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<A title=paulgrant999@hotmail.com href="mailto:paulgrant999@hotmail.com">Paul
Grant</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=dirk@neopax.com
href="mailto:dirk@neopax.com">'Dirk Bruere'</A> ; <A
title=extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org
href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">'ExI chat list'</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, January 12, 2004 7:20
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [extropy-chat] The
omniscience of God and the free will of Man</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=421205122-11012004>Personally I've always liked the tricksters :)
Loki, Coyote etc :)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=421205122-11012004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=421205122-11012004><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2>I've always found them dangerous.<SPAN
class=718221807-12012004> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=421205122-11012004><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
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<DIV><SPAN class=421205122-11012004><FONT face=Arial><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=718221807-12012004>~ I've always
thought of them as misunderstood
:)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=421205122-11012004>_____</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=421205122-11012004>You ever check out the Egyptian mythologies? Isis
was pretty cool,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=421205122-11012004>same with Thoth :)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=421205122-11012004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=421205122-11012004>Isis is still going strong, and undergoing
something of a revival (ignoring her supremacy in the Catholic
pantheon).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=421205122-11012004></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN class=718221807-12012004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>~I wasn't aware it was a going concern :) I'm a fan
of mythology, not necessarily the religions they inspire
:)</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN class=718221807-12012004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2><A
href="http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/">http://www.fellowshipofisis.com/</A></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=718221807-12012004><FONT face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>Fellowship of Isis - 22,619 members</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN class=718221807-12012004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>PS> interesting observation regarding judiasm
pre-monotheism :) I'll have to check that out
:)</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=718221807-12012004><FONT face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>You didn't expect YHVH to suddenly spring up fully formed, did you?
Esp with all those illustrious neighbours such as the
Sumerians?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>Dirk</DIV>
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