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I knew it was bad :). Mortal sin: grave matter, full knowledge, full consent. (And my mommy kept telling me it was a sin and not to do it!)

It always amuses me that I get into all these knots despite being an athiest for the past three decades!

Thanks for clarifying, hope you are having a lovely, lazy weekend!

littlewolf :)

Thanks for clearing that up - but, ummm, does that still make me a murderer confessed if I have slain with full knowledge, consent etc, cockroaches and spiders (They were in my bed! millions of them! It was my bed in my bedroom! I don't want to share!)

Hi FluffyBullet,

For some strange reason your comment disappeared? So here is the answer anyway :)

FluffyBullet, the whole thing began this morning with a stupid question, and then I began to research, and then I got confused on lots of aspects :).

So no reason to separate Catholicism from Christianity. The ones set down by Pope Gregory, I didn't really commit any/ that many, and the ones created by Archbishop Girotti required more . . . ummm . . . thought (read, still feeling guilty that am not doing enough awareness raising on said sins/issues nor actively doing as much as I honestly possibly could); so then I turned to the Commandments (also, I had used up all option spaces at this point) and was quite relieved to find out that I had broken quite a few of the ten commandments :).

The 'worrying' bit was purely selfish :). I was hoping there would be at least one commandment that I had not broken (all this despite being an athiest!), but I am afraid I am guilty of spray - killing quite a few spiders and cockroaches and ants in my time. And then I was unsure of whether it applies to plants, in which case murderer to the nth degree, being a vegetarian . . . as you say, lots of different interpretations :).

I really, really am. The RST dept. here is just two profs, and I have a class to both of them now and they're allowing me to keep one journal for both classes and are basing my grades on it. It's pretty radically awesome.

Hi. Seeing that your study concerns comparative religions, perhaps you're interested in this language-turned-to-religion subject: http://dearinter.net/question/295

Just saw your message with a question about what sort of religious experience I will study.... I won't center on Christianity. I am interested in all religions, and to be so exclusive would be kinda crappy. I have no idea, though, what will end up happening in my studies.

As for the erasmus program, I am familiar with it, and it would be easier than going to America!

Well, I think everyone got into the class thinking we'd be reading things like the Bible, the Qu'ran, maybe the Talmud, things like that. Instead what he's having us do is examine fictional versions of spiritual journeys. So some of the books we're reading are A Wizard of Earthsea, Zorba the Greek, 100 Years of Solitude, and Demian. It's a great class, very unusual.

Right now I've got Classics of Religious Literature, which is mostly novels about searching and mysticism and so on, and also Art and Religion which is really challenging and fun. Previously I've had your basic intro for majors course and Religious Traditions of the West. What about you?

My favorite one to tell people when I tell them I got a BA in Religious Studies (well, really Comparative Studies with a focus in religious studies, but who's splitting hairs):

"I studied all religions, not just Christianity!"

Oops - false accusation... it seems you were just leaving a long and detailed comment...

Re: scientology, your comment was pretty much what I was trying to say. Thanks for saying it in clearer words.

I think all of us who have a family member with fibro have seen them go through doctors like Tic Tacs, being told all the while that it's "in their head." It's so frustrating... and the furniture-throwing urges are perfectly understandable.

Truly, it is the close-minded of the medical community that make me so very angry when it comes to dealing with fibro. My mother is lucky to have some great doctors, and supportive family, but she still has to deal with people who are less than compassionate. I wish that people could just feel for ten minutes the pain that fibro sufferers feel all the time.

Hey, my mum has fibro too. She's also rather stubborn, 'specially when it comes to admitting that she's in pain or has a problem. I wish more people would realize that it's a real disease! :)

Hey, would you possibly be interested in sharing your homemade sour cream and tomato recipe with me? Please? Sounds nummy! Thanks either way.