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Off-Topic / Genesis 6:17-22 (The Living Bible)

« on: May 18, 2012, 11:31:37 pm »Message ID: 539818

"Look! I am going to cover the earth with a flood and destroy every living being - everything in which there is the breath of life. All will die. But I promise to keep you safe in the ship, with your wife and your sons and their wives. Bring a pair of every animal - a male and a female - into the boat with you, to keep them alive through the flood. Bring in a pair of each kind of bird and animal and reptile. Store away in the boat all the food that they and you will need. And Noah did everything as God commanded him.

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Off-Topic / Genesis 6:12-16 (The Living Bible)

« on: May 15, 2012, 11:48:17 pm »Message ID: 538169

As God observed how bad it was, and saw that all mankind was vicious and depraved, he said to Noah, "I have decided to destroy all mankind; for the earth is filled with crime because of man. Yes, I will destroy mankind from the earth. Make a boat from resinous wood, sealing it with tar; and construct decks and stalls throughout the ship. Make it 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. Construct a skylight all the way around the ship, eighteen, inches below the roof; and make three decks inside the boat - a bottom, middle, and upper deck - and put a door in the side.

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Off-Topic / Genesis 6:11 (The Living Bible)

« on: May 13, 2012, 09:55:43 pm »Message ID: 537230

Meanwhile, the crime rate was rising rapidly across the earth, and, as seen by God, the world was rotten to the core.

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Off-Topic / original poem

« on: May 13, 2012, 09:50:13 pm »Message ID: 537227

Here is a poem I wrote about ten years ago while I was volunteering at an Alzheimer's center. I hope you like it.

When I See My Residents

Every hour I see my residents, I see them lose
   Lose themselves, lose their memory of me.
Every hour I see my residents, I see them change
   Change their personalities, change toward me.
Every minute I see my residents, I see them dive
   Dive into darkness, into loss of mind.
Every second I see my residents, I wonder
   Wonder how much longer, how much longer they must suffer.
Every second I see my residents, I see them pass
   Pass into anger, pass into death.
When I see my residents, I remember
   Remember that they know not what they do, remember that I love them.
When I see my residents pass into death part of me
   Part of me dies with them, part of me is joyful.
When I see my residents, I see people who are
   People who are my friends, people who are my family.
As a volunteer I strive for unconditional love and caring
   Unconditional love and caring for my friends, unconditional love and caring for my family.

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Off-Topic / Genesis 6:8-10 (The Living Bible)

« on: May 07, 2012, 10:40:28 pm »Message ID: 533964

But Noah was a pleasure to the Lord. Here is the story of Noah: He was the only truly righteous man living on the earth at that time. He tried always to conduct his affairs according to God's will. And he had three sons - Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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Off-Topic / Genesis 6:7 (The Living Bible)

« on: May 03, 2012, 07:08:35 am »Message ID: 531264

And he said, "I will blot out from the face of the earth all mankind that I created. Yes, and the animals too, and the reptiles and the birds. For I am sorry I made them."

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Word Chains & Countdowns / My abc of Nursery Rhymes

« on: May 03, 2012, 07:00:20 am »Message ID: 531253

A, B, C, tumble down D,
The cat's in the cupboard
    and can't see me.

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Off-Topic / Genesis 6:4-6 (The Living Bible)

« on: April 27, 2012, 08:50:56 pm »Message ID: 527757

In those days, and even afterwards, when the evil beings from the spirit world were sexually involved with human women, their children became giants, of whom so many legends are told. When the Lord God saw the extent of human wickedness, and that the trend and direction of men's lives were only towards evil, he was sorry he had made them. It broke his heart.

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Off-Topic / Genesis 6:1-3 (The Living Bible)

« on: April 25, 2012, 09:05:12 am »Message ID: 526290

Now a population explosion took place upon the earth. It was at this time that beings from the spirit world looked upon the beautiful earth women and took any they desired to be their wives. Then Jehovah said, "My Spirit must not forever be disgraced in man, wholly evil as he is. I will give him 120 years to mend his ways."

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Off-Topic / Genesis 5:32 (The Living Bible)

« on: April 22, 2012, 08:32:45 pm »Message ID: 525041

Noah: Noah was 500 years old and had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

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Off-Topic / Genesis 5:28-31 (The Living Bible)

« on: April 19, 2012, 09:56:08 pm »Message ID: 523602

Lamech: Lamech was 182 years old when his son Noah was born. Lamech named him Noah (meaning "Relief") because he said, "he will bring us relief from the hard work of farming this ground which God has cursed." Afterwards Lamech lived 595 years, producing sons and daughters, and died at the age of 777.

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Off-Topic / Genesis 5:25-27 (The Living Bible)

« on: April 16, 2012, 06:13:29 pm »Message ID: 521954

Methuselah: Methuselah was 187 years old when his son Lamech was born; afterwards he lived another 782 years producing sons and daughters, and died at the age of 969.

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Off-Topic / Genesis 5:21-24 (The Living Bible)

« on: April 14, 2012, 09:22:09 pm »Message ID: 520927

Enoch: Enoch was sixty-five years old when his son Methuselah was born. Afterwards he lived another 300 years in fellowship with God, and produced sons an daughters; then, when he was 365, and in constant touch with God, he disappeared, for God took him!

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Off-Topic / Genesis 5:18-20 (The Living Bible)

« on: April 10, 2012, 05:47:36 pm »Message ID: 518816

Jared: Jared was 162 years old when his son Enoch was born. Afterwards he lived another 800 years, producing sons and daughters, and died at the age of 962.

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Off-Topic / Genesis 5:15-17 (The Living Bible)

« on: April 07, 2012, 06:32:58 pm »Message ID: 517329

Mahalalel: Mahalalel was sixty-five years old when his son Jared was born. Afterwards he lived another 840 years, producing sons and daughters, and died at the age of 910.