Religion — Page 8

ah. now I get it.  Shame on me.   I have to read my Bible more often.

The song Supercalafajalistickespialadojus (the super song) was published and recorded in 1950,

When Disney were sued for ripping off the song in 1964 they claimed it was a common slang word but here the Sherman brothers writers of Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious describe how they 'invented' the word.

So either it was a common slang word, a word that two sets of song writers invented, a word that one set invented and the others 'borrowed' or it was put in their minds by a supernatural force.

Nice tunes both of them.

I think I liked XyZ better before the reveal.

I bet he is about to start talking about vertical erections again soon.

may I suggest we all put him on ignore just like we did for that other guy? 

AlLEGUeZ is French, it's not wise to ignore the French he may plead to a higher power.

I don't ignore anyone.  It's more fun to bitch. :p

Fun to do what?

And don't call me bitch, bitch.

TV's Frink said:

I think I liked XyZ better before the reveal.

 I was tempted to say the exact same thing, word for word.

Most Christian places of worship aren't temples at all.

Temples aren't meant for worshiping in but serve as a dwelling place and focus of divine energy.

Ceremonies tend to take place outside temples because it's the house of the deity and he doesn't like getting his nice carpet ruined by people spilling drinks.

The prime model for most Christian church buildings is a Basilica, basically a Roman meeting house with a stage at one end for announcements and speeches and seating or standing room pointing towards it.

In the Western church it then became a tradition to make the building cruciform and point it so the sun would shine through a window on the feast day of the dedicated saint until the tradition changed to point them to the east.

Eastern Churches tended to have more variety of shapes and geometry to them.

As more Catholic priests were employed and they had to keep saying mass small chapels would be added to large churches to allow for more than one priest to work at the same time.

In large Cathedrals this would be more and more elaborate.

These were usually dedicated to a related saint to the one who was the main focus of the building.

The height was more to do with advances in geometry from studying books and buildings from conquered Muslim states.

The Ogive curve and the flying buttress allowed for supports for the walls to move outside and for more height and glass.

With the reformation most of that was stripped down to form a return to the more plain Meeting House shape.

XyZ said:

CP3S said:

I bet he is about to start talking about vertical erections again soon.

 For those who don't ignore me yet, I'd like to point out CP3S's deep ignorance and misinterpretation of what I call a "vertical erection"....

It isn't deep ignorance or misinterpretation, I am familiar with the chakra. It was a joke. When you very first showed up in off topic long long ago, you starting going on about "the vertical force" and several of us made jokes about it and referenced it for a bit, you seemed to get in there and laugh with us, which made me think you might have picked up on our joking, but I have never really been sure.

... And totally religion related. If this is the reason you put me on ignore... Well.. Haha.

Is that addressed at me? I am very happy to hear any comments or ideas you have on any religion. When you engage in real discussion, I usually find what you have to say very interesting. I put you on ignore because I sometimes find your posts really annoying, you post in nearly every thread and they are frequently just a couple of sentences long and don't make sense in the English. Sometimes it is easier to follow the conversation without those posts in the way.

Sorry I'm not discussing on Islam and Christian writtings. I guess I'm just different. Certainly I'd look like an atheist for the people you're discussing about in this thread.

So sad.

This sentence doesn't make much sense. I am trying to figure out what you mean by it. Care to give it another go?

I could be totally off, but what I am interpreting is that you are trying to make a tongue-in-cheek apology for talking about religions other than Islam and Christianity, suggesting that you feel the comments being made about you are because you are talking about religions we don't want to hear about. Right?  As for the atheist comment, I can't make heads or tails of it.

The vertical symbolism changes greatly from culture to culture.

The Egyptians saw the above as female and the below as male.

The Greeks saw things in the opposite direction and we have seemed to have followed that line of thinking.

We still talk of a Heavenly Father and Mother Earth.

Much of Christian thought comes from pillaging from the Greeks.

Eve's apple isn't described as such in Genesis, it's just an unnamed fruit.

The apple most probably comes from Eris throwing her Golden apple into the wedding reception of Thetis and causing one hell of a celestial cat fight.

Paris could have saved humanity a lot less grief by refusing bribes from Hera, Athena and Aphrodite and just burying the thing and leaving it to Gaia without which none of those Olympian vixens would have even have been born.

But typically he let his nads do the talking. 

TV's Frink said:

I don't ignore anyone.  It's more fun to bitch. :p

you ignored the other guy, in fact you started the campaign to get everyone to ignore him. 

Oh is it time to play burn the heretic?

What are the rules?

Don't forget your faggots, it's very difficult to start a fire without those.