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Debate & Discuss / Why Want a 'New King James Version' Shown Parallel with an '(Old) King James V"?

« on: January 31, 2014, 10:48:24 am »Message ID: 845421

I guess the better question would be 'What's the difference between the KJV & the NKJV?'

I mean; I know the NKJV is 'updated' to the newer language-patterns we use (most of) today, but does that really change any important parts of the message anywhere so that you would want to verify them?

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Debate & Discuss / How "God" Became "Lord"

« on: January 31, 2014, 10:34:18 am »Message ID: 845418

I know lots of you are probably thinking, "He was ALWAYS 'Lord'!" or some such 'mythicism'---not paying attention to 'the etymology of "lord"' (the breeding of the actual word).

The best I can remember, the deepest root is something-like 'bread-keeper.' And you can see that when God tells Moses WHY He is giving bread to the escaping Hebrews---to see if they will praise HIM as "Lord."

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Debate & Discuss / Shouldn't "Work on a TrackDollar.com-Account" Earn 'Credit with the Treasury'?

« on: January 31, 2014, 10:17:56 am »Message ID: 845410

I mean; Think about it! TrackDollar--where a user enters the year & serial-numbers of 'Federal Reserve Notes' he handles, adding a little note about-how he got the money & -where he intends to spend it--tracks the Federal Reserve's "product" ... a useful service once they quit printing new ones and return U.S. Money to a standard of 'something real.'

If I knew who to talk to, I'd offer to 'put in time' doing "data-entry" at a bank (or 'for someone with a large collection of cash'), entering-in all their bills for them! But eventually I--like most people, I'm sure--would want 'payment' for my 'time' (and more payment than just "the knowledge that I'm helping people remain secure about their nation's currency"  )

How can we make this happen?

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Debate & Discuss / Who CARES about "Freedom" when You Don't Have Your Bread & Fleshpots?

« on: January 31, 2014, 09:59:50 am »Message ID: 845408

That's sort-of the logic being applied 'by government' (I've got some Bible-thumper friends who would say it's "what Obama is doin` to us") by MAKING us buy insurance---sorta like 'bearing The Mark on your hand or forehead,' as "having insurance" is today's way of saying 'I'm a paid-member of the club, and they'll cover my costs as long as I pay my dues on time.'

(The link goes to a couple times the Hebrews in Exodus complained to Moses: 'Well, we're hungry; shouldn't we rather be well-fed-&-shackled than free-&-hungry?')

And health-care is ONE of the ways the government is 'tempting' us to be that way ... 'Shouldn't you rather be paid-for-&-"shackled" than unpaid-but-free?' And the health-care law ... or nearly ANY insurance-company ... SHACKLES us to the health-care they'll pay-for from the providers they can make deals with ...

better-than making US pay for health-care & find deals with the providers, but That's Freedom 

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Debate & Discuss / Real Bible-Study (Guiding Our Thoughts NOW with "Exodus," "Mark" Feb. 6)

« on: January 31, 2014, 08:32:48 am »Message ID: 845379

The Word of God is a gift ... and 'a gift' is NOTHING BUT GARBAGE until you take it! You do not take the Word until you 'ingest it & educe the product' (I ingest by reading the Bible, and it produces questions in me).

Hopefully it produces 'answers' in the place I am made to 'question,' and you can add those to this "offering to God":

... okay  NOW I'll start doing this in BBCode (for all the additions above this one) ... <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+29/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Exodus 29 So the Israelites Made Sacrifices to the Future Sacrifice?</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+30%3A15/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Exodus 30:15 The Basis for Giving Money to the Church</a> - Does This Ephod-with-Memorial-Stones Still Exist Somewhere? - I Thought the Urim and the Thummim were Joseph Smith's Decoder-Stones, but Look! - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+13%3A8/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Mark 13:8 "Kingdom against Kingdom" Isn't Quite 'War' the Way PEOPLE Understand It</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+13%3A12/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Mark 13:12 Do Christians Twist This into Saying that 'Jesus PREACHED that Brother Should Rise against Brother?'</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+13%3A14-37/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Mark 13:14-37 End-Times Is No Big Thing</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+14%3A9/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Mark 14:9 One Reason People Mistakenly Think the Gospel Is about Jesus</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+14%3A14-15/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Mark14:14-15 How Is Jesus Doing This when He Was Telling Us Before NOT to Assume 'High Regard'?</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+14%3A22-24/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Mark 14:22-24 It Seems Like He Planned the "Bread=Body"-Part, and the "Wine=Blood"-Part Was an Afterthought</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+14%3A51-52/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Mark 14:51-52 What the! ... Why Is THIS a Part of the Story?</a> - Who CARES about "Freedom" when You Don't Have Your Bread & Fleshpots? - How "God" Became "Lord" - What God Is There For - What Does "Manna" Mean? - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+16%3A18%2C+21/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Exodus 16:18, 21 The Old Testament Promotes Capitalism-Developed-from-Socialism</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+16%3A19-20/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Exodus 16:19-20 Why Moses Would Be "Wroth with People" Today (Keeping Money You Don't Use)</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+16%3A25-26%2C+29/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Exodus 16:25-26, 29 Money Breaks Sabbath while Manna Keeps It!</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+17%3A12/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Exodus 17:12 Moses Needed Aaron & Hur for the Same Reason President Obama Needs You and Me</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+8%3A12/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Mark 8:12 Out of Context, I Often Apply This Scripture to Today's Generation</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+8%3A31%2C+38/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Mark 8:31, 38 Why Do Christians Not See that Jesus Is Talking about EVERY Son of Man? Probably the mention of 'the Son of Man arriving in the Glory of His Father with the Holy Angels</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+16%3A18%2C+21/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Exodus 19:21-24 Doesn't the Lord Know the Reason for 'More Witnesses'?</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A5/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Exodus 20:5 Why Jesus Has to Be Promoted as 'the Son of God' even-though He's the Son of Man</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+20%3A7/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Exodus 20:7 We're Told 'Honor thy Father & Mother' Is "the First Commandment with Promise," but Look at 'Not Using the Lord's Name in Vain'</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+21%3A32/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Exodus 21:32 Judas Betrayed Jesus for 'the Penalty-Fee of an Ox-Injured Servant'</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+10%3A23-27/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Mark 10:23-27 Christians Warp This Text into a Couple False Beliefs ('Wealth Is Hell' & 'Heaven Is a Gated Community')</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+12%3A1-9/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Mark 12:1-9 Is This Parable Not a Prophecy of Armageddon?</a> - <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark+12%3A24-26/&version=KJV;NIV;NLT;NASB;AMP">Mark 12:24-26 How DARE Christians Use 'Christianity' as a Basis for Their Position on Gay Marriage?</a> -

You might pick out a question you like, ask it in a topic of your own starting & post a link to that topic from here (so as I don't have to start it myself) 

...

Kind of 'the pattern I'm following lately' is that a) I copy/paste the questions here if I have more than I feel I can do one-at-a-time that day and b) I'll start picking off one or another question, asking it in a new topic, and editing the text here to link to that topic.

And I hope others among you will do the same 

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Debate & Discuss / So It's a SIN to Wash Your Hands before You Eat?

« on: January 30, 2014, 12:46:55 pm »Message ID: 845024

I hope not, but that's kinda the message Jesus gives when He defends his disciples against the Pharisees' accusation that the eateth with defiledst hands-eth! (where He replies with His 'it's not what goes into a man, but what comes out that defileth')

Yeah Jesus, but what kind of kingdom is it if everybody eats with grubby hands?

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Off-Topic / Where's the "Maria Bamford" for ME?

« on: January 29, 2014, 07:40:19 pm »Message ID: 844799

I mean---the original is awesome, but I'm too "inconvenient" for her (besides, she's 43 years old; she probably wouldn't go for me unless 1) she goes cruising my Warr Acres/Bethany (Oklahoma) neighborhood's churches for disabled 'pups' & 2) 32 is young enough to count as a 'pup.'

And maybe she does go 'cruising for pups'---the personal-life section of her Wikipedia page doesn't say she doesn't!

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Debate & Discuss / Is the Current 'Minimum-Wage' High Enough?

« on: January 29, 2014, 07:17:50 pm »Message ID: 844790

I say yes, yes it is ... no matter how low it is. If it's below the current cost-of-living, it's THE PRICE-SETTERS who need to adjust! 

(added Today (1-30) after 11:42:58 am ) Tell me what you think about THAT solution!

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Support / Feeling New to Computers: Shouldn't "Esc" Undo Your Last Action P.C.-WIDE?

« on: January 29, 2014, 01:00:12 pm »Message ID: 844657

But apparently it doesn't---not according to my recent findings here:

On my 'quick menu,' the icons for Firefox & CCleaner look similar; so I occasionally (rarely) click the Firefox-icon when I mean to open CCleaner.

That would be FINE if I could just push "Esc" to cancel that click and just go on to click the CCleaner icon. But I tried that, & it didn't stop NOTHIN`!

What I USUALLY have to do in that case is open the "File Manager," click the "Processes"-tab, find the "firefox"-process, highlight the filename, click 'End Process' & usually confirm that I really want to end the process (on account of I might've changed some files I want to save the changes to, or something).

Is there a quicker way? some 'undo'-button somewhere?

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Off-Topic / Disabled, but Not 'On Disability'

« on: January 29, 2014, 12:35:31 pm »Message ID: 844647

The reason-why is quite simple: I was forced to be disabled BEFORE I COULD PAY-INTO "disability" (see #2 on SSDI-claims).

My parents won me some sorta 'settlement' (which I was duped into signing by the hopes that an upcoming case would earn me my millions). My parents then 'grew suspicious of'- & fired the lawyer, & ... have pretty-much flushed my hopes down the drain---plunging-in their divorce & my fathers failed law-career on top of them (so that they're TOTALLY forgotten  )

The settlement is "enough" (luckily I've gotten USED TO 'tiny living-space' & 'less-than-efficient Internet-hardware' and 'LIMITED cable-television' & 'LIMITED traveling-capability' & 'LIMITED housekeeping' & ... all the other LIMITS a feeble money-stream supplies),

but I'm not sure if any cost-of-living adjustments are written into the agreement  (If there WERE, I could've stayed in the apartments I was inhabiting BEFORE )

What is it that makes me more-worthless now than I would've been if I had defeated death AFTER paying into Social Security?

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Support / Why Can't Survey Network-Sites Give My Most-Basic Info to the Sites Sending ME?

« on: January 29, 2014, 11:57:20 am »Message ID: 844640

I'm talking about my age, sex, weight ... things that are pretty steady, and I can change once-for-all-future-surveys if any of them DO change 

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Debate & Discuss / Parents Whine coz School-District Used MLKJ-Day to Make-Up for Snow-Day

« on: January 29, 2014, 11:35:59 am »Message ID: 844638

I mean, COME ON!  Was Dr. King's "dream" 'for little children to get a day offa school in memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."? No!

I guess they just wanted to "Fight the Power" ... should schools segregate water-fountains again every MLKJ-Day?

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Off-Topic / Why Does Spoil Mean BOTH "Rob Blind" AND "Give Too Many Presents-to"?

« on: January 29, 2014, 11:26:12 am »Message ID: 844633

I remember when I was young, my father's parents would buy me nice gifts, but would say they were worried about "spoiling me."

Then I read in the Old Testament how Israel would frequently "spoil" the enemies they invaded (robbing them blind upon conquest).

Are the two meanings linked somehow?

I imagine my grandparents might've thought they were 'robbing me' of the appreciation for the value of a hard-earned penny ...

But don't get me started on 'spoiled GROCERIES!' :barf::sick:

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Support / Why Is My Firefox Having Such Trouble with Chrome-Scripts?

« on: January 29, 2014, 10:49:33 am »Message ID: 844619

Every so often, my Firefox browser will 'freeze-up' on a script whose address starts with "chrome://". Why is that? Why doesn't Firefox just regard 'Chrome-scripts' as another form of '!--N/A--'-HTML?

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Debate & Discuss / Is There ANYTHING We Can Do about What Credit-Cards Are Doing to MONEY?

« on: January 29, 2014, 10:33:30 am »Message ID: 844613

I get a call the other day (one that I've been getting every day-or-so for the past week) telling me that--because of my answers on some survey and because of my not having a criminal record (or something ... hard to understand with the Far East accent)--the Federal government wants to give me about $7,000 ...

But they CAN'T send it to me because I don't have a 'bank account'-number.

Then I get a call from a magazine-subscription company, telling me they want to give me a bunch of subscriptions at a really-good rate. I agree, and get `em all "ordered"; then find out they can't 'put in my order' because I can't give them CASH over the phone (and apparently they can't-give me an address to send CASH to or -bill me by mail).

Is there no respect for CASH any more?