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no the earth is not shaped like a semi-colon.

As a slight aside I just watched most of a vid on Youtube by Dr, Richard Carrier on how Jesus was not a historical character. I haven't read any of his books but the video was so full of straw man arguments and false interpretations of ancient religion that I felt quite certain, quite quickly, that he is wrong. One argument seems to be that Christ embodies many features which can be found in earlier mystery cults (Mithras, Osiris and so on) ... this is an old argument which you can see repeated all over the place (by which I mean all over the internet). This approach seems to ignore the idea that Christ was actually fulfilling the mythic possibilities in these ancient cults. So if you have a cult which talks about resurrection then Jesus was actually demonstrating that this is not just words but a real possibility. (just thought I'd post this while I was thinking about it)

Nope.

yep open a website for contributions paypal and bitcoins

OK you can go with him.

I'd be happier if you went yourself ... perhaps a two to three year survey.

The National Geographic Orion is doing a very quick u turn ... I think it strayed too close to the edge.

Yes British Intelligence is funding me you are right. I am wearing a tuxedo and holder a walther ppk ... later I am going to be taken up to an orbiting space station where I will cause it to destruct and thereby saving humanity. (I will escape just in time with the most beautiful girl on board who will be crazy about me - in case you were worried.)

Everybody from the Ancient Greeks knew that the earth was round. The flat earth theory is just a made up hoax which some simple people believe in. Forget about it.

@stefos ... 20X20 = 400

profound randomness... [order] [not] [words] [in] [the] even me confused.

If that were true the North Pole would be made of sugar frosting. Maybe it is ... I've never been there to check so I don't want to have a closed mind.

Trouble is that even if I won the award I couldn't ever travel to receive it. Where I live the earth is very, very curved and if I go more than few miles I start to slide and I get frightened I'll never get home.

Why would anyone bother ... make it a million and I'll do it myself.

Well I don't want to divert from Christian Mysticism too much BUT ... in the Egyptian temples there was a daily ceremony which is called the Ritual of the Divine Cult. The priest after purification entered the temple through the six gateways to the Holy of Holies where the statue of the god was kept in a shrine (usually in wooden shrine and on a boat (ark). the priest would take out the statue and undress it, anoint it and light incense and so on and then replace it in the shrine on the boat and then retreat backwards from the inner sanctum. The height of this would be when the priest stood 'face to face' with the god. The high priests were called hm-neter which is usually translated as 'the god's servant' but actually more correctly would be 'the god's incarnation' (avatar). And so when he was standing face to face he was recognising the divinity of the god and reflecting it in himself. He was seeing reality face-to-face.

You're a very funny guy (I hope).

I watched a few minutes of the first video but I couldn't stop laughing ... also it became a bit boring listening to the drawling voice of an idiot who cannot understand even the basic laws of physics or at least look them up. But it was funny so thank you.

A sage is in the house.

Do I have to stick a little umbrella in it.

Good reminder that whatever we say or understand on here is 'through a glass darkly' or 'poor reflection in a mirror' and incomplete. BTW seeing 'face to face' is another ancient expression which occurs in pagan religions too - I say this to affirm that Christianity is part of the western tradition and not just a stand alone or even a sub-Judaic path.

I've checked they drink rum.

I this Hermetic? or General?

endured cruelty though I have to google them to see who they are.

a reflection of what?