Linguistics isn't easy, but one thing about the Bible is that it is the most studied / scrutinized / critiqued book ever published.[b said:Quote[/b] (LauraZ5 @ Mar. 25 2005,12:54)]Tee he, I have 12 litter boxes and I have no idea how many she has but there certainly isn't an edible one in the bunch. Were you referring to that disgusting Halloween Kitty Litter Cake recipe that makes everyone gag?
http://www.bertc.com/kitty.htm
Yup, that's the one! I enjoyed it - I mean I enjoyed the picture and the creativity. Not sure I'd rank it above a cheesecake or anything else for that matter.
I'm the one who has the Maine Coon looking cat. He's probably nothing more than a DLH with the Maine Coon coloration but he certainly is a nice looking animal.
Domestic Long Hair? Yes, a beautiful cat!
April left early this morning to visit her parents in Florida. She won't be back for a while and she doesn't have a lap top. Shame as I have no doubt she'd really love to jump in to this thread.
I suspect the thread will be kicking around for her when she gets back!
Good point here Jim,
[b said:Quote[/b] ]There are Hebrew letters that look similar enough to have been confused
(Thanks) A Rosh and a Daled are two letters that have cause a little confusion. The Hebrew poetry and prose, where they rhyme concepts (not sounds) is interesting. But the changing of a consonant to be play on words is different than what we so. E.G.: Ya - a - cov (Jacob) and Yabbock (River) are used to make a point.
Then there are those blasted vowels that aren't there in the original manuscripts. So ya have to guess what the sounds were and what form of the word was intended.
Another valid point-
[b said:Quote[/b] ]Sometimes translating from one language to another is problematic, partially because there may be more than one meaning for a word, or that one language doesn't have word to adequately describe the meaning being conveyed.
What was that one example of our language having one word for snow and another has several, to decribe many types of flakes?
It wouldn't have chromosomes. Any reference at all to gender is irrelevant. Likewise with any trait dependant on being organ-based, chemistry-based, material, temporal, etc.[b said:Quote[/b] (Treaqum @ Mar. 25 2005,5:56)]Well we could God "it" since god would either be a hamaphrodite (sp?) or Eunich depending on your definintion.
I appreciate that... I figured most people here thought I was full of it by now.[b said:Quote[/b] (LauraZ5 @ Mar. 25 2005,8:20)]Hey enparenthsis- you have a good mind.
[b said:Quote[/b] ]Hey rubra- I believe in eternal darnation. I believe there to exist a special place reserved for the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer, Mao Tse-tung, Usama Bin Laden, Francisco Pizarro, Emperor Nero, Caligula, Genghis Khan, Pol Pot, Adolph Hitler, H. H. Holmes, Josef Stalin, Vlad Tepes, Ilse Koch, Josef Mengele, Saddam Hussein, Tomas de Torquemada, Adolf Eichman, Grigori Rasputin, Elizabeth Bathory, Gilles de Rais, Charles Manson, and Idi Amin, Tallat Pasha, Nicolae Ceausescu, and Atila The Hun. Did I miss anyone… yes, thousands.
ok most of these people were evil, however caligula would likely have been committed to a mental institution today, i mean he tried to name his favorite horse a senator, so im not sure we should assume he should get darned, i mean i think what ever the greater power out there is would be somewhat forgiving with people that he allowed to have mental problems.[b said:Quote[/b] (LauraZ5 @ Mar. 26 2005,2:20)]I believe in eternal darnation. I believe there to exist a special place reserved for the likes of Jeffrey Dahmer, Mao Tse-tung, Usama Bin Laden, Francisco Pizarro, Emperor Nero, Caligula, Genghis Khan, Pol Pot, Adolph Hitler, H. H. Holmes, Josef Stalin, Vlad Tepes, Ilse Koch, Josef Mengele, Saddam Hussein, Tomas de Torquemada, Adolf Eichman, Grigori Rasputin, Elizabeth Bathory, Gilles de Rais, Charles Manson, and Idi Amin, Tallat Pasha, Nicolae Ceausescu, and Atila The Hun. Did I miss anyone… yes, thousands.
Purgatory is supposedly where you go to get punished, for believers, then you go to heaven. It isn't mentioned in the bible by word, but is implied in different places. (i.e. God forgives you if you ask..but if you never asked him to forgive you for one sin, what happens?)[b said:Quote[/b] ]isn't there the purgatory too? I don't get the purgatory... can anyone tell me what the purgatory is? just a waiting room?
that wasnt the one that talked about neadertal and how they were cannibals was it cause if so that show was horrible. i dont remember what channel it was on but it was just awful the assumptions they made.[b said:Quote[/b] (droseradude @ Mar. 26 2005,6:42)]uhm...
did any of you ppl see that cannibilism show on history channel a week ago?
What rate is that, exactly? There was plenty of time for whole ecosystems to develop on other planets before our first multi-celled lifeform showed up. Likewise there are probably planets out there where life has just begun. And what about those hundreds of millions of years "wasted" on the dinosaurs rather than developing right into humanity's lineage?[b said:Quote[/b] ]The reason, besides blind faith in the Bible for logical reasons to believe in some supernatural power is that it seems quite coincidental that the universe expanded at the exact rate possible for life to form
They're extremely useful. If someone is taking everything you have and leaving you to die... rage suddenly becomes pretty handy if you intend to survive. For intelligent social animals to work together and get along, empathy is pretty handy too.[b said:Quote[/b] ]And then human emotions, and also the consience (right and wrong) are so complex there must be a mind behind them If you say those were made for survival of human life by evolution, that doesn't fit because "rage" and "hate" certainly don't help humans survive.
[b said:Quote[/b] ]Yes Alpha is right people like Hitler already went through hell. Actually (don;t quote me on this) I think he told his teacher his father was beating him before he ran away. I am fairly sure his teacher was jewish and so his hate of them came out of his father beating him because hte teacher did nothing to help him. Being rational would have made him only hate his teacher but I thnk he was driven past that.
Soem of those other people are hailed as heros, or "great men". So is your point we are making heros out of greatly terrible people? And so everyone who thinks of them as heros/great men should go to hell because they beleve that they were great.
[b said:Quote[/b] ]"do you smell what I smell
A child
A child
Dinner's on the way
Yum Yum Yum, Yum Yum Yum (refrain)
Do you hear what I hear
A child
A child
Screaming in the dark
(refrain)
Do you see what I see
A child
A child
roasting on a spit
(refrain)
do you taste what I taste
A child
A child
disolving in my mouth
(refrain)
Yum Yum Yum, Yum Yum Yum.
[b said:Quote[/b] ]for example... chemical imbalances of the brain can lead to depression which can make you commit suicide.
so if a god punishes people for that... I know people nicer than God.