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I think the cost is an ugly thing - but I have to admit, if all of those repeated investigations weren't done, the moment something bad happened there would be a firestorm. Chances are, they are in response to firestorms. I think this falls in the category of what the state/community should...

This is the other thing it makes me think of

I would hope to see more innovative measures (engaging the public in a strategized way) before jumping straight to this.

My first that is I am constantly disappointed this is the least followed belief of protestants. First all - a great number require the "formula" of belief you have to state to be born again. Secondly, there is a huge trend of open condemnation of whole populations and a good number of churches...

All of our donations are strategic. The US has always used money to bend the will of nearby nations. Cuba and Haiti have something we don't want flooding our shores. People. We made the Wet Feet, Dry Feet policy for Cubans where we said if we see you at sea, we turn you around or detain you...

This snippet sums up how I've viewed Orthodox and Protestantism. The "problem" mentioned with tracing succession, in my mind, is the grab at authority. There are many protestant churches that follow apostolic succession as a level of importance in their denomination. Not as *the authority*...

Yeah - it was like a more internalized Matrix. They did some things in the story I don't think they would have done (especially the ending) if the "bodies" on screen weren't artificial.

I just remember going through "the phone game" at various times as a child. Often this was cited in classroom settings as why there is a deference for written traditions or even total dismissal of oral cultures and histories because they couldn't possibly be accurate.

Sitting down top watch it now

I'm wondering if your image of oral tradition has changed since becoming a freemason. I was surprised by the oral tradition because the image of oral cultures and traditions is so negative in Western culture. Here's one of my favorite quotes on maintaining oral liturgy.. Somehow it seems...

There's a chicken we make called BFC where you fill the chicken with sausage.

Many of you may have familiarity with the term “Alchemistâ€.* For most this term conjures images of early experimenters attempting to chemically convert lead or base metals into gold, and the search for the chemical elixir of life.* These experimenters did indeed exist, their work being...

The Mason who takes the 14° Degree of the Scottish Rite completes a circle. Actually, it is more like a spiral, because he ends up in the same place he started when he first knocked on the door of the Lodge seeking Light; but at a higher level. The symbol of this Degree, the ring, is therefore...

Pat Robertson Voodoo doll offered for sale on ebay http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/11042

"Thou Shall Not Worship any Other God Before Me." This gets applied to just about everything out there. I don't venerate Saints, but they aren't gods. And while some or many many carry the veneration to extremes, I don't think they believe its God who needs Saints but they themselves...

I was going to post this in response to Number 10 on the "Catholic Perspectives" thread. Orthodox churches and the Roman Orthodox church were one branch and split. Rome has the right to believe their Orthodox is the absolute truth. And of course those other split ones may claim they are...

I was thinking of airport body scanners with all of the images facing the street as the entrance to Congress.

Meh. no need for apologies I might be misreading too. Here's what I see in this conversation - getting deployed is a "come to jesus moment" (in my un-deployed opinion). People probably do "come to Jesus" and the other thing we all see is a spring of weddings before deployments. While...

I don't think anyone has said anything untoward at all. My impression of someone who does this surgery is that it is a fully thought out choice. I don't think they necessarily have to be happy about absolutely everything they lose or gain in the change. A lot of people sacrifice family and...