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The spawn of the devil? I was pretty sure God made everybody... also, the devil was an angel back in the day, and angels don't reproduce, geez. Jhn 8: 41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God. 42 Jesus said unto them, If...

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Yeah, so I'm a total NoOB and I was wondering if anyone could take the time to try and explain the basics of theoretical physics for me, or at least tell me where I could attempt to learn it. Or at the least least tell me what sort of math I'd need to know to begin to understand it. How old are you...

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The bible says masterbating is bad ... Actually, no. The Bible says _zero_ on the subject of masturbation. The passage quoted by priests and parents is from Genesis 38, and the sin of Onan was coitus interruptus, his refusal to produce a child to be credited to his dead brother's family. Jewish law...

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(yet she immaculately conceived), The doctrine of the Immaculate Conception is not about the conception of Jesus by Mary, but about the conception of Mary by _her_ parents. The idea is involved with Original Sin, which is inherited from one's parents at conception, all the way back to Adam and Eve....

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PG, folks, thanks.

I'm not sure it's possible to do this discussion PG. I've been trying to figure out how to correct some misconceptions (no pun intended) "delicately", and keep embarrassing myself in my tries.

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The spawn of the devil? I was pretty sure God made everybody... also, the devil was an angel back in the day, and angels don't reproduce, geez. Gen 6: 1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2 That the sons of God saw the daught...

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The spawn of the devil? I was pretty sure God made everybody... also, the devil was an angel back in the day, and angels don't reproduce, geez. Jhn 8: 41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, [even] God. 42 Jesus said unto them, If...

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I enjoy reading stories of Saints, some of them as scientifically documented as was possible at the time, others having degenerated to the realm of folk-tale Okay, while I probably should "edit" the original of this instead of doing another post, I already told Fishtank to go back and rea...

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Why don't people get impregnated while still a virgin? Because if a girl said that, we could prove she conceived it. DUH! Of course she conceived it, if she was pregnant: so did Mary conceive her baby "by the power of the Holy Spirit". The point of the virginity is that the Holy Spirit di...

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<i>Nope. I enjoy reading stories of Saints, some of them as scientifically documented as was possible at the time, others having degenerated to the realm of folk-tale, and they included quite a few resurrections, with nobody mentioning stake-burning.</i> What exactly are the dates of the resurrecti...

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Funny though, if a person had been killed in the middle ages and was "resurrected" he or she would have been burned at the stake. Nope. I enjoy reading stories of Saints, some of them as scientifically documented as was possible at the time, others having degenerated to the realm of folk-...

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I'd have to go out for Sister Carlotta, or if they got as far forward as the world of Path, Mu Pao--what a cameo! ;^) I'm too old to be believable as Ender's mom, though that would be a very decent part. Maybe I could do Old Val, but I ain't that beautiful. I did do the Wizard in the Wizard of Oz on...

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I liked Worthing until the end, however, with FotF I hated it from just about the first page. Well I really really liked the first "chapter" (don't know what else to call them), until it started getting grotesquely mormon. I don't have a problem with mormon characters, but when the author...

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...my grandmother is a lay priest in the Episcopal Church (i am very close to both of them.) I do hope you mean "Lay Minister", especially "Lay Eucharistic Minister". Every lay person in the Episcopal Church is a minister, but a Lay Eucharistic Minister has a license from the bi...

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You'd know that historically nonmuslims in muslim empires were not killed, they were often merely forced to pay higher taxes. In Koranic theory, sorta. At best, Christians and Jews are second-class-citizens: at worst, their worship is illegal, and they're subject to the death penalty, along with th...

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I'd say it started with Nixon, but other than that, I agree with you on this one. Johnson. I remember some _seriously_ nasty stuff that was said about him, totally unjustified, including pure obscene smear, public accusations that he was behind the assassination in order to inherit the Presidency, ...

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I got it, from the link marked "DOWNLOAD NOW (I fixed the link)"
maybe Young Val should reload the page, that she's seeing the old one from cache.

I haven't read it yet.

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Another thing is developing alternative energy, and we are doing that. This whole paragraph on renewable energy sources, and nothing on the improvements of PV panels (or using algae as a bio-fuel)?! :stoned: I left out a whole lot of things, as I believe I mentioned doing, because there are so many...

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I also don't seem to be able to get a download from my browser (nor a browser page)

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Oh, by the way, from what I've read over years, it's not difficult to build a basic atom bomb, for a mechanic or gadgeteer, if you know how. The only hard part is getting and handling the weapons-grade uranium or plutonium.

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It has been inherently violent since its inception, when Mohammed was kicked out of Mecca for preaching, had more success in neighboring Medina, and went back with an army to convert the Meccans by force of arms. (It would have been better for the world (IMHO) if the heathen Meccans had simply execu...

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The terrorist organizations sought after had WMDs, and a lot of them. They had plans to kill Americans. It's common sense that they are trying to get worse weapons. I can't cite sources, because obviously this information would be classified. It's what I deduce in my mind. If you disagree with it, ...

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Some other things about the Trinity are that Jesus said "I and my Father are One", and one of the Epistles says "No one can say 'Jesus Christ is Lord' but by the power of the Holy Spirit"--and that's a three-language word play, too, because in the Old Testament, KJV, "LORD&q...

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subtle differences are lost on you. Now that doesn't make any sense given the context...I had one argument, you had another. No subtle differences were involved...our arguments were not the same, so how could there be subtle differences? Males locking horns, doing their one-up-manship status thing

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Many terrorist organizations are on the verge of obtaining nuclear weapons if they have not already. If New York gets nuked, you'll be mad at Bush for not preventing it, just as the majority of the terror war-haters were angry when 9-11 happened because he should have prevented it. Out of curiousit...

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and in ES OSC made Ender read like a complete jackass. Can you quote even one sentence or paragraph that shows that? I can't see it. To me, in both, he looks like a human child, brighter than most, toughened and matured beyond his years by a highly unusual education and training. He does _not_, in ...

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Someone give me a review please, I found it in the bookstor nearby, and I'm wondering if i should shell out 30 dolars fo rit. so review please... just ahhh try to keep spoilers to a minimum?

Amazon.com (with several reviews)

Hatrack River

at least one chapter

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Happy New Year all of you, Rei, Anthony, everybody else here!

We need a lot more Happy in this world!

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:oops: Well now I'm set up for limitless embarrassment. Ah well, it will be good to learn to deal with embarrassment :roll: I didn't mean to embarrass you: I'm sorry! It just struck me that it really was a good topic to discuss-- not just your faults, honest, but proper and impersonal argument/disc...

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Yeah, we have plenty of oil, but we export all of it. There's nothing left for us to use, so we go to other sources, namely the Middle East. If we stopped exporting our oil, and started working on non-fossil fuel methods for cars, we wouldn't be in such a mess. Well, the first sentence is flat wron...

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did this really need its own thread?

I think it did, or I wouldn't have started it:
And just to widen it out further, more study material:
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/

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Perhaps the problem lies in that I find so much to be worth arguing. I will make it my goal to only argue things I am very passionate about indeed, and include much evidence to back myself up. I hope I have not already desecrated my s/n on these forums to the point of not at some point down the roa...

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Ok, imagine this God was actually Allah. Would you feel comfortable with this? Btw, from what i heard H_K saying a while ago, the part "under God" in the pledge of alliance wasn't really in the original pledge, but it was added in a much later period. Surely someone can document this bett...

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Outer Darkness is not in the Bible. No one has demonstrated otherwise, except to further prove that it is in the Mormon's twisted version of the Bible. What translation do you prefer, as "THE" Bible? NRSV has Matthew 8.12: while the heirs of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkn...

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