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Suggestion for a topic Thanks, Persona, for your reply. I am don't know for sure why you are interested to know whether Jesus went back to the Father still a virgin. Whatever your answer, I would be enriched by another view from another person who takes the trouble to contribute his...

Terribly embarrassing question Good, that in this forum, one does not get banned unless and until... I got banned in Straight Dope Message Board, it was like having the door slammed in your face. You just realized that you had been banned when you thought that it was some internet or...

Jesus' virginity a non-issue Thanks, Brian and Juantoo, for the re-bienvenu. The way I see it, sex nowadays is so liberated as a taboo. It would seem to be as embarrassing as having to ask for the bathroom in an emergency. Think the worst of Jesus in regard to sex to reach your own...

Man in everything but sin What I know from my Catholic faith is that Jesus is man in all things except sin. But I am now a postgraduate Catholic. About being a virgin for a guy, if we would talk about physical integrity, there does not seem to be any to talk about; for unlike in women with a...

Stick to concrete entities Allow me, kkawohl, to rewrite your three paragraphs so that you maintain some connection with the realm of concrete entities like pebble, wall, and omelet. Paragraph 1: The spirit is in the mind & sometimes it has the ability to interact with the spiritual...

Man in the street on knowledge and belief As a man in the street, I think knowledge must be verifiable by the senses; while belief is founded ultimately on imagination. The knowledge of an object like a pebble is verifiable by the senses. Somebody throws a pebble into your eye, you will get...

No choice but to be humble Samabudhi, you say: I think they are metaphors for processes which people back in the past and simply people of today can and could not explain by rational thought. Then, according to you rebirth, reincarnation, resurrection, and similar entities are processes...

God bless you, Brian. Some forty (40) minutes ago, I could not access your forum again; before that I was reading a private message from Suanni. I thought I was 'banned' again, or my IP was blocked again. Now, I can access it and am writing this post. There is a three strikes rule or...

Dear brian (the big bad boss): Bgru once told me that there is a three strikes rule here, meaning on being given the third warning, you are automatically banned. I think the three stikes should have a time or number of posts limitation, i.e., three strikes within how many days or how many...

Profuse apologies Dear Vajradhara: ...this is one of the reasons why i find discussions with you on this topic to be exccedingly frustrating... i've NEVER said that there are no gods in Buddhism. in fact, and you can find this in all my posts, when asked about it, i always state that there...

Imagination, entertainment and business For my part, although I am not a scientist, I am fairly convinced of the fact of evolution. Mind you, I say the fact; because evolution explains a lot of things in the differentiation and complex elaboration of animals and plants, at least for me and I...

All very human Buddha says: "Do not make statues of me", saying with a great self-complacent smile of utmost serenity. Jesus says: "I have food you know not of", saying afterwards He asked for the bathroom. Cyncus Anonymus Commentary: Whatever the intention of the author who is...

Thanks Well, it is good news. I could not access the forum for several days. So I just gave up trying to access it further, because the experience of being rebuffed is not pleasant even for a person like me who claims to be Buddhistic even without Buddhism -- and that led me to the...

Banned from Comparative-religion.com forum? Dear Brian: Have I been banned all these over two weeks, or was it some computer/internet fluke? I did not receive any third warning and I did not receive any notice about being banned. I just found out when trying to access the forum for since...

Man in the street That's a very good review of Buddhism, for my part, that is, thanks a lot. I have to read it again and maybe even a third time. What I like about your posts, Opera, are their personally digested and personally served ideas in their personally designed table and...

Still entertainment I still think it is good entertainment. But where or from whom or what does the entertainment come from? My intuition says this is the first lady of the home... Would you like to ask your reasoning mind also, making a very systematic search for the source of the...

Interview I would like to interview you about religion, if I may. Please tell me spontaneously without reflecting lengthily about the following items: 1. What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you come across the word 'religion'? 2. Can you tell in which religion that...

Just as we do today. The Editorial Team Behind the Bible... How long was it ago, some thousand of years? The time of Moses and those guys who wrote or put together the earliest books of the Old Testament? It was some kind of publishing house, I imagine. They basically had what we have...

Time to smile I hope, Phi, you won't be dismayed or even hate me for this post. Just for fun, and to lighten up the density of your musings: Once I heard from someone who was advocating limitation of human population growth, namely, because according to him, if we keep on adding...

Two contributions One: Have anyone mentioned Yin and Yang. I think the thinkers behind the Yin and Yang concepts can add to this discussion. These thinkers come from a very old old civilization and the only one still extant with a continuous uninterrupted history to the present. I think Vaj...