Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: Fans Are COMPLETELY GIVING UP ON Doctor Who- Here's Why. Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 20:15:04 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: <101c0f8$e9rj$1@dont-email.me> References: <100knv3$2sb2s$4@dont-email.me> <100nji5$3i7gi$1@dont-email.me> <100nl6t$3hrbb$3@dont-email.me> <100o5vc$vtq$10@gallifrey.nk.ca> <94d32dcc82b8777659b290f5d1813803@www.novabbs.com> <100qc0v$6a6d$3@dont-email.me> <100qqp5$9hqk$2@dont-email.me> <100t5ps$rmro$1@dont-email.me> <1012rbl$27ph7$1@dont-email.me> <101719k$38ffm$2@dont-email.me> <10184g8$3fs81$2@dont-email.me> <1019dgt$3qr42$1@dont-email.me> <101b8is$a2mq$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 12:15:05 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="2799250775770de9fd2475da0ab78f11"; logging-data="468851"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19NRXgUopx7UEBbYCMpTPzu" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 Cancel-Lock: sha1:cSOoKjg5gY1+T8Ahijyf1308on0= X-Antivirus: AVG (VPS 250529-4, 5/29/2025), Outbound message In-Reply-To: <101b8is$a2mq$1@dont-email.me> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 2702 On 30/05/2025 1:27 pm, The True Doctor wrote: > You are a complete liar. No ancient historian said the gods were > anything but deified historical kings and nothing more. You have never > been able to post a single example of anyone who said otherwise because > there isn't one. Herodotus made this abundantly clear in his Histories > for the Greek and Egyptian gods (who went back furthest) and Eusebius, > Philo, and Porphyry said all the Greek gods (who were also the Roman > gods) were borrowed from the Phoenician gods and were their common > deified rulers. Am I reading too much into this?? "No ancient historian said the gods were anything but deified historical kings and nothing more." Is ther a Double-Negative in there so Aggy is NOT saying what he thinks ...... or have I missed a triple negative?? -- Daniel70