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On Aug 3, 9:58�pm, "Smiler" <Smi...@Joe.King.com> wrote:
> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
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> On Aug 2, 5:11?pm, "Smiler" <Smi...@Joe.King.com> wrote:
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> > "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
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> > On Aug 1, 1:21?pm, Stan-O <bndsna...@aol.com> wrote:
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> > > On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 04:31:36 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com>
> > > wrote:
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> > > >> So you are saying that back in the 1800's when people said gay, they
> > > >> were talking about homosexuals. ?When they said gay nineties, they
> > > >> were talking about homosexual activities. ?I do not hate homosexuals,
> > > >> but it sort of irks me that they would ruin a perfectly good word in
> > > >> the English language. ?Now black people are understandably offended
> > > >> when anyone sings the words to Old Kentucky Home.
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> > > >> Do you still call a false hairpiece a perriwig?
> > > >> Do you still call the public transport road vehicle an omnibus?
> > > >> Are the yellow vehicles in New York still called
> > > >> taximeter-cabriolets?
> > > >> Language changes and evolves, skippy. Get over it.
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> > > >I still use the word gay to mean happy because that was how it was
> > > >used until the 1960's. ?If you substitute the word homosexual for gay
> > > >for anything written before that time, you are misinterpreting what
> > > >was said. ?Secondly, homosexual people are not happy, so it does not
> > > >describe them today.
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> > > Languages change and evolve, (there's that nasty word you Christers
> > > hate) and this isn't 1960 anymore. Get with the program!- Hide quoted
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> > Well, fortunately we have the Bible, which shows us that words
> > actually had meanings thousands pof years ago,
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> > Yet you constantly hide behind "allegory" and "parable" when we call those
> > words into question.
> > You read between the lines to find a meaning to fit *your* agenda.
> > How convenient that, when your agenda changes, you can read between the
> > lines to find another meaning to fit your new agenda?
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> > unlike today where
> > atheists are continually trying to change the meanings of words to fit
> > their agendas.
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> > What atheist agendas, liar?
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> We were discussing abortion, which has been an atheist agenda for more
> than a century.
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> Then why are many theists, including many xians, pro-choice?
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Well, Satan does not just tempt atheists.
Robert B. Winn