Recent content by karri0n

The study is not inaccurate or poorly researched. The link is real. However, we've known for a long time that smoking the seeds can lead to low sperm count/infertility in men. I would like to see the study re-done controlling for whether or not seeds were smoked.

Three million witches in the world wish witchcraft was anywhere NEAR that hardcore. For the most part, witchcraft involves thinking happy thoughts and lighting a candle, or dancing around a fire or maypole at the solstice.

It wouldn't be possible, unless you invoked omniscience, thus allowing the demon to become an "observer" of the entire universe at every moment.. When not being observed, matter and energy break down into probability functions, and quantum fluctuations that seem wildly out of the scope of...

In more traditional, polytheistic belief systems, The "Knower" or "seer" and the "wrter" are two different frces or beings. The weavers of fate rite the fate of the gods as well as men. Fate is generally thought of as having some ultimates, but aso being mutable. Essentially, there are certain...

The other extremely vivid dream I had was one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. This happened around the same time as the dream I just posted, but I don't see any meaning in it. My mother had just dropped me off at church. I went to go in but the doors were locked and no one was...

Godchecker.com has something like 3500 listed - and most of them are still worshipped, respected, or revered by different people around the world. There are also many modern polytheistic belief systems - look into the various forms of neopaganism. Many of these gods aren't really equated with...

The most vivid dream I've ever had was when I was first learning about meditation, energy work, and magic. I was told by my teacher at the time I would need a "magical name", so I meditated on that while focusing on a candle for about an hour, before I heard a name "whispered" to me and it felt...

Didn't they recently prove that it was Stewie Griffin? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory_%28Family_Guy%29

:wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall: No they haven't. Years back, some readings showed that neutrinos(the same particles that these latest experiments are relating to) might be, but there was a pretty wide margin for error, so the results were discarded. This time around, the...

I have to admit, I was also scratching my head at that.

Personally, I draw it at fundamentalism. Of course there are different levels, and obviously most Christians or followers of other mainstream religions would not say fundamentalism is inherently dangerous. There's something called the "Advanced Bonewits' Cult Danger Evaluation Frame"(ABCDEF)...

Nice! I had suspected that you missed it, Oly managed to do a number on this thread and it sorta dropped off.

You're right. He did say your personal interpretation. I'll give you that.

Not sure if I agree with that. That's one of the results of spirituality, but most of the mainstream modern religions have very little spirituality in them, if any at all. The goal of "most" religions, meaning the modern mainstream ones, seem to be control and power over their followers.

BUZZZZ. WRONG. The belief in a god or deity is not a prerequisite for a religion. That's not "religion". That very well may be the goal of your religion. Religion is simply a philosophy or set of rules, morals, and goals by which someone lives their life. "Faith" is a trust in the usefulness...