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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 12, 2012, 01:30:54 pm ---my grandparents, who were Methodists
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Sorry to correct you, but the proper grammar is:
My grandparents was Methodists.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on March 13, 2012, 08:44:42 am ---Sorry to correct you, but the proper grammar is:
My grandparents was Methodists.
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;D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 08, 2012, 12:53:40 pm ---In the same issue, I tried to read Nick Paumgarten's article about the World Economic Congress in Davos, Switzerland. I was disappointed that he didn't cover any of the subjects of the sessions. There are hundreds of sessions but he seemed to imply that attendees are too blase to actually pay attention to them.
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Read that article today over lunch. One word: Yawn.
--- Quote ---I was also disappointed that he didn't mention that the governor of my state, John Hickenlooper, was there. ::)
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Maybe he doesn't realize that there are people in Colorado who read The New Yorker. Remember the famous cover of "A New York View of the World"? :-\
ifyoucantfixit:
rink now and then sounds more like an Anglican attitude to me. When my grandparents, who were Methodists (yes, they really were ) were touring western Canada in 1966, they went on Sundays to United Church services. Methodists, of course, do think that you should turn up every Sunday, and drinking is a sin. Or at least they used to think that way.
Posted on: March 08, 2012, 01:27:09 pm Posted by: Jeff Wrangler
Does anyone else think it is odd, how the church ideas and doctrines change, along with the common usage. It would seem to me that the tenants of a church would (should) be immutable.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: ifyoucantfixit on March 13, 2012, 06:43:17 pm ---
Does anyone else think it is odd, how the church ideas and doctrines change, along with the common usage. It would seem to me that the tenants of a church would (should) be immutable.
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I suppose I agree that there are certain core concepts that should never change, but there are a lot of things that must change. The human race no longer needs to reproduce itself ad nauseum, in fact if it does, it is doomed. This idea has many reverberations; for instance it is no longer important that everyone be heterosexual and "breeders."
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