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It's always a good idea, if one wants to bolster one's case, to add in new inputs or criteria that will bolster one's case. ;) So what? Prophecy fulfillment is something that never happens to well-documented people in modern times. The closest that anyone ever comes is interpretations of Nostradamu...

I've collected enough scores to do statistics on them, and I've found some interesting results. Jesus Christ is way up there, at about 18 1/2, comparable to the likes of Moses and Krishna and Hercules and Romulus and King Arthur. However, King David is 4, comparable to most of the well-documented he...

Lord Raglan's hero profile | Atheism | FANDOM powered by Wikia -- written mostly by me, as far as I can tell. Likewise, most of the evaluations in List of Lord Raglan evaluations | Atheism | FANDOM powered by Wikia were done by me. Richard Carrier proposes adding: Prophecy fulfillment Supernatural ...

That's an issue that I've seen a few times. I've seen some people claim that Mary was in her teens when she had Jesus Christ. I checked on Matthew and Luke, and they don't have anything definite on that subject. The age question does cause difficulty for one theory about JC's paternity, that his fat...

Getting back to my OP, I've found The All-Purpose Oracle - PaganSquare - PaganSquare - Join the conversation! : "Robert Graves' doggerel couplet perfectly captures the Hallmark banality of the original." Ideo coniuncti terram proscindunt boves, Ut in futurum laeta germinent sata. Word for ...

I couldn't resist an additional bit. Translating the description of the depravity of the baker's wife (Bk 9, Chap 14): Nec enim vel unum vitium nequissimae illi feminae deerat, sed omnia prorsus ut in quandam caenosam latrinam in eius animum flagitia confluxerant: saeva scaeva viriosa ebriosa pervic...

In Lucius Apuleius's novel "The Golden Ass" or "Metamorphoses", the hero gets turned into a donkey in the literal sense, and he gets used as a beast of burden by several people. Among them are the eunuch priests of a Syrian version of Cybele. They had an oracle that they interpre...

Over in some other forums there is someone whom I shall call BJ. He makes a big fuss about Jesus Christ's Jewishness, and he sometimes seems to think that there is some big movement to deny that. He also seems to think that Jesus mythicism is the ultimate in denying Jesus Christ's Jewishness, someth...

To Ryan Calvert's categories of authoritarian/punitive and friendly superior ET's, I add some additional ones. Aloof , though still involved with humanity in some ways. Sort of like a deist god. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a classic of that one. The ET's genetically engineer humanity into existence, an...

Chapter 4: Voices from Below: Aspiring Humans and “Hierarchies of Beings” in Gene Wolfe’s Short Sun and Wizard Knight. RC has a big list of characters that want to become human. Characters like robots and holograms and magically-animated toys and statues and assembled and otherwise aberrant human b...