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Mary Magdalene was definitely not a "hussy". Nor even a prostitute. 8) The Bible really doesn't tell us that much about her. We don't know if she was married, a widow, single, or even rich or poor--altho the fact that she apparently did help to finance Jesus's ministry implies that she did...

I am still deeply miffed that my beloved Julian of Norwich has never been canonized. Never beatified either, for that matter. I consider it a personal insult since she's my favorite mystic/writer ever! Clearly the Vatican and I need to have a talk!! :twisted:

Well, "real deal" or not, Derek was always a hoot to watch! :lol:

If someone gets too annoyingly persistent about your religious preference, you can always inform them cheerily that you are a devout Carpocratian Gnostic. I can promise that you will be met by a baffled silence, followed by a quick retreat. (And yes, such a sect once did exist--I challenge...

"Amen" to that, sister! :wink: Seriously, even tho I'm American, I've never heard of this "quiverfull" nonsense. I am aware tho that more and more very conservative Protestants are not only violently anti-abortion but increasingly anti-contraception. And I'd been wondering about the...

Ah, rynner, if only I knew! :( It just seems that our two major parties (Democratic and Republican) keep drifting further and further apart, and sadly it isn't a peaceful separation, it is so full of hatred and venom and spite. It's really discouraging! I think one reason (and as a...

*SIGH* We Americans do seem to have more than our fair share of wackos. And now the newly ex-Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, is informing us that the President's new health plan means that the storm troopers will soon be arriving at her house to kill her elderly parents and her Down...

Yep--sounds like us. Good old homo sapiens. We never met a species yet we didn't try to wipe out. :(

BUMP!! This is utterly bizarre! First time I ever heard of it! General consensus--if any?! :shock: :o :?

I guess everyone has heard by now of the tragic death of John Travolta's 16-year-old son. The family was on holiday in the Bahamas; while taking a bath, the boy apparently had a seizure, hit his head on the side of the bathtub, and drowned. There will be an autopsy. Travolta is a well-known...

I recently watched that show about the "ultimate" Purity Ball, including the dad with five daughters. (They have girls as young as four years old there taking virginity pledges!!! :shock: How many 4-year-olds do you know who even know what "virginity" is, much less are capable of forming such a...

Did someone just say something? :twisted: Then again, maybe it's just those darned voices again....

LOL!! :P Sounds to me like "fetus in fetu"--but I admit I never heard of it located in anyone's brain before! Very, very weird! :shock:

Okay, not sure this really counts as "weird", but I thought it was funny. I was googling the map around my hometown, checked out my own house (very cool, too bad they didn't get our award-winning Christmas decorations lol!), but my mom and I both laughed when we zoomed in on our next-door...

I read somewhere not long ago about a married couple who were in the service together (sorry, can't remember if it was military or police! :oops: ) Anyway, the wife (after a promotion) became Sergeant Sergeant. I think the husband (also following a no-doubt-well-deserved promotion) became...

Been having nightmares over that bus decapitation! Yeesh! :shock: I recall, years ago, watching writer Truman Capote on the "Johnny Carson" show. Capote was howling with laughter while he told about a recent robbery at one of his homes. Several morons broke into the house and stole a...

Well, given that I have lots of Scottish ancestry (including my very Scottish surname), of course I must believe in Nessie! Otherwise I would be kicked out of the clan(s)!!! :wink:

I hope I'm not repeating myself :P but here goes: I once saw a telephone listing for a man named "Pink Green". A co-worker said it was for real--she knew the poor soul. 8) There was a wealthy young socialite in Victorian (possibly Edwardian) times, in the Eastern US, "blessed" with the...

Actually I'm envying you your Aussie winter just now! Up here it's been nearly 100 degrees Fahrenheit--not to mention the humidity! I think I'm melting lol! :P

OTR is absolutely correct. The whole silly notion of "The Rapture" was concocted by a man named John Nelson Darby in the 19th century--a "brand new belief" based on the rantings of a Scottish girl by the name (if I recall correctly) of Margaret MacDonald. Very odd how eagerly fundies seized...

Doesn't seem to be much hope for me, I guess! Don't smoke, only rarely drink, and I'm a hetero female, so I suppose the 'wild women' part is out. :lol: I've felt old since my early 20's, go figure!! It really hit home, tho, when my dad developed (probable) Alzheimer's about 5 years ago...

RubberRonnie, that makes sense!! Good post, and welcome to FT Forums!! :D

I always wondered about that extra hand holding the knife too. Maybe El Diablo put in an appearance??? :twisted:

Sorry, Creamstick, I was already roaring with laughter when I read your warning--mea culpa! :lol: If you don't want people laughing you shouldn't write so--er--vividly!! :twisted: Then again, sitting on my ovaries--OUCH!! :shock: You know, they say (I have no idea who "they" are...

If Prince Philip is a god, I'm the Queen of France. :lol:

I haven't met any that I know of :shock: but I have met--online--the "wives" of two serial killers. One was married to Ronald DeFeo Jr (the guy who murdered his family and started the whole "Amityville" thing) and the other was married to Richard Ramirez, the "Night Stalker" of Los Angeles...

I am so phobic about dentists it ain't funny. My current dentist has to give me nitrous oxide (laughing gas) before just cleaning my teeth-otherwise he knows I'll be hoofing it out to the parking lot flagging down cops!!! :lol: :lol: I can thank a dentist I had in childhood for this...

Yes, obviously faked--and the "thunder" scared my cat!! :lol:

I remember reading about this years ago--I was very curious about it!

That is priceless--I wish it were true!!

Interesting idea, OTR. I suppose anything is possible (as a good fortean I have to say that :lol: ) but in this case, I think it was OJ running in the dark and in a frenzy banging smack into Kato's air conditioning unit. Near where he dropped the bloody glove. OJ was guilty as homemade sin...

Well, dang!!!! All this cool stuff in Britian--and the Netherlands and Prague and even the Middle East--and none of it here! :evil: All we've got is that hairy ham-footed smelly old Sasquatch, and I'm thoroughly bored with him. I wanna Green Man---waaahhhhh!!!!!

I, on the other hand, am a very nice fairy. I only sprinkle people with my pixie dust in order to improve their manners--takes a lot of doing, these days. 8)

Sorry, not trying to take over the thread altogether 8) but another one just sprang to mind. Over in Augusta, Georgia (about 35 miles from my home) is a family-run business which does automotive repairs. The family name? Yes--Crook!!! At least said Crooks have a sense of humor. One of...

Talk about synchronicity!!! :shock: I just walked into the den for a moment (where the TV is playing) and heard another one on the TV! It seems that out West somewhere (USA) there's a group of undercover cops out to arrest some drug dealers. The man chosen as their leader? A man named...

I thought of the unfortunately named Cardinal Sin too--and to make it even worse, in Catholicism we have a history of dividing sins into lesser and greater: the lesser sins are "venial" sins and the more serious are, sadly, called Cardinal sins. Poor man!! :lol: I once heard of a man whose...

Unfortunately--as recent events have shown--drug-resistant TB is an ever-increasing threat. I know just how deadly tuberculosis can be. Years before I was born--in fact my mother was only 6 years old at the time--my grandmother came down with a bad case of TB. This was around 1933, before the...

So....where do I sign up? :twisted:

:shock: :shock: :shock: Sorry--but if you lose someone you dearly love, I can't see how any amount of money can make you happy!!! I just do not think you can put a price tag on love. Maybe I'm being overly sentimental here--then again, maybe these gentlemen (however...

About your question, Taffy: I have no medical expertise, training or anything close to it :D but I think this is sometimes true. I recall a case--I believe it was here in the States, several years ago--where a woman was sueing a hospital for "emotional distress". It seems she had been...

Thanks for posting this. It's disturbing to read. Having all the Christians located in one place would definitely make them sitting ducks for anyone who wanted to eliminate them. After all, when Hitler decided to exterminate the Jews in a country, he first herded them into Jewish-only...

Interesting! I might have to trot over to amazon.com myself. :P "Spiritually we are all Semites..." I like that! :D

Well, how very remiss of you! Haven't you at least gone out of your way to make life utterly miserable for any gay people in your community? What are you, some kind of heathen?? LOL! (Just kidding, you know! :wink: ) Yes...imagine the nerve of some of these so-called Christians going around...

I guess if anybody understands condemnation, it's the Rev. Mr. Phelps and his pack of rabid--umm, sorry, I meant to say, his congregation. :P

Methinks Moby hath a point there! And it utterly beggars belief that the Phelps gang would picket the funeral of Jerry Falwell, who as I recall cozied up with Pat Robertson in the aftermath of both 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina to explain to America that we were being punished for our sins by a...

This whole thing is shameful, and a disgrace to the Church. It's bad enough that priests would molest innocent children (who trusted them!!)--it's even worse that the Church knew about these abuses and covered them up!! And it's unforgivable that the Church would shuffle offending priests...

I'd like to add--Lord R, whatever gives you the impression that it would have been easy for inmates of any Nazi extermination camp to escape?? There were more than enough guards--esp. when you consider that they were armed and the inmates, unsurprisingly, were not--besides being half-starved...

Hi, Kath. I agree it's distasteful to "rate" peoples' sufferings. But if you notice, I was quoting Lord Rsmacker, who it seemed was doing just that. I was disturbed by several of Lord Rsmacker's remarks. (And I was primarily responding to his post(s).) First--why mention the deaths of...

Well, call me whatever you like, but I am much less moved by the "sufferings" of the people of Dresden and Hamburg (who if they did die, at least died quickly with minimal suffering) than I am by that of the poor souls at Auschwitz and other Nazi extermination camps, who were victims of slow...

This reminds me of Zimbardo's famous experiment too, which is kind of a classic in the field of social psychology. I majored in psychology and I remember how fascinated (and appalled!) we all were by the outcome. There was another psychological study done (sorry, can't recall just now who did...