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SSepulchrave II replied to the thread Spoilers For All Mankind.The glamour of the 60s/70s era is very well done, with scenes like the astronauts racing their corvettes to the bar. Almost had a kind...
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SSepulchrave II replied to the thread Spoilers For All Mankind.I loved S1, and, like you, enjoyed each successive season less than the previous. Still worth watching, though. S5 promises a , so...
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SSepulchrave II reacted to pemerton's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with
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Feuerbach might say that he's not, strictly speaking, an atheist - he's just establishing a true consciousness about the content and... -
SSepulchrave II replied to the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?.Mary Wollstonecraft was definitely a deist, or a rational theist - she often framed her feminist arguments in religious language...
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SSepulchrave II replied to the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?.I'd actually go further - at least in Europe. Even in the Renaissance, the idea of a supernatural reality prevailed overwhelmingly. We...
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SSepulchrave II reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth? with Like.
The Real Friar Tuck: a Royal Writ was issued 9th February 1417 for the arrest of "one assuming the name of Frere Tuk and other evildoers...
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SSepulchrave II replied to the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?.It really depends on your divine ontology. Maybe if the war god is killed, people can no longer commit acts of violence. Maybe if the...
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SSepulchrave II replied to the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?.Mostly, yes. But a fair number of Greek and Roman philosophers were either atheistic or theomachistic, and it's not hard to envisage a...
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SSepulchrave II replied to the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?.A few thoughts, FWIW. I don't think that looking to modern expressions of polytheism (e.g. Hellenism, Asatru, Romuva) is particularly...
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SSepulchrave II replied to the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?.Hindus may identify with a wide array of worldviews, including polytheism, pantheism, panentheism, pandeism, henotheism, monotheism...
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SSepulchrave II replied to the thread In a fantasy world filled with magic and miraculous beings, will the religious concepts of the locals be completely different from the human of Earth?.The worship of otiose supreme deities is often replaced by more glamorous war gods and storm gods. Aztec – Ometeotl to Huitzilopochtli...
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SSepulchrave II replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.I think the conflicts evidenced by Worf and Nog contra- their cultures are precisely because of their exposure to human values and early...
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SSepulchrave II replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.I wasn't thinking in terms of ideas as specific as nazi-analogous xenophobes, but more in terms of a general sweep. Different peoples...
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SSepulchrave II replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.I have no doubt I'm in the minority here, but... I have no problem casting different groups (whichever nomenclature you prefer) with...
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SSepulchrave II replied to the thread Worlds of Design: In the Shadow of Tolkien.I was introduced to D&D in 1981-2, after I had read The Hobbit, LotR and Silmarillion. I hadn't really branched out into other fantasy...