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  My DEATH as an Intellectual

  by Terry in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i had been a straight a student.

  i had a prodigious memory for facts, dates, quotes.

  i once recited the entire rime of the ancient mariner in english class.

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  james_woods

  No one can call it a wooden shoe.
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  My DEATH as an Intellectual

  by Terry in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i had been a straight a student.

  i had a prodigious memory for facts, dates, quotes.

  i once recited the entire rime of the ancient mariner in english class.

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  james_woods

  My adopted cat hates you, Twitch.

  But that is OFF TOPIC.
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  My DEATH as an Intellectual

  by Terry in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i had been a straight a student.

  i had a prodigious memory for facts, dates, quotes.

  i once recited the entire rime of the ancient mariner in english class.

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  2. 
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  james_woods

  You sort of have to have read "Goedel, Escher, Bach" to get it.

  It was a Koan.
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  Which is best? An EVOLVED or a CREATED human?

  by Terry in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  consider the implication of being a created human as opposed to an evolved human.. the nature a created human has is given due to intentionality.

  the creator wills that nature upon the creature.. .

  what escape from nature is there?.

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  james_woods

  Excellent, Terry.
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  My DEATH as an Intellectual

  by Terry in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  i had been a straight a student.

  i had a prodigious memory for facts, dates, quotes.

  i once recited the entire rime of the ancient mariner in english class.

  1. 
  2. 
  3. 
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  james_woods

  I died when I started writing too long a post on a subject.

  I was reborn when I realized that it was not really that complicated.

  It was when the cooking monk turned over the water vase with his wooden shoe.
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  A simpler time..

  by coffee_black in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was going through some old drawings and came across one my dad drew of a place we used to go in vermont many years ago.

  it was owned by jw friends of the family, and we went there every summer and every fall.

  i miss that old place... a 200 year old farmhouse sitting atop 1000 acres in andover, vt. spring water that you collected...kerocene lamps, wood stoves.... clean fresh air...good memories of a simpler times.

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  james_woods

  Those are some very beautiful and evocative images.

  We will try to re-create such a feeling of primative peace and wellness in our mountain cabin.
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  Why did the Early Church Accept the Four NT Gospels and Reject the Gnostic Gospels?

  by Christ Alone in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this has been a subject that has been explored by many secular scholars today.

  bart ehrman is one of them.

  the divinci code had this to say about why the gospels were chosen:.

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  james_woods

  Which is exactly the point, Terry.

  If they were so HOLY, then why did the Lord shroud them in mystery?
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  Why did the Early Church Accept the Four NT Gospels and Reject the Gnostic Gospels?

  by Christ Alone in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this has been a subject that has been explored by many secular scholars today.

  bart ehrman is one of them.

  the divinci code had this to say about why the gospels were chosen:.

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  james_woods

  They are the earliest Christian writings that we have, closest to the apostles.

  Yes - the operative phrase being "we have".

  And we have no real proof that the four Gospels were really written by the apostles.

  It would (to me) be quite incredible that four of the twelve apostles were actually literate enough in that era to have produced them first hand.
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  Why did the Early Church Accept the Four NT Gospels and Reject the Gnostic Gospels?

  by Christ Alone in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this has been a subject that has been explored by many secular scholars today.

  bart ehrman is one of them.

  the divinci code had this to say about why the gospels were chosen:.

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  james_woods

  How do you know that only these guys were representing the early church?
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  Why did the Early Church Accept the Four NT Gospels and Reject the Gnostic Gospels?

  by Christ Alone in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  this has been a subject that has been explored by many secular scholars today.

  bart ehrman is one of them.

  the divinci code had this to say about why the gospels were chosen:.

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  james_woods

  OK, I read it. None of your quotes show direct rejection of any other gospels, or the creation of a canon.

  The real truth is that early church history is very murky.