That interpretation does not follow from the given text. The text clearly states: "Thou shalt not kill", period.
Actually it's the "thou shalt not murder" or "kill within your group" interpretation that leads to the most internal consistency within the OT. There were a number of times when god directly told people to kill, in no uncertain terms, from Abraham vs his son, to those being punished for violating the law, to god's chosen people vs anyone who happened to be living in an area they wanted (such as Jericho.)
Unless you put conditions on "Thou shalt not kill" then god would be directly contradicting himself. Are you supposed to follow the "thou shalt not kill" commandment, or "go ahead and kill those people" command directly from god?
The only real loss there is Michigan (which I believe you are wrong about, since most of MI is well above sea level), good riddance to the rest of them.
But then what will the rest of the US do when they can no longer mooch off the cash that California and the east coast provide?
Now I get this funny, itchy feeling on the back of my neck that I'm being watched when I drive. It's not causing any trauma, but it's probably made me a more careful driver.
This is one I bring up when people pull out the "if you're not doing anything wrong, why would you care if you're being monitored?" card.
I compare it to the feeling I get when I'm driving and a cop pulls out behind me. Immediately I start thinking "Are my headlights working properly? Am I going the speed limit? Did I come to a complete stop there?" Even if I'm not doing anything wrong, it's still rather nerve-wracking to feel like someone in a position of authority is watching me, waiting for me to slip up so they can give me a ticket.
Now do we really want that feeling 24 hours a day?
About 10% of the former one and only gdr political party founded the new all german kinda-communist party, the rest of them went to the christ democrats, the big german conservative party (pretty much the largest party now in germany)
This makes sense to me- I'm guessing (i.e. I could be completely wrong) that the 10% are the "true believers" in the communist ideology, while the other 90% were going along with the party since that was their only chance to get into power.
Funny and very likely insightful. I bet she can prove that. Should have upped her damages claim. Many years ago I went to an evangelical Lutheran teachers college for two years. Among their many amusing mores: no smoking for women, no drinking anytime
See, I think at least with that, when you attend that school you know what you're getting into. I think those kids are missing out on a lot of fun times that they could be having if they didn't have their head so far up God's ass and if they went to a normal university, but that's their own choice to make. I can see one of those schools being within the bounds of their authority to withhold a degree from someone caught drinking alcohol.
I checked up on Millersville University (the school involved in this story) and it is a public university, and I couldn't find anything on their webpage about a restrictive code-of-conduct or anything that would lend credibility to their case against this woman.
In fact, this could be exactly what we need. This is clearly such a ludicrous measure that if it goes into law everywhere, the apathy-riddled consumer might actually sit up and notice.
And if they don't? We're saddled with this inane, draconian law with little chance of getting it repealed. I've yet to see the apathy-riddled consumer rise up in anger about anything. This law is clearly ridiculous, but I can't imagine it directly affecting a large number of people (how many people deal in used CDs?) and even if it did, most apathy-riddled consumers are content to just roll over and take whatever is dished out to them.
2005 was 2 years ago, and she's 27 now, that makes her 25 in the photo...how is this underage drinking again?
I'm sure they originally thought she was 20 in the picture, and wanted to withhold her teaching certificate for underage drinking. Then when they found out she was 25 in the photo, they changed their story to not wanting anyone who has had alcohol touch their virgin lips to be teaching young children, rather than admitting they were wrong.
If the man is responsible for the child he should have say on whether or not the child is to be born. Why does only the woman get to decide on abortion? As you say a woman doesnt get pregnant out of thin air so why does she get all the rights?
Good news! When you figure out a way to get a man pregnant, then he'll get to decide whether or not he wants to get an abortion.
The woman "gets all the rights" because it's her body that the fetus grows in. The man is just a sperm doner.
Unless the worker is also an investor. And all workers should be investing.
sure, but for most workers, they're not going to be able to invest enough to live on if they don't also have full-time jobs. The investments either go towards retirement, or are the gravy on top of the regular salary. Take away the salary, and the investments aren't going to go far.
And plenty of people can't afford to invest anything, and they're likely the ones to be hit hardest by layoffs.
Americans get squeamish about massive layoffs, but investors certainly do not.
That's because "Americans" actually have jobs and work for a living, and are concerned that their job may be next on the chopping block, and "investors" can just shuffle their money from one investment to another without that concern.
Most societies are prone to evil? What kind of claptrap is that, exactly?
Every culture is prone to doing some pretty heinous/bizarre things that are generally only seen as such by outsiders of that culture. To insiders, it's just a normal part of life.
Half the price of a house? Bwhahaha. You know he asked about $50,000, don't you? What kind of a house are you talking about anyway, a refrigerator box under a bridge somewhere?
Depends on where you live. In my section of the midwest, you can get a pretty nice 3 bedroom house in a good neighborhood for about $100K. Nothing spectacular, no mansion or anything, but not a run down piece-of-crap in the ghetto either.
On the other hand, in other parts of the country you could easily pay half a million for a comparable house.
Further to this, if we look back at "light industry" like clothing the difference in quality between sweatshop labour and labour working in better conditions is also quite apparent. Compare a shirt made in China with one done in Bangladesh, Cambodja or Turkey.
Your point here was lost on me... Which of these choices is supposed to be the "better conditions" ? And which has better quality?
I don't think thats fair; take a look at the man's bio on wikipedia, he was at one time a valuable member of the human race, and flew 51 combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 during WWII. It wasn't until he got into politics that he turned evil, and after all, didn't we forgive Darth Vader at the end?
I'm sure all the Germans/Japanese being blown up with Valenti's bombs were glad to be killed by such a good and valuable member of the human race.
I'd bet that the members of the MPAA thought he was a great guy til the very end. It all depends on your point of view.
All this recycling and tree replanting should be avoided in the first place. We should be planting hemp everywhere.
Sure, hemp may be a great plant to fulfill many of our needs.
However, your plan fails to think of the children, and thus will be doomed to failure. Why, hemp is sort of like mari-juana. You might as well inject heroin directly into fetuses.
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That interpretation does not follow from the given text. The text clearly states: "Thou shalt not kill", period.
Actually it's the "thou shalt not murder" or "kill within your group" interpretation that leads to the most internal consistency within the OT. There were a number of times when god directly told people to kill, in no uncertain terms, from Abraham vs his son, to those being punished for violating the law, to god's chosen people vs anyone who happened to be living in an area they wanted (such as Jericho.)
Unless you put conditions on "Thou shalt not kill" then god would be directly contradicting himself.
Are you supposed to follow the "thou shalt not kill" commandment, or "go ahead and kill those people" command directly from god?
What do SUVs have to do with pollution? Oh I see what you did there; equate fuel comsumption with pollution.
So what you're saying is that fuel consumption isn't related to pollution?
Please explain.
The only real loss there is Michigan (which I believe you are wrong about, since most of MI is well above sea level), good riddance to the rest of them.
But then what will the rest of the US do when they can no longer mooch off the cash that California and the east coast provide?
WTF are you going to do when GWB is out of office?
Throw a party.
Now I get this funny, itchy feeling on the back of my neck that I'm being watched when I drive. It's not causing any trauma, but it's probably made me a more careful driver.
This is one I bring up when people pull out the "if you're not doing anything wrong, why would you care if you're being monitored?" card.
I compare it to the feeling I get when I'm driving and a cop pulls out behind me.
Immediately I start thinking "Are my headlights working properly? Am I going the speed limit? Did I come to a complete stop there?" Even if I'm not doing anything wrong, it's still rather nerve-wracking to feel like someone in a position of authority is watching me, waiting for me to slip up so they can give me a ticket.
Now do we really want that feeling 24 hours a day?
About 10% of the former one and only gdr political party founded the new all german kinda-communist party, the rest of them went to the christ democrats, the big german conservative party (pretty much the largest party now in germany)
This makes sense to me- I'm guessing (i.e. I could be completely wrong) that the 10% are the "true believers" in the communist ideology, while the other 90% were going along with the party since that was their only chance to get into power.
Is a VP immune to prosecution for treason? This sounds like an offense that could be punishable by death since it risks the life of an operative.
It's the Richard Nixon defense:
NIXON: Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal.
Funny and very likely insightful. I bet she can prove that. Should have upped her damages claim.
Many years ago I went to an evangelical Lutheran teachers college for two years. Among their many amusing mores: no smoking for women, no drinking anytime
See, I think at least with that, when you attend that school you know what you're getting into.
I think those kids are missing out on a lot of fun times that they could be having if they didn't have their head so far up God's ass and if they went to a normal university, but that's their own choice to make. I can see one of those schools being within the bounds of their authority to withhold a degree from someone caught drinking alcohol.
I checked up on Millersville University (the school involved in this story) and it is a public university, and I couldn't find anything on their webpage about a restrictive code-of-conduct or anything that would lend credibility to their case against this woman.
Don't forget the other quality recording artists on myspace, like Tila Nguyen.
I'm sure her myspace page would be much more enjoyable if you turn your speakers off first.
in 1995 when I still bought CD's.
Wow, I didn't realize you were the only person who ever bought CDs.
Therefore, the law clearly doesn't matter.
protip: The world doesn't revolve around you, buddy. Other people do buy and sell used CDs.
In fact, this could be exactly what we need. This is clearly such a ludicrous measure that if it goes into law everywhere, the apathy-riddled consumer might actually sit up and notice.
And if they don't? We're saddled with this inane, draconian law with little chance of getting it repealed.
I've yet to see the apathy-riddled consumer rise up in anger about anything. This law is clearly ridiculous,
but I can't imagine it directly affecting a large number of people (how many people deal in used CDs?) and even if it did, most apathy-riddled consumers are content to just roll over and take whatever is dished out to them.
2005 was 2 years ago, and she's 27 now, that makes her 25 in the photo...how is this underage drinking again?
I'm sure they originally thought she was 20 in the picture, and wanted to withhold her teaching certificate for underage drinking. Then when they found out she was 25 in the photo, they changed their story to not wanting anyone who has had alcohol touch their virgin lips to be teaching young children, rather than admitting they were wrong.
If the man is responsible for the child he should have say on whether or not the child is to be born. Why does only the woman get to decide on abortion? As you say a woman doesnt get pregnant out of thin air so why does she get all the rights?
Good news! When you figure out a way to get a man pregnant, then he'll get to decide whether or not he wants to get an abortion.
The woman "gets all the rights" because it's her body that the fetus grows in. The man is just a sperm doner.
Are you for or against the government getting one last shot at looting personal wealth, after taxing someone all his life?
You're probably right... the dead rich guy should be buried with all of his wealth.
It's his! He should take it with him.
Unless the worker is also an investor. And all workers should be investing.
sure, but for most workers, they're not going to be able to invest enough to live on if they don't also have full-time jobs. The investments either go towards retirement, or are the gravy on top of the regular salary. Take away the salary, and the investments aren't going to go far.
And plenty of people can't afford to invest anything, and they're likely the ones to be hit hardest by layoffs.
Americans get squeamish about massive layoffs, but investors certainly do not.
That's because "Americans" actually have jobs and work for a living, and are concerned that their job may be next on the chopping block, and "investors" can just shuffle their money from one investment to another without that concern.
Most societies are prone to evil? What kind of claptrap is that, exactly?
Every culture is prone to doing some pretty heinous/bizarre things that are generally only seen as such by outsiders of that culture.
To insiders, it's just a normal part of life.
No argument there, I just dislike the relativist position that people can't be classified as good or bad at all.
So then, how do you decide if an action is good or bad?
Half the price of a house? Bwhahaha. You know he asked about $50,000, don't you? What kind of a house are you talking about anyway, a refrigerator box under a bridge somewhere?
Depends on where you live.
In my section of the midwest, you can get a pretty nice 3 bedroom house in a good neighborhood for about $100K.
Nothing spectacular, no mansion or anything, but not a run down piece-of-crap in the ghetto either.
On the other hand, in other parts of the country you could easily pay half a million for a comparable house.
FACT: middle class STARTS at $200,000 a year income. Below that you are NOT middle class but Upper Lower class.
All the data I've seen indicates that your number is off by an order of magnitude.
Where are you pulling this $200K from?
Further to this, if we look back at "light industry" like clothing the difference in quality between sweatshop labour and labour working in better conditions is also quite apparent. Compare a shirt made in China with one done in Bangladesh, Cambodja or Turkey.
Your point here was lost on me... Which of these choices is supposed to be the "better conditions" ?
And which has better quality?
theft: taking what does not belong to you.
How hard is that?
Simple: once I take it, now it belongs to me.
Therefore, it's not theft anymore.
I don't think thats fair; take a look at the man's bio on wikipedia, he was at one time a valuable member of the human race, and flew 51 combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 during WWII.
It wasn't until he got into politics that he turned evil, and after all, didn't we forgive Darth Vader at the end?
I'm sure all the Germans/Japanese being blown up with Valenti's bombs were glad to be killed by such a good and valuable member of the human race.
I'd bet that the members of the MPAA thought he was a great guy til the very end.
It all depends on your point of view.
Intelligent Design has its merits
No, actually.. it really doesn't.
Not scientific merits, anyway.
All this recycling and tree replanting should be avoided in the first place. We should be planting hemp everywhere.
Sure, hemp may be a great plant to fulfill many of our needs.
However, your plan fails to think of the children, and thus will be doomed to failure.
Why, hemp is sort of like mari-juana. You might as well inject heroin directly into fetuses.