A Conversation for Does God have a beard?
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shrinkwrapped Started conversation Sep 21, 2000
Obviously h2g2's "idea pool" is running on empty...
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Lisa the Freak // Poet by the Toga Posted Sep 21, 2000
thats where we come in
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Mark Moxon Posted Sep 21, 2000
That's what I thought... but we decided to stick it up anyway to see what the reaction was.
See. We just love using the Community as a test bed.
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shrinkwrapped Posted Sep 21, 2000
Oh, well I'm sure everyone'll come up with entertaining ideas... it's just rather tepid, that's all.
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Lisa the Freak // Poet by the Toga Posted Sep 21, 2000
It has to be something that people can disagree on, and religion and politics are always the best.
But God's beard isn't exactly..er..
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Wampus Posted Sep 21, 2000
I think it's an interesting way to poke fun at certain ridiculous religious debates.
For example, I'm told that Jehovah's (sp?) Witnesses base their entire sect on the belief that Jesus was crucified on a pole, rather than a cross. Or Sunni and Shiite sects of Islam disagree on the interpretation of one single passage in their holy book.
I suppose people with nothing better to do need something to debate.
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Peta Posted Sep 21, 2000
After the sex, drugs and rock n' roll of the last few weeks, I thought we ought to give other people a chance...
Have you got any thoughts on subjects that you'd like to see covered in the future?
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U128068 Posted Sep 21, 2000
"The life giving properties of Tequila."
"Students, failing your course? Ever thought about teaching?"
"Guavas, and why they smell like cat's pee."
"MI6 - Foreign Intelligence (some mistake surely)"
"Politicians - pointless waste of space or... erm?.."
"Artificial Intelligence v Natural Stupidity"
"Success - in spite of management"
"Incompetance and it's positive correlation to job security"
"Unsolved Mysteries - how the hell do 'they' calculate the '5 Most Neglected'?"
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Tschörmen (german) -|-04.04.02 Posted Sep 21, 2000
Well, what I have read up till now doesn´t look very controvercial. Seems more like a discussion for the anticlerical to pat on their backs and say "we new it in the first place about that nonexisting beard."
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U128068 Posted Sep 21, 2000
There is NO god (except in the sence that "god" is the som total of everything, all matter, all energy, all physical laws, etc.) orthodox relegion is just cheep stagnated politics.
but if there was he'd have a dodgy tash...
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Demon Drawer Posted Sep 21, 2000
Assumption: Man is created in the image of God.
Argument: What is mans image of man?
It depends on the man. Far Eastern Man has tradionally had the wise men as bearded ,especially in Japan and China, however the current trend there is for clean shaven, although parts of Asia clean shaven including the head is the norm, see Buddist Monks.
The Western Male was once bearder though the medevial period and then clean shaven, or trimmed breards through the renaisance and middle ages, then went into a period of beardedness in the 19 and 20th Century. Again.
As for Afro-carabean males generally clean shaven so the imagery of God/gods is reflected in that imagery .
Conclusion: So does God have a beard, who knows Moses only saw his back not his face, Mohammed only saw he presence not his face. So there is insignificant data upon which to draw a satifactory conclusion, but he does have stubble and may have had to go shave after he created the razor blade.
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prinsesse Posted Sep 22, 2000
I THINK THE NEXT QUESTION SHOULD BE:
what type of questions would you like to see here?
then work with the answers.
I ALSO TAKE A LIKING TO THE QUESTION ABOUT TEACHING THE CLASS THAT YOU ARE FAILING....GREAT QUESTION...I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW THE COMMUNITY THINKS I COULD ACCOMPLISH THIS......
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Tube - the being being back for the time being Posted Sep 22, 2000
How about these questions:
1. Do the Olymipc Games still have the olympic spirit or are they just plain business?
2. What will be the next major style in music?
3. Should everyone be given free Net access?
4. Why is pizza better than the wheel?
5. Why do people follow fashion trends?
6. What is Love and what's the opposite?
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- 2: Lisa the Freak // Poet by the Toga (Sep 21, 2000)
- 3: Mark Moxon (Sep 21, 2000)
- 4: shrinkwrapped (Sep 21, 2000)
- 5: Lisa the Freak // Poet by the Toga (Sep 21, 2000)
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- 7: Peta (Sep 21, 2000)
- 8: Lisa the Freak // Poet by the Toga (Sep 21, 2000)
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- 10: Lisa the Freak // Poet by the Toga (Sep 21, 2000)
- 11: U128068 (Sep 21, 2000)
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- 13: Tschörmen (german) -|-04.04.02 (Sep 21, 2000)
- 14: U128068 (Sep 21, 2000)
- 15: Demon Drawer (Sep 21, 2000)
- 16: prinsesse (Sep 22, 2000)
- 17: Tube - the being being back for the time being (Sep 22, 2000)
- 18: King Fabels (a.k.a. FABIUS, the confusatron) (Sep 22, 2000)
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- 20: Tschörmen (german) -|-04.04.02 (Sep 22, 2000)
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