Re: [ZION] LDS Writer Expects to Be Excommunicated

2002-12-03 Thread Jon Spencer
As I said a few years ago on this list, this is why we have not and will not ever carry any book from Signature Books in our LDS bookstore. My wife is kinder and gentler than I. When people ask why we don't have certain books, she just says that we don't buy from that publisher, and that is all

Re: [ZION] Text Messages on Cell Phone

2002-12-03 Thread Scott McGee
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:36:01 -0700, Tom Matkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It just came to my attention that the text messaging function on my cell phone has now been activated. SNIPAGE daughter. That pretty much exhausts my sense of what can be done with this new method of communication. Does

Re: [ZION] LDS Writer Expects to Be Excommunicated

2002-12-03 Thread Paul Osborne
If the Book of Mormon is not historical, then the Church is false, and Joseph Smith was no prophet. Knowing this, Satan and his mortal followers make their most sophisticated attacks upon mankind by attacking the historicity of the Book of Mormon. Further more, according to my testimony IF

Re: [ZION] LDS Writer Expects to Be Excommunicated

2002-12-03 Thread Marc A. Schindler
I can't argue with your overall approach, but I would point out that not all of their books are polemical. You have to look at each title on its own merits. But I don't think there's any doubt where the sympathies of the publisher's owners, George Smith, lie. In this JWR's paranoia is probably

[ZION] Re: [ZION] From Ýstanbul with love

2002-12-03 Thread Jon Spencer
Is that the Turkish version of attaboy? Jon Geoff FOWLER wrote: Although, thanks to Ataturk, it should be easier for the Church in Turkey than in most other Islamic nations. // /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at

Re: [ZION] True Christians

2002-12-03 Thread Jon Spencer
Some of my best friends do these things! Jon John W. Redelfs wrote: After much pondering, Stacy Smith favored us with: To add to this perspective, how many people who claim to be true Christians: 1. Visit the sick. 2. Visit people in prison. 3. When they have a feast they invite the

[ZION] The Two Towers

2002-12-03 Thread Mark Gregson
(no spoilers in this email) Yes, I will be taking a few hours off work on the Friday after The Two Towers comes out to go see it. That way I can get in at the matinee price of $8.50 instead of the evening price of $13.50. Once again, I will be taking my oldest son. My wife wants to

Re: [ZION] Shaving My Head

2002-12-03 Thread Jon Spencer
Be cool and wear a turban! it'll freak everyone out, especially during Sunday School! Jon John W. Redelfs wrote: I just had a thought. Maybe I should just become an eccentric that wears his hat all the time. The military really drilled me into the prejudice that a man should be covered

RE: [ZION] Comparing Rebellions

2002-12-03 Thread Chet
Ah! So it's not one of Scott's BOOKS which is banned. He, personally, is. I guess the boy gets too rowdy when pumped up with Burger King chow. *jeep! --Chet Jon Spencer wrote: I believe that he is. Jon - Original Message - From: Larry Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

RE: [ZION] Canada: Bush is an idiot

2002-12-03 Thread Chet
Marc A. Schindler wrote: literal sense of the word, to pre-judge). After all, Canadian individuals, government and companies spends less per capita and less as a percentage of GDP on medicine than the U.S. does, but we have longer life expectancies, greater quality of life (as judged by

[ZION] When a Girl Marries

2002-12-03 Thread Chet
Occasionally (just occasionally) I get serious on this list. (And get shot down in flames for revealing my ignorance.) But this -- this is too wonderful to not share. And maybe it will give someone else the incentive to press on. And maybe there is someone who doesn't realize that they're

Re: [ZION] Re: [ZION] From Ýstanbul with love

2002-12-03 Thread Marc A. Schindler
Atatürk, which was his popular name (offhand I believe his real name was something Mustafa -- I'd have to go check). But he'd taken military training in England at Sandhurst and came back to Turkey, in the 1920s, determined to modernize and secularize Turkey. Islamist (or any other religious)