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Well, in other religious news, an apparent inconsistency in the Bible might have been solved. From Yahoo news: LONDON (AFP) – Christians have long celebrated Jesus Christ's Last Supper on Maundy Thursday but new research released Monday claims to show it took place on the Wednesday before the crucifixion. Professor Colin Humphreys, a scientist at the University of Cambridge, believes it is all due to a calendar mix-up -- and asserts his findings strengthen the case for finally introducing a fixed date for Easter. Humphreys uses a combination of biblical, historical and astronomical research to try to pinpoint the precise nature and timing of Jesus's final meal with his disciples before his death. Researchers have long been puzzled by an apparent inconsistency in the Bible. While Matthew, Mark and Luke all say the Last Supper coincided with the start of the Jewish festival of Passover, John claims it took place before Passover. Humphreys has concluded in a new book, "The Mystery Of The Last Supper", that Jesus -- along with Matthew, Mark and Luke -- may have been using a different calendar to John. "Whatever you think about the Bible, the fact is that Jewish people would never mistake the Passover meal for another meal, so for the Gospels to contradict themselves in this regard is really hard to understand," Humphreys said. "Many biblical scholars say that, for this reason, you can't trust the Gospels at all. But if we use science and the Gospels hand in hand, we can actually prove that there was no contradiction." In Humphreys' theory, Jesus went by an old-fashioned Jewish calendar rather than the official lunar calendar which was in widespread use at the time of his death and is still in use today. This would put the Passover meal -- and the Last Supper -- on the Wednesday, explaining how such a large number of events took place between the meal and the crucifixion. It would follow that Jesus' arrest, interrogation and separate trials did not all take place in the space of one night but in fact occurred over a longer period. Humphreys believes a date could therefore be ascribed to Easter in our modern solar calendar, and working on the basis that the crucifixion took place on April 3, Easter Day would be on April 5.

Not to leave Jesse Jackson out of it! "From that gay teacher, I got a good grade, I got to use his car, I got 10 dollars and I got my dick sucked. That's not gay, that is surviving." -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson, "regaling" a former Rainbow PUSH Coalition employee with details of a male teacher who took him under his wings in high school and told him that he needed an education to go along with with beloved football. The former employee, Tommy Bennett, alleges Jackson targeted him for taunts and "humiliating tasks" and asked him for oral sex -- and is seeking $450,000 in back pay and damages.(from kennethinthe212.com)

I am all in favor of people making their own choices, but we do need to know what risk we take when we take it. If I had known that kissing can pass germs, why, I might have never paid it any attention.

Gosh, it's not like the second gunman people have actually come up with any proof, and George Bush on trial? I think that's a good idea too!

You are, of course, entitled to use any lead you want on a thread, but this one turned me off. It's not that I am so religious, but I don't think it's the kind of thing that our more religious readers want to be associated with. We are a mix of people here. On the other hand, I have used some shockers myself in order to draw attention to a thread, so...

The Truvada train has derailed completely now that a study in Africa was halted when it showed that women taking Truvada were just as likely to get HIV as women not taking it: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/04/18/state/n051845D59.DTL&tsp=1http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/04/18/state/n051845D59.DTL&tsp=1 (Why do I so often mispell a word in the title, when that is one thing we cannot edit after it goes up?)

Well, I have read another 100 pages. Malcolm becomes friends with Bayard Rustin, a gay intellectual, and gay author James Baldwin. But the subject of his sex life is no longer paramount to the discussion. He now comes across as more asexual than anything. But then he meets Cassius Clay, and the two become great friends. Clay's trainer is heard to remark: "Malcolm X and Ali were like very close brothers. It was almost like they were in love with each other."

It may also help further the idea that no matter what the religion is, they need gay men to keep it going!

Forget the theologians. if you want a real argument on the existence of God, turn to the trial lawyer. Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor of Charles Manson and author o the riveting book Helter Skelter has written a new book, this one debating the existence of God. "If you're deeply religious," he said, "this isn't a book for you." His main concern is why people must suffer under an all-knowing and loving god. "Christian theologians, among others, have formulated various theories to explain why there is evil and why terrible things happen to apparently good people. None satisfies Bugliosi." http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-bugliosi-20110417,0,1432458.story

I think I could come up with some lingo for him.

I have been reading the controversial new biography of Malcolm X, by Manning Marable, the 60 year old author who died the week before the book came out. He had spent 10 years writing and researching it. One of the reasons the book is controversial is that it appears that Malcolm Little reinvented himself repeatedly. That's the subtitle of the book- A Life of Reinvention. Much of the controversy revolves around the allegation that Malcolm made up his past to suit the occasion, or, covered his past to suit the occasion. There seems to be no doubt that he was a hustler as a youth in all senses of the word. He had a sugar daddy in Boston whom he used to help him get out of prison. He was a a cocaine addict, and a thief as well. History shows that he grew to be a charismatic preacher, well-spoken and intelligent. Once he found religion, he educated himself admirably and did his best to cover up or minimize his past misdeeds. But the gay part is controversial because, at least as I read it, Malcolm X was gay. The author all but says it. The proof, granted, is limited, as he didn't talk about it. In those times people didn't, especially if they were Islamic preachers. But Malcolm X did not marry until he was 32, and even then it seemed to come more out of his belief that a preacher must be married. One night he called Betty Shabazz from a gas station in Michigan and asked her to marry him. She accepted. Their "honeymoon" lasted one night and Malcolm was back on the road. Apparently in the Spike Lee movie it is made to appear as though the marriage stemmed from a strong sexual desire, but that was a lie. Betty complained constantly that he did not satisfy her. Malcolm even wrote Elijah Muhammad to complain of her constant sexual neediness. (Muhammad would later be revealed to be quite the pervert himself, causing a break with Malcolm X). So, absent some lost love letters, we will never know for sure if Malcolm X was gay, but one thing we know for sure from one of his close confidants: Malcolm "didn't have no feelings for a woman."

Comparing Dane Scott to a prime rib, hmmm. I had heard he was tasty. For me, the best beef is grass fed. In Argentina, good beef is common and cheap. we had dinners at the best restaurants for $60 for two. And since I grew up on midwestern beef, I can never become a vegetarian.

I think I may have to buy my meat from Mexico given the lack of safety here in the US: Meat in the U.S. may be widely contaminated with strains of drug-resistant bacteria, researchers reported Friday. Nearly half of all meat and poultry sampled in a new study contained drug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus, the type of bacteria that most commonly causes staph infections. Such infections can take many forms, from a minor rash to pneumonia or sepsis. But the findings are less about direct threats to humans than they are about the risks of using antibiotics in agriculture. Researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute, a nonprofit biomedical research center in Phoenix, analyzed 136 samples of beef, chicken, pork and turkey from 80 brands. The samples came from 26 grocery stores in five cities: Los Angeles, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Flagstaff, Ariz., and Washington, D.C. http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-meat-bacteria-20110415,0,7997782.story

Zipperzone, do you have any kind of filter that could keep you from making such outrageous statements?

"Obama sounds like he is ready to fight." That would be a first for his presidency.

Being the child of Sarah Palin comes with benefits and burdens. If Sarah Palin lied about this child's parenthood, which I beleive she did, then it is a matter of great importance given her political standing. It isn't those of us posting here who might be causing her children problems, it is Sarah herself. Hitall and lookin can play Howdy Doody all they want, those kids don't read this forum.

Did you know that China has more than 1000 manufactures of sex toys? Would you put one in your butt, knowing China's history of bad stuff in their products? Well, consider this: "Many good time gadgets such as anal beads, pliable dildos and other rubberized entertainers are still made of phthalates(*), a material that has been proven to cause kidney, liver and testicular damage in rats." China is not likely to be inspecting dildos for quality, are they? Yet they make $2 billion a year just from stuff we put up our ass. (But most of their dildos are sold to South Africa. The Us only buys 2% of them- so where do we get ours from?) So, next time you buy a dildo or rubber sex toy, check to see if it has that Made in China label, and then cover it with a condom, probably also made up of bad ingredients! (Source: Toy Story by Jim Larkins in this month's LA Frontiers gay magazine.) (*) What are phthalates? How are they used? Phthalates are a class of widely used industrial compounds known technically as dialkyl or alkyl aryl esters of 1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid. There are many phthalates with many uses, and just as many toxicological properties. Phthalates crept into widespread use over the last several decades because of their many beneficial chemical properties. Now they are ubiquitous, not just in the products in which they are intentionally used, but also as contaminants in just about anything. About a billion pounds per year are produced worldwide. Intentional uses of phthalates include softeners of plastics, oily substances in perfumes, additives to hairsprays, lubricants and wood finishers. That new car smell, which becomes especially pungent after the car has been sitting in the sun for a few hours, is partly the pungent odor of phthalates volatilizing from a hot plastic dashboard. In the evening's cool they then condense out of the inside air of the car to form an oily coating on the inside of the windshield. (No mention here of dildos, but the site is ourstolenfuture.org) AVOIDING PHTHALATES: http://www.yoni.com/healerf/phthalates.shtml

My first phishing email from the email leak! Online Banking Security Due to multiple attempt error while trying to login in to your Online Account. We believed that someone other than you is trying to access your Account, For security reasons we have temporarily Flagged your Online Access and your access to online banking will be restricted if you fail to Verify and re-confirm your Online Banking details. Verify your Bank of America online banking Access now to enjoy the benefits of online banking and to avoid fraudulent activities on your Account. Resolving FraudResolvingFraudFootnotes (And then there is a button for me to click to verify my account. I didn't click it!)

With the rise in posting by new members, I felt that I should yield some of my space here to allow them to prosper with new opinions, ideas, and trivia. Some real good posts have been made from these newer posters and I want them to thrive. Not to say that each new poster has anything to say, but let's give them the opportunity to show their stuff.

Today a real letter, in the actual US Mail. The local hospital reports a computer stolen, which may have contained my financial information, not medical. They are offering one year free credit monitoring with Trans-Union. If I accept, I imagine that at the end of the year, Trans-Union will make it very hard for me to leave. What would you do?

If I bought lube in the quantities that you do, no doubt I'd get a discount too!

Security certificates for some websites may be worthless: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/07/technology/07hack.html?hpw

I must be old-fashioned. My desktop pic is the bf and our dogs.

Wrong Phelps, zipperzone.

It's called Two Bottoms in the Ninth, by "Zavo." It tells the saga of baseball, all steamy and sweaty. "From the diamonds to the dugout,from from the stands to the locker room, it's an erotic home run." (Unattributed)