From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 22 May 2004<P>

Yeah how about how many people were killed in the name of it and the certain groups that would not yield to it as in the history of and or comparative religions and how mythology fits into it all as well. (whew thats a lot to chew) A lot of people never read it, just let someone else explain it (blind faith)It would be interesting to see stats on how many really have read it all.  <BR>
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bk 
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=254">chris</a><BR>
Date: 22 May 2004<P>

Good points there Kirk and BK. The Bible certainly is worthwhile - but it's not the ONLY book. And that's the problem, usually, with those who believe it should be read and taught in school. I think it works best on the college level when studied (in the King James translation) alongside contemporaneous works of literature like those of Shakespeare and the other Elizabethans/Jocobeans. It is just too loaded with cultural baggage to be examined without a massive amount of effort as a stand-alone work. And those who say the Bible doesn't contradict itself are, like BK pointed out, usually taking its many "messages" on blind faith. It does contain great love poetry, but so do the works of the other religious traditions - another fact that Bible-advocates seem to overlook (or deny). Why not teach the Dhammapada or Bhagavad Gita in school then? The Judeo-Christian worldview hardly invented romantic love.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 22 May 2004<P>

Amen, Chris. Very well-put. Back in my Bible reading days I loved the erotic love poem that comprises Song of Solomon. And for awhile there I had a huge crush on Paul, my favorite NT writer. I think it's very difficult to separate personal issues with religion/Judeo-Christianity from the literary aspect of the Bible. And I had nightmares throughout childhood...even into my early adult years...from hick Southern Baptist preachers' interpretative sermons on the book of Revelation. I knew it was all going to end soon. An angel would blow a horn in the sky, Jesus would show up and everything would turn to shit and I'd be left behind even though I'd been saved and baptized because I was still mean to my brother and sister. I can't read the Bible objectively. Thank God for Kurt Vonnegut and Henry Miller and Tom Robbins. Slaughterhouse Five, Crazy Cock and Another Roadside Attraction should be required high school reading.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=13">B.K.</a><BR>
Date: 22 May 2004<P>

The one thing I never wanted to happen was that my son would have Christian faith shoved down his throat the way that I did. So I taught him love and forgiveness and that you should take once face at a time no matter what color or kind it was. Compassion and love and forgiveness is the essence that I found so severely lacking even tho thats the whole jest of the book that everyone touts the be all and end all. Thanks but no thanks, until we can find something that brings us all together then I think we've all lost and what makes me maddest is the religion saying they will not let take communion anyone who votes for a candidate that supports A WOMANS RIGHT TO CHOICE. What kind of crap is that. What are they going to do go thru the voters records and take your right to privacy. Nothing makes me madder than politics and religion at this moment, even traffic and the daily grind is nothing compared to the way I feel about what I hear on the news. This is the worst president we have ever had in history, even worse than Harding haha. To me he is the ANTI CHRIST if there is such.<BR>
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bk<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1450">Lolly Gaggin</a><BR>
Date: 22 May 2004<P>

It was the band Emerson Drive that to me was way too loud at the Shania Twain concert. You could hardly understand what they were saying. <BR>
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Shania was just right. <BR>
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As for the shaky vocals at the beginning, she has done a lot of concerts lately, and is bound to get tired at some point. <BR>
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This was one of the best concerts I have been to.<BR>
She is by far one of the greatest performers who has graced our stages in West Virginia. I got more than my money's worth. <BR>
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If she chose not to even sing, just seeing this great performer would have been enough for me. The way she makes the audience feel like they're the ones who are special is so great. <BR>
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Hardly any other performer of her status would come into the audience and shake hands and talk during the concert. Most won't even do this after the show. <BR>
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She's the best. All her fans already know this.<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1450">Lolly Gaggin</a><BR>
Date: 22 May 2004<P>

It was the band Emerson Drive that to me was way too loud at the Shania Twain concert. You could hardly understand what they were saying. <BR>
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Shania was just right. <BR>
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As for the shaky vocals at the beginning, she has done a lot of concerts lately, and is bound to get tired at some point. <BR>
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This was one of the best concerts I have been to.<BR>
She is by far one of the greatest performers who has graced our stages in West Virginia. I got more than my money's worth. <BR>
<BR>
If she chose not to even sing, just seeing this great performer would have been enough for me. The way she makes the audience feel like they're the ones who are special is so great. <BR>
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Hardly any other performer of her status would come into the audience and shake hands and talk during the concert. Most won't even do this after the show. <BR>
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She's the best. All her fans already know this.<BR>

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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=1470">iwan pritchard</a><BR>
Date: 22 May 2004<P>

so good she posted it twice't  hahahahaha
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=535">triciattx</a><BR>
Date: 22 May 2004<P>

Misti-<BR>
Right on with 'History Channel'.  <BR>
Just-- well... outstanding.  <BR>
Sorry so much pain inspired it, but this one rocks.<BR>
woo-hoo!, girl.<BR>
Tricia
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 22 May 2004<P>

Tricia~<BR>
Thanks! I wish I had met my boyfriend when I was eighteen, a veritable tabula rasa, still a virgin, with a heart that was more or less intact. A lot of bullshit could have been avoided. Then again, if he had met be back then, he would have been 26 with a lifetime of experience behind him. I probably would have bored the fuck of all fuck out of him.
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From: <a href="/blend/av.cgi?id=268">Misti</a><BR>
Date: 22 May 2004<P>

(if he had met me, not if he had met be)
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