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When did Democritus make his discoveries? What "discoveries"? Democritus was not any kind of a scientist. He was a teacher-philosopher who popularized the philosophy of his master, a philosophy that tried to explain the ultimate nature of reality, but didn't get very far in that. Democritus systematized and promulgated "the philosophy of atomism" which was actually the brainchild of his teacher, Leucippus. Leucippus' had hypothesized...

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which of the following compliments would make u happiest ? None of the above. They're all usually said as a setup for some bit of manipulation or a let down (wait for the "but ..."); the first can be a not-so-veiled insult, and even at its best really doesn't say anything; the last is nice but hardly anything to be proud of or take credit for (apart from just plain good grooming and basic fitness); the third is a fatuous platitude ... and I don't like...

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What ever happened to bringing back the "Made in the USA" slogan? Plenty of abandoned factories, aren't there? Because it flopped, just like "look for the union label", "just say no", "visualize world peace," and every other silly slogan for blowing in the wind campaigns contrary to the general economic interest and human nature. Also the Japanese renamed their principle manufacturing prefecture "USA" 15 minutes after American manufacturers started smacking that slogan on their products, and simply...

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Are fire and car insurance expressions of socialism? No. And your two subordinate statements are false. 1) You are not required by law to have either of them. If you own a car, you are required by law to have driver's liability insurance OR post a bond to cover damages your car might cause to others (the 2nd is only possible for the wealthy), but you are not required to insure your own car (collision insurance): if you finance or lease your...

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Did Jesus practice a form of Socialism? No. Socialism is a statist system of government ownership of all major industries and natural resources, in which the economy (all markets) are "planned" by central planners in the government, i.e., they decide how much of each good is to be made and what price is to be charged for it ... and how many people are to be employed at each step of the value chain. Also, Socialism isn't even...

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Germany's chancellor Markel as said that there could be war if Europe doesn't sort out its monetary problems,honestly,how likely is that? I believe the point is that if they don't fix this problem, the EU will disintegrate, which would then make another European war (supposedly) possible. Of course the only way such a war is possible (at least in this century) is if the USA would allow it -- or demand it. And even then the only countries that it would be it's objective to contain would be (1st) Russia, and 2nd (after Russia...

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Why did God ask Abraham tro kill Isaac, his long-awaited and cherished son? Can murder please God? Seeing as it explains the why right in the text - TWICE! - once right in the first verse and once again at the climax of the story, why are you asking this question? It does help to understand the Hebrew though. The word usually translated as "test" has the sense of "prove", "refine", "temper" (as in steel making), and "purify": it's not that God didn't know what decision Abraham would make if...

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Do you think rape is on the rise because of the clothing young girls are wearing? Haven't incidents of rape (on a per capita basis) actually been on the decline for the last 30+ years? In the US, the DOJ says that it peaked in 1980 at 2.4/1000 people (over 12 years old) to 0.4/1000 people (over 12) today.

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Do you think that the reason Americans have changed "football" to "soccer" is to show our overwhelming narcissism and individuality? Americans didn't change it. The Brits first called it Soccer (taken from the soc in "Association Football"), and it was the main British term referring to it until about the 1920s, by which time "soccer" had been adopted in the US (and Canada too). Since the US already had game called Football when the Brits started to switch, the US simply never did.

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So what you want as prez is a successful businessman? That's it? That's all? The whole ball of wax/the whole 9 yards? Seriously? Why? No, what I want is to get that inept narcissistic arrogant amateur out of office and his disastrous anti-growth, anti-business, anti-freedom, anti-prosperity, and anti-American policies discarded forever on the ash-heap of history where they belong. Romney certainly wouldn't be my first choice for doing that. But at the moment he would seem to be the only choice available. However, unlike the...

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Do the creation days in Genesis coincide with the model of evolution? No, they are a literary device: a kind of prologue in allegory. They correspond to the 7 refrains of Genesis which introduce the next cycle. 1) Adam, Eve, & the Serpent ==> Seth (the light) supplants Cain (the darkness) 2) Sons of God, Daughters of the Earth, and the Niphilim ==> Shem (the vault of heaven) supplants Ham/Canaan (the primeval chaos/the abyss) 3) Abraham, Sarah, &...

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If Biblical creationism is taught in public schools, shouldn't various other creation stories also be taught in order to prevent the illusion that Christian creation is the only theory of creation there is? Who's advocating that *Biblical* creationism be taught in the public schools? At best it seems some are advocating a vaguely Deistic creationism be taught in the public schools, without any reference to any religion's scriptures or doctrines. Examining what such people propose, it's not even so much a theory as an anti-theory: they want kids to hear arguments AGAINST the theory of common...

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Bain wasn't about 'job creation' but profit creation. The history speaks for itself. What spin will change it? Who would believe it? Rosie, every single business on earth is about profit creation, not job creation. And without that, there would be no jobs ... or any wealth for governments to tax. So what's your point?

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An overwhelmingly large number of women have used/ are using birth control including those of faith. How can the church not know? The Church knows. An overwhelmingly large number of Catholics - including those of faith - have sinned/are sinning in any number of categories . The Church knows that too ... and always has. So what's your point? Surely you're not suggesting that because a sin is popular means it shouldn't be regarded as a sin anymore.

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Malachi Martin died July 26 1999, before he died, he said that the Anti-Christ will invade DC. And said his name was Obama. What say you? Just for the record, Martin NEVER said Obama is the antichrist. He also was far more insistent that the Antichrist would invade the Papal Throne. Martin gave 3 signs of the antichrist which were, in chronological order: 1) In a time of seemingly unsolvable global crises, he will solve them. 2) Others would THEN insist that he must be divine. 3) He would THEN pronounce them correct and demand...

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The older I get, the more I like the History Channel. Is that normal, or should I be worried? Yes, you should be worried. If you're interest in the channel's offerings is increasing it means you're not interested in real history but in endless conspiracy and crank theory "documentaries" and absurd extreme-jobs "reality" shows. (And yes, I too got tired of WWII footage being 50% of their format. But there used to be other good documentaries - with the most wonderfully low-budget and...

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Is anyone else watching Armageddon Week on the History Channel? No, the irony was just too much for me.

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Will The Black Churches Put Obama Before The Bible? It will certainly hurt Obama among voting blacks, though it is by no means certain how much. It is of course not a necessary trade-off in many of their minds, that is, most probably don't equate a vote for Obama as vote for same-sex marriage any more than they equated a vote for Clinton as a vote for adultery. They may well believe they can have their cake and eat it too; i.e., they can have a...

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when should men start wearing platform shoes? :-) As in the '70s "style"? -- Absolutely never. As in lifts? When they're under 5'10" and they're in a business where salaries and chances for advancement increase with height -- which is to say most white-collar jobs in the US and Canada. Statistically, a difference of 2" in height up to 6'6" gains an extra $5k-$10k per year. (It's not shallow and superficial to recognize you live in a shallow...

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if i was born in 1966 wat year will i graduate high scool It would depend on how stupid your are.

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Do you think the Bible would stand up in court being accused of fraud? A book or even a collection of books cannot commit fraud. Only people can. Ancient documents, however, are evaluated on the basis of "the ancient documents rule": Under the Federal Rules of Evidence, this is a permissible method to authenticate a document. Under the rule, if a document is (1) more than 20 years old; (2) is regular on its face with no signs of obvious alterations; and (3)...

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What does this mean: Jesus is the beginging of God's creation (Rev.3:14)? That all things begin in Him - "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God; He was in the beginning with God, All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being." (John 1:1-3 NASB)

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In the bible, When the three kings (the 3 brightest stars on Orions belt) followed Sirius, the brightest star in the east, to find the son (sun) of god, did they know they were just astrological symbolism? Did you Christians know that? Did you know that this is just the speculation of 19th century theosophists, projecting Christian themes back into an Egyptian milieu for which there is no evidence in Egyptology at all? Also, just FYI, in the Matthew's Gospel (the only one to mention the star of Bethlehem) the star is in the WEST. It's the magi who are in the East when they see it. Which is why they go west from Persia to...

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Horus, Mithras, Dionysus and Ra, were all born on 25th December, to a virgin, a star was shining in the east and three kings appeared. All were crucified and resurrected 3 days later. Anything seem familiar? Each of these claims is false. None were born on Dec 25th (but then neither was Jesus), and none had festivals dedicated to them celebrating anything about them on or around Dec 25. None were born of virgins: Horus's father was Osiris the brother-husband of the fertility goddess Isis since time in-memoriam; Osiris - along with Isis, Set, and Nephthys - was the child of his father Geb (earth)...

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There's a book called "______________ for Dummies" on my bookshelf. There's a book called "WRITING 'BOOKS FOR DUMMIES' for Dummies" on my bookshelf.

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If men carried the babies their views on pro-choice/pro-life might change. The ones who wage the wars need to fight them, right? Well, something of an absurd question since men don't get pregnant by definition, and a human who gets pregnant is by definition a woman, but be that as it may ... Yes, the views of many "pro-choice" men would certainly change to being pro-life if they were women. Really, Rosie. You have to be aware that far more men are "pro-choice" than women. (The majority of women in fact oppose abortion...

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Don't you ever get tired of celebrities? I've never even been interested in them. They always bore me and often disgust me.

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How many VIRGIN births were there before Jesus? Before Christianity was born. None - at least among human beings and other mammals. However, parthenogenesis occurs naturally in many plants, some invertebrate animal species, and a few vertebrates (such as some fish, amphibians, reptiles, and very rarely birds). But I gather you're referring to virgin births in legends and myths. The fact is that there is no evidence of any pre-Christian myth or legend involving a human...

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How come Christians deny that the RCC adopted pagan holidays, dates, symbols and traditions, when clearly December 25 was a pagan holiday? Because it's not true. If you are so sure it is true, please provide the primary source historical evidence that supports your claim, e.g., in what ancient document, fragment, or inscription do you find evidence of any such pre-Christian pagan celebration? If the Philocalian Calendar reference is your best and earliest source regarding Christmas, you've got a heck of a problem: (1) Pope...

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i saw "unmasking the pagan christ" last night.( the christian's retort to "the pagan christ" ).i was shocked .. ..continued.... The tv show was basically a promotion gimmick for Tom Harpur's book of the same name. Harpur is a Canadian journalist who writes New Agish colunmns for the Toronto Star. To say that Harpur's claims are utter horse shit would be unfairly demeaning to horse shit. An exhaustive response and point-by-point rebuttal can be read here: http://www.tektonics.org/harpur01.html

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Can a Pagan holiday be made Christian? "Can" is a curious choice of words. The better question is "would", to which the proper response is, "Why would it?" and "How could it happen?" But contra all the dilettantes and cranks, there's no substantive evidence that Christians ever did this and a good bit of evidence that they did not, though they did try to baptize Platonic and Aristotelian philosophy and Roman law.

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Is it ok that a lot of Christianity is based on or copied from pagan beliefs, history and tradition? False premise. None of Christianity is based on or copied from pagan beliefs, history, or tradition. When someone tells you that it is, demand they produce the primary sources (the pre-Christian documents) that demonstrate their claim. Do not accept mere claims of similarities between Jesus and supposed pre-Christian savior figures, or quotes of the same claims from credentialless non-scholars...

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Why can't Muslims and Christians get along like brothers and sisters? Because according to each religion the other is a fraud-pretender trying to steal their inheritance and their father's Name.

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I am told Gospel stories are copied from pagan legends. Is that true? No, it's not true. When someone tells you that it is, demand they produce the primary sources (the pre-Christian documents) that demonstrate their claim. Do not accept mere claims of similarities between Jesus and supposed pre-Christian savior figures, or quotes of the same claims from credentialless non-scholars like Freke & Gandy, Acharya S" (DM Murdock), Tom Harpur, or long discredited...

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Why do anti-choice folks use the Bible claiming that God opposes abortion & life begins at conception when that's not what the Bible says? 1. We're not "anti-choice". We're anti-baby-murder. 2. The verses you quote have nothing to do with birth or "insolation": In Job 33:4, Job is saying that it is God that gives him life, i.e., sustains him, even now; the word translated breath (nashamah) can mean wind, angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, the intellect, or the soul/spirit; the word translated "gives life" (chayah) can...

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Native English-speakers: have you ever tried to explain to an English learner something about our crazy language & ended up having to say, All languages are crazy. More accurately, they're all idiosyncratic as hell. The craziest thing about English is its spelling, which is simply the result of (1) its being a composite of several languages and dialects, and (2) the vowel shift that happened in the 12th & 13th century. Before that all As, Es, Is, Os and Us were pronounced like they are in Latin, Spanish, and Italian. But...

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What do you think of "The Life of Julia" and the points it makes? Just more proof of how evil and insidious this administration is. Everyone should be required to watch this video instead: http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=m-feedu&v=Pra0WNajXNo

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Who, if anyone, seems to criticize your every move? Do you have any idea as to why? You mean other than my mother? No one, really. As for my mother, she does that to everyone, especially her husband and children. It seems to be her reason for living. She honestly thinks its her way of adding value.

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Don't you find it offensive how rice is white? Isn't that racist? Rice comes in a range of tones from virtually black, through brown, tan, saphron, amber, and beige/off-white, to white, depending on the strain of rice and how much it's been processed.

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Do you remember seeing an original trilogy Star Wars movie when it first opened? All of them. I saw Star Wars the summer of 77 in a two-bit shopping mall theatre in Lakewood, NY. If you've seen the STAR WARS episode of the That '70s Show, it was just like that for me. I was a couple of weeks shy of my 16th birthday. The movie had only opened there the day before and no one in the area had heard much or anything about it, or even that it was any big deal. I went with a gang...

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Why does the south continue the very same repressive thinking patterns that lead to the civil war, and the civil rights movement ? Why?

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Which European city would you most like to visit: Prague, Paris, Barcelona, Vienna, London, Athens or Rome? (or other) For a beautiful old world city that looks like what every city in Europe should look like? PRAGUE!!! Hands down. If you love classical and romantic era music and opera it's even better. For art, fashion, great food, cabaret's, cafe' life, etc.? Paris For amazing deserts and an easy trip to beautiful mountains with amazing air? Vienna For history, care-free fun, a bit of craziness, and a...

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Ok, should I go to Florence OR Athens? any suggestion would help, thanks. Definately Florence, though prefereably not in Summer when it's hot as hell and mobbed with tourists and college kids. Apart from the Acropolis, Athens is a pit ... and the country is falling apart right now. (Italy is of course always falling apart, so they're use to it. In fact, it's arguably part of the place's charm.) But if you do go to Greece, under no circumstances miss visiting...

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Do clams or oysters make a person horny? I heard this from someone and don't know which one it is and if it's true. The story is that oysters are an aphrodisiac ... but I think it has more to do with Boticelli's Venus-on-the-Half-Shell than fact. However, oysters do contain trace amounts of zinc that does help to increase the amount and fluidity of semen, so they improve male fertility slightly.

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Who is your favorite Avenger? Mrs. Peel

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Do paraphrase Chris Rock, do you love Arabic people, but hate Muslims? Actually, it's more the other way around. But then I live in Southeast Asia. Thai, Malaysian, and Indonesian Moslems are fairly decent laid-back folks.

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Why were some Jews stumbled by the manner of Jesus' death ?(1 Corinthians 1:23. Crucifixion was regarded as a form of being hanged on a tree. To be hanged on a tree was to incurr the ultimate curse found in God's law, the Torah. A man who was executed and displayed in such a way was deemed to be absolutely detestable to God -- an abomination, cursed and estranged from God. Totally "unclean". To which His disciples who understood the mystery responded, "That's the point."

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Is Christianity based on Pagan roots?Horus(Egyptian),Osiris-Dionysus(Greek) Krishna(Indian),and Mithras ,were all born Dec. 25,born from a virgin mother in a cave,created miracles,each represented as the trinity,died as a sacrifice for mankind,etc. No, it wasn't. It's origins are entirely Jewish, grounded in the Old Testament and 2nd Temple Judaism ... and in the historical events of the life of Jesus of Nazareth. As for Horus, Osiris, Dionysus, Krishna, Mithras, et al ... none were born on Dec 25th (but then neither was Jesus), and none had festivals dedicated to them celebrating anything about them on or around Dec 25. none were born...

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How could anyone who calls themselves Christian vote for Romney? First of all, you don't know what usury is. Taking an equity position is never usury. Also, lending at interest is not prohibited when it's one corporation (a non-human entity) lending to another corporation so that both can make money; if the borrowing corporation defaults its investors only can lose what they've invested. It's only usury when one human being lends to another human being at...

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Would you like to live in a country WITHOUT A clause for "freedom of religion", if it meant women were better protected against holy murder? Absurd question. It is only in theocratic Islamic states without religious freedom where women are NOT protected against what youve called "Holy murder", though the more accurate term is "honor slayings" for what happens in the Middle East. But even then they aren't punished by "religion" or even by Islam. They suffer at the hands of a barbaric honor-shame culture. They're actual religion has...

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If you try to be all things to all people you end up being nothing to anyone. What does Romney exemplify to you and why? You mean as opposed to Oblablahma in '08 who basically was nothing and so a 50 million dunces could imagine he was what they wanted him to be?

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If you were granted ONE wish from a genie what would it be? Everything I want.

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Why are everyone prior to Christ and Christianity considered pagans? What makes their "God" the correct and only deity? First of all, not all religions prior to Christianity are considered pagan. Judaism is not pagan. Many would argue that Zoroastrianism isn't either. While various types of Buddhism are essentially pagan with a Buddhist veneer, authentic Buddhism is not pagan. Islam and Sikhism - though they come after Christianity - are also not classified as pagan. Some schools of Hinduism are not pagan...

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Was the Qur'an cobbled together from the Bible and the Torah ; or is it original? First of all, the Torah is the first 5 books of the Bible, though I gather you meant "from the Christian New Testament [27 books] and the Hebrew Old Testament [39 books)". Secondly, you should read both the Bible and the Quran and see for yourself. If you do, you won't come away with the impression that the Quran is just a cobbling together of passages from the Bible (which is much, much...

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What is something that begins with the letter "T" and ends with an "L" ? The Federative Republic of Brazil (you didn't say it had to be one word) (but if you want just one word, try ...) testimonial trial tribunal timbral Tubal and Tophal (they're Biblical)

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If God created everything, then who created God? How many times is this same stupid question going to be asked on AB before any of the morons asking it bother to read the answers to any of it's previous incarnations? Yes, I've reported the question as a duplicate. See ... If God created everything, then who created God? by wickedwillie on March 22nd, 2005 | 40 people like this | 133 answers http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/18160 Who made...

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Can you name a lie presented as truth in a movie? If you are tried for killing someone who turns up alive later, you can kill that person with impunity protected by the Double Jeopardy rule. (the premise of the movie DOUBLE JEOPARDY) If a nuclear reactor melts down, it will burn all the way through the Earth's crust creating a mini volcano that will spew toxic radioactive debris over a vast area. (the premise of THE CHINA SYNDROME) If you go...

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How could an American civilian enter Vietnam during the war? They could easily enter the South, but it wasn't exactly a popular tourist destination. Civilians there were almost entirely government diplomats, employees and contractors, family members of military and government personnel stationed there, members of the press, businessmen on business trips, and politicians on fact finding missions, As for entering the North ... Ever hear of Jane Fonda?

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Did the U.S. win or lose the Vietnam War? (Please state what country you're from...I'd like to see different view on this). Militarily, the US won the war three times. In 68, 70, And in 72 the US broke the North Vietnamese will to fight. But in 68 and 70 the leftist US media and anti-war movement convinced them to keep fighting. But by 72 it was apparent that Nixon and middle America would never abandon South Vietnam or stop bombing the North until the North agreed to accept the sovereignty of the South. And so they...

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Where in the Bible does it say God created everything? JN 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. (KJV) JN 1:3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. (NIV) JN 1:3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. (NRSV) JN 1:3 All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come...

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What would you like to give 'The Anonymous Witch' for his birthday today? If (s)he only had brain.

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If men can go to the beach without a t-shirt, why can't women go topless? Because less well endowed women won't allow it.

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Have you ever been on a Mediterranean cruise? If so, what was that like? Well, mine was on a destroyer on water hours (rationing), with 350 other men, (no gals in those days) and we were just sailing through (Suez to Gibraltar) heading back to Charleston having spent 9 months in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf. It wasn't bad if you like that sort of thing.

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At what age can a mother get to sleep without worrying about her kid getting home safely? When you're so old you forget you have them.

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Alright answerbag weighlifters, how much can we bench and/or squat out there? Bench 450# Squat 750#

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Are kids today jealous that our generation could fly ships to the moon while all their generation can do is play Angry Birds? No, most of them think the moon landings were faked... Or haven't heard of them. Heck, most are shocked to find out that World War II actually happened and that the Titanic was real!

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Should Chinese and Spanish be part of the curriculum in high school? High School? Try PREschool! (at least for Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, or Italian. But both Mandarin and Cantonese are horrible languages, along with all other East Asian languages. They'll mess up your English grammar too -- a few years of speaking Chinese an ewen yu ingrit staat soun rike sheesh! No haa time faw ektra word. Best to leave them as electives in university.) But the...

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Is it ok that a lot of Christianity is based on or copied from pagan beliefs, history and tradition? Absurd question as it assumes a false premise. Nothing of Christianity is based on or copied from any pagan beliefs.

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Why would you call the bible "the good book" when it advises people to enslave, rape and murder others? "The Bible" does not advise people to do any such thing. The Bible includes the Book of Deuteronomy, which is a treaty between the vassal Israel and God its king. It records God telling the Israelites c. 1400 BC how they were to deal with foreign enemies at war who invade or raid the Promised Land, killing, plundering, and enslaving Israelites. (And FYI, there's no instruction to rape here:...

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What do think of people that are always "Fashionably late". If it's in terms of showing up 15-20 minutes "late" for a party or something similar (which is the only situation where the term "fashionable late" actually applies): That they were brought up properly! It's the idiots who show up "on time" -- or wose: EARLY! -- when you're still rushing to get ready are the ill-mannered and clueless ones!!! Basic rule for all social engagements is: Never be...

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Don't the wealthy donate more to political parties than they do to famine and the like? Only the Leftwing ones.

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Does anyone know how to deal with Catholics? It's a good parent thing. Now their issue could be either cultural (a matter of heritage) or religious ... or both. Parents who understand what it is to be Catholic (or Protestant ... or Jewish ... or anything) and truly care about it, wouldn't countenance their child marrying outside their own faith and/or kind. This isn't a matter like a Methodist marrying an Episcopalian. To be a...

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As a Christian, I can not in good conscience vote for Romney. And I sure do not want Obama again. Christians, who are you voting for? A vote for Romney is NOT a vote for Mormonism! It's a vote against Oblahblahma and fiscal, social, economic, and geo-political catastrophe. As a Christian you have duty to make the best of what you've been dealt. Everyone will know you aren't endorsing Mormonism when you do it.

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Identical twins look alike, but do they also think alike? Would they come up with the same answers on a test? My twin nephews when they were in kindergarten would paint and draw the same things in the same "art" class even when isolated from one another. When they were younger they were like the Corsican Brothers: if one was crying from a leg ache you had to rub the other one's leg for it to go away. Yet psychologically they were like mirror twins: each was the other one's repressed subconscious.

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Theists: Studies show that critical thinking deflates faith in God. Does that not trouble you at all? Yes, it troubles me that unbelievers are so supercilious yet insecure that they have to keep parroting manifest nonsense like this. Also troubles me that those engaged in such research are so inept and bigoted at interpreting data as well as gathering it.

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Are we all animals? That would depend upon your definition of animal. For most of human history, however, the answer was, "No. Men are men and animals are animals." The statement "we are all animals" was just as non-sensical as "we are all plants."

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What speed is car 1 traveling when it collides with car 2 in front of it, stopped. Car #1 recoils 9 feet. #1 is Acura and #2 is Tahoe. At the instant before the crash? Impossible to tell given the lack of information: you'd need their payloads, surface conditions, all the relevent info on the tires, the grade, the angle of impact, whether the Acura driver continued to press down on the accelerator at and after impact (i.e, was the Tahoe bumped hard or pushed?), whether there was anything behind the Tahoe to stop it, and...

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Who would Win?Genghis Khan Or His Son Kublai Khan? Kublai was his grandson. As to your question, all else being equal, probably Genghis. Genghis with the whole Mongol Horde vs. Kublai with the Chinese army, I'd still bet on Genghis.

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What famous person do you most resemble? Kurt Russell

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How many of you would boycott KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut (all owned by one company) for their cruelty to chickens? You mean PepsiCo? No. I boycott KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut because they suck! Also, I hate Pepsi.

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Why are people still idiots when it comes to defining communism? Don't our schools cover it? Which definition? And whose? By convention (unless otherwise qualified) it typically refers to either Neo-Marxism and all its tentacles and sponsored movements, or Statism in general, especially of the kind pushing towards Globalism/One World Government.

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What would you do if your boyfriend or girlfriend did this to you? That could have gone SO wrong.

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Romney: The law will come from Missouri, and the other will be from Jerusalem. Is he pursuing a Mormon agenda? Will he as POTUS? I'd be more concerned about his NeoCon views and the policies that would come from them (or rather be perpetuated by them) in the next 4-8 years than his expectations regarding the Millennial Messianic Kingdom. But in either case, or in both, he's still a damn sight better than Oblahblahma.

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Isn't it impossible for God to exist? No, it's not impossible. In fact it's impossible that God does NOT exist. Also there are eternals. And by definition eternals are uncreated.

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Have you ever been fired from a job while on Vacation Not exactly: I was downsized (along with the whole division) while on leave of absence. But I'm about to quit a job while I'm on vacation!

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Is it rude to say no to accompanying your partner to a wedding ? Rude? Only if it's your wedding. Not very nice/loving/supportive? Yes ... unless there's a pressing reason why you can't go.

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Do people with missing limbs make you feel uneasy? Only when they touch me with one.

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What do you view as a dying art? Why? Penmanship - for obvious reasons. Letter writing - the telephone and now texting, email, internet chatting, etc. Plastering (decoratively) - low ceilings, too expensive, cheaper mass-produced if less-attractive substitutes. Needlepoint - modern women don't have the time or interest, don't know it's value. Church Architecture - modern architects don't tend to be that religious and so don't...

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I have a 13 year old great dane. This afternoon I noticed white foam vomit looking piles around the yard... I hope you've taken her to a vet and she's okay now. However, 13 is VERY old for a great dane. The average for them is about 9 years, and 10-12 is considered a long life. 13 is about the maximum. So even if she pulls through, I'm afraid you won't have very long with her. Happily, all dogs go to heaven.

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It took me 19 years to question being a 100% straight male. I called myself out on checking out guys muscled arms too much and it started it all. Ive been with MANY girls and it always seemed natural too me and have a GF atm. Am i bi-curious? help me Checking out muscled guys typically just means you're (1) checking out the competition, and (2) a little (or a lot) insecure about your own physique and manliness. Of course, given the hypersexualized and often homo-erotic environment you're subjected to at 19 these days, with all the gay-chic in colleges, it would be a bloody wonder if you WEREN'T "bi-curious". I don't, however, suggest you...

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What is the longest period you've ever gone without bathing? What is the longest period of time you've ever gone wearing the same pair of socks? 2 weeks without bathing on a Navy destroyer when one of the evaps was down and all fresh water had to be used for drinking or the engines. I've probably gone no more than 2 days wearing the same pair of socks ... not counting the single pair of gym socks that sat in my locker all 7th grade year and I wore every gym class without every taking them home to get them washed. I would beat them...

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What is the longest you have gone without wearing any clothes that you can remember? 12 days on a sailboat sailing from the Canaries to Barbados. 2nd place is 10 days on a beautiful private island in the South China Sea.

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The Acts of the Apostles speaks of Peter and Paul what was the basic difference in the kerygma of these two Apostles appointed by Jesus? Ultimately, nothing. Paul just worked out the full implications of the Gospel in regard to the Old Covenant and the inclusion of Gentiles a little faster than Peter or the other apostles did.

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We went to our usual church (10 miles away) they told us we have to baptize the kids in a church that's in our neighborhood. We went to the church 3 blocks away from our house and they said "You're not a regular, we can't baptize the kids here" What now? I'm sorry, but your claim sounds dubious. Were the two churches in different denominations? If not, what denomination were they? Some denominations - notably the Roman Catholic - follow a parish concept, wich is you belong to the CATHOLIC church in your community, and even though you may attend mass regularly at another one, baptisms, weddings, and funerals are supposed to be done at your...

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Why smear Islam when the Inquistion still exists and is being used to silence independent Catholic women and help the GOP wage war on women Because ... 1) the Inquisition does not still exist, and if it did it wouldn't be a bad thing -- if only the Catholic Church would hold inquests to regarding accused heretics and excommunicate the ones found guilty and unrepentant. 2) the RCC is hardly silencing "independent Catholic women" -- if only it would throw them out and tell them to go join the Episcopalians ... or Unitarians ... or...

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Why do we pray with our eyes closed?Can't we express ourselves to God with our eyes opened?Isn't it the heart that matters and need to be opened before God? What you meanum "we", keemo sahbee? Yes. Necessary but not sufficient.

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Is it necessary to pray when you dont need anything from God? Necessary for what? Be that as it may, you always need many things from God, since life and all that sustains it comes from Him and can be taken away by Him at any moment.

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Are you a boxer guy or a tighty whities guy ? How old are you? Im interested to see if more older guys wear briefs and younger guys boxers or maybe if its even the other way around. I'm Scottish.

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If you murdered someone and then the Pope gave you a dispensation, are you still a murderer? In the eyes of the law? (assuming you've been found guilty) Yes. In the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church? Yes, but a forgiven one. But such forgiveness is not the removal of the temporal penalty due in the life, but the eternal penalty in the next.

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What if one fine day your 9-year old son says he'd like to be a professional killer someday, and says he's very serious about it? Say, "That's nice, son." And then surreptitiously expose him to movie after movie about hit-men and assassins showing just what miserable, lonely, unglamorous life it is, where just when you think you've found somewhere to make home and someone to be happy with, you have to skip town alone with no notice and never return again.

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Why do many evangelical Christians trying to persuade non-Christians to believe as they do rely on Christian doctrine/scripture as a starting point? Does it make sense to say "well, Jesus said x", etc. when the other person doesn't believe in Jesus? In many cases because - like so many others in so many other circumstances - it's because they're "fighting the last war." It's a common problem in many areas, not just warfare, but there's always this tendency to confuse the current opponent and his tactics with your previous one, and to try to defeat him the way you defeated the last one. American and British evangelism was developed really...

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How much of the Bible do you believe? Why? All of it. Because it's the Word of God. That does not mean that in interpreting it I ignore genre, idioms, and literary devices.

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Without looking at a list how many designer names, can you list offhand? Do Nike, Dockers, Lees, and Levis count?

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Have you ever doubted Jesus Christ existed at all? Those who do should contact the Ancient & Classical History faculty at any accredited university to try to find a single PhD'd professor in the field who has any doubts at all about the existence of Jesus of Nazareth. They won't find a single one.

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If abortion were a crime (not that it is or should be) but if it were what punishment should be imposed on the woman? Execution? Prison? Under English Common Law, abortion only became a crime after "quickening" - but even then it was not considered murder. Penalties were primarily suffered by the practitioner who performed the abortion; penalties for the mother were typically only applied if she was married and aborted the child without her husband's knowledge ... though she still might be subject to prosecution for adultery or...

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How many tanks to a division? That would depend on whether its an Infantry, Armored, Air-Cav, Mountain, Airborne, or Marine division, and what country's army you're talking about.

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Would you be upset if you overheard your mother in law referring to you as "the Shiksa?" Upset? No. Just shocked, since my mother-in-law is a Thai Buddhist who speaks no English let alone Yiddish, and I'm a guy.

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What do all Gods have in common? That they're all the same God just viewed/understood differently. By definition, there can be but one God. As to whether there are also many gods (aka spirits, angels, demons, daimons, devils, devas, shen, kami, djinn, efreet, etc.) is another matter.

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The paranormal: Do you believe in it ? Do I believe that there are phenomena and experiences that lie outside "the range of normal experience or current scientific explanation or measurement"? Of course. So do most scientists. Do I believe in alien abductions, bigfoot, telekinesis, levitation, and mind-reading? I'm highly skeptical. I do, however, have firsthand experience of prognostication/future-sight -- actually received a...

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Obama's budget proposal goes down in flames in the House. 414-0. Will he learn anything from this? Any man who wrote not one, but two auto-biographies before he was 40, is not capable of learning anything.

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Romney doesn't apologize for being rich. He was born to the 'right' folks. Not his fault. It is neither to his credit nor debit, right? Romney was born into a middle class family. His father was an executive in the automotive industry. When Romney was 8, his father was recruited to be the president of the failing and nearly bankrupt American Motors Corp. (AMC) which he turned around and made into a thriving, profitable business, pioneering small, fuel efficient, economy vehicles well in advance of the rest of the automotive...

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Did God make Jesus, then Jesus made everything else? That's the Arian heresy. Orthodox theology is that The Son is uncreated and eternal -- "eternally generated from the Father" as Origen put it -- a that The Son created all that has been created (JN 1:3 "All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being."). The Son then became man by the Power of the Holy Spirit, and the name of that man is...

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When was the last time you saw a hooker?(Just saw, nothing else.) I live in Bangkok.

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Are the severely mentally handicapped responsible for their actions? Where is the line? Legally, the issue hinges on Mens Rea -- guilty mind. If the person understands what he is doing and that it is wrong, he may be held legally culpable and accountable, and thus can be tried and found guilty. That is an absolute legal line, the difficulty is in determining on which side of it the accused falls. If found to be responsible and found guilty, the judge, however, may give a more...

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Why are the little men always green? Envy?

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If we are not to have false idols before God, why do catholics call the pope 'his holiness', pray to saints, and worship and pray to mary? im not on a soapbox bashing anything, things about it just dont add up to me, and i never get an answer. Obviously because they don't consider any of those to be either false or idols. Also, please note ... 1. Referring to the Pope as "his holiness" is no more idolatrous than referring to a monarch as "his majesty", a governor as "his excellency", a duke or bishop as "his grace", a judge as "his honor", or a minister as "the reverend." 2. To pray to just means to ask. You pray to someone any...

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How do you explain the contriduction between the book of Daniel and 2 Kings? Daniel 1.1 states Jehoiakim was king durring Nebuchadnezzar siege while 2 Kings 24.6-12 says Jihoiakim was dead and his son Jehoichin ruled. There were 3 different expeditions by Nebuchadnezzar II (ruled 605-562 BC) against Judah: 1st expedition: 605 BC, part of a larger war against Egypt in which Egypt was defeated and Judah forced from being a vassal of Egypt to a vassal of Babylon. This was in the 3rd year of Jehoiakim's reign (ruled 635-598/7 BC), and was the one in which Daniel and many of the young sons of Judah's elite were...

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Why do maggots stop eating when they get to live flesh? They don't. They eat the dead and diseased flesh 1st because they're drawn to it. But when it's gone they don't stop munching, and so you have to remove them once they've done their job.

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Deuteronomy contains some of God's most controversial Laws, including (verses 13:6-19) the command to kill (stone to death) anyone with religious beliefs that are different from yours. How do you feel about publishing this sort of thing in Bibles today? DT 13:6-19 says no such thing. It's about punishing Israelite traitors/turncoats, not "anyone whose religious beliefs that are different from yours." The situation the Law of Moses assumes is one in which the God of Israel is not some invisible "man" in the sky: it's where the God of Israel is their very visible (if pyrotechnic) King who leads them as a pillar of smoke by day and pillar of fire...

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Christians, can you rationalize these: Death to the Rape Victim (Deuteronomy 22:23-24 NAB); You Have to Kill (Jeremiah 48:10 NAB); Burn Nonbelievers (Deuteronomy 13:13-19 NLT).....How literally should one take these and many other verses? 1. Your interpretations of all 3 verses are all patently incorrect: Deut: 22:23-24 is about an adulteress who falsely claims rape; Deut 13:13-19 is about a Jewish apostates who break the Covenant and commit idolatry, spiritual adultery, and treason; Jer 18:10 is a curse and God's judgement on Moab ... and there's no need to "rationalize" killing enemies in a just war, or punishing an...

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Did God lie in 1 Kings 22:23? No.

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Are there such things as stupid questions? "Gee officer, since I was speeding, isn't it wrong NOT to give me a ticket?" or [on seeing a shapley female stranger in a bikini with her brood in tow] "Five kids and no stretch marks? How is that possible?" ... and you asked it to your wife and mother of your children.

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What argument for creation is actually VALID? http://creation.com/arguments-we-think-creationists-should-not-use First, you'd have to define what you meant by "creation". But you also need to understand the technical meaning of the word "valid" in terms of logical arguments: e.g., the argument ... 1) God exists. 2) God is omniscient, and cannot lie or make mistakes. 3) The Bible is the inerrant Word of God. 4) The Bible teaches "Creation" 5) THEREFORE, "Creation" is true. ... is a "VALID" argument:...

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Does anyone who belongs to the NRA like President Obama and dare to say so? Anyone? Why would any NRA member like Obama? But if there was one, he'd certainly have no problem saying he did. So I guess there aren't any.

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Are modern day Republicans out of touch with the American People? Do you mean the Republicans that were overwhelmingly elected to the House and state legislatures in 2010 by a large majority of the American people? If that's who you mean, then evidently SOMEBODY's certainly out of touch with the American people, but it isn't them.

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How come, for such a small country, there are so many vastly different regional accents in the UK? Because that's where English originated. Studies show the same pattern for most other languages as well. In their homeland there is much richer diversity in accents and dialects from locale to locale than in countries/colonies where the language spread. English is complicated by the fact that it is an amalgam of Anglo-Saxon (Old English), Church Latin, Norman French, and Occitan super-imposed...

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Do you find lifting weights useless?. . .I personally don't see the point cause most chics are attracted by personality. . it fades away after some time anyway. . .your flesh becomes loose when you get wrinkled besides the demanding aspect of lifting! No. Absolutely not. No one cares if you don't see the point. Most women *are* attracted to a man with a good physique (not steroid freak, but athlete/fitness model type) ... though you usually have to have more than just that ... but it still helps. And most of the women who say they're NOT attracted to buff bods are lying. Their physiological responses say otherwise. It only "fades" if you...

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Who benefits from a war? Anyone who starts a war obviously thinks he's better off starting one than not. Whether he proves right or not, is another question.

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What does increasing the number of laborers in an economy generally cause? In the immediate short term: a drop in wages. In the long term (3-6 quarters), an increase in both supply and demand for goods, economic growth, and an increase in real wages, employment, and GDP, and a corresponding increase in tax revenue and Social Security "contributions".

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What is the secular or atheist equivalent of the concept of "sin"? Bad hygiene? Political Incorrectness? .

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A store routinely overcharges people. In the US, who does one report that too? If they're charging you the posted/advertised price, I'm afraid you have no recourse but to stop shopping there and let them know why. If the store bills you by mail and is inflating the amount owed, then THAT is mail fraud and you can nail them to the wall for it - it's a Federal crime. You can call the FBI. If it's a POS transaction, and the cashier attempts to charge you MORE than the...

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Why wasn't there national outrage over the Kelli O'Laughlin case? Because it doesn't fit THE NARRATIVE of neo-Marxist "Crytical Theory" (nor can it be made to fit it, unlike the Zimmerman case) which is foisted on us continuously by their agents and drones in the Media and Academia, and so gets not publicity or manufactured outrage.

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What is something that would be difficult to steal? The Queen Mary.

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Is there any religion that states men shall obey their wives in all things? If so, which? If not, why not? Of course not. No man's mother would have ever permitted it.

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Please give your first associations to the phrase "an English aristocrat". Conscientious uselessness.

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Do you know countries which start with E ? Example england. Ecuador East Timor Estonia Eritrea Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea (España)

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What is the opposite of virgin? Nigriv?

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Is it hypocritical for a Christian to be intolerant of atheism? Intolerant in what way? And of atheism in whom?

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Do you believe in all of the miracles mentioned in the Bible? Why or why not? All? It's not clear whether certain stories were meant to be taken as historical fact, e.g., Jonah. It's not that the 3 days in the sea monster is preposterous, but that it's so rich with Biblical symbolism (along with the rest of the book of Jonah) that it makes more sense to understand it as a didactic story, based on an historical individual who felt called by God to preach repentance to...

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How far will you go in an attempt to prove that the Bible contains no contradictions? Why? Leaving aside the matter of some evident copyist errors, since these in no way impact either the doctrines of Biblica Inerrancy or Plenary Inspiration, neither do they affect any matters of theology or practice ... I don't have to go far at all because I don't have to prove any such thing. It is for those who claim there are contradictions to prove that there are. I've read thousands of...

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What time was John Paul Jones born? As every American sailor knows, he was born at flood tide. He also died at ebb tide.

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Those who are born to wealth have no clue what's it's like to have financial worries. Not their fault. They don't know any better, right? People born to wealth certainly have financial worries -- though they may pay someone else to do the day-to-day worrying for them until the money actual starts to run out. But lots of people who were born rich have become poor, and even more have become "middle class". Some have even lost entire fortunes only to make another one of their own. And some have even lost that too (e.g., David O....

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What is the longest book in the King James Bible? The same one as in every other Bible. If you count The Psalms as a book, then it's Psalms. If not, then it's Isaiah.

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were exactly can i go or do research for the missing books from the bible who are the experts who would know? There are no "missing books" from the Bible. Books that were never included in it can't be missing from it.

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When is sarcasm uncalled for? Why? The only time it is called for is in response to sarcasm that was uncalled for. But don't confuse sarcasm with mere comic irony. Comic irony is an actual joke. Sarcasm is mere flippancy with malicious intent that just effects that the joke has already been made.

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would you eat someone's cold vomit for a million dollars? Yes. I was a Navy SEAL. I can eat anything (in a non-lethal dose/concentration).

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Who was the greatest theologian of all time? The only Biblical writer and personage to ever be termed a theologian: Saint John the Theologian ("the Divine"). After him, since you asked for the greatest (the most important/influential/admire/historically significant) it's Augustine of Hippo bar none, followed by Aquinas and Calvin in a tie for 3rd place (though St. Thomas was certainly the better theologian and the better Christian). ...

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What does the Ninth Commandment mean? As there are different numbering systems, the 9th Commandment could either be "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife," or "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." The first one is pretty self-explanatory. The meaning of the second ought to be self-evident, but as it evidently isn't, it means that you must not slander, libel, or spread injurious gossip (rumors that you...

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You know someone named after a month...Truth or Lie? Several May's, one April, a couple of June's, and an August. Knew another with the middle name of March (which was an old family surname from his mother's side ... he was southern), but he went by it instead of his first name. Many more if you count Julio's and Augusto's. Anybody named after another month is either on a Soap, a character in an action movie, someone in a cheesy or sleazy...

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Tell me something good about Wyoming? Its total population is less than that of D.C.

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Why is it that women are complete cowards? There's rational sexism and even misogyny and then there's complete idiocy and absurdity. This "question" falls into the latter category. (And what does intellectual capacity have to do with courage or the lack thereof?)

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are immoral acts immoral because god says so or because they are innately immoral? Yes. You're attempting to create a distinction where there is no difference because you misunderstand the nature of God. God is Goodness/Righteousness itself.

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Romney wants to 'shrink' The Department of Education and use it as a vehicle primarily to stand up to Teacher's Unions. True? Like it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DIy-C4cQ-M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En4lu_1bcsI

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If you have a different religion to some of your family and the people you live with, do you find it difficult to maintain and practise your religion? Do you feel you're missing out and would you prefer to live with people who share your religion? My wife is a Thai Buddhist, but that doesn't cause me too many difficulties, though it's no help either. The principal difficulty for me is that I live in Thailand where it's very difficult to find an mainline Protestant church, least of an English-speaking one, within driving distance unless you live in Downtown Bangkok or Chiang Mai. Of course I feel like I'm "missing out" to some degree. I'd...

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Romney wants to 'shrink' The Department of Education and use it as a vehicle primarily to stand up to Teacher's Unions. True? Like it? I'd just dismantle the whole thing, break the NEA completely, and get the Federal government the hell out of what should be left a completely local matter under parental control.

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Is God A Woman?. Is Truth a Cocker Spaniel? Is Justice a desert topping?

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Conjoined food names? Like peanut butter, corned beef, sliced bread, roast beef, etc. Any more? Technically, it would have to be something other than the name for the principle component or dish-type with a descriptive modifier or qualifier; e.g., fried chicken, glazed ham, Irish stew, kidney beans, chocolate pudding. Fried chicken is a type of chicken, glazed ham is a type of ham, Irish stew is a type of stew, and so on. Rather it should be composed of 2 words neither of which give you...

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If humans have not changed for roughly 100,000 years and history is only a few thousand years what were we doing for all that time? Much of the evidence for that is most likely under 30-100 feet of water on the continental shelves, which flooded permanently after the end of the last great Ice Age.

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I was an obsessive Lord of the Rings fan long before the movies came out. Personally I thought the movies were lame. What is YOUR obsessive fan reason for disliking the films? I loved the movies, especially the first one. I judge them not on how faithful they were to the books (though they were pretty good on that score -- as good as could be expected in fact), but as films in their own right and how well they brought Middle Earth and the characters to life. I thought they were great on the second point, and that Fellowship beautifully captured the primary themes of...

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Inflation vs. Deflation? Which is a worse problem for the American economy? Why? Deflation is disasterous for any economy. It encourages people to hoard cash since there's no better investment for it. Imagine if you could make 20% on your money just by stuffing it in your mattress for a year. Banks would demand depositors pay the bank interest just for storing it for them. Deflation is also ruinous for borrowers, especially those who borrowed at a fix rate during a period...

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How is our world economy NOT all set up for ONLY hyper inflation? Anyone remember deflation at all? The world economy is not set up for HYPER-inflation, but merely for low inflation, typically about 3.5%/year, except for periods of economic crisis or gross political mismangement. Hyperinflation is when the inflation rate is the triple to sextuple digits or more, e.g., 15,000% inflation per year, such as was experienced in Argentina not too long ago. If every person were rational, making...

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Does a person with a different religion put you off when they mention it during conversation? No, not at all. It does however put me off a bit when another Christian asks me if I know Jesus, or says "praise the Lord!" at the drop of a hat, or tries to make some sort of religious point that only shows their own theological (and often historical, logical, and grammatical) ignorance.

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If Texas (or multiple Southern states) unilaterally seceded, would you favor armed force to keep it/them in the Union? Hell no! I'd apply for citizenship and move there!!!

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Why are Asian parents so strict and uptight? If you have strict Asian parents, how do you deal with them? Do you always have to lie to get out the house? Those are 1st-generation Asians-in-America (or Europe) parents. Those still in East Asia are increasingly as lax and derilect as the typical Western parents. Many are even worse.

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Knowing who The Beatles were is general knowledge, Agree? If you're over 40. Those under 20 wonder who these 4 oddly dressed guys are donning Justin Bieber's haircut.

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Not to bash a bush, but wth is wrong with people who can't pronounce "nuclear?" Is it stupidity? ignorance? speech impedement? Eisenhower pronounced it 'nuk-yu-ler' as well … and the Snob elites of the Northeast and California made fun of him for it too. The pronunciation is quite common in the South and the Fly-over States. It's definitely the "down home" pronunciation. It is interesting to me that the same sorts of people who viciously and incessantly mock Dubya for this and all others who do the same, are the...

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why if a king marries a women she is queen but when a queen marries a man he is a prince ? Actually, when a woman marries a King, she becomes the "Queen CONSORT". When a man marries a "Queen REGNANT" he becomes the "Prince CONSORT". The reason is simple: in English "King" means The Sovereign, the monarch. The queen is just his consort. Originally, the title of queen was just applied to a king's wife as women couldn't rule in their own right (though they could as a regent). "Queen"...

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Have you ever heard anyone actually use the word "gross" meaning 144? Yes. It's quite common in retail and wholesale businesses where orders are typically by the gross.

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Swastika building at US Coronado Navy Base... an accident? 1) You'll see lots of hospitals with a swastika groundplan. 2) This isn't a single building. It's 4 typical L-shaped buildings with a courtyard in the middle. 3) You're an idiot.

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Would you like to live in medieval times? No -- eating dinner there once was bad enough. http://movieclips.com/ZctJ-the-cable-guy-movie-welcome-to-medieval-times/

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Is Obama The Worst President Or The Most Pathetic President? Yes. At least since Reconstruction.

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What did medieval people do instead of watching the telly? Most of them did back-breaking work 12+ hours per day 6 days per week and spent the rest of their copious free-time either on their knees or getting drunk.

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By now you've heard that Zimmerman is in custody and has been charged with second-degree murder. It only took 43 days. Is justice possible? The typical time from death of a suspected murder or manslaughter victim to charging someone for the crime is considerably longer. Sometimes it takes years or even decades. There is no statute of limitations on Murder (or Fraud), so it can take a lifetime. A smart state prosecutor won't bring charges until he's reasonably confident he can PROVE guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, because he won't...

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Do you like girls that play a certain sport? If so, which one? Guys Question Only Do flirting and playing hard to get count? Apart from that ... well female 'jocks' are even less attractive to men than female impersonators.

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Men answer only - what word can a woman use to really insult you? There are so many derogatory names to call women and none are as effective for men. Actually, the most effective one against men, generally, is to call them women. It's even more effective when it's said by a woman.

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Do you call black people black or "African American?" I say they are black unless they come from Africa Life was so much simpler when you could just call them 'colored' and be done with it.

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Do you believe you need to be religious to have morals? I don't know of anyone today who says you need to be religious to have morals. The claim is that Objectivists, Logical Positivists, and other Atheistic Materialists have no rational basis for any moral system or claim. Put simply, if every Atheistic Materialist followed his metaphysical positions to their necessary conclusions, then all of them would be fundamentally amoral, rejecting the very...

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Are jews white? Being a Jew refers to being a member of culture (and to a lesser extent a religion) not a race. There are and have been Negro Jews (e.g., Sammy Davis Jr. and Lisa Bonet) and totally Nordic Jews, and everything in between. Kate Hudson, Natalie Portman, Gyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, and Gabriel Macht are Jewish. Kirk Douglas was Jewish -- even studied for the Rabbinate before becoming an...

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You have the power to Demand one thing from your Country's Government. It must comply. What one thing is that and why? That it never again try, jail, fine, or even inconvenience anyone for any supposed crime or infraction where there is no victim who can show damages directly resulting from the alledged act. That is, an end to victimless crime.

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How many places in a body can you shoot someone without killing him/her? Why didn't Zimmerman go for a leg or arm? Why shoot to kill? Why? As to how many places, that's (1) iindeterminant, as it depends upon the round and the individual, (2) silly, since most victims of gunshots who did die died from hydrostatic shock (which means it didn't matter where they got hit), (3) open to interpretation since artieries run throughout the body, and all it takes is one major one to be severed to bleed out in minutes, and (4) irrelevant. As...

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What's something that's for Republicans only? The key to that secret room with an endless supply of money, talent, ingenuity, manpower and resources that Democrats are convinced exists to fund and enable all their absurd programs and policies.

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What do you not want to see while on a boat in the ocean? The boat's bottom.

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Should a guy wear a thong to the beach if he is athletic and well toned? A guy can be in great shape and still look like Hell in one. But if he does look good in one, and he feels good in one, than sure. As for those who say, "What difference does it make how you look in one?" -- the answer is, one hell of a lot: a person's right to be comfortable and (nauseatingly) "make a statement" doesn't trump other people's right not to be grossed out in a public place.

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Do you think Romney would declare martial law so Mormons can have polygamy? And how do you think declaring martial law would or could have any effect on marriage laws? Martial law just means (1) there's no writ of habeas corpus and so people can be stopped, searched, arrested, and detained indefinately not only without charge, but without any evidence that a crime has been committed, (2) civilians can be tried and sentenced by military tribunal, and (3) military...

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Isn't God's love the most conditional love ever? His love is absolutely unconditional. His Grace is utlimately conditional on how you respond to it, mostly in how you extend grace to others.

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Do you believe George Zimmerman should go to prison? Has he been convicted in a legal trial? Has he even been charged or indicted? There is a little thing known as due process, after all ... not to mention "Innocent Until Proven Guilty."

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Why is the Apocrypha not included in the Bible? The works of the OT Apocrypha were written in Greek, not Hebrew, and after the age of the Prophets (and before the Apostles), and hence cannot have been Inspired ... that is, they are not works of Divine Special Revelation. They however were part of the Greek Septuagint, wich was the Bible of the Jews of the Hellenistic (Western) Diaspora, and the Old Testament of both the Greek and Latin...

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which one of the following wars do u feel most strongly the US shoul'v avoided ? The Mexican-American War. 1. It was a completely unjustified, criminal, and imperialistic war on the part of the US. 2. The price the US paid for it was the Civil War. (Lincoln - who had been the only NO vote in Congress against the Mexican-American War - ran for the presidency and won on the promise to keep slavery from expanding into the territories taken in the Mexican-American War, which...

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Is in-love sex before marriage wrong according the bible? What EXACTLY is sexual immorality. Please support your answer with buble verses. "In-love" has nothing to do with it. It's a question of absolute commitment or not. This type of love is not a feeling or state of euphoria, but a choice, an decision, an act of the will. Biblically, sex is (1) marriage, (2) adultery, or (3) whoremongering/prostitution ... the last 2 being very bad. It's not a piece of paper or a ceremony that makes a man and a virgin (or otherwise virginal...

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Which is the correct term, Moslems or Muslims? Moslems was the common English spelling until this last generation - due primarily to the fact that the primary contact with Moslems was in the Indian subcontinent under the British Raj, where Indians (Moslem and Hindu) pronounced it maw-SLEM. Muslim began to be pushed in America by the Black Muslim movement (which really isn't Muslim/Moslem), and for most of my life the spelling Muslim was...

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Do you think abortion should be left up to The States to decide its legality/illegality? Why or why not? The Constitution already left that up to the states. The SCOTUS just needs to admit that.

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Why do some people feel it's their job in life to suck all the fun and joy out of other peoples lives? Because that's a mother's job.

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If sunday was meant by God as a day to rest then why do they have Churches on that day ¿ You really need to learn what Shabbat Shalom means. The English words "rest" and "peace" don't come close to capturing the meaning. And where did you get the idea that a Church service isn't a time and place of rest and peace?

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Where does the Bible fit into this picture? Scripture clearly teaches that members of the Church, especially those in any position or office, are to submit to the teaching of those Church leaders in authority over them ... providing of course that they are acting within the bounds of the authority entrusted to them. The Bible and Church Tradition are pretty clear that women are not to be priests or bishops, and not to be placed in...

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Does God really expect his followers to put him before their family ? Yes, Perfect Righteousness demands that your highest priority and highest loyalty be being righteous. You will not serve your family best by lying, cheating, stealing, murdering, or being a coward, no matter how much it looks like it will be in their best interest in the short run.

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People are not psychologically wired nor have the innate ability to sustain a monogamous relationship for more than 7 years. True or false? That's utter horse shit.

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what are all or most of the international countries in europe "International" countries? Uhhh ... there's no such thing as an international country. I think you mean "foreign" countries. If you don't know this, perhaps you shouldn't be thinking of writing a book. Also, if you don't know Europe's geography, you definitely should be writing a book set there. At any rate ... With that adjustment, the question cannot be given a definitive answer because...

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Which city smells the worst? Seoul, primarily due to kimchi. Moscow smells like overriipe old man smell. Most cities in East Asia smell like rotting garbage, sewage, and the natural emissions of a few million Asians who've been eating chili, garlic, and fermented shrimp "juice" since breakfast. Prachuap Khirikarn Thailand smells like the place is filled with mounds of fermenting toe-cheese ripening under the sun, but...

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I think if an American Company opens a plant in another country, The CEO should have to move out of The USA. Comments? Anyone who thinks that would be a good and just thing to do is clueless about economics. (Oh, yes, it would help our country's economy so much to get rid of even more people who earn and spend money here. And, yes, let's do send them away, further eroding our tax base.) Businesses that do this are only doing it because, given current and forecasted circumstances it's the right thing to do...

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Do you think God knew that Job would be loyal to Him? Why did He allow Satan to devistate Job then? 1. The evidence of the text is that God most certainly did know. 2. For the same reason God allowed Israel to be enslaved for 300 years in Egypt, the same reason He allowed the Holocaust, the same reason God has allowed all the afflictions of the Righteous in general and Israel in particular throughout History, the same reason He allowed the torture and crucifixion of His Son.

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Why does one judge have a monopoly on all 9/11 litigation? Whyis this obscene, outrageous, and patently false piece of disinformation fronting as a question even allowed? Purplecows should have his account canceled for this alone.

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The Jewish religion doesn't have Hell as a place. So did Jesus invent hell or was this another idea from the folks that brought us the Crusades and Inquisition? Actually, there are three "Hells" in Scripture and the beliefs of Jews of (at least) the 2nd Temple Period: the Abyss, Sheol, and Gehenna. The Abyss (Tartarus in Greek) is the place where the great fiends and monsters like Belial and Leviathan are imprisoned. In NT eschatology, those bound there will be hurled into the Lake of Fire (Gehenna) on Judgement Day. The Jews of Christ's time...

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Why are the Christian Crusades always brought up in religious coversation/Debate but never the Muslim Crusades? For the obvious reason that you live in the West where the "cultured despisers of religion" long ago gained control of the academy and the media, and have to clutch at straws to justify their bogus historiography of supposed Christian violence and intolerance. They conveniently ignore the fact that the so-called Crusades were started by the Turks, who also won all of them but the first.

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Why do men expect their girlfriends or wives to make THEM the MOST important person in their lives? For a mere boyfreind ( or girlfreind) that's a little presumptuous. For a mate, it's expected and required by definition. And it's supposed to work both ways.

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If you had a family with low income which would you pay for Heat or Food? Only one! And why? I live in Thailand. Food is super-abundant and dirt cheap. Heat is free. But in America you have Food Stamps, plus programs and laws that keep the truly poor poor from losing their heat in the winter. In the UK and Australia they have the Dole. Most cold-climate countries except Russia, Mongolia, China, the former Soviet "stans"' and North Korea have similar programs, so no choice is...

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Is it legal for a person to purchase a company's stock then use her job to purchase the products from that company? There's nothing illegal about it unless you work in procurement for the government. It may however violate your employment contract or your employer's policies regarding conflicts of interest. In most cases it's enough to disclose your interest in the supplier, and leave it up to your boss, HR, and Legal to decide whether you need to recuse yourself from buying decisions where that company's...

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If evidence was discovered that proved beyond doubt that Jesus was an invention of 1st C Jewish writers, as a Christian would you; . a) Convert to a form of Judaism b) Convert to another religion c) Become an atheist / agnostic d) deny the evidence As an historian of the 1st century I know that (1) evidence is not the same thing as proof, and (2) the existing evidence that Jesus was NOT an invention but was in fact a totally historical individual is so overwhelming as to make your IF clause absurd. It would take a monumental amount of verifiable unequivocal evidence to prove that Jesus never existed. But granting for the sake of...

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Some say Religion is the only way to reach true public discipline and order,Do you agree? "Religion" is a category in a as college course catalog/university department. ReligionS are another matter, but they aren't the same, neither do they have much in common. But one thing that most have in common is the idea that there is some kind of ultimate justice after death, so that even if one is able to evade consequences for wrongs in this life, justice will always and inescapebly get...

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why do so many people believe in god, if there has never been ay evidence of his existence? The evidence is overwhelming. Don't blame us if you're willfully blind to it.

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Do you believe the Bible is without error? why, why not? What do you mean by "without error"? Also, what do you mean by "the Bible"? The doctrine of inerrancy, as defined by those who espouse it, applies only to the ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPHS (which no longer exist), not to any copy or translation of a copy. It is a theological point, asserting that the Biblical works, though written by men, were also absolutely and completely inspired by God, such that...

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Is it okay to force someone to do something good? Governments ostensibly do so all the time, or at least force them to not do harm, and to make restitution when they do. One might say it's the very reason for the existence of governments. It's the job of every court to force people who default on a contract to honor it, and also the jobe of a court to force respondents to pay compensatory and punitive damages if they are found to be liable. ...

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Why do so many Christians feel threatened by science and scientific discoveries? Never have known any who felt threatened by these. There certainly aren't any significant number who feel threatened by advances in Chemistry, Physics, Engineering (except perhaps genetic engineering), Agronomy, Linguistics, or even cognitive and developmental Psychology and Neurology ... or even most of Biology and Zoology for that matter. I have known many (but by no means most) who rejected...

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Would more republicans be elected if they would drop their social conservative stands ? Fewer. For every vote they'd gain they'd lose 4.

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If Jesus is alive, is he still a Jew? He is still very much alive. As to whether He is still a Jew, you'd have to first answer the question, "Who is a Jew?" ... which is something Jews today can't agree on. But I think it's fair to say that Jesus is still a Jew in the way He was always a Jew. After all, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." HEB 13:8

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Why aren't guns outlawed in the United States? 1. Because the Constitution forbids any such law. 2. Because only tyrants, dictators, and totalitarian regimes who need to rule by force without the consent of the governed would ever outlaw "the right to keep and bear arms". 3. Because the police can't protect you from every thug and crazy out there -- you'll most likely be dead before they arrive, even if they can catch the perps...

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Is Determinism and Predestination the same thing? Determinism is a philosophical position that holds that all things happen (including personal choices) due to prior causes, and that everything that happens had to happen - or at least were among a fixed range of probabalistic (and still deterministic) outcomes, e.g., the spin of an electron: it could be either plus or minus, with a 50% chance of either, and no chance of anything else, but the...

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Other than the fact that it's just the right thing to do, do you think people understand how much money our country would save if they allowed gay marriage? With partners being covered under each others health insurance is one for example How on earth would this save anyone money except for the gay SO who would then have coverage? Also, most big companies already offer benefits to same sex domestic partners. Making gay marriage legal would not automatically make those who don't start providing it. So your argument seems pretty fatuous.

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Other than the fact that it's just the right thing to do, do you think people understand how much money our country would save if they allowed gay marriage? With partners being covered under each others health insurance is one for example How on earth would this save anyone money except for the gay SO who would then have coverage? Also, most big companies already offer benefits to same sex domestic partners. Making gay marriage legal would not automatically make those who don't start providing it. So your argument seems pretty fatuous.

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You cant turn a __________ into a housewife. house

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New republican budget bill will cut $11B in veterans benefits. Is that unpatriotic or just hypocritical? How about a fiscally and politically necessary cut (and only a drop in an ocean-sized bucket), that also demonstrates that they're willing to cut their own pet programs and sacred cows, and not just the opposition's? It is, however, unpatriotic AND hypocritical for Oblahblahma to call for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian...

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Does being loyal to a friend means turning a blind eye to somethings they do? To what degree, if any? A good friend is someone who will bale you out of jail. A great friend is someone who will help you hide the body. But a best friend is someone who stabs you in the front.

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Wouldn't it suck to enlist in the military, serve 16 years in a war, and then die a day before it ended? R.I.P. Dominic Santiago. You're seriously asking this about a GEARS character? Be that as it may ... "There's only one proper way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet, of the last battle, of the last war." ~ General George S. Patton Also, I don't think this guy (if he were real) would be exactly happy in civilian, peace-time life:

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The Bible was always written in the common language of the People, Hebrew, Aramaic, and then Greek. Why have many tried to keep the Bible in an uncommon language like Latin or 16th century English? There is a world of difference between something being written in a particular language (common or otherwise) and it's being TRANSLATED into it. The fact is that there were always people who objected to the originals being translated into the local vernacular because you lose so much of their meaning -- which is why ALL theologians and Bible scholars study the Bible in the original languages,...

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Considering that the Bible was written in Hebrew,if god came to earth would he speak in Hebrew or English? When He came to earth He spoke Aramaic, and at least a little Greek and probably some Latin given where He grew up. The next time He comes, all of resurrected humanity and transfigured will be speaking the language of Heaven.

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What is so wrong with taxing the rich that the Republicans have to block it at every turn? Who are "the rich"? 1. The top 1% in terms of having the highest taxable income in a year are: (a) NOT the same people each year; there is a LOT of turnover each year due to the fact that most people in that category each year are there due to a single event, such as inheritance, the sale of a business, a lucky year gambling, winning of a contest, etc. (b) NOT the top 1% in terms of...

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God is for sex - Agree or disagree? God is for marriage. He's nor for fornication, promiscuity, sodomy, bestiality, incest, adultery, child-molestation, pornography, self-love and self-worship, fetishism, whoremongering and prostitution, human degradation, or necrophilia.

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When Al, Jessie, and Barack declare that some racist crime occurred, does that automatically make it so? YES! If the act they're referring to wasn't a racist crime, then their calling it one certainly is!!!

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Was the gospels about Jesus written in Hebrew or Greek? The originals of the 4 canonical Gospels were all written in Koine (common/pigeon) Greek, such as it was in the Hellenistic world of the mid-1st Century AD. All the surviving pseudepigraphal "gospels" (in quotes because none are actually gospels in genre or function) of the 2nd and 3rd centuries were also originally written in Koine Greek, though some only survive in Coptic, Syriac, or Old...

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Are guns allowed in Your home? Mine are. All others must check there's at the door. One more thing I love about Thailand: board a domestic flight in Thailand and you'll see a sign at the gate asking all persons carrying a gun to notify the attendant. They check to make sure there isn't a round in the chamber and - if a semi-automatic - the clip is removed, and then hand the gun and the ammo back to you. Interestingly, no...

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If you were baptized by a priest that molested children, does your baptism still count since it was performed by a sinner? Yes. It's been Church dogma for over 16 centuries that the spiritual, moral, and even theological state of the officiant has absolutely no bearing on the efficacy of baptism. All that matters is the sincerity of the person baptized (or his parents if an infant) and the formula used -- that is, the individual must be baptized "in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit."...

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Some folks don't want no lousy federal mandates but state mandates that control a woman's body is okey dokey. Why? What's the difference? Different jurisdictions and areas of authority. The Federal government has no more *constitutional* authority to mandate such things as personal medical coverage/health insurance than does your local dog catcher. State governments, however, do have that authority (barring language in their own state constitution to the contrary) and a couple have enacted such legislation, most notably...

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You don't want to buy health insurance for yourself. Who pays to fix you when/if you break? Everyone else? Why should they? Same person who pays what my insurance won't: me. No. They shouldn't - that is, they shouldn't be forced to.

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Does the Federal Government have the right to force you to buy medical insurance? ***************************** No. It does not.

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Feminism is __________ (and always has been) the 5th column of totalitarianism.

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How could men get away without paying child support? Keep it zipped ... or get it snipped.

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What's wrong with adolescent questions here? They're mostly being asked by people over 30.

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Do you like Police Officers? I like Thai police officers. They're very nice, don't make a nuisance of themselves, and are very easily and affordably bought off.

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Are you a troublemaker or a peacemaker now? False dichotomy: experience shows there's nothing more troublesome than a peacemaker.

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Do ALL Republicans lean toward Zimmerman not being guilty of a crime in the shooting death of Treyvon Martin? I sure do! Though of course it all depends on the facts, evidence, and testimony - but if they are consistent with Zimmerman's version of the story, it would be a travesty of justice and due process to convict him of a crime. If, on the other hand, the EVIDENCE is sufficient to establish BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT that Zimmerman did not fear for his life, but was in fact the aggressor, then, of...

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Does the word "atheist" appear in the Bible? One would have to do a search of all English translations for that. But in the Greek and Hebrew originals there are words and idioms that mean much the same thing, particularly the Hebrew word 'NABHAL', which also means "fool" -- in the idiom of the Bible it means, "One who lives as if there is no God." However, the Bible is far more concerned with how you live than with what you believe: if...

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Where did the name Easter come from? It comes from the old Anglo-Saxon name for April: Eostur-Monath, literally, "Bud-Month". It is called Ostern in German for the same reason. The use of Easter/Ostern for the Christian Feast of the Resurrection was of popular/colloquial evolution in these countries, not ecclesiastical decision (The Roman Catholic and Columban Churches simply called it by its Latin name, Pascha). This linguistic...

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How is holy trinity says 3 Person in one God? Are you asking how to say it, or are you asking for an explanation? If the former, the standard English form of the statment is "One God in Three Persons." If the latter, 1st of all you have to abandon the idea of "God" as a kind of super-Zeus or Odin -- which is to say and individual (mono)personal being. God is by definition the eternal Summum Bonum (the ultimate/highest good) and the...

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I Just Made a Comment About Bizarre RELIGIOUS Beliefs On Another Site, "The Thing is, - And so if I believe its right and good to rob from you and use you for target practice, and act on that belief, is that okay with you?

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Can you give me direct quotes from the bible about parents selling their child into sex slavery? There are none. The closest one gets is concubinage in the Torah. A concubine was a 2nd-class wife: her husband had to provide for her and their children throughout his life, but did not make them his heirs. A man could purchase a concubine as he might purchase a full-fledged wife. A man might acquire one for himself, one of his sons, or a manservant, but there was no sharing or swapping...

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What is the most powerful and biggest Empire in history In terms of population, number of different peoples ruled, and wealth: The British Empire between the World Wars. In terms of global economic and military power: it depends on whether you're defining it comparatively or absolutely. Economically in absolute terms, nothing has ever approached the USA over the last 70 years. Also, in terms of technology and armament, the US military is the most...

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What do you think of people who flaunt the law (Assuming you mean "FLOUT the law ...") You mean like cops, politicians, and judges? .... Happily I live in Thailand where most laws a little more than a suggestion anyway.

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Why is it that the US doesn't just place photo ID to Social Security cards and Green cards for use as a voter ID? 1. As noted on another answer, Green Card holders and other resident aliens aren't eligeable to vote. 2. Participation in Social Security, and thus the possession of a Social Security card and number, is technically voluntary. You may not be able to get a job (legally) or open a bank account without one, but an American citizen can't be denied the right to vote because he doesn't have one. 3....

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Do you have total confidence in all members of the Supreme Court and trust that their rulings are always in the best interests of the US? Does anyone truly have TOTAL confidence in anyone? As for our distinguished justices, I have thorough confidence in their legal expertise. I don't expect the SCOTUS to ever act "in the best interests of the US" because that's not its job. Its job is to rule in accordance with the Constitution and the Law, regardless of whether that's in the best interests of the US or not. (And FYI, "the US"...

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If Jesus is God himself, why didn't Jesus disciples plainly say so? They did.

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Was Billy Ray Cyrus a ROCK GOD ! ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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How many times have you been stung by a bee? Six times in 50 years, though three were at the same time, back when I was about 16 and three bees flew up my trouser leg and I caught/stopped them at my knee. I've only been stung once as an adult.

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Do you think its wrong to indoctrinate children into religions before the age of 18? If no why? Do you think it's wrong to teach you children to speak any language (including yours) before the age of 18?

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Who really IS the king of the JUNGLE?(Lions roam the plains of the Serengeti in East Africa and woodlands,deserts,dry forest and scrub) In Southeast Asia: Tigers, claws down.

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If your boss asks "Are you calling me a liar?" and you want to keep your job, what do you say in response? "No, I simply said that I believed you were mistaken. (... It was you who called me a liar.)"

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Do you think a lion tattoo would look better in colour or black and white? No tattoos look good. They just look sleezy, tacky, and often gross.

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Hi, Im 14 year old male and im 5'4 is it possible that i can be at 5'11 as a adult? Eat lots of protein. DON'T consume sugars EXCEPT IMMEDIATELY after an intense workout. Eat the right amount of vitamins and complex carbs. Get plenty of sleep at night. Stay away from caffeine. Stay limber and fit but not TOO lean, and don't try to pack on too much muscle before you're 17. Also, give up slouching. Stay away from pot and other recreational drugs. Read up on how to boost...

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the most relaxing thing to do before bedtime? Is this a serious question?

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do you look down on the housekeeping at your work place? In general (in any place I've worked I might work), ONLY if they don't do their job. If, however, they do it well and diligently, I look up to them ... as with everyone else I work with. Where I work now, I work in a large school in Thailand. As with everything else done by most Thai "workers" here, you train yourself to expect absolutely nothing (except a good bit of wasted and usually...

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My 2 childrn are due to be baptized in 2 weeks. My ex-husband is threatening to legally prevent this. Can he? I am the custodail parent. In the US, it's extremely unlikely he will be able to get an injunction against this, and even more unlikely he will be able to get the court to revoke and reverse its custody ruling within 2 weeks.

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Do you feel lucky No, I make a point of keeping my hands to myself in this age of run-amok charges of sexual harassment.

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Would you give up your seat on a crowded bus for someone? I do it all the time. On the commuter train too back when I lived in the northern burbs of Chicago.

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When you were a kid, did you sleep with a stuffed animal? And do you still sleep with it as an adult? 1. Yes. I slept with my Pooh Bear until I was 12. I'd have given him up years earlier but I didn't want to hurt his feelings. 2. No.

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I was once on a nude beach and got approached by a woman who told me she was impressed with my physique, has this ever happened to you and would you be flattered or offended? 1) Yes, several times. 2) Flattered.

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Are YOU in the NUDE now ? be honest I'm wearing a sarong. But then I'm in Thailand and it's 90 degrees.

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If God comes and asks what do you need, what would you say? I think You're in a much better position to answer that than I am.

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If man (sinners) edited the bible over and over, wrote it and published it...why is it so trusted? The question is how do you know it's been edited? What were the edits? How do you know these are edits? The fact is the only way to identify an edit is by comparing it to a better, more reliable manuscript or quotes from early trustworthy sources ... in which case you simply dismiss the edit as such, and go with what the authentic version. And then there's this one problem for the chronic...

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Some claim to have faith, but what is it really? Faith isn't a category in any religion except Judaism and Christianity, and to a related extent in the pseudo-Christian cults/heresies that split off from it. Judaism and Christianity are both based on a covenant (a sacred irrevocable contract and bloodoath) between God and his covenant people. "Faith" is trust that God will fulfill His promises in His covenants, that is, that He will do what...

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Why does my wife try to get rid of my speedos? Have her make a video of you in it showing you from all angles, walking, sitting down, getting up, bending over, etc. ... and maybe you'll understand.

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Is it true that lighting a cigar with a match instead of a lighter is better? Just the opposite. The sulfur on the match interacts badly with the cigar and hurts its aroma and taste. But best to light one with the red-hot ember of a cedar stick.

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USA, Freedom Of Speech. So why am I not allowed to use &%$#@*()_+%$# in a question? "Freedom of Speech" does not mean that anyone can say whatever they like, whenever they like, whereever they like. It means the GOVERNMENT cannot infringe on a citizen's freedom to criticize THE GOVERNMENT (or its officials and policies) or speak up participating in discussion of public matters -- EXCEPT where the person is inciting riot or otherwise creating/instigating a clear and present...

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Should I read and study the bible literally or give it some heart and common sense? You should study it seriously and intently. If the Bible says something, it must be taken seriously, authoritatively, and absolutely. But literally? Very little writing in English - and Hebrew for that matter - can be properly understood if interpreted absolutely literally. Consider this example from the 1st page of my college text book on quantum physics: --- "The study of quantum physics...

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Have U heard about Obama's real B.C.was given to the API in Africa,n says it's British Parliment of East Africa as birthplace? I think you mean "British PROTECTORATE of East Africa." But who cares? Even if he was born in Kenya, his mother was a natural born American citizen. By the Common Law definition of "natural born citizen" in use when the Constitution was written, that makes him one. But it is interesting that the manifestly fake BC the White House posted on line last year, it gave his father's country...

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If you're compulsively honest, you should avoid a job like ________. Espionage, undercover cop, politics, advertising, and beautician.

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Why are people so germophobic these days? I don't remember people so concerned about dirt and germs when I was a kid. It's an American neurosis (and you won't find it among most country folk who are used to working in dirt, animal gore, and shit). It comes from great prosperity and suburban middle-class living that separates people from nature and manual labor. Move to a nation outside the G8 and you'll see they have no such obsessions. (Though the Asians will make you take your shoes off to come in their...

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Which country has the longest railway network in the world ? If by "longest railway network" you mean "has the most total miles (or kilometers) of track in use" it's still the USA, and no other single country comes close. #1 USA:.... 226,427 Km (down from its peak in 1970 of 408,883 km) #2 Russia:. 128,000 Km #3 China:... 91,000 Km #4 Canada:. 72,912 Km #5 India:.... 64,215 Km #6 Australia. 42,026 Km Of course, this is to be expected given that...

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What is the origin of Greenland\'s name? The origin of the "green" in "Greenland" is disputed. The four principal theories are: 1) The island was so named by Eric the Red to make the island sound more pleasant than it was in order to lure potential settlers away from Iceland; this is the view of the Icelandic Sagas written over 300 years after the event (by which time southern Greenland had been overtaken by glaciers and the...

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If adam and eve were the first humans and they gave birth to two boys, who did they have sex with to create the next generation? are we all the final product of the original incest according to the bible? How many times, in how many different ways, are people going to as this same question instead of actually looking at the answers already given?

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How do you like your prime rib done? For prime rib there is only one way: BLOOD RARE! So just whipe it's ass and put it on the plate! .

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Procrastination is ___________________ ? the way of tomorrow.

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Do you think religion is just a socially accepted form of dictatorship? Which religion? And how is a religion that says, "Follow your conscience!" an absolute autocracy?

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Your thoughts on this quote-As the soap cleans the body,religion cleans our thoughts, purifies our emotions & takes us closer to God? That would depend upon the religion.

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Did you or someone you know invent the wheel? No, but my father invented the question mark.

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Why do some catholics believe that Mary was a virgin her whole life? It's not just Catholics. The Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Coptic, and Ethiopic Churches teach it too, as did Martin Luther and many other early Protestant reformers, as do many Anglican/Episcopalian, Anglo-Catholic, and Lutheran theologians today. The essential reason for believing so is that it's the established dogma of the Catholic and Orthodox chuches. The doctrine underwent a...

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Anyone here know the Email for pastor Wright? I'd like to ask him something! You could always try sending it to Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, and if they think it's worth his time, they'd forward it on: info@TrinityChicago.org

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Religious: Don't you see, your 'freedom' to express your religious beliefs impinges my freedom to not hear about your religious beliefs? You have no such right when off your own property. And on your own property, if it's not clearly posted and/or gated, you can't prohibit the door-to-door types from knocking on yours. You can, however, insist that they leave immediately once they've told you what they're selling. However, if public proselitizing is done in such a way that it unreasonably and demonstrably impedes your rights of...

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Does 'Inerrant' necessarily imply 'complete'? That is, if you take the Bible as inerrant, can it provide inerrant instruction about things it doesn't mention, or would people take their own interpretation of advice? 1) There is nothing inherently supernatural about inerrancy. You or I could sit down and write an inerrant letter ... or even an inerrant answer to a question on AB. 2) The only way for a written work to be "incomplete" is if either (a) the author never finished writing it, or (b) the document was damaged over time so that part of it is missing/lost. 3) The doctrine of Special Revelation...

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If you seen me burning a BIBLE in public - would you take action ? As a Christian, I'd pray for you, and then kindly hand you mine, noting that you no longer have yours. As a teacher and parent who knows how to inculcate the necessary mutuality of good manners and civil behavior, I would determine what book or symbol meant something to you, obtain one, and destroy it in front of you, and continue tit for tat until you stopped. You see when you violate the...

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CHRISTIANS True or False: 'Much of the true gospel that Christ taught has been taken out of the Bible so Prophets must arise to restore the original, primitive gospel that He taught.' And please start with "True" or "False" before you explain your answer. False. Those who claim otherwise must provide evidence to support their claim, specifically, any of the following: 1) a 1st or 2nd century manuscript of any of the 4 Gospels or other NT books that contains theologically significant passages not found in later manuscripts, 2) an authentic Apostolic (1st century) writing that teaches a ... larger gospel(?) 3) an authentic 2nd century patristic...

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The Bible teaches Christianity - True or false? Of course the Bible teaches Christianity. The question is does the church?

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Is it wrong to eat meat in general? Who does it wrong? (And animals aren't "whos".) A meal without meat isn't worth eating! -- well, with the sole exception of vegetarian pizza ... but then I don't think of breakfast as a meal: "meals" are lunch and dinner; breakfast is ... breakfast.

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Happy St. Patrick's Day 2012! Are you wearing green today? No. I'm wearing orange and navy blue.

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Is there a distinction between “creation” and “creationism”? "Creation" is either: 1) a noun meaning everything in the universe, heaven, and hell except for God Himself - i.e., all that has been created, or ... 2) a participle of the verb to create, meaning the act or process of creating something. "Creationism" is the belief that humanity, life, the Earth, and the universe are the creation of a supernatural being, most often in the West referring to...

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Yes, 98% of women use birth control... Presumably, SOME are Republicans. But, would you right wingers RATHER they didn't? 98% of women use birth control? Pulling figures out of your ass again, are you? At any rate, "right wingers" have no problem with women - even Republican women - using the pill for medical reasons, nor with them using any form of legitimate contraception so long as they (and or their man) pay for it themselves. The Catholic Church (not known for being particularly "Right Wing" on the vast...

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Do you think the Russians could've defeated the Wermacht by themselves without the help of the Brits, U.S., French, Canadians or Polish? The French and Poles were already defeated, occupied, and out of the war well before Russia was in it. The real question, however, is - Could the Russians have defeated the Wehrmacht without the help of Hitler? But had Germany not been at war with the British Empire & its Commonwealth and the USA - and the Dutch Empire, the French Empire, Belgium & its Congo colony, Portugal & its...

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I've noticed quite a few questions implicitly criticizing Mormons and their church. Why the need to single out this religion for ridicule? Mormonism gets singled out because: (1) the LDS is the largest, strongest, and wealthiest of the heretical cults in the US, and so draws significant criticism from Christians; (2) 'Mormons on the whole are strongly socially conservative and square, which makes them an instant target for those who aren't; (3) in terms of clean-cut wholesomeness, "family values", and old-fashioned social...

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Thinking of saving the economy, which candidate do you think will do it best? That's really a vote for Paul's economics and ideology. I doubt that even if he was elected he'd be able to do what he wants with government regulations, taxes, and the FED. Hate as I do to admit, of the 4 choices Romney is the most likely to get at least some of what needs done, done.

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Men: do you think women have lost what it means to be a woman? What it means to be a woman? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Female Fan: I just love how you write women! How do you do it? Author (Nicholson): It's simple -- I just think of a man ... and then I take away reason and accountability. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cruise: But she's not an agent!...

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Today is Pi day in New York. Which is your favorite Pie? I find 3.1416 hits the mark in most every practical situation.

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Is it possible to believe in something yet fail to live up to it? I should think that was obvious. The real question is, "Is it possible to actually live up to your beliefs?"

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Why is The GOP talking about contraceptives when there is 8.3% unemployment in The USA? Strange ... I thought it was the Democrats and the Media who keep talking about contraception, trying to get the masses to believe that the GOP wants to outlaw it. But the GOP quite rightly wants to talk about unconstitutional and economically disastrous policies of the Democratic administration, and that includes its stance of mandating all private medical insurance cover contraception.

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Do you think women are more emotional because they are mothers? No. It's because they ovulate, menstruate, lactate, and secrete significant quantities of estrogen instead of testosterone.

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Religion is_______________? a category in university course catalogs. Apart from that, there is no such thing as "Religion". There are only religionS ... and they aren't the same or even substantively similar. Not only do they offer different answers, they don't even ask the same questions.

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How important is spirituality to you? God is of ultimate importance to me. But what the hell is "spirituality"?

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Is it rude of people to try and sell their backward beliefs from antique population control manuals? It entirely depends on how they go about it. But in case you're including the Bible in your presumed list of "antique population control manuals", you misunderstand it entirely. In fact from a purely sociological and political perspective it's far more a means of controlling the rich and powerful in order to protect most of the population from them.

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What is the difference between yelling fire in a theater and Mormons bothering me? One creates a clear and present danger to the lives and well-being of many people, not to mention the theatre owners and their employees. The other is at worst a mild inconvenience, and Mormon missionaries (nice kids that they are) are exceedingly polite and perfectly happy to leave you alone if you simply say you're not interested. Would that all door-to-door salesmen, polsters, campaigners,...

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For God to exist... to be real... then like everything else that is real and exists-God had to have a beginning...where was this beginning Everything that exists had to have a beginning? Where did you get that? And FYI, if you're trying to dicker with the argument for a First Cause, you should know it's premise is NOT that everything that exists has a beginning: it's premise is that everything that is not eternal necessarily has a beginning, and everything that has a beginning has a prior cause. God is not one of the things...

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Which letter of the alphabet is the most salty? As any old salt will tell you, it's "RRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrr". Be sure to remember that on Speak Like A Pirate Day!

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Has the Vatican seriously considered allowing married priests as a way to possibly reduce their pedophile ranks? The two are completely unrelated. (1) Priests don't become pedophiles because they can't marry; pedophiles became priests because the priesthood provided both camouflage and access to their prey ... now, however, being a priest brands you as a suspect and puts you under a microscope; (2) most pedophiles and pederasts are married men; (3) an American child is literally 20,000 times more likely...

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Would you pee on someone...for their own benefit? Urine from a healthy person is not only sterile, but mildly anti-microbial and anti-biotic. (In olden days, people use to use their own to brush their teeth with instead of tooth paste.) If in the wild far from medical facilities AND don't have any clean freshwater under pressure to rinse the wound, urine can be used to clean the wound instead. So in that case, I'd do it. However, I wouldn't...

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Mit Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, or Barack Obama for U.S. President? But since that's not likely to be an option, I'll take either Romney or Santorum. I'd even take Gringrich over Oblahblahma.

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Gravity; Theory or Law? Gravity is a word, specifically, a noun. It derives from the Latin word for heaviness/seriousness/weight. It was first used as a name for "a force that gives weight to objects" in AD 1640. (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=gravity) At present, it is a name we give both (1) a phenomenon (physical objects attract other physical objects) and (2) the unseen cause of that phenomenon....

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I have Catholic friends who are loathe to refer to themselves as Christian. They are adament that they are Catholic, and not Christian. Why? Catholicism is a Christian sect/deneomination, right? Because they grew up among anti-Catholic Protestants who kept insisting Catholics aren't Christians, only Protestants are ... and for some reason they adopted the bogus terminology.

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What is the difference from a Catholic and a Christian? The same difference as there is between a golden retriever and a dog.

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Is it gameover for RELIGION now that we are living in an age of enlightenment, rationality, critical thinking and intelligence And what's so enlightened, rational, intelligent, or indicative of critical thinking in this age? Apart from that, your question is based on a false dichotomy.

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What are you going to wear today? A sarong and flip-flops.

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Why dont Christians follow the bible literally ? The bible says YOU MUST FOLLOW IT LITERALLY FYI "follow the Bible literally" means to literally get up and follow it when it moves somewhere. Learn to use the word literally correctly, or stop using it. Also, Deut. 13:1 is "If a prophet, or one who foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a miraculous sign or wonder," In the future, you might want to actually verify your reference before citing a patently false one....

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How do you know your religious beliefs are correct? First of all, I don't know that ALL my religious beliefs are true, I only know that some of them are true. For example, I don't believe in the perpetual virginity of Mary. I don't believe it because the Gospel of Matthew seems to indicate it was not the case, there's nothing in the Bible to support it (apart from the fact that in John Jesus on the cross evidently commends Mary to the care of...

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If you made a disaster movie what would the threat to the world be? A Democrat victory in the US in November, 2012.

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Rush "Taking birth control every day means you must be having sex every day and are therefore a slut&prostitute" True/False Why? I'm pretty sure that's not what he said, though, yes, he did call her a slut, though not on the grounds that she was taking the Pill every day, which I'm sure even Limbaugh knows is the only way a woman takes the Pill. However ... Sandra Fluke is a 31-year-old unmarried feminist activist and a law student at Georgetown University who testified before Democratic members of the House of...

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How much of the Federal Government should be eliminated? Once it is eliminated, will you move onto eliminating State and local government? I'd start with axing the Departments of Education, Labor, and HUD, along with EPA, ATF, COPS, DEA, ACF, AoA, Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Social Security Administration, Administration of Developmental Disabilities, HRSA, and the Center for Nutrition Policy & Promotion. But arguably more urgent is to eliminate about 50% of government regulations on the private sector...

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Why do most men from most parts of the world wear their hair short? 1) For most men, it looks better. 2) It's easier, more convenient, and cheaper to groom, wash, dry, and manage. 3) Long hair gets in the way/is a nuisance in most kinds of work men do; e.g., being a grease-monkey/mechanic. 4) Long hair is one heluva liability in a fight ... just like earrings.

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Between Iran and Israel, which of these countries is the greater threat to the other? Iran is a threat to itself. If it weren't arming and supporting Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist groups in and around Israel, it would have nothing to worry about from Israel.

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Conservatives: What would you do with someone that tried to become rich but continuously failed? Why would I do anything with him? It's his business, not mine. And he's his own concern, not mine. ... and if I knew how to become rich, I'd do it myself.

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I was 'bothered' by mormons on a bus today, Should the religious be allowed to sell their religions on public transport? Just be grateful. If they were using more effective/less annoying proselytizing techniques they might actually be a lot more successful at making converts.

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What is the government currently doing when we dont have long until we run out of fossil fuels for automobiles? We're nowhere near running out of oil. We're just running out of known cheap oil reserves. But we've got enough oil in oil-shale in North America to last for centuries. And we're still discovering more cheap oil -- when the price was low there wasn't much incentive to explore for it, so little was found in the '80s and '90s, but now that the market's over $100 per barrel there's plenty of...

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Would you think firing a gun off the fantail of a Navy Carrier is healthy for the Sea Creatures? Yes, since you didn't have neither healthy nor unhealthy as an option. The fact is, in the deep oceans far from the continental shelves there's very little animal life to be bothered at all. And considering how much lead and other minerals get washed into the sea naturally every year, a few thousand bullets or rounds of buckshot aren't going to make a bit of difference.

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Libs read. Conservatives listen and watch TV. Since the right wing CONTROLS radio and cable TV, wouldn't that make the "media" neutral? You do love your false premises, don't you.

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Both canada and the us are sovereign nations and have a head of government,what is the main difference of a parlimentery government and a congressional ,and why do republics presedential power supercede a prminister's power? The main difference between a parliamentary system and presidential (not a congressional) system is that in a parliamentary system the legislature (i.e. it's ruling party) chooses the executive (the head of government, the head of state if the country is NOT a monarchy, and often the cabinet members) while in a presidential system the executive is elected independently of the legislature. ...

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When will the Federal Government finally disband? When the States secede and dare it to wage a war against them stop them. Unlike in 1861, I doubt our would-be masters have the balls to do that, and if they did the military wouldn't obey.

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What is better Republic, Monarchy or Anarchy and why? also what will be the first to die out? and what is the oldest out of the three?. Better for what? ... and for whom? But the oldest form of government is federal patriarchal oligarchy.

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Does Newt Gingrich resemble an angry Hobbit? And if he did, that would matter in what way? Of all the substantive things that can be said against Gingrich, you think a supposed resemblance to a fictional people is noteworthy?

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You stood in an election and had just 6 votes while your opponent had over 22,000. Would you demand a recount? It worked for Al Franken.

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The last restaurant you went to was called _______? The place up the street - 2nd one on the left. I live in Thailand. Every street is littered with little noodle-shops, stir-fry places, and the like, and none have names.

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Rush Limbaugh is a _______________? vastly more successful, effective, and famous opinion-maker than anybody on AB is, ever has been, or ever will be.

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Jesus said, "And I shall be the reaper, and you shall be the wheat". What did that mean? And just what is your source that Jesus said that? It's not in the Bible. (The Baptist however dis say, referring to Jesus, "His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor, gathering his wheat into the barn and burning up the chaff with unquenchable fire." I should think the meaning is fairly obvious. The same meaning is found in Jesus' parable of the wheat and the...

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Do you know why the priest use violet color for lent? Purple or Red-Violet (for some reason ... bruises, maybe?) symbolizes pain, suffering, and therefore mourning and penitence. Which is why it is the liturgical color for the Season of Lent. A more vibrant bluer purple, however, symbolizes imperial royalty (because in ancient times it was the most expensive of all colors; in many Hellenistic kingdoms and eventually in the Roman Empire, only...

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What would Jesus say about mega-churches and TV preachers? That would depend upon the church and the preacher.

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whats free?what can you get for nothing? no cost? Nothing is free. If you don't pay for it (consume or sacrifice resources to obtain/provide/produce it), then someone or something else does.

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Is it possible that a person is dislexic because they were forced to switch from being left handed to right handed? And why or why not? No. It's something you're born with. But lefties have a higher incidence of dyslexia than righties, just as do holistic and spatial learners vs. linear-sequential types.

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Why was Jesus alleged to have been born 4 BC instead of AD 0? First of all, there is no AD 0 ... or 0 BC. Years are actually ordinals (e.g., the 2012th year of the Lord) and there's no such thing as a 0th anything. The timeline is ..., 2 BC, 1 BC, AD 1, AD 2, ... Matthew 1-2 place Jesus' birth in the reign of Herod the Great, father of Archelaus. Our best estimates place Herod's death in 4 BC, so, assuming Matthew got it right and wasn't just engaging in...

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Is Jesus different than God and the Holy Spirit? Jesus (God The Son) is a distinct person from God The FATHER and God The Holy Spirit. As to being "different", the question is, "Different in what way?"

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Beef or Chicken I live in Thailand. Beef isn't much of an option.

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Is "Return of the Jedi" the weakest of the original Star Wars movies? Do Ewoks crap in the woods?

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Why must the U.S finance forts or military bases in countries that are its allies and can defend themselves? Generally, it's because those bases are not for defending those countries but our interests. It's also a way of buying influence and keeping them our allies.

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Is this wrong ? A son charging his mother a 4%PA interest rate on a cash money loan Not if that's the inflation rate. If it's higher then the inflation rate, then it sounds pretty wretched. But not knowing any of the particulars or family history, I'd withhold judgment.

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What is the word for someone who believes that God exists but has no faith in God? Depends on why. The term Deist might be appropriate. Though it might be more accurate to say that they had faith that God was uninvolved in the universe since He created it.

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Kind of got caught stealing from CVS?First I want to say that I will never, ever ever steal again in my whole life. I have no interest in reading your "question". I just want to know how the hell you got it past the text-length limit?

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How many of you think Sandra Fluke is just some innocent girl Rush Limbaugh is picking on? She's not. She's a liberal activist. Sandra Fluke is a 31-year-old unmarried feminist activist and a law student at Georgetown University who testified before Democratic members of the House of Representatives claiming that contraception should be free to women - covered by any and all health insurance policies - because she was "going broke" paying for contraception herself, spending more than $3,000 per yea on it -- which...

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what makes rush limbaugh call some high school kid who's probably under 18, a s*ut, when he was married 3 times ? lol Sandra Kay Fluke is a 31-year-old unmarried feminist activist and a law student at Georgetown University who testified before Democratic members of the House of Representatives claiming that contraception should be free to women - covered by any and all health insurance policies - because she was "going broke" paying for contraception herself, spending more than $3,000 per yea on it -- which...

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Would you agree that cigarettes are over priced? Not overpriced, but overtaxed. ... at least in the "developed" countries. They're dirt cheap in many parts of the world.

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Just for statistics....Do you have a criminal background (have you been arrested)? No, but a cop did try to arrest me once for politely exercising my rights. COP: That's it! Turn around! You're under arrest! ME: (standing firm, but in a condescendingly gentle and quiet tone like I was speaking to bratty child) On what charge? COP: Resisting Arrrest! ME: And what was I under arrest for before that that I was resisting? He was kind of lost for words at that point.

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How many of you think Sandra Fluke is just some innocent girl Rush Limbaugh is picking on? She's not. She's a liberal activist. And also a slut. And evidently she's also a liar. Any person who can afford to go to Georgetown Law can afford contraception.

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What do you think of politicians who parade their religiosity as proof of their morality You mean like Bill Clinton's weekly photo-op walking into church with Hillary and Chelsea carrying a 15 lbs Bible? I didn't know whether to laugh or vomit. But suffice it to say it faile to convince me of neither his morality or his religiousity, but merely his contempt for both ... and the intelligence of moral and/or religious people everywhere.

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If the election were tomorrow, factoring in the present state of the Republican party, would President Obama win? In a 2-way race against any GOP candidate, even Sarah Palin, Oblahblahma would lose.

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Did Jesus pray? He was a millenarian rabbi and apocalypticist on a Messianic mission. Of course he prayed.

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I didn't come here looking for trouble, I just came here to ______? I can't believe Chicago fans are STILL talking about the '85 Bears.

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Romney is promoting himself as a CEO presidential candidate with business experience. Did people forget that Bush ran with the same claim? No, but unlike Bush, Romney actually made money for his investors and turned the failing businesses he acquired around and made them profitable ongoing concerns ... while Bush botched the businesses his dad and dad's cronies handed him, and kept having to get them to bail him out.

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When did you KNOW that it was true, our climate is changing? *global warming, climate change, whatever you want to call it. I'm an Historian. I've known since my earliest studies that the Earth's climate is always changing. I was in Jr. High (back in the '70s) when I first read about the Medieval Nadir ("The Little Ice Age"). Unlike all the Global Warming Chicken Littles running around these days, I know that the world was warmer 1,000 years ago than it is now (which is why as the glaciers retreat over Greenland...

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Would you change your age right now if you could? As long as we're just talking the physical, and not the intellectual, or God forbid the financial, ABSOLUTELY! Of course, now that I'm 50, I'd like to be in 20 again, or even 30. I'd even settle for 40!

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Why didn't you achieve your dreams? Because it's impossible to become a rock superstar, NFL undefeated quarterback, voluminous Orphic novelist, essayist, and playwright, 7th degree black belt in all martial arts, military genius and great war-time leader/hero, and world-transforming engineer and physicist who figured out out to break the light barrier and succeeded in colonizing Alpha Centauri and even managed to become galactic...

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What was the purpose of the Watergate Burglary? It was such a historical event, but why did it happen? According to the man who did it, G. Gordon Liddy, he was told by John Dean that the DNC was illegally receiving large sums of money from Communist Cuba, and he was to steal their files and get them to the Attorney General, via Dean, so they could find the evidence. Liddy learned after the break-in that the A.G. had never authorized the break-in and knew nothing of it. Liddy claims that he...

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Which god is the one mentioned on US coins, that we trust in? It's Shiva the hindu god, right? The eternal, personal, and providential God who created and rules the whole universe, in whom all the Founding Fathers and the Framers of the Constitution believed. (And before all the secularists start screaming that it wasn't on US currency until the 1957: 1) it was on several denominations of currency before that, the first starting back in 1864; 2) it was engraved on rostrum of the Senate...

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Which of the Hindu Gods stacks up closest, or aligns most precisely, to the God shared by the Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians and Muslims? Hinduism isn't one religion but several with a common culture. For the sects that believe in the Supreme Being who is the origin and support of the universe, that Supreme Being would be Brahman (pretty much by definition). However, in Vaishnavism "Brahman" is Vishnu, while in Shaivism "Brahman" is Shiva, and Krishnaism it's Krishna. In Shaktism, however, Brahman is the primordial feminine,...

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Believers in a particular God: Could you write down why you DON'T believe in all other Gods? You might find why I don't believe in yours. What other "Gods"? I'm afraid your question is absurd. There is only one God with a capital G by definition, and all monotheists believe in Him even while they may disagree about some things about Him. As for gods, Christians, Jews, and Moslems believe in the existence of myriads of them. We just call them angels, archangels, powers, thrones, principalities, dominions, cherubs, seraphs,...

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Rick Santorum said that the President should not have apologized for the burning of the Koran by American Soliders in Afghanistan, REALLY? It will add to his popularity among the American masses who hate political correctness and "ragheads", and thus will help him get elected. If elected, it won't do much for America's standing with our Islamic allies in the Middle East, or the standing of Islamic governments friendly with us among their own people. But it does intrigue me that those among the a-religious Left in America who are...

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How many Kings has there been throughout the ages of Israel & what were their names? 3 KINGS OF THE UNITED MONARCHY Saul David Solomon 20 KINGS OF JUDAH (Southern Kingdom) Rehoboam Abijah Asa Jehoshaphat Jehoram Ahaziah Athaliah Joash Amaxiah Azariah Jotham Ahaz Hezekiah Manasseh Amon Josiah Jehoahaz Jehoiakim Jehoiachin Zedekiah 19 KINGS OR ISRAEL (Northern Kingdom) Jeroboam I Nadab Baasha Elah Zimri Omri Ahab Ahaziah Joram Jehu Jehozhaz Jehoash Jeroboam II Zechariah...

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Between both of your parents, who would you say really wore the pants in your house while you were a child/teenager? Mum or Dad? Dad always had the last say ... ... but Mom usually got her way.

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First horror movie that comes to mind? Obama's 2nd Term

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he who goes 2 bed hungry .......... wakes up thinner.

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What parents don't want their kids to get a college education? What parents don't want their kids to have a better life than they did? All good parents want their children to have as good a life or better than they had. That does not translate into wanting them all to have a college education. From building contractors & tradesman, to artists & performers, pro-athletes, most salesmen, farmers, ranchers, restauranteurs, retail store owners, and the best computer techs including the CIOs of several corporations I know,...

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Christians: Would an acknowledged theological error on the part of your Church leadership cause you to question your faith? Only if I was Catholic and the theological error was a supposedly infallible Papal ex-cathedra pronouncement or the Council of Trent or the Catholic councils which followed it. If, on the other hand, any Christian leader or leadership group claimed there was an error in one of the 7 great ecumenical councils, it wouldn't cause me to question my faith but the leaders who were claiming there was...

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Pick one: $10,000 cash right now, or weigh 10lb less( and keep if off for good)? Assuming it's blubber and not a limb, make it 25 lbs and you've got a deal! (I'd even pay the $10,000 for it.)

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In the BIBLE, Adam and Eve realised they were NAKED because they ate fruit of the forbidden tree, so howcome... You're reading the story incorrectly. (And nowhere does it say or imply that being naked is "wrong".) In the Ancient Near East (and in even the modern Middle East) nakedness was symbolic of public humiliation and disgrace ... unless of course you weren't in public. It was part of the cultural vocabulary - like the bride wearing white at her wedding USED TO mean she's a virgin, and a man...

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In the BIBLE, Adam and Eve realised they were NAKED because they ate fruit of the forbidden tree, so howcome... ............ delete duplicate ................

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Worst experience on airplane An 8-hour red-eye on a packed Aer Lingus 747 in coach with an Irish family of 6 in front of me where the father sitting directly in front of me was holding his 2-year-old with an ear infection screaming back into my face all night ... ... and I had to put in a full day of work visiting customers upon arrival.

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Why do super heroes wear capes? Theory 1) It harkens back to images of knights and Prince Charming and the cavaliers of old. Theory 2) Even cartoonists can't make a speedo over tights look good from behind.

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A priest refused to give a Lesbian communion at her mother's funeral. Is this an 'atta boy' or a 'shame on you'? Well, if he was a Catholic or Orthodox priest, then his church declares homosexual acts to be mortal sin, and he's specifically forbidden from given communion to anyone he knows to be in a state of unrepentant mortal sin. Assuming the daughter was raised Catholic she would have had to know that, and that she was committing sacrilege by even going to the rail unconfessed, unrepentant,...

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Can you get your driver's permit in Pennsylvania with a warrant? I think they prefer you to use a state-issued photo ID.

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Obama leads both Santorum and Romney by double digits. Surprised? Unsurprised? The best surveys I've seen show Santorum beating Oblahblahma by over 4 points, while they show Romney losing to him by only 1.3 points, inside the margin for error.

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If witchcraft and wizardry is a sin to God - Why do you accept creationism? Sudden appearance of evolved life has to be considered sorcery. Sudden appearance of *evolved* life is a contradiction in terms. ("Evolved" means developed gradually over a long period of time). What you mean is the sudden appearance of "complex" living organisms. But no, that is not considered to be sorcery. Biblically, "witchcraft" refers to necromancy and being a spirit medium. Sorcery/wizardry refers to demon summoning, and getting them to do things...

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Do you as a Christians believe that you must be baptised in water to get into Heaven... Let's just say I believe that a person who's heard and believed the Gospel will be baptized if at all possible, and if a professed believer - when it is possible - doesn't, he evidently wasn't listening or doesn't really believe.

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Can someone explain to me, why is the BIBLE so INSANE?.. Perhaps it's because you don't know how to read it. Or it could be that you're rather messed up or just not that bright. Of course maybe should do more than just read "bits here and there" and actually try studying all of it, preferably with the help of some experts and/or commentaries written by them. Before you go mocking or dismissing something as insane, you might take note of all the...

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Would you ever let your son become a priest or your daughter a nun? It's not exactly my choice to begin with. But if it was, of course I would, assuming they were doing so for the right reasons. Although, I would have some difficulty with it if it was my only child.

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Why is it considered unreasonable to educate Islam that Koran books, while containing contents holy to them, is still just a book? Because they're unwitting idolaters? However, to be fair, a Koran isn't "just a book": it's a symbol. If it were "just a book" the burners wouldn't have burned it. Are some symbols worth killing and dying for? Mankind has always felt so. But, in point of fact, it's not "Islam" that teaches Muslims to react this way: negro Muslims in sub-Saharan Africa don't react this way: there are symbolic...

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How does the door-to-door ministry of the JW's differ/mirror the door-to-door ministry of early believers? Does it have the same meaning? Neither the 72 sent out by Christ, nor Paul and the early missionaries went house-to-house, knocking on doors, canvasing streets and neighborhoods. First they went to the synagogues, and if rejected there, they went to the market places and other venues where impromptu public speaking was expected and allowed. They also made connections and made use of what anthropologists call "the laws of...

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I think government ought to serve we the people. A government that serves religious fanaticism is an evil enterprise. What do you think? Rosie, you've really got to take a step back on this one, as you're being rabidly fanatical yourself. Opposing the government subsidizing, or mandating that you subsidize, something that you find morally or ideologically odious, and using all legal and constitutional means to challenge and overturn it, is not "religious fanaticism". It's being a good citizen. You're doing exactly the same...

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Santorum: Obama 'A Snob' For Wanting Everyone To Go To College or Trade School. Agree/Disagree? Why? Actually, he didn't say anyting about Trade School. Santorum's exact quote is, "President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob!" Obviously, there is certainly some truth to it -- his audience of working class Americans gave him a very enthusiastic ovation when he said it. Now Obama's position (if he actually believes it and wants it) is on one level the...

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All before only you had access to your savings but with the introduction of 401ks now capitalists do to. Nice trick? If you have savings that you invest in anything for profit you ARE a capitalist, moron. And since a 401(k) is essentially an investment device for defering income tax for decades while garnering investment profits on the invested income, using one is VERY capitalist. And if your employer adds profit-sharing to it, why then you're practically one of the owners! Only you enjoy a dividend while...

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In your philosophic view, what is the highest authority on earth? And why do you choose it as the most potent? On earth? No human being, group, or institution has a global territorial jurisdiction, let alone an in personam jurisdiction over every person, or subject matter jurisdiction over all subject matters. And even the World Court has a very limited jurisdiction -- principally only what sovereign states permit it on a case by case basis; i.e., if two parties in contention apply to the World Court...

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What would be the reason YOU would travel to Thailand To get back to my home, wife, and children. But when I first traveled to Thailand, it was because a school there offered me a job I couldn't refuse.

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Does the individual have any rights? Is it only the state/federal government to which rights apply? Is the individual an afterthought? "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes...

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Which Indiana Jones is the worst movie? Raiders was awesome. Last Crusade and Crystal Skull were kind of dumb, and didn't work on so many levels, but they had their moments. Temple of Doom - the first 15 minutes was great! ... and then it went progressively downhill from there... literally as well as figuratively. It was nothing but an overly elborate and protracted chase scene with no substance, nothing the audience really cared...

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If the government considers atheism a religion then where are our tax breaks and handouts? You have them already. They're accorded to chartered 401c corporations like People for the American Way and the American Humanist Society (http://www.americanhumanist.org/Who_We_Are/About_the_AHA). If you want more, all you have to do is form other organizations for the advancement of Atheism and/or as associations/mutual aid societies of Atheists, including Atheist schools or hospitals,...

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Why do Buddhist monks burn themselves? With regard to the ones doing so in Tibet recently ... According to the Communist Chinese authorities, it's because they're terrorists. I'm not kidding.

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How do you feel about immigrants coming into your country and culture? Should they be deported? I am an immigrant. I've lived in Thailand now for several years. I am, however, a completely legal one, with a legal work visa and permit (and even legally obtained with legitimate credentials as opposed to forged ones, which puts me in the minority of work visa holders here). I also brought a good bit of investment capital with me. However, as much as the locals love me, it's made clear in...

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Is the Bible just mythology? This doesn't sound much like Myth to me: "As I urged you when I went into Macedonia, stay there in Ephesus so that you may command certain men not to teach false doctrines any longer nor to devote themselves to myths and endless genealogies. These promote controversies rather than God's work--which is by faith. The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart and a good...

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Do you always pray? I drive a motorcycle in a city of 8 million Asians who believe in Karma and Reincarnation. What do you think?

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What did you learn in Sunday school? From 6th Grade on, my Sunday School was in a liberal country-club Episcopal church, with (1) a dipsomaniac for a priest who'd married a twice-divorced woman, (2) a gay wig-wearing and child-hating choir director whose boyfriend was in the choir, (3) a billionaire heiress patroness who thought she was a great artist and patron of the arts (the choir director was her protected patronee) who used...

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Yeshua, (jesus) was a colored man why do Modern society says he is white? Please read description Your claim is nonsense. 1) They were escaping Herod's reach, not hiding. Once across the border they were safe. 2) In that time, there were already at least a quarter-million Jews living in Alexandria alone, and another half-million in other cities of Egypt, most notably Elephantine and Leontopolis. They were no more "colored people" than are the Jews of New York City and Amsterdam today. 3)...

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Why are Catholics allowed to eat fish on Fridays during Lent? As far as I'm concerned if it was alive it's meat. I’m afraid neither your feelings on the matter, nor your own subjective categories, are relevant. It really doesn't matter to Catholic Tradition what you think on the matter. You also are confused about Catholic devotions. 1) There is no Catholic doctrine that you can't eat meat on Fridays during Lent. 2) The old Catholic devotional practice was to abstain from eating meat on any Friday, not...

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Christians:Please Read Description:) But Islam preaches "another Jesus" and no gospel at all. It denies the Incarnation, the Transfiguration, the Passion, the Crucifixion, the Atonement, the Resurrection, and the Session. It denies the means of Grace - indeed it denies Grace itself. And it rejects the hope of Glory as blasphemous. The Koran does teach the Virgin Birth and seems to express some belief in the Ascension and the 2nd...

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Why do most Muslims hate Other religions - Christians and Hindus mainly? You question is poorly phrased. Christians and Hindus aren't religions, but people in a religion, and the word "hate" is too vague in English: e.g., "I hate peas/The Bears/pedophiles/Democrats" the meaning of "hate" is different in each of those cases. So I will first rephrase your question into what I think you meant to ask: Why does Islam (and hence Muslims) wish to wage war against, and...

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For any person who believes in supernatural forces -how do you determine which is real and which is imaginary? There cannot be any supernatural FORCES. Forces are physical -- i.e., natural. But the principle forces of physics are all occult forces, i.e., hidden ones: we can't see them; we really have no idea what they really are or HOW they work; we can only see their effects. They do however seem to operate with a certain regularity that can be modled mathematically. We have also figured out how to...

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According to Genesis 3:16, a woman's husband is supposed to rule over her. What are your thoughts on this? Sounds not only right but infinitely sensible to me. Seriously, in a society of two matters cannot be decided by majority vote, thus ultimately, once all has been said and discussed, and each has listened to the other, if there is still no agreement, SOMEONE has got to have the final say. And while we may all question the wisdom of the someone being the man, is there really anyone who...

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When did Saint Andrew become a saint? Like all other saints since Christ started His ministry, Andrew became one the moment he left all to follow Him. He joined the saints in Glory the way they all do: by dying. The Church (or really the Churches: Greek, Latin, Syriac/Oriental, Coptic, Armenian, Ethiopic, and Mar-Tom) acknowledge and honored Andrew as a saint for as far back as we have records, which is to say, back into the 2nd...

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What makes someone a Saint? Was/Is Jesus a Saint? The word "saint" just means "holy one" or "pure one". In that sense, Jesus is the Saint of all saints. However, in all sects and denominations of Christianity ALL persons who dwell in Christ and in whom Christ dwells are counted among "the saints". All "the saints in Glory" (those in heaven now) are considered totally saintly (i.e., perfectly sanctified), whether officially canonized or...

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Why do Catholics allow medical care of any kind? You are mistaken. The RCC doesn't oppose contraception because by using it a person can somehow thwart God's plan. (The fact is nothing anyone does can thwart God's plan. But be that as it may ...) The RCC teaches that using contraception is a sin because it turns sex into a lie (one in which each party is merely using the other as a masturbating machine) and invites rampant promiscuity and...

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If God is real, where would proof of that originate? With God, of course.

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What year did God create Adam& Eve? The question is relevant only to those who opt for a (supposed) literal reading of the text. Even if one does so, the answer cannot be determined from the text -- even before contending with all the variants in the reported ages of the patriarchs and other timespans that are found in the different manuscripts of the Hebrew texts, the Aramaic Targums, and the Greek translation (the...

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Accepting atheist perception can be some what likened to story of Adam & Eve eating from the tree of knowledge? Actually the story of Adam & Eve is not that they became more knowledgeable. The correct translation of the Hebrew is that they ate "of the fruit of the tree of the DECIDING of 'tob' (what's beneficial for man), and 'not tob'." God spends the first 2 chapters declaring "This is tob ... that's tob ... this is NOT tob ... this is VERY tob", and Adam wanted that power for himself, e.g., "I...

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Do governments keep people poor so that they are more likely to turn to religion? I always thought that governments - at least modern ones - kept people poor so that they're more likely to turn to the government, and keep voting for those politicians who promise to support them with other people's money.

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Have you ever met the Dalai Lama? If so, what did you think of him? A1) Once. A2) Not much. Don't misconstrue that as a negative; it merely indicates the absence of a significant positive.

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Why do people feel that it's okay to use shock collars and choke collars on dogs? Would you use them to train a child? As a high school teacher, I'd love to be able to use them on my students!

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Did you know just 90 years ago today women in the U.S. won the right to vote? And a black day in history that was. All of America's current political woes can be directly traced to its absurd experiment with women's suffrage. (And FYI, giving women the vote didn't make them more powerful. Women couldn't have been more powerful! They already controlled everything that really mattered in life. All the Vote did was to take power away from women and give it to unscrupulous...

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Santorum alienated almost every woman so it's unlikely (m)any will vote for him. Does he know women have the right to vote and do? I'm sure he's aware of both, and so are you. In the future ... 1) Don't assume that "almost every woman" shares your views on anything, least of all contraception. If you think only a lunatic fringe if any disagrees with you on so-called "women's issues", you need to meet a lot more women from different locales and walks of life. 2) Sontorum's views on contraception never hurt him in...

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If the GOP makes birth control illegal then the Federal Government will own women's bodies. Isn't that 1812? Are they cavedwellers? What the heck are you talking about, Rosie? Whatever else the GOP might have as a plank in their platform, making birth control illegal isn't ever going to to one of them. There are VASTLY far more Democrats who oppose birth control than Republicans (because Catholics are far more often Democrats than Republicans ... and the Catholics who are serious about their Catholicism (such as opposing...

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Agree or Disagree? Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. Good churches ARE lighthouses.

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Is 6'8'' too tall? Im 18yrs old and im 6'8'' i feel like i tower over everyone, I also wear size 17 shoes. Too tall for what? I dare say you don't likely have a future as a jockey. And being a gymnast or dancer are probably out. You're also too tall to be a fighter or attack-jet pilot (you'd rip your knees off in the cockpit of you ejected). But if you're aiming to be a basketball player or a swimmer, you're just fine. Yes, you're going to stand out like a soar thumb, find it hard to get clothes,...

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When you were growing up,where you raised in a Christian church or a Catholic church? Catholic churches ARE Christian churches. (And Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Halls AREN'T.) I was raised in a Protestant one, however ... if you consider Episcopalians "Protestant".

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Santorum doesn't like elite snobs. Aren't those who run for President of the United States among the elite? Isn't Santorum a snob? Why? The term SNOB is actually abbreviation (S.Nob.) for the Latin "Sine Nobilitas" which means "Without Nobility." In the olden days (like until WWI) in the English "Public" School (which are what American's call private schools), a boy of noble birth would register by signing his name, but a commoner had to add S.Nob. after his name. As these boys were essentially new-money, they were...

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How many AB users are in the Southern Hemisphere? I'm 14 degrees too far north ... but I am in the Eastern Hemisphere! 13°57'53" N - 100°15'28" E But in 6 weeks I'll be in Bali!

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Santorum doesn't believe in abortion even if his wife/daughter is raped and gets pregnant. Is he willing to raise the child as his own? Yes.

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Each morning my dog goes nuts on my spouse trying to bite and barking none stop. How can we correct this? Is your wife newer to your household than he is? If so it could be that he's insecure about being demoted from Beta to your Alpha, to Gamma. I had a wonderful and gentle English bulldog - but then he started getting aggressive and snapping at people for no reason. Turned out it was just because I got a new bed that was too high for him to climb into. Before that, he always got in the bed...

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Would you like Scotland to be a separate country? Yes. Not that I'm doctrinaire about it or really even care that much as an American expat living in Thailand. But my sirname is Wallace.

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Do countries have the right to build a military strong enough to defend themselves? ... their interests? Why not ask Japan and Germany? (By the terms of their surrender aggreements in WWII and subsequent treaties, they aren't. They can have a "self-defense force" ... which is hardly up to defending their interests, especially any beyond their borders.) "Have the right" is a poor choice of words to begin with. For example if a nation has "the right" to defend itself and its interests, that means...

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Some feminists complain about "he/him" being used as default. Do French feminists complain about how "ils" and "elles" are used? I agree. And no French women aren't bothered by gender pronouns or that every noun has a gender in their language. Neither do Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Catalan, Greek nor German women.

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Should anyone who shows any sign of being religious be sterilised to avoid the future being a holy bloodbath like the past was? Thank you for yet another example of how - while Christian Americans gave us religious toleration - the "enlightened" secularists are more than open to contemplating enforced totalitarian conformity through genocide.

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In his time, was Jesus considered a conservative or a liberal? and why. Those categories didn't exist. And the social, economic, and political situation was entirely different -- indeed completely alien to what we know now. 95% of even "civilized" humanity lived by subsistence agriculture. With the exception of about 0.001% of the population, a "rich man" was one who had an extra room or two in his house, one or two extra horses, and more than one change of...

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I Believe in God and Jesus,but I am on the Shrinking religious left,why is the Largest group of christians on the hateful Religious Right? Interesting you don't think it hateful to describe all those who you disagree with as hateful. The Anti-Religious Left loves to showcase the Fred Phelpses of this world, despite the fact they constitute a tiny minority of - and are in fact disowned by the bast majority of - the Religious Right. I've known hundreds and been among thousands of members of the so-called Religious Right, and I've...

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What is the degree of influence Hellenism [Greek thought]had on the Evolution Theory and on Christendom? Both have succeeded to confuse most Hellenism isn't "Greek thought" - it's Grecianized Mediterranean polytheism and daimonism, though in a broader sense refers to post Alexandrian urban culture united by Koine (a kind of pigeon-Greek). Whatever one my think of "Greek thought" (really the thought of a tiny minority of oddballs from Thales to Aristotle), by the Hellenistic period it had lost its originality, its vitality, and its...

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How would you react if a 58 year old man is reading his 27 year old son a bedtime story every night? Is the son severely retarded, in a coma, a quadriplegic, bedridden, a shut-in, and/or terminally ill? Barring something on that order, I'd think it was odd. But I'd need more details to make any sort of value judgment.

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What have you done without clothes on? (keep it clean) Played Allen Strang in Equus in college ... but that was just one short scene. Spent a week on a private beach in Mexico (at a naturist getaway with just 4 bungalows).

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Is it true that 1 in 4 US voters is Catholic? If so why do folks fear evangelicals? Aren't they a minority? What percent are they? Evangelicals are just one segment of the so-called "religious Right" in America, which is only part of (albeit the largest part of) the block of social conservatives. Most people outside of conservative and non-mainline Christian groups don't really understand the differences between Evangelicals (which includes evangelical Protestants AND evengelical Catholics), Dispensationalists,...

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Is atheism a religion? If so, hasn't congress been by default endorsing and establishing a religion? Atheism is a theological position, a religious opinion. It is not a religion anymore than a mere belief in reincarnation, a fear of black cats, or even a belief in a Supreme Being, is a religion. Though Atheism is more of a religion than a mere plaque of the 10 Commandments on a courthouse wall, or a manger scene on the lawn of a public school -- and the obssessive campaign for banning all of...

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Are religious people less likely to help someone in trouble because they think god is punishing them for something they did? So long as you substitue Karma for "god", it sure looks like that in India and Thailand.

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Agree or disagree - Jesus will return to judge all humans, living or dead, and grant eternal life to his followers? That's what the Bible Says. That's what the Church teaches. That's what the Apostles taught. That's what Jesus promised. I believe Him.

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As the occupiers, did the Romans keep any records that mentioned Jesus, or as he was a Rabbi are there any of his writings that were saved? Whatever records the Romans kept on such matters have long since been lost. Most records from the time of Christ were lost during the great fire or Rome in AD 64, but unlike the tax and legal records, the imperial archives containing reports from provincial governors were on the Palatine which didn't burn. But these did not survive the chaos of the 3rd century or the Barbarian invasions. In...

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Men, is there anything you do that you consider to be feminine? Decorate my house appropriately (... but strictly in a manly fashion.)

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What place of business do you dislike but still go to anyway? Why? Increasingly, the place where I work!

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How bad is it to teach a child that Evolution is a joke? Not nearly as bad as teaching them that all religions (and all religious people) are a joke ... or worse. And the fact is that the vast majority of people can go through life denying or simply being ignorant of evolutionary theory, and still be excellent citizens, good friends, and thoroughly competant - even brilliant! - in their profession or occupation -- even if it's President of the US...

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Here in the UK we say maths for mathematics,why do americans say math,is not mathematics plural ? No more so than economics or physics is. You don't say ArithmaticS, do you? And "Math" is our word. In typical American fashion students shortened Mathematics to Math over a century ago, just as we shortened Economics to Econ and Biology to Bio. Brits adopted it decades later, sometime during or after WWII due to exposure to American GIs, but then because they're a bunch of anal prigs -- or...

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Why do priests molest little boys? Priests don't become child molesters. Child molesters become priests ... and for the same reason the become school teachers and Scout leaders. And the fact of the matter is - in America at least - a child far more likely to be molested by his public school teacher than his priest. •The best estimate is that 15% of students will be sexually abused by a member of the school staff during...

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The education gap in the US for rich and poor is widening thus reducing the chances for the poor to make good. Conservatism in action? Just the opposite: Public Schools, the NEA, the Dept of Education, Political Correctness, Multiculturalism, and Feminism in action! And please don't cite articles from the NYT as authoritative or informative about anything, or even a legitimate news source. The only difference between the NYT and The Daily Worker is 3 days!

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most hated subject in school? for me it was history and PE. It all depended on the curriculum/textbok and the teacher. G5 Social Studies (because it wasn't History or Geography or Civics, but the principle exports and imports of various US States.) G6 None G7 None G8 Algebra I (but the next year it was my favorite subject! Amazing what a difference a teacher and textbook can make) G9 Science -- but really more just one I didn't care for. G10 None G11...

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Israel cries about terrorists while training terrorists to kill civilians in Iran. Why is that okay? Because they "are on our side"? "Scientists" working to produce nuclear weapons are NOT civilians. When the Iranian government has repeatedly made clear it's commitment to the total destruction Israel, Iranians working on building nukes are a legitimate military target for Israel . And what's wrong with supporting Iranian dissidents who are fighting to establish democratic government and basic human rights, against a...

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If you were a king what would you do to stop revolutions? Rule justly, enforce the rule of law, and keep the grapeshot handy.

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Are atheists in essence evil? What is the essence of an atheist? Now, Atheism - in its essence - is evil, pretty much by definition. Also, all atheists are evil because all human beings are evil, at least all between the Fall and the Resurrection, save Christ Himself. But evil is not a predicate of the essence of any human being, anymore than syphilis is a predicate of any human body.

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Many in the USA have not gone beyond its borders and don't know anything about Europe for instance. Have you gone beyond borders? Where? Canada, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Honduras, Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Caymans, Jamaica, Bonaire, Puerto Rico, U.S. & British Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Cuba, Antigua-Barbuda, St. Kitts & Nevis, Guadalupe, Dominica, Martinique, Bermuda, UK (England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, & Wales), The Channel Islands, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland,...

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If some Christians take the Bible so literally, why do they select some verses to justify their mindset- while they obviously ignore others? The example you give is only found among Protestants, and only in Protestant culture, not Protestant theology. Their centuries of conflict with Catholics have caused them to see willful life-long celibacy as "Catholic", and therefore suspect. Many laymen (and more often lay women) even seem to regard it as borderline heretical. Also, Protestant churches tend to be dominated by typical...

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Would you ever go to Taiwan? Of course. Who wouldn't? (Just try and avoid it during earthquake season.)

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Does Religion perpetuate ignorance? It's nonsense. Restricting oneself to Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Zoroastrianism, none demand ignorance of anything -- though Islam does effectively forbid critical study of the Quran and the biography of Mohammed. (I omitted Hinduism and Taoism/Shenism/Confucianism simply because neither is one single system of belief nor does either have any sort of institutional...

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Why do people who are religious feel the need to say they are religious?, I mean you dont get someone who's not religious come up to you and say hi i'm bob and i dont believe in god 1) I'm religious, and I've never felt such a need -- though I have sometimes felt the obligation to speak up with some smug materialist/secular humanist is sounding off assuming I agree with everything he says, as he denigrates all religions in general and Christianity in particular. In "polite" conversation this oftens amounts to no more than me saying, "Please, don't mistake my silence for...

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Do you rate Josh Hartnett? Only his nose. I give it a -3.

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Who has been the worst actor for "James Bond"? Barry Nelson!!!!!!!!!! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0310853/ After him, though Timothy Dalton was unquestionably the best actor of the lot, he was by far and away the worst Bond. Craig's also an actual actor (whereas Connery, Moore, and Brosnan are "Movie Stars!") and a damn good one, but I can't stand him as Bond ... or really the new Bond films with him. Moore was actually supposed to be...

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Should we get rid of people who have an IQ lower than 80?(because in voting for a president they will choose a dumb president like G.Bush) As oppossed to an even dumber one like Gore? But then, on the other hand, the President with the highest IQ in the last century was Jimmy Carter, and we all know just how effective he was.

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When Christians ruled , they killed all pagans and atheists that they could.Should atheists kill christians now? And where are you getting that nonsense? Go read some actual history or at least take a Western Civ class.

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What if the mythical Serpent was really a savior, inviting humanity to awaken from a mindless existence? If you're referring to Genesis 3, the creature is called a nachesh, a word which can mean any kind of reptile, but it's literal meaning is "whisperer". The nachesh did not offer Adam and Eve consciousness or even knowledge - they had that all ready. Your confusion is due to an unfortunate choice of words in the English translation: what was forbidden man was "eating of the fruit of the tree...

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Agree or disagree - God tests our faith to see if we are worthy of Him ? No one except Christ is ever worthy of God. God tests our faith not to see if we are worthy of Him, but to MAKE us more (or less) Christlike, the choice of which way to go being ours. The purpose of Biblical "tests" is to educate, discipline, and refine. Those whom God loves, He disciplines. The branches that bear fruit, He prunes that they may bear more fruit.

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Does science make belief in God obsolete? Science isn't a thing, let alone an agent capable of making anything. It's a category in a college course catalogue. Now the scientific method is an approach to investigating certain physical (materialistic) phenomena, but God isn't a materialistic phenomena, and so the method can't be applied to investigating or studying Him. The word "science" is, however, often used to encapsulate the sum...

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Other than humans and primate, what other species do you consider to have hands? This is not looking for a Google Answer! Racoons come close. They don't have an opposable thumb, but they're paws are so flexible, that they can still grab things. They also have the most developed sense of touch of any animal.

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Is cash the biggest form of social control ever contrived And how on earth is cash a form of social control at all? It's just proof-of-work-done/services-rendered on a account, which saves us from having to barter. Now control of the money-supply is a kind of business control, but the act of increasing or decreasing it is rather indiscriminate in terms of who gets helped and who gets hurts -- and the vast majority of peole haven't got a clue how...

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What's a polite word for someone who always says the opposite of what you've just said? An audially dyslexic parrot.

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Do animals have fun? i think that most larger animals, like dogs, cats, dolphins and maybe even birds experience fun... but what about insects... do cows have fun..? what about snakes? do ants have fun..? would really appreciate some scientific fact. All young mammals play and clearly take delight in doing so. Not all mammal species exhibit play in adulthood (e.g., cows) but the more intelligent social mammals do, though with less frequency and energy than young. Reptiles and insects, however, are thought to be incapable of emotion beyond raw appetite and fight-or-flight response.

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Are you starting to like Obama more and more? Have you been sniffing glue more and more?

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How can we define someone is crazy? Was it fair to throw Beethoven or Nietzche to the asylum because they were weird? Beethoven was never thrown into an asylum. Nietzsche really was crazy, suffering complete mental breakdown with periodic psychosis from 1889 on.

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Where was the first Thanksgiving located? Probably in Turkey (only without turkey, and it wasn't called Turkey then - ironic, isn't?) around 10,000 years ago, as that was where agriculture started and all agricultural peoples have always given thanks for a bountiful harvest to whatever gods they thought were responsible for plant growth and protecting crops from drought, flood, pests, and anything else that could harm them. But the...

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Where were you on or about the night of February 2, 1976? It was a Monday night. I was in the 9th Grade. I was undoubtedly at home in our house in Warren, Pa, having returned home from play practice for the school musical, and spending he evening working on finishing my 8 foot long scale model of the Hindenburg for the school History Fair (which I later won).

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What is most important to you in your life which is NOT material ? My wife's happiness and my freedom, in that order.

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Who wants to help Alex with his maths? Not until you stop adding that silly S to the end of it and start pronouncing and writing Math correctly.

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Family Planning Clinics...bad bad thing. Women get mammograms there. It saves their lives. Really really a bad bad thing, isn't it? Nazi Germany ...bad bad thing. Working class families got cars they could afford (the VW). Several million jobless people got well-paying work. Really a bad bad thing, wasn't it?

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Do Republicans hate that there was a huge increase in jobs in January (243,000) and that the unemployment rate dropped to 8.3%? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-w-8fXzwQE&feature=g-vrec&context=G27e927aRVAAAAAAAAAA

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At birth If you could have named yourself, what would it be? Adam or Alexander

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Did your parents ever serve tongue or brains or other "parts" when you were growing up, and how loudly did you object to them? My mom fed us creamed sweetbreads (calf pancreas) now and then without telling us what it was at first. We actually liked it -- I know I did. But later in life it was just too rich for me. She also tried feeding us liver, but my sisters and I just hated the taste and texture even without knowing what it was -- though later in life we did come to enjoy pate', but there's a huge diffence between...

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Was God's Wife Edited Out of the Bible? God's wife, Asherah, was a powerful fertility goddess says theologian http://tinyurl.com/45ppm6l Why don't you try reading the Bible and see what it has to say on the matter? The asherah (there were many, not one) weren't "edited out of the Bible". The asherah were each kind of a local nymph or household protectress in ancient Near Easter religion/cultism/superstition, and they are mentioned quite frequently in the Bible, along with the variant of the name, ashtoreth. See: EX 34:13; DT...

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Why do some people act like they know everything? Who's acting?

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What something you shouldn't do at church? Enter, leave, or be outside it, same as with any other room or building.

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What are rocks made up of? Smaller rocks.

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Name something you'll do in the day-time but never at night? Apply sunscreen. Go skydiving. Race dirtbikes through the woods without lights. Enter a cemetary legally. Attend a funeral. Grab a nooner.

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Is tanned skin really that healthy? Tanned skin is certainly healthier for you if you have to spend a lot of time out in the sun (i.e., when the alternative is burning. Better to stay tan than to lose it and then burn again). And getting 'some' sun can certainly help with several skin conditions, e.g., acne. I can't wait until we find out that frequently smearing yourself with SPF60 sunscreen causes skin cancer. But if you're...

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Are people from Alaska culturally more like Canadians or Americans*? Does the name "Sarah Palin" give you any clues?

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What was the best Broadway play you have seen? AMADEUS, starring Ian McKellen and Tim Curry, 1 month after it opened (and before it swept the Tony's) in 1980.

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Is it true that if someone discovers the cure to HIV that the person will be killed/murderred? Why don't you discover it and find out.

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Is it wrong for parents to get drunk in front of their kids? Define "drunk". And the answer in any case is, "it depends". There's certainly nothing wrong with a father and son getting tanked together at the "kid's" bachelore party.

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Why is there no Q in Bond films Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace? Because the arch comic-relief that is Q was seen as out of place with the new "dark" quasi film-noire look and feel of the the new ones with the all-too grim and thoroughly unpleasant Daniel Craig as Bond. Also, John Cleese had a contract that there'd be no other Q for a decade, and he wanted too much money for each film.

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What would happen if we GlOBALLY lowered the price of living?? Globally food was cheaper, buying a home was cheaper. Lets say by 15% ??? It's called deflating the currency. And while inflation - so long as it's fully anticipated - is merely annoying except for either people on a fixed income (pensioners with un-indexed pensions) and stupid people who won't invest the money accordingly, deflation, even when it is fully anticipated is catastrophic for the economy and everyone in it EXCEPT for pensioners with un-indexed pensions. ...

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Men,have you ever notice that some women are so unpredictable and hard to understand? It's all of them, and it's their defense mechanism against men's propensity for polygamy: with one good woman you get constant variety and lots of surprises.

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Is Revenge ever justified? Revenge is always justified by defintion (so long as it is truly compensatory). It just sometimes isn't wise. No man should be the judge in his own cause as he quite naturally minimizes his own offenses and those of his loved ones and while imagining the offenses of those who wrong him and his loved ones as worse than they are, and thus tends to escalate. Also, an impassioned and partial judge...

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in respects to John 8:32 - how would the "truth" set one free? In John's Gospel, "The Truth" means (exclusively) the knowledge of Jesus Christ.

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What country haven't the Europeans invaded at some point? Essentially, none. The interior (desert) of Saudi Arabia was never invaded as such, unless you want to count "U.N." troops staged there for both Gulf Wars. But technically they were there at Saudi request. If you want to count Tibet and Xinjiang as their own countries instead of part of China, then they were never really invaded by a European army or mass settlement by European colonists -...

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Is Israel an ally or enemy of the US? Shouldn't a friend be trusted? Israel is an ally of the US. But in Geopolitics, an ally is not the same thing as a friend ... an ally may after all be simply your enemy's enemy. An "ally" also may simply be diplomatically favored as such for no other reason than doing so helps Presidential candidates and political parties win the State of New York and Miami-Dade County Florida. (Ireland and the IRA gain similar benefits in...

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Do you know anyone who never got a speeding ticket? I don't know. I do know I've never gotten one in Thailand where I moved over 6 years ago, I don't know anybody here who's ever gotten one, and I've never seen any car pulled over for anything, least of all speeding. In a few towns I've seen motorbikes being pulled over where the cops are making use of the new mandatory helmet laws (for motorbike DRIVERS only) to get their lunch money for the...

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What country could I move to that has a much less corrupt government then the US but life styles are kinda similar? Not sure what your idea of a "kinda similar life style" is, but in you might check into: Andorra Cayman Islands Lichtenstein The Channel Islands Switzerland Norway New Zealand ... and though the governments of these next countries are far from pure, their size and proximity to the electorate make them at least somewhat less problematic than the US government: Ireland Australia Canada (and to...

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Why does religion make so many (I did NOT say ALL) people act like sheep, blindly following and never thinking for themselves? It has nothing to do with religions in general or the religious impulse. It has everything to do with human nature. You'll find that many, arguably most of the irreligious and outright atheistic (especially in Europe where they're arguably in the majority) are also simply following their herd or conforming to the current fad among their set or the set to which they wish to belong. It should be...

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Examples of a word that is a sentence by itself? Lots of Thai words, like "long-tao-sainai-baan". It's the 'word' for slipper, but literally translates: "Put on-foot-inside-house". The 'word' for shoe is just "long-tao".

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is it murder? First of all, not all killing is murder. Legally, to be murder the killer must (1) lack legal warrant to kill, AND (2) must have intended at the time to kill, or have been committing a felony and killed (even accidentally) in the process of committing that crime. Assuming both those criteria are met, then the answer to you examples is: 1. yes, but (in some jurisdictions) removing...

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If you're pro-GOP because of cultural reasons instead of just economic ones... (continued) The powers of the Presidency in such things is exercised by: 1. appointing strict Constitutional originalist judges to the federal bench. (In terms of abortion, this would have the effect of returning the power to legislate on abortion to the States. If a State wished to ban it outright, it would be free to do so. If another State wished to not only legalize it but subsidize it, it would be...

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I have plane tickets to go to Cambodia. Do you wanna come with me? No thanks. I'll just walk.

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How many letters are in the alphabet? In the Thai alphabet there are 46 "letters" -- but that's not counting the 17 vowel characters or the 5 diacriticals/tone marks ... plus three strange characters that indicate an abbreviation/truncation, a duplicated syllable, and the start of a stanza of poetry. The Thai Alphabet (46 Consonants) ก ข ฃ ค ฅ ฆ ง จ ฉ ช ซ ฌ ญ ฎ ฏ ฐ ฑ ฒ ณ ด ต ถ ท ธ...

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Do you agree or disagree with this?(see below) Why or why not? The problem with #2 is that you might just as well say ... If you don't like murder, don't kill anyone. No one has a right commit murder, and the body politic has the obligation to protect all from murder and avenge all those who are murdered. As for the rest, as long as we're just talking about private, non-commercial activities that are kept private, with no spill over into other people's...

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Conservatives: How many of you went to public schools, went or plan to go to college using student loans and grants, and use public roads? Public school for G6-9, because there were no private schools in the area and my parents thought I was too young to go to boarding school. But that was before the Department of Education and the national hegemony of the NEA. The public schools I went to were 100% funded by local tax dollars and 100% under local control, and so most of the money actually went to actually paying teachers and...

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Why are men generally not as good at nurturing & caretaking as women are? Women are usually better, why? It's their job.

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what is cost of living in Dubai, And what is precaution I need to take cause I am going to Dubai for 1st time for job hunt Don't. The place is a disaster, a failed monument to banality where they grossly overestimated the number of multi-millionaires in the world by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude. Moreover, it is a super-catastrophe of Biblical proportions waiting to happen. Read: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html

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Should Willie Nelson run for President? Wow ... I guess there *is* someonone who'd make a worse president than Oblahblahma.

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Who was the 28th President of the United States? The one serving WHT and WGH, his initials being TWW. Now go do your own damn homework. Wikipedia is just a click away.

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Why do people now place more importance on health than on pleasure? What made society reverse its priorities like that? The Baby Boomers aged from teens and 20 or 30-somethings,and are now all in late middle age and rapidly moving into Senior Citizen status. (The Boomers are now aged 48-65.) For the record, the decades of a man's life can be characterized as follows: AGE 00-09: spills 10-19: drills 20-29: thrills 30-39: bills 40-49: frills 50-59: ills 60-69: pills 70-79: wills The largest mass of the...

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MEN ONLY how many pairs of shoes do you own? 2 pairs of sneakers: 1 running, 1 cross-trainers 2 pairs of casual slip-ons I wear to work 2 pairs of dress shoes; 1 brown, 1 black 2 pairs of sandals/flip-flops 1 pair of hiking shoes 1 pair of deck shoes

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Bill Clinton is....... a horny hick with a psychological disorder born of being reared in an alcoholic abusive home, and became the most horrendously corrupt politician in American history and a national disgrace.

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Was there life before God? There is nothing before God.

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Which country is the greater threat to peace, Iran or the United States? The Empire is never a threat to peace: by definition it maintains it. Peace is only threatened by those upstarts and rebels who won't do what it says.

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How come a high percentage of people on AB are religious, compared with the percentage of the general population? Most Americans are fairly religious. Most Latin Americans are too. And most people in Africa and Asia are very religious.

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If pregnancy outside of a marriage is a sin, then wouldn't that mean Mary sinned when she was pregnant with Jesus? 1. pregnancy is never a sin. 2. fornication is a sin, but Mary wasn't guilty of it. 3. Mary was legally married at the time. We have no English equivalent for the legal status of the relationship between Joseph and Mary at the time of the Annunciation through to the Nativity. In Israel at the time, the Betrothal period was far more binding than our modern day engagement period. The betrothed...

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Why do most people think Europeans are smarter/better-educated than most Americans? I'm not sure most people think this. This is what elitists, secularist and urbane leftist snobs think - unfortunately they control the media, the arts, and academia, so it's what everyone else has to listen to. Thanks to the American Public School System, however, the mass of Americans are tragically more ignorant of History and Western Culture (literature, arts, rhetoric & dialectic, and...

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Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S. More than were in Stalin’s gulags. What are your feelings about this? The US has almost twice the peole Stalin's Russia did, and it's lame-o penal system keeps returning recidivist criminals to society instead of working them to death like Stalin did.

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Had the subject of the Satanic Verses been Christianity and not Islam,would the author have been forced into hiding? Judging by what's been published in the last 300 years, obviously not. Today (or in the '80s when they were first published) he'd get a New York Times book award and fat movie deal, while being feted on all the talks and award shows. Does "The Da Vinci Code" ring any bells?

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Is the murder of Iranian nuclear scientists unacceptable? Unacceptable to whom? I can only assume it would be to the Iranians. Israel, I dare say, has an entirely different view of the matter. But the use of the word "murder" here is biased. Murder - except in self-defense - is wrong by definition. But not all homicide is murder. Executing a convicted 1st degree murderer - or a traitor or a spy or saboteur - isn't murder. Killing an enemy...

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What was your life like in 1989? I was 27-28 and in the middle of my MBA program, and I became an uncle - with twin nephews! - in June. The year started off "Awesome!" and spiraled into hell, all because I fell for a psycho histrionic co-ed with a borderline personality disorder - but Spring Break in Cancun and the road-trip to Key West were almost worth it. But the world and life around was going well: The Ayatollah...

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what would you put a "sin" tax on? Fast food, no-fault divorce, low-rider jeans, tramp stamps and other tatoos, body piercings, skanky clothes, rude t-shirts and bumper stickers, branded "designer" clothes with labels on the outside upping the price, rap "music", Starbucks coffee ... and tennis and golf!

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A serial foreign criminal whose deportation was cancelled by Obama kills three people. Surprised? Kind of falls into the category of a "Dog bites Man!" story for this administration.

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In what year was the book of Isaiah written? The book is a collection of visions, prophecies, exhortations, and rebukes made over the adult lifetime of Isaiah. So in that sense, there's not one single year. The opening heading of the book (1:1) places the ministry of Isaiah in the reigns of Uzziah (or Azariah, as he is called in 2 Kings), Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. It seems likely that in fact his ministry continued into the reign of...

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Is Hal Lindsey a false prophet? Lindsey never claimed to be a prophet, and so can't be a false prophet. He is, however, a terrible exegete, and has rewritten his consistently debunked predictions on the End Times (e.g., in the 1970s version of Late Great Planet Earth, the 2nd Coming was supposed to be in 1987) that – even if he was sincere in the beginning – he’s clearly become a shameless fraud interested only in...

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Do Christians believe in reincarnation? Not any ones who understand the teaching of their and every other Christian denomination on the subject and believe it.

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Could you live on half of your yearly salary,if you had to? I already do. That's what's nice about living in Thailand. I only make half what I would in the US, but my cost of living's a quarter of what it would be in the States. Less, actually.

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If Christians don't believe in reincarnation, how could John the Baptist be Elijah? SHORT ANSWER: We don't. We believe he is the promised prophet "like Elijah" who would herald the Messiah's coming. LONG ANSWER: 1. Elijah never died. According to the OT and Jewish belief he was taken up into heaven, body and all, in a chariot of fire. Never having died, he cannot be reborn. He can only return. 2. In the last 2 verses of the OT (Malachi 4:5-6) the prophet says "See, I...

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How tall are you and how much do you weigh? Do you think you are overweight, underweight, or normal? 5'9", 225# @ about 10% bodyfat. Seeing as I'm 50 years-old now, I don't think I'm doing too badly.

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How many push ups can you do with me sitting on you? How much do you weigh, and where are you sitting on me? But my warm-up bench-press is 225 lbs, 2 sets of 20, and for push-ups without added weight I max out around 100 before I get really bored, if that gives you any ideas.

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Why do some people live in motels if its costs about $30-$80 a night when they could rent for about $16-$23 ($500-$700 a month) and live in the comfort of your own apartment? Let me know if I have my figures wrong. 1. They're on a long-term but temporary project (and can probably expense it all), and don't want to sign a lease, let alone furnish an apartment, since they know they'll be leaving in under a year. 2. They have money and like the convenience: daily maid and towel service; no need to invest in furniture or appliances; laundry service; no utility bills to pay (unlimited electric, gas, cable,...

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prove this!! Do your own Math homework.

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Is the Messiah and Christ truly the same/same thing? The Greek word Christos (rendered Christ in English) is an attempt to translate the literal/concrete meaning of the Hebrew word Meshiach (rendered Messiah in English). Both words mean "oiled" or "anointed". The Greek-speaking Jews who translated the OT (producing the Septuagint) used Christos as the translation of Meshiach. Later Greek-speaking Jews followed suit throughout the Hellenistic...

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How does Newt get so many women when he looks like a smug lawn gnome? Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac ... ... that and a mother's disapproval.

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Joe Paterno (former Penn State football coach) has died. Thoughts? http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/social-media-sets-off-firestorm-of-false-reports-that-joe-paterno-died/2012/01/22/gIQAroTAIQ_story.html

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What is the name of the location that is rumored to be the holding place of the Gospel of Jesus? It's nonsense. What you are referring to is a hoax/fraud perpetrated in 1895 by known conman Nicolas Notovitch, who claimed that - on a trip to Kashmir - he spent some months recuperating from an injury in the monastery Hemis where the lama showed him an ancient scroll: The Life of St. Issa - Best of the Sons of Men", which, according to Notovitch's "translation" detailed Jesus' lost years...

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Will anyone who supported the Clinton impeachment vote for Gingrich? If so - how can you justify it? So how is wanting Clinton canned for committing perjury, suborning perjury, and obstructing justice inconsistent with supporting Gingrich? I can't stand Gingrich myself, but unlike old Billy boy, Gingrich isn't a criminal. And though a serial adulterer, at least he isn't a serial rapist ... oh, I'm sorry: an ALLEDGED serial rapist.

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How can grown men with names like Mitt and Newt expect to be taken seriously? A opposed to Barack?

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Should I spank my teenage son? I am a mother of 3 and my 15 year old son is disrespectful,and will never do what he is told to do. Help! By employing a beautiful 20 year-old buxom French maid named Evette to do it for you. It's just too kinky if you do it.

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Why shouldn't God be questioned? That depends upon what you mean by "questioning Him", and what you're questioning Him about. It's kind of asinine to question the decisions of the one who by definition knows and understands everything perfectly, or to question the capabilities of one who by definition can do anything He likes, or to question the intentions of the one who is by definition perfect Goodness itself, or to...

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Why do people hate the police when all they do is try and help? I don't hate the police. But when I lived in the US, and especially the last 11 years I lived in the Chicago Metro area (1993-2005), I was viscerally more afraid when I saw a cop or patrol car than I was when I saw even a group unsavory types who looked like stereotypical hoods. And I was a youth pastor. (I'm also quite white, and obviously from an upper-middle class background, and was in my...

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Should Obama spend less time singing and more time creating jobs? No president or government ever creates private sector jobs. The only think they can do is to NOT stop the private sector from creating jobs. Typically, the less they do - the less they interfere with economy - the healthier the economy is, the more money people have to invest and spend, and the more jobs there are.

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Are there any businessmen who are Democrats? If so, why, since all Democrats are Communists? Of course there are! All the businessmen who want government bailouts and subsidies, fat government contracts for doing something no sane individual or market would ever demand, and government regulations that protect them by crippling their competition.

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Why is there so much suffering and injustice if there is a God? The inescapable of effects of Free Will aside ... How do you teach people compassion where there is no suffering? How do you teach people courage where there is no danger or loss? How do you teach people to share when there is no want and all have everything in super-abundance? How do you instill virtue if it costs nothing to be righteous? Love without sacrifice is unintelligible.

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Which religious group best follow the preaching of primitive Christianity since Pentecost 33 C.E., along with the teachings then? Anyone who advocates a return to "the New Testament Church" has obviously never read the New Testament. They were still arguing about circumcision and keeping Kosher, for God's sake!

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Why isn't DISHONESTY included in the list of deadly sins? A lie is device, a means to an end, not an end in itself. No one lies because they like lies. The 7 deadly sins - which are meant to be illustrative, not exhaustive anyway - are all about desires that lead to damnation. For that matter, the OT has at least a few examples of blessed lying - most notably the lie of the midwives to Pharaoh in Exodus. They lied to him to save infant Hebrew boys,...

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How long has it been since the last time you threw up? One morning back in 2006 in the middle of my school's morning assembly in which I had just delivered the day's announcements. Fortunately I had enough time to bolt for the bathroom. Such is the risk of food poisoning living in Thailand.

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I was born ______________ . either a century too early or a century too late.

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Who is the coolest person in history? Walt Disney? (Get it?)

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Why should babies be born with the original sin? 1) It was never a matter of what should be, simply a matter of what is. 2) The doctrine of Oringal Sin is NOT that the Adam's descendants are punished for his sin, but that all his descendants are born - even conceived - into a general condition of sinfulness, that is, the absence of holiness and perfect charity. It's like inhereting a genetic defect. In this case, however, it is a...

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can you name something that is Australian made Vegemite.

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Does a real man drink Champagne Only to celebrate something really special AND there's a prospect of going to bed with a beautiful woman who's drinking it with him.

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When does gingerbread taste good to you? Do you like to eat it right away or do you like to wait? Maybe you don't like to eat it at all... Definitely when it's still warm and fresh out of the oven. After that, it loses its appeal pretty quickly for me.

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Who writes history? Who picks them to write it? For the most part, history today is written by underpaid academics, many of them with an ideological, political, or social agenda, most others with simply the goal of gaining tenure and/or perhaps an endowed chair ... and pretty much all dream of establishing their own place in history doing so. But the greatest histories ever written and still read were all written by the losers: Herodotus,...

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Will you vote for Obama in 2012? ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Can Jews eat meat and dairy together? A Jew can eat anything he likes. An OBSERVANT Orthodox Jew will follow the dietary laws as laid out in the so-called Oral Torah, and as ellucidated in the Mishna and Talmud. In the case of meat and dairy, he can eat them at the same meal, but not from the same plate or in the same bite. The practice is derives from Ex 23:19, 34:26 and Dt 14:21: "Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk."...

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Are there any conservative geologists? Are you asking if there are any geologists who believe in a "young earth" or the (supposed but not) literal interpretation of Genesis 1? Or are you asking if there are any geologists who liked Ronald Reagan and want a rollback of government power to 1950s levels, a balanced budget, sane and pragmatic foreign policies, enforcement of immigration laws and the deportation of illegals, and/or...

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WWII History Question: Given the atmosphere at the time in the Pacific War, there could have been... [read description] The English were the same way towards the Germans in WWII. The reason why is because the typical Anglo-Saxon/Scotch-Irishman is big on blustering bravado and sabre rattling, shouting "death's to good for'em!" at any percieved outrage, yet incredible soft-soaps when it comes to dealing with actual people, offering tea an biscuits to the first downed enemy pilot to show up at their door. ...

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Are women more sensitive than men & should be spoken to more gently despite the fact we are equal & want to be treated as men are? To illustrate the point a man once stood up in a crowded restaurant and declared loud enough for all to hear, "The problem with women is that they all take everything personally!" ... At which point 8 women, all perfect strangers, turned around and said, "Well I don't!" Of course women are more sensitive than men. It's actually one of their greatest defense mechanisms – it’s why crying for...

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What's something you had trouble memorizing when you were in school? The Alphabet. I knew all my letters and could even read by before I was 5. But I could never understand why the hell you needed to learn the letters in that pointless and arbitrary order. And since I knew all the letters already, I didn't need that silly song as a mnemonic.

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Using any bible, (KJV,International, Catholic, etc.)Can you prove by text alone that other people existed outside the garden of Eden? Prove absolutely? No. Nor can you absolutely disprove it. We're talking about literary interpretation, after all. But an unbiased reading of the Pentateuch seems to me to strongly favor that that's what the author assumed himself and assumed everyone else would understand. First of all Cain in Gen 4 evidently goes off wandering in an already somewhat populated world. Many have argued either...

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Christians: What are your general opinion(s) about Buddhism? Well I never could see the point of a religion that, at its core, the teaching of its founders basically boiled down to, "You can't win. You can't break even. So let me show you how to quit the game." The "religion" is based on 4 very ignoble lies: (1) life is suffering, (2) the goal is to end ones suffering, (3) the cause of suffering is desire -- and desire can never be satisfied because...

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Can you name something teenagers do NOT like? Getting up in the morning.

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Why is the god always mentioned as "he" why not "she"? Because he is the universal personal pronoun usable for any and all personal beings be they specifically male or of unknown sex or gender, while she is used only for individuals known to be female, or - by those of poetic/animistic mindset - for countries, rivers, ships, and vessels, vehicles, or engines in general. It, by contrast, is only used for inamimate, impersonal objects ... or...

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Who scares you more: Mormons or Socialists? Definitely socialists. Mormons aren't scary at all. Just silly on some things.

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When is 'too old to get married'? For men, any age up until even Viagra doesn't work for you anymore. For women, 39 ... unless you already have 12 children and you can still find a man to marry you, in which case the answer would be 49.

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Why should I become a Christian? Because you're convinced Jesus is the Christ and the Gospel is true.

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I have read that more and more american men are going after Asian girls because they are fed up with american women feminism. Is that true? Yes, it's true. But by "more and more" you're talking about numbers that don't even reach 1% of the marriageable male population yet. American women - even more than American men - have this idea that Asian girls are somesort of willing doormats, and they comfort themselves with that notion. But the absence of American feminism among Asian women just means that they aren't in some kind of...

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Can I legally kick my 18 year old son out of my house? Is there a statute that says I have to give him notice like a tenant, even though he is not a tenant? I would think parents should have the right to kick a non rent paying adult child out of the house Yes, of course you can. The only exceptions might be if he has a serious mental or medical condition such that requires substantial on-going care -- in which case you could contact the state and various charities for assistance. As to how to do it, you can just tell him to go giving him however many weeks, days, hours or minutes you deem fit. If you think he'll defy you and refuse to leave,...

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Why do so many men insist on treating women as if we're helpless? Why do they have this complex about having to play the hero? Why do so many wives insist on treating their husbands as if we're helpless? Why do they have this complex about having to play the martyr?

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What do you dislike about soccer? It's a pinko European plot to feminize American boys and masculinize American girls. It's a "sport" for Latino pretty-boys who shave their legs and would shave their chests if they had any hair there. Real men don't sell ad-space on their ass. ... and it's boring. see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqN7Xj9IU8w

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Which airport in the US has the most non-stop international flights? New York-JFK - it services 74 international airlines flying to 127 foreign cities on every continent. The next is LAX which services 68 international airlines flying to 85 foreign cities, followed by O'Hare servicing 76 foreign cities.

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How long can you stare at somebody on a train without looking away Until they look back.

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Would the Trinity be so popular today if not for the death penalty being imposed on those that deny it like "The Codex Justinianus"? Seeing as the Trinity is true, the inarguable if implicit teaching of Scripture and the Apostles - "the Faith once delivered to the Saints" - and was the evident faith of the Church for 4 centuries before Justinian, the faith of the Church in lands where Justinian’s Code was never applied, and the faith of the Church for almost 4 centuries since any state attempted to apply this provision,...

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Would the Trinity be so popular today if not for the death penalty being imposed on those that deny it like "The Codex Justinianus"? Seeing as the Trinity is true and the inarguable if implicit teaching of Scripture and the Apostoles - "the Faith once delivered to the Saints" - the answer is, YES. (And the main heresies being addressed by the Code weren't Arianism but Nestorianism and Donatism - which were just as Trinitarian as Orthodoxy. Also, the Code was not adopted in the West until after the end of the 12th Century,...

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Who's idea was it to live in a box of stagnant air and lock the fresh air outside? Probably the commandant of a POW camp.

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Religious people claim God 'fine tuned' it all to allow for life on Earth; maybe we're here because that fine tuning was a chance event? The 'fine tuning' argument begins with the structure of the entire universe, including such things as the Gravitational Constant, the speed of light, and all other universal constants in nature -- if any single one of them differed from what they are in more than an infinitessimal degree life wouldn't be possible at all anywhere in the universe. The odds that all these factors just happening to...

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If prayer really does work, why are you still allowed to pray for Olympic athletes? Prayer is not magic or occult science. It is not the method for operating a supernatural machine that just does what is asked for. Prayer is primarily about communion with God. The element of it you are referring to, however, is not command but request, and a request by a finite and fallible being of an infinite and infallible one. Please read the first essay at...

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Who is responsible for destroying the most cultures? No one. If a culture is destroyed it's its own damn fault for not being strong, wise, or adabptable enough.

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Christians:Is Bible the words of God or the words of God with the writer's opinion? Yes. God chose, shaped, and inspired the writers such that they would of their own accord write what He wanted written. But, strictly speaking, they don't voice opinions. They voice convictions. They evince perspectives. They speak from their own time, place, and situation, and directly to their own generation even if indirectly to all generations. But there's no opinion in the works ......

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what do men do better than women do you think? Think. ........... "I love how you write women -- how do you do it so well?" "It's simple: First, I think of a man -- and then I take away reason and accountability."

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If Katy Perry climbed in your bedroom window what would you do Who the hell is Katy Perry?

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If I raped someone 20 years ago but was never convicted in court, does that make me a rapist? Of course it does, just as if you murdered someone 20 years ago you're a murderer. These terms don't indicate a present profession or hobby, but merely the fact that you at least once committed the act. The change in focus over the last 40 years to psychologically disturbed, pathological habitual malefactors has confused the issue and the terminology, however. Now if you only committed one...

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If a pedophile serial killer murdered your child and you took revenge and killed the sicko, would the revengeful parent still get charged? If the DA's office thought it had could prove it, yes ... and possibly even if the DA didn't think he could. Some cops, however, might be predisposed to burry the evidence before it got to the DA, but I wouldn't count on it. The DA might, however, offer a plea bargain (Manslaughter 1) with a sentencing recommendation for the minimum, rather than take a chance with a jury and consuming...

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How can i be a good dad? The best thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

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Why does secular society appear better than religion at addressing moral and ethical issues? It only appears so to you because you're a bigotted squash-headed left-wing secularist. And if you actually studied history you'd understand (1) there was no such thing as a secular society - even in France under the Reign of Terror - until the 20th century, and you'd understand the religious roots of not only the American but the French Revolution, and that it was empassioned evangelical...

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What should have to change about religion that might cause secular people to become interested in coming to church? Why would any real church want secularists as members? The mission of the Church is to turn sinful unregenerate people into regenerate one striving to live a holy life by the Grace of God. It isn't (or should not be) about growing membership by conforming itself to the world and telling unbelievers what they want to hear.

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You sure you want a rich cult directed man run the country? A man who claims "faith" first, then family, then country. Really? If he's the only alternative to Oblahblahma, Hell yes! And FYI - 80% of the country subscribes to the time honored priority hierachy of "God, Family, Country!"

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Why do religious leaders built great churches but failed horribly on feeding the poor? Do you have any idea just how many people are employed (and thus fed) to build a church? But how do you know churches have failed horribly at feeding the poor? How many starving people do you know? Do you know that the #1 health problem facing America's "poor" isn't malnutrition: it's obesity! And #2 are problems related to chronic smoking. At any rate, I worked for years in Church...

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Daniel Craig is - - - - - not the brother of William Lane Craig.

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Can one get drunk drinking petrol? You can certainly get intoxicated.

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When slave owners in the United States were ordered to free all of their slaves were they reimbursed by the government? No. That was, in fact, the essence of Abolitionism. There was an even larger number of people who, even before the war, wanted an end to slavery but WITH compensation to slave-owners for their loss of property. They were very much against the government taking any property - even human property - without paying for it. AboltionISTS, however, were those who specifically wanted to free all...

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What do you think of women who still make the idiotic Gloria Steinem feminist remarks like if you say he runs like a little girl I'd like to punch their lights out just so that - when they come to and bitch me out for hitting a woman - I can say, "Why didn't you call me a fish-wife man-beater? And for that matter, why didn't you say, 'You hit like a girl!'?"

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Why did god need time to make the universe? If he is so powerful, why did he spent 6 days to create it? Wouldn't he have done it within seconds? He didn't. The story in Genesis 1 is poetry and an outline in allegorical form for the rest of Genesis: the six "mornings" (in Hebrew the word literally means "a bursting forth" and has a range of meanings from an interruption to a birth) allude to the births/lives/ascendance of Seth, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Judah, just as the 10 'AND GOD SAID's of Genesis 1 foreshadow the 10...

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Are there any people who support legalizing marijuana that DO NOT smoke it? I've never smoked it, I hate it, and I think the people who do are shitheads, and they're smoking and attitude about it deeply offends me, even grieves me. I still support its legalization because I'm 100% opposed to criminalizing victimless acts, especially when doing so only serves to empower and enrich criminals and tyrants at the expense of everyone else's lives, liberty, and property. ...

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Why are women so touchy about the toilet seat? Not all women are -- those in Southeast Asia are still getting use to sitting down in the first place ... and a surprising number think they're supposed to stand on the seat and squat anyway.

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If there really is reincarnation, would you want to know the story of your previous life? As an Historian, it would sure make primary research a heluva lot easier.

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Communism, liberalism, socialism, capitalism, Anarchy, fascism, Libertarianism, marxism, monarchy, republic or democracy. Which is better? A meaningless question if you don't define your terms, since each of those has at least 3 different meanings in general usage today. Also, some refer to political systems or philosophies while other refer to economic ones, and marxism can be nothing more than a (now invalidated) theory of history. But personally, I'm for divine right autocratic absolute monarchy ... so long as I'm it.

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Which third world country would you consider the wealthiest and most promising? According to Wikipedia, amazingly it's Bangladesh. What countries are considered 3rd World today? (Particularly now that the 2nd world - the Soviet Bloc - doesn't exist anymore.) If one considers Brazil 3rd World, I'd vote for it simply because of its incredibly rich resources, and a fast growing population but still lots of room/low overall population density. It's also getting a massive infusion of entrepreneurial talent and capital from...

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What is it about Canadians? Don't ya wanna just get 'em all in a playful headlock and give 'em noogies? Actually, I was thinking more in terms of giving 'em swirlies.

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Whats your favorite movie based on a true story The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Moutain 1776 (Though the stage-version's much better) Boys Town The Madness of King George The 300 (I know the movie's as fare from reality as one can get, but the battle of Thermopoly did happen, Leonidas and his 300 spartans did hold out for 3 days humiliating Persia, and it was an awesome movie!) Spartacus (bad history, but great movie)...

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Do you think President Obama is as bad as many Republicans are really saying? As a president, he's worse.

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I pray several times a day for something, and lately it seems to be getting farther from me. Why is this? No there is no God answers please What are you praying for? You might want to read C.S. Lewis' "On the Efficacy of Prayer" found in "The World's Last Night and other essays" - online here: http://www.audiowebman.org/bbc/books/articles/cslewis.htm

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Why do really religious people wear seat belts etc, when they know that their God is watching over them? It's the Law. Also, please see Matthew 4:5-7 and Luke 4:9-12: LK 4:9-12 And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence: For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee: And in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a...

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How did people survive without antibiotics? Many didn't. Many had stronger immune systems. Many were just lucky. As lat as the 1920s even wealthy Americans and Europeans could and did die from things as minor as a blood blister (not every time, but more often than you'd be comfortable with). Yet there were also people even in the Dark Ages who got mauled by bears or disemboweled on the battlefield, dragged themselves to help through...

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Roman Catholic Archbishop of Grenada Spain, Javier Martinez, said it is ok to rape women who had an abortion.What do you think about this? There is a great difference between saying that someone deserves to suffer, or that they have by their own actions forfeited any claim to the protections of law, morality, and decency, and quite another to say that others are entitled to treat them thusly. It does seem that the Archbishop in his Christmas sermon did say that women who aborted their child deserved to be physically abused, and...

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What do you think about this: Millions of people still believe that a woman who never had sex gave birth to a child some 2000 years ago.... Actually, it's HUNDREDS of Millions, or about 3.5 BILLION (Christians + Moslems) since The Koran teaches that as well as the New Testament. I think that's encouraging and that there's hope of the human race yet.

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What dose it say in the bible about the angel "Raphael" There is no mention of Raphael in either the Old Testament or New Testament canon. He does figure quite prominently in the book of Tobit in the Apocrypha, and is mentioned briefly in the pseudepigraphal book of Enoch. In Tobit Raphael first appears disguised in human form as the travelling companion of Tobit's son, Tobiah, calling himself "Azarias the son of the great Ananias". During the...

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Do you believe Jesus is a myth? Jesus-myth theory is the nonsense of cranks, dilettantes, and only FOUR PhD'd academics, none of them Historians and all working outside their field ... and THREE of them still agree that Jesus of Nazareth really existed, was an actual millenarian rabbi who was actually crucified ... and the 4th one (a Swedish professor of Enlgish Literature) is dead. Please read the whole article at your...

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Endorsement of atheism is often presented as a courageous act of facing up to a harsh reality. Only by Atheists ... especially when safely ensconced behind anti-religious bastions like the Media and Academia surrounded by others with the same conceit., and anyplace else where it's becoming fashionable.

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When was Andrew Carnegie the richest man in the world? When he sold US Steel to J.P. Morgan in 1901 -- Morgan had sent a personal note to Carnegie inquiring as to what his price would be; Carnegie wrote his number on a the back of a calling card and sent it back; then Morgan made 2 phone calls and went straight to Carnegie's house, saying he was there to shake the hand of the richest man in the world. ... of course that would cause any sane man to...

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Has the feminist movement's support of the notion 'men should NEVER hit women' actually increased violence? That wasn't a feminist notion. It was a the moral standard of Christian society. There was no greater disgrace in pre-feminist American culture than for a man to strike a woman -- better to be homosexual or betray your country for money! There were of course men who violated that standard -- but those who did typically got beaten within an inch of their life when other men found out. It was...

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Is it legal for the Army to discriminate against people it considers to be "too old?" Of course it can. It also discriminates on the basis of height, weight, physical fitness, and medical issues and disabilities as basic as color-blindness, propensity to motion sickness, or any condition requiring regular medication. It also bars people who are actually extremely healthy and fit; e.g., many endurance athletes get turned down because their pulse is below the military’s...

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Should christianity always be attached to the ethics subject This question sounds pretty suspect. (And if you really are in an Ethics class, perhaps you should drop it and take a remedial English grammar class.) But if you aren't making this up, just where are you going to school? Your teacher wouldn't be a Catholic nun, would she?

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How do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems? Uh ... where did you get the idea that people fight wars to solve the WORLD's problems? Counrtries fight wars to solve their own problems. Of course war is rarely the best way of deciding an issue; but it is the only way to keep the issue from being decided for you.

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Jesus Christ says that the meek shall inherit the Earth (Matthew 5.5). Is this a lie? If not when will they inherit? Who are the meek? Does anyone know if those that rule are Jesus's idea of the meek or not? Meek is not to be confused with weak. It entails being gentle and mild - not because one can't use force - but because a meek person governs himself and chooses not to use force, even though he is strong and able to use it. Biblically, there is no one more meek than God Himself. But the promise is an eschatological one. It is to be fulfilled at the 2nd Coming and Last Judgment. That is when...

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Did the Romans adopt Christianity in order to survive? Which Romans? For almost 300 years anyone converting Christianity in Rome was running the risk of execution. (Praying to a crucified miscreant Jew as God, and associating with his corpse and ghost through the Eucharist violated the most horrific of Greek and Roman taboos making Christians unclean and cursed, and thus when natural, military, or economic catastrophe struck, the pagans thought...

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What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the word "Canada"? A nation dominated by hand-wringing, squash-headed liberal navel-gazers who think they're just like Americans - only better! ... and they're neither.

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did charles darwin declared that he is a theist before he died? You're confusing two things. The oft-repeated but false claim is that he repudiated his theory on his deathbed ... and many evangelical-types seem to think that means the same thing as becoming a born-again Christian as well, and so the two get merged. Both are false. However, Darwin was - by his own account - always a Theist, but he entered adulthood as a Unitarian and evidently drifted into...

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American waterways are cleaner than 50 years ago. Would that have happened without government - would corportions done it by themselves? 80 years ago, rivers in populated areas were sewers. By 1960, they had improved vastly, long before the national clean water act and the EPA. Most of that, of course, came with votes making their own local governments improve their sewage treatment facilities. As for "corporations" - who do you think wrote the clean water legislation and governing regulations? Mega-multinationals LOVE...

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What do you think about Australia? Big burly blonde people who talk funny.

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Is it best to admit to cheating or keep quiet? Especially if you know your partner will break up with you when they find out. For Husbands: Don't lie, but never confess (when you haven't been asked). Confessing just to clear your conscience merely adds injury to insult. For Wives: Lie -- he doesn't want to know the truth anymore than he wants to know anything about his kid sister's or his daughter's sex life.

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Do you think that American football players, so used to wearing all their protective gear, could handle Rugby or Aussie Rules football? The real question is do you think all those Rugby players & Aussies could take being hit by 1-3 6'8" 360# linemen hitting them at full bore without pads and helmet?

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Wow. A Christian group prayed for George Michael to die when he was in a hospital. Would their Jesus be proud? Slanderous accusation. I'm no fan of the group in question (CFMA), but here's their actual post to which Michael was Twitting about: http://christiansforamoralamerica.blogspot.com/search/label/GAIDS They were not praying for him to die. They assumed that he was terminal and were praying for his salvation. Big difference.

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Is Einstein an atheist? Technically, he was a kind of Pantheist and a Spinozist, with a bit of the Deist to him. So, no, he wasn't an Atheist.

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If a christian offers me a loaf what should i do with it to exemplify my contempt at their lack of understanding of the gesture? What makes you assume any and all don't understand the gesture? For that matter, what is your understanding of the gesture?

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/what are the punishments for violating the ten commandments (as written in the bible.) The Decalogue does not give any penalties for violators - except that the commandment "Honor thy father and thy mother" comes with the addendum "that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you," implying that if you didn't do so your days would be shortened, either in the sense of an early death or of expulsion/exile from the Promised Land. Later passages in...

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Is there such a thing as the unknowable? How would you know if there was? To know that the unknowable exists, you'd have to know the unknowable to some degree, which means you know something about it, so it can't be the unknowable.

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When exactly was the dawning of the age of Aquarius? Not "was" but "is", and it can't be given exactly as there are different methods of calculating it. But approximately, it begins in 2150 AD, give or take as much as 75 years depending upon method.

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What was the punishment for adultery by a woman 2000 years ago? No-one would have believed Mary's pregnancy could happen without a man, yet we all believe it now. Why? Penalties for adultery varied from culture to culture. In Judah under Herod the Great, however, the penalty for both the adulteress and her lover was death by stoning IF caught in the act by 2 or more male witnesses. Short of that, pregnancy would have been sufficient evidence to convict a woman IF her husband publicly accused her testifying under oath that he had not had relations with her in...

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Why are those who trust Unregulated Business to do the right thing also claim that Communists/Socialists WON'T to do the right thing? Because unregulated businesses are regulated by economics, competition, the free market, and the rule of law. (Free market, laissez faire capitalism does not mean that businesses or their officers can break their contracts with impunity, engage in fraud, operate negligently with depraved indifference to the lives and health of others, or use physical force or the threat of it against...

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How can intelligent person believe in God? It boggles my mind how any intelligent person can be an Atheist ... but not is much as it boggles my mind that an artist can be an atheist.

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Is 2 Peter 3:10-13 metaphorical or is it to be taken as a literal and future event? Yes. That is both are true. It obviously must speak to every time and generation, and every time of judgment. Also, death may come to any of us at any time. But it also refers to the ultimate crescendo of history when the Lord returns in Glory.

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Do you think white women or black women are prettier overall? White women. Negro bone-structure is a turn-off for me. ... But now slightly cocoa women with idealized white feature ... vroom vroom!

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Is Ron Paul our last hope? Impossible to tell. He is however our best hope at the moment.

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What is your views on this...I'm asking for Christian views... It's correct. The now "pop" view of the Rapture is (1) completely anti-Biblical/heretical, and (2) a novel invention of John Nelson Darby who in 1870 combined his own novel, anti-Biblical, and heretical Dispensationalism and eschatology with a Jesuit fraud's shameful attempt at evangelizing Jews (in Italy in the 1790s) and the absurd ravings of a 15-year-old Scottish schizophrenic made in...

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What is the scariest thing about any religion? Never saw any of the religions of the world as having enough in common to make any generalizations about them, especially ones so bigoted as what this question is asking for. In fact all the evils that repeatedly get laid at the feet of "religion" really just belong to the nature of culture and of human beings. Mothers by their very nature are instruments of enculturation, conformity, and...

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You don't like negative political ads that attack your guy/gal. How about their ads attacking others? Are you okay with those or not? Why? I like truth either way. I hate slander, especially by half-truths, gross and deceptive distortions, and bogus innuendo. If the truth is negative, it should be said and loudly.

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How can one identify true christians? True followers of Jesus Christ. JN 13:34-35 "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

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If Christian dogma considers God a father, then who is the mother? And I don't mean Jesus' mother Mary. To be precise, Christiam dogma - because the Biblical writers and Jesus Himself did first - calls the 1st Person of the Trinity "Father". Actually, Jesus called Him "Abba" which is the equivalent of Papa or Dad. The Christian Godhead is composed of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. These are the NT equivalents of "YHVH Who Is YHVH", "YHVH Who Reveals YHVH" and YHVH Who is...

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Is it medically possible, and is it ethical, to make someone brain dead from the start, sustain them, then later on harvest their organs? I don't think it's possible and it's totally unethical. It would also be illegal in any developed country at present.

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Do children need airplane tickets if they are kept in the overhead compartment? Not if they meet the size and weight criteria for carry-ons.

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why is the capital of america in district columbia? The Framers didn't want the federal capital in one of the major cities because they were concerned about (1) excessive influence of the local elite, and (2) the local mob. They wanted a completely new city, centrally located to the country (as it was then), without allegiance to any one of the states, and NOT entirely enclosed within one state. Virginia and Maryland ceded territory on the...

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How were women able to sew intricate designes on dresses by hand with all of the housework that needed to be done back in the 1800's? No television, no shopping malls, no spas and health clubs, no internet, lots of children (free labor), often 1 or more servants (cheap labor), and it was something they could do simultaneously while chatting/gossipping for hours with all their friends with the excuse they were actually acomplishing something.

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Do you think Donald Trump has become the most hated man in America? Not even close.

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Where can I get Karma? You have to make your own.

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Why does society encourage aggressive behaviour in guys and despise it in girls? Isn't it obvious?

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What's the most beautiful flower you've seen? Be careful when you answer hehehe My wife Bua (which in Thai means Lotus-flower)

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Heaven holds a place for those who ___________ repent of all, forgive all, love all, and walk humbly with God.

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If you are emotionally being a abused and threatened to get abused by your mother and have been in situation where they are in child dangerment. What are my rights as a 16 year old when the only suitable place to live is with someone other than family? ( You can call the police or DCFS. You can call a lawyer at children's legal services for other options. But the court is not going to terminate your mother's parental rights so that you can go live with your boyfriend.

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What is a Dandy Lion? A somewhat effeminate lion with a penchant for wearing flamboyant clothing or otherwise gives excessive attention to his personal appearance.

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Would you have sex with somebody you just met? Back when I was in my teens and early 20s (in the 70s and 80s) I would have if an attractive opportunity had availed itself ... but it never did. After that, I've had opportunities (I now live in Thailand, after all) but more sense, principles, and self-control.

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Is it best to not marry if you fear a man not allowing you to work? Why/why not? Why would you want to work (in a full-time job indentured to someone else, that is) if you have a husband who can earn enough to provide for everything? Why not take advantage of the opportunity to do some real good, like significant volunteer work ... especially when you can pretty much set your own hours and level of commitment, and can leave whenever you want? I never knew a husband who...

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Since history has shown us that we as a society eventually become more tolerant of new ideas and cultures, to what extent can we use this as an argument to embrace current social taboos, such as incest (with birth control) and nudity in public? False premise. For example, incest and public nudity was surprisingly more tolerated even in the first half of the Victorian Age and earlier than it is today. And around 1880-1914 the whole "wellness craze" had a lot of respectable people hanging out and working out naked in the first spas, and in mixed company. Competitive swimming (men only) was done in the buff - even at the Ivy League...

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Come the revolution do you think the National Guard will fire on their fellow Americans on command like they did at Kent State and herd us into the FEMA camps or will they join ranks with us like the Irish in Braveheart and TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK! If the "revolutionaries" are the Tea Party, of course they'll side with the people against the political class and their parasites. If the rebels are the Occupy retards, it won't take much to disperse them, though it would certainly make for a better world if they gunned them all down in the street.

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Did you learn anything while in the military service that you still use or practice today? Yes - when there's some stupid, useless periodic administrative report that someone somewhere has decided to make a job requirement but you know no one will ever read, simply blow it off. In the odd event your boss actually asks for it, say "oh, yes, of course" or words to that effect, and then continue to blow it off. If your boss ultimately insists on it, say, "Oh, you were serious about...

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Fill in the Blank: Nothing beats _________ on a cold, winter day? living in Bali

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Is Lent only for Catholics? No. All the Eastern, Oriental, Ethiopic, and Mar-Thom churches observe Lent as well, as do Old Catholics, Anglo-Catholics, Western ORthodox, Anglicans/Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists, Moravians, and most other traditional liturgical Protestant denominations. They just observe it differently. It was the Unitarians and the Zwinglians of the Radical...

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Theist: What is your evidence that your religion is true? You need to look up the meaning of the word "evidence". Evidence is not the same thing as incontravertible absolute proof. For any claim, case or theory there are typically pieces of evidence and reasons against it as well as for it, and people weigh one side against the other. And FYI, a person's claim to have been been abducted by aliens is, in fact, evidence for the existance of extra...

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Are fantasy and magic the same? How much of one's imagination plays into the scenario of belief? Do we need to believe in the miraculous? No, not at all. Fantasy is the power or process of creating especially unrealistic or improbable mental images in response to psychological need. Magic (if it existed) is the maniplulation of occult and arcane forces to alter physical reality without physical contact or the use of intermediate mechanisms or instruments with the thing affected.

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Why do people say your not going to look like a pro bodybuilder when doing pushups? Isn't the same thing as lift weights without steroids? Because you won't, and no, it's not.

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Why is the religious right attacking Ron Paul calling him left of Obama? After all he is pro-life, anti-regulation, supports small govt? "The Religious Right" isn't a group, organization, or the like -- it's merely a demographic. Most of the ones in it I know are actually backing Ron Paul, or at least prefer him to Romney and Gingrich. As to why certain elements of the so-called relgious right oppose him, a major factor would be his stance on Israel. Many others - along with many just plain conservatives (not part of the...

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Men : what do you consider to be the perfect height for a woman? is your SO this height? 4"-8" shorter than her husband -- the right height to rest her head on his chest when she's barefoot, and also to look up to him a little when she's in high heels. And yes, my wife's just the right height for me.

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I can't help but wonder. Are atheists far less likely to commit suicide since they believe there is only one bus ride? Actually, suicide is far more common among atheists,those who don't believe in the immortality of the soul, and simply the non-religious than among theists and those who do believe in an afterlife. In 2004, the American Journal of Psychiatry reported the following: “Religiously unaffiliated subjects had significantly more lifetime suicide attempts and more first-degree relatives who...

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Fellow Christians, would you agree that there are some people who are just pure evil? No. That's completely un-Biblical.

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I used to go to a christian public school and every now and then some one would come to talk to us as a group. on of them said christians don't kill and christians aren't violent. am i the only one to think that he didn't know his history? Well, he may be one of those radical Christian pacifists who believe that only pacifists are real Christians and all real Christians are pacifists. Thus anybody who does anything violent is by [their] definition NOT a Christian. Or he could have been talking about the legal definition of violence (that is an act of force that violates someone else's rights, e.g., rape is an act of violence;...

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Was slavery in South really economically unviable? im sure slaves work less than free men but it seems to me that paying someone food and shelter is cheaper than an actual wage. I do NOT condone slavery, just wondering from a financial perspective. Slavery was quite economical for the very few - the elite plantation owners of the slavocracy who owned hundreds to thousands of slaves. But only about 5% of all southerners owned any slaves; and 90% of slave-owners owned only 1-5 household slaves. (And 15% of all slave-owners were themselves black.) Slavery was however economically detrimental to everybody else and to each of the slave states...

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During the time of slavery in the United Sates, Did as many white women sleep with their slaves as the white men who raped their slaves? Do you know how many men raped their slaves? How do you distinguish them from the ones that were genuinely enamored with their "negress" and the negress with them? Did anyone ever suggest a Jefferson was raping Sally Hemmings? (And just as a matter of history, most such pairings didn't take place between the slave and her master, but between the slave and one of her master's teenage sons, and...

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What would a greedless Capitalism be like? Possible/impossible? It depends on what you mean by capitalism ... and greed. If your definition of greed is simply wanting more in life, then no system in heaven or earth can ever be greedless. But that's not what greed means. This bogus definition is in fact based on the lie that the world is a fixed pie and you can only get more if someone else gets less. Real free market capitalism is all about making a bigger...

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Does the story of Noah's ark make you question the validity of the bible as a whole? No, it doesn't. Far from it. First of all, it would seem that in the stories of Creation, The Fall, The Flood, and Babel, the author took well known and accepted Near Eastern LORE (interpreted and often didactic tribal history) and reworked them to his themes and purposes. Sophocles did the same thing when he used Greek myths and legends to create really dramatic as well as philosophic and...

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What is the name of the female skunk on peepy le pue? There isn't one. He's chasing a cat. He just thinks she's a skunk.

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Why do so many prefer the NIV over the NASB when the NASB is more accurate? The NIV has comparitively huge financial support, making for lower cost and better marketing and distribution. But the NIV offers a paraphrastic translation (it attempts to say what the passage means) while the NASB is more word for word which - if you're not familiar with ancient Greek and Hebrew idioms and expressions (and most people aren') makes it harder to understand. But there is no...

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I LEARNED more about Jesus over the weekend.. He was a definately a LIBERAL. How come right wingers who love him, aren't? Oh, yes, Jesus was all about centralized statism where smug ivory-tower intellectuals, demagogues, and incompetant and corrupt burreaucrats rob, oppress, and degrade the productive all in the interests of themselves, their inflated views of their own importance, and especially to the benefit of the uber-rich monopolists and their lobbyists using taxes and regulations to drive out competition....

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Was Heinrich Kramer denounced in 1490 for “The Malleus Maleficarum”? In 1484, before he wrote it, Kramer was thrown out of Tyrol for his attempted persecution of witchcraft, and dismissed by the local bishop as a "senile old man". After he published the Malleus, the university of Cologne condemned the book for unethical legal practices and contradicting Catholic teaching on demons. In the mid 1500s the book became the handbook for secular courts throughout...

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What are some commonly-referred-to-as Christmas songs that aren't even about Christmas? Let it Snow But Baby it's Cold Outside Jingle Bells Jingle Bell Rock Frosty the Snowman Winter Wonderland Marshmallow World A Child is Born There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays Sleigh Ride Toyland All Through the Night (vaguely religious, but nothing specifically related to Christmas or even Christianity) And, of course if one defines "about Christmas" as "about the Nativity of Christ"...

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Is it good to be obedient? To a person in authority, acting within the bouds of their authority, and you're under their jurisdiction? YES! By definition! Obedience doesn't mean surrendering your rights, least of all your right to think. It means accepting the fact that in some circumstances the right to rule on the matter is not yours but someone elses. When the final say actually belongs to someone else, and they're...

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Why did the left swallow the Communist press hook line and sinker during the Cold War,but didn't trust the free press in the West. ???? The "Free" Press in the West WERE (and are) the Left who were swallowing the Communist line, hook, line and sinker. The only difference between the New York Times and the Daily Worker is 3 days! As to why the Left bought and spread the Communist line ... Because they were f---in leftists, of course! (And if you've ever actually spent any time with members of the News media -...

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Have you been the same gender all your life? Well, I once played one of the 3 Little Maids in an all boys school poduction of The Mikado.

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The GOP owns the White House in 2012. Which would they prefer...a bonafide 200 proof Tea Party Prez or a bonafide 200 proof Conservative? Well, while not all bonafide Tea-Party types are bonafide conservatives, all bonafide conservatives are well within the Tea-Party's big tent. It's the NeoCon Country-club Republicans and the so-called (by the NYT and mainstream Media) "moderate republicans", and all the statist-corporatist kleptocrats who aren't conservatives (e.g, Romney and Gingrich) and who are outside the Tea-Party....

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If you were given another chance would you vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama? Ron Paul.

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Riddle:What word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right? All of them if you're really dyslexic!

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Can HM Queen Elizabeth II fire Tony Blair from his job as Prime Minister and replace him with another Prime Minister? Theoretically, the British sovereign can appoint and dismiss the PM at whim, but there's an implicit understanding between the monarchy and everyone else that that won't happen ... because Parliament also has the authority to depose the monarch and even a whole dynasty, and elect whoever it wants as the new monarch or even abolish the monarchy altogether and establish a republic. So it's kind...

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Can a Prime Minister be both head of government and head of state at the same time?. In the UK, the Commonwealth Realms, or any other monarchy, absolutely not. Only the Sovereign is Head of State. Though I suppose there could always be some weird island kingdom that allowed their king to run for an MP's seat and even be elected his own PM, but there aren't any like that today. It could only happen in a parliamentary republic, and then only if permitted by their constitution....

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Should Margaret Thatcher, The Iron Lady, get a state funeral like the royals? There has been talk of it here in the UK, what do you think? No, she should get a state funeral like other great former PMs got. Whatever Churchill got would be appropriate for Maggie and well deserved.

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What are the rules for when sailors wear those white (in summer) or blue (in winter) baggyish uniforms w/ the flap behind the neck and the round cap, vs other uniforms? And are they just for enlisted personnel? The uniform you describe are the "Cracker Jacks" - the traditional dress uniform for sailors, and they're only for enlistedmen below the rank of Chief Petty Officer (CPO, E7). White is for the tropics (anytime) and summer months outside the tropics, while blues are for cooler climes in cooler times, though the SOP (Senior Officer Present) determines the UOD (uniform of the day) for everyone in...

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When do USN sailors wear the white uniform vs blue - the season where they're located, or the season in the US? In any command, shore base, or ship or group of ships in a (non Naval Base) port, the UOD (uniform of the day) is decreed by the SOP - the Senior Officer Present, and will be published in the POD (plan of the day) every day. In general though, whites are the dress uniform and khakis the working uniform for the tropics and summer season (and khakis onboard ship at anytime underway), while...

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What did girls look like in 1956? Unlike today, they looked like girls ... and mostly pretty ones.

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Which city is better? Bangkok, Thailand or Phnom Penh, Cambodia? Bangkok by far -- though it's easier to find a good restaurant in Phnom Penh, and you can get excellent coffee, beer, wine, and bread in Cambodia, while Thais are pretty clueless about such things. The fact is, Phnom Pen is a pit (though they do have some very nice if a bit pricey B&Bs) and filthy even in comparison to Bangkok. PP is also a fairly dull small city with virtually nothing to...

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Have you see the ads "Come home to the Catholic Church?" They don't mention castrati, the inquisition, burning scientists, the crusades. The RCC never burned any scientists -- one crackpot quasi-neoplatonist hermetic philosopher guilty of promulgating several heresies concerning the Incarnation, the Virgin Birth, the Holy Spirit, and the 2nd Coming, yes, but no scientists. Castrati were a phenomenon/fad of the Mid 16th - Mid 18th century music industry, and the product of less-than-affluent but ambitious stage-door parents who...

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Is it hot at Thailand? Depends on when, where, and what you consider to be hot. *AVERAGE* monthly temperatures in Bangkok range from 79 deg. in Dec-Jan to 88 deg. in April. However, April-September, temperatures often exceed 104 degrees during the day, especially in the central plains and western hill country. Also, the relative humidity is typically 80-85% during those months, making for an effective heat index of...

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What is the meanest thing you have ever done on Christmas? I've never done anything mean on Christmas. The closest was being a undisguisedly miffed when I opened a present from my parents that was not only not what I'd asked for, but was EXACLTY what I'd told them NOT to get me. I should point out, I was 35, was working towards my PhD in ancient history; fluent in Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and had read and studied literally every extant work of...

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Are you shorter than your parents? I'm taller than my mom. My dad was about 3" taller - but that's only because I stopped growing at 15 because of an injury.

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Aren't you disgusted as to how cows are treated in slaughter houses? Not at all. I am, however, disgusted by how cows are treated in India.

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what made Satan so bad and evil? Satan.

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Can bishops enforce canon law against universities? If it's a Catholic university in their diocese under their jurisdiction, of course. They're supposed to. It's part of their job.

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What should happen to a priest's daughter who loses her honor by committing fornication and thereby dishonors her father also? Assuming you're referring to Lev 21:9 - the crime is prostitution (specifically temple prostitution), not fornication. With that correction ... If it's an Israelite priest of who serves in the Tabernacle (which doesn't exist anymore) and the daughter is engaging in temple-prostitution like the temple-whores of Babylon, Aram, and Canaan, she should be executed and cremated. If it's a Roman...

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If you found a stack of money outside, would u keep it or turn it in to the police? just curious what someone else would do :D Turn it in to whom?

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Why are people who believe in one religion so close minded when it comes to another? What the heck are you talking about? The conviction that those who disagree with you are ignorant, stupid, or just misinformed in no way entails a denial of their right to be stupid, ignorant, and misinformed. The 1st Amendment was enacted precisely because the country was composed of people and states with very strong and opposing religious views and no one wanted *the Federal Government* to...

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True or false? World Trade Center Bldg 7 - which was not hit, but fell anyway - had all the records for the gov to use to prosecute Enron. False. ... but it did house all the evidence that proved JFK was killed by a conspiracy involving LBJ, the CIA, the KGB, MI5, the FBI, Israel, Syria, Egypt, the Kuomintang, the Mafia, the Masons, the John Birch Society, the Vatican, the LDS, and the Boy Scouts!

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How destructive has Rush Limbaugh been to America? Get your head out of your ass. It's the people he criticizes and mocks who have been the great destructive force in America -- idiots like you.

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How can we start a national campaign to have a recall election for all of Congress? Far more important to get rid of the current occupant of the White House. And besides, we only need to get rid of the Reps we couldn't get rid of last time, along with the 34 Senators who are up for election this time. But the method and timing of electing members of both houses is defined in the Constitution and can only be changed by Constitutional amendment.

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Who invented the word "God"? No one *invented* it. Like virtually every other word it has an etymological history and pedigree: The word itself is of Germanic origin: O.E. god "supreme being, deity; the Christian God; image of a god; godlike person," from P.Gmc. *guthan (cf. O.S., O.Fris., Du. god, O.H.G. got, Ger. Gott, O.N. guð, Goth. guþ), from PIE *ghut- "that which is invoked" (cf. O.C.S. zovo "to call," Skt. huta-...

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On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 = yucky to the max, 10 = food of the gods), how much do you like fruitcake? Depends entirely on the fruitcake. The white/light cake that comes in a box at Walmart is crud. A 1 is too good for them. As for the old, dark, rum or brandy soaked classics, there are many different recipes, and they run the spectrum from 5 to 11.2!

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Can you give me a word that starts with P and has more than 8 letters? Political Parabolic Perihelion Peripheral Peripatetic Partisanship Predicament Participatory Professoriate Pornographic Phonographic Photographer Prognostication

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How to balance law and freedom? Simple: reinstate the most fundamental principle of Common Law: "Where there is no victim/plaintiff, there is no crime!" Unless someone (1) can show how you have damaged them and (2) is willing to press charges, the State has no case against you and can't tell you do a damn thing.

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Is there anyone more prudish and uptight than a Republican female? You obviously don't know many Republican women. If you want to see someone prudish and up-tight, check out leftwing, lesbian feminazis who think all straight men are rapists and marriage is rape.

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Is attending church a necessity of Christianity? Well, in Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and even Lutheran and Reformed churches, the answer is YES! Though bare minimum is considered to be attending Mass/taking communion at least once per year. But strictly speaking, it's pretty clear from the NT that a living Christian faith absolutely entails life in "the Church" meaning continued fellowship with other Christians in your locale, meeting together...

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Do Republicans REALLY want smaller government, or is big government FINE as long as it enforces THEIR issues - DEA, NSA, TSA, abortion?? Depends on the Republicans. THE ROBERT TAFT WING: The old conservative base of the party genuinely want much smaller, less intrusive, less expensive FEDERAL government, and (if they live in the Blue States), smaller, less intrusive, and less expensive state governments. They always disliked the NSA (and the NSCouncil more!), suspected the CIA, and have little use for the DEA (even if they...

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What do I do or who can I tell that I believe my 19 yr old son who i just got back from the state after eight yrs is a pedifile? A pedophile - strictly speaking - is one who is sexually attracted to, and in some way sexually exploits or molests - prepubescent children or those in their "tweens". Offenders have a typical MO, some no more than fondling over clothes/inappropriate touching and/or ogling at one end of the spectrum, all the way to hardcore sexual acts and murder at the other extreme. But offenders don't run...

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Have you encountered anything lately that makes you wonder "WHAT were they thinking?"? Just about everything I looked at on my recent trip to Dubai. However, living in Thailand, I look at most things here and simply know "They weren't."

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Do you ever judge someone's intelligence based on their religion? That would depend upon the religion: for example, I do presume Jehovah's Witnesses, Satanists, the Name It: Claim it! crowd; proponents of Oneness Theology, Wiccans, and Baha'is have got something wrong upstairs, even though they might be reasonably bright in some subjects.

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Were you a juvenile delinquent? It's a meaningless classification: ALL juveniles are delinquent! Just some are more delinquent than others. I wasn't too bad.

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What do you know about the Egyptian god Amen? Actually, the name is YamAnu in Egyptian, rendered AmmOn ["O" = omega, not omicron] in Greek, and Amun-Ra in Latin (because the Roman's conflated him with Ra). Amun was originally a minor war-god of Thebes. With the victory of the Theban Ahmose I (founder of the 18th dynasty) over the Hyksos and the founding of the New Kingdom, the new Pharaoh and his successor attributed their victory to Amun...

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How close was Hitler to succeeding in WWII? Hitler lost the war on his own. Had he invaded Russia a month earlier and/or NOT ordered the army to give up on Moscow and turn South, Germany probably would have won. Had he NOT declared war on the US on Dec 9, 1941 (there was no reason he had to), FDR would have had a hard time convincing Americans that they needed to "beat Hitler first" when Germany wasn't even at war with them and Japan...

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How close was Hitler to building a nuclear bomb (if close at all)? Not at all. The head of the Nazi program insisted on an unworkable way of producing weapons-grade fissionable material, and wouldn't tolerate dissent. Building an A-bomb is relatively easy. Producing the U-235 or Plutonium (that will explode in an escalating chain reaction when suddenly brought to super-critical mass) is the incredibly difficult and expensive part.

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Should school children be taught to cheat? Why or why not? Of course! How else will they be able to catch their own kids and students at it once they're adults? But seriously, you're guilty of a semantic fallacy, confusing different nuances of the word "cheat". It's one thing to find a novel solution or change the conditions of the test. It's another thing to be guilty of academic fraud, just as it's still another thing to betray your wife or swindle...

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There's a coworker that mocks me for being young, what do I do? Take it like a man, just like everybody else did. It's part of your initiation. So quit your whining.

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Have you seen much propaganda promoting hostility toward atheists? I haven't ever seen any in the US, Canada, or Europe. But I do see a helluva lot of propaganda promoting hostility towards "religion" and theists. Dawkins' "The God Delusion", for example, is nothing but a venomous screed encouraging genocide.

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What does Freedom of Religion exactly mean? It means the state can't tell you or anyone else what to think or believe, nor punish you if you think or believe differently than it would like. It also entails free exercise of your religion within certain bounds, meaning the state can't forbid any practice of a religion AS A MEANS/FOR THE PURPOSE OF discouraging or banning that religion, or attacking its adherents. But if the state has...

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Why did God become man? So that man could become God. (And that's not New Age nonsense, it's the fundamental tenet of Eastern Orthodoxy)

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Why is fornication considered as immoral as murder and rape by religions? Primarily because sex, married or not, makes babies who need a mother to nurture and a father to protect and provide. Fornication is basically denying and refusing from the outset all responsibility for any offspring. Also good mothers aren't supposed to confuse their children about who their father is, and should make sure they are well provided for and protected. Good fathers take care of...

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Why is fornication considered as immoral as murder and rape by religions? Primarily because sex, married or not, makes babies who need a mother to nurture and a father to protect and provide. Secondarily, the family is the first institution and the ultimat bullwark against statist tyranny ... which is exactly why statist tyrannies attack it. It's no coincidence that it was the "progressive" advocates of state socialism who were the great proponents of "free love",...

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In your opinion which country has the greatest number of racists/bigots and which country has the fewest? Why do you think that? China has the most. Vatican City has the least. East Asian's are notoriously racist and unashamed about. China by dint of its huge population necessarily has the most. The Roman Catholic Church is decidedly non-racist and anti-racist. VC's population is drawn from all over the world. Its population of slightly over 800 necessarily means it has the least number of racists.

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What year was the roman catholic church founded? It depends on what you mean by the Roman Catholic Church. The Church was founded on Pentecost in either 30 or 33 AD in Jerusalem. The 1st church in Rome was established sometime between 34 and 44 AD, but its members (all Jews) were exiled (along with all other Jews) by Claudius. By the time Paul wrote his epistle to the Romans, there was obviously another or regathered church of Jewish...

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Which is your favourite nut? My Uncle Baird. He holds seances to talk to space aliens.

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Without doing a lookup, who won the Vietnam war? Technically, the US did -- as of the Paris Accords' "Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam" of January 1973. The US bombing campaign of the North had finally forced Hanoi (and US political pressure had forced South Vietnam) to accept a ceasefire, securing for South Vietnam the North's promise to accept and respect the South's right of self-determination. Nixon's successes...

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Without doing a lookup, who won the Vietnam war? ------------- duplicate - please delete

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Do you agree or disagree with this picture? It's bunk. The only religion the "Religion" side represents is "Christian Science". What's more, modern science is the child of Christianity and devout Christians like Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton, Leibniz, Faraday, and myriad others.

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When it comes to clothing, what do you find ugly? Just about everything to be paraded down a fashion show runway in the last 18 years ... including the models.

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Is the US Declaration of Independence illegal? It was totally legal within the British tradition and Common Law, made clear by Magna Carte, The Declaration of Arbroath, the English Civil War culminating in Parliament deposing and then trying and executing the king for treason, and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. The American War of Independence wasn't even a revolution. It began with the duly elected legislatures and executives of the 13...

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How did Salman Rushdie find out about the Satanic Verses? Did he ever cite any sources? The title refers to the so-called "satanic verses", a group of alleged Qur'anic verses that allow intercessory prayers to be made to three Pagan Meccan goddesses: Allāt, Uzza, and Manāt. The part of the story that deals with the "satanic verses" was based on accounts from historians al-Waqidi and al-Tabari. (see John D. Erickson, Islam and Postcolonial Narrative, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge...

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What kind of criminal do you most want behind bars? Politicians, state prosecuters interested in building their careers instead of justice, and corrupt cops.

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What position in the Angel hierarchy was Satan when he was created? It seems one third of the Angels were under his control. Nowhere in the Bible does it give and clues as to the celestial hierarchy (other than some vague hints that there is one). Neither does it ever give even a suggestion that Satan before his fall had any authority over any other angels. (One passage does seem to be addresed to Satan (though it could also be Adam), and describes him as a "Guardian Cherub who covers", indicating one of the great...

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Is Obama the most manly President ever? I'm assuming you're being facetious. Definition of "Manly": having qualities traditionally ascribed to men, such as strength, bravery, fortitude, accountability/willingness to take responsibility for ones actions, self-reliance, dependability, straightforward honesty, self-control, integrity, having the courage of ones convictions, and personal honor. That being said Obama is one of the least...

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What is the most unhealthy food? Plutonium.

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Is it seem okay to pick and choose what parts of God's law are done away with? Dont observe seventh day Sabbath, but we must not lie? The real question is, How many times in how many different ways is this same stupid question going to be asked on AB before the idiots asking it bother to read the answers that have already been given?

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Can you explain to me your experiences that led you to believe in the supernatural? My own consciousness and my ability to imagine something that doesn't yet exist and then exercise my will to make it happen through my physical body and physical tools at my disposal. The natural is merely the purely mechanical. Consciousness, free will, imagination, and decision are by definition supernatural.

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who was god refering to when he stated let us create man in our own image There have been many attempts to explain the plural forms: "Let us make [na`aseh] man in our image [besalmenu], in our likeness [kidmuth enu]" (see Westermann, 1:144-45; Konig, Genesis p. 153). Westermann (pp. 144-45) summarizes the explanations given to the plurals under four headings: (1) the plural is a reference to the Trinity; (2) the plural is a reference to God and his heavenly court of...

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What's the difference between being "white" and "Caucasian?" "White" is typically colloquial for "Caucasian" in Europe and the Americas, even though there are over a billion Caucasians who are olive-skinned, swarthy, brown, and almost black in complexion (aka most Arabs and Hamitic peoples), and most "white" ones, are really ruddy, pinkish, tan, or "flesh toned". If you REALLY want to see someone who's white (other than an albino) check out a high caste...

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How much money do you spend on gas in 1 week? About $3 to $3.50. I live in Thailand, drive a motorbike, and live about a mile from my office.

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What is a great name for a Vegetarian Restaurant? "Gone Out Of Business"

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Am I a bad person because I don't believe in God? Perhaps it just makes you an obtuse or spiritually autistic one. But how do you define "a bad person"? FYI, the Biblical definition of a FOOL is one "who lives AS IF there is no God" - this does not mean one who doesn't believe in God, but one who - believing or not - lives AS IF there will be no hell to pay for his wrongs and sins, i.e., a person who attempts to prosper through injustice in...

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After extensive study, I find that Christianity has too bloody and confusing a past to ever be true -Iam a Deist- advice? Regarding Christianity: study some real Histories by actual Historians. Regarding Deism: study Robespierre and the Reign of Terror.

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What historical evidence is there that confirms Jesus Christ existed? Of course there is. Find one single professor of 1st century History teaching the subject in a university today who says otherwise.

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Creationists, if everything has a cause, what caused God to exist? You don't understand the argument for “A First Cause” It does NOT base itself on the premise that EVERYTHING must have a cause. It is based on 3 premises: #1: that everything that exists must fall into one of two categories: (a) things which have always existed (i.e., things which are eternal, independent, and unconditional), and (b) things which have not always existed but came into...

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Is Israel a warring nation or a peaceful people? "The Nation of Israel" is (according to Jews and Dispensationalist Christians) all the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. According to all other Christians (who know their theology) The Church (the Spiritual Body of Christ and all who are in it) is the New and True Israel. It is by definition a nation of "peace" (Shalom), but that has to be understood in its Biblical context of a people...

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What part of us goes to Hell? The Biblical answer would seem to be: all of you, (resurrected and immortal) body as well as soul.

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Are you aware that there are more people who are not religious than there are members of any particular religion? "Not religious" does not equal "un-believer". For example, most evangelical and pentecostal Christians will tell you they aren't religious, that they don't have a religion, and that "religion" or "religiousness" is a bad thing - since for them "a religion" is just about shibboleths and rituals, and perhaps mere intellectual assent to certain doctrinal propositions, but has nothing to do with...

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If you are christian and believe in god how do you explain justin bieber? It's fallen world.

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Shouldn't have H Cain just opened a "Bimbo Eruption" committee, After all it worked for the dozens of women Clinton had affairs with? That's because Clinton was a leftwing Democrat (like the News Media) and the claims were all true. It's easy to prepare a defense against true, clear, witnessed, and documented accusations against known accusers. It's impossible to prepare any against a torrent of false, vague ones and empty innuendos from psychos, not to mention supposed allegations from unnamed sources.

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What was the best beer you had in 2011? Sadly, it was Beer Lao. It's actually pretty good - especially compared to American piss-water beers - but it ain't great. In most of Thailand the choices are pretty limited: God-awful, formaldehyde laced Thai beer (Singha, Leo, Chang, etc.), Heineken, or - if you're lucky - Beer Lao.

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When you hear people rely on blatant lies (e.g., he's a Muslim) to make their case against voting for Obama, do you ever wonder if they're just racists who are too cowardly to admit that they simply can't/won't bring themselves to vote for a black man? Considering most of those same people were pretty gung-ho for Herman Cain and thought Condaleezza Rice was great ... No. And FYI, it's not a blatant lie that "Obama is a Muslim" when "Muslim" to the person saying just means "Un-American, friend of our enemies!" People used "Communist" in the same sense and still do. Thus Obama is (from that perspective) both a Muslim and a Communist. It's not...

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If the GOP seriously wanted to defeat Obama in 2012 they would have all gathered behind an electable candidate by now. Why haven't they? Every GOP candidate is electable vs. Oblahblahma. It's just that the Party elites want another Neo-Con, and the grass roots don't! Sadly, the latter haven't got another Ronald Reagan to put up against the former's new model of Bush (which is to say yet another slightly revised model of Nelson Rockefeller).

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A few AB people don't believe that global warming is anything more than a natural occurence. Science now thinks that warming is happening.So what do U think we are doing to the planet by pumping waste into the air?Nothing?A neutral effect?What?Serious ?. Far more than a few AB people believe that global warming is just a natural occurrence. Thousands of scientists do too, and thousands more hold that the jury is (or rightly should be) still out on the matter. What's more "Science" doesn't think anything -- anymore than Politics or Art thinks anything. Only people think. (And evidently not even most of them.) As for the direct effect of...

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What's the point in religion? There's no such thing as religion (except as a category in College course catalogs) there are only religionS, and they are not the same. Not only do they all have different answers, they don't even ask the same questions. And none but arguably Brahmanism and perhaps Islam were set-up as a means for social control of the masses ... though there is something in Judaism and Christianity that...

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Do you believe the Ancient scrolls that claim Jesus spent seventeen years in India and Tibet during his "lost years"? There are no ancient scrolls that claim any such thing. The story that there were was completely invented by known con-man Nicolas Notovitch in 1895.

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When Jesus die? On Friday the 14th of Nisan in either 30 or 33 AD. The Julian Calendar dates would be Friday, AD 30 April 7, and Friday AD 33 April 3.

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Hey! Can you name all of Santa's reindeers? There are no reindeer ON his slay. They're all in front of the damn thing pulling it!

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How many guys sleep in the nude? Most guys sleep in the buff by the time they start living on their own ... until they become a dad with little kids who like to burst into the bedroom in the middle of the night when scared or at the crack of dawn for early morning Bonzai raids on him.

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Why, after two decades of hesitation, did politicians support territorial expansion in that decade? (part 2 of 2) Same answer.

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When is the last time you went to to Wal Mart? September or October 2005. I've lived in Thailand since then. They don't have them here.

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Why did the United States fight the war with Mexico of 1846-1848? What was the larger impact of this war? Do your own History homework.

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Why is physical beauty so important to us ? Is it just evolution related animalistic behaviour, or is it some modern human, profane view? Who ever said there was any difference between the two? The only difference is that in olden times you only had to compete with others in your village. Now you're measured against every super-model and movie star in the whole world -- blessed as they are with great surgeons, hairdressers, cosmeticians, lighting experts, wardrobe assistants, cinematographers, and touch-up artists who air-brush...

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are these for real? Many of these - or versions of them - have been around since the 1970's (back when jury awards in lawsuits in America jumped into the millions and ambulance chasers shifted from doctors and hospitals to manufacturers and places of business), particularly the Cruise-Control one and the Dog Bite story. I have no idea if any of them are actually true.

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Why do Christians & Muslims think im evil because i dont believe and follow there religion? Christians don't believe you're evil because you don't follow their religion. They believe you're evil because: 1) you're a human being 2) you don't even follow you're own conscience/keep your own law ... and ... 3) you are.

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What parallels does Jesus, Hercules, Thor, and any other sons of a god have with one another? Jesus, Hercules, and Thor aren't even "sons of god" in the same sense. Hercules is an the physical offspring of a sexual act between a mortal woman and a god (disguised as her husband); Thor is simply an emmanation/outgrowth of nature - a kind of emergent being; Jesus is "the Son of God" in Hebraic sense: one whose character and moral nature perfectly conforms to God's own, and who has the full...

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Christians: Why do you worship on the same day (Sun-day) as the pagans? (are you not aware they worship the sun) Evidently you're not much of a scholar of such things since pagans didn't worship on "Sun-day" - not even the solar monotheists who stuck to the solstices an equinoxes. Many did however worship on Saturn's-Day, not to mention Freya's-day (in Latin: Dies Veneris - day of Venus), Thor's-day (in Latin: Dies Iovis - Day of Jupiter), Woden's-day (in Latin: Dies Mercurii - day of Mercury), Tyr's-day...

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Why is it that the Republican Party hates people who work for a living? Shouldn't those who makes less than $100,000 a year pay less taxes? The GOP base IS composed of working people who make less then 100k per year. And most of the rest make less than 200k per year. Just where do you think you find all those wealthy, urbane, trustifarian, snobs? Certainly not in the "fly-over" Red States. The DNC is the party of parasites: trustifarians, banksters, government bureaucrats, "public service" union "workers", government grant-gaming...

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Why humans started to eat hot food? It tastes better and is easier to chew than raw meat.

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Do you think some people are more evolved than others? Also: Next step in human evolution? If you understood what "evolution" was you'd know there's no implication of "more evolved" being "better" or further up the ladder of progress ... since such a ladder doesn't exist. The shark is one of the least evolved animals on earth - hasn't changed substantively since before the first land animals. In biological terms, that makes it a superior life form to all the johnny-come-lately's, as...

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Would a guy marry a woman who makes very little money? How would a guy feel about this? Why? Is this a serious question? If so, were your father and mother siblings or 1st cousins? It's the man's place to be the good provider. Men look for other qualities and assets in a mate. A man doesn't care how much his wife earns so long as it's less than he does.

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How did the Moors fare under the Spanish Inquisition? The Inquisition did nothing to either the Moslems or the Jews. The Spanish Inquisition only dealt with suspected heretics WITHIN Christianity: if you weren't a baptized and confirmed Catholic, the Inquisition didn't and couldn't lay a finger on you. It was created by Ferdinand and Isabella in 1478 and was still going strong when those monarchs expelled all Moslems and Jews from Spain in 1492,...

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Have you ever told anyone they were fat? Yes ... and in Thailand it's a compliment!

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Would you vote for someone running for U.S. President if they were a manic depressive? Just the sort of person you want to have with their finger on THE button.

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Which religion takes themselves way too seriously? Secular Materialism.

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Is Satan still the god of this world or is Jesus the God of this world? John 12:31 states now the prince of this world will be driven out? 1. You first must understand that in John and most of the NT "this world" does not mean this planet, it means all of fallen, unregenerate humanity and the world system it creates and follows, and Satan is "the god" of THAT world. 2. You need to understand the concept of "inaugurated eschatology" of the NT - that is, that the re-creation is begun and as good as done, but still in process, not...

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If women can't reproduce after their 40's, but men are viable well into old age, then why do women live longer? Wouldn't it make more sense for the men to live longer so they can continue the species? Is there an evolutionary reason why women live longer? 1. Women are smaller, eat less, and have lower metabolisms, making for greater longevity. 2. Crazed American career women aside, they have lower stress levels than men. 3. Men not only have to provide for their wives and children, they have to put up with them. (If any man annoyed and disrespected them as much, they'd alleviate the stress by killing them.) Also - "Married men live long than...

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Can a human being live to be "130 years" old of age? My understanding is that we're "hard-wired/genetically programmed" with an absolute maximum of 120 years, though how that's been determined, and what the effect of a long-term, metabolism-slowing, low-cal diet and avoidance of UV rays are on that "maximum", I have no idea.

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About how many books do you have in your house? 2,172 ... according to my last inventory... not including my wife's cookbooks.

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Some try to apply logic to belief in God. God is a product of faith not logic. It is illogical to do so. Why do they continue to try? God is not "a product" of faith or anything else. Belief in God isn't the result of any faith except faith in the fact of one's own consciousness and existence, one's own ability to reason, and the validity of one's own sense perceptions ... just like belief in everything else. The mere fact of God's existance is self-evident and intuitively obvious to the Theist (though there's precious...

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Darwinian theory: A valid way of explaining human existence, or a ploy to agitate the Catholic Church? First, you need to define "Darwinian Theory" specifically, as it's used in multiple ways, each ecompassing different elements, not all of them valid. Second, I wasn't aware that the Catholic Church had any problem with the theories of common descent or natural selection, at least not since over 60 years ago. Charles Darwin was certainly not motivated by any desire to agitate the Catholic...

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Is it any worse for Muslims to spread their word and expand Islam than it is for Christians to spread theirs? Is it any worse for Nazis to spread their word and expand Fascism than it is for true/classical Liberals to spread theirs? Is it any worse for quacks pandaring some panacea to spread their word and expand their bogus and damaging cure alls than it is for actual lelgitimate physicians to spread theirs? Is it any worse for the Flat Earthers to spread their word and expand Flat Earthism than it...

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Raiders of the Lost Ark, Aliens, Die Hard, The Road Warrior, or The Bourne series Raiders all the way! Definately in the top 10 of all time! The others you list aren't even in my top 100.

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True or false - Communion is really the body of Christ?” I think you mean, "The Host (eucharistic bread) is really the body[or more properly the flesh] of Christ." Assuming that is the case ... 1st you must define what you mean by "really" and "body/flesh." If you're speaking in purely materialistic, molecular terms, then the answer would be no. But that is not how "flesh" is defined Biblically, which is what is at issue. In the Bible, a thing is...

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Which statement is true about the Abrahamic faiths: Of course one can't quite say whether Judaism is true or false until one defines it or lays out its definitive doctrines. It is certainly true in the sense that the Old Testament is true. The Rabbinic extrapolations of the Torah as found in the Mishna and the Talmud are another matter.

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Which country in the world has the most atheists ? Why? China. Simply because they have 1.3 BILLION people -- even 10% of their population is more than the total population of any country on the planet except for 8 others (India, the USA, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Russia, and Bangladesh). And it's been under Communist (athiestic) control for 60 years. So even without any demographic data, China would be the sure pick. As it happens...

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If you want more than you could ever get from one person... then what's wrong with getting different things from more than one person? Perhaps the issue isn't whether or not you can only get what all you want from more than one person, but whether you have enough to GIVE to fully satisfy more than one person.

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Obama's student loan relief is here! Isn't it fun seeing him flail for some giveaway to save his presidency? Actually, it's rather frightening as well as infuriating. Every time it's just one more disastrous measure that only deepens and prolongs the mess we're in.

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What's the most British answer you can provide to this question? Bugger off, you stupid git.

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What does it mean for Jesus to "sit at the right hand of the Father"? Is it literal? Does it signify power? Your thoughts? It's a Semitic idiom of the time that indicates the place of supreme honor and trust. Also, in Near Eastern monarchies, the Crown Prince/Heir Apparent would typically sit at literally on the right corner or arm of the King's throne, next to the king, when they were holding court. The Biblical point is that Jesus is not just some subordinate or agent, but the son and heir of God the Father,...

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Is religion a scam? There is no such thing as "religion" except as a category in a college course catalog. There are only religionS, and they aren't the same. They not only don't offer the same answers, they don't even ask the same questions.

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Can Christians dress up for Halloween, or is it forbidden? Seeing as it was Christian Methodist ministers and Christian youth leaders at the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) back in the 1930s who INTRODUCED Trick-or-Treating and the wearing of costumes for Halloween (offering it as a wholesome alternative to the increasingly vandalistic Mischief Night), anyone who says it's not Christian is an ignorant jackass. FYI Trick-or-Treat and the...

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Creationists: How do you explain the age of the earth according to tectonic plates? You should address this to "6 Day/Young Earth Creationists." A Creationist is someone who simply believes the universe was created. Most of them are content with a Big Bang 14 Billion years ago and 4.5 billion-year-old earth. But (though ludicrous) the Young Earthers have no problem explaining it to their own satisfaction: Pangaea was the Earth until the Flood: the Flood itself was caused by...

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Do you believe that taxing the heck out of millionaires will solve our economic problems? Of course not. It will just make our economic problems worse. Now, taxing the heck out of BILLIONAIRES, that won't do anything for our economic problems directly, but will sure as hell do a lot to solve many of our POLTICAL problems, and solutions to economic problems might well follow. I'd say start with taking every last cent George Soros has, and then move on down through Ted Turner and...

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How many paper towels do you use in a public restroom? I live in Thailand. There are no papertowels in public restrooms here. You're lucky if there's one old hand towel that's been hanging there for 6 months unwashed. (I think Thai's just shake use their pants. ... I know I do.)

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What happened to the other books that should have been in the Bible? Who said they should have been in the Bible? If they're not there, they should be.

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Religions: Do they reveal or do they veil? Depends on the religion. And of course some just lead you in the dead-wrong direction.

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We're having a baby girl and we really like the name Vada (Vay-duh). Your thoughts? Why not add Darth (Dahth) in front of it, just to do it justice?

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Why do so many people think that the concept of a murderous god is somehow loving or just? How is it just or loving to allow the wicked to prosper forever and never receive what is their due? How is it unjust to punish the wicked after giving them every opportunity to repent? How is it unloving submit to ignominy, agony, and death to move them to repentance and bring them to reconciliation and restoration?

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Can you count to ten in a language other than English? Latin, Greek Hebrew, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Thai.

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What are three things the Tea Party have that the Occupy crowd dont? Jobs, responsibilities, and a point!

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Today, the MLK memorial is going to be dedicated. The civil rights movement would NOT have happened if people didn't take to the streets. Most of the gains were made well before 1965, and not "in the streets" but in the courts where it should have happened! To hell with MLK - We need a Thurgood Marshall Memorial!!! In fact, it was only because the Democrats swept the '60 and '64 elections allowing the Southern Dems to ignore the Court rulings and executive orders of the Eisenhower years that gave MLK anything to march against. ...

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What's the worst thing about being your gender? That if you want to have straight sex and offspring you have to associate with women.

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What is the plural of mongoose? Mongooses? Mongeese? Mongi?

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I Have Been Told Many Times, "The World is Unfair", No it is Not, Man is. Thoughts? Actually, the saying is, "LIFE isn't fair" - and it isn't: some people are better looking than others. some are healthier. Some are more naturally athletic. Some have more money and better connections. Some are more talented. Some people - just as some animals - have it easy, some can't catch a break. Some are lucky. Some are unlucky. And so on. Nature isn't the least bit interested in being...

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Demonstrators say the rich must pay. Agree or disagree? Who are "the rich"? Unwashed, unemployed hipster douche-bags who've had everything given them, yet spend their days complaining about "Capitalism" and "Corporations" as they sit in Starbucks fiddling on their I-Pads sound pretty "rich" to me.

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Would you vote for sarah palin if she ran for president? If the alternative is Oblahblahma, the answer's a definite, YAY!!!

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Are conservatives worried that "Occupy Wall Street" is the beginning of a socialist revolution? Yeah, this is how much they scare us: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nme2_z5Xn3Y http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uqEB6nvpwc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e84L-Xsrxmg&feature=feedu http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-10-05.html http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-10-12.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CKRoKbRGW8

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Does the story of Noah's ark make you question the validity of the bible as a whole? No. I never took the story of Noah's Ark - or the rest of the 1st 11 chapters of Genesis as a history, a chronicle, or a news report ... and if you read it as such you entirely miss its point.

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True love or a lot of money? I'm a man. A lot of money is the surest way to get true love.

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Do you think that the U.S. is the most hated country in the world? To listen to the American and European (Leftist) Media you'd think every US embassy was surrounded by mobs of angry protesters. But when you actually visit US embassies you'll find they're surrounded by long lines of foreign nationals trying to get work and residency visas. You don't ever see that for any other embassy. America swears in more new Americans every year than every other nation...

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With the separation of church and state why is anyone questioning someone's religion? The Wall of Separation refers only to the fact that religious opinions and beliefs cannot be dictated, prohibited, or encumbered by LAW. Religious actions are another matter: the State is free to prohibit, require, or encumber any behavior the legislature wishes, and the claim that one's religion requires or forbids some behavior that is, respectively, forbidden or required by law, is no...

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Theists: have you ever heard any argument from the other side that you couldnt answer, or that made you stop and think? I'm always thinking.Very little that anti-Theists have to say on the matter is very thought provoking, challenging, new, or even rational/logical. I've never heard any anti-Theism argument I couldn't answer, though when I was much younger and some of the arguments were new to me, it did take me a while to answer them. But I haven't heard a new rational Anti-theism argument in over 20 years. I...

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Why is that I don't see a lot of African-Americans on the beach? They tend to sink and so don't tend to be much for water sports.

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Do you prefer to be called by your name, last name, sir or maam? Depends who's doing the calling. By my parents, siblings, cousins, aunts & uncles, and closest friends: my given name By my chums, casual friends, and friendly co-workers, and their spouses: my nickname By MALE peers (other than those above) and superiors: my surname By my kids: Dad (the girls can call me Daddy at any age) By my nieces and nephews: "Uncle" followed by my given name By my...

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Have you ever been witness to blatant racism? I live in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asians are all innocently and unashamedly racist and are convinced that that's the right way to be. I understand the Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans are the same way.

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Is there a trick to forgiving AND forgetting? I have difficulty doing both... True repentance on their part. True love on yours.

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What goes pop pop pop in the night? My English bulldogs anus.

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Religion is regarded by the ignorant as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. - Seneca. Do you agree? 1. Seneca never said or wrote that. 2. It's bastardize version of something the great armchair dilettante Edward Gibbon wrote in TD&FotRE. The full and correct quote is: "The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of...

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7.Would you rather have the power to be invisible or the power to read minds? Definitely, to read minds. That way I could manipulate or black mail anyone I might otherwise want to hide from, rendering invisibility superfluous, while giving me considerably greater advantages in every aspect of life.

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Why do you think girls are more jealous of each other than men are? Because they have a uterus and lactate. (The innate chauvinism of the mother mammal is inescapable.)

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A good mantra to live by? Yours are good. I'd propose a corollary: have zero tolerance for all statists, regardless of whether they brand themselves as Left or Right. Doing that will go along way towards reducing human misery.

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Do you have abs of steel or abs of flab? How about abs of steel concealed behind a thick layer of really firm blubber. Comes with my Gaelic ancestry. (And for the record, now at age 50 I can still crank out 100 situps in 2 minutes without breaking a sweat - and do so every morning.)

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Why are religious texts not written in simple language instead of being so vague as to be open to varied interpretations? Which religious texts are you talking about? Some certainly are pretty straight-forward, and in simple language. Significant portions of others are also that way. But no work or corpus of works can cover everything, but they can provide principles for dealing with new particulars, and there men must either interpolate or extrapolate from what the texts say. As for why other texts and...

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what year did the jews exile ended? Bondage in Egypt - (according to the author of 1Kings) the year of the Exodus would have been about 1445 BC, plus another 40 years in the wilderness, giving a year of the return ("The Conquest") of about 1405 BC . The Babylonian Captivity, aka "THE Exile" ended sometime in or not too long after 538 BC, the year of Cyrus' conquest of Babylon. As for the The Roman/Modern exile -- though some...

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Why Is Life So Boring ? Only boring people are bored.

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Are atheists & people who disobey GOD a natural disaster waiting to happen? Who said anything about it WAITING to happen?

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How many Bibles are there in your house? 1 Hebrew OT 1 Septuagint in Greek 1 Greek NT 1 Interlinear 1 Greek Synopsis Quattuor of the Gospels 3 KJVs 4 NASBs 3 NIVS 1 NRSV 1 NKJV 1 English/Thai NIV 1 ASV 1 NLT 1 RSV and 1 old Catholic Bible in Spanish.

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Why is faith considered a virtue? You don't think being reliable and trustworthy yourself, and relying on/trusting in those who are reliable and trustworthy is a virtue? Faith and courage are the two virtues on which all other virtues depend. And FYI, in terms of Christianity, "Faith" does not mean belief that God exists: we KNOW God exists. Faith is (1) trusting that His ways are the right and best ways (i.e., doing what's...

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If you're average, you can expect to lose two of these during your lifetime. What? 2 Parents.

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Jesus healed the sick and helped the poor, for free: So why should the religious right have any problem with a little socialism? What does one have to do with the other? And there's nothing "free" about Socialism. Socialism is where parasitic bureaucrats to badly what shouldn't be done at all at great expense. It's where a handful of self-appointed petty tyrants steal from the productive to pay themselves and even more parasitic bureaucrats and tax-feeders like themselves, doling out just enough to the destitute - whom...

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Agree or disagree - Without religion, there would be no ultimate meaning to life? If there is no God then all existence is meaningless, futile, and ultimately purposeless. Religion is another matter.

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When is it OK to hit a woman? I know a lot of people are going to say you should never hit a woman but, say for example, a woman knowingly gave you aids? Would this be ground to hit her? It's a hypothetical question by the way. 1. When she's a uniformed enemy combatant in a war zone. 2. When she's a terrorist with information needed to thwart an terrorist attack. 3. When she's the wife, daughter, mother, or girlfriend of a terrorist with information concerning a terrorist attack and you're using her to interrogate him. 4. When she's a violent criminal engaged in a violent act and it's necessary to subdue her and/or...

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Had you have been present at the creation,what would you have done differently ? Change the heat exchange formula for coffee: it stay's too hot too long, and then gets cold way too quickly.

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When was the last time you were ignored? I'm a high school teacher in Thailand. A better question is when was the last time I wasn't ignored.

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How do you as a theist view people who claim to have had two way conversations with God, where he speaks to them directly. I judge them on a case by case basis.

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Can "eating meat" be a reason of human aggressive actions? More that not eating meat is a cause of human pussyness.

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How are you different now compared to who you were in high school? Then I was a student; now I am a teacher. I'm ... 32 years older. 90 lbs Heavier (when I graduated I was 128) A lot stronger. Stiffer/less flexible. Vastly wiser, more knowledgeable, and more experienced. Married (twice). More practical/cynical/less idealistic and willing to compromise. Better educated. More religious. Not a virgin. Also, My mind works slower but better. Memorizing and...

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How can church tell its members to give up alcohol, if they are using it in church itself ? 1. A church that tells its members to give up alcohol is an apostate church. 2. Those that do tell their congregation to give up alcohol don't use it in church (except maybe for sterilizing something), but serve mass-produced synthetic grape juice (usually made from tar) in thimble sized plastic cups. Condemnation/prohibition of alcohol (and tobacco) is the theology of Hitler and Robespierre,...

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My boss called me into her office today and asked, "What do you wanna do with your life?" Why do you think she asked me that? She's either (a) trying to tell you that your performance has been lacking and if that's the way things are going to continue you haven't got a future in your occupation or (b) buttering you up to take on some task or project that will be "meaningful and world-changing" ... meaning you'll be expected to pay and sacrifice for the honor and will probably end up immolating yourself and your...

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real reason for not going back to the moon, coverup? aliens? do we have a base there did we? share your opinions:) It has no resources to justify the expense. (The lunar missions learned it is composed entirely of material from the earth's crust, i.e., basalt. It doesn't have a metalic core and no metalic minerals to speak of anywere near the surface.) It also has no water, no air, and no protection from comsic rays and solar flares. The cost of creating a viable habitat is too great for what little the...

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Would God want Church and State separated? As Jefferson meant it? Absolutely. But all Jefferson meant by it is that government cannot dictate beliefs or opinions of citizens, or punish dissent from the government-approved line. The government is however free to forbid, regulate, or tax actions and practices that it finds odious - even ones it finds odious on purely religious grounds, and even actions or practices that are purportedly...

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i told jesus to take the wheel and we crashed. what gives? Has it occurred to you that He wanted you to crash -- that you crashing is the beginning of a course of events that will end in what is best for you and everyone?

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was jesus against the old testaments teachings??? Of course not. He did, however, condemn the idiosincratic and legalistic interpretations of the Pharisees, especially the school of Shamai, and all the casuistry and self-righteousness they spawned.

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When does talk about God depress you? When it's blaphemous, irreverent, or grossly heretical.

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Are animals really afraid of thunder? Start building an ark. As for animal fear of thunder - I had one dog who was terrified of it. But then she was also terrified of gunshots, firecrackers, and the sound made by shuffling a deck of cards.

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Who sacrifices more babies, Republicans or Democrats? Not that there aren't (faux) Republicans who (openly or clandestinely) support abortion, and not that there aren't more than a few Democrats (mostly Southern Democrats, Catholics, and class blacks) who oppose it, but given the the DNC's absolute committment to and dependence on the abortion lobby, and the 50 million babies it's aborted in the last 38 years, I'd have to say it's no contest: the...

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Is the Jewish return to Israel a fulfillment of Bible Prophecy? A "Bible Prophecy" is not a prediction of a specific single future event. A Bible prophecy is a theme that is "filled up with meaning" (i.e., "fulfilled") again and again in any and every event that resonates with it. In that sense everything that is a return to God and one's inheritance in God is a fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

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Did Jesus speak to the prophets who wrote information for The Old Testament before he made his entrance on Earth as baby Jesus Christ? According to Christian theology, the Apostolic teaching, and the New Testament, Jesus is the incarnation of the Word of God / The Angel of the Lord / YHVH Who Reveals YHVH, Who is the one - as the last title implies - Who manifested God in the various theophanies of the Old Testament and Who communicated the Truth of God to the Prophets and Patriarchs.

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Is Consciousness infinite? Infinite in what way? On what axis? By what measure? Please note, immeasurable is not the same thing as infinite.

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Confucius says ______________? everything I taught was based on an erroneous view of the universe: that stasis was not only possible but desirable. It's because of me that Asian civilization became moribund for 2400 years, and why white barbarians have been kicking our ass for last 500.

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If you had to pray to god for an answer as to whether the church of jesus christ of latter dat saints is the true church. how would u say it Absurd question. I already know for certain it is not, and God has already confirmed it to me in inumerable ways.

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Who is your favourite vampire character? Stephen King's Kurt Barlow from Salem's Lot. Spare me all these homo-erotic, tortured-soul, matinee idol, fantasies for adolescent girls and gay men.

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What makes actors experts on anything other than acting? Village mentality. The human mind - especially the human FEMALE mind - has developed for life in a village. It instinctively assumes that a face it recognizes is a person it knows. Thus all tv and movie personalities (more their characters than the actor) are registered somwhere in the viewers' brains as members of the village and people they actually know. Hence the interest in celebrity...

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If you became fully and utterly convinced that God wanted you to sacrifice your son, like Abraham, would you seriously consider it? If you mean sacrifice as in RITUAL sacrifice ... We must remember that Abraham, of course, lived in a different time and place in which ritual human sacrifice was a part of his plausibility structure. People then really did believe that ritual human sacrifice was in some way efficacious, and could rightly be demanded by a god from his worshippers. Abraham didn't have the benefit of Genesis 22...

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Vengeance = Justice ? Only when neither makes a mistake, but inflicts the right punishment on the right person, in a timely manner with minimal cost. The justice/legal system exists because private justice (aka vengeance) was prone to lots of mistakes and intollerable collateral damage. Somehow, we've managed to take that legal system and make it just as bad and arguably worse.

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What happens if you consume too much alcohol? Too much for what?

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Which city has the most armed citizens? South Central LA

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How would you define a fundamentalist Christian? Serious answers only please As used prior to the 1920s: A conservative Christian who believes the following doctrines are fundamental to Christianity, and anyone who denies them or eqivocates on them is not a Christian -- and thus should not be employed as a Christian minister or seminary professor: 1) The Deity of Christ, i.e., that Jesus is God-incarnate, and not just some "great moral teacher", mystic, guru, or even...

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Is it possible many are convinced of things NOT because of logic but because of sheer force of testimony? Since when is it illogical to be convinced by the weight of testimony?

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Is it safe to drink milk from a duck? Duck's aren't mammals. The only way to get milk from a duck is to either feed it some and then make it regurgitate, or to soak it in milk and then try to get it out of the feathers. Either way, it's not very sanitary or appetizing.

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Do you love America? I love America, but I hate the UNITED STATES.

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Implementing God's laws would be savage and barbaric, so why do people want them? If you're talking about Sharia I'd have to agree with you and share your question. But then the people who want it are, after all, barbarians. If you're talking about the Mosaic Law, you need to pay a little closer attention to EVERYTHING the Torah says. If you did you'd know that: 1) No one could be convicted of any offense except by the testimony of two eyewitnesses - and the witnesses for...

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Whats the difference between killing and murdering? Thou shall not kill or murder-whats true in Ten Commandments? Here's a better question: How many times in how many ways will this question be asked before askers can be bothered to look read the answers already given? see: http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/2010951 http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1249061 http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1453407 http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/286643 http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/9827375...

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The "volcano gods" need a human sacrifice. Anyone you might like offered? anyone? Start with Obama and see if he really is "The One".

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What are the marks of a New Testament church and what distinguishes it from what we call church today? If by a "New Testament Church" you mean a Church such as is depicted in Acts and the Epistles, then it would be marked by: 1) an absence of New Testament Scriptures 2) domination by Kosher and Sabbath keeping Jewish Christians 3) a nascent, undeveloped, and undefined theology in which people are still arguing about circumcision, geneologies, and eating with Gentiles, and have an utterly mirky...

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should I take being called humble a compliment? In this day an age by a native English-speaker? Yes. (Unless they were either being facetious or really meant that you're a spineless loser with no self-esteem.) In past ages or by someone who's not a native speaker? No. Humble in bygone days didn't mean modest, unassuming, and deferential. It typically meant to be lower than dirt. To be humble in a society with class system was to be at...

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Why when arguing with a Christian friend do they always say this? (read description) If that’s all they’re saying, they aren't arguing FOR Christianity (let alone young earth creationism) but against Atheism. They're basically getting at the argument for a First Cause, the unmoved mover. The facts are: 1. The physical universe exists. 2. It (evidently) didn’t always exist. Therefore, one must either postulate (a) it just happened - or - (b) something/someone...

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Are there any good movies based on Beethoven's life? Beethoven http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103786/ Beethoven's 2nd http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106375/ Beethoven's 3rd http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0206588/ Beethoven's 4th http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0294345/ Beethoven's 5th http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342108/ Beethoven's Big Break http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1176410/

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The chinese believe that drinking cold liquids is bad for you. Is there any empirical evidence of this? If you drink ice-cold beverages during or just after eating most ASIAN stir-fried food, it is bad for you. That's because the food is usually stir-fried in horrendous amounts of palm oil (especially in Southeast Asia and southern China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan), and ice-cold drinks cause the oil to congeal and solidify, at which point it can actually graddually clog and block various ducts in...

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Did anybody wake up thinking it was a work day? (Today is Labor day in the States) Yes. Because it is. I live in Thailand and, like every other country in the world except the US, it holds Labor Day on May 1.

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True or false-Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies ? Only if you're talking to a woman. But remember, a true friend is someone who stabs you in the front.

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Do you think The Rapture and The Apocalypse are the same event or are they different events? The Apocalypse isn't an event. It's a book, aka, The Revelation. An apocalypse is a vision or revelation from God. What you're talking about is the Eschaton (The End Times), which isn't a single event, but the whole period of "the last days" culminating in the establishment of the New Heavens, the New Earth, and the New Jerusalem. The Rapture isn't an event either -- except in the deluded...

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For secondary school students, or not high level math students .... Could you explain, only with words, What's a derivative? It's a trend (rate of change) at a particular point in time (or whatever the independent variable is). For example, if you're in your car at a stop light, and when it turns green you floor it, the car will of course accellerate. If you could write an equation that represented the car's distance from the start as a function of time, the 1st derivative of that equation would be another formula...

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How does it feel to realize that you will in all likelihood pay more in taxes this year than billionaires Bill Gates or Warren Buffett? There is no chance any non-Billionaire will pay more in taxes than these two do. Most will, however, pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than either Gates or Buffet will. I'm hardly mad at Gates or Buffet because of that. Obviously problem lies in a ridiculously contrived and Byzantine tax code that creates enough loopholes, tax-shelters, and the like that a person can legally...

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In the U.S., can a patrol officer really run a complete nation-wide (state and federal) warrent search on a person in a few seconds? ..............

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Why do so many people don't believe in God. Spiritual Autism.

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What day, if any, do you consider to be the Blblical Sabbath? Before Jesus: Saturday After Jesus: everyday is the Sabbath in Christ. He is our Sabbath rest and the OT Sabbath is fulfilled in Him. See Colossians 2:16-17 and Hebrews 4:8-11.

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Would it really matter or make much difference if God were generally determined to be imaginary like all the other gods? Who said any other gods were determined to be imaginary? The people who gave up worshipping Posiedon, Thor, Eros, and their ilk in favor of God and His Christ (or Allah for that matter) didn't do so because they were persuaded these others didn't exist: they did so because they were persuaded that The God of Abraham was (1) more powerful, and (2) He deserved worship when the others did not....

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If you were in a situation that you had to spank someone, what would you use? why? Usually, it's my solid oak paddle with lots of air-holes drilled in it to maximize speed. Also makes a good impression.

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Question about Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar..." The power of words and rhetoric: victory goes to the one who uses them most effectively (effective in terms of manipulating, motivating, and directing the masses). Fate vs. Free Well Public Self vs. Private Self: The characters dehumanize themselves into political machines, neglecting of private feelings and loyalties for what the characters (arguably wrongly) believe to be the public good. ...

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Is it wrong to pray on the toilet? Certainly warranted if you've got bleeding dysentery or are hugely constipated. Also not a bad idea if you’re super-glued to the seat.

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Are you 18 years old or older? Older.

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Where do thoughts originate from? Now THAT's a brilliant question! If only there was a way of answering it. But it's beyond the reach of the physical sciences (because thoughts aren't physical phenomena that can be detected and measures -- No, a thought is not the same thing as the elctro-chemical reaction in the brain that is associated with it, any more than the meaning of the Gettysburg Address is the same thing as the...

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Is it lawful to kill animals to eat? Yes, and a good thing too. If only it weren't lawful to ask asinine questions with universally obvious answers on AB.

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Does anyone happen to know how to join the Freemasons? Look for Masonic symbols on cars, rings, tie pins, etc., or loiter outside a Lodge and see who comes in and goes out. If you recognize someone you know, and you're on good terms with him, mention an interest in Freemasonry in conversation with him, and he'll probably invite you to check it out (and let them check you out). If you don't recognize anyone, see if you can make the acquaintance of...

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Who does God hate more, feminists or vegetarians? Definitely Feminists. There's a Biblical justification for vegetarianism. But feminism is pure evil and idiocy.

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"Yes, the almighty [God] knows the future. He is omniscient - all knowing. That does not control what we do. Or how we act." How does this mean he knows the future if we have free will? I don't see the problem here. Knowing what will happen is not the same thing as making it happen. Knowing what someone thinks isn't the same thing as making him think it. Knowing what someone chooses isn't the same thing as making him choose it. So a timeless God sees all your and everyone else's choices splayed out in what is presumably for Him an eternal present. Your choices are...

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Name any creatures that have been declared extinct during your lifetime. Conservative Republicans (1964, 1975, and again in 2008) Liberals (1981) Communists (1990) All devotees of "those dead white males" (1992-3) Capitalists and Free Enterprise/Free Market advocates (2008-9) Big Government Keynesians (2010) As with many other cases, these claims of extinction proved to be decidedly premature.

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Should we care about endangered species? Only the cute ones we like, the ones from which we derive significant economic benefit, and any other ones absolutely necessary to keep those preferred species and us alive. I really don't give a damn about snail darters.

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What is the meaning of the number three in the Bible? The use of the number 3 in the Bible doesn't typically mean anything more than 1 more than 2. But "the 3rd day" throughout is an allusion to the third day of creation in which God created "the standing place" (typically translated "'land", but is (1) closer to terra firma, (2) typically only refers to the PROMISED Land, and (3) is first and foremost a refuge and place of shalom that only...

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At breakfast at Buddhist monasteries, do the monks sometimes joke "Leggo your Eggo!" Uh ... no.

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Is critical thinking essential or should one simply just rely on their religious faith? Your question is based on a false dichotomy.

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Do you attend church to impress Jesus or do you attend church to socialize? I attend to draw near to God and others with the same goal, to hear God's Word and be conformed to the image of Christ.

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Do you think the US will end up surrendering like WW2 France? Surrendering to whom? The country isn't exactly at any risk of enemy military occupation.

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Why do many Americans hate Mexicans so much? Americans do not hate Mexicans -- in fact it's far more common for a Mexican to hate Americans. But young working-class Americans don't like Mexican illegal aliens who take jobs that at illegal sub-minimum wage pay that would otherwise go to youn unskilled Americans at minimum wage. Also, most people in any country resent foreigners who settle en-masse in their country and refuse to adopt its...

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How did mathematicians determine a value for pi? (please explain simply, I'm no math expert!) No mathematician has ever determined the value of Pi. The exact value of Pi can never be determined because it can never be expressed numerically as it would take an infinite number of digits with no repeating pattern to do so. All "values" of Pi are but approximations. The most commonly used is 3.1416, but that's slightly too high -- a much more precise approximation is:...

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For the old timers, who's on 1st? Yes.

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The Christian extremist from Oslo who killed 80 people complained of the Muslim problem&the Jewish problem.What's wrong w/this picture? Breivik was about as much of Christian as Obama or Clinton. Less so, in fact. In his manifesto he makes it clear that "Christian" to him simply means "European non-Muslim". He doesn't believe any Christian doctrines - in fact he ridicules them. He just thinks people should celebrate Christmas because (1) it's part of European heritage, and (2) it annoys Muslims.

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Are individuals with homosexual tendencies anymore sinful than str8 individuals with fornication/adulterous tendencies? 1. To have a "tendency" or inclination towards a particular sin is not in and of itself sinful. 2. Sexually immoral acts are sinful regardless of the sexes of those involved. In the case of Leviticus, it groups sodomy together with adultery, incest, bestiality, prostitution/whoremongering, infanticide, and having sex during menstruation. (Most people seem pretty oblivious to the last one.)

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TRINITARIAN QUESTION: "Can the Trinity be understood as "three PARTS" of the same Being?" No. That sounds like the Modalist/Sabellian/Patripassian heresy. In attempts to explain the Trinity there are two basic errors: the erroneous explanations/models stray either into Tritheism (such as the Arian and Unitarian heresies) and Modalism.

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What is the most common surname in your area ? There are no common surnames in Thailand. (1) They only introduced surnames in 1913, and then only for the nobility, and didn't start using them en masse until after the 1930s. (2) You can only get a surname by applying for one to the government -- or being the descendant of someone who did. (3) The government will never issue a duplicate surname: they're all unique. Thus if you stumble...

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What Was the Name of the Doctor in the 1966 TV series"Star Trek"? The first one was Dr. Phillip Boyce played by John Hoyt. That was in the Pilot with Capt. Pike in command. After that, it was of course Dr. Leonard Horatio McCoy - born in 2227, Old Miss class of 2248, who had the distinction of being the longest living human (non-Vulcan) member of Kirk's crew (not counting Scotty who spent 75 years in en stasis in a transporter loop), living until at least...

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Texas has 40% of new jobs created but has the most uninsured so is this the model YOU want? If the model you mean is the Free Enterprise System, absolutely!

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If atheists prove to be correct, and there is NOTHING after death, how will they celebrate? By ceasing to exist. Since the only way to prove it is to die ... but then you can't actually experience non-existence, so you could never actually know if you were right, let alone gloat over it.

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Atheist or religious? These are mutually exclusive? How about Atheist or Theist? Please note, there are religious atheists (e.g., Zen Buddhist monks) and non-religious theists. As for me, I'm definitely a Theist, and not a particularly religious one.

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Is Rick Secessionist Perry the surprise GOP candidate for POTUS? Would you vote for Perry? Don't know that he's that much of a surprise. I'd vote for a trained seal over Oblahblahma.

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If Rick Perry becomes president and runs the government exclusively in accordance with his religious beliefs which rights do we lose first? None. Our freedoms were based on Perry's religious beliefs.

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Atheists-Is not knowing anything about life's purpose and death enough for you? Do you search for the Truth? Atheism (in its typical sense of Philophic Materialism) isn't about NOT knowing the purpose of life: it's about knowing that it has no purpose.

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Why do Creationists not realize that the Bible does not teach that the creative periods were NOT 24 hour days? 1) They don't understand Hebrew or Hebrew idioms. 2) They're obtuse with no capacity for literary or poetic devices, or literary analysis for that matter. 3) They were were raised or came of age in a group that held to it passionately, to the point of it being one of the defining lables of who they were, and they remain emotionally attached. But FYI, the Bible doesn't even teach that the...

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True or false - Much worship today has digressed to be no more than entertainment for people!? Has anyone actually done a statistically valid study on this? Without such, all you'll get is "TRUE" from (1) those with bad experiences, (2) those who hate Christianity and just assume it's all one big fraud anyway, and (3) self-righteous, hyper-opinionated praise-Nazis with an axe to grind, while you'll get "FALSE" from those who have more positive experiences. But your assertion "When we...

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Are you fired of death? Why? I think the word you're looking for is "afraid", not "fired".

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Did you ever watch a black and white television? All my family had until I was 11 years old (1972). Still, I found certain things looked better on the old BnW set, including, for some odd reason, M*A*S*H*. My folks kept that old set in "the garden room" for another 28 years. It still worked just fine - no problems. All in all I think they'd had that set since 1959 until 2000.

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What would you do if someone went outside the boundries of the gender binary? WTF?

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What is the greatest weapon? 1) The one your enemy has no defense against. 2) The mental faculties and virtues of ingenuity, flexibility, and opportunism conjoined with the will to fight. 3) Knowledge/understanding of your enemy and how he will react to any given stimulus and choice.

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whats it like to move away from all ur family? what if something happens to one of them? what do u do? 1. Liberating. 2. Call. 3. Send flowers.

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All the Republican presidential hopefuls seem creepy to me. Is there one that isn't? Given the alternative, I'd vote for Hannibal Lecter or Uncle Fester over Oblahblahma.

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Who was the first Jew? Define "Jew" and what it means to be one.

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Can you name a movie where the villan wins? The Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith The Devil's Advocate The Great Escape Beowulf Crime & Punishment

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Poll : tatoos hot or not? Not hot. Just stupid to repulsive.

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Why do our bodies prepare for pregnancy... so young? To do deterr you from having sex until you're grown up and married!

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Do you have a doorbell? I recently moved into an apartment that has a doorbell, I've never had one before. In my case, a better question would be, "Do you have a WORKING door bell?" (But what the heck: I'm renting. ... And here in Thailand, most people just stand at the gate and shout until somebody answers.)

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If Christ had been a real person what do you think he would have looked like? Christ was a real person. Find a PhD'd historian of the period who says otherwise. (Hint: there aren't any.) But I assume he looked like other Semites/Levantines of the eastern Mediterranean in the 1st century.

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Name an animal that eats people. Just about any scavenger or omnivore will eat people already dead. Only two species on earth naturally hunt living men: tigers and polar bears ... oh, and women, of course.

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Have you ever met someone who does bad things and hurts people but you can see beyond that? You know he/she is a good person And just what is your idea of "a good person"? Of course, the fact is, no one is good. Just some aren't quite as selfish, worthless, or vindictive as others. But just because someone isn't a sadist or a homicidal maniac, that doesn't qualify him as "good".

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IF my boss asks me to stay late right before the end of my shift and I say i cannot stay can he force me to stay after a 6 hr shift in PA? Force you? Can he manhandle you, hold a gun to your head, etc? Of course not. But he can certainly fire you for any reason - or no reason at all - if you're contract says you're empolyed at the employer's discretion ... or if you have no contract at all. If, on the other hand, you're in a union, or have a contract with some protections against arbitrary termination, then you have a grievance...

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What was the purpose of crusade wars? The purpose of the 1st Crusade was to (1) rescue Byzantium from imminent conquest by the Turks, (2) liberate the recently over-run Anatolian peninsula and return it to Byzantine control, (3) liberate the Holy Sepulchre, (4) secure and protect the pligrimage routes to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and (5) protect native Christians and pilgrims from massacre or enslavement by the Turks. The purpose...

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Why can`t we prove God`s existence? It's always hard to prove anything that is self-evident and intuitively obvious. The denier only has to reject the premises ... just like in any other logical proof. Just try proving YOU exist to a confirmed solopsist or a typical college sophomore majoring in Philosophy.

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What is the standard of proof in a civil case? While guilt in a criminal case must (theoretically) be established "beyond a reasonable doubt," a judgment in a civil case must be decided "upon the preponderance (or weight) of the evidence," i.e. whichever side has the best case wins. Of course, as with what exactly constitutes "reasonable" doubt, the weight assigned to any piece of evidence or argument is fairly subjective, mutable, and...

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Who bears the burden of proof? In a debate about the existence of God: Who should prove what? Is it Theists who are supposed to prove that God exist; or Atheists who must demonstrate that God do not and cannot exist? It all depends on who is picking the fight. The burden of proof rests on the claimant, the person trying to deny another person their opinion, convction, or belief, and compel agreement with the claimant's claim. In this sense, reason/logic is the intellectual equivalent of brute force. The burden lies on whoever is trying to force the issue. It should, however, be noted that this burden does...

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Christians, Why do you think the Burden of proof is on atheist? ................

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When asked about the 1970's...why do so many people not mention the 200th birthday of the USA (1976)? Because "Liberals" (i.e., effeminate totalitarian America-hating Leftists) control most of the media and the production companies, and if there is one thing from the 70s they want to forget and everyone else to forget too, it's the Bicentennial ... even more than they want all to forget about Jimmy Carter and the abismal failures of his administration.

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Why are there laws of war? There are no "laws", but only "rules". The reason for such rules or conventions is this: especially in war, there are some lines people with foresight don't want to cross ... because if your side crosses them, the other side will too, assuming they have the ability, e.g., the use of chemical weapons, going nuclear (which only worked once precisely only because only one country had the bomb),...

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Do you know anyone who never got a speeding ticket? I've never gotten one in Thailand! ;)

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What can we blame religion for? Nothing. 1) There is no such thing as "religion" (unless you're using it in its pre 19th century sense of "habitual ritual observance") except as a category in a college course catalogue; there are only religions, and they're all fundamentally different. Thus it is a fundamental error to generalize about them, at least in terms of what they can be blamed for. 2) Religions are not moral...

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What would be a better name than "atheist" for an atheist? Why? Spiritually Autistic Person ... or SAP for short.

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If in reality there is no God -is everybody really atheist/naturalist even though they may think they are such true-blue theists? If man's natural state is Atheism, and he only learns to be a theist by being indoctrinated as a child, how then did the first theist become one?

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We are Gods to bugs but yet we don't like them and avoid them. And often squash them. That must be what God's attitude is towards us huh? I wasn't aware that we created bugs in our own image to manifest our glory.

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Does it make a difference to spell God with a small "g" or capital "G"? By convention in English, God with a capital G refers to the Supreme Being, the eternal uncreated creator who is prior to all things ... whether one believe He exists or not. The word "god" with a small "g" is used to refer to lesser "immortal" spirits and geniuses of significant power, that had a beginning, exist in some sense in time, and may one day even cease to exist; in this sense it...

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Alcohol is addictive, weed is not. Why don't they make it legal? Weed certainly is addictive. Maybe not as addictive *physically* as nicotine - but most physical addictions only take a few days of withdrawal and then you're done. But to a person who *needs* to anesthetize himself to his life, weed is even more psychologically/emotionally addictive than alcohol. To a person who isn't compulsively trying to hide from facing his life, neither is addictive, at...

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"Men working with women in an office is a bad idea. It's like bears working with salmon that's been dipped in honey." Agree or disagree? Mostly agree with the first part. But not for the reason given. Most women should stick to the home and the village where their ultra-picky, petty, meddling, busy-bodying, micro-managing, penny-wise and a pound foolish, Mickey Mouse ways will actually do some good.

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Was Jesus conservative or liberal? 1. You should define your terms. 2. If you define them in some modern sense, your question becomes as silly as asking if he liked hoops or ice hockey. But the fact is, such categories, however defined, are rather absurd and misleading in Jesus' case. Jesus was and is not only a moral absolutist but a theocrat and an absolute monarchist with universal and eternal dominion.

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Has every possible argument for creationism and God been debunked? Well, you'd have to define what you mean by creationism (and God for that matter) first. But as long as we're talking about (1) the claim that the entire universe and natural order was created by God (as opposed to some obtuse argument for a Young Earth and/or the special creation of each and every species as is), and (2) the God of the Bible, the answer no. There are plenty of arguments for...

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"A fool says there is no God" (Psalm 14:1) but according to Mr Freud belief in God can make you neurotic. What to do? Consider just how neurotic Freud was himself, and then move on.

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God is an emotional crutch and The Bible, Koran, the Vedas and all "holy books" are myths. Your views? God is not an emotional crutch - at least for me or anyone I know. As for the rest ... The Vedas ARE myths, and Hindus say so themselves and have no problem with it. The Koran is not myth - it contains virtually no narrative at all! It may be the inane ramblings of an illiterate schyzophrenic camel jockey turned cult leader, but it's not a myth. The Bible is a collection of 66 books and...

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When Christopher Hitchens says "God is not great" but then denies His existence altogether, does he not commit a fatal contradiction? Don't confuse brilliantly rhetorical and polemical TITLE with dialectic. Also, don't be obtuse: It's clear that his 2nd point ("... and He Isn't Great") is that *IF* the God of the Bible or Koran indeed did exist, it would be wrong to describe Him as great or even good, and that people should be grateful and relieved He doesn't exist. Please note, I disagree completely with both of his 2...

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Christians: do you feel there is religious justification to be specifically anti-slavery? Or is it just something that is just right, but doesn't have any backing scripture? 1. Slavery in and of itself is neither right nor wrong: in some socio-economic circumstances (like ancient subsistence agrarian economies) it was the only alternative to genocide, and thus the more humane/less evil option; in advanced mercantile and industrial economies with substantial agricultural surplusses, it's not only not necessary, it's downright counter productive and contrary to the...

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Did Jesus teach that Christians should despise atheists -or are too many Christians just being swayed by crank religious right preaching? The Biblical authors certainly despised atheists [PS 10:3-4, 14:1, 53:1; ECC 8:13; RO 1:19-25], and Jesus certainly regarded (at least the OT writings) as the God's infallible word and absolute truth. But the issue is with their behavior - that they live without fear of ultimate justice and so sin insolently sure that there will be no consequences after death. But the general testimony of...

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How do you support farmers? By eating.

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Why do we have butt cheeks? To cushion the blow when you fall on your ass.

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Creatine or Whey Protein? What is Better? Protein is essential to building actual muscle, and whey protein powders are pretty good when you need to get a lot of it and don't have the time or money (or stomach) for eating 3 lbs of lean meat or 2 dozen egg whites every day. Creatine, on the other hand, in a dosage of 5 to 20 grams per day effectively improves the physiological response to resistance exercise, increasing the maximal...

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which are better angels or demons Well, it's kind of an apples to oranges comparison: pro vs. college, and all, but I think it's safe to say that LA is much better at Baseball than any of the Wake Forest teams are at their sport.

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What is one word you would use to describe Christianity? Why? Truth.

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If you married a Foreigner, would you stay in the United States or go to their Country? What makes you think we're all in the US or Americans to begin with?

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What is the basis of Christianity? The teachings or Chirst and his birth and death etc? You're assuming a false dichotomy. The two are in fact inseperable. 1. His teachings mean nothing if not lived out and proved by His own life, death, and resurrection. 2. Of course, His life, passion, and death are to serve as the perfect example, just as His resurrection is the proof and promise of ultimate deliverance and vindication. 3. Such an example means nothing if it accomplishes...

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What is deism? Deism has primarily two senses. The term was first employed by many self-professed "Rationalists" of the early 1700s. Inspired by the work of Newton (no Deist himself), they came to see the universe a great mechanism designed by "The Supreme Being", aka "The Great Architect" - a divine watchmaker and the universe and everything in it was the watch. Their God designed it, created it, wound it...

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When does faith changes into superstition and superstition into faith? Superstition is essentially a belief in sympathetic magic and that correlation or even coincidence is causation. It's also obsessed with worldly good and bad fortune - and attempt to stack the deck, so to speak, in one's favor through rituals and the avoidance of taboos. Faith, as it is defined in Judaism and Christianity, means simply to trust that (1) God will do what He has promised to do,...

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When was Saturday the first day of the week? Saturday was never the 1st day of the week ... though in certain Moslem countries it's treated as the first day of the week as Friday is the Moslem sabbath. In Judaism and Christianity, and thus in the Gregorian Calendar which has become the de facto business calendar of the entire world, Saturday is the 7th day and Sunday is the 1st.

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Who was Moses in ancient Egypt? If the Biblical (approximate) dating of the Exodus is correct (c. 1445 BC), and the 3 40-year intervals of his ages are to be taken literally, (birth to 40: in Egypt; 40-80: in exile in Midian; 80-120: leading Israel) he lived in Egypt c. 1375-1485. Assuming the traditional dating of the Egyptian pharaohs and dynasties is correct (which is at least as big an assumption as the last two), that...

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Is it too much to ask for a 2 minute meet & greet with God since he expects me to worship him for eternity ? You can have it anytime you want: it's called prayer ... and it starts by getting on your knees.

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So what in fact are the fundamentals of fundamentalism? The term "fundamentalist" and "fundamentalism" today mean nothing except an empty term of abuse fore anyone theologically to the right of the person labeling them as such. Over the last 30-40 years, however, the term has been employed somewhat more responsibly and clinically by cultural anthropologists and sociologists to classify certain self-percieved "back-to-basics" movements,...

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Eating 62 hotdogs in ten minutes in a food-eating contest on the 4th of July (or any time)...amazingly awesome or awesomely disgusting? It's always 'either/or' with you people. ;)

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As a nonAmerican why do I get the feeling that Republicans care less about common people than they do about protecting their own interests? Because you have a leftist and/or statist media and academia that keeps telling you so.

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Could someone that is perfect lie? Perfect how? What do you mean by perfect? If you mean simply "morally perfect", or "pure and blameless", then of course it's possible since there are occasions where the moral, compassionate, and responsible thing to do is lie, e.g., when speaking to incorrigibly evil men hell bent on doing evil, and you have no power to stop them, but only the means to misdirect them (away from their...

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At what age are you considered an adult? When you're married, have kids, a job, a car, a mortgage, and know how escrow works.

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Is America a democracy, or a republic? in the pledge of alliegance it says: " and to the republic, for wich it stands" America is a Republic - which just means their is no monarch. The word comes from the Latin "Res Publicae" which means "Affair/Matter of the People": the idea is that there is no individual or class that has the exclusive (and typically hereditary) right to control the public sphere and make public policy, and basically tell others how to live, but rather it belongs to the people as a whole,...

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What are your thoughts on the Virgin Mary not being a virgin? Is it not possible she lied about being a virgin? It's not possible that God lied about her being a virgin. And Matthew and Luke are both God's inspired and infallibly revealed Word.

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Who was the last king to rule the n. American Colony? Queen Elizabeth II is the constitutional (if titular) sovereign of Canada, Belize, The Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua-Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent & the Grenadines ... all of which are considered to be in North America. The last king (to date) would be her father, King George VI. If all goes to plan, the future Charles III will be the next,...

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Greece is further east in Europe than Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and Poland, so why wasn't it absorbed by the USSR like the others? 1. Greece was liberated by Partisans and the Brits 2. Greece was still a monarchy (until 1973) closely tied to the British Crown (note Prince Philip is a (German) prince of Greece). 3. The Balkans and Pindus Mountains are in the way, and Greece is one of the most mountainous countries in Europe -- which means it's the devil to take and hold against intractable native resistance, especially...

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Why is it that when a Church needs money...they ask you for it...and make you feel guilty for not giving. But when YOU need money... Funny, I was in charge of my church's financial aid ministry for 8 years, and coordinated with every other church in Lake County, McHenry County, and much of northern Cook County in Illinois. My church alone gave out over 100k in aid each year, and half if it went to non-members, and even non-believers. Also, while we might tell people to get a job, or stop squandering their money, we never...

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Why is the book of Enoch, not incuded in the present day bible? 1Enoch is in the Ethiopian canon. The reason it's not in any other canon is because: 1. It's not in the Septuagint 2. It's not in the Jewish canon 3. It's unquestionably pseudepigraphal (Enoch didn't write it, nor did anyone who knew him).

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Was Jesus an incarnation of God? Define your terms, specifically incarnation, God, and what it means to be an incarnation of God.

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Jesus said. "The kingdom of God is within". If heaven is external are they not two separate things? They are two separate (if relatred) things. Who told you otherwise? Throughout most the NT "The Kingdom" is to be understood in the context of the Lord's Prayer: "Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth as it is in heaven", and refers to the Presence of God in Christ, and Christ's active presence and dominion on earth. In Luke 17:21, however, it has a more pointed sense. First of all,...

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The Bible says the LOVE of money is the root of all evil. So...why do organized religions ask for it so unashamedly? Actually, Christ says the love of money is the root of MANY evils. Be that as it may, the reason is that they have a payroll to meet, utility bills to pay, vendors to compensate, and probably a montly mortgate payment, while being barred by both law and custom from engaging in actual trade/commerce on any significant scale.

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Would you agree that the "good" Christians/Muslims/Jews might as well be atheists, and the fanatics are the "true believers"? No, I would not. And you might as well ask, "Would you agree that the "good" Atheists might as well be Christians/Muslims/Jews, and the fanatics are the "true (UN)believers?"

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Reading the Bible carefully is the quickest cure for the disease called Christianity, how about you, have you read the Bible carefully? Nonsense. For many, including myself, it was reading the Bible carefully was the cause of them becoming a Christian. And no one has ever become a mature Christian except by carefully reading and studying the Bible.

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Do Bible believers know anything about The Council of Nicaea? Do they know that imperfect human beings decided what to include/exclude? Rosie, if you're talking about the Biblical canon, I'm afraid I have to disabuse you of the notion that Nicaea had anything to do with it. The fact is neither it nor any other Church Council made any ruling regarding the Biblical canon until the Roman Catholic Council of Trent in 1545, which simply validated the traditional Biblical canon, plus 7 books of the Jewish Apocrypha and the Apocryphal...

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So Anders Behring Breivik was a right-wing extremist. Surprised? What does "right-wing" mean any more? Breivik himself (quite correctly) declared, "politics today no longer revolves around socialism against capitalism, but that the fight is between nationalism and internationalism.” If opposing globalism/internationalism makes one "right wing", then most modern Marxists, trade unionists, the working classes, the unemployed, Hippies, and The Yes Men are...

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Early Christians believed Jesus would return and establish His Kingdom on earth. Now most Christians believe they will spend eternity in And what is your basis for assuming "most" Christians believe the latter now, instead of the former? Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists, and Presbyterians that don't believe in the 2nd Coming obviously didn't pay attention in catechism class or to the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed (one of which they recite every Sunday Church service). As for those in the...

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What is a witch, as the term is used in the Bible? I've looked, but have not been able to find any definition or description. Think voodoo priestess and the witch from Burton's Sleepy Hollow (not the villainess, but her ugly sister living in a cave). The witches of the ancient world wallowed in all that was regarded as spiritual unlceanness, all that was defiled and defiling, especially death, decay, disgust, and putrefaction. Whereas decent (and superstitious) people avoided these things BECAUSE they thought they...

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A male Witch is called a Witch..not a Warlock (an insult). Why is this term still being used in this day and age? Too much "Bewitched?" Because in this day and age ... (1) we don't believe in either, and ... (2) we don't care if self-proclaimed witches are offended by it. Also, if you knew the real etimology and history of the term "witch" (unlike the made-up romantacized one claimed by various wiccans/witches/neopagans/pagan-reconstructionists) you'd know it was pretty insulting too. Finally, languages change over time and...

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What language were the New Testament manuscripts written in? Every passage of each of the NT documents is written in Koine Greek, the common language of the Roman Empire, its sattelites, and most of the Middle East (though Aramaic was the primary common language of the common peoples east of the Jordan to the eastern frontier of Iran). The NT does transliterate a few Semitic words and phrases and then usually translates them into Koine. Some phrases are...

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What was the original language of the New Testament? The same language it's in now: 1st century Koine Greek.

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What is the longest distance you have driven in one day, in either miles or kilometers? 1,598 miles: Warren, PA, to Hamilton, ON, to Windsor, ON, to Kalamazoo, MI, to Sault Ste. Marie, ON, to Vernon Hills, IL by way of Milwaukee, WI ... but with about an hour and half of driving around lost in the dark in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Did it in just shy of 24 hours straight.

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Is it fair to blame the president for our economy when corporate america gives away are jobs? 1. It's spelled 'our' not 'are'. 2. There not "your" jobs. If you want higher employment in the US and better opportunities, then you want booming business, and the only way you're going to get that is if you get your government to cut the corporate income tax (the US has the highest one in the world) and cut the oppressive, debilitating, and counterproductive regulations, both of which...

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Why are all the Liberal media piling on Murdoch and Newscorp ? Isn't there more important stories like Anthony Weiner's weener ? Because they're a bunch of Leftist hypocrites - who've never balked at illegally obtaining information or publishing illegally obtained information, even at completely fabricating malicious information to attack conservatives. In December 1996, a Florida couple, John and Alice Martin, who sounded suspiciously like union goons, claimed to have inadvertently tapped into a phone conversation...

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Would you run over an elephant if it is on the road? I was on a van in Thailand that tried to. It didn't work out very well for the van. (How does a driver NOT see an elephant in the middle of the road?)

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Does something have to be somewhere to be anywhere? If something is everywhere, is not that the same as being no where at all? 1. You need to define your terms, most specifically what it means to be something and what it means to be somewhere, as well as what it means to be everywhere. 2. 1+1=2 is true everywhere and at all times, and even is true if there is no place or time for it to be true in. Truth is Truth: it is universal, eternal, and (apart from the truth of a particular event -- i.e., the mere...

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I started the habit of drinking atleast 10 Liters of water or more a day through out the day with my meals...is this healthy? Sure ... if you're a glass-blower, or work in a foundary or a furnace or boiler room, or spend a lot of time working outside in the tropics or a hot desert. Otherwise, you're probably overtaxing your kidneys and bladder, and possibly your digestive system.

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well what is the true purpose of religion? There is no such thing as "religion" except as a category in a college course catalogue. There are only religions, and they are all different. Not only do they all offer different answers, they don't even ask the same questions. Each religion in fact has its own purpose: e.g., the purpose of Buddhism is to escape suffering by achieving perfect equanimity and thus oblivion; the purpose of...

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What name is given to lay people who serve communion wine? Depends on the church and denomination. In the Episcopal Church they're just called "Communion Helpers". In most Protestant churches they aren't called anything -- in point of fact, most Protestant churches just pass around trays of individual mini-cups filled with grape juice, self-serve. In the Catholic and Orthodox churches, laymen other than deacons (priests in training) aren't...

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How come Republicans are making it harder to vote across the country? To thwart blatant and ubiquitous vote fraud by Democrats.

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Who in the Bible says that they wanted to live without God in their lives? Fools in general. Most of the Israelites of the Exodus at one time or another (NUM 11:4-6, 18; 14:1-4)

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Did anything exist prior to God coming into existence on His own? God - by definition - did not come into existence, but is as eternal as the laws of math and logic. He just IS. A being that came into existence at some point in time is, ipso facto, not God, though he might be classified as a god/spirit/angel/etc. That being the case, your question is absurd.

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What does AUM stand for? Asset Under Management Auburn University Montgomery Association de Ultimate de Montreal Antioch University Midwest

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What does Jesus Christ think of humanism? Christian Humanism, Renaissance Humanism, Religious Humanism, Secular Humanism, Existential Humanism, or Marxist Humanism? Christian Humanism is Christianity itself - or at least a principle aspect of it. Renaissance Humanism is/was and academic and social movement - among Christian Humanists - stressing the importance of the Humanities and Liberal Arts, study of primary sources, and their...

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What exactly is the apocolypse? 1st of all, it's the apocalypse. Secondly, it's not "the end of the world". "Apocalypse" means a revealed vision (or revelation) from God in Jewish and early Christian mysticism. Because the most famous of them (The Apocalypse (or Revelation) of Saint John) is a vision of "the end times" (eschaton in Greek) many who don't know any better have come to think apocalypse means "the end of the...

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why do americans call rednecks, rednecks ? It was originally the slang name for the Scotch-Irish pioneers (not a mix of Scots and Irish, but a distinct tribe that originally lived in Southwest Scotland (Dumfries & Galloway) and Northeast Ireland (Ulster) and was despised by both the Scots and the Irish, and even more despised by the English). The Anglo-Saxon colonists of the coasts imported them en-masse as Indian fighters and to...

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Should polygamy, polyandry and other adult multiple marriage be allowed? Why / Why Not? In the US, consenting adults are already free to live together in whatever arrangement they want. "Legal/Civil Marriage" however is restricted to couples primarily because of estate and divorce law. Consider this, IF polygamy were allowed, in the case of a divorce, what would be the departing spouse's share of the community property? What if the departing spouse has cause against 1 spouse,...

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Bachmann can't seem to handle FOX questions under pressure. How will she handle questions the President is asked at times of crisis? You obviously are watching through Obama-colored glasses. Bachman nailed Bill'O to the wall. (Also, when watching a remote interview, the delay/pause in the guest's response isn't due to any hesitation on their part: there's a short (1-second or so) time delay in hearing the interviewer back in the main studio ... which is why reporters on the scene working through a remote feed always have...

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Do you think Congress should raise “The Debt Ceiling?” Why or why not? Of course it should not be raised. Is there anyone (other than career Democrat politicians and their tax feeders) who doesn't honestly believe the government spends way too much money already? Obama - who has NEVER proposed a single budget! - is over spending by $4 BILLION per day! The government must cut spending - and I don't mean what THEY usually means by it: cut the planned increase...

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What is/are asbestos? Asbestos is mineral fiber that has substantial properties of heat insulation and is also non-flammable. Because of that the US Gov ordered businesses and builders to insulate their public buildings with it, especially schools. After 20 years of that, they determined it was carcinogenic and ordered all businesses and builders to remove it all - AT THERE OWN EXPENSE of course! - and gave the...

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How has the Republican Party endangered your life? By capitualting to Democrats and by letting the "moderate" (i.e., Statist) Eisenhower/Ford/Bush wing of the party dominate it to the alienation and betrayal of both their base and the party's principles.

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Why do you believe Jesus will save you from Hell? If he has that capability, why didn't he save himself? It was by His total submission to the Father manifested in becoming incarnate and willingly suffering abject humiliation and ignominious death that He has redeemed the world from sin and saves those who abide in Him from the second death. Look up "substitutionary atonement" in a theological dictionary.

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