Can a man become an angel?

only once he realizes that he was born one.

Although they don't beleive in "Angels" persay, if this topic intrigues you, you may like to read up on Jainism. They have something similar I beleive (I had a class on it awhile back)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Jainism

For sure! Man can become Centaurs, half man half horse so why not half man half bird? Truth is, many of us are already half bird, only the wrong part. Not man with bird wings, but man with bird brains.

only once he realizes that he was born one.

Nice.

My cousin spoke to me once about how some historians claim that 'angels' religious texts describe are actually imagining Scandinavians and people from Northern Europe.

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Well, they did raid from northern Scandinavia into the Middle East and India around 3000BC. The proto-Nordic belief laid the foundation for Vedic Hinduism, the Greek pantheon and a good chunk of all of the Judaic faiths' (Judaism, Islam, Christianity) myths (Leviathan, Djinni, etc.). It wouldn't be surpirising if the bringers of such a grand faith, what with fantastic battles and humanlike gods, would be considered as above human, especially since their stature was larger than most Eastern men, including height differences.

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quote:Originally posted by Gorloche:

Well, they did raid from northern Scandinavia into the Middle East and India around 3000BC. The proto-Nordic belief laid the foundation for Vedic Hinduism, the Greek pantheon and a good chunk of all of the Judaic faiths' (Judaism, Islam, Christianity) myths (Leviathan, Djinni, etc.). It wouldn't be surpirising if the bringers of such a grand faith, what with fantastic battles and humanlike gods, would be considered as above human, especially since their stature was larger than most Eastern men, including height differences.



That's not true....only a very small amount of what you wrote is even BASED in facts. I'm not gonna get into where you're wrong and try to correct you...but 3000 bc? get the fuck out of here.

gorloche, you're confusing scandinavians with indo-european peoples, who were a very diverse group culturally, linguistically, religiously, and genetically, from a vast swath of locales.

Sorry. That happens to me every now and then. The statement is still true, though, jsut not about the Scandinavians.