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    OnlyaSinner replied to the thread The Lottery??.
    Not gambling but a similar case of legislator chicanery. In the 1980s the Maine legislature created the conservation license plate; for...
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    OnlyaSinner replied to the thread The Lottery??.
    I personally think state lotteries are wrong-headed, though I don't go around criticizing participants. Maine initiated a "cash" lottery...
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    OnlyaSinner reacted to John of Japan's post in the thread Hyles Anderson College with Like Like.
    Welcome to the BB, sir. Just so the reader knows, we are long past HA college at the time this thread was started. Jack Hyles has been...
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    OnlyaSinner replied to the thread US Senate Seats - How many will flip?.
    Polls can be misleading, as most folks are aware. In 2020, Sara Gideon was ahead (IIRC by 4-5%) of Collins just before election day...
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    OnlyaSinner reacted to Foxmeister's post in the thread Church no longer welcomed with Like Like.
    When Paul was addressing the Greek intellectuals on Mars Hill in Athens, he didn't insult them. He simply said he observed the people of...
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    OnlyaSinner replied to the thread Worship Wars?.
    Some years back our choir was singing the "Hallelujah Chorus" along with a musical recording (sans lyric) when the speakers went silent...
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    OnlyaSinner reacted to John of Japan's post in the thread Translation Terminology with Like Like.
    I think that a truly educated person does not need such language to communicate. There is a famous scene in the play “Cyrano de...
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    OnlyaSinner replied to the thread Translation Terminology.
    As nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
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    OnlyaSinner reacted to John of Japan's post in the thread Translation Terminology with Like Like.
    Great story! Good illustration of the necessity for a translator knowing the range of meaning of words, not just a gloss (one word...
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    OnlyaSinner replied to the thread Translation Terminology.
    My favorite back translation story - perhaps apocryphal - involves two Russian translators and Matt 26:41b (omitting "indeed", as it's...
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    OnlyaSinner reacted to Foxmeister's post in the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45 with Like Like.
    Good question. If the bombs hand not been invented, then an invasion would be necessary. Then it comes down to Russia invading Manchuria...
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    OnlyaSinner replied to the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45.
    My (unsaved) son has taught English in southern Honshu (Nagoya area) since 2003 and married a Japanese lady in 2010. Her (late) father...
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    OnlyaSinner reacted to John of Japan's post in the thread The Bomb - 8 Aug 45 with Like Like.
    As one who lived in Japan for 33 years, is fluent in the language (I've written books in Japanese), still has friends in the country...
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    OnlyaSinner reacted to Martin Marprelate's post in the thread Fatal Flaw? with Like Like.
    God is not the author of sin. But God, for His own high purposes, did not choose to make us so many Stepford wives without ability to...
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    OnlyaSinner reacted to Ben1445's post in the thread Baptism? with Like Like.
    For what it is worth, I am still waiting for an explanation from him on how Jesus mistakenly taught that God made the world in six days...
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