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Well, I used to have a pic as an avatar, but since I don't any more, and I guess I look different than I did then anyway... I don't know why it's so large and proudly displaying its blurriness. Too lazy/indifferent to Photoshop. :(

I've got to dredge up this slightly aged thread. I'm listening to a couple of great CD's right now.... Anyone see 'Scent of a Woman'? At least, recently enough to remember the tango scene? That tango piece is called 'Por Una Cabeza' ('for a head', literally. I've heard that that's pretty...

So.. what exactly IS this placebo effect? I mean, doctors recognize that it exists, that there is some force in the body that is inclined towards healing, with some variation... Why is the variation there? How far can it go? Someone responding to a sugar pill in a Paxil study is...

Not to be offensive, of course, but I have yet to find someone who both really understood Darwin's ideas and at the same time believed them to be false. I would recommend a read of his Origin of Species to anyone who tries to say definitively whether or not they accept the theory. Granted...

Interpret itself? I don't understand. One could take a liberal interpretation, a conservative one... one could consider differences in translations and changes over time...

Hm. I think there's something I'm not getting here. Did someone post the JW idea of Hell on here and I missed it? If noone did, what is that idea of Hell? And forgive my lack of knowledge on the subject, I'd reference it myself if it were practical, but what does the Bible specifically state...

Huh?

Why is your interpretation of Hell right and the JW one is not?

Science does not apply to Hell, at least as we know both of those things, so 'sciency' is as good as anyone's going to get. Now, you could argue that 'sciency' is so inadequate to the point that noone should use it, but, that's what the professor asked for and he had no choice. As for shoddy...

My favorite joke ever. ~~~ A new priest at his first mass was so nervous he could hardly speak. After mass he asked the monsignor how he had done. The monsignor replied, "When I am worried about getting nervous on the pulpit, I put a glass of vodka next to the water glass. if I start...

Well, first off, as I said, it isn't a true story. Check snopes.com if you want the scoop on that. Secondly, why should they have 'failed miserably'?? :eek: I think it's a brilliant sciency analysis of an abstract concept, which is really what the professor asked for. A+ material, for sure.

I saw a Muslim woman on a talk show once and she talked about what the burqa meant, why it was there and her personal feelings on it. She said that the burqa prevents men to whom she is not married from seeing her as a sexual object. This means that she can go wherever and do what she pleases...

When you consider a flood, the water pressure isn't that big of a deal, I think. I mean, it's not like the water is just BOOM and there. If we're talking biblical style, it rained for a really long time before there was enough water to create significant pressure to do that (on another note...

I guess I'm in a silly mood. Here's a nice story on the nature of 'Hell'. It's been around, so likely many of you have read it, but for those of you who have not... Well, and I have to say, it's presented as a true story, which it is, in fact, not. But that doesn't make it less funny...

I thought that was 'boys' that are made out of those things. Boys = hell? :p

I'm pretty surprised that this has gone on as long as it has. Intolerance is tolerated at comparative-religion.com? Terrence and 'Blazn', since you are so insistent on 'understanding', think. How could so many millions of people follow a religion that is the way you indicate? It doesn't...

Back down look within Calm and serene but without! Pants are on fire.

You COULD say it, and it COULD be, but that doesn't mean that it IS a self-fulfilling prophecy. :D I'd say that just the fact that you are aware that it could be either way is a good thing. Blind faith sucks.

Foreskin luggage. That is out of control. lol I have a thing from Edgar Cayce that adds to the relationship idea. So you're supposed to 'atone' if you do something bad, right? And mainstream types generally think that that means feel real bad about your action and pray or do something to...

Whoa. Have you seen the movie 'Entity'? I myself have not, because I know what it's about and I know it's a true story and I don't want that in my head when I'm trying to go to sleep at night or at other times. Hmum. Has anyone seen that movie? I wonder if that's an incubus... it certainly...