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We Don't Go By That

SanityGap said:
In the discussion of resumptive pronouns following (81), a descriptively adequate grammar is unspecified with respect to a parasitic gap construction.
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:confused: What do you mean by...

JoeBentley said:
You know if we ever develop a method for communicating with a totally alien species, one that won't share our language, grammar, syntax, or most basic communcation rules or habits... we should test it out on an epix post to see if it works.
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Never mind. I got it.
 
epix said:
But I took the insurance against bull..., I mean a bulleted opinion, such as yours.

Non-biblical stealing means stealing the way the atheist do, no? They do it very broadly, in a manner deliberately not consistent with the one specified in the Scriptures.

See, Bernanke's job doesn't give him the incentive to steal a goat or some other domestic animal to be in compliance with the requirement implicitly given in the Scriptures. Time has changed. It's not my problem that you've failed to take a notice of that.
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English Translation:

I was walking and saw a goat. Do you like waffles?
 
Oh freddled gruntbuggly
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon,
See if I don't!
 
Epix, do you feel it is acceptable to bear false witness against your neighbor, if it helps you to proselytize?
 
Epix: Can you explain why the vast majority of prison inmates in the U.S. self identify as christians? What do you think that means?
 
epix said:
But I took the insurance against bull..., I mean a bulleted opinion, such as yours.
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Hope it pays out for you then.

epix said:
Non-biblical stealing means stealing the way the atheist do, no? They do it very broadly, in a manner deliberately not consistent with the one specified in the Scriptures.

See, Bernanke's job doesn't give him the incentive to steal a goat or some other domestic animal to be in compliance with the requirement implicitly given in the Scriptures. Time has changed. It's not my problem that you've failed to take a notice of that.
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Please explain, in words a reasonably educated person can understand, (a) how Bernanke is accused of "stealing" in the article to which you linked; and (b) how that relates to what you cited as the Eighth Commandment ("Thou shalt not steal").
 
Foster Zygote said:
They sacrifice incorrectly to a god that they don't believe in, so that said god will visit his wrath upon the world. Isn't it obvious?
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Hey, Foster, if you promise that you won't tell anyone, I let you into the works. Namely into the issue of what God also meant by that You shall not steal. There is a little prerequisite: I know that you are an atheist, but not all atheists are besieged by the inability of following a line when it changes its color. Finished kindergarten will do.

Alright. Now, first things first: the definition of God with a particular application.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

T O R A H
You understand the reason for the selection, right?

You don't need those letters which the definition didn't select. So you get rid of them, but you do need to indicate that there is a space between T and H. You can actually use the kindly provided letter O to adjust it slightly to become zero.

T 0 H

Now convert the two letters T and H into numbers as well by using their order in the alphabet. (T=20 and H=8). After you are done, the result is

2 0 0 8

At this point, I bet that you have no problem to relate the two following expressions.

TORAH <----> 2008

Now remember that 2008 is also the subject to the definition of God.

TORAH <----> 2008
This highlight is very important, because Torah has many parts and you need to select one of them. You can tentatively associate 2 with the 2nd book of Torah, which is Exodus. But if you do that what does 8 stand for?

There is really no sure way of finding out, but suppose that 8 means the Eighth Commandment. (The Philonic and/or Talmudic order.) If it does, than the year 2008 is up for a review. We are looking for some action related to You shall not steal. . .

That's

really

ominous.

Hank Paulson is covering his eyes! Something is coming up, Foster - and it's not good.

Bush signs Wall Street bailout

Congress on Friday gave Wall Street the financial lifeline it was seeking and President Bush immediately signed it into law, as the House reversed course and approved a $700 billion bailout package in the wake of markets roiled by the failure of storied investment firms and major banks.
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$700,000,000,000! See, I told you.

Can you imagine it? Some godless person stole from the poor bankers $700 billion! As if there was no 2nd book of Torah with that 8th Commandment!

But the nation under one God showed its Christian kindness and helped out the poor Wall St. guys. :) Isn't that lovely, Foster?

Now there is a new pope who is talking austerity. He took his papal name after Francis of Assisi who preferred poverty over wealth and that made a saint out of him. So, it could be as early as the next year when this truly "remarkable" global financial system breaks - and probably for good. But the logical time is the year of 2015. It all depends on how much freedom God gives to the Bible-illiterate speaking monkeys who run the commercial and investment banks. Too much freedom means that they'll manage to screw up ASAP.

So don't tell anyone, Foster. It's supposed to be a sudden surprise, like that one in that year of ToraH. :)
 
theprestige said:
The OP In a nutshell:

Resolved: Bernanke does not follow the 10 Commandments. (By implication), the 8th Commandment is "Thou Shalt Not Steal" [citation needed]. Maintaining interest rates near zero is the same as stealing. Stealing violates the 8th Commandment. Therefore, Bernanke does not follow the 10 Commandments. Q.E.D.
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Who cares?
 
epix said:
Hey, Foster, if you promise that you won't tell anyone, I let you into the works. Namely into the issue of what God also meant by that You shall not steal. There is a little prerequisite: I know that you are an atheist, but not all atheists are besieged by the inability of following a line when it changes its color. Finished kindergarten will do.

Alright. Now, first things first: the definition of God with a particular application.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

T O R A H
You understand the reason for the selection, right?

You don't need those letters which the definition didn't select. So you get rid of them, but you do need to indicate that there is a space between T and H. You can actually use the kindly provided letter O to adjust it slightly to become zero.

T 0 H

Now convert the two letters T and H into numbers as well by using their order in the alphabet. (T=20 and H=8). After you are done, the result is

2 0 0 8

At this point, I bet that you have no problem to relate the two following expressions.

TORAH <----> 2008

Now remember that 2008 is also the subject to the definition of God.

TORAH <----> 2008
This highlight is very important, because Torah has many parts and you need to select one of them. You can tentatively associate 2 with the 2nd book of Torah, which is Exodus. But if you do that what does 8 stand for?

There is really no sure way of finding out, but suppose that 8 means the Eighth Commandment. (The Philonic and/or Talmudic order.) If it does, than the year 2008 is up for a review. We are looking for some action related to You shall not steal. . .

That's

really

ominous.

Hank Paulson is covering his eyes! Something is coming up, Foster - and it's not good.



$700,000,000,000! See, I told you.

Can you imagine it? Some godless person stole from the poor bankers $700 billion! As if there was no 2nd book of Torah with that 8th Commandment!

But the nation under one God showed its Christian kindness and helped out the poor Wall St. guys. :) Isn't that lovely, Foster?

Now there is a new pope who is talking austerity. He took his papal name after Francis of Assisi who preferred poverty over wealth and that made a saint out of him. So, it could be as early as the next year when this truly "remarkable" global financial system breaks - and probably for good. But the logical time is the year of 2015. It all depends on how much freedom God gives to the Bible-illiterate speaking monkeys who run the commercial and investment banks. Too much freedom means that they'll manage to screw up ASAP.

So don't tell anyone, Foster. It's supposed to be a sudden surprise, like that one in that year of ToraH. :)
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Who cares?
 
Jon. said:
Please explain, in words a reasonably educated person can understand, (a) how Bernanke is accused of "stealing" in the article to which you linked; and (b) how that relates to what you cited as the Eighth Commandment ("Thou shalt not steal").
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The author of the article decribed Bernanke's activities and decided on the single description in the title: stealing. From here, the door to the Eighth Commandments is wide open. Simple as that.

Now what is the problem? Do you know a single word that describes Bernanke's doing better? Remember that Ben has an wide interest in Federal Reserve institutions, so the idea of him not personally profiting from the works cannot be easily proved. Case closed.
 
epix said:
The author of the article decribed Bernanke's activities and decided on the single description in the title: stealing. From here, the door to the Eighth Commandments is wide open. Simple as that.

Now what is the problem? Do you know a single word that describes Bernanke's doing better? Remember that Ben has an wide interest in Federal Reserve institutions, so the idea of him not personally profiting from the works cannot be easily proved. Case closed.
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Which case?
 
epix said:
By what?

By the Ten Commandments.

Well, those commandments are indigenous to Torah, so the folks who accept Judaism as a way of properly conducting their affairs should negate the title. I think they would be a bit more likely to stick with You shall not steal than the Christians. But that doesn't seem to be so. Meet the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke#Religion



That's nice. So let's administer a little test of faith . . .


http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/dail...aling-depositors-more-bernanke-170851783.html

Oh my... Lol.

There is also a possibility that Bernanke has quietly converted to atheism, because he's flunking the Eighth Commandment big time.
Has he?
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Um, so what?

less coherent than usual, Bernake is stealing because a Yahoo blogger says so.

Epic fai!
 
epix said:
The author of the article decribed Bernanke's activities and decided on the single description in the title: stealing. From here, the door to the Eighth Commandments is wide open. Simple as that.

Now what is the problem? Do you know a single word that describes Bernanke's doing better? Remember that Ben has an wide interest in Federal Reserve institutions, so the idea of him not personally profiting from the works cannot be easily proved. Case closed.
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Arguemnt by blog posting, rathera lower than usual standard.
 
epix said:
By what?

By the Ten Commandments.

Well, those commandments are indigenous to Torah, so the folks who accept Judaism as a way of properly conducting their affairs should negate the title. I think they would be a bit more likely to stick with You shall not steal than the Christians. But that doesn't seem to be so. Meet the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Bernanke#Religion



That's nice. So let's administer a little test of faith . . .


http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/dail...aling-depositors-more-bernanke-170851783.html

Oh my... Lol.

There is also a possibility that Bernanke has quietly converted to atheism, because he's flunking the Eighth Commandment big time.
Has he?
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Explain?
 
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