Recent content by Zimfan

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    Views on Wicca

    That might be hard, but not impossible if he has a decent grasp of church history and a working knowledge of one of the two major languages of the Roman Empire (Latin and Greek). Just about all of the books of the New Testament were written in the first century, and most of the basic traditions...
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    Test Your Civics

    Spent more on Social Security last year, as well. http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2007/ Warning, lots of rather dull charts to dig through to get the information. Adding 80% of the payments towards the national debt to the total for military spending is absurd, especially under the...
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    Test Your Civics

    The Iraq war has certainly spiked Defense Department spending, but Social Security still trumps the military for federal spending. http://www.federalbudget.com/
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    Bible essay stirs trouble for teacher

    I was about to post that I hadn't, but then I remembered eleventh grade AP English. :wave: I hit the link to the "Problem of Evil" assignment, and I could see why it wouldn't be appropriate for a public high school, where religion is a touchy subject. I would expect them to just ask the guy...
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    Is the creation story in Geneses a literal or figurative story?

    :) I also rather doubt that the writer, or any of the thousands upon thousands that heard the story over the next few thousand years, were too dull to notice what seemed like differences, too. I agree with your analogy that the two stories are like two newspaper stories, both true but...
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    The North American Union?

    From one of the few wikipedia articles I've seen with decent citations. "Despite these differences, Canada is by far the United States' largest trading partner, with more than $1.7 billion CAD in trade per day in 2005. This relationship represents 81% of exports and 67% of imports for Canada...
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    Is the creation story in Geneses a literal or figurative story?

    You mean the one that lays things out a certain way and the one that appears to contradict it in places? :) P.S. The key word here is appears, of course. I'm not pretending that I know their are irreconciable differences in the two accounts, but they there are a few points in them that appear...
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    Is the creation story in Geneses a literal or figurative story?

    :sorry: Which one, the one in Chapter 1, or in Chapter 2?
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    The Grades.

    If it helps any I have 5 more credit hours than normal this semester and I'm still working as many hours as ever so it might be going down before I graduate. :cool:
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    Need Advise before College

    I could be wrong, but since this forum is in life stages, I think it's for people around college age to post in, not just for posts about college, so I'd think any question would be fine. :)
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    Gothic // Sub-Culture - Views Please

    To quote a favorite cartoon show of mine, "I don't know whether to laugh ^_^ or to vomit :sick: ".
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    What translations do most here like?

    I grew up with an NIV, and a KJV. Since one of my college courses requires a more literal version of the bible(RSV suggested) I had to buy a new one. No RSVs at the bookstore, so I picked up the ESV. If it's as good as some of the people in this thread have said, I may be using that one for...
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    Some of that good ol' fashioned bigotry

    :doh: It seems like every time I read a paper or catch up in the political threads here at cf, I see something that makes me long for the next presidential election.
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    The Grades.

    Finally got a B last semester, dropping my GPA to a 3.949. Ah well, only one more semester to go, so I guess it doesn't matter any more. :P
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    Gothic // Sub-Culture - Views Please

    I was a bit worried reading that list until I saw "-Eats goth-related foods. Count Dracula cereal is an example of this." Being a Frankenberry man myself I guess I'm safe after all. :D