2) From Rule Golden by Damon Knight: "Delegates to a World Synod of Christian Churches began arriving at a tent city near Smith Center, Kansas, late Saturday night. Trouble developed almost immediately between the Brethren Church of God (Reformed Dunkers) and the Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists--later spreading to a schism which led to the establishment of two rump synods, one at Lebanon and the other at Athol."
3) >I just grieve for the opportunities lost thereby We can surmise that the practice of cutting one's nose off to spite one's face dates at least from 1378 AD. The Egyptian Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the fifteenth century, attributes the loss [of the Great Sphinx's nose] to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim fanatic from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. On that date, upon finding the Egyptian peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa'im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose, and was hanged for vandalism.
4) A last story: A skydiver found himself in peril of his life when both his chutes failed to open. In extremis, he offered up what he felt must surely be the last prayer of his life, "Blessed St. Francis, save me!" Suddenly a giant hand appeared from the clouds and grabbed the falling man by the shirt. A resonating voice asked, "St. Francis of Assisi, or St. Francis Xavier?" Swallowing hard, the man whispered, "Assisi?" .... "AAAAAAaaa...!"
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2) From Rule Golden by Damon Knight: "Delegates to a World Synod of Christian Churches began arriving at a tent city near Smith Center, Kansas, late Saturday night. Trouble developed almost immediately between the Brethren Church of God (Reformed Dunkers) and the Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists--later spreading to a schism which led to the establishment of two rump synods, one at Lebanon and the other at Athol."
3) >I just grieve for the opportunities lost thereby We can surmise that the practice of cutting one's nose off to spite one's face dates at least from 1378 AD. The Egyptian Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the fifteenth century, attributes the loss [of the Great Sphinx's nose] to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim fanatic from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. On that date, upon finding the Egyptian peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa'im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose, and was hanged for vandalism.
4) A last story: A skydiver found himself in peril of his life when both his chutes failed to open. In extremis, he offered up what he felt must surely be the last prayer of his life, "Blessed St. Francis, save me!" Suddenly a giant hand appeared from the clouds and grabbed the falling man by the shirt. A resonating voice asked, "St. Francis of Assisi, or St. Francis Xavier?" Swallowing hard, the man whispered, "Assisi?"
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"AAAAAAaaa...!"