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(...) I thought you put the article here as an argument that men were more easily controlled by the devil than woman ;) There's plenty more evidence that male and female brain function is different. I'm often surprised that anyone is foolish to (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Just pray that there isn't a mistranslation and you end up (URL) with horns>! }:-D JOHN (19 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yikes! I know just enough Greek to order a Caesar Salad and to know that Pluto's moon is pronounced "Ka-ron" and not "Sha-ron." I grabbed that passage from somewhere online, but the one on my shelf is the KJV, if only because I like the sound (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I plead the fifth. Amendment, that is--not Commandment (though, now that I mention it, I tend to be consistent with that one, too). (...) Cool! Well, if there are any plans to render me in sculpture, I hope that they get my good side. Or face (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, I am a newcomer apparently to this conversation, not knowing what was before and being too lazy to look it up, I was intrigued by the John 10 verse and I did look that up. First of all, I am not sure what version of the Bible you got (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) So, I assume you think nothing of it then (other than high fashion)? I happen to think that it is good evidence to support the idea of the innate differences between men and women. JOHN (19 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Now this IS intriquing. What were you doing in the belly of the beast? I think it's HIGH time YOU come clean and confess to the heinous crime of worship;-) (...) Hey, it could be canon for the Emergynts... {:^D JOHN (19 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Yeah, somehow I don't suspect that Jesus was talking about Vulcans or Wookies in that passage, but in the original thread I posed the question about "other lands" in a sort of tongue-in-cheek way, and Ryan Farrington suggested that my source (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Mmmmm. I guess if I printed it out, I could make a nice hat? Richard Still baldly going... (19 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Very astute. Indeed, I think the 'pen' thingie is very telling. What is a planet, if not a pen for the lifeforms on it. We might imagine other pens. And nothing of which I am aware suggest that ours is the first pen to which the shepherd has (...) (19 years ago, 20-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) First let me say that you are not crazy if you talk to yourself, Dave! (But you are if you listen;-) I think Jesus is clearly referring to Jews and Gentiles here. The sheep in the pen are God's chosen people, the Jews. But Jesus is obviously (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler (URL) wrote:> (...) Hi Dave! Glad to see that your prose is as eloquent now as it was five long years ago. You should get paid by the word, if you ask me. And how did you get to be such exquisite fashion (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(URL) Shocking!> JOHN (19 years ago, 18-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Look, maybe some of the people in a PA town deserve God's wrath! :-) JOHN (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Now that's what I call feigned praise! JOHN (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Bravo, I say. In so doing, Pat demonstrated loud and clear that "Intelligent Design" is in fact the fundamentalist Christian notion of creationism, thereby ending the argument espoused by ID-proponents that it's a "non-theistic" "scientific" (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Admitting he was wrong after universal outcry against him. Pat Robertson has said to many crazy things lately for me to take him seriously as a Christian. Threatening God's wrath on the people of a PA town for teaching evolution? Calling for (...) (19 years ago, 13-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Okay, now I have to give him props for admitting that he was (URL) wrrr...rrr>. JOHN (19 years ago, 12-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Sorry to disappoint. The subject line was a kind of joke-- it was (URL) recycled> for comedic effect. It was just my friendly way of tweaking some non-believing friends around here. As a Christian, I, of course, am vulnerable to the same type (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) <<chuckle>> I have been away for a while. So I kinda walked into this one on the strength of the subject. Silly me. Can't imagine why atheists would care whether there was some bloke called Jesus padding about 2,000 years ago. Must remember to (...) (19 years ago, 8-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I suspect that Jason Robards won't be starring in the film version of this one, though. (...) That's not always unreasonable, except when the necessary disproof is so burdensome that it becomes practically impossible. If I asserted that my (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Agreed. Kinda like the Scopes trial in reverse;-) (...) He sets up a classic error-- he has so-called proofs that he has written about that Jesus didn't exist-- he claims it is up to the other side to prove him wrong. (...) Even moreso the (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'm surprised that this is going to court, honestly. How can you prove that someone didn't exist ~2000 years ago? The best you can do, IMO, is show that the evidence doesn't support the conclusion that he existed. AFAIC, the Gospels are (...) (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(URL) Finally we shall soon learn the Truth> JOHN (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Really? We were so famous, they did a (URL) about us (the handsome one is me) JOHN (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Wait, I don't remember you guys being at my wedding.... -->The Unbeheaded King<-- (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Sounds to me like a praying mantis honeymoon. JOHN (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I've been to weddings like that. Dave! (19 years ago, 6-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) See L. Sprague de Camp's "The Goblin Tower" (and the entire Novarian series): the king rules for some set period. After that time period, good king or bad, his head is chopped off, which becomes a grisly prize when it is tossed to the waiting (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Why would you *possibly* limit it to politicians not in office? (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have it! None of this outcasts, psychotics, and losers nonsense - who cares about them? How about this: Politicians who are no longer in office get thrown in the execution pool and the lottery winner gets his/her pick to off! God, what a (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Only my deep sense of loss in not being able to live a full and normal life. We all have our crosses to bear, no? ;-) Richard Still baldly going... (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Do I sense some kind of deep-seated resentment here???? ;) ROSCO (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I like this. Definite potential as a revenue raiser and a crowd pleaser. But I think you might be onto something much much bigger. Think of the money and time we'd all save if we skipped the admittedly only dubiously successful process of (...) (19 years ago, 5-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Full lottery, none of this "scratcher" nonsense. Now that would be putting money where your mouth is! :-) -->Bruce<-- (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, I always knew you could noodle a drawing to death, but death by potassium overdose? And here I just got back from the store with bananas... -->Bruce<-- (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I just envisioned a new cash source for the government! Selling a raffle to see who gets to execute someone! Or better yet, an auction! -Lenny (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) That may present a problem, but not because of a lack of volunteers. Didn't several hundred members of our civilized and Christian nation sign up to help execute Gary Gilmore? Dave! (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Do I have to kill him with a sword? Cuz I always wanted to try whipping a person to death with a wet noodle. Or or or, maybe forcing him to eat bananas until he croaks. Now that would be an execution!! -Lenny (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) You've summed it up very nicely, except that you state it as an absolute rather than a condition for me to even consider the question. (...) Here's a sword - are you willing to personally execute him yourself? No, it's not a facetious (...) (19 years ago, 4-Jan-06, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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