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Recent content by Tamino

  1. Tamino

    Ask me about ancient Egypt

    Obviously, the "place" of sunrise and sunset is relative to your position. Technically, the sun isn't rising and setting at all - the planet is spinning. For a stationary observer on planet earth, they will observe sunrise east of their position and sunset west of their position. It's entirely...
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    why doesn't there exist a modern neoplatonism movement?

    I'm pretty sure that half of the deistic people who believe in a vaguely Christian but mostly distant and uninvolved Creator are pretty much neo-platonists. And most of the Esoteric folk that talk about destined eternal souls, laws of attraction, manifesting happiness and such things... If you...
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    What has happened to Protestantism?

    Johann Sebastian Bach was a Lutheran Protestant. I think his Music feels plenty "sacred"
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    If God Created Man...

    Is that so? Evidence appears to disagree... https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/10/2960
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    Dogs and cats

    Dogs might be what made our species what it is today. (See Pat Shipman, The Invaders) or Cats, on the other hand, just regular pets, aren't they? I'd talk more about cats, but you need to excuse me, my lord demands that I do my monkey job and pick the ticks from his fur and then serve dinner...
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    Another Rare Roman Dodecahedron Found in England Baffles Archaeologists

    Well, it would certainly improve your motivation of not being hit
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    Another Rare Roman Dodecahedron Found in England Baffles Archaeologists

    Unknown process? If it is bronze or silver it should be very easy to do. So you could first make a the ball. Then you cover the ball in a layer of clay and form that clay into the polygon shape that's the inside surface of your desired dodecahedron. Then you model your dodecahedron in wax all...
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    Another Rare Roman Dodecahedron Found in England Baffles Archaeologists

    To be clear, they probably didn't use those for RPGs, it might have been a divination tool (though tbh, rolling a dice to see if your sword strike connects is a kind of divination as well, isn't it!?). There are a number of objects like this, inscribed with a variation of either Greek or Roman...
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    Another Rare Roman Dodecahedron Found in England Baffles Archaeologists

    Nah, that's played with twenty sided dice: (This is not a fake. I saw this very object in a museum in southern Italy)
  10. Tamino

    Lightning Bug or Firefly. What do you call them?

    Glühwürmchen! (Literally: little glow worm)
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    The Bible seems to always promote a flat earth belief over a spherical earth

    No. Just no. The Egyptians were pretty convinced that the sun travels while the earth stays still. Some guy adding a pyramid into his crazy inverted universe in 1898 does not have influence on Egyptian cosmology 5000 years ago.
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    Soda, coke or pop. What do you call it.

    Spezi? Mezzo-Mix? Of course. Who would want to water down the drinks by adding so much ice? :)
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    Soda, coke or pop. What do you call it.

    Interestingly enough, here in Germany we use "soft drinks" quite frequently, but never "pop" or "soda". (But "poppen" is a colloquial term for having sexual intercourse, so perhaps be cautious about asking for a pop in Germany...) In German it would be Limonaden or Alkoholfreie Getränke. And...
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    The so-called global flood--evidence against

    Do you have any support for this apart from "could have"? I'd expect that the flood phases you propose would affect certain regions of the earth first. There are very few animals that are able to leave an area fast enough to avoid a large-scale natural disaster. If we use our example of...
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    The so-called global flood--evidence against

    Yeah, but according to your flood hypothesis the majority of fossilized animals all died in the same catastrophic event: Being 'non-deformed' wouldn't have saved anyone from the flood, right? So in the entirety of the fossil record, you should still find a majority of regular phenotypes. And...
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