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Welcome, Fern. The more the merrier.:D

Interesting that you bring this up. I have never understood the theory that Jesus was fully human as well as fully divine, but yet never sinned. If he was fully human during the time that he sojourned here with us, he had to have sinned - as being a sinner is an integral part of being human, at...

I would hate "dreams on command". I would much rather be surprised by what my mind - or wherever dreams come from - cooks up for me of an evening. I can't complain, anwyay; the special effects in my dreams sometimes rival anything Lucas or Spielberg could come up with. I think my experience...

Stormdancer - consider this a warm welcome from sunny (sometimes) Central California. Hope you enjoy your time here.

To me, spirituality denotes the condition of an individual who is concerned with and on a search for how ulitmate questions affect both themsevles and the rest of the universe. I think that the individual can fit activity in an orgainzed religious body into their search. However, I don't really...

It's hard to say which of the above is the case; I tend to believe it is "all of the above", depending on circumstance. I do know that I have seen the results of workings that absolutely brought about the circumstances the working was meant to create, in the absence of any other logical...

If thou be an foole; where be thy hill?:) *looks around, then exits...humming*

"...And we are all together." Sorry. I have these Beatles' moments once in awhile. It isn't an exact quote, I think, but the flavor of emong's post just hit a note with me, and...presto! A Beatle's moment. Anyway, to be serious for a moment, these precepts make a beautiful statement, to me, at...

Personal flaws? Well, I tend to procrastinate at times, especially over things I don't really want to do in the first place. I am way too self-critical. My Virgo personality showing, I guess. I have a great deal of trouble hiding it when I am in a bad mood. I tend to expect too much...

This is an interesting idea, although I'm sure I don't grasp all the details since I am a physics illiterate. Not proud of that, but it's the truth. What this brings to my mind are reports of twins who feel each other's pain - literally. There have been reports of twins such that when one...

Two words: Close Encounter.:) Only joking.........I think. Actually, I know that the Mormons believe God actually came down and physically conceived Jesus with Mary. Which had to have been a fairly close encounter. Of course, the Mormons have also traditionally believed that God was once a...

What a fascinating thread. I've been interested in the possibilities of reincarnation ever since I first heard of the concept when I was about 10 or 11 years old. That was when I heard my mother make a comment to someone that when I was very young, I had her half believing in reincarnation...

Oh, there is absolutely a huge area in between the extremes of strict creationism and strict evolutionism. I've actually done a lot of reading and study in this area, and I have a great deal of trouble with both those extremes; advocates of both extreme positions seem to think that everyone...

I find these statistics quite interesting. Those who advocate the teaching of creationism in schools consistently argue that such instruction is necessary in order to keep students from being indoctrinated in the secular belief of evolution. It seems to me that these statistics refute that...

Interesting thread. However, I'm not going to even try to set a defintion for religion. I took a Psychology of Religion class a couple of years ago; in that class we spent two weeks trying to define a) religion, and b) psychology. We never did come up with a satisfactory defintion for either...

Well, that was a frustrating exercise. Again, I'm sorry that the format didn't work out, but I'm too close to kicking my comptuer across the room to play with it any more right now. :) I hope the information is at least clear enough to make my point: that despite the official stance of only...

Every poll I've seen in the last few years shows that, despite the fact that in most places the public schools only teach evolution, more people in the United States state, when asked, that they believe in the biblical account of creation than say they believe in the theory of evolution. Here...

Taking my name and dwndrgn's in vain, eh, emong?:D Actually, I've never heard any statistics as to the distributions of IQs in males versus its distribtuion in females. So, statistically, Brian could be quite correct. However, I don't think that has anything to do with there being more male...

Actually, non-Mormons are permitted in the Tabernacle - it is the Temples which non-Mormons are not allowed to enter. But then, if you really get down to it, not all Mormons are allowed into the Temples. Only those with a "Recommend" (yes, an actual piece of paper) who have passed interviews...

Thanks for the warm welcome! It is definitely a fair assumption that those bird-headed humans are indeed related to shamanistic practice. I think my point was that even if these depictions in cave paintings are semi-realistic or realistic depictions of shamans using props to enhance the...