Re: Rational thought process vs creationist 'thought' processes

Mark T wrote:
 
> "lynx" <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>   
>> The reason our society is so ****ed up today is because we've largely 
>> abandoned concepts such as good and bad and right and wrong that were
and 
>> are the mainstay of a functional society.
>>     
>
> What ARE the good / bad absolutes?
>
> You haven't named any.
>
> Some say the 10 Commandments ....
>
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>
> The Original Ten Commandments - Exodus 34
>
>
> 10: And he said, "Behold, I make a covenant. Before all your people I
will
> do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth or in any
nation;
> and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD;
for it
> is a terrible thing that I will do with you.
> 11: "Observe what I command you this day. Behold, I will drive out
before
> you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Per'izzites, the
> Hivites, and the Jeb'usites.
> 12: Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants
of
> the land whither you go, lest it become a snare in the midst of you.
> 13: You shall tear down their altars, and break their pillars, and cut
down
> their Ashe'rim
> 14: (for you shall wor****p no other god, for the LORD, whose name is
> Jealous, is a jealous God),
> 15: lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when
they
> play the harlot after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and one
invites
> you, you eat of his sacrifice,
> 16: and you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters
play
> the harlot after their gods and make your sons play the harlot after
their
> gods.
> 17: "You shall make for yourself no molten gods.
> 18: "The feast of unleavened bread you shall keep. Seven days you shall
eat
> unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month
> Abib; for in the month Abib you came out from Egypt.
> 19: All that opens the womb is mine, all your male cattle, the
firstlings of
> cow and sheep.
> 20: The firstling of an ass you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will
not
> redeem it you shall break its neck. All the first-born of your sons you
> shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.
> 21: "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in
> plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
> 22: And you shall observe the feast of weeks, the first fruits of wheat
> harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
> 23: Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the LORD
God,
> the God of Israel.
> 24: For I will cast out nations before you, and enlarge your borders;
> neither shall any man desire your land, when you go up to appear before
the
> LORD your God three times in the year.
> 25: "You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither
> shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left until the
morning.
> 26: The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring to the
> house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a kid in its mother's
milk."
> 27: And the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words; in accordance with
these
> words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel."
> 28: And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he
neither
> ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the
> covenant, the ten commandments.
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> According to the ORIGINAL 10 Commandments posted above  ... "You shall
not 
> boil a kid in its mother's milk." [Exodus 34:26] is an ABSOLUTE!  It is
also 
> a delicacy in many Middle Eastern countries.
>
> What is your ruling good /bad on this practice?
>
> How do you know your ruling is correct?
>   
 
Argument for the sake of argument is it? I live in 21st century 
Australia. Not sure about you. I'm talking about guiding concepts and 
principles. You're babbling, as usual.
 
>>>> (don't clik if ****ity offends) 
>>>> http://pedronet.info/pics/string_bikinis.jpg
>>>>         
>>> 1. They aren't ****.  They wear some clothing.
>>>       
>> **** except for a few pieces of string then..
>>     
>
> The string is clothing by definition .....
> Definitions of clothing on the Web:
>
>   a.. a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
>   wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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>   b.. Clothing is defined, in its broadest sense, as coverings for the
torso 
> and limbs as well as coverings for the hands (gloves), feet (socks,
shoes, 
> sandals, boots) and head (hats, caps).People almost universally wear 
> clothing, which is also known as dress, garments, attire, or apparel.
...
>   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clothing
>   c.. garments, in general; covering.
>   www.aananta.net/AGc.htm
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>   
 
So what? are you just trying to win a point based on technicalities? For 
what purpose? You haven't made any point other than that they're not 
(technically) ****d. Ok, I agree. Happy now?




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Pete
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