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And MANY OTHER CULTURES around the world also developed the notion of a singular creator god. Your belief that Iranians are the only people in the world ever to have developed such a notion is egotistical and insane. BECAUSE IT DID, as the end-point of a two-thousand-year evolution of ideas...

But you're spouting weird rubbish about how "Athena" is going to grant wisdom-- yeah, right, like anybody who wasn't brain-dead would think it even slightly plausible that a child could get born out of a male forehead!

Use the same word that EVERYBODY ELSE uses? The pronunciation that YOUR OWN PEOPLE chose, thousands of years ago? Perhaps because the purpose is to communicate, and that if you use the words that people already know, they might have more chance of understanding what you are trying to say...

You're slighting his contemporaries Aimee Semple McPherson, who did Pentecostalist faith-healings over the radio, and pioneered the scandalicious crash-and-burn; and Father McCoughlin, who pioneered the marriage of televangelism to extreme-right-wing politics. But yes, Armstrong was one of the...

In those days, people were not familiar with concepts from languages spoken thousands of miles away. No Biblical author knew a single word of Sanskrit. The substance of it was crude psychological manipulations to intimidate the weak, and excuse acts of astounding physical cruelty by the...

The Tradition has recognized that the Tradition is capable of being grotesquely and horribly wrong, you mean? Sorry: the original writings were in a language that did not have any indefinite article, no word for an at all.

Then use "Iranian" LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. Or, if you insist on using an obsolete and weird-sounding form, say "Airyan". If you call yourself "Aryan", then everybody who doesn't know South Asian linguistics will assume you are a Nazi, and everybody who does will assume you are embracing the...

UN condemnations, unfortunately, rarely get much follow-through. As one cartoon put it (I think it was during the siege of Sarajevo, which the UN "deplored" or whatever): "STOP! Or we'll say STOP again!"

Oy! We were talking about the thoroughly non-religious non-ceremonial practice by women of rubbing a soft greasy stuff commonly called "cold cream" nowadays, to soften their skin or remove earlier layers of face paint; how it got to be called by the same name as a dairy product; and why...

In post #16, you said "I'm pretty sure that the term came into use among westerners when M. De Sacy deciphered these inscriptions in 1739." LOL! I mis-remembered it as "1759". Apparently you meant to type "1789" which would be when he read his paper to the academy (but that was after he had...

I just couldn't remember the name of the king, so I wanted to specify that I was talking about whichever king of Persia was the awful one, not implying that every king of Persia was an Antichrist. (Similarly, I hadn't remembered the spelling of Muawiya -- have I got that right? -- so I called...

Lug's father was not Dagda, and his mother was not a virgin. Cuchullain's father was not Lug, and his mother was not a virgin either. If you are going to pretend to adhere to some kind of Celtic beliefs, stop echoing things that were only invented in the 20th century. And I wish you could...

I think the kind of people b-brain is talking about would decide that it starts being "work" and, therefore, the kind of thing they just can't do, when it comes to the "cleaning up afterwards" part :p Happy Sukkoth, b-brain (loved the chicken picture!). How do you observe it? A camping trip...

Well that's a good thing, but aren't you being a "Cafeteria Christian" here? It was from your Tradition, after all, that the medieval picture of Hell derived.

Well, b-brain, you are certainly correct that a lot of these things are misinterpreted; but when you point to other things (like concubinage and polygyny) as having been abolished a long time ago, you are missing the point that "traditional biblical marriage" means, if it means anything...

There is also a viewpoint that prophecies are essentially timeless, and have multiple fulfillments in different ways at different times; so that the "Antichrist" could be Nero AND the Umayyad caliph AND a nasty king of Persia AND Napoleon AND Hitler AND somebody who will be emerging shortly...

From you. It turns out to be impossible (unless he was very very precocious): he was BORN in 1758! Then CAIS is very badly confused about the sequence of events. Your source from the Numismatics journal says that he deciphered the rock inscriptions (at the bases of statues, although the...

No it doesn't. It would be impossible, without a time machine, for de Sacy working in 1759 to know about du Perrons' publication of 1771 (his subsequent work on coins, read in 1789 and published 1793, might have drawn on du Perrons, but not the initial decipherment): "No one, however, could...

They have a different chromosomal system. In humans, if there is one X and one Y chromosome, you get male; but two X gives female; two Y cannot survive (there are vital genes on the X chromosome and there has to be at least one copy; the Y only contributes the changes to make the body male)...

Well yes, the initial description did sound a bit like you're supposed to whirl the chicken around and around... Have a thoughtful Yom Kippur, bananabrain and any other observers of the day!