Recent content by JacquelineR

Re: Muslim kids stop and bully Christian kid from eating salami sandwich during Ramad While SnowFox is right, he/she is also being a pedant. (= I have no source, because I only gave a statement of my own level of conviction, and I consider myself the absolute authority on how certain I am...

Re: Muslim kids stop and bully Christian kid from eating salami sandwich during Ramad I went to a primary school without a single non-white child, in the bush, and I was picked on relentlessly (to the point of being physically assaulted) for the following reasons: 1) being new 2) being...

Uncle, If one is presented with an observation which contradicts theory, there are two choices: 1) To discount the observation 2) To discount the theory What I believe Uncle is trying to do, from a logical standpoint, is (1), that is, discounting the observation. There are many ways to...

I like the taste, and I make a lot of bread. Sometimes older yeast doesn't rise well, so you've gotta do something with it... (=

Milo on melted cheese sandwich. Peanut paste and melted cheese sandwich. Tofu pudding (more like tofu jelly). Seaweed soup. breakfast cereal in soft-drink (when I was trying to go vegan) raw yeast spaggheti and lentil faux-bolognaise The weirdest thing I have ever seen anyone eat is jellyfish...

I would really like a scientific explanation beyond the dismissive and patronising 'it's just your imagination', to be honest... ...if my imagination has the capability to produce a visual hallucination that detailed, lifelike and and unfalteringly consistent over a period of hours, this is in...

Re: Muslim kids stop and bully Christian kid from eating salami sandwich during Ramad Children of all backgrounds will pick on other children about ANYTHING different, irrespective of whether that difference is religious, physical, cultural or otherwise. The children were not being 'Muslim' in...

I did. (=

The fundamental belief of Islam is that there is no god but Allah, and Mohammed is the prophet of Allah. This is called the 'Shahadah', or 'Profession of Faith', and expresses the absolute monotheism which defines Islam. Other key points of belief are expressed in the Aqida, the Six Articles...

Yes, I've seen a ghost. It was yellow-white, and it was wearing a worn Akubra hat and it had stubble. He looked like a stockman, or a shearer, perhaps in his sixties. It hovered above my bed for ages (several hours?), just looking, with a benevolent expression, until I eventually nodded back...

Country= less employment oppurtunities, greater sense of community, less crime, less people/ no people/ complete isolation (pick one), worse healthcare, no/little public transport, very conservative (homophobic, misogynistic) people, less materialism and stress Education smaller class sizes...

I'm familiar with these, and nowhere could I find CONVERSION stats. While of course there is plentiful statistics available for religious GROWTH, it is to be noted that religious growth does not equal religious conversion. The recorded growth of Buddhism in Australia, and among those born...

It is near impossible/impossible to find data for conversions to Buddhism in Australia, for a number of reasons. 1) it does not exist 2) even if it did exist, it is very hard to give an accurate estimate of the number of converts to Buddhism (as has been observed in the US) because many...

UNSW rates its RSES applicants as follows: 1/4 UMAT, 1/4 interview, 1/4 final marks, 1/4 RRMA rural rating. UNSW Rural Clinical School - Selection Process

UNSW rates its general applicants on 1/3 UMAT, 1/3 interview, 1/3 final marks. However, if you are a rural student, they also take your RRMA into account, to make the selection criteria as follows: 1/4 UMAt, 1/4 interview, 1/4 final marks, 1/4 RRMA (rural rating)