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Payday Loan is such a...

Lisa P. — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:41:44 GMT

Payday Loan is such a huge help especially at present times where consumers are going through a lot of economic hardships, I think taking away additional sources of financial help is not the way to go. Election Day is behind us, and America has a new leader. The U.S. has chosen “change” by electing Barack Obama. There is no doubt that change is in store for the United States. Whether the United States changes for the better or for the worse is yet to be seen. It’s obvious that Americans believe Obama will bring a positive change to our country. Obama has promised the U.S. a lot of things like lower taxes for the middle class, putting a timeline on the war in Iraq, and trimming the federal budget “line by line.” What many Americans don’t realize is that Obama has also supported the elimination of the payday loan industry. Obama thinks doing away with the payday loan industry will protect low-income, and often minority, families from being victimized by predatory lenders. However, getting rid of the payday loans is a violation of our financial freedom. Maybe Obama will give America what it needs, but taking away our financial freedom isn’t a great start to creating positive change.

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During these times where people...

Lisa P. — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:41:04 GMT

During these times where people are going through financial hardships, taking the people’s only way to get a financial help is not the best thing to do. I think the government should spend time for payday loan regulation and not having it banned.

The people have pointed America’s next President of the United States. “Change” is what the U.S. has chosen by electing Barack Obama. There is no doubt that change is in store for us. Whether this change is for the better or for the worse is yet to be seen. It’s obvious that Americans believe Obama will bring a positive change to our country. He spoke promising words to restore confidence in the hearts of the unsure with plans to lower taxes for the middle class, put a timeline on the war in Iraq, and cut the federal budget “line by line.” However, what many Americans fail to realize is the fact that Obama also supports the elimination of payday lending industries. He thinks demolishing the payday loan industry will protect low-income families from being victimized by predatory lenders. However, this will be a threat to our financial freedom. Maybe Obama will bring positive change to the United States, but taking away one of the most reliable resource many people have come to depend on during financial fallbacks is not only a risk to our rights to financial freedom, but it is clearly NOT a great start to create the positive change we all desperately need.

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Hi. I really love the...

Lawrence — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:29:58 GMT

Hi.

I really love the way your posts express themselves in a way that we don't see enough on blogs nowadays.

Anyway, I know this is really off-topic, but I wanted to ask you about freshblogs - if you really don't want to continue it, may I use your domain? I love the way it sounds..

Thanks for your time, and sorry I couldn't find an email address - maybe delete 'Anyway' onwards?

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Don’t be ignorant when it...

Payday Loan Advocate — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:42:36 GMT

Don’t be ignorant when it comes to the payday loans industry, mainly because you never know when you will fall on financial hardships. If you fail to educate yourself on the ins and outs of the industry you might very well miss out on an opportunity to pick yourself up out of your financial troubles. Some of the politicians in Washington choose to ignore the fact that a payday loan can help restore your credit and put you back on the road to financial success. These politicians have even had the audacity to create legislation that would ban the industry all together. It’s clear that they don’t care about the people that the industry has helped or the employees in the industry that would all lose their jobs. They tend to question the ethics of the payday loan business, but I question their ethics!

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Change is the only constant...

Payday Loan Advocate — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:22:55 GMT

Change is the only constant thing in this world. And there is no one exempted from changing. A person changes from physical to emotional aspects. With our economy falling behind, the war on terror, pork barreling legislation, corruption, and criminal activity on the rise, payday loans should be the last thing on politicians’ minds. Yet, for some reason, high profile politicians like Obama are focusing on this issue. Some states have banned them, such as Georgia and North Carolina, and more are in the process. Instead of fixing the important issues, they are trying to take out the payday loan industry for personal and political gain. Payday loans are simply for short term financial assistance for the all-American family to cover some cost that wasn’t budgeted or an emergency that they couldn’t pay for at that moment. They provide help to citizens during these financially troubling times with loans that the government otherwise couldn’t provide themselves. Stop the potential loss of thousands of jobs and the loss of a viable financial option by voicing your opinion to the legislature, before a nationwide ban becomes in effect.

There are lots of changes that would come. But whatever it is it must be the change for the better!

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If you are erroneous on...

Payday Loan Advocate — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:21:26 GMT

If you are erroneous on the facts of an issue, it can create an unsteady repercussion, predominantly on occasion when you take a course of action based on deceiving information. The positives and negatives of cash advances, and what the future holds for the business often can suffer from this. Some politicians from both parties are making an effort to pass legislation that would confine or take away from your capability to get a payday loan. Sadly, some of these politicians have accomplished passing their legislation. Some politicians have even gone as far as banning the industry all together. Many of these laws are based on the supposition that payday lenders are run by the same principles as illegal loan sharks. Please don’t be mislead by the facts, and inform yourself, family, and friends on the right to financial liberty.

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For further evidence of monism,...

Michael Pruitt — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:27:28 GMT

For further evidence of monism, check-out [a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalom]shalom[/a], [a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaam"]salaam[/a].

I can't find a convenient wiki link for the Christian version, charis kai eirene (KJV: "grace and peace" WGGV: "the gifts that give you reason for joy and the wholeness and completeness that comes with them")

For a Christian monist view, I'm listening to Bruce McLaren's [a href="http://marshill.org/teaching/index.php"]"Which Story Do You Live In?"[/a] (McLaren is seen by some accumulation monotheistic fundamentalists as the anti-christ. You have been warned.)

Posted to: Intelligent design doesn't jive with the Torah and Quran

Michael, I agree with you...

Matt M. — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:34:23 GMT

Michael, I agree with you that Christianity and Judaism are not as black and white as she makes them out to be. That's why I mentioned the Mormons. I think she could have been more specific about which Christian, and Muslim groups fit into her bigger point.

I like her argument that ID fits in an icon heavy monotheistic religion. I'd never considered iconography or iconoclasm as traits that shape a religion.

Posted to: Intelligent design doesn't jive with the Torah and Quran

Remind me not to write...

Michael Pruitt — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:50:38 GMT

Remind me not to write pre-coffee.

Restating the first paragraph: it is less than completely correct to imply all of Christianity is non-monistic; similarly, it is less than completely correct to imply all of Islam and Judaisism are monistic.

If one were to construct a two-by-two square, with the top two columns labeled "Objective" and "Subjective" and the left two columns labeled "Absolute" and "Relative", one would find that the close-minded belief systems can be placed into either the Objective-Absolute or Subjective-Relative boxes.

A similar Johari window can be composed with "Truthful - Untruthful" and "Honest - Dishonest" as the axes.

ID strikes me as truthful, yet dishonest. ID as seems to be practiced in America truthfully presupposes that all that is could have been made by an intelligent designer, but dishonestly hides their assumptions that there *is* an intelligent designer and that this intelligent designer is their personal flavor of God behind their truthful "we don't know."

Posted to: Intelligent design doesn't jive with the Torah and Quran

It is good to point...

Michael Pruitt — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:24:26 GMT

It is good to point out that certain forms of Islam and Judaism view God the same way. It is, however, equally fallacious to imply that all of Islam and Judaism share this belief while none of Christianity does.

The better line to draw, I believe, is between inerrancy and infallibility.

Proponents of ID seem to be all in the inerrantist camp, religion notwithstanding.

Inerrantists throughout history have been, IMO, Pharisees, Wahhabists, and Fundamentalists.

There are some Christians who espouse omninescience. (Or should that be "divine nescience"?)

From the wikipedia article: "...God knows everything that has been determined as well as what has not yet been determined but remains open. As such, he is able to anticipate the future, yet remains fluid to respond and react to prayer and decisions made either contrary or advantageous to His plan or presuppositions."

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Huey, Faith may be inspired...

Matt M. — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:58:49 GMT

Huey,

Faith may be inspired by truth but faith isn't the same as truth. You can have faith in something that is false (Imagine faith in the Flying Spaghetti Monster versus faith in the Christian God.)

Think about Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. He proved that in any simple algebraic system there are statements that are true (absolute truth) but can't be proven true (require faith to believe).

Getting less abstract think about this in terms of the law. Imagine someone who may have killed his wife. You don't have her body since he's hidden it somewhere. It may be absolutely true that he has murdered her, but you can't prove it's true. You'll have doubt (perhaps even a reasonable doubt) that he murdered her because you can't prove it absolutely. Carly Gammill's notion of law doesn't seem to allow for this grey area. As I read her she would say he is a murderer because she believes that is true. That's not how the law works.

Also I would point out that our law and justice system is written in English. The meaning of words change over the years (just look at how faggot or gay have changed over the centuries for a trivial example). You can not call that an absolute truth. The flexibility of the English language is what has made it so useful.

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excuse my ignorance but it...

janey — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:01:54 GMT

excuse my ignorance but it reads like the ink could have been made from ingredients that could cause a menstrual cycle?

Posted to: Biblical Reality Hacking

Dude, I like what you're...

Leslie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:28:21 GMT

Dude, I like what you're thinking until the last leap—it's a little too general to work in an exciting way. But try this, to go with the first part, about words being magic: "In the beginning there was the Word. The Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. All things were made by him, and nothing was made without him."

That's how the New Testament book of John begins. Word. Word = Jesus. But he's called Word.

Your pal, Word-not-Jesus

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We're psyched to see you...

Leslie — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:22:15 GMT

We're psyched to see you and Julie on Saturday!

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I'm glad to see that...

Scott Hendrix — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:38:52 GMT

I'm glad to see that you're still surfing the waves of cyberspace, and still looking for the Edenic paradise that never was—but might still be. I'm also glad that you're plugging for Obama, along with the rest of the rational world.

Hang tough Matt.

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I find it hilarious and...

Huey — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 21:26:40 GMT

I find it hilarious and ironic that you called the last statement "naive" when clearly your understanding, or lachthereof, of faith is as naive and infantile as it gets. Faith is based on TRUTH, not on blind feelings or imagination. If there is no absolute TRUTH, there is nothing to have faith in, and this applies both in the natural and the spiritual. When we can have a law and justice system that recognizes absolute TRUTH and is based upon it, we have something rock solid, unlike today where everything is relative.(emphasis, TRUTH)

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Hey there! So I was...

Maddie — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:08:20 GMT

Hey there! So I was looking for you on LinkedIn today and found you but due to some aggressive network building of my own in the past, I can't send you an email. Oh well. So, look for me if you want!

Meanwhile, this is an interesting verse to think about because of the parrallel in the New Testament where Jesus offers living water to a woman of questionable morality when he comes across her at the well. So you can quote if you like from the Old Testament but be aware that a lot of those sorts of indictments of human nature and sin have already been asked and answered!

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So I happen to find...

Ruth F. — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:55:37 GMT

So I happen to find your blog today and will happily add it to my google reader!

Now Matt, you know I can't let you get away with that. I actually was unfamiliar with the passage and happen to have a Bible at work with me.

While I do not understand the entire passage because I am unfamiliar with the customs - there is NO reference to the woman being pregant. It is speaks of if the husband suspects she is cheating. She is then brought to the priest who administers this drink as you outlined and if she is guilt her belly will swell, her thigh will rot and she will be barren. If not, then the husband owes her an apology. :)

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"The priest is to write...

the.thistle — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:05:42 GMT

"The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water. He shall have the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water will enter her and cause bitter suffering."

Interesting find. I'm not that familiar with the Bible, but I am interested in the overlaps between practices of early Judaism and those of the Egyptian priest-class. This method of spell-making was cribbed from the latter, who used it not only for curses but for other types of magic.

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Ah, yes. "The Wire." "Let's...

Bryan — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:57:30 GMT

Ah, yes. "The Wire."

"Let's make an awesome show and then never tell anybody until, like, Season 5!"

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