The Old Testament unfortunately is a quite violent book. But they certainly could've used more discretion, particularly in the choices of how to depict the scenes. Telling the story of Abraham and Isaac is not the same as showing it in every detail. The one picture that scared me was of Jonah and the fish.
Leolaia
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My Book of Bible Stories
by brianhenke ini was looking through my book of bible stories (1978 ed.
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- have the jws re-issued it, and.... - did they make any changes between editions?.
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Leolaia
onacruse....since you are part of the Pepsi Generation, please tell me: since that generation has lasted since god knows when, will it by no means pass away until the Coke Empire has fallen?
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Did Demons Write Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven
by dh indoes anyone remember the jw urban legend that 'the demons' wrote the song 'stairway to heaven' by lez zeppelin.
i remember being told as a kid that the song was written by 'the demons', because.... .
the guy who wrote the song was wasted at a party or something, and when he woke up the next day, the song was written in his own writing, but he didn't remember writing it.. .
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Leolaia
Simon....Ah, thank you, that's exactly what I was thinking about. I've been doing phonetic reversal stuff for some time. Way back when, Art Bell would open his line to alien callers, and I would call up with reversed speech as in Twin Peaks. I would just write what I want to say in advance, reverse the phonemes, and then say it that way, then reverse the tape which gives it that weird effect. Art Bell took my prank with great spirit, telling me that it sounds like a terrible phone I'm using, about wouldn't aliens with their superior technology use a better-sounding phone?
The example you gave of "Another One Bites the Dust" can be represented in phonetic notion the following way (hopefully the phonetic notation will post in the right format):
« n «T«w an bay ? s DEdÃs ?> sà dED s t yab na w«T« n «
If the IPA did not post correctly, the converted form is phonetically: seh deth styab na wethunuh. The first "th" is as in breathe and the second is as in breath. Now the part that sounds like "smoke marijuana" comes from the bridge where the words are sung more loosely and quickly. So if you listen, "Another one" sounds more like "Ano'er one", the word is kinda mumbled. So that means the phrase is seh deth styabna weunuh. Now, also because the words are a bit mumbled in this portion, there is another case of what is called in phonetics "assimilation': in "one bites," the [n] is pronounced as an [m]. This is because it is directly followed by a [b], which like [m] is bilabial. It is like saying "football" as "foopball" in causual speech. So now the result of this very simple and everyday change is that the phrase now sounds like this:
seh deth styab maweunuh
As you can see, the "marijuana" part is fully there. I'll leave you the rest of the phrase, of how to come up with the "smoke" part, because it is much more complex, and involves a lot more imagination. When I listen to the sound clip, the first phrase is not clear but the second definitely sounds consistent with "Styab", which is the normal reversal of "bites". The phrase is more like "eh(?) styab maweunuh".
Englishman...."There" definitely does not sound like "Satan", it sounds more like Zayy. The imagination fills in the rest. "There's a feeling I get" phonetically is something like: theyzuh fi:linay geh' and reversed that is 'ehg yanili:f uhzeyth. Loosely, that sounds like: "Eggyan ih leaf fuh zey" since the [th] is pretty silent. Thus " ih leaf fuh zay" is interpreted to mean "I live for Satan", though it really sounds like "Ih leaf fuh zay."
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Did Demons Write Led Zeppelin's Stairway To Heaven
by dh indoes anyone remember the jw urban legend that 'the demons' wrote the song 'stairway to heaven' by lez zeppelin.
i remember being told as a kid that the song was written by 'the demons', because.... .
the guy who wrote the song was wasted at a party or something, and when he woke up the next day, the song was written in his own writing, but he didn't remember writing it.. .
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Leolaia
The backwards message is the simply the result of phonetic sounds in the words that are sung that somehow by chance sound like words when played backwards. I actually tested this myself, of singing the same line in the same way, and then reserving the tape and seeing if the hidden message was there. And it was. It's easy to find messages in other songs. One of the best examples I've ever heard is Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust." In the bridge, if you hear it backwards, it sounds just like "y' wanna smoke marijuana?" I can think of a few other cases that are surely coincidental, like one about "brushing your teeth". The one intentional backwards message I heard is the Pink Floyd one, which is classic, but that is obvious because it sounds backwards when you hear it normally.
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The Passion of The Christ
by CaptainSchmideo inanybody been following the development and release of this movie?.
an 'r' rated jesus film, one that portrays a no holds barred depiction of the the beatings, the whippings, and the execution.
all dialogue is in the 'original' languages (at first it wasn't supposed to be subtitled, but mel gibson finally caved in on this point.
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Leolaia
Yes, it looks great, however he did stick to some common beliefs and not on fact.
I saw part of the trailer. I was a little disappointed that in the scene where he bears the cross, it is depicted in the traditional way which is not historical -- with it over his shoulder. Instead the hands would have been outstretched and latched to the crosspiece. But I guess that would be too jarring to most viewers.
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Leolaia
I definitely prefer Coke. It has a nice nectar-type taste. However I usually drink diet and in that case, I would prefer Diet Pepsi because it doesn't have as strong an aspartame taste. But I usually reject both and go for a Dr. Pepper or Root Bear if I am drinking diet because they mask the taste of aspartame much metter, with an extra kick.
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Women ....
by Celtic inwomen.. they're a rummily scrumptious lot.. take breasts for example.
from a mans point of view, how much better can life be, when you got a beautiful pair of scrumptious breasts to kiss and cuddle upto.
if god was a breast, i'd love him to bits.. breasts.
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Leolaia
If God was a breast, I'd love Him to bits.
Maybe you're not aware of this text where God says: "I fashioned their members: my own breasts I prepared for them, that they might drink my holy milk and live thereby I took pleasure in them and am not ashamed of them: For my workmanship are they and the strength of my thoughts: Who then shall rise up against my handiwork, or who is there that is not subject to them? (Odes of Solomon 8:17-20). This Christian book was written at the end of the first century and shows some similarities with the Gospel of John. Here is another striking text, where Solomon says: "A cup of milk was offered to me: and I drank it in the sweetness of the delight of the Lord. The Son is the cup and He who was milked is the Father: And the Holy Spirit milked Him: because His breasts were full, and it was necessary for Him that His milk should be sufficiently released; and the Holy Spirit opened His bosom and mingled the milk from the two breasts of the Father and gave the mixture to the world without their knowing." (19:1-4)
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The Trinity in the Old Testament
by hooberus in"and god said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
" genesis 1:26 .
note the plural "our image", "our likeness" yet from other verses it is clear that man was created in gods image and likeness (singular).. "so god created man in his own image, in the image of god created he him; male and female created he them.
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Leolaia
If you want evidence of polytheism and monolatry in the OT, just read Mark Smith's book THE EARLY HISTORY OF GOD. It goes over all the evidence of El, Baal, Asherah, Resheph, etc. in the Bible and how Yahweh came to be identified with many of these and how true monotheism only appeared during or after the Exile. Even the Torah is not truly monotheistic -- it forbids the worshipping of other gods or making images of other gods. It doesn't claim that other gods do not exist. Monolatry is an intermediate stage between polytheism and monotheism.
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Leolaia
Even if Nader runs, I hope the past four years have demonstrated to liberal voters why in this election it would be a BIG MISTAKE to vote for Nader again. They know what's at stake, right? I mean, a die-hard Nader voter would be more inclined to see Bush as a threat than the rest of the electorate, right? Would they fall the same mistake twice? Here's to hoping they don't.
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