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$\"\"$ <\/a> $\"\"$ This is a reminder that today is the last day to participate in the Theologians Trading Cards giveaway here at Exploring Our Matrix<\/a>. Click through to read the rules and leave a comment to enter<\/a>. You can enter as many times as you want, just by leaving a comment on that post<\/a> (not this one). And obviously the more often you enter, the greater your chances of winning one of the sets in the random drawing.<\/p>\n

But there is another way to maximize your chance of winning. One set will be given to the person who leaves the\u00a0best comment<\/em>. It can be best in any number of ways. Maybe you\u2019ll record a commercial for the cards. Maybe you\u2019ll propose a set of rules for how to play a game with them<\/a>. Maybe you\u2019ll suggest other people for whom cards should be made. You can obviously have a link from your comment to another place online \u2013 say on YouTube or a blog \u2013 where you\u2019ve written or recorded or photographed or made something related to the cards that will not fit in a comment. As long as you link to it from a comment, it counts. But however you do it, all you have to do to guarantee yourself a set of cards it impress me more than anyone else does! At the very least, you can try and make it as difficult as possible for me to choose whom to give that fourth set to! There are some great ones already, but that doesn\u2019t mean someone else can\u2019t come along and do better! \ud83d\ude42 And you can maximize your chance of getting that fourth set by leaving\u00a0lots<\/em> of different but equally creative comments. And those comments still count as entries for the random giveaway, too, although obviously the same person will not get two sets.<\/p>\n

The deadline for submissions is the end of the day today (and to be fair, I will allow submissions that were submitted on Monday in the commenter\u2019s time zone). Tomorrow (Tuesday) I will use a random number generator to pick comments and thus winners, and will also choose a winner of the fourth set based on creative comments.<\/p>\n

Click through to enter<\/a>! But also consider that these Theologian Trading Cards<\/a> $\"\"$ \u00a0would make a great Christmas gift, and so you might also want to buy yourself a set on Amazon.com, where they are on sale<\/a> $\"\"$ . If you win, you can give the one you bought away as a present. (I felt I\u2019d be remiss in not mentioning the sale price on Amazon in this context \u2013 hopefully it will still be valid tomorrow for the benefit of those who don\u2019t win a set in the giveaway!)<\/p>\n

Good luck (or favorable providence, depending on your favorite theologian\u2026)!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"