Genetic Variation (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Sunday, October 03, 2010, 16:50 (5165 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


> > The book I'm writing is rooted upon the entire epic of Gilgamesh; and every scholar of religion agrees that Gilgamesh was the proto-tale for Noah's Ark. Just like how Christian hell was actually a syncretism of Zorastrian and Jewish Mysticism. The general mode in comparative religions is that all the religions we have today all shared a common route going all the way back to our emergence out of Africa. That's why it's interesting that that small group of Uighurs I mentioned don't have a flood myth. 
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> I actually purchased of copy of "Bhagavad Gita As it Is" right before I came out to the boat. I have it down in my cabin, but got side tracked reading the Gnostic Gospels :) I will start on it again here shortly and see if I can find some outstanding examples to share as well. 
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> I do not so much look for accuracy. First off, I am looking for consistency within certain texts. That gives me a starting point for comparison with something external. I.E. If they are not consistent with themselves they will not likely be consistent with anything else. The same applies to any ancient text I study, it just happens that I am much more familiar with the bible.
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> And spotting links between religious ideologies is what set me down this bumpy road to begin with, and one of the reasons that I actively seek out groups like this so as to learn from others at a much faster rate than I can pick up on my own. (Don't reinvent the wheel unless it needs it)-dhw and I have gone round on this topic before; My position is that the consistencies between texts is too general for us to derive any meaningful conclusions or explanations. Like how we always mess up things in statistics--causation/correlation, etc. -You strike me as someone who'd like the movie "The Fountain." z

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