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Your Turn / Re: Coronavirus news

« on: March 16, 2020, 07:16:19 PM »

Pastor Fienen:
It would have been really helpful if the CDC and other government entities could have started a year ago getting us ready to combat this pandemic. They could have been stockpiling masks and other supplies and preparing a vaccine. So, is this an example of Trump's short sightedness and general incompetence?

Me:
Did you not read that more than a year ago, the White House virtually closed the office in the CDC that was to plan for and deal with pandemics?

Read this: https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/03/16/washington-post-flip-flop-no-the-trump-white-house-did-not-dissolve-the-pandemic-response-office/

Or this:https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/false-claim-about-cdcs-global-anti-pandemic-work/

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Your Turn / Re: Presidents Of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis

« on: September 01, 2019, 04:34:42 PM »

The song in the video, written by Enya - Time after Time -
Dave Benke

Minor nitpicking: Sung by Enya, written by Cyndi Lauper.

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Your Turn / Re: Quote from PB attributed to Luther in ELCA Press Release

« on: August 10, 2019, 07:54:53 PM »

Before we descend into the standard rounds of prevarication and Schadenfreude, has anyone been able to find the Luther quote?

I found references in AZ Quotes and the Duluth Reader. Neither site provides a source, only attribution to Luther.

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Your Turn / Re: LCMS Election

« on: June 26, 2019, 07:55:26 PM »

The results:
Harrison      52% 
Maier          40% 
Klinkenberg 8%

Votes:
Harrison      3014
Maier          2323
Klinkenberg  486
TOTAL         5913

https://blogs.lcms.org/2019/harrison-elected-to-fourth-term-as-lcms-president/

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Your Turn / Re: Missouri Synod News Updates

« on: May 23, 2019, 02:59:22 PM »

The notion of a Near East, a Middle East, and a Far East is rooted in their relative distance and direction from Whitehall. Of course, the Chinese considered themselves the Middle Kingdom and the seventeenth century Japanese expelled the “southern barbarians.”

To be precise, east and west are relative to the prime longitude (0.00) which runs through Greenwich (the Royal Observatory). Whitehall is slightly east at 0°07'19.20" E

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Your Turn / Re: Lutheran Seminary fires new president

« on: March 21, 2018, 05:52:41 PM »

Would you mind posting a link to the website listing the speakers?

https://www.elca.org/YouthGathering/details/mass-gathering#speakers

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Your Turn / Re: Naked and Unashamed Summary Statement

« on: March 21, 2018, 01:17:25 AM »

The link at the bottom for the full statement didn't work.

It does, you just need to be persistent.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz0rF3WqPKCWeW9QS3MxMG1wMEE/view?usp=drive_web

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Your Turn / Re: LCMS kerfuffle

« on: December 08, 2017, 02:07:23 PM »

When Einstein was disturbed by the implications of Quantum Physics, he stated publicly that, "God does not play nice with the universe." Niels Bohr told Einstein, "And who are you to tell God what he can and cannot do?"

I heard it differently: "God does not play dice with the universe.
Of course, your version may be the right one. 

Peace,
Michael

You are correct, Father.

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Your Turn / Re: Wrestling with a Pig in Mud

« on: October 10, 2017, 10:23:55 PM »

Arguments like this thread remind me of a quote from the Saturday Evening Post.

"I’m not going to answer any more of your questions. I hope you won’t take this personally, but I am reminded of something my old uncle told me, long ago, back on the farm. He said. ‘What’s the sense of wrestling with a pig? You both get all over muddy . . . and the pig likes it.'"
-Cyrus Stuart Ching
 The Saturday Evening Post
 January 3, 1948

Quoting George Bernard Shaw, of course.

It appears not -- Quote Investigator.

Well, disputed: BrainyQuote 

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Your Turn / Re: Wrestling with a Pig in Mud

« on: October 09, 2017, 11:00:03 PM »

Arguments like this thread remind me of a quote from the Saturday Evening Post.

"I’m not going to answer any more of your questions. I hope you won’t take this personally, but I am reminded of something my old uncle told me, long ago, back on the farm. He said. ‘What’s the sense of wrestling with a pig? You both get all over muddy . . . and the pig likes it.'"
-Cyrus Stuart Ching
 The Saturday Evening Post
 January 3, 1948

Quoting George Bernard Shaw, of course.

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Your Turn / Re: Reforming Catholic Confession

« on: September 19, 2017, 07:50:14 PM »

I don't know if this is the original language, or if the ELCA tightened it in response to the NALC/LCMC departures:

"8.63. This church, in accord with constitutional provision 2.05., acknowledges as one with it in faith and doctrine all churches that accept the teaching of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession and understands that altar and pulpit fellowship with congregations and other entities of such churches may be locally practiced. Local practice of altar and pulpit fellowship, in accord with churchwide constitutional provision 2.05., is subject to the approval of the Synod Council, upon endorsement by the synodical bishop. Notice of such approval is to be given to the presiding bishop as the chief ecumenical officer of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. "
 

I don't know either, but it is certainly an interesting question. I don't have prior versions of the constitution at hand, so can't compare.

In the 2007 version of the Constitution, it was section 8.71 but the language was the same.
In the 2003 version, it was section 8.74.

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Your Turn / Re: The Pussy Pastor (sigh!)

« on: July 22, 2017, 09:12:47 PM »

She seems to make it quite clear that she has been working with the ELCA on her internship. (See http://messiahvancouver.org/Messiah-Happenings/Comings-and-goings-of-messiah-s-pastoral-interns-heidi-johnson-will-serve-as-17-18-pastoral-intern-at-nativity-lc-bend-or.html)

When I try that link, I get a message saying that my location (CA) has been blacklisted and access denied. I can't help but wonder whether they've gotten a ton of traffic about this.

Worked for me just now.

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Your Turn / Re: "in accordance with the scriptures"

« on: April 22, 2017, 09:44:25 PM »

My subsequent post was at 4:44:37 (not 1:44:37, as you had written).

Those are the same times, just the timezone difference, and I did not just make it up. You are insulting as usual.

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Your Turn / Re: "in accordance with the scriptures"

« on: April 22, 2017, 08:53:59 PM »

Is that the post that you edited an hour later, well after Rev Bohler's response? A glitch in the software?!

Are we to modify intellectually dishonest to simply dishonest?

« Last Edit: Today at 01:32:06 PM by Brian Stoffregen »
« Reply #163 on: Today at 01:44:37 PM » from Bohler


Who's dishonest?

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Your Turn / Re: Remember John Ylvisaker

« on: March 13, 2017, 10:10:06 PM »

Not working.  I get nothing with that instruction.  Will pray harder.

Dave Benke

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