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... on the nature of God. I'd like to share a quote from 'The Forest People' by Colin Turnbull. Turnbull is/was an anthropologist and the book is a record of his time spent with the Mbuti pygmies in the Congo. He has asked one of the tribe's elders about a ritual, called a molimo, that...

Thoughts on the subject? Anyone find that they do or do not fit their numbers well? I've been looking into it recently and there are some interesting things... If you don't know what your numbers are, I found a good free calculator with explanations at this site.

... is next to godliness. I just went to do some laundry, and a ray of sunlight was shining through the window onto the washing machine like something you'd see on a religious painting except that instead of Jesus... Well, I am very grateful for washing machines. But what popped into my...

I'm currently reading that book (The Prophet) by Kahlil Gibran. And may I say, mucho impressed. Anyone familiar with this man?

I don't know where to put this. Maybe 'Alternative'? But since the thread that birthed (something about the heart and the mind) it is in Philosophy, this is where I'm typing it. Maybe it will get moved later.. :o Anywho, RevKelly asked that I post what I learned about cleaning chakras and...

I saw that I just made my 111th post, and that made me think of Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring and Bilbo's eleventy-first (111th) birthday party. And that made me think of something that's been on my mind lately. Why do we use a base 10 (that's the right term, I think?) numbering...

Does anyone know anything about Aztlan, the (mythical or historical?) homeland of the Aztecs? I, myself, knew nothing about it until today when one of my professors was showing me pictures of excavations done on a mountain near where I live. There is an artificial 'floor' and aside from...

I was sitting in my anthropology class yesterday, being lectured on various religious topics and I found that one thing sounded a bit familiar. 'Revitalization Movements', a theory (and subsequent journal article) by anthropologist Anthony Wallace. Wallace said that periods of cultural stress...