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36 hours from now I will be converting this forum to vBulletin v3. This is a major change to superior forum software, that should hopefully past without much of a hitch. The planned start of conversion is scheduled for Tuesday morning, beginning just after 9am GMT. I post the notice now, at...

I thought I'd start a topic inviting people to name their personal flaws, and how they seek to correct them. :) For my own part, arrogance is an especially problem. It seems that the acquiring of knowledge is a great way to feed this flaw. Obviously, the more you learn the more you know! So I...

The "popular" saying "All paths lead to God" is one of my personal principles. Just as there is one world, one sky, one sun - each with many names and expressions - so I see that there is only one Divinity, with a myriad of expressions and names. However, this is not a belief everybody will...

A feedback issue. :) So it's MOVED: http://www.comparative-religion.com/forum/showthread.php?t=229 But I'll add my reply here, as personally hate it when mods move my own topics when a reply would have been perhaps just as easy: :) Apologies for that - likely I was messing with the...

Today I've begun the process of adjusting the site for Search Engine Optimisation. There are no particularly noticeable changes, but behind the scenes there's a lot actually happening to the site code. The whole intention is to ensure that this place is more accessible to a wider audience. And...

Getting my sites in general SEO'ed (Search Engine Optimised) has become a small obsession over the past few months. Although I've yet to actually fully customise the bigger sites properly - not least here - having a forum that can be fully indexed has become a major goal. Unfortunately, YaBB SE...

The host comparative-religion.com is hosted with has been under attack the past 12 hours or so. Although this site has apparently been running smoothly, not only is their main site down, but I cannot access the admin area to backup the forum database. There's a possible danger of major hacking...

Here's an interesting one - a claim that another solar system that may mirror our own having been detected: Solar System 'twin' found And if you're looking for more information on the current search for extra-solar planets - and so far over 100 have been catalogued - then here's the main...

It has been postulated variably through the study of language through to a proto-Indo-European, that language may have arisen either from one single source, or else independently in multiple locations. But whether there was a single original or more than one I doubt that we could ever possibly...

This one has a lot of pagans on websites I visit very annoyed. What do you think? King Kev - Living god of the Witches! Personally I think it's just some daft bloke having a laugh and being taken far too seriously by some people. I mean, really - pink bathrobe? ;D

At last, a ban on foxhunting in England and Wales is likely to eventually make it into legislations: Hunting ban 'likely' by 2005 There have been a number of votes against it before - but all scuppered through some technical twist or other. Now the government seems finally resolved to ban this...

Here's an interesting article - taken from: http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/archive/25-6-19103-23-43-29.html DNA suggests the Celts held their ground Scientists shatter Anglo-Saxon myth, writes STEPHEN STEWART THE first analysis of DNA passed from father to son across the UK has shattered...

This topic seemed more appropriate in the History section. http://www.comparative-religion.com/forum/index.php?board=9;action=display;threadid=209;start=0

I would be interested if anybody would like to devote this thread to discussing the topic of Hell itself, especially with regards to points of interpretation raised in this article - Jesus and Hell – a provocative re-interpretation - which was written almost idly. Hopefully it provides a starter...

Just a rant... In modern Western societies there seems to be a general over-romanticising of Western European "paganism", both in terms of pre-Christian Celtic beliefs, and rural beliefs during the predominantly Christian Mediaeval era. This isn't aimed at pagans as much as general social...

I was asked to look into this religion some time ago. I tell truth - I never actually thought of Rastafarianism as a religion. A culture of dreadlocks, pot, and reggae - little more. Actually, the whole issue of Rastafarianism is a deep religious culture, that developed in the slums of Jamaica...

Essentially - what have you yet to achieve in life that you really yearn to achieve? Travel - I've never travelled outside of the UK - my family went local for holidays. And I'm currently at the lower end of UK earners, so with a family even supposed "cheap" package holidays are quite out of my...

Here's a general question for all - if you had the choice of location, where would you most ideally live, and why? For myself, living on an inner city estate and surrounded by flat agricultural land, I yearn for forested mountains and wilderness lakes. Scotland is a primary choice due to the...

Here's a subject I find interesting - though have yet to explore properly - notably because of the oft mentioned parallels with early Christian belief. I've often wondered if the work by Philostratus can shed any light on early Christianity - either in terms of the Apollonius story borrowing...

Probably much better off in the actual history section. :) http://www.comparative-religion.com/forum/index.php?board=9;action=display;threadid=194