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I am religious and believe in free will

71 (27.7%)

I am religious and do not believe in free will

10 (3.9%)

I am not religious and believe in free will

114 (44.5%)

I am not religious and do not believe in free will

61 (23.8%)

Total Members Voted: 251

[Rolan7]

No, I will crush the hostility!

Possibly by crushing you!

STOP BEING SO HOSTILE THIS SECOND

Also, the whole warrior god/farming god was also very much seen in Ares/Mars. The Romans associated him with agriculture as well as war.

I wonder if that's related to the levy system, as opposed to standing armies?  But I got the impression Greeks and Romans used full-time soldiers instead so idunno.

[That Wolf]

Oh yeah and war and agriculture are very human motives so of course they are going to influence religion

[Orange Wizard]

Also, the whole warrior god/farming god was also very much seen in Ares/Mars. The Romans associated him with agriculture as well as war.

I wonder if that's related to the levy system, as opposed to standing armies?  But I got the impression Greeks and Romans used full-time soldiers instead so idunno.

I imagine they would have drafted spares during war-time.

[Helgoland]

Also, the whole warrior god/farming god was also very much seen in Ares/Mars. The Romans associated him with agriculture as well as war.

I wonder if that's related to the levy system, as opposed to standing armies?  But I got the impression Greeks and Romans used full-time soldiers instead so idunno.

That was under the Empire - in the times of the Roman Republic, they had an army of free citizen, the abolishion of which is sometimes considered to have contributed to the eventual downfall of Rome.

[That Wolf]

Good stuff though, or so I hear. Much easier than the more hardcore synthetic hallucinogens.
It's a damn shame I can't take the stuff, really. I've heard very few bad things about them all in all

Forgot to ask a few days ago so Il do it now.
Why cant you take the stuff.
Sorry in advance if this is to personal or seems pushy.
pushy for a reason

[UXLZ]

Nah, satan's entirely subservient to god insofar as anything actually biblical is concerned. Just like everything else.

Abrahamic religions have an unusual definition of what qualifies as a deity. Satan and most angels would qualify under more conventional systems.

One God to rule them all
One God to find them
One god to bring them all and in the darkness faith bind them

[TD1]

Good stuff though, or so I hear. Much easier than the more hardcore synthetic hallucinogens.
It's a damn shame I can't take the stuff, really. I've heard very few bad things about them all in all

Forgot to ask a few days ago so Il do it now.
Why cant you take the stuff.
Sorry in advance if this is to personal or seems pushy.
pushy for a reason

Probably a medical reason.

Personally, I wouldn't take them if you paid me.

Well, depending on the sum....

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

What is it that you guys are talking about taking?

[That Wolf]

Probably a medical reason.

Personally, I wouldn't take them if you paid me.

Well, depending on the sum....

Personally I wouldnt force you to do anything, like I wouldnt want you to force your religion on anyone, if its not for you its not for you.
And no sum should make you do anything. And even I had, after you would most probably say that I dont need to pay you.
Dont judge until you have been changed by it just like I wont judge you religions.

We all know the true deity.
ARMOK
why magma the elves when you can magma the trees

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

I always like the
'Judge others with the same metric you would want to be judged'
Or something along those lines

[Frumple]

"An' it harm none, do what you will shall be the whole of the law."

Gods know I wouldn't and don't judge most people by the metrics I judge myself.

[That Wolf]

I like when cristians get fussy

[Orange Wizard]

I like when cristians get fussy

That's... neither here nor there.

...

Anyway, re: Judging. The actual verse is "Judge not, lest ye be judged", at least in the KJV. Which is slightly different from this:

'Judge others with the same metric you would want to be judged'

in the sense that Christ tells us not to judge others, because that's his job and not ours.

There's no reason this should preclude stuff like competitions or jury trials, though. The word "judgement" generally refers to divine punishment in the Bible.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

I was just talking as a teaching in general

I think the verse from the bible, from (Jesus?) was
'Do not judge others for I will judge you with the same severity with which you judge others' or something along those lines...
I know I have a problem of quoting the bible with no verse numbers or whatever they are called, sorry

[Orange Wizard]

I know I have a problem of quoting the bible with no verse numbers or whatever they are called, sorry

It's alright, I can never remember the verses either .