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I've always been puzzled about how this might work. Does silence equal consent? Does tolerance of those behaviors enable those behaviors? When is it religiously appropriate to have a more assertive response? When is it religiously appropriate to set boundaries? Consequences for violating boundaries?

I continued to attend the Methodist youth group for quite awhile, even though my peers there weren't very friendly. (People weren't friendly at school either. About 2/3 of the kids in the bible study went to my school, as they lived right there in the neighborhood, more or less, then there were...

But I guess that means other scholars HAVE been able to determine, with more reliability than the Jesus Seminar, which sayings are thought to be authentic and which are not as likely to be.

Welcome. This is an interfaith form. That means there are people here from many different faiths or people with no particular faith.

How is this determined? By different and more reliable criteria than that used by the Jesus seminar? Or wait - are you saying these are things determined or supposedly determined BY the Jesus Seminar? 🤔

Which food item would you put the Worcestershire sauce onto?

I just started the new thread! Look forward to anything you want to share!

When I went to college I encountered people of various religious backgrounds. I think it might have been the first time being in an open social context with so many other religions - Islam and Judaism were pretty common on campus. My roommate was not very religious but said she was raised...

The thread about encounters with beliefs when you were a kid is still open, feel free to post there I had always planned to make at least 3 threads, and now feels like the time to make the thread about young adulthood open for business

Maybe now is the time to start the follow up thread "Encounters with Other Beliefs in Young Adulthood" This thread can continue on, but starting the other one just seems to fit the emerging timeline...

I think I had the book on it out of the library back when. I remember thinking it was interesting but the same questions applied - by that I mean the questions that always come up in my head when hardline fundamentalists make declarations - "How do you know" "What do you base that on" and just...

They look more like dinner sausages to me, but I don't know from English sausages or so called "bangers" (?)

This looks pretty good, and reminds me of some version of an English country breakfast.

Which religions are RHP? Which are LHP? Which have both? Is there a source which explains this?

It sounds like you have more to tell! That is, if you wanted to share it. Sounds intense!

Something I remember as a teenager is being on an awful lot of mailing lists somehow. I got a lot of material from Masons and from Rosicrucians. I remember thinking they were interesting, but didn't want to send them any money. Maybe I would have if they were selling books but it wasn't clear...

If they don't serve scotch - only Irish whisky?

??? What do you mean? Which RHP? All religions that are part of it?

Well, one thing at a time, right?

Yes, sometimes even in the NT Gospels I have sometimes wondered how much of Christian doctrine or ideas would make more sense thought of they way people think of koans Even reading the NT Gospels I have always felt confused - maybe mixed messages but I was raised with mixed religious messages...