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List of urban legends about illegal drugs LSD[edit] Some of the strangest urban legends told are those about lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), a potent psychedelic drug that gained popularity in several countries in the 1960s and 1970s, and experienced a brief resurgence in the mid to late 1990s before declining from 2000 onward. The drug's relation to the 1960s counterculture was likely part of the reason for such legends. Attempted murder[edit] "Anyone caught selling LSD can be charged with attempted murder." Babysitter places baby in the oven while high on LSD[edit] This is an unverifiable drug-scare story dating to the 60s of a hippie babysitter girl putting a baby in the oven and a turkey in the bassinet. Bad LSD[edit] A "bad trip" is easily caused by an expectation or fear of ill effects, which may later be blamed on "bad acid." However, drugs described as LSD in the 1970s occasionally actually contained PCP, amphetamine, or other drugs that have quite different effects from LSD. "Bananadine" LSD[edit] Blue star tattoos[edit]

Invisible Pink Unicorn The Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU) is the goddess of a parody religion used to satirize theistic beliefs, taking the form of a unicorn that is paradoxically both invisible and pink.[1] She is a rhetorical illustration used by atheists and other religious skeptics as a contemporary version of Russell's teapot, sometimes mentioned in conjunction with the Flying Spaghetti Monster.[2] The IPU is used to argue that supernatural beliefs are arbitrary by, for example, replacing the word God in any theistic statement with Invisible Pink Unicorn.[3] The mutually exclusive attributes of pinkness and invisibility, coupled with the inability to disprove the IPU's existence, satirize properties that some theists attribute to a theistic deity.[4] History[edit] The Invisible Pink Unicorn logo used to depict atheism The concept was further developed by a group of college students from 1994 to 1995 on the ISCA Telnet-based BBS. Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. Concepts[edit]

Category:Gods See also Category:Goddesses. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. Pages in category "Gods" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. Godchecker.com - Your Guide To The Gods. Mythology with a twist!

Eating 10 hot dogs in 6 minutes and belching the national anthem may impress your friends, but neither of those feats will do much for your body—at least not much good. Instead, why not train yourself to do something that may actually pay off? We're not talking bench presses and interval training (though those do help). You can teach your body to cure itself from everyday health ailments—side stitches, first-date jitters, even hands that have fallen asleep. Just study this list, and the next time your friends challenge you to an ice cream eating contest, chow down: You know how to thaw a brain freeze—and 17 other tricks that'll make everyone think you're the next David Blaine. But without all that "hold your breath for 17 minutes" mess. Do Them Right: To mazimize your workout, good form is a must. Cure a Tickling Throat When you were 9, playing your armpit was a cool trick. Experience Supersonic Hearing If you're stuck chatting up a mumbler at a cocktail party, lean in with your right ear.

Wicca: For the Rest of Us - The God and Goddess The God and Goddess represent the balance of the universe, the world as a whole, no one part complete without the other. They are not, however, dichotomies - they are not opposites. They can both represent all things - both life and death, for example. Good and evil are generally not addressed at all, as they are human constructs: humanity hardly needs a supernatural force tempting it to evil - it creates far too much on its own. Many Wiccans simply worship the God and Goddess. "The God and Goddess are the embodiment of love and goodness and want only what's best for us." As embodiments of the universe, the God and Goddess dwell everywhere and are within everything. We are very insistent in that we acknowledge no evil deity. "I believe in a God and a Goddess, But I only worship the Goddess because Christianity has so overemphasized the God." Many people identify more with one than the other, God or Goddess. However, deities are not names to be plucked from a book.

Psychopomp In Jungian psychology, the psychopomp is a mediator between the unconscious and conscious realms. It is symbolically personified in dreams as a wise man or woman, or sometimes as a helpful animal. In many cultures, the shaman also fulfills the role of the psychopomp. This may include not only accompanying the soul of the dead, but also vice versa: to help at birth, to introduce the newborn child's soul to the world (p. 36 of).[2] This also accounts for the contemporary title of "midwife to the dying", or "End of Life Doula" which is another form of psychopomp work. By region[edit] Africa[edit] Dead ancestors Egypt[edit] Nigeria[edit] Americas[edit] Aztec[edit] Xolotl Cahuilla[edit] Muut Inuit[edit] Mayan[edit] Ixtab United States[edit] Asia[edit] China[edit] Japan[edit] Shinigami Mesopotamia[edit] Namtar Persia[edit] Mithra Philippines[edit] Europe[edit] Anglo-Saxon[edit] Wōden Celtic[edit] Etruscan[edit] Greek[edit] Norse[edit] Roman[edit] Slavic[edit] Spanish[edit] Santa Compaña Welsh[edit] Gwyn ap Nudd Polynesia[edit]

The Book of Revelation: III. The Things Which Shall Be Hereafter: 4. The Four Beasts Sacred Texts Christianity Revelation Index Previous Next p. 41 Rev. 4:6-11. The word translated "Beasts" should be translated "LIVING CREATURES," as in the Revised Version. The word here translated "beast" (Zoon), is not the same as the one translated "beast" (Therion) in chapters eleven, thirteen, and seventeen. The "Four Living Creatures" are not in the same class with the "Elders," for they have no "thrones" or "crowns" or "harps" or "golden vials." The first time these "Living Creatures" are mentioned in the Bible is in Gen. 3:24, where they are called "CHERUBIM," but are not described. When Moses was given on the Holy Mount the pattern of the Tabernacle, he was instructed to make the "Ark of the Covenant" with two Cherubim upon it. p. 42 Click to enlargeThe Cherubim p. 43 Ezekiel describes them as having the likeness of a man, with 4 faces, and 4 wings, and feet like a calf's foot, and hands like a man's hand under their wings on their 4 sides. Next: 5.

How Dya Smoke Pot and Stay Out of Jail?"Be cool, be careful, and keep your mouth shut." This one caused quite a stir. (See The Strangers Letters to the Editor: 12/6/01 and 12/13/01.) (2 pages) DAILY INSPIRATION on Spiritual Growth Agni Agni (Sanskrit: अग्नि) is a Hindu deity, one of the most important of the Vedic gods. He is the god of fire[1] and the acceptor of sacrifices. The sacrifices made to Agni go to the deities because Agni is a messenger[2] from and to the other gods. He is ever-young, because the fire is re-lit every day, and also immortal. Agni, the Vedic god of fire, has two heads, one marks immortality and the other marks an unknown symbol of life. Etymology[edit] The word agni is Sanskrit for "fire" (noun), cognate with Latin ignis (the root of English ignite), Russian огонь (ogon), Polish "ogień", Slovenian "ogenj", Serbo-Croatian oganj, and Lithuanian ugnis—all with the meaning "fire", with the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European root being h₁égni-. Vedas[edit] Agni is the first word of the first hymn of the Rigveda: He is the supreme director of religious ceremonies and duties, and figures as messenger between mortals and gods. The Rigveda often says that Agni arises from water or dwells in the waters.

Qur'an Versions Qur'an Versions I am fully aware that Muslims do not like this term, but they love to use it with a specific meaning regarding the Bible. They point to different translations which sometimes seem to be very different and nearly contradictory to the person who does not know the original language (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek). The page will simply have the function to document some passages in the Qur'an which are translated very different by various (Muslim) translators, oftentimes exhibiting their own theological bias and reading their theories into the text even though the Arabic means something else. This page is only concerned about major translation differences of the more or less identical Arabic text. These two newsgroup postings are an interesting introduction to the topic: [1], and responding to it: [2] (about the translation of Hilali & Khan, regarding the issue of music and the crucifixion) Quran corruption vs. Notes on various translations by Muslims: *

PotBust The Washington State medical marijuana law, codified at RCW 69.51A now over a decade old, remains ill defined and difficult to comply with. This compassionate initiative has not enjoyed the broad reading and liberal interpretation in Washington's courts that it should have. Instead, hostile law enforcement and an ultra conservative judiciary attempted to strangle the law in its infancy with cases like the now questioned Shepherd decision. Many doctors are unwilling to sign for patients and do not want to take any risk that they will be contacted by the DEA or the state medical board, as have many California doctors and some Washington doctors. All of these factors and more make it difficult for patients seeking relief from illnesses treatable with marijuana, or cannabis, as it is called medically. Washington's law is more restrictive than California's law in that it has specific conditions or diseases for which marijuana is approved. This is the general outline of the law.

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