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2+3 clusivity wrote: Sweet globe! How did you generate that? I'm quite impressed.

My thought, as well; so much so that I'm even coming back out from lurking for several years.

Though in 325 the majority of bishops were not Arians, though it was getting there. That came later. AFAIK, a minority of bishops were homoousians , though if you exclude semi-Arians it's less clear. A minority were, but later; if it was a minority at the time of Nicea, how did Trinitarianism get e...

Weren't the Elenicoi from Alexandria? Then I should think that they'd be Arians, as Alexandria at the time (and later the West) was a stronghold of Arianism (Arius was Alexandrian, after all!). The majority of bishops across the empire were Arians at the time, anyway. Wasn?t St. Athanasius also Ale...

Brandrinn, what did you mean about bathing? before adequate sanitation comes about, clean bathwater is pretty unrealistic unless it's boiled first. the more people bathe, the more they are exposed to diseases. if Europeans at the same technological level bathed as much as Verdurians, they'd drop li...

Somone without nipples would look very... incomplete to me. The same with eyebrows and fingernails, or the absence thereof. Ghost :) In the original Planet of the Apes movie, they didn't have eyebrows on any of the apes, except the one Taylor falls in love with. She had eyebrows, to make her more a...

Welcome to the board, WIWZ, although I might advise you to pick a new username once you can think of one. Likewise, though I'm inclined to agree. There's a fine line between admiration of Zompist's work (which I think most of us share) and simple sycophantism. No one (worthy of speaking) likes the ...