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Books: Who wrote the Bible, Who wrote the New Testament, Mask of God Series, the Fundamentalism Project, The Golden Bough, The Evil that Men Do. Whoever Fights Monsters, The Collector, History of God, The Battle for God, to name just a few.
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"We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; and where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world." - Joseph Campbell "Power of the Myth" "On the field of truth, on the battle -field of life, what came to pass, Sanjaya, when my sons and their warriors faced those of my brother Pandu" - The Gita "Historical reality is always more complex and fascinating than the orthodox of any tradition would like us to believe. The winners rewrite history, and the rewrite is almost always a simplification. Simplifications are helpful to give us an initial grasp, but we should never content ourselves with them." -David Noel Freedman, What are the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why They Matter (p. 69). The dictionary definition of a myth would be stories about gods. So then you have to ask the next question: what is a god? A god is a personification of a motivating power or a value system that functions in human life and in the universe--the powers of your own body and of nature. The myths are metaphorical of spiritual potentiality in the human being, and the same powers that animate our life animate the life of the world. But also there are myths and gods that have to do with specific societies or the patron deities of the society. In other words, there are two totally different orders of mythology. There is the mythology that relates you to your nature and to the natural world, of which you're a part. And there is the mythology that is strictly sociological, linking you to a particular society. You are not simply a natural man, you are a member of a particular group. In the history of European mythology, you can see the interaction of these two systems. Usually the socially oriented system is of a nomadic people who are moving around, so you learn that's where your center is, in that group. The nature-oriented mythology would be of an earth-cultivating people. Now the biblical tradition is a socially oriented mythology. Nature is condemned. (Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth 22-23) A myth is the dynamic of life. You may or may not know it, and the myth you may be respectfully worshiping on Sunday may not be the one that's really working in your heart and the one that's out there in the view of your religious instructors.- Joseph Campbell "Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion." Karen Armstrong In so far as religion assumes the world to be directed by conscious agents who may be turned from their purpose by persuasion, it stands in fundamental antagonism to magic as well as to science, both of which take for granted that the course of nature is determined, not by the passions or caprice of personal beings, but by the operation of immutable laws acting mechanically. In magic, indeed, the assumption is only implicit, but in science it is explicit. It is true that magic often deals with spirits, which are personal agents of the kind assumed by religion; but whenever it does so in its proper form, it treats them in exactly in the same fashion as it treats inanimate agents, that is, it constrains or coerces instead of conciliating or propitiating them as religion would do. Thus it assumes that all personal beings, whether human or divine, are in the last resort subject to those impersonal forces which control all things, but which nevertheless can be turned to account by any one who knows how to manipulate them by the appropriate ceremonies and spells. - Sir James George Frazer "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking." Albert Einstein As a hobby I study world religion and anthropology. Currently I have been comparing the Psalms to the texts of the ancient Near East. I am married to my lovely wife and we own one cat. I have a sense of humor and love to have fun and get to know people.Videos (322 )
Re: Pt 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls Introduction
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- Author: wayman29
Tags: archaeology Bible Book Dead Mormon Scrolls Sea
The Binder Collectors: Music was done by me with cheesy loops from a cheesy music program. Another user who was a binder collector here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmnspQrRGZI
*Can* Biblical Scholars & Scientists be trusted?
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- Author: wayman29
Tags: apostle apostles Bible church Mormon Mormonism Prophet prophets Scholars trust
*Can* Biblical Scholars & Scientists be trusted? No! No one can. See more here! How does our theological framework and world view influence our interpretation of history? "Historical reality is always more complex and fascinating than the orthodox of any tradition would like us to believe....
Re: Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: 1st Impressions
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- Author: wayman29
Tags: bible deuterocanonical holy intertestamental literature old pseudepigrapha testament twelve works writings
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Public Discernment Announcement
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Tags: atheist Celpha CelphaFiael christian christianity contest Debate g0at god NihilistZealot PSA Reflectionist Theism theist
CelphaFiael http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q-pjiV_UwAY Runners up: NihilistZealot http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Lo8p4akO2Y Reflectionist http://youtube.com/watch?v=qLTGOyNO2Mw My main computer crashed! and I lost everything so I had to buy a new laptop. So, what I did was buy a new laptop. I still...
The Dividing Line July 24, 2008
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Here we begin uploading video of The Dividing Line my bi-weekly webcast, which you can subscribe to on your iPod, or purchase in high quality mp3, all at www.aomin.org! Enjoy!
Pt 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls Introduction
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- Author: TheBackyardProfessor
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Why the Dead Sea Scrolls are so exciting.
