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What Does Google Suggest Suggest About Humanity?
CNETNate writes "You'll laugh, but mostly you'll cry. Some of the questions Google gets asked to deliver results for is beyond worrying. 'Can you put peroxide in your ear?', 'Why would a pregnancy test be negative?', and 'Why can't I own a Canadian?' being just a selection of the truly baffling — and disturbing — questions Google is regularly forced to answer."
Why is the peroxide question that stupid? The only thing I can think of is that the person probably meant 'hydrogen peroxide', and then I think it's a pretty reasonable question.
I do this on occasion. It's been beneficial, imho. Stupid author is stupid.
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We typed: 'Am I going...'
Google suggests: '...into labour?'
Answer: There's an easy and reliable way to test. Is there a brand-new human poking out of your lower body? If yes, then congratulations, you're going into labour. More accurately, you're already in it.
I'm amazed that these guys make fun of a question, act like wiseasses who know the answer, yet did not read the results of the search! The early stages of labor can start DAYS before birth, and false labor is very common.
Yes.
That's kind of the entire point of that article.
It was a response to people using that same section of the bible to justify their modern day opposition to the rights of gays.
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
Except that this is not justification for slavery. It is simply teaching folks to do the best that they can in the circumstances that they find themselves. The writer understood that this is not a perfect world, but that as followers of Christ we are to be the best example we can be.
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This might imply that it's acceptable for Christians to have slaves.
Half true, half false.
Christians don't have the authority to "come down" on _anyone_.
However, there are several places in the new testament where male adulterousness, male homosexuality, and at least one spot where female homosexuality are discussed and condemned, either by Paul or Jesus.
A quick search for "new testament homosexuality" will let you read about a variety of interpretations of a variety of new testament passages.
Naturally two groups of people can read the same text, both claim to be experts in translating the original written language, and come to different conclusions.
The question of the sinfulness of homosexuality is important not because it grants or revokes a license to stone gay people, but because if it is infact sinful, those who continue to willfully sin without repentance are condemned by God. There are other more practical and earthly ramifications: those who wilfully sin and refuse to repent are not fit for membership (much less leadership) in the church body.
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Sorry, but Paul tended to be down on rights for people who weren't him. He is the one that wrote those famous bits about how a woman needs to be subservient to her husband Eph 5:22-24 What he had to say about homosexuality Rom 1:27 I can't find anything on incest, but then I'm at work and I am sure I don't want to find anything.
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Agreed. It certainly doesn't further the goals of the (Christian) church or the work of (the Christian) God when the _state_ uses compulsion to extract religiously compliant behavior.
If God wanted people to be forced to act a certain way, he would just shoot them with lightning all the time. And when the stupid Isralites long ago kept clammoring for a King to rule over them, God tried to talk them out of it.
God is a libertarian that wants people to voluntarily be socialists :)
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