Yeah I should have you and beachbum come visit here. These alpaca spit though, look out.

Oh no. This is one of those threads that will probably lead to arguments. Krimsa ducts for cover. I’m never intentionally rude to men who might find me attractive. I tend to have a flirtatious personality by nature or what men seem to perceive as flirtatious but to me, it’s just how I communicate. The worst of it is generally a misunderstanding but I m never rude to men with the sole intention of hurting their feelings or belittling them in any manner.

That was awesome! Thanks for sharing.

And I applaud you for pointing this one out and not just making jokes.

You are probably right James. Also what do you think about that "almah" problem in the bible? Mary is referred to as Almah which in Hebrew only means "young female" which is what she was. Probably a teenager. The Hebrew word for virgin is "betula". Mary was NEVER referred to as betula.

That was another reason why the Jews rejected Jesus as Messiah. Mistranslations of words. The Jews also clung to the rape suspicion.

Some women can be intimidated quite easily by men or even other women. Stand up for yourself already. Kick some ass. Assert yourself. That’s probably my biggest annoyance with women. They have EVERYTHING and they can sometimes waste it.

You aren’t that far off really. It’s debatable. She might have had consensual sex with a secret lover. That’s a possibility. Either way, yep, they would have stoned her to death for having pre-marital relations. I think she was a young, terrified girl, got knocked up, was already betrothed to Joseph, who was an older man comparatively and she might have told him if she trusted him enough. Then the two of them just conspired to create this fabulous story to cover the fact that she not a virgin.

I was just gonna say Fargo.

Common sense would dictate that he was a Jew. He was a Jew or half Italian and half Jewish if Mary was raped. So I still think that depiction is pretty accurate. Short, olive complected dark eyes and beard.

Well we can’t rule that possibility out I guess either. He might have been half man and half wild beast. He could have had laser beams that shot out of his eye sockets. Maybe he was an X-Man.

Oh! I do that ALL the time. Its actually started to worry me a little. Partly with me its because I tend to have a lot on my mind and I get sidetracked. But I do that at least once a day with car keys or something of that nature.

Yeah it was published in "Popular Mechanics" of all places. Who knows how accurate it is but I would think much more than those 6 foot tall, blond, blue eye Christmas cards.

I always recommend to people not to wear sunglasses just because it obscures too much of their face. It’s fine if you have several headshots but not if that’s it. So that’s all I would say about it. Good luck and welcome.

Renowned scientist Albert Einstein dismissed the Bible as a collection of “pretty childish” legends and belief in God as a “product of human weaknesses,” according to a letter to be auctioned this week.

Einstein, who was Jewish, also rejects the notion that Jews were God’s chosen people.

The letter was written in German in 1954 to philosopher Eric Gutkind.

It is to be auctioned in London, England, on Thursday by Bloomsbury Auctions, and is expected to fetch between $12,000 and $16,000 US.

Einstein writes "the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."

Born to a Jewish family in Germany in 1879, he also adds that "for me, the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions."

He also wrote "the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong, and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people.

“As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."

Einstein 'rather quirky about religion': expert
Many have speculated about the religious or spiritual beliefs of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist, whose theory of relativity revolutionized the study of physics.

Some have pointed to Einstein’s quote that God "does not play dice" with the universe (his rejection of the randomness of the universe) as proof of his belief in a higher being.

Others have said that the quote does not advocate a belief in God and have referred to other letters written by Einstein.

"I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly,” he wrote in another letter in 1954. "If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

John Brooke, professor emeritus of science and religion at Oxford University, told the Associated Press that the letter lends weight to the notion that "Einstein was not a conventional theist" — although he was not an atheist, either.

"Like many great scientists of the past, he is rather quirky about religion, and not always consistent from one period to another," Brooke said

Brooke said Einstein believed "there is some kind of intelligence working its way through nature. But it is certainly not a conventional Christian or Judaic religious view."

Bloomsbury spokesman Richard Caton said the auction house was "100 per cent certain" of the letter's authenticity.

It is being offered at auction for the first time by a private vendor.

He was a Jew Feral. He would have looked like a Jewish man of that time period which is what that painting represents.

No. It’s just the opposite. The photo you posted is of a white man and looks as though it was taken form a Hallmark Christmas card.


"Starting with the assumption that Jesus resembled a typical peasant from 1st century CE Palestine, Richard Neave, a medical artist retired from the University of Manchester in England, and a team of researchers "started with an Israeli skull dating back to the 1st century. They then used computer programs, clay, simulated skin and their knowledge about the Jewish people of the time to determine the shape of the face, and color of eyes and skin."

Mike Fillon followed the research and wrote an article about the portrait in "Popular Mechanics" magazine. He said during a CNN interview that: "There are very strong rabbinical laws in Israel that you cannot tamper with a skull or any bones, so they needed to reconstruct the skull. Using a cat scan, which is very common in hospitals, they were able to recreate the skull precisely and make a cast of it. Then they put small wooden pegs, based on anthropological data, to figure out what the muscle structure and the skin would look like, and so they layered that on using clay-like substances."

Yes this is probably much more accurate.

So your jokes are funny and ours aren’t? Okay.

And as a Jew that photo would be catastrophically inaccurate.

A child in the sixth grade in a Sunday School in New York City, with the encouragement of her teacher, wrote to Einstein in Princeton on 19 January I936 asking him whether scientists pray, and if so what they pray for. Einstein replied as follows on 24 January 1936:

I have tried to respond to your question as simply as I could. Here is my answer. Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the actions of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a supernatural Being.


However, it must be admitted that our actual knowledge of these laws is only imperfect and fragmentary, so that, actually, the belief in the existence of basic all-embracing laws in Nature also rests on a sort of faith. All the same this faith has been largely justified so far by the success of scientific research. But, on the other hand, every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe — spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. In this way the pursuit of science leads to a religious feeling of a special sort, which is indeed quite different from the religiosity of someone more naive.