I served as a lifeguard at a large municipal swimming pool. Pulled several kids out that summer. In combat, I served on a gunship that beat back the enemy until rescue choppers could get in and pick up personnel from downed helicopters. We also kept a firebase from being over-run by a large enemy force. It was one of the most satisfying things I have done. Their commander called our squadron the next day to express his thanks.
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Did you ever save anyones life?
by dh inif so, was it a stranger or was it someone you knew, and how did the relationship develop afterward?
i did once, a friend who was drowning, after the incident the friendship totally deteriorated and now whenever i think about it, i wonder why i bothered, it's difficult watching someone drown, especially when they shout your name instead of help.
anyway, anyone got any experiences to share?.
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General Tommy R. Franks
by freedom96 ini attended a seminar this weekend, in which retired 4 star general tommy r. franks was the keynote speaker.
what a fine job he did.
he loves this country; there was no doubt about it.
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So Reborn 2002 thinks the war was being pre-planned prior to 9/11. God, I hope so! It is the duty of the military to have contingency plans for all sorts of possible scenarios. One does not wait for the event to start planning an operation. There are a great many loose ends to tie up in an operation of that size and that takes time. I'm sure we have a contingency plan to take out Syria. Does that mean we are likely to do so? Certainly not! But to not have a plan would be a dereliction of duty on someone's part. I recall doing a plan as an exercise in Squadron Officer School in the early '60s to move into Thailand should it become necessary to expand the war in Vietnam. It consisted of identifying resources, estimating construction and manpower needs, figuring time schedules, planning entry points and transport, etc.. Ten years later I wound up flying out of one of those Thai bases interdicting the Ho Chi Minh Trail. It looked a lot like we had planned it. It wasn't the military who decided to expand that conflict. It was Lyndon Johnson and his phony "Gulf of Tonkin" incident.
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NEWS: Bride of Christ Files for Annulment
by slipnslidemaster inbride of christ files for annulment
ap - feb. 04, 9:45am
just 24 hours after marrying her lord and personal savior, the bride of christ is calling it quits.
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I fail to see the humor in this. Perhaps it is because I have a deep appreciation for what the man Jesus did for us.
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Has Anyone Ever Met Any Celebrities?
by imallgrowedup inthis is a spin-off of another thread where my *mild and chaste* friend, mouthy, admitted to wanting to meet her dream man, tom jones, and that she would even go so far as to throw her bloomers at him, if that is what it would take to get his attention!
well, the mental picture this painted was far too much for me to bear, so i encouraged her to save her red polka-dotted "unmentionables", not only because she might need them in the future, but because i didn't think she'd have to go that far to get his attention.
and i said that - because of a personal experience with him.
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I ran into James Arness (Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke) on a riverboat on the Rhein River in West Germany. He was most pleasant and pleased that I knew his real name instead of just Mr. Dillon. He wanted to know what we were doing in Germany (serving in the USAF) and how long we had been there, etc.
Also met and shook hands with John Wayne and his son when they were in Florida making the movie, "The Green Berets". He bought a round of drinks for the officers who were present in the club that evening.
Ran into Sterling Holloway (Voice of Kaa the snake in Jungle Book and voice of Winnie the Pooh on Television) on a airplane flying out of Thailand. He wanted to know how I had recognized him as everyone knew his voice, but not what he looked like. I told him that I remembered him from the time he was a regular on the old "Life With Riley" TV series with William Bendix and Jane Wyman (He was the kooky next door neighbor). He informed me that he was the only one still alive from that series.
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Atlantis and Crystals
by VM44 in"atlantis, the lost empire" was an animated film released by disney.
in it quartz crystals were featured as the power source for atlantis.
back in the early 1970s, the popular dr who series had an episode ("the time monster") about atlantis, and again, crystals were used, and the crystals had something to do with the destruction of the continent.
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I never heard of that connection. The most sensible explanation I ever heard for the Atlantis legend was in a book about the pyramids of Egypt. Can't remember the title or author. The author suggested that the earth's crust slipped about 35 degrees due to the weight of the glaciers covering what is now Europe. That would have set up a monstrous tidal wave capable of wiping out an entire civilization which might have developed along the coastline. The author believed that Atlantis was what we now know as Antartica. We know that it wasn't covered by ice 10,000 years ago and ancient maps have been found that show precisely what we have recently discovered it looks like under the ice cap. It also explains how northern Canada, which is a frozen swamp, came to be a very cold place and how the mastedons were quick frozen with undigested grass still in their stomachs. If it did happen like that only the highest and most remote outposts would have survived. We know the ancient Incas and Mayans were marvelous astronomers. Where did they get that knowledge if not from a highly developed civilization?
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A Trip Down Memory Lane (for Room 215)
by cruzanheart inas i promised a few weeks ago, here is a photo of my grandmother, my uncle, and a couple of old greek friends from 'way back in the late 1950's.
from left to right is eugenia tsigaris, my grandmother vasiliki giannacopoulos, george tsigaris, and my uncle paul janis (he shortened his name for convenience).
they went to the greek congregation around the teaneck/englewood, new jersey area..
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Neat looking bunch! I could pick your Uncle as Greek without being told, having logged a good bit of time in Greece during my military service. I loved the Greek food, but didn't care much for the wine. The people were most hospitable. I marveled at how they could wreak a living out of that generally rocky soil.
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Self Esteem
by larc ini have heard some people say that they have low self esteem.
i don't understand that.
why did you choose to have low self esteem?
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Your question would have been better if you had asked "Why would anyone consciously choose to experience low self esteem?" The answer should be obvious. No one would. But what about the sub-conscious? What about all that input we have stored (stuffed) there from all the unloving, uncaring, unthinking people we have dealt with in our lives, especially those encountered when we were young and impressionable. That sort of input is unpleasant and so we stuff it into our sub-conscious where it controls our feelings about ourselves, sometimes for the rest of our lives. Kids don't know any better. If you are unlucky enough to be raised in a dysfunctional household, you are going to store this sort of stuff. Chances are there is no one around to tell you that you were created in the image and likeness of God and that God Himself (Herself) would be incomplete without you. No one is there to tell you that you are loved beyond anything that you can comprehend. Even if you are as lucky as I was to be raised in a loving household there are plenty of folks around who are more than willing to build themselves up by tearing you down. Depression? Hell yes! Why do you think the suicide rate is so high among young people? It takes a lot of work to "unlearn" all the lies that we were fed about ourselves. One of the main reasons my wife is a JW today is because she was raised in a dysfunctional household and told she was going to hell because she was worthless. The JWs came along and told her that there was no hell. They failed to mention the hell that they would create for her right here on earth.
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A Woman Without Her Man Is Nothing.
by Englishman ina woman: without her, man is nothing.
that's it folks, i'm paying more attention to my punctuation in future!.
englishman.
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You really like to live dangerously don't you! No problem! You saved yourself just in time.
Punctuation really does make a difference.
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Manuscript varients betray deliberate altertion of NT
by peacefulpete innon-roman fonts used: spionic .
this article is also available in transliteration and text-only formats.
editor's note: bart ehrman delivered the kenneth w. clark lectures at duke divinity school in 1997. this article, though slightly modified from the oral presentation, preserves the original flavor of the lecture.
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Some of the work by George Lamsa (The Lamsa Bible) suggest that some of the original stories may have been in aramaic. He cites the apparent unfamiliartity with aramaic wedding celebrations found in John. He also has a much more reasonable explanation for the feeding of the 5000 than is portrayed in movies about the incident. He points out that the root word for camel and hemp (rope) are the same in aramaic which suggests that the greek author may have mistranslated the saying. "It will be easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to pass into the kingdom of heaven." He also suggests that the brand of aramaic used by Jesus (who was raised in Samaria) was quite different from that used in Jerusalem and may have contributed to some mistranslations, especially where idioms are being used. Sort of like trying to get by on TEXMEX in Madrid, Spain.
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Manuscript varients betray deliberate altertion of NT
by peacefulpete innon-roman fonts used: spionic .
this article is also available in transliteration and text-only formats.
editor's note: bart ehrman delivered the kenneth w. clark lectures at duke divinity school in 1997. this article, though slightly modified from the oral presentation, preserves the original flavor of the lecture.
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Very interesting post! Surely the original accounts of the life of Jesus were in Aramaic. Have any of those accounts been recovered?