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It's not the messages and meaning that can be found throughout the Bible that we're discussing as much as we are pondering the misinterpreted stories that harbor such meaning. And when many of the biblical stories and parables are taken literally is when the meaning is lost.

To be honest, like you said, it has been so long I'm not quite sure what direction the discussion was going in. I think I may have been defending Nietzsche's "Super man" concept... or at least interpreting it in a context that applied to some of the previous posts. I could go back and read over...

Who confused what for dinosaurs? How about considering the fact that large animals have and still are on the planet. According to what I just read on Wikepedia, in ancient Hebrew leviathan mean twisted or coiled and in modern Hebrew the same word means whale... which like I mentioned before are...

Elman, if you or anyone els are interested in reading some writings that are considered to be Gnostic, the Gnostic Society is a good site to visit>>> http://www.gnosis.org/library.html The Gospel of Thomas is posted on that site and is not a long read.

Generally, from the Gnostic perspective God is the Infinite foundation of existence and All emanates from God. Sophia is wisdom, while matter is the Demiurge. The Demiurge is ignorant of the Infinite of which it is but a part and believes itself to be the All Mighty. Sophia is aware of the...

What I was pointing out is that there have been large animals on Earth for eons. Yet, if you are referring to the topic in which you were so adamant about us not straying from, no such animals you just mentioned are dinosaurs. And humans and dinosaurs have not cohabited the planet. Therefore...

What I mean by modern day society is the likes of what you and I were raised in here in the US; industrialized nations. How that has anything to do with what we were discussing has to do with my mentioning that most indigenous cultures have promoted lifestyles which exhibit minimal impact on...

Something that may possibly add credibility to whatever point it is you are attempting to get across would be looking up some examples of these animals you are describing and post some links or images to fossilized remains of what you consider to be mentioned within the biblical text. Be sure to...

To elaborate some on mysticism in respects to Christian art, Jesus Christ wearing the crown or emanating a halo is symbolic of Enlightenment, while pointing at his heart is symbolic of Understanding, the flame that is often associated with the sacred heart is symbolic of Life. The shape...

One cannot make another understand that the interdependence of existence and the natural balance of nature is the most pristine expression of love and compassion. What is going on here is that we have different understandings in respects to such, which is of course fine. But like I have written...

Well not to get off the subject to far but what about GWB's behaviors and or policies makes you think he is a Christian? Is it because you might have heard him say something along the lines of "Oh... JC come into my heart?" I would think that a lying politician associated with secret societies...

While some alephs are larger than others, ∞ is just ∞. -Wikipedia "Infinity is just Infinity" is what I am talking about; a description of a nature. Between every integer the nature of infinity is exhibited regardless of the value of a particular integer while the potential for a...

I am not thinking of infinity as a number. I am thinking of it as a concept or a description of a nature. And though my education in the realm of higher mathematics could use some refreshing and elaboration, I am an undergrad student of biology and philosophy at the University of Alaska; a...

So do you think these "prehistoric beasts" you speak of are dinosaurs or not? Because like what has been repeated ad nauseam there is not a shred of evidence to suggest that dinosaurs and any Homo sapiens were wandering the Earth during the same era of Earth's history. Actually there is mounds...

I have traveled quite a bit all around the US when I was younger but now that I have a wife and children we tend to stay put more often. We were living in Silver City New Mexico for about 5 years before moving here. Before I had children, I use to hitch-hike and ride freight trains all over...

I agree, yet I also tend to avoid absolutes in my use of language due to changes in our knowledge regarding the nature of systems being always possible, and even likely.

Essentially both descriptions are of infinity. To consider one set to be countable and the other to be uncountable is a reference to how infinity is being expressed. Yes I know that there can be infinitely repeating decimal versus an infinitely non-repeating decimal and so on, but my point is...

I say "apparently" because, unlike AnonymousCoward23, I have noticed that no one has ever produced a complete calculation of pi to the very last decimal place. Though I doubt there is a last decimal place to be calculated to, who for sure is to say there is not one. Therefore I would say...

I think you may have missed my point. So you are saying that you can count all the digits of pi... good luck, I think some super computers are working on it as well.