No original source listed...God's Total Quality Management Questionnaire
God would like to thank you for your belief and patronage. In order to better serve your needs, He asks that you take a few moments to answer the following questions. Please keep in mind that your responses will be kept...
10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage Is Un-American
1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
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Imagine that tomorrow morning a treatment capable of halting and reversing the aging process is developed. The procedure allows individuals to maintain the healthy bodies of individuals approximately twenty-five years of age, regardless of whether theyve enjoyed thirty, eighty, or seven-hundred...
At the moment my roommates and I are sitting in the living room, watching the last third of the documentary "Jesus Camp". It spawned a couple questions that I thought I'd bring your way.
First, have you seen this movie, and if so, what was your estimation of it?
Second, do you believe it...
From "Confucian Ways of Being", p. 180
"The Analects (literally, "Sayings") are a collection of aphoristic sayings recorded and collected by Confusius's students. Some of his students are mentioned by name, and he is often referred to by the title "Master". It contains material that probably...
Chuang Tzu is known for the way he took Taoist principles and made them more accessable to the general public than the Tao Te Ching. Some excerpts for discussion include:
"The unity of the Way is something that virtue can never master; what understanding does not understand is something that...
"...There was one clerk who arrived late, sauntering in without the slightest haste. When he received his drawing panel, he did not look for a place in line, but went straight to his own quarters. The ruler sent someone to see what he was doing, and it was found that he had taken off his...
The root is of nearly medium size, sending forth no branches or leaves above the ground, but with a certain woolliness adhering to it on account of which it could not aptly be figured by me. It appears to be of a sweetish taste and moderately hot. Ground up and applied to painful joints, it is...
The Kanaka Maoli are the native peoples of the Hawaiian islands. Although many of the ancient practices of the Kanaka Maoli are long gone, other traditions are still a part of the lives of modern Hawaiian natives. Once a great pantheon of gods and goddesses were worshipped by the Kanaka Maoli...
Ritual is used at a variety of different times and for a variety of different purposes in Wicca. There are typically three types of rituals. These are the divination rites designed to predict the future and gain hidden information, the therapy rites that are intended to control human...
Ár nDraíocht Féin, which is Gaelic for Our Own Druidism (Bonewits: What Is ADF), is a federally recognized and tax-exempt neo-pagan organization. Founded in 1983 by Isaac Bonewits, ADF started off as a network of independent scholars interested in legitimate research about the ancient...
The hallucinogenic drugs that were once aptly labeled with the term Phantastica by Lewis Lewin are well documented and known for their propensity for bringing on visions and illusions (Lehmann, Myers, and Moro 2005: 93). The very nature of hallucinogenic drugswhich often are known for...
Apache Sunrise Ceremony
Called the Naiiees, the Apache Sunrise Ceremony is a four-day communal celebration that marks the first menstruation of an Apache woman. It consists of numerous sacred rituals, dances, songs, and enactments during which the girl becomes a living representation of...
The Autumnal Equinox, like the Spring Equinox, is a time of equilibrium. Day and night are equally long no matter where one lives on this planet. However, the Autumnal Equinox, in contrast to the Spring Equinox, marks the time when Day begins to give way to Night, Warmth to Cold, and Life to...
Hi everyone. I'm *technically* not new but I haven't been around for... WAY too long... and so many people here probably don't know me.
I'm a college student living in Arizona. I'm majoring in Religious Studies and am enjoying every second of my education. I'm very into geeky things like...
As I left the theatre after seeing the movie War of the Worlds this afternoon, H.G. Wells ironic description of how the alien invaders were slain, after all mans devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth floated through my mind. With it...