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And another ancient thread is resurrected. I wonder if it will survive its new life.

Quote: Different calendars, how about saying about the time of the winter solstice? I'm not sure I understand your post. The solstice itself is on the 21st or 22nd, but the increasing length of the day was first noticed on the 25th, so pagans celebrated that as the "rebirth of the sun." We...

Quote: Different calendars, how about saying about the time of the winter solstice?

I have WHAT in my yard? : Really wanna get a group of people going?? Tell 'em Charles Darwin never said "survival of the fittest!" He didn't! Not until about the 5th edition and then he borrowed it from someone else.

Quote: Did you mean to say what you did say? "all the Baptist churches in the North (Cleveland, anyway) are all black churches." I disagree that evey Baptist church in Cleveland is all Black. I really disagree that every Baptist church in the North is all Black.

This has been pretty interesting, especially all the little side trips. From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary: Main Entry: pa·gan Pronunciation: \\ˈpâ-gən\\ Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin paganus, from Latin, civilian, country dweller, from pagus country...

Quote: I believe that it goes back to the Halloween thread, where someone posted "they don't participate in anything pagan". Could be wrong but it would be the same as someone saying they don't participate in anything black/white/hispanic/etc, and then someone started a subesquent thread of...

Discovering how to use fire. The wheel. Discovery of other basic principles of physics such as friction and wedges. And the list goes on and on.

I'm not offended at all. I think though that with pagan being defined as other than the three major monotheistic religious groups maybe the thread should be what was invented by nonpagans. So many inventions came about before or outside the influence of the three. Also inventions could be...

Pagan is a pretty broad term. How about a definition.