"Especially in times before radio and TV, how would any political idea spread, if not in the form of religion?"
By the sword, as it had been done forever. The rest of your post is such rambling drivel that any high school debate freshman could turn into so much hay.
Here is a gem: "If you think Luther and Calvijn (sic) were just political, I'm pretty sure a lot of protestants will disagree. But if you say they were a-political, that's just silly."
Uh, Luther died a Catholic Priest. His theses were a plea for the Church to change, there were no politics involved.
Another: "Religion has been the main political ideology for thousands of years!"
Tell that to the Romans and the Greeks, I think almost any Emperor or Member of one of the Democratic City States would disagree with you.
Another: "What a surprise, that the changeover in early Christianity from "kick the rich out of the temple!" to "well, listen to the good King because he knows best and that is the will of the Lord" comes around the time that Kings start to convert into Christians"
Except of course, the Roman Emperors had converted long before this. That was politics not religion.
In fact your entire post is riddled with this same error. You have the thesis that Religion == Politics and can't get it out of your teeth. Being confused from the beginning, your arguments show an appalling lack of the knowledge of history needed to make a compelling argument for your thesis.
Firstly, there is Scotch, and there is Single Malt Scotch. *Never* mix the two up (nor mix them in a glass). Scotch is a 'Blend', Single Malt is from a single cask. What you want to acquire a taste for is Single Malt. They are hideously expensive since the yuppies found them years ago, but we can work with it. I won't go into all of the different distilleries, there are web sites that do it better, but I will note that you want to learn on a light scotch first. The cheap way to do this is go buy a bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey. It is made the same as a single malt, but because it is Irish it can't be named a scotch. Because of that it is reasonably priced and in spite of that it is very very good.
Offend everyone and pour a shot over a few cubes of ice. Let it mellow for a minute and sip it gently. If its too strong, let it mellow a while longer and sip again. The melting ice will bring it to your palette after a while. The next pour, get brand new cubes, don't use the old ones, and start again. After you get used to it, you can start investing in real single malt. Try Glenmorangie, a nice light scotch. Buy the 10 yr old and for now ignore the older stuff. The older stuff (12, 18 year old) are incredible, but like fine wine you have to be able to have something to judge them against. There are single malts that leap off your tongue like air itself and single malts with depth like you have never tasted. One word of caution though. There is a single malt scotch, Laphroig, avoid it like the plague. I say this as a part owner in the Laphroig Distillery. Laphroig is the smokiest, peatiest of all the single malts, it is like chewing a bit of Scotland itself. It is wonderful and rough and fire and smoke. You will get there one day, but for now avoid it, it would ruin you on scotch.
Oh, and never mix a single malt scotch with anything, save water, maybe. If you are looking for a scotch liqueur Drambuie is one you might try, me I cant stand the stuff, sweetened scotch - blech.
Sorry, if you are making north of 200k and "have a harder time providing for our family", you ain't doing it right. Cell phones, every cable channel, the new lex in the 3 car garage. If you adjust for inflation that 20k is nice. I make less than half of what you make, and I am living high on the hog. I honestly don't know what you are doing wrong, but you are doing it.
I am so terribly sorry, you were looking for the racism thread. Despite you low ID number I feel that I must tell you that here on Slashdot we don't really go in for the whole "Negro Bashing" thing. It might have been different when you started, and I really don't think it was, but now a days we don't actually bother with people's color because, well it has nothing to do with anything.
To help you understand my message I will use prejudicial terms so you can understand.
I know Kikes that are poor, Spics that dont pick fruit, Niggers that suck at sports and Faggots that don't like show tunes. See? Prejudice sucks - it doesn't help anyone at all.
Interestingly though - I now know someone that thinks 'Chocolate' is a special word for people who have dark skin. And I guess I also know someone that thinks the President is the Messiah. No one in the Theological world ever thought he was the Second Coming.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when did the Bush administration take a report written by non-government people, do a cut and paste job to make it say what they want, then get caught and say "Oh, well we didn't do it on purpose"?
Yellowcake
It started a war that killed 10s of thousands and crippled many Americans.
As for your comments regarding war and large amounts of money going to corporations, I suppose you missed when Obama said it was necessary to give billions of dollars to GM and Chrysler after they ran themselves into the ground or we he decided to continue the very war he claimed to be against.
I'm with you - the war is pointless and a huge waste of money. However, wasn't the Messiah supposed to have ended this war that he's continuing to fight?
Yes, because if he had taken office and yanked them out the next day you would hold him faultless. You would have been 100% behind that as two nations crumbled
Want to get modded down? Promote liberty, personal responsibility, or sound economic policy.
Here is some personal responsibility for you. You voted these assholes into office, you pay for their wars. Moreover, you send YOUR sons to die for this bullshit.
One of the schools is in West Virginia(cant remember the name), I know a recent graduate. From what he says they are not going anywhere any time soon. And as for the books, it sounds like what you are describing are The Gingery Books there are 7 of them that when you go through them all you have a modern machine shop at the end.
And in all of that incoherent rant you never quoted scripture once. Are you this much of a jackass to everyone or am I special somehow? Somehow your inability to know what to type about which testament you are trying to drag your stupidity from is somehow my problem.
Figure out what you are trying to say and say it. Don't ascribe your own stupidity to me.
"New Covenant
The New Covenant came into effect at the Last Supper when Jesus said "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you." Luke 22:20 (NKJV) and it is a written guarantee that from the time it came into effect there will be no more intermediaries like Moses and the prophets because the sin of Adam no longer applies and God now deals directly with each one of His people like He did at the beginning (see New Covenant in Scripture)."
"Although Christianity affirms that the Books of Moses are the inspired word of God, Christian tradition, in this case similar to Jewish tradition, denies that all Mosaic biblical law still applies directly to Christians, but different arguments are used to reach that conclusion and there are differences of opinion within Christianity as to which laws, if any, still apply. The predominant Christian view is that Jesus mediates a New Covenant relationship between God and his followers, according to the New Testament, which ended or set aside some or all of the Old Testament law."
Both of those are wiki quotes which means the rest of the world understands them as true, You on the other hand having had a stroke, trisomy or some other malady will have to have then read to you. 99% of the Christian world would say those statements are true.
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." Matthew 5:17 AND HE DID THAT. HE FULFILLED THEM. THAT IS WHAT I SAID YOU MORON.
Yes, because the "sad pathetic old codgers who blame the anti-war protesters for the US fucking up in viatnam" sic had an issue with naming sympathizers in a public area where our enemies could track them down. Look at the docs, they know who our friends are in country. How does this help anyone save for the Taliban and Al'Quida?
You don't get to claim the high ground by releasing edited video.
An hour of boring drone? That too is part of the capital "T" Truth. I am sorry your blood lust needs a fast forward button, but the machine in normal patrol for an hour before hand does influence what happens later.
My God you are dumb. I mean heart-breaking-to-your-mother dumb. Your post shows that you know *nothing* about CS Lewis and potentially even less about Christianity. Go back to Digg, or Fark or wherever you came from. You tried for snark, you tripped and fell flat on the stupid-as-fuck line. Believe it or not, there are things that don't revolve around religion and the parent post was one. And even more mind blowing - there are things that are from Christianity that are good.
*W*O*W* - - - I know how weird is that?
When you retort, by all means, include the list of all atheist soup kitchens. I am sure it will not tax your keyboard skills.
And for ref's sake - I used to evolve germs for a living. I understand evolution and science well enough, so you can stuff your Luddite comments from the start, I have more degrees in the sciences than you do.
No one has ever been emotionally scarred for life by TIG welding. If you are going to relate sex and coal mining then the next step is 'rape is just being in someone's mine illegally'.
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"Especially in times before radio and TV, how would any political idea spread, if not in the form of religion?"
By the sword, as it had been done forever. The rest of your post is such rambling drivel that any high school debate freshman could turn into so much hay.
Here is a gem:
"If you think Luther and Calvijn (sic) were just political, I'm pretty sure a lot of protestants will disagree. But if you say they were a-political, that's just silly."
Uh, Luther died a Catholic Priest. His theses were a plea for the Church to change, there were no politics involved.
Another:
"Religion has been the main political ideology for thousands of years!"
Tell that to the Romans and the Greeks, I think almost any Emperor or Member of one of the Democratic City States would disagree with you.
Another:
"What a surprise, that the changeover in early Christianity from "kick the rich out of the temple!" to "well, listen to the good King because he knows best and that is the will of the Lord" comes around the time that Kings start to convert into Christians"
Except of course, the Roman Emperors had converted long before this. That was politics not religion.
In fact your entire post is riddled with this same error. You have the thesis that Religion == Politics and can't get it out of your teeth. Being confused from the beginning, your arguments show an appalling lack of the knowledge of history needed to make a compelling argument for your thesis.
Seraphim
Your newsletter, I would like to subscribe to it.
It isn't paranoia when they really *are* out to get you.
Firstly, there is Scotch, and there is Single Malt Scotch. *Never* mix the two up (nor mix them in a glass). Scotch is a 'Blend', Single Malt is from a single cask. What you want to acquire a taste for is Single Malt. They are hideously expensive since the yuppies found them years ago, but we can work with it. I won't go into all of the different distilleries, there are web sites that do it better, but I will note that you want to learn on a light scotch first. The cheap way to do this is go buy a bottle of Jameson Irish Whiskey. It is made the same as a single malt, but because it is Irish it can't be named a scotch. Because of that it is reasonably priced and in spite of that it is very very good.
Offend everyone and pour a shot over a few cubes of ice. Let it mellow for a minute and sip it gently. If its too strong, let it mellow a while longer and sip again. The melting ice will bring it to your palette after a while. The next pour, get brand new cubes, don't use the old ones, and start again. After you get used to it, you can start investing in real single malt. Try Glenmorangie, a nice light scotch. Buy the 10 yr old and for now ignore the older stuff. The older stuff (12, 18 year old) are incredible, but like fine wine you have to be able to have something to judge them against. There are single malts that leap off your tongue like air itself and single malts with depth like you have never tasted. One word of caution though. There is a single malt scotch, Laphroig, avoid it like the plague. I say this as a part owner in the Laphroig Distillery. Laphroig is the smokiest, peatiest of all the single malts, it is like chewing a bit of Scotland itself. It is wonderful and rough and fire and smoke. You will get there one day, but for now avoid it, it would ruin you on scotch.
Oh, and never mix a single malt scotch with anything, save water, maybe. If you are looking for a scotch liqueur Drambuie is one you might try, me I cant stand the stuff, sweetened scotch - blech.
Good luck on your journey, Here is a very well written book about single malt scotch.
Sorry, if you are making north of 200k and "have a harder time providing for our family", you ain't doing it right. Cell phones, every cable channel, the new lex in the 3 car garage. If you adjust for inflation that 20k is nice. I make less than half of what you make, and I am living high on the hog. I honestly don't know what you are doing wrong, but you are doing it.
lol - nice catch. I apologize to all those that can actually spell.
I am so terribly sorry, you were looking for the racism thread. Despite you low ID number I feel that I must tell you that here on Slashdot we don't really go in for the whole "Negro Bashing" thing. It might have been different when you started, and I really don't think it was, but now a days we don't actually bother with people's color because, well it has nothing to do with anything.
To help you understand my message I will use prejudicial terms so you can understand.
I know Kikes that are poor, Spics that dont pick fruit, Niggers that suck at sports and Faggots that don't like show tunes. See? Prejudice sucks - it doesn't help anyone at all.
Interestingly though - I now know someone that thinks 'Chocolate' is a special word for people who have dark skin. And I guess I also know someone that thinks the President is the Messiah. No one in the Theological world ever thought he was the Second Coming.
Yellowcake
It started a war that killed 10s of thousands and crippled many Americans.
Yes, because if he had taken office and yanked them out the next day you would hold him faultless. You would have been 100% behind that as two nations crumbled
Here is some personal responsibility for you. You voted these assholes into office, you pay for their wars. Moreover, you send YOUR sons to die for this bullshit.
FFS - at least get the *REAL* ref right - They Live
Why would you do this? I mean what disfunction must you have that you start to think that this is acceptable?
lol nice risk analysis you got going there.
"Given what he knew at the time,"
You have no idea what he knew at the time, so don't even try to postulate.
Oh - and never mind that the *facts* of the incident prove you wrong. The "least net harm" was proven to be him stopping the vehicle.
lol
One of the schools is in West Virginia(cant remember the name), I know a recent graduate. From what he says they are not going anywhere any time soon. And as for the books, it sounds like what you are describing are The Gingery Books there are 7 of them that when you go through them all you have a modern machine shop at the end.
And in all of that incoherent rant you never quoted scripture once. Are you this much of a jackass to everyone or am I special somehow? Somehow your inability to know what to type about which testament you are trying to drag your stupidity from is somehow my problem.
Figure out what you are trying to say and say it. Don't ascribe your own stupidity to me.
"New Covenant
The New Covenant came into effect at the Last Supper when Jesus said "This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you." Luke 22:20 (NKJV) and it is a written guarantee that from the time it came into effect there will be no more intermediaries like Moses and the prophets because the sin of Adam no longer applies and God now deals directly with each one of His people like He did at the beginning (see New Covenant in Scripture)."
"Although Christianity affirms that the Books of Moses are the inspired word of God, Christian tradition, in this case similar to Jewish tradition, denies that all Mosaic biblical law still applies directly to Christians, but different arguments are used to reach that conclusion and there are differences of opinion within Christianity as to which laws, if any, still apply. The predominant Christian view is that Jesus mediates a New Covenant relationship between God and his followers, according to the New Testament, which ended or set aside some or all of the Old Testament law."
Both of those are wiki quotes which means the rest of the world understands them as true, You on the other hand having had a stroke, trisomy or some other malady will have to have then read to you. 99% of the Christian world would say those statements are true. "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." Matthew 5:17 AND HE DID THAT. HE FULFILLED THEM. THAT IS WHAT I SAID YOU MORON.
He *is* the fulfillment of the Law. Our debt is paid. It is the new Covenant that we live under now. Not the Old Testament.
I am a Christian, and I approve of this message.
There is a reason it is called the 'Old' Testament.
Yes, because the "sad pathetic old codgers who blame the anti-war protesters for the US fucking up in viatnam" sic had an issue with naming sympathizers in a public area where our enemies could track them down. Look at the docs, they know who our friends are in country. How does this help anyone save for the Taliban and Al'Quida?
No, I won't deal with it.
You don't get to claim the high ground by releasing edited video.
An hour of boring drone? That too is part of the capital "T" Truth. I am sorry your blood lust needs a fast forward button, but the machine in normal patrol for an hour before hand does influence what happens later.
Sera
My God you are dumb. I mean heart-breaking-to-your-mother dumb. Your post shows that you know *nothing* about CS Lewis and potentially even less about Christianity. Go back to Digg, or Fark or wherever you came from. You tried for snark, you tripped and fell flat on the stupid-as-fuck line. Believe it or not, there are things that don't revolve around religion and the parent post was one. And even more mind blowing - there are things that are from Christianity that are good.
*W*O*W* - - - I know how weird is that?
When you retort, by all means, include the list of all atheist soup kitchens. I am sure it will not tax your keyboard skills.
And for ref's sake - I used to evolve germs for a living. I understand evolution and science well enough, so you can stuff your Luddite comments from the start, I have more degrees in the sciences than you do.
That was one of the most depressing things I have read in a long, long time. Thank you.
This is going to sound wine snob - sorry.
Brown is like its name, thick, earthy, think fresh turned earth, with sugar.
Green is as well, light, airy, with a sharpness - and there is the rub. Many do not like a sharpness in their sweet.
What do you think about open sourcing that voice recognition software? Goodness know OS needs it.
Are you really purposely introducing flaws in your own database? Is it not a movie? Does it not have actors, grips and sundry?
I guess that teaches me to not take advantage of a chance to get Total Annihilation for cheap :(
There is a redundant statement here can you see it?
No one has ever been emotionally scarred for life by TIG welding. If you are going to relate sex and coal mining then the next step is 'rape is just being in someone's mine illegally'.