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1008 days agoIn response to Did Anne Rice just suck the blood out of Christianity?
- While I too can see where she is coming from, you can't have Christ without Christianity. One is literally the other. While the bible speaks about having pure faith it also speaks that Christ is [...]read » maje
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1018 days agoIn response to Did Anne Rice just suck the blood out of Christianity?
- Mr. Humphrey, Such is the nature of faith. Consider the two sentences you reproduced here from Ms. Rice's Facebook account: "My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic [...]read » davidlosangeles
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1022 days agoIn response to How will True/Slant be remembered?
- Same here Kashmir ... Thanks for being an excellent guru.read » T/S MICHAEL HUMPHREY
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1022 days agoIn response to How will True/Slant be remembered?
- So happy to have shared a site with you, Michael. I hope it happens again some day.read » T/S KASHMIR HILL
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1023 days agoIn response to How will True/Slant be remembered?
- Michael, wonderful work as always. I was just [...]read » T/S JEFF MCMAHON
- Jeff - what a compliment coming from you and I [...]read » T/S MICHAEL HUMPHREY
- Thanks so much Michael Humphrey, and may I say [...]read » ebizjoey
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1023 days agoIn response to Did Anne Rice just suck the blood out of Christianity?
- Christianity as practiced by the Romans has always been about keeping people from actually doing any of what the man said.read » argyle
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July 30, 2010185 views7 commentsHow will True/Slant be remembered?
This is my final post, so let me say quickly what a pleasure it was to write, read and discuss on True/Slant. Thanks especially to the True/Slant staff, Kashmir Hill for getting me here, ebizjoey for his tips and comments and all the great commenters on this site. Also, let [...]
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1023 days agoIn response to Did Anne Rice just suck the blood out of Christianity?
- I was wondering why Ann Rice was number 1 @ Trending [...]read » ebizjoey
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July 30, 2010893 views19 commentsDid Anne Rice just suck the blood out of Christianity?
For those who care, and I understand if you don't: Today I quit being a Christian. I'm out. I remain committed to Christ as always but [...]
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1024 days agoIn response to To Avoid Diabetes, Think like a Diabetic
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1024 days agoIn response to 'Ground Zero mosque': How close is too close?
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1025 days agoIn response to 'Ground Zero mosque': How close is too close?
- Know yourself and know your enemy and in a thousand battles you will not face peril. Sun Tzu. This whole debate for me seems to lend itself to most terrorist propaganda siting America's long and [...]read » allamerican
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1025 days agoIn response to 'Ground Zero mosque': How close is too close?
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1026 days agoIn response to 'Ground Zero mosque': How close is too close?
- David, First, let me say your points are well-argued [...]read » T/S MICHAEL HUMPHREY
- Mr. Humphrey, On a strictly geographical note, [...]read » davidlosangeles
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1026 days agoIn response to 'Ground Zero mosque': How close is too close?
- Mr. Humphrey, The question was asked: "Having a mosque at Ground Zero would be the equivalent of having a Japanese Shinto shrine built next to the USS Arizona. Do the followers of Shinto have a [...]read » davidlosangeles
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July 27, 20101,685 views18 comments'Ground Zero mosque': How close is too close?
...we have learned that many people must have been out sick the day the teacher taught prepositions. The center is routinely referred to by [...]
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1031 days agoIn response to Maybe you can get over heartbreak with ice cream
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1031 days agoIn response to Maybe you can get over heartbreak with ice cream
- Congrats on your weight loss..that's the story!read » T/S CAITLIN KELLY
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July 22, 2010120 views5 commentsMaybe you can get over heartbreak with ice cream
Diana Kerwin of Northwestern University and colleagues studied 8,745 normal post-menopausal women ages 65 to 79 who participated in the Women's Health Initiative, a massive federal [...]
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1033 days agoIn response to Why Internet content reviewers burn out
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July 19, 201099 views3 commentsWhy Internet content reviewers burn out
David Graham, president of Telecommunications On Demand, the company near Orlando where works, compared the reviewers to “combat veterans, completely desensitized to all kinds of imagery.” The company’s roughly 50 workers view a combined average of 20 million photos a week. -- "Policing the Web's Lurid Precincts," The [...]
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1035 days agoIn response to On Christopher Hitchens: Why would cancer cure atheism?
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- Nice falkburger! Your "meaningless mush" just [...]read » T/S MICHAEL HUMPHREY
- yep, we all must feel like we're the captains [...]read » falkburger
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1035 days agoIn response to Lessons from Mel Gibson's rage
- Thanks for your perspective, Todd. I'm glad you [...]read » Bob Shanbrom
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1035 days agoIn response to Lessons from Mel Gibson's rage
- I share you irritation Steve, but celebrity culture is the culture we got, so might as well use it to make a point. And the point I'm trying to make is not just that celebs are like us but that the [...]read » T/S TODD ESSIG
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1035 days agoIn response to On Christopher Hitchens: Why would cancer cure atheism?
- By saying "religious belief is like anything else [...]read » smc001
- Well smc001, thanks for pointing out that ambiguity [...]read » T/S MICHAEL HUMPHREY
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1035 days agoIn response to Lessons from Mel Gibson's rage
- Sure, Mel Gibson and other celebrities can serve as living lessons. My immediate question, though, whenever journalists and bloggers and other information disseminators make big deals about movie [...]read » T/S STEVE WEINBERG
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1035 days agoIn response to Lessons from Mel Gibson's rage
- This started with, "Hatred is corrosive, it almost always hurts the hater." Now I HATE cruelty, poverty, injustice, bullying and a few other things. I find this hatred a salutary emotion indeed, [...]read » brianwood
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1036 days agoIn response to On Christopher Hitchens: Why would cancer cure atheism?
- I don't disagree with that last sentiment at all, but I'm afraid the breadth of your definition of "religion" is seriously limited your definition of "Man." If Skinner's "Man" is going to be made [...]read » T/S MICHAEL HUMPHREY
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1036 days agoIn response to On Christopher Hitchens: Why would cancer cure atheism?
- Any religion that does not include the totality of cosmic scale would be obvious to those it is spoken to and exposed to as limited and unable to affect that which is outside of it's domain. IOWs [...]read » joemailman
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1036 days agoIn response to On Christopher Hitchens: Why would cancer cure atheism?
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