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oh! ok...so i wasn't as late to this party as i assumed. i figured this had been going on for years and then suddenly i found it. Man, i STILL don't know what happened to the other site.

a quick update on our journey to 1,000 for the 2020 thread....last year's thread on 2019 recruiting didn't get started until March 25th. That means we are at page 160 with a month to go until we started page 1 for 2019. why did we wait so long last year? I wasn't on here yet....

1000

anyone have the new 247 article on Evans?

By any chance did you start out life as a Japanese woman?

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I thought Chris Simms was highly underrated. He won a ton of games for us and seemed like a really good guy. I loved Applewhite too, but i thought people expected less of him because he didn't have the stature or pedigree of Simms so they gave Applewhite more credit than he deserved while simultaneously giving Chris less credit than he deserved for the inverse reasons.

I refuse to take someone else's page 900 spot.

is anyone willing to post the two graphics that show how the UT recruits were adjusted in the rankings as well as the one that shows how aggy recruits were adjusted during recruiting? I want to have access but digging through hundreds (or even dozens) of pages is something I would rather not do.

dang it...was that fake?? i believed it.

sorry about this....didn't know someone had already pointed it out.

except the Lord's prayer was originally recorded in Koine Greek....not Latin. : )

Are you for real? I can't tell if you're just making fun of the believers.

Jordan Moore, DB from aggy, transferring. this s interesting

Ok, I am going to say it....if we land Sanders, McCoy and Johnson, I sure hope Leal gives us another look.

knowing human history.....what do you think the chances that this tribe somehow rises above every other culture in the history of mankind? do you think that it is a possibility that 50 to 150 stone age tribespeople are not practicing incest? What about rape? do you think that rape never happens? i have no idea if it is happening daily (and the original comment was not mine) but it is sort of my assumption that when we men are involved....there is going to be a certain amount of men who rape, commit pedophilia and practice incest. not one of those practices has ever made sense to me....disgusts me beyond belief, but we all know how prevalent those are, so why would we cast these tribesman as some strange anomaly to all of human history?

this is my new favorite thread! I am obsessed with buildings.

by the way, here are some of the books John read on the Andaman Islands and on North Sentinel Island in particular: Cannibal Isles: Time Traveling in the Andaman Islands Islands in Flux: The Andaman and Nicobar Story Sentinelese T N Pandit The Wreck of the Andamans Mini-India: The Politics of Migration and Subalternity in the Andaman Islands Death in the Andamans Guardians of Fire:

what a thin superficial view. your depictions of John are a caricature. he wasn't going in preaching. how could he? he didn't know their language. he was going there to live with them, to become one of them. he wanted to learn the language, culture etc. his desire that they would one day experience salvation was no doubt what drove him to this, but he was there for the entire process.

John went out of his way to be vaccinated against a host of diseases. He also spent a week alone before going to the island and was thereby quarantined to a degree, though certainly i don't know how he interacted with the fisherman. he was aware of the potential dangers of bringing pathogens and took fairly extraordinary measures to avoid that, though clearly there is only so much you can do. his heart was to go and live among them, learn their language and culture and, in time, introduce them to Jesus. He didn't have any delusions of grandeur. He read over 100 books in the 21 months leading up to going, prior to this he took a special course in linguistics so he could know how to learn their language. he also spent years learning outdoor survival in various ways so that he would be prepared to live on an island without any modern conveniences. Again, you don't have to agree with him, but to try to turn him into a genocidal maniac is so far beyond the pale it should embarrass you. As for those quoting from Romans 13, I can't tell if you are serious, but that is a shockingly thin Biblical analysis. Paul himself regularly disobeyed the laws to not preach the gospel. Peter escaped prison in Acts 12....which I am fairly certain was against the law.

Was William Carey wrong to bring his faith to India? Was he wrong to help bring an end to Sati and to help make child sacrifice illegal? How about the schools and the hospitals that were started as a result of his theological belief that all people were equal and deserved care regardless of which caste they were in?

he was neither. he loved God and studied and grew to love the Sentinelese. Again, he went there to live there, learn the language, culture and ways of the Sentinelese. He was prepared to live there on that island for years. He had trained to learn the language, learn how to preserve and unpreserved language, to survive in the wild and to become part of their society. He wasn't a colonialist, he was a missionary. These two have very important distinctions that have been blurred (in large part due to the fault of early expressions of these two classifications which could indeed be both).

you guys have incredibly insightful analyses. thanks for sharing your wisdom.

Obviously, you know next to nothing about John aside from what you have read in the few hastily written articles that have been published. John had built his entire life around getting to that island for 10 years. He first felt called to those islands in high school (he was 26/27) and had made most of his life choices around preparing to be on that island. His heart was to love and serve them and become one of them. He wasn't on a short term mission trip, he was moving there for the rest of his life or until they understood how much God loved them. Obviously, if you are materialist reductionist, this will seem the most absurd thing imaginable, but try to imagine that people can actually think differently than you. Within John's worldview, he was going to love and serve the North Sentinelese. “You guys might think I’m crazy in all of this but I think it is worth it to declare Jesus to these people. Please do not be angry at them or at God if I get killed. Rather, please live your lives in obedience to whatever he has called you to and I’ll see you again when you pass through the veil. (Don’t recover my body). This is not a pointless thing—the eternal lives of this tribe is at hand and I can’t wait to see them around the throne of God worshipping in their own language as Revelation 7:9-10 states. I love you all and I pray none of you love anything in this world more than Jesus Christ. Soli Dei Gloria, John Chau, November 11/16/18

i can't believe how many times I have seen this point raised. he planned to live there and learn the language. he wasn't there for a day trip, he was moving to the Island to live with the inhabitants.