from mathew 27:50-5350and when jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
51at that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
the earth shook and the rocks split.
Freddy....You may be very interested to read my post on this very subject (the resurrection of the saints at Jesus' death):
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/12/63386/974023/post.ashx#974023
And also here are two other related posts on the early belief about Jesus being ascending to heaven, or being made alive in the spirit, as he died on the cross:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/64970/1003158/post.ashx#1003158
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/65283/1011120/post.ashx#1011120
Leolaia
are any of you on it?
is it working for you?
feel free to pm me.
In my case I've cheated a LOT over the past year. I haven't done Atkins per se since summer, but I have been refraining from eating rice, pasta, and sugar, with a major cheating at least once a week if not twice. Other than that my diet is fairly normal, except I have been addicted to eating Just Fruits which are utterly delicious (so yeah, I get my sugar from fruit). But I've consistently kept those 20 lbs. off, and I've found the most important things is to weigh myself everyday and simply NOT OVEREAT. If I notice I'm on an upward swing in weight gain, I simply hold off on eating carbs or sugar for that day. And that seems to keep my weight in check. It's like working the stock market, shorting (i.e. cheating) on down swings, etc.
do any of you have any knowledge of this afro-cuban hispanic cult/religon?.
being latino myself i have a many friends and people who practice it's rights and rituals.
many have claimed it really works and many think its just a bunch of old wives tales.. i've done a lot of reading and research and have attended a few of its bimbai's (parties) and have had readings done by it practioners.
Not much, though I know someone studying Palo Monte.
azazel, the god of the desert.
the primitive stages of the hebrew civilisation are not sufficiently known to describe the changes and phases which the israelitic idea of the godhead had to undergo before it reached the purity of the yahveh conception.
yet the israelites also must have had a demon not unlike the egyptian typhon, for the custom of sacrificing a goat to azazel, the demon of the desert, suggests that the israelites had just emerged from a dualism in which both principles were regarded as equal.. we read in leviticus xvi.:.
The article by de Roo argues that the name has been metathesized (for ideological reasons), and was originally 'zz -'l "wrath of God". Seeing things through a Canaanite lens, I can easily interpret this as "El's wrath" and view Azazel as a lesser god that does El's bidding. This would be similar to ytpn, who was Anat's henchman in the Aqhat Cycle. Yatpan attacked Danel's son Aqhat "like an eagle in her scabbard, like a vulture in her sheath," thereby reddening El's hoary beard with blood (cf. KTU III Aq 6:11-18). Azazel coming down from heaven and giving the sons of Adam the weapons of war (cf. 1 Enoch 8:1-4) of course is exactly like Kothar in the Aqhat Cycle (equivalent of Greek Hephaestus), who bequeathes a divine bow to the newborn Aqhat. Kothar (ktr) also stood in obvious relation with the ktrt, the guardian goddesses of the newborn, givers of all good bounty, and the source of musical and intellectual talent (cf. the Charities and Muses of Greek mythology). We thus may have a dim recollection of the kotharot in the fallen angels of 1 Enoch 8, as well as the "seven sages" or apkallu from Sumerian and Akkadian myth. That there is a connection with the Aqhat Epic is also revealed by the name Danel as one of these fallen angels (1 Enoch 6:7). The term kosheret survived in Hebrew (cf. Psalm 68:6-7; Tos. B. Batra 10:2) and it is thought that they were originally devotees of the ktrt, the patron goddesses of minstrelry and midwifery, but later the term only referred to songstresses in general.
azazel, the god of the desert.
the primitive stages of the hebrew civilisation are not sufficiently known to describe the changes and phases which the israelitic idea of the godhead had to undergo before it reached the purity of the yahveh conception.
yet the israelites also must have had a demon not unlike the egyptian typhon, for the custom of sacrificing a goat to azazel, the demon of the desert, suggests that the israelites had just emerged from a dualism in which both principles were regarded as equal.. we read in leviticus xvi.:.
Hey Pete, you know the first post in the thread was the 1,000,000th post to the forum? Congrats.
is there a certain album that you own that just makes you feel a hell of a lot better?
for me, it's cinderella's "still climbing" album.
it's about life in general, about how it sucks, but you gotta make it work for yourself.
If I need a pickup, I usually cannot go wrong with early Duran Duran. Cheers me up in a jiffy.
Also Dubstar's Goodbye makes me feel good.
And Metric's Static Anonymity and Old World Underground are nothing short of awesome.
are any of you on it?
is it working for you?
feel free to pm me.
I did strict Atkins for about three months and lost 25 lbs. Since then I have been on restricted carb but not always low-carb (usually no rice, no pasta, no potato, low sugar, but high fruit and moderate bread), and high protein diet and I've maintained 20 lbs of the weight loss.
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i believe a freedom of information act (foia) request could be sent to the fbi to get any files they had concerning rutherford.. anyone interested in doing that?.
--vm44
Hey, that'd be fascinating for the sake of history.
azazel, the god of the desert.
the primitive stages of the hebrew civilisation are not sufficiently known to describe the changes and phases which the israelitic idea of the godhead had to undergo before it reached the purity of the yahveh conception.
yet the israelites also must have had a demon not unlike the egyptian typhon, for the custom of sacrificing a goat to azazel, the demon of the desert, suggests that the israelites had just emerged from a dualism in which both principles were regarded as equal.. we read in leviticus xvi.:.
Here's a pretty good academic article on the subject published in Biblica:
http://www.bsw.org/project/biblica/bibl81/Ani06m.html
It pretty much presents all the relevant data. It's main flaw however is that it insists on monotheism for pre-exilic Judaism (untenable in view of Mark Smith's work), and so it unduly rejects the possibility of Azazel as a demon god. Incidentally, a similar ritual is described in Ugarit texts (cf. KTU 1.127). I strongly suspect that Passover was originally a similar ritual and the narrative in Exodus refers more distinctly to a demon type of deity (most probably Resheph).
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doesn't get any more scientific than this, huh?.
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/10_names.html
Yes it is pretty silly. Also many of postulated "Hebrew" etymologies are wrong, and it is not true that antediluvian names are derived straightforward from Hebrew. "Eve" and "Noah" are good examples of problematic etymologies.
