ALSO! Monty Python's Life of Brian is actually incredibly well researched and presents a smart comedic interpretation of second temple judaism. Careful, Dr. Depuydt.

I'm no expert, but this is how I understand it. It's weird. At the time, an unmarried rabbi would have been highly unusual. Unless Jesus was an Essene, which he might have been, and many Essenes were celibate.

Have y'all never heard of the apocrypha? There are lots of things that didn't make it into the official canon. This is certainly interesting but this is in no way unique.

Not all religious folk, just the crazy ones. Usually they are also people who are afraid of change in general.

WHY is no one commenting on the fact that Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic introduced them? MY BRAIN IS ON FIRE WITH SO MANY PEOPLE I LOVE IN THE SAME PLACE DOING STUFF TOGETHER.

Full Moon Fever is probably in my top 5o albums. I listened to that tape SO MUCH when I was a kid (34 here).

Pst, Don Henley.

... And after reading that, Nancy decided to become a nun. "

I can never unread that. Thanks, Tracie.

No it's the fact that he's 50. Men do not always age as well as they think they do.

THIS IS THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION OF BEAUTY. I CANNOT.

There is a fourth option as well, and that is the ancient belief that malevolent and benevolent spiritual entities exist independent of humans. Two good examples are angels and demons. Those are not the only two options for what such entities could be, if they exist. I believe they do exist...as do billions of…

When I was in grad school, I saw what anyone else here would have DEFINITELY called a ghost. As I am a rationalist scientist and do not believe in "ghosts", I am to this day not really sure what it was that I saw. Let me give you some background to this. I was in this large multiple bedroom house for a few years while…

Hiya. So where I went to college used to be a horrible institution (Magdalen Laundry) where "bad" girls were sent. Despite how doom and gloom this sounds, it actually was a really welcoming place where everyone was happy, even the ghosts it seems. Twice while there and working in a room that used to be a dormatory , I…

Oh holy shit, that is a great movie and it scared me so bad 'cause I was like, 'YEP, that would happen to me.'

I am SUUUUPER sensitive and am essentially an empath. I pick up on the energy around people, animals and places, people and animals more than places, and have only just started learning about managing it. The…

It is very,very dangerous let me explain...Actually they are not Ghost but Demons. Demons are "angels that sinned," spirit creatures who rebelled against God. The first angel to make himself into a demon was Satan the Devil, whom the Bible calls "the ruler of the demons." "The sons of the true God began to notice the…

My second year of college I moved into an old house with a roommate. It was a house that had been one of the original stores in this town, until it was cut in half and made into two houses. I had a small room in the back and from the first week I noticed several things that seemed unusual. My things were constantly…

My mother has a good supernatural story involving Ouija. When she was in 9th grade she went to a sleepover with three other girls. They tried to play Ouija, but the board would only work when two of the other girls touched it. They asked the board things like "what color is the cat," "who does so-n-so have a crush…