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Electra
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| Posted 5/24/2002 4:40 AM (GMT -6) |   | 
I hear that some people on this board have pet bunnies. Watership Down, by Richard Adams is a 400-page epic adventure about talking bunnies. Don’t be fooled—these bunnies mean business. This is probably the best adventure novel I’ve ever read. It’s kind of like the Harry Potter books in that both kids and adults get a kick out of it. I first read it in grade school. Then I read it again in high school and liked it even better. Adams has another book called Plague Dogs that I hear is also very good.
Electra
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He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?”
I answered, “O Lord God, you know.”
Ezekiel 37:3
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timlings
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| Posted 5/27/2002 1:37 AM (GMT -6) | | Watership down?
It used to be my very favouritest book in the world ever when I was younger. I'm sure I've read it at least 4 times or something crazy. But I was rather a big rabbit fan in my early youth. So a big hearty recommendation from me.
New York Trilogy anyone? A little bit more freaky and grown-up, but very readable.
L8r
Timlings
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Electra
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| Posted 5/27/2002 4:49 PM (GMT -6) | | 
What could be more interesting than a murder mystery in a medieval monastery? Umberto Eco’s novel is filled with fascinating details about monastic life. Although I loved this book, I thought Eco’s Foucalt’s Pendulum was the hyper-esoteric 800-page mother of all conspiracy theories and I never finished it.
The Red Tent is a novel about Dinah’s life. I haven’t read this book yet, but it was highly recommended to me and I gave it to my mother and sister-in-law and they loved it.
Tom, this is for you: FICTION ONLY
Read on,
Electra
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He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?”
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Electra
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| Posted 5/27/2002 4:51 PM (GMT -6) | | What can I say—I’m a fan of juvenile literature. Especially when I’m supposed to be reading something else, like The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics  . Anyway, these are a few of my favorites.
A Day No Pigs Would Die is the story of a thirteen-year-old rural farmboy and his pet pig. Robert Peck did an amazing job of capturing the simple, yet very very deep rhythm of this Shaker family’s life—and all of our lives.
 
These books are great fun!!! One reviewer described Cushman thus: “Karen Cushman likes to write with her tongue firmly planted in her cheek, and her feisty female characters firmly planted in history.” Her writing is known for its “historical accuracy, saucy dialogue, fast-paced action, and plucky, original characters.” These books made me laugh out loud.
Electra
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Electra
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| Posted 5/27/2002 5:11 PM (GMT -6) | | Wow, I guess bunny fans span the globe, from Lebanon to the UK! My very first pet was a baby bunny my dad caught. I named him Hoppy. When Hoppy escaped I lured him back with a trail of cabbage and carrots. He didn’t fall for it the second time. 
That’s my big bunny story. 
Electra
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He said to me, “Mortal, can these bones live?”
I answered, “O Lord God, you know.”
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Beek
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| Posted 5/28/2002 2:52 PM (GMT -6) | | Electra,
Your reading/experience of Foucalt's Pendulum proves your character. Either you allow yourself to be sucked deeper and deeper into conspiracy theories, searching for the one "unified" theory to end all theories--or--you throw up your hands, decide to see them for what they are, and go back to real life. Eco actually set up an unresolvable novel. It is about the lure of secret knowledge, that always proves a sham when it is revealed. You didn't miss much.
I finished it. Hmm, what does that say about my character?
Beek
PS. Check out Denis Johnson's book, Jesus' Son, a collection of related short stories about a stoner looking for love. Very funny. Incandescent writing. (Somebody should print a blurb dictionary. I'm sure incandescent would be in it.)
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Mute
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| Posted 5/28/2002 6:45 PM (GMT -6) | | quote:
Tom, this is for you: FICTION ONLY
Well alright, if we are limiting ourselves to fiction then here's a book that should be on everyone's list.
Just messing with you, I hope it's no one's favorite here.
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Tom
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| Posted 5/28/2002 7:38 PM (GMT -6) | | Mute-
Based on your TWO posts I think I like you.
Tom
PS Speaking of fiction, we could perhaps include large, very large, portions--perhaps up in the 90% range--of all the anti-open responses written in recent years. I could believe that Pelagius was a totally orthodox dude, given the fact that we have to depend on Augustine for Pelagius' views. If every book or post written by an open theist were to disappear, every sermon as well, and every open theist pass away (a lot of people are happy now, eh?) and we only had Geisler, Ware, and company to depend upon for reconstructing the open view, it would be impossible to arrive at the truth.
"Every saint has a history and every sinner a future." Oscar Wilde
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 5/29/2002 12:56 PM (GMT -6) | | quote:
Mute-
Based on your TWO posts I think I like you.
Tom
So I went back and looked at Mute's other post after this comment. I couldn't stop laughting on both accounts, especially Mute's first post. I had to walk over to the fountain, get a drink and have water almost come out of my nose. I still have tears, sweat and a hurting stomach.
Brandon
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 5/29/2002 1:29 PM (GMT -6) | | Like this Tom?  This is my first go at putting an image up.
Brandon
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 5/29/2002 1:51 PM (GMT -6) | | 
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 5/29/2002 3:21 PM (GMT -6) | | Thanks for the reference POW.
Brandon
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 5/29/2002 4:07 PM (GMT -6) | | | ....still trying to 'read between the lines'... | | Back to Top | | |
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writerdad
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| Posted 5/29/2002 7:53 PM (GMT -6) | | Bound Only Once is my nomination for "Clueless" book of the year award (maybe even the century, I certainly don't want to sell it short).
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Tom
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| Posted 5/29/2002 7:58 PM (GMT -6) | | quote:
Like this Tom? This is my first go at putting an image up.
Nicely done Brandon! I heard that what the authors wanted to do was superimpose the face of Clark Pinnock over the lamb's head and have Bruce Ware standing over top with a large knife raised in the air, but the publisher's objected.
Tom
"Every saint has a history and every sinner a future." Oscar Wilde
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 5/30/2002 7:59 AM (GMT -6) | | quote:
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Like this Tom? This is my first go at putting an image up.
Nicely done Brandon! I heard that what the authors wanted to do was superimpose the face of Clark Pinnock over the lamb's head and have Bruce Ware standing over top with a large knife raised in the air, but the publisher's objected.
Tom
"Every saint has a history and every sinner a future." Oscar Wilde
Edited by - TGB on 05/30/2002 01:00:17 AM
HA! HA! Really? Cause I heard it was s'pose to be Boyd and either Ware or Piper.  They also thought of Sproul. But Sprouls' not tooooo, shall we say, photogenic?
Brandon
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 5/30/2002 8:01 AM (GMT -6) | | writerdad. Read your nomination at amazon.com. Good stuff.
Brandon
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writerdad
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| Posted 5/30/2002 12:19 PM (GMT -6) | | Tom: such a cover (Pinnock, Ware) would be WAY too creative, much too great of a leap for Wilson and his fellow "theologians."
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writerdad
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| Posted 5/30/2002 12:21 PM (GMT -6) | | Brandon: thanks for the props! Every once in awhile I'll go back and read my "nomination." Sometimes I feel I was too harsh. But then I just go back and read some of the book itself and realize I wasn't even close to what harsh truly is. Harold
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PotOnWheel
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Mute
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| Posted 5/31/2002 8:48 AM (GMT -6) | | quote:
So I went back and looked at Mute's other post after this comment. I couldn't stop laughting on both accounts, especially Mute's first post. I had to walk over to the fountain, get a drink and have water almost come out of my nose. I still have tears, sweat and a hurting stomach.
Another case of laughing in the Spirit? Chalk one up for the Holy Ghost.
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Tom
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| Posted 5/31/2002 9:01 AM (GMT -6) | | quote:
I had...water almost come out of my nose.
As a Pentecostal I'd like to know what you think this is initial evidence of?
And Mute, you're killing me. That's three posts. Now come on, give us a serious and deeply theological thought...
Tom
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BBBCanada
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| Posted 6/1/2002 3:49 AM (GMT -6) | | Thats just it Tom! I'm Pentecaaaaastol too. And it is the intial evidence of the baptism of the Holly Ghaaast. As a matter of fact the AOG/PAOC changed translation of John 7: 38,
"He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water."
has been changed to,
"He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his nasal passages shall flow rivers of living water."
Praise da Lord.
Brandon
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 6/1/2002 4:13 AM (GMT -6) | | What kind of litergical vestments are involved with that -- and do they involve ScotchGuard?
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Matthew Timothy Short
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| Posted 6/1/2002 5:18 AM (GMT -6) | | Mute: Praying to curse someone else is wrong plan and simple. Jesus never prayed to curse someone. I despise anyone who would even entertain praying this way. I hate them. I pray that God would take their skulls and crack them with sledge hammers, that God would smite them and utterly and force them to slide down razor blades into a pool of alcohol. I pray that God would inject poison into their armpits and I can’t think of anything to pray for. They’re bad bad people who hate.
Lisa Simpson: The plan is simple, when praying to curse someone, or plain and simple? Can I despise anyone praying to God in bad grammar; you used an "End-of-Sentence Preposition (no suggestions)", and tells me, I am or is that; Aim is I bad for hating.
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