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VikingofRock posted:I'm so lost here. What does the moon have to do with Allah and what do volcanoes have to do with Yahweh? People claim that Allah is derived from an Arabic moon god in order to further delegitimize Islam. Since it's just another pagan deity, Islam totally can't actually be a monotheistic religion based on the real god worshiped by Christians. Yahweh as a volcano god is likely a reaction to those arguments, pointing out that Yahweh also has polytheistic pagan roots. It's tied with Yahweh's angry temperament and ties to holy mountains among other things. You can also argue that he was a storm god or war god. There's also a fun argument that he's a derivative of an Egyptian moon god, Yah.
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gradenko_2000 posted:The crescent, or star-and-crescent is a common symbol for Islamic groups and people take it to mean, sometimes ironically and sometimes not, that Muslims worship a moon god. No, you have to say it like MOON GOD!? or it doesn't count.
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I knew a witch that said both Easter and Christmas were jacked from pagans. The original holidays celebrated the winter solstice and spring equinox. E: sorry I'm in a space mood today.
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A Winner is Jew posted:And you would think of all people Maher would like it when christians were murdered. * starts applying "the good ones" logic *
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Heh, so remember those national monuments Obama unveiled last week? The one in Nevada that Reid backed just so happens to block the proposed railway route to Yucca Mountain. Well played
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Jul 14, 2015 18:58
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DemeaninDemon posted:I knew a witch that said both Easter and Christmas were jacked from pagans. The original holidays celebrated the winter solstice and spring equinox. Well, she was just saying that because it's Historically True. Easter is literally named after a pagan goddess, Eostre. Fried Chicken posted:Heh, so remember those national monuments Obama unveiled last week? The one in Nevada that Reid backed just so happens to block the proposed railway route to Yucca Mountain. I thought Reid was pro-Yucca Mt?
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Jul 14, 2015 19:01
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Reid's basically the only thing that stopped Yucca.
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Jul 14, 2015 19:02
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DemeaninDemon posted:I knew a witch that said both Easter and Christmas were jacked from pagans. The original holidays celebrated the winter solstice and spring equinox. She's not wrong.
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Fried Chicken posted:Heh, so remember those national monuments Obama unveiled last week? The one in Nevada that Reid backed just so happens to block the proposed railway route to Yucca Mountain. I'll never understand why people are so afraid of the idea of a bunch of stupid waste buried deep beneath lovely land that nobody ever goes to.  ~ATOMS~
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Jul 14, 2015 19:05
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How are u posted:I'll never understand why people are so afraid of the idea of a bunch of stupid waste buried deep beneath lovely land that nobody ever goes to. What about our troglodytic ancestors who, 10000 years after emerging into a world destroyed by the Great Bad Day stumble across some unearthed spent fuel rods and begin to worship them as gods?
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Jul 14, 2015 19:07
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DemeaninDemon posted:Christianity worships the moon. The day Easter falls on comes from the lunar cycle. Literally every Jewish religious date is derived from the lunar cycle because they're all determined by a lunar calendar.
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Jul 14, 2015 19:08
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DemeaninDemon posted:Christianity worships the moon. The day Easter falls on comes from the lunar cycle.
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Jul 14, 2015 19:09
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How are u posted:I'll never understand why people are so afraid of the idea of a bunch of stupid waste buried deep beneath lovely land that nobody ever goes to. "Hey you know we privatized a lot of prisons and made beaucoup cash by cutting corners. Maybe if we applied that to waste disposal we could turn a quick profit there too."
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How are u posted:I'll never understand why people are so afraid of the idea of a bunch of stupid waste buried deep beneath lovely land that nobody ever goes to. Well there are some concerns that Yucca Mt. won't function as advertised, but most of those problems could be solved if the government actually got involved with it.
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Jul 14, 2015 19:10
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zoux posted:What about our troglodytic ancestors who, 10000 years after emerging into a world destroyed by the Great Bad Day stumble across some unearthed spent fuel rods and begin to worship them as gods? It worked out well for Beneath the Planet of the Apes.
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Jul 14, 2015 19:10
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Who worships the moon god now?!?!?!?!!??!!??!?!!?
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Jul 14, 2015 19:15
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dpbjinc posted:I've never understand how having a moon god is seen as a bad thing in the first place. Nobody complains about sun gods or earth gods or weather gods or anything like that, just moon gods. Why do they have to be such deists, man? Well, the Bible does specifically say not to worship celestial objects 
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Jul 14, 2015 19:16
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zoux posted:Well, she was just saying that because it's Historically True. Easter is literally named after a pagan goddess, Eostre. that's not what the holiday is called in greek/latin though
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Jul 14, 2015 19:16
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CommieGIR posted:Well, the Bible does specifically say not to worship celestial objects No one wants to worship your mother, CommieGIR.
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DemeaninDemon posted:No one wants to worship your mother, CommieGIR. Bu...but her orbit 
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Jul 14, 2015 19:18
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CommieGIR posted:Bu...but her orbit True she was the reason Pluto got demoted from planet.
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Jul 14, 2015 19:20
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zoux posted:What about our troglodytic ancestors who, 10000 years after emerging into a world destroyed by the Great Bad Day stumble across some unearthed spent fuel rods and begin to worship them as gods? On that day metal truly will have conquered the Earth.
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Jul 14, 2015 19:21
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DemeaninDemon posted:Reid's basically the only thing that stopped Yucca. Ain't no body want that in their backyard.
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Jul 14, 2015 19:21
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Is Yucca revivable, post Reid?
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Jul 14, 2015 19:24
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pangstrom posted:Is Yucca revivable, post Reid? not likely.
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Jul 14, 2015 19:27
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That's too bad. Or maybe irrelevant, I don't know I haven't kept up with that topic.
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Jul 14, 2015 19:31
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pangstrom posted:Is Yucca revivable, post Reid? Sadly, not likely...
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Jul 14, 2015 19:33
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Radioactive contamination is just about the least nasty form of pollution there is. It's definitely preferable to heavy metal poisoning or carcinogens in your water. Hope you like leukemia and brain damage now that you're drinking water tainted with heavy metals and indeterminate hydrocarbons
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Jul 14, 2015 19:34
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pangstrom posted:Is Yucca revivable, post Reid? Didn't one of Reid's stall tactics involve a really extensive USGS survey that then revealed there was an underground river or fault line that went right under Yucca or something?
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Jul 14, 2015 19:35
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It will be buried in Texas, as TX pols continue to nullify federal law. It belongs somewhere, nuclear owns, and the only complaint against it is waste, literally any other complaint smacks of Luddite.
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Jul 14, 2015 19:37
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pangstrom posted:That's too bad. Or maybe irrelevant, I don't know I haven't kept up with that topic. Uh no, not remotely irrelevant. If/when a big disaster becomes a huge huge disaster because it hits a "temporary" waste storage facility there's going to be a lot of people asking how we didn't see this enormously obvious, preventable disaster. There won't be a good answer.
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Jul 14, 2015 19:39
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Use it as railgun ammo to destroy Confederate monuments.
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Jul 14, 2015 19:40
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Why don't we just give the nuclear waste to Iran, then everybody gets what they want.
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berzerker posted:Uh no, not remotely irrelevant. If/when a big disaster becomes a huge huge disaster because it hits a "temporary" waste storage facility there's going to be a lot of people asking how we didn't see this enormously obvious, preventable disaster. There won't be a good answer. "Ask the loving hippies," works for me. An Angry Bug posted:Use it as railgun ammo to destroy Confederate monuments. 
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berzerker posted:Uh no, not remotely irrelevant. If/when a big disaster becomes a huge huge disaster because it hits a "temporary" waste storage facility there's going to be a lot of people asking how we didn't see this enormously obvious, preventable disaster. There won't be a good answer.
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The people at NASA are naming the newly revealed features in Pluto, and have thus far named them after nerd poo poo because fuckit, congress isn't going to find another probe so who cares I guess, go for gold. Pluto is now home to Cthulu, Balrog, and what I'm told are some anime things.
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Link? I hope they have good taste in waifus at the very least
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