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18 Mar 12 UTC	Spring, 1901: hi guys im new
18 Mar 12 UTC	Spring, 1901: hello and welcome
19 Mar 12 UTC	Autumn, 1901: I'm so very confused...I feel like The Riddler has invaded diplomacy and left his devious secrets all over my enemies....
20 Mar 12 UTC	Autumn, 1901: Should this game really be called "the hand of God"?
20 Mar 12 UTC	Autumn, 1901: I created the game. As you can see by my username i'm a big fan of the Christian Rock band Stryper. One of the songs on their "In God We Trust" album was called "The Writings on the Wall"...hence the inspiration for the name of the game.
20 Mar 12 UTC	Autumn, 1901: Ahhh....and do you know what if references?
20 Mar 12 UTC	Autumn, 1901: Ding ding....Bible trivia times, folks!
21 Mar 12 UTC	Autumn, 1901: Gotta love wikipedia... It originates from the Biblical book of Daniel chapter 5 in which the fingers of a supernatural hand write a mysterious message in the presence of Belshazzar, king of Babylon, who is meanwhile drinking at a major feast. It is revealed by Daniel that the writing foretells the demise of the Babylonian Empire and the story concludes with the Medes and the Persians killing the king and capturing Babylon. The phrase "the writing is on the wall" is now a popular idiom for "something bad is about to happen".
21 Mar 12 UTC	Autumn, 1901: Boooooo......wikipedia. I thought maybe somebody would crack open a Bible...Yeah, it's one of those freaky stories. If the Bible weren't such a hotbed of "controversy" there is story after story in there that would stand toe-to-toe with Tolkien on the big screen...or rather, I guess toe-to-toe with the upcoming greek mythology flick (which name I forget...Wrath of the Titans? which i can't wait to see...)
21 Mar 12 UTC	Autumn, 1901: Maybe toe to toe deals with the battle of Thermopylae?
21 Mar 12 UTC	Autumn, 1901: Ahh 300, great movie
21 Mar 12 UTC	Autumn, 1901: 300 was a great movie. In the Bible, David had his "Mighty Men"...one of whom was Bathsheba's husband who David has the hots for after watching her taking a bath on her roof...so he sends his army out, with this awesome warrior in the lead...and then has the troops fall back so the enemy will overpower the guy and kill him...David gets the girls. But these warriors are described as guy that are essentially unbeatable in battle - you know, 'cause they got the power of God going on their side -- kind of like the warriors at Thermoplylae. It is quite interesting if you study various mythology even across the globe from independent cultures how very common themes and characters show up. Heck, there are "Giants" in the old testament, from when the daughters of men and the sons of God had children...can't recall their names, but it's early in Genesis...just a quick mention and then never spoken of again. No Pastor I have ever talked to can explain it or wants to try....I think they are the same guys are Hercules, etc from everyone else's mythology.
22 Mar 12 UTC	Autumn, 1901: The Nephilim are the offspring of the "sons of God" and the "daughters of men" in Genesis 6:4, or giants who inhabit Canaan in Numbers 13:33. A similar word with different vowel-sounds is used in Ezekiel 32:27 to refer to dead Philistine warriors. There is no description to the exact size or what constitutes 'giant size', but men back in biblical days were much shorter than they are now on average, so if you had a race of current day NBA players, they would have looked like giants to average height men.
22 Mar 12 UTC	Autumn, 1901: most mythologies of the "western world" are based on the babylonic ones – if you read those, you'll find greek, roman, christian, nordic, etc. some are even older (luzifer anyone?) and can even be found in native american and northern asian story cycles.
22 Mar 12 UTC	Autumn, 1901: Yeah -- so that's the question: How did native american and northern asian stories end up with the same myths as the middle east...and let not forget South American cultures. Are these inherent to the nature of man's mind....or external influence?
22 Mar 12 UTC	Spring, 1902: i think that's some misinterpretation of time: humans are living in africa for about a million years, having lots and lots of time to develope spoken culture with teaching by storytelling, being relatively consistent. then, relatively late (compared to the time passed before!), due to environmental changes they are forced to spread to the rest of the world, taking their stories with them. so things started to diversicate. We can see quite clearly how people wandered the globe by analysing vocabulary and grammar relations and differences today, and so did the stories, as they were passed on by spoken word, not writing. so while some kind of fire mythical being that seeks his opportunies by innovation might have diversicated into enki in sumer, luzifer in christianity, loki in nordic, prometheus in greek, and the trickster figure in native american mythology.
22 Mar 12 UTC	Spring, 1902: I'm not buying it... :P it was aliends, goddammit!!!
23 Mar 12 UTC	Spring, 1902: got me :)
23 Mar 12 UTC	Spring, 1902: It wasn't Aliens... It was Capt. Kirk when he was living with that tribe in North America.
23 Mar 12 UTC	Spring, 1902: Speaking of Captain Kirk...dang...must SUCK to be Dr. McCoy, having your Captain sleeping around with every alien he can get his hands on. Imagine the VD that guy brought back on to the ship...