waysider
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Did they solve the riddle? Oh, what am I saying? Of course they didn't. They had no one to teach them the solution.
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Were there refreshments? Curious minds need to know.
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I don't want to and you can't make me.
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There are languages that follow the SOV (subject, object, verb) format, rather than the SVO format that most of us are used to. That's part of what makes translating ancient texts a daunting task.
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It's the same whether it's straight or flipped.
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Shame on you for not letting them know how futile their efforts were, in light of not being able to "go beyond what you're taught".
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So, who taught them it would be a good idea to put them together?
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Chef Boyardee, of course.
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Who taught them to do that?
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Stop and think for a moment how utterly ludicrous that is. Without the infusion of fresh ideas, totally disconnected to any previously existing ideas, mans' cache of knowledge would have stagnated at the discover of fire..
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"You can't go beyond what you've been taught."- vpw So, where do new ideas come from?
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I haven't read the article yet, though I plan to when I get some time later today. Any discussion of it would probably need to tread lightly, to avoid crashing through the thin ice that lurks menacingly above political discourse.
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On the topic of "Big Jobs": Wasn't it stated, somewhere in one of the classes, that you can't receive revelation when you're out of fellowship? I guess there must be an exceptions clause that covers "Big Jobs".
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Once upon a time, in a land far away, there lived a hard headed man named Paul...
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Only two? That seems a bit restrictive.
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You have evidence of this?
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Wierwille's personal doctrine was "Anything is okay if you can find a way to personally rationalize it." In contrast, consider, if you will, the words of John Donne: “No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
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You might ask yourself, "How did I get here?"
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Every little breeze seems to whisper Louise but the wind cries Mary. Meanwhile, all the little birds on Jaybird Street love to hear the robin go "Yea, my children." Now, be honest. Does that or does that not edify and exhort?
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Have you ever seen someone get called out for BS and then try to cover their tracks by saying they were only joking? Why does this remind me of that?
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Mike, all writing follows structure. Poems follow structure, songs follow structure, novels follow structure, documentaries follow structure...well, I think you get my point. Words simply strung together randomly don't make sense. Notes haphazardly strung together don't constitute music. Boards and nails, pieced together without purpose, don't produce a house. That's why writing practitioners study how works are constructed and consciously strive to build within that framework. Writers in ancient times were certainly aware of this reality. Some might even argue they had a deeper understanding of this than we do today. If, indeed, these writings do follow the ababababa structure, as you call it, why are we to think it's because of a divine intervention and not because of the writers' intentions to purposely construct it this manner?
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If the canon is ababababa, wouldn't that make it a palindrome? Maybe we've been reading the bible backwards this whole time.
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You can't lie on the internet. (I read that on the internet.)
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Could you just give me a brief summary? I'm awfully busy at the moment.
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Imagine if TWI was an insurance company. They would need a clever advertising slogan, something like, "Come on home. We don't suck quite as much as we used to". Or maybe a crazy mascot like Tic (VPW's dog) dressed up in a Halloween-style devil costume, complete with a doggy sized pitchfork. I think they're already in good shape for a jingle. They could use that "Renewed Mind Is The Key" mess.