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An excellent expression of that elusive thing we call we 'faith'.

LOL... only when the punchline rests on finicky technology :D

I actually just learned a bit more about this whole situation (thanks Science Channel). The problem is this: The Kuyper Belt is essentially a ring of asteroids that circle the outside of our solar system. Because the Kuyper Belt is so far away, astronomers are actually still discovering new...

People have been talking about the 'tragic end' since long before Christianity was even around. In most religious texts I've read, there is some note, somewhere, that essentially says," This is the degenerate age." People have been saying that for thousands of years...yet, here we are. It seems...

I just read this article, titled "Mixing God and Politics: Where do Americans Really Stand?", in the local paper on Sunday. In general, the article discusses a recent survey on the topic of the 'division between church and state' in America, and how it is affecting current politics. It...

Yeah...no trout...too bad. It showed up for about 45 minutes and then stopped (?). LOL...I saw the thread and was searching for a picture of myself on my computer. When I couldn't find a single picture, I figured I'd post a trout that I had caught. Joke gone wrong...:rolleyes: -jiii

Indeed. I mean, I knew while I was writing that post that the irony was that most all religions have pretty modest origins which, objectively speaking, appear absurd and would've been considered weird by the ordinary person of the day. A new religion, I think, always gets that kind of sneer in...

Yeah, I know what you mean. I had immersed myself entirely in Eastern thought for quite a few years, and I found that when I talked about dualistic-type things, the notion that they are complementary had become somewhat of an in-grained preconception. Personally, I don't know if it's really...

Yeah, it was actually the only full translation that I could find in printed form. I believe that I've come across certain translations of the entire book on the internet, but I don't remember exactly where. What it boils down to is that the "outer" and "miscellaneous" chapters are most all...

I held out for a long time...but here goes...here I am... I guess I just figured I'd be ridiculed if everyone knew I was a trout...I hope you don't think any less of me or my ideas now. -jiii

It would seem that "duality" gives the impression of mutually exclusive opposites growing, as it were, toward each other from the extremes of a scale (linearly speaking). But, in the concept of duality, the extremes never do come to meet in the middle...they just get infinitely closer without...

Wow, this thread is blowing my mind.:D To be totally honest, I'm amazed that "Matrixism" and adherents of "The Force" exist. Don't get me wrong, maybe the particular viewpoint just strangely clicks with a few people, but would'nt this be considered fanaticism to a certain degree...obsession over...

In contrast to the likely mythical Lao-tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching, Chuang-tzu is believed to have actually existed and lived in a small town in China around 350 B.C. So far as I know, the "inner" chapters are the ones that scholars tend to believe were written by Chuang-tzu, himself. The...

By those standards, then, is oral sex considered to be unnatural, too? Such acts do not contribute to procreation. Is there no benefit to physical pleasure? Furthermore, the use of birth control to prevent pregnancy would also be considered unnatural in the same respect. The idea that the only...

Well, that's a good question. I don't exactly think everything has failed yet, though. The sentiment that "this is a degenerate age" has been being tucked into spiritual books for well over two-thousand years. Frankly, I sometimes question if that isn't just an age-old way for making people feel...

Sorry, Quahom...I wasn't necessarily challenging what you said...mostly just adding my thoughts. But, I suppose that what you say raises a good point: Has strict interpretation of a two-thousand year old book come to conflict with society because the cultural values contained therein are...

The Church certainly does have the right to put their foot down on the issue of homosexuality...that is, if they really believe it's the best thing to do. However, flowperson brings up a very good point. Homosexuality has been going on for thousands upon thousands of years. It isn't as if...

arthra- Although I am familiar with no formal studies, I have also read that Leonardo da Vinci was neurotic...which could mean many different things, I guess (what neurosis exactly?). This idea was mentioned in the context of psychology, where it was noted that removing one's neurosis was not...

I have heard the term "Cultural Christian" used to refer to them before, but I've also heard that that's often used as a kind of demeaning way for some Christians to refer to others. A "Cultural Christian", as I've come to understand it, is one for whom "self-identification as Christian is more...

Not being a Christian myself, I am sometimes overhwhelmed by the varying beliefs of different sects of Christianity. However, what about people that don't really seem to fit into any particular Christian viewpoint, but that nonetheless express a mostly Christian idea of spirituality? I ask...