I invite the people throughout the world to make themselves more cooperative and helpful in making there environment neat %26amp; clean by doing more focus on solid waste management, waste recycling plant cnstruction, plantation of trees on large scale on emergency basis, building a habit of cultivation of flowers, vegetables and orchids in each %26amp; every house. involve our kids to help us too.
How our earth can be made neat, clean %26amp; beautiful. How we can join hands in this regards?.?
your so right ithik that the only way to truly make it posible to stay here on earth for ever i mean humeans is to keep helping the plaet as we help our selves not by tearing down a tree just to plant a new one that still means hundreds of years to re make thazt on tree you destroyed and did you kow they make paper out of elephant dung not as dirty as what your thinking its all plants and such they no eat meat so all organic
Friday, November 18, 2011
How our earth can be made neat, clean & beautiful. How we can join hands in this regards?.?
I invite the people throughout the world to make themselves more cooperative and helpful in making there environment neat %26amp; clean by doing more focus on solid waste management, waste recycling plant cnstruction, plantation of trees on large scale on emergency basis, building a habit of cultivation of flowers, vegetables and orchids in each %26amp; every house. involve our kids to help us too.
How our earth can be made neat, clean %26amp; beautiful. How we can join hands in this regards?.?
I have also enjoyed the benefits of freecycle! I do what I can to recycle and reuse many products. I have a garden in my backyard and I use seeds that I have saved from previous years, I also roll up my newspapers to use as logs in my fireplace in the winter months. My outdoor water is considered irrigation water, not fit to drink but without all the chemicals used for potable water. I learned all of this from my parents who grew up in a time where nothing was wasted! My now grown up son is asking me for advice on gardening and planting! He is also very earth friendly!
I will be glad to join hands with you to save our mother!
Reply:I am in uk and found a site that helps prevent landfill, it is called freecycle, the idea is, if you have stuff you no longer need, offer it on freecycle, if there is stuff you want ask for it in the wanted section, helps people out and helps save our planet! The main rules are be friendly and courteous when posting.
Reply:I try to but not sure what else I can do. any suggestions will help.
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How our earth can be made neat, clean %26amp; beautiful. How we can join hands in this regards?.?
I have also enjoyed the benefits of freecycle! I do what I can to recycle and reuse many products. I have a garden in my backyard and I use seeds that I have saved from previous years, I also roll up my newspapers to use as logs in my fireplace in the winter months. My outdoor water is considered irrigation water, not fit to drink but without all the chemicals used for potable water. I learned all of this from my parents who grew up in a time where nothing was wasted! My now grown up son is asking me for advice on gardening and planting! He is also very earth friendly!
I will be glad to join hands with you to save our mother!
Reply:I am in uk and found a site that helps prevent landfill, it is called freecycle, the idea is, if you have stuff you no longer need, offer it on freecycle, if there is stuff you want ask for it in the wanted section, helps people out and helps save our planet! The main rules are be friendly and courteous when posting.
Reply:I try to but not sure what else I can do. any suggestions will help.
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Home grown Acai. Does anyone have experience growing Acai at home?
I got three Acai trees from http://www.acaifarms.com
They are 3%26#039; tall and really healthy. I built a greenhouse that I grow orchids in and put the acai plants in there. I water them every other day.
Does anyone have any experience growing Acai Plants?
They are 3%26#039; tall and really healthy. I built a greenhouse that I grow orchids in and put the acai plants in there. I water them every other day.
Does anyone have any experience growing Acai Plants?
How do you grow Acai at home.?
I got some Acai trees from http://www.acaifarms.com
They are 3%26#039; tall and really healthy. I built a greenhouse that I grow orchids in and put the acai plants in there.
Does anyone have any experience growing Acai Plants?
I can%26#039;t wait to get some fresh berries and make my own Acai Juice.
They are 3%26#039; tall and really healthy. I built a greenhouse that I grow orchids in and put the acai plants in there.
Does anyone have any experience growing Acai Plants?
I can%26#039;t wait to get some fresh berries and make my own Acai Juice.
How our earth can be made neat, clean & beautiful. How we can join hands in this regards?.?
I invite the people throughout the world to make themselves more cooperative and helpful in making there environment neat %26amp; clean by doing more focus on solid waste management, waste recycling plant cnstruction, plantation of trees on large scale on emergency basis, building a habit of cultivation of flowers, vegetables and orchids in each %26amp; every house. involve our kids to help us too.
How our earth can be made neat, clean %26amp; beautiful. How we can join hands in this regards?.?
We cannot get along with each other, and have hardly been able to in the past over anything else. I%26#039;ll give you the fact that this is the only earth we have to call home, and if it%26#039;s gone-we go too. However, there are those on the earth that will not, for any reason, join hands to help. They want to sit back and watch you go, so they can take over.
Oh yeah, and planting trees sounds like a great idea, however, there are more trees (at least in the US) now, than 100 years ago.
Reply:I absolutely agree!
Let%26#039;s quit wasting efforts on this imaginary global warming and do something to actually benefit the environment!
How our earth can be made neat, clean %26amp; beautiful. How we can join hands in this regards?.?
We cannot get along with each other, and have hardly been able to in the past over anything else. I%26#039;ll give you the fact that this is the only earth we have to call home, and if it%26#039;s gone-we go too. However, there are those on the earth that will not, for any reason, join hands to help. They want to sit back and watch you go, so they can take over.
Oh yeah, and planting trees sounds like a great idea, however, there are more trees (at least in the US) now, than 100 years ago.
Reply:I absolutely agree!
Let%26#039;s quit wasting efforts on this imaginary global warming and do something to actually benefit the environment!
Should I have fall colors for my sept. wedding? Will other colors clash? Please help!?
We are getting married Sept. 27 of this year, and I am having trouble picking colors. We had decided on a fall theme just because of the time of the year and it would be easy to decorate for, but as I am looking for wedding ideas, I am finding I like other colors a lot more. Also, my MOH is getting married 2 weeks after me, and is having fall colors too. Because our date is so border line, (the first day of fall is sept 22) I%26#039;m wondering if it would be ok to stray from fall colors and put more vibrant colors in. But I am also wondering if people will think its strange to have say, blue orchids in my bouquet at this time of year. The trees will have just begun to turn at this point and will not have fully turned till a few weeks later. What do you guys think?
Should I have fall colors for my sept. wedding? Will other colors clash? Please help!?
You can have whatever you want. Pick what you like. It%26#039;s your wedding after all. Who cares what anyone else thinks? Do what makes you happy. It%26#039;s ok. I give you permission.
Blue orchids would be fine if they please you. My personal opinion...check out peonies. I LOVE those for weddings. They are a bit out the ordinary from the usual roses...have great color and smell incredible. Come to think of it, they might look lovely with blue orchids -- colorwise.
Reply:Hi, I am a wedding planner and this is what I would suggest. Start looking in fall wedding magazines to get an idea of the most popular colors for that season. You can get those free at some wedding gown and banquet hall venues, or buy them at your local newstand or Walgreens. And, if that doesn%26#039;t help, use your favorite colors,as long as those do not clash. Choose you and your husband to be favorite colors that look great together. Pinks and silvers, chocolate and cream, sage and chocolate, silver and white, taupe and cream, blue and ivory, blue and silver. It can be whatever inspires you, and if you want to have more of summer like colors have a theme reception. A carribean theme, Luau theme, etc... I hope these ideas help. I%26#039;m trying to figure something great for my 10 yr vow renewal that%26#039;s not so traditional. Now, I feel it%26#039;s gonna be whatever our hearts desire. At the end, it%26#039;s all about you and your husband to be.
Reply:I don%26#039;t think you should be the least bit concerned about the time of year when choosing your wedding colors. No one will think twice if you don%26#039;t have oranges, reds, etc. Each wedding is unique and most guests don%26#039;t expect to see one thing or another when joining you to celebrate the start of your marriage. In fact, all they are focusing on is how happy and in love you both look. Choose the colors that feel right for you--it will make it feel more like %26quot;your%26quot; day and when you look back at wedding pictures for years to come, the season will likely be the last thing you remember anyway.
I just got married in mid January and because it was a winter wedding everyone kept suggesting reds and greens--Christmasy colors basically. I chose white and gold with touches of black (my dress had a black sash and I wore black opera gloves) and lots of greenery with twinkle lights. It felt just perfect for what we wanted.
Have fun getting creative with your wedding plans. Go with your own vision and try not to get too stressed!
Reply:I have a MILLION ideas. I am having a fall wedding on September 13th. But i dont think that you need to have a fall wedding just because its in the fall, you can do anything you want to!!
i dont think you can do pastels but you can do like a black and white theme, or a red and white theme. Greens!
Or i saw a wedding that was a tan and light blue color, or dark brown and light blue and its was soo pretty!!
you can do anything! (let me know if i can help, ill e-mail you some of my stuff if you want to stick wit the fall theme)
Reply:I think it%26#039;s your wedding, and you can use any colors that please you. Since your maid of honor is using the fall theme, it seems natural for you to go with something else. Please yourself and your groom.
Reply:Honestly, people are either going to notice or they aren%26#039;t...and if they do, who cares what they say?! If they don%26#039;t notice, than great! As for colors, there are so many that you could look at for a Fall wedding that are vibrant but not just fall. This first link is for a color called persimmon (the orange color). I work at Davids Bridal and this color is VERY pretty and vibrant
http://www.davidsbridal.com/bridesmaids_...
This color is oasis...yes, it is vibrant, but it is VERY pretty
http://www.davidsbridal.com/bridesmaids_...
This one is called wine. This is a nice shade..it will got with a lot of brighter flowers for the fall...
http://www.davidsbridal.com/bridesmaids_...
This one is Apple...again, this is a nice shade that you could mix with a fall boquet.
Hope all this helps!
Reply:Are blue orchids available? If your heart is set on them, make your color around that palette.
Don%26#039;t worry about your friend. Just choose the colors you want, although pass up the pastels. Keep looking around and find the color(s) that suit you.
Have a happy marriage!
Reply:You can pick whatever colors you want. There really is no set color scheme you should use. Ive heard of someone having a christmas themed wedding in the Summer.
Good luck with whatever you choose!
Reply:I think that September is a month in which you can make your own, it still feels like Summer most days. My wedding is September 20th and I chose Oranges, purples, and reds for mine, which are technically Fall colors. You really can pick almost any color you want though. You dont have to be tied down to anything. It is your wedding, if you want blue, then have blue. The only reason I picked those colors is cause I like them, not because of the time of season. You will be happier if you do what you want.
flowers anniversary
Should I have fall colors for my sept. wedding? Will other colors clash? Please help!?
You can have whatever you want. Pick what you like. It%26#039;s your wedding after all. Who cares what anyone else thinks? Do what makes you happy. It%26#039;s ok. I give you permission.
Blue orchids would be fine if they please you. My personal opinion...check out peonies. I LOVE those for weddings. They are a bit out the ordinary from the usual roses...have great color and smell incredible. Come to think of it, they might look lovely with blue orchids -- colorwise.
Reply:Hi, I am a wedding planner and this is what I would suggest. Start looking in fall wedding magazines to get an idea of the most popular colors for that season. You can get those free at some wedding gown and banquet hall venues, or buy them at your local newstand or Walgreens. And, if that doesn%26#039;t help, use your favorite colors,as long as those do not clash. Choose you and your husband to be favorite colors that look great together. Pinks and silvers, chocolate and cream, sage and chocolate, silver and white, taupe and cream, blue and ivory, blue and silver. It can be whatever inspires you, and if you want to have more of summer like colors have a theme reception. A carribean theme, Luau theme, etc... I hope these ideas help. I%26#039;m trying to figure something great for my 10 yr vow renewal that%26#039;s not so traditional. Now, I feel it%26#039;s gonna be whatever our hearts desire. At the end, it%26#039;s all about you and your husband to be.
Reply:I don%26#039;t think you should be the least bit concerned about the time of year when choosing your wedding colors. No one will think twice if you don%26#039;t have oranges, reds, etc. Each wedding is unique and most guests don%26#039;t expect to see one thing or another when joining you to celebrate the start of your marriage. In fact, all they are focusing on is how happy and in love you both look. Choose the colors that feel right for you--it will make it feel more like %26quot;your%26quot; day and when you look back at wedding pictures for years to come, the season will likely be the last thing you remember anyway.
I just got married in mid January and because it was a winter wedding everyone kept suggesting reds and greens--Christmasy colors basically. I chose white and gold with touches of black (my dress had a black sash and I wore black opera gloves) and lots of greenery with twinkle lights. It felt just perfect for what we wanted.
Have fun getting creative with your wedding plans. Go with your own vision and try not to get too stressed!
Reply:I have a MILLION ideas. I am having a fall wedding on September 13th. But i dont think that you need to have a fall wedding just because its in the fall, you can do anything you want to!!
i dont think you can do pastels but you can do like a black and white theme, or a red and white theme. Greens!
Or i saw a wedding that was a tan and light blue color, or dark brown and light blue and its was soo pretty!!
you can do anything! (let me know if i can help, ill e-mail you some of my stuff if you want to stick wit the fall theme)
Reply:I think it%26#039;s your wedding, and you can use any colors that please you. Since your maid of honor is using the fall theme, it seems natural for you to go with something else. Please yourself and your groom.
Reply:Honestly, people are either going to notice or they aren%26#039;t...and if they do, who cares what they say?! If they don%26#039;t notice, than great! As for colors, there are so many that you could look at for a Fall wedding that are vibrant but not just fall. This first link is for a color called persimmon (the orange color). I work at Davids Bridal and this color is VERY pretty and vibrant
http://www.davidsbridal.com/bridesmaids_...
This color is oasis...yes, it is vibrant, but it is VERY pretty
http://www.davidsbridal.com/bridesmaids_...
This one is called wine. This is a nice shade..it will got with a lot of brighter flowers for the fall...
http://www.davidsbridal.com/bridesmaids_...
This one is Apple...again, this is a nice shade that you could mix with a fall boquet.
Hope all this helps!
Reply:Are blue orchids available? If your heart is set on them, make your color around that palette.
Don%26#039;t worry about your friend. Just choose the colors you want, although pass up the pastels. Keep looking around and find the color(s) that suit you.
Have a happy marriage!
Reply:You can pick whatever colors you want. There really is no set color scheme you should use. Ive heard of someone having a christmas themed wedding in the Summer.
Good luck with whatever you choose!
Reply:I think that September is a month in which you can make your own, it still feels like Summer most days. My wedding is September 20th and I chose Oranges, purples, and reds for mine, which are technically Fall colors. You really can pick almost any color you want though. You dont have to be tied down to anything. It is your wedding, if you want blue, then have blue. The only reason I picked those colors is cause I like them, not because of the time of season. You will be happier if you do what you want.
flowers anniversary
How did parasitism "evovle"?
take for example, orchids. how could they evolve to depend completely on trees?
what about some species of round worms? they must go through up to 5 different host species through their life time to reproduce. how could it be possible that it evovlved that way?
How did parasitism %26quot;evovle%26quot;?
%26quot;EVOVLE%26quot;?
*snicker*
Oh, you are just priceless, Peanut!
Reply:Begs the question what sort of God has that much time on has hands...... and why ?? More likely a random set of weird stuff end result = orchid.
Reply:how come you%26#039;re not asking this quesiton in biology section?
you are not asking about religion, dear, parasitism, orchids, worms - they are all about biology and if you really want an answer you should be asking this question in the biology section
Reply:there are a number of orchid species that do not completely depend on trees... with time some of them found it was a successful way to go and they proliferated in this fashion.
as to the round worm issue you should consider organisms such as the tape worm Bothriocephalus that require but one host. With time (and of course 5,000 years is not a limit for evolution) one could easily see a gradual integration of many species into its life cycle. Leading to more complex tapeworm life cycles such as Diphyllobothrium.
Reply:Read any decent book on evolutionary biology, why ask in the R%26amp;S section?
Reply:If I had known you as a young person in school , you would now know the answer to such basic simple biology. If you have missed out on this vital education, it is still possible to learn , as the vast majority already have.
Reply:A better question would be %26quot;How could parasitism not evolve?%26quot;
That%26#039;s one for which there is no answer.
Life will always evolve to take advantage of food that is easily obtained.
Reply:Slowly. The bottom line is that practically any viable ecological niche will eventually be tried out.
Consider flowers and bees (symbiosis is much nicer than parasitism). Neither came first, of course. If insects began landing on air-pollinated plants, and carried the pollen to other plants of that species, any plant that produced, say, a spot of moisture for the insects to drink would rapidly clean up in the reproduction war.
In fact *anything* that attracted insects by any mechanism would get this benefit. Some orchids look like female wasps, which makes male wasps try to hump them - picking up pollen in the process.
Isn%26#039;t it easy to see how the tiniest mutation by a plant, if it increased even minutely the chance of an insect landing on it and picking up pollen, would spread like crazy?
Parasites, including microorganisms, start by eating another creature%26#039;s meat. Their supercomplex reproductive cycles come later, developing on previous working systems. Always remember the huge gulfs of time involved in each step. And the fact that evolution makes no sudden jumps: it%26#039;s always a slow accumulation of tiny beneficial changes.
CD
Reply:Stop trying,
Reply:Oh ****...
Orchids didn%26#039;t always depend on trees. However as trees were the easiest source of life for them, their abilities to depend upon other life forms or get by alone atrophied.
Same with round worms.
If you want to know how evolution happened, honey, read a textbook... you%26#039;ll convert no-one here...
Reply:as all other organisms, very very slowly over a long period of time.
i have another interesting question for you. Where did the plants that souly depend on trainsrushing by as a means of dispersing their seeds? trains have only been around for 200ish years?
i suppose if you realy want an answer of anyone who has any idea, you might want to ask this question again, in science %26amp; mathematics %26gt; biology
Reply:If you were genuinely interested in finding out, you could.
You could do some Internet searches, or browse in some quality bookstores in books about evolution until you found one that was accessible to you and addressed this question (as well as others).
This isn%26#039;t something I%26#039;m clear enough on to explain, and, frankly, I%26#039;ve wasted a LOT of my time answering these sorts of questions, just to find out the person DIDN%26#039;T want to understand anything; they were just Finishing Off the Atheists Once and For All -- which you%26#039;ll never do if you aren%26#039;t willing to understand it first.
If you don%26#039;t really want to understand, why should I waste my time trying to explain?
It%26#039;s hard to appreciate the amounts of time involved, and how all of this works -- a tiny change in genes can often have a big-looking effect in the organism, for instance.
Anyway, find some real sources; if you then need help understanding we might be able to help you.
If you were willing to understand, we%26#039;d be HAPPY to help you.
Reply:Go back to school and learn to spell. Thats the first step.
what about some species of round worms? they must go through up to 5 different host species through their life time to reproduce. how could it be possible that it evovlved that way?
How did parasitism %26quot;evovle%26quot;?
%26quot;EVOVLE%26quot;?
*snicker*
Oh, you are just priceless, Peanut!
Reply:Begs the question what sort of God has that much time on has hands...... and why ?? More likely a random set of weird stuff end result = orchid.
Reply:how come you%26#039;re not asking this quesiton in biology section?
you are not asking about religion, dear, parasitism, orchids, worms - they are all about biology and if you really want an answer you should be asking this question in the biology section
Reply:there are a number of orchid species that do not completely depend on trees... with time some of them found it was a successful way to go and they proliferated in this fashion.
as to the round worm issue you should consider organisms such as the tape worm Bothriocephalus that require but one host. With time (and of course 5,000 years is not a limit for evolution) one could easily see a gradual integration of many species into its life cycle. Leading to more complex tapeworm life cycles such as Diphyllobothrium.
Reply:Read any decent book on evolutionary biology, why ask in the R%26amp;S section?
Reply:If I had known you as a young person in school , you would now know the answer to such basic simple biology. If you have missed out on this vital education, it is still possible to learn , as the vast majority already have.
Reply:A better question would be %26quot;How could parasitism not evolve?%26quot;
That%26#039;s one for which there is no answer.
Life will always evolve to take advantage of food that is easily obtained.
Reply:Slowly. The bottom line is that practically any viable ecological niche will eventually be tried out.
Consider flowers and bees (symbiosis is much nicer than parasitism). Neither came first, of course. If insects began landing on air-pollinated plants, and carried the pollen to other plants of that species, any plant that produced, say, a spot of moisture for the insects to drink would rapidly clean up in the reproduction war.
In fact *anything* that attracted insects by any mechanism would get this benefit. Some orchids look like female wasps, which makes male wasps try to hump them - picking up pollen in the process.
Isn%26#039;t it easy to see how the tiniest mutation by a plant, if it increased even minutely the chance of an insect landing on it and picking up pollen, would spread like crazy?
Parasites, including microorganisms, start by eating another creature%26#039;s meat. Their supercomplex reproductive cycles come later, developing on previous working systems. Always remember the huge gulfs of time involved in each step. And the fact that evolution makes no sudden jumps: it%26#039;s always a slow accumulation of tiny beneficial changes.
CD
Reply:Stop trying,
Reply:Oh ****...
Orchids didn%26#039;t always depend on trees. However as trees were the easiest source of life for them, their abilities to depend upon other life forms or get by alone atrophied.
Same with round worms.
If you want to know how evolution happened, honey, read a textbook... you%26#039;ll convert no-one here...
Reply:as all other organisms, very very slowly over a long period of time.
i have another interesting question for you. Where did the plants that souly depend on trainsrushing by as a means of dispersing their seeds? trains have only been around for 200ish years?
i suppose if you realy want an answer of anyone who has any idea, you might want to ask this question again, in science %26amp; mathematics %26gt; biology
Reply:If you were genuinely interested in finding out, you could.
You could do some Internet searches, or browse in some quality bookstores in books about evolution until you found one that was accessible to you and addressed this question (as well as others).
This isn%26#039;t something I%26#039;m clear enough on to explain, and, frankly, I%26#039;ve wasted a LOT of my time answering these sorts of questions, just to find out the person DIDN%26#039;T want to understand anything; they were just Finishing Off the Atheists Once and For All -- which you%26#039;ll never do if you aren%26#039;t willing to understand it first.
If you don%26#039;t really want to understand, why should I waste my time trying to explain?
It%26#039;s hard to appreciate the amounts of time involved, and how all of this works -- a tiny change in genes can often have a big-looking effect in the organism, for instance.
Anyway, find some real sources; if you then need help understanding we might be able to help you.
If you were willing to understand, we%26#039;d be HAPPY to help you.
Reply:Go back to school and learn to spell. Thats the first step.
What do you think of the excerpt of my story?
Hello. My name is Victoria Vanderblit, one of the defective girls of a town called Applegale. Now, if you took a look at me right as I%26#039;m writing this, you would probably think I%26#039;m a average looking girl, with a curvy body, curly brown hair and almond shaped brown eyes like my beautiful mother, only my mother is thin and her hair is pin straight. However, in the town that I used to live in, Below average is taboo. Average isn%26#039;t good enough. In order to survive in this demented town, you had to be perfect. It was the way of life.
Now, to others, Applegale might appear to be a beautiful and wealthty suburban town. The streets are lined with lush emerald trees, the air is filled with the perfume of apple blossoms, and the houses are exquistively crafted victorian mansions, surrounded with professionally landscaped lawns. Also, the people are so perfect and pristine as well, from their attitudes to their apperances. A smile is always planted on their beautiful faces, no matter how they feel inside. You%26#039;ll never see a down face in Applegale; you will only see happy and blissful faces strutting around the neighborhood with their flawlessly sculpted bodies.
But don%26#039;t let the outside appearance of Applegate fool you. Eventhough they appear perfect, they are poisoned and brainwashed in the inside. They will do everything to appear perfect to the society, to keep up their appearances and to have everyone and even the surroundings to look as perfect as possible- no matter what. They continue to be as wealthty as possible, to continue to have everything their heart desires. Also, they strive to be beautiful , to spend 3 hours everysingle day working out in the gym, and to correct any grosteque flaws by making a visit to their beloved plastic surgeon. And most of all, each family in Applegale mold themselves and give up their individuality in order to mold themselves. The men are the ones who earn the riches, while they run their household in their god like stature. The housewifes only have to be as beautiful, frail, and pristine as possible and help raise the children to conform into the society-if they have any. And the children supposed to be perfect, well mannered and must obtain book intelligence, who must conform into the Applegale%26#039;s ways.
And for anyone who doesn%26#039;t meet the requirements of perfection in Applegale, they are either alienated, secretly ridiculed, or made perfect by countless bottles of cosmetics and/or plastic surgery. Some, however, were even killed in result of being defective, from being drowned in Orchid lake, to complications in result of being under the knife of the process of being the prototypes of perfection. Some even commited sudicide, because they couldn%26#039;t take the society of Applegale so much longer. But people from the outside world never knew about any of the towns inperfections, due to bribery. Most citizens in Applegale were multi millionares, so they gave a large fourtune to keep the grieving family and the police force quiet. Most of the time, they gave in to the large pile of money and never spoke another word about it. Applegale was a unofficial dictatorship, with most of the citizens being the dictator to theirselves.
But, I was lucky for only being alienated, instead of killed from my fellow neighbors. When I was born, I was a very beautiful baby, always adored by others. But as I got older, my deformity began to settle into my skin. I was cursed by discoloration as a large spot stood out in on the side of my face. My parents, ashamed and embarrassed by having to deal with a deformed child, immediately took me to get it fixed. But after the plastic surgeon practically laughed in my parent%26#039;s face and told me that a 7 year old was way too young to go under the knife, they gave up their plans to cancel out my flaws.Well almost, at least.
What do you think of the excerpt of my story?
The concept of Applegate, a city with beatiful, perfect people, is pretty cliche, as well as the girl who doesn%26#039;t fit in. I have to say I don%26#039;t like the character Victoria Vanderblit much-she seems too whiny. And if a reader doesn%26#039;t like your protagonist when the book is in first person, it%26#039;s over. But this is only the beginning, most beginnings are cliche, and I would keep reading. You really express the characters feelings well, along with the settings and problems, but if you use that great expression too much it does get to seem like the main character is complaining.
Reply:it was hard for me to continue reading, it was all just description, description, description. i was thinking at first that it was like a journal entry, but with journal entries there are accounts of specific things that happen. i.e. %26quot; take suzan for example, from birth everyone said she was a golden child, a knock-out in the making, that is untill she hit puberty. by age 15 she had been under the knife a grand total of seventeen time, but unfortunatly that wasn%26#039;t enough to save her from the %26quot;Accident%26quot; at Orchid Lake%26quot;
there could also be conversations she either had or overheard. I%26#039;m assuming that the intro is the only thing written in that format and that the rest of the story is in regular story form?
Reply:Hmmmm... nice, compelling. Try not to overuse adjectives though. What I mean is, we learn so much more from a character or place by how they respond to an event. Remember, actions speak MUCH louder than words. Don%26#039;t forget to avoid clumsy introduction words either. A misplaced %26quot;also%26quot; can detract from a story more than you think. Take the gap their and fill it with a scene change that could give the reader more insight.
Now, to others, Applegale might appear to be a beautiful and wealthty suburban town. The streets are lined with lush emerald trees, the air is filled with the perfume of apple blossoms, and the houses are exquistively crafted victorian mansions, surrounded with professionally landscaped lawns. Also, the people are so perfect and pristine as well, from their attitudes to their apperances. A smile is always planted on their beautiful faces, no matter how they feel inside. You%26#039;ll never see a down face in Applegale; you will only see happy and blissful faces strutting around the neighborhood with their flawlessly sculpted bodies.
But don%26#039;t let the outside appearance of Applegate fool you. Eventhough they appear perfect, they are poisoned and brainwashed in the inside. They will do everything to appear perfect to the society, to keep up their appearances and to have everyone and even the surroundings to look as perfect as possible- no matter what. They continue to be as wealthty as possible, to continue to have everything their heart desires. Also, they strive to be beautiful , to spend 3 hours everysingle day working out in the gym, and to correct any grosteque flaws by making a visit to their beloved plastic surgeon. And most of all, each family in Applegale mold themselves and give up their individuality in order to mold themselves. The men are the ones who earn the riches, while they run their household in their god like stature. The housewifes only have to be as beautiful, frail, and pristine as possible and help raise the children to conform into the society-if they have any. And the children supposed to be perfect, well mannered and must obtain book intelligence, who must conform into the Applegale%26#039;s ways.
And for anyone who doesn%26#039;t meet the requirements of perfection in Applegale, they are either alienated, secretly ridiculed, or made perfect by countless bottles of cosmetics and/or plastic surgery. Some, however, were even killed in result of being defective, from being drowned in Orchid lake, to complications in result of being under the knife of the process of being the prototypes of perfection. Some even commited sudicide, because they couldn%26#039;t take the society of Applegale so much longer. But people from the outside world never knew about any of the towns inperfections, due to bribery. Most citizens in Applegale were multi millionares, so they gave a large fourtune to keep the grieving family and the police force quiet. Most of the time, they gave in to the large pile of money and never spoke another word about it. Applegale was a unofficial dictatorship, with most of the citizens being the dictator to theirselves.
But, I was lucky for only being alienated, instead of killed from my fellow neighbors. When I was born, I was a very beautiful baby, always adored by others. But as I got older, my deformity began to settle into my skin. I was cursed by discoloration as a large spot stood out in on the side of my face. My parents, ashamed and embarrassed by having to deal with a deformed child, immediately took me to get it fixed. But after the plastic surgeon practically laughed in my parent%26#039;s face and told me that a 7 year old was way too young to go under the knife, they gave up their plans to cancel out my flaws.Well almost, at least.
What do you think of the excerpt of my story?
The concept of Applegate, a city with beatiful, perfect people, is pretty cliche, as well as the girl who doesn%26#039;t fit in. I have to say I don%26#039;t like the character Victoria Vanderblit much-she seems too whiny. And if a reader doesn%26#039;t like your protagonist when the book is in first person, it%26#039;s over. But this is only the beginning, most beginnings are cliche, and I would keep reading. You really express the characters feelings well, along with the settings and problems, but if you use that great expression too much it does get to seem like the main character is complaining.
Reply:it was hard for me to continue reading, it was all just description, description, description. i was thinking at first that it was like a journal entry, but with journal entries there are accounts of specific things that happen. i.e. %26quot; take suzan for example, from birth everyone said she was a golden child, a knock-out in the making, that is untill she hit puberty. by age 15 she had been under the knife a grand total of seventeen time, but unfortunatly that wasn%26#039;t enough to save her from the %26quot;Accident%26quot; at Orchid Lake%26quot;
there could also be conversations she either had or overheard. I%26#039;m assuming that the intro is the only thing written in that format and that the rest of the story is in regular story form?
Reply:Hmmmm... nice, compelling. Try not to overuse adjectives though. What I mean is, we learn so much more from a character or place by how they respond to an event. Remember, actions speak MUCH louder than words. Don%26#039;t forget to avoid clumsy introduction words either. A misplaced %26quot;also%26quot; can detract from a story more than you think. Take the gap their and fill it with a scene change that could give the reader more insight.
Need to know how to care for a South American plant?
I was given a South American plant with little orchid like flowers on it and was told it was an Ocemium. I do not know the correct spelling so I can not find any info on its care. It is a parasitic plant that grows on trees and is not to be planted in soil. Does any one recognize my description and know the proper name and how to care for it.
Need to know how to care for a South American plant?
Check with your local Botanic Garden or Master Gardener program. If you can%26#039;t take the plant in, take a couple of very good pics in, and they%26#039;ll be able to help ID the plant and give you care instructions.
Reply:This sounds like it is an air plant. If so, you can put it into any container or attach it to something with floral wire. Mist it with water everyday and twice a week soak the roots for a minute or two. Very easy plant to take care of. P.S. They come in many different sizes and many different types. Good Luck Check google images and see if any come close to what this plant looks like.
Need to know how to care for a South American plant?
Check with your local Botanic Garden or Master Gardener program. If you can%26#039;t take the plant in, take a couple of very good pics in, and they%26#039;ll be able to help ID the plant and give you care instructions.
Reply:This sounds like it is an air plant. If so, you can put it into any container or attach it to something with floral wire. Mist it with water everyday and twice a week soak the roots for a minute or two. Very easy plant to take care of. P.S. They come in many different sizes and many different types. Good Luck Check google images and see if any come close to what this plant looks like.
What do you think of my story, "The Prototype of Applegale"?
Hello. My name is Victoria Vanderblit, one of the defective girls of a town called Applegale. Now, if you took a look at me right as I%26#039;m writing this, you would probably think I%26#039;m a average looking girl, with a curvy body, curly brown hair and almond shaped brown eyes like my beautiful mother, only my mother is thin and her hair is pin straight. However, in the town that I used to live in, Below average is taboo. Average isn%26#039;t good enough. In order to survive in this demented town, you had to be perfect. It was the way of life.
Now, to others, Applegale might appear to be a beautiful and wealthty suburban town. The streets are lined with lush emerald trees, the air is filled with the perfume of apple blossoms, and the houses are exquistively crafted victorian mansions, surrounded with professionally landscaped lawns. Also, the people are so perfect and pristine as well, from their attitudes to their apperances. A smile is always planted on their beautiful faces, no matter how they feel inside. You%26#039;ll never see a down face in Applegale; you will only see happy and blissful faces strutting around the neighborhood with their flawlessly sculpted bodies.
But don%26#039;t let the outside appearance of Applegate fool you. Eventhough they appear perfect, they are poisoned and brainwashed in the inside. They will do everything to appear perfect to the society, to keep up their appearances and to have everyone and even the surroundings to look as perfect as possible- no matter what. They continue to be as wealthty as possible, to continue to have everything their heart desires. Also, they strive to be beautiful , to spend 3 hours everysingle day working out in the gym, and to correct any grosteque flaws by making a visit to their beloved plastic surgeon. And most of all, each family in Applegale mold themselves and give up their individuality in order to mold themselves. The men are the ones who earn the riches, while they run their household in their god like stature. The housewifes only have to be as beautiful, frail, and pristine as possible and help raise the children to conform into the society-if they have any. And the children supposed to be perfect, well mannered and must obtain book intelligence, who must conform into the Applegale%26#039;s ways.
And for anyone who doesn%26#039;t meet the requirements of perfection in Applegale, they are either alienated, secretly ridiculed, or made perfect by countless bottles of cosmetics and/or plastic surgery. Some, however, were even killed in result of being defective, from being drowned in Orchid lake, to complications in result of being under the knife of the process of being the prototypes of perfection. Some even commited sudicide, because they couldn%26#039;t take the society of Applegale so much longer. But people from the outside world never knew about any of the towns inperfections, due to bribery. Most citizens in Applegale were multi millionares, so they gave a large fourtune to keep the grieving family and the police force quiet. Most of the time, they gave in to the large pile of money and never spoke another word about it. Applegale was a unofficial dictatorship, with most of the citizens being the dictator to theirselves.
But, I was lucky for only being alienated, instead of killed from my fellow neighbors. When I was born, I was a very beautiful baby, always adored by others. But as I got older, my deformity began to settle into my skin. I was cursed by discoloration as a large spot stood out in on the side of my face. My parents, ashamed and embarrassed by having to deal with a deformed child, immediately took me to get it fixed. But after the plastic surgeon practically laughed in my parent%26#039;s face and told me that a 7 year old was way too young to go under the knife, they gave up their plans to cancel out my flaws.Well almost, at least.
Right after we came from the plastic surgeon%26#039;s office, I can remember that whole scene while I was in the car with my parents. I can remember the atmosphere. It was so thick with tension, that I could barely breathe. Then, I can vividly remember my mother ask my father,
%26quot;James. Can we please go to the mall right now? It%26#039;s important.%26quot;
He replied, %26quot;Alice, I don%26#039;t see why not. But don%26#039;t take long. I have a meeting at 4.%26quot;
So we pulled up to the mall%26#039;s parking lot. Personally, I never was so fond of going to the mall, so normally, I always stayed in the car with my dad.
But then, my mother demanded, %26quot;Victoria. Please get out out of the car. You%26#039;re going with me today.%26quot;
%26quot;But I don%26#039;t want to go mom!%26quot;, I replied, as tears started to caress my eyes.
%26quot;Now!%26quot; She ordered.
So Then I climbed out of the car with my mother, as she grabbed my hand. At first, I was very oblivious of the reason why she was taking me to the mall with her when she already knew that I hated it. Then suddenly, the reason washed over me and consumed me like a giant wave.
We walked all through the mall, through perfect familes with their children who stared at the side of my face, groups of teenagers whispered and giggled to each other and result of seeing me, and even solitary people looked up. I just wanted to disappear. I wanted to melt and saturate into the floor so escape that horrible feeling of being the freak.
Then, finally, we stopped at a cosmetic boutique. We entered the store, and I was awashed by expensive smells of perfume and body cream. Not suprisingly, the store was only occupied by only a few customers, excluding the saleswoman, who was walking towards our direction.
When she was only a couple feet away from my mom and I she glanced at my mother, and then at me, Her eyes immediately flinched at my sight and then it immediately went back to my mother. Then she asked, %26quot;Hello. How may I help you?%26quot;
My mom smiled with her pearly white smile and then replied, %26quot;Yes. Where can I find the foundation?%26quot;
The saleswoman pointed over to the left of the small boutique as she said, %26quot; It%26#039;s right over there, Here, let me show you.%26quot;
We followed her as she guided us, and I couldn%26#039;t help but to look at her. She was the typical resident of Applegale, with a heartshaped face ,occupied with prominent blue eyes and full, cherry lacqured lips, with silky, chestnut colored locks cascading down her back. Her body was also very thin and long, clad in a clean and crisp ralph lauren polo, khaki bermunda shorts, and her feet fitted perfectly in her wedges. I wouldn%26#039;t be suprised if she used to be a supermodel.
Then we arrived there, to the shelf of countless foundation bottles, concealer, and face powder.
%26quot;Thank you so much for helping us.%26quot;, My mother said
%26quot; No problem miss.%26quot;, the saleswoman replied.
After a long period of time, my mother finally chose one bottle of foundation, that was my exact skin color, and a tube of concealer. Then we walked up to the counter as she paid for the items with the credit card. Then, we finally left.
An hour after I got home, I was sitting in my room, playing with dolls, deep in my imagination based world. Then, a knock, followed by a voice brought me back into reality.
%26quot;Victoria? Are you in there? %26quot;, my mother asked.
%26quot;Yes mother.%26quot;
%26quot;Well I need to speak to you.%26quot;, she demanded.
My bedroom door then opened.
After my mother walked in with her tote and settled in a overstuffed chair, she said, %26quot; Come over here, would you?%26quot;
I grabbed a pillow, and then sat on the floor across from her.
Then she asked, %26quot; Do you want to know why I took you with me to the cosmetic boutique?%26quot;
%26quot;No,%26quot; I lied, still in denial about the whole situation.
%26quot; Well Victoria, I don%26#039;t want you to be the freak of this neighborhood with that scar. I can%26#039;t take you to the plasic surgeon, so here is the product that will make you normal.%26quot;
%26quot;But Mom,%26quot; I asked, %26quot;what does it matter whether I%26#039;m normal or not? Why can%26#039;t I be a regular kid?%26quot;
%26quot;Vicky, let me give you a bit of wisdom here. People in this town do not care about the inner contents of you, they only care about your appearances. They will judge you by that scar and only by it; and they wouldn%26#039;t care how you%26#039;re really like inside if you%26#039;re flawed. So please follow my advice, or your life in this town will be a terrible place for you for many years to come. %26quot;
Then, my mother bended down and reached into her tote, grabbing the foundation and face powder.
She continued,%26quot; So here is the product that will make you normal. Please wear it or your not going to fit in this society. As a matter of fact, I%26#039;m going to show you how to put it on right now.%26quot;
So, without hesitation, I let her apply the foundation, eventhough in the inside, I was screaming, begging her to stop. I didn%26#039;t want this oily stuff on my skin like a adult, I wanted to be a kid. However, on that day, I wasn%26#039;t a kid anymore. That was the first day of trying to be the prototype of Applegale.
What do you think of my story, %26quot;The Prototype of Applegale%26quot;?
Quite good. Is it a dystopic future? On the backburner I have a more sinister beauty perfection story where the inhabitants live in a town called stretchville and they are all very thin and very tall and susceptible to illnesses very easily.
art
Now, to others, Applegale might appear to be a beautiful and wealthty suburban town. The streets are lined with lush emerald trees, the air is filled with the perfume of apple blossoms, and the houses are exquistively crafted victorian mansions, surrounded with professionally landscaped lawns. Also, the people are so perfect and pristine as well, from their attitudes to their apperances. A smile is always planted on their beautiful faces, no matter how they feel inside. You%26#039;ll never see a down face in Applegale; you will only see happy and blissful faces strutting around the neighborhood with their flawlessly sculpted bodies.
But don%26#039;t let the outside appearance of Applegate fool you. Eventhough they appear perfect, they are poisoned and brainwashed in the inside. They will do everything to appear perfect to the society, to keep up their appearances and to have everyone and even the surroundings to look as perfect as possible- no matter what. They continue to be as wealthty as possible, to continue to have everything their heart desires. Also, they strive to be beautiful , to spend 3 hours everysingle day working out in the gym, and to correct any grosteque flaws by making a visit to their beloved plastic surgeon. And most of all, each family in Applegale mold themselves and give up their individuality in order to mold themselves. The men are the ones who earn the riches, while they run their household in their god like stature. The housewifes only have to be as beautiful, frail, and pristine as possible and help raise the children to conform into the society-if they have any. And the children supposed to be perfect, well mannered and must obtain book intelligence, who must conform into the Applegale%26#039;s ways.
And for anyone who doesn%26#039;t meet the requirements of perfection in Applegale, they are either alienated, secretly ridiculed, or made perfect by countless bottles of cosmetics and/or plastic surgery. Some, however, were even killed in result of being defective, from being drowned in Orchid lake, to complications in result of being under the knife of the process of being the prototypes of perfection. Some even commited sudicide, because they couldn%26#039;t take the society of Applegale so much longer. But people from the outside world never knew about any of the towns inperfections, due to bribery. Most citizens in Applegale were multi millionares, so they gave a large fourtune to keep the grieving family and the police force quiet. Most of the time, they gave in to the large pile of money and never spoke another word about it. Applegale was a unofficial dictatorship, with most of the citizens being the dictator to theirselves.
But, I was lucky for only being alienated, instead of killed from my fellow neighbors. When I was born, I was a very beautiful baby, always adored by others. But as I got older, my deformity began to settle into my skin. I was cursed by discoloration as a large spot stood out in on the side of my face. My parents, ashamed and embarrassed by having to deal with a deformed child, immediately took me to get it fixed. But after the plastic surgeon practically laughed in my parent%26#039;s face and told me that a 7 year old was way too young to go under the knife, they gave up their plans to cancel out my flaws.Well almost, at least.
Right after we came from the plastic surgeon%26#039;s office, I can remember that whole scene while I was in the car with my parents. I can remember the atmosphere. It was so thick with tension, that I could barely breathe. Then, I can vividly remember my mother ask my father,
%26quot;James. Can we please go to the mall right now? It%26#039;s important.%26quot;
He replied, %26quot;Alice, I don%26#039;t see why not. But don%26#039;t take long. I have a meeting at 4.%26quot;
So we pulled up to the mall%26#039;s parking lot. Personally, I never was so fond of going to the mall, so normally, I always stayed in the car with my dad.
But then, my mother demanded, %26quot;Victoria. Please get out out of the car. You%26#039;re going with me today.%26quot;
%26quot;But I don%26#039;t want to go mom!%26quot;, I replied, as tears started to caress my eyes.
%26quot;Now!%26quot; She ordered.
So Then I climbed out of the car with my mother, as she grabbed my hand. At first, I was very oblivious of the reason why she was taking me to the mall with her when she already knew that I hated it. Then suddenly, the reason washed over me and consumed me like a giant wave.
We walked all through the mall, through perfect familes with their children who stared at the side of my face, groups of teenagers whispered and giggled to each other and result of seeing me, and even solitary people looked up. I just wanted to disappear. I wanted to melt and saturate into the floor so escape that horrible feeling of being the freak.
Then, finally, we stopped at a cosmetic boutique. We entered the store, and I was awashed by expensive smells of perfume and body cream. Not suprisingly, the store was only occupied by only a few customers, excluding the saleswoman, who was walking towards our direction.
When she was only a couple feet away from my mom and I she glanced at my mother, and then at me, Her eyes immediately flinched at my sight and then it immediately went back to my mother. Then she asked, %26quot;Hello. How may I help you?%26quot;
My mom smiled with her pearly white smile and then replied, %26quot;Yes. Where can I find the foundation?%26quot;
The saleswoman pointed over to the left of the small boutique as she said, %26quot; It%26#039;s right over there, Here, let me show you.%26quot;
We followed her as she guided us, and I couldn%26#039;t help but to look at her. She was the typical resident of Applegale, with a heartshaped face ,occupied with prominent blue eyes and full, cherry lacqured lips, with silky, chestnut colored locks cascading down her back. Her body was also very thin and long, clad in a clean and crisp ralph lauren polo, khaki bermunda shorts, and her feet fitted perfectly in her wedges. I wouldn%26#039;t be suprised if she used to be a supermodel.
Then we arrived there, to the shelf of countless foundation bottles, concealer, and face powder.
%26quot;Thank you so much for helping us.%26quot;, My mother said
%26quot; No problem miss.%26quot;, the saleswoman replied.
After a long period of time, my mother finally chose one bottle of foundation, that was my exact skin color, and a tube of concealer. Then we walked up to the counter as she paid for the items with the credit card. Then, we finally left.
An hour after I got home, I was sitting in my room, playing with dolls, deep in my imagination based world. Then, a knock, followed by a voice brought me back into reality.
%26quot;Victoria? Are you in there? %26quot;, my mother asked.
%26quot;Yes mother.%26quot;
%26quot;Well I need to speak to you.%26quot;, she demanded.
My bedroom door then opened.
After my mother walked in with her tote and settled in a overstuffed chair, she said, %26quot; Come over here, would you?%26quot;
I grabbed a pillow, and then sat on the floor across from her.
Then she asked, %26quot; Do you want to know why I took you with me to the cosmetic boutique?%26quot;
%26quot;No,%26quot; I lied, still in denial about the whole situation.
%26quot; Well Victoria, I don%26#039;t want you to be the freak of this neighborhood with that scar. I can%26#039;t take you to the plasic surgeon, so here is the product that will make you normal.%26quot;
%26quot;But Mom,%26quot; I asked, %26quot;what does it matter whether I%26#039;m normal or not? Why can%26#039;t I be a regular kid?%26quot;
%26quot;Vicky, let me give you a bit of wisdom here. People in this town do not care about the inner contents of you, they only care about your appearances. They will judge you by that scar and only by it; and they wouldn%26#039;t care how you%26#039;re really like inside if you%26#039;re flawed. So please follow my advice, or your life in this town will be a terrible place for you for many years to come. %26quot;
Then, my mother bended down and reached into her tote, grabbing the foundation and face powder.
She continued,%26quot; So here is the product that will make you normal. Please wear it or your not going to fit in this society. As a matter of fact, I%26#039;m going to show you how to put it on right now.%26quot;
So, without hesitation, I let her apply the foundation, eventhough in the inside, I was screaming, begging her to stop. I didn%26#039;t want this oily stuff on my skin like a adult, I wanted to be a kid. However, on that day, I wasn%26#039;t a kid anymore. That was the first day of trying to be the prototype of Applegale.
What do you think of my story, %26quot;The Prototype of Applegale%26quot;?
Quite good. Is it a dystopic future? On the backburner I have a more sinister beauty perfection story where the inhabitants live in a town called stretchville and they are all very thin and very tall and susceptible to illnesses very easily.
art
Can someone please critique my story?????
The prototype of applegale-part one
Hello. My name is Victoria Vanderblit, one of the defective girls of a town called Applegale. Now, if you took a look at me right as I%26#039;m writing this, you would probably think I%26#039;m a average looking girl, with a curvy body, curly brown hair and almond shaped brown eyes like my beautiful mother, only my mother is thin and her hair is pin straight. However, in the town that I used to live in, Below average is taboo. Average isn%26#039;t good enough. In order to survive in this demented town, you had to be perfect. It was the way of life.
Now, to others, Applegale might appear to be a beautiful and wealthty suburban town. The streets are lined with lush emerald trees, the air is filled with the perfume of apple blossoms, and the houses are exquistively crafted victorian mansions, surrounded with professionally landscaped lawns. Also, the people are so perfect and pristine as well, from their attitudes to their apperances. A smile is always planted on their beautiful faces, no matter how they feel inside. You%26#039;ll never see a down face in Applegale; you will only see happy and blissful faces strutting around the neighborhood with their flawlessly sculpted bodies.
But don%26#039;t let the outside appearance of Applegate fool you. Eventhough they appear perfect, they are poisoned and brainwashed in the inside. They will do everything to appear perfect to the society, to keep up their appearances and to have everyone and even the surroundings to look as perfect as possible- no matter what. They continue to be as wealthty as possible, to continue to have everything their heart desires. Also, they strive to be beautiful , to spend 3 hours everysingle day working out in the gym, and to correct any grosteque flaws by making a visit to their beloved plastic surgeon. And most of all, each family in Applegale mold themselves and give up their individuality in order to mold themselves. The men are the ones who earn the riches, while they run their household in their god like stature. The housewifes only have to be as beautiful, frail, and pristine as possible and help raise the children to conform into the society-if they have any. And the children supposed to be perfect, well mannered and must obtain book intelligence, who must conform into the Applegale%26#039;s ways.
And for anyone who doesn%26#039;t meet the requirements of perfection in Applegale, they are either alienated, secretly ridiculed, or made perfect by countless bottles of cosmetics and/or plastic surgery. Some, however, were even killed in result of being defective, from being drowned in Orchid lake, to complications in result of being under the knife of the process of being the prototypes of perfection. Some even commited sudicide, because they couldn%26#039;t take the society of Applegale so much longer. But people from the outside world never knew about any of the towns inperfections, due to bribery. Most citizens in Applegale were multi millionares, so they gave a large fourtune to keep the grieving family and the police force quiet. Most of the time, they gave in to the large pile of money and never spoke another word about it. Applegale was a unofficial dictatorship, with most of the citizens being the dictator to theirselves.
But, I was lucky for only being alienated, instead of killed from my fellow neighbors. When I was born, I was a very beautiful baby, always adored by others. But as I got older, my deformity began to settle into my skin. I was cursed by discoloration as a large spot stood out in on the side of my face. My parents, ashamed and embarrassed by having to deal with a deformed child, immediately took me to get it fixed. But after the plastic surgeon practically laughed in my parent%26#039;s face and told me that a 7 year old was way too young to go under the knife, they gave up their plans to cancel out my flaws.Well almost, at least.
Right after we came from the plastic surgeon%26#039;s office, I can remember that whole scene while I was in the car with my parents. I can remember the atmosphere. It was so thick with tension, that I could barely breathe. Then, I can vividly remember my mother ask my father,
%26quot;James. Can we please go to the mall right now? It%26#039;s important.%26quot;
He replied, %26quot;Alice, I don%26#039;t see why not. But don%26#039;t take long. I have a meeting at 4.%26quot;
So we pulled up to the mall%26#039;s parking lot. Personally, I never was so fond of going to the mall, so normally, I always stayed in the car with my dad.
But then, my mother demanded, %26quot;Victoria. Please get out out of the car. You%26#039;re going with me today.%26quot;
%26quot;But I don%26#039;t want to go mom!%26quot;, I replied, as tears started to caress my eyes.
%26quot;Now!%26quot; She ordered.
So Then I climbed out of the car with my mother, as she grabbed my hand. At first, I was very oblivious of the reason why she was taking me to the mall with her when she already knew that I hated it. Then suddenly, the reason washed over me and consumed me like a giant wave.
We walked all through the mall, through perfect familes with their children who stared at the side of my face, groups of teenagers whispered and giggled to each other and result of seeing me, and even solitary people looked up. I just wanted to disappear. I wanted to melt and saturate into the floor so escape that horrible feeling of being the freak.
Then, finally, we stopped at a cosmetic boutique. We entered the store, and I was awashed by expensive smells of perfume and body cream. Not suprisingly, the store was only occupied by only a few customers, excluding the saleswoman, who was walking towards our direction.
When she was only a couple feet away from my mom and I she glanced at my mother, and then at me, Her eyes immediately flinched at my sight and then it immediately went back to my mother. Then she asked, %26quot;Hello. How may I help you?%26quot;
My mom smiled with her pearly white smile and then replied, %26quot;Yes. Where can I find the foundation?%26quot;
The saleswoman pointed over to the left of the small boutique as she said, %26quot; It%26#039;s right over there, Here, let me show you.%26quot;
We followed her as she guided us, and I couldn%26#039;t help but to look at her. She was the typical resident of Applegale, with a heartshaped face ,occupied with prominent blue eyes and full, cherry lacqured lips, with silky, chestnut colored locks cascading down her back. Her body was also very thin and long, clad in a clean and crisp ralph lauren polo, khaki bermunda shorts, and her feet fitted perfectly in her wedges. I wouldn%26#039;t be suprised if she used to be a supermodel.
Then we arrived there, to the shelf of countless foundation bottles, concealer, and face powder.
%26quot;Thank you so much for helping us.%26quot;, My mother said
%26quot; No problem miss.%26quot;, the saleswoman replied.
After a long period of time, my mother finally chose one bottle of foundation, that was my exact skin color, and a tube of concealer. Then we walked up to the counter as she paid for the items with the credit card. Then, we finally left.
An hour after I got home, I was sitting in my room, playing with dolls, deep in my imagination based world. Then, a knock, followed by a voice brought me back into reality.
%26quot;Victoria? Are you in there? %26quot;, my mother asked.
%26quot;%26#039;Yes mother.%26quot;
%26quot;Well I need to speak to you.%26quot;, she demanded.
My bedroom door opened.
After my mother walked in with her tote and settled in a overstuffed chair, she said, %26quot; Come over here, would you?%26quot;
I grabbed a pillow, and then sat on the floor across from her.
Then she asked, %26quot; Do you want to know why I took you with me to the cosmetic boutique?%26quot;
%26quot;No,%26quot; I lied, still in denial about the whole situation.
%26quot; Well Victoria, I don%26#039;t want you to be the freak of this neighborhood with that scar. I can%26#039;t take you to the plasic surgeon, so here is the product that will make you normal.%26quot;
%26quot;But Mom,%26quot; I asked, %26quot;what does it matter whether I%26#039;m normal or not? Why can%26#039;t I be a regular kid?%26quot;
%26quot;Vicky, let me give you a bit of wisdom here. People in this town do not care about the inner contents of you, they only care about your appearances. They will judge you by that scar and only by it; and they wouldn%26#039;t care how you%26#039;re really like inside if you%26#039;re flawed. So please follow my advice, or your life in this town will be a terrible place for you for many years to come. %26quot;
Then, my mother bended down and reached into her tote, grabbing the foundation and face powder.
She continued,%26quot; So here is the product that will make you normal. Please wear it or your not going to fit in this society. As a matter of fact, I%26#039;m going to show you how to put it on right now.%26quot;
So, without hesitation, I let her apply the foundation, eventhough in the inside, I was screaming, begging her to stop. I didn%26#039;t want this oily stuff on my skin like a adult, I wanted to be a kid. However, on that day, I wasn%26#039;t a kid anymore. That was the first day of trying to be the prototype of Applegale.
Can someone please critique my story?????
way to much too read. i%26#039;m sorry. can you just summerize it for me. i%26#039;m not trying to be rude or mean by not reading it. it%26#039;s just that it%26#039;s too long and my computar will heat up. i%26#039;m sorry. i know how it feels like too when you want someone to critique your story and no one will do it. maybe i%26#039;ll do it later.
Reply:So let me guess, you live in Greenwitch, CT? Been there...
or is this story about Wilton, CT? i heard it can be worse.
Greenwitch is full of blondes but wilton might have more chestnut haired ones -- so i%26#039;m guessing -- Wilton!
usually i don%26#039;t say anything to these sorts of things because i have nothing to say that will be listened to. i gave up on writing when i realised that the same ppl who pay you to write are the only ppl who can SELL what you write, so if you write what you want to write you can%26#039;t sell it. i suggested advertising my book on Second Life and didn%26#039;t quite get flamed but gave up -- apparently i%26#039;d be %26quot;taking advantage%26quot; of ppl by making them look at a 2-d billboard having 5 words on it simply because i was advertising a real-world product and not a virtual one (which would be ok).
But to your story....
starts of good but gets too bitter too fast. they say %26quot;show, don%26#039;t tell%26quot;. You show -- THEN tell, and tell, and tell. write out on a seperate piece of paper what is the point of ever sentance such as %26quot;emphais on plastic surgery%26quot; and delete every repetition.
For exmaple %26quot;They will do everything to appear perfect to the society, to keep up their appearances and to have everyone and even the surroundings to look as perfect as possible- no matter what.%26quot; is not needed sentance because you show that before and after by saying what they DO which speaks that sentance for you. you have lots like that.
you seem to have a good natural style but it is confounded by lots of un-neede words? guess you need to proof read but i think you know that.
you did capture SOMETHING there that makes me want to read it, to know what happens next, possibly because i%26#039;ve SEEN Greenwitch, CT. I%26#039;m curious how having makeup alters this girl%26#039;s life -- i mean she really hates but is wearing it, and so the other ppl (being as shallow as they are) will only see that she is wearing it (not that she hates it) and will probably like her and be nice to her no matter what she thinks about them or feels about her makup... i know all that (no need to TELL me because you shown it) but i still don%26#039;t know where exactly it is going so i want to know.
still, keep in mind, that the only way write what YOU want to write and to get it read is to have a RESUME and a PORTFOLIO of published works -- and the only way to get that is to major in creative writing and then work for some fashion magazin or auto mechic or something. only once you have a name for yourself and you know editor%26#039;s children%26#039;s names can you write what you want to write -- AND GET IT SOLD.
i know i know -- someone told you %26quot;follow ur dreams and don%26#039;t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise%26quot; but consider yourself warned. your gonna end up on lulu.com with only friends for readers -- no matter how well you write -- and you do make ME want to keep reading what you wrote (despite the clearly amateur flaws in your writing - repetition and style) so i think you are good.
i%26#039;m just saying if you really wanna write, do it the right way -- don%26#039;t do what i did and follow %26quot;art%26quot; but make a %26quot;career%26quot; out of it. i would recomend a double major -- creative writing and a 2nd one for a career you can be sure will pay you enough so you don%26#039;t end up living with your parents and unemployed for the rest of your life... that would be really an embarassment in Applegate...
Reply:it%26#039;s pretty good, but a little harsh. but overall pretty good.
Reply:Honestly, I didn%26#039;t read the entire thing but from what I saw, I thought it was pretty good. Maybe try and find other words to supplement %26quot;so%26quot; and %26quot;then.%26quot; I like the storyline so far though.
Hello. My name is Victoria Vanderblit, one of the defective girls of a town called Applegale. Now, if you took a look at me right as I%26#039;m writing this, you would probably think I%26#039;m a average looking girl, with a curvy body, curly brown hair and almond shaped brown eyes like my beautiful mother, only my mother is thin and her hair is pin straight. However, in the town that I used to live in, Below average is taboo. Average isn%26#039;t good enough. In order to survive in this demented town, you had to be perfect. It was the way of life.
Now, to others, Applegale might appear to be a beautiful and wealthty suburban town. The streets are lined with lush emerald trees, the air is filled with the perfume of apple blossoms, and the houses are exquistively crafted victorian mansions, surrounded with professionally landscaped lawns. Also, the people are so perfect and pristine as well, from their attitudes to their apperances. A smile is always planted on their beautiful faces, no matter how they feel inside. You%26#039;ll never see a down face in Applegale; you will only see happy and blissful faces strutting around the neighborhood with their flawlessly sculpted bodies.
But don%26#039;t let the outside appearance of Applegate fool you. Eventhough they appear perfect, they are poisoned and brainwashed in the inside. They will do everything to appear perfect to the society, to keep up their appearances and to have everyone and even the surroundings to look as perfect as possible- no matter what. They continue to be as wealthty as possible, to continue to have everything their heart desires. Also, they strive to be beautiful , to spend 3 hours everysingle day working out in the gym, and to correct any grosteque flaws by making a visit to their beloved plastic surgeon. And most of all, each family in Applegale mold themselves and give up their individuality in order to mold themselves. The men are the ones who earn the riches, while they run their household in their god like stature. The housewifes only have to be as beautiful, frail, and pristine as possible and help raise the children to conform into the society-if they have any. And the children supposed to be perfect, well mannered and must obtain book intelligence, who must conform into the Applegale%26#039;s ways.
And for anyone who doesn%26#039;t meet the requirements of perfection in Applegale, they are either alienated, secretly ridiculed, or made perfect by countless bottles of cosmetics and/or plastic surgery. Some, however, were even killed in result of being defective, from being drowned in Orchid lake, to complications in result of being under the knife of the process of being the prototypes of perfection. Some even commited sudicide, because they couldn%26#039;t take the society of Applegale so much longer. But people from the outside world never knew about any of the towns inperfections, due to bribery. Most citizens in Applegale were multi millionares, so they gave a large fourtune to keep the grieving family and the police force quiet. Most of the time, they gave in to the large pile of money and never spoke another word about it. Applegale was a unofficial dictatorship, with most of the citizens being the dictator to theirselves.
But, I was lucky for only being alienated, instead of killed from my fellow neighbors. When I was born, I was a very beautiful baby, always adored by others. But as I got older, my deformity began to settle into my skin. I was cursed by discoloration as a large spot stood out in on the side of my face. My parents, ashamed and embarrassed by having to deal with a deformed child, immediately took me to get it fixed. But after the plastic surgeon practically laughed in my parent%26#039;s face and told me that a 7 year old was way too young to go under the knife, they gave up their plans to cancel out my flaws.Well almost, at least.
Right after we came from the plastic surgeon%26#039;s office, I can remember that whole scene while I was in the car with my parents. I can remember the atmosphere. It was so thick with tension, that I could barely breathe. Then, I can vividly remember my mother ask my father,
%26quot;James. Can we please go to the mall right now? It%26#039;s important.%26quot;
He replied, %26quot;Alice, I don%26#039;t see why not. But don%26#039;t take long. I have a meeting at 4.%26quot;
So we pulled up to the mall%26#039;s parking lot. Personally, I never was so fond of going to the mall, so normally, I always stayed in the car with my dad.
But then, my mother demanded, %26quot;Victoria. Please get out out of the car. You%26#039;re going with me today.%26quot;
%26quot;But I don%26#039;t want to go mom!%26quot;, I replied, as tears started to caress my eyes.
%26quot;Now!%26quot; She ordered.
So Then I climbed out of the car with my mother, as she grabbed my hand. At first, I was very oblivious of the reason why she was taking me to the mall with her when she already knew that I hated it. Then suddenly, the reason washed over me and consumed me like a giant wave.
We walked all through the mall, through perfect familes with their children who stared at the side of my face, groups of teenagers whispered and giggled to each other and result of seeing me, and even solitary people looked up. I just wanted to disappear. I wanted to melt and saturate into the floor so escape that horrible feeling of being the freak.
Then, finally, we stopped at a cosmetic boutique. We entered the store, and I was awashed by expensive smells of perfume and body cream. Not suprisingly, the store was only occupied by only a few customers, excluding the saleswoman, who was walking towards our direction.
When she was only a couple feet away from my mom and I she glanced at my mother, and then at me, Her eyes immediately flinched at my sight and then it immediately went back to my mother. Then she asked, %26quot;Hello. How may I help you?%26quot;
My mom smiled with her pearly white smile and then replied, %26quot;Yes. Where can I find the foundation?%26quot;
The saleswoman pointed over to the left of the small boutique as she said, %26quot; It%26#039;s right over there, Here, let me show you.%26quot;
We followed her as she guided us, and I couldn%26#039;t help but to look at her. She was the typical resident of Applegale, with a heartshaped face ,occupied with prominent blue eyes and full, cherry lacqured lips, with silky, chestnut colored locks cascading down her back. Her body was also very thin and long, clad in a clean and crisp ralph lauren polo, khaki bermunda shorts, and her feet fitted perfectly in her wedges. I wouldn%26#039;t be suprised if she used to be a supermodel.
Then we arrived there, to the shelf of countless foundation bottles, concealer, and face powder.
%26quot;Thank you so much for helping us.%26quot;, My mother said
%26quot; No problem miss.%26quot;, the saleswoman replied.
After a long period of time, my mother finally chose one bottle of foundation, that was my exact skin color, and a tube of concealer. Then we walked up to the counter as she paid for the items with the credit card. Then, we finally left.
An hour after I got home, I was sitting in my room, playing with dolls, deep in my imagination based world. Then, a knock, followed by a voice brought me back into reality.
%26quot;Victoria? Are you in there? %26quot;, my mother asked.
%26quot;%26#039;Yes mother.%26quot;
%26quot;Well I need to speak to you.%26quot;, she demanded.
My bedroom door opened.
After my mother walked in with her tote and settled in a overstuffed chair, she said, %26quot; Come over here, would you?%26quot;
I grabbed a pillow, and then sat on the floor across from her.
Then she asked, %26quot; Do you want to know why I took you with me to the cosmetic boutique?%26quot;
%26quot;No,%26quot; I lied, still in denial about the whole situation.
%26quot; Well Victoria, I don%26#039;t want you to be the freak of this neighborhood with that scar. I can%26#039;t take you to the plasic surgeon, so here is the product that will make you normal.%26quot;
%26quot;But Mom,%26quot; I asked, %26quot;what does it matter whether I%26#039;m normal or not? Why can%26#039;t I be a regular kid?%26quot;
%26quot;Vicky, let me give you a bit of wisdom here. People in this town do not care about the inner contents of you, they only care about your appearances. They will judge you by that scar and only by it; and they wouldn%26#039;t care how you%26#039;re really like inside if you%26#039;re flawed. So please follow my advice, or your life in this town will be a terrible place for you for many years to come. %26quot;
Then, my mother bended down and reached into her tote, grabbing the foundation and face powder.
She continued,%26quot; So here is the product that will make you normal. Please wear it or your not going to fit in this society. As a matter of fact, I%26#039;m going to show you how to put it on right now.%26quot;
So, without hesitation, I let her apply the foundation, eventhough in the inside, I was screaming, begging her to stop. I didn%26#039;t want this oily stuff on my skin like a adult, I wanted to be a kid. However, on that day, I wasn%26#039;t a kid anymore. That was the first day of trying to be the prototype of Applegale.
Can someone please critique my story?????
way to much too read. i%26#039;m sorry. can you just summerize it for me. i%26#039;m not trying to be rude or mean by not reading it. it%26#039;s just that it%26#039;s too long and my computar will heat up. i%26#039;m sorry. i know how it feels like too when you want someone to critique your story and no one will do it. maybe i%26#039;ll do it later.
Reply:So let me guess, you live in Greenwitch, CT? Been there...
or is this story about Wilton, CT? i heard it can be worse.
Greenwitch is full of blondes but wilton might have more chestnut haired ones -- so i%26#039;m guessing -- Wilton!
usually i don%26#039;t say anything to these sorts of things because i have nothing to say that will be listened to. i gave up on writing when i realised that the same ppl who pay you to write are the only ppl who can SELL what you write, so if you write what you want to write you can%26#039;t sell it. i suggested advertising my book on Second Life and didn%26#039;t quite get flamed but gave up -- apparently i%26#039;d be %26quot;taking advantage%26quot; of ppl by making them look at a 2-d billboard having 5 words on it simply because i was advertising a real-world product and not a virtual one (which would be ok).
But to your story....
starts of good but gets too bitter too fast. they say %26quot;show, don%26#039;t tell%26quot;. You show -- THEN tell, and tell, and tell. write out on a seperate piece of paper what is the point of ever sentance such as %26quot;emphais on plastic surgery%26quot; and delete every repetition.
For exmaple %26quot;They will do everything to appear perfect to the society, to keep up their appearances and to have everyone and even the surroundings to look as perfect as possible- no matter what.%26quot; is not needed sentance because you show that before and after by saying what they DO which speaks that sentance for you. you have lots like that.
you seem to have a good natural style but it is confounded by lots of un-neede words? guess you need to proof read but i think you know that.
you did capture SOMETHING there that makes me want to read it, to know what happens next, possibly because i%26#039;ve SEEN Greenwitch, CT. I%26#039;m curious how having makeup alters this girl%26#039;s life -- i mean she really hates but is wearing it, and so the other ppl (being as shallow as they are) will only see that she is wearing it (not that she hates it) and will probably like her and be nice to her no matter what she thinks about them or feels about her makup... i know all that (no need to TELL me because you shown it) but i still don%26#039;t know where exactly it is going so i want to know.
still, keep in mind, that the only way write what YOU want to write and to get it read is to have a RESUME and a PORTFOLIO of published works -- and the only way to get that is to major in creative writing and then work for some fashion magazin or auto mechic or something. only once you have a name for yourself and you know editor%26#039;s children%26#039;s names can you write what you want to write -- AND GET IT SOLD.
i know i know -- someone told you %26quot;follow ur dreams and don%26#039;t listen to anyone who tells you otherwise%26quot; but consider yourself warned. your gonna end up on lulu.com with only friends for readers -- no matter how well you write -- and you do make ME want to keep reading what you wrote (despite the clearly amateur flaws in your writing - repetition and style) so i think you are good.
i%26#039;m just saying if you really wanna write, do it the right way -- don%26#039;t do what i did and follow %26quot;art%26quot; but make a %26quot;career%26quot; out of it. i would recomend a double major -- creative writing and a 2nd one for a career you can be sure will pay you enough so you don%26#039;t end up living with your parents and unemployed for the rest of your life... that would be really an embarassment in Applegate...
Reply:it%26#039;s pretty good, but a little harsh. but overall pretty good.
Reply:Honestly, I didn%26#039;t read the entire thing but from what I saw, I thought it was pretty good. Maybe try and find other words to supplement %26quot;so%26quot; and %26quot;then.%26quot; I like the storyline so far though.
Can anyone identify the vine that grows from a 'fortune telling bean'?
My daughter bought a novelty plant in the spring, a bean in a can, when it sprouted it had a fortune on the 1st leaves. Her%26#039;s said %26quot;Money, Money, Money%26quot;. The bean was large and reddish brown, much like a large kidney bean, which I thought it was. The vine is now as tall as our 2 story house, growing up in trees, across fences, its crazy. It has medium sized purple flowers that look like a giant snap dragon or small orchid and is producing thick beans that are approx 12 inches in length that turn brown and have 8 or 10 red beans inside.
I have read doing an internet search, that the way to laser the %26quot;fortunes%26quot; on these %26#039;fortune telling beans%26#039; were developed in Japan, and they were first marketed there, but I can%26#039;t find any discription of the plant itself.
Before I pass these seeds on to friends and family, please help me find out what it is.
Can anyone identify the vine that grows from a %26#039;fortune telling bean%26#039;?
It%26#039;s most definitely NOT kudzu. I grew up around kudzu, and it is awful, but definitely not anything like a bean.
Here is the definitive answer:
You have a sword bean plant.
Detailed information on Sword Bean (Canavalia gladiata)
One vendor has this plant for sale.
Family: Papilionaceae (puh-pil-ee-uh-NAY-see-ee) (Info)
Genus: Canavalia (kan-uh-VAY-lee-uh) (Info)
Species: gladiata (glad-ee-AY-tuh) (Info)
Category:
Annuals
Vegetables
Groundcovers
Vines and Climbers
Height:
6-8 ft. (1.8-2.4 m)
20-30 ft. (6-9 m)
Spacing:
Unknown - Tell us
Hardiness:
USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4° C (15° F)
USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6° C (20° F)
USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8° C (25° F)
USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1°C (30° F)
USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7° C (35° F)
USDA Zone 11: above 4.5° C (40° F)
Sun Exposure:
Full Sun
Sun to Partial Shade
Danger:
Parts of plant are poisonous if ingested
Bloom Color:
Rose/Mauve
Violet/Lavender
Purple
Bloom Time:
Late Spring/Early Summer
Mid Summer
Blooms repeatedly
Foliage:
Herbaceous
Smooth-Textured
Other details:
Drought-tolerant; suitable for xeriscaping
Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater
Soil pH requirements:
5.6 to 6.0 (acidic)
6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic)
6.6 to 7.5 (neutral)
7.6 to 7.8 (mildly alkaline)
Propagation Methods:
From seed; sow indoors before last frost
From seed; direct sow after last frost
From seed; germinate in a damp paper towel
Seed Collecting:
Allow pods to dry on plant; break open to collect seeds
Noun 1. sword bean - twining tropical Old World plant bearing long pods usually with red or brown beans; long cultivated in Orient for food
Canavalia gladiata
Canavalia, genus Canavalia - herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics
vine - weak-stemmed plant that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
Canavalia gladiata Elevation: up to 1,500m
Sword Bean MS, LL, RF, H
Uncooked seed is toxic at any stage, BUT young tender immature pods are edible after being boiled and water poured off. Do not eat in large quantities and do not eat mature seeds, even after boiling! Drought-tolerant, green manure; seeds germinate readily. Optimum growth occurs in full sunlight but sword beans are tolerant of some shade. Preferred environmental conditions are found in the humid lowland tropics but these beans may be grown with success in tropical elevations to 1,000 m (3,000 ft). Sword Bean thrives in tropical climates exhibiting moderately high temperature (15-30°C/59-86°F) environments. Sword Bean is tolerant of a wide range of rainfall conditions (from 700-4,200 mm or approximately 27-165 in). Sword Bean is well adapted to growth and survival in low-quality soils.
Soil pH: 4.3-7.5.
Reply:My best guess is that these are Kudzu vines--a very invasive pest originally from Japan. I do not recommend planting or growing these as they are so invasive.
Please see the below link for more information:
http://www.invasive.org/eastern/srs/K.ht...
Reply:I never heard of it,dig it up
Reply:try and join this yahoo group gardenmessenger they are very good and will answer all gardening questions - they also have a very good web-site http://www.gardenmessenger.net/
Reply:Cant the Fortune Cookie tell you? lol
Reply:I think what you got is this one:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/...
I have read doing an internet search, that the way to laser the %26quot;fortunes%26quot; on these %26#039;fortune telling beans%26#039; were developed in Japan, and they were first marketed there, but I can%26#039;t find any discription of the plant itself.
Before I pass these seeds on to friends and family, please help me find out what it is.
Can anyone identify the vine that grows from a %26#039;fortune telling bean%26#039;?
It%26#039;s most definitely NOT kudzu. I grew up around kudzu, and it is awful, but definitely not anything like a bean.
Here is the definitive answer:
You have a sword bean plant.
Detailed information on Sword Bean (Canavalia gladiata)
One vendor has this plant for sale.
Family: Papilionaceae (puh-pil-ee-uh-NAY-see-ee) (Info)
Genus: Canavalia (kan-uh-VAY-lee-uh) (Info)
Species: gladiata (glad-ee-AY-tuh) (Info)
Category:
Annuals
Vegetables
Groundcovers
Vines and Climbers
Height:
6-8 ft. (1.8-2.4 m)
20-30 ft. (6-9 m)
Spacing:
Unknown - Tell us
Hardiness:
USDA Zone 8b: to -9.4° C (15° F)
USDA Zone 9a: to -6.6° C (20° F)
USDA Zone 9b: to -3.8° C (25° F)
USDA Zone 10a: to -1.1°C (30° F)
USDA Zone 10b: to 1.7° C (35° F)
USDA Zone 11: above 4.5° C (40° F)
Sun Exposure:
Full Sun
Sun to Partial Shade
Danger:
Parts of plant are poisonous if ingested
Bloom Color:
Rose/Mauve
Violet/Lavender
Purple
Bloom Time:
Late Spring/Early Summer
Mid Summer
Blooms repeatedly
Foliage:
Herbaceous
Smooth-Textured
Other details:
Drought-tolerant; suitable for xeriscaping
Average Water Needs; Water regularly; do not overwater
Soil pH requirements:
5.6 to 6.0 (acidic)
6.1 to 6.5 (mildly acidic)
6.6 to 7.5 (neutral)
7.6 to 7.8 (mildly alkaline)
Propagation Methods:
From seed; sow indoors before last frost
From seed; direct sow after last frost
From seed; germinate in a damp paper towel
Seed Collecting:
Allow pods to dry on plant; break open to collect seeds
Noun 1. sword bean - twining tropical Old World plant bearing long pods usually with red or brown beans; long cultivated in Orient for food
Canavalia gladiata
Canavalia, genus Canavalia - herbs or woody vines of mainly American tropics and subtropics
vine - weak-stemmed plant that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
Canavalia gladiata Elevation: up to 1,500m
Sword Bean MS, LL, RF, H
Uncooked seed is toxic at any stage, BUT young tender immature pods are edible after being boiled and water poured off. Do not eat in large quantities and do not eat mature seeds, even after boiling! Drought-tolerant, green manure; seeds germinate readily. Optimum growth occurs in full sunlight but sword beans are tolerant of some shade. Preferred environmental conditions are found in the humid lowland tropics but these beans may be grown with success in tropical elevations to 1,000 m (3,000 ft). Sword Bean thrives in tropical climates exhibiting moderately high temperature (15-30°C/59-86°F) environments. Sword Bean is tolerant of a wide range of rainfall conditions (from 700-4,200 mm or approximately 27-165 in). Sword Bean is well adapted to growth and survival in low-quality soils.
Soil pH: 4.3-7.5.
Reply:My best guess is that these are Kudzu vines--a very invasive pest originally from Japan. I do not recommend planting or growing these as they are so invasive.
Please see the below link for more information:
http://www.invasive.org/eastern/srs/K.ht...
Reply:I never heard of it,dig it up
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Reply:Cant the Fortune Cookie tell you? lol
Reply:I think what you got is this one:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/...
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My dendrobium orchids are rotting and the leaves are dying only at the very tip of the plants. The rest of the plant is healthy. This also happens when a new shoot comes out. It is healthy for the first few weeks then it starts to turn yellow and dies, always from the tip .
Can you please advise me why this is happening. My green house is made of 50% black polythene but it is directly under a fruit bearing tree. Some say that this has an effect on the growth of the plants.
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I%26#039;ve heard that the gases given off by fruiting trees ( the fruit) can damage orchids, but I%26#039;m not sure.
Talk to your local nursery and see if they can recommend something or better yet, take in one of your plants and see if they can idenify what the problem is.
Sorry I couldn%26#039;t be of more help...
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Can you please advise me why this is happening. My green house is made of 50% black polythene but it is directly under a fruit bearing tree. Some say that this has an effect on the growth of the plants.
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I%26#039;ve heard that the gases given off by fruiting trees ( the fruit) can damage orchids, but I%26#039;m not sure.
Talk to your local nursery and see if they can recommend something or better yet, take in one of your plants and see if they can idenify what the problem is.
Sorry I couldn%26#039;t be of more help...
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1.Panama’s national flower is one orchid. The national dance is el tamborito.
PANAMA means in our culture, abundance of butterflies,abundance of fishes,abundance of trees..in our native tradition....
2. The population in Panama is more than 3 million people. Most of them speak Spanish. About 10% can speak in English. Most of these people are in the capital, colon, and the old zone of canal region..
3. Panama uses the balboa like money. But the U.S. currency is accepted and used like equal authorized money by agreement between U.S. government and panama more than 100 years ago
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1. La flor nacional de Panamá es la orquÃdea. El baile nacional es el tamborito. Panamá significa en nuestra cultura, abundancia de mariposas, abundancia de peces, abundancia de árboles... en nuestra tradición nativa.
2. La población de Panamá es de más de tres millones de personas. La mayorÃa de ellas habla el español. Aproximadamente el 10% sabe hablar el inglés. La mayorÃa de los habitantes vive en la capital, Colón, y en la zona antigua de la región del canal.
3. La moneda de Panamá es la balboa, pero la moneda de EE.UU. es aceptada y usada como moneda equivalente autorizada por acuerdo hecho hace más de 100 años entre el gobierno de EE.UU. y Panamá.
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PANAMA means in our culture, abundance of butterflies,abundance of fishes,abundance of trees..in our native tradition....
2. The population in Panama is more than 3 million people. Most of them speak Spanish. About 10% can speak in English. Most of these people are in the capital, colon, and the old zone of canal region..
3. Panama uses the balboa like money. But the U.S. currency is accepted and used like equal authorized money by agreement between U.S. government and panama more than 100 years ago
Translate These Sentences Into Spanish?
1. La flor nacional de Panamá es la orquÃdea. El baile nacional es el tamborito. Panamá significa en nuestra cultura, abundancia de mariposas, abundancia de peces, abundancia de árboles... en nuestra tradición nativa.
2. La población de Panamá es de más de tres millones de personas. La mayorÃa de ellas habla el español. Aproximadamente el 10% sabe hablar el inglés. La mayorÃa de los habitantes vive en la capital, Colón, y en la zona antigua de la región del canal.
3. La moneda de Panamá es la balboa, pero la moneda de EE.UU. es aceptada y usada como moneda equivalente autorizada por acuerdo hecho hace más de 100 años entre el gobierno de EE.UU. y Panamá.
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Why are there so many scientific and historical innacuracies in the word of your God?
Science and History in the Bible
All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.--Lev.11:20
Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse.... Should it turn out that I am the worst man in the whole world, the story of the flood will remain just as improbable as before, and the contradictions of the Pentateuch will still demand an explanation. -- Robert Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
Genesis
The Genesis 1 creation account conflicts with the order of events that are known to science. In Genesis, the earth is created before light and stars, birds and whales before reptiles and insects, and flowering plants before any animals. The true order of events was just the opposite. 1:1-2:3
God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet he didn%26#039;t make the light producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). And how could there be %26quot;the evening and the morning%26quot; on the first day if there was no sun to mark them? 1:3-5
God spends one-sixth of his entire creative effort (the second day) working on a solid firmament. This strange structure, which God calls heaven, is intended to separate the higher waters from the lower waters. 1:6-8
Plants are made on the third day before there was a sun to drive their photosynthetic processes (1:14-19). 1:11
God lets %26quot;the earth bring forth%26quot; the plants, rather than creating them directly. Maybe Genesis is not so anti-evolution after all. 1:11
In an apparent endorsement of astrology, God places the sun, moon, and stars in the firmament so that they can be used %26quot;for signs%26quot;. This, of course, is exactly what astrologers do: read %26quot;the signs%26quot; in the Zodiac in an effort to predict what will happen on Earth. 1:14
God makes two lights: %26quot;the greater light [the sun] to rule the day, and the lesser light [the moon] to rule the night.%26quot; But the moon is not a light, but only reflects light from the sun. And why, if God made the moon to %26quot;rule the night%26quot;, does it spend half of its time moving through the daytime sky? 1:16
%26quot;He made the stars also.%26quot; God spends a day making light (before making the stars) and separating light from darkness; then, at the end of a hard day%26#039;s work, and almost as an afterthought, he makes the trillions of stars. 1:16
%26quot;And God set them [the stars] in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.%26quot; 1:17
In verse 11, God %26quot;let the earth bring forth%26quot; the plants. Now he has the earth %26quot;bring forth%26quot; the animals as well. So maybe the creationists have it all wrong. Maybe God created livings things through the process of evolution. 1:24
God gave humans dominion over every other living thing on earth. 1:26
God commands us to %26quot;be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over ... every living thing that moveth upon the earth.%26quot; 1:28
%26quot;I have given you every herb ... and every tree ... for meat.%26quot; 1:29
All animals were originally herbivores. Tapeworms, vampire bats, mosquitoes, and barracudas -- all were strict vegetarians, as they were created by God. 1:30
%26quot;God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.%26quot; He purposefully designed a system that ensures the suffering and death of all his creatures, parasite and host, predator and prey. 1:31
In Genesis 1 the entire creation takes 6 days, but the universe is at least 12 billion years old, with new stars constantly being formed. 1:31
Humans were not created instantaneously from dust and breath, but evolved over millions of years from simpler life forms. 2:7
After making the animals, God has Adam name them all. The naming of several million species must have kept Adam busy for a while. 2:18-22
God fashions a woman out of one of Adam%26#039;s ribs.
Because of this story, it was commonly believed (and sometimes it is still said today) that males have one less rib than females. When Vesalius showed in 1543 that the number of ribs was the same in males and females, it created a storm of controversy. 2:19
God curses the serpent. From now on the serpent will crawl on his belly and eat dust. One wonders how he got around before -- by hopping on his tail, perhaps? But snakes don%26#039;t eat dust, do they? 3:14
Because Adam listened to Eve, God cursed the ground and causes thorns and thistles to grow. Before this, according to the (false) Genesis story, plants had no natural defenses. The rose had no thorn, cacti were spineless, holly leaves were smooth, and the nettle had no sting. Foxgloves, oleander, and milkweeds were all perfectly safe to eat. 3:17-18
%26quot;There were giants in the earth in those days.%26quot; Well, I suppose it%26#039;s good to know that. But why is there no archaeological evidence for the existence of these giants? 6:4
Noah is told to make an ark that is 450 feet long. 6:14-15
Whether by twos or by sevens, Noah takes male and female representatives from each species of %26quot;every thing that creepeth upon the earth.%26quot; 7:8
God opens the %26quot;windows of heaven.%26quot; He does this every time it rains. 7:11
All of the animals boarded the ark %26quot;in the selfsame day.%26quot; 7:13-14
The flood covered the highest mountain tops (Mount Everest?) with fifteen cubits to spare. 7:20
%26quot;The windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.%26quot; This happens whenever it stops raining. 8:2
Noah sends a dove out to see if there was any dry land. But the dove returns without finding any. Then, just seven days later, the dove goes out again and returns with an olive leaf. But how could an olive tree survive the flood? And if any seeds happened to survive, they certainly wouldn%26#039;t germinate and grow leaves within a seven day period. 8:8-11
When the animals left the ark, what would they have eaten? There would have been no plants after the ground had been submerged for nearly a year. What would the carnivores have eaten? Whatever prey they ate would have gone extinct. And how did the New World primates or the Australian marsupials find their way back after the flood subsided? 8:19
Noah kills the %26quot;clean beasts%26quot; and burns their dead bodies for God. According to 7:8 this would have caused the extinction of all %26quot;clean%26quot; animals since only two of each were taken onto the ark. 8:20-21
%26quot;Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.%26quot; Although this would have been good advice for the mythical Noah, it is deadly advice for humankind as a whole. Overpopulation is one of our greatest problems, yet there is nothing in the bible to address it. 9:1
According to this verse, all animals fear humans. Although it is true that many do, it is also true that some do not. Sharks and grizzly bears, for example, are generally much less afraid of us than we are of them. 9:2
%26quot;Into your hand are they (the animals) delivered.%26quot; God gave the animals to humans, and they can do whatever they please with them. This verse has been used by bible believers to justify all kinds of cruelty to animals and environmental destruction. 9:2
God is rightly filled with remorse for having killed his creatures. He even puts the rainbow in the sky to remind himself of his promise to the animals not to do it again. But rainbows are caused by the nature of light, the refractive index of water, and the shape of raindrops. There were rainbows billions of years before humans existed. 9:13
Some creationists believe that this verse refers to continental drift, which, they say, began to occur during the days of Pelag (which means %26quot;division%26quot;), about 100 or so years after the flood. But many other creationists disagree. 10:25
%26quot;The whole earth was of one language.%26quot; But this could not be true, since by this time (around 2400 BCE) there were already many languages, each unintelligible to the others. 11:1, 6
God worries that people could build a tower high enough to reach him (them?) in heaven, and that by so doing they will become omnipotent. 11:4-6
According to the Tower of Babel story, the many human languages were created instantaneously by God. But actually the various languages evolved gradually over long periods of time. 11:9
The ridiculously long lives of the patriarchs. 11:10-32
%26quot;And they returned to the land of the Philistines.%26quot; But the Philistines didn%26#039;t arrive in the region of Canaan until around 1200 BCE -- 800 years after Abraham%26#039;s supposed migration from Ur. 21:32, 26:1, 8, 15, 18
Laban learns %26quot;by experience%26quot; that God has blessed him for Jacob%26#039;s sake. %26quot;By experience%26quot; means %26quot;by divination%26quot;, at least that is how most other versions translate this verse. 30:27
Jacob displays his (and God%26#039;s) knowledge of biology by having goats copulate while looking at streaked rods. The result is streaked baby goats. 30:37-39
God (or an angel) praises Jacob for his fancy genetic work in Gen.30:37-39. 31:11-12
Joseph and his magic divining cup. 44:5, 44:15
Exodus
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than ten days. 16:35
The Israelite population went from 70 (or 75) to several million in a few hundred years. 1:5,7, 12:37, 38:26
Why are some people born with disabilities? Because God deliberately makes them that way. 4:11
God led the Israelites through the land of the Philistines, hundreds of years before the Philistines were established in Canaan. 13:17
%26quot;The manna referred to in the Bible, in Exodus 16:14, seems to have been the dried excrement of Trabutina mannipara, a scale insect that feeds on tamarisk trees.%26quot; Benjamin B. Normark, The Sex Lives of Scales, Natural History, Sept. 2004. 16:14-15
%26quot;In six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them.%26quot;
Believers often say that the %26quot;days%26quot; of creation should be taken allegorically, but this verse is quite clear. God created the universe in six 24 hour days. 20:11
Leviticus
The bible says that hares and coneys are unclean because they %26quot;chew the cud%26quot; but do not part the hoof. But hares and coneys are not ruminants and they do not %26quot;chew the cud.%26quot; 11:5-6
Bats are birds to the biblical God. 11:13, 19
Be sure to watch out for those %26quot;other flying creeping things which have four feet.%26quot; (I wish God wouldn%26#039;t get so technical!) I guess he must mean four-legged insects. You%26#039;d think that since God made the insects, and so many of them (at least several million species), that he would know how many legs they have! 11:23
God%26#039;s law for lepers: Get two birds. Kill one. Dip the live bird in the blood of the dead one. Sprinkle the blood on the leper seven times, and then let the blood-soaked bird fly off. Next find a lamb and kill it. Wipe some of its blood on the patient%26#039;s right ear, thumb, and big toe. Sprinkle seven times with oil and wipe some of the oil on his right ear, thumb and big toe. Repeat. Finally kill a couple doves and offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. 14:2-52
Numbers
The Israelite population went from seventy (Ex.1:5) to several million (over 600,000 adult males) in just a few generations! 1:45-46
God sends quails to feed his people until they were %26quot;two cubits [about a meter] high upon the face of the earth.%26quot; Taking the %26quot;face of the earth%26quot; to be a circle with a radius of say 30 kilometers (an approximate day%26#039;s journey), this would amount to 3 trillion (3x1012) liters of quails. At 2 quails per liter, this would provide a couple million quails for each of several million people. 11:31
God strikes Miriam with leprosy. (In the Bible, leprosy is caused by the wrath of God or the malice of Satan.) 12:10
%26quot;And there we saw the giants ... And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.%26quot; This statement may have been figurative, hyperbole, typical biblical exaggeration, or an actual description of the sons of Anak, in which case they must have been about 100 meters tall. These are the same giants (the Nephilium) that resulted when the %26quot;sons of God%26quot; mated with %26quot;the daughters of men in Gen.6:4. Of course these superhuman god-men should have been destroyed in the flood. So what are they doing still alive? 13:33
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than ten days. 14:33, 32:13
God%26#039;s cure for snakebite: a brass serpent on a pole. 21:8
God has %26quot;the strength of a unicorn.%26quot; Oh heck, I bet he%26#039;s even stronger than a unicorn. 23:22, 24:8
Deuteronomy
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than ten days. 2:7, 8:2, 29:5
%26quot;A land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time.%26quot; (They must have been much more common back then.) 2:10-11, 20-21
Og, the king of the giants, was a tall man, even by NBA standards. His bed measured 9 by 4 cubits (13.5 feet long and 6 feet wide). 3:11
God promises to cast out seven nations including the Amorites, Canaanites, and the Jebusites. But he was unable to fulfill his promise. These nations were %26quot;greater and mightier%26quot; than the Israelites, who according to Ex.12:37 and Num.1:45-46 already had numbered several million. So the region, according to the bible, must have had a population of more than twenty million! 7:1
This verse mistakenly says that the hare chews its cud. 14:7-8
To the biblical God, a bat is just an another unclean bird. 14:11, 18
%26quot;Their wine is the poison of dragons.%26quot; I wonder what genus and species the bible is referring to when it mentions dragons. 32:33
Joseph%26#039;s %26quot;horns are like the horns of a unicorn.%26quot; 33:17
Joshua
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than ten days. 5:6
In Joshua 8 the Israelites destroy Ai and make it a desolate heap. But Ai was an abandoned city by the time of the Israelites and this story is a myth invented to explain the ruins of an ancient city that the Israelites encountered. See Archaeology and Biblical Accuracy by Farrell Till. 8:1-29
This verse says that Ai was never again occupied after it was destroyed by Joshua. But Nehemiah (7:32) lists it among the cities of Israel at the time of the Babylonian captivity. 8:28
In a divine type of daylight savings time, God makes the sun stand still so that Joshua can get all his killing done before dark. 10:12-13
%26quot;And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which as of the remnant of the giants....%26quot; 12:4, 18:6
Judges
%26quot;The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.%26quot; Unless astrology is true, how can the stars affect the outcome of a battle? 5:20
%26quot;As the sun ... goeth forth in his might.%26quot; The sun, according to the bible, goes around the earth. 5:31
1 Samuel
%26quot;The pillars of the earth are the LORD%26#039;s, and he hath set the world upon them. 2:8
Goliath was ten feet tall (%26quot;six cubits and a span%26quot;). 17:4
2 Samuel
In what is surely a biblical exaggeration, we are told that %26quot;the servants of David%26quot; killed 20,000 soldiers in one day. And that %26quot;the wood [forest] devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.%26quot; It must have been spooky forest to have devoured more than 20,000 soldiers. There were probably lots of lions and tigers and bears. (Oh my!)18:7-8
The earth shakes, the foundations of heaven move, smoke comes out of God%26#039;s nostrils, and fire out of his mouth. 22:8-16
How many soldiers did Israel have? This verse says that Judah and Israel had a total of 1,300,000 fighting men (1 Chr.21:5 says 1,570,000) in this battle. Of course, this is a ridiculously high number for a battle between two tribal armies in 1000 BCE. (The United States had about 1.37 million active duty soldiers in 2001.) 24:9
1 Kings
This verse implies that the value of p is 3. (The actual value is approximately 3.14159.) 7:23
God creates droughts by causing %26quot;heaven to shut up%26quot; as a punishment for sin. 8:35
Ever the playful spirit, God withers, and then restores, the hand of king Jeroboam. 13:4
2 Kings
Elisha cures a leper, but only after the leper dips himself seven times in the Jordan. 5:14
Elisha not only can cure leprosy, he can also dish it out. Here he makes his servant (Gehazi) and all his descendants lepers forever. 5:27
A dead body is brought to life when it accidentally touches the bones of Elisha. 13:21
Isaiah, with a little help from God, makes the sun move backwards ten degrees. Now that%26#039;s quite a trick. All at once, the earth stopped spinning and then reversed its direction of rotation. Or maybe the sun traveled around the earth in those days! 20:11
1 Chronicles
Some creationists believe that this verse (and Gen.10:25) refers to continental drift, which, they say, began to occur during the days of Pelag (which means %26quot;division%26quot;), about 100 or so years after the flood. 1:19
%26quot;The earth ... shall be stable, that it be not moved.%26quot; It doesn%26#039;t spin on its axis or travel about the sun. 16:30
According to this verse David%26#039;s army had 1,100,000 men from Israel and 470,000 men from Judah, Of course, this numbers is ridiculously high for a battle between two tribal armies in 1000 BCE. (The United States had about 1.37 million active duty soldiers in 2001.) 21:5 David provides Solomon with a fantastically large amount of gold and silver with which to build the temple: 100,000 talents of gold and 1,000,000 talents of silver. Since a talent was about 60 pounds, this would be about 3,000 tons of gold and 30,000 tons of silver. 22:14
King David collects ten thousand drams (or darics) for the construction of the temple in Jerusalem. This is especially interesting since darics were coins named after King Darius I who lived some five hundred years after David. 29:7
As usual, the reported amounts of gold, silver, and iron are grossly exaggerated. (100,000 talents of iron, for example, would be about 34 million kilograms.) 29:7
2 Chronicles
Since the molten sea was round with a diameter of ten cubits and a circumference of thirty cubits, we know that the biblical value of p is 3. (The actual value is approximately 3.14159.) 4:2
Abijah spoke to 1,200,000 soldiers at one time. (He had a really loud voice.) 13:3-4
500,000 soldiers die in a single God-assisted slaughter. 13:16-17
In the largest single God-assisted massacre in the bible, Asa, with God%26#039;s help, kills one million Ethiopians. 14:8-14
Asa, when he had a foot disease, went to physicians instead of seeking the Lord. (God disapproves of those who seek medical help rather than %26quot;seeking the Lord.%26quot;) 16:12
God makes Uzziah a leper for burning incense without a license. 26:19-21
Esther
%26quot;Haman thought in his heart.%26quot; Most people think with their heads, but biblical folks think with their hearts. 6:6
Job
The earth rests upon pillars and doesn%26#039;t move (unless God gets angry or something). 9:6
%26quot;Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not.%26quot;
The earth is fixed and the sun travels about it. 9:7
Heaven is set upon pillars that tremble when God gets mad. 26:11
The earth is set on foundations and it does not move. 38:4-6
God has snow and hail all stored up to use later %26quot;in time of trouble.%26quot; 38:22
God spread out the sky, which is a solid structure, hard and strong like a mirror. 37:18
Ostriches are not cruel and stupid birds who abandon their eggs to die after laying them, as these verses imply. They are, in fact, careful and attentive parents. The male scoops out a hollow for the eggs, which are incubated by the female during the day and the male at night. After the eggs are hatched, they are cared for by the mother for over a month, at which time the chicks can keep up with running adults. 39:13-16
The bible is wrong about ostriches being cruel and inattentive parents (39:13-16). But if they were, whose fault would it be? Why would God deprive them of the tools that are needed to do the job right? 39:17
Bible believers have identified the behemoth as a hippopotamus, dinosaur, wildebeest, or crocodile. But my favorite is the way these verses are translated by Stephen Mitchell: %26quot;Look now: the Beast that I made: he eats grass like a bull. Look: the power in his thighs, the pulsing sinews of his belly. His penis stiffens like a pine; his testicles bulge with vigor.%26quot; 40:15-16
%26quot;Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord?%26quot; 41:1-34
Psalms
The earth shakes whenever God really gets mad. 18:7
%26quot;The foundations of the world were discovered ... at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.%26quot; (The earth is set on firm foundations and does not move -- unless God blows his nose.) 18:15
%26quot;The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.%26quot; 19:1
The sun moves around the earth. 19:4-6
From his seat in heaven, God can see the whole earth and all its inhabitants.
(He sits directly above the earth, which is a flat disc below him.) 33:14-15
Diseases are sent by God to punish sin. 38:3
According to the psalmist, snails melt. But they don%26#039;t, of course, they simply leave a slimy trail as they move along. 58:8
God is so strong that he can break the head of dragons and of leviathan. 74:13-14
God holds the earth up with pillars. 75:3
Another reference to %26quot;the foundations of the earth%26quot;, implying that the earth is fixed and does not move. 82:5
%26quot;Thou hast broken Rahab [the sea monster] in pieces.%26quot; 89:10
%26quot;The world also is established, that it cannot be moved.%26quot; 93:1
%26quot;The world also shall be established that it shall not be moved.%26quot; 96:10
%26quot;The Lord ... who healeth all thy diseases.%26quot; God heals all diseases. Medical science is unnecessary. 103:2-3
%26quot;God ... who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain%26quot; (The earth is stationary and does not orbit the sun.) 104:5
%26quot;In wisdom hast thou made them all.%26quot; 104:24
God is offended by those who make things with their hands or invent things with their minds. 106:39
%26quot;The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.%26quot; Then why do nearly all animals die painful deaths from starvation, predation, or disease long before they reach adulthood? 145:9
God %26quot;satisfiest the desire of every living thing.%26quot; But in nature few needs are met and few desires are satisfied. Life is short, hard, cruel, and painful for nearly every living thing. 145:17
%26quot;He calleth them all by their names.%26quot;
God knows how many stars there are and knows them all by name. That%26#039;s pretty impressive since there are 100 billion or so gallaxies, each containing about 100 billion stars. 147:7
%26quot;Praise him in the firmament of his power.%26quot; 150:1
Ecclesiastes
%26quot;The sun also ariseth%26quot;
Although this verse is interpreted figuratively today, it was taken literally by virtually all Christians until the Copernican revolution, and was used by the Church to condemn Galileo for teaching the heliocentric heresy. 1:5
%26quot;He hath made every thing beautiful.%26quot;
Everything is beautiful in its own way. Parasitic worms, cancer cells, bubonic plague. You just have to look at it from God%26#039;s eyes. 3:11
%26quot;No man can find out the work that God maketh.%26quot;
Science is impossible. We can learn nothing at all about the natural world. 3:11
Isaiah
%26quot;The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb....%26quot; I wonder what will become of the spiders. Will they be more friendly toward flies? And will the parasitic wasps find another way to feed their larvae? Or will they continue to feed off the living bodies of caterpillars? 11:6, 65:25
%26quot;And the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice%26#039; den.%26quot; A cockatrice is a serpent, hatched from a cock%26#039;s egg, that can kill with a glance. They are rare nowadays. 11:8
God will gather up the people of Judea %26quot;from the four corners of the earth.%26quot; In the Bible%26#039;s view, the earth is flat with four corners. 11:12
According to the Bible, the moon produces its own light and the earth does not move. 13:10
When God gets really angry, he causes earthquakes. 13:13
Dragons will live in Babylonian palaces and satyrs will dance there. 13:21-22
Out of the serpent%26#039;s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.%26quot; What ever happened to these fascinating biblical creatures? 14:29
God will turn the earth upside down, knock it off of its foundations, and then shake and bake it until it %26quot;reels to and fro like a drunkard.%26quot; 24:1, 18-20
God will punish the leviathan (%26quot;that crooked serpent%26quot;) with his own sword and will kill the sea dragon. 27:1
Natural disasters (earthquakes, storms, fires, tsunamis) are caused by, and are a sign of, God%26#039;s wrath. 29:7
Among the many strange creatures mentioned in the Bible that no longer seem to exist is the %26quot;fiery flying serpent.%26quot; 30:6
%26quot;The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold.%26quot; Well, this is one prophecy that will never come true. Since the moon has no light of its own, but only reflects that of the sun, it could never shine like the sun. And the sun will not, at least not while there are humans to see it, shine 7 times as bright as it does now. 30:26
%26quot;And the unicorns shall come down with them.%26quot; 34:7
Dragons and satyrs may not seem real to you, but they did to the author of these verses. 34:13-14
God makes the sun move backwards 10 degrees. Now that%26#039;s a neat trick! 38:8
The earth is a flat disc that God looks down upon from his throne in heaven. 40:22
Even the dragons honor God. 43:20
God cut Rahab (the sea monster) to pieces, wounded the dragon, and dried up the sea. 51:9-10
Bad people hatch poisonous cockatrice eggs. Whoever eats the eggs will die, and when the eggs are crushed a viper hatches out of them. 59:5
%26quot;Neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee.%26quot; Of course the moon doesn%26#039;t give off light, but only reflects the light from the sun. 60:19
Jeremiah
Droughts are punishments from God. 3:3
%26quot;I will send serpents, cockatrices among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you.%26quot; A cockatrice is a serpent, hatched from a cock%26#039;s egg, that can kill with a glance. They are rare nowadays. 8:17
When God gets angry, the earth trembles. (That%26#039;s what causes earthquakes.) 10:10
The wild asses %26quot;snuffed up the wind like dragons.%26quot; 14:6
The earth is set on foundations and does not move. 31:37
Lamentations
Ostriches are not cruel and inattentive parents, as this verse implies. They are, in fact, careful and attentive parents. The male scoops out a hollow for the eggs, which are incubated by the female during the day and the male at night. After the eggs are hatched, they are cared for by the mother for over a month, at which time the chicks can keep up with running adults. 4:3
Ezekiel
%26quot;The firmament ... the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.%26quot; 1:22
The world is flat and has four corners. 7:2
The firmament is over the heads of the cherubim. 10:1
God %26quot;will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.%26quot; To Ezekiel, the sun is just a little light that can be covered with a cloud, and the moon produces its own light. 32:7
Daniel
The third year of the reign of Jehoiakim would be 606 BCE, at which time Nebuchadnezzar was not yet king of Babylon. It was 597 BCE that Nebuchadnezzar invaded Jerusalem for the first time (without actually destroying it). By that time Jehohiakim was dead and his son, Jehoiachin, was ruling. 1:1
The stone became %26quot;a great mountain%26quot; that %26quot;filled the whole earth.%26quot; This could only be possible on a flat, disc-shaped earth. 2:35
Daniel%26#039;s tree is tall enough to be seen from %26quot;the end of all the earth.%26quot; Only on a flat earth would this be possible. 4:10-11, 20
Apparently, the author of Daniel knew of only two Babylonian kings during the period of the exile: Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, who he wrongly thought was the son of Nebuchadnezzar. But Nebuchadnezzar died in 562 BCE and was succeeded by his son, Awil-Marduk (referred to in the bible as %26quot;Evilmerodach%26quot; [see 2 Kg.25:27 and Jer.52:31]). In 560 BCE, Amel-Marduk was assassinated by his brother-in-law, Nergal-shar-usur. The next and last king of Babylon was Nabonidus who reigned from 556 to 539, when Babylon was conquered by Cyrus. It was Nabonidus, and not Belshazzar, who was the last of the Babylonian kings. Belshazzar was a the son and viceroy of Nabonidus. But he was not a king, and was not the son (or any other relation) of Nebuchadnezzar. 5:2,11,18,22
Darius the Median is a fictitious character whom the author perhaps confused with Darius I of Persia, who came to the throne in 521 BCE, 17 years after the fall of Babylon. The author of Daniel incorrectly makes him the successor of Belshazzar instead of Cyrus. 5:31
To Daniel, the stars are small objects that can fall from the sky and then be %26quot;stamped upon.%26quot; 8:10
%26quot;They ... shall shine as the brightness of the firmament.%26quot; 12:3
Joel
%26quot;The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood.%26quot; These %26quot;signs%26quot; were a lot more impressive before the causes of solar and lunar eclipses were understood. 2:31
Amos
God destroyed the Amorites who were a race of giants as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks. 2:9
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than ten days. 2:10
Jonah
God makes %26quot;a great fish%26quot; to swallow Jonah. And Jonah stayed in the fish%26#039;s belly for three days and three nights. 1:17
%26quot;Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days%26#039; journey.%26quot; That would make it about 60 miles in diameter -- larger than Los Angeles! 3:3
Micah
The earth is set upon strong foundations and therefore does not move. 6:2
Nahum
Tornadoes, earthquakes, and fires are caused by God and are signs of his anger. 1:5
Habakkuk
%26quot;The sun and moon stood still in their habitation.%26quot; This verse apparently refers to Joshua 10:12-13, where God makes the sun stand still. 3:11
Matthew
When was Jesus born? 2:1
%26quot;The star ... went before them.%26quot;
If the star %26quot;went before them,%26quot; leading them to Bethlehem, then it couldn%26#039;t have been a star or any other astronomical object or event. But Matthew couldn%26#039;t have known that. Everyone at the time thought that stars were just little points of light a short distance above the earth. It%26#039;d be no problem to have one hover above a particular place for a while. 2:9
Herod kills all boys in and around Bethlehem that are two years old and under. Such a massacre would certainly have been noted by contemporary historians. Yet not even Josephus, who documented Herod%26#039;s life in detail, mentioned this event. 2:16
The devil kidnaps Jesus and takes him up to the top of the temple, and then to the top of %26quot;an exceedingly high mountain,%26quot; high enough to see %26quot;all the kingdoms of the world.%26quot; I guess the earth was flat in those days. 4:8
%26quot;Behold the fowls of the air....%26quot; Jesus says that God feeds them. But, if so, he does one hell of a lousy job at it. Most birds die before leaving the nest, and the few who manage to fly soon die painful deaths of starvation, predation, or disease. If God is caring for them, pray that he stays away from you. 6:26
Speaking of the birds, Jesus asks: %26quot;Are ye not much better than they?%26quot; This is meant as a rhetorical question, but the answer is far from obvious to me. I guess to Jesus, though, birds are not worth much compared to humans. So you can do whatever the hell you want with (and to) them. 6:26
According to Matthew, people who cannot speak are possessed by the devil. 9:32-33
Jesus gives his disciples %26quot;power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness.%26quot; 10:1
Jesus tells his disciples to perform all the usual tricks: %26quot;heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, and cast out devils.%26quot; 10:8
God is involved in the death of every sparrow. He sees to it that they each die painful deaths of starvation, predation, or disease. But don%26#039;t worry. God will do the same for you. (He thinks that humans are worth much more than sparrows.) 10:29. 31
Jesus casts out a devil from a man who was blind and dumb. (Thos we are unable to see or hear are possessed by devils.) 12:22
Some Christians believe that the natural evil in the world (predators, parasites, pain, death) is due to Satan, not God. 13:28
Jesus is incorrect when he says that the mustard seed is the smallest seed. And since there are no trees in the mustard family, mustard seeds do not grow into %26quot;the greatest of all trees.%26quot; 13:31-32
Jesus cures an epileptic %26quot;lunatic%26quot; by %26quot;rebuking the devil.%26quot; (Epilepsy is caused by devils.) 17:15-18
%26quot;The moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven.%26quot; Apparently, Jesus believed that the moon produces its own light, and that the stars are lights held in place by a firmament only a few miles above our heads. 24:29
Jesus believed that Noah%26#039;s flood actually happened. 24:37
When Jesus was crucified, there was three hours of complete darkness %26quot;over all the land.%26quot; And when he died, there was a great earthquake with many corpses walking the streets of Jerusalem. It is strange that there is no record of any of these extraordinary events outside of the gospels. 27:45, 51-53
Mark
Jesus is incorrect when he says that the mustard seed is the smallest seed. (The smallest seeds are found among the tropical, epiphytic orchids.) 4:31
%26quot;Thy faith hath made thee whole.%26quot; If you have enough faith, you will never get sick. (Illness is caused by sin and lack of faith. Medical science is unnecessary.) 5:34
Jesus heals a boy with %26quot;a dumb spirit%26quot; by saying, %26quot;Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him and enter no more into him.%26quot; (Sounds like a script from Monty Python, doesn%26#039;t it?) But how could a deaf spirit hear the words spoken to it? And how could a dumb spirit cry out? 9:17, 25-26
%26quot;But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.%26quot;
Jesus believed that sex and Adam and Eve were created %26quot;from the beginning.%26quot; But the universe is about 13.6 billion years old, the earth 4.6 billion, sex a billion years or so, and humans (depending on how you define %26quot;human%26quot;) for a couple million years. 10:6
%26quot;In those days ... the moon shall not give her light, and the stars of heaven shall fall.%26quot; Of course this is nonsense. The billions of stars will never fall to earth and the moon does not produce its own light. 13:24-25
When Jesus was crucified, there was three hours of complete darkness %26quot;over the whole land.%26quot; It is strange that there is no record of this extraordinary event outside of the gospels. 15:33
Luke
When was Jesus born? 2:1
The devil takes Jesus to the top of a mountain and shows him %26quot;all the kingdoms of the world.%26quot; I guess the world was flat in those days. 4:5
Epilepsy is caused by devils. 9:39
People who cannot speak are possessed with devils. 11:14
Illnesses are caused by Satan. 13:11-16
Jesus believed the story of Noah%26#039;s ark. 17:26-27
Jesus also believes the story about Sodom%26#039;s destruction. He says, %26quot;even thus shall it be in the day the son of man is revealed.%26quot; This tells us about Jesus%26#039; knowledge of science and history. 17:29-32
%26quot;And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars.%26quot; 21:25
When Jesus was crucified, there was three hours of complete darkness %26quot;over all the earth.%26quot; It is strange that there is no record of this extraordinary event outside of the gospels. 23:44-45
John
%26quot;These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.%26quot; But no such site is known in history. Some translations (ASV, NAB, NIV, RSV, NRSV) rename Bethabara as Bethany, but Bethany is a suburb of Jerusalem and, therefore, not %26quot;beyond the Jordan.%26quot; 1:28
%26quot;If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?%26quot;
Good question, Jesus! He was wrong about creation in Mk.10:6, wrong about the flood in Lk.17:26-27, and wrong about the smallest seed in Mt.13:31-32. So why would anyone believe him when he talks about heaven in Jn.3:16? 3:12
Whoever enters a pool after it is stirred up by angels will be cured of %26quot;whatsoever disease he had.%26quot; 5:4
Jesus believes people are crippled by God as a punishment for sin. He tells a crippled man, after healing him, to %26quot;sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.%26quot; 5:14
The disciples ask Jesus about the cause of a man%26#039;s blindness. Was it because he or his parents sinned? Jesus said neither had sinned. The man was born blind so that Jesus could show off his powers by curing him of his blindness. 9:1-3
A blind man%26#039;s sight is restored by washing in the pool of Siloam. 9:7
Acts
%26quot;Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?%26quot;
This verse was used by a Dominican friar to discourage the use of Galileo%26#039;s telescope. (Notice the pun on Galileo%26#039;s name in %26quot;men of Galilee%26quot;.) 1:11
The prophets have spoken %26quot;since the world began,%26quot; which means that humans have been around since the creation of the world. But humans are recent arrivals on an ancient earth. There were no prophets when the earth formed 4.6 billion years ago. 3:21
The sick were healed just by touching the shadow of Peter. 5:15-16
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than ten days. 7:36, 13:18
Sick people are oppressed by the devil. 10:38
Sick people were cured by touching the handkerchief or apron of Paul. And the evil spirits when out of them.%26quot; 19:12
Paul is bitten by a poisonous snake and yet lives. The %26quot;barbarians%26quot; who were shipwrecked with him thought he must be a murderer since he was bitten; but then they changed their minds and thought him to be a god since he didn%26#039;t die. (The snake story is especially interesting since there are no poisonous snakes on Malta, and there is no evidence of their existence in the past.) 28:3-8
Romans
The existence and nature of God are self-evident. 1:20
The Religious Right often uses Romans 1:21-25 to condemn environmentalists. 1:21-25
Paul claims that before Adam sinned death did not exist. But, of course, death didn%26#039;t enter the world a few thousand years ago because of Adam%26#039;s sin. Death has been a part of life since life first arose (on this planet, at least) a few billion years ago. 5:12
Paul says that everyone, even in his day, had the gospel preached to them. Even the Native Americans, Asians, Pacific Islanders? 10:18
1 Corinthians
Paul shows his ignorance (and God%26#039;s) of biology by saying that only dead seeds will germinate. Actually, a seed must be alive to germinate. 15:36
%26quot;All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another of beasts.%26quot;
This verse is used by Creationists to argue against both evolution and any attempt to create %26quot;human-animal hybrids%26quot; or %26quot;chimeras.%26quot; 15:39
%26quot;The first man Adam%26quot;
Young Earth Creationists use this verse to support a literal reading of Genesis. %26quot;If we cannot believe in the First Adam, why believe in the Last [Christ]?%26quot; 15:45
%26quot;And afterward that which is spiritual.%26quot;
Asa Gray, the foremost American botanist in the 19th century and close friend of Charles Darwin, used this verse to support the idea that the Bible is not inconsistent with human evolution. 15:46
2 Corinthians
%26quot;As the serpent beguiled Eve%26quot;
Young Earth Creationists use this verse to show that Paul believed the creation story in Gen.3:1-6. 11:3
Ephesians
Satan is the %26quot;prince of the power of the air.%26quot; Until modern times Christians believed that Satan was responsible for storms and droughts. 2:2
Colossians
%26quot;For by him were all things created.... All things were created by him, and for him.... And by him all things consist.%26quot; Including guinea worms? 1:16-17
1 Timothy
%26quot;For Adam was first formed, then Eve.%26quot; Young Earth Creationists use this verse to show that Paul believed the creation story in Gen.2:18-22. 2:13
Avoid science, especially that which disagrees with Paul (%26quot;science falsely so called%26quot;). Other versions translate this phrase as %26quot;false knowledge%26quot;, which may be more correct. However many fundamentalist Christians still use this verse (%26quot;science falsely so called%26quot;) to justify their rejection of any idea, scientific or otherwise, they believe contradicts the bible. 6:20
Hebrews
God set the earth on a foundation; therefore, it does not move. 1:10
James
James says that, even in his day, all beasts, birds, serpents, and sea creatures had been tamed by humans. 3:7
If you are sick, rely on the power of prayer. It works every time. 5:14-15
By praying, Elias was able to keep it from raining for three and a half years. 5:17
2 Peter
Those who disbelieve in the Bible%26#039;s creation and flood stories are %26quot;willingly ignorant.%26quot; 3:5
%26quot;God ... spared not the old world, but saved Noah.%26quot;
Young Earth Creationists use this verse to show that the New Testament authors believed in the flood story. (So you should too.) 2:4-5
Revelation
%26quot;Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him.%26quot; This could only happen on a flat earth. 1:7
Jesus holds seven stars in his hand. Of course, it is possible that this is metaphorical. Perhaps. But it is clear from other verses (6:13, 8:10, 12:4) that John thought of stars as being small, perhaps even small enough for Jesus to hold in his hand. 1:16
%26quot;Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.%26quot; God created predators, pathogens, and predators for his very own pleasure. One of his favorite species is guinea worms. 4:11
The sixth seal is opened and there is a great earthquake, the sun becomes black, and the moon red, the stars fall from heaven, and mountains and islands move around. 6:12-14
%26quot;And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth....%26quot; To John, the stars are just little lights a few miles away that can easily fall to the earth. 6:13
John %26quot;saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth.%26quot; Well, I guess that settles it: the earth is flat and square-shaped, or at least quadrilateral in shape. 7:1
An angel threw the censer down to earth, causing thunder, lightning, and earthquakes. 8:5
%26quot;And there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters.%26quot; In the bible, stars are just little lights that can fall to the ground from the sky. 8:10
The fourth trumpet smites one third of the sun, moon, and stars. 8:12
%26quot;I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth.%26quot; 9:1
God%26#039;s witnesses have special powers. They can shut up heaven so that it cannot rain, turn rivers into blood, and smite the earth with plagues %26quot;as often as they will.%26quot; 11:6
The dragon%26#039;s tail smacks down to earth one third of the stars. To the author of Revelation, the stars are just little lights that can fall to the ground from the sky. 12:4
Why are there so many scientific and historical innacuracies in the word of your God?
i am my own god
Reply:They have all of that on another site. Report It
Reply:It takes a solid faith perspective to understand the scriptures, particularly the deeper things, and your not going to have that unless your heart is right with God. Have faith in God. Remember, God%26#039;s perspective is huge, yours is tiny. Report It
Reply:Repent, and admit that you do not understand. Ask God to help you. Let God change your heart and mind. Report It
Reply:Why are there so many common sense inacuracies with people coming from Apes? Why would we still have Apes? You didn%26#039;t come from a stew or an Ape. The only other explanation is that there IS a God and if you choose to be against him, which right now you are, you go to hell! Report It
Reply:lol....you can%26#039;t explain where you came from to a christian...just like a christian can%26#039;t make you believe that we were created for God%26#039;s Glory (Genesis 1) if you%26#039;re just going to present a question and answer it yourself then you%26#039;re doing nothing more than arguing Report It
Reply:I am not reading all that but if it puts the bible then shame on you! Report It
Reply:wow i love the question im going to print it off so i can read it to others so thank you for your help:) Report It
Reply:Jesus said I am the way the truth the life no man comes to god the father but by me period. Report It
Reply:A few are simple typos....just like when you misspelled the word, %26quot;innacuracies%26quot; in your question. Report It
Reply:Wow... I now know the people who are in Satan%26#039;s top 1000 %26quot;Take home%26quot; list. Have faith in God and you get the chance to be up at heaven and watch sinners turn into BBQ down at hell. Report It
Reply:Wow Pope youre an A** hole. Report It
Reply:The premise of your entire argument is this:
%26quot;I disagree, therefore you are wrong.%26quot;
If you are going to criticise religion, that%26#039;s fine, but at least do it contructively. Report It
Reply:you will see when judgement day comes. Report It
Reply:If Creationists and Literalists didn%26#039;t set the tone for this attitude by telling us that every word is a precise and accurate account of fact, I don%26#039;t think there would be nearly as much of this overboard effort to point out every bit of illogic and inconsistency Report It
Reply:If you are convinced the Bible is flawed, and do not believe in God, why do you continue to post questions about something you %26quot;think%26quot; you%26#039;ve answered. You hurt no one but yourself with this rebellious attitude, and risk only your own life. Report It
Reply:Boring, and i know exactly what site he copied all that from. Pretty much answers all of them: http://www.gotquestions.org/sk...
Genesis 1 and 2 aren%26#039;t contradictory at all. Creatures that creep along the ground usually carry deadly diseases. Report It
Reply:What if it happenz on that %26quot;day%26quot; ?
{He iz the Master of the Day of Judgement} Report It
Reply:There are many many things about the Bible I don%26#039;t understand. That doesn%26#039;t make them not true. I don%26#039;t understand Algebra or a lot of mathematics after addition and subtraction but that doesn%26#039;t mean they have no basis in truth.
For example: let%26#039;s say you have this disease and from all your research you know it can do such and such things, OK? So one day you come down with these other symptoms that aren%26#039;t as far as you know related to your disease. So what do you do? You go to a Dr. A professional. A specialist. Someone who has studied your particular disease. You ask questions and get answers.
If there are things about the Bible you don%26#039;t understand, then go speak to a professional. Someone who has studied this particular passage and can give you the answers you seek instead of just sitting there and complaining about it.
A pastor, minister or reverend, is just that professional. A specialist in the Bible. Someone who has studied and understands all the so called %26quot;inconsistencies%26quot;
As I have stated, there are many many things I don%26#039;t understand. That doen%26#039;st stop me from believing.
Reply:Click on the following links for the answers to your many questions.
http://www.biblequestions.org/index.html - Many questions about the Bible are answered here.
http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/in... - Learn more about Christianity, Early Chuch History, Jesus %26amp; The Bible. Also Got a FAQ list too.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/... - PBS:FRONTLINE - From Jesus to Christ. Chronicles the lives of the first Christians and offers a portrait of Jesus%26#039; world with many views and opinions from many Historians, Archeologist, Biblical Scholars and Skeptics.
http://bibleresources.bible.com/index.ph... - Read the Bible online for yourself.
Also check out the following programs on DVD or video...
PBS:FRONTLINE - From Jesus to Christ: The first christians
The History Channel: Mysteries of the Bible
The History Channel: A History of God
The History Channel: Banned from the Bible
A%26amp;E%26#039;s: Christianity: Two thousand years
A%26amp;E%26#039;s: Ancient Secrets of the Bible
Reply:Time and again the archeological and historical reliability of the Bible has been proven. Please read the following links below and and maybe it can provide some answers.
%26quot;Archeology and the Bible%26quot;
http://www.christiananswers.net/archaeol...
%26quot;Hasn%26#039;t the Bible been rewritten so many times that we can%26#039;t trust it anymore?%26quot;
http://www.carm.org/questions/rewritten....
Reply:Because it was a great story written by an average man who was very charismatic. If you read the book from beginning to end like a Stephen King novel, it%26#039;s really a great read. It%26#039;s got it all, sex, murder, joy, sadness, action, war and even magik. Man this book has it all, but you can%26#039;t take it too seriously.
Reply:Don%26#039;t worry about it. If your right what any of us believe won%26#039;t matter in a million years. If you are right then we are all irrelevant, and what I believe and what you believe doesn%26#039;t matter. So why concern yourself? Go outside, look at the stars and think about how small you really are. God loves you.
Reply:Whew… why the need to point out the discrepancies? If you spent all that time, energy, and effort teaching yourself instead of teaching others… you might find Love and just Who Love is. Hebrews 8:10
Reply:Dang, thats long. But I disagree with you, this world tries to say that the Bible is inacurate, but all that it said would happen, has happend! And all that it said happend, we have found evedence for, or are in the process of finding it. Yet their is practically no evidence for evolution, they have to change things periodically, just for things to work with their theory, since it IS a theory guys, not fact as your Biology teachers may tell you.
Okay look, did you actually read the Bible? Or are they exerpts from some book that you read that says %26quot; 100 ways to trying to disprove the Bible!%26quot; when they only take bits and pieces of the book and, after all, if you take bits and pieces of any book, you can make it say whatever you want it to say.
Don%26#039;t take a scientist word for it, read the Bible for yourself! You may learn that their wrong, or they could be right, go find out.
Reply:Consider it the power of naming and perspective. People explain things based on what they know and have experienced. No religion or person (in my opinion) has the answers to everything. Some of the things you %26quot;quote%26quot; might have been written in context of what were cultural norms at the time it was written. Some people may consider you are arrogant and others may just think you are curious and want to know. Most times things change the more we know about them. Some people don%26#039;t want to know and for things not to change. Change can be scary or it can be exhilarating. We each have to decide for our selves.
Reply:The bible was written by educated men of their time trying to keep the populace in line by parables and stories. The people who wrote the Old Test. wrote terrible stories to keep people in line by the threat of God%26#039;s punishment. The new testament was put together 200 yrs after Christ with some writings of the apostles and has been translated and retranslated many times and even slanted at times to conform to whatever regulations the Church put into place. That is why the Bible should not be taken literally. It is not a scientific document but a spiritual teaching document. You must remember that most people of the time were iliterate and creating stories to explain religion was the only means the members of early Christianity had. They believed in Christ as God and wanted to document it and spread the word. If they came back today and were educated I bet they%26#039;d be very surprised at what it now says and that people take it literally.
Reply:Whoa, I get the point!
We all know the bible is full of crap, but ... damn ... you didn%26#039;t need to make a list that long.
Reply:Thank you for showing this to me. I never noticed any of this before. Christianity is a racist folktale.
Reply:Why are you telling believers this on a Religious/Spiritual Site!....Believers know what the Bible says and how to spiritually understand it!......Go get saved and sit under an Anointed Pastor and learn how to Spiritually Understand GOD%26#039;S WORD so that you won%26#039;t be labled as bringing HERESY Against The WORD Of GOD as you try to explain it!
Reply:Whoa Monica whore of Babylon do not torture your fingers like that again! This is the first question that I ever got high off of! It really made me dizzy! I need a break after reading that one! I will come back tomorrow and try to answer it! Were you there when the hand writing appeared on the wall?
Reply:Simple: that so-called deity doesn%26#039;t exist.
Reply:It sounds like your trying to mock the bible.
Reply:ask a pastier
Reply:why are you such a towelhead asshole???
All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.--Lev.11:20
Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse.... Should it turn out that I am the worst man in the whole world, the story of the flood will remain just as improbable as before, and the contradictions of the Pentateuch will still demand an explanation. -- Robert Ingersoll, Some Mistakes of Moses
Genesis
The Genesis 1 creation account conflicts with the order of events that are known to science. In Genesis, the earth is created before light and stars, birds and whales before reptiles and insects, and flowering plants before any animals. The true order of events was just the opposite. 1:1-2:3
God creates light and separates light from darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet he didn%26#039;t make the light producing objects (the sun and the stars) until the fourth day (1:14-19). And how could there be %26quot;the evening and the morning%26quot; on the first day if there was no sun to mark them? 1:3-5
God spends one-sixth of his entire creative effort (the second day) working on a solid firmament. This strange structure, which God calls heaven, is intended to separate the higher waters from the lower waters. 1:6-8
Plants are made on the third day before there was a sun to drive their photosynthetic processes (1:14-19). 1:11
God lets %26quot;the earth bring forth%26quot; the plants, rather than creating them directly. Maybe Genesis is not so anti-evolution after all. 1:11
In an apparent endorsement of astrology, God places the sun, moon, and stars in the firmament so that they can be used %26quot;for signs%26quot;. This, of course, is exactly what astrologers do: read %26quot;the signs%26quot; in the Zodiac in an effort to predict what will happen on Earth. 1:14
God makes two lights: %26quot;the greater light [the sun] to rule the day, and the lesser light [the moon] to rule the night.%26quot; But the moon is not a light, but only reflects light from the sun. And why, if God made the moon to %26quot;rule the night%26quot;, does it spend half of its time moving through the daytime sky? 1:16
%26quot;He made the stars also.%26quot; God spends a day making light (before making the stars) and separating light from darkness; then, at the end of a hard day%26#039;s work, and almost as an afterthought, he makes the trillions of stars. 1:16
%26quot;And God set them [the stars] in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.%26quot; 1:17
In verse 11, God %26quot;let the earth bring forth%26quot; the plants. Now he has the earth %26quot;bring forth%26quot; the animals as well. So maybe the creationists have it all wrong. Maybe God created livings things through the process of evolution. 1:24
God gave humans dominion over every other living thing on earth. 1:26
God commands us to %26quot;be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over ... every living thing that moveth upon the earth.%26quot; 1:28
%26quot;I have given you every herb ... and every tree ... for meat.%26quot; 1:29
All animals were originally herbivores. Tapeworms, vampire bats, mosquitoes, and barracudas -- all were strict vegetarians, as they were created by God. 1:30
%26quot;God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.%26quot; He purposefully designed a system that ensures the suffering and death of all his creatures, parasite and host, predator and prey. 1:31
In Genesis 1 the entire creation takes 6 days, but the universe is at least 12 billion years old, with new stars constantly being formed. 1:31
Humans were not created instantaneously from dust and breath, but evolved over millions of years from simpler life forms. 2:7
After making the animals, God has Adam name them all. The naming of several million species must have kept Adam busy for a while. 2:18-22
God fashions a woman out of one of Adam%26#039;s ribs.
Because of this story, it was commonly believed (and sometimes it is still said today) that males have one less rib than females. When Vesalius showed in 1543 that the number of ribs was the same in males and females, it created a storm of controversy. 2:19
God curses the serpent. From now on the serpent will crawl on his belly and eat dust. One wonders how he got around before -- by hopping on his tail, perhaps? But snakes don%26#039;t eat dust, do they? 3:14
Because Adam listened to Eve, God cursed the ground and causes thorns and thistles to grow. Before this, according to the (false) Genesis story, plants had no natural defenses. The rose had no thorn, cacti were spineless, holly leaves were smooth, and the nettle had no sting. Foxgloves, oleander, and milkweeds were all perfectly safe to eat. 3:17-18
%26quot;There were giants in the earth in those days.%26quot; Well, I suppose it%26#039;s good to know that. But why is there no archaeological evidence for the existence of these giants? 6:4
Noah is told to make an ark that is 450 feet long. 6:14-15
Whether by twos or by sevens, Noah takes male and female representatives from each species of %26quot;every thing that creepeth upon the earth.%26quot; 7:8
God opens the %26quot;windows of heaven.%26quot; He does this every time it rains. 7:11
All of the animals boarded the ark %26quot;in the selfsame day.%26quot; 7:13-14
The flood covered the highest mountain tops (Mount Everest?) with fifteen cubits to spare. 7:20
%26quot;The windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.%26quot; This happens whenever it stops raining. 8:2
Noah sends a dove out to see if there was any dry land. But the dove returns without finding any. Then, just seven days later, the dove goes out again and returns with an olive leaf. But how could an olive tree survive the flood? And if any seeds happened to survive, they certainly wouldn%26#039;t germinate and grow leaves within a seven day period. 8:8-11
When the animals left the ark, what would they have eaten? There would have been no plants after the ground had been submerged for nearly a year. What would the carnivores have eaten? Whatever prey they ate would have gone extinct. And how did the New World primates or the Australian marsupials find their way back after the flood subsided? 8:19
Noah kills the %26quot;clean beasts%26quot; and burns their dead bodies for God. According to 7:8 this would have caused the extinction of all %26quot;clean%26quot; animals since only two of each were taken onto the ark. 8:20-21
%26quot;Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.%26quot; Although this would have been good advice for the mythical Noah, it is deadly advice for humankind as a whole. Overpopulation is one of our greatest problems, yet there is nothing in the bible to address it. 9:1
According to this verse, all animals fear humans. Although it is true that many do, it is also true that some do not. Sharks and grizzly bears, for example, are generally much less afraid of us than we are of them. 9:2
%26quot;Into your hand are they (the animals) delivered.%26quot; God gave the animals to humans, and they can do whatever they please with them. This verse has been used by bible believers to justify all kinds of cruelty to animals and environmental destruction. 9:2
God is rightly filled with remorse for having killed his creatures. He even puts the rainbow in the sky to remind himself of his promise to the animals not to do it again. But rainbows are caused by the nature of light, the refractive index of water, and the shape of raindrops. There were rainbows billions of years before humans existed. 9:13
Some creationists believe that this verse refers to continental drift, which, they say, began to occur during the days of Pelag (which means %26quot;division%26quot;), about 100 or so years after the flood. But many other creationists disagree. 10:25
%26quot;The whole earth was of one language.%26quot; But this could not be true, since by this time (around 2400 BCE) there were already many languages, each unintelligible to the others. 11:1, 6
God worries that people could build a tower high enough to reach him (them?) in heaven, and that by so doing they will become omnipotent. 11:4-6
According to the Tower of Babel story, the many human languages were created instantaneously by God. But actually the various languages evolved gradually over long periods of time. 11:9
The ridiculously long lives of the patriarchs. 11:10-32
%26quot;And they returned to the land of the Philistines.%26quot; But the Philistines didn%26#039;t arrive in the region of Canaan until around 1200 BCE -- 800 years after Abraham%26#039;s supposed migration from Ur. 21:32, 26:1, 8, 15, 18
Laban learns %26quot;by experience%26quot; that God has blessed him for Jacob%26#039;s sake. %26quot;By experience%26quot; means %26quot;by divination%26quot;, at least that is how most other versions translate this verse. 30:27
Jacob displays his (and God%26#039;s) knowledge of biology by having goats copulate while looking at streaked rods. The result is streaked baby goats. 30:37-39
God (or an angel) praises Jacob for his fancy genetic work in Gen.30:37-39. 31:11-12
Joseph and his magic divining cup. 44:5, 44:15
Exodus
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than ten days. 16:35
The Israelite population went from 70 (or 75) to several million in a few hundred years. 1:5,7, 12:37, 38:26
Why are some people born with disabilities? Because God deliberately makes them that way. 4:11
God led the Israelites through the land of the Philistines, hundreds of years before the Philistines were established in Canaan. 13:17
%26quot;The manna referred to in the Bible, in Exodus 16:14, seems to have been the dried excrement of Trabutina mannipara, a scale insect that feeds on tamarisk trees.%26quot; Benjamin B. Normark, The Sex Lives of Scales, Natural History, Sept. 2004. 16:14-15
%26quot;In six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them.%26quot;
Believers often say that the %26quot;days%26quot; of creation should be taken allegorically, but this verse is quite clear. God created the universe in six 24 hour days. 20:11
Leviticus
The bible says that hares and coneys are unclean because they %26quot;chew the cud%26quot; but do not part the hoof. But hares and coneys are not ruminants and they do not %26quot;chew the cud.%26quot; 11:5-6
Bats are birds to the biblical God. 11:13, 19
Be sure to watch out for those %26quot;other flying creeping things which have four feet.%26quot; (I wish God wouldn%26#039;t get so technical!) I guess he must mean four-legged insects. You%26#039;d think that since God made the insects, and so many of them (at least several million species), that he would know how many legs they have! 11:23
God%26#039;s law for lepers: Get two birds. Kill one. Dip the live bird in the blood of the dead one. Sprinkle the blood on the leper seven times, and then let the blood-soaked bird fly off. Next find a lamb and kill it. Wipe some of its blood on the patient%26#039;s right ear, thumb, and big toe. Sprinkle seven times with oil and wipe some of the oil on his right ear, thumb and big toe. Repeat. Finally kill a couple doves and offer one for a sin offering and the other for a burnt offering. 14:2-52
Numbers
The Israelite population went from seventy (Ex.1:5) to several million (over 600,000 adult males) in just a few generations! 1:45-46
God sends quails to feed his people until they were %26quot;two cubits [about a meter] high upon the face of the earth.%26quot; Taking the %26quot;face of the earth%26quot; to be a circle with a radius of say 30 kilometers (an approximate day%26#039;s journey), this would amount to 3 trillion (3x1012) liters of quails. At 2 quails per liter, this would provide a couple million quails for each of several million people. 11:31
God strikes Miriam with leprosy. (In the Bible, leprosy is caused by the wrath of God or the malice of Satan.) 12:10
%26quot;And there we saw the giants ... And we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.%26quot; This statement may have been figurative, hyperbole, typical biblical exaggeration, or an actual description of the sons of Anak, in which case they must have been about 100 meters tall. These are the same giants (the Nephilium) that resulted when the %26quot;sons of God%26quot; mated with %26quot;the daughters of men in Gen.6:4. Of course these superhuman god-men should have been destroyed in the flood. So what are they doing still alive? 13:33
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than ten days. 14:33, 32:13
God%26#039;s cure for snakebite: a brass serpent on a pole. 21:8
God has %26quot;the strength of a unicorn.%26quot; Oh heck, I bet he%26#039;s even stronger than a unicorn. 23:22, 24:8
Deuteronomy
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than ten days. 2:7, 8:2, 29:5
%26quot;A land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time.%26quot; (They must have been much more common back then.) 2:10-11, 20-21
Og, the king of the giants, was a tall man, even by NBA standards. His bed measured 9 by 4 cubits (13.5 feet long and 6 feet wide). 3:11
God promises to cast out seven nations including the Amorites, Canaanites, and the Jebusites. But he was unable to fulfill his promise. These nations were %26quot;greater and mightier%26quot; than the Israelites, who according to Ex.12:37 and Num.1:45-46 already had numbered several million. So the region, according to the bible, must have had a population of more than twenty million! 7:1
This verse mistakenly says that the hare chews its cud. 14:7-8
To the biblical God, a bat is just an another unclean bird. 14:11, 18
%26quot;Their wine is the poison of dragons.%26quot; I wonder what genus and species the bible is referring to when it mentions dragons. 32:33
Joseph%26#039;s %26quot;horns are like the horns of a unicorn.%26quot; 33:17
Joshua
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than ten days. 5:6
In Joshua 8 the Israelites destroy Ai and make it a desolate heap. But Ai was an abandoned city by the time of the Israelites and this story is a myth invented to explain the ruins of an ancient city that the Israelites encountered. See Archaeology and Biblical Accuracy by Farrell Till. 8:1-29
This verse says that Ai was never again occupied after it was destroyed by Joshua. But Nehemiah (7:32) lists it among the cities of Israel at the time of the Babylonian captivity. 8:28
In a divine type of daylight savings time, God makes the sun stand still so that Joshua can get all his killing done before dark. 10:12-13
%26quot;And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which as of the remnant of the giants....%26quot; 12:4, 18:6
Judges
%26quot;The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.%26quot; Unless astrology is true, how can the stars affect the outcome of a battle? 5:20
%26quot;As the sun ... goeth forth in his might.%26quot; The sun, according to the bible, goes around the earth. 5:31
1 Samuel
%26quot;The pillars of the earth are the LORD%26#039;s, and he hath set the world upon them. 2:8
Goliath was ten feet tall (%26quot;six cubits and a span%26quot;). 17:4
2 Samuel
In what is surely a biblical exaggeration, we are told that %26quot;the servants of David%26quot; killed 20,000 soldiers in one day. And that %26quot;the wood [forest] devoured more people that day than the sword devoured.%26quot; It must have been spooky forest to have devoured more than 20,000 soldiers. There were probably lots of lions and tigers and bears. (Oh my!)18:7-8
The earth shakes, the foundations of heaven move, smoke comes out of God%26#039;s nostrils, and fire out of his mouth. 22:8-16
How many soldiers did Israel have? This verse says that Judah and Israel had a total of 1,300,000 fighting men (1 Chr.21:5 says 1,570,000) in this battle. Of course, this is a ridiculously high number for a battle between two tribal armies in 1000 BCE. (The United States had about 1.37 million active duty soldiers in 2001.) 24:9
1 Kings
This verse implies that the value of p is 3. (The actual value is approximately 3.14159.) 7:23
God creates droughts by causing %26quot;heaven to shut up%26quot; as a punishment for sin. 8:35
Ever the playful spirit, God withers, and then restores, the hand of king Jeroboam. 13:4
2 Kings
Elisha cures a leper, but only after the leper dips himself seven times in the Jordan. 5:14
Elisha not only can cure leprosy, he can also dish it out. Here he makes his servant (Gehazi) and all his descendants lepers forever. 5:27
A dead body is brought to life when it accidentally touches the bones of Elisha. 13:21
Isaiah, with a little help from God, makes the sun move backwards ten degrees. Now that%26#039;s quite a trick. All at once, the earth stopped spinning and then reversed its direction of rotation. Or maybe the sun traveled around the earth in those days! 20:11
1 Chronicles
Some creationists believe that this verse (and Gen.10:25) refers to continental drift, which, they say, began to occur during the days of Pelag (which means %26quot;division%26quot;), about 100 or so years after the flood. 1:19
%26quot;The earth ... shall be stable, that it be not moved.%26quot; It doesn%26#039;t spin on its axis or travel about the sun. 16:30
According to this verse David%26#039;s army had 1,100,000 men from Israel and 470,000 men from Judah, Of course, this numbers is ridiculously high for a battle between two tribal armies in 1000 BCE. (The United States had about 1.37 million active duty soldiers in 2001.) 21:5 David provides Solomon with a fantastically large amount of gold and silver with which to build the temple: 100,000 talents of gold and 1,000,000 talents of silver. Since a talent was about 60 pounds, this would be about 3,000 tons of gold and 30,000 tons of silver. 22:14
King David collects ten thousand drams (or darics) for the construction of the temple in Jerusalem. This is especially interesting since darics were coins named after King Darius I who lived some five hundred years after David. 29:7
As usual, the reported amounts of gold, silver, and iron are grossly exaggerated. (100,000 talents of iron, for example, would be about 34 million kilograms.) 29:7
2 Chronicles
Since the molten sea was round with a diameter of ten cubits and a circumference of thirty cubits, we know that the biblical value of p is 3. (The actual value is approximately 3.14159.) 4:2
Abijah spoke to 1,200,000 soldiers at one time. (He had a really loud voice.) 13:3-4
500,000 soldiers die in a single God-assisted slaughter. 13:16-17
In the largest single God-assisted massacre in the bible, Asa, with God%26#039;s help, kills one million Ethiopians. 14:8-14
Asa, when he had a foot disease, went to physicians instead of seeking the Lord. (God disapproves of those who seek medical help rather than %26quot;seeking the Lord.%26quot;) 16:12
God makes Uzziah a leper for burning incense without a license. 26:19-21
Esther
%26quot;Haman thought in his heart.%26quot; Most people think with their heads, but biblical folks think with their hearts. 6:6
Job
The earth rests upon pillars and doesn%26#039;t move (unless God gets angry or something). 9:6
%26quot;Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not.%26quot;
The earth is fixed and the sun travels about it. 9:7
Heaven is set upon pillars that tremble when God gets mad. 26:11
The earth is set on foundations and it does not move. 38:4-6
God has snow and hail all stored up to use later %26quot;in time of trouble.%26quot; 38:22
God spread out the sky, which is a solid structure, hard and strong like a mirror. 37:18
Ostriches are not cruel and stupid birds who abandon their eggs to die after laying them, as these verses imply. They are, in fact, careful and attentive parents. The male scoops out a hollow for the eggs, which are incubated by the female during the day and the male at night. After the eggs are hatched, they are cared for by the mother for over a month, at which time the chicks can keep up with running adults. 39:13-16
The bible is wrong about ostriches being cruel and inattentive parents (39:13-16). But if they were, whose fault would it be? Why would God deprive them of the tools that are needed to do the job right? 39:17
Bible believers have identified the behemoth as a hippopotamus, dinosaur, wildebeest, or crocodile. But my favorite is the way these verses are translated by Stephen Mitchell: %26quot;Look now: the Beast that I made: he eats grass like a bull. Look: the power in his thighs, the pulsing sinews of his belly. His penis stiffens like a pine; his testicles bulge with vigor.%26quot; 40:15-16
%26quot;Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord?%26quot; 41:1-34
Psalms
The earth shakes whenever God really gets mad. 18:7
%26quot;The foundations of the world were discovered ... at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.%26quot; (The earth is set on firm foundations and does not move -- unless God blows his nose.) 18:15
%26quot;The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.%26quot; 19:1
The sun moves around the earth. 19:4-6
From his seat in heaven, God can see the whole earth and all its inhabitants.
(He sits directly above the earth, which is a flat disc below him.) 33:14-15
Diseases are sent by God to punish sin. 38:3
According to the psalmist, snails melt. But they don%26#039;t, of course, they simply leave a slimy trail as they move along. 58:8
God is so strong that he can break the head of dragons and of leviathan. 74:13-14
God holds the earth up with pillars. 75:3
Another reference to %26quot;the foundations of the earth%26quot;, implying that the earth is fixed and does not move. 82:5
%26quot;Thou hast broken Rahab [the sea monster] in pieces.%26quot; 89:10
%26quot;The world also is established, that it cannot be moved.%26quot; 93:1
%26quot;The world also shall be established that it shall not be moved.%26quot; 96:10
%26quot;The Lord ... who healeth all thy diseases.%26quot; God heals all diseases. Medical science is unnecessary. 103:2-3
%26quot;God ... who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain%26quot; (The earth is stationary and does not orbit the sun.) 104:5
%26quot;In wisdom hast thou made them all.%26quot; 104:24
God is offended by those who make things with their hands or invent things with their minds. 106:39
%26quot;The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.%26quot; Then why do nearly all animals die painful deaths from starvation, predation, or disease long before they reach adulthood? 145:9
God %26quot;satisfiest the desire of every living thing.%26quot; But in nature few needs are met and few desires are satisfied. Life is short, hard, cruel, and painful for nearly every living thing. 145:17
%26quot;He calleth them all by their names.%26quot;
God knows how many stars there are and knows them all by name. That%26#039;s pretty impressive since there are 100 billion or so gallaxies, each containing about 100 billion stars. 147:7
%26quot;Praise him in the firmament of his power.%26quot; 150:1
Ecclesiastes
%26quot;The sun also ariseth%26quot;
Although this verse is interpreted figuratively today, it was taken literally by virtually all Christians until the Copernican revolution, and was used by the Church to condemn Galileo for teaching the heliocentric heresy. 1:5
%26quot;He hath made every thing beautiful.%26quot;
Everything is beautiful in its own way. Parasitic worms, cancer cells, bubonic plague. You just have to look at it from God%26#039;s eyes. 3:11
%26quot;No man can find out the work that God maketh.%26quot;
Science is impossible. We can learn nothing at all about the natural world. 3:11
Isaiah
%26quot;The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb....%26quot; I wonder what will become of the spiders. Will they be more friendly toward flies? And will the parasitic wasps find another way to feed their larvae? Or will they continue to feed off the living bodies of caterpillars? 11:6, 65:25
%26quot;And the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice%26#039; den.%26quot; A cockatrice is a serpent, hatched from a cock%26#039;s egg, that can kill with a glance. They are rare nowadays. 11:8
God will gather up the people of Judea %26quot;from the four corners of the earth.%26quot; In the Bible%26#039;s view, the earth is flat with four corners. 11:12
According to the Bible, the moon produces its own light and the earth does not move. 13:10
When God gets really angry, he causes earthquakes. 13:13
Dragons will live in Babylonian palaces and satyrs will dance there. 13:21-22
Out of the serpent%26#039;s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.%26quot; What ever happened to these fascinating biblical creatures? 14:29
God will turn the earth upside down, knock it off of its foundations, and then shake and bake it until it %26quot;reels to and fro like a drunkard.%26quot; 24:1, 18-20
God will punish the leviathan (%26quot;that crooked serpent%26quot;) with his own sword and will kill the sea dragon. 27:1
Natural disasters (earthquakes, storms, fires, tsunamis) are caused by, and are a sign of, God%26#039;s wrath. 29:7
Among the many strange creatures mentioned in the Bible that no longer seem to exist is the %26quot;fiery flying serpent.%26quot; 30:6
%26quot;The light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold.%26quot; Well, this is one prophecy that will never come true. Since the moon has no light of its own, but only reflects that of the sun, it could never shine like the sun. And the sun will not, at least not while there are humans to see it, shine 7 times as bright as it does now. 30:26
%26quot;And the unicorns shall come down with them.%26quot; 34:7
Dragons and satyrs may not seem real to you, but they did to the author of these verses. 34:13-14
God makes the sun move backwards 10 degrees. Now that%26#039;s a neat trick! 38:8
The earth is a flat disc that God looks down upon from his throne in heaven. 40:22
Even the dragons honor God. 43:20
God cut Rahab (the sea monster) to pieces, wounded the dragon, and dried up the sea. 51:9-10
Bad people hatch poisonous cockatrice eggs. Whoever eats the eggs will die, and when the eggs are crushed a viper hatches out of them. 59:5
%26quot;Neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee.%26quot; Of course the moon doesn%26#039;t give off light, but only reflects the light from the sun. 60:19
Jeremiah
Droughts are punishments from God. 3:3
%26quot;I will send serpents, cockatrices among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you.%26quot; A cockatrice is a serpent, hatched from a cock%26#039;s egg, that can kill with a glance. They are rare nowadays. 8:17
When God gets angry, the earth trembles. (That%26#039;s what causes earthquakes.) 10:10
The wild asses %26quot;snuffed up the wind like dragons.%26quot; 14:6
The earth is set on foundations and does not move. 31:37
Lamentations
Ostriches are not cruel and inattentive parents, as this verse implies. They are, in fact, careful and attentive parents. The male scoops out a hollow for the eggs, which are incubated by the female during the day and the male at night. After the eggs are hatched, they are cared for by the mother for over a month, at which time the chicks can keep up with running adults. 4:3
Ezekiel
%26quot;The firmament ... the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.%26quot; 1:22
The world is flat and has four corners. 7:2
The firmament is over the heads of the cherubim. 10:1
God %26quot;will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light.%26quot; To Ezekiel, the sun is just a little light that can be covered with a cloud, and the moon produces its own light. 32:7
Daniel
The third year of the reign of Jehoiakim would be 606 BCE, at which time Nebuchadnezzar was not yet king of Babylon. It was 597 BCE that Nebuchadnezzar invaded Jerusalem for the first time (without actually destroying it). By that time Jehohiakim was dead and his son, Jehoiachin, was ruling. 1:1
The stone became %26quot;a great mountain%26quot; that %26quot;filled the whole earth.%26quot; This could only be possible on a flat, disc-shaped earth. 2:35
Daniel%26#039;s tree is tall enough to be seen from %26quot;the end of all the earth.%26quot; Only on a flat earth would this be possible. 4:10-11, 20
Apparently, the author of Daniel knew of only two Babylonian kings during the period of the exile: Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar, who he wrongly thought was the son of Nebuchadnezzar. But Nebuchadnezzar died in 562 BCE and was succeeded by his son, Awil-Marduk (referred to in the bible as %26quot;Evilmerodach%26quot; [see 2 Kg.25:27 and Jer.52:31]). In 560 BCE, Amel-Marduk was assassinated by his brother-in-law, Nergal-shar-usur. The next and last king of Babylon was Nabonidus who reigned from 556 to 539, when Babylon was conquered by Cyrus. It was Nabonidus, and not Belshazzar, who was the last of the Babylonian kings. Belshazzar was a the son and viceroy of Nabonidus. But he was not a king, and was not the son (or any other relation) of Nebuchadnezzar. 5:2,11,18,22
Darius the Median is a fictitious character whom the author perhaps confused with Darius I of Persia, who came to the throne in 521 BCE, 17 years after the fall of Babylon. The author of Daniel incorrectly makes him the successor of Belshazzar instead of Cyrus. 5:31
To Daniel, the stars are small objects that can fall from the sky and then be %26quot;stamped upon.%26quot; 8:10
%26quot;They ... shall shine as the brightness of the firmament.%26quot; 12:3
Joel
%26quot;The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood.%26quot; These %26quot;signs%26quot; were a lot more impressive before the causes of solar and lunar eclipses were understood. 2:31
Amos
God destroyed the Amorites who were a race of giants as tall as cedars and as strong as oaks. 2:9
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than ten days. 2:10
Jonah
God makes %26quot;a great fish%26quot; to swallow Jonah. And Jonah stayed in the fish%26#039;s belly for three days and three nights. 1:17
%26quot;Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days%26#039; journey.%26quot; That would make it about 60 miles in diameter -- larger than Los Angeles! 3:3
Micah
The earth is set upon strong foundations and therefore does not move. 6:2
Nahum
Tornadoes, earthquakes, and fires are caused by God and are signs of his anger. 1:5
Habakkuk
%26quot;The sun and moon stood still in their habitation.%26quot; This verse apparently refers to Joshua 10:12-13, where God makes the sun stand still. 3:11
Matthew
When was Jesus born? 2:1
%26quot;The star ... went before them.%26quot;
If the star %26quot;went before them,%26quot; leading them to Bethlehem, then it couldn%26#039;t have been a star or any other astronomical object or event. But Matthew couldn%26#039;t have known that. Everyone at the time thought that stars were just little points of light a short distance above the earth. It%26#039;d be no problem to have one hover above a particular place for a while. 2:9
Herod kills all boys in and around Bethlehem that are two years old and under. Such a massacre would certainly have been noted by contemporary historians. Yet not even Josephus, who documented Herod%26#039;s life in detail, mentioned this event. 2:16
The devil kidnaps Jesus and takes him up to the top of the temple, and then to the top of %26quot;an exceedingly high mountain,%26quot; high enough to see %26quot;all the kingdoms of the world.%26quot; I guess the earth was flat in those days. 4:8
%26quot;Behold the fowls of the air....%26quot; Jesus says that God feeds them. But, if so, he does one hell of a lousy job at it. Most birds die before leaving the nest, and the few who manage to fly soon die painful deaths of starvation, predation, or disease. If God is caring for them, pray that he stays away from you. 6:26
Speaking of the birds, Jesus asks: %26quot;Are ye not much better than they?%26quot; This is meant as a rhetorical question, but the answer is far from obvious to me. I guess to Jesus, though, birds are not worth much compared to humans. So you can do whatever the hell you want with (and to) them. 6:26
According to Matthew, people who cannot speak are possessed by the devil. 9:32-33
Jesus gives his disciples %26quot;power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness.%26quot; 10:1
Jesus tells his disciples to perform all the usual tricks: %26quot;heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, and cast out devils.%26quot; 10:8
God is involved in the death of every sparrow. He sees to it that they each die painful deaths of starvation, predation, or disease. But don%26#039;t worry. God will do the same for you. (He thinks that humans are worth much more than sparrows.) 10:29. 31
Jesus casts out a devil from a man who was blind and dumb. (Thos we are unable to see or hear are possessed by devils.) 12:22
Some Christians believe that the natural evil in the world (predators, parasites, pain, death) is due to Satan, not God. 13:28
Jesus is incorrect when he says that the mustard seed is the smallest seed. And since there are no trees in the mustard family, mustard seeds do not grow into %26quot;the greatest of all trees.%26quot; 13:31-32
Jesus cures an epileptic %26quot;lunatic%26quot; by %26quot;rebuking the devil.%26quot; (Epilepsy is caused by devils.) 17:15-18
%26quot;The moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven.%26quot; Apparently, Jesus believed that the moon produces its own light, and that the stars are lights held in place by a firmament only a few miles above our heads. 24:29
Jesus believed that Noah%26#039;s flood actually happened. 24:37
When Jesus was crucified, there was three hours of complete darkness %26quot;over all the land.%26quot; And when he died, there was a great earthquake with many corpses walking the streets of Jerusalem. It is strange that there is no record of any of these extraordinary events outside of the gospels. 27:45, 51-53
Mark
Jesus is incorrect when he says that the mustard seed is the smallest seed. (The smallest seeds are found among the tropical, epiphytic orchids.) 4:31
%26quot;Thy faith hath made thee whole.%26quot; If you have enough faith, you will never get sick. (Illness is caused by sin and lack of faith. Medical science is unnecessary.) 5:34
Jesus heals a boy with %26quot;a dumb spirit%26quot; by saying, %26quot;Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him and enter no more into him.%26quot; (Sounds like a script from Monty Python, doesn%26#039;t it?) But how could a deaf spirit hear the words spoken to it? And how could a dumb spirit cry out? 9:17, 25-26
%26quot;But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.%26quot;
Jesus believed that sex and Adam and Eve were created %26quot;from the beginning.%26quot; But the universe is about 13.6 billion years old, the earth 4.6 billion, sex a billion years or so, and humans (depending on how you define %26quot;human%26quot;) for a couple million years. 10:6
%26quot;In those days ... the moon shall not give her light, and the stars of heaven shall fall.%26quot; Of course this is nonsense. The billions of stars will never fall to earth and the moon does not produce its own light. 13:24-25
When Jesus was crucified, there was three hours of complete darkness %26quot;over the whole land.%26quot; It is strange that there is no record of this extraordinary event outside of the gospels. 15:33
Luke
When was Jesus born? 2:1
The devil takes Jesus to the top of a mountain and shows him %26quot;all the kingdoms of the world.%26quot; I guess the world was flat in those days. 4:5
Epilepsy is caused by devils. 9:39
People who cannot speak are possessed with devils. 11:14
Illnesses are caused by Satan. 13:11-16
Jesus believed the story of Noah%26#039;s ark. 17:26-27
Jesus also believes the story about Sodom%26#039;s destruction. He says, %26quot;even thus shall it be in the day the son of man is revealed.%26quot; This tells us about Jesus%26#039; knowledge of science and history. 17:29-32
%26quot;And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars.%26quot; 21:25
When Jesus was crucified, there was three hours of complete darkness %26quot;over all the earth.%26quot; It is strange that there is no record of this extraordinary event outside of the gospels. 23:44-45
John
%26quot;These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.%26quot; But no such site is known in history. Some translations (ASV, NAB, NIV, RSV, NRSV) rename Bethabara as Bethany, but Bethany is a suburb of Jerusalem and, therefore, not %26quot;beyond the Jordan.%26quot; 1:28
%26quot;If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?%26quot;
Good question, Jesus! He was wrong about creation in Mk.10:6, wrong about the flood in Lk.17:26-27, and wrong about the smallest seed in Mt.13:31-32. So why would anyone believe him when he talks about heaven in Jn.3:16? 3:12
Whoever enters a pool after it is stirred up by angels will be cured of %26quot;whatsoever disease he had.%26quot; 5:4
Jesus believes people are crippled by God as a punishment for sin. He tells a crippled man, after healing him, to %26quot;sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.%26quot; 5:14
The disciples ask Jesus about the cause of a man%26#039;s blindness. Was it because he or his parents sinned? Jesus said neither had sinned. The man was born blind so that Jesus could show off his powers by curing him of his blindness. 9:1-3
A blind man%26#039;s sight is restored by washing in the pool of Siloam. 9:7
Acts
%26quot;Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven?%26quot;
This verse was used by a Dominican friar to discourage the use of Galileo%26#039;s telescope. (Notice the pun on Galileo%26#039;s name in %26quot;men of Galilee%26quot;.) 1:11
The prophets have spoken %26quot;since the world began,%26quot; which means that humans have been around since the creation of the world. But humans are recent arrivals on an ancient earth. There were no prophets when the earth formed 4.6 billion years ago. 3:21
The sick were healed just by touching the shadow of Peter. 5:15-16
It took the Israelites 40 years to travel from Egypt to Canaan, yet such a journey, even at that time, would have taken no more than ten days. 7:36, 13:18
Sick people are oppressed by the devil. 10:38
Sick people were cured by touching the handkerchief or apron of Paul. And the evil spirits when out of them.%26quot; 19:12
Paul is bitten by a poisonous snake and yet lives. The %26quot;barbarians%26quot; who were shipwrecked with him thought he must be a murderer since he was bitten; but then they changed their minds and thought him to be a god since he didn%26#039;t die. (The snake story is especially interesting since there are no poisonous snakes on Malta, and there is no evidence of their existence in the past.) 28:3-8
Romans
The existence and nature of God are self-evident. 1:20
The Religious Right often uses Romans 1:21-25 to condemn environmentalists. 1:21-25
Paul claims that before Adam sinned death did not exist. But, of course, death didn%26#039;t enter the world a few thousand years ago because of Adam%26#039;s sin. Death has been a part of life since life first arose (on this planet, at least) a few billion years ago. 5:12
Paul says that everyone, even in his day, had the gospel preached to them. Even the Native Americans, Asians, Pacific Islanders? 10:18
1 Corinthians
Paul shows his ignorance (and God%26#039;s) of biology by saying that only dead seeds will germinate. Actually, a seed must be alive to germinate. 15:36
%26quot;All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another of beasts.%26quot;
This verse is used by Creationists to argue against both evolution and any attempt to create %26quot;human-animal hybrids%26quot; or %26quot;chimeras.%26quot; 15:39
%26quot;The first man Adam%26quot;
Young Earth Creationists use this verse to support a literal reading of Genesis. %26quot;If we cannot believe in the First Adam, why believe in the Last [Christ]?%26quot; 15:45
%26quot;And afterward that which is spiritual.%26quot;
Asa Gray, the foremost American botanist in the 19th century and close friend of Charles Darwin, used this verse to support the idea that the Bible is not inconsistent with human evolution. 15:46
2 Corinthians
%26quot;As the serpent beguiled Eve%26quot;
Young Earth Creationists use this verse to show that Paul believed the creation story in Gen.3:1-6. 11:3
Ephesians
Satan is the %26quot;prince of the power of the air.%26quot; Until modern times Christians believed that Satan was responsible for storms and droughts. 2:2
Colossians
%26quot;For by him were all things created.... All things were created by him, and for him.... And by him all things consist.%26quot; Including guinea worms? 1:16-17
1 Timothy
%26quot;For Adam was first formed, then Eve.%26quot; Young Earth Creationists use this verse to show that Paul believed the creation story in Gen.2:18-22. 2:13
Avoid science, especially that which disagrees with Paul (%26quot;science falsely so called%26quot;). Other versions translate this phrase as %26quot;false knowledge%26quot;, which may be more correct. However many fundamentalist Christians still use this verse (%26quot;science falsely so called%26quot;) to justify their rejection of any idea, scientific or otherwise, they believe contradicts the bible. 6:20
Hebrews
God set the earth on a foundation; therefore, it does not move. 1:10
James
James says that, even in his day, all beasts, birds, serpents, and sea creatures had been tamed by humans. 3:7
If you are sick, rely on the power of prayer. It works every time. 5:14-15
By praying, Elias was able to keep it from raining for three and a half years. 5:17
2 Peter
Those who disbelieve in the Bible%26#039;s creation and flood stories are %26quot;willingly ignorant.%26quot; 3:5
%26quot;God ... spared not the old world, but saved Noah.%26quot;
Young Earth Creationists use this verse to show that the New Testament authors believed in the flood story. (So you should too.) 2:4-5
Revelation
%26quot;Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him.%26quot; This could only happen on a flat earth. 1:7
Jesus holds seven stars in his hand. Of course, it is possible that this is metaphorical. Perhaps. But it is clear from other verses (6:13, 8:10, 12:4) that John thought of stars as being small, perhaps even small enough for Jesus to hold in his hand. 1:16
%26quot;Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.%26quot; God created predators, pathogens, and predators for his very own pleasure. One of his favorite species is guinea worms. 4:11
The sixth seal is opened and there is a great earthquake, the sun becomes black, and the moon red, the stars fall from heaven, and mountains and islands move around. 6:12-14
%26quot;And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth....%26quot; To John, the stars are just little lights a few miles away that can easily fall to the earth. 6:13
John %26quot;saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth.%26quot; Well, I guess that settles it: the earth is flat and square-shaped, or at least quadrilateral in shape. 7:1
An angel threw the censer down to earth, causing thunder, lightning, and earthquakes. 8:5
%26quot;And there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters.%26quot; In the bible, stars are just little lights that can fall to the ground from the sky. 8:10
The fourth trumpet smites one third of the sun, moon, and stars. 8:12
%26quot;I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth.%26quot; 9:1
God%26#039;s witnesses have special powers. They can shut up heaven so that it cannot rain, turn rivers into blood, and smite the earth with plagues %26quot;as often as they will.%26quot; 11:6
The dragon%26#039;s tail smacks down to earth one third of the stars. To the author of Revelation, the stars are just little lights that can fall to the ground from the sky. 12:4
Why are there so many scientific and historical innacuracies in the word of your God?
i am my own god
Reply:They have all of that on another site. Report It
Reply:It takes a solid faith perspective to understand the scriptures, particularly the deeper things, and your not going to have that unless your heart is right with God. Have faith in God. Remember, God%26#039;s perspective is huge, yours is tiny. Report It
Reply:Repent, and admit that you do not understand. Ask God to help you. Let God change your heart and mind. Report It
Reply:Why are there so many common sense inacuracies with people coming from Apes? Why would we still have Apes? You didn%26#039;t come from a stew or an Ape. The only other explanation is that there IS a God and if you choose to be against him, which right now you are, you go to hell! Report It
Reply:lol....you can%26#039;t explain where you came from to a christian...just like a christian can%26#039;t make you believe that we were created for God%26#039;s Glory (Genesis 1) if you%26#039;re just going to present a question and answer it yourself then you%26#039;re doing nothing more than arguing Report It
Reply:I am not reading all that but if it puts the bible then shame on you! Report It
Reply:wow i love the question im going to print it off so i can read it to others so thank you for your help:) Report It
Reply:Jesus said I am the way the truth the life no man comes to god the father but by me period. Report It
Reply:A few are simple typos....just like when you misspelled the word, %26quot;innacuracies%26quot; in your question. Report It
Reply:Wow... I now know the people who are in Satan%26#039;s top 1000 %26quot;Take home%26quot; list. Have faith in God and you get the chance to be up at heaven and watch sinners turn into BBQ down at hell. Report It
Reply:Wow Pope youre an A** hole. Report It
Reply:The premise of your entire argument is this:
%26quot;I disagree, therefore you are wrong.%26quot;
If you are going to criticise religion, that%26#039;s fine, but at least do it contructively. Report It
Reply:you will see when judgement day comes. Report It
Reply:If Creationists and Literalists didn%26#039;t set the tone for this attitude by telling us that every word is a precise and accurate account of fact, I don%26#039;t think there would be nearly as much of this overboard effort to point out every bit of illogic and inconsistency Report It
Reply:If you are convinced the Bible is flawed, and do not believe in God, why do you continue to post questions about something you %26quot;think%26quot; you%26#039;ve answered. You hurt no one but yourself with this rebellious attitude, and risk only your own life. Report It
Reply:Boring, and i know exactly what site he copied all that from. Pretty much answers all of them: http://www.gotquestions.org/sk...
Genesis 1 and 2 aren%26#039;t contradictory at all. Creatures that creep along the ground usually carry deadly diseases. Report It
Reply:What if it happenz on that %26quot;day%26quot; ?
{He iz the Master of the Day of Judgement} Report It
Reply:There are many many things about the Bible I don%26#039;t understand. That doesn%26#039;t make them not true. I don%26#039;t understand Algebra or a lot of mathematics after addition and subtraction but that doesn%26#039;t mean they have no basis in truth.
For example: let%26#039;s say you have this disease and from all your research you know it can do such and such things, OK? So one day you come down with these other symptoms that aren%26#039;t as far as you know related to your disease. So what do you do? You go to a Dr. A professional. A specialist. Someone who has studied your particular disease. You ask questions and get answers.
If there are things about the Bible you don%26#039;t understand, then go speak to a professional. Someone who has studied this particular passage and can give you the answers you seek instead of just sitting there and complaining about it.
A pastor, minister or reverend, is just that professional. A specialist in the Bible. Someone who has studied and understands all the so called %26quot;inconsistencies%26quot;
As I have stated, there are many many things I don%26#039;t understand. That doen%26#039;st stop me from believing.
Reply:Click on the following links for the answers to your many questions.
http://www.biblequestions.org/index.html - Many questions about the Bible are answered here.
http://www.clarifyingchristianity.com/in... - Learn more about Christianity, Early Chuch History, Jesus %26amp; The Bible. Also Got a FAQ list too.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/... - PBS:FRONTLINE - From Jesus to Christ. Chronicles the lives of the first Christians and offers a portrait of Jesus%26#039; world with many views and opinions from many Historians, Archeologist, Biblical Scholars and Skeptics.
http://bibleresources.bible.com/index.ph... - Read the Bible online for yourself.
Also check out the following programs on DVD or video...
PBS:FRONTLINE - From Jesus to Christ: The first christians
The History Channel: Mysteries of the Bible
The History Channel: A History of God
The History Channel: Banned from the Bible
A%26amp;E%26#039;s: Christianity: Two thousand years
A%26amp;E%26#039;s: Ancient Secrets of the Bible
Reply:Time and again the archeological and historical reliability of the Bible has been proven. Please read the following links below and and maybe it can provide some answers.
%26quot;Archeology and the Bible%26quot;
http://www.christiananswers.net/archaeol...
%26quot;Hasn%26#039;t the Bible been rewritten so many times that we can%26#039;t trust it anymore?%26quot;
http://www.carm.org/questions/rewritten....
Reply:Because it was a great story written by an average man who was very charismatic. If you read the book from beginning to end like a Stephen King novel, it%26#039;s really a great read. It%26#039;s got it all, sex, murder, joy, sadness, action, war and even magik. Man this book has it all, but you can%26#039;t take it too seriously.
Reply:Don%26#039;t worry about it. If your right what any of us believe won%26#039;t matter in a million years. If you are right then we are all irrelevant, and what I believe and what you believe doesn%26#039;t matter. So why concern yourself? Go outside, look at the stars and think about how small you really are. God loves you.
Reply:Whew… why the need to point out the discrepancies? If you spent all that time, energy, and effort teaching yourself instead of teaching others… you might find Love and just Who Love is. Hebrews 8:10
Reply:Dang, thats long. But I disagree with you, this world tries to say that the Bible is inacurate, but all that it said would happen, has happend! And all that it said happend, we have found evedence for, or are in the process of finding it. Yet their is practically no evidence for evolution, they have to change things periodically, just for things to work with their theory, since it IS a theory guys, not fact as your Biology teachers may tell you.
Okay look, did you actually read the Bible? Or are they exerpts from some book that you read that says %26quot; 100 ways to trying to disprove the Bible!%26quot; when they only take bits and pieces of the book and, after all, if you take bits and pieces of any book, you can make it say whatever you want it to say.
Don%26#039;t take a scientist word for it, read the Bible for yourself! You may learn that their wrong, or they could be right, go find out.
Reply:Consider it the power of naming and perspective. People explain things based on what they know and have experienced. No religion or person (in my opinion) has the answers to everything. Some of the things you %26quot;quote%26quot; might have been written in context of what were cultural norms at the time it was written. Some people may consider you are arrogant and others may just think you are curious and want to know. Most times things change the more we know about them. Some people don%26#039;t want to know and for things not to change. Change can be scary or it can be exhilarating. We each have to decide for our selves.
Reply:The bible was written by educated men of their time trying to keep the populace in line by parables and stories. The people who wrote the Old Test. wrote terrible stories to keep people in line by the threat of God%26#039;s punishment. The new testament was put together 200 yrs after Christ with some writings of the apostles and has been translated and retranslated many times and even slanted at times to conform to whatever regulations the Church put into place. That is why the Bible should not be taken literally. It is not a scientific document but a spiritual teaching document. You must remember that most people of the time were iliterate and creating stories to explain religion was the only means the members of early Christianity had. They believed in Christ as God and wanted to document it and spread the word. If they came back today and were educated I bet they%26#039;d be very surprised at what it now says and that people take it literally.
Reply:Whoa, I get the point!
We all know the bible is full of crap, but ... damn ... you didn%26#039;t need to make a list that long.
Reply:Thank you for showing this to me. I never noticed any of this before. Christianity is a racist folktale.
Reply:Why are you telling believers this on a Religious/Spiritual Site!....Believers know what the Bible says and how to spiritually understand it!......Go get saved and sit under an Anointed Pastor and learn how to Spiritually Understand GOD%26#039;S WORD so that you won%26#039;t be labled as bringing HERESY Against The WORD Of GOD as you try to explain it!
Reply:Whoa Monica whore of Babylon do not torture your fingers like that again! This is the first question that I ever got high off of! It really made me dizzy! I need a break after reading that one! I will come back tomorrow and try to answer it! Were you there when the hand writing appeared on the wall?
Reply:Simple: that so-called deity doesn%26#039;t exist.
Reply:It sounds like your trying to mock the bible.
Reply:ask a pastier
Reply:why are you such a towelhead asshole???
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