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Mar 24, 2011 - 03:43pm PT
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All matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration... duh
Good. Now tell us what energy is.
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go-B
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Sozo
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Mar 25, 2011 - 07:42pm PT
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Credit: Daily Readings from the Life of CHRIST, vol.3-John MacArthur
I am sure blessed, and you can be to!
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go-B
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Sozo
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Mar 27, 2011 - 06:17am PT
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Credit: Daily Readings from the Life of CHRIST, vol.3-John MacArthur
If God is for us that is enough!
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go-B
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Sozo
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Mar 28, 2011 - 08:14am PT
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Credit: Daily Readings from the Life of CHRIST, vol.3-John MacArthur
Not by sight but by faith and God's word, doing what God will's that which is perfect, righteous, and Holy!
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go-B
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Sozo
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Mar 29, 2011 - 08:09am PT
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Credit: Daily Readings from the Life of CHRIST, vol.3-John MacArthur
All things come from the Hand of God, it's amazing He lets us be apart of it!
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go-B
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Sozo
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Mar 30, 2011 - 08:10am PT
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Credit: Daily Readings from the Life of CHRIST, vol.3-John MacArthur
When we truly repent and turn to God, He will always forgive us when we ask Him in the name of His son, Jesus !
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go-B
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Sozo
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Mar 31, 2011 - 08:12am PT
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Credit: Daily Readings from the Life of CHRIST, vol.3-John MacArthur
John 15:5, “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
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rectorsquid
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Lake Tahoe
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Mar 31, 2011 - 11:25am PT
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Go-b, what's with the Bible posts? The atheist's don't read them so you not converting anyone any more than the atheists are converting you with Jesus zombie pictures. You seem to be over-doing it a bit compared to the atheists.
Dave
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
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Full Silos of Iowa
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re: the scientific study of religious beliefs
re: the afterlife (aka lifeafter)
In one experiment, children aged 4-12 viewed a puppet show in which an alligator eats a mouse and then answered questions about the mouse. Now that it has died, does it miss its Mom? Is it still hungry? Can it still taste the grass that it ate before it died? Curiously, the younger the children, the more likely they were to attribute mental states to the recently deceased mouse.
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"Is it still hungry?"
"Does it miss its mom?"
LOL!!
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cintune
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Midvale School for the Gifted
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So, a long while back I did a few favors for a fundie family who were just moving in up the street, and as a "thank you" they bought us tickets to the Easter pageant at their megachurch.
Couldn't say no.
There we were, sitting front and center as the passion play unfolded. They had this gruesome prosthetic latex back-piece all red and oozing for the scourging bit. That was quite a hit. Also some unambiguous improv from the Pilate character as to who was at fault for all the shenanigans (rhymes with "the Jews").
I happened to be sitting next to their 6-year-old daughter, and at the climactic moment when the disciples rolled back the stone and Jesus wasn't there she looked up at me all wide-eyed and asked "Where did he go?!"
Quite the dilemma.
My instinct was to whisper that there was a trap-door at the back of the tomb.
But that just seemed wrong, so I opted into the fantasy and said "He went to heaven."
And then I winked. I think she got the message.
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rectorsquid
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Lake Tahoe
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God loves us, no fool'n!
From what I hear, He hates me. I'm an atheist.
Dave
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JEleazarian
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Fresno CA
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From what I hear, He hates me. I'm an atheist.
No, Dave. He loved you enough to die for you. Unfortunately, some of His followers didn't get the message.
john
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Norton
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the Wastelands
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The Easter Bunny is coming soon!
All children love fairy tales.
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go-B
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Sozo
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Credit: Daily Readings from the Life of CHRIST, vol.3-John MacArthur
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go-B
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Sozo
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Credit: Daily Readings from the Life of CHRIST, vol.3-John MacArthur
Talking about infinite interest on your investment!
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jstan
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Apr 10, 2011 - 10:50am PT
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The article below well describes how the looney medical bills come about. This most certainly is not the free market upon which the republican proposal for doing away with medicare is based.
The ultimate death panel. You got money or friends – you get to live.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/08/business/la-fi-lazarus-20110408
A remedy for medical bill ills
(The obvious solution for making the cost of treatments clear and consistent is to replace individual contracts between insurers and providers with fixed prices determined by a panel of experts.)
April 08, 2011|David Lazarus
There are loony medical bills, and then there's the bill Robert Hsu was hit with after undergoing heart surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in January.
Hsu, 84, of Thousand Oaks had an aortic valve replaced on his ticker. He spent four nights in the hospital.
The bill: $266,567.46.
But is that how much his insurer, Medicare, was billed? No. As I recently reported, hospitals routinely inflate their charges — often by huge margins — so they can still make money after contractual discounts are imposed by insurers.
In Hsu's case, the discount was a hefty $224,819.89. In other words, Cedars-Sinai shaved about 84% off its bill to meet the terms of its contract with Medicare.
In response to my column, dozens of people like Hsu contacted me to share their experiences of jaw-dropping bills — and the steep discounts that invariably followed. Cedars was mentioned frequently, but a number of other hospitals also figured in the tales of medical woe.
For example, John Reynolds, 88, of Koreatown injured himself in a fall and spent a week at California Hospital Medical Center. "There was no special treatment of any kind," he said.
He was billed $115,409.21 for the hospital stay, or almost $16,500 a day. But the bill to Medicare was discounted by $101,103.73 — a more than 87% reduction.
Eric Sherman of Tarzana went to Cedars for cancer surgery. The initial bill was for about $150,000. It was discounted by about 77% before going to Sherman's insurer, Blue Shield of California.
The discount system began decades ago when Medicare and other government-run insurance programs demanded reduced prices from healthcare providers. Private insurers insisted on equal treatment, and soon it became standard practice for medical bills to be heavily inflated to accommodate the contractual discounts.
This is a system that makes a mockery of free-market economics and leaves the consumer in a bewildered state of ignorance when it comes to medical pricing.
"There's no correlation with what things actually cost," said Dr. Phil Schwarzman, medical director of the emergency department at Burbank's Providence St. Joseph Medical Center. "It's impossible for patients to know the real cost of treatment."
And because each insurer cuts its own contract with healthcare providers, the cost to one can be wildly different from the cost to another. Again, consumers are left out in the cold when it comes to understanding what they're paying for when they receive treatment.
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Tony Bird
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Northridge, CA
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Apr 10, 2011 - 11:36am PT
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need to get an expensive lawyer who will take on one of these hospitals. establish a pattern of unfairness and selective billing. make them pay the lawyer's fee and ask the judge to order restitution to all those billed unfairly in the past.
melvin belli is no longer available. most lawyers these days are scared to death of the guv-mint. i think their noses are fitted for rings in law school.
"i believe in a government of laws, not of men." -- from the jaycee creed. no longer operative?
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