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   From: Skeeterweed@proton.me   
      
   In article , pursent100   
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   > STEPHEN HARPER wrote:   
   > > Jesus got tired of working as a Carpenter so he decided to form a cult so   
   > > he could live off their avails and get free food and wine.  And don't   
   > > forget the Hooker.   What do you expect?   He didn't even know any white   
   > > people.   
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   > > Written before the passages in the Old Testament were even conceived, this   
   > > origin story comes from some of the earliest Greek writings that have   
   > > survived.   
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   > >      In the beginning there was Chaos, a yawning nothingness. Out of the   
   > > void emerged Gaia (the Earth) and other divine beings ? Eros (love), the   
   > > Abyss (part of the underworld), and the Erebus (the unknowable place where   
   > > death dwells). Without male assistance, Gaia gave birth to Uranus (the   
   > > Sky), who then fertilized her.   
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   > >      From that union the first Titans were born ? six males: Coeus, Crius,   
   > > Cronus, Hyperion, Iapetus, and Oceanus, and six females: Mnemosyne,   
   > > Phoebe, Rhea, Theia, Themis, and Tethys. After Cronus (time) was born,   
   > > Gaia and Uranus decreed no more Titans were to be born.   
   > >   
   > >      Cronus castrated his father and threw the severed genitals into the   
   > > sea, from which arose Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty and sexuality.   
   > > Cronus became the ruler of the gods with his sister-wife, Rhea, as his   
   > > consort. The other Titans became his court. Because Cronus had betrayed   
   > > his father, he feared that his offspring would do the same. So each time   
   > > Rhea gave birth, Cronus snatched up the child and ate it. Rhea hated this   
   > > and tricked him by hiding one child, Zeus, and wrapping a stone in a   
   > > baby?s blanket so that Cronus ate the stone instead of the baby.   
   > >   
   > >      When Zeus was grown, he fed his father a drugged drink, which caused   
   > > Cronus to vomit, throwing up Rhea?s other children and the stone. Zeus   
   > > then challenged Cronus to war for the kingship of the gods. At last Zeus   
   > > and his siblings, the Olympians, were victorious, and the Titans were   
   > > hurled down to imprisonment in the Abyss.   
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   > >      Zeus was plagued by the same concern as his father had been and, after   
   > > a prophecy that his first wife, Metis, would give birth to a god greater   
   > > than he, he swallowed Metis. But she was already pregnant with Athena, and   
   > > they both made him miserable until Athena, the goddess of wisdom,   
   > > civilization and justice, burst from his head ? fully grown and dressed   
   > > for war. Zeus was able to fight off all challenges to his power and to   
   > > remain the ruler of Mt. Olympus, the home of the gods.   
   > >   
   > >      One son of Titans, Prometheus, did not fight with fellow Titans   
   > > against Zeus and was spared imprisonment; he was given the task of   
   > > creating man. Prometheus shaped man out of mud, and Athena breathed life   
   > > into the clay figure. Prometheus made man stand upright as the gods did   
   > > and gave him fire. Prometheus tricked Zeus, and to punish him, Zeus   
   > > created Pandora, the first woman, of stunning beauty, wealth, and a   
   > > deceptive heart and lying tongue. He also gave Pandora a box she was   
   > > commanded never to open, but eventually her curiosity got the best of her,   
   > > and she opened the box to release all kinds of evil, plagues, sorrows, and   
   > > misfortunes, and also hope, which lay at the bottom of the box.   
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   > so   
      
   so buttons on snowballs   
      
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