Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Faith is evidence. yes of things hoped for but evidence nonetheless. faith in what we don't exactly see is like faith in what we do see. you deal with other people. you have faith that a certain person will act a certain way because that person has acted in that manner in the past. you know what the... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
DAVID AND SOLOMON AND AFTER
David came to the kingship after a pretty bloody series of incidents -- Israel fighting the peoples surrounding, questions about whether David "managed" the death of Saul (remember history is written by the victors -- so the incidents are portrayed as David being "innocent". David did not lead his... Sign in to see full entry.
THE REAL BIBLE Pt 2 - World History up to the time of Abraham
IN THE BEGINNING, GOD... That would be a good beginning, except... Creation begins again in Genesis 2 Humans are hunter-gathers, here, with all they need. Observers of contemporary hunter-gatherer tribes have discovered that these people do indeed have all they need, and that each person works an... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
THE REAL BIBLE -- Pt 1 - overview of the Hebrew peoples in the Levant.
The Levant -- the more widely accepted name for the area that the State of Israel now occupies, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River and Syria and the Red Sea. It is also called Palestine after the Philistines who occupied it. Archeaology shows a certain type of people occupying the... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
IDENTIFYING TYRANNY
HOW MUCH DO YOU UNDERSTAND? A tyranny is a tyranny. A tyranny is not necessarily a monarchy or even an oligarchy, like Communism. A tyranny is where one viewpoint and only one is accepted. Where laws are passed that favor that one viewpoint. Where laws are passed that basically outlaw types of... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, January 30, 2006
STONING -- THE BEST CAPITOL PUNISHMENT
A post by simsimswife on stoning -- that is, a link to a video on stoning -- started me to thinking. Also, the famous instruction of Jesus, "Let whoever is without sin cast the first stone." But consider -- with stoning, the accused accusers get to administer the death penalty. There is no... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, January 28, 2006
THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT THE PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS
CLICK HERE -- NY TIMES ARTICLE Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
YOU KNOW RUMSFELD IS LYING THROUGH HIS TEETH!!!!
CHECK THIS OUT!! AS IF YO HAVEN'T ALREADY HEARD!!! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060125/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/rumsfeld Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, January 23, 2006
OUR STRONG ECONOMY LAYS OFF 100,000 JOBS
THAT'S A GOOD ESTIMATE GM has laid off around 30 or so thousand -- Ford, another 30,000, and closing about a half dozen plants. Tyco -- others -- posting losses, laying off. And where do you think the jobs are created we are hearing about? low paying positions. so let's add this up -- actually... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
GOD DOES NOT WANT US TO KILL, AND THAT INCLUDES THE DEATH PENALTY
The person whom I now love to be a gadfly to, but has blocked me from commenting, oging by the intitials, MP, has said that GOD has ordained the death penalty. Let'c check out that commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." It includes any killing, really. This commandment preceded the laws regarding... Sign in to see full entry.