both Skepticism and Cynicism came out of Hellenistic Greece...[from my classics textbook, although paraphrased by me] Skepticism: nothing can be known about the world for sure, but one can form "plausable impressions" and act as if they are true. Cynicism: founded by Diogenes [he was called "doglike" because he ignored social conventions. ie owned no clothes, lived in a barrel, urinated where he pleased, and masturbated as the mood took him] He rejected private property and material things. According to a popular theory, Alexander the Great went to Sinop [his town] to offer him anyhting he wanted, he then asked Alexander to move, because he was blocking the sun. He taught that the common lust for wealth, status, and honour was empty. Some Cynics lived by traveling between city-states mocking authority in a bitter, formal, public denouncing. the greeks ruled
Molly, im not a not-christian, i am pagan. I dont refer to you as a "non-pagan" It would do you well to know what you speak of. When someone says "Goddess" they dont refer to your semitic god. They refer to the Feminine Creative, and the Great Mother Earth. There are several "goddesses" in the world, of tribal origin. Second, your god, the father of Jesus, isnt the god you think he is. There are several gods at play in the OT, but you credit only one, with a capital G. Do you worship El, or Yahweh. El is the father god, the father of the Hebrew people, the god of Abraham. Yahweh, now Yahweh, even in name, isnt male. Yahweh is, at best, a hemaphrodite. Androgenous, yet, but definatly both. The fact that the name ends in H denotes femininity in the Hebrew language, and the god is actually a mix of both gods and goddesses, as he "assimilated" them into "himself" Granted, he started as a god, male that is, but later, after his mergings, became both. Or, if you go by one theory of YHVH, it is a mix of El, Asherah, and their son, and their daughter. But i dont really support that one, but still, its a thought. Know who you worship, where "he" came from, and what it is that you mock before you do it. What say you now?
Thats funny. Your god is nothing more than a mere tribal god with a good publicist. He was born from Her, like all gods, and people were. He was a good war god, but if you wanna play "my daddy vs your daddy" there are several Germanic and Celtic deities that are far far scarier than Yahweh. But, i dont like to pit gods, its just not cool. We all have ours, we all love ours, and people like you piss me off. I dont worship your god. But i respect that fact that people do. Like him or not, he is a legitimate god, and I wont knock him for the sake of being a dick. You shame the teachings of your Christ by what you say.
At first i thought you were making some lame joke, but i guess you really are this stupid. God is going to fuck people up and has a dick? How old are you? 12?
dont do it! People need to see that Christians can actually be good looking AND intelligent even if they do believe in such outrageous "fantasies" WOW can you imagine?