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  1. Quintessence

    Those Who Saw Miracles But Didn’t Believe

    Probably true, if by God you mean the Abrahamic god. I'm not really that well-versed in things pertaining to Abrahamic religions or their histories; not my wheelhouse so to speak. I'm more aware of the modern science behind eyewitness accounts and how humans tend to remember and interpret...
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    The Hidden Things In Life

    I'm a little confused by this response and I think there's some misunderstanding of how our forums work here. The forum is divided into a number of different areas that are suited for different kinds of conversations: You posted this thread in "General Religious Debates" which is a subforum...
  3. Quintessence

    Those Who Saw Miracles But Didn’t Believe

    I dunno, ancestor worship - reverence for the dead and the ancestors - was more widely practiced and accepted back in those days so worship of humans really wouldn't have been particularly unusual for that time. At least not as far as I'm aware. I'll defer to the scholars who are experts in...
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    The Hidden Things In Life

    Yes, the inexplicable, sublime, and wondrous is found in many storytelling traditions. There's something about the human species that enjoys a good mystery, it seems.
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    Buy Stuff

    Oh. Crap. I might... actually have to buy this. But it... it's.. expensive. Also, that entire website is just incredibly dangerous for me. What have you done?! Lol.
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    Buy Stuff

    The second roll was Oil of Levitation. Anyone know if someone has created a device for boring humans to be able to levitate in the air yet? I need to buy whatever that is. Sounds cool.
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    Buy Stuff

    Well, since you said random I went to a random treasure generator for a tabletop RPG I'm running. I got a Wand of Inflict Moderate Wounds. I'll interpret this to mean I am supposed to randomly go out and buy a gun? Nah, I'll pass.
  8. Quintessence

    Pagans: do you take offense from the numerous fictional depictions of your gods?

    I certainly wouldn't engage in this sort of victim blaming - which is what this sort of rhetoric sounds like to me.
  9. Quintessence

    Her name was Amber Nicole Thurman ...

    I read this story yesterday as well. Just this week I had a student email me that they were needing to be gone for a week from classes for personal reasons. It crossed my mind that she might be having to flee the state to receive medical care. I wonder how many of my students will die...
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    Pagans: do you take offense from the numerous fictional depictions of your gods?

    Just in case you aren't aware of this, getting Paganism capitalized like every other religion has been a longstanding battle by the community as well as academics who study the movement for... unfortunately, literal decades. With no results. That's not some trivial thing, some innocent...
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    Pagans: do you take offense from the numerous fictional depictions of your gods?

    You didn't - Exactly. Sorry if that was confusing. The bastardization of Paganism itself is substantially less bothersome than there is no consideration paid in the first place.
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    Pagans: do you take offense from the numerous fictional depictions of your gods?

    For the most part, these folks are not depicting contemporary Pagans so it's no big deal. What you write here? That, actually, is what offends me - that stupid assumption. Not that it happens, but the complete and utter lack of any consideration whatsoever. And the failure to capitalize...
  13. Quintessence

    How Do You Know You’re Not Jesus Christ?

    Did you intend to ask this question only of males? Because it is a touch weird to just... generally ask this when slightly over half the human population isn't male.
  14. Quintessence

    Philosophy of religion, world religions, christianity, philosophy university courses

    I remember being disappointed with the philosophy of "religion" course I took, because it wasn't. It wasn't about religion. It was only about Christianity and other Abrahamic, monotheistic religions. False advertising, as it were. Disappointment. The same problem exists in introductory...
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    My title today about why many beliefs are to be self-evidently true ?

    It'd be more accurate, probably, to say some humans believe that certain things are self-evidently true for various reasons. Put another way, a given human will take certain things for grated to the point they are axiomatic to that human and become more or less blind to other ways of seeing and...
  16. Quintessence

    Science and Spirituality

    Replace the word "spirituality" with what to me is the more appropriate term for the same thing ("religion") and I dig ya. Science was one of the major factors that led me to my religion, and my religion was one of the major factors that led me to pursue scientific research and a post-graduate...
  17. Quintessence

    Human vs AI Intelligence

    Sure it is, but I'm still waiting for most humans to bother acknowledging the wide variety of intelligences already living on this planet, from plants to animals to bacteria to rivers.
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    Trump is safe following shooting at Florida golf course; suspect detained

    Whoever is actually responsible as determined by an investigation. It's not that complicated. Also, the increased acceptance of and frequency of violent rhetoric is also to blame. Along with this country's gun culture.
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    Trump is safe following shooting at Florida golf course; suspect detained

    *sigh* I'm not going to issue platitudes of "violence doesn't solve problems" because that's simply not true. But it is absolutely not the solution to this particular problem and only fool would think that it is. Fools who haven't studied history. Complete and utter idiotic fools who do...
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    One word challenge: “God is…”

    Huh. Not one I usually think of, but considering to the best of our knowledge the universe is still expanding, so too would be the gods with respect to the physical space of our universe.
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