if god is all-powerful, why did he take 6 days to create the earth? (also the fact that GOD needed a 7th day to rest is kinda weird too) (old.reddit.com)
I'm a poor farmer's child growing up in rural 19th-century America. My mother just taught me the alphabet, and it's time to start reading. She puts me on her knee and opens a copy of....what? What sort of reading material for children was available? The Bible? Plutarch's Lives? Some Shakespeare? (old.reddit.com)
This is definitely stupid but I’ve only dealt with circumcised dicks. If I ever encounter an uncircumcised one sexually, is there anything different in regards to what I’d need to do? (old.reddit.com)
Muhammad died in 632 AD. The Green Dome in which he is supposedly entombed was built in 1279 AD, almost 650 years after his death. Is there any reason to believe his body is actually in there? (old.reddit.com)
Any other women have to deal with doctors bypassing certain health treatments “in the event you have a baby” even though you’re never going to have one? (old.reddit.com)
Following the French Revolution, the other nations of Europe were shocked and outraged by death of Louis XVI, resulting in military intervention. 150 years prior, Charles I of England was similarly executed by his own people, but no foreign intervention occurred. Why were the reactions so different? (old.reddit.com)
The anti-Nazi resistance group, the White Rose, wrote in one of their leaflets that Polish girls were sent to SS-run brothels in Norway. What do we know about this? (old.reddit.com)
Today, Jim Thorpe was reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic men's pentathlon gold medal. That same year, George S. Patton, later of WWII fame, also placed 4th in the 1912 Olympic modern pentathlon. Did Thorpe and Patton ever interact with each other? If so, to what degree? (old.reddit.com)
At the end of WWII the US famously dropped two atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, both cities are still major population cities in Japan today. What was the reason the nuclear fallout didn't turn them into ghost areas like we see with present day Pripyat after Chernobyl? (old.reddit.com)
24M here. Okay so I’m attracted to guys but the idea of sex with them repulses me, I’m not attracted to women but the idea of sex with them is attractive to me. Can someone tell me what the hell is wrong with me? I’m so confused. (old.reddit.com)
Why can women wear bikinis in public, but not a bra and panties when they’re literally the same thing, just made of different material? (old.reddit.com)
How did citizenship work at the breakup of the Soviet Union? Could you move where you want and get citizenship there? Were you stuck with your birthplace? Or most recent residence? (old.reddit.com)
When and how did Northern Europe develop into a wealthy area? For a long time it used to be poor backwater compared to Southern Europe. (old.reddit.com)
Between 1975 and 2010 the number of healthcare administrators grew by 3200%, with this growth really beginning in earnest in the early 1990's. What changed in the early 90's to account for this vast increase in hospital administrators? (old.reddit.com)
I got pulled over by a cop for speeding in my parents car (USA); I didn’t receive a ticket but the officer just said “you’re all set. Have a good day”. What does this mean? Will my parents be notified? Will this show on my record? (old.reddit.com)
If gender dysphoria is caused by the victim having the brain of another gender, does this mean men and women are fundamentally different? (old.reddit.com)
How would you feel if you caught your SO watching adult movies but realized that the actress they are watching looks somewhat similar to you? (old.reddit.com)
Was the mortgage scam described in Gogol's "Dead Souls" possible under 19th century Russian law? Did anyone actually do it? (repost with corrected title) (old.reddit.com)
If I ran for office and am elected as a US Representative with zero political or government experience, how will I know what to do or where to go? (old.reddit.com)
AskScience AMA Series: We are Cosmologists, Experts on the Cosmic Microwave Background, The Cosmic Web, Dark Matter, Dark Energy and much more! Ask Us Anything! (old.reddit.com)
Does anyone else have a sound that they absolutely cannot tolerate? Not just sound that you can’t “stand”, but like the ones you have physical reactions to? (old.reddit.com)
Singapore was founded after it was involuntarily expelled from Malaysia. It was poor and had limited natural resources. How did it rise to become one of the wealthiest countries in the world? (old.reddit.com)
A professor of mine claimed that oil was the root cause of WWI due to the railroad between Baghdad and Berlin. Also they claimed that Franz Ferdinand was a pawn in that plan to get the railroad completed. Is there any truth to this claim? (old.reddit.com)
Xiang Yu was the archnemesis of the founder of the Han Dynasty. In spite of this, he is usually depicted by later writers as a tragic hero. How did China's seminal dynasty's greatest obstacle get such a good reputation? (old.reddit.com)
[Medicine] Would a child born without parts of their limbs, e.g. no phalanges from amniotic band syndrome, still have phantom sensations the way an adult who has lost a limb would have? (old.reddit.com)
Why does my dad scream at my face whenever he is in a bad mood, and then asks me why I stay in my room all day and not want to talk to him? (old.reddit.com)
Did ancient people have a concept that while it was dark "here" it was light "somewhere else", or was everything uniformly light and dark? (old.reddit.com)
Classical Greece had five or six dialects, including the Attic of Athens, the Doric of Sparta, one spoken on Cyprus and in Arcadia. and several others. How mutually intelligible were these Greek dialects? Could Greeks of the Classical period easily communicate across borders? (old.reddit.com)
Do you also feel that men can't be their true selves anymore because society every masculine trait being labeled as toxic masculinity? (old.reddit.com)
Would a child automatically be a US citizen at conception if the mother got pregnant in Texas, or is there a different ruling against this? (old.reddit.com)
The ducal and royal house of Saxe Coburg and Gotha ruled an insignificant little duchy in 19th century Germany. Yet somehow they managed to install their line on the thrones of Portugal, Belgium, Bulgaria, and the United Kingdom. How? (old.reddit.com)
The United States has a long history of staging coups in foreign countries to install governments that were friendlier to the US. Did the Roman Empire or other empires of Antiquity ever do the same sort of thing? (old.reddit.com)
After declining for centuries, in the 1300s the share of land in France covered by forest nearly doubled from 23% to 40%. What drove this massive increase? (old.reddit.com)
Historically, Muslim countries have had strong alcohol cultures. Nowadays, alcohol is prohibited in many Muslim countries. How did this transition affect local alcohol industry? (old.reddit.com)
What communication skills do you think everybody needs to have it regarding an argument/fight or when when someone wants to say that is bothering? (old.reddit.com)
The Chinese government is often criticised for wide-reaching state-driven policies such as the Four Pests Campaign, the One Child Policy, the Great Leap Forward, etc. Given the information available to them at the time, were these reasonable decisions? (old.reddit.com)
What is considered the official height of a person permanently in a wheelchair, like for ID purposes? Is it the height of their body laid out, or the height which they sit at when upright in their chair? (old.reddit.com)
How common was suicide before the modern era in Europe? Was there a change between the eras? And how much knowledge did the average people have about it? (old.reddit.com)
Modern day "Dream Jobs" of kids are professional YouTuber and Astronaut. What were the Dream Jobs of American kids in 1850, 1900, and 1950? (old.reddit.com)
When astronomers say that "space is expanding," does that just mean that the things in space are moving away (say, from 3 to 7 cm on a ruler), or does it mean the unit length itself is being distorted (it's still 3 cm, but centimeters themselves are now longer)? (old.reddit.com)
What have you found that works under your tops/dresses that have extreme v fronts or strange cutouts? Boob tape, those jelly sticky things, specific bras that don’t leave fat squished? 😅 (old.reddit.com)
I am a mid-level Imperial bureaucrat in 5th Century Hispania, and I've just learned the Visigoths are "taking over" duties for the state. How catastrophic do I think this is? What changes in my day-to-day life and work? (old.reddit.com)
In TV shows, there are occasionally scenes in which a character takes a syringe of “knock-out juice” and jams it into the body of someone they need to render unconscious. That’s not at all how it works in real life, right? (old.reddit.com)
what did stay at home moms do all day besides clean in the 1950s? did they have hobbies/playdates? did their days feel busy or lonely? (old.reddit.com)
What was a joke about your race / orientation / gender on TV or in a movie that was actually genuinely funny and not just a cheap shot at your expense? (old.reddit.com)
How are boundaries between colors defined? Are they a cultural/linguistic/anthropological phenomenon stricto sensu, or are there biological/neurological bases behind color definition? (old.reddit.com)
In the series Stranger Things, set in 1984, one character is able to use the internet to hack into a school's computers and change grades. Did schools in rural Indiana even have access to the internet then? (old.reddit.com)
Why are infrared telescopes like the JWST critical for observing the early universe? If light from far away is being red-shifted, wouldn't the farthest light eventually be shifted into radio wavelengths making radio telescopes more useful? (old.reddit.com)
You get one million dollars if you get laid in the coming 8 hours, not allowed to pay for sex not tell anyone about the prize you would get. What’s your strategy? (old.reddit.com)
What is the oldest surviving Christian relic which we can say with a considerable degree of confidence is authentic? What are the methods used (for example radiocarbon dating when applicable) to determine a relic's authenticity? (old.reddit.com)
As an American Jew, I am wondering why “the Jews killed Christ” is used to justify antisemitism by some. Wasn’t his death necessary for salvation per Christian theology? (old.reddit.com)
When you "feel" the sun beating down on you, is that some part of your body reacting to radiation rather than the normal sense of warmth carried via conduction or convection? (old.reddit.com)
For women who workout regularly (strength training, functional fitness, yoga, running, CrossFit, BJJ, etc): What was the reason you started doing it? What’s the reason you continue to do it? (if reason is different) (old.reddit.com)
Is there a particular reason human ears are shaped like that? Other animals like cats or cows don't have it nearly as weird and complicated. (old.reddit.com)
How did wealthy Antebellum Southern women (or their pastors for that matter) confront - if they did at all - the fact that their husbands, fathers, and most of their sons were regularly committing adultery and sexual assault in their own households? (old.reddit.com)