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(...) It is amazing that the towers didn't collapse right away, and things could have certainly been much worse. As an engineer, I'll be interested in future reports that will discuss modes of failure. Typically, building design adheres strictly to (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Jerry Falwell
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(...) How can something with so many sects be misrepresented? I mean, in fairness, aren't Jerry and his followers allowed to espouse whatever interpretation of quasi-fundamentalist Xtianity they wish? -- Hop-Frog (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Jerry Falwell has more in common with the Taliban than you think
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In fact, the bombing is all about our commitment to secular values. It is our secular values--love of pleasure, self-reliance, reason, material wealth, technology, freedom, capitalism--that mark the fundamental difference in philosophy between our (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Another Measured Response (was re: Jerry Falwell blames feminists, gays, lesbians, ACLU, others...)
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OMG, what an a*****e!!! Great, just what we need -- another religious zealot! No Jerry, I place the blame at the doorstep of anyone who tries to create difference, and promote intolerance and xenophobia. Such people need to be helped with education, (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Jerry Falwell
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(...) Whoa! Dan and I are in complete agreement on something! Falwell and his fellow reactionary Robertson are both well-established loonies. Dave! (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | A Measured Response (was re: LP statement on terrorist attacks)
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Hey: I'll give the LP statement this much (and beyond this I just don't care what else they said) -- it suggests a course of action that is a hell of a lot more reasonable than what many here have been offering up of late. It suggests we make a very (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Jerry Falwell
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Jerry Falwell is one of the biggest loads on two feet, I'm not surprised by anything that ignoramous says. He's no moral or spiritual leader, just another slimeball misrepresenting Christianity. Dan (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer
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(...) Designed my great architects,engineers(many who are AFOL's) and BUILT by skilled tradesmen/women. (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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These are very hateful sttements by someone so many people look up to for prayer. In my opinion, he is no worse than other hateful extremests. -- On the broadcast of the Christian television program "The 700 Club," Falwell made the following (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: We don't live in America, America lives in US!
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Shalom, Shiri. Your friend is indeed very smart and I commend her for expressing such heartfelt and inspiring thoughts. I won't rehash my feelings regarding Israel, but in response to your friend's comment about some Jewish woman saying "We might (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Mercy? (Was Re: My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer)
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(...) I'm wondering how people can maintain their faith in the face of what has just happened. If you believe God to be all-good and all-powerful, then explain to me how this kind of horrible thing is allowed to happen. And don't give me that "works (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Without commenting on whether god had anything to do with this or not... (...) This particular one is noteworthy... you can see gods hand in it if you like, it is said he moves in mysterious ways, but the reason these towers didn't collapse right (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) It's not my wish to deconstruct anyone's religion at a time like this, but I must point out that all of the evidence you cite above would likewise have been true even if He were not looking out for the Good Ol' US of A. For many, it is (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I don't see how you can possibly say that. It's a statement of position and a request to the membership to take certain actions. Are you saying that if I went to the DNC website I wouldn't see a similar statement? I did, and there is (URL) you (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Amen! As you say, many are wondering where God is right now, or why He let this happen. I'd like to say to them that He's very much present and hard at work. We see it reflected all over: - The government could be in much worse shape. The (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: LP statement on terrorist attacks
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(...) Larry, give me a break. You're much more intelligent that you are trying to act here. The LP is taking political advantage of the current crises to promote themselves. If that's not pandering, then I don't know what is. (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: War
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(...) Apparently (at least as CNN relates) they're still holding one, the guy with the pilot ID. (...) Isn't there another person, a brother, who is stating that the person suspected by the FBI of flying one of the planes in fact died in an air (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | My Prayer on this National Day of Prayer
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To my friends at LUGNET, The United States, and the rest of the world by way of sympathy, have suffered greatly this week. Here in our own little microcosm of the world, we have shared news of tradgedy and sorrow, stories of hope and survival, and (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.general, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | No more donated blood or goods needed just now
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From the FEMA site: (URL) state of New York has reported that there is no additional need for volunteers or donated goods for the World Trade Center response. In addition to the federal, state and local government resources being deployed to the (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | From the Washington Post
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This article has some interesting info about the CIA.. further down it speculates about how a military operation might unfold. (URL) guess what bothers me (and why I decided to post the link) is that it seems that the operation will start with (...) (23 years ago, 14-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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