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Hmmmm, there seems to be an active Gnostic presence on these boards; can you share the address of this "Gnostic web-site" to which you refer?

Indeed. This idea was pefectly plausible to the pagans whom the Christians sought to convert to monotheism - in pagan thought, gods were both willing and able to impregnate mortal women (although mortal men were believed to be incapable of doing the same with a goddess.) A father-son...

Well, I'll live through it, I think. ;)

Well said. And indeed, you are correct in your assessment, IMO. Actually, I have a question, and I'm guessing that this is the correct forum in which to raise it. Do the various Churches have differences on what is called by some "the Arian heresy"? Or Origen’s assertion that there are...

I'm so pleased that there is this particular topic, and look forward to posting more here.

I'm just glad I thought to copy it into my clipboard when it got hung; I'd have hated to try to think/type that all over again. :)

Dang it all, I've been trying to post this for over an hour. :( A number of years ago I read something very like the following in an introduction to a book. I wish I could remember which book it was, since I’d like to read it again, but in the meanwhile I wanted to share what I remember...

Hmmm, I'm wondering if this happens when someone else is replying to the same thread to which I want to post.

So, missing lunch is OK then? ;)

I have no idea if this is a problem on my end or ot, but in the past two days when I've tried to post a reply, after I put in the text and click the button to post it, it gets hung. It has sat there on the "Posting reply please wait" for upwards of five minutes. This is an intermittant problem...

Glad you enjoyed it, and merry meet, Operacast! BTW, is you nom-de-internet indicitive of a love for opera? Heavy or light?

One sweltering day in the middle of an unusually hot summer, the air conditioning went out at St. Encumber's. The ensuing phone calls for help result in a Baptist repairman, Jerry Benchley, coming out to take care of the problem. While crawling up among the conduit looking for the problem...

Merry meet, juantoo3! Cute board name, BTW (one, two, three).

I just got the UPS delivery, and in it was a shirt my hubby ordered, and that I had to share. It reads: "The Earth is our Mother The Sky is our Father The Moon is our Sister The Wind is our Brother The Moose is our Second Cousin I don't think we're related to mosquitos at all The Zucchini...

Ahhh, the small birds are singing happily, and the sun is shining. I'm going to take myself off to do a different dance; the dance of "doing what is neccessary", like laundry and house-cleaning. Probably to some raggae for the energetic parts, and some Ali Farka Toure for the more meditative...

Thanks for the welcome! Ecstatic dancing is sooo difficult to describe; I'm delighted that you know, too. BTW, I do not personally think that trancing is a problem; it's one of the goals, actually. But in a class setting I can see that it might be unsettling for others.

Ecstatic dance is, for me, a way of letting go of my ego and letting the divine work through me. It can be an expression of praise, of thankfulness, of communion. It can be meditative. It can be celebratory. it can be fierce or gentle. It can be blissful. It is often joyful, sometimes...

Yes, thank you; I've read the Code of Conduct every day I've posted here, to remind myself. I take it from your response that each forum doesn't have a "sticky", then. Ok, I'll stop looking for them. :)

But...back to religion and war. You have something I want (land, fruit or nut trees, herds of sheep or cattle, oil - whatever). I have no reasonable expectation that you'll give them to me. I'll just take them, and kill you in the process, because that's a permanent solution. That's not a...

Brian, as a service to those of us who are very new here, would it be possible for the moderators in each forum to "bump" the appropriate "sticky" up to the top, so we can all read the guidelines? I didn't even know there were such things until today. And I don't know how to search for them...