Does the Catholic church sue people that print the Bible under copyright laws?
My aunt, who is Lutheran, married a Catholic, in a Catholic church, and non-Catholics were allowed to attend. That isn't allowed in oh, Mormonism and Scientology, to name two.
The CoS denies people medical care and medication, that is happening now, not 2000 years ago.
Islam and Christianity's charismatic leaders died 2000 and 1300 years ago, give or take, so you can't really use Jesus as an example compared to Miscavige or Hubbard.
Actually, as a historian, I see the Bible, at least the Old Testament for what it is, an oral history and moral code system. The creation of the Earth and all that isn't from a guy who herded goats 4,000 years ago, but its the oral tradition of all the peoples in the region, originally probably from Persia or western India. The Deluge myth might even date back to the end of the Ice Age, or at least the flooding of the Persian Gulf area or other megafloods.
"You even go so far as to mention Young-Earthers -- the same folks who believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old and that we co-existed with dinosaurs. I am not defending scientology in any way, but it is simply not possible to get more retarded than this."
"The now-disembodied victims' souls, which Hubbard called thetans, were blown into the air by the blast. They were captured by Xenu's forces using an "electronic ribbon" ("which also was a type of standing wave") and sucked into "vacuum zones" around the world. The hundreds of billions[5][19] of captured thetans were taken to a type of cinema, where they were forced to watch a "three-D, super colossal motion picture" for thirty-six days. This implanted what Hubbard termed "various misleading data"' (collectively termed the R6 implant) into the memories of the hapless thetans, "which has to do with God, the Devil, space opera, et cetera". This included all world religions, with Hubbard specifically attributing Roman Catholicism and the image of the Crucifixion to the influence of Xenu. The two "implant stations" cited by Hubbard were said to have been located on Hawaii and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands"
People are put in physically or emotionally distressing situations; Their problems are reduced to one simple explanation, which is repeatedly emphasized; They receive unconditional love, acceptance, and attention from a charismatic leader; They get a new identity based on the group; They are subject to entrapment (isolation from friends, relatives, and the mainstream culture) and their access to information is severely controlled.
From everything I've read about and seen of Scientolgists and Scientology, they do all of those things.
Contrast that to say...Judaism or Islam, theres a big difference.
McMenamins is more of a brewpub chain that doesn't bottle. Oregon's big brewing companies are Rogue Ale, Full Sail, Widmir, Deschutes Brewery and Bridgeport. Those five you'll see outside Oregon. Theres also alot of good beer out of Montana, Washington and Colorado, and of course the granddaddy - Anchor Steam from SF.
Oregon used to have Henry Weinhards, sad day when that went away, I drank alot of Blue Boar Pale Ale less than a half mile from the Brewery and took the tour over ten times.
Because from reading on it...there was a "loyal" Virginia Commonwealth legislature that met, after wrangling and questionable votes, decided to let the western counties form a new state.
That was called into question and upheld, as late as 1915.
So how are they contradictions? On the one hand we have in the Constitution, Article IV/Section III says that new states can be admitted, but that no new state can be made from another state, or parts of states without the states' permission, the "loyal" Virginia government saying W.V. can split and thats legal in the eyes of the USSC for decades after the war and the USSC saying a state doesn't have the right to leave the United States of America.
If they had, the USSC has had over 130 years to correct itself, and the Senate and States have had the same amount of time to change the Constitution, since that hasn't happened, then legally the USSC ruled correctly.
It'd be 8 more Senate seats, and is Austin was the core of a state, then you might get 1 or 2 liberal or moderate liberal Senators, same with Houston, might get 1 out of that.
Likewise, if California broke up, there would be some more Republicans in the Senate. That goes for Washington/Oregon if they ever broke into east and west, hell Alaska if you took the Anchorage bowl out and made it a Congressional district, it might go Blue Dog democrat or democrat on its own.
Texas would be let go of before California. Too much military and technology infrastructure in California. Any attempt by California to leave by force would be put down by the Marines and Army based in the state. Even if California National Guard went all in with a secession movement, they'd be beat.
No, states don't have the right to leave the Union.
The United States Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1869), that while the Union was "perpetual" and that secession ordinances were "absolutely null."
The thought that states can leave is just another misconception, like that Texas can go if they want. They can't, but they can be split into five states.
OK, "good enough". Look at American and Soviet military equipment in the Second World War compared to German. German hardware was better, more effective, better designed, higher tolerances.
American gear was "good enough" and Soviet was half-assed and brute force at best. Soviet gear was able to smash German gear, American gear was built quicker and in larger numbers than German gear and could be adapted to other roles, the Aircobra and Kingcobra fighters are prime examples of that.
Mac OS, WIndows, iPhone are "good enough" for alot of users, heck I'd wager if Apple had let T-Mobile/Verizon/Sprint in on the iPhone at the same time as AT&T there wouldn't be a fight, they'd own the smartphone market and we'd be here arguing about monopoly, because the iPhone and the apps out there are "good enough".
So if I'm a Oregon resident (no sales tax) in Washington and have to pay sales tax, something I did for 9 months this year, a California resident should have to pay local sales tax for something they buy while in the state of California, even if it is bought from Washington and shipped to them.
Amazon is not paying California, they would be taking the 6 percent or whatever from the customer and just giving it to the state of California.
Amazon.com, in the US, shouldn't have to charge or collect taxes for PNG, but if you are ordering from amazon.au from Australia, then you should be expected to pay.
Amazon is incorporated in the US, the headquarters are in Washington state. So they aren't a citizen of the world, but are a citizen of the US, if they have to charge for US sales taxes, thats one issue, but they are not expected to collect for elsewhere. By that, Amazon.co.uk should charge UK/EU sales taxes.
Alot of the elites on both sides would like that future.
The liberals would have their ivory towers in the cities where they could talk about helping the masses and blaming it on the unwashed red-necks who live in the "fly-over" states, while the conservatives would have the same ivory towers in the cities where they'd blame it on the unemployed for not working hard enough while using the "fly-over" people to fight their brush-fire wars.
The US government, if it were interested in getting in an uproar would about MW2. The mission in question, No Russian, has a soldier who was brought into a CIA operation to infiltrate this Russian terror organization, so this CIA operative is taking part in the killing of civilians. OK, I guess you can avoid shooting civilians and hope the AI characters you are with take out the airport security and FSB swat troopers.
But still, it has a CIA operative working with Russian terrorists killing civilians.
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Henry's was a Portland brewery from the 1850s, they got bought out by Miller and moved production to Olympia's plant in Tumwater WA in 1999.
Some of the brewery buildings are still there and part of a big urban renewal project in Portland.
What charismatic leader does Judaism, Hinduism and...oh...Taoism have?
Islam? Nope no leader.
Lutheranism...Martin Luther has been dead for 400+ years and wasn't that unconditional loving.
Jews don't get a new identity based on the group - most don't even accept converts.
Catholic Universities are bastions of research, so that rules out access to information is severely controlled.
Does the Catholic church sue people that print the Bible under copyright laws?
My aunt, who is Lutheran, married a Catholic, in a Catholic church, and non-Catholics were allowed to attend. That isn't allowed in oh, Mormonism and Scientology, to name two.
The CoS denies people medical care and medication, that is happening now, not 2000 years ago.
Islam and Christianity's charismatic leaders died 2000 and 1300 years ago, give or take, so you can't really use Jesus as an example compared to Miscavige or Hubbard.
Actually, as a historian, I see the Bible, at least the Old Testament for what it is, an oral history and moral code system. The creation of the Earth and all that isn't from a guy who herded goats 4,000 years ago, but its the oral tradition of all the peoples in the region, originally probably from Persia or western India. The Deluge myth might even date back to the end of the Ice Age, or at least the flooding of the Persian Gulf area or other megafloods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deluge_(prehistoric)
Also, the Bible isn't just a Christian text, its also a Jewish text and is held in regard by Muslims, its just not their book.
"You even go so far as to mention Young-Earthers -- the same folks who believe that the Earth is 6,000 years old and that we co-existed with dinosaurs. I am not defending scientology in any way, but it is simply not possible to get more retarded than this."
Yea, you can.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenu#Summary
"The now-disembodied victims' souls, which Hubbard called thetans, were blown into the air by the blast. They were captured by Xenu's forces using an "electronic ribbon" ("which also was a type of standing wave") and sucked into "vacuum zones" around the world. The hundreds of billions[5][19] of captured thetans were taken to a type of cinema, where they were forced to watch a "three-D, super colossal motion picture" for thirty-six days. This implanted what Hubbard termed "various misleading data"' (collectively termed the R6 implant) into the memories of the hapless thetans, "which has to do with God, the Devil, space opera, et cetera". This included all world religions, with Hubbard specifically attributing Roman Catholicism and the image of the Crucifixion to the influence of Xenu. The two "implant stations" cited by Hubbard were said to have been located on Hawaii and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands"
Did I mention Christianity? Nope.
Even the beliefs of the Young Earthers are more "realistic" than that of Scientology.
Its a GEO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelsat_14
They are a cult.
People are put in physically or emotionally distressing situations;
Their problems are reduced to one simple explanation, which is repeatedly emphasized;
They receive unconditional love, acceptance, and attention from a charismatic leader;
They get a new identity based on the group;
They are subject to entrapment (isolation from friends, relatives, and the mainstream culture) and their access to information is severely controlled.
From everything I've read about and seen of Scientolgists and Scientology, they do all of those things.
Contrast that to say...Judaism or Islam, theres a big difference.
McMenamins is more of a brewpub chain that doesn't bottle. Oregon's big brewing companies are Rogue Ale, Full Sail, Widmir, Deschutes Brewery and Bridgeport. Those five you'll see outside Oregon. Theres also alot of good beer out of Montana, Washington and Colorado, and of course the granddaddy - Anchor Steam from SF.
Oregon used to have Henry Weinhards, sad day when that went away, I drank alot of Blue Boar Pale Ale less than a half mile from the Brewery and took the tour over ten times.
I've only driven through Texas and I know more about Texas's "right" to secede than the Governor, I'm sorry.
What court case was it?
Because from reading on it...there was a "loyal" Virginia Commonwealth legislature that met, after wrangling and questionable votes, decided to let the western counties form a new state.
That was called into question and upheld, as late as 1915.
So how are they contradictions? On the one hand we have in the Constitution, Article IV/Section III says that new states can be admitted, but that no new state can be made from another state, or parts of states without the states' permission, the "loyal" Virginia government saying W.V. can split and thats legal in the eyes of the USSC for decades after the war and the USSC saying a state doesn't have the right to leave the United States of America.
620,000 dead decided the fact, not the Unionist government.
According to whom?
If they had, the USSC has had over 130 years to correct itself, and the Senate and States have had the same amount of time to change the Constitution, since that hasn't happened, then legally the USSC ruled correctly.
West Virginia split off in 1863, the Texas v. White was in 1869.
It'd be 8 more Senate seats, and is Austin was the core of a state, then you might get 1 or 2 liberal or moderate liberal Senators, same with Houston, might get 1 out of that.
Likewise, if California broke up, there would be some more Republicans in the Senate. That goes for Washington/Oregon if they ever broke into east and west, hell Alaska if you took the Anchorage bowl out and made it a Congressional district, it might go Blue Dog democrat or democrat on its own.
Texas would be let go of before California. Too much military and technology infrastructure in California. Any attempt by California to leave by force would be put down by the Marines and Army based in the state. Even if California National Guard went all in with a secession movement, they'd be beat.
No, states don't have the right to leave the Union.
The United States Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1869), that while the Union was "perpetual" and that secession ordinances were "absolutely null."
The thought that states can leave is just another misconception, like that Texas can go if they want. They can't, but they can be split into five states.
OK, "good enough". Look at American and Soviet military equipment in the Second World War compared to German. German hardware was better, more effective, better designed, higher tolerances.
American gear was "good enough" and Soviet was half-assed and brute force at best. Soviet gear was able to smash German gear, American gear was built quicker and in larger numbers than German gear and could be adapted to other roles, the Aircobra and Kingcobra fighters are prime examples of that.
Mac OS, WIndows, iPhone are "good enough" for alot of users, heck I'd wager if Apple had let T-Mobile/Verizon/Sprint in on the iPhone at the same time as AT&T there wouldn't be a fight, they'd own the smartphone market and we'd be here arguing about monopoly, because the iPhone and the apps out there are "good enough".
The dinosaurs lasted along time, with their inflexibility, you're aware of that right?
So if I'm a Oregon resident (no sales tax) in Washington and have to pay sales tax, something I did for 9 months this year, a California resident should have to pay local sales tax for something they buy while in the state of California, even if it is bought from Washington and shipped to them.
Amazon is not paying California, they would be taking the 6 percent or whatever from the customer and just giving it to the state of California.
Amazon.com, in the US, shouldn't have to charge or collect taxes for PNG, but if you are ordering from amazon.au from Australia, then you should be expected to pay.
Amazon is incorporated in the US, the headquarters are in Washington state. So they aren't a citizen of the world, but are a citizen of the US, if they have to charge for US sales taxes, thats one issue, but they are not expected to collect for elsewhere. By that, Amazon.co.uk should charge UK/EU sales taxes.
Alot of the elites on both sides would like that future.
The liberals would have their ivory towers in the cities where they could talk about helping the masses and blaming it on the unwashed red-necks who live in the "fly-over" states, while the conservatives would have the same ivory towers in the cities where they'd blame it on the unemployed for not working hard enough while using the "fly-over" people to fight their brush-fire wars.
This is a US tax issue that is being discussed, so the rest of the world is irrelevant.
Only 50? There are hundreds, if not thousands of different sales tax regions in the US.
The US government, if it were interested in getting in an uproar would about MW2. The mission in question, No Russian, has a soldier who was brought into a CIA operation to infiltrate this Russian terror organization, so this CIA operative is taking part in the killing of civilians. OK, I guess you can avoid shooting civilians and hope the AI characters you are with take out the airport security and FSB swat troopers.
But still, it has a CIA operative working with Russian terrorists killing civilians.