Originally Posted By mele I think I can say, without reservation, that I would not have done well 2000 years ago...without indoor plumbing...being treated as a possession. I don't think I have to travel back in time to know this.
Originally Posted By mele Oh, I was Cleopatra. I had a past life reading done. I was definitely Cleopatra (just like everyone else who has past life readings.) ;-)
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Yeah, what's up with that? Everybody with a past life was either someone famous or someone glamorous. No one was ever a serf, although that's what almost everybody at the time was.
Originally Posted By Labuda ^^ All I got out of a past life reading done when I was about 17 was that I'd been murdered in a field. No thank you! lol
Originally Posted By mawnck >>No one was ever a serf, although that's what almost everybody at the time was.<< Serfs couldn't afford to be reincarnated.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan If you were a convicted criminal in a past life, and then come back only to once again be jailed for being a career criminal, that's known as reincarceration.
Originally Posted By DAR LOL Have to get serious here for a minute but has anyone ever read the Quran? I've considered buying one just to see what it says, maybe get a little better understanding of it. See how it's being misinterpreted or if it is.
Originally Posted By Mr X Muslims give them away for free to non-Muslims. There are a million links, just type "free Koran". You still have to steal Bibles from your local hotel, though.
Originally Posted By mawnck >> I've considered buying one just to see what it says,<< Be sure to pay cash. You don't want there to be any record of that transaction when Empress Palin sends out the stormtroopers.
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance lol kar2oonman, I wish I could think of funny things like that!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I actually did read a few chapters of the Book of Mormon once out of curiosity.
Originally Posted By utahjosh Mr X - Free Bibles a plenty: <a href="http://www.mormon.org/free-bible/" target="_blank">http://www.mormon.org/free-bible/</a>
Originally Posted By Labuda Hoo boy, I can't figure out a non-offensive way to put this, Josh, so I apologize in advance for saying that I think Mr X. is talking about the real bible, not a Mormon interpretation thereof.
Originally Posted By utahjosh Labuda, you might want to know what you are talking about before you start typing. The Bible given away free on that site is the King James Version of the Bible, not a Mormon bible. It may have some LDS-related footnotes, etc...but the version of the Bible itself is used by many different denominations.
Originally Posted By mawnck Oh now let's don't go getting into a fight about what a "real" bible is. That's not an imaginary bible that Josh is offering. But I do suspect that that particular "free bible" offer has a few too many hidden strings attached. (Looks like it's King James too. Not the easiest readin', that.) Most church-run thrift stores have free bibles to give out in a variety of styles, colors, translations, and political proclivities, and no salesman will call. YMMV, though, especially in Japan.
Originally Posted By Labuda "Oh now let's don't go getting into a fight about what a "real" bible is." Good point. The original writings that became the Bible are lost to the years, and we have no idea how accurately the writings were translated, or how close to what was taught was to what was written down when the teachings went on paper.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>Labuda, you might want to know what you are talking about before you start typing.<< Josh, that's disingenuous and you and I both know it. She said "Mormon interpretation" - not an entirely unreasonable statement given that the LDS Bible has within its footnotes the "Joseph Smith Translation." For you non-Mormons, that's the parts of the Bible that Joseph Smith found lacking or incorrect and changed. There are "Mormon Bibles" one can purchase with these changes directly in the text. But the LDS Church's official Bible has relegated these to the footnotes and endnotes. Me? I actually don't find it outlandish at all that someone would want to improve on or change the Bible. I just find it a bit galling that Josh preaches to us about "modern prophets" out of one side of his mouth, then insists Mormons are no different in their Bible than anybody else out of the other.
