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#693310
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Episode V: The Ridiculousness Strikes Back
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NeverarGreat said:

Hal 9000 said:

There's a pretty good one called "Star Wars Minute" in which two guys and a guest go through Star Wars one minute at a time. 

That's pretty cool, they're on minute 35 of Empire, the one where I always think that Vader walks through an airport metal detector when he enters the base. Someone needs to add the metal detector sounds at that point.

TV's Frink said:

Someone needs to post that in the right place so I don't forget.

You're welcome. ;)

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#693309
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How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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No, you're not walking into a trap. I'm trying to lure you in a bit since I'm in a bad position to attack. I've also managed to get my pieces stuck, so I'm trying to get them unstuck so that I can take the offense. I am taking a bit of a gambit to get myself in a better position, so hopefully you don't do something unexpected. :P

T-19

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#693240
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How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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darth_ender said:

Thanks buddy.  This week I will end up with more than 60 hours at work, on top of my involvement in local Church leadership, trying to move into a new house (slowly, thank goodness the separate landlords of both houses are friendly), and simply trying to be a husband and father.  Work has been especially busy the past two days.  Hopefully tomorrow is lighter.

 T-21

No worries, I understand. I know what it's like to be busy and I don't expect you to be able to post often. Unfortunately I couldn't post earlier today, but I've started working Saturdays.

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#693030
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Ask the member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints AKA Interrogate the Mormon
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To add to what I wrote about the deuterocanon, most of them may be relatively unimportant, but not because they are less inspired or less authoritative. Rather, some of them are less important because they have less original or fewer important messages contained within them. However, this is not always the case, nor is it limited to the deuterocanon. For example, 2 Maccabees is the book on which the important Catholic doctrine of Purgatory is based while many canonical prophetic books contain little that is original or relevant. They are still inspired Scripture and authoritative books, but few would say they (or any books in the Bible, for that matter) are as important as the gospels.

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#692949
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Ask the member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints AKA Interrogate the Mormon
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darth_ender said:

 

If so, then why accept Martin Luther's changes to the Bible which were made long after you believe Christianity became corrupt? Those books were affirmed as Scripture and included in the Bible at the same time as the books in the New Testament, so why reject the seven OT books but not the NT ones?

 Remember first what your church calls such books: deuterocanonical, meaning secondary canon.  Implicitly they are not valued as highly in Catholic canon either.  These books were never included in Jewish canon.  They were part of the Greek Septuagint, coming from Jewish texts but already of dubious authenticity, and ultimately rejected by Jewish authorities, though Christian authorities did ultimately accept them.  That said, we do not reject them wholly, but believe them to be somewhat unreliable, some more than others:

I believe they were termed deuterocanonical because their canonicity was questioned by some, like St. Jerome for instance, not because they are not as important. However, New Testament books like Jude and Revelation were also under dispute while other books that were ultimately rejected, like The Epistle of Barnabas and the Shepherd of Hermas were considered canonical by some earlier on. The Church teaches that the deuterocanonical books are just as inspired as any other book in the Bible and they have no lesser value. 

https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/91?lang=eng

https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bd/apocrypha

I happen to have a parallel translation of I believe eight different translations of the Apocrypha, 4 Protestant, 4 Catholic, and it includes a few other books not found canonical by either, but esteemed as canon by Oriental Orthodox branches.  I've actually enjoyed collecting such books, and I hope to obtain a few books that contain large collections of pseudepigriphial Old and New Testament writings.  There is something to learn from many of them, even if some are very inaccurate.

 If you want a site that has a comprehensive list of non-canonical early Christian and Jewish writings, I suggest you take a look at these two sites:

http://earlychristianwritings.com/

http://earlyjewishwritings.com/

There is quite a list there and multiple translations and commentaries are included.

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#692943
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How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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I agree with that and that was what I was worried about. There's probably a better way to limit them and perhaps it's enough just to drop them out of the game when they're captured instead of being able to paratroop them back onto the board. Or maybe that's the rule I should discard. I'll have to think about a good way to limit them without making them to complicated to remember easily.

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#692934
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Ask the member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints AKA Interrogate the Mormon
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If Christianity became corrupt soon after the death of all the apostles, then why do Mormons accept the New Testament as Scripture since it wasn't affirmed as such until the fourth century or so? Also, do Mormons use the Protestant Bible rather than the Catholic one (the difference I am referring to being not the translation, but the books included in the Old Testament)? If so, then why accept Martin Luther's changes to the Bible which were made long after you believe Christianity became corrupt? Those books were affirmed as Scripture and included in the Bible at the same time as the books in the New Testament, so why reject the seven OT books but not the NT ones?