Blog Heap o'Urantiana Links 1 July 2015
Links regarding faith and belief
and men, women, marriage, and family life,
also sciences, the spritual and the 'supernatural,'
and, of course, Jesus of Nazareth.
Marriage Today
AllenG, Ace of Spades Wed 2015-Jul-1 7:05am
…the primary reason I'm against government sanction of homosexual relationships. Once you assert that marriage is something mankind just made up and could have made however we wished, then there is no defense against a whole host of ills: polyamory, incest, pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia. Every perverted, abhorrent thing becomes not just "tolerated" (even those things, such as pedophilia, which should not even be tolerated), but celebrated.
The societal consequences will be enormous, whatever the idiots say. Yes, it will hurt the institution of marriage. Yes, it will hurt children. Yes, it will hurt society. Just because you can't see it yet doesn't mean it won't do it.
torquewrench, Ace of Spades Wed 2015-Jul-1 7:03am
…This business has been around in the San Francisco area forever and a day. Imported into the local hetero scene from the gay world.
Human nature being what it is, poly relationships work until they stop working, and then they blow up *spectacularly*.
You haven't seen bitter jealous resentment until you've seen it from a self-described "open-minded, nonjudgmental" individual.
I know relatively few truly durable long term poly arrangements. Typically people experiment with it and ultimately either end up in a lasting monogamous setup, or back to short-time floating hookups.…
Evolution Isn't Easy
Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Wed 2015-Jul-1 7:13am
Pappochelys is critical for understanding “a new stage in the evolution of the turtle body plan,” the researchers write. Prior to this discovery, a 220-million-year-old specimen from China, which displayed a partly formed shell and other turtle-like features, was the closest thing experts had to a seemingly sure-fire turtle relative. Other specimens, including a 260-million-year-old fossil from South Africa, were hypothesized to represent an even earlier turtle ancestor, but with such a large temporal gap separating them from the China specimen, researchers could not say for sure. Morphologically and chronologically, Pappochelys fits neatly between the two specimens, tying them together.…
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• The obligatory link to the Urantia Foundation
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• UB Websites — the name says it all, right?
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• Religion of Jesus Church — deserves your support, anyway
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