Thank-you for your well-reasoned comment. I'm a bit late to the party, as I couldn't get into kinja for some reason; but it's very hard to have this kind of conversation in a forum where most folks are working with a Sunday school understanding of the Bible. This fragment is interesting, but there are many papyri from…

Oh, I am well aware of girl farts. Claire* had cystic fibrosis, and while everyone knows how that affects the lungs, few people know how it affects the bowels She could not eat anything without taking a handful of enzymes that she had to get juuuust right (and never did). When we moved in together, I gave her the…

The thing is, though, this isn't actually all that interesting for the reasons that it makes good clickbait. The manuscript is 5th century at the earliest, which means it's 400 years after the life of Jesus, and Dan Brown aside, there's it's kind of silly to think that there was some kind of underground chain of…

Yes times 1 million to the trash can. I bought a trash can as a housewarming gift for my bf at his dude house. Guys seem to forget about this one but where are your lady friends supposed to dispose of their lady blood if there is no trash receptacle? Trust me, we do not want to leave the bathroom clutching our used…

Yeah, the main reason I don't wash my bras that often (typically every 10 to 14 days, if I remember...) is because they cost a bomb, and as a result I only have a 3 or so of them at any one time. Washing does tend to make them deteriorate faster and I want to put off spending that money as long as possible!

I like them better than loofahs or sponges or anything like that. Washcloths are actually launder-able, and they are capable of fully drying out—I feel like puffs and the like just kind of sit there in the shower . . . moistly gathering mildew and grossness. Also, a hot washcloth on the forehead when you have a…

Unless you end up staying at a person's house through random happenstance or an emergency, it is super rude to just assume you can use their bath products.

Oh dear god, the infrequency of bra washing. But whatever, like they're washing their jeans everyday.

Also, we don't wash our bras all that often.

If only we could find Q, things may become clearer.

This is a very contentious issue, but I am pro-butt wipe

I have no dog in this fight, but a lot of Christian denominations point to Jesus's unmarried state as showing that he put God above himself, and denied himself the pleasures of the flesh to minister to others. If they suddenly find out that Jesus was hitched, it's going to mean that one of the bedrocks of certain…

Putting on my Informative Cap, because I'm an ex Roman Catholic so this is right up my alley.

I'd rather Daenerys > Khaleesi

but black people are the ones with the naming problem yeah?

Queen isn't her real name. She was born Dana Owens.

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.

No one said that about the Shroud of Turin except the Church. Scientists were pretty upfront about the carbon date of the shroud.

From what I remember the shroud has always been viewed pretty skeptically.