Posted on 07/18/2011 2:43:56 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The Obama Era claims another victim.
I wonder how high his food stamp recipients record will go before Nov 2012?
When I first laid eyes on the Kindle, I started feeling the same way about bookstores. Even the Barnes & Noble are desperately trying to market the Nook (their proprietary version of Kindle) in their own stores because they see the handwriting on the wall.
Now recently, I went through my bookshelves and ditched a bunch of books that are obsolete. Mostly tech related books like "Windows 98 for Dummies" and "Mac OSX Tiger Edition". These were books I paid $29.99 or even $50 for and they are useless to me now. Now imagine owning a Windows 7 Users Guide on a Kindle that automatically updates with every patch and minor revision - a manual that is updated dynamically and is never out of date. With electronic distribution, Microsoft can do major tweaks to their existing OS and customers that bought the manual will be able to immediately download the updated information while simultaneously replacing the outdated texts.
>>> It couldn’t have happened to a better leftist org. The one in my neighborhood hosted a weekly Wiccan club meeting.
pssst. Magic isn’t real. If it amuses some people to play at magic it’s no skin off your nose. Any more then were these same people playing Knights and Vikings with the Society for Creative Anachronisms, or Civil War reenactors.
Either way it’s an excuse to dress up in costumes and unwind the imagination. And maybe the boys can meet some girls.
Psssst. Satan IS real. And these people worship him whether they know it or not.
I think you have watched the Wizard Of Oz a few too many times.
Check the Bible. The Israelites were aided at least once that I can recall by what they thought was a female magic user. See 1 Samuel 28.
Also, the original Hebrew text of Exodus 22:18 is actually correctly translated as “Suffer not a poisoner to live” and doesn’t mention witches at all. The error in translation first appeared in the King James version.
There’s a stretch.
A post condemning wicca gets a reply supporting witches and now you want me to believe that the Bible supports witches since you claim it condones “magic users”.
Go back to the start of this side conversation and thread jacking (of which I am guilty of participating in) and you will see that the original objection was the stores support of a wiccan meeting. Christianity is most certainly not supportive of or even compatible with wicca.
Free Republic is most certainly compatible with and supportive of Christianity. (I don’t speak for the owner)
Nobody said the Bible condones witchcraft. It does condemn it at several points (Exodus mistransations aside) and admonishes people not to practice it. On the other hand, the Israelites are aided by ‘magic users’ at at least one point (and I want to say there’s at least two more, but I can’t remember the cites) and they are not punished for it. At best the Bible is conflicted and confusing on the matter.
Aside from the Exodus mistake (which contemporary scholars protested) in the KJV version, there isn’t actually anything in the Bible that I recall that says that Christians (or Jews) should persecute those who think they are practicing magic. Christians and Jews are not supposed to ‘practice magic’ or use sorcery, but we’re also not supposed to go attack those who do. Do unto others, etc., etc.
Note: I’m not a wiccan, practicioner of ‘magic’ or anything like that, I just hate seeing people say things about the Bible and Christian creeds that just aren’t so.
Also, for that matter, Borders was stupid to allow any religious meetings in their store. By supporting wiccans and allowing them to meet there, they (obviously) annoyed some Christians and Jews. The inverse, had it happened, would have annoyed the wiccans. If they had allowed an Islamic prayer service, etc., etc. Better to say, sorry, no religious activity here because to do anything would annoy quite a few potential customers.
The meetings were out in the open, having loud conversations about their beliefs, audible even from the childrens' section. They might have well been given a podium with a PA system.
Libraries have rental rooms (nominal rates) available for most groups. They should have availed themselves of this private venue. But this group was obviously into proselytizing.
To be fair, the store also allowed a chess club to meet once a week, but the morally neutral nature of that activity is beyond dispute.
The company is definitely leftist in their philosophy. Firmly on the side of homosexual activists.
The last time I was at a Borders, a certain former governor was there signing books.
I love my Kindle.
Wow. There are 2 Borders’ in Colorado Springs, both of them quite busy.
Maybe there’ll be a big sale ...and I can get more books!!
Well, they did start in Ann Arbor, after all.
Kind of a wistful thing to see them fold. I remember the first store fondly, wandering through it as a small child marveling at all the different things there were to read. I had learned to read at the age of four, and I remember the shelves towering overhead.
I guess if you live long enough, you get used to this sensation of things passing into history.
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