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  40 things you might not know

  by Soledad in

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  1. money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.. .

  2. the 57 on heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of.

  pickles.

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  Big Dog

  LOL @ Daystar, hey don't you know that "faith" is a dirty word around here?
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  40 things you might not know

  by Soledad in

  1. social
  2. humour

  1. money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.. .

  2. the 57 on heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of.

  pickles.

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  Big Dog

  I mean, everybody treats Snopes.com like the burning bush, I'm a little skeptical of their omincient powers of myth busting. Can someone please point out on their site where they list their sources, I can't seem to find it.
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  40 things you might not know

  by Soledad in

  1. social
  2. humour

  1. money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.. .

  2. the 57 on heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of.

  pickles.

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  Big Dog

  Where can you check out the Snopes accuracy, someone told me they listed their sources but I never see any sources listed. I have read some stuff from their website and I'm not convinced they aren't hacks themselves.
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  40 things you might not know

  by Soledad in

  1. social
  2. humour

  1. money isn't made out of paper; it's made out of cotton.. .

  2. the 57 on heinz ketchup bottle represents the varieties of.

  pickles.

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  Big Dog

  I love useless facts stuff.
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  I have joined ex gay seminar

  by joelbear in

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  yes, i'm tired of being gay, its time for me to be heterosexual.. among the seminars i have signed up for are:.

  1. breasts are not that icky.. 2. how to keep things out of your butt.. 3. butchness starts with a hammer.. i will keep you up to date on my progress.. hey, check out that babe!

  i wonder if she has a hot boyfriend.. oh darn, well, i'm not there yet.

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  Big Dog

  Joel, I just flashed on the scene from In and Out where Kevin Kline is listening to the self help tape on how to be straight, the best scene in the movie.
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  How do you defend your god's inaction?

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  this is a question for those that believe in a god or gods, particularly those described as "all knowing" or "almighty".. how do you defend to yourself that your god has not in any modern situation saved his people from anything?.

  people of all faiths are regularly killed by various natural elements.

  of course, if you knew such a thing was going to befall a person and you could do something to protect them, you would.

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  Big Dog

  A thought occured to me, do humans always act in logical, rational, explicable ways? Why not? Are we supposedly made in God's image? Did Jesus ever get annoyed, P.O.'d etc or did he walk around with this constant perfect disposition? Why don't we always reason things out and do the logical thing? Emotions, probably half of what people do are based on emotions, hell, most build a significant portion of their life around an emotion called love when they marry, can you prove love, test it in a lab, quantify it? Yet people accept it, act on it, depend on it, lots of crazy irrational people in this world.

  Shrinks can't figure out which way the rabbit is going to jump when it comes to human behavior, yet we are going to sit around and analyze and citique God's behavior when half the time we don't even know why we behave the way that we do? How many times have you heard a person say, I did it again, I don't know why I act that way, etc. We are such muddled beings that us trying to analyze another being, expecially one we can't even put on the couch is pretty ridiculous IMO, but have at it.
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  Why do you worship your god? Or do you?

  by AlmostAtheist in

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  the discussion on god and why it allows bad things to happen was eye-opening for me.

  as i had hoped it would be!.

  one thing i drew from it is that those that believe in god don't necessarily have any basis at all for that belief.

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  Dog, by worship I mean "The reverent love and devotion accorded a deity, an idol, or a sacred object." Or to make it simple, if you pray to it, we'll consider that worship. If you're simply aware of it, believe it exists, but don't expect it to know or care that you exist, then we'll say that isn't worship.

  
  

  
  Dave,

  I was raised by a dub (my father) who spent 15 years in the military and never lost that edge. Respect was taught to me from the get go, and if there is a God that's what I have for he/she/it. A deep and abiding respect for a being that if responsible for all we percieve is impressive to say the least, and deserves my respect for this existence. I always remember dad talking about superior officers that he didn't like, he might have hated them personally, but he rendered them the respect their uniform demanded. I don't hate God like many here do, but on the other hand I have never felt that overwhelming love that many profess to feel for God, and I have sometimes wondered if I was defective because I do not. But when I go with my wife to church (Roman Catholic) on Sundays I sit and meditate and go along with the program as a show of respect and appreciation for my possible creator and what I have.

  So, does that count as worship? I don't know, don't really care to be honest, its what I feel and I go with it.
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  Surgery Sucks!

  by whyamihere in

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  oh my god............. i know what pain is and this sucked.

  i have war scars now...sniff..i hope i will get over the sadness of how it will look.

  i just want to thank everyone who was giving me well wishes.

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  Brooke, glad you are doing well, pain sucks but at least it lets you know that you are alive. Hope you are back to your usual irrepressible self soon!
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  Why do you worship your god? Or do you?

  by AlmostAtheist in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  the discussion on god and why it allows bad things to happen was eye-opening for me.

  as i had hoped it would be!.

  one thing i drew from it is that those that believe in god don't necessarily have any basis at all for that belief.

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  Dave, how do you define worship? What are its components?
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  Really, Do You Look Down Upon Religious People?

  by minimus in

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  i find myself doing that at times.

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  I guess that depends on how you define religious people. If you are talking about total fundamentalist (JW's included), faith healing, rolling on the floor speaking in tongues religious people, then no I don't look "down" on them but I see them as pretty misguied.

  If you are talking about people with a healthy faith that brings them a lot of peace and joy in their lives, that don't try to convert everyone they meet, don't go on about their faith constantly, and seem to be better people for it, then no, I think those people are great.