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"If everyone is thinking alike then someone isn't thinking." -George S. Patton
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"We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us. The labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; and where we had thought to slay another we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world." -
Joseph Campbell "Power of the Myth"
In studying world religion and anthropology with a deep appreciation for religious literature and ideas I have come with a few assumptions that should be made for all belief systems...well most, before studying them.
1. Every belief system views their texts, revelations, and theology and the pure and original and that every other perceived parallel is just a distortion of the pure.
2. Each belief system sees it's founder or founders and being divinely inspired and straight from the deities themselves.
3. Each belief system will justify the violent aspects of their religious texts and theology with the perceived divine mission.
4. Believers of all religions romanticize the history of their founding, patriarchs, and sacred literature.
5. Apostates of the belief system will maximize the perceived negative aspects of the belief system/ the believer will minimize such aspects.
6. People will always be people no matter what the belief system.
7. Spoken words and actions of believers is far different then what the texts relate, and what the belief system demands.
8. Within religions and belief systems, "truth" is always democratic.
9. Within belief systems there is always a double message. One message to proselytize with, and another to followers. When the media is involved there maybe a third. So deception is acceptable to a certain extent.
10. Pious acts committed by belief systems and religions may not always be for the reason given by the follows. Always ask "What's in it for them?"
"On the field of truth, on the battle -field of life, what came to pass, Sanjaya, when my sons and their warriors faced those of my brother Pandu" - The Gita
A myth is the dynamic of life. You may or may not know it, and the myth you may be respectfully worshiping on Sunday may not be the one that's really working in your heart and the one that's out there in the view of your religious instructors.-
Joseph Campbell
"The descent of the Occidental sciences from the heavens to the earth (from seventeenth-century astronomy to nineteenth-century biology), and their concentration today, at last, on man himself (in twentieth-century anthropology and psychology), mark the path of a prodigious transfer of the focal point of human wonder. Not the animal world, not the plant world, not the miracle of the spheres, but man himself is now the crucial mystery."- Joseph Campbell, "The Hero with a Thousand Faces p. 391"
"God is a metaphor for a mystery that absolutely transcends all human categories of thought. Even the categories of being and non-being; those are categories of thought. So it depends on how much you want to think about it. Whether it's doing you any good. Whether it is putting you in touch with the mystery that is the ground of your own being; if it isn't, well, it's a lie. So half of the people in the world are religious people who think that their metaphors are facts; those are what we call theists. The other half are people who know that the metaphors are not facts, and so they're lies; those are the atheists."
-Joseph Campbell
"Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
Albert Einstein
As a hobby I study world religion and anthropology. Currently I have been comparing the Psalms to the texts of the ancient Near East. I am married to my lovely wife and we own one cat. I have a sense of humor and love to have fun and get to know people.
On twitter: wayman29
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Anthropology, criminology, biblical studies, archeology, anthropology. e-sword bible program module creation, Reading Ancient Near Eastern Literature, writing essays
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House, Hell's Kitchen,
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Most types of music are fine with me.
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Who wrote the Bible, Who wrote the New Testament, Mask of God Series, the Fundamentalism Project, The Golden Bough, The Evil that Men Do. Whoever Fights Monsters, The Collector, History of God, The Battle for God, to name just a few.
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This important period was a direct response to this superstitious period (even hough it permeated the society through this entligtenment period)
The basis of modern western culture can be sourced right back to this Hellenic enlightenment period.
Lets fac it - even Jesus was a Hellenised Jew - thats why Jesus rejected Judaism (and thats why the Jews reject Christ even until this very day)
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