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shell
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Posted 7/31/2003 7:25 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by might-be-don

I like the fact that Jesus didn't always use the same procedure to heal folks. Spit & mud, that's the best way, yeah.

peace, don

Hey now that's an idea...spit and mud at the altar. Smile

I'll have to try that one. Smile

DLW
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Posted 7/31/2003 7:46 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by shell

quote:
Originally posted by might-be-don

I like the fact that Jesus didn't always use the same procedure to heal folks. Spit & mud, that's the best way, yeah.

peace, don

Hey now that's an idea...spit and mud at the altar. I'll have to try that one.

Particularly spit and mud taken from nuclear testing grounds, so long as one's father had been experimenting on himself with genetic enhancements and passed along to you the enhancements.

The results can be quite stunning, or so I was led to think from a movie I recently saw.

dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

BBBCanada
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Posted 7/31/2003 7:47 AM (GMT -6)

shell,

If I need prayer? And if you offer to pray for me? I'll appreciate the gesture? But I think I'll pass! Tongue

Brandon

"Corporations are simply the kind of structure that rises when hordes of people need to be managed, and after spending some time in a large church, I've found that our spirituality does not exempt us from these inefficient and dehumanizing practices."--Steve Lansingh's review of "The Office" at The Film Form

Laika
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Posted 7/31/2003 7:50 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by shell
Hey now that's an idea...spit and mud at the altar. I'll have to try that one.

[:0] shell, just remember to mix the spit and mud outside of your mouth, n'kay?

inside you the time moves and she don't fade
the ghost in you she don't fade

DLW
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Posted 7/31/2003 9:09 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Laika

quote:
Originally posted by shell
Hey now that's an idea...spit and mud at the altar. I'll have to try that one.

[:0] shell, just remember to mix the spit and mud outside of your mouth, n'kay?

Actually, it may not be a bad idea to feed your kids dirt, since there are so many different microbes in it that it is better to get them immunized to it early so they won't be vulnerable later.

dlw

shell
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Posted 7/31/2003 9:11 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Laika

quote:
Originally posted by shell
Hey now that's an idea...spit and mud at the altar. I'll have to try that one.

[:0] shell, just remember to mix the spit and mud outside of your mouth, n'kay?

Oh good IDEA. And how did you know I'm a blonde?!!! Question

DLW
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Posted 7/31/2003 10:15 AM (GMT -6)

Well you did think I was gehenna-bent on wreaking revenge on you for excluding my favorite topic of all time from another link by changing the coding of your name, even though only the admin could possibly do something like that.

dlw

shell
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Posted 7/31/2003 10:29 AM (GMT -6)

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Well you did think I was gehenna-bent on wreaking revenge on you for excluding my favorite topic of all time from another link by changing the coding of your name, even though only the admin could possibly do something like that.

dlw

Well, I just thought you were maybe a psycho hacker or something! Ya never know these days, especially on a board like this Big Smile

So who put your name in there anyway?

DLW
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Posted 7/31/2003 10:38 AM (GMT -6)

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Originally posted by shell
Well, I just thought you were maybe a psycho hacker or something! Ya never know these days, especially on a board like this So who put your name in there anyway? Adiaphora said she didn't touch it...JC Sites guy?

With an obsessive-compulsive streak!!! Wink

dlw

shell
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Posted 7/31/2003 10:42 AM (GMT -6)

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Originally posted by DLW

With an obsessive-compulsive streak!!!
dlw

Who you or me? Angry

I think CVM should hire a psychiatrist to moderate this site.

Laika
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Posted 7/31/2003 10:55 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by shell
I think CVM should hire a psychiatrist to moderate this site.

[:0] They did but he went and SHOT himself!!!

bada boom

inside you the time moves and she don't fade
the ghost in you she don't fade

DLW
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Posted 7/31/2003 11:12 AM (GMT -6)

But didn't you hear his last words, "d-a-m-n that dog, Laika!"
dlw

shell
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Posted 7/31/2003 11:14 AM (GMT -6)

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Originally posted by DLW

But didn't you hear his last words, "d-a-m-n that dog, Laika!"
dlw

I just have one question: What good is that naughty word filter anyway? Smile

DLW
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Posted 7/31/2003 11:26 AM (GMT -6)

Go complain to Adiaphora! Evil

dlw

Tigress
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Posted 7/31/2003 11:52 AM (GMT -6)

Oooaakaaaay! Looks like you've all been keeping this thread warm while I've been gone! Smile

Here's what Tyler DeArmond replied to me:

"Interesting question. I am sympathetic to your experience. I too am
left-handed. Frankly, I think it is most likely a culturally relative thing.
Here's what I mean:

There are historical records of people at various times actually killing
left-handed children, or at least forcing them to function right-handedly.
Those that refused to do this would be considered deviant or abnormal and
may have been killed as a result. It is also the case that what tends to be
"normal" for the majority generally becomes "normative" for the minority.
The more rigorous the culture, the more forcefully they will make the norm
(right-handedness) normative (enforced on all).

In the case of the Bible, the norm, as in all cultures, is that most people
are right-handed. Therefore, most people experience their right hand and arm
as the stronger. Therefore, the right hand becomes a symbol of strength.

There is nothing particularly spiritual about this. It is a matter of
meaning attributed arbitrarily and then the symbolic value of that being
recognized and enforced in common imagery.

Today, people no longer associate the right-hand with strength, in fact, we
recognize the advantages of being left-handed in certain environments. Like
pitchers in baseball, ping-pong players, golfers often hit further if they
are left-handed (using righthanded clubs) and so forth. Since that imagery
has lost its power over our imaginations, either hand can be used to bless
or to curse.

Blessings,
Tyler"

Tigress

"Name a shrub after me. Preferably one that's prickly and difficult to eradicate."

-Captain Jack Aubrey
"Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World"

DLW
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Posted 7/31/2003 11:58 AM (GMT -6)

Yeah, and we as a culture don't really value that left-brained thinking too much either now adays.

dlw Evil

DLW
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Posted 7/31/2003 12:42 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by PotOnWheel

Orthdox cross themselves from right-to-left. Roman Catholics cross themselves from left-to-right.

Doesn't matter one ioto.

I'm told the Orthodox way was the original and that the RC approach got started when the people mimicking the priest used the wrong hand. So they decided to officially switch to maintain Church unity.

I remember reading about how a group of African-American Catholic Priests adopted the practice of holding hands together in a circle while praying and that this became controversial among other priests since they didn't do that and as such they were not in unity.

dlw

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