webbphillips
webbphillips t1_jd4xg33 wrote
Reply to comment by Rugged_as_fuck in In-depth interview with Gregg Caruso, free-will skeptic by fatsosis
I tried to watch a book once, but it didn't do anything for me.
webbphillips t1_jd4xatg wrote
Reply to comment by Cooscous in In-depth interview with Gregg Caruso, free-will skeptic by fatsosis
Glad to hear it :)
I'd say you're welcome, but can't really take any credit.
webbphillips t1_jd48s6u wrote
I wanted to watch this, but I just couldn't.
webbphillips t1_iz9e4qz wrote
Reply to comment by Mo_dawg1 in How did new emerging religions succeed despite established pre-existing religions during ancient and/or pre-historic times? by matthewlee0165
And the tree?
webbphillips t1_iz7anco wrote
Reply to comment by satan_messiah in How did new emerging religions succeed despite established pre-existing religions during ancient and/or pre-historic times? by matthewlee0165
Christianity is an ancient religion, and it's also plausible that dating things by equinoxes and moons was just a standard way of fixing a yearly event.
More difficult to explain are the eggs and bunnies, which any anthropologist will tell you are fertility symbols common to the spring festivals of many cultures before and alongside Christianity. The Iranian spring festival, Nowruz, existed long before Islam, is a popular holiday, and isn't going anywhere. Also, subjectively, but as a non-believer who enjoys experiencing different traditions, passover doesn't give me spring festival vibes, but Easter absolutely does.
webbphillips t1_iz77z29 wrote
Reply to comment by CK2Noob in How did new emerging religions succeed despite established pre-existing religions during ancient and/or pre-historic times? by matthewlee0165
Remind me again where's the part of the bible with the pagan spring festival fertility symbols of bunnies and eggs?
webbphillips t1_iz778a3 wrote
Reply to comment by CalvinSays in How did new emerging religions succeed despite established pre-existing religions during ancient and/or pre-historic times? by matthewlee0165
Could you elaborate on Christmas and Easter a bit? Maybe I misread your post because I thought it was well established that those are Christianized pagan winter and spring festivals. If not, then why does Santa look like Odin and they both fly around at the end of December? And why eggs and bunnies, as are common among spring festivals?
webbphillips t1_iwrvcup wrote
Reply to comment by Ameisen in I saw in a video that chimpanzees and gorillas do not knuckle-walk in the same way, but they didn't explain what the difference is. Could someone elaborate on the physiological/anatomical differences? by [deleted]
Cool! Does this also mean that all of us mammals are actually mammal-like reptiles?
webbphillips t1_jd705tz wrote
Reply to comment by KoopaJoe in In-depth interview with Gregg Caruso, free-will skeptic by fatsosis
I could tell, but I'll have to merely observe whether I do. 😉