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PFAL p. 237 In the class session on Body, Soul, Spirit, Formed Made Created, VPW made the comment about the blood being in the sperm itself. Oops! Looks like we both posted at the same time...

Rottie: Well, blood typing can be used as a form of paternity test, it just doesn't work like you thought. Read this: The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

When I was 10, I had swiped my parents' copy of "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask" and read it cover to cover. Of course, it took me several days sneaking around to finish it. I must have been discovered, (although no one ever said anything,) because shortly thereafter Dad cornered me. "Any questions about sex?" "No, sir." "All right. ... Would you ask me if you did?" "Um, I think so." "All right, then." And that was about it. The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

For those folks who don't get down to the Doctrinal forum that often, I've posted a new topic down there about science and the Bible. (It doesn't pertain specifically to Wierwille's crackpot ideas.) The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

The blood does not get passed solely by the father. That's ridiculous. 1) If it was solely governed by the Y chromosome, women would have no blood. 2) If everyone had their father's blood, we would all have the same blood type as our fathers. I don't. Dad was A-positive, I'm O-positive, as is my mother. 3) There is no blood in the sperm. The sperm cell is the smallest of all human cells, and since only one sperm ever fertilizes the egg, any blood would have to be carried inside that sperm. Since it's the smallest cell, there's no room for any larger ones to be carried inside it (like a red or white blood cell), even if such a thing were possible. Wierwille was wrong. (Did you know that's why most websites start with "WWW"? :D--> ) The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

Sounds like it came from The Onion... The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

The bit about the blood being passed through the father's "seed". The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

Selective agnosticism is just a coward's atheism. Arguments along the lines of "Well, I don't know if any gods exist, but I've decided YOURS doesn't!" are not truly agnostic in nature. I thought you were going to take your football and go home. What happened with that? The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

back to the top for Steve! and chinson's upcoming nuptials... ;)--> Since they've both done the standard honeymoon bit once before, any good suggestions for round 2? The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

VPW couldn't have done it with Green Lantern's ring, since it was more of a physical effect (although with 40 APs of Comprehend Languages, it might have been good for the occasional SIT scam.) He could have easily done it with a Lens, but there's no way the Arisians would have let him within 100 parsecs of their planet. He would have been branded an agent of Boskone faster than Kinnison could say "zwilnik", and the Galactic Patrol would have pulled 3,000 ships off the line to starkly obliterate New Knoxville in a manner that could only be described as indescribable. Even though he was supposedly "given an overdose of brains and brawn" such that "the earth shook wherever he walked" he wasn't all that formidable a supervillain. Most of the weaker X-Men (with the sillier powers) could have beaten him stupid with one hand tied behind their backs. Even Daredevil could have "seen" what a paper tiger he was... ;)--> The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

I don't know exactly why I've gotten so interested in playing bluegrass over the past year, but there's just something refreshing about the style. Maybe it's that it sprang from the dance music of the early settlers so it's more outgoing and crowd-pleasing than introspective. Or maybe it's just that the chord progressions are fairly elementary and most of it is pretty easy to play for a beginner... The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

Now, consider VPW's admonition that it was the unbelieving women who TWI-men were to slake their lusts upon, and you see that LCM must have been just an incredibly greedy bastard. So, men can sleep with unbelievers to get their rocks off, and have to take care of the Holy Sexual Needs™ of the believer women, while the TWI-women could only go to the TWI-men. Huh? "Eternal vagina fix", indeed.To recap: TWI-men can only sleep with two categories of women: 1) those who are unbelievers. 2) those who are believers. (For purposes of argument, all those women who are uncertain or agnostics count in category 1.) TWI-women: Bend over and take it with a smile, but only from an Offical TWI-Man. Hope that clears up any confusion. Thank you. The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

Steve is correct. Water will not extinguish a magnesium fire, because magnesium burns so hot it splits the water into its component gases, which are violently flammable. Water will not ignite magnesium, though. Else, all those hot-rodders with "mag" wheels would burst into flames at the car wash... ;)--> The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

Thanks for your opinion, but this had to do with two of twi's beliefs, the only two I brought up. One, that God wanted children, [...] Hardly a TWI-specific belief. This is the orthodox Christian view. SIT, the dead are dead, Jesus God, these are more TWI-specific unorthodox beliefs. [...]yes this has been gone over several times, and two that God and His angles fight for us every day and night. [...] Again, this is a common Christian belief not peculiar to TWI at all. Matter of fact, I don't remember this ever being taught in TWI in the form you state. So this IS an appropriate place for this thread. Not really. And, just because I currently see no reason to believe in a god does not mean I can't ask these types of questions or that I won't at some point have a legit reason to. Seems unlikely, now, but not impossible. No one's saying you can't ask questions, lindy. It's just that your admitted lack of sincerity makes it difficult to rationally discuss such. If your reason was illegitimate in the first place, then this was, as I said, just another troll. Two, you seem to still confuse me with an atheist, and that I might have some pamphlets. That is just wrong. We have been over this before. It was wrong then and will be wrong the next time. Hopefully we will get this and there won't be a next time. Uh-huh. Funny, but didn't you just say "I currently see no reason to believe in a god"? (Yeah, you did, I c&p'd it.) How is that not atheism? Thanks for adding to the humor of the thread with that last post. Ditto. The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

WordWolf: Magnesium? Never heard of that reaction with water. Sure it wasn't sodium or potassium instead? The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

_No?_ No. _Honestly now, do you really think I am going to do that, Zix? _ Of course not. If you had any real interest in the answer you requested from me, you would have looked it up in the first place. _First off, the "wise *** filter", as you put it is a figure of speech used to make a point and to make people think. It is used in the Bible a few times. Why don't you look it up. Here's a link_ _If someone is offended by it they are not getting the point or not thinking or both and/or are not secure in themselves or what they believe. People should come away stronger in their original beliefs or questioning more._ This is a standard defense of ignorant bigotry. "Oh, come on, that Holocaust joke was funny. I don't know why that rabbi has no sense of humor..." _Second, I don't reject God. Is that like "turning your back on the ministry?". I simply have stopped believing in one for lack of proof or a good reason. Dosn't exactly = Rejection. In order to reject God I would have to believe in one. Makes sense doesn't it. Just like, I can't mock God if there isn't a god to mock. I would be mocking the belief in God but not as harshly as you put it._ No, it has nothing to do with any ministry. Like I said, everyone interprets everything the way they want to, and if you wish to spin the definition of "reject" in this bizarre fashion to rationalize a tenuous belief to yourself, then there's little chance of persuading you otherwise. For the record, here are the first few definitions from dictionary.com: re·ject 1. To refuse to accept, submit to, believe, or make use of. 2. To refuse to consider or grant; deny. 3. To refuse to recognize or give affection to (a person). In light of any of those, my original assertion stands. _Now your just being retarded. You really blow things out of proportion, don't you?_ First off, you need to watch the personal attacks. Retardation is not something to be made fun of. Second, what you continually fail to recognize is that you don't get to determine the validity of another person's reaction to your posts. You've admitted that your original post was sarcastic and an attempt at humor, and it was at the expense of another person's belief system. That's impolite, at best, and if someone takes offense to it, all of your rationalizations won't ameliorate the situation. Here is what I said originally _Now that is hardly a crude joke. Besides, Circumcision has a lot more validity as a practice than prophecy or believing in a god that fights every day and night. And I have not "just started" most folks are used to me, because I havve been at this for a while. Still your one of the first people to these sorts of threads. Hey you WERE the first one._ More arrogant value judgments. If you find circumcision a more valid belief than a straw God you set up to poke fun at, it's not a defense, it's just another rationalization. _An anti-Christian troll on a site that claims it is "not a Christian site"? Interesting..._ There are Christian trolls here as well. It wouldn't matter if this were a discussion site for 57 Chevy aficionados, I found your original post to be offensive, and even moreso in the light of your subsequent confessions of the nature of it. _I already said maybe I should have worded it differently. Calling me anti-Christian is just plain wrong. It is like saying I turned my back on God. It is projecting your hate for who you were at one time and labeling me accordingly. Your welcome, our time is almost up, I'll bill you._ Projection? A psychobabble term for the infantile "I know you are, but what am I?" retort. If you once believed, but now do not, how is that anything BUT turning your back on your former belief? I've turned my back on Santa Claus, too, but I don't go around taunting children who still believe. I think it's much more indicative of the atheist's insecurities with his own beliefs when he feels it necessary to evangelize at Christians' expense. _If your concern is that people are tired of reading your answers over and over again, then maybe just stay out of those threads. Know what I am tired of hearing? "doesn't this belong in the _______ section?" When is the last time that actually worked or mattered? Saying that you have answered something soooo many times and leaving it at that is just a pretension claiming that your answer was the correct one, so the issue is dead, move on. But, that is false and rather annoying._ This had nothing to do with any specific TWI belief, so posting it in the ATW forum was inappropriate, in my opinion. If you'll go back and read your second post, you elicited a response from me directly. There was no pretense of quashing the issue, no matter what you might think. These kind of questions have been raised repeatedly before, and addressed repeatedly, as was evidenced by the example thread-link I posted. You participated in that one, so your sarcastic "kids vs. fight" premise appears little more than yet another immature troll for attention. Personally, I don't care why you no longer believe in God. Doesn't affect me in the slightest, until you start denigrating those who still do. Witnessing for atheism is about as appetizing as a sucking chest wound. Although, if I ever feel the need to become a bitter, morose, sarcastic Scrooge in the spiritual department, I'll know who to ask for some atheist pamphlets. The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

Everybody interprets everything the way they want to. I don't know which is worse, though, the sanctimonious self-piety of the hyperbelievers or the arrogant smugness of the pseudointellectuals. Must have been a package deal on shoulder-chips... The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

Butchered it? It was a DIRECT QUOTE. Here's the whole paragraph from your post of April 15, 2003: Has your opinion of VPW changed since then?The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

Roy: You may not have been around the last time Mike was doing his evangelizing, so you might not know that he holds VPW in, um, an unusually high esteem: It's up to you, but you might find discussing these things with him will be a complete waste of breath.God bless! Zix The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

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Oak: Cthulhu came from H.P. Lovecraft, quite possibly the best American horror fiction writer. (according to Steven King, anyway) Cthulhu was basically a hundred-foot tall octopus-headed god of pure evil, although most of the other gods in Lovecraft's pantheon were pure evil as well. He lay sleeping in his palace beneath the seas until the Stars Were Right once more... The novella "The Call of Cthulhu" has been reprinted in many of the Lovecraft anthologies, but is far from his best work. Look him up, you might like him. Bumper sticker: Campus Crusade for Cthulhu--Why Settle For The LESSER Evil? The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

Tom: Amusing thought, but highly unlikely. The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

early: Very astute observation. The fact that God may not appear to adhere to our rules does not mean that God doesn't adhere to any rules.The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

Tom: Might as well pull up a seat. Roy vs. Mike should be one of the most entertaining fights we've had in a while... ;)--> The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...

Vickles: Yeah, I imagine Minnesota's not the ideal place to be a nudist...especially for guys. That's some MAJOR shrinkage! ;)--> Uff da! Zix The Secret Signature of the Day has been cancelled by the HTML Police. Or so the Germans would have us believe...