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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
I do not blow up llama gurus, only those llamas who would rampage through and spit in our chocolate.

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I thought we should take a little trip to Stonehenge, get back to basics with the dancing

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I thought we should take a little trip to Stonehenge, get back to basics with the dancing and... uh, stuff. You know, s'mores and dancing and eating and fire.

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*glares at llamas for a moment, then decides to ignore them and dance, throwing sizzling chocolate everyhwere*

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Originally posted by citizen:
Britian has some of the biggest car parks in the world, makes you proud.

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Originally posted by EmmaRigby:
With dinosaurs of course (they will rule over all this henge...!)

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PR, Are you into Wicca or goddess worship?

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:
Anyone read "Jesus and the Lost Goddess" or any of those? They make me sad. They're really good, but they make me sad. It explains all the symbolism and metaphors and basically what a great religion it could be if it were a little bit contemplative and how it was manipulated to control and... Oh it makes me sad.

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It wasn't just about screwing. That is a very cheap way of putting it. If you're going to look at the symbolism of it, Mary Magdalene was the Goddess to Jesus' God. She was the Lady to his Lord and the Yin to his Yang. She was the lost Goddess. Of course she was important.

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The reason the Da Vinci code and the books it draws from puts emphasis on her womb, as you put it, is because they are of the opinion that it is the blood of Christ and the Magdalene that is the Holy Grail.

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Not only that, they are of the opinion that Jesus was a mortal man who loved and reproduced like a mortal man, which undermines the church's claim of his being divine.

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At that time, not marrying would have been an offense to the Jewish faith, and Jesus was Jewish.

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But the church took being "pure" and "virginal" and wrapped it all up with "divine". Just another guilt trip.

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But here's the really extreme spin on it: these people more than likely never existed. No where in the Romans' extremely good records is there a mention of the crucifixion of anyone names Jesus.

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These stories are symbols. The number 40 represents basically "as long as it takes" and they are all stories of death and rebirth.

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They all mean the same thing, but the meaning gets lost because corrupt people say "take this literally so you think you can't touch the divine without assistance and we can control you" and the lazy people of the world say "Oh, okay."

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That's why I say, if it was a little bit contemplative, it would be a lot better. The practitioners who are contemplative are better people than those who have handed their spirituality to someone else.

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This is why I don't let any dictate what I should be or what I should think and believe. And why I think organizing religion is the beginning of the end for a lot of spirits. I avoid it like the plague, myself. I know it can have its benefits, but I still think the spirit should be personal.

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On that note, I think I'll dip myself in the hot chocolate again, because this is The Forsaken and I can!

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christhecynic wrote:
But for her to be that they need never have had sex (certainly not kids) which is my point.

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