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- Scotch_Roman0
I fully admit that I am a bit of a black sheep as a Christian within the design community, which is largely populated by agnostics and atheists. But crazy is something I simply am not. I just so happen to believe in some things that fly in the face of conventional "wisdom", which happen to be quite unpopular in my chosen profession.
Frankly, I like not being in the same religious/philosophical boat as most of my colleagues. Vive la difference.
- Scotch_Roman0
Batshit crazy, eh MarleyMarl? You must not have seen many of my posts here. It's OK, that's a common way to write off Christians—even the ones who are capable of stringing together coherent thoughts.
TBO, I thought you knew about the Scotch_Roman shift. I'll have to tell you about it via email... it's complicated.
- MarleyMarl0
Talented designer, but batshit crazy me thinks.
- TheBIueOne0
when did Gramme become scotch_roman? I swear is there some mailing list I'm not on or something?
- version30
have I been saved yet? I don't feel any different...
- Mau0
- wrong thread ;(Mau
- you asked typist?Jnr_Madison
- all are welcomeRand
- chossy0
Who came up with the idea of crucifiction? it's well nasty!!!.
- Bin LadenMau
- LOLJnr_Madison
- probably the British..mikotondria3
- lol @ mitochondriaRand
- Persians, those crafty Persians...Jnr_Madison
- I'm pretty sure the Romans invented it. And yes, it was brutal.Scotch_Roman
- mikotondria30
Yeh, genuinely a Happy Easter to you, Gramme, I hope you enjoy your time and it's truly significant to you. All the best.
- Mau0
happy easter gramme.
I don´t care about political correctness... I also wish my friends a nice ramadan, or should I say a happy day off? kindergarten
and some of you should stop taking documentary reports like "Zeitgeist" too serious
- Scotch_Roman0
zarkonite, it's a weak argument to say the Bible is disreputable because it was supposedly re-written many times. The argument is weak because it isn't true. In fact, we have original or second-generation copies of manuscripts for every single book in the Bible—from the Pentateuch to the Prophets to the entire New Testament. Because the languages—ancient Hebrew and Greek—are still known by scholars today, one can go directly to a verbatim copy of one of these original manuscripts and read the words written thousands of years ago.
Of course the Bible is now available in many versions and has been translated into many languages, but if you compare several of the available English versions, for example, there is no fundamental difference in what they are saying—it's differences like purple and scarlet, beer and ale, thou and you, etc. etc. They all contain the same fundamental information.
At the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, when a group of bishops met to determine what would officially be grouped into the canon of Scripture, they only took seriously the Biblical accounts that were still available in the form of original or second/third-generation manuscripts, i.e. nothing that was written more than a couple hundred years after the respective events.
- I mean if you simply don't believe it that's fine, just find a better argument.Scotch_Roman
- I'm talking from taking many many religious studies courses at uni, it's a well known fact it was adjusted a lot.zarkonite
- I even took two classes tracing stories cross-polinating across religion and their evolution through time.zarkonite
- You can belive what you want but the scholastic study of religion as litterature is quite clear on the facts.zarkonite
- Scholastic study my ass. Bunch of atheists and agnostics looking to justify their unbelief; nothing more.Scotch_Roman
- (of course I suppose you could say the versa about Christians...)Scotch_Roman
- But the fact remains that secular Biblical scholars are woefully unschooled, whether you took a uni level class or not.Scotch_Roman
- not.Scotch_Roman
- BTW I got my information from numerous people with Master of Divinity Degrees. Some even have PhDs in Divinity.Scotch_Roman
- Scotch_Roman0
Those who say that the date of Easter is merely an appropriation of a pagan holiday are mistaken. You're confusing it with Christmas. While we know within about a one year range when Christ was born, no one is exactly sure what time of year he was born—though there has been speculation that it was some time in late spring.
The time of Christ's death and resurrection can be accurately calculated because it coincides with Passover. The well-known "last supper" that Christ spent with his disciples was the Passover Seder meal. Passover goes back to the time of Moses, when the angel of death stalked Egypt and passed over the houses of the Israelites. It has absolutely nothing to do with any sort of pagan rite. Any coincidental alignment of dates is just that.
- says the book that was re-written 12309472x to fit the "new" facts. c'mon...zarkonite
- emukid0
christ dies for us and i don't even get a day off. what kind of a world are we living in? jesus!
- Not_Ghey0
oy!
- mikotondria30
The thing about the flying spaghetti monster is that given the Drake equation, there are probably billions of intelligent life forms far more exotic than our tiny minds can comprehend. THere is almost a version of every alien from every sci-fi book or film or atheistic thought-experiment somewhere, right now.
- funny how most are humanoid in shape too...version3
- You have to keep actors employed. The same was true 2,000 years ago, haha.flavorful
- hahhaamikotondria3
- I like Douglas Adams' theory that anything can be grown somewhere in an infinite universe.zarkonite
- juhls0
- it does - thats a rear-view mirror, not a jpg..mikotondria3
- heehejuhls
- Everything is Simpsons References!! :Dflavorful
- TheBlueOne0
Happy Easter to all...
*chews peeps head
- flavorful0
Also, I believe gramme will not respond to this thread as he will be abstaining from anything that was not available to Jesus from 01-03PM during his local time.
Which is the time He was on the cross.
Dead as a cross nail.
- Huh?Scotch_Roman
- Well of course he died, that was his reason for coming to earth as a man.Scotch_Roman
- And then he rose from the dead, since death cannot contain God.Scotch_Roman