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| 1762.1 | | VERGA::STANLEY | what a long strange trip it's been | Fri Nov 13 1992 13:36 | 1 |
| Let's just slip off.... maybe they won't notice.
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| 1762.3 | | CARTUN::MISTOVICH | | Fri Nov 13 1992 14:58 | 1 |
| Definitely just slip off. That way they can't follow us...
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| 1762.4 | getting to be that time... | VERGA::STANLEY | what a long strange trip it's been | Fri Nov 13 1992 16:21 | 3 |
| "the way you came,
and the way you go,
let your tracks be lost in the dark and snow"
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| 1762.6 | | HOCUS::FERGUSON | all work and no play ... is STUPID | Mon Nov 16 1992 20:27 | 7 |
| Hmm - the Church has been really busy this week. I heard on the news
this morning that they've added to the list of sins that have to be
confessed. The only two I remember were Drunk Driving and Cheating On
Your Income Taxes.
Ginny
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| 1762.8 | | WARNUT::NISBETD | nisbet@cix.compulink.co.uk | Tue Nov 17 1992 07:44 | 15 |
| The Vatican has just released (it was leaked apparently) the new beta
test version of the gospel.
Tax Evasion and drunk driving have been added as sins. Abortion,
Contraception and Suicide are still sins. So no new news there.
A QAR account has been setup so you can register bugs and
inconsistencies as you find them. Call ...
I had that Graham Greene in the back of the cab once ...
Dougie
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| 1762.9 | | PLAYER::BROWNL | What happened to summer? | Tue Nov 17 1992 08:16 | 12 |
| When I was a small child, brought up in an environment of Irish
Catholicism, lapsed at home, and strict at school, praying was reserved
for attempting to change the unchangeable. For instance, praying for
something to happen that was unlikely to happen, or praying that
retribution for a misdemeanour would either never happen or be less
severe than experience told us it would be.
As an adult, praying (I should imagine) must take the form of
meditation, at least to some degree. How therefore, can the Church ban
it?
Laurie.
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| 1762.10 | | HOO78C::ANDERSON | Exploring the limits of taste. | Tue Nov 17 1992 09:23 | 11 |
| Re .8
They weren't exactly leaked. A French publisher jumped the gun and was
ready to put out the French version yesterday. The Vatican had wanted
to wait until it was available in more languages but their hand was
forced by the thought of it not coming first from the Vatican. Shock!
Horror. So they hastily the Pope to read them out.
Source: BBC European service on Sunday evening.
Jamie.
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| 1762.11 | | TOLKIN::DUMART | | Fri Nov 20 1992 16:58 | 1 |
| Sometimes the sheer audacity of it all takes my breathe away.
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| 1762.13 | | HERON::BUCHANAN | The was not found. | Tue Nov 24 1992 17:30 | 7 |
| > As an adult, praying (I should imagine) must take the form of meditation,
> at least to some degree.
IMHO, Praying is to meditation what transmission is to reception.
regards,
Andrew.
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| 1762.14 | Unabridged version... | STAR::SROBERTSON | | Tue Feb 02 1993 16:55 | 14 |
| From what I understand from those 'in_the_know', the Bible was edited
after early writings. I am told that the prophecies were so incredible
and so profound that we mere mortals would be traumatized with it's
original contents. What were the original contents? I do not know.
My guess would be that the information was similar to the Nostradamus
type thing. Do I believe this information? Dunno...I hope to find
more info someday soon, but my source is a little on the looney side
and, frankly, I have a healthy fear of her and for her, but that's
another story...
Has anyone else 'heard' about the 'original' Bible or would it be
called the 'unabridged' version...
Sandra
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| 1762.15 | Doesn't exist | ACETEK::TIMPSON | From little things big things grow | Tue Feb 02 1993 17:12 | 6 |
| >> Has anyone else 'heard' about the 'original' Bible or would it be
>> called the 'unabridged' version...
Yup. It doesn't exist.
Steve
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| 1762.16 | | STUDIO::GUTIERREZ | Citizen of the Cosmos | Tue Feb 02 1993 17:39 | 16 |
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RE: .14
I read something along those lines where bishops and high officials
of the church got together in Constantinopla (?), where they
decided to edit and re-write the Bible in order to eliminate
certain passages and to change the meaning of many of the stories
so as to give themselves more power over the people at large.
The story goes on to say that all of the copies of the existing
Bible were gathered, burnt and replaced by the "new" and "improved"
Bible. The only book which was practically left untouched was the
book of Revelations because they didn't understand it, and so,
could not change its meaning.
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| 1762.17 | | VERGA::STANLEY | what a long strange trip it's been | Tue Feb 02 1993 18:16 | 1 |
| Funny... that's the one I like the most..
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| 1762.18 | | VAXUUM::TWOLLY::WAJENBERG | | Tue Feb 02 1993 20:03 | 16 |
| Re .14:
The development of the canon (the list of books in the Bible) is
discussed in topic 183 of the SX4GTO::Antiquity conference.
There have been various decisions at various church councils about
which books went into the canon, but it was never feasible to edit
the canon in the way described in .17 because (1) the church was never
united enough to do so, and (2) there was never a time when any
autonomous part of the church had access to ALL the copies of any of
the books now in the canon. It is possible for some relatively rare
books to have been exterminated, leaving no trace, but all the books
now in the canon were too widely disseminated by the time the church
came to power.
Earl Wajenberg
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