Questions About Adam and Eve
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Surely the Tree of Life didn't die?
If he didn't take a wife, that would have set him apart socially from the rest of his peers, since it was expected that he would have been married long before starting his ministry.
If he did take a wife, he would have been a hypocrite, since he told his male followers to leave their wives behind and follow him.
Considering Atlantis is likely the civilization that got destroyed as a result of a major volcanic eruption of one of the Greek islands, that would be a pretty neat trick...
Rashiminos
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Wasn't a Greek volcano that did Atlantis in.Considering Atlantis is likely the civilization that got destroyed as a result of a major volcanic eruption of one of the Greek islands, that would be a pretty neat trick...
What do you think it was?
Rashiminos
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There is this ocean.
I've studied classical history, physical geography, I'm atheist, and have no patience for "ancient gods/aliens" crap.
Berzerker
Deity
atlantis was submerged by rising seas when the ice melted ~12000 years ago
Rashiminos
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I've studied classical history, physical geography, I'm atheist, and have no patience for "ancient gods/aliens" crap.
So you know what Plato said, you know where the oceans are, and you aren't distracted by alien/god explanations, so you search for natural ones. Maybe you could try the end of the Pleistocene.
classical_hero
In whom I trust
How did they get to know good an evil? By obeying God or not?
Borachio
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I'll bite.
Or will I?
Isn't the story of Cain and Abel just an allegory for the conflict over land use between pastoralism and agriculture?
Rashiminos
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By eating a poisonous "fruit" they should not have eaten.
It's not even that. It's that, and everything else you could possibly think of thrown into the kitchen sink.
I've studied classical history, physical geography, I'm atheist, and have no patience for "ancient gods/aliens" crap.
I guess, technically, it was a psychotropic fruit, eh?
Is it a viable hypothesis that the Tree of Life would also be psychotropic?
Borachio
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But wait, why was the Tree of Knowledge (I'd personally go with fly agaric, but that's just a guess, of course, and it probably wasn't - wrong part of the globe for one thing) in the Garden of Eden in the first place, eh?
(It could have been Datura or the thorn apple, no? Not just an ordinary apple tree, now was it? Be reasonable. Apple trees have to be grafted on to root stock, and that didn't come in till the Romans.)
(It could have been Datura or the thorn apple, no? Not just an ordinary apple tree, now was it? Be reasonable. Apple trees have to be grafted on to root stock, and that didn't come in till the Romans.)
warpus
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It was there so that the monkeys and all the other non-human animals in the garden of eden could understand the difference between good and evil. That's why lions didn't eat goats and everyone lived in peace.
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As that features some clips from Baraka, I'll post a link to a trailer for it.
Link to video.
The next one in the series is called Samsara. But as I don't have a blu-ray player I've not seen it.
Link to video.
Link to video.
The next one in the series is called Samsara. But as I don't have a blu-ray player I've not seen it.
Link to video.
Alpha Centauri had excellent flavor texts, both from historical sources and speculative fiction. And really good voice acting. This game really deserves more credit than it usually gets.
(And I need to find my old copy ...)
Perfection
The Great Head.
I'll admit it, I kinda like humans anyways.
