General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Nigel Farage said last week that the world famous yachting club on the Isle of Wight, will no longer use the phrase "Man Overboard" they will now say "Person Overboard"

When I was at Primary School and I was quite young at the time maybe 6 or 7 years old, we were being taught about god and what an important chap he was, and there was this son of god, this Jesus bloke who was also important, but he ended up nailed to a cross, which did not sound very nice, and then there was the 'father, son and holy ghost" now that really threw me, and so I started asking questions, and although this was at a county primary school. with no religious connection, as there was with Roman Catholic and Church of England schools, I think we were taught a lot about religion, Christianity, so I asked the question, "how do you know that god is a man ? and why is there mankind, why not womankind" I would ask questions like that over a period of time, and I always got an answer from teacher.

Why is god a man - because god made Adam and he made Adam in his own image and Adam is a man, so god is a man.

Why is it called mankind instead of womankind and in other things man is mentioned a lot more than women are - because when god refers to 'man' he means both men and women, 'mankind' means everyone, both men and women, and when man is referred to as a single individual, then that will be apparent from the 'context' in which the word is being used, and in the English language, there are many words which have more than one meaning, this would be followed by examples of 'context' using words such as 'there, their and there'.

But why in the bible are men always in charge, never women - because that is what god wants, and if you want to find out why, ask him yourself, when you are saying your prayers, ask that question and he might answer you, if you have been a good boy.

I have already asked him questions a few times during prayers, because other people have told me to ask him directly when praying, but he has never answered me - well that is because you have not been a good boy

Funny old world in't it