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I wonder if that's where Stephen Erickson got the idea for mortal ascendants in Malazan.

Wonder if any god got retconned to human

USA! USA!

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His lines in that episode were classic

What do you mean "not unlikely"? What would you base that likelihood on?

Today I watched a Seinfeld rerun

I could not read it because paywall (or rather register wall), but that doesn't sound completely correct. Even before (gasp!) spaces were invented, Latin had the "interpunct" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpunct

Scriptio continua though was a thing used for a long time but apparently more for style and theatrics than anything else. It looks like reading was seen as an oratory performance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua

In my religion, there is only one true God.

I don't know if you know that much about Christianity. But you have God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We describe this as the Trinity.

The only one who set foot on this planet was Jesus, the Son.

There is no others.

There are Shens and Saints and other blessed individuals. But they aren't Gods or gods.

It's kind of a long book.

>Isn't that unofficial?

Nope, it gets quoted in Skyrim by Heimskr (the Talos priest preaching in Whiterun)

>That's a bit more credible, provided you believe that Markan Camoran (or whatever his name was) is really thousands of years old.

You don't need to take everything in the commentary as truth, but there is little reason to doubt the bit about CHIM and the transformation of Cyrodiil jungles

In the stories. It's not unlikely that those stories were based on regular people who did incredible things in their lives, and were remembered as demigods after their deaths like the post says

When I learned Spanish, I discovered the problem of word juncture. English has it, Spanish much less so. That's part of what makes reading it easier than hearing it - it's hard to tell with spoken language where one word end and the next one starts.

I don't understand the obsession with this brand. Mediocre food at best.

So if you eat a couple pounds of poppy seeds do you get high as a kite??

>From The Many-Headed Talos

Isn't that unofficial?

>From the Mythic Dawn commentaries Vol. 3

That's a bit more credible, provided you believe that Markan Camoran (or whatever his name was) is really thousands of years old.

>As to what the nature of godhood, Talos' own godhood, its relation with the "planets" and CHIM vs "true" godhood; well, we just don't have a simple definitive answer.

According to a book, Lorkhan/Shor/Shezarr tried to achieve CHIM but failed.

Us Americans think were so great and so advanced. We are falling short in so many area.

Lu Bu had those two tail things though. TWO.TAILS!

But yeah the guandao is really cool any time I see it. Less swords, more guandaos media!

OP really missed their shot by not using the word "Bloodworth" in a pun

USA also houses most of the top universities in the world.

Successfully collects the best from the world.

If I might ask, what do you consider the difference between saint and god to be? I’m specifically talking about small g god, not the big G God of a monotheistic religion.

And the automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters.

This seems quite common. How do you think a lot of Catholic saints were selected.

But, I would like to clarify one point. Apotheosis is the recognition of someone as divine. In early Christianity, the divinity of Jesus was debated, and those who support divinity won. But those who believe in the divinity of Jesus do not believe that his divinity came about through the apotheosis, but that the apotheosis was just a recognition of the fact of his divinity.

The Chinese case is very informal and relies solely on popular praise for a dead person. Plus you become a fully developed god.