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No prob!
(I love your siggy!)
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Haha, awesome.
I've got one of those lil' guys sitting on my dresser now, waiting for me to actually get a car to stick it on. xD
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Mankind's vanity used to be such that they thought the sun revolved around the world. Darwin merely proposed that perhaps existence didn't revolve around mankind, either.
Love the stamp!
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It's pretty funny... A lot of people don't know that the 'Jesus fish' was originally a Pagan symbol of the season of Pisces...
But this is pretty neat, hehe 
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Actually no it wasn't. Just because the two religions happen to share a symbol doesn't mean one stole it from the other. The christian use of fish refers to a story in the bible and became a symbol because when christians were oppressed forever ago, when they met a stranger they'd sweep their foot in front of them, forming half of the fish, and if the other was a christian as well they would complete the symbol. [link]
Also Pisces and such are a part of Roman/Greek mythologies and were later adopted by wiccans and used in divination. So I hope you weren't using the term pagan to mean wiccan or druidic.
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Ichthys or Ichthus (Greek: ἰχθύς, capitalized ΙΧΘΥΣ or ΙΧΘΥC) is the ancient and classical Greek word for "fish."
The use of the Ichthys symbol by early Christians appears to date from the end of the 1st century AD. Ichthus (ΙΧΘΥΣ, Greek for fish) can be read as an acrostic, a word formed from the first letters of several words. It compiles to "Jesus Christ, God's son, savior," in ancient Greek "Ἰησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ", Iēsous Khristos Theou Huios, Sōtēr.
* Iota (i) is the first letter of Iēsous (Ἰησοῦς
* Chi (kh) is the first letter of Khristos (Χριστóς
* Theta (th) is the first letter of Theou (Θεοῦ
* Upsilon (u) is the first letter of huios (Υἱός
* Sigma (s) is the first letter of sōtēr (Σοτήρ
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I really do appreciate the information, and thank you for the link. I have one that might interest you as well, and yes, I did see mention of early Christians using it to communicate: [link]
The symbol for pisces is derived from the vesica pisces (meaning literally, womb of the fish), or mandorla, which is created by the intersection of two circles. In Pagan times, it was associated with the goddess Venus and thought to be symbolic of women's genitalia. In fact, one of the early adaptations of the 'Jesus Fish' in Christianity had the baby Jesus depicted inside the vesica pisces, symbolizing him in the womb of the virgin Mary.
When it comes to many subjects, especially religion, there will always be more than one opinion regardless of the sources or facts shown. Religious topics can be a bit opinionated, not meaning in a bad way, just meaning that people are more inclined to believe one thing over another no matter who claims which source from which time or which person.
While it has it's standing now in Christianity, numerous new age authors have interpreted it as a yonic symbol and claimed it a reference to the female genitals. It's all a matter of which authors one chooses to believe.
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sorry this took forever to respond to, I've been swamped. And hate to drop the conversation as it is interesting but I'm up to over 80 comments I need to reply to on here and another 70 on y and heaven knows how many e-mails.
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45,101 Deviations, 6,664 Messages <-- Huu, trust me, I know about piled-up messages 
But no sweat, it is interesting and always neat to find someone capable of putting their opinion into a debate in a civil manner 
Best of luck getting through your messages, and a happy holiday to you as well ♥
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heh I feel bad if I take more than a week to reply.
It is and it's strangely rare, usually people just get all pissy and whiney.
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Usually because they're hiding behind a screen name so they say whatever they want without regard to people's feelings.
I try to be at least polite with everyone and avoid arguing. Winning an online argument doesn't mean enough to me to make me be mean to people XD
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I'm just too nice but that extends to real life even, well most of the time... it takes a lot to get on my bad side. My mom's church's old pasture managed to. But people preaching hate in the church I grew up in (and it doesn't matter to me that I don't even consider myself 'christian'
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I've been known to be too nice to otherwise undeserving people, but it's always good not to lower yourself to their level.
I grew up with church people picketing and yelling in people's faces all the time about how we're all horrible, unworthy people- It sort of turned me off toward religion for a long time. Only recently have I met very kind people who are willing to explain and debate both wisely and with kind temperaments. But I suppose no matter where you go or what religion it is, you'll always have a few bad apples painting the wrong picture. If only everyone could be kind and understanding
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No, I haven't seen the movie.
Almost all xian symbols, holidays and even perceptions of major figures have their basis in paganism.
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The first half of zeitgeist (on zeitgeistmovie.com if you're interested) actually goes through all the similarities, starting with Horus, Egypt's sun god, how he was born on Dec. the 25 to a virgin, dead for three days, resurrected, etc. The similarities can be found all throughout history, and are actually all astrology-based. Well, I won't explain it cuz it's so much more fun to watch the movie
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i love it! lol i wish i could stamp *pout* =S
but im not subscrib!
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Sweet Darwin this rocks.:>
Iloveits. I had a Darwin badge on my shirt on the 12 this month.:3
fave yes?
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Thanks! I'm happy you like this
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LOL, I LOVE IT!
I'm one of those insanely weird Christians who takes the Big Bang Theory, Darwin's Theory, and all these other scientific theories and then figures out a way that they work with what the Bible says.
It's all very interesting, and a few people flame me for it. =/ But that's okay.
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It's not weird, most Christians believe in evolution. Just not in the US for some reason....
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Thanks for the look and the comment
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I bow to thee
Great job (too bad I didn't find it before, must've missed it out on the 
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I've gotta admit I like the darwin landfish..
im sure it will upset my christian friends :/
uses anyway haha....
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I think I need to buy a subscription so I can use this awesome stamp @_@<3
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ahahaha.
If/when I get a subscription, I'm putting this up.
For now, shall be content with 
Good job.
Huzzah for evolution!
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Love it! I just gotta add it. x^D
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I should show this to my church folk. They would absolutely love it! Anyway, very nice indeed. It gets the point across very nicely. ={D
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That's awesome! I saw a shirt with this a few days ago, and thought it was brilliant, I'm definately using this ^_^
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ZOMG you're gonna hear a true story. Love it.
I went to Catholic School eh, in Biology we had a class discussion on Evolution vs Creationism, and there was this girl Felicia leading the debate for Creationism, and me for Evolution.
I'll give you the ending, it was Epic Win.
Felicia: "Oh yeah? Then how come everything on this planet just works so well together!?"
Me: "Because everything that didn't, DIED, STUPID!"
Class: "Oooooh."
I won the world.
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Great comeback!
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Yeah, I'm awesome lol, and you're my hero for this week hehah.
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HELL YES
I'm doing a paper on this, lol
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