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Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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Fri, 12 May 2000 04:39:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Peter Callaway writes:
> Lar said
> > ... and we are not our brother's keeper, ...
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> Quoting the Bible, Lar?? Getting religious?? ;-)
I've said that before, you could look it up. It's not exactly a quote as I
believe the quote is more along the lines of:
'Then the LORD said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" "I don't know," he
replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"' (NIV Gen. 4:9)
and God answers in the affirmative.
So I'd say clearly that since I am denying what God said to be true, it's most
definitely not a quote, although it's certainly an allusion.
It's been a while since I've read Genesis so I went and dug that up on the web,
here specifically:
http://bible.gospelcom.net/cgi-bin/bible
Note that NIV is not my favorite version, I prefer King James, but it's
certainly more accessible to the modern reader who doesn't want to struggle
with old forms. And it's what I found first. Wouldn't want to put TOO much time
into it.
By the way, the fact that I've read Das Kapital does not make me a Marxist, nor
does the fact that I've read Samuelson's macroeconomics text make me a
Keynesian... :-) Although the fact that I've read Playboy makes me a hounddog I
guess.
++Lar
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| (...) Unless you just read it for the "articles". Sarcasm, Larry. I was being sarcastic, hence the winking smiley after the statement. You could be no more religious than I could be an American. Can I surmise that the rest of my post was so (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | Re: Why is AIDS such a big deal?
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| (...) I would go one step further. Venereal diseases have been around (and have been known about) for a lot longer than AIDS has been on the scene. Most are curable, some are not, and not all are limited in transmission to sexual contact. My point (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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