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Ghosty Kips
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01-26-2009 09:28
From: Amaranthim Talon
That's all well and good and the Golden Rule is a great one- it's the Supreme Deity or Deities that I find a bit hard to accept. Hubris perhaps, but one cannot force oneself to believe in something and it just doesn't seem logical to me.


Ahh, that's the beauty of it. Your view is also correct. :D
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Amaranthim Talon
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01-26-2009 09:28
From: Cael Merryman
Prefer the Golden un-rule: Do not do unto others what you would not want done to you.

Gets rid of the whole idea of doing unto others from the get-go. Even then, still has one weakness (but still a good starting point, like "First, do no harm.";): It is surprising what some people think other people would enjoy having done to them, especially if it includes saving their soul.

Wise words- i rather have my soul exactly where it is and its present condition- assuming i have one of course.
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Harmony Levee
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01-26-2009 09:28
I wish I had time to go through alllllllll the posts here but omg I'd need a week, minimum. To bad I didn't get into it when it started. I'm guessing thus far from what little I have read its about, the different beliefs of religions and each interpretation of the "big bang" more or less?
Cael Merryman
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01-26-2009 09:28
From: Jerboa Haystack
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In part Amara, I think it depends too on whether you take a positivist or interpretive view on the various myths. Do you look at a myth literally? See that it cannot have possibly been that way, and reject it as silly and false? Or do you view the myth as allegorical? And there-in see something hidden both true and profound?

For a biblical example...are Jacob's sons viewed as actual people? Or as an allegory for the relationships between the early tribes of Isreal? Is Levi the patron of the Levites? Or is he the embodiment of their early history?

It isn't an easy question to answer. And the answer is certainly different for each.
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And there are those that see some myths as an literal attempt to explain things seen, before their science could explain it. Sometimes in Parabola magazine you see someone take that approach, which sort of requires first interpretation then deconstruction, or is it the other way around? Certainly the flood myths COULD fall into this category, as one example.
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Amaranthim Talon
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01-26-2009 09:28
From: Ghosty Kips
Ahh, that's the beauty of it. Your view is also correct. :D

Too deep for me, Oh Wise Llama :D
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Key MacMoragh
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01-26-2009 09:29
From: Harmony Levee
I wish I had time to go through alllllllll the posts here but omg I'd need a week, minimum. To bad I didn't get into it when it started. I'm guessing thus far from what little I have read its about, the different beliefs of religions and each interpretation of the "big bang" more or less?


I think you could say this thread is permanently off topic.
Amaranthim Talon
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01-26-2009 09:30
From: Harmony Levee
I wish I had time to go through alllllllll the posts here but omg I'd need a week, minimum. To bad I didn't get into it when it started. I'm guessing thus far from what little I have read its about, the different beliefs of religions and each interpretation of the "big bang" more or less?

Oh heck it's about that and hunky men and luscious women and grief attacks and falling in love and loosing people and finding lost invisible prims and goofy jokes and breakfast and - hey- it's about life. Welcome, pull up a chair - Brenda will be along with your duct tape eventually. You have ventured forth- you can never leave :D....
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Jerboa Haystack
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01-26-2009 09:30
I didn't really mean to target the bible specifically. But to highlight the two main ways to approach any of the stories.
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Damien1 Thorne
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01-26-2009 09:31
From: Harmony Levee
I wish I had time to go through alllllllll the posts here but omg I'd need a week, minimum. To bad I didn't get into it when it started. I'm guessing thus far from what little I have read its about, the different beliefs of religions and each interpretation of the "big bang" more or less?

This thread is about anything and everything. Search on nearly any topic and this thread will come up in the results. You happened to pop in during one of the religious discussions.

ETA: or what Key and Amara said. :p
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Amaranthim Talon
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01-26-2009 09:31
From: Jerboa Haystack
I didn't really mean to target the bible specifically. But to highlight the two main ways to approach any of the stories.

It's the only one i could speak of with any authority since it is the only one i have read cover to cover on more than one occasion.
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Ghosty Kips
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01-26-2009 09:32
From: Key MacMoragh
Another thing: if you take Intelligent Design to its logical conclusion, you end up a Hindu.


I fail to see that logic. You do realize that atheism also exists in Hinduism?
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Amaranthim Talon
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01-26-2009 09:32
From: Damien1 Thorne
<snip>

I meant to tell you earlier, love- what a beautiful picture today! Is it one of your latest?
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01-26-2009 09:32
From: Harmony Levee
I wish I had time to go through alllllllll the posts here but omg I'd need a week, minimum. To bad I didn't get into it when it started. I'm guessing thus far from what little I have read its about, the different beliefs of religions and each interpretation of the "big bang" more or less?


And Limericks! :D

Don't forget the Limericks!
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Damien1 Thorne
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01-26-2009 09:33
From: Amaranthim Talon
I meant to tell you earlier, love- what a beautiful picture today! Is it one of your latest?

Yes, from last Sunday. Thank you dear. ;)
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01-26-2009 09:34
Does anybody know where I can find some education (be it a tutorial or perhaps just samples) of how to cut up the basic prims in different ways? I mean the building block prims (cube, sphere, torus, cylinder, and so on) and the various ways they can be manipulated in the edit window.

I've spent a bunch of time experimenting, but I have to believe there's knowledge out there on how to make "useful" shapes.
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01-26-2009 09:34
From: Amaranthim Talon
Oh heck it's about that and hunky men and luscious women,BOOTS and grief attacks and falling in love and loosing people and finding lost invisible prims and goofy jokes and breakfast and - hey- it's about life. Welcome, pull up a chair - Brenda will be along with your duct tape eventually. You have ventured forth- you can never leave :D....



Fixed
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Amaranthim Talon
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01-26-2009 09:34
From: Damien1 Thorne
Yes, from last Sunday. Thank you dear. ;)

It's beautiful- I would love to see it hanging in your new gallery.
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Amaranthim Talon
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01-26-2009 09:35
From: Rioko Bamaisin
Fixed

Oops! my bad! Boots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Damien1 Thorne
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01-26-2009 09:36
You ladies also forgot about the SHOPPING!
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Amaranthim Talon
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01-26-2009 09:36
From: Love Hastings
Does anybody know where I can find some education (be it a tutorial or perhaps just samples) of how to cut up the basic prims in different ways? I mean the building block prims (cube, sphere, torus, cylinder, and so on) and the various ways they can be manipulated in the edit window.

I've spent a bunch of time experimenting, but I have to believe there's knowledge out there on how to make "useful" shapes.

I have a neato thing in my workshop you can play with- I will sneak in and add your name to the access list so you can come try it out- its called prim finder- great way to learn the different shapes possible- however if you find an actual answer to your question i would love to know.
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Amaranthim Talon
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01-26-2009 09:37
From: Damien1 Thorne
You ladies also forgot about the SHOPPING!

Good point- and pix from adventures and interesting LM's and... list is endless :D
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Rioko Bamaisin
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01-26-2009 09:37
From: Damien1 Thorne
You ladies also forgot about the SHOPPING!



Oh god,I am old!!!!
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01-26-2009 09:37
From: Love Hastings
Does anybody know where I can find some education (be it a tutorial or perhaps just samples) of how to cut up the basic prims in different ways? I mean the building block prims (cube, sphere, torus, cylinder, and so on) and the various ways they can be manipulated in the edit window.

I've spent a bunch of time experimenting, but I have to believe there's knowledge out there on how to make "useful" shapes.


The Ivory Tower Of Primitives
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01-26-2009 09:38
From: Jerboa Haystack
And Limericks! :D

Don't forget the Limericks!


For our newest poster:

Harmony's new here today
And wondering what she should say
So don't worry your head
On this HUNORMOUS thread
Just be welcome, and jump in the fray.

/me waves
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Amaranthim Talon
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01-26-2009 09:40
From: Jerboa Haystack
The Ivory Tower Of Primitives

argh!! Of course!
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