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glenster
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GIVE A PITHY recounting of what 2012 did to or for you life!
by Terry ini moved in with my cousin deb and her husband bobby at the first of 2012.. this mean i didn't live alone any longer.
that was both a good and a not so good thing!.
i eat home cooked meals.
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glenster
I learned Gangnam style:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0&list=FLGDjZWvH8V0zca0Xu_46qkQ&index=2 -
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Everything wrong with...
by glenster in...in three minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2te-bcwztw.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyvzjkgokdg.
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Richard Dawkins FUNNY mistake
by Christ Alone inthis happened almost a year ago, but i thought it was funny.
here's the article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9082059/for-once-richard-dawkins-is-lost-for-words.html.
during this particular radio broadcast, dawkins claimed that most christians did not know what the first book of the new testament is.
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glenster
As Higgs pointed out, when Dawkins uses phrasing that frames the whole issue
as a choice to be a fundamentalist or not, not recognizing the differences
between liberal (MLK, RFK, Colbert, etc.) and conservative, it's the same
purview of the fundamentalist. Having stacked the deck that way, he badmouths
a lot of people different than him including some who don't deserve it. The
result is more propaganda than college comparative religion course so not useful
as a reference source.
Not recognizing the harm of 'centric intolerant believers and non-believers
but attributing it to believers is a case of it, and ironically 'centric and
intolerant while purporting to be against it. A couple examples of Dawkins
doing that then judging against believers regarding wars and destruction of art,
etc., are at the next link:
http://www.newoxfordreview.org/reviews.jsp?did=1108-gardinerThose are the first mistakes, not funny but unfriendly, I think of for
Dawkins. I'd rather see the friendliness in agreement to not want harm. It's
more conducive to the conversation if you want to persuade someone to your view.
Dawkins sort of hooray for us/bash them is, ironically, behind most of the harm.
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Richard Dawkins FUNNY mistake
by Christ Alone inthis happened almost a year ago, but i thought it was funny.
here's the article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9082059/for-once-richard-dawkins-is-lost-for-words.html.
during this particular radio broadcast, dawkins claimed that most christians did not know what the first book of the new testament is.
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Jehovah's Witnesses, Watchtower, and Armagedon, in the news... again. Washington Post story.
by Balaamsass indec 22, 2012 03:29 pm estthewashingtonpost /for ap news registry the end of the world has been postponed - againby angelo stagnaro.
people gather around a sacred fire at the mayan archeological site of iximche during a ceremony marking the end of the 13th oxlajuj b'aktun in tecpan, guatemala, on dec. 21, 2012.
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glenster
Because you don't take a d**k to a gunfight. (Sorry)
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Question, God order his people to commit genocide.
by jam injust to be clear his instructions to the israelites were.
to commit genocide.
deuteronomy 7:16 "you shall destroy.
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God has the prerogative to take everyone's life, and does, but people don't
have the right to do that for God except with proof of God which is alleged.
It's a matter of faith if they did or not.Conservative: it happened as the writers claim.
Liberal: various options--it happened as claimed but God only took the early
followers so far (Jesus regarding marriage, monotheism only took hold in the
time of Isaiah, ANE cosmology, etc.), it's a romanticized rendering of the rise
of monotheism from Canaanite culture, some scriptures indicate it wasn't a total
herem (see the links), etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herem_%28war_or_property%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_violence_in_Judaism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warfare_in_Judaism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkhemet_Mitzvah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism_and_peaceThe real problem isn't any of those things as much as if current followers see
those scriptures as meant as guidance currently, which they generally don't.
Exceptions include Christians who wanted to eliminate Jews, Jews seeing the
Palestinians as Canaanites, Islamist terrorists regarding non-Muslims esp. Jews,
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Christianity gives you....ummm...ummm....exactly what?
by Terry inchristianity:.
you get struck on the cheek and you pony up for the other slap.. you pray for the enemy who wants you face down in the mud with his heel on your neck.. you get treated like pond scum but you force a smile and forgive.. .
if you are abused?
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I can't prove God let alone specifics added to the basic concept, that I'd
pick my parents if all I could do is pick them out of a summary of the qualities
of all the possible parents in the world, prove that you have to love a song I
love, etc., and, all due respect to the math of them and related odds, I'm glad
that's not all there is. Some things are subjective and can not only be under-
stood as such but cherished. It's a personal call.