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l******d 发帖数: 594 | 2 1.
An elderly gentleman...
Had serious hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor
and the doctor was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that
allowed the gentleman to hear 100%
The elderly gentleman went back in a month to the doctor and the doctor said
, 'Your hearing is perfect.. Your family must be really pleased that you can
hear again.'
The gentleman replied, 'Oh, I haven't told my family yet.
I just sit around and listen to the conversations. I've changed m... 阅读全帖 |
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H********g 发帖数: 43926 | 4 Ninety percent of the Shixiongs give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
-Henry Kissinger
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以为该师兄是留学生里爱帮组人的那一类。 |
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d********f 发帖数: 43471 | 5 (CNN) -- There is no debate.
Climate change is real. And, yes, we are, in part, to blame.
There is a 97% consensus among scientific experts that humans are causing
global warming. Ninety-seven percent!
Yet some very vocal Americans continue to debate what is surely fact.
The question is, why?
Trust certainly plays a part.
According to Gordon Gauchat, an associate professor of sociology from the
University of Wisconsin, just 42% of adults in the U.S. have a great deal of
confidence (PDF) in the s... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 6 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: lczlcz (lcz), 信区: USANews
标 题: 受到同性恋法律鼓励, 一男二妻申请3人结婚证书
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jul 1 19:03:41 2015, 美东)
Published on CNS News http://www.cnsnews.com
Polygamous Montana trio applies for wedding license
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man said Wednesday that he was inspired by
last week's U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage to apply for
a marriage license so that he can legally wed his second wife.
Nathan Collier and his wives Victoria and Christine appl... 阅读全帖 |
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i****a 发帖数: 36252 | 7 http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/unlocked-iphone-
Unlocked iPhone Worthless After F.B.I. Spills Glass of Water on It
WASHINGTON (Satire from The Borowitz Report)—Moments after successfully
unlocking the San Bernardino iPhone, the F.B.I. rendered the phone
permanently useless by spilling a glass of water on it, an F.B.I. spokesman
confirmed on Tuesday.
Calling the accident “one of the biggest embarrassments in F.B.I. history,
” bureau spokesman Harland Dorrinson told reporters, “The... 阅读全帖 |
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t**s 发帖数: 4026 | 8 In a possible thawing of relations between Apple and the F.B.I., Apple C.E.O
. Tim Cook offered to replace the damaged iPhone for seven hundred and forty
-nine dollars, or two hundred and ninety-nine dollars with a two-year
contract.
what a gentleman!
spokesman
the
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s****e 发帖数: 5429 | 9 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: wonderment (wonder), 信区: USANews
标 题: Re: 这是疯了吧?!川普称「没必要证明新药有效」(转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Feb 7 15:09:56 2017, 美东)
NY Times 的报道,左逼媒体,你可以不信。
不过貌似这样说的是川普选的 FDA 新领导人,他本人说的是危重病人的药不需要(过
多)审查。而这位新科 FDA 一把手确实说过制药公司把药推向市场前不需要证明药物
有效
“Mr. O’Neill has argued that companies should not have to prove that their
drugs work in clinical trials before selling them to consumers.”
Trump’s F.D.A. Pick Could Undo Decades of Drug Safeguards
By KATIE THOMASFEB. 5, 2017
President Trump duri... 阅读全帖 |
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D****y 发帖数: 462 | 11 In honor of the National Spelling Bee, which starts Wednesday, Google
decided to see what words people in each of the 50 states struggle to spell.
To do this, employees looked at Google searches of “how to spell ______”
in each of the states from Jan. 1 to April 30 this year. Whatever word
filled that blank most often in each state became denoted as that state’s
“most misspelled word.”
Alabama: pneumonia
Alaska: schedule
Arizona: tomorrow
Arkansas: chihuahua
California: beaut... 阅读全帖 |
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E*****m 发帖数: 25615 | 12
你這就鬧笑話了, 你把這幾段讀一下, 這些不就是鼓勵盲信的?
John 20:29 ESV
Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are
those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
John 20:31 ESV
But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the
Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
James 2:14-17 ESV
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have
works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed
and l... 阅读全帖 |
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a*********7 发帖数: 30080 | 13 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne
Among the 220 or so cast and crew who filmed the 1956 film, The Conqueror,
on location near St. George, Utah, ninety-one had come down with cancer (41%
), including stars Wayne, Susan Hayward, and Agnes Moorehead, and director
Dick Powell. The film was shot in Southwestern Utah, east of and generally
downwind from where the U.S. Government had tested nuclear weapons in
Southeastern Nevada, and many contend that radioactive fallout from these
tests contamin... 阅读全帖 |
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t*****u 发帖数: 8966 | 14 Highs in the nineties :"(
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.8 |
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p**f 发帖数: 2610 | 15 Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration其实是
发明灯泡的爱迪生说的。 其他很多天才未必同意,至少在百分比上。 |
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D*****r 发帖数: 6791 | 17 Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western
Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this
at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly
insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so
amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat
idea. |
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m****a 发帖数: 9485 | 18 http://lds.org/church/news/behind-the-scenes-on-the-jerusalem-m
At 4 feet, 10 inches (1.5 m) tall, 94-year-old Stella McComas may not stand
out at first glance. However, on the Jerusalem Movie Set, newly built by The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Stella, wrapped in a ragged
shawl with dust-like makeup on her face, shines as she acts the main part in
the biblical parable of the widow’s mite.
A Kaysville, Utah, USA, resident of Ukrainian descent, Stella said the fact
that she can id... 阅读全帖 |
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n********n 发帖数: 8336 | 19 耶和华见证人与传统基督教教义的主要不同点(二) 2012-11-27 13:18:22
耶证认为耶稣是独一真神耶和华的独生子,但不是独一真神。他是众神中的一个。
根据一、约翰福音17章3节。 关于the God和a god。
John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true
God,G2316 and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
John 17:3 认识你独一的真神,并且认识你所差来的耶稣基督,这就是永生。
耶证认为耶稣不是独一真神。耶稣强调要认识独一真神和要认识独一真神差来的(耶稣
自己)是并列的,那独一真神肯定不是他“差来的耶稣基督”,那独一真神差来的显然
不是独一真神。如果耶稣也是独一真神,那就有两个独一真神了,与圣经不符。
从人的逻辑看,这样的质疑是合乎情理的。耶证的根本问题不是耶稣是不是神,而是
“独一”让他们的理性难以把耶稣也看作神。也就是说如果你能把属于神的所有特性都
在耶稣身上找到,他也不会承认耶稣是神, 因为那样就... 阅读全帖 |
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c*g 发帖数: 1980 | 20 Serenade
How My Father Won My Mother
By Gabriel García Márquez
February 19/26, 2001 New Yorker
Translated by Edith Grossman
My mother became a woman in a godforsaken hellhole. She had spent an uncertain
childhood plagued by malarial fevers, but, once cured, she was cured
completely and forever, and with her health as strong as reinforced concrete
she was able to celebrate her ninety-fifth birthday with eleven of her own
children, and four of her husband's, and sixty-six grandchildren,
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c**i 发帖数: 6973 | 21 Ian Brunskill, The Story Of a Lifetime; An ordinary German—and compulsive
diarist—lives through Weimar, the Nazi era and the Cold War. Wall Street
Journal, Mar 19, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142
4052748704893604576200583943459752.html
(book review on Peter Fritzsche, The Turbulent World of Franz Göll; An
Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century. Harvard University Press,
2011)
Note:
(a) German surname Fritzsche/Fritsche/Fritsch is a reduced form of Friedrich
. Franz is ... 阅读全帖 |
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e***e 发帖数: 3872 | 22 【 以下文字转载自 Exile 讨论区 】
发信人: etude (胭脂醉), 信区: Exile
标 题: The Cats -- OLD DEUTERONOMY
发信站: The unknown SPACE (Thu May 11 16:14:09 2000), 站内信件
OLD DEUTERONOMY
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time;
He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession.
He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme
A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.
Old Deuteronomy's buried nine wives
And more - I am tempted to say, ninety-nine;
And his numerous progeny prospers and thrives
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w********h 发帖数: 12367 | 23 Nobel Lecture
7 December, 2012
Storytellers
Distinguished members of the Swedish Academy, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Through the mediums of television and the Internet, I imagine that everyone
here has at least a nodding acquaintance with far-off Northeast Gaomi
Township. You may have seen my ninety-year-old father, as well as my
brothers, my sister, my wife and my daughter, even my granddaughter, now a
year and four months old. But the person who is most on my mind at this
moment, my mother, is some... 阅读全帖 |
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s******l 发帖数: 278 | 24 When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never
become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are
always a little less than an individual.
-from "Muad'Dib: The Ninety-Nine Wonders of the Universe" by
Princess Irulan
The smuggler's spice factory with its parent carrier and
ring of drone ornithopters came over a lifting of dunes like
a swarm of insects following its queen. Ahead of the swarm
lay one of the low rock ridges that lifted from the desert
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l***a 发帖数: 5114 | 25 最近翻出阿西莫夫作品全集来重看,真挺有意思的,不仅囊括了他最早期那些名不见经
传的短篇,还有自己写的“创作感想”。看到TRENDS那一篇,居然发现他在1938年(当
时他还在读大学)成功预测成两件事:1)1940年第二次世界大战,2)1970年,人类登
月。
两件事都只差1年而已!
我一直觉得那个SF黄金时期的创作高峰,后来者很难翻越……
下面附TRENDS 的原文。
TRENDS
John Harman was sitting at his desk, brooding, when I entered the office
that day.
It had become a common sight, by then, to see him staring out at the Hudson,
head in
hand, a scowl contorting his face—all too common. It seemed unfair for the
little bantam
to be eating his heart out like that day after day... 阅读全帖 |
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n**4 发帖数: 719 | 26 摘要
The Infrared Search for Extraterrestrial Civilizations with Large
Energy Supplies. III. The Reddest Extended Sources in WISE
Astrophysics > Astrophysics of Galaxies
(Submitted on 14 Apr 2015 (v1), last revised 15 Apr 2015 (this version, v2))
Nearby Type III (galaxy-spanning) Kardashev supercivilizations would have
high mid-infrared (MIR) luminosities. We have used the Wide-field Infrared
Survey Explorer (WISE) to survey ~1×105 galaxies for extreme MIR emission,
103 times more galaxies th... 阅读全帖 |
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C***r 发帖数: 759 | 27 CHAP. 12.--OF THE OPINION OF THOSE WHO DO NOT BELIEVE THAT
IN THESE PRIMITIVE, TIMES MEN LIVED SO LONG AS IS
STATED.
For they are by no means to be listened to who suppose that
in those times years were differently reckoned, and were so
short that one of our years may be
supposed to be equal to ten of theirs. So that they say,
when we read or hear that some man lived 900 years, we
should understand ninety, ten of those years
making but one of ours, and ten of ours equalling 100 of
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l*****y 发帖数: 9433 | 28 Luther wrote about the Jews throughout his career, though only a few of his
works dealt with them directly.[168] Luther rarely encountered Jews during
his life, but his attitudes reflected a theological and cultural tradition
which saw Jews as a rejected people guilty of the murder of Christ, and he
lived within a local community that had expelled Jews some ninety years
earlier.[169] He considered the Jews blasphemers and liars because they
rejected the divinity of Jesus, whereas Christians beli |
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E*****m 发帖数: 25615 | 29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_8_%282008%29
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,[51][52][53] whose members
are commonly known as Mormons, also publicly supported the proposition. The
First Presidency of the church announced its support for Proposition 8 in a
letter intended to be read in every congregation in California. In this
letter, church members were encouraged to "do all you can to support the
proposed constitutional amendment by donating of your means and... 阅读全帖 |
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D*****r 发帖数: 6791 | 30 Acts 27
Paul Sails for Rome
1When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, Paul and some other
prisoners were handed over to a centurion named Julius, who belonged to the
Imperial Regiment. 2We boarded a ship from Adramyttium about to sail for
ports along the coast of the province of Asia, and we put out to sea.
Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.
3The next day we landed at Sidon; and Julius, in kindness to Paul, allowed
him to go to his friends so they might provide fo... 阅读全帖 |
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G*******s 发帖数: 4956 | 31 英漢改革宗與神學名詞與觀念清單
SELECTED BASIC REFORMED/THEOLOGICAL
TERMS AND CONCEPTS, ENGLISH AND CHINESE
聖經 BIBLE
Bible, Scripture, the Scriptures 聖經
Biblical, Scriptural 合乎聖經的
Prophet 先知
Apostle 使徒
Consistent 一致,貫徹的
Inspiration (聖靈的)默示
Verbal inspiration 逐字默示
Plenary inspiration 整本《聖經》都是默示的
Infallibility 無謬
Inerr... 阅读全帖 |
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C****i 发帖数: 1776 | 32 CHAPTER II
Of God, and of the Holy Trinity
I. There is but one only,[25] living, and true God,[26] who is infinite in b
eing and perfection,[27] a most pure spirit,[28] invisible,[29] without body
, parts,[30] or passions;[31] immutable,[32] immense,[33] eternal,[34] incom
prehensible,[35] almighty,[36] most wise,[37] most holy,[38] most free,[39]
most absolute;[40] working all things according to the counsel of his own im
mutable and most righteous will,[41] for his own glory;[42] most loving,[... 阅读全帖 |
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G*******s 发帖数: 4956 | 33 Blinded By Tradition:
An Open Letter to Dave Hunt
Regarding His Newly Published Attack Upon the Reformation, What Love Is This
? Calvinism's Misrepresentation of God
James White
Updated 5/16/02, see bottom of file
Dear Dave,
In the period of time since I finally received my own copy of your book (you
may recall I scanned through it while standing at your table in St. Louis a
t the PFO Conference) I have gone through a number of different emotions. A
t first I was just going to do one Dividing ... 阅读全帖 |
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l**********t 发帖数: 5754 | 34 chapter 7.1 Firstborn Among Many Brethren
This consideration takes us forward into Romans chapter 8 where the topic is
developed in verses 16 to 18 and again in verses 29 and 30. Paul says: “We
are children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-
heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also
glorified with him. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time
are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us”
(Romans ... 阅读全帖 |
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l**********t 发帖数: 5754 | 35 chapter 7.1 Firstborn Among Many Brethren
This consideration takes us forward into Romans chapter 8 where the topic is
developed in verses 16 to 18 and again in verses 29 and 30. Paul says: “We
are children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-
heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also
glorified with him. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time
are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed to us”
(Romans ... 阅读全帖 |
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R*o 发帖数: 3781 | 36 4:18 Verse 18 begins the second part of this paragraph in which Paul will la
y great stress on the nature of Abraham’s faith. There was no hope—i.e., i
t was against [all] hope (par* ejlpivda, par elpida) on a human level—of th
e fulfillment of the promise God gave to Abraham. But the patriarch’s hope
was not in himself or his wife or anything human; it was in God and his powe
r. Abraham believed in hope (ejp * ejlpivdi ejpivsteusen, ep elpidi episteus
en) with the result that the promise was fu... 阅读全帖 |
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w*********r 发帖数: 3382 | 37 永生同志,你的质疑我不理解,请你解释
否则你这是在诬蔑报告作者,别有用心的故意误导群众
引用原文
“But perhaps what’s even more remarkable is what happens when you ask
Americans, do you believe someone who is not of your faith can go to heaven?
This slide separates Americans by the religious tradition that they adhere
to, and it shows how, say, mainline Protestants or Catholics or evangelicals
respond to that question, do you think people who are of another faith can
go to heaven?
You can see that across the board, overwhelming percentages say... 阅读全帖 |
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m****s 发帖数: 18160 | 38 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
Dramaer (不要问我从那里来) 于 (Fri Oct 22 12:02:52 2010, 美东) 提到:
Act 1:1-11 Jesus Taken Up Into Heaven
1In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and
to teach 2until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving
instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles he had chosen. 3After
his suffering, he showed himself to these men and gave many convincing
proofs that he was alive. He appeared to them over a period of forty days
... 阅读全帖 |
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D*****r 发帖数: 6791 | 39 Letters from the Earth
When the Creator had finished thinking, He said, "I have thought. Behold!"
He lifted His hand, and from it burst a fountain-spray of fire, a million
stupendous suns, which clove the blackness and soared, away and away and
away, diminishing in magnitude and intensity as they pierced the far
frontiers of Space, until at last they were but as diamond nailheads
sparkling under the domed vast roof of the universe.
At the end of an hour the Grand Council was dismissed.
They left... 阅读全帖 |
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s*********a 发帖数: 801 | 40 精神分裂症病人中具有宗教妄想的那些往往病情更严重
Religious delusions in patients admitted to hospital with schizophrenia.
Siddle R, Haddock G, Tarrier N, Faragher EB.
Department of Clinical Psychology, North Manchester General Hospital,
Crumpsall, UK.
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2002 Mar;37(3):130-8.
BACKGROUND: Religious delusions are clinically important because they may be
associated with selfharm and poorer outcomes from treatment. They have not
been extensively researched. This study sought to investigate ... 阅读全帖 |
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E*****m 发帖数: 25615 | 41 字源:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy#Etymology
The term heresy is from Greek αἵρεσις originally meant "
choice" or "thing chosen",[5] but it came to mean the "party or school of a
man's choice"[6] and also referred to that process whereby a young person
would examine various philosophies to determine how to live. The word "
heresy" is usually used within a Christian, Jewish, or Islamic context, and
implies slightly different meanings in each. The founder or leader of a
heretical mo... 阅读全帖 |
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J*******g 发帖数: 8775 | 42 Genesis 17
17 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him and said,
“I am God Almighty; walk before me faithfully and be blameless.
創 世 記 17
17 亚 伯 兰 年 九 十 九 岁 的 时 候 , 耶 和 华 向 他 显 现 , 对 他 说 :
我 是 全 能 的 神 。 你 当 在 我 面 前 作 完 全 人 ,
Bible says God talked to Abram. But Abram didn't have bible.
Bible did not tell Abram anything.
God did.
I told you Bible is not God. Please at least think about my words before you
ask. Be a real 99.9999% bible expert.
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z********o 发帖数: 18304 | 43
根据维基百科,现阶段全世界每年有大约一千万的婴幼儿死亡。根据你的意思,这一千
万的婴幼儿都是邪恶的,是吧?
再看美国的情况:
In the 1850s, the infant mortality rate in the United States was estimated
at 216.8 per 1,000 babies born for whites and 340.0 per 1,000 for African
Americans, but rates have significantly declined in the West in modern times
. This declining rate has been mainly due to modern improvements in basic
health care, technology, and medical advances.[72] In the last three decades
, infant mortality overall has also decreased considerably.... 阅读全帖 |
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T*****n 发帖数: 2456 | 44 今天荒漠甘泉里谈到的那个David Brainerd:
David Brainerd (April 20, 1718–October 9, 1747) was an American missionary
to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful ministry among the
Delaware Indians of New Jersey. During his short life he was beset by many
difficulties.
Delaware Indians又叫Lenape,俺来搜一下他们中的一些基督徒的故事,结果看到这个,
Christian Munsee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Munsee
Pennsylvania
The Munsee were the Wolf clan of the Lenape, occupying the area where
present-day Pennsylvania, New Jersey... 阅读全帖 |
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l*****a 发帖数: 38403 | 45 A Georgia woman who’s been a member of the same church for over 50 years
says she is no longer welcome in her house of worship.
Ninety-two-year-old Josephine King told Fox6 she received a letter from her
church indicating that she should no longer attend because she wasn’t
tithing.
Speaking with WALB, King’s nephew Gerald Simmons said:
“She was stunned. She was disappointed. She was shocked.
You shouldn’t chase the individuals down. You shouldn’t do that. If that’
s the case, you’re money hungry... 阅读全帖 |
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a**********u 发帖数: 28450 | 46 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that
repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no
repentance.
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g***t 发帖数: 2278 | 47 估计你没仔细读过圣经。关于看见上帝之类的,圣经中很多,以下列出几个:
God spoke further to Moses and said to him, "I am the LORD; and I appeared
to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, LORD, I did
not make Myself known to them." --(Exodus 6:2-3)
Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and
said to him, "I am God Almighty; Walk before Me, and be blameless"--(Gen. 17
:1)
Now the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at
the tent door in the heat of the day.... 阅读全帖 |
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x***n 发帖数: 5127 | 48 还能参加活动不?
【 以下文字转载自 Music 讨论区 】
发信人: xumin (闲云野鹤), 信区: Music
标 题: 新年快乐,奔 Christmas song~~
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Dec 22 01:23:27 2011, 美东)
前一阵子学唱了这首小曲儿,one take唱得毛病还很多,不过最近在赶项目实在没时间
improve了,大伙凑合着听吧~~ 纯粹是新年助兴~~
The Christmas Song
(Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) : Lyrics
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire,
Jack Frost nipping on your nose,
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir,
And folks dressed up like Eskimos.
Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe,
Help to make the season bright.
Tin... 阅读全帖 |
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