Old saying yesterdays religions are todays mythology and todays religions are tomorrows mythology.

i do notice "eternal" being conflated with "forever" quite a bit; all the time, actually. Like, not a day goes by hardly?

@bbyrd009 You live in the South, don't you! I rest my case.

You need to look more.

@fishline79 ? i live in Aspen, and the movies come out of Hollywood, i guess

@bbyrd009 Sorry. Your Bio says Florida. Perhaps that influenced your outlook.

@fishline79 ah ty ill havta change that. Hated FL with a passion tbh, parents were there. And my outlook would not be affecting me hearing "eternal" conflated with "forever" anyway, would it?

@bbyrd009 Sorry. I guess I'm too old to understand your vernacular. I'll admit I shouldn't have responded to your post because I also don't get the point you are trying to make with "eternal" and "forever". The point I'm trying to make about where you grew up, is that I don't notice that "conflation" where I live (PA).

@fishline79 hmm i gotta believe everyone gets the same netflix pretty much? "Eternal" is conflated with "forever" rather than aeon, "a space of time, an age"

@fishline79 um but i did also just see the first instance im aware of of naive dialectic in a major hollywood movie, things are lookin up! lol
jumanji 2

"of of" is fairly hard, but i got an "and, and and" in once

im on drugs

@bbyrd009 ?

@fishline79 um, we are brought up with hegelian dialectic, the Bible is written in the naive? Or a hybrid anyway, freaky; you cannot state a single Absolute Truth from the Bible why am i telling you this lol

@bbyrd009 I don't have netflix. If you want to know my taste in movies you can check out my Facebook page, "Great Scenes (Why I used to love movies)

@bbyrd009 Donno, I guess because you think I'm a clueless dolt, or just "naive".

Lawrence Britt wrote about the 14 early warning signs of fascism. One is that religion and government are intertwined.

No, it's an abomination!

@fishline79 ha well, so is religion, as the Bible makes very plain imo. The NT is a record of the failure of a theocracy, after all?

These are my "Comparisons of Religion and Fascism"
Both have one supreme leader...Both attempt to convince and convert unwilling non-adherents...Both are didactic and reactionary...Both demand complete adherence to doctrine...Both are incompatible with Democracy...Both have a militaristic hierarchy...Both make extensive use of propaganda and lies...Both employ symbolism...Both demand unquestioning obedience...Both employ oaths and ritual practices...Both expect of their adherents that which they themselves eschew...Both resist reform...Both appeal largely to the least educated (with the exception of their leaders)...

@fishline79 plenty of warning in the Bible about them

Both are right, civilisation (for want of a better world) as we would recognise it originated at around the same time in a number major centres
Sumer, predynastic Egypt, Norte Chico, Ancient China and the Indus Valley all emerged roughly about 4000 bce
However there is evidence of Mesopotamian agrarian civilisations as early 10,000 Bce and the aborigines of Australia have signs of nomadic civilisation going back to 75,000 Bce

I have read that some archeologist believe China is where human began.

@kiramea there were many varied races of the homo erectus. The proto human Yuanmou Man was the first known in China this is true, they existed pretty much contemporaneously with Homo habilis in the west from about 2,000,000 BCe, and like their western cousins were overthrown and interbreed with by a cousin (Peking man) of what in north africa would become the Cro Magnon Homo erectus, the most successful human species and (after interbreeding with and assimilating all of the other hominids) the primary ancestor of the modern human.

Atheists sometimes use rhe bible as a frame of reference to talk to the religious in order to be heard at all (for example, to an extremely religious christian, i would have two words to say about trump: "golden calf." there is no point in using that frame in a scientific or historical documentary, though. Perhaps those who do so mistakenly perceive their audience as the deeply religious. They need to be set straight.

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