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13 years ago @ Listverse - Top 10 Disturbing Film... · 0 replies · +4 points

I'm disturbed. . . . But seeing as how that was the point of the list, well done. Still don't think I'll see any them, though, because that's just not my style.

13 years ago @ Listverse - Top 10 Ghost Ships · 1 reply · -4 points

An interesting list and well-written for the most part. All of the information is good, but there's some random/inconsistent capitalization which is distracting.

Other than that a good read. Thanks!

13 years ago @ Listverse - 15 Extremely Embarrass... · 0 replies · +7 points

Of course it will be. All you have to do is indoctrinate all of your children and grandchildren with this new holy writ and it will last forever. And Listverse will never start any wars like the previous religions have done because all believers are/will be rational people and all non-believers are/will be too simple to realize that there is such a possiblity.

:P

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 Biblical Facts That... · 0 replies · 0 points

Of course there are more than just ten comandments, but THE Ten Commandments refer to the ones given that Moses brought down off theMount Sinai, had engraved onto tablets and placed inside the ark of the covenant. (See Exodous 20, Deuteronomy 31, and 1 (or 3 depending on version) Kings 8.)

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 Biblical Facts That... · 0 replies · +1 points

I've heard that the "apple" is the fault of John Milton and his "Paradise Lost." Don't have a source for that. But even while I agree that Bible doesn't name the fruit, I doubt that Milton came up with the apple on his own.

"Apple" used to be commonly used to denote a fruit in general also. Hence the pineapple--a fruit with spines--spiney apple--pineapple. It could be in that sense that Milton used the word and the language has just changed between his time and ours.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 Biblical Facts That... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks for that reference. I knew it was in there somewhere but couldn't remember just where. It's one of those things that 14-16 year-olds find to be extremely important/amusing in an early morning bible class.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 Biblical Facts That... · 0 replies · +2 points

When I read it cover to cover I averaged about 3 chapters a night and got through it in somewhere just under a school year. (I was in high school at the time.) Can't say that every section filled me full of the light of inspiration, but it gives a good reference for more specific study if you want to go back to it later.

13 years ago @ Listverse - Top 10 Best Books To G... · 1 reply · +1 points

love the way you use words . . .

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 Surprising Facts Ab... · 2 replies · +1 points

There's a historical fiction/sci-fi novel called "Guns of the South" that has a time traveller take machine guns back to the Confederacy. It's apretty good, interesting read. Sorry that I can't remember the author's name at the moment.

13 years ago @ Listverse - 10 Examples of Human L... · 0 replies · +6 points

Can't say that this was new info for me, but it is interesting.

I am conditionaly ambitextrious. Normally, I am right-hand dominate but still able to use my left. When I become excited/upset/stressed, that switches and I become left dominate. During one really bad year, it switched so completely that the only thing I could do with my right hand was to write on the board. Got out of that situation and within two weeks was back to using my right hand again.
Now I can choose either hand and not have it be a big deal.

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