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Reply to Heading For New Jersey in Blogging Stardock Forums

Mason, what part of PA are you in? Are you in the Pittsburgh area?

Reply to Judaism before and after Jesus in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="the_Peoples_Party" reply="3" id="2297171"] Quoting the_Peoples_Party, reply 18 Now, even with that העלמה means a girl who reached the age of puberty and thus marriageable. It puts no stress on virginity, although de facto, in the light of Israelite ethical and social standards, most girls covered by that range of this term would be virgins. (Miriam was not raped by a Roman soldier, either) [/quote] This quote still stands true no matter how you

Reply to Judaism before and after Jesus in Religion JoeUser Forums

How quickly we forget: [quote who="Leauki" reply="24" id="2295504"] or there's another possibility which we see played out over and over in scripture for a reason. That is, that these things have no other meaning other than the fact it had to be of spiritual origin. It had to be a miracle. It had to point to God . See God didn't want us to look to some sort of human explanation (knowing we would) so he made sure these things happened

Reply to Kicking the elderly to the curb in Politics Stardock Forums

I love how people point to how its working in the EU, the UK, and Canada. Just take a look first at populations: Canadian population: 33 million UK Population: 61 million France: 62 million (one of the best UHC systems in the EU) German: 82 million (the most populated European Country) United States: 303 million Just by comparing those countries to the U.S. popluation one can see that we destroy all those other countries by popluation. N

Reply to Judaism before and after Jesus in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Leauki" reply="19" id="2294146"] Virgins can be unmarried young women or married women. [/quote] websters dictionary: virgin- a person who never had sex [quote who="the_Peoples_Party" reply="18" id="2294044"] Now, even with that העלמה means a girl who reached the age of puberty and thus marriageable. It puts no stress on virginity, although de facto, in the light of Israelite ethical and social standards, most girls covered b

Reply to Judaism before and after Jesus in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Leauki" reply="16" id="2293750"] The existence of people who disagree with me doesn't mean that I am wrong. You keep presenting as facts what you believe. I keep presenting as facts what I have learned. The difference is that to verify your facts, I would have to talk to G-d. To verify my facts all you have to do is ask a Hebrew teacher. "3alma" = "young woman" (not and never "virgin") "adam" = "human being" (not a name) <br /

Reply to Judaism before and after Jesus in Religion JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Adventure-Dude" reply="6" id="2291416"] Saul was annointed King but I have yet to see evidence where G-D 'anoints' him. [/quote] [quote who="the_Peoples_Party" reply="5" id="2291135"] Both Saul and David are called to account for their sin with the reminder: 'I anointed (mashah) you king' (1Sam 15:17;2Sam 12:7). Secondly, though the agent might be a priest or prophet, the writers speak of anointed ones as those whom the L-RD anointed (1 Sam 10:

Reply to Judaism before and after Jesus in Religion JoeUser Forums

Let me state the part doesn't represent the whole. Cyrus does not represent the whole of Zoroastrian. (On a very very side note: A group of Archaeologist (my friend was part of this group and lived there) have found what appears to be the oldest fire pits for Zoroastriasm in Turkmenistan. I'm not sure when or if this was published due to the fact that Turkmenbashi, Saparmurat Niyazov, died about 2 years ago. I haven't kept in touch with him either since I've been all over the place.)</p

Reply to One Good Turn Deserves Another in Blogging Stardock Forums

Did he make it home? I know you said in a previous post that it'll be expensive for him to get his truck fixed so what's he going to do?

Reply to Summer Cold in Blogging JoeUser Forums

What's up Mason! I am looking forward to hearing a really good 4th of the July story by Mason.

Reply to Judaism before and after Jesus in Religion JoeUser Forums

I wasn't planning on commenting on the current discourse yet I have some free time and sun down isn't for another 6ish hours so here we go. Just because G-D uses someone or stirs up their heart does not mean HE accepts their entire practices. If you look at Balaam who came from a distant land he was a known medium. From Scriptures it appears that he had a very limited knowledge of G-D (yet he still had very minimal knowledge of G-D). G-D spoke through Balaam yet this does

Reply to Shot in the Foot in Misc Stardock Forums

This of course is concerning another thread. I agree with AD that's its DC and lawyers who screwed up our health care system. I would also add the sue happy neonates that just wanted to make quick and easy money or as Dire Straits puts it 'Money for nothing'. The country to my understanding that has the best socialized medicine is France. Both U.K and Canada are refining their systems with the U.K having to put another shot of money in their socialized health system just in

Reply to Shot in the Foot in Misc JoeUser Forums

[quote who="utemia" comment="2"] That is a weird way to argue a case against health reform. Egypt in 1981 as an example for a socialized healthcare system against reform in the US?! Comeon. Why don't you use Germany as an example? We have a "socialized" healthcare system as well and I assure you that anybody who was shot at in 1981 in WestGermany would not have been left alone for 2 days. Emotional arguments to incite fear are seldom rational. This does not mean that critici

Reply to Overweight? Then airlines should charge you more... in Everything Else JoeUser Forums

Those last three comments cracked me up! :-D Now take this as a boundary condition: If x were the size of your arms and t is the time to get big arms, then the first derivative is the velocity, the second the acceleration, and this would be the equation describing how you would get massive arms. Or you can just take some Roids and shrink your boys! Psy, at least you know that you're not the bovine that Fuzzy was referring to. [quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="3" id

Reply to Overweight? Then airlines should charge you more... in Everything Else Stardock Forums

Fuzzy Logic, I know we haven't agreed on many issues but I agree with you on this one. In general, as a U.S. Citizen, I am getting sick and tired of the minority pushing the majority around. Or to put it another way the few affecting the whole. Now I will have to attach this disclaimer statement: there are some ocassions when the few affecting the whole isn't bad, but I think that its happening far too much in the U.S and essentially the U.S. is being pushed by the few. As

Reply to Overweight? Then airlines should charge you more... in Everything Else Stardock Forums

Actually, we are already paying for obese people to fly. Some time ago, they changed how much checked luggage can weigh. Most people will say well its because the baggage handlers. As a Statistican and a Mathmatician let's look at it this way: Mathmatically we can know how much force a plane will need to take off while compensating for weight. We can also Mathmatically know how much total weight of cargo will be going onto the said plane. For the most par

Reply to Summer Cold in Blogging Stardock Forums

Mason, did you ever make it to those free clinics? I think you said they were in Tennessee. :-) You shouldn't have mentioned them because now I'm going to remind you of them. I read your other post about the Texas heatwave. My friends live about an hour from Dallas and they were saying this past Friday was like 107! YEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAW or should I say YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT! If you going to get yourself some Texas BBQ Brisquet, you might as well get some

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P.S. AJ out of curosity, do you believe in G-D or not? And why? Do you ascribe to a religion? Just wondering.

Reply to Three Little Words in Blogging Stardock Forums

Are those coupons transferable across state lines? If so I'll take them off hands. I'm always meeting people and our conversations always turn to religious and philosophical. When you eat out frequently two main things happen: 1. The money goes really fast especially if you treat people 2. you gain a lot of weight I don't think my body has fully adjusted to the sugary fatty content of food back in here the States even though I have been back for some time.</p

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="utemia" reply="23" id="2282488"]Gotta be careful not to mix everything together. Using technology and worrying or being fearful of the effects it can have on the environment is not the same as being worried about personas like Kim Jong Il. For one, we simply need the environment to survive, so being worried that pollution could actually endanger our own survival is sensible. What the people in the middle ages lacked is knowledge, they believed the black plague in the 14

Reply to Can you be an environmentalist but be a global warming skeptic? in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote who="IQofSpam" reply="21" id="2282205"] aeortarcomment 70Over a 10 year period I'd agree, it's unlikely to have a massive impact. However over a longer period of time it could well do ... Yes, assuming the temperature rise is caused by humans. If it is not caused by humans, the trend could easily reverse. I guess that is the whole debate - are we the ones doing the warming? I personally think that it would make more sense to blame the sun, as it does pr

Reply to Iran: The World Would Change in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

[quote who="the_Peoples_Party" reply="21" id="2263751"] Eventually what's going to happen is that they (Mahmoud/Khamanei) will just ride this out until its forgotten. [/quote] When college students and young adults get riled it usually points that change is coming. Like I said above they're going to 'ride the storm out'(just as the 80s REO Speedwagon song goes). The problem is that college students and young adults usually don't have enough clo

Reply to Do you know your video games? What is the title of that game? Monsters destroying cities and its not Rampage. in Gaming JoeUser Forums

Someone has to know what game this is? Anyone? Any guesses?

Reply to Iran: The World Would Change in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

I'm not disagreeing with that somethings are more important than money. What I was disagreeing is that I feel most people see money as the most important thing and was using the melt down as evidence. This does reflect on the Iranian situation. Most Iranians as you pointed out do not want a fight against the West and a fair amount of Iranians do not want to come even close to being a lined with Talbian/Al Qaeda's ant-west attitude and want to distance themselves as far fro

Reply to Iran: The World Would Change in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

[quote who="Leauki" reply="20" id="2263703"] (Also, at some point, some things are more important than money.) [/quote] Leauki, I'm sorry I have to disagree with you on this. Just look at what caused the melt down of the markets in the U.S. It was greed. It just might be me because I don't put too much faith or trust in people any more. Eventually what's going to happen is that they (Mahmoud/Khamanei) will just ride this out until