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So when Gaia (the earth), made a large sickle out of flint, and gave it to Cronus to castrate Uranus, how did he go about it? And while we're on the topic, how did Uranus come every night to mate with Gaia (the earth)? And when Uranus' testicles landed in the sea (near Cyprus), how did this give rise to Venus (Aphrodite)? And how did Venus (Aphrodite) have sex with the planet Mars (Ares), but also men, like Anchises? And how does a planet become pregnant with the child of a man? And how did men like Adonis even get through space in order to have sex with the planet Venus? Why didn't his gentleman's area melt when he exposed it to the lead-melting temperature and sulphuric acid?

I await your answers to these questions with great interest.
Citation needed.
 
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People actually still believe in Greek Gods? ROFL!
Everyone who is sane believes in Greco-Roman gods -- they are called planets, namely Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn etc.

I just lost all faith in humanity.

Can someone tell me if this guy is serious or not?
You don't believe in Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn?

I highly suggest you point a telescope into heaven -- just remember to take the lens cap off.
 
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Everyone who is sane believes in Greco-Roman gods -- they are called planets, namely Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn etc.


You don't believe in Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn?

I highly suggest you point a telescope into heaven -- just remember to take the lens cap off.

Are you seriously trying to suggest that the anthropomorphic Greeco-Roman pantheon of gods were the planets? Rather than the, you know, historically accurate fact that the planets were in fact named after the gods...
 
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Are you seriously trying to suggest that the anthropomorphic Greeco-Roman pantheon of gods were the planets?
http://www.christianforums.com/t7554036-2/#post57314124

Rather than the, you know, historically accurate fact that the planets were in fact named after the gods...
FYI: the planets were deified by the Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindus, Canaanites, and Greeks who all practiced astrolatry before Rome and Latin even existed.

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Egyptian: Eye of Horus
Babylonian: Eye of Marduk
Canaanite: Eye of Ba'al Hadad
Greek: Eye of Zeus
Latin: Eye of Jupiter

"And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided under the whole heaven." -- Deuteronomy 4:19

"And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth." -- Jeremiah 8:2
 
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Citation needed.

Ah, come on Agonaces, I was hoping at least for some entertaining drivel.

From wikipedia:

In the Olympian creation myth, as Hesiod tells it in the Theogony,[9] Uranus came every night to cover the earth and mate with Gaia, but he hated the children she bore him.
In ancient myth recorded by Hesiod's Theogony, Cronus envied the power of his father, the ruler of the universe, Uranus. Uranus drew the enmity of Cronus' mother, Gaia, when he hid the gigantic youngest children of Gaia, the hundred-armed Hecatonchires and one-eyed Cyclopes, in Tartarus, so that they would not see the light. Gaia created a great stone sickle and gathered together Cronus and his brothers to persuade them to castrate Uranus. Only Cronus was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the sickle and placed him in ambush. When Uranus met with Gaia, Cronus attacked him with the sickle castrating him and casting his testicles into the sea. From the blood (or, by a few accounts, sperm) that spilled out from Uranus and fell upon the earth, the Gigantes, Erinyes, and Meliae were produced. The testicles produced a white foam from which Aphrodite emerged.[12]
Because of her beauty other gods feared that jealousy would interrupt the peace among them and lead to war, and so Zeus married her to Hephaestus, who was not viewed as a threat. Aphrodite had many lovers, both gods like Ares, and men like Anchises. Aphrodite also became instrumental in the Eros and Psyche legend, and later was both Adonis' lover and his surrogate mother. Many lesser beings were said to be children of Aphrodite.
Now, care to address my previous post:

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So when Gaia (the earth), made a large sickle out of flint, and gave it to Cronus to castrate Uranus, how did he go about it? And while we're on the topic, how did Uranus come every night to mate with Gaia (the earth)? And when Uranus' testicles landed in the sea (near Cyprus), how did this give rise to Venus (Aphrodite)? And how did Venus (Aphrodite) have sex with the planet Mars (Ares), but also men, like Anchises? And how does a planet become pregnant with the child of a man? And how did men like Adonis even get through space in order to have sex with the planet Venus? Why didn't his gentleman's area melt when he exposed it to the lead-melting temperature and sulphuric acid?



People actually still believe in Greek Gods? ROFL!

I just lost all faith in humanity. Can someone tell me if this guy is serious or not?

I used to desperately hope he was a troll, but he's got a whole website of this stuff, which is above and beyond what a troll would do. He's legitimately barmy. He believes not only in the Roman Gods, but that they are literally the planets that are named after them.

Edit: Also, that Jesus is from space and is literally the constellation Aries, there is no such thing as gravity (mass doesn't attract mass), there is no such thing as centrifugal force (or else he just doesn't understand it), that the ancient Greeks has spaceships and nuclear weapons, and that there is no such thing as continental drift. Am I missing anything, AoS?
 
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Ah, come on Agonaces, I was hoping at least for some entertaining drivel.

From wikipedia:
Wikipedia is not an accurate or reliable source.

Please provide the quote from the work of the author or I don't know what you're talking about.

Yes Uranus's moons were castrated and Saturn's moons were devoured.

Venus was born from Zeus's forehead during the interaction of Jupiter and Saturn: http://www.varchive.org/itb/satjup.htm
 
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read some greek mythology instead of making up stuff.
I knew you didn't have any citation or reference to the real world.

then again coming from the guy who denied the greek creation myth because it didn't support his bloody stupid claims, i doubt you can.
What on earth are you talking about?

Who denies the Greek creation myth?

"All things were mixed up together, then Mind came and arranged them all in distinct order." -- Anaxagoras, philosopher, 5th century B.C.

"Then I heard someone who had a book of Anaxagoras, as he said, out of which he read that mind was the disposer and cause of all, and I was quite delighted at the notion of this, which appeared admirable, and I said to myself; If mind is the disposer, mind will dispose all for the best, and put each particular in the best place ...." -- Plato, philosopher, Phaedo, 360 B.C.

"... Anaxagoras, who says that all things were together and at rest for an infinite period of time, and that then Mind introduced motion and separated them...." -- Aristotle, Physics, Book VIII, 350 B.C.

"He [Anaxagoras] said that the beginning of the universe was mind and matter, mind being the creator and matter that which came into being. For that when all things were together, mind came and arranged them." -- Hippolytus, priest, 2nd century
 
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In ancient myth recorded by Hesiod's Theogony, Cronus envied the power of his father, the ruler of the universe, Uranus.
The relationship of the lower with the upper.
Uranus drew the enmity of Cronus' mother, Gaia, when he hid the gigantic youngest children of Gaia, the hundred-armed Hecatonchires and one-eyed Cyclopes, in Tartarus, so that they would not see the light.
Entering the movement over the surface of the deep.
Gaia created a great stone sickle and gathered together Cronus and his brothers to persuade them to castrate Uranus.
Entering desire
Only Cronus was willing to do the deed, so Gaia gave him the sickle and placed him in ambush. When Uranus met with Gaia, Cronus attacked him with the sickle castrating him and casting his testicles into the sea.
Entering the separation of the second from the first.
From the blood (or, by a few accounts, sperm) that spilled out from Uranus and fell upon the earth, the Gigantes, Erinyes, and Meliae were produced.
Entering the third coming into being with even further subsequent separation.
The testicles produced a white foam from which Aphrodite emerged.[12]
Entering the ruling forces of the latter separation.
 
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AGAIN with the quotemines! Awesome! So when did I ever claim that because the Greeks used the names of their Gods to also name the planets that the planets themselves didn't exist?
No, the planets are the gods. Matter is a reflection of mind.
 
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Wikipedia is not an accurate or reliable source.

Please provide the quote from the work of the author or I don't know what you're talking about.

Yes Uranus's moons were castrated and Saturn's moons were devoured.

Venus was born from Zeus's forehead during the interaction of Jupiter and Saturn: Saturn and Jupiter

I'm not trawling through the original text to find the references for you. Wikipedia is reliable enough as a summary, and you;re the one who believes in the ancient Greek gods. You should know the stories behind them.
 
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I knew you didn't have any citation or reference to the real world.
it is mythology pick up a book on mythology, i have yet to find any mythology that is real or is even correct.
http://www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_16.html
wrong again.


What on earth are you talking about?
i wonder the same thing about you, what on earth are you talking about?

Who denies the Greek creation myth?
i do because it isn't true, it is interesting but it isn't true.

"All things were mixed up together, then Mind came and arranged them all in distinct order." -- Anaxagoras, philosopher, 5th century B.C.

"Then I heard someone who had a book of Anaxagoras, as he said, out of which he read that mind was the disposer and cause of all, and I was quite delighted at the notion of this, which appeared admirable, and I said to myself; If mind is the disposer, mind will dispose all for the best, and put each particular in the best place ...." -- Plato, philosopher, Phaedo, 360 B.C.

"... Anaxagoras, who says that all things were together and at rest for an infinite period of time, and that then Mind introduced motion and separated them...." -- Aristotle, Physics, Book VIII, 350 B.C.

"He [Anaxagoras] said that the beginning of the universe was mind and matter, mind being the creator and matter that which came into being. For that when all things were together, mind came and arranged them." -- Hippolytus, priest, 2nd century
that isn't the greek creation myth go educate yourself.

http://www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths_16.html
if you deny this is the greek creation myth you prove what i say, it doesn't support your asinine claims.

Greek creation myths
Greek Mythology Story Creation

how many links do you need before you drop your stupid arguments from philosophers and admit that what you say is completely wrong?
my links are the greeks beliefs, just because you can quote-mine a few philosophers doesn't mean jack, philosophers don't represent the beliefs of the common man.
you call what i posted last time a lie, because it doesn't support your garbage, just like you claim that the norse didn't believe the sky was ymir's skull and it was solid.
just like you deny that a lot of cultures believed the sky was solid even when i prove it.
it isn't like there isn't huge swathes of evidence that the greeks believed in many things, but none of them believed the nonsense you spew.
 
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Wikipedia is not an accurate or reliable source.
uh yes it is, according to the people that publish encyclopedia britannica it is.
oh and you are no expert on accuracy or reliability, you misunderstand and distort nearly everything you quotemine.
the only things you don't are the nutters you agree with.

Please provide the quote from the work of the author or I don't know what you're talking about.
excuses, nothing but excuses, and i believe everything on that page is sourced at the bottem

Yes Uranus's moons were castrated and Saturn's moons were devoured.
no, the story isn't talking about planets it is talking about anthropomorphic gods.

Venus was born from Zeus's forehead during the interaction of Jupiter and Saturn: Saturn and Jupiter
uh no, at least if you are going to draw wrong conclusions please at least get the god right.
athena was born from zeus head, how exactly would a planet complain of a headache or have a forhead,when the planet is a bloody planet?
by the way venus was born from the "foam" of uranus's genitals.

greeks are crazy, almost as crazy as the egypians who believed the universe was created from a god masturbating.

oh yeah, your link is just the guys opinion and is illogical babble, nothing in it leads me to think the guy has a clue about ancient beliefs or understanding of reality, then i saw who he gets his drivel from..
 
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I'm not trawling through the original text to find the references for you. Wikipedia is reliable enough as a summary, and you;re the one who believes in the ancient Greek gods. You should know the stories behind them.
lol he believes in them but i know more than he does? how strange, but not surprising.
 
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I'm not trawling through the original text to find the references for you. Wikipedia is reliable enough as a summary, and you;re the one who believes in the ancient Greek gods. You should know the stories behind them.
Uranus

The age of Uranus preceded the age of Saturn; it came to an end with the “removal” of Uranus by Saturn. Saturn is said to have emasculated his father Uranus.(2)

Behind this story there might have been a scene in the sky. In one theory of the origin of the solar system a sideswiping star tears out from the sun a long filament of gaseous material. Similarly Saturn may at one time have “emasculated” Uranus—Saturn was represented by the Romans with a sickle in his hands.

Circumcision may have originated as an emulation of the acts displayed in the sky—when it appeared that Saturn with a sickle emasculated Uranus, the Egyptians, and so also the Hebrews, introduced circumcision, the removal of the foreskin being pars per toto, or instead of castration.(3)

It is not unthinkable that sometime before the age the record of ancient civilizations reaches, Uranus, together with Neptune, Saturn and Jupiter, formed a quadruple system that was captured by the sun and from which the planets of the solar system had their origin—but here nothing but imagination takes over where tradition based on witnessing does not reach.

[According to Hesiod, the catastrophe described as the removal of Uranus by Saturn gave birth to Aphrodite. In Worlds in Collision Aphrodite was identified with the Moon.](4)
 
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that isn't the greek creation myth
In fact, it is.

"All things were mixed up together, then Mind came and arranged them all in distinct order." -- Anaxagoras, philosopher, 5th century B.C.

"Then I heard someone who had a book of Anaxagoras, as he said, out of which he read that mind was the disposer and cause of all, and I was quite delighted at the notion of this, which appeared admirable, and I said to myself; If mind is the disposer, mind will dispose all for the best, and put each particular in the best place ...." -- Plato, philosopher, Phaedo, 360 B.C.

"... Anaxagoras, who says that all things were together and at rest for an infinite period of time, and that then Mind introduced motion and separated them...." -- Aristotle, Physics, Book VIII, 350 B.C.

"He [Anaxagoras] said that the beginning of the universe was mind and matter, mind being the creator and matter that which came into being. For that when all things were together, mind came and arranged them." -- Hippolytus, priest, 2nd century
 
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uh yes it is, according to the people that publish encyclopedia britannica it is.
Encyclopaedia Britannica almost always contradicts Wikipedia.

For example, Encyclopaedia Britannica says the ancients used telescopes.

"The credit of the discovery of the telescope has been a fruitful subject of discussion. Thus, because Democritus announced that the Milky Way is composed of vast multitudes of stars, it has been maintained that he could only have been led to form such an opinion from actual examination of the heavens with a telescope. Other passages from the Greek and Latin authors have similarly been cited to prove that the telescope was known to the ancients." -- Encyclopaedia Britannica 1888, 1893, & 1911

Wikipedia (Doug Weller etc.) on the other hand claims that telescopes didn't exist until the 17th century.

And again, Encyclopaedia Britannica says that Ipuwer the scribe was a treasury official during the reign of Pepi II Neferkare.

"Ipuwer, an ancient Egyptian sage. He perhaps served as a treasury official during the last years of Pepi II Neferkare (reigned c. 2294 - c. 2200 BC)...." -- The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, Volume 6, 2002

Wikipedia (Doug Weller etc.) on the other hand attempts to censor all connection between Ipuwer and Pepi II Neferkare.
 
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Very nice AoS. Now how do you square this with the fact that Uranus wasn't given that name until the 18th century. Do you think it's just a massive coincidence that the name picked by the modern astronomers happened to be the right one?
 
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Very nice AoS. Now how do you square this with the fact that Uranus wasn't given that name until the 18th century.
FYI: Uranus is mentioned by Hesiod who lived in the 8th century B.C.

All of the planets were named thousands (if not millions) of years before you assume.

For example, the Babylonians are one of the oldest known civilizations.

Nabu = Mercury
Ishtar = Venus
Nergal = Mars
Marduk = Jupiter
Ninurta = Saturn

Likewise the Egyptians.

Thoth = Mercury
Isis/Neith = Venus
Anhur = Mars
Horus = Jupiter
Osiris = Saturn

Do you think it's just a massive coincidence that the name picked by the modern astronomers happened to be the right one?
Do you think it's just a massive coincidence that Homer called the moons of Mars by the names Deimos and Phobos?

"So he [Mars] spoke, and ordered Deimos and Phobos to harness." -- Homeros, poet, Iliad, XV:119, 8th century B.C.
 
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FYI: Uranus is mentioned by Hesiod who lived in the 8th century B.C.
Yes, I'm aware of that, remember that big post I put up pointing out some hilarious holes in your logic, the one you ignored?

Now, Uranus was named in modern times, by people who didn't believe the same sort of twaddle you do. Is it not an astonishing coincidence that those people who were just looking for a nice name from the Greek Pantheon happened to choose Uranus' actual name as described in Hesiod? What are your opinions on Pluto? Do you think the 11 year-old who chose the name in 1930 believed that Tombaugh had found the literal Greek God of the Underworld?

And also, Uranus was Saturn's father in Roman mythology, and Gaia was his mother. How did Uranus impregnate the earth, and how does the Gaia (the earth) "give birth" to a planet 95 times her mass?

All of the planets were named thousands (if not millions) of years before you assume.

For example, the Babylonians are one of the oldest known civilizations.

Nabu = Mercury
Ishtar = Venus
Nergal = Mars
Marduk = Jupiter
Ninurta = Saturn

Likewise the Egyptians.

Thoth = Mercury
Isis = Venus
Anhur = Mars
Horus = Jupiter
Osiris = Saturn
And notice how none of these civilisations had names for Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Makemake, Haumea, just the planets they could see with their naked eye. And I'm just talking about planets here. Saying that these civilisations also had a god of the sea is not the equivalent of saying they had a detailed knowledge of the planet we now call Neptune. Not that I expect you to understand this.

Do you think it's just a massive coincidence that Homer called the moons of Mars by the names Deimos and Phobos?

"So he [Mars] spoke, and ordered Deimos and Phobos to harness." -- Homeros, poet, Iliad, XV:119, 8th century B.C.
He didn't. He called the mythological sons of Mars Deimos and Phobos. The moons of the planet we now call Mars were named after these mythological figures in 1877.

Interestingly, features on Phobos are named after characters from Gulliver's Travels. Do you also believe Lilliput is a real place?
 
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