QE2 was supposed to lower interest rates....
....in order to stimulate the economy.
Selloff Slices Into Dow After Debt Fears, Inflation in Overseas
The complaining comes in from all quarters:
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I Know How To End The TSA’s Full Body Scans
Have Arizona pass a law saying that illegal aliens will be subject to these procedures as well! The federal government would immediately ask a judge to ban full-body scans.
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My wife has gave me accounts of past lives from when she was under hypnosis this past weekend. I am not sure what to make of it. I know she is not lying. She is the most honest person I have ever met, and I am not just saying this because she is my wife.
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I can either go back to the "truth" or stay out and raise a milion questions
by serenitynow! ini received this message from a jw on jwc@fe, after i asked some simple questions:"miss jada, every sentence or phrase in the bible can very easily be turned into a question.
it doesnt take much to raise questions.
even jesus himself left some questions unanswered.
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Questions are not allowed!
Boring.
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Has anyone who never had a pre-conceived notion of God, Jesus, Heaven and Hell every had a NDE and saw Jesus/God?
Do Muslims see Muhammad when they have a NDE?
Do Buddhists see Buddha?
This site categorizes NDE accounts by religion (or lack thereof):
http://www.near-death.com/sitemap.html
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Snow, note that the passage I quoted above does not say HIS deed, it says THEIR deed. Food for thought, this might not be dealing with actual rape at all, but rather a seduction.
Now compare with Exodus 22:15 (with very similar language):
"When a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall pay her marriage price and marry her.
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Interestingly enough, some translations do not use the word "rape."
- "If a man comes upon a maiden that is not betrothed, takes her and has relations with her, and their deed is discovered, the man who had relations with her shall pay the girl's father fifty silver shekels and take her as his wife, because he has deflowered her. Moreover, he may not divorce her as long as he lives.
http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/deuteronomy/deuteronomy22.htm
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So god can supposedly suspend the physical laws of the universe to part the Red Sea or make the "sun stand still" but he doesn't have the ability to implement and enforce laws to change a nation's perspective of women and protect their rights? I suppose god was restricted to accepting the norm for the times as well?
On more than one occasion, Jesus said "you have been told.....but I tell you," and “it was because your hearts were hard that Moses wrote you this law."
The Bible is a story of progressive revelation. In a sense, it is not so much a story of God, but a story of man's improving understanding of him.
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I am probably closer to your position than you realize, LeavingWT.
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For one thing, there are so many different versions of what the minority od people that claim to see something see.
Something like 5% of people report having had this experience in polls. That is a substantial minority.
Shouldn't the truth about that be pretty consistent?
Maybe it isn't that the truth is inconsistent, but rather that our perceptions of it are not the same.
http://homepage.usask.ca/~wae123/misc/prose/hinustan.htm
Why would we have an entire Bible that doesn't mention anything like this and then expect that a 4 yr old boy gives us revelation concerning heaven?
The Bible does not say anything regarding NDEs not existing. In fact, some think the opposite.
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