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<blockquote data-quote="Blockader7" data-source="post: 921379" data-attributes="member: 11827">&quot;Don't have to tell me twice.&quot; Looking at the institute's logo.&nbsp;&quot;The Heaven Intitute? Isn't that kind of a corny name? How can parents afford such a place? Do we get some kind of an allowance? What kind of courses are taught here? Does this place have a gym? Or a church? How long has this school been here? Will we be able to contract our parents? Is that an authentic historic pyramid or one made just for the school?&quot; &nbsp;And a whole slew of other questions &amp; thoughts rapidly fills his mind. A step pyramid? A step pyramid?&nbsp; That's rather disconerting somehow.&nbsp; In South America, the step pyramids built by the Inca and Maya have often been associated with cult activities that often included ritual sacrifice to the deities that they worshipped.&nbsp; They would kill their rivals in these ceremonies, in an attempt to encourage the rain to keep their valley fresh and fertile. And eventually the evil spirits they worshipped deserted them like they always do and the people left their cult centers to go back into the forest. Why? No one really knew but perhaps it was a way to get back to God.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blockader7, post: 921379, member: 11827"] "Don't have to tell me twice." [COLOR=red]Looking at the institute's logo.[/COLOR] "The Heaven Intitute? Isn't that kind of a corny name? How can parents afford such a place? Do we get some kind of an allowance? What kind of courses are taught here? Does this place have a gym? Or a church? How long has this school been here? Will we be able to contract our parents? Is that an authentic historic pyramid or one made just for the school?" And a whole slew of other questions & thoughts rapidly fills his mind. [I]A step pyramid? A step pyramid? That's rather disconerting somehow. In South America, the step pyramids built by the Inca and Maya have often been associated with cult activities that often included ritual sacrifice to the deities that they worshipped. They would kill their rivals in these ceremonies, in an attempt to encourage the rain to keep their valley fresh and fertile.[/I] [I]And eventually the evil spirits they worshipped deserted them like they always do and the people left their cult centers to go back into the forest. Why? No one really knew but perhaps it was a way to get back to God.[/I] [/QUOTE]

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