28/42 # 97662 AND From: THE FLAMING CARROT on Thu Mar 2 5:34pm To refer to god as 'it' usually brings up negative implications. The pronoun 'she' serves the same purpose as the others, but seems more rational. After all, god gave life to all things. I dunno about you, but I've never heard of a man giving birth . God as a provider and a lifegiver and a forgiving entity seems to mesh better with female type-casting more than the male sterotype. 29/42 # 97691 You mean... From: TEMPEST on Thu Mar 2 9:56pm that men CAN'T!?! My dreams of motherhood are shot... As long as we realize the lifegiving redemtion of God--(s)He can be either or neither gender. I just use the He pronoun because of the Bible's use of He (from Hebrew and Greek), the male manifestation of Christ (unless you believe the Enquirer about Jesus being a female leper), and references to the Father... 30/42 # 97742 Me too, ditto. From: FIRE ESCAPE on Fri Mar 3 1:35pm Tempest took the words right out of my mouth. See, Ironman, He does it too! It's not just me. ;) Jesus referred to God the FATHER and "our Father", not because God is a Male, but because of what roles and attributes are attributed to a father. In those days, only the father of a family had any authority. To refer to God as a mother would have effectively stripped God of any power or authority in the minds of the people Jesus was teaching. See? God is an all powerful, all loving PARENT that is not sexual or physical, but who is a spiritual entity that contains all the attributes and character of any good father AND mother. I use "he" and see God as "father" because of tradition, and also to avoid association with other "mother-goddess" factions that are far from Biblical Christianity. The Bible is rich with many cultural nuances. For instance Romans 8:15-16. Did you know that the phrase "Abba Father" was a cultural phrase that meant "daddy", and was only allowed to be used by the first born sons, or in other words, the father's sole heir. To say we have the RIGHT to call God, "daddy" is equal to telling us that we are all equal heirs and firstborn sons (children) of the father. This was the place of greatest honor that a child could have. You see? To eliminate "father" and "son" references would eliminate many cultural inferences that add so much EXTRA meaning to the Bible's message. Fire Escape 31/42 # 97879 Boy, From: NIKADEMUS on Sun Mar 5 3:59am it would be strange if we all found out that God is a giant cat! 32/42 # 97883 Actually I've heard of From: THE JUGGERNAUT on Sun Mar 5 5:06am cases in which women during pregnancies have developed complications due to the fetus dislodging itself from the lining on the uterine wall, and then basically 'floating' to another cavity to mature... This cavity is known as the Douglas Cavity, and both men and women have them... It just may be possible... The Juggernaut 33/42 # 97898 Now where did that From: S'TALON on Sun Mar 5 2:26pm Omni magazine goto! 34/42 # 97931 I've got it. From: PINKY on Sun Mar 5 6:24pm And I don't want it! Some unnamed, faceless person keeps renewing my subscription. I just look thru it for Budweiser and Cig adds with women in bathing suits in them. 'Bout all the magazine is good for. I got one helluva dirty mind. A friend of mine is going absolutely straight for a year (she's usually a bit dirtier than I am), so I have taken it upon myself to corrupt her and f**k her brains out. I'm so mean! 35/42 # 97947 YAYY From: YAMABUSHI on Sun Mar 5 9:42pm This sub needs more posts like that” Yama "The Corruptor" bushi Worry not, Pachina. 36/42 # 97961 Sounds kinda like From: THE MASTER on Sun Mar 5 11:52pm those things that you find inside of magazines, you fill them out, and you get stuff from that company for the next 6-7 years of your life. In other words, it is called "junk mail". Ahh..junk mail... I used to get that from Opus... 37/42 # 97993 YEAH, WELL... From: OLIVER WENDELL JONES on Mon Mar 6 6:35am I WISH I COULD FIND ONE OF THOSE CARDS AGAIN... I WOULD LOVE TO GET *ANY* MAIL DOWN I SCHOOL..® -OWJ...POPE NEGLECTED 38/42 # 98024 So, From: PINKY on Mon Mar 6 11:33am Join one of those CD clubs. You get LOTS of mail from them. Club news, catalogs, subpeonas when you don't pay the invoice... 39/42 # 98064 Well From: THE MASTER on Mon Mar 6 4:17pm when I get mail (REAL mail) I want it to be worth something. I HATE junk mail! 40/42 # 98102 plastic money mail From: SANDRA BERNHARDT on Mon Mar 6 11:47pm yea and as soon as you graduate from high school they start sending the credit card applications for the undergrad...and even when you quit college they keep sending them. does any one know how to stop junk mail. what about student loan collectors...they wont leave me alone...... i remain asiam 41/42 # 98196 How about From: AGRAJAG on Tue Mar 7 6:36pm talking about the right thing on the right subbie...nah. Plastic-melts in the store not in your hand. Agrajag 42/42 # 98220 Just Wondering... From: JIMI on Tue Mar 7 11:29pm Has anyone read much on the "Osiris Resurection Cults" and how they are quite similar to Christianity? Just wondering if anyone out there has.. I have been talking to a few Coptic Christians and they seem to have some interesting ideas on the subject.. Jimi 35/53 # 98473 Fire Escape From: SHO KOSUGI on Fri Mar 10 8:07pm Well in the bible, well lets say, the only reason women is here is because Adam was moping around, and when God asked him what was wrong, he said he was lonely. So tcreated Eve. Ok but the real point of this is, how could Adam be lonely if he had God. Think about it. 36/53 # 98487 Put it this way... From: PINKY on Fri Mar 10 10:39pm God is a pretty great...shall we say "entity". I've talked with people who think they are, more or less, god-like. Let me tell you, it's not very much fun. You know the type of person I'm talking about? Now if that's just "god-LIKE," I'd hate to have to talk with the real thing! Besides, since god (at least the universally accepted definition of God) is not physicaly with us, he's (She's) not all that much fun in bed. God saw man's misery and lonliness, and in a freak moment of decency and kindness, created a woman to fill the empty sheets and empty heart. Of course, this blessing (as all blessings are) had got it's obvious drawbacks. He just HAD to give her a free will! In the long run, it has merely substituted some of man's miseries for different ones. But, alas, I do not believe in creation. So, as you can see, this whole message you just read through is completely unconsequential since I don't believe a word of it. Gee, lookit the no doube valuable time you wasted, reading my senseless posts... Pinky! "Bloop!" 37/53 # 98493 Well... From: THE GREEK SYNDICATE on Fri Mar 10 11:38pm God visits me every morning at 6 am, to set my watch to Cosmic Universal Correct Time. If anyone has any questions they want The Answers to, give them to me and I'll pass them on. ---the Greek Syndicate 38/53 # 98504 Questions - From: OLIVER WENDELL JONES on Sat Mar 11 6:11am What IS the slowest land animal? How do I work this thing? Who wrote the book of love? Why do bird sing so gay? And lovers behave that way? Why do they fall in love? Just what IS Cosmic Universally Correct Time anyway? Why do you park on a driveway but drive on a parkway? And isn't mailman just a *little bit* redundant? -OWJ...Dr. Queriant 39/53 # 98536 Do you From: THE MASTER on Sat Mar 11 1:16pm have any idea what the first thing Adam said to Eve was? <¾ Spell it backwords, too” >the master< 40/53 # 98543 The lowest land From: AGRAJAG on Sat Mar 11 1:58pm Animal has got to be politians...Scum... Master: The first thing that was every said (by humans) was: EVE: Hello, I'm Eve. Adam: I Don't give a S**T...my ribs *HURT* Agrajag-It's true 41/53 # 98547 God From: BUBS on Sat Mar 11 2:47pm was living you Greek. time is relative so Cosmic Universal time cant be. Just think-a god with a sense of humor THAT perverse. yama "love is great. I grok god" bushi 42/53 # 98554 Palindromes From: OLIVER WENDELL JONES on Sat Mar 11 3:27pm A man, a plan, a canal, Panama... -A certain inflammable vegetable, et al -OWJ...Dr. Palindrome 43/53 # 98558 It wasn't that From: NIKADEMUS on Sat Mar 11 3:50pm Adam was lonely, it's just that he wanted an active sex life. 44/53 # 98569 Sure From: BUBBS on Sat Mar 11 5:20pm woman was created from man, but every sculptor does a rough copy before he creates his final masterpiece! 45/53 # 98578 Actually... From: THE MASTER on Sat Mar 11 7:37pm the first thing Adam ever said to Eve was "stand back! I don't know how big this thing gets!" Ha® >the master< 46/53 # 98617 And... From: SCOOTER on Sun Mar 12 10:52am The first thing Eve said to Adam was "If you poke me with that thing again, I'm going to tear it off!"..® ­ Scooter 47/53 # 98624 From: THE MASTER on Sun Mar 12 11:59am 48/53 # 98671 Hmmm...Hmmm...De-dum... From: PINKY on Sun Mar 12 10:42pm What if Adam and Eve hated eachother? Where would WE be? But, alas, I doubt...nay, I REFUSE creation as a history of man. Oop Ackph! 49/53 # 98676 I see on the news where a From: IRONMAN on Mon Mar 13 12:15am pregnant teenage girl was shot in the stomach by her boyfriend, resulting in a miscarriage and the girl in the hospital. I'm just wondering if he'll be charged with murder. 50/53 # 98692 If Adam and Eve From: S'TALON on Mon Mar 13 4:08am hated each other? Then God would have had to introduce cloning, or make Adam and Eve Mark II® -S'Talon P.S. If te Earth is run by mice, is god a mouse, and does he eat cheese, or is he just the one Deepthought announced. 51/53 # 98709 Cults From: PROFESSOR XAVIAR on Mon Mar 13 10:53am I just finished a book at school (leisure reading!!) called "Cults That Kill". Excellent book about how Cults persuade people into membership and what happens to them then.. Alright, Adam and Eve had two kids, Cain and Abel. So, now there's four people on Earth. And, one of the sons kills the other one. Now, he could have gone to Hawaii...but he had BRAIN DAMAGE! 52/53 # 98720 I want to know From: NIKADEMUS on Mon Mar 13 1:33pm where Cain's wife came from. Certainly she didn't come from Adam and Eve, that would be incest. She was from the land of Nodd (East of Eden), was there another Adam and Eve from there? Or did Cain get the same treatment as his dad did? (Rib pulled out). 53/53 # 98729 Not this stupid question .. From: FIRE ESCAPE on Mon Mar 13 3:03pm AGAIN! Arrrrrgh. Don't people ever get tired of asking these same questions over and over again? I have to wonder.... One) According to the Bible, Which is what we are talking about after all: Incest (as you so call it) was not forbidden until WELL into the days of Abraham, and even then it was only frobidden between mothers/fathers and direct siblings. The genetic makeup of mankind had not mutated enough as of yet (presumably, considering a young earth) to produce sufficient reson to ban interbreeding to any further extent. It wasn't until the time of Moses that the current taboos on incest were instituted out of God's infinte wisdom of why they should avoid these relationships. People didn't understand genetics back then but God did. Two) Therefore, Seth, who was the only other son of Adam mentioned by name carried on Adams name with his sisters without any genetic repercussions or social restrictions. There was nothing wrong with this at that time. Where there is no law, there can be no sin. This whole point is rather moot since a large majority of you don't buy creation anyway, so why bother?? Fire Escape