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  1. vaguelyhumanoid

    No overwhelming historical proof: Why I doubt Jesus

    I think Jesus was a real preacher in 1st century Judea whose story was embellished and likely syncretized with other religious figures of the time. Messianic movements were huge at the time, and you see other proposed miracle workers attested such as Simon Magus. Mystery religions and the...
  2. vaguelyhumanoid

    Lower the Age of Consent

    I think Germany has the best approach to the age of consent I've heard: "The age of consent in Germany is 14, as long as a person over the age of 21 does not exploit a 14- to 15-year-old person's lack of capacity for sexual self-determination, in which case a conviction of an individual over...
  3. vaguelyhumanoid

    Interesting Map of Sex Ratio by County in the USA

    "...the number of males per 100 females." Oh! I thought it was something else.
  4. vaguelyhumanoid

    Lower the Age of Consent

    It's not the "age of responsibility" or "age of smart decisions", it's the age of consent. Using that to prevent potentially stupid choices is not only patronizing and repressive, it also trivializes sexual abuse. Convictions of teenagers for criminalized sexual activities with other teenagers...
  5. vaguelyhumanoid

    Pagan religions

    Traditional/recon/revivalist: Celtic polytheism Heathenry Hellenism Kemeticism Rodnovery (Slavic paganism) Tengriism Modern: Neo-Druidry Feri "Goddess movement" Wicca arguably Thelema Unbroken traditional ways: Candomble Hinduism Santeria Shinto Vodou the countless indigenous religions of...
  6. vaguelyhumanoid

    "60 percent of heterosexual women are attracted to other women"

    My friend's dog is gay.
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    Favourite Works of Art

    untitled, from Andy Warhol's Gold Book:
  8. vaguelyhumanoid

    Why is Satan the bad guy?

    Pride has inherent value as the antidote to self-hatred and fear. Obedience has no inherent value, and in fact has caused or facilitated a lot of the great evils throughout history. If the whole "fallen angel" story represents a conflict of pride vs obedience, I am 100% going with the former.
  9. vaguelyhumanoid

    Stop talking trash about the hood/inner city.

    OK, that's more reasonable then, but still not anything I'd get particularly hung up on myself. Sadly most people I hear from who talk a lot about "correct grammar" etc are very pretentious and elitist about it.
  10. vaguelyhumanoid

    Stop talking trash about the hood/inner city.

    :facepalm: This is one of my absolute pet peeves. When people complain about "incorrect grammar", they're trying to portray others as less intelligent but actually showing their own ignorance of the science of linguistics. Objectively, no English dialect is more or less correct than any other...
  11. vaguelyhumanoid

    Do you live for your glory or God's glory

    I'm a layperson. The gods are glorious, but they aren't the center of my life.
  12. vaguelyhumanoid

    Did people overcomplicate salvation?

    From one pagan to another, what's the point of "salvation"? Death is neutral, like life. The goal is to be virtuous and respected on earth.
  13. vaguelyhumanoid

    LGBT label improvement

    I've said "legbats" a few times.
  14. vaguelyhumanoid

    Would you want a pagan temple?

    Hopefully they'd let in an American like myself who's theologically sincere...
  15. vaguelyhumanoid

    Two Beings...

    Thor and Loki aren't brothers; this is one of the reasons I don't like Marvel. Odin and Loki are brothers. They're both portrayed in a complex, dynamic and at times dangerous or scheming way in the lore.
  16. vaguelyhumanoid

    LGBT label improvement

    I didn't say I was offended, I said I was disappointed. You always struck me as a very open-minded poster on this site and here you come in sounding like Pat Robertson. (Unless you were being sarcastic or something, which is pretty hard to discern thru text).
  17. vaguelyhumanoid

    LGBT label improvement

    "Queer" is all-encompassing, catchy and defiant. The negative connotation is kinda why I like it. It's taken what was originally an insult and making it a badge of honor, saying "what's wrong with being queer ("strange", "peculiar")?
  18. vaguelyhumanoid

    LGBT label improvement

    I'm a queer guy, and I mostly just go with "queer". Hella disappointed in you with this one.
  19. vaguelyhumanoid

    The Axiomatic Self

    That's begging the question in favor of materialism. If you choose to define "mind" as "brain", it makes it impossible to argue that the mind has a non-brain component. And yet many do pose such arguments, and those arguments deserve to be addressed directly and not written out of discussion...
  20. vaguelyhumanoid

    Would you want a pagan temple?

    Absolutely! I am seriously hyped about the Asatru temple in Iceland and look it up periodically to see how construction is coming along.
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