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I've been told that I will learn nothing by reading the bible because the bible is not able to be understood unless interpreted by the Holy Spirit. I've been told that my interpretation of the bible is flawed and unreliable. I've been told that I have to think differently to receive it...

You can buy 1" diameter pulleys at the hardware store and use a rope to show that more pulleys will increase rope needed, but decrease work to lift the same weight. You can use something light (like an unopened gallon of paint) that can be suspended from a rolling coat rack. Three pulleys at...

Don't forget the basic machines even more basic woven into our lives. Levers - almost all basic machines are a form of the lever: Doors, lightswitches, screws, bottle openers,window locks, gas pedal in the car, handicap ramps, plows, zippers, etc. Gears are really a series of levers...

It comes from this idea - That the definition of god(dess)(es) in my opinion is something above/better than ANY HUMAN. It may be omnipotent, it may be super-potent-but-not-omni, but in any case a god(dess) would not be human-like in its limitations. Now, I have done a lot of work with...

It's important to me that you understand that this was not an "argument" or a debate point. Definitely not a "gotcha". It's simply and honestly a QUESTION to which I do not see the answer. That's why I reflected that it's really a rhetorical question, because I don't expect you to be able to...

It was my friend's outlook that I loved - age as an honor. Laugh! Handy, I thought the same thing! Crack a book, Mike!

Nah, I don't care about saying my age. I never understood it either. A friend of mine who is Iranian commented one day, "I do not understand Americans, always trying to hide their age. In my country age is an honor! A goal to achieve, a status to flaunt! Why ruin that with a shallow game to...

So you're thinking 33 THOUSAND feet of water over the whole planet? That fell in 40 days? (comes to what, about 34 feet per hour or 6 inches per minute of rainfall? Bet that was tough on the buoyancy of the ark!) So, where are you thinking it went?

Really? I thought it was. What's your thought?

SCORE!!!! Oooh ooh, I know that one: Homer, 700 BC in the Illiad "Homer's epic poem The Iliad was written in around 700 BC. That was in Greek of course. It was translated into English in the 19th century by Samuel Butler and his version contains a reference to 'bite the dust' in these...

Jeremiah 13:23 (King James Version): Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil. Goes on to ask if the chosen will change their ways to good and be accepted again... can the leopard after all change its spots, then...

Handy wins - Romeo and Juliet. :)

"A plague on both your houses!"

500 BC - Confucius: Don't do to others what you would not want done to you. (Biblical saying that have secular roots)

NO comment from asyncritus on the demonstration that characteristics in children can change based on the BEHAVIOR of the parent? It's pretty cool stuff, here.

Hey, we had a family reunion there once! Nice place. :)

One of my favorite road trips was when I flew to Boise Idaho to buy an old '74 Landcruiser from some friends and drove it back east to where I lived at the time. The truck was 16 years old at the time, and ran okay. I brought my tools, and extra fan belt, oil, hose and clamps - the kind of...

... I don't even need to read the lyrics - I know them all by heart. :muchlove But you're right, the instant it was mentioned, the whole song got sung in my kitchen.

Love that song.

I could be wrong but I always took it not as to impoverish yourself in order to be no wealthier, but rather to impoverish yourself to do all you can to alleviate suffering. If you can alleviate suffering without impoverishing yourself, hooray. But if you can do more to alleviate suffering and...