PeaceBlondie
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Jopha, maybe maybe we're both old already.
Maybe I am I just getting old, but in the US I always thought that dexadrine was simply called "speed". Ritalin was just a politically correct name for the same drug often over prescribed to children.Dexadrine - called Ritalin in the USA
5 or 10 mg doses of dexadrine don't equate to speed. For someone properly diagnosed with ADD or narcolepsy, it barely keeps us awake and alert. There are cases of misdiagnosis, but probably no overdoses. But if your dog eats an entire month's supply of Adderol, you'll have to have his stomach pumped, as my daughter had to get.
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Good question. AFAIK, except portions of Daniel in Aramaic, the OT was written in old versions of Hebrew. The NT was written in common 1st century AD Greek. Which for other than Paul and Luke, may have been first written in 1st century Aramaic. The central message of the NT is less doubtful than other stories in those days. What I'm arguing here is unquestioned by scholars: that the central feature of the early Church was pure pacifist. When R. Neibuhr wrote Why I An Not a Pacifist, he admitted that no scholar would doubt the early Church was purely pacifist. Neibuhr hated Hitler; so finally did the former pacifist who tried to kill Hitler.
Not half as many as you might imagine, and none of them crucial. Some figures of speech are clear in the immediate context. That was clearly figurative, and never meant what the warriors claim. Other doubtful, apparent contradictions are easily resolved by looking at everything the speaker said on the subject. His major speech on this subject, the Sermon on the Mount, leaves no room for doubt, and was reinforced by Paul, Peter and John.What if one feels that he was speaking figuratively when he said to love one's enemies? A lot of things in the Bible contradict each other.Assuming God wrote the Bible, didn't he write it (through man) in old Hebrew or Aramaic? I'm not sure I would trust the modern translations. In fact, I don't.
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Not half as many as you might imagine, and none of them crucial. Some figures of speech are clear in the immediate context. That was clearly figurative, and never meant what the warriors claim. Other doubtful, apparent contradictions are easily resolved by looking at everything the speaker said on the subject. His major speech on this subject, the Sermon on the Mount, leaves no room for doubt, and was reinforced by Paul, Peter and John.What if one feels that he was speaking figuratively when he said to love one's enemies? A lot of things in the Bible contradict each other.This post took 12 minutes to write.
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caf, those remarks were not aimed at you. I apologize for not thanking you for your support. Since I love my enemies, surely I love my fellow Christians even more. And I would be contributing to passively endorsing violence if I remain silent, after 1,600 years of false teachings.
I apologize for not sugar-coating my remarks about how a Fallen Church has twisted love into hate.
I answered your post in my own way. You have no idea how hard it is for me to type.
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Jewish mystics often spoke figuratively. That's a good example. The Old and New Testaments both use hyperbole to state that the Messiah would be so non-violent that he wouldn't bend a blade of grass. When Jesus' followers misunderstood that he meant that figuratively - read the context - he chided them, walked out to be arrested by a cohort of 500 armed Roman guards, and laid them all on the ground by pronouncing God's name."Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. (Matthew 10:34-39 NASB) -
You didn't disprove it, I didn't show the whole list. But wanting to make peace, I'll compromise at 30%.
We've been through this part already and it has been disproved. Just what exactly have you been studying to make you unaware of that in the first place?That a third of the world's inhabitants live in countries liberated since 1945, nonviolently? Or, see my Joan Baez quote, counting dead Russians.
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Time for me to bring out Buffy, my vampire killer
Universal Soldier
[Lade Songtext von http://lyrics.wikia.com/lyrics/Buffy Sainte-Marie:The Universal Soldier (http://lyricwiki.org)]
He's five feet two and he's six feet four
He fights with missiles and with spears
He's all of 31 and he's only 17
He's been a soldier for a thousand years
He's a Catholic, a Hindu, an atheist, a Jain,
a Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew
and he knows he shouldn't kill
and he knows he always will
kill you for me my friend and me for you
And he's fighting for Canada,
he's fighting for France,
he's fighting for the USA,
and he's fighting for the Russians
and he's fighting for Japan,
and he thinks we'll put an end to war this way
And he's fighting for Democracy
and fighting for the Reds
He says it's for the peace of all
He's the one who must decide
who's to live and who's to die
and he never sees the writing on the walls
But without him how would Hitler have
condemned him at Dachau
Without him Caesar would have stood alone
He's the one who gives his body
as a weapon to a war
and without him all this killing can't go on
He's the universal soldier and he
really is to blame
His orders come from far away no more
They come from him, and you, and me
and brothers can't you see
this is not the way we put an end to war.
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Yes, after 35 years of battling near-total ignorance in these matters, I do not suffer fools.
"Christendom" - the violent, hateful, twisted, dominating perversion of the love of Christ - shapes Western 'civilization' still.
That was paired with absolute loyalty to the Nation-State as a God. That was The Fall of The Church, ca. 325 AD.
You dare to accuse me of being short on facts? Guilty as charged.
caf, democracy doesn't work well at all. Nation-states, especially mine, wage wars without declaring them constitutionally. Those who serve in combat must kill all declared enemies, and citizens who support that are complicit in their killings. AFAIK, there has never been a decision whether any war was just.
So, in my arrogant pacifist opinion, it's not only the believers who are deceived, but non-believers as well. The Buddhist monks, who are pacifists, almost never convince Buddhists to reject wars, even against 'Buddhists.' The Nation-State triumphs.
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Speaking of Mexican standoffs...I knew the ladies of Las Abejas personally; they knew me by name. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Abejas On 22/12/1997, 45 members were slaughtered, using Army-only weapons. "Antonio Gutierrez, one of the founding members of Las Abejas, has often recounted the Christ-like forgiveness of Alonso Vasquez Gomez, a catechist in the community and one of those killed in the massacre, who, after seeing his wife and child murdered, reportedly asked God's forgiveness of the killers, since they did not know what they were doing." Antonio is the most fearless man I've known. The commitment to forgiveness and reconciliation is consistent with Las Abejas' commitment to nonviolence., Ten days later, fully armed Mexican soldiers enter their village of Xoyep. The tiny women firmly but nonviolently pushed the big soldiers out with bare hands.
UG, it was fun, but you've loaded the deck wrong. I'll drop by and lend you my copy of What Would You Do? with Joan Baez' answer.
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Thank you, sincerely, one and all. I have concluded, after 35 years of studying both war and peace, that my debate opponents usually haven't studied more than a tiny bit about peace, and most of it was with a cavalier dismissal. I apologize to those who honestly, seriously studied it.
Had you known that Judaism holds the world's record for formerly being the longest proponent of nonviolence, with only a few minor exceptions? Did you know Christianity was totally nonviolent for its first 300 years? That a Quaker colony survived on the Indian frontier for 70 years? That Costa Rica dismantled its army over 60 years ago? That a third of the world's inhabitants live in countries liberated since 1945, nonviolently? That the only theory about warfare besides pacifism, is a 1,600-year failure that was never proven or tested, but blindly followed as demonic doctrine? Have you read Gandhi, later Tolstoi, MLK Jr, or Jesus regarding peace? Dorothy Day, John Howard Yoder, Cesar Chavez, Rigoberta Menchu?
Would you rape your daughter or another's daughter, if ordered to? Of course not. But would you kill because somebody told you to? Quite possibly. Sorry for the rape comparison again, but I see no better comparison.
But you don't have to be an absolute 100% proponent of pacifism. When you can clearly save a child's life without killing their attacker, fine. I'm a follower of a Supreme Commander who issued me clear, unequivocal orders to love my enemy. Period, full stop. Alonso loved his murderer, who was a neighbor of the same Maya tribe. His surviving son and sister still love those killers. So do the Amish families at Nickel Mine, Pennsylvania. You wouldn't know "love your enemy" without trying it. Try it, even if Jesus isn't your Lord.
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CBR = Tubeless
Could be something to do with porosity of the rubber, presumably a tyre is thicker and would retain air longer than a thin inner tube. Could the tubes in your CBR be imported from Japan and possibly be a better quality rubber?I know I am a little slow, but i cannot reason out why tubeless tires hole air better than tubes.However, I also am checking and refilling the tires on my wife's bike. Whereas my CBR can go on and on with no problem.
Same here. Don't understand why tubeless should hold air better than tubes, but it's annoying always having to go and check and refill the air.
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Christianity Or The Bar ?
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Ballpoint asked, "When was the last time you heard of an atheist suicide bomber killing thousands? Why do you never see a war between the atheists and the agnostics reported? Yet we see christians killing christians, christians killing muslims, ...., all for purely religious reasons." I've never seen reports of a devout Christian pacifist killing anybody.