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Clough · Sep 13, 2009, 10:53 PM

Hi, cadillac59!

arcura is correct, to a point. In order to stop the emails, you unsubscribe from the thread and don't post anything on the thread anymore.

Thanks!

proudmom2 · Sep 13, 2009, 11:14 PM

Nice, what wonderful discussion this question has inspired. Thank you Arcura. Though I still stand by my "opinion". I'm glad to see you do as well. I do not have a complaint about the bible, just an opinion. Again, to each his/her own. I still don't believe that the words were "inspired". It was told to us through hand me down stories that it was "inspired". There really is no way of knowing until we meet our maker weather it be "god" or the dirt beneath our feet. I do believe that there are mysterious and miraculous things that happen in the world, unexplained by pure science. There really is no way of knowing if the words and teachings of Christianity are correct any more so than Buddha, Allah, the or heck even Gandhi. The fact is, I believe you don't know any more than I do and can't know until it happens. Maybe in the end it is all the power of our own beings pushing against one another that makes this world go round. :)

P.S. I am inspired by the fact that you are able to be inspired by this "bible" and such a deep belief in something you can't see or hear. Not because you will ever convince me to follow anything other than my own intuition and opinion, but because you stick to your guns regardless of my opinion or anyone else's and your not afraid to say so. That is, in it self, inspirational; especially in today's world of sheep.

cadillac59 · Sep 13, 2009, 11:19 PM

Originally Posted by Clough

Hi, cadillac59!

arcura is correct, to a point. In order to stop the emails, you unsubscribe from the thread and don't post anything on the thread anymore.

Thanks!

Thanks Clough. I wouldn't mind unsubscribing to the thread because I'm not interested in the topic but I don't want to unsubscribe to the entire board. I really have no interest in religion of any kind, as everyone can tell, but that doesn't mean I don't want to discuss the subject once in a while in certain ways.

arcura · Sep 13, 2009, 11:19 PM

cadillac59
OH!!
Well then I guess I don't know the answer to that toy help you.
Sorry,
Fred

proudmom2 · Sep 13, 2009, 11:32 PM

cadillac59, ON the right side of this thread is a place that says unsubscribe to this thread 2nd one under thread tools). That should stop any emails for this discussion but leave you still subscribed to those you are interested in. Hope that helps. :)

proudmom2 · Sep 13, 2009, 11:44 PM

Arcura, I am curious, what makes you think that monks checked and rechecked the words they, ehem, copied? I would say it is safe to presume you were not present at the time therefor are only repeating what someone told you, which someone told them, and so on and so on. No one today can say that anyone paid any attention to what was put in the bible. Nor can anyone say that the priests who decided what to put in the bible and what to toss out was correct, but chosen by what they wanted people to believe.

Clough · Sep 13, 2009, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by cadillac59

Thanks Clough. I wouldn't mind unsubscribing to the thread because I'm not interested in the topic but I don't want to unsubscribe to the entire board. I really have no interest in religion of any kind, as everyone can tell, but that doesn't mean I don't want to discuss the subject once in a while in certain ways.

Hi again, cadillac59!

You're welcome!

If you unsubscribe to a particular thread, it doesn't mean that you're unsubscribed to an entire forum topic area or "board", as some might call them. But, I do think that by unsubscribing to an entire forum topic area, that that will cease any kind of email notifications about them.

I subscribe to many forum topic areas. I do that, because of interest, and also because I'm one of the Moderators and in order to have become one, I did need to show an interest in certain forum topic areas. I receive email notifications when new threads are started on them, but not about new posts on any particular thread, unless I've posted on the particular thread.

When I'm not interested in the new thread that has been started, I just delete the email. If I had a program that was automatically informing me of new emails, then I would turn off that function in the email program.

It's a matter of what you want your computer to be able to and do for you.

I never open my emails directly on my computer before checking what they are, on the server first. Doing it that way, is much safer!

Thanks!

arcura · Sep 14, 2009, 09:30 PM

proudmom2,
I go by written history.
Also by faith in the Holy Spirit.
There are still some copies of original hand published bibles.
They have been compared with each other.
It became obvious that the monks were diligent in there work for the bibles' wording was very much the same.
Those same bibles are still available to recognized scholars to study.
Would you like to give it a try.
If so contact the Vatican for permission.
Peace and kindness,
Fred