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From: joseph2k on 6 Aug 2006 22:51 John Fields wrote: > On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:20:02 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > > >>The money has to come from *somewhere* ! It doesn't grow on trees. > > --- > Of course it does. > > Let's say that I build a house, that it costs me $100,000, and that > I sell it for $200,000. > > Where do you think that $100,000 that I _made_ comes from? > > Some fool that over-values that house. -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
From: joseph2k on 6 Aug 2006 22:57 Phat Bytestard wrote: > On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:29:14 GMT, "Michael A. Terrell" > <mike.terrell(a)earthlink.net> Gave us: > >> >> Yes, it does. If you're in the paper products or produce business. >>It would be damn hard to make money selling apples and other fruit >>without growing them on trees. It would also be very hard to build >>decent homes without lumber, which grows on trees, as well. > > Yep... even the media that the "money" got printed on came from > trees. Can't speak of any other Country but US notes are on 100% cotton bond. No trees involved. -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
From: joseph2k on 6 Aug 2006 23:15 Frank Bemelman wrote: > > "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> schreef in bericht > news:ngj7d2hst8b7oe15nr9ksl8c3t6620fjgg(a)4ax.com... > >> What I find incongruous is that so many of you all (Europeans, I >> guess.) would rather turn a blind eye toward the middle east and let >> Israel die than to help her. Why is that? > > An eye for an eye, not 10 eyes for an eye. Israel has just > slaughtered too many. It has lost all of its credibility. > It has no longer the benefit of the doubt. > Lost in the un-biblical code Hammurabi are you? -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
From: joseph2k on 6 Aug 2006 23:33 Don Bowey wrote: > On 8/5/06 1:51 PM, in article 44D504C7.F7A4A126(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com, > "Eeyore" <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> Frank Bemelman wrote: >> >>> "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> schreef in bericht >>> news:v0r9d29dk6o8mrtvgob25hmv269inq8cfh(a)4ax.com... >>>> On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 01:12:31 +0200, "Frank Bemelman" >>>> <f.bemelmanq(a)xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> schreef in bericht >>>>> news:ngj7d2hst8b7oe15nr9ksl8c3t6620fjgg(a)4ax.com... >>>>> >>>>>> What I find incongruous is that so many of you all (Europeans, I >>>>>> guess.) would rather turn a blind eye toward the middle east and let >>>>>> Israel die than to help her. Why is that? >>>>> >>>>> An eye for an eye, not 10 eyes for an eye. Israel has just >>>>> slaughtered too many. It has lost all of its credibility. >>>>> It has no longer the benefit of the doubt. >>>> >>>> --- >>>> Read this: >>>> >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_eye_for_an_eye >>>> >>>> and then come back with something specific, OK? >>> >>> Want a specific quote from that page? Okay, here's one: >>> >>> *** You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for >>> a tooth". >>> *** But I say to you, do not resist an evildoer. If anyone strikes you >>> on the right >>> *** cheek, turn to him the other also. (Matthew 5:38-39) >> >> Those who don't understand that Christians are supposed to take heed of >> the *New* Testament rather than exclusively the old might as well join up >> the Jewish >> faith. >> >> Graham >> > > So what's wrong with that? Does being fraudulent about what their religion is to others as well as themselves count? -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller
From: joseph2k on 6 Aug 2006 23:50
Frank Bemelman wrote: > "John Fields" <jfields(a)austininstruments.com> schreef in bericht > news:go7cd25q808e2p4rek8i2spl31pilp8a9b(a)4ax.com... >> On Sun, 6 Aug 2006 14:24:57 +0200, "Frank Bemelman" >> <f.bemelmanq(a)xs4all.invalid.nl> wrote: >> >>>Okay, you don't mind that eye-for-an-eye business. That much is >>>clear now. But I do, if you don't mind. >> <snip> >> Trying to read the mind of God is risky business, but one thing >> stands out in my mind, and that's that as many times as the Jews >> have been faced with annihilation, they're still here. > > And so are its 'enemies'. > But it seems to be different enemies all the time, the Pharaohs' were wiped out, and successive others were wiped out. -- JosephKK Gegen dummheit kampfen die Gotter Selbst, vergebens. --Schiller |