If ideas come from perception, and perception comes from the sum of the stimulus we receive through our sensory inputs, which in turn are measurements our body makes then turns into electrical signals that are transmitted to the brain ...
..where they are ultimately stored
When a memory is...
I like the concepts.
I've always felt that a mental and physical disconnect from nature is unhealthy, but I also spent much time in the woods as a child, also in the ocean/s, so I'm probably a little biased there
Case in point - I like to make friends with wild squirrels, ( And other animals...
Just to clarify, I'm under the assumption that monotheism is the worship of one " God " , but doesn't exclude the belief in the existence of other " gods " , because belief in the existence of something =/= worship of that thing
I'm also assuming that 2:11 refers to the common beliefs of the...
In Mesopotamia they had female and male priests, " nin " and " en ", respectively, and interestingly, you have - gala - priests with neither specific male or female gender identity
Egypt also had male and female priests
I was in my 30's, and had ended up losing everything, lost my family due to tragic circumstance, ended up with two types of cancer, and was homeless ( I had basically just given up on life )
I had decided that cancer was my death sentence and had relegated myself to living in the woods ( Bad...
I'm curious as to why the book of Daniel uses אלה for " gods " and other books use it for " God " ?
Dan 2:11 " And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh "
Ezr 4:24 " Then ceased...
Good question
I recall reading years ago about Japan starting to use ash from high temperature garbage incinerators to mix into cement, kinda wondered why I never really heard anything more about it ( Maybe I didn't look )
Another interesting bit of literary evidence ( That figurate numbers were used for astronomy calculations ) is found in Plato's writings, what's known as " Plato's Number "
Plato was said to have studied in Egypt for 13 years under the Horite priest Sechnuphis. It's no secret that Greek...
I'd say not
The traditional definitions of " theist ", I feel, don't describe me because the definitions rely on the belief in God / gods, and the way God and the gods are generally defined in modern times are biased and subjective and don't address the origin of the concept of " the gods "...