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12-26-2006, 12:25 AM | #72 (permalink) |
Freeskier
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yeah, he wasnt actually born on the 25th, the 25th was just alloted as a day of celebration of his birthday from a pagan holiday adapted for this purpose
or something
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12-26-2006, 12:27 AM | #74 (permalink) |
Freeskier
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^wow, we're like *mimes brain synapses firing at the same time*
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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER |
12-26-2006, 12:30 AM | #76 (permalink) |
Freeskier
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and yeah, a lot of christian iconology is taken from pagan icons as well. ever notice how early paintings of jesus look a LOT like greek gods, how god himself is often described as a powerful, old man, with white hair and a white beard? looks a lot like this guy no?
(its zeus)
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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER |
12-26-2006, 12:33 AM | #78 (permalink) |
Freeskier
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haha, no, but the early christians did it to make the religious conversion easier on the people who worhiped the pagan gods. in early christian art, halos were depicted as ound, golden disks, borrowed from early egyptian art of Ra, the sun god
theres really very few original images in christian iconology, its all borrowed from earlier stuff
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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass. HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER |
12-26-2006, 12:37 AM | #80 (permalink) |
Freeskier
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yeah, they kind of just took bits and peices of alot of different pagan rituals and rebranded them as christian
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