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Voice in Head: Trashbags are sexy. Lets call ourselves Trashbag. Then go find one.

EA needs to die a writhing, pitiful death so that some good people can get their hands on the copyrights EA holds/ruins.

This resonates deeply with me.

Quote from: lemon10 on June 03, 2011, 08:45:23 pm

they support laws banning abortion because they consider it murder).

You have misleadingly combined a non-theological issue with a theological one. It would be better stated as "They think abortion is murder. They support laws opposing abortion because (however hypocritical they may otherwise be on this subject) their religion says that murder is wrong."

Also, can you prove that it isn't?

More like they are against Abortion because they consider fetal life important enough to be a "person" due to either ideas of a soul or pure species bigotry. But anybody rational enough realizes that we determine status as people by sentience, not genetics. Rational people also recognize the significant harm that comes from preventing abortion to both freedom and prosperity.

Marketing Tricks 101.

Have stuff "leaked", get everybody to talk about it. Advertisement cost.. nil.

I am not familiar with monotheism believes, so I have to guess. From I can gather the hypothesis and the element of Greek philosophical doctrine, only tells me about the internal influence with the religion, and evidence of a multistage merging processes of the Bible. Can you make a brief summaries about the external forces of events of possible assumption about why it is happening? and What's their effect with the society on that period? I know the creation myth in the East, and early proto-monotheist in East-Asia, and India failed. I want to know why it did emerged in the middle-east region. (Monotheism evolved many times in history, as I know at least there was a pharaoh in Egypt also tempt to do so, but alternately failed. I watched it in a program in history channel but forget about his/her name, I remember it has something to do with a queen.)

I can't really tell you much, as I'm not an expert on the history of Monotheism.

You might find this video interesting though. It's a perspective on the creation of the Monotheistic God backed by modern archeological understanding and scholarly sources.

Instead if speculating with little information, it's probably better that you study how the actual Abrahamic religious tradition formed from its polytheistic roots. It was a gradual transformation at first into Henotheism and then into something closer to actual Monotheism. Both transformations were internal group reactions caused by the collapse of both Hebrew nations. However, it was probably only the mingling of Greek philosophy and Jewish tradition that truly created a concept most today would recognize as the Abrahamic God.

Try these for a start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_hypothesis

I'm a maybe. Long trip from SoCal but if I'm not too busy then I don't see why I shouldn't try.