tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post2154252183996696180..comments2024-03-18T16:10:41.673-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Why do we keep the White House open, ever? Let’s just shut it down, permanently.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59032858674059210632013-10-07T00:15:29.465-04:002013-10-07T00:15:29.465-04:00I liked it Anon.
Good night for me too.I liked it Anon.<br />Good night for me too.Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-41650636415165657852013-10-06T23:54:24.008-04:002013-10-06T23:54:24.008-04:00Momma rock me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvKy...Momma rock me<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvKyBcCDOB4<br /><br />g'niteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-81692491728254611182013-10-06T23:51:52.525-04:002013-10-06T23:51:52.525-04:00After three readings, well, yes, perhaps.....After three readings, well, yes, perhaps.....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-69648903870691457012013-10-06T23:46:41.708-04:002013-10-06T23:46:41.708-04:00Yes, I remember the lanterns and the triangle. Tap...Yes, I remember the lanterns and the triangle. Tape up the whole buggy. I'm surprised the state allows them on the roads at night.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-77671405662672480492013-10-06T23:19:49.011-04:002013-10-06T23:19:49.011-04:00I'd call you a "christos" a follower...<i>I'd call you a "christos" a follower of Christ.</i><br /><br />Good enough for me.<br />Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-50984127095290998652013-10-06T23:18:17.574-04:002013-10-06T23:18:17.574-04:00They do have one of those reflective triangle symb...They do have one of those reflective triangle symbols on the back but just a lantern in the front.Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-48051413887059712292013-10-06T23:12:46.766-04:002013-10-06T23:12:46.766-04:00Franz Rosenzweig (STAR OF REDEMPTION, 1930) would ...Franz Rosenzweig (STAR OF REDEMPTION, 1930) would champion Nietzsche not on matters of belief but because Nietzsche had forever changed how philosophy would be understood, and it was the tragedy of Nietzsche’s life that his innovation would assume its place in the evolution of the conscious mind.<br />“Since all time poets had spoken of life and their own soul. But not philosophers. And saints had always lived their life and that of their own soul. But once again, not philosophers. Yet here there arrived a man who knew his life and his soul like a poet and obeyed their voice like a saint, and yet he was a philosopher. It almost doesn’t matter today what he philosophized about…Thus man – no! not a man, an entirely specific man became a power dominating philosophy – no!, his philosophy…<br />Philosophy had thought it could take hold of man, including man as ‘personality’, in ethics. But that was an impossible aspiration…every ethics ended by emerging again in a doctrine of the community that forms a part of being…<br />The history of philosophy had never yet seen an atheism like that of Nietzsche. Nietzsche is the first thinker who – not negates God--but in the really proper theological use of the word: ‘refutes’ him. More precisely: he curses him. ..It is not God’s being, but God’s freedom that leads him to protect himself in this way…like the metalogical before, the metaethical repels the metaphysical and precisely through this makes it visible as divine ‘personality’, as unity—and not as one like the human personality…” <br />allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15605114251615293411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-14805496978599862892013-10-06T23:10:33.734-04:002013-10-06T23:10:33.734-04:00how about non-electrical reflective tape?
how about non-electrical reflective tape?<br />What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75617846776199129932013-10-06T23:00:48.817-04:002013-10-06T23:00:48.817-04:00the Creator is all about the truth
And yet you d...the Creator is all about the truth<br /><br /><br />And yet you distort, lie and misquote the Hebrew Scriptures all the time.<br /><br />I hope the Creator gives you one big ass time out.What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-6326830921230267882013-10-06T22:59:55.766-04:002013-10-06T22:59:55.766-04:00They ought to have those buggies lit up at night l...They ought to have those buggies lit up at night like an eighteen wheeler.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34035071805459913362013-10-06T22:57:58.705-04:002013-10-06T22:57:58.705-04:00Guess not.
I'd call you a "christos"...Guess not.<br /><br />I'd call you a "christos" a follower of Christ.<br /><br />There is neither Jew nor Gentile in the body of Christ, Galatians.<br /><br />No need to lift or steal another's people's identity, be strong with your own.What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33035315423515462602013-10-06T22:56:10.959-04:002013-10-06T22:56:10.959-04:00No, the lie you continued for 2 years is the issue...No, the lie you continued for 2 years is the issue.<br /><br />What is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86040731582630632552013-10-06T22:34:46.574-04:002013-10-06T22:34:46.574-04:00Not to take anything away from the Amish.
I live i...Not to take anything away from the Amish.<br />I live in close proximity to alot of Amish folks.<br />Good people as far as I can tell. I haven't lived here very long though.<br /><br />The maple syrup is rather expensive.<br />They are hard to see at night while driving as their buggies are painted black.Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-29703785557011838722013-10-06T22:29:00.062-04:002013-10-06T22:29:00.062-04:00Hebrew for Christians
In our Torah portion for th...<i>Hebrew for Christians <br />In our Torah portion for this week (i.e., Lekh Lekha) Abram is called ha-ivri (הָעִבְרִי) - “the Hebrew,” a term that means “one who has crossed over” (עָבַר) from another place. Rashi identifies this “other place” as Ur of the Chaldees (אוּר כַּשְׂדִים), located east of the Euphrates River, though the midrash (Genesis Rabbah) symbolically identifies it as the realm of idolatry: “The whole world ...stood on one side, but Abram crossed over to the other.” Abram separated himself from a world steeped in idolatry and polytheism by worshiping the One LORD God who is the sole Creator of all things.... Understood in this way, being “Hebrew” means being regarded as an “other,” a “stranger,” or an “outsider” to idolatrous world culture. Similarly, all those who "cross over" from the realm of death to life because of Yeshua our Savior are rightly called “Hebrews” (John 5:24).</i><br /><br />Call me a Hebrew, I guess.(?)<br />Dougmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08468871451814828157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-62884508884729874892013-10-06T21:36:27.272-04:002013-10-06T21:36:27.272-04:00I like happy endings.I like happy endings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-17901503776569874752013-10-06T21:34:00.123-04:002013-10-06T21:34:00.123-04:00My doctor lady had gotten back from her vacation a...My doctor lady had gotten back from her vacation and said they had gone to Banff just across the border. Better than Glacier she said. Need a passport though. Going to get one. She said the mountains go STRAIGHT up. Mom said the same thing long. ago. I have an adopted niece now. When she gets back I've hired her as my driver :) Will be next spring though. There and to Las Vegas. She's applied to PhD programs all over the west. All she has to do now is choose. World at her feet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-54998071144061600672013-10-06T21:26:34.937-04:002013-10-06T21:26:34.937-04:00I had reasons to use OPDEC while posting on BC and...I had reasons to use OPDEC while posting on BC and EB, and those reasons evaporated when presented by an existential threat, due to the fact that the Creator is all about the truth and I thought we'd be meeting sooner than I though. I'm sure if the sex life of random people on the internet is important to you the NSA can shoot you their dossier. Teresitahttp://www.cleanposts.com/index.php/Main_Pagenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47016657141665667942013-10-06T20:52:15.767-04:002013-10-06T20:52:15.767-04:00i just dont trust a thing you sayi just dont trust a thing you sayWhat is "Occupation"https://www.blogger.com/profile/02054075097495500689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-86711608027983313752013-10-06T20:48:31.363-04:002013-10-06T20:48:31.363-04:00Sounds eminently reasonable.
I think the lady'...Sounds eminently reasonable.<br /><br />I think the lady's comments about the Pharisees interesting.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84434627570371198662013-10-06T20:46:03.086-04:002013-10-06T20:46:03.086-04:00Want out of ObamaCare?
Become Amish, those good p...Want out of ObamaCare?<br /><br />Become Amish, those good people.<br /><br />http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/10/05/us-usa-healthcare-amish-idUKBRE99404D20131005Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28455802348416538532013-10-06T20:45:51.525-04:002013-10-06T20:45:51.525-04:00I'm hoping to be one of the 40% who survive In...I'm hoping to be one of the 40% who survive Inflammatory Breast Cancer five years out from diagnosis.Teresitahttp://www.cleanposts.com/index.php/Main_Pagenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60113767925033836702013-10-06T20:44:53.532-04:002013-10-06T20:44:53.532-04:00My favorite month is October. My favorite state i...My favorite month is October. My favorite state is Montana. I'd like to do the Going-to-the-Sun Road in October, before it closes.Teresitahttp://www.cleanposts.com/index.php/Main_Pagenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-59709501803696620762013-10-06T20:37:07.606-04:002013-10-06T20:37:07.606-04:00Paul was the Christian par excellance, if one cons...Paul was the Christian par excellance, if one considers Christianity to be what was left standing (Paul's network of churches) after the mother Church in Jerusalem was sacked by Rome in 70 AD.Teresitahttp://www.cleanposts.com/index.php/Main_Pagenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-75539084297591090012013-10-06T20:36:31.618-04:002013-10-06T20:36:31.618-04:00Yes, after surviving the MONSOON you sent us about...Yes, after surviving the MONSOON you sent us about 10 days ago, it has indeed turned glorious. Fall can be wonderful, can it not?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-44391480757894082162013-10-06T20:35:03.747-04:002013-10-06T20:35:03.747-04:00.”
The word Christian wasn’t used until the end o....”<br /><br />The word Christian wasn’t used until the end of the first century C.E. The first generation of Jesus' followers lived and died as Jews.<br /><br />3. The Pharisees were not self-righteous bloviators.<br /><br />The same old caricature of Pharisees as “arrogant,” “haughty,” and legalistic pervades the book. There is biblical support for this view from the Gospels, but O’Reilly and Dugard claim to be writing history and separating ”myth” from “fiction.”<br /><br />For the past 30 years, scholarship on the Pharisees has shown that the Pharisees were not hyper-legalistic hypocrites. To make things worse, the authors seem to think that John the Baptist told the Pharisees either to burn or be condemned to hell (a rather peculiar reading of Luke 3:17).<br /><br />The irony here is that our modern stereotypes of the Pharisees are grounded in Protestant critiques of Catholicism. Protestant Reformers saw Catholics as just like the biblical Pharisees, championing faith through works, and lumped the two groups together as legalizers and hypocrites. O’Reilly and Dugard, being Catholic, are actually stereotyping themselves.<br /><br />4. Jesus was/wasn’t political<br /><br />Any follower of Internet memes knows that Jesus can be made to say anything. O’Reilly has vacillated between saying (on his television show "The O’Reilly Factor") that Jesus was not political and arguing in his book that Jesus died to interrupt the revenue stream from the Temple and Rome and that "Jews everywhere long for the coming of a messiah ... [because] Rome will be defeated and their lives will be free of taxation and want."<br /><br />Even though there’s no evidence for a direct financial link between the Temple and Rome, there’s no doubt that Jesus advocated for the poor. But O’Reilly needs to make up his mind. Is Jesus the man of the people seeking to liberate the oppressed from a heavy tax burden, or is he a peaceful man of God just trying to make a difference?<br /><br />5. History isn’t just a word, it’s a discipline<br /><br />O’Reilly acknowledges (correctly) that it’s difficult to look past the agendas of his sources and separate the myth from the history.<br /><br />Historians prefer early sources and events that are documented in multiple (preferably independent) sources. O’Reilly puts all of this aside and cherry-picks episodes from whichever Gospel version he seems to prefer.<br /><br />He will sometimes omit stories if they seem historically implausible, but he doesn’t do this consistently. He omits Jesus' words, from the Gospel of Luke, as he is being crucified: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” In his CBS interview he explained that it was impossible for people to speak audibly while they were crucified. Fair enough; but then why does he include Jesus’s final words from the Gospel of John: “It is finished”? Is there something about the word “forgiveness” that sticks in the throat?<br /><br />Apart from the methodological problems, the entire book is written in the style of a novel, not a history book. We hear the thoughts of Herod as he orders the execution of the male children of Bethlehem, for instance. It’s entertaining, but it’s historical fan fiction, not history.<br /><br />Editor’s Note: Candida Moss is a professor of New Testament and early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame and author of The Myth of Persecution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com