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In Israel, diggers unearth the Bible's bad guys
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| 7-8-11
Posted on 07/08/2011 5:19:43 AM PDT by SJackson
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posted on
07/08/2011 5:19:46 AM PDT
by
SJackson
To: SJackson
> the giant warrior improbably felled by the young shepherd
> David and his sling.
No bias there.
/sarc
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posted on
07/08/2011 5:28:59 AM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
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posted on
07/08/2011 5:33:26 AM PDT
by
SJackson
(Normal people don't sit cross-legged on the floor and bang on drums, WI State Sen Glenn Grothman (R))
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/08/2011 5:40:04 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Casey Anthony: "Surprise, surprise."...............)
To: Westbrook
“Improbably felled” in this context means he was felled in a manner that was improbable, not that the story is improbable.
A little sensitive for a Friday morning, aren’t we?
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posted on
07/08/2011 5:45:48 AM PDT
by
cizinec
("Brother, your best friend ain't your Momma, it's the Field Artillery.")
To: Westbrook
" No bias there"I'm not so sure. I had to read that part a couple times. They don't say allegedly felled by, they say improbably felled by.
Think about it, if you were in the Philistine camp and some young punk with a sling persists in mocking and calling out your biggest goon, your going to think the chances of that biggest goon getting killed are "improbable".
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posted on
07/08/2011 5:48:45 AM PDT
by
Slump Tester
(What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
To: cizinec
> Improbably felled in this context means he was felled
> in a manner that was improbable, not that the story is
> improbable.
A distinction without a difference.
> A little sensitive for a Friday morning, arent we?
So, there is no anti Judeo-Christian bias in the news. I’m just being “sensitive”, right?
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posted on
07/08/2011 5:51:40 AM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
To: Westbrook
I have made several of these kinds of slings for my two boys. They are a lot of fun. You can sling big stones a long way. They make a humming sound as they leave the sling.
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posted on
07/08/2011 5:51:46 AM PDT
by
Drawsing
(The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
To: Westbrook
If you read the story carefully, it doesn’t look like the stone, actually killed him. Probably stunned him or momwntarily knocked him out, but it took his beheading to kill him.
The sling was a military weapon that could kill most men, because stones the size of a man’s fist were use and they were thrown in high velocities.
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posted on
07/08/2011 5:53:58 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: Jonty30
Here is another proven weapon for killing Philistines:
The jawbone of an ass.
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posted on
07/08/2011 5:59:44 AM PDT
by
Drawsing
(The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
To: Slump Tester
If there was reasonable measures like sling control registration and increased taxes on stones, this would never have happened, Think of the chillrin!
To: Jonty30
From 1st Samuel 17 ...
- So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
- Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
OK. You could read it either way: that Goliath was dead when he hit the ground, or that he died when David removed his head. Given the nature of oriental narrative, I submit that you are correct in assuming the latter is more likely.
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posted on
07/08/2011 6:13:11 AM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
To: Westbrook
You are correct. No Bias.
I think your spidey senses are off today.
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posted on
07/08/2011 6:23:53 AM PDT
by
SengirV
To: SJackson
dey vas Greeks! Hellenes!
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posted on
07/08/2011 6:42:29 AM PDT
by
Cronos
( W Szczebrzeszynie chrzaszcz brzmi w trzcinie I Szczebrzeszyn z tego slynie.)
To: Westbrook
These biased liberals who write these articles want to revise history in a way that future generations won't really know the truth and what happen.
Given that David was a real shepherd and protected sheep he must have plenty of years to practice his slingshot abilities on bears and lions and it does not take a stretch of imagination that his aiming with that slingshot was very accurate and knocked the ungodly heathen liberal Goliath out cold.
To: Westbrook
Is bias the same thing as not believing something is true?
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posted on
07/08/2011 6:55:21 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
To: Westbrook
Yes, you are. Depending on what news one chooses to read, there is lots, little, or none.
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posted on
07/08/2011 6:59:16 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
To: stuartcr
Pay close attention to definition #2.
bi·as /ˈbaɪəs/
noun, adjective, adverb, verb, bi·ased, bi·as·ing or (especially British) bi·assed, bi·as·sing.
noun
1. an oblique or diagonal line of direction, especially across a woven fabric.
2. a particular tendency or inclination, especially one that prevents unprejudiced consideration of a question; prejudice.
3. Statistics . a systematic as opposed to a random distortion of a statistic as a result of sampling procedure
When I studied journalism, our reports would be marked-down for even the slightest hint of bias.
"Biased reporting" was regarded as a contradiction in terms.
Bias was limited to the editorial page.
That was almost 50 years ago.
Nowadays, "biased reporting" has been transformed from an oxymoron to a redundancy.
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posted on
07/08/2011 7:08:41 AM PDT
by
Westbrook
(Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
To: Drawsing
You’ll shoot your eye out.
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posted on
07/08/2011 7:14:43 AM PDT
by
Kirkwood
(Zombie Hunter)
To: Cronos
I point that out to my (6th grade) CCD classes when we get to the story of David and Goliath. I’ve never had a kid who has heard it before.
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posted on
07/08/2011 7:20:06 AM PDT
by
Varda
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