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A thread for those questions you wouldn't dare ask in real life/normally!

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LittleMissGerardButlerfan · 02/06/2013 17:14

Please feel free to ask questions and if I know the answer I will tell you, also feel free to answer others questions!

My stupid question is

Would I be able to see nits in my sons very short hair if he had them? (He has short brown hair)?

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LittleMissGerardButlerfan · 03/06/2013 09:18

So technically if you believe in the bible we are all related?

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suckmabigtoe · 03/06/2013 09:19

i dont get how people can think there is a 'higher power' and especially to such an extent where some are willing to kill for it.

suckmabigtoe · 03/06/2013 09:28

ILikeTheBreeze

but where did cain's wife come from if there was only adam, eve, cain and abel?

InsanelyBrainDeprived · 03/06/2013 09:34

I can answer one.

Notanotherpackedlunch lip readers can identify strong regional dialects - well I can for example bath and Barth form different mouth shapes

amigababy · 03/06/2013 09:39

and if Mary and Joseph went on to have more children are there now thousands of people who are distant cousins of Jesus?

Ilikethebreeze · 03/06/2013 09:46

LittleMiss, yes.
Though more strictly speaking Noah.
Noah was in the ark with his wife, 3 sons and their wives. They wre the only ones who survived the worldwide flood.
Afterwards they then populated the earth.

suck. The only conclusion is that God made some more people after Adam and Eve that are not mentioned in the bible.

kim147 · 03/06/2013 09:51

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suckmabigtoe · 03/06/2013 09:53

"The only conclusion is that God made some more people after Adam and Eve that are not mentioned in the bible."

from adam? that seems like it might have been important to put in the bible to save all this confusion about whether cain and abel got busy with their mum.

Ilikethebreeze · 03/06/2013 09:55

umm.
That is a slightly more difficult question to answer amigababy.
Yes, there should be thousands of people who are distant counsins to Jesus's brothers and sisters[sorry, cant quite remember if he had sisters, I think he did]. Though this assumes that that branch of the family did not die out at some point.

As regards distant cousins to Jesus himself.
Mary "was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit".
So we can assume that Jesus was not technically the child of Joseph. Was he technically the child of Mary, or was she just the womb for Jesus? I am not sure.

suckmabigtoe · 03/06/2013 09:55

Kim in an episode of QI stephen fry named the person/people (cant remember if more than 1) who genetic lines could all be traced back to. i wish i could remember what he said.

NotAnotherPackedLunch · 03/06/2013 09:57

Thanks InsanelyBrainDeprived that's been bugging me for a bit.

About the bilingual dreaming- DP has been away from his home country for 30 years and if anything is more articulate in English. However, he often speaks in his sleep and it is always in his mother tongue . DC are bilingual from birth and speak both languages in their sleep.

suckmabigtoe · 03/06/2013 09:58

i think that was maybe just europe though.

i dont think we (the whole world) is necessarily related as if you think how long humans have existed and also that there were other types of upright 'man' (not sure if they are referred to as man though) before humans.

Ilikethebreeze · 03/06/2013 09:59

I agree suck. The bible sure isnt the easiest book to understand.

Ilikethebreeze · 03/06/2013 10:00

suck. I was answering your post of 9.53am

suckmabigtoe · 03/06/2013 10:00

"As regards distant cousins to Jesus himself.
Mary "was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit".
So we can assume that Jesus was not technically the child of Joseph. Was he technically the child of Mary, or was she just the womb for Jesus? I am not sure."

jesus had his own children though so ascendants wouldn't have to have been from his brothers.

wannabedomesticgoddess · 03/06/2013 10:04

I thought it was widely accepted that most of the bible is full of metaphors and that none of this actually happened.

In any case, religion was nothing more than a method of controlling the masses.

kim147 · 03/06/2013 10:06

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suckmabigtoe · 03/06/2013 10:12

agree wannabe

FriedSprout · 03/06/2013 10:19

For anyone that's interested a video link to the lady as she found her dog is here.

happy lady

My question is when/what did the pronouciation of the word Auction, suddenly started to be pronounced Ocktion?

BionicEmu · 03/06/2013 10:23

Something that I've been wondering for years:

Why hasn't some clever sciencey bod invented an artificial uterus yet? So if you go into premature labour the baby could just be transferred? Or even for if a woman had a hysterectomy at a young age, or if a woman has pre-existing health conditions that mean she needs to take medicines that could either damage a baby or cause major withdrawal problems when born?

VitoCorleone · 03/06/2013 10:39

The bible stuff is interesting, i had no idea that it was mostly metaphores.

Fascinating stuff about the mind too.

I read that every person you see in your dreams is a real person, you cant just 'make up' people in your mind, if you dream about somebody you dont know then it will be somebody you have encountered at some point in your life.

HazleNutt · 03/06/2013 11:17

BalloonSlayer there is a study where prayer had no effect, but knowing that people were praying for you actually made you worse - Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP) in cardiac bypass patients:

The sample comprised 1,802 patients in six hospitals in the USA. These patients were randomized into three groups: 604 were prayed for after being informed that they may or may not be prayed for, 597 were not prayed for after similarly being informed that they may or may not be prayed for and 601 were prayed for after being informed they would definitely be prayed for.

In the two groups that did not know for certain whether or not they were being prayed for, complications occurred in 52% of patients who received intercessory prayer and in 51% of those who did not. In contrast, complications occurred in a significantly larger proportion of patients (59%) who knew for certain that they were being prayed for.

NishiNoUsagi · 03/06/2013 12:00

Love the artficial womb idea BionicEmu

Or even just a spare for those last weeks of pregnancy when your back/legs/bladder have worn out, just transfer baby over and have a rest!

OK, I have a geeky bilingual question that I can't ask because it looks like I'm stealth boasting and I'm really not. I'm sort of bilingual, think in both langauges, dream mostly in English (1st language), rarely in my 2nd language. What irritates me is - why can I explain some things much better in my 2nd language than my first? For eg, DH was fixing that laptop and I warbled off a pretty technical explanation in my 2nd language, whereas if I'd tried to explain it in my 1st I would have gone "Errmm, dunno." Also, talking about things to people who don't speak my 2nd language, i try to say something in English but the word will have vanished and I'll only remember it in the 2nd language. Useless!

Why?? Am I just thick in English?

FarelyKnuts · 03/06/2013 12:10

Nishi I doubt very much you are thick in English :o

My guess is that it has more to do with memory retrieval and the language that you used laying down that particular piece of information/data in the first place

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