Thread by @mhbx

@RKBower1 @aliceclearman 1/ I have no idea where you are in this conversation. You are talking about people drinking blood from skulls, asserting we have not advanced an iota from that state, & now are citing some sort of "revelation"? for a 7day week?
A most arbitrary number. And inaccurate ..

@RKBower1 @aliceclearman 2/ And inaccurate to the actual annual transit of a year. Thus the various errors when the calendar had no actual relationship to actual earth position re the sun until Science figured out the corrections.
So? What is your point?

@RKBower1 @aliceclearman 3/ Elsewhere you associate the Trinity - a dubious doctrine - with the structure of the Gov of the US? And you are the one who says the government should not exist, not even a Justice Dept. Somehow thinking private people will do w power what government is designed to do.

@RKBower1 @aliceclearman 4/ It is impossible to follow what you're trying to say.

Sorry. I think you are lost in strange set of contradictory ideas & beliefs that are cobbled together in some strange way that has you supporting what you otherwise say you oppose.

@RKBower1 @aliceclearman 5/ I'll try to hang w you. But I think if there is any value to be had going any further you'll have to pick one line, start at the beginning, and see if there is a thread of sense we can make of it.

@RKBower1 @aliceclearman 6/ The current thread of "Revelation" vs, I think, Science, has gotten you wound up around the axle. You are citing basic things of human organization & growth as some sort of divine revelation, and somehow... I think...extrapolating that to some fuzzy support of Trump??

@RKBower1 @aliceclearman 7/ I'll close to say I have a degree in Theology. It doesn’t matter, just to say I have deeply studied these things you seem to glibly hold as verities.
And when all is said & we agree there is some numinous experience outside the strict definitions of "Science" it is a serious

@RKBower1 @aliceclearman 8/ error to conclude that the "Bible" & the god described therein is the god that there is.
Somewhere in there is the problem, IMO. You (apparently) think YHWH is the source of "all this". When in fact most of it is derivative. Including all the "global" creation/flood stories

@RKBower1 @aliceclearman 9/ If your up for it, I suggest a book...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_…

It might enlarge your perspective on some of these issues/ideas/points. If that happens to be something you care to do.

@RKBower1 @aliceclearman 10/ PS.
Our form of Gov is based essentially on enlightenment principles & the workings out of some of the Greek Platonic ideas. Deeply flawed & contorted by the economic & power divisions in play at the time. Most notably slavery.
It is strange to hear you advocate for its

@RKBower1 @aliceclearman 11/ basis in "revelation" and a reflection of the divine order. Esp given your sometimes "libertarian" POV on the subject.
But taking you at face value, what is the division of power you understand? Is god so bifurcated that he needs a balance of power to function?

@RKBower1 @aliceclearman 12/ Which of the trinitarian view of government holds the position/function of the legislature? Of Justice/judgment - the judicial system? The executive?

Can you see how you map human systems onto your idea & ideal of the divine?