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without jumping the Grand Canyon to the conclusion made by most religions.

C'mon dude! Guinness sucks? Thems fightin words!!!

Edited on Tue Nov-10-09 11:23 AM by Meshuga Back in 1999 I arrived in Rio de Janeiro, and the cab driver who was driving me from the airport asked me (in a jokingly manner) what I thought of a Nostradamus prophesy that was supposed to take place on the very next day. I think it has to do with this passage: "The year 1999 seven months From the sky will come the great King of Terror. To resuscitate the great king of the Mongols. Before and...

In defense of his own Franciscan vows of poverty, he took the view that Pope John XXII as a heretic and thus encountered certain difficulties with the Church hierarchy: ... At the convent where he resided in Avignon, Ockham met Bonagratia of Bergamo, a doctor of civil and canon law who was being persecuted for his opposition to John XXII on the problem of Franciscan poverty. On Dec. 1, 1327, the Franciscan general Michael of Cesena arrived in...

when I was in fifth grade. We had to dive under our little desks about once a month in the "atomic bomb" drills. My father built a freaking fallout shelter under our little ranch house. I had recurring dreams of the sky to the south of my town lit up by nuclear explosions. We lived about 30 miles north of Los Angeles. It didn't happen, but the threat was pretty real. 2012? Not so much. The leavings of a dead culture don't...

when he holds up his "God hates Fags" sign. Fundamentalist-style certainty about religious dogma is dangerous no matter where that proclamation ends up on the political spectrum.