Nightingale

how do you know they've remained unchanged? have you seen the tablets? they were part of the oral history of the Israelites... ever played a game of telephone? they've been translated from the original texts (which nobody has anymore) into multiple languages. When you translate something, you get the gist across, but lose a lot of the connotation and cultural context of the words. For example: some Bibles translate "Thou shalt not kill" as "Thou shalt not murder." while that seems a small difference, its a big deal... killing is ending a life, period. Murder implies intent behind it. It leaves room for accidents and self defense. Different words, different meanings. Another example... the hebrew word Shalom... translates to welcome, peace, peace be with you, etc... used as a greeting, but according to WUJS, "Shalom says it all. Shalom means more than 'peace.' Shalom means completeness, wholeness" if you just translate it as "peace", while the translation is technically correct, you've lost a lot of the meaning behind the words. What words were used in the original telling of the 10 commandments story? I wonder how their translation has changed their meaning...

you're avoiding my question. How would you suggest we continue to be able to exercise our freedom of speech, which is one of our fundamental rights that makes us American, without looking "weak" to the terrorists?

Garycal brought up Foxworthy... just figured I'd elaborate.

so we shouldn't exercise our freedom of speech because some terrorist might be encouraged by it?

You might be a redneck if: You think a stock tip is advice on worming' your hogs. You've been married three times and still have the same in-laws. Your state's got a new law that says when a couple gets divorced, they are still legally brother and sister. You got stopped by a state trooper. He asked you if you had an I.D. And you said, 'Bout What?' The centerpiece on your dining room table is an original signed work by a famous taxidermist. You think the last words to The Star Spangled Banner are "Gentlemen, start your engines." You believe dual air bags refer to your wife and mother-in-law. Your front porch collapses and four dogs git killed. You've ever climbed a water tower with a bucket of paint to defend your sister's honor. You mow your lawn and find a car You have a home that's mobile and fourteen cars that aren't. You consider a six-pack and a bug-zapper high-quality entertainment. The primary color of your car is "bondo."

If you know someone who's a manager, or who owns a business, ask them to do a mock-interview, and talk about it with you afterwards, what to say, what not to say, etc...

call local city, county, and state agencies and ask what positions they have open. you usually have to take a "civil service exam". Pays pretty well, lots of upward mobility, great benefits. Civil service has worked well for several of my friends and family members. www.lacity.org

here's a couple for raspberry margaritas... dunno how they make em blue... next time you're there, just ask the bartender. 5 fluid ounces sweet-and-sour cocktail mix 2 fluid ounces premium tequila 1 fluid ounce cointreau 1 fluid ounce Chambord (raspberry liqueur) 2 cups ice cubes margarita salt 1 lime, cut into 4 wedges and Frozen Raspberry Margarita 1 1/2 ounces tequila 1/2 ounce triple sec 1/2 ounce Chambord raspberry liqueur 4 ounces lime juice or sour mix Blend with one glass full of ice.

yep. not too long ago on Leno, he got someone to say that the current president of the US was "George Washington"

dunno if you consider Hollister small, but I had a great time there!

respect...yes. devotion??? that's a little overkill. He's the president, not God.

gee... that sounds like what I said.

My friend Jennifer's dad was 60 when she was born. We were in junior high together, and I remember being so jealous of her... her dad was retired and could come to all her soccer practices and games, was always around to drive us places, took us to the movies, the mall, etc... Growing up, she had a much closer relationship with her dad than I did with mine. I saw him for an hour or so every evening after I got home from karate, when I ate dinner and went to bed.

there are 535 members of congress. Francis Scott Key wrote the words to the national anthem during the war of 1812 (not the revolutionary war!) as he watched the attack on Fort McHenry. He called his poem "Defense of Fort M'Henry" and it was eventually set, ironically, to the tune of a British drinking song, Anacreon in Heaven. hehe. I didn't even have to google those. Got any more?

me too! You got 11/11 correct.

dunno about the fraternal twins, but identical twins are not caused by fertility drugs. They're caused by a single embryo splitting into two, so they're genetically identical. Fraternal twins are as genetically close as regular siblings.

well, its a theory that can be easily tested... go build yourself an ark.

well... that depends. If Genesis is taken as symbolic, then no. If Genesis is taken literally, then yes. I guess an easy test would be to build the biggest boat you possibly could, and see how many species of animal pairs you could fit in there, plus enough food and fresh water for forty days. For a good explanation regarding the impossibility of the Noah story, see http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2437/sorting.htm because I'm not going to paste an entire article here, and its a pretty good explanation. What a lot of creationists seem to forget is that evolution is not inherently atheistic. It doesn't explain how life got here, just what happened to it once it arrived. Creationism doesn't really seem to be about creation, but rather, about disproving evolution. Because there is no proof for creation, Creationist attempt to indirectly prove it by disproving evolution. The "scientific creationist's" logic is that if they can disprove the Theory of Evolution then "scientific creationism" is the only explanation left for how we got here. However, it is impossible to prove one theory by disproving another. Disproving evolution does not validate creationism. Ruling out evolution does not automatically rule in creationism. an interesting quote from Einstein: "In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction." Albert Einstein

what proof is there that he kept them?

objects fall at the same rate in a vacuum. passing through air acts as a force and alters fall rates. my science books were pretty clear on it.

yes, Kerry was in Vietnam. Three Purple Hearts One Silver Star One Bronze Medal http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/21/iraq.books/

a friend of mine who has a ranch in wyoming has a log home. he says he wishes he'd done a regular house with a log facade for the look. according to Stan, the logs are a PITA.

Science doesn't prove anything. It only disproves. Anyone trying to claim that science = proof doesn't understand science. The power of the scientific method lies in "disproof" - falsifiability. Rutherford used the data collected from X-rays passing through materials to disprove Bohr's hypothesis that atoms are single spheres of matter. Kepler used careful observations of the planets' motion to disprove that they move in a circle around the sun. They move in an ellipse, not a circle Galelio used a variety of experiments to disprove that heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones. There are many other famous "disproofs" in science... When presented with an idea, a hypothesis, ask yourself, "Can this be disproven? Is it faslifiable?" You will find that experiments and observations do not prove anything to be the truth. The best they can do is support an idea. When a hypothesis has stood the test of falsifiablity, often many times and in many ways, it takes on the status of a theory. Theories grow from successful hypotheses and usually encompass a grand unifying idea that cements together many observations, experiments and thoughts into a succinct description or process. http://www.synapses.co.uk/evolve/lec1d.html

so, how would you propose we keep our freedom to speak out against what we perceive as wrongful actions by our government, and not appear "weak" in the process?

Evolution is a theory. It's a theory that fits ALL the evidence we have right now. We can't prove it wrong. There is no other theory that does that with regards to the origins of modern plant and animal life on this planet. When another theory that fits all the evidence is proposed, it will most probably be published in a reputable scientific journal, met with doubt, tested again and again, and will be given the same status as evolution... that of a well respected theory. Scientific hypotheses are, in one way or another, tested against nature -- the "real world" that all scientists conventionally agree is "out there." Only when hypotheses are sufficiently tested and bind together information from relatively diverse areas that previously had not been connected do they properly become theories. Theories embody the highest level of certainty for comprehensive ideas in science. Thus, when someone claims that evolution is "only a theory," it's roughly equivalent to saying that the proposition that the Earth circles the sun rather than vice versa is "only a theory." Evolution is, in fact, a very useful theory. Paul R. Ehrlich in Human Natures: Genes, Cultures and the Human Prospect, p. 74.