Interesting . . . According to his site, Bridges “represents Habersham and part of White Counties”. Hmmm, the way I see it, then, is to mobilize the people of the African-American counties against him.
I cannot begin to wrap my mind around the thought process (or lack thereof) that went into this website. I can sort of understand being against evolution, if you don’t have a good understanding of science and you believe it’s against your religion. I think it’s a stupid and closedminded position to take, but I can see where they are coming from. But this? Rejection of Copernicus? I cannot express just how fucking stupid that really is. If you want to misapply Occam’s Razor, heliocentrism and creationism are both simpler models than geocentrism and evolution.
I don’t know, maybe I’m biased. I like science of all kinds, but astronomy captured my imagination way earlier and more strongly than biology.
Plynck:
Sorry about that - we Jews stopped just short, after ruling on which hand and which fingers to use when wiping one’s behind. (no, I’m not kidding. Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim, 3:10, and the Mishna Berurah commentary footnote 17)
‘God did it’ is the simplest explanation of all.[/sarcasm, or something like it]
Why do jews have big noses.?
Because air is free.
Proof of evolution and jewish domination of it.
Isn’t Christianity based on a much older, ancient persian religion?
A Leader dying and rising from the dead, and stuff like that there?
Someone help me out. Preferablly a Jew, so I can feel like I am a part of the Big Conspiracy and World Domination Plan.
God is an element that was not in the equation. Occam’s Razor says you can’t add Him without justification.
There is that, yes. Unfortunately, there’s also the view that God isn’t being added to anything at all; rather, everything else is added to God.
Facile? Why of course it’s facile. Why would these folks want to do things the hard way?
Your kindness in not wishing to deprive me of the pleasure of reading the work on my own is greatly appreciated. Still, do you suppose you could spoil that for me? Which hand? Which fingers? What about extenuating circumstances? Would Django Reinhardt have been able to comply?
White County, is of course, a county in Northern Georgia.
Well, I just got my $15 worth.
kaylasdad:
Just a basic TMI filter
Left hand (because the right is used to wrap tefillin on the left arm), all fingers but the middle one (because the tefillin strap is wrapped around that left middle finger). That’s for righties; for lefties, it’s the opposite hand.
In exenuating circumstances, do what you need to. This tidbit is a suggestion for expessing respect for the holiness of the commandment, but is not law in the sense that eating Kosher and not working on Sabbath are.
Possibly…I really don’t know his range or flexibility.
Two fingers of his left hand (ring and pinkie) were paralyzed as a result of an injury sustained in a fire when he was eighteen.
Right, I read that, but I still don’t know what he can or can’t do with them. Could he mount toilet paper on them and maneuver them to the relevant area? Do they impede his ability to approach the area with some fingers and not with others?
Inquiring minds don’t really want to know, I’m just making the point that saying “paralyzed” doesn’t tell me whether or not he’d be able to comply with that custom.
Well, every picture I ever saw of his left hand suggested that the fingers were pretty much permanently curled into his palm, leaving him with a thumb and an index finger to work with (exclusive of the middle finger, of course).
Well, I guess if he could manage that magical stuff he did on a fretboard, a little Charmin wouldn’t pose too great a challenge.