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- Wed May 03, 2006 5:00 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Devil
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15214
TED-- But then, if you don't believe in God, the question of goodness is somewhat moot, is it not? ;) Speaking as someone who once was Christian, back in my believing days I had trouble reconciling the notion of a omniscient and supreme being with a hierarchy of other spiritual beings, whether in hi...
- Wed May 03, 2006 4:21 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Devil
- Replies: 25
- Views: 15214
It's not at all certain that the bar-bet buddy described in Job is at all related to the shadowy figure Jesus is tempted by, or the serpent in the Eden story. The devil lacks a cohesive narrative in scripture, and in its absence, numerous narratives have been created for him...Dante and Milton being...
- Tue May 02, 2006 10:13 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blogge!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 10142
- Tue May 02, 2006 9:32 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Over-Population
- Replies: 147
- Views: 55456
My memories of grades 7 and 8 are that they were complete and utter wastes of time for everyone except those with Attention Excess Disorder. The hormones certainly didn't help, but the real enemy was the lack of challenge. In my district, after you learned to read and to do fractions, you spent the ...
- Tue May 02, 2006 8:04 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Over-Population
- Replies: 147
- Views: 55456
- Sat Apr 29, 2006 4:40 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Heathens
- Replies: 153
- Views: 61040
Even the need to be loved pales in comparison to the need to be understood, I think. Not approved of, just understood. Understanding is rarer than either love or approval. What is it about Saturday mornings and aphorisms? But anyway, I can't help but admire people trying to understand the pieces of ...
- Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:20 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Hell
- Replies: 335
- Views: 100795
Most Christians for whom Hell matters believe that the real punishment there is eternal separation from God, which sort of begs the question of why the tangible torment (flames, et al) is necessary. It makes more sense as a metaphor, really, of the eternal consumption of the self by the self in the ...
- Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:58 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Naturalism And Northern Courage
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7736
This conversation really does remind me of the sample of medieval Scandanavian poetry (in translation of course) included with Cvltvre made Stvpid: We sail down from our frozen shores And havoc wreak on you pallid bores We cut off your hands and laugh We cut off our hands and laugh That's the kind o...
- Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:02 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Take me out to the ballgame!
- Replies: 1563
- Views: 460557
- Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:40 pm
- Forum: Golfimbul's Rabbit Hole
- Topic: Take me out to the ballgame!
- Replies: 1563
- Views: 460557
- Wed Apr 19, 2006 5:52 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Understanding Suffering
- Replies: 81
- Views: 37980
- Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:37 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Understanding Suffering
- Replies: 81
- Views: 37980
There is to me a difference between things having a purpose, and things having a place. The first implies design and intent, the second only functionality. Suffering, functionally speaking, is what we feel when we experience something that isn't good for us. It's how we KNOW it isn't good for us. In...
- Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:18 pm
- Forum: Welcome to Our Messageboard! COME HERE FIRST
- Topic: GREETINGS to our Newest Members!
- Replies: 2822
- Views: 966257
- Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:07 pm
- Forum: Welcome to Our Messageboard! COME HERE FIRST
- Topic: GREETINGS to our Newest Members!
- Replies: 2822
- Views: 966257
- Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:14 pm
- Forum: Welcome to Our Messageboard! COME HERE FIRST
- Topic: GREETINGS to our Newest Members!
- Replies: 2822
- Views: 966257
- Tue Apr 18, 2006 9:13 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Understanding Suffering
- Replies: 81
- Views: 37980
Not living isn't all it's cracked up to be, you know. We really are programmed to perservere. Most of humanity live what most of us would think to be pretty miserable existences...and yet suicide rates are no higher in Bangalore then they are in Baltimore. We may hate our lives, our faces, our selve...
- Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:16 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Understanding Suffering
- Replies: 81
- Views: 37980
- Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:04 pm
- Forum: Welcome to Our Messageboard! COME HERE FIRST
- Topic: GREETINGS to our Newest Members!
- Replies: 2822
- Views: 966257
(wipes feet on nice rug, which for some reason they have hanging on the wall) I'm mostly here to facilitate going to the SF moot, which I understand has a Godless Heathen shortage. While not necessarily Godless, I am certainly a Heathen by temprament, and wanted to assure all other Heathens, whether...