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(...) And Sagan never said "Billions and billions." 8^) Dave! (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I believe that was Stalin, himself no stranger to the deaths of thousands (or millions, as I think the original quote indicated. Dave! (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Recently seen on a bumper sticker... " All in favor of lower gas prices, raise your right foot! " :) Greg Betzel (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I strongly agree. I remember a good sentence from some important personality in history, but can't remember who is him right now. "Death of a person is tragedy. Death of a thousand people is statistics." When you start to think about it as a (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I find it very ironic that a whole nation apparently solemnly commemorates the WW2 persecution when they themselves are current persecutors. Very ironic. I note that there is currently an economic blockade of Gaza and the West Bank: (URL) A (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The probelm is we are all to lazy or "busy" to read a book/s about these issues. Scott A (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) WHAT!!! You mean those time travels were made up?! Boy, and to think that I cited those adventures in several college essays! Oops! ;^p (...) Doh! That didn't really happen either?! Wow, I'm batting real low here. Yep, there's a lot of "true" (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Comfort food time! ;^) (...) Well, the Pushkin playlet started the snowball (bad, bad Mister Pushkin). (...) "Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money..." (...) Hmmm, I can dig that. (...) Exactly, but how many folks really do that? We've reduced (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.robotics, "kristin fullenwider" <rudies2piecesuit@hotmail.com> writes: <snip> Well, I haven't posted in a long time, and I'd hate to think that something like this (rather than something cool in .mecha :c) ) would get me to do so, but here (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) <just a little tummy tuck> (...) Goodness I missed you, so glad you're back!!! ++Lar (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I was thinking of not putting anything into this thread. Tough to stay out of though. Lots of good points are being made by all parties and clearly this is a nicely behaved and well reasoned thread, kudos to all posters. (...) Good point. But where (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hi Shiri! I liked your post very much, especially the part about the personal accounts of Jewish families during the Holocaust. Big numbers can mean nothing if we never hear the personal stories of those who suffered or died. When I read the "Diary (...) (23 years ago, 25-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Okay... I just thought I'd point out that I wasn't trying to negatively criticize anyone specifically for the manner in which they choose to remember the Holocaust. To that extent, I think that I am with Shiri inasmuch as personal accounts (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hey Dan, Hi Richard, and Jeremy and Dave. First of all - I want to make it loud and clear that I am *totally* biased. Not only am I 100% Jewish, but my whole family suffered from the Holocaust, I have a very small extended family because most of my (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm not saying that big lies don't happen. I'm not defending the media, either. Um, I'm not sure what I'm saying. :-, Shortly after seeing Amadeus, I was made aware of the Salieri conspiracy. The movie was mean, but so what? As a work of (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So did Braveheart, while we're at it, though as a history story it is only slightly more accurate than Mr. Peabody's time travels with Sherman. The only saving grace re: historical value is that neither film claimed to be an accurate (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hey, I got another doosy for you, Jeremy! Old skool: Remember when "Amadeus" won a bunch of Oscars back in 1984? We all got familiarized with the "story" of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and how Salieri was jealous and killed him-- 100% pure crap! (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes! Thanks, I was having trouble recalling his name and didn't want to butcher it. :) (...) Well, I admire any artist willing to use their celebrity status in a positive, non-egocentric way. It breaks my heart when an artist like Spielberg (a (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Several. On almost all of those occasions, they were trying to pick my pocket. No, really. That said, part of the reason that few people remember Gyspies in their holocaust rememberances (or any other time) is because they are still heavily (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ah! Now I see where you're coming from. I still hold that, in itself, the film can't be blasted for failing to address matters outside its scope, since to do otherwise would by definition require that everything address everything--a (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Great point, Dave! And that's exactly my point of the media twisting things to suit a political purpose--hence propaganda. (...) I remember it because it ticked me off. I ended up recording it on video. (...) It's not just the lies, but the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I believe that an omission is a lie. So, to omit the whole history of the Holocaust and focus only on one group of people that suffered and died, and to repeat and repeat only that part of the history (allowing the other stats to be obscured) (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't remember that special, but--more than just propaganda--it's playing to public expectation. If it had aired two years earlier, no doubt Qaddafi (has anyone ever agreed on an English spelling of his name?) would have been the target. (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Heh heh, I see what you mean. That was a big ol' can of worms! ;^) (...) If you want specifics, I've got doosy for you-- In October of 1990, NBC aired a "special" on Nostrodamis's predictions of world tyrants (by the way, all that Nostradamis (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) So it's ok for a Danish company to use an English name but not a Maori one? Note that it was pointed out that TLC did not copyright or trademark the names (and even if they were trademarked, a trademark is in relation to a specific product (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.loc.nz, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Whoa. Dude. Freaky. The article number was 1227, but the trailing "7" seems to have been chopped off. Let's see if this works: (URL) that, try this... /off-topic/debate/?n=1227 The disclaimer still stands, though. ;-) (...) Hmm. It's difficult (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Or doesn't work, since we keep having wars. :( Yep, the American media does a great job to stir up hatred as to somehow justify it's shameful foreign policy. Omitting facts about the Holocaust by repeating (and repeating) only the figures on (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) In my view, since the film was about Schindler's List, anyone outside of the direct effect of The List is irrelevant to the film. That's not to say their deaths weren't tragic or aren't signficant, but they are beyond the intended scope of the (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It should be noted that Speilberg is Jewish. This doesn't forgive his ignoring other pogroms, of course, but it is significant. (...) This has been hashed over in this newsgroup before; here's my take (1) on it: (URL) few of those points I've (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Me too. His films are kitchy but somehow super fun. My favorite scene was with the folding-ladder combat in First Strike. Cheers, - jsproat (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I'm guilty (gulp) of watching a few of them, mostly as background noise in the apartment with me occaisionally asking "What is this crap?" The stupidest scene to watch is the car chase in "Above the Law". We discover that Segal has the magic (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Richard, Wow, that was an excellent post! Yes, I agree that we should remember all the victims of the Holocaust. I feel it does justice to the memory of the Jewish victims when we don't single them out, because doing so creates a hipocrisy. When (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I like the Postman, although it is quite different from the book and an awful load of parts are omitted. Actually I generally like the plots like "hey people, lets unite and save the world" kind. Do you remember the old TV series Visitors (I (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I never went to cinema to see his films, but I try to catch every piece when aired on TV. The part that I like most is "these stupid things occurred while filming" part that at the end of most of his films. Do you see the one with a very big (...) (23 years ago, 24-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I never saw the film but when it came out and it was on the movie review shows I remember really liking the fact that they killed him off right at the start of the movie :-) Steve (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Jones is always a treat. I don't think Ms. Eleniak did too badly, considering that the part was only written with two things in mind. Anyway, it's not like the role (or the film) allowed deep character development. (...) I couldn't remember (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Dave Schuler at orrex@excite.com wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) <snip> Hmm, I rather like Robin Hood. I think all the actors in it are quite good. Bearing in mind that Kevin Costner isn't an "actor" ;^) ~Grand Admiral Muffin Head (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The only good thing about Under Siege is Tommy Lee Jones. I should note that Segal is at least a better actor than the bimbo in that movie (damned with faint praise <g>). I liked Segal in Executive Decision - I got to cheer when he died! (...) (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I refuse to allow myself to think of Costner in those terms. (...) Costner fails more spectacularly than Segal is allowed to because Costner presumes more spectacularly than Segal is allowed to. I understand that On Deadly Ground (what was (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You also think the top less scene with Erika Eleniak was that movies greatest part huh? ,) Steven Segal, yes. Quite bad. But at least I saw the movies to the end, I don't know how many Jean Claude Van Dam movies I've turned off though... (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You left out Producer and Director... (...) Hey now. The Postman wasn't *dreadful*. It could have been a LOT better, mind you, as anyone who read the book would attest, but it wasn't as bad a mangle of a good book as Starship Troopers was. (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Steve, I think you posted to the wrong group. This group is for debates--NOT undeniable truths! Segal is so unbelievably awful that the best thing you can say about him is that Under Seige didn't suck quite as bad as his other films, but Segal (...) (23 years ago, 23-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Possibly. I am not sure who, though. Remember it's much easier to name someone the "best so far" because the best tend to rise to be visible, but the worst fortunately (in most cases anyway) stay obscure. (...) I have, unfortunately, seen some (...) (23 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The "6 million Jews"/"12 million people" confusion has been prevalent for a long time. A reasonable speculation would be that the holocaust most primarly did target Jews, and they are also the largest demographic of holocaust survivors, and (...) (23 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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With all this anti - Micheal Crichton bile going around I can't help thinking that we should fix Steven Segal's wagon first. Is their a martial artist with less acting talent and a worse on-screen persona than him? I wouldn't like to see their films (...) (23 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hey Y'all: I have a series of related comments and questions about how we should remember the holocaust. (And boy, do I have a bad feeling about raising these issues -- but here they come...) Frankly, I just don't get something about Holocaust (...) (23 years ago, 22-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hi Eric. I agree to a point, but I use LegOS because I'm a programmer and I like getting dirty. And it does allow me to do things RCX code can't - I used it on my tower crane www.lugnet.com/~469/...towercrane so I could control both RCXs with (...) (23 years ago, 21-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hi Eric, first of all, i understand your motivation and i think it's a nice approach to lego !! I've only got some annotations. When only using "out of the box" stuff you should let the other people know this point of view. (Other people might have (...) (23 years ago, 20-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) that. Yes, exactly. Moslems acknowledge Jesus only as a prophet, not as God as most Christians do. They do believe in the immaculate conception but also make note that Jesus had siblings. Actually, the Koran makes a lot more sense than the (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Whoa, Gentleman may I make a freindly Observation, - Please, just 'cause I stumbled onto this thread. Well, you Train guys are a tight lot. Meaning, a great deal of thought goes into a given layout as a whole. Now that's not to say that others (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Thanks for the cite... two points. It's a one-time blanket consent (who's not going to consent if the alternative is no treatment?), and this is the standard that applies to orgs, not to the government. The government is exempt from it and can (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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If this is the same act a read about a while ago, I think you'll have to give your consent before your data may be used: (URL) the rules, health care organizations would need to have patients sign a one-time consent agreement allowing their health (...) (24 years ago, 16-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Okay, but the only problem with that is that Jesus claimed to be more than a prophet. I mean that's what got him killed was the "blasphemy" of referring to himself as "I Am." I'm sure the Moslems have a problem with that. By calling Jesus a (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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I've mentioned various government anti-privacy initiatives here in the past, and the anti-initiatives that various organizations have started to try to counteract them, with varying levels of success. The group has with varying levels of (...) (24 years ago, 14-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, you'd enjoy the Moslem's perspective on Jesus (which I agree with) as a prophet who took care of business. Moslem's acknowledge the willful, uncorruptable, rebellious personality of Jesus--standing up for the oppressed, weak and poor (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's an interesting perspective that I've never considered before. I've always considered the true power of Jesus' message being the fact that God wants a relationship with me. That's a mind-boggling concept. That the Creator of the Universe (...) (24 years ago, 12-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually it was originally called "Colossal cave" (by Willie Crowther). I only ever played it on a PDP 11/70 until I decided to learn Perl a couple of years ago - someday I'll get around to putting my Perl port of the original (350 pts) game (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Or...your life, your mother's grave, The Bat of the Great DiMaggio, etc etc. But I wouldn't suggest one swear at anyone holding a weapon. best LFB (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Now that you mention it, I remember reading about that years and years ago, but I'd never seen anything from ADVENT first hand. Very cool stuff, though! Dave! (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's kind of neat the caver connection to Advent. Crowther's wife was one of the people who participated in the exploration which connected Mammoth and Flint Ridge caves (and is what really won the cold war - at the time of the connection, (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) You can also swear on the Constitution. It wouldn't suprise me if there are other recognized religious and non-religious documents you can swear on. Jeff (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You know, I never actually played Zork. My pastiche paid homage to Zork's predecessor, ADVENT, which I *have* played on such machines as the UNIVAC 1100/80, the IBM 4341, and the Commodore PET. (URL) don't think the above link is to the (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh definitely (though I've never finished it, I've just always loved the idea from the very beginning when Infocom brought computers to Boskone to show off their nifty new game). These days Zork fits on your Palm Pilot. Several folks have (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) ? Verbose Maximum verbosity. ? Babel Fish. (computer meltdown ensues....) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I see--two prokaryotes and two eukaryotes. *Now* I understand! What could I have been thinking?? (...) Ah, Zork! An all-time favorites! Dave! (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Oh, come, come now. They didn't really mean that every SPECIES of animal went in the ark. Just every KIND. So there was plenty of room. And the kinds must have quick-evolved back into all the species... er, oops, I said a naughty word. There (...) (24 years ago, 11-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) When my mom says she prays for me, I equivocate it with saying "My thoughts and hopes are with you." In that sense, any sort of prayer (whether it's praying to God, Jesus, Shivva, Buddha, poking pins in voodoo dolls, doing a rain dance, (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Exactly, a moment of "prayer" in my case would a moment of clarity for self reflection or meditation (clearing the mind and focusing on the moment). I personally would not give praise or thanks to any higher power, but I'd certainly be a fool (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) One might draw a distinction, however, between "had a marked impact on a focus point of developing civilization" and "killed everything but those few animals that one guy could stuff into an apparently Tardis-like ark." 8^) Dave! (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) about (...) keep (...) practiced (...) faiths, (...) Up to here is where I agree with you, and I believe the Bible precludes the possibility of evolution. That's as much common ground as I think we'll get. Now I have another job with more (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Here's my literal-mined response: :-) I liked the way James put it: "This of course doesn't prove anything in itself, but it is interesting that the scientific community is beginning to lend credence to the possibility of a catastrophic flood (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Jassim" <danieljassim@hotmail.com> To: <lugnet.off-topic.de...ugnet.com> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 3:44 AM Subject: Common ground in science/Bible debate (...) about (...) keep (...) practiced (...) (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Some years ago a friend who'd done some study on the matter defined black magic (as many sources do) as the practice of ritual or enchantment without the permission and/or knowledge of the intended recipient. By this definition, prayer without (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Daniel: I completely respect what you have to say here. If I may paraphrase you, simply to better understand what you are saying, do you mean that because you do not believe in a higher power, that you believe prayer to be a self-reflection; a (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) They recently did an 'I love 198x' thing on telly, showing transformers amongst the brat-pack movie clips. They slated Soundwave, asking how this giant robot turned into a little tape player - completely missing the point that the toy was just (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You can copyright whatever you want. 'Ford' is an English word, but it doesn't mean anyone could call their motor car company by that name anymore. Saying that you can't copyright Maori words when you can any other language is discrimination. (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) A childhood playing computer games hasn't affected my attention spa... (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, although it isn't off-topic, I think that Lego Technic figures do an excellent job at articulation. One thing I never liked about G.I. Joe figures (the small ones,anyway) was that although they were posable, there feet didn't move, (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Greetings! I noticed so many interesting posts regarding spirituality here so I thought I'd start a discussion about prayer. One day my wife was telling me about one of her friends at work, an older Christian woman. She is a very nice woman, perhaps (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Perhaps the only belief too have such a delicious chocolate coating. --DaveL (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) [snip] (...) Welcome to the Club! We have the "people" in the Wild West sets still being sold and the horrific images are still inproduction. When will LEGO get a clue on these issues? I don't think they ever will it's imbedded in the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) *sigh* I'm sorry to hear that. I suppose they, like everyone else, are looking at the bottom line. Maggie (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You've got me all wrong, I wrote: (...) I never had any 12 inch ACTION MEN (in the UK), I'm slightly too young, I was around just at the right time for the introduction of the small figures and their brilliant vehicles. They we're exactly the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) There's a newish line of WWII figures in 1/18 scale--not GIJoe, but even cooler, in my view. They're not as highly articulated as GIJoe, but they're more realistic. They also have a few vehicles, including a tank and a Mustang, both in 1/18 (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Frank Filz at ffilz@mindspring.com wrote: <snip> (...) Yes, indeedy. I accumulated wuite a hoard of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars this way. ;^) (...) The Space Shuttle with launch pad is also very impressive. I saw it at a toy shop about 4 years ago. (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The Ultimate Soldier brand looks pretty impressive. I don't know how their quality is, but their figures and accessories look good, especially the vehicles, just a couple months ago, my TRU had a Ultimate Soldier Bradley box on the floor and (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What? Superheroed? Huh? Maybe you're thinking of the ones that were released in the late 80's. The earlier Joes were pretty good, but I'll admit the figures got pretty silly later on. (...) The 3 3/4" Figures were very nearly as articulated as (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) They used too. I used to be a huge Playmobil collector. I have 100's of sets. All in original boxes too. But I've noticed a steady decline in quality the last 2-3 years, also the company itself has really become hard to deal with as well. (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) You know, you're completely right. I remember, back in the 1980's, feeling really bad for kids, because they couldn't get any decent-sized action figures, all they had were the superheroed/pro-wrestlerized, tiny GI JOE figures, instead of the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) We had a minister use one of these once in a service. That was one of the most memorable services I've ever attended. It was Palm Sunday, and the minister read us the relevant passages from two of the gospels, then he had us act out the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Though I shudder to point it out, there is also an apocryphal Inuit belief about the ratio of diameter to circumference... Dave! (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I've heard that one, but I think it was an extra-biblical belief of the ancient Hebrews. Steve (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Unfortunately, your stated position doesn't jive with the position stated by Ryan: "I believe the Bible to be literal truth about the universe!". The two statements are different. Not saying that either of you is more correct, just pointing (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This isn't really Mecha-related, but your mention of die-cast puts me in mind of Solido military vehicles. Solido, of course, has for decades offered a wide range of civilian as well as military vehicles, but they used to make 1/43 scale armor (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Die-cast metal is expensive to produce and ship. However, the Macross Plus figures I posted the link to have some die cast parts. :^) ~1st Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Not smoking anything but Camel, but, just breathing your melodious fart that sounds like "oh my dear lovely and only intellect" maybe? Selçuk PS. Why don't you put your true identity that we are already familiar, Hatter? (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Mad Hatter? Wow!.. Where have you been? We missed you so much (eeghk!..) By the way, haven't you already been kicked from here last time you around? Selçuk (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Lookit me!! I'm a big scary gorilla, and I change into... the form of a man!!! Oooh! That is soooo cool. How can we make more monkey toys? I can't get enough monkey toys!!!! Maybe KB Toys will buy MORE monkey toys!!!!!! Goin' Ape, Capt. West (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's funny - although I completely agree with you, my grandfather used to say the same things about my toys. Did you ever have the all die-cast metal Mazinger figures? Those things were beautiful! I also loved my die-cast metal Star Wars toys. (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) OK, I can agree with that. :^) Gimme some transforming cars and planes, dangit! ~1st Lieutenant, Fleebnork Division Muffin Head (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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