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It is always amazing how quickly Adventists become anti-education.
Many myths are based on factual observations.
After watching a MythBusters marathon of 10 shows one lazy Sunday, I came to the conclusion that they were just playing dumb to create controversy.
Both of your "Myths" are just the same.
Myth? There is no gravity for astronauts because they are in space where there is no gravity.
Reality:
There is no gravity for astronauts because they are in space where there is no perception of gravity.
Gravity is everywhere.
Astronauts are unaware of any gravity until they hit a planet or something. Almost the same thing as "no gravity."
SkyWriting, I'll let you do a bit more research on you side. Enjoy!
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Indeed, since the effect of gravity is instantaneous, making its effect occur faster than the speed of light -- a supposed impossibility -- then maybe gravity is not a particle after all, but rather one continuous super-string fabric of the universe?. That is why its effects are felt immediately? It doesn't have to travel anywhere; it is just already there? ??
It's interesting to look at the transition in some cultures from viewing disease as something that is caused either by gods/demons to a more scientific view. Sumerians are an interesting example of the former - and the incantations in the Udug Hul texts for specific diseases.
So this is an interesting take on this thread. I suspect that much of the casting out of demons had little to do with demons - well, the floating around "spirit" kind. What's tragic is when people were proclaimed to be "demon possessed" because of disease, physical characteristics that had nothing to do with disease, or even metal illness. Of course, we still do a bit of that today.
One way to think about it is regardless of the source of the "demons" those who "cast them out" are healers. To me, one of the most amazing things Jesus did was help people understand that healing was possible. He got a lot of things that were stuck, unstuck.
I was about 16 when I went through the book Seventh-day Adventists Believe (the pre-2005 edition) and, in the course of reading it, reviewed the explanation of the lifestyle fundamental. The fundamental didn't outlaw jazz, jewelry, card playing, and other things, but the explanation in the book and Messages to Young People did. So I wanted to know a bit more about the Biblical basis for that.
I went through the chapter, and picked out the "jewelry" section, and wrote down all the cited texts, and then looked them up one by one and read them in context, and wrote myself up a little summary of what I had found.
Was I floored.
I had expected to find a clear link between what the Bible said on the subject, and what I had grown up being taught and what was said in MYP and the Nichols et al explanation in SDAs Believe... But I didn't find such a link. That was a very quiet Sabbath afternoon on my own in my grandparents' house, & a very quiet explosion. I did not discuss my findings with them because I knew what their position was and what it symbolized for them. I did not go out and begin to hunt for jewlery to wear; it was not that important to me to wear or not wear. But I did not any more take for granted that there was a sound basis for every doctrine whether consistently taught/applied in my division or not.
These set us up for self-reinforcing myths. Jewelry is bad. You FEEL bad when when you wear it. Therefore, you were correct. Jewelry is bad.
Theaters were like this for me. I remember the first time I went to a theater and watched a movie. I felt horrible - like I had traded my ticket to Heaven for a stupid movie. OK, the movie was actually pretty good. But still.
For some reason, that programming really stuck. To this day, I grab my guardian angel's hand when entering a theater and drag it in - just to make sure nobody is left outside I may need in the theater. (This is a SDA inside joke.)
And it's quite a funny one.
I think the first movie I went to with friends from school -- and I think heaven had a chuckle at my expense -- was Jumanji. Oh Lord, save my soul; the ambivalence was incredibly because of my community's judgment on film and "the theater" vs "home screenings".
I can't remember if I'd also gone to see Toy Story with my heathen brother before that or afterwards. Talking dolls? Voodoo.
I have to wonder if this myth also had appeal because of the significant role and relationship Mary had with Jesus. We also seem much more comfortable with the Divine Masculine (Logos) than the Divine Feminine (Sophia).Whether or not there were literal "spirit" demons in the passages that I referenced, the point remains that the Bible says nothing to indicate that Mary Magdalene's problem was adultery or prostitution, nor that she was a "repeat offender."
Things like avoiding jewelry and movie theaters were never programmed into me
This just means you were a Badventist. And a living testimony to the urgency in isolating our children from "worldly people" who undermine our lore.I do remember hearing in school (during the two years that I attended SDA elementary schools) the teaching that our guardian angels had to wait outside the movie theater if we went in, but I didn't take it seriously.
I have to wonder if this myth also had appeal because of the significant role and relationship Mary had with Jesus. We also seem much more comfortable with the Divine Masculine (Logos) than the Divine Feminine (Sophia).
To the intention of this thread, I think many of us are used to thinking of God as a man - preferably white. I'm remembering all of the children's books and art I was exposed to as a child.
Entertaining a more holistic concept of God was definitely a "Is the Moon Really Bigger" moment for me.
This just means you were a Badventist. And a living testimony to the urgency in isolating our children from "worldly people" who undermine our lore.
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