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He wrote about Mothra too. Deep stuff.

Now that's impertinent. Wonder why they picked red stars?

Look at the scenario where it was impertinent. What does that imply about the status of the bull? It makes him kind of shrine like. The bull is the fu...

Well, there you have it.

Where is he? I'll find a heart breaking story to pin on him.

Impertinent. I'm biting my tongue. Let's just say that in the time I've known you I've discovered your wealth of contradiction. I discard to gender is...

If you notice, I gave my own interpretation of the scene without any regard to what the artists in question intended. If you and I were in China circa...

So what does it mean to you?

The contemporary story is unique. It's who we are. You pick up the thread of a communal story by starting with your own experiences, right?

It's public art, so it should reflect the contemporary story. Post 2008-2009, the Bull is a symbol of something dangerous not only to the US, but to t...

You're thinking Osteen is central to some cult of personality, otherwise you wouldn't suggest that he might have a dualistic potential as if that's a ...

God! That's what you get for trying to explain something. G'night.

Sure. I became hip to Osteen while eating lunch. There's this breakroom in a building devoted entirely to treating cancer. Sometimes it's a really dep...

I think you should start a consulting business for alibaba. Explain that if your name is Purvi, it's going to sound strange to an American. Use a nick...

You'll get yourself a giant gold star (especially big due to your having a Catholic background) if you can explain the cultural significance of Jesus'...

Baden.. something in this thread pushed your button. I really don't know what it is. I perceive that speculating out loud would be insulting. I have t...

Maybe some people just need to preach self loathing to themselves? Maybe it's balancing something.

Obama won my state because of volunteers who drove lazy apathetic people to the polls. It requires a fair amount of effort and organization though... ...

I haven't even noticed the prosperity angle. His emphasis on self-love is what grabbed my attention. Although he phrases it as "God loves you." I gues...

How did they get a statue of Constantine? That's amazing. Minoans. Awesome. Have you ever been to the Penn Museum? I'm trying to schedule a trip up th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGwWNGJdvx8 Catchy.

It's a matter of culture isn't it? New Englanders have a reputation for straight forwardness. In some areas of the Southeast , a larger portion of com...

Just kidding. I probably won stupidest comment. Where's my rye?

Really? I didn't mean it condescendingly at all. I was just curious. I have a long-standing interest in history and culture.

Please do.

How did you get interested in Mesopotamian history?

And the prize for the stupidest comment of the day goes to Michael for: "...the Bible is a load of bollacks." Your half bushel of rye is in the mail. ...

What are you referring to as the earliest Mesopotamian communities? The Halaf culture? The Ubaid period? When?

Wealth is integral to society as we know it. Demolish wealth and millions will starve to death. If you can call your lungs a body construct, then weal...

There was no rival to the shrine of Enki at Eridu.

Mostly by creating a sedentary class. I'm reading now about community meals using Uruk ware. What I wouldn't give to have a time machine. I'm mainly r...

Yes. Money or wealth made society. Not the other way around.

I was talking about Sumerian culture. What other way around?

The fact that the earliest cities used money suggests that society is a money-construct. Or it's part of the technology by which we made ourselves...i...

My dog toted in a dead rabbit yesterday. There a tons more out there. It's an integrated biosphere revealing the wisdom of Ecclesiaticus: there's a ti...

I've been watching that dude for a while now. He's worth listening to. He has an interesting audience in the break room... multi ethnic.

I appreciate that. Your position is worth understanding, value being something magically created in the market place. One must not cry "Nigger!" and t...

Yes. Plus infant mortality was pretty high. The baby wouldn't have to go straight to hell upon birth (failed birth, that is) if the parents were marri...

I don't think Un was trying to discredit Christianity. He was trying to propel a snot ball at the United States. His take is that all Americans are ex...

I'm not in a position to debate that, but I don't think Sufis were ever really comparable to Augustine.

I'll die rather than retract that.

Oh. The Prophet is viewed as a model of proper behavior by Sunnis, so there's a problem with condemning intercourse with a nine year old girl. A law a...

I was thinking exactly the same thing. There's a normative approach at work: the rule is that all peoples have to be exactly the same and therefore I ...

For some strange reason everybody thinks their armchair logic is sufficient to make the experts on Islam. Weird.

Sunnis believe the Prophet had sex with a nine year old girl. This locks them in religiously speaking to a certain perspective on what an American wou...

You're being very partisany about it.

Alliance of convenience? How old were you when 911 happened?

Oh. Benkei is your resource, then.

Fucking Hindus.

The team vibe comes because people polarize each other. I treat you like a blob of X, so you treat me like a blob of anti-X. Theoretically, you can un...