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Chain letters are also not allowed: "Guinness World Records does not accept any records relating to chain letters, sent by post or e-mail. If you receive a letter or an e-mail, which may promise to publish the names of all those who send it on, please destroy it, it is a hoax. No matter if it says that Guinness World Records and the postal service are involved, they are not." <apologies for the breaking the rule of ONLY one sentence, but a quote was in play, thus...>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_letter Top portion of a "Letter from Heaven," produced in England. |
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Common methods used in chain letters include emotionally manipulative stories, get-rich-quick pyramid schemes, and the exploitation of superstition to threaten the recipient with bad luck or even physical violence or death if he or she "breaks the chain" and refuses to adhere to the conditions set out in the letter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Money_Fast An Opte Project visualization of routing paths through a portion of the Internet |
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August 09, 2015, 07:39:17 PM |
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According to the FAQ of the net.legends Usenet news group, Dave Rhodes was a student at Columbia Union College (now Washington Adventist University), a Seventh-day Adventist college in Maryland, who wrote the letter and uploaded it as a text file to a nearby BBS around 1987. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church View from Lake Whitney Seventh-day Adventist camp |
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August 10, 2015, 01:39:52 AM |
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Nice try, and thanks kindly for the input, but... Adventist doctrine resembles trinitarian Protestant theology, with premillennial and Arminian emphases. Adventists uphold teachings such as the infallibility of Scripture, the substitutionary atonement, the resurrection of the dead and justification by faith alone, and are therefore often considered evangelical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestantism (The Ninety-Five Theses)
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The decline is attributed mainly to the dropping membership of the Mainline Protestant churches, while Evangelical Protestant and Black churches are stable or continue to grow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_church African American Baptist Church, Silver Hill Plantation, Georgetown County, South Carolina |
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With the rapid growth of black Baptist churches in the South, in 1895 church officials organized a new Baptist association, the National Baptist Convention. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States A Home on the Mississippi, Currier and Ives, 1871 |
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Southeastern United States: usually including the Carolinas, the Virginias, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida and at times Maryland and Delaware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee Autumn in Tennessee. Roadway to Lindsey Lake in David Crockett State Park, located a half mile west of Lawrenceburg |
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