ellauri019.html on line 419: No need to be complainin', my objections overruled

ellauri061.html on line 240: After a long courtship, he married a milliner Elsie Kachel in 1909 over the objections of his parents, who considered her poorly educated and lower-class. Nobody from his family of more successful lawyers attended the wedding, and Stevens never again visited or spoke to his parents during his father's lifetime. A daughter, Holly, was born in 1924. He was 45 at the time and wrote rather bleak poetry of death and becoming old right after it. Elsie, may have been a model for 1945 Mercury dime and the Walking Liberty Half Dollar when the couple lived in New York City. In later years, Elsie Stevens began to exhibit symptoms of mental illness and the marriage suffered as a result.
ellauri096.html on line 94: In later writings, Quine evinces general reservations about the concept of knowledge. One of his pet objections is that ‘know’ is vague. If knowledge entails absolute certainty, then too little will count as known. Quine infers that we must equate knowledge with firmly held true belief. Asking just how firm the belief must be is akin to asking just how big something has to be to count as being big. There is no answer to the question because ‘big’ lacks the sort of boundary enjoyed by precise words.
ellauri097.html on line 455: People sometimes argue in favor of homosexuality by arguing that their inclination is natural, and if it’s natural, then we shouldn’t be making any moral objections about it. If that is their argument they are guilty of is-ought.
ellauri112.html on line 918: Then, we will answer such objections as are commonly offered to the biblical teaching.
ellauri150.html on line 476: The film's final onscreen writing credits created controversy when, in October 1959, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) awarded Tunberg sole screenplay credit, despite the objections of the film's director, William Wyler, who, in the film's commemorative booklet and elsewhere, claimed that Christopher Fry was more responsible than any other writer for the final screenplay. In response to Wyler's public outcries against their ruling, the WGA took out trade paper ads on November 20, 1959 in which they issued a statement reading, in part, "the unanimous decision of the three judges was that the sole screenplay credit was awarded to Karl Tunberg...The record shows the following: 1. Karl Tunberg is the only writer who has ever written a complete screenplay on Ben-Hur; 2. Karl Tunberg continued to contribute materials throughout the actual filming, and this material is incorporated in the final picture; and 3. Karl Tunberg alone did the necessary rewriting during the four months of retakes and added scenes. Mr. Christopher Fry himself was fully informed of the proceedings of the Guild. He has made it absolutely clear that he did not want to protest the decision of the Guild."
ellauri153.html on line 417: metatheory for Christianity encounters similar objections as theodicism in the Book of Job. First,
ellauri156.html on line 562: Now why does this messenger not wait for David to respond in anger, as Joab instructed? Why does he inform David that Uriah has been killed, before he even utters a word of criticism or protest? I believe the messenger gives the report in this way because he understands what is really going on here. I think he may know about David and Bathsheba, and perhaps even of her pregnancy. He certainly knows that Uriah was summoned to Jerusalem. I think he also figures out that David wants to get rid of Uriah, and that Joab has accomplished this by this miserable excuse for an offensive against the enemy. I think the messenger figures out that if David knows Uriah has been killed, he will not raise any objections to this needless slaughter. And so, rather than wait for David to hypocritically rant and rave about the stupidity of such a move, he just goes on and tells him first, so that he will not receive any reaction from David.
ellauri428.html on line 280: In the rest of the paper, she wards off five objections to this account. To save space, I won’t go into them here, apart from the last one (she spells my first name wrong).
ellauri481.html on line 183: He confesses that, from his childhood on, his mind “had been full of objections” against the doctrine of predestination—i.e., that God sovereignly chooses some to salvation but rejects others to everlasting torment; “it used to appear like a horrible doctrine to me.” Though he gradually worked through his intellectual objections, it was only with his conversion (early in 1721) that he came to a “delightful conviction” of divine sovereignty, having realized that he himself was in the former lot.
ellauri488.html on line 765: Pavlovich was initially hired by Gaiman's then-wife, musician Amanda Palmer, to babysit their child. What began as an ordinary assignment soon escalated into what she describes as repeated sexual assaults. Pavlovich alleges that during her first weekend on the job, Gaiman invited her to use an outdoor clawfoot bathtub in his garden. Despite her hesitation, she agreed, only for Gaiman to later join her in the bath, naked. "He told me, 'Don't ruin the moment,' when I tried to cover myself," Pavlovich recounted. She claims Gaiman insisted she "relax" and then began stroking her feet. "At that moment, I felt a subtle terror. I didn't know how to react," she said. The alleged assault escalated further when Gaiman told her to sit on his lap in the bath. Pavlovich refused, citing her past trauma and discomfort. "I told him I was gay, that I had been sexually abused before, but he kept pressing," she revealed. According to her, Gaiman ignored her protests and attempted to sexually assault her. "He put his fingers in my anus and tried to penetrate me. I kept saying, 'No, no,' but he wouldn't stop," she said. He then allegedly rubbed his penis against her chest and ejaculated on her face, ignoring her repeated objections. Pavlovich recounted how he once forced her to lick vomit from his lap and the couch after she gagged during oral sex. He pulled me onto the bed and had sex with me from behind, all while talking to his child about the game he was playing," she recalled. Afterward, Gaiman reportedly urinated on his hand and demanded that Pavlovich lick it off. He told me I wasn't submissive enough when I said it hurt," Stout said. She described instances where Gaiman would beat her with a belt and force her to engage in painful sexual acts, including without foreplay or lubrication. "He said, 'This is the only way I can get off,'" she added. Gaiman, often described as charming and charismatic, cultivated a loyal following that some say he used to exploit vulnerable women. "He was like an anglerfish, luring people in with his floppy-haired, soft-spoken British persona," one accuser said. "You'd think he was safe, but then he'd trap you." Critics have also drawn parallels between Gaiman's alleged behaviour and his writing. In The Sandman, a character named Richard Madoc imprisons and rapes a muse, using her suffering to fuel his creative success. Some now see these stories as a disturbing reflection of Gaiman's personal life.
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 245: In The Mandibles, I have one secondary character, Luella, who’s black. She’s married to a more central character, Douglas, the Mandible family’s 97-year-old patriarch. I reasoned that Douglas, a liberal New Yorker, would credibly have left his wife for a beautiful, stately African American because arm candy of color would reflect well on him in his circle, and keep his progressive kids’ objections to a minimum. But in the end the joke is on Douglas, because Luella suffers from early onset dementia, while his ex-wife, staunchly of sound mind, ends up running a charity for dementia research. As the novel reaches its climax and the family is reduced to the street, they’re obliged to put the addled, disoriented Luella on a leash, to keep her from wandering off. LOL! What a laugh, ain't it? Get it, the guy thought he was getting arm candy, but instead he got a goat!
xxx/ellauri114.html on line 667: Right and left play an important role in Jacob's final blessing to his grandsons, Ephraim and Manasseh (Gen. 48: 12–20), whom Joseph places at the left and right sides of Jacob, respectively (verse 13), expecting his father to place his right hand on Manasseh (the firstborn) and his left on Ephraim, and then bless them. But Jacob crosses his hands, placing his right hand on Ephraim (verse 14) and his left on Manasseh, despite Joseph's objections (verse 18). Jacob explains his actions by stating that Ephraim will be greater than Manasseh (verse 19).
xxx/ellauri186.html on line 786: The musulmans may try two wimpy objections. One possible objection would be to deny that the Quran uses the Infancy Gospel of Thomas as a historically reliable source. Rather, the Quran transcends the historical incongruities and limitations of the book and includes a story that is absolutely authoritative and without error. The historicity of Infancy Gospel would be a moot point.
xxx/ellauri186.html on line 810: Summa summarum, both objections are found to be lacking to the argument presented against the Quran. Serious reflection and study should be given concerning the trustworthiness of the Quranic text itself and the teachings espoused within the book. Clearly it is all a big lie (the Quran), and the Bible wins 6-0! Amen, let's pray. No, not you! roll up your little rug, take your dirty sandals and get your heathen ass outa here!
xxx/ellauri474.html on line 90: The bulk of Bayle's Dictionnaire consists of quotations, anecdotes, commentaries, and erudite annotations that cleverly undo whatever orthodoxy the articles contain. Vehement objections were voiced by ecclesiastic idiots, particularly to the article “David,” to the bias in favour of Pyrrhonistic (radical) skepticism, atheism, and epicureanism, and to the use of Scripture to introduce indecencies. This oblique method of subversive criticism was adopted by 18th-century encyclopaedists.
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