There are two kinds of people in the world, the givers and the takers. I never thought of myself as a taker. Yet I've known alot of takers. Maybe because I've always been more giving.
Shana
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Why are you here ?
by LogCon inare you on the earth so see how much you can give or how much you can get ?.
how so ?.
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Broad and Spacious Road to Destruction, or Narrow Gate to Life??
by stuckinarut2 inso we all know of the parable / illustration at matt 7:13.
"go in through the narrow gate, because broad and spacious is the road leading off into destruction, and many are the ones finding it, or going in through it".
here is a brain snapping thought that hit me!:.
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Shanagirl
I think WT is just another religious snare and a racket and those who follow the organized religious koolaid, are on that broad and spacious road whereas those who choose not to follow human doctrine are those on the narrow road. That's my take on it. Christ taught simple lessons of kindness and never wanted to be worshipped. Just how to serve one another is all he taught. When we take our last breath the one who will judge us will be ourselves, not a religion, or a god.
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Animal sacrifices! This weeks bible reading
by stuckinarut2 inof what relevance is a written biblical record about how animals were killed, dissected, burned, etc?.
why splash blood on the ears of a priest etc?.
why oh why does the god of exodus like having animals killed, just so he can have some smoke smell rise to heaven?.
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" we should just do whatever we are asked to do no matter how strange it may seem. So when gods organisation asks us to do something that seems odd, just do it and you will be blessed "
Just drink the kool aide until the GB tells you to kill "apostates" Hmmmmm sounds very jehovah witnessy
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Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans as Antarctic Ice Melts
by bohm inthe collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in west antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the pace of the disintegration, two groups of scientists reported monday.. the finding, which had been feared by some scientists for decades, means that a rise in global sea level of at least 10 feet may now be inevitable.
the rise may continue to be relatively slow for at least the next century or so, the scientists said, but sometime after that it will probably speed up so sharply as to become a crisis.. this is really happening, said thomas p. wagner, who runs nasas programs on polar ice and helped oversee some of the research.
theres nothing to stop it now.
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Shanagirl
Shana - climate experts already know all that.
They have tons of compelling evidence that human activity is the additional factor that is changing the climate at an unprecedented rate.
Have you looked at the evidence or do you prefer "Just my opinion. Shana"
Cofty, actually I have looked at the opposing scientific evidence. I am not swayed by the NYTimes or the rest of the Lame Stream Media. And I do have an opinion on this that may be politically incorrect, but that's my opinion based on what I have researched.
http://www.skepticalscience.com/antarctica-gaining-ice.htm
Shana
Explaining climate change science & rebutting global warming misinformation
Scientific skepticism is healthy. Scientists should always challenge themselves to improve their understanding. Yet this isn't what happens with climate change denial. Skeptics vigorously criticise any evidence that supports man-made global warming and yet embrace any argument, op-ed, blog or study that purports to refute global warming. This website gets skeptical about global warming skepticism. Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer reviewed scientific literature say?
http://www.skepticalscience.com/
Humans are NOT to blame for global warming, says Greenpeace co-founder, as he insists there is 'no scientific proof' climate change is manmade
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Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans as Antarctic Ice Melts
by bohm inthe collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in west antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the pace of the disintegration, two groups of scientists reported monday.. the finding, which had been feared by some scientists for decades, means that a rise in global sea level of at least 10 feet may now be inevitable.
the rise may continue to be relatively slow for at least the next century or so, the scientists said, but sometime after that it will probably speed up so sharply as to become a crisis.. this is really happening, said thomas p. wagner, who runs nasas programs on polar ice and helped oversee some of the research.
theres nothing to stop it now.
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Shanagirl
When global temperatures are the question, the answer is not sun or CO2 It is the sun, volcanoes, tilt of the Earth’s axis, water vapor, methane, clouds, ocean cycles, plate tectonics, shifting ocean currents, albedo (Earth’s changing reflective properties), atmospheric dust, atmospheric circulation, cosmic rays, particulates like carbon soot and volcanic dust, forests and grasslands, urban and other land use changes. Climate change is governed by hundreds of factors, not just CO2.
Shana
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Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans as Antarctic Ice Melts
by bohm inthe collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in west antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the pace of the disintegration, two groups of scientists reported monday.. the finding, which had been feared by some scientists for decades, means that a rise in global sea level of at least 10 feet may now be inevitable.
the rise may continue to be relatively slow for at least the next century or so, the scientists said, but sometime after that it will probably speed up so sharply as to become a crisis.. this is really happening, said thomas p. wagner, who runs nasas programs on polar ice and helped oversee some of the research.
theres nothing to stop it now.
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gnat
The Earth has warmed – and cooled – over the past 50 years. We’ve also experienced periods of “unusual” weather and “normal” weather, more frequent and intense storms and droughts, less frequent and less severe storms and droughts. However, I don’t agree that humans are responsible, or that climate change is becoming dangerous or catastrophic.
CO2 is a trace gas, but without it life on earth would be impossible. Carbon dioxide fertilizes aglae, trees and crops to provide food for humans and animals. We inhale oxygen and exhale CO2. Slightly higher atmospheric CO2 levels cannot possibly supplant the numerous complex and inter-connected forces that have always determined Earth’s climate.
As University of London professor emeritus Philip Stott has noted: “The fundamental point has always been this. Climate change is governed by hundreds of factors, or variables, and the very idea that we can manage climate change predictably by understanding and manipulating at the margins one politically-selected factor (CO2), is as misguided as it gets.”
Even the global warming activists at RealClimate.org acknowledged this where they said “The actual temperature rise is an emergent property resulting from interactions among hundreds of factors.” CO2 is not the tail that wags the dog.
Shana
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Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans as Antarctic Ice Melts
by bohm inthe collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in west antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the pace of the disintegration, two groups of scientists reported monday.. the finding, which had been feared by some scientists for decades, means that a rise in global sea level of at least 10 feet may now be inevitable.
the rise may continue to be relatively slow for at least the next century or so, the scientists said, but sometime after that it will probably speed up so sharply as to become a crisis.. this is really happening, said thomas p. wagner, who runs nasas programs on polar ice and helped oversee some of the research.
theres nothing to stop it now.
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Shanagirl
the change is accelerating and very good mathematical models bears this up.
gnat - Whether or not it's accelerating, I don't believe humans are causing it and I don't believe humans can stop it.
Shana
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Scientists Warn of Rising Oceans as Antarctic Ice Melts
by bohm inthe collapse of large parts of the ice sheet in west antarctica appears to have begun and is almost certainly unstoppable, with global warming accelerating the pace of the disintegration, two groups of scientists reported monday.. the finding, which had been feared by some scientists for decades, means that a rise in global sea level of at least 10 feet may now be inevitable.
the rise may continue to be relatively slow for at least the next century or so, the scientists said, but sometime after that it will probably speed up so sharply as to become a crisis.. this is really happening, said thomas p. wagner, who runs nasas programs on polar ice and helped oversee some of the research.
theres nothing to stop it now.
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Shanagirl
Climate change — it happens, with or without our help. I do not believe humans have anything to do with it. The earth is always going thru cycles. There is nothing humans can do to stop earth from going thru cycle upheaval. I don't fall for the lame stream media hype. Just my opinion. Shana
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What proof do we have that Moses was a real person???
by jam ini personally believe moses was largely or entirely mythical.
is because much of his biography, if not most of it, is tied to events.
that never happened, meaning that a historical moses could not .
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http://peterxdunn.hubpages.com/hub/Moses-Man-or-Myth
Moses: Man or Myth?
Sensational discovery at Tel Hazor.
In July this year (2010) archaeologists: digging at Tel Hazor in Northern Israel, from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, uncovered two fragments from an inscribed clay tablet that appears to reference the Codex Hammurabi. If this proves to be the case – and it does seem likely – then historical biblical scholars will finally have the evidence they need to prove that Mosaic Law was, indeed, based upon a body of laws that were first codified by King Hammurabi of Babylon who ruled from 1792 to 1750 BC.
The tablet is inscribed with the cuneiform letters of the ancient Akkadian language. It appears to be some kind of court record with references to body parts: 'eye' and 'tooth' are clearly discernible, which has led interpreters to believe that it is a judgment (or finding) along the lines of the famous, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,' first found in Babylonian Law and then, much later, adopted by the Hebrews.
What is sensational about this discovery is the dates given for the document's creation - which is estimated to be between 1800 and 1700 BC. This would place it, in what is now Israel, during the Middle Bronze Age: IE before the Israelites of the Exodus allegedly arrived there from Egypt. I base this assertion on the archaeological evidence for the destruction of the Canaanite city of Jericho: c1550 BC, after a siege supposedly led by Joshua (c1450 to 1370 BC: bible chronology), and the dates given for the rule of Israel's first king Saul who reigned from 1047 to 1007 BC.
All of this strongly supports the view: held by historical biblical scholarship, that Moses – as he appears in the Bible – never existed as a real person and so could not have authored the Mosaic body of law and that the historical/archaeological evidence for the Exodus from Egypt simply doesn't exist.
Further to this the Jewish scribes who concocted the story of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments: written by, 'The finger of God', on Mount Sinai might well have seen this monument...
The Finger of God?
The Finger of God? Seven foot four inch finger stele engraved with the Codex Hammurabi found at the site of the ancient city of Susa in Iran....whilst in Babylonian captivity between 597 to 538 BC. It was during this period that the greater part of what came to be the Old Testament: including Genesis and Exodus, was first written down from what had, prior to this time, only existed as oral tradition.
For Christians to claim, now, that the subject matter of the texts attributed to Moses the Law Giver was not - in any way - influenced by this well documented (written in stone no less) material: which includes both the codex and the Egyptian Book of the Dead, that so obviously preceded it is a patent absurdity.
So Moses was a myth. What - then - are the implications?
Besides his starring role in the Old Testament Moses puts in a cameo appearance in the Gospels of: Mathew (17: 1 – 9), Mark (9: 2 – 8) and Luke (9: 28 – 36). The occasion for this walk on role - alongside another guest: Elias - was the Transfiguration of Christ on an unnamed (I wonder why) mountain top. There were witnesses present at this event: James, John the Apostle and Peter (who mentions it in one of his epistles), were all in attendance. They all bore witness to the proceedings. The problem with all of this is, of course, Moses is a mythical character and never actually existed as a real person in the real world. So the event could never have actually happened.
To finish; these are the words of Peter introducing his description of the Transfiguration in his second epistle (verse 16), 'For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty'. He would not have included these words in this epistle if there were not, at the time, people that doubted the veracity of his claim to have known the Son of the Almighty. These doubters are no longer around - so their testimony is no longer available to us - but we can safely surmise that they were not misled by blind faith and/or ignorance (which amount to the same thing).
Nor am I.
(A closing thought: maybe the mountain of the Transfiguration bore the same name as the two pharaohs mentioned in Exodus - but then we didn't get to find out their names either – I wonder why?).
Shana
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Lifting the Veil on "Islamophobia"
by cofty inthe late christopher hitchens decribed the word islamophobia as "created by fascists, and used by cowards, to manipulate morons.. please take half an hour to read a fascinating conversation between sam harris and ayaan hirsi ali.. ayaan is an apostate from islam.
she fled to the netherlands in '92 to escape an arranged marriage and went on to become a member of the dutch government from 2003-2006.. ayaan is now a fellow with the future of diplomacy project at the belfer center for science and international affairs at the harvard kennedy school... she lives with round-the-clock security.. "some moderate muslims hate meand yes, thats a strong word, but i think what theyve said supports itbecause i make them feel uncomfortable.
the things i talk about put them in a state of dissonance that they cant live with.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJQtDH_9Mbs
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Kelly File Interview On Brandeis. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Shana
The Finger of God? Seven foot four inch finger stele engraved with the Codex Hammurabi found at the site of the ancient city of Susa in Iran.