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(...) Perhaps you can explain why? BTW, I prefer John, 8:7. (...) But how do we deem when that line in the sand has been crossed? Can it not be abused if a poster is simply posting an unpopular [but valid] view? In this group [without any (...) (22 years ago, 23-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Does "bent" mean in the US what is does in the UK? Scott A (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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[I'm sorry about the odd choice of newsgroup, but I didn't know of any other suited for off-topic questions like this.] I've observed a person who always carry an ornamented cross inside the palm. It has a chain, which is entangled in the fingers. (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In the very same paper that carried an article that has to do with our favourite pastt-time (which shall not be mentioned here in ot-d), I came across two very different types of articles: (URL) you say? Well, somehow I find the reporter easier to (...) (22 years ago, 22-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) courts, not liking the decision to ban homosexuals from being leaders in the Boy Scout organization, are now telling their judges that they cannot belong to an organization that discriminates on the basis of lifestyle choices. Wow. And I (...) (22 years ago, 21-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: The Brick Testament parts the Red Sea
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(...) Some VERY good science fiction has been done using that notion (that reality is mutable, based on beliefs of the observers) or similar ones (in particular I always enjoy a re-read of _The Practice Effect_ by David Brin)... (...) what about (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I think the assumption is that given the choice of any number of eating establishments in close proximity, choose the one with the full parking lot. But your point is well taken: Sometimes your choices are Mac & Dons, Taco Smell, Spendy's, or (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Except that sometimes the parking lot is full only because they are the best eats within the next few hundred miles. Doesn't mean they're GOOD, just that they're the best of a bad lot. -- | Tom Stangl, Sun ONE Internet Technical Support, Sun (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Certainly Judaism. I honestly don't know that much about Buddhism to comment, but can billions of Chinese be wrong? And if they were, would you point it out, knowing full well that you could anger them into all deciding to jump off of a step (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) But Buddhism is going strong for quite a bit longer, and Judaism is no johnny-come-lately, either. Are both of those belief systems as strongly validated as Christianity by virtue of their respective ages? (...) I like that analogy! (...) But (...) (22 years ago, 20-Dec-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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