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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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 Posted - 11/20/2005 : 12:38:53 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
Sheesh, Cune, can't you just go to the cuneiform card-catalog, flip to "Ashurbanipal" and read the damn tablets for yourself? What good is having a freakin' cuneiform expert on the staff here at SFN if the first thing he wants to look up is some English text from 20th-f'ing-century? You think we hired you for your pretty face?
Wow-- and all this time, I thought it was because of my pretty face! And embarassingly, the Powers That Be haven't given me the secret decoder ring to properly use the cuneiform card catalogue. But I'm workin' on it....  |
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Randy
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 11/20/2005 : 12:43:04 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
And yes, it might explain a great deal as well, about the writers of various religious texts.
Makes sense.That jumbled text probably would make more sense while high,....or perhaps worse.
The bible....god inspired? Nah, just a collection of a few centuries of buzzed-on inspiration (smoke some rope....volumnous outpouring of biblical writing followed by massive consumption of wine, flax seed, carob, and honey).
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"We are all connected; to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, to the rest of the universe atomically."
"So you're made of detritus [from exploded stars]. Get over it. Or better yet, celebrate it. After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
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GeeMack
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 11/20/2005 : 17:45:54 [Permalink]
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Oh lawdy lawdy! Just in the news today I found this topical tidbit...quote:
Islanders Pray to Jesus Image on Pot...
COZUMEL, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexicans have set up a shrine at a plant pot on the grounds of a beach resort on the Caribbean island of Cozumel after an image said to depict Jesus appeared on it following Hurricane Wilma a month ago,
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A receptionist at the Occidental Grand resort noticed the image likened to Jesus' face as shaken guests emerged from a storm shelter after huddling for three days while the hurricane hurled rain and debris.
Local media are calling it a miracle and draw a link between the apparition and the fact that none of the 200 guests had suffered so much as a bruise during the storm, which tore up other beach resorts on Cozumel, bit holes in concrete buildings, ripped up sections of highway and flattened trees.
Oh, wait, sorry. That's a plant pot not a pot plant! Those silly religilogicians. 
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pleco
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 11/20/2005 : 18:33:17 [Permalink]
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While searching for a picture of the pot, I found this:
Couple Says Fish Bone Bears Jesus Image
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/5190133/detail.html
Well, to me it either looks like the Alien from Alien the movie, or a vagina.
Only a jesus after several bong hits of some kind bud would put his image in a fish bone. So I guess its true!
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llDayo
New Member
USA
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Posted - 11/21/2005 : 07:12:09 [Permalink]
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| Some of you made some good arguments against this total truthfulness of this article. To someone like me the article seems to be really well done, but of course I'm not very well learned in the history of ancient cultures/languages. That's the main reason why I posted the article to get a better perspective from people that know more than I do. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 11/21/2005 : 10:52:43 [Permalink]
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| I'm not sure, llDayo, that one needs a lot of knowledge in ancient cultures or languages in order to be able to recognize the poor arguments involved. For example, "can of piss," when said quickly, sounds sorta like "cannabis," but surely they're two very different things, and any argument based upon the similarity of sounds is likely to be silly. |
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 11/21/2005 : 11:05:08 [Permalink]
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| Alien or Vagina? you decide! |
I would rather face a cold reality than delude myself with comforting fantasies.
You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
Atheism:
The result of an unbiased and rational search for the truth.
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 11/21/2005 : 14:41:25 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by astropin
Alien or Vagina? you decide!
OR or XOR? |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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headbasher
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genius
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Posted - 11/21/2005 : 16:05:29 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by headbasher
I was always told that jesus and the bible and all that stuff was just to scare people. For a while, I believed it, but now I know that science is all there is. http://pages.ca.inter.net/~oblio/home.htm
Religion is the opiate of the massess! |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 11/21/2005 : 18:38:46 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Hawks
quote:
Originally posted by astropin
Alien or Vagina? you decide!
OR or XOR?
It's neither nor... |
Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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kate
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Posted - 11/21/2005 : 23:30:24 [Permalink]
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| So you will ban innocent people just to get to me? Damn, you guys really do suck. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 11/22/2005 : 11:06:21 [Permalink]
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I would say it is highly likely that this plant was used in all sorts of daily activities, however I do not know of the extent at that time in Asia Minor.
Hemp is the most versitile agicultural product there is and was probably used for many, many things. I doubt that the ancients would see them(MJ/hemp) as two different plants. I may even have been holy to some. (Prerastafarians)
Question Answer: They call it weed for a reason, it will grow anywhere.
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It is a plant that serves five purposes: for hemp fibers, for its oil, for its seeds, as a food and for its narcotic qualities.
Mainly due to its variety of uses, Cannabis has been taken across the Globe. We cannot know for certain which use of the plant came first, but remains of hemp fibers have been found in the earliest archeological sites in Asia. There is evidence of fiber in China dating from 4000 B.C., and hemp rope and thread from Turkistan dating from 3000 B.C. Stone beaters for pounding hemp fiber and hemp cord have also been found in ancient sites in Taiwan. Hemp fabrics have been found in Turkey dating to 800 B.C. and there is some evidence of use in Ancient Egypt between three and four thousand years ago.
It is possible that the consumption of its seeds predates hemp fiber production. They are very nutritious and it is difficult to imagine the hunter-gatherer early man missing such an opportunity. Hemp seeds have been used as food in Eastern Europe since early times, but its religious and medicinal use may even predate food as its first economic use (These can be indistinguishable in folk medicine).
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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