i got hit on by some creppy old christian science guy today. he gave me some propoganda and winced when i said i was studying biology, and again when i said i was raised jewish.  nice guy, i guess. i gave him a fake email address.

absolutely. The melting pot of personalities is one of the reasons I love the place. Does that mean I want some guy hitting on me? no, but i\'m not interested in what he\'s offering, so I really don\'t care. There is a reason new hampshire is such a big swing state every year for national political debates. Do you want to live in a place where everyone thinks and acts exactly the same? If so, move to texas.

Seperation of Church and State was over the moment Washington took the Presidential Oath on the Holy Bible.

or was it?

I thought that the Establishment Clause meant that the State could not condone or endorse any particular religon.

You have a choice, I believe, to swear an oath on anything (or nothing). I could swear an oath on the 1st superman comic ever published if I wanted to.

As for the "Year of our Lord" I think that is still a valid way of counting years; the who CE and BCE has never taken off. A few countries with monarchies still "reset" their caladener everytime the throne changes.

It is currently year 27 in Japan.

absolutely. The melting pot of personalities is one of the reasons I love the place. Does that mean I want some guy hitting on me? no, but i\'m not interested in what he\'s offering, so I really don\'t care. There is a reason new hampshire is such a big swing state every year for national political debates. Do you want to live in a place where everyone thinks and acts exactly the same? If so, move to texas.

I once had it explained to me, that we look at Texas the way the rest of the world looks at the United States.

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February 5, 1631

Roger Williams arrives in America
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island and an important American religious leader, arrives in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England. Williams, a Puritan, worked as a teacher before serving briefly as a colorful pastor at Plymouth and then at Salem. Within a few years of his arrival, he alarmed the Puritan oligarchy of Massachusetts by speaking out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension and to confiscate Indian land. In October 1635, he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court.

After leaving Massachusetts, Williams, with the assistance of the Narragansett tribe, established a settlement at the junction of two rivers near Narragansett Bay, located in present-day Rhode Island. He declared the settlement open to all those seeking freedom of conscience and the removal of the church from civil matters, and many dissatisfied Puritans came. Taking the success of the venture as a sign from God, Williams named the community "Providence."

Among those who found a haven in the religious and political refuge of the Rhode Island Colony were Anne Hutchinson,like Williams, exiled from Massachusetts for religious reasons; some of the first Jews to settle in North America; and the Quakers. In Providence, Roger Williams also founded the first Baptist church in America and edited the first dictionary of Native American languages.

Yes, Roger Williams was the man.

However present day Rhode Island is run by the mob and is an ass-backwords shitty state with the second highest unemployment in the country and no redeaming quialities.

Sorry derick.

i just live here. i work in Mass and from CT. RI is great though were else can i get away with no bottle deposit and legal ****?

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similar, here\'s a reason to love rhode island / hate mass.

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February 5, 1631

Roger Williams arrives in America
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island and an important American religious leader, arrives in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England. Williams, a Puritan, worked as a teacher before serving briefly as a colorful pastor at Plymouth and then at Salem. Within a few years of his arrival, he alarmed the Puritan oligarchy of Massachusetts by speaking out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension and to confiscate Indian land. In October 1635, he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court.

After leaving Massachusetts, Williams, with the assistance of the Narragansett tribe, established a settlement at the junction of two rivers near Narragansett Bay, located in present-day Rhode Island. He declared the settlement open to all those seeking freedom of conscience and the removal of the church from civil matters, and many dissatisfied Puritans came. Taking the success of the venture as a sign from God, Williams named the community "Providence."

Among those who found a haven in the religious and political refuge of the Rhode Island Colony were Anne Hutchinson,like Williams, exiled from Massachusetts for religious reasons; some of the first Jews to settle in North America; and the Quakers. In Providence, Roger Williams also founded the first Baptist church in America and edited the first dictionary of Native American languages.

Yes, Roger Williams was the man.

However present day Rhode Island is run by the mob and is an ass-backwords shitty state with the second highest unemployment in the country and no redeaming quialities.

Sorry derick.

**** is legal. That is a redeeming thing about RI

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similar, here\'s a reason to love rhode island / hate mass.

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February 5, 1631

Roger Williams arrives in America
Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island and an important American religious leader, arrives in Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England. Williams, a Puritan, worked as a teacher before serving briefly as a colorful pastor at Plymouth and then at Salem. Within a few years of his arrival, he alarmed the Puritan oligarchy of Massachusetts by speaking out against the right of civil authorities to punish religious dissension and to confiscate Indian land. In October 1635, he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony by the General Court.

After leaving Massachusetts, Williams, with the assistance of the Narragansett tribe, established a settlement at the junction of two rivers near Narragansett Bay, located in present-day Rhode Island. He declared the settlement open to all those seeking freedom of conscience and the removal of the church from civil matters, and many dissatisfied Puritans came. Taking the success of the venture as a sign from God, Williams named the community "Providence."

Among those who found a haven in the religious and political refuge of the Rhode Island Colony were Anne Hutchinson,like Williams, exiled from Massachusetts for religious reasons; some of the first Jews to settle in North America; and the Quakers. In Providence, Roger Williams also founded the first Baptist church in America and edited the first dictionary of Native American languages.

Yes, Roger Williams was the man.

However present day Rhode Island is run by the mob and is an ass-backwords shitty state with the second highest unemployment in the country and no redeaming quialities.

Sorry derick.

**** is legal. That is a redeeming thing about RI

ya, so long as solicitation occurs indoors. that\'s why there are SO MANY "message" parlors in Providence. not that i would ever use such a service but it is good to know that they are available.

Well **** ****. I never knew that.

So why did this go from the why NH is so cool thread to "RI: Whorehouse of the East"...??

I\'ll tell you why.  Because there\'s nothing that special about NH, and RI is full of degenerates.