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Re: About "Plowed Territory"
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 3 Dec 2000 03:44:27 GMT
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Ohhhh, I see. EVERYTHING is plowed ground, there is nothing new under the sun.
Gee, yeah, they must have brought down the walls of Jericho with a tactical nuke,
because there is nothing new under the sun, they've ALWAYS existed, right?
John Neal wrote:
> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
> >
> > <snip a long winded Bible cite... it's not enough that we're getting
> > passages repeated that we could go follow a ref to, now they're getting LONGER>
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> It could have been two words for all you read. Do you have any idea why I cited
> it?
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> > When the Son of God appears here, as a LUGNet member, and is verified by
> > Todd as such, in a manner Todd deems satisfactory, he is waived from the
> > Plowed Ground Callout Practice by me. :-)
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> Mighty white of....forget it, plowed ground;-)
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> > Everyone else I will continue to call on Plowed Ground. Including you. And
> > I'd appreciate the same courtesy in return, everyone please call me on
> > Plowed Ground in the (seems impossible, doesn't it, given how nifty! I
> > am...) event that I should repeat myself.
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> At the risk (hope;) of annoying you further, I'll recite the absolute pertinent
> part of the chapter:
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> "What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be
> done; and there is nothing new under the
> sun.
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> Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? It has been
> already, in the ages before us.
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> There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any
> remembrance of later things yet to happen
> among those who come after."
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> So, my point is that *everything* is plowed ground and therefore your whining
> about it is senseless. But even still, some of this plowed ground is still new to
> some and is therefore valid to them. Merely because *you* have shut your mind on
> the topic doesn't invalidate its relevancy for others.
--
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