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Looking Deeper Into The Bible
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by
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Matthew McGinnis
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The Leprechaun
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The Bible states in Genesis that the entire heaven and earth was
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created in six days. Man was created on that sixth day and on the
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seventh day God rested. Scientists however have proven that the age of
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the dinosaurs began, reigned and ended millions of years before man was
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ever put on the earth. The only way one could explain this
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contradiction is to say that a biblical day was an equivalent to
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millions or even billions of common days. Now, if we can agree with
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this, we are questioning "Just how mighty and powerful IS God if it
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takes him millions and millions of years to create the universe when in
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various places throughtout the Bible it talks of God destroying cities
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or doing other such things with ease. Did he really take him this long
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to do this?
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After God flooded the earth by making it rain for forty days and
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forty nights, he told Noah (Chap.9 verse 8) that he was sorry for what
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he had done and that he would never flood the earth again. As a
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symbol to all mankind of this promise he created the rainbow. Science
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has found why a rainbow exists. It has to do with two simple
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properties one being of water and the other of light. The first,
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refraction or the Prism Effect, the ability of water to split or bend
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light. The second, the fact that white light is made up of all the
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colors of the rainbow. These two properties are what makes a rainbow.
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Science has also found that all living things require water in order to
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survive and that most all living things require sunlight. In order for
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God to have given the two previously mentioned properties to water and
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sunlight at the time of him making the promise to Noah would mean that
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he also would have had to change the genetic structure of every living
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thing on earth so that they could survive under the new properties of
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water and light for which they had survived on for so long. If one can
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agree that this is what really happened, then we are forced to rethink
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about the previous paragraph in which it sugests that it might have
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taken God millions of years to create the universe. Wouldn't it be
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logical to say that it would take a fair amount of time for him to do
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the alterations to everything on earth? If so, wouldn't some things
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die before he could have gotten around to correcting them? Seems like
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a lot of trouble to go through just to create a rainbow.
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Before God cast Satan out of heaven, He was God's high angel. The
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Bible describes heaven as containing no evil and of being made up of
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pure good. If this was so how could Satan have been evil to try to
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overthrow God. There was no evil in heaven fo<66> Satan to BE evil. Also,
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if he had been such a wise angel, don't you think he would have been
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wise enough to know that he couldn't overthrow God, the most powerful
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force in existence?
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God told Noah (Genesis Chap. 6 verse 15) to build an ark five
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hundred cubits by fifty cubits by thirty cubits. A cubit being the
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length from the tip of the middle finger to the base of the elbow, an
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average of twenty inches. This figures out to be an ark with the
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dimensions eight hundred thirty three feet by eighty three feet by
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fifty feet Giving the ark three stories. That is slightly wider and
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almost three times as long as a football field. Yet one six hundred
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year old man built the entire thing in the short amount of time given
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to him by God? Ok, maybe he did. To continue, Noah was commanded to
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bring forth into the ark two of every animal on the earth. Granted the
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ark was big but for it to be big enough to hold two of every kind of
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animal on earth is far from being to believe considering there are
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hundreds of thousands of different animals on earth. Even if two of
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everything DID fit on the ark, Noah and the animals remained on the ark
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for barely under a year. A closer figure would be three hundred fifty
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five days. Now, take for example an elephant. An elephant eats an
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average of five hundred pounds of food a day. Not even considering how
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many types of elephants there are, thats one thousand pounds of food a
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day to feed just two of them. This figures out to a food supply for
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two elephants alone to be three hundred fifty five thousand pounds of
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food. If this was to be figured out for each and every animal on the
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ark, one would need hundreds of times more room for food than for
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animals. There is no possible way to fit all the animals plus their
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food on an ark of this size. What about animals like the lion which
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are meat eaters. Noah would have had to have found a way to keep his
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entire food supply fresh for a year. If he kept his food alive
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untilneeded by the lion, how much food would have been needed to feed
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the lion's food? After the rains ceased (Genisis Chap.8 verse 6), Noah
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sent out a raven and a dove every seven days to see if the waters had
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fallen. The waters were of a depth of fifteen cubits or twenty five
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feet above the highest point on earth at the end of the flood yet the
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dove returned with an olive leaf that had been plucked off of an olive
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tree (Genisis Chap.8 verse 11). It is impossible for an olive tree to
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live under water for the amount of time it would have taken the waters
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to rise and fall twenty five feet so how could the dove have found this
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leaf?
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The Bible states that God will go to 'The four corners of the
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earth' and gather together all of the beleivers. Up until columbus
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discovered that the world was round, everyone believed it to be flat,
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thus the four corners of a flat earth. If God really created the earth,
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don't you think he would of known it was round and therefore would not
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have spoken of it as being flat with corners?
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In the first four books of the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke
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and John, Each one told of the crucifixion of Jesus. Matthew (Chap.27)
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says that Jesus was offered a drink of vinegar and gall and he would
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not accept it. Mark <20>Chap.15) says that he was offered a drink of wine
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and myrrh and that he would not accept it. Luke (Chap.23) says that he
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was offered a drink of vinegar and does not state whether or not he
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accepted it. John (Chap.19) says that Jesus asked for a drink and he
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was given vinegar and hyssops. Who is correct? Is any of them?
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What I am trying to accomplish by writing this report is not to
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make people stop believing in Christianity or the teachings of the
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Bible unless that is what they choose is best for them. I strongly
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believe that the Bible has many truths and teachings that are
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beneficial to mankind. The point I am trying to make is that MAN wrote
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the Bible and GOD did NOT sign his name to it. So don't believe
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everything one might read in the Bible because, just like folk stories,
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it changes each time the stories of it are told and are passed down
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from generation to generation until finally, somebody wrote the stories
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down in hopes of them not to be changed anymore. By this time they had
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allready ended up with a garbled up mess<73>that looked nothing like the
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original. Keep in mind that many things were also lostin the
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translation of the Bible from Greek to english. One last thing to keep
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in mind, Think about how many different religions there are and how
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many different Bibles these religions have. These Bibles all are
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different and some completly contradict others. For example, the
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Satanic and the Christian. Can they ALL be correct? If not, which one
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is? Maybe a part of all of them are correct.
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A New Age Interpretation of Heaven and Hell
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Most religions teach that according to how one lives his life
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determines whether or not one goes to heaven or hell. This simple
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truth can be accepted by both Christians and by those who do not
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believe in the Christian God or those who believe in reincarnation. To
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a Christian, everyone has one life and only one life to do good in
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order to go to a place where there is no anger, hate, jealousy or evil,
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called Heaven. If one live an evil life that person's soul goes to a
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place where it is tormented and burned for all eternity in order to pay
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for its sins. The Non-Christian belief might be much the same except
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for a few things. Hell is not eternal unless one chooses for it to be.
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Everyone has what is called karma. Webster defines karma as actions in
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one lifetime that determines the fate of the next lifetime. For
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example if in one life, a person was prejudice against a given race and
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tormented that race, in that person's next life he would incarnate as a
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person of that given race to live a life of torment from those who are
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prejudice against him just as he once was. Or in short, karma could be
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defines as 'whatever goes around comes around'. A soul's karma must be
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resolved before that soul can be free from the wheel of reincarnation.
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In order to accomplish this, that soul must incarnate over and over
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again until all its karma is resolved, thus this is where the saying,
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'Life is hell' may have come from. If a person chooses to live their
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lives in evil, that person does nothing but add to their karma and it
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therefore takes longer to resolve it, perhaps all eternity. So, maybe
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life really is hell. When a person's karma is all resolved, that
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person's soul is released from the wheel and thus released from the
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physical plane so that that soul may now evolve more quickly on its
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path to merge with the All That Is or God.
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Perhaps this simple truth as stated above was taught by Jesus or
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other many other Messias but over the centuries, it was altered to the
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way the Christians now believe it to be. One possible reason for this
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alteration might have been The Church itself. The Church rationalized
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that they must not teach their disciples the truth, knowing that evil
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does exist, in order to keep this evil to a minimum. If they were to
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teach the truth and those who chose to follow evil learned this truth,
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they might use it to their advantage. They no longer would have to be
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afraid of dying and going to the firey hell but in turn all they would
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have to do is reincarnte and continue their rein of evil. These people
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would not worry about what would happen if one of their evil plans were
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to fail and there were executed for their deeds. As a whole, chaos
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would break out so the alteration in the simple truth was necessary.
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It is logical to conclude that if this was done, The Church may
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have found reasons to alter other truths that were at one time taught.
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Can one really be sure? Perhaps the most log<6F>cal thing to do is to
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study and be open to the many different religions and beliefs and then
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decide for oneself which path to follow.
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Disclaimer
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I don't want people to think that I am attacking the religion of
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Christianity. The reason I am talking about this religion is because I
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was raised a Christian and therefore, I know a little about it. I have
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tried to make the facts in this report as accurate as possible but if
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for some reason there is an incorrect statement here I would very much
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like to know about it so it can be corrected. The interpretations given
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are of myself, the author, and are in no way ment to be interpreted by
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the readers as the beleifs of others but only as the opinions of one
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person as I feel they need to be stated.
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I know I probably am going to get a lot of slack from those of you
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on the net for me writting this. So let me say right here and now that
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I do not claim to be an athority on this subject and I may not have
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stated one thing here that any of you may agree with. I admit, I may
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have the facts wrong and if I do, I apologize. I would still like to
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hear your comments on this article though.
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Thank you for your time and
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Blessings to all,
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The Leprechaun
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Matthew McGinnis
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