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Posts posted by Uncle Nate
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3 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:
Does it say that somewhere or is that the explanation that best fits the text as written? There was no son at the time so was this the Bi-God? I think his name was Lance.Read the Gospel of John. The Trinity is eternal:
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JOHN 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was in the beginning with God.” -
37 minutes ago, Rimbo said:
Oh, what you say is hardly "consistent" with the OT. Remember Genesis 1:26? "Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”"
The Bible even documents the "discovery" of Deuteronomy within itself, in 2 Kings 22. "Yo, kid -- I mean, your majesty, look at this never-before-seen-or-heard-of words of Moses we 'found' in the Temple!" And that is the point where the worship of Asherah, etc. became no longer accepted.
Remember, above all else, that we as Christians must understand that the Bible was written by humans, not God, who were struggling to understand divinity within the context of their time. Don't make the error of believing that the Bible is consistent. It isn't and doesn't try to be. Best example of a contradiction is the version of David in Kings (written during the Babylonian exile, where the #1 theological issue was "why did these bad things happen to us, why are we no longer in our Promised Land?") and the version of David in Chronicles (written after they were returned to Palestine under Cyrus of Persia, where David is meant to be the ideal of the theocratic king)...
edit: or what phdhorn said much more briefly above
Or the “us” and “we” is referring to the Triune God.
Just saying.
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She must've been something before electricity.
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8 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:
Jesus, none o' y'all gonna admit to having slaveholding ancestors? Were they Yankees or just poors?
There is no personal shame for us in what our ancestors did. Guilt, but no shame.
Poor. Very, very poor.
My German ancestors who came over in the 19th century were too poor to own slaves and I guess too ugly to marry any rich plantation owner's daughter. So they married fellow poor and ugly and procreated to create their own legal slaves, aka children. That's what poor farmers did back then...create an enslaved workforce through procreation.
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15 hours ago, Huckleberry said:
I was with them until they spelled it "judgement." A spelling now acceptable only because so many people didn't know how to spell it properly.
Get off my lawn!This has always bothered me. NOT that people misspell it. No, what has always bothered me, even as a little kid, is why did the "e" get removed when it went from "judge" to "judgment". Why? Who came up with that? What the hell did the "e" ever do to deserve being excommunicated?
One of the many intricacies of the English language that drove me batty as a child.
On this note, I hate when people use "all but" wrong. Somehow it has become acceptable to use "all but" to say they actually accomplished whatever. But that's not what that phrase means. It means they very nearly did, but did not.
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You have the shovel...that's what the shovel is for...you want to dispose of the body, use the shovel. I ain't touching no snake...dead or alive...especially not the head that has two hypodermic needles filled to the brim with poison ready to be injected into me.
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Haven't read the whole thread...so forgive me if this has already been mentioned:
When you have two signs that say "Yield to Ramp"...that means when a car is coming off the exit ramp, and you are on the frontage road, you need to yield to them. That means actually slowing down, applying the brakes, and letting them go in front of you so you don't hit them.
In the DFW area, no one has ever understood this concept.
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41 minutes ago, Nonbryan said:
Is Duke going to pose any type of a challenge for the Red Raiders?
Duke has some hitters.
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4 hours ago, Beau Vine said:
Duke is ass.
I will eat the chair I'm sitting in if Duke beats Georgia twice today.
I hope for your sake you are sitting in a chair made of beef.
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Just now, Valmy77 said:
So Ole Miss and Georgia are playing for their lives tonight. That should be fun.
Would love to see a double-SEC SEC SEC loss.
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Can't fix stupid.
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11 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:
You're preaching to the choir, Nate.
You know who else has a field-turf baseball field? Wimberley High School. Softball, too. It's hilarious to see 6A teams use our fields for playoff games when it rains.
Our football field is also field-turf, and I'm pretty sure it was the first 3A FT field in the state.
Both got approved because of the water usage.
But for years and years and years and years, the excuse UT always gave was that hosting the UIL state tournament meant that they couldn't possibly have a grass field.
I will say that the current DF field-turf field >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> old Astroturf field.
You know, I might be a little more open to a field-turf baseball diamond if they would at least have real dirt at the bases rather than just the pitching mound. It just doesn't seem right sliding into base on little rubber pellets.
EDIT: FU Deej for beating me to it.
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6 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:
For many years, UT made the "Grass can't handle the workload in this climate especially with the UIL state games here" excuse.
And then the Round Rock Express came into existence, and they made a grass field, which took on much more use in a minor league season, and took on half of the UIL games, and somehow everything was fine with their field.
So the reason we still have that turf stuff (which is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than the faded Astroturf that we had for so many years) is because the people in charge want us to have fake grass.
They don't want to spend the coin it takes to maintain real grass.
Pro stadiums have full-time staffs that do nothing but baby that grass nearly 24/7. Even a rich athletic department like UT can't really dedicate that many resources to a single facility. Plus I'm sure the environmentalists have a lot of more sway with UT than they have with the RR Express. Hard for a state public entity like UT to justify the water usage.
EDIT: I'm not defending it. I think baseball should be on grass at every level.
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1 minute ago, Beau Vine said:
Don't think, meat. It can only hurt the ball club.
Eh, what do you know. I'm the one who has a 911 with a quadrophonic Blaupunkt.
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1 minute ago, Beau Vine said:
Duke is ass.
I will eat the chair I'm sitting in if Duke beats Georgia twice today.
Twice?
Shit, I thought this game was for all the mawrbles.
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3 minutes ago, Kennythetiger said:
Should have kept both hands on his ding-a-ling.
That was some sage advice by Chuck Berry. Hard to swim, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
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Duke up on UG 8-5, bottom of the 7th. If Duke wins, Tech hosts Super. If UG wins, UG hosts the Super and Tech travels to Athens.
Besides the fact that I want Tech to host the Super...I really, really, really want another SEC SEC SEC team to go down.
EDIT: Buttfumble beat me to it.
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1 hour ago, Trey3216 said:
Well, I wouldn’t want to make it either if a shark bit mine off.
Beat me to it.
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Any church is automatically a business by default. Why? Because a building costs money. Electricity and water cost money. A preacher has to earn a living.
So why do it? If coming together in fellowship with a group of other believers of the same faith results in the need to create a business, why do it at all? Jesus never said go build a church, hire a pastor, raise money, etc. It's literally not in any of his directions to us. So why do we do it?
For the simple reason that we do want to commune with fellow believers of the same faith. So in order to have the mechanism for that communion and fellowship, we take on the things of this world that is required to build such a mechanism. But we aren't in it for the money. We are simply trying to provide the structure for worship that we want.
Now, in regards to Christianity be an exclusionary club...I couldn't disagree more. We are all sinners. I repeat, we are all sinners. Christians are not better than anyone else...hell, most of us are probably worse. I'm probably the worst of the worst, and for that I hate me. Christians just know we are bad and we want to follow the path of salvation knowing there is nothing we can do to save ourselves. Nothing. Nada. We cannot save ourselves. So we put our trust in the one who can. That does not make us better than anyone...at all. Our salvation is not in our own hands.
Where I draw the line is some of the modern Christianity that will tell me my sin is not a sin. No, my sin is sin. It's really bad. I suck and there's nothing I can do to stop sucking. God does not look the other way. A price has to be paid for it, and it was paid. But not by me. That doesn't give me the freedom to sin or to redefine sin or to say my sin doesn't matter. It does, and it's bad. The price is death. Luckily, the price was paid. I do not judge anyone else's sin because I know mine is worse. But that doesn't mean I say that sin is of your own opinion or that we have the freedom to sin and do whatever we want. It's not and we don't.
Sorry I got a little theological here. Didn't mean to go there.
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On 5/31/2018 at 1:38 PM, C-Man said:
I'm partial to the past -- they're the goddamn Gold Sox.
Drop the mic, close the thread.
It starts and stops with Gold Sox.
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On 5/24/2018 at 10:44 AM, RomaVicta said:
I ended up be far larger and stronger than my father. If I had been in this situation and endlessly delayed leaving his house, I doubt that he would want to add an arrest to my record by calling the police nor would he have wanted to see me physically harmed. He was not a soft man.
My dad fought the VietCong. He ran PBR boats inserting and extracting SEAL teams and other special forces throughout the rivers & jungles of Vietnam & Cambodia. He bathed in Agent Orange and used napalm for BBQ's. As a teenager he once spent a night in a Mexican jail. No matter how big or strong I got, I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt he could whip my ass without breaking a sweat.
There is no hypothetical that would have placed me in this situation.
Plus, I do have some pride.
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2 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:
He nicknamed your mom "Big Retirement"?
No, I believe his nickname for her was "Big fucking pain in my ass." If you ever met my mother, you would understand.
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I've had this nightmare multiple times...where the entire porch/yard is littered with rattlesnakes:
QuoteJune 1 (UPI) -- A California woman opened her front door to discover a deadly rattlesnake on her front porch -- and it didn't come to the house alone.
Bella Trujillo said she opened the front door to her Benicia home on this week and discovered the entrance was blocked by a northern pacific rattlesnake.
"We were like, 'Step back, go back, go backwards, don't go there!'" she told KGO-TV.
Lou Fraser of Rattlesnake Removal USA responded to the home with his snake-sniffing dog, Peaches. He said a total three rattlesnakes were removed from Trujillo's property, including a small one that he might have missed if not for Peaches' snake sniffing skills.
Fraser said the snake season is in full swing, so business is booming.
"I started in Dixon, then St. Helena, then Santa Rosa, now in Benicia, Fairfield, after this," he said.
Fraser said snakes are less likely to occupy clean yards with lots of activity. He said having pets in a home can also help ward off the venomous reptiles.
"We don't want our pets to get bit, but honestly, the scent of a dog and the scent of a cat with deter animals like this," he told KTXL-TV.
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Big retirement killed my father.
Retirement meant he had to deal with my mother at home all day, every day. It literally killed him.
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the invention of God
in Daily Texan
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If you sit down and read the Bible all the way through, and come back and reread the Old Testament, you will see the OT is all about Jesus from start to finish. It's amazingly eye-opening.