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GEncore
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Re: sooo believers of adam and eve.. [Re: koods]
#19336147 - 12/28/13 09:12 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Adam and Eve is a metaphor.. how the hell did this thread reach 6 pages
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Re: sooo believers of adam and eve.. [Re: GEncore]
#19336164 - 12/28/13 09:16 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Religion based discussion.
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Re: sooo believers of adam and eve.. [Re: GEncore]
#19336194 - 12/28/13 09:23 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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GEncore said: Adam and Eve is a metaphor.. how the hell did this thread reach 6 pages
It's your page display settings, the thread really only just started into its second page.
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Re: sooo believers of adam and eve.. [Re: psi]
#19336200 - 12/28/13 09:24 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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A metaphor for what?
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Re: sooo believers of adam and eve.. [Re: koods]
#19336299 - 12/28/13 10:01 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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It's open to interpretation obviously, but I would say one core idea is that as humans we are burdened by our intelligence in a sense, and that if we don't actively choose to act in a moral way things can go to shit very quickly. Animals that rely more on instinct don't really face the same kinds of dilemmas and choices. The pain of childbirth is a concrete result of this "burden of intelligence;" childbirth is riskier for humans than it is for a lot of other mammals because our heads are so gigantic.
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Re: sooo believers of adam and eve.. [Re: koods]
#19336326 - 12/28/13 10:09 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Just read through all of this. I like the part about jesus fucking his mother and giving birth to himself.
I'm not a huge jesus basher but its hard to take the bible literally with a straight face. Anywho, carry on
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Re: sooo believers of adam and eve.. [Re: psi]
#19336331 - 12/28/13 10:10 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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How is the bible going to preach thou shall not kill or steal. Be a good person this and that when man steals the apple. God mass murders millions.
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Re: sooo believers of adam and eve.. [Re: highc]
#19336563 - 12/28/13 11:07 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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As others have said, the Bible was written by various different people so it's not really all that consistent.
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Re: sooo believers of adam and eve.. [Re: psi]
#19336700 - 12/28/13 11:42 AM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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psi said: It's open to interpretation obviously, but I would say one core idea is that as humans we are burdened by our intelligence in a sense, and that if we don't actively choose to act in a moral way things can go to shit very quickly. Animals that rely more on instinct don't really face the same kinds of dilemmas and choices. The pain of childbirth is a concrete result of this "burden of intelligence;" childbirth is riskier for humans than it is for a lot of other mammals because our heads are so gigantic.
Have you ever seen a horse or cow drop out of a cow vag? Heads ain't nothing compared to four gangly legs. Human also are born earlier in their development than many mammals, which pop out and can run around in an hour.
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Re: sooo believers of adam and eve.. [Re: koods]
#19337231 - 12/28/13 02:07 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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Earliest extant NT texts dates from approximately 200 AD/CE
Or 150 years after anyone who actually knew firsthand the stories being told - who could raise their hand and say walked on water? You hittin the pipe, Luke?
I think you mis-understand the term term extant.
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Re: sooo believers of adam and eve.. [Re: koods]
#19343857 - 12/29/13 10:00 PM (10 years, 1 month ago) |
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koods said:
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psi said: It's open to interpretation obviously, but I would say one core idea is that as humans we are burdened by our intelligence in a sense, and that if we don't actively choose to act in a moral way things can go to shit very quickly. Animals that rely more on instinct don't really face the same kinds of dilemmas and choices. The pain of childbirth is a concrete result of this "burden of intelligence;" childbirth is riskier for humans than it is for a lot of other mammals because our heads are so gigantic.
Have you ever seen a horse or cow drop out of a cow vag? Heads ain't nothing compared to four gangly legs. Human also are born earlier in their development than many mammals, which pop out and can run around in an hour.
Ok, but so what? For humans the head is the big challenge.
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