Easter Egg Collecting! (spoilers be here)
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lorgen
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Deathling said:
Except that monotheistic religions have one god and polytheistic religions have several ?
Might not be a difference if the monotheistic god is schizophrene....
lorgen
Chief Inspector
except that with many gods, they tend to have disagreements and intrigues. Just look at Loke`s behavior in the Nordic mythology. Almost like a soap opera...
This, of course causes cooperation problems for the followers of polytheistic religions; which god is right, and which god shall we follow in this specific situation...
This, of course causes cooperation problems for the followers of polytheistic religions; which god is right, and which god shall we follow in this specific situation...
lorgen
Chief Inspector
My last post actually got me thinking about the world today. After all, it is a fact that Islam, Christianity and Judaism has the same god... Only different "prophets". Even with the same god, those people are not able to cooperate
Chandrasekhar
Determined
Grey Fox said:
The relative successes of monotheistic cultures over polytheistic cultures might attest to that...
Nikis-Knight
Deity
Actually, that's an "assertation". And I swear we've had this same discussion here before.
thomas.berubeg
Wandering the World
The problem of uniting never seemed to faze the Romans, As long as you paid you're taxes, and later, worshiped the emperor, you were pretty much allowed to do whatever you want: Worship you're own gods, etc. The reason the Romans did the diaspora was that they had gotten sick and tired of the Jews rebelling. when they burned temple (I want to say the temple of Solomon, but i'm not completely sure) the Jews had already rebelled many times, and refused to Worship any gods except thier own...Grey Fox said:
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thomas.berubeg
lostkitten13
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thomas.berubeg said:
no, the temple of Solomon was destroyed by the Babylonians, but everything else I agree with.
I am not 100% certain, as this is from memory from what my ex the UU minister in training told me.
I believe that the Romans insisted that you make a sacrifice to Jupiter (Zeus), it was that requirement that caused the issue with the Jews (on a related topic, I spent the evening watching Jesus Christ Superstar, weird.). So it was more like "as long as you worship our god, you can worship yours too".
The mongols may be a better example of "pay us our due and do whatever you want" than the Romans.
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I believe that the Romans insisted that you make a sacrifice to Jupiter (Zeus), it was that requirement that caused the issue with the Jews (on a related topic, I spent the evening watching Jesus Christ Superstar, weird.). So it was more like "as long as you worship our god, you can worship yours too".
The mongols may be a better example of "pay us our due and do whatever you want" than the Romans.
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Solomon's temple was the first temple, it was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. The Second temple was completed in 515 BCE and destroyed by the Romans after 4 years of Jewish revolt in 70 CE. The third temple has yet to be built, and since the particular type of cattle that is needed to consecrate it has gone extinct it is unlikely to be rebuilt in the near future.lostkitten13 said:
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One God to rule them all ?Grey Fox said:
Mordi said:
I dont think it is. A lot of the music sounds very similiar to Might & Magic or HOMM music but I havent been able to find any that are the same.
BTW, how can you have an Easter Egg list without including the fact that the Pack of the Nilhorn giants are named after Stooges.
Good Sauce
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Kael said:
DOH! How could I forget?! When I saw those names I freaked. Very nice touch Kael.
lorgen
Chief Inspector
Kael said:
It`s quite easy to explain. AFAIK the stooges have never been shown on tv in europe (maybe in GB, but thats the commonwealth.... And they even play cricket (the original version of the worlds most boring game, which the americans have tried to improve with understandable rules called "baseball") So the responsibility for leaving out the stooges lies with our american/canadian/mexican/cuban +++ friends, I hope I`m not discriminating anyone by this statement. AFAIK I think I have added all countries that calls this stick-hitting-a-ball-and-no-one-makes-an-effort-to-run-to-the-base a sport. Else, I`m sure Qes will tell me) Football is the game you have to check out (no, not american football. It ought to be named handball.... The only player touching the ball with his feet is the kicker. And if you name the best game in the world soccer instead of football you have to be infected with lycanthrophy
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Corlindale
Emperor
...yet you haven't spotted the origin of the music for the Lanun...
lorgen
Chief Inspector
Deathling said:
Maybe I have contributed to this thread-ruining, but I won`t blame Qes. My excuse is that Qes sheepsors with the fear promotion have influenced and terrrified me into partly ruining this thread.
Sorry. But weresheeps with lycanthrophy, fear promo and no fence to protect the community from these sheepsors is ruining yet another thread.
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