Winter Solstice New Moon
Do you feel the energy of the new moon on top of the winter solstice? Darkest, longest night of the year, just before the sun comes back. The earth calls to me to shed anything that is no longer serving me.
To dance it off.
Cry it off.
Bleed it off.
This isn’t a...
Yeah, this never happens with modern medicine.
Woman 'denied a termination' dies in hospitalHer husband, Praveen Halappanavar (34), an engineer at Boston Scientific in Galway, says she asked several times over a three-day period that the pregnancy be terminated. He says that, having been told...
Iceland has showed us the way.
In short, after Iclandic bankers dismantled the economy, Icelandic people got rid of the political cronies who allowed it, jailed the ******** who engineered it, and started over. They're doing just fine now, which is why you never hear about them in the news.
I...
OK, so some time ago, I checked out a different message board devoted to discussing religion. To get to know people, I started a thread asking "what do you believe?"
The first respondent said she was atheist, and that was it. I responded with "Secular humanist, I'm guessing? :)"
Well she took...
ratikala asked that I start this thread to avoid DIR violations.
Nothing to forgive!
I suppose it depends on one's perspective: I think it much more arrogant to assume we have anything resembling the truth. That said, new ideas don't automatically mean better ideas.
Also, even if one grants...
What precisely is kaddish?
I first encountered the word as the title of an Ofra Haza song (love her), and the liner notes mentioned something about it being a prayer for the dead. Of course, it was the American release of an Israeli album, so... yeah. Not sure on that one.
Anyway, if it is a...
OK, seriously. What is the functional difference, aside from the misguided notion that agnostics should "pick a side?"
I've been pondering this for the last few days, and it really seems to me that the whole "I merely lack belief" thing is just a semantic game. In my more uncharitable moments...
Based on the thread LHP and RHP ... I don't know where I fit. Hell, a MHP was proposed and I'm STILL all over the place! So, I put it to you: what path do YOU think I am?
I am:
A Panentheist
A Mystic
An ecstatic, as opposed to transcendentalist
A (sorely out of practice) witch, specifically an...
I guess it's about time I started one of these things... I'll try to answer all serious inquiries (please, no bacon or underwear), and I'll also condense & update my old theology thread in a bit.
Ask away!
OK, as most of you are well aware, I'm not remotely Christian.
You might not know that I hold Christ in the highest reverence, in my own bizarre way. As such, I like to take the Eucharist from time to time, simply because, whatever one's view of transubstantiation, etc., that's how He asked to...
OK, so I used to be a HUGE Broadway geek.... loved it all. I've grown more discerning in my dotage, but an enduring favorite is Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar. I woke up today with Hosanna stuck in my head, and now I'm listening to the whole thing.
Anyway, I was wondering what...
I'd like to tackle the Hindu Scriptures, but I'm at a loss. There are so many, and I've no idea which translations are adequate
I saw the sticky with recommendations, but I'd like the "For Dummies/ only not so simplistic" version for English speakers. Halp?
So, first question: Which Scripture...
Terry Jones, Quran-Burning Pastor, Hangs Barack Obama Effigy
The effigy is suspended from a makeshift gallows with a noose of yellow rope, has a doll in its right hand and a rainbow-colored gay pride flag in its left.
Is this what the Christian Right has sunk to? Is this guy really the...
Excerpted from another thread:
The difference may seem irrelevant to modern sensibilities, but I'll be the voice of dissent.
Pedophilia is not, and never has been accepted or anything but evil at its purest. Pederasty otoh, is only an issue because of modern beliefs that childhood should be...
What are your thoughts? Do they serve to preserve or marginalize First Nations cultures?
Are there other issues? I'm aware that many are quite impoverished, why do you think that is?