i see the pictures of this starving country and it's a appalling and saddening to see the sea of children in this tragedy.. having said that, what the heck are these people thinking bringing into the world all these children to starve to death???!!!.
along with food, why not also send enough health professionals to educate them about reproduction and its consequences in the midst of their horrible situation???!!!
dy
Why don't you get your nose out of your books and away from somewhat biased news reporting and take a trip over there if you really want to impress somebody, Mr.scholar?
Where am I trying to impress anyone? Where did I ever try to rest on supposed "laurels?" (Besides my username, which is the only connection).
Again, stop patronizing me. Unless you feel that age give you some kind of authority.
i see the pictures of this starving country and it's a appalling and saddening to see the sea of children in this tragedy.. having said that, what the heck are these people thinking bringing into the world all these children to starve to death???!!!.
along with food, why not also send enough health professionals to educate them about reproduction and its consequences in the midst of their horrible situation???!!!
dy
Oh Yes, of course, BBC world news coverage, why didnt you just say so? lol...I see. Pardon me then.So, obviously you are totally informed on such foreign matters. But when it comes to human kindness you still came across...
No I'm not "totally informed," but I do know three things: 1) the markets have a lot of food there, 2) those who are starving cannot afford the food, and 3) the government prefers to do nothing. You do the math.
Actually, I was being sincere.
Sorry, then. I'm in attack-dog mode today.
i see the pictures of this starving country and it's a appalling and saddening to see the sea of children in this tragedy.. having said that, what the heck are these people thinking bringing into the world all these children to starve to death???!!!.
along with food, why not also send enough health professionals to educate them about reproduction and its consequences in the midst of their horrible situation???!!!
dy
Because the Catholic Church and the Islamic leaders teach the people that using contraceptives will land them in hell for all eternity.
http://discardedlies.com/entries/2005/07/catholics_africa_and_contraception.php
i see the pictures of this starving country and it's a appalling and saddening to see the sea of children in this tragedy.. having said that, what the heck are these people thinking bringing into the world all these children to starve to death???!!!.
along with food, why not also send enough health professionals to educate them about reproduction and its consequences in the midst of their horrible situation???!!!
dy
It saddens me to read such an ignorant remark from classicist, one self-professed scholar. I suggest you sign up for a cultural anthropology class at your University.
It's hardly an ignorant remark. I'm basing my knowledge on BBC world coverage. I suggest you get your head out of the sand.
i see the pictures of this starving country and it's a appalling and saddening to see the sea of children in this tragedy.. having said that, what the heck are these people thinking bringing into the world all these children to starve to death???!!!.
along with food, why not also send enough health professionals to educate them about reproduction and its consequences in the midst of their horrible situation???!!!
dy
They have market full of food, but the government of Niger isn't doing anything to help the poor that are starving when they CAN.
Of course, life is complex, don't patronize me. We can give aid until we're bankrupt, but that's not going to change anything in Africa. Poverty is never going to be history. Africa needs trade so it can raise it's general standard of living; economic stimulation is the only thing that will relieve poverty (plus, it needs rulers who don't squander $500 billion of aid money).
the eschatological discourse in matthew 24 (derived from mark 13 and paralleled in luke 21) concerns the destruction of jerusalem and what was to shortly follow it.
mark presents both the jerusalem invasion and the coming of the son of man in judgment as closely connected, which reflects the time when the gospel was likely written (i.e.
shortly before or after ad 70).
<<<How certain are you that what we have in scripture was actually (for real) written in the 1st. Century? How about 4th and 5th Century passed off as 1st Century? Just asking.>>> Contemporary evidence, unless you think people like Jerome were liars and entirely made the New Testament books up. <<<There is no evidence that the gospels were written by apostles. Their present titles come from later tradition and were not part of the gospels themselves; the books are themselves anonymous. Moreover, the traditional authorship of Mark and Luke is not even apostolic; John Mark and Luke were disciples of apostles, not apostles themselves. As for much of the gospels being "virtually identical to each other", this is because they are dependent on each other and on mutual sources. The author of Luke himself noted that earlier gospel accounts lay before him (Luke 1:1-4). About 90% of Mark is reproduced in Matthew and 50% in Luke, usually in the same order, and agreement between Luke and Matthew starts when Mark starts and ends where Mark ends. The gospels of Matthew and Luke are little more than expanded interpolated versions of Mark. As for the common material shared between Matthew and Luke that is not found in Mark, there are two usual explanations of this: the author of Luke used Matthew (the Farrer-Goodacre theory), or both authors used a common source (the popular Q theory). Also note that since Matthew incorporates most of the text of Mark, the traditional claim that Matthew is an eyewitness account by Apostle Matthew is considerably weakened.>>> It's amazing that something that has as little evidence as the Q theory is considered to be fact or extremely probable by many scholars. I think the ECFs would at least write about the existence of a simple volume of Christ's sayings if it actually did exist. Of course, no one would ever believe what the Gospel of John says, "But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you" (John 14:26). It is traditionally held that the Gospel of Matthew was written in Aramaic and the Gospel of Mark in Greek. I see it as more than possible that the translators of Matthew used the Gospel of Mark as a linguistic basis for their translation. I've also heard that the claim that the Gospel of Matthew was basically copied off of Mark and expanded is not too credible as it would have been physically difficult for a scribe to accomplish this given the unergonimic qualities of writing implements of that time (I don't know much about that idea, though).
i see the pictures of this starving country and it's a appalling and saddening to see the sea of children in this tragedy.. having said that, what the heck are these people thinking bringing into the world all these children to starve to death???!!!.
along with food, why not also send enough health professionals to educate them about reproduction and its consequences in the midst of their horrible situation???!!!
dy
Niger has tonnes and tonnes of food. Only the poor people are starving. If the people of Africa can't help each other out, even in their own country, why should we care?
T_C of the no-white-middle-class-guilt Class
Meh. Not as bad as Canada.
A women was recently convicted of murder and given a "life" sentence. Unfortuantely, "life" in Canada means 25 year, only 7 of which are served in prison, but the rest are on parole.
Now, her lawyer has issued an appeal saying the term was "excessive."
ok..as most of you know i'm leaving my position to take a new one.
however, as part of my deal i got a new computer.....whoo hoo!
apple computers are so very sexy.
Hey Simon, can you make JWD more adept at Safari friendly instead of IE (Internet Explorer)?
No, he's doing Mozilla first!
i know from going door to door that people are generally divided as to who god is.
what are your thoughts?
is jesus almighty god?
Whilst I have an appreciation for the doctrine of the Trinity, I dont see it as a salvation issue. The Divinity of Christ is more important, from a primitive Christian perspective.
Ah, theological archaeologism... what a great heresy our time has produced!
