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I'm saying they should think more for themselves. There are too many that don't think enough. Too many people are essentially sheep.

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And certes, if it nere to long to heere,
I wolde have toold yow fully the manere
How wonnen was the regne of Femenye
By Theseus, and by his chivalrye,

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And the wonnen it peeled and as to it the heere, the neretoold the yow being sufficient for a long time in the Iwolde, when the manere it was, the certes was the regne of the Femenye in the Theseus and his chivalrye side,

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Hey, we should have another contest. Start with a random phrase and see how many hops it takes to get a Beatle song title.

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No offense, Excalibur, but it sounds like you are just blindly repeating what you hear from your parents (or some other authority figure).

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And by the by, I don't recall it calling 'homosexuals' evil anywhere.

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If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable.

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Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters no adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor slanderers will inherit the kingdom of God

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Yeah, presuming to speak for God is pretty awful, I'll give you that.

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I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.

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But whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.

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For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

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And big *hugs* Alec, you were missed. ;)

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Without leaders, humanity would be in chaotic anarchy

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Or so Brunei claims.

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Illicit drugs: drug trafficking and illegally importing controlled substances are serious offenses in Brunei and carry a mandatory death penalty

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who gives a **** about Brunei

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I think you've got an extremely simplistic view of crime that boils down to 'people who commit crimes are evil'.

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and refusing to offer them a way to change is sort of on the evil side.

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Anyone who strikes a man and kills him shall surely be put to death. However, if he does not do ti intentionally, but God lets it happen, he is to flee to a place I will designate. But if the man schemes and kills another man deliberately, take him away from my altar and put him to death.
Anyone who attacks his father or his mother must be put to death.
Anyone who curses his father for mother must be put to death

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If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise

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If, however, the bull has had the habit of goring and the owner has been warned but has not kept it penned up and it kills a man or woman, the bull must be stoned and the owner also must be put to death.

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Do not allow a sorceress to live.
Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal must be put to death.
Whoever sacrifices to any god other than the Lord must be destroyed.

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Do not take advantage of a widow or an orphan. If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. My anger will be aroused, and I will kill you with the sword; your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.

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Any Israelite or any alien living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death

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If a man commits adultery with another man's wife--with the wife of his neighbor--both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

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If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.

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If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is wicked. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that no wickedness will be among you.

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If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death--the girl because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man's wife. You must purge the evil from among you.
But if out in the country a man happens to meet a girl pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who had done this shall die.

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(and quite rationally, however much the idea may be anathema to Winnemucca)

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I wonder if water is another serious problem. I mean, Earth has these huge oceans and clouds that rain down water all the time, and we use water constantly in order to survive. Mars doesn't exactly have oceans or clouds, and neither do the other places in the solar system that we could go, to the best of my knowledge. What could we do about that?

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[B] unless you are in a death penalty state like Texas. [B/]

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[B]Yeah, but who's going to take first watch when the mind worms come out?[B/]

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[B] Black Hole... [B/]

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