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Orthodox Christians may not take the sacrament from Catholic priests unless they really need it and there are no Orthodox priests around. This I have from an orthodox priest. .…
18 Dec 2009, 21:11
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Opinion and belief are the same word in Greek. That word is 'doxos'. It is sometimes translated as opinion and it is sometimes translated as belief. This uniform employment of ra…
18 Dec 2009, 20:02
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Once again, this is exactly correct. .…
18 Dec 2009, 19:34
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Well, yes. The radical meaning of the term 'radical' is 'root'. .…
18 Dec 2009, 19:33
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I don't agree. This is not the way I use terms. Each term has a radical meaning, which is mine to discover and then to always use. .…
18 Dec 2009, 19:32
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Exactly, Dan'l. Still not seeing Matt's point. .…
18 Dec 2009, 19:13
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Sorry, I was wrong to agree with you. The radical meaning of orthdoxy is right belief. .…
18 Dec 2009, 19:12
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Indeed. And your point? .…
18 Dec 2009, 19:11
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Remember, I always use the radical meaning of a given term. .…
18 Dec 2009, 18:53
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I'm just going by the meaning of the terms. I'm either a Jew or a Brunian, depending what mood I'm in when you ask me: I have no dog in this fight. .…
18 Dec 2009, 18:51
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That part's pretty minor. They can take sacrament from each other's priests, in an emergency. The Anglicans are also reasonably close: they should be considered something other tha…
18 Dec 2009, 18:28
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The original group is the orthodox group: there was no one before them, they get to say what is orthodox. Any deviation from what that original group says is therefore, by definiti…
18 Dec 2009, 18:07
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Bah! Humbug! .…
18 Dec 2009, 17:57
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Heretics all. .…
18 Dec 2009, 15:24
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Orthodox Christianity (including Catholicism) is Christianity. The forms of Protestantism are Christianity with various bits sliced off. Christianity began by being a coherent exp…
18 Dec 2009, 15:04
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Card's early short work, which mostly appeared in OMNI, was really, raelly good. He is, at worst, readable. .…
18 Dec 2009, 14:59
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When is the last time that Ebony is seen in the story? .…
17 Dec 2009, 01:58
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Is there a problem with Jimmy being the assassin, and a liar? .…
02 Dec 2009, 18:37
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What, again? .…
12 Nov 2009, 21:12
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I believe that TWK is Wolfe's speculations as to what might become of a decent and relatively innocent young man of Celtic and Germanic descent, who is not a Christian or, indeed, …
10 Nov 2009, 23:23
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How many pages? .…
10 Nov 2009, 23:19
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Mexico is in North America. It is near 'the region' in the same sense that Ireland is near Kenya. Catherine is obviously St Catherine of Alexandria: http://www.newadvent.org/cath…
10 Nov 2009, 18:00
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I thought Wizard-Knight was excellent. .…
10 Nov 2009, 02:43
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Sure, not all ancient cultivated plants are like this. .…
04 Nov 2009, 15:53
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I didn't know that. I am actually a very ignorant person. I would have to modify my statement in light of that knowledge. I have no doubt that you are correct when you say this, …
04 Nov 2009, 00:40
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It's not really a claim. I wouldn't call it a claim. I do have reasons why I say it, yes. .…
04 Nov 2009, 00:17
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Pardon, I meant seperate male and female plants, not seperate flowers on the same stem. .…
03 Nov 2009, 19:47
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These plants with seperate male and female flowers are mostly ancient cultivers. .…
03 Nov 2009, 19:41
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Pardon me, this guy owned some books. Are you seriously arguing that he should be locked up for, let me see, 10 counts at 17 years presumptive with no possibility for parole, that …
03 Nov 2009, 02:35
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That's pretty harsh for having some dirty books. .…
03 Nov 2009, 00:12
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Right, Dan'l. I didn't think that there was any doubt about any of this. .…
30 Oct 2009, 19:19
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Not in NYC, which dominated the publishing biz, let alone the genre publishing biz, in the early to mid twentieth. In the NYC where I grew up, Jews and Catholics were normal: white…
22 Sep 2009, 22:33
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Orson Scott Card has written some very interesting Mormon based stuff. .…
22 Sep 2009, 22:28
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Alan Moore is a wack-job. A brilliant wack-job, but still a wack-job. .…
23 Aug 2009, 11:49
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Why not translate some GW short stories into French? .…
05 Aug 2009, 06:26
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Isn't the Brown Book also Borges' "Book Of Sand"? .…
23 Jul 2009, 00:57
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I don't know what Herodotus was referring to here, but it wasn't nothing. There are flying snakes (or at least gliding snakes). It's a variety of Indian cotton. People have pers…
21 Jul 2009, 20:20
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Gene Wolfe is not just a good propagandist, he is one of the best that I have ever seen. If you are likely to be hostile to his agenda, chances are you just won't get it, and will …
24 Jun 2009, 23:10
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As interested. It's a floor wax AND a dessert topping. I really like TDiaF also. .…
23 Jun 2009, 08:37
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That is possible. Someone should ask him at some point, and we will know. I wouldn't be surprised if Wolfe's descriptions of war and combat owed something to Bierce. .…
10 Jun 2009, 21:07
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These metaphysical ideas were around long before Bierce. Not to talk him down: Ambrose Bierce is excellent. His descriptions of combat and war particularly. I don't doubt that Wol…
10 Jun 2009, 17:32
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For all the wierd stuff that gets bruited about about Mormons and Mormonism, it has always seemed a perfectly reasonable religion to me. The theology and founding history is a litt…
21 May 2009, 23:51
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That was now. This is now, now. Just not. All we wanna do is eat your brains! .…
20 May 2009, 23:46
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Nope. There are more living people. Dead people are not. .…
20 May 2009, 22:21
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Some there I haven't read. Where do you gettum, Gwern? .…
20 May 2009, 22:21
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It's OK if you shoot him when he comes at you to do that, too. .…
20 May 2009, 22:14
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Are there more dead people or living people? .…
20 May 2009, 22:12
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Which, again, would not necessarily interfere with modifying the system to provide social services on a voluntary basis. .…
20 May 2009, 22:11
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I think it is wrong. I just don't think that it is in any way similar to burglary, extortion, muggery, barratry etc etc. I have thought for a while that y'all are going to have to…
20 May 2009, 21:46
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And again I must rely upon the kindness of strangers. - (collapses into the arms of the ambulance attendants). .…
20 May 2009, 21:41
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