From: spike66 (spike66@ATTBI.com)
Date: Sat Mar 30 2002 - 18:58:57 MST
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>spike66 wrote:
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>>Is it bitterly ironic that the cross is a symbol of the most cruel form
>>of execution ancients could devise,
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>dwayne wrote:
>The Romans thought it hysterically funny that the christians used the crucifix
>as a symbol...
>
Some religious historians argue that the crucifix was not commonly
used as a christian symbol until later. The claim, as I understand it,
is that the fish (icthios) was used more commonly in the first and
second centuries. This is where we get the Darwin fishes from.
The traditional story is that if one takes acronym of the
Greek phrase "Lesous Christos Theou Uios Soter" or
"Jesus Christ, son of god, saviour" you get ichthus, thought
to have been first used by the Christians at Ephesus.
Turns out, modern scholarship has shown that the
symbol predates christianity. The Ephesians stole
it from the pagans.
>and the symbol euphemistically
>referred to as a "crescent" is symbolic of an Arabic sword used
>to lop off heads of infidels.
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>I thought it was meant to represent the moon?
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Guess it depends on who is telling the story. {8-]
>Red smiley it is. {8-]
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>yay! Dwayne
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I propose Dwayne's red smiley as the extropian symbol of mercy.
This is not to be confused with the general extropian symbol, that
round outpoint arrowy thing. The red smiley will be for those
extropians specifically on a universal mission of philanthropy
analogous to the red cross.
The Darwin fishes could be a great symbol for the subset of
extropians who concern themselves with evolutionary theory.
Extropians could even form a special order of highly educated
practitioners analogous to the Jesuits. These could be called the
Hoerkuits.
spike
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