Posted on 01/07/2012 5:35:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Cannibalism represents what man is capable of. The fact that Civilization represents what man is capable of becoming.
Leading to the original variation- “I’d rather have a frontal lobotomy when a bottle’s in front of me...”
The purpose of writing is to communicate ideas. BP, BCE, ETC. AD and BC have been accepted for well over a thousand years. They are almost universally recognized. Why do they need to be improved upon? Of course the answer is that people are occasionally offended. I am offended by Arabic numerals therefore I will only use Roman ones. How do you think my banking is working out? Well that how things go in the year 3 ABW (that’s After Butt Wipe.)
They use the standardized BP because it’s a radiocarbon date.
“British nobility practiced cannibalism”
Would you please expound on this and enlighten this Irish heathen.
Sunkenciv actually posted an article on it sometime ago.
But you can google it easily enough.
This is what I found on google:
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/863911-british-royals-used-to-be-cannibals-dining-on-human-flesh
There’s this, filling out a bit more information on it. I think that the so-called medicinal purpose represented a dying practice of what used to be wide-spread.
You do realize, of course, the parallels between Christianity, cannibalism, and human sacrifice?
Cannibalism is barely covered by a thin veneer of “civilization”.
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yes yes of course. the whole point of Jesus being the Son of God and therefor God himself—was that he is finally a sufficient sacrifice. God himself is a sufficient sacrifice in a way that no mortal man or critter could ever be.
That was why Jesus was so successfully able to address the ancient sacrificial system all over the world. he put an end to it because he himself—being God— was a sufficient sacrifice.
A human sacrifice in the end is no better than a chicken or pig for atonement of sins—that is, it does no good at all.
Everyone all over the world involved with the ancient system—when they came into contact with chritianity — understood that.
But there is a catch. Fall away from Christianity and the old rules apply—why? because chritianity is contra natura
It is no coincidence that the great atheist systems of the 20th century were the greatest killers.
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here is a dissenting opinion in an epistemological way:
Contrary to Nature
The proverbial man in the street may think that a miracle (like jesus) is “contrary” to nature; Augustine was more savvy: a miracle, he said, is an event contra quam est nota natura, i.e. contrary not to nature as such but to what is known of nature. Many (contemporary)scientists themselves, humbled before the inexplicable thereness and counter-intuitive bizareness of the world, and the incomplete and provisional nature of their knowledge of it, are happy with this definition and no longer dismiss miracles tout court as “impossible”...
contra natura= contrary to nature
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