Re: survival skills for teenage geeks
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 09:01:46AM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 01:55:55AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov said:
> >
> > Actually, I've done the best research possible on some of the issues
> > I've discussed, such as the aforementioned 'highschool philosophy' -- by
> > experiencing the subject matter firsthand.
> Or is this a reading-comprehension issue?
Yes, I think it is.
> I'll put this in simpler English for the research-impaired
> crowd:
>
> The texts that comprise the Bible never once say Mary was a
> virgin. The King James (mis)translation does. A bunch of
> Christian denominations based on that (mis)translation teach that
> she was.
Alexander said that he had experienced _some_ of the issues and
provided 'highschool philosophy' as an example. The circumstances of
a Jewish carpenter's birth do not fall under 'highschool philosophy',
so he was not claiming to have been there.
> Figure it out. Preferably somewhere else.
You're using mutt. Try ctrl-D.
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we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened.
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