Sukkot video: What's that hut back there?

Hi MikeyP,

ST: Neat Depiction, Nice Kids/Mom as are the stars.

A long time ago a guy in Egypt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhenaten.
OK A Pharaoh (Big Boss Bad Leader)

Tried to remove all festivals that male/female had produced up to his time on Tera. Well the memory of him almost is lost in time since he was so disliked. He did have some good ideas like that: The Sun wasn't GOD.

In the books of memory to Moses festivals played an important part of life as teaching tools. They borrowed from the before of nature gods human and blood sacrifices, and those after including those troublesome Jesus-ites (Christians), Arabians(Ishmaelites) borrowed from them.

I must say I'm not completely sure what MANY_MrDave was getting at, whether he was trying to be supportive of Judaism, agin, or somehwere facetiously in between. I will say that it is a fallacy, that because there are some similarities, in this case, between certain Hebrew festivals and some Egyptian ones, ergo, Judaism is only an outgrowth, a ripoff, of the former. This is called reductionism, because it categorically disallows the category of Revelation, that God may have [and did] reveal himself to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and in this case, Moses.

Ditto for Christianity. Many 19th century scholars thought it was sufficient to show that there were certain similarities between Christian sacraments and the 'mystery religions,.' Dionysius, etc. The fact of similarity does not mean the former copied the latter, nor that because of Divine Revelation, the content of the mystery would not be entirely new, even if there were an external resemblance.

Hi gaudete, MikeyP, ALL, Cox of the Harveys/Cows,

ST: You ARE Right/Wrong, Similarities Copied, Alterations, Improvements

Yet Wrong too, that I don't admire what this young mom and her children are performing in this festival. It sounds really nice. I would love to be one of those kids. - - - AND I am against the state of Israel's abuse of the Palestinians as are some of the vocal citizens of Israel.

To NOT say that any culture borrowed from the Iliad/Odyssey (Ulysses) epic spoken poem struggle or from the Gilgamesh Epic or the Torah in spoken form would not be accurate. The Greeks in search for a new model of the GOD/Man connection searched and found both an Apostle called Luke and a Jewish Historian. Man also borrowed from the Chinese and those cultures East of the Hindustan through the trade routes. Read Buddha versus Jesus by Marcus Borg to see thought parallels between a Jewish man and an Indian man and ask connected by what and how??

Harvard Harvey makes a point that we are developing differently as cultures and belief systems. He is correct that there are some root differences that will take a long time if ever to soften the edges.

By gaudete: "Many 19th century scholars thought it was sufficient to show that there were certain similarities between Christian sacraments and the 'mystery religions,.' Dionysius, etc. The fact of similarity does not mean the former copied the latter, nor that because of Divine Revelation,"

I don't know about that "sufficient" comment. or the "ripoff" comment in the first paragraph. When man or woman alters and improves on their former situation DO WE not give credit to the ancients for their former good ideas. Do we just trash them to A New unconnected Revelation.

Revelation is interesting, yet I would take too long to reasonably compose and to describe how it comes within a relative framework of the times, places, ideas (both a time space continuum and Bohr's Quantum Physics) that surround us in our current self. Take a look at Muhammad, (Mohammed), (more spellings depending on culture) and some of his flawed revelations and you will see the weakness of a FULL Divine Revelation Model for Human Affairs. When faced with a worthwhile Revelation we must ask the question...

P.S. Hey gaudete and MikeyP, Harvey(the-hidden-one): I am NOT going to be around for awhile YET keep it up. I have one more note to check out (hopefully not to add to) and then I am gone for a spell to the reading state.