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I was watching a commercial about the new spectacular film on Noah’s Ark. Aside from the pairs of animals and obviously Noah’s family- I question the propagation of humans since the only humans were Noah’s family. It appears that this is a precedent in incest i.e. Noah is the Adam of modern day humans- or is the great flood fiction or not as world sweeping as we have been lead to believe?

Update:3/14/2014-Noah’s sons had wives so my thoughts of incest were wrong-what a relief!

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I have tried to make my blog accessible but away from the obvious and  “normal” outlets. I apparently have a few followers and I thank them, I would like to receive comments good or bad from any readers, no profanity or non standard comments. Reasonable is great but stupid is not.

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There has been so much print and air time about Religions and the differences among them. I have downloaded several charts showing some of the differences between the many religions. Many Western religions (many with European and Eastern beginnings) have an assortment of sects that believe the basic premise of the root religion but have deviated due to their own perception of how they interpret the bible along with the overall teachings of the root group. This doesn’t mean that any of the many are more right or more wrong than the others. It does not mean that any of their “Bibles or Quran’s” are incorrect or correct. Keep in mind that all of these religious “guides” are thousands of years old and have been translated millions of time and perhaps altered due to translation and sometimes sect preference. After looking at the attached charts, it became clear to me that aside from personal interpretation most major and minor religions have at one time or another have been co-opted by the breakaway sect. So it appears that religions all have the same goal in general but have been used in the name of  justice to murder, maim and oppress many. I have put below as a first line a brief history of Islam naming the two main sects along with a quote from the Quran.

Major sects and denominations Sunni and Shiite Twelvers – Majority Shi’ite denomination that reveres the Twelve Imams Seveners – Shi’ite denomination holding that the legitimate line of imams ended with the seventh Sufi is a mystical branch Sacred text.

“Righteous is he who believes in Allah and the Last Day    and the Angels and the Scriptures and the Prophets.”    — Quran 2:177

Six Articles of Faith

There is no official creed to which one must adhere to be considered a Muslim. All that is required is to believe and recite the Shahada: “There is no God but God, and Muhammad is his Prophet.” Beyond this core belief, however, Muslim doctrine is often summarized in “Six Articles of Faith.” Many Muslims believe that one must adhere to the six articles to be considered a Muslim.

Muslim Beliefs about God

The single most important belief in Islam, and arguably the central theme of Islam, is that there is only one God. The name of God is Allah, which is simply Arabic for “the (al) God (ilah).” The term is related to Elohim, the Hebrew word for God.

Comparison of Statistics and Basics

Comparison of Origins and History

Comparison of Religious Beliefs

Hopefully these charts and the introduction will allow some of us to realize we are not so far apart religiously and can conceivably move forward to ease world tensions.

This article caught my eye and I have copied it in full ( I hope):

Listen up, ladies: more women are entering an exciting field once dominated by men that’s full of excitement, danger, and cash paydays: bank robbing. One out of every 14 bank robbers in the U.S. last year was a woman, according to the F.B.I., and their numbers are rising. The “Beauty Salon Bandit” and mother of three robbed banks in New Jersey, the “Starlet Bandit” struck five Los Angeles banks in just a week, and two 18-year-old strip club workers dubbed the “Barbie Bandits” knocked over a bank in Georgia. The face of bank robbery may have changed since the Great Depression, when famous desperadoes like John Dillinger and Willie Sutton terrorized banks across the nation, but there were still more than 5,000 bank heists in 2011, netting over $38 million, up from just 857 heists in 1965. But before you get any ideas, remember that robbing banks has never been a dumber idea. Thanks to alarm systems, security cameras, and exploding dye packs hidden in wads of bills, it’s harder than ever to get away with. More than half of bank robbers are either nabbed at the scene, or arrested after police look at footage from security cameras. Even when robbers do get away with it, the average booty is only around 10,000 dollars. Not much, when you consider the punishment can be 20 years or more in the slammer. Robbers that score a big haul, and get away with it, are a dying breed. One who did was Victor Manuel Gerena, still on the F.B.I.’s Ten Most Wanted list after he single-handedly stole $7 million dollars from a Wells Fargo armored truck depot in 1983, then disappeared. The kind of tale that leads desperate men — and more and more women — to think they can get away with it, too. It is important to remember that  the economy has an effect on  crime by bringing desperate people into the field. The existing criminals will continue to do what they have been doing all along and occasionally band together to do something big.

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ago the phone book was a single page and in no particular order (that was 1878), since that time the phone book became almost an answer to most questions such personal and business names, phone numbers and addresses. As the population grew so did the phone book, at its height (4 inches) it weighed as much as 4-6 pounds). There was a book for business (the yellow pages) and one for individuals (white pages). As technology changed phones as we knew them the personal phones (cell and smart) improved the need for  a book diminished as did the size of the books. We still have them but in a greatly reduced size, the current books are half the size in physical size and even less in weight. Currently  you can receive as many as  3 different books with coupons for local businesses and the same division between business and personal location information. There was also assistance by phone from a live operator, this service now comes as a paid service. There is also a fee to be  published or  unpublished in a directory. There are websites that offer this same search information but at a price. You can enter your information and receive just enough information to encourage your paid participation in this activity. This fee is small but will continue unless you cancel the service within 3 days. The old phone books had several uses aside from directory assistance, it acted as a booster chair for little kids at the table, it acted as a support for a wobbly table and as shown in some carnival events -such as a  feat of strength for a strongman. There was a scene in a film about coercive tactics using a phone book (as it leaves no marks). What we currently have are small computers which coincidently are phones and cameras as well as phone directories which can speed dial specific numbers, send instant messages, assign special ringtones and fit in our pockets. The next big thing is the comic strip concept of a wrist phone. Many of us remember phone booths (which are also going away) to be replaced by small partitioned areas in some public places as the cell phone has replaced the need for them as the  technology improves. It might be reasonable to collect phone books since they are dwindling in size and availability.