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What did Jesus and his disciples do for entertainment?

I know there's nothing about it in the bible, but they had to have been bored sometimes. Did people tell jokes back then or sing and dance? Did they play games?

'For ****s sake, Judas, we're not doing charades again! How the hell were we supposed to know it was "The Iliad"? Jumping up and down in front of a wall, clutching your heel, then pretending to be a horse?"

"And as for you, Peter, that's the lamest attempt I've ever seen of an impression of Moses parting the Red Sea!"

What Each Critic Picked
JEFF FAVRE PRODUCTION: The Girl Who Would Be King, Absolute Theatre, El Centro Theatre; The Glass Menagerie, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum; Leap of Faith, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Road to Saigon, East West Players, David Henry Hwang Theater; Something Happened, Pacific Stages; The Subject Was Roses, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum; Thurgood, Geffen Playhouse ...

Xians...do you believe in the Loch Ness Monster?

There is more proof that the Loch Ness Monster exists/has existed than Jesus. There are pictures and eyewitness accounts. Why don't you believe in the Loch Ness Monster?

Hmmm first off, these are the opening words of the Gospel of Luke:

Luke 1:1-4
Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. Therefore, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

Now let me ask you a question about your news that you read. Does every journalist eyewitness exactly what they are reporting on? No! How do they find out what happened? They ask people what happened. If there was a car accident or other terrible disaster and asked 5 different witnesses what happened, you would get 5 different stories, and each witness would probably emphasize a different aspect of the event. That is normal, that is humans for you, we don't always see things in exactly the same way. But here's the thing, there would be a minimum set of facts which you can get from their stories to begin to produce something of an account of the events.

Questions about post second-coming life?

A few things about what the bible says will happen after Jesus comes again don't add up for me. Was wondering if anyone can explain.

I don't mean to waste your time with my total lack of an answer, but I just wanted to say that this is a pretty cool question. I never really though about it in quite this way before, but I love this sort of thing. I will definitely be giving it a lot of thought in the future!

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question about dating christian girls?

I consider myself a christian, but a liberal one and I tolerate other faiths. I don't discriminate against people or preach to them or tell them how to live their lives. Do any christian girls consider themselves ok with this type of guy? I'm really nice and considerate of christian girls, but I do look at porn/masturbate since I'm not in a relationship nor can have sex. I'm also tolerant of gay people, play violent video games, curse, and watch adult swim. But, I still consider myself a good, moral person who believes in God and Jesus. Is this not enough for christian girls, or am I still "unevenly yoked"? do christian girls look down on you if you don't like to "witness" to people and don't read the bible/goto church all the time?
p.s. please do not talk down - I'm nice and I don't cheat on girls or lie or do any of that, so don't paint me like a terrible person. Also, no admonishment or whatever word you call it, because no one has the right to judge me without knowledge.

(i'm a girl christian) & i would have a hard time dating a guy who wasnt like you
i dont discriminate, and i dont go to church every single week
all those extremely conservative christians drive me crazy, and they probably wouldn't date you, just like how i wouldnt date them, but you also probably wouldn't have the best relationship dating someone who doesn't agree with a lot of your personal beliefs

you just need to find a cool christian girl without those crazy demeaning morals

A Shade Loving, Early Blooming Perennial

Through the years a variety of plants have come to be called "Christmas Rose"; they are all steeped in a legend that dates back centuries. Most frequently, the plant Americans associate with the Christmas Rose legend is the hellebore.

In late winter the first plants to bloom in my garden are the Christmas hellebores - often first appearing when there is still snow on the ground. Their blooms and evergreen foliage brighten the winter garden and offer a hint of the spring to come. Native to much of Europe, hellebores were grown in Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia as early as 1793 and today it seems that gardeners can't get enough of them. Over the past decade, plant breeders have created many new hybrids of the latter blooming Lenten Rose (Helleborus orientalis). Now they have started to work their magic upon the Christmas Rose (Helleborus niger).

The Christmas Rose Legend

When the Magi laid their rich offerings of myrrh, frankincense, and gold, by the bed of the sleeping Christ Child, legend says that a shepherd maiden stood outside the door quietly weeping.

She, too, had sought the Christ Child and desired to bring him gifts. But she had nothing to offer, for she was very poor indeed. She had searched the countryside over for one little flower to bring Him, but she could find neither bloom nor leaf, for the winter had been cold.

And as she stood there weeping, an angel passing saw her sorrow, and stooping, the angel brushed aside the snow at her feet. And there sprang up on the spot a cluster of beautiful winter roses, -- waxen with light pink petals.

"Nor myrrh, nor frankincense, nor gold," said the angel, "is offering more meet for the Christ Child than these pure Christmas Roses." These the shepherd maiden carries to Jesus, who smiles broadly and touches them, turning them pale pink.

Double Fantasy Christmas Rose Gift Offer

This year we have the brand new double Christmas Rose - 'Double Fantasy' that will make a lovely and thoughtful gift. 'Double Fantasy' features pure white, ruffled blooms with several rows of petals that look even more like true roses. They "pop" against the evergreen dark green foliage. 'Double Fantasy' can be kept in the house and planted in the garden in the spring. It will look lovely under deciduous trees, next to shady patios or courtyard gardens. Be sure to plant your Christmas Rose up close, so you can enjoy its beautiful blooms in mid-winter. 'Double Fantasy' provides a pleasant textural diversion in a bed of hostas, or in a mixed border. And, deer do not eat hellebores.

Planting and Care

'Double Fantasy' is permanent and easy to grow. It matures into a mound of evergreen leaves ultimately almost three feet wide and 18-24 inches high and lasts for decades. In most North American climates, where the soil freezes, a winter thaw will bring the much appreciated floral display.

Alan Summers, president of Carroll Gardens, Inc., has over 30 years experience in gardening and landscape design. He has made Carroll Gardens one of America’s preeminent nurseries, having introduced more than 20 new perennials and woody shrubs over the years and reintroduced numerous “lost” cultivars back to American gardeners.

Carroll Gardens publishes a weekly online newsletter written by Alan. It contains valuable gardening advice and tips and answers to customer questions. Click here to sign up for the Carroll Gardens weekly enewsletter.

Every Saturday, Alan hosts a call-in gardening forum on WCBM radio - 680 AM. For those outside of the WCBM listening area, they can listen to radio show via the internet.

Visit CarrollGardens.com to learn more.

What are your favourite songs by Slayer?

Give me a Top 10 list if you can. My favourite Slayer songs are:
1. Raining Blood
2. Angel of Death
3. Postmortem
4. Alter of Sacrifice
5. Agressive Perfector
6. Hate Worldwide
7. Criminally Insane
8. Necrophobic
9. Jesus Saves
10. Epidemic

1. Black Magic
2. Chemical Warfare
3. Metal Storm / Face The Slayer
4. Dead Skin Mask
5. Seasons In The Abyss
6. Spirit In Black
7. Angel of Death
8. Kill Again
9. Ghosts Of War
10. Cult

Blessed be the Lord Jesus Christ. First I would like to ask you a question, do you love Jesus? Is He your best friend? Are you looking for Him ? As we all were before becoming saved and walking with Him. Do you feel alone in this terrible and often times cruel, unforgiving, understanding world? Have you lost loved ones, friends, family, or maybe yourself? Do you feel a hole or void in your life that is empty blackness without escape?

If you can answer yes to any of these questions , the answer is so simple and so true. Just turn your heart to Jesus. He loves you. He will be your best friend, your comforter, your all if you let Him. All you have to do is humble yourself, bend the knee and if unable to then bend the heart. You don't have to be in a church to ask Jesus into your heart, you can be saved anywhere at anytime!! Isn't that an awesome concept. If you know you are a sinner and wish for forgiveness, and to walk in life with Jesus in peace, joy and love , He is the door, the light, and the way. He can heal you in ways doctors never can. He can remove old hurts and strongholds in your life that no one else will ever be able to. No matter of hours put in at a psychologist office will ever do for you what accepting the Lord Jesus Christ into your heart will do. He can remove all sorts of bad habits or sinful things we all have to be ashamed of.

Are you angry because of your past? Did you live an unfair childhood? Are you living an unfair adulthood? Are you abused (past or present)? Believe me I know your pain, but Jesus can free you from it, from the anger , and the resentment. Are you angry with your spouse , are you living in an unhappy marriage? Do your children run amuck? Seemingly to never know when to mind and be still? Are you unhappy with your job, your house, your life, your weight, your everything?

These things plague you because you need to turn to Jesus. Let him fill you with the peace, joy and love only He is able to give. Let Him be your Savior, your reason for living , and your all.

No I am not some holy roller, up until July 22, 2007 I was knee deep in sin. I was 29 at that time, unsaved, and I had many many sins in my life. Some worse than others a few really big time sins against God. I was unhappy with everything, my life, my husband, my weight, my children. There were days I wished the world would open up and swallow me whole. On July 22, 2007 my daughter begged me to come to see her baptized, yes she had to beg because I did not want anything to do with a church house or it's people. But seeing those sweet hazel eyes of hers brimmed with tears was more that I could bare. So I agreed to go , I got dressed , dreading the whole thing believe me. We went and I heard the sermon, the preacher was speaking about Hell, and the pain for all eternity if we went there instead of Heaven. I do not think I have ever been so scared in all my life. My heart began to race , I began to sweat and tremor. I looked down and I was literally gripping the pew bench with white knuckles. At the end of the sermon the preacher said to everyone " we are going to have a few minutes of invitation". Now being the sinner I was I did not understand what that meant at that time. But everyone had there eyes closed and they were praying. I was thinking to myself if I can just last a few more minutes I will be out of here. But all of the sudden there was a tug on my chest, it truly felt like someone had grabbed the front of my shirt with both hands and was pulling me to the alter. It was frightening and joyful all at once. I knew without a doubt it was Jesus. I got to my feet somehow though as of now I do not really remember walking to the alter and falling on my knees to pray. That very minute I said to Jesus , please I know I am a sinner , but please take these sins away, please forgive me, please love me too. Please come into my heart and He did. Even though I know I am not worthy He loves me enough to save me.

Jesus loves you too. Please do not ever forget that He loves you too. And He only wants the very best for us here and in the afterlife. Do you want to call Heaven your home someday? I know I do and will. God Bless you always.

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L'Innocence by William Bouguereau?

Ok, I'm completely lost here.
There seem to be TWO paintings by William Bouguereau called "L'Innocence" (aka "Youth")
Here is a link to one:

The painting of Mary with Lamb and Jesus - is famous. It appears far more than the second painting with angels. This work is in a private collection, but as you will have discovered there is no info. at all about the girl with angels painting except that the two works seem have been painted in the same year. It is quite possible that the two paintings were given the same name (not by the artist, who may not have named them), Have you tried consulting some books on the painter: e.g. The Studios of Paris: William Bouguereau and His American Students?. It is conceivable that the second and in my opinion more inferior work with the angels was produced in conjunction or by his studio staff.

http://www.amazon.com/Studios-Paris-Bouguereau-American-Students/dp/0300114133

I am afraid that this is the best that I can do.

Coat of Arms of Slovenska Ves in Slovakia?

I need some help finding a photo or image of the Coat of Arms for the town of Slovenska Ves in Slovakia. It is a blue shield with an image of St. Mary holding baby Jesus.

Hi,

I found that site;

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/sk).html#CoA

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Coat_of_Arms_of_Slovakia.svg

Regards

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would you become an Atheist if?

My song "Dont Push Your Belief"

I've been a Christian for a lot of years, and it's going to take more than a song or a bunch of questions to change my mind.

As far as why a "good" person would worry about going to hell, that's not quite how it works. You can live a moral life and do good works, but if you haven't accepted Christ's atoning sacrifice on the Cross, it's all pointless. One sin or a million -- you've still missed the mark and have forfeited your right to Heaven. Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one comes to the Father except through Him.

Rewards after death were God's idea, not man's. We don't deserve anything from Him, but in His mercy and goodness, He has promised us an eternity of peace and joy in His Presence. The only good we do is through Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, so we can't even claim that we're "owed" anything by God.

And finally, I'm not happy that Jesus was almost beaten to death by the Romans, crowned with thorns and mocked, and then put to death in the most hideous way imaginable. In fact, that makes me cry and hate my sins every time I look at a Crucifix and see what they cost Him.

What I *am* happy about is that He rose from the dead and that He is now my Lord and Savior. And believe me, that is enough joy to keep a smile on anyone's face who understands Who Christ is and what He did for us.

Edit:

Hey, five thumbs-down for telling the truth from a Christian standpoint -- all right! Keep 'em coming, dear ones, because they don't bother me at all.

Like many baby-boomers, I had read about the Virgin Mary's Fatima Prophecies. So when 1960 rolled around, I was very disappointed when the Vatican refused to release the famous Third Secret of Fatima. By the time the Third Secret was finally released in 2000, I had been a practicing civil rights attorney for more than twenty years and had sued government officials, federal judges and even a sitting U.S. President. This experience had shown me how high ranking officials in bureaucracies use stonewalling, disinformation, tampering and retaliation to preserve and promote their own secret agendas.

Even if you're not a fan of the Virgin Mary, you'd be hard-pressed not to recognize that the Vatican has routinely employed these and other techniques to thwart messages the Virgin Mary had has been reported to have given during the Modern Marian Era.

It began in 1846 when Mary appeared to two shepherd children at La Salette, near the French Alps. After the local bishop and Vatican approved the apparition, Melanie Calvat, one of the seers, disclosed a secret given to her by the Virgin in a book she wrote in 1879. Because Melanie's book chastised the apostasy in the Catholic Church, and predicted enemies of Christ would abolish civil and canon law, the Vatican flip-flopped and banned the book. All copies were ordered destroyed.1

Both the tone and content of the letters the Vatican had written in their attempts to keep Melanie Calvat from publicly sharing the Secret of La Salette reminded me of a letter I received from the U.S. Attorney in San Francisco. Written in response to my allegations of fraud and failures in the Reagan Administration's enforcement of civil rights laws, it simply read, "These cases are over. There is nothing further to be done in them. Close your file."

La Salette was not the only time the Roman Curia has tried to put a muzzle on the Mother of God. It had done so with the Fatima's Third Secret as well. So urgent was Our Lady's message contained in it, the Vatican dispatched an envoy with a copy to President Kennedy, Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev and British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan. As a result, a treaty was signed by nearly 200 nations which banned nuclear testing in the air, on land and on sea.2

Although it was Our Lady's clear intent the Third Secret be revealed to the public in 1960, the Vatican failed to do so until 2000. Even now, there is a small army of clergy, writers, forensic experts and members of the faithful who contend the Vatican's version does not line up factually or logically with what is known about the Secret. They believe that like the La Salette Secret, it contains a chastisement of Church leaders and warns of future attacks on civil rights and cannon law.

This sent me on a mission to learn all I could about the secrecy surrounding the Virgin Mary. I discovered her first apparition in the United States was reported to have been made to George Washington at Valley Forge, in 1777. An account of the event was published in The National Tribune and discussed more recently by acclaimed Marian expert Janice T. Connell. 3 It seemed very revealing that I couldn't recall having been taught this in history classes or ever reading about it in any religious literature.

The next case I came upon occurred in 1949, when Mary Ann Van Hoof, a housewife in Necedah, Wisconsin, reported visits from the Virgin Mary. When an estimated 100,000 pilgrims flocked to her small farm, the local bishop declared the visions to be false and prohibited worship there. When Mrs. Van Hoof and her followers continued their worship, they were placed under interdiction.4

I also read in the December 9, 1974, issue of The New York Times about reported apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Bayside New York. After the local bishop banned worship at the site, seer Veronica Lueken and her followers eventually moved to a permanent shrine near Shea Stadium. After an investigation, the bishop ruled the apparitions lacked authenticity and were contrary to church teachings.5

The La Salette and Bayside apparitions had several things in common. They were the first public apparitions in the United States. They warned of secrecy and wrongdoing by Church and government officials centered around money, information, civil rights and education. Both also involved retaliation against the seers and sham, self-serving investigations by Church officials.

In an attempt to test my theory that the Virgin's messages have been suppressed, I requested a copy of the Bayside investigation findings from Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. To my amazement, the Bayside apparitions had been disapproved without any input or interviews with Veronica Lueken, or her many followers.

1 Beevers, John, The Sun Her Mantle, The Newman Press, 1954, page 90.

2 Neues Europa, October 15, 1963.

3 Connell, Janice, T. Faith Of Our Founding Father: The Spiritual Journey Of George Washington, Hatherleigh Press, 2004, page 126.

4 The Necedah Shrine, from Wikipedia.

5 Veronica Leuken, from Wikepedia.

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April Fools' Conversion?

I've been pretty outspoken about my rejection of religion for a while, but I'm very excited about this April Fools' prank:

thats kind of stupid find a better prank