Graptopetalum

@Graptopetalum (1807)

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How many times needed to flowers ...Regular Watering?...

sri @gamyam (530) • Hyderabad, India 29 Apr 13

I have a tiny garden in front of my house.... I daily used to spray water more than two times the plants... There are so many types of plants, trees, bushes in my small garden... Actually how many times needed them to watering...

trees and bushes

watering the plants

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Graptopetalum I've never lived in India so I'm not sure how things work there. Also it's a big country with different climates. Don't you get a lot of rain there? If there's rain you don't need to water (unless the plants are sheltered from it). You don't need to water as...

2 May 13

Boston Marathon Bombers. Your Take?

Savvynlady @Savvynlady (3684) • United States 21 Apr 13

Were these nice kids gone bad? or kids without a direction? I try not to watch the media but I am interested to hear the opinions of those who have watched the news very carefully on this. hope to hear from you.

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Graptopetalum I have no doubt that Islam was a factor in this and it's very likely that if these young men were not Muslims, they'd never have done anything nearly this bad. Islam is a religion of hate and violence. This should be obvious to anybody who's read the Koran,...

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Saw a Stranger and Framed an Opinion About Him or Her!!! How does that Happen?

theSids @thesids (22180) • Bhubaneswar, India 5 Feb 13

hi all I was traveling back from my wife's place this morning and on the train I saw one particular stranger who seemed so very familiar to me. Dont know why this happened, but I am sure that it must have happened...

stranger and vibes

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Graptopetalum In high school a teacher asked my class how long it took the kids to size up a new teacher. They reckoned it took several seconds. I've also heard that employment interviews are very quick to make decisions about job applicants. Speed dating is supposed to be...

8 Mar 13

Ten Ton Meteorite Hits Russia

debrakcarey @debrakcarey (19887) • United States 15 Feb 13

Did anyone else happen to catch this? It was a bit frightening, considering we were told that the asteroid making a close flyby would not be dangerous to us here below.

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Graptopetalum It seems very strange that the biggest meteorite in 100 years fell on the same that that biggest asteroid ever known to do so came between Earth and the Moon. Signs in the sky are one of the signs of the apocalypse. Things happen in the sky all the time so...

21 Feb 13

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Religion and its impromptu meaning...

mangtony7451 @mangtony7451 (479) 14 Feb 13

Be absolutely honest, can you define or give an impromptu meaning of RELIGION without really looking from a dictionary/websites or to anybody's response from this discussion. Want to try?

religion

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Graptopetalum I think your religion is your beliefs about morals and the paranormal. These are linked because it's really hard to come up with morals without a God or something dictating them and if there is no God or afterlife, why bother keeping morals (particularly if...

20 Feb 13

whenever you found orbs in the pictures, do u always think theres a ghost?

liezel25 @liezel25 (292) • Germany 25 Dec 12

Yesterday, we celebrate Christmas with laughter and cheers. To capture the moment, there should be a cam involve to have picture taking. When I review the pics I took. I've seen an orbs in 1 pic. What do you think guys? Was there...

orbs

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Graptopetalum I can see how these could be explained by lens flairs (result from pointing camera at bright lights) or light reflecting from bits of dust. Does this account for all of them? Not sure. There's another phenomenon know as rods where weird corkscrew type things...

17 Jan 13

You don't need God to make life from matter

Christoph56 @Christoph56 (1504) • Canada 13 Dec 12

There was a new paper that was published yesterday in the journal "Physical Biology", showing that life = metabolism. Through this, all you need to get metabolism in carbon, aka, going from inorganic carbon compounds to organic...

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Graptopetalum What this article is saying is completely different from what Christoph says here. It's saying that instead of concentration on chemistry, how DNA, proteins etc. can come into existence, science should look at the information of life. The problem here is...

11 Jan 13

Is it possible to believe in one more religion

youless @youless (112591) • Guangzhou, China 24 Nov 12

I think most people just believe in one religion. I just wonder whether it is possible to believe two religions at the same time. If so, what do you think about it?

religion

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Graptopetalum I think your personal beliefs in morality and the paranormal are your relgion. It doesn't matter if it's a recognized religion or well developed. A lot of people don't think through their beliefs very well and do believe things that are logically incompatable....

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Taking the Bible literally

stary1 @stary1 (6612) • United States 26 Nov 12

I have hardly ever taken the Bible readings literally. IMO the stories/lessons told are for our benefit in learning. The OT is full of symbolism and certany imo not to be taken literally. The NT has more to teach us directly..at...

bible interpretations

taking the bible literally

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Graptopetalum I totally disagree. I believe that the face value meaning of most the Bible is literally true. If you don't believe this, you're able to reject anything you don't like and interpret it in any way you want. What use is the Bible then? How can you say to...

29 Nov 12

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Was Great Britain ever ruled by Muslims?

Naseem00 @Naseem00 (1996) • Pakistan 9 Nov 12

In the British Museum there is an ancient gold coin which was issued by the British King Offa. Offa was an Anglo Saxon king who ruled Kingdom of Mercia, AD 773-96. Interestingly on the coin there is Islamic inscription which...

islam in britain

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Graptopetalum I think there are several questions that should be asked here. Did Offa know anythiing about these coins being made? - Perhaps not. Did Offa design them himself? - Maybe not. Could Offa read Arabic? - Probably not. Did Offa know enough about Islam to...

29 Nov 12

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See What Christians Miss by Not 'Submitting to Allah'?

Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine @mythociate (21432) • Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 12 Nov 12

Christians think everything is 'all about themselves.' The Al Qur`an has this to say about 'the grace that Our Father--the g-d Allah--gives' (003.128) "Not for thee, (but for Allah), is the decision: Whether He turn in...

grace

not about you

up to god

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Graptopetalum I don't follow this argument. I don't understand what your quote from the Koran is supposed to prove. As is often the case in English translations of this book, the grammar is so bad as to make it unintelligable (I suspect that this is a reflection of the...

14 Nov 12

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It needs the patience to wait for the seeds grow up

youless @youless (112591) • Guangzhou, China 6 Nov 12

I bought the mini plants online. You can see how it looks from the attached photo. Isn't it beautiful? Yesterday I put the seeds on it. Today there is no more big change from the seeds. I hope they will grow up soon. I found that...

plant

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Graptopetalum What sort of plant is this? "Mini plant" is a bit vague. The picture looks like what is called "mustard and cress" in England. Basically it germinates quickly and is used in salads. Seed is a good way to get rare plants which aren't available in your area...

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A Rocker who tore up the Bible!

toxic_lifestyle @toxic_lifestyle (1213) • Philippines 30 Oct 12

The front man of the band Behemoth had tore up a Bible book in one of their concerts. Because he consider the Bible as a criminal sect. Meanwhile, because of that incident, the Supreme Court of Poland was ask to put the musician...

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Graptopetalum Can you imagine what would happen if he tore up a Koran!

30 Oct 12

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Hating someone you don't really know.

sharksfin @sharksfin (1091) • Philippines 25 Oct 12

I came across one quote about hating someone because of jealousy. I can't really understand the idea but it makes sense. Why would you have such a strong negative feeling toward someone you don't really know, in the first place?...

attitude

hate

jealousy

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Graptopetalum People have hated me all my life and I don't know why. I'm not sure people who hate me know why. Everybody seemed to assume that this was my fault but didn't seem able to tell me what I was doing wrong. As I'm a white, heterosexual male nobody really cared...

25 Oct 12

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Is the Mormon Church a cult?

Pose123 @Pose123 (21635) • Canada 18 Oct 12

There are many Christians who believe that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, commonly called the Mormon church is a cult. Their reasoning is that they accept not just the Bible, but also The Book of Mormon as the...

bible

book of mormon

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Graptopetalum I think the term Christians use for Mormonism is "sect" rather than "cult". It doesn't use brainwashing (in the sense of sleep deprivation, deprivation of privacy and low protein diet) which is the defining characteristic of a cult. It does have doctrines that...

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recommend

keixjun @keixjun (22) 18 Oct 12

I've run out of books to read...okay that would be an overstatement but recently I can't find a really good book that would be very compelling to read. The last book that I read was The Perks of Being a Wallflower - I really like...

books

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Graptopetalum I don't know what sort of books you like, I've never read Cather in the Rye (I guess this is about an Albijensian who's bad at spelling and likes swimming in alcohol) or The Perks of Being a Wallflower (about being an ornamental member of the...

18 Oct 12

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