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Originally posted by Roy
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Nit is like deer or moose - the plural is the same as singular.
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I thought you meant the best before date.......Originally posted by rogue06 View PostThat should be 2017 not 2018
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Oopsie...Originally posted by rogue06 View PostYou do realize that the Winter Solstice has never fallen on December 25th in the past 2000+ years, right? If the early Christians intended on co-opting the solstice don't you think they would have chosen the day it took place on?
Hints: festival dates aren't necessarily astronomical dates; intercalary months; inaccurate calendars...Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
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Illumination strikes! (at one candela per sq metre)Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostNit is like deer or moose - the plural is the same as singular.
(please don't ruin this by actually looking it up)Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
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Even Stone Age cultures were able to accurately predict solstices and equinoxes. If a festival is meant to mark the winter solstice I would think it would be celebrated on the winter solstice (which in the Northern Hemisphere fluctuates between December 20th and 23rd -- and never a few days later on December 25th).Originally posted by Roy View Post
Thus, I'll modify my statement to satisfy your picked nit, if early Christians wanted to co-opt the solstice don't you think they would have chosen a day it took place on?
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You might think that, but AFAICT you'd be wrong. It seems the Romans knew when the solstice was, but preferred to celebrate on a fixed data in their fluctuating calendar regardless of its inconsistency with astronomy, rather than hold the festival on a different date. The winter solstice was not necessarily celebrated on the winter solstice.Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
There's also the problem that the pre-Julian calendar oscillated quite widely due to the calendar year being some 10 days too short and being occasionally reset by the addition of extra months, meaning that the winter solstice would drift backwards through the calendar then spring forwards by several weeks for sometimes non-calendary reasons (ref). So it's highly likely that the solstice did sometimes match the festival date.Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...Comment
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Oh I didn't realize they had been doing it on coins since the 1860s. But it doesn't look like it was done on many bills until the 1950s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_TrustOriginally posted by rogue06 View Post
Either way, it wasn't originally on U.S. currency.Find my speling strange? I'm trying this out: Simplified Speling. Feel free to join me.
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...but not in the Christian Era, which started several decades after the Julian Calendar was instituted.Originally posted by Roy View PostVeritas vos Liberabit<>< Learn Greek <>< Look here for an Orthodox Church in America<><Ancient Faith Radio
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Going back to Abe Lincoln's time is pretty durn significant!Originally posted by stfoskey15 View PostThe first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examines him.Comment
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I actually no longer have a view. The issue appears to be in some dispute. Sometimes I just say, "I don't know." The section you provide certainly provides some information, and I may find some time to dig out the resources. However, in the long and short of it, this is not a major issue for me, so I'm good with "I don't know."Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
I will, however, cease claiming that Christian appropriated a pagan festival. The fact is, we don't know they did and it is possible they didn't.The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
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Not if the practice shouldn't be done at all...Originally posted by Cow Poke View Post
How long a thing has been done is not an argument that it should be done.The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick DouglasComment
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Stupid puns make me want to regurgit8Originally posted by Sparko View Post
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick DouglasComment
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I c8n't help it.Originally posted by carpedm9587 View PostStupid puns make me want to regurgit8
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