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B Roll,
I read about Akenaton, etc. and his one-god religion 40+ years ago (I went through most of the ancient history book section in the adult section of our local library when I was a kid. I told friends and family I thought that was where "one god" in later Christianity came from.
Also in Numbers, Korah and his followers get sucked into the ground.
In the book of Numbers, god unleahes two she bears that rip apart 42 children for calling the prophet Elisha a bald head. This might make your children a little fearful of the genocidal maniac that so many people worship.
B Roll,
You don't miss a thing!
Thom,
You congratulated Tim(?) from Texas(?) for his points about the African origins of monotheism and the origin of humans.
You finished by telling him that he obviously studied comparative religion. I think you're wrong (What's new pussycat?). I'd bet that he's possibly read and almost definitely has heard a number of Afrocentric "scholars".
Pitney Bowes, purveyor to the aphilatelic community.
Just say no to the military industrial complex
Good riddance! And glad Chris Dodd did not win today. Funding for 22 fighters was not approved and was Dodd angry. Forget you, Dodd- traitor. War monger. We can use that money for health care and real peace. War is not peace.
I assume 'thetism' is a reference to Scientology?
I love Lionel's (The Lionel Show on Air America) take on atheism.
He said, "If atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby."
Food Fascist and Quark,
I guess it's not impossible, but from past history seems unlikely that Thom would provide a truly balanced approach to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. While Thom has sympathy, even empathy for the Palestinians, he has love for Israel.
Today, he came as close to a balanced approach and i've heard. Yet even with the understanding he expressed toward the Palestinians and the false equivalency he tried to imply between the two sides, he betrays his bias.
This is a case where he can't handle the truth, so he uses his considerable intellect to obscure it.
By the way, congratulations to Rasta for posting a reasonable post, even if he had to just copy and paste a letter from Naomi Klein. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to maintain his cool when he called in. Rasta is actually Weldon. The first posts I saw from him here were under the name Weldon, then he became Tim and now he is Rasta.
Probably apocryphal, but I do seem to recall reading in some biography of Gates about his early life and the educational uses of disassemblers, forbidden of course under the M$-EULA.
It's all in how you frame it. In any change in tax policy (or any other kind of policy) there will be winners and losers. It's necessary to talk in terms of 'changes in tax policy' rather than let one's opponents frame the issue as 'tax increases' or 'new taxes.'
Re. apparently money-losing investments in media. Suggests the fungibility of what Michels termed 'moral authority.'
I think the Jewish people should have been given the state of Texas :)
(But then again, the US government wanted a "presence" in the middle east)
I sat stunned listening to you representing the Israelis
as victims in this conflict, while presenting the illusion
of fairness. Why are Hamas sending rockets into Israeli towns?
Why suicide bombers? Why not admit the root cause? When the
Jews got their homeland instead of being minimally grateful for at last
having a homeland, instead with their new found power they drove out the Palestinians.
Could that, perchance, be the original cause? Though cause and effect get lost once this rolling ball of action and response keeps spinning, there's still the original crime.
Margaret Thatcher, condemning IRA violence, said "A crime is a crime is a
crime", to which the IRA responded with a quote from one of the original
Irish freedom fighters back in the 1920's: " The original partition of Ireland
was a crime.
Maybe if the Israelis had taken your sage advice on Ghandi's non-violence, would we have this conflict? The Palestinians didn't start it.
its tied to email address used
It seems there is a problem with this:
From:
Rich Person’s Tax Effect
If a person earns so much money that he doesn’t or can’t spend it all each year, then when his taxes go down your...
Shouldn't it be:
...then when his taxes go down *his* income after taxes goes up.
TFF,
RE: "testing- where is my avatar, some days it comes on and other times it does not- voss es loss?"
Maybe you could get some answers at the 'creation" website:
http://en.gravatar.com/
Thom, Did I hear you correctly in stating that Thomas Paine was an atheist?
Please read Mr. Paine's book "The Age of Reason". Thomas Paine was NOT an Atheist. Mr. Paine was a Deist!
Richard Adlof,
RE: "Thetism is the strange brew. There is no god for dogs . . ."
Yes, it IS strange. It is too cult-like for me. I was brought up a Christian but have done a lot of thinking about it. I've also done alot of thinking and reading about other religions and philosophies.
The only "Christian" thing that is meaningful to me spiritually is Christ's "sermon on the mount." To me, the "truths" mentioned there are universal. (Some even say Christ travelled to India, where he came into contact with those ideas.)
Thetism is the strange brew. There is no god for dogs . . .
The folk calling themselves ‘Palestinians’ are more correctly akin to marketing campaign than a folk at this time. Between their ‘leadership’ and the Arabic neighbors, the folk have zero access to becoming a people or generating a real government. Israel is forced to carrying the financial and security burden largely by itself. The Palestinians remain a tool to bludgeon Israel from the face of the planet AND the Israelis are marching straight into that future.
1947 U.N. General Assembly Resolution: United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine remains a viably workable solution. Israel needs to consider unilaterally assuming the multi-state solution. The Gaza and the West Banks should be allowed to sink or swim. Separately open trade between folk living on both hunks of land. Israel needs pull up the ‘Settlements’ and return their zealots to their dirt.
testing- where is my avatar, some days it comes on and other times it does not- voss es loss?
Lore- beautiful poem! Renazantz- yes, you bring a new dimension to the table here, could it be racism against and between both the Israelis and the Palestinians. Marshall Rosenberg's peaceful communication could be the key!
Check it out here - http://www.cnvc.org/
lol RE ex's raising your children. One of my best friends from college became a Fox News watching right wing nut red neck. Well, many of us made this known to him that we no longer really liked him. In trying to rekindle our friendship...(he now watches MSNBC) he informed me his ex forbade him from seeing his daughter because he had gotten so scary Christian Fundamental Redneck. I told his that his ex certainly did the same thing and that I would have done the same.