txnetcop
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It's a darn good thing you made that a question!!!! Get it? No attacks period-final warning!
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It's a darn good thing you made that a question!!!! Get it? No attacks period-final warning!
Ted
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Thanks HH, you as well.
Its hard to imagine the magnitude of what was actually done 2 centuries ago.
Snuffy
Happiness Consultant
Ummm am I missing something? 2 centuries is only 200 years.
J.C. was here over 2000 years ago ... two milinia ...
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6297J
Guest
As you rightly point out, it was a question, not an attack :salute:
(But if you did see it as attack - who did you think it was directed at?)
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Ken Stallings
Guest
I am more than confident Bill simply made an honest language mistake. But, of course, you are correct -- it is millenia.
Cheers,
Ken
txnetcop
Charter Member
That is the problem with messaging. You can't always tell when someone is having fun at someone's expense. So it's best to thoughtfully put down what you really want to say and seeing as how you are old enough to know that, you are accountable for what you write. I hope that's clear and I am very pleased to hear it was not an attack on anyone or anyone's religion. Thank you for clarifying that
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lifejogger
Lost in Texas
Amen, No greater love is there than a man gives up his life for his friends. I am a friend of Jesus.
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The enemy is fear & death. We give them no power.
Thank you, Ken.
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Well said BoxCar, and nice screenshot over Jerusalem.
I used to fly over that area all the time in FS. I'll have to again tonight. I used to love trying to land a F-16 into LLJR. Very short strip. I hear they closed that airport down, unfortunately. Long drive to Ben Gurion International....
Yep.. My apologies. Millenia not Centuries.
For some reason, I always think of those in terms of Italian, which is crazy as 100's are 'Cento's and 1,000's are Mille's.
Bill
jmig
SOH-CM-2025
True!What if ya all woke up one day and learned all the world's religions got it wrong?
If we can't make fun of one's beliefs, we also can't make fun of non believers.
However, this thread was started to express a Christen view on the most holy day in Christendom. Let us leave the discussion of truth or non-truth in religious beliefs to a different thread on a different day.
magoo
SOH-CM-2013
The name Easter is an old derivative from the Anglo-Saxon, Oestara, and/or Eostre, a lesser Saabat on the vernal equinox.
Eostre was the lunar godess in the Anglo-Saxon spiritual belief system. It is thought that her name is the final variation of other godesses like Astarte, Ishtar, and Isis, usually a consort of the gods Osiris or Dionysus, ancient gods who are depicted as dying and being reborn.
Eostre’s feast day was held on the first full moon following the vernal equinox. On this date the goddess Eostre is believed by her followers to mate with the solar god, conceiving a child who would be born 9 months later on Yule, the winter solstice which falls on December 21st.
Two of Eostre’s most important symbols were the hare (both because of its fertility and because ancient people saw a hare in the full moon) and the egg, which symbolized the growing possibility of new life. Each of these symbols have returned to play an important role in modern celebrations of Easter.
It most interesting to see how mythology and belief systems move and adapt through our histories and our societies around the planet, bringing us to the present and leaving me in wonder as to where it will all go to....
So for now.....to all denominations out there, be you Sihk, or Christian, Hebrew or Moslem, Budhist, Taoist, Darwinist, or tolerant agnostic, Wiccan, Druid, Scientlogist or otherwise, .....may your reborn plowshears be sharp and true, your seeds be healthy and your fields fertile. May we all enjoy the yields of a bountiful crop grown this year throughout the short days of the next winter.
And yes, every seed planted in the spring could somehow be in itself, the seed of a god reborn, without any sense of propriety or exclusionism.
Happy Easter.
Eostre was the lunar godess in the Anglo-Saxon spiritual belief system. It is thought that her name is the final variation of other godesses like Astarte, Ishtar, and Isis, usually a consort of the gods Osiris or Dionysus, ancient gods who are depicted as dying and being reborn.
Eostre’s feast day was held on the first full moon following the vernal equinox. On this date the goddess Eostre is believed by her followers to mate with the solar god, conceiving a child who would be born 9 months later on Yule, the winter solstice which falls on December 21st.
Two of Eostre’s most important symbols were the hare (both because of its fertility and because ancient people saw a hare in the full moon) and the egg, which symbolized the growing possibility of new life. Each of these symbols have returned to play an important role in modern celebrations of Easter.
It most interesting to see how mythology and belief systems move and adapt through our histories and our societies around the planet, bringing us to the present and leaving me in wonder as to where it will all go to....
So for now.....to all denominations out there, be you Sihk, or Christian, Hebrew or Moslem, Budhist, Taoist, Darwinist, or tolerant agnostic, Wiccan, Druid, Scientlogist or otherwise, .....may your reborn plowshears be sharp and true, your seeds be healthy and your fields fertile. May we all enjoy the yields of a bountiful crop grown this year throughout the short days of the next winter.
And yes, every seed planted in the spring could somehow be in itself, the seed of a god reborn, without any sense of propriety or exclusionism.
Happy Easter.
cheezyflier
Charter Member
of all places, i once found this in the comic "BC"
a seed is such a miraculous thing,
it can sit on a shelf forever.
but how it knows what to do when it's stuck in the ground,
is what makes it so clever.
it draws nutrients from the soil through it's roots,
and gathers it's force from the sun.
it puts forth a whole lot of fruit,
and re-seeds itself when it's done.
who programmed the seed to know just what to do?
and who put the sun in the sky?
and who put the food in the dirt?
and who told the bees to come by?
and who makes the water to fall from above,
to refresh and make everything pure?
perhaps all of this is a product of love,
and perhaps it all happened by chance...
yeah, sure it did...
a seed is such a miraculous thing,
it can sit on a shelf forever.
but how it knows what to do when it's stuck in the ground,
is what makes it so clever.
it draws nutrients from the soil through it's roots,
and gathers it's force from the sun.
it puts forth a whole lot of fruit,
and re-seeds itself when it's done.
who programmed the seed to know just what to do?
and who put the sun in the sky?
and who put the food in the dirt?
and who told the bees to come by?
and who makes the water to fall from above,
to refresh and make everything pure?
perhaps all of this is a product of love,
and perhaps it all happened by chance...
yeah, sure it did...
Knock yourselves out?!?1?!!1Fair enough Jmig,
Go knock yourselves out guys!
Is that a threat?
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6297J
Guest
What if ya all woke up one day and learned all the world's religions got it wrong?
If we can't make fun of one's beliefs, we also can't make fun of non believers.
I'm beginning to get the impression that SOH is fundamentally a Christian forum these days, including the mods which means it's becoming hard to express a differing view here without being marginalized. There is an increasingly evangelical dimension to postings here which makes me feel very uncomfortable. Maybe it's just a reflection of the times? Religions flourish in times of hardship and fear and maybe that is what is coming out here and will pass when the economy improves. The problem is that might take a generation which means free thinkers like me are in for a tough time
Regardless, it's Easter Monday which has no religious associations at all as far as I know and it means I have another day off so - Happy Easter Monday!
Naismith
Charter Member
I'm beginning to get the impression that SOH is fundamentally a Christian forum these days, including the mods which means it's becoming hard to express a differing view here without being marginalized. There is an increasingly evangelical dimension to postings here which makes me feel very uncomfortable. Maybe it's just a reflection of the times? Religions flourish in times of hardship and fear and maybe that is what is coming out here and will pass when the economy improves. The problem is that might take a generation which means free thinkers like me are in for a tough time
Regardless, it's Easter Monday which has no religious associations at all as far as I know and it means I have another day off so - Happy Easter Monday!
Uh-Oh incoming!
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