This has happened many times since, and in the past day or so, I've been receiving some email notifications several hours after the actual post.
Sounds good.
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After posting in a couple other forums today, I realized how much better quoting is on this site than on those forums. Here, all one has to do to separate text in a block quote is press enter and click the block quote button and one can type between them. On other forums, one has to either type out the "[/quote]" and then "[quote]" at the beginning of the next section, or, for each section of text, highlight the text, click the quote button, and delete extra quote tags. I'm sure there are some forums with better quote options than that, and it isn't as easy to multi-quote here as it is on some other forums, but I like what we've got here better than what they've got on other sites.
May 1:
A.D. 1328: The Wars of Scottish Independence end and England recognizes Scotland as an independent state.
A.D. 1704: The first newspaper advertisement is published in the Boston Newsletter.
Now, ads make up half the paper. Ugh.
A.D. 1753: Carol Linnaeus publishes Species Plantarum, the first taxonomic classification of plants.
May 2:
A.D. 1497: Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) departs from Europe for North America.
A.D. 1536: King Henry VIII accuses his wife, Anne Boleyn, of adultery and incest.
A.D. 1776: France and Spain agree to provide arms to American rebels.
A.D. 1833: Czar Nicolas bans the public sale of serfs.
May 3:
A.D. 1494: Columbus discovers Jamaica and names it St. Iago.
A.D. 1791: The first modern constitution in Europe is proclaimed by the Sejm of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
A.D. 1802: Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city.
A.D. 1830: The first regular steam train passenger service is begun.
May 4:
A.D. 1415: John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.
A.D. 1493: Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain and Portugal.
A.D. 1715: The first folding umbrella is presented in public in Paris.
A.D. 1814: French Bourbon rule is restored.
LOL :)
The family business is a window coverings company, so I had to add my two bits while it was still part of the discussion...
"Drapes" is generally used to describe fancier curtains. I wouldn't use the word to describe cheap, everyday curtains, nor would I use the word "curtains" to describe most drapes.
No, that's dogs you're thinking of. And only about half of them are.
I had no idea your dad was dying, but I'm glad to hear he's improving! I'll keep him and your family in my prayers.
DuracellEnergizer said:
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) - 7.7/10
I've seen few movies that have been mentioned on this thread, but this happens to be one of them. :D
What evidence do you have for such a conspiracy? Why must some people find conspiracies everywhere they turn?
Christianity is a religion. Period. Cult is usually used as a derogatory term, though it is not strictly negative. For Christianity, other religions are other religions. What reason is there to call them cults?
thejediknighthusezni said:
RicOlie_2 said:
It makes me sad and angry when I see how so many people, especially Protestants, have no idea what Catholics really believe. I was looking at an apologetics forum called "raptureforums" and pretty much nobody there has the slightest clue what Catholics or Mormons believe. They have such bizarre ideas about us it made me cringe. I tried to sign up to make some counter arguments, but I was unable to post, or even view my profile, for some reason. The posters there also refer to Catholicism as a "cult" (even though more than 50% of Christians are Catholic!) and distinguish Catholicism, Mormonism, Jehovah Witnessism (or whatever you call them), etc. from "Christianity."
Yet Protestants and Catholics aren't all that different in their core beliefs, though many millions of Protestants think we believe the strangest things...
Is it directed towards the rank and file or the hierarchy?
Catholicism as a whole.
I make a tremendous distinction between the laity and the Jesuit educated clerics. It's like the lower degrees of Masonry, on the whole good folks who don't have a clear idea what's really goin' on. Only a very small handful at the top are given the BIG picture.
And just what is the "BIG picture"? I don't have time for bizarre conspiracy theories which have no basis. The Catholic Church is there to help people get to heaven, not to prevent the faithful from knowing the truth.
Personally, I don't care about vestments or bread and wine. There are lines in the NT that could justify wearing special clothes (as much as I am sure that the disciples wore standard clothing) and there is no question that One who could create the fabulous complexity of life could somehow transmute food and drink into something more significant (as much as I am certain that it was meant simply as an act of remembrance.) It's only when INSANE SNAKES start using these differences as cause to destroy other persons and societies that I start to care.
What "INSANE SNAKES"? Also, special clothing isn't required in order for a priest to say Mass. Religious habits are also no longer required as of the Second Vatican Council, just encouraged.
DuracellEnergizer said:
I've noticed that some of the more rapid Protestants like to label anything that isn't Protestantism -- be it non-Protestant Christianity or even seperate religions -- as a cult.
What does speed have to do with their tendency to label non-Protestants as cults? ;)
It makes me sad and angry when I see how so many people, especially Protestants, have no idea what Catholics really believe. I was looking at an apologetics forum called "raptureforums" and pretty much nobody there has the slightest clue what Catholics or Mormons believe. They have such bizarre ideas about us it made me cringe. I tried to sign up to make some counter arguments, but I was unable to post, or even view my profile, for some reason. The posters there also refer to Catholicism as a "cult" (even though more than 50% of Christians are Catholic!) and distinguish Catholicism, Mormonism, Jehovah Witnessism (or whatever you call them), etc. from "Christianity."
Yet Protestants and Catholics aren't all that different in their core beliefs, though many millions of Protestants think we believe the strangest things...
Tyrphanax said:
RicOlie_2 said:
Isaac Asimov is far from obscure. :)
That's the joke.
Your post was hard to interpret over the internet. It didn't seem very joking...
Isaac Asimov is far from obscure. :)
^That's about what I think of it. I got sidetracked reading another article and almost completely forgot I had even read this one because it made no impression on me at all.
No, I meant what I wrote, but I had forgotten the HD's diagonal move. :P
I don't think there's anything I can do that gets me out of this. There's nothing I can do to save my forequeen, and once I lose that, things will start going downhill quickly no matter what I do. As I'm pretty sure this is a lost cause, I resign and suggest we start over again, using the same armies/colours.
TF-6e
How would you exchange my knight and rook for the half-duck? After you take the bishight, I take the half-duck and none of my pieces aside from that one pawn are in immediate danger. You'd probably then move your chancellor to d5, and I'd be in big trouble then.
I think you're right though, and since I don't stand a chance without taking back my Pxf4 move, so I'm replacing it with B-e6
That has to be a joke...but if it isn't, that's very, very sad.
This, however, is interesting. If the chances of being gay do in fact increase by a third with each older brother, and I understood what is meant by "a third" correctly, my youngest brother is 133% more likely to be gay than I was.
TF-5f
I'll stick with it. It's my fault for not paying close attention to the moves.
Pxg3
I thought it was finally over, but the site just went down again. :(