10. Have more time to read a broad range of interests.
Posts by Larry
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17Ozzie's Weekend Poll #95 (very literary!)
by ozziepost inso what's doing at your place this weekend?
we were hoping to meet up with beaker but we've had to put it back a week or two, so we just enjoyed the afternoon sunshine in the backyard, sipping shiraz.. we were sitting there reading really deep stuff (the sunday papers!!
) and we got to thinking, what did we used to read?
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How Does It Feel Knowing That You Were Once A Member Of A Cult???
by minimus indoes it bother you?
the more i think about it---the angrier i get.
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Larry
I Feel Like A Sucker
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The English Language Has Made Tremendous Strides
by Larry inbased on the book "in the beginning - the story of the king james bible..." by alsiter mcgrath".. it took the english generations to love, respect, and use their own language.".
"in the early middle ages, literacy was rare, and often limited to the clergy...the ability to read had once been the exclusive preserve of the clergy.
by the beginning of the 15th century, this literary monopoly was in the process of being decisively overthrown.".
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Larry
Based on the book "In The Beginning - The Story of the King James Bible..." by Alsiter McGrath".. it took the English generations to love, respect, and use their own language."
"In the early Middle Ages, literacy was rare, and often limited to the clergy...The ability to read had once been the exclusive preserve of the clergy. By the beginning of the 15th century, this literary monopoly was in the process of being decisively overthrown."
"English was seen as a language of peasants, incapable of expressing anything other than the crudest and most basic of matters. English was just fine when dealing with spreading dung on fields. But how could such a barbaric language do justice to such sophisticated matters as philosophy or religion? To translate the Bible from its noble and ancient languages into English was seen as a pointless act of debasement."
"The English upper class spoke Anglo-French as a matter of principle, to distinguish themselves from the lower class, who spoke Middle English, in much the same way as the Russian nobility in the nineteenth century preferred French to their native Russian."
""Opposition to translating the Bible into English rested on the fears that the English peasantry might be encourage to rise against their maters... English thus became the language of the religious underground."
"One of the most remarkable facts of the English history during the middle ages is that the ruling elite chose not to use their native language of English, except when dealing with social inferiors, Yet it took the English generations to love, respect, and use their own language."
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ALL TIME FAVORITE "OLD" MOVIE
by sandy ini just finished watching "splendor in the grass".
for some reason i love to torture myself with sad movies and sad songs.. the end of that movie is so heart breaking.
actually its bitter-sweet but when you are still stuck on someone who you cannot have it is heart-breaking.. i had to restrain myself from calling my ex.
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Larry
Imitation of Life - Lana Turner - 1959
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BRAG with PHOTOS -->>> your neck of the woods
by Rabbit ineverybody knows how much texans like their lone star state...someone started trashing our state here recently.
there is good and bad, ugliness and beauty everywhere.... so-o-o...everybody ... i'd like to see some pics of the natural beauty, where you live ?
or places you'd like to live, too.. i took these yesterday.... .
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Blacks can't speak English - Bill Cosby
by closer2fine insorry if this was already posted, i did a search & didn't see it.. .
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?article_id=38565.
minority report.
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Larry
Interest thread - Thanks for posting that Closer :)
I echo the points already said, such as:
"I like Bill Cosby and he has a good point..Such is not the case however and what I dont like is that people take the actions of these few uneducated, ignorant people and lump ALL minorities in together as belonging to that class of people..Because there is no such thing as 'black accents'...Ebonics is slang..period." ~ Flower
"Just imagine if a Rush Limbaugh or a white republican said these things?" ~ 40
"People like to think that we live in a country where ANYONE can succeed if they try hard enough. That is simply not true...And this is still only a small portion of the vicious cycle of American racism." ~ Amac
"American language is a melting pot of different influences because it has had input from so many different nationalities." ~ myauntfanny
"but all races and cultures should take to heart what he said." ~ Corvin
"So when we think of the "culture" associated with Black Vernacular, no one thinks anymore of Langston Hughes, Alice Walker, stylin' at the pulpit, signifyin', and blues music?" ~ Leolaia
"It's called 'capitalism'. The people who are in control do not care about the poor, they just want to keep them in the inner cities, and then go on and on about how 'anybody can make it' if they really want to!..It is the nature of the powerful who have become successful, and remain so, on the backs of the poor..." ~ talesin
" Like it or not, fairly or otherwise, we're judged by how we speak." ~ Room 215
My thoughts: Bill Cosby, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, MLK, Mal. X, etc. does not speak for the entire Afro-American race. They are people great in their own right, they have many fine points to make, I respect them and their accomplishments, but they don't represent me.
No race has a monopoly on proper speech.
Before the King James version of the bible was produced, English was the bastard 'ghetto' language of the day.
Education is the key to getting a better job, making more money, etc., but it's not the key for being a better human being.
Peace - LL :)
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Beautiful Artwork to Look at!
by Dolllie inwe were discussing this on a previous post!
i just had a chance to look at the "april 8, 2004" awake, with several articles on moses>.
again, i must say, speaking as an artist & an art teacher at the college level, "this pictures/drawings are of excellent quality".
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Larry
Would someone post that pic in the Awake, particularly the "Egyptian tomb panting on page 7."
Thanks - LL.
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Is The WTBS Really Crumbling?
by exjdub inthere have been posts and topics about the wtbs imploding and feuding factions in bethel etc.
some have said that the end is near for the wtbs.
is this just wishful thinking...or do you really think that this is a reality?
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Larry
Speaking of the Berlin Wall? Did you know that a piece of the wall is down the block from where I work ( 53rd St. bet 5th and Madison - NYC) I'll try and attach a photo I took the other day.
The BORG will be here as long as people want to be lead.
Peace - LL :)