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(...) This isn't a direct response to Larry's issue, but as three-part nostalgia/humor/irony and surface-almost-relation, I'm posting. In the fourteenth note to this group -- (URL) you can find A) an interesting spelling of bin Laden, B) a joke (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | "Why U.S. Military Bases Are Good for Mecca and Medina"
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Found it. (URL) this true? Have we had bases and a military presence in SA all along? Grr... Time to stop propping that oppressive regime up (but let's not let it be the first card we pull out of the stack, we need to take care of some other (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | How do you spell Osama?
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Long time readers may recall my grousing at not knowing how to spell Koran the currently correct way... well, it's not my fault. I hope this isn't viewed as debate fodder, merely information (I found it while rooting for something else that IS going (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: GODMONEY (was re: Anthrax worse than AIDS?)
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(...) does (...) First, I wonder even if true, if it really does. Don't Christians belive that Christ will return to bring in the new world? Doesn't that have to be someone? Mightn't it be a person born and raised normally (let's say, as a (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | "Why Do so many hate America"... or is it "Why does America hate US?"?
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From the Phillipines, via my IBMTEXT alumni list (URL) found it quite interesting... however I also agree in part with some of the responses to it from that list, here's one in its entireity: - start - That is certainly a third-world editorial. The (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Gray VS. Black Metroliner Nose
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(...) Hardly. So what...it costs more than diesel for maintance, and since US railways are profit orented, that's what they use (well, for the most part...I could name a few US railways that use steam, although I cannot think of any which are (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: What does it take to be a true Christian?
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(...) I wonder if C.S. Lewis examined the Mayan belief system? The Mesoamerican system of gods is pretty alien. They are neither good, nor bad, taken as a whole, just more powerful. Further, I have to wonder if the ethos of "be willing to sacrifice (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: What does it take to be a true Christian?
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(...) To be a true Christian, I'd say that one must be first squarely in agreement with the essentials of the faith--the clearest and most basic beliefs that the early believers held regarding the person of Christ, and have which been a bedrock of (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: GODMONEY (was re: Anthrax worse than AIDS?)
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(...) Do you have a cite for that? What I have heard from some sources is that he thought he might be in the middle of a prophecy that was playing out, but not that he thought he was "Jesus" any more than he thought every single person who accepted (...) (23 years ago, 27-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | What does it take to be a true Christian?
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(...) I'm very interested in some answers to this, actually-- particularly from a Christian perspective. I think I've tried to define Christianity a couple times as certain sets of philosophical/moral beliefs combined with supernatural beliefs, (...) (23 years ago, 26-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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