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To: Legatus; OLD REGGIE
Now, why anyone under 50 would bother buying a dead tree version of anything anymore is simply beyond me and it strains credulity to the breaking point. That anyone actually using the internet would do so shatters credulity, throttles it, jumps up and down on it and roasts it for dinner.

Yes, some of us still actually shell out a few bucks for a book.

You should try it sometime.

If Natural Law said he’d just bought a hardcopy of Calvin’s Institutes I’d call for a mental health professional.

Roman Catholic apologists have said practically the same thing about the Bible.

Their loss.

Maybe that's why RC apologists are so ill-informed. They only read Rome's propaganda. They are ignorant of the alternate, better point of view.

"Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail" -- Isaiah 34:16

1,312 posted on 09/05/2010 12:26:28 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg (("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Some are well read.

Few are well thought.


1,325 posted on 09/05/2010 4:23:51 AM PDT by Quix (C Bosses plans: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2519352/posts?page=2#2)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg; Legatus
(Legatus) "Now, why anyone under 50 would bother buying a dead tree version of anything anymore is simply beyond me and it strains credulity to the breaking point. That anyone actually using the internet would do so shatters credulity, throttles it, jumps up and down on it and roasts it for dinner."

Yes, some of us still actually shell out a few bucks for a book.

You should try it sometime.

Maybe that "no hard copy" attitude helps to explain the dismal state of our education system today.

I use the internet frequently and find it an outstanding facility for information and research. No book can do for you what can be done in seconds on the internet.

On the other hand a good book, paperback or hard cover, is still a joy which cannot be duplicated with any computer.

I have never had a battery go dead on a book.
I have never had my book "die" while using it.
The internet never "goes down" on a book.
My book has never "crashed".
I can take my book with me wherever I go.
The availibility of the Internet is not a concern with a book.
The last time I highlighted a passage on my computer I had a devil of a time cleaning it off. Further, it didn't stay with the passage I had highlighted. :)
Etc. etc. etc.

Yes, I greatly appreciate my computer and the internet and I love my books.

1,342 posted on 09/05/2010 10:29:18 AM PDT by OLD REGGIE (I am a Biblical Unitarian?)
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