Very, very true. Each one of us takes up parts of different ideals and makes them our own. I've said several times that we all make up our own religion and ideals based off of what we have experienced and been told, no matter what we refer to ourselves as.
I wish I had the current credentials to be a full fledged accountant. I am working on that, as I said further up in this thread. Honestly if it was up to me we'd take the huge salaries that the politicians give themselves and cut those down to pay for the special programs they want funded. California did that and it helped them out tremendously, one of the million things that Schwartzeneger fixed from Grey Davis' stupidity. I appreciate every penny of income that we get and always have. I'm n
[quote] Plus the hole thing is written in ancient languages few Christians understand. So they often take the English translations as the literal word of G-d. Grand... The Samaritan Torah is written in Samaritan Hebrew. The Tanakh is written in Hebrew and Aramaic. The Ethiopian Tanakh is written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Ge'ez (the liturgical language of Ethiopian Jews). I think it's utterly fascinating and the more I learn the more I find there is to learn. That's why I am susp
[quote] Wow, things sure have changed in the military...I was on duty 365 day (except for leave)! I should have read my contract closer to get that 100 days off! That's almost half as good as congress Couldn't resist. [/quote] Doh! Well, you knew what I meant. lol I was simply explaining my circumstances as he explained his. We're opposite ends of the spectrum, that's all I was getting at. [quote] Well, he asked. Please
[quote who="Leauki" reply="22" id="2181888"] (Another hint: The Hebrew text of the Bible does not speak of a world-wide flood and neither did the people back then have any idea of what exactly the whole world was. The world-wide flood first appeared in scripture when the Latin word for "land" ("terra") changed its meaning to "world" and when the Germanic word "earth" changed its meaning from "land" to "the planet". But that is not exactly the oldest and most holy source.) &
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Obviously you're dead set in your ways. I don't think that a unborn baby's life should come before it's mother's. If there was a medical situation in where both were indangered and there was only one who could survive the mother is chosen first. If someone wants an abortion bad enough they'll get one whether it's regulated or not. Whether a woman gets an abortion or not they have to deal with it for the rest of their life. I would rather see the woman's mental health preserved than have her t
[quote] It's not so....we can "prove" that God exists and I commented on evidence of God's existence in posts #137 pg 10; # 196 page 14 and #210 page 14. [/quote] I'm not doubting that God exists. As a matter of fact I believe that God and science can, and do, co-exist.
I have to agree with pointing out that the teacher is wrong. What's even more fun, though, is leading the teacher through how it is wrong in such a way that they actually prove themseleves wrong. Get extra points for that if you ask me. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]
[quote] There is no "religion of evolution". I take it the rest of your test is about as useful as a text that starts with "according to the science of Christianity"... Please come back when you understood the difference between science and religion and what evolution is. [/quote] Okay, let us analyze what I'm talking about here. What is belief? [quote] be·lief /b?'lif/ Show Spelled Pronunciatio
[quote who="Leauki" reply="8" id="2181865"] You have changed the subject from deciding how much is enough for person to make to deciding how much is needed for the country to work. Those are two different subjects. Nobody here is saying that taxes should not be paid or aren't owed. The point of the "enough" is about how much people get to keep. Let's put it this way: If we agree that government must be funded, who is allowed to say that SOME people
I won't go into what I know about 9/11, because I couldn't prove it to you anyways and I didn't argue that this started just with 9/11. I was meaning to point out that I wasn't under the illusion that we were perfectly 100% safe before 9/11 happened, anyways, sorry if I used the wrong words and it was taken the other way.
I remember hearing a theory awhile ago that explained that they believe that the universe had an expand/contract cycle going on. Meaning it went bang then it would expand, when it finished expanding it would contract again until it went bang again. Not sure what they called it... slept too many times since then, but makes perfect sense to me. Though still no one knows where everything came from, and well even if it was "already there" then there's still the why question. Not something we'll g
You know, I lived in Germany for six months a few years ago and I have to say that there are some things they seem to have gotten right. Kids learn to drink first then they learn to drive. Driving is serious business around there because if you mess up too badly you die. They made prostitution legal and then regulated it through government licensing and regular testing so you don't get people spreading sexually transmitted diseases as much. Not like I expect the American people to ever agree
Awww... no takers on my question. Ah, well. Have fun.
But if each person decides only for themselves then we might have a problem. Let's say that we have people who decide they owe the government nothing, which I'm sure you can agree there's more than one person in this country who would decide that, and the government doesn't end up with enough money to support our defences for example. What kind of country would we be without a military that is equipped to handle what other countries would throw at us? Would we still have a country? I guess th
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[quote] I can only recommend that anyone who knows how much is "enough" work as much as is necessary to make that amount and leave it up to other people to decide for themselves how much is "enough" for them. [/quote] That's the problem... who should determine how much is enough. Should it be tax payers, should it be our representatives, should it be everyone of us individually? Current tax laws were put in place by people that were voted in by the general population.
[quote] It can't by itself. Banks are about confidence. They need people (and investors) to give them money which they can then give to other people, making a profit on the difference in the interest. The moment people and investors start to feel their money isn't safe with the bank, they'll take it out. If enough people do that, you end up with a run on the bank, where they don't have enough money (to hand) to give to those people, and it collapses. This then makes people doubt other ba
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[quote who="lulapilgrim" reply="5" id="2180340"] Interesting that you should point this out. Yes, until the Protestant Reformation England was a Catholic country. King Henry VIII was a Catholic and subject to the Pope until 1534 when he rebelled against the Catholic Chruch, left it, and made himself created head of his own new chruch, the Chruch of England by the Act of Royal Supremecy in 1534. So, he set up the Chruch of England independent of the CC and gave himself the divo
Just a quick question. I didn't read all this thread, so please excuse me if someone's already talked about this, but I was just wondering the answer would be of the people posting here. Question: You say that you can't prove that God exists because if there was nothing when God created everything then there wouldn't have been God. If this is so then how come you can say that science says that there was a primordial goop that the universe exploded from today and that this is fact yet
[quote]After death, this virus is able to restart the heart of it’s victim for up to two hours after the initial demise of the person where the individual behaves in extremely violent ways from what is believe to be a combination of brain damage and a chemical released into blood during “resurrection.”[/quote] Some people will believe anything.
[quote who="AldericJourdain" reply="25" id="2180212"]~Lula~ For once, we can agree on something. What happened then was unfortunate, to say the least. An interesting note is that one could say that any contempt and/or disregard for the Constitution started there, right off the back. The 14th Amendment should have prevented that, ideally. Since it was established in the US Constitution itself and reads: "All persons born or naturalized in th
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