Posts by the_classicist

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Yay! New Supergrass!!! are you as stoked as I am?!?!?!?!

by JV in

just downloaded the new supergrass single, what can i say, just brilliant!

, can't wait for the album to come out, anybody else out there into supergrass?

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the_classicist

Classicist, you should know who they are. One of their songs is in a Telus commercial.

Which one?

; ; ; Kazaa is starting to lose it's appeal, with all the corrupted songs. ; Just out of curiosity, do you know how to get around the copy protected cd's? I bought a few cd's that are copy protected and i can rip them to my computer but in the middle of the song it'll go fuzzy for a second.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52665,00.html http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/533 Hope one of those helps.

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Yay! New Supergrass!!! are you as stoked as I am?!?!?!?!

by JV in

just downloaded the new supergrass single, what can i say, just brilliant!

, can't wait for the album to come out, anybody else out there into supergrass?

?

the_classicist

"

Noun1.supergrass - a police informer who implicates many people"

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Toronto: Under Tornado Warning!!

by RAYZORBLADE in

wow!

it's incredibly nightlike outside and it's raging.

very scary!.

the_classicist

She was at a drive-in theatre, watching the movie "Twister" when one destroyed the screen. It was just a small one though. Not much damage other then that.

What a coincidence. Just think, watching that movie, when one comes out and destroys the screen (it would've been really cool if that happened in that scene where the drive in theatre was destroyed too).

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Ever feel embarrassed when buying condoms?

by tsunami_rid3r in

jw
friends

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i dont know if i could do it, it'd almost be like buying tampons.

the_classicist

They usually give them away for free at the Student Health Centre, or some other place on campus.

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Demonic exorcism by a JW elder

by out of the box in

we moved into an apartment on the 2nd floor.

we were jws at the time, and the family on the first floor under us was studying.. the girl downstairs started hearing noises during the night and finally hearing steps up to the side of her bed.

she was so scared she hadn't slept in a while and was so tired.

the_classicist

As demon-strated by The Exorcist, Roman Catholics have more style. Projectile vomit and spinning heads, old-style demons!

Don't forget that crab walk down the stairs and the eyes! That was really cool. Or who about the antichrist himself in the Omen. "It's all for you Damien, It's all for you!"

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What is this?

by carefully faded in

jw
friends

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i've been seeing this picture .

- cf

the_classicist

Money? Could be a quarter and a loonie.

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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - new - The Long and the Short of It

by RunningMan in

and there were giants in those days genesis 6:4

there is a simple principle of physics that has changed the way i look at the universe.

it has also prevented me from being taken in by a huge array of common legends and misconceptions.

the_classicist

1 Samuel 17:4-5 describes Goliath of Gath (compare 2 Samuel 21:15-21 concerning the Philistine shock troopers who were "descendents of Rapha", including a Goliath of Gath; parallel tradition or another Goliath?) as standing 6 cubits + 1 span tall (~ 9-10 feet) and wearing a breastplate alone weighing about 122 pounds. In ancient Greek armor, breastplates usually weighed in at an average of 30-40 pounds. The tallest living human stands 7 feet 9 inches and the tallest human on record stood 8 feet 11 inches.

122 lbs doesn't seem to be too much (of course, the breastplate is scale armour, which is woven together, I believe, and it could have been layered). The fact that he was killed by a stone (well, probably by the fall) shows how his centre of gravity was unsustainable. Regular-sized Roman soldiers are said to have carried a minimum of 93 lbs on them (including food).

To get back to this one, I still can't see what the fuss about the account of a 13 foot man is. The bible is full of absolute rubbish, in the literal sense. I really don't mean to offend, but, ;it is a book of ;miracles and supernatural. ;If you read the stones and structures of that age regarding conquests you will see the same. The underlying message, whether it be history or lesson, may be based on ;truth for the time, but the text is ancient allegory.

Again, doesn't say he was 13 feet (but I know you know that ; we are dealing with a form of polemics). I think the miraculous things in the OT are as beliveable as the resurrection. Even if you think it to be myth, most myth have some kind of history in it (I like how Schleimann used the Iliad to find Troy).

With regard to that account referenced, it happens all time. As someone who films for a living I can demonstrate and if you want I'll write up how it happens in another topic.

Yes, that would be interesting.

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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - new - The Long and the Short of It

by RunningMan in

and there were giants in those days genesis 6:4

there is a simple principle of physics that has changed the way i look at the universe.

it has also prevented me from being taken in by a huge array of common legends and misconceptions.

the_classicist

Sorry if I'm labouring the point, but, how would it fit with the book of Joshua - mythical accounts of an historical events?

Just b/c the sun stands still in our perception does not mean that it does so physically; the most recent sun "miracle" I can think of was at Fatima in 1917 (http://www.portcult.com/FAT.12.NEWSPAPER.2.htm; no one has discounted the fact that people have seen the sun do stuff at Fatima as far as I know, but usually skeptics call it a mass hallucination).

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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - new - The Long and the Short of It

by RunningMan in

and there were giants in those days genesis 6:4

there is a simple principle of physics that has changed the way i look at the universe.

it has also prevented me from being taken in by a huge array of common legends and misconceptions.

the_classicist

So, how can you tell what's real and what's not. This is my issue with the bible. Especially with the old testement.

Ok, let's give a list: Genesis 1-11: allegory. Rest of Genesis-2 Esdras and 1st and 2nd Maccabees are historical. Esther, Job, Tobit, and Judith are historical novels. The prophets are books of... prophecy. Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiates, Canticle of Canticles, Wisdom, and Ecclesiasticus are literary works.

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The Atheist's Book of Bible Stories - new - The Long and the Short of It

by RunningMan in

and there were giants in those days genesis 6:4

there is a simple principle of physics that has changed the way i look at the universe.

it has also prevented me from being taken in by a huge array of common legends and misconceptions.

the_classicist

I don't know if you take the bible as literal, so my comment wasn't to you in perticular. I was just stating the obvious. It should not matter to anyone that he could have been 13 foot. If its metaphore, it describes a powerful adversary. If you believe the bible is literal, nothing written can surprise you.

Some parts are literal, some are not, and there are a lot of exaggerations (especially in Maccabees, but that's probably due to the Greek literary history influence in inflating the numbers of one's enemy).

Not to mention Homo floresiensis, which may be a case of this...

There's an old saying: perite, my dear.