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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Explorer: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by -Just Call Me Jari-: Old World Religions were not really faith based. Most Pagan Religions were the Science Theories of the day. It was used to explain why the Sun Rose and Set every day, why a Volcano erupted Lava and Ash, Why Various Stars Constelations appeared in the Sky etc.[/QUOTE]I agree, at least in so far as certain AE cosmological concepts go, like for instance, the roles of neteru like Nut, Geb, Ausar, Set, Djehuti, et al. [QUOTE] Most Old World Religions did not promise a Savior who would return some day, or promise if you followed and believed this person existed you would go to Heaven. In Most Old World Religions(Egypt) you were judged in the After life on your deeds during life, not on if you believed some Prophet was the son of God or not. heck in some myths like the Greeks the after life sucked if you were a good person or not, but It sucked even worse if you were a bad person.[/QUOTE]That's another thing that is lacking in Buddhism--a promise for an afterlife. However, in Kemetic concepts there is an afterlife in the Netherworld, though some interpret this as just another metaphor for an eternal darkness that is supposed to represent the "soul" after death. There is after all, an understanding that life can neither be recreated nor be destroyed, which then leaves the question: where then does it go? That's a whole another discussion, but also according to this understanding, a single life is distributed across the entire spectrum of the living world, not individualized newly-created "life". In science, it is simply said that the elements of a dead creature go back to nature and reconstitute the basic elements of nature, as its body decomposes. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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