What is Religion?

Religion is a murky, elusive, and many-headed beast. The very word itself defies definition. Oh, you can look it up in any dictionary readily enough, but all that will tell you is its common usage in the English language. People throw around words all the time without truly stopping to consider what the dictionary says they mean ( Read more... )

Why Religion?

I am what you might call a spiritual mutt. I was baptized Methodist. As a child, I attended a Presbyterian church and, later, a Lutheran church while attending Catholic private grade school. I have one Evangelical aunt and a stepmother who is a pastor for the United Church of Christ (apparently an offshoot of Unitarianism).

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I've been training my pecs at the same time as my lats for the last month or so. Well, one night at work I was looking in one of the mirrors in the furniture aisle, and I imagined myself doing a dumb-bell fly movement. And I actually saw my shirt twitch! So I tried it again, with my hand over my pec. It took a lot of concentration, but I did manage ( Read more... )

I don't know how people do it - 5 meals a day, plus 8 hours of sleep, plus 45-90 min in the gym (not counting travel time there and back), plus a full-time job. I either end up having to skip a workout day, not eat enough, or loose sleep. I end up getting about 5-6 hours of sleep during days when I work that are also training days because I have to ( Read more... )

Motivational Quote (From an ad in the March issue of Muscle & Fitness mag ( Read more... )

I want my ultimate weight to be around 160-185 lbs. with minimal body fat. I think my bone structure can support that much, but not a lot more, since my bones are pretty long and thin.

Ugh. Why is it suddenly so friggin' hard to eat my pre and post-workout meals? I managed to get down all of my breakfast, but after an hour of solid chewing, I had to simply throw away the rest of my post-workout meal. I couldn't swallow another bite without inducing some weird gag reflex ( Read more... )

First off, here's the lowdown on me, RL ( Read more... )