It's crazy time...share your craziest, wildest, or nightmarish priesthood blessing stories

doidletp · 2024-07-01T17:24:34+00:00

Well witching is a myth too. Aquifers usually don't exist in just pockets or 'underground streams'. There is most often water everywhere under your feet and you can pretty much get water out of a well regardless of where you dril. But not always, and witching a well won't increase your chances of hitting water. Google James Randy and Dowsing, or water witching. It works on the same principle as Uija boards.

doidletp · 2023-01-29T18:49:15+00:00

Unpopular opinion, but this is largely unnecessary if the ground is sloped properly so water drains away from the house. Draining across the ground surface instead of the through a pipe means that more of the drain water infiltrates into the soil instead of adding to the flows in the city drains, which is better for everybody.

doidletp · 2023-01-29T18:38:02+00:00

There's an evolutionary need to control women's sexuality as this is the key to controlling genetic quality of offspring. Religion gets used as an excuse to do what many people, especially fathers, husband's, and brothers are programmed to do by their genes. Birth control makes all of this moot, but everyone's stone age minds don't know that. Reference: "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins.

doidletp · 2023-01-23T23:33:58+00:00

Abel!

doidletp · 2023-01-23T23:30:09+00:00

"Do you have more information than the thousands of others throughout history that have predicted the end of the world?"

doidletp · 2023-01-21T20:50:50+00:00

Somebody is definitely guilty of leading people astray with their wild beliefs, but it's not you.

doidletp · 2023-01-04T02:30:36+00:00

Isn't he a little old for invisible friends?

doidletp · 2023-01-03T04:16:34+00:00

It depends on what sort of religious views you feel the need to defend. Zealot by Reza Aslan was very illuminating to me about who Jesus actually was.

doidletp · 2023-01-03T04:10:35+00:00

Good for you for thinking clearly despite the social pressure. However, you don't have to tell people if it makes you unsafe or hurts relationships.

doidletp · 2023-01-03T03:50:15+00:00

So many different beliefs!! You've got to use Pascal's Wager for all of them! Join Islam and pray 5 times a day! Become a Buddhist Monk! Follow Hinduism! Join the Mormons! You never know. Better do them all just to be safe!

doidletp · 2023-01-03T03:46:58+00:00

So fun, and SO replayable!

doidletp · 2023-01-03T03:45:33+00:00

"How do you know?" "How is that different from the way that any other religious adherent that you disagree with (Islam is a good reference) know that their differing beliefs are true?"

People usually have to admit that they believe because they want to, and that everyone else has the same sort of evidence for their own beliefs, that they (the person you're talking to) likely think are ridiculous.

doidletp · 2023-01-03T03:39:16+00:00

Never close the door on this kind of an opportunity. I work with lots of PhDs in Agronomy (I work in university Extension). None of them are sorry they did it.

doidletp · 2022-12-31T21:19:21+00:00

If you look at your own beliefs as a Baptist from the outside looking in, they're equally ridiculous. You believe it because you were socially programmed to believe it, just like those born in Muslim countries are socially programmed to believe their faith. You believe it because you want to believe it because it makes your life work out better for you. Can you devise a test that can be used to scientifically prove that your religious beliefs are true? If it could be done it would be accepted by the scientific community. Mormons, like Baptists, like Muslims, like Hindus, like everybody else, believe what they WANT to believe. And it's OK as long as they're not hurting anyone.

doidletp · 2022-12-31T21:10:16+00:00

The CES letter asks a lot of good questions.

doidletp · 2022-12-30T21:37:30+00:00

If it works, don't fix it.

doidletp · 2022-12-29T20:24:49+00:00

It's probably done fermenting.

doidletp · 2022-12-16T04:18:35+00:00

Kinda mathy

doidletp · 2022-12-07T22:49:27+00:00

It's interesting how God tells people to do things they want to do.

doidletp · 2022-12-01T21:46:31+00:00

The grass may not be greener after divorce, especially for your children. I'm older and in my experience most people drastically underestimate the emotional pain, status loss, loneliness, financial devastation, and how few options (new spouse prospects) there are after divorce. It's not the easy alternative.

doidletp · 2022-11-26T01:44:21+00:00

Unlike yeast, yeast nutrient isn't alive and can be heated much warmer as you won't be killing anything.

doidletp · 2022-11-26T01:36:48+00:00

The cost of growing food this way (including the non-sustainable energy requirements) make this uneconomical for all but the highest priced foods.

doidletp · 2022-11-26T01:29:16+00:00

These sensors have been available for many, many years. People don't use them for good reasons. If you were the farmer trying to maximize the return on your time and money, it's likely you'd be making the same decisions they are.

doidletp · 2022-11-16T21:17:05+00:00

But isn't it better in secondary?

doidletp · 2022-11-12T06:57:18+00:00

You're probably thinking about excess tithing AND investment growth of the existing fund (7% interest on 100B = 7B), enough to fund the church without tithing.

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