god wrote a book ...

    Not a trustworthy source of historical information. What have you got from actual historians? To be frank, this stuff reeks far more of propaganda than actual truth. Not really. Since it was written by multiple people across many different eras, I expect to find a variety of opinions, not all...
  10. Riverwolf

    "All Notions of Deity are Necessarily False"

    I believe you're referring to what's called "Linguistic Determinism." That is, that our entire mental processes are directly influenced by what language we speak. While there is some truth to it, there's also plenty of evidence against it. Personally, I'm in the camp of the softer "Linguistic...
  11. Riverwolf

    "All Notions of Deity are Necessarily False"

    "Ineffable" refers to the inability (or undesirability) to put something into words, not whether it can be conceptualized or not.
  12. Riverwolf

    "All Notions of Deity are Necessarily False"

    A word that is part of the wider Germanic vernacular. It's spelled the same in most of the other West Germanic languages (though English, Scots, and Saterland Frisian seem to be the only ones that capitalizes it), except German where it's spelled "Gott." In North Germanic languages, it's...
  13. Riverwolf

    Can Religion and Science work together?

    Not really. I'm wondering if you misunderstood what that person was saying. The full term is "scientific method of deduction." That is to say, it's a way to learn about the world deductively. It's no more "indoctrination" than any other set of instructions on how to do something "correctly"...
  14. Riverwolf

    "All Notions of Deity are Necessarily False"

    No, because of deification. That notion of deity whereby it is a status conferred on a person or object by external devotees, rather than a description of inherent qualities and attributes, cannot be necessarily false, due to being inherently subjective. It'd be like saying "all notions of...
  15. Riverwolf

    Where is Mount Sumeru?

    Well, apparently I can't access it for whatever reason. The link just takes me to my own empty (having never been used) Google drive account. That's better. It's still a news source, but a good one that I can trust to be accurate. And to be perfectly transparent, I'm not an astronomer or...
  16. Riverwolf

    Can Religion and Science work together?

    It's a saying in American "Bro" culture. It basically means prioritizing the needs and company of one's friends ("bros"), over chasing one's sexual urges that could separate one from that circle of friends.
  17. Riverwolf

    How to say no (I think this is a repeat, not sure)

    Honestly, I can't say. I've never been in that kind of situation. Maybe I'd say that when it comes to healing, I pray to Sirona? (I know, she's a Celtic Goddess and I'm Germanic polytheist, but there's a reason.)
  18. Riverwolf

    Are your religious beliefs fixed or open to growth and expansion?

    There's kind of a saying in Heathenry. If you look back at the way you were practicing Heathenry 5 years ago, and don't cringe with embarassment, you're doing it wrong.
  19. Riverwolf

    Nostalgic Moments

    Nostalgia... This game is terrible. But I love it. Because Nostalgia.
  20. Riverwolf

    If a god wrote a book ...

    Not with genocide; i.e., killing their kids! That would make me no different than them. Of course, history is written by the victors, so I wonder as to the validity of these accounts. Because conversion at gun point is SOOOOO much better. :rolleyes: Come to think of it, isn't that exactly...
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