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The Year in Videos
Cloverfield (2008; Holy crap, this was good. Would be a great double-header with The Host.); Communion (1989; Didn't work for me. Walken an odd choice, and it was more humorous than tense.); The 400 Blows (Criterion Spine #4) (1959; Truffaut's first feature; I'm looking forward to the Antoine Doinel followups.); Silent Rage (1982; Great beginning and Norris-appreciation, but slow and meandering ending.); Dakota Bound (2001; An actual plot, good cheesy action scenes, and lesbians. Amazingly good.);
The Year in Books
D&D 4E: Treasure of Talon Pass (4E: we're just a combat engine! Buy miniatures.); D&D 4E: Monster Manual (A little too light on fluff for me. Prefer fluff.); Apple Volume 1 (As an art book, great. But for story? Bleh.); The Art of Dragon Magazine (I remember many of these from the original issues.); Mateki: The Magic Flute (I like Amano, but this felt like wasted sketches.);
> "Is God ... omnipotent. .... ..?" --Epicurus
First I wonder how the Jewish/Babylonian tribal gods (the Yaweh god and The El gods) ever came to be combined into one divine entity. Next, I wonder how this conglomerate became combined with a Greek-style "holy spirit" and a dead village carpenter/travelling hippy preacher from Middle Eastern antiquity. How does at least five supernatural entities become a Mono-deity?
Then, I wonder how people decided that this extraordinary concatenation of entities was "omni-potent"(all powerful), "omni-scient"(all knowing), "omni-present" (everywhere) and "omini-agape" (all loving).
Can anyone enlighten me as to how these characteristics became attached to this combination-god-figure? They don't seem to be consistent with the Christian version of the Jewish holy writings or even with the early Christian writings, even those which were a third century committee of blood-thirsty waring clerics decided were divinely inspired. So where did these ideas come from? And why do today's Christians consider them to be things which distinguish their (multiple) versions of a diety from the dieties, demi-gods, semi-gods, spirits and other supernatural beings created by others .
I also wonder how many of these characteristics are also supposed to be shared by the opposing dieties, demi-, semi- and hemi-gods listed in ancient Jewish holdy writings: Satan, Belzebub, Baal, Gabriel, etc.