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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Anyone know much about the very early history of the Bible?
Hunt down the books of Bart Ehrman, author of "Misquoting Jesus" and several books on how the very early scriptures differ between themselves. I have several of them, and he's a very clear writer without an axe to grind other than to point out that the Bible isn't the same "word of God" it was in the early days. He's the chairman of the religious studies department at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
tommyrot, I think they're just being assholes. No logic required.
tommyrot, I think they're just being assholes.
Yeah, but they could at least be assholes in a way that makes sense. Is that too much to ask? Apparantly it is (for an asshole).
It's on the West side of the Metra bridge on Foster (eta: between Damen and Ashland), btw. They have another sign on the East side of the bridge. It's just a straightforward "buy our fur" type sign, and it appears to have been paint-bombed.
Exit 9 on Ave A has a ton of funny/kitchy/etc
Cool, maybe I can stop by this weekend. I'd rather do something funny than food-related.
For reasons that don't matter at all at this point, we have a shitload of Barbies floating around my office. For no good reason, these Barbies irk me. So we're having a toy drive in the building, and I'm totally giving the Barbies away!! OK, not all of them, but the lame ones for sure.
Cool, maybe I can stop by this weekend. I'd rather do something funny than food-related.
It's around 4th Street. You live on the F, right? Pretty convenient, then.
I have a great and weird fondness for the Abbott & Costello Babes in Toyland which has so many great-to-me bits in it, including the world's smallest barrage-by-blimp, and of course, a disastrous mistake in the size of wooden soldiers, long before Spinal Tap was ordering a Stonehenge replica for their stage show.
Anyone know much about the very early history of the Bible? Is the stuff here pretty much accepted by Bible history scholars?
It doesn't sound that far out. Its commonly accepted that three of the gospels are based on one another and the fourth is not. I don't know if the assertion of contentiousness is widespread but I imagine the view exists in various forms.
And I can't speak off the top of my head, but different officials behaved and were regarded differently in different eras and by different people -- but I don't know how much of that is a "battleground". One guys battleground is another's healthy debate.
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Yeah. My mom had enormous issues with the insurance company when she opted for tubal litigation. My brother was 9 and I was 13, and she was sure she didn't want any more children at that point. But she was 30, and got the same bullshit from insurance. Fortunately, my mom's doctor fought with them on it, but it seemed a demeaning process.