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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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saw6436
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Daejeon, ROK
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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| The pages of a bible make great rolling papers. |
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Teachurrrr
Joined: 21 May 2008 Location: Parts Unknown
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Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject: Too cheap for a Bible! |
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Freethought, the bible used in academic discourse (at least when I took comparative religious studies courses in college) was the New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha.
At the following link http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Bibles/StudyBibles/NewRevisedStandardVersion/?view=usa&ci=9780195288803 you can find info like this:
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version
ISBN10: 0195288807
Hardback, 2432 pages Jan 2007, In Stock Price:$45.00 (21) Shipping
Details Description Product Details Description
Countless students, professors and general readers alike have relied upon The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha for essential scholarship and guidance to the world of the Bible. Now the Augmented Third Edition adds to the established reputation of this premier academic resource. A wealth of new maps, charts, and diagrams further clarify information found in the scripture pages. In addition, section introductions have been expanded and the book introductions have been made more uniform in order to enhance their utility. Of course, the Augmented Third Edition retains the features prized by students, including single column annotations at the foot of the pages, in-text background essays, charts, and maps, a page number-keyed index of all the study materials in the volume, and Oxford's renowned Bible maps. This timely edition maintains and extends the excellence the Annotated's users have come to expect, bringing still more insights, information, and approaches to bear upon the understanding of the biblical text. Product Details
2432 pages; 6-9/16 x 9;
ISBN13: 978-0-19-528880-3
ISBN10: 0-19-528880-7
If you are doing personal research, then go with a variety of sources found on the internet. Wikipedia is probably full of them. If you are doing academic research, then buckle down and spend the money.
By the way, I can't remember how many times I have purchased books about different religions, different cultural viewpoints, and/or metaphysical philosophies without feeling like I have betrayed some inner truth by purchasing a text that promotes ideas different from my own.
If educated people should never agree to purchase books or textbooks containing mention of and/or ethnographic research about religious and/or cultural topics (like for liberal studies classes in our freshman and sophomore years) because to do so might actually further corporate agendas of major religions instead of feeding the poor in Africa, yikes! This kind of thinking really brings out of issue of how damn greedy religious people around the world seem to be when it comes to helping the poor. The horror of it all! |
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freethought
Joined: 13 Mar 2005
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 4:32 am Post subject: |
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Thanks teachurrrr. That is actually the copy/version I have in storage back home, and I am simply trying to avoid paying for another copy.
As for all of you people who keep bring up love motels, I'm really not sure what to make of it. Do you think I can walk in, talk to the man/woman at the front desk and say "hey, I don't want a room, i just want to go steal a bible. Is that ok?"
That or maybe the number of orgies I attend needs to go up, because I have NEVER stayed at a sex motel in Korea. What is it that all y'all are doing that makes you frequent sex motels so often? |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 5:46 am Post subject: |
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| The haircut skanks probably won't have a bible for you |
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itaewonguy

Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 6:49 am Post subject: |
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| A CHURCH YOU TROLL!!! |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea
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Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| freethought wrote: |
Thanks teachurrrr. That is actually the copy/version I have in storage back home, and I am simply trying to avoid paying for another copy.
As for all of you people who keep bring up love motels, I'm really not sure what to make of it. Do you think I can walk in, talk to the man/woman at the front desk and say "hey, I don't want a room, i just want to go steal a bible. Is that ok?"
That or maybe the number of orgies I attend needs to go up, because I have NEVER stayed at a sex motel in Korea. What is it that all y'all are doing that makes you frequent sex motels so often? |
I think it's more of a Christian thing. |
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friendoken
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:45 am Post subject: |
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Really shows who you are when you can't spring a few bucks for a bible  |
yes it does. An educated person who doesn;t believe in fairy tales and doesn't want to support some church organization which will use it to brain wash grown-ups and kids alike, and use the money to buy a mega church instead of giving it to starving kids in Africa. I could go on, if you like.... |
This is such tripe! Buy a bible and an African dies. And, an educated person (bragging about it) who doesn't know an apostrophe from a semi-colon  |
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VanIslander

Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:53 am Post subject: Re: where to get a free bible in Korea? |
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| freethought wrote: |
| ...the damn book... |
go to hell  |
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freethought
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:21 am Post subject: |
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| friendoken wrote: |
| freethought wrote: |
| Teelo wrote: |
Really shows who you are when you can't spring a few bucks for a bible  |
yes it does. An educated person who doesn;t believe in fairy tales and doesn't want to support some church organization which will use it to brain wash grown-ups and kids alike, and use the money to buy a mega church instead of giving it to starving kids in Africa. I could go on, if you like.... |
This is such tripe! Buy a bible and an African dies. And, an educated person (bragging about it) who doesn't know an apostrophe from a semi-colon  |
People who criticize typos on discussion boards reveal a great deal about their social lives.
And my criticism holds true, especially in Korea, where I would prefer not to fund a gigantic flashing, glow in the dark, neon cross that needs to be built to compete with the gigantic flashing, glow in the dark, neon cross across the street.
But I also give 4 figures to charity every year, so my money is already where my mouth is. |
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crusher_of_heads
Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:29 am Post subject: |
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| Giving your money to haircut whores or Greenpeace is a type of charity if you say it and believe it to be true. |
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Hyeon Een

Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:30 am Post subject: |
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I've stayed in approximately 50-75 love motels (girlfriends who need aircon which I don't have + weekend trips away + too lazy to go home +.. don't ask) and I really can't recall seeing any bibles in them. Was I staying in the wrong ones? Or was I too drunk to notice? I'm usually pretty good about stealing stuff and can't believe I haven't ended up with a love-motel bible if they actually exist. I have sauna towels, love-motel bathrobes, love-motel face removers, love motel soap, love-motel condoms, love motel lubricant, love-motel remocon, love-motel wall, Thailand-guesthouse-buddhist-tracts... but no Christian bible. Have the love motels I've visited not been classy enough? Or perhaps I was drunk and they were in Korean and so I didn't steal them..?
But I really can't believe that English language bibles are common in love motels. If they were, I'd have had to buy an extra book shelf. I'd probably have a collection of all the different versions in fact.
Am I mental, or are you all staying in the 5*hotels, which do indeed have bibles? |
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blissfullyignorant
Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Location: the ROK
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Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="RACETRAITOR"]
Doesn't the Jehovah's Witness Bible use a translation that is considered extremely inaccurate, even by non-religious people?[/quote]
I never took one, but I'd doubt any bible translation, especially where they have access to internet, would be extremely inaccurate...and he just said a bible, not a specific denomination. |
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maingman
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Location: left Korea
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maingman
Joined: 26 Jan 2008 Location: left Korea
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 3:27 pm Post subject: . |
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