Speaking for myself, I never "dropped" my faith, like one drops a sack of potatoes. I began by diverting that sense of awe, wonder, and love I had for Jesus onto other gods who I grew to know, and from there that sense of awe was diverted to life itself.
"Faith" as an aspect of awe in regards...
I used to play a lot of Quake in my youth, but I played QuakeWorld deathmatches online for the most part. There was a lot of good deathmatch mods for Quake as well like Painkeep. I also used to make levels for Quake using QED, which was a fun way for me to craft deathmatch maps for me to play...
The terminology used can make things difficult. If I have no understanding of Scientology, I'm not going to understand what it means to "go clear." Going clear doesn't exist in my day to day life, and neither do the "body thetans" I'm told that I have to clear. I have to believe in the concept...
Hammer is taking a break from RF. Honestly, I've been spending a bit less time on my computer as well. If anyone wants to talk to him, he still uses the RF Discord. You'll find him there. :D
The interesting thing about Ymir is that his story is related to other creation myths from other cultures descended from proto-indo-european speaking peoples. Here are some examples...
The Proto-Indo-European Creation Myth | The *Bʰlog
This puts the roots of the story squarely in prehistory. I...
That's not what I'm asking. What I am asking is how one can infer anything specific like IQ to that one specific behavior when many other factors could be the result. Babies have different levels of cognizance and different things catch their attention. Some aren't interested in mobiles, some...
Cmon now... How are you going to infer anything from toilet paper?
Are IQ tests for babies something that's been going on for a while? Can we infer that a "low IQ baby" will grow up to become a "low IQ adult?" How many tests have we done that determines that the observed mental faculties of...
You know, I knew some people who believed that if you got sick (like a cold, or a flu), it was because you invited a demon into your body via living in sinful behavior, and that you had to pray for forgiveness and for god to drive away the evil demon that made you sick, and of course to change...
Oh! I'd be down for this. Sounds like fun. So, it seems to me that this would take place in historical earth, late classical middle east (which I have no knowledge of), but would include elements of fantasy and magic. Would this be high fantasy (with mages calling down hurricanes and lightning)...