04-24-2003, 10:49 AM | #401 |
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Sammy Davis jnr is a Jew??? he is a member of the Church of Satan and i cant see those 2 religions going hand in hand
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04-24-2003, 11:17 AM | #402 | |
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well there is the goat sacrifice- no longer practiced. Buddhism never involved any sacrifises from what i know. It has had a clean record. Unfortunately, Hinduism has had series of unimaginably horrible sacrifices, for example SATI. SATI- It involves the burning of the wife on the pyer of the dead husband. There are still occasional cases of this, in western india, among the damned tribal people. it's horrible. and there are others then, but no longer in use.
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04-24-2003, 11:19 AM | #403 |
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Ah yes, I knew about that, just forgot it.
Goat sacrifice with which religion?
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Hinduism. they cut the goat from the Neck, and make a sacrifice to Godess "KALI".
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04-25-2003, 02:48 PM | #405 | |
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hey does anyone know anything about rastafarianism?
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04-25-2003, 03:29 PM | #406 |
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Apparently not me. I thought it was a look. But it's a religion?
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04-25-2003, 04:38 PM | #408 | |
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I believe it's Jamaican too. I just so happened to stumble across something about it the other day. I believe that it is, in essence, Christianity, with Haile Selassie (sp?) as the Messiah, rather than Jesus Christ. I also think they call God 'Jah'. From what I've heard, they're pretty anti-white as a whole, considering the white civilisation to be "Babylon", probably from Revelations, but maybe from the Old Testament. Also, I believe it supports the use of marijuana as a kind of mind-expanding, spiritual-experience inducing smoke.
One moment while I see if I can dig up the article: Here it is. While searching, I found something interesting: Quote:
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04-25-2003, 05:24 PM | #410 |
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Not all Rasta is pot-oriented. There is a movement within it to get rid of the pot smoking. See Ziggy Marley's "Conscious Party".
Yeah, Bobbylond is America, the great whore from Revelations. As to some Wiccans pointing to trinitarianism in Judaism, actually the source is Kaballah, and it never seemed trinitarian to me so much as dualistic. I don't know where they (the people writing about Druids) would come up with a trinity, except maybe that the three-faced goddess is obscurely back there in the way that Hebrew myth affects the cosmogonic stories???
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04-25-2003, 05:42 PM | #412 |
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I have to admit I knew very little about Rastafarianism, Gwai's post intrigued me so I had a little read-up
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04-25-2003, 06:15 PM | #413 |
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Three parts or persons or similar aspect, not three actual gods.
Elfhelm, do you mean a trinity for the Druids?
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Well, according to Robert Graves in The White Goddess, the goddess is a kind of trinity, but not like The Trinity for the Catholics. Catholics believe in One God with Three Persons, whereas pagans believe the gods are aspects of people. It's like that song where the woman sings I'm a mother, I'm a lover, I'm a tramp, etc. Pagans say the goddess is lover, mother, and crone, though some see another triple goddess in the three who offer the apple to Paris (Hera, Athena, and Aphrodita). What probably happened is that people migrated and became separated and, due to having no written tradition, the personalities got distorted. So by the time Diana gets to Ireland she is called Danu. And more than the goddess of the hunt, she's now the mother of the entire clan (the Tuatha). But he thinks they kept the triple aspect and tries to prove it with a lot of illustrations and examples.
But these are mostly Robert Graves' theories. The book is particularly fascinating to me because of the old Welsh poetry. I'm a sucker for old poetry from anywhere. Oh I forgot to mention Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalen, and Mary of Bethany overlap this idea in the poetry of H.D. as what she calls a palimpsest. It gets pretty involved...
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04-25-2003, 10:43 PM | #416 |
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Goodness me, you seem to know an awful lot about Kabbalah. I've never of that thar sephi-roth thingummijiggers.
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no, no. Sephirot are kind of like a linking system-we're at the bottom with God at the top and the sephirot are a set of attributes that link up to God that incorporate both the feminine and masculine aspects of God. Somewhere tomorrow I can find a chart of all the sephirot and lay them out for you. The point is that God takes his infinity "Ein Sof" and through the emanations or sephirot allows his infiniteness to translate into the finiteness of the material world-"malchut". It isnot an acknowledgement of trinity but rather his unity-God is not God without all the elements. Indeed Judaism believed people were originally monotheists and then split God's attributes into bits-creating polytheism. The sefirot system allows God's attirbutes to be seen while acknowledging unity. It also allows for interesting analysis.
The Jew as ethinic group or religion is tricky-the orthodox definition is a nation through covenant-without acceptance of revelation by God no Jewish people. All converts who accept Judaism are according to lore have said to "have stood at Sinai" as it were.
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04-26-2003, 11:20 AM | #419 |
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man, i never knew religeon could be so complicated.
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Polygamy was officially banned by the Mormon Church when Utah joined the United States- it was a condition for accession- but there are apparently still some old-style practitioners around.
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