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<r>More than likely they were referring to Nero: <URL url="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast#Identification_by_gematria"><LINK_TEXT text="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of ... y_gematria">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast#Identification_by_gematria</L...

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<r>Hey guys <E>:-)</E> This forum has a lot of interesting threads. I enjoyed rereading these. When I look at the overall theme of the Bible, I'd sum it up with the notion of "might makes right." In the Biblical view, humans are depicted as nothing more than slaves to God. It ...

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<t>Pahu;1399865 wrote: Of course many Jews rejected Christ when He came despite His miracles and about 300 prophecies He fulfilled. Many more accepted Him and were the first members of the Christian Church. That's human nature for you. People are reluctant to admit they are wrong even in spite of th...

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<t>Pahu;1399844 wrote: Apparently you either didn't read or didn't comprehend my explanation on this subject in my original post. Admittedly there are thousands of man-made gods. But there is only one true, creator God who reveals Himself in the Bible. How do I know He is real? Because He is the sou...

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<r>Pahu;1399824 wrote: This is a prime example of the ability of the human mind to imagine all kinds of evidence free speculative notions to deny the facts. As I mentioned in my original post: "Many people with a naturalistic worldview assume everything can be explained by natural causes....

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Accountable;1399632 wrote: Facts don't include the word "would".

Is that a fact?

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<t>AnneBoleyn;1399630 wrote: As time goes on I'd predict they may pick a gay person, or a female. Females still last, even behind gay men, excuse me, person. That's rich. How much time? We had one already, if Hillary Clinton wasn't good enough, who is? I would like to se...

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<t>Accountable;1399623 wrote: I don't generally count opinion pieces as news, but if you do, okay. This is exactly what I'm talking about: this obsession with race that you partisans have, especially you dems. You seem to think that all Latinos are alike... There are some hard facts...

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<r>Accountable;1399613 wrote: Not to bruise your ego, but I don't read your every post. Your link didn't refer to the 2012 campaigns at all, so you still haven't supported your wild accusation that "[T]he GOP has done almost everything it can possibly do to alienate minorities." Do you have anything...

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<t>Accountable;1399601 wrote: Awful strong accusation without offering the first hint of evidence. Standard fare for a partisan. I didn't think I needed to re-post the link detailing the Southern Strategy again. If you use your own eyeballs and ears, it should be pretty ...

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<t>And also a recursion issue with: Pahu;1399575 wrote: 9. Life always comes from pre-existing life of the same kind (the Law of Biogenesis). Therefore by 9, God likewise must come from another God (since he too is alive). Otherwise you violate your own assump...

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That's pretty cool.

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<r>I finally did a bit more research on external usb keyboards for phones. Most android phones 2.3 and higher support USB OTG (on the go) but it looks like the power isn't there to drive the device by default. From what I read the USB needs to be modified to supply 5 volts back to the ph...

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<t>Accountable;1399546 wrote: My city's mayor has been picked to deliver the keynote address at the National Democratic Convention. Julian Castro, Democratic National Convention Keynote Speaker, Shows Party's Focus On Latinos For the party that's against racism, they sure seem ...

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I hadn't tried that one. I was using swype for a while but switched back to the default keyboard.

I've been wanting to get and external USB keyboard... but not sure what is available.

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Bryn Mawr;1399460 wrote: They failed there then

Yeah, we might rename the country to the "United Shareholder Association" at this point.

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<r>Ahso!;1399451 wrote: :wah::wah: Or God was calling them home. Remember the drama Oral Roberts tried to create a few years ago by locking himself up in his luxury tower and stating that unless he raised lots of money "God is going to call me home."? Ah, true. I'm surpri...

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Another quote is:

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

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Yeah, they shouldn't worry about safety codes when it's a home church. If the building becomes a giant fireball and cooks everyone, it obviously means the folks were sinners.

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<r>Once a system runs out of disk space, anything that was running at the time can crash and be left in a half-corrupted state. Sometimes reinstalling, or reconfiguring package will sync everything back up. This should force a package to reconfigure itself, like a fresh install: dpkg-reco...

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<t>The military example is interesting. Altruism is generally given a positive connotation though it may have two different meanings. One, if a person believes their sacrifice is for the benefit of others (regardless of fact). For example if a man believes he's the son of God, he may jump out a wind...

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<t>That's an interesting possibility. Come to think of it, I don't hear of non-human animals killing themselves, intentional suicide seems to be unique to humans. The closest thing might be with a dog allowing itself to be killed to protect a pack, which is an altruistic action to promote group surv...

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I'm a bit puzzled how the GOP thinks Reagan was some kind of financial genius. This should be his portrait for the history books:

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<t>gmc;1398059 wrote: How is it a federal tax if the money does not go to them but tp insurance companies - or am I missing something? I think it's fair to call it a tax. One, they've subtracted the amount from income. If the money is sent directly to them, they would ju...

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<t>Accountable;1398050 wrote: That's a pretty bold & inaccurate statement. Doesn't matter now, though. Justice Roberts has opened the floodgates. Any federal tax is okay, meaning constitutional. Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan can go through without a hitch now. Sales taxes, VAT, whatever. It's all goo...

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<r>Accountable;1398017 wrote: It seems that you are guilty of the same thing. The United States Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net Until this decision was handed down, Congress did not have the authority to directly tax individuals, except by taxin...

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<t>also, the people who wrote the constitution had little understanding of the germ theory of disease. They thought if they sliced their arms and drained "bad blood," it made them healthy. Now we understand that germs have killed more people than Al Qaeda terrorists ever will. Medicine and even more...

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<r>I find it humorous that the Tea Party/GOP has acted so flabbergasted that the law passed. Was it a surprise to them? For as much lip service as they give the Constitution, they should have read it. They seem to believe that the federal gov't doesn't have the authority to tax people, m...

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Interesting video. If a police officer agitates someone, the officer can then say they are "nervous." If they arrest someone (even without conviction) then other officers can use this as further evidence of suspicion.

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<t>The initial idea behind the Arizona law was to make life so miserable for the people here illegally that they self-deport. This has been explicitly articulated by the supporters of the law (like Mitt). Unfortunately, racial profiling is the only thing that would make the police suspicious that a ...

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<r>oscar;1397759 wrote: His Lovliness gave Obama gifts reported to be worth £16,000. Obama gave him 25 film DVD's. We got Block Busters here. His Wonderfulness could have nipped down the shops and rented that pile of crap. He didn't have to cross the Atlantic for them. I was li...

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<t>Accountable;1397679 wrote: Construct or not, I can't see much being effective in the one-size-fits-all world of Washington DC. Regardless of how good and/or effective government is, I want to see the corporate interests out of Washington before I trust any program to them. ...

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<r>I think the last political quiz I took classified me as a libertarian socialist, which puts me at opposite ends of the U.S. political spectrum. Though, the different approaches are more compatible than not. I don't believe "the government" is real in itself, it's a constructed idea. So, I'd be ha...

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<r>The marketing probably defines the product (what is sold) more than the manufacturing process. For example, if someone is buying Nike, they are buying Nike, not the shoe. Nike is an abstract idea, which grants anyone possessing it supernatural powers along with inhuman strength. Likewise BMW isn'...

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<t>Ahso!;1397657 wrote: I agree about Paul, he giggles way too much and doesn't appear presidential. Gary Johnson on the other hand I see as a serious enough candidate. In the end everyone's a socialist but don't like to admit it. If they weren't they wouldn't be running from it so hard.<...

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<t>Now that you mention it, I notice a variation of this in the campaign of Ron Paul. According to Paul's theory, a competition has winners and losers. Those that do not win in the game are fully responsible for their own loss. For example: If a person doesn't have health insurance, let 'em die. It'...

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<r>Accountable;1397628 wrote: You must be, not to see the same type of equation with all the major media outlets. When it became clear that Ron Paul was actually gaining real following for repub nomination, FOX fought very hard to maintain the status quo. This left/right fight is all a show - one th...

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<t>Accountable;1397566 wrote: I didn't post it to be silly, and I indicated as much. Our gov't have helped arm Mexican criminals. The criminals used the arms to kill US gov't officials. I wouldn't put it past our gov't to sell explosives to known terrorists with the same stated goal as F&F, and ...

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<t>Accountable;1397525 wrote: I wonder how many of those people involved thought seriously about using the same general plan to find terrorists by selling them C4 explosives. I'm guessing quite a few. Interesting point. Maybe the people planning this thought that guns didn't really ...

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<t>Accountable;1397523 wrote: I just love how partisans condemn one party, then become apologists when their party carries on the same behavior. Since you called it mine, what is the conspiracy theory you imagine I have? The implication is that Obama is hiding something. ...

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gmc;1397483 wrote: Wasn't this some insane idea that you catch gunrunners by selling guns to them brought in when bush was in power?

The funny thing is, the GOP won't try to prosecute the Bush administration folks about the practice.

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<t>Accountable;1397476 wrote: "yaaarg's interpretation"?? :-2 He didn't interpret anything. He vented about a completely different and barely related issue. I'm sorry I didn't focus so much on your conspiracy theory. It seemed a bit silly considering the entire court proceeding is c...

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<t>I wouldn't worry about it too much. Guns don't kill people, people do. Or so I've been told. Meanwhile in the libertarian universe, there would be no gun control -- you could buy automatic weapons at Walmart without a background check. Also, free trade with mexico is also in line with...

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<t>Accountable;1397038 wrote: Southern Baptists elect 1st African-American president, the Rev. Fred Luter Jr. The Southern Baptist Church has certainly changed since I stopped going in the 70's. I had been following that story as well, since I grew up attending a Southern...

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<t>Ahso!;1397045 wrote: I caught that in the wikipedia piece too. I think the north had to admit that blacks were in fact people whereas the south could continue to see blacks as animals because God had not rained down fire and brimstone on them for the enslavement. It's possible that in ...

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<t>Ahso!;1396978 wrote: From Wikipedia Robert E. Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I've always had the impression about Lee that he chose to lead the confederate army because they were the underdog and the historical and egotistical rewards would be greater. He was a military person ...

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<r>Clodhopper;1396871 wrote: You might have noticed it's much easier to defend an extreme position than a moderate one: The extreme always sounds decisive and certain and simple; the moderate, somewhat wishy-washy and complex by comparison. It could be that the original split was along the lines of ...

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<t>Accountable;1396824 wrote: Correlation is not causation. I agree, though if A and B are tightly correlated, it typically indicates one of three casual chains: A -> B B -> A C -> A + B I admit I hadn't put much thought into the possibili...

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<t>After looking at the civil war map, it does seem like there's a greater correlation between slavery and religion, than war and religion. Not all slave states fought with the South. Some union states allowed slavery (Missouri, Kentucky). These large regions are part of the Bible Belt t...

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<t>Wandrin;1396454 wrote: That's basically what they taught at that particular school. I'm sure that it was as much of a gross generalization as what I was taught in the northern schools about the south. I was curious about the reasons southern states gave for leaving the union. One...

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