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Old 11-06-2010, 08:09 AM
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Know how I got around giving them my kids ?

I wouldn't have any with her. And she wondered why..
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Old 11-06-2010, 10:28 AM
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Your state still has nickels ? Your better off then us here.
Hell yeah we still got nickels.

But we took to callin' 'em dollars, makes everybody feel rich!!!

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Old 11-08-2010, 09:39 AM
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Nero used the early Christians as faggots to light up the sky at night; however there weren't enough of them (and they didn't burn long enough) to be of much use, so he had them slaughtered for public entertainment. Tacitus, Annals, XV:44. George W. Bush made better use of Christians as stooges and shills for his political agenda.
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Old 11-09-2010, 08:41 AM
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You are a very lucky person to find a house of worship like that.
I do feel very fortunate. In fact, my official water baptism is this Sunday.

I sat down with one of the pastors about a year ago, who took me out to dinner. He said that churches make the mistake of subscribing to the theory of "more noses more nickels", which has never been the calling of my Church. The mission statement of my Church is "One people one call.....to heal the broken". I am happy to count myself among them.
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Old 11-09-2010, 02:33 PM
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I do feel very fortunate. In fact, my official water baptism is this Sunday.

I sat down with one of the pastors about a year ago, who took me out to dinner. He said that churches make the mistake of subscribing to the theory of "more noses more nickels", which has never been the calling of my Church. The mission statement of my Church is "One people one call.....to heal the broken". I am happy to count myself among them.

If there were more houses like this, the world would be a much better place !
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Old 11-09-2010, 02:44 PM
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If there were more houses like this, the world would be a much better place !
Indeed, sadly there is too much at stake in the business of religion and too many layabouts with their sinecure at stake.
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Old 11-22-2010, 08:50 PM
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The greatest propensity we have as a species is to screw up anything in the name of money, and one could call this the bottom line, and our legacy. For those that are religious, when is the last time you picked up your respective text and did a good reading, or is your knowledge of your religion based on what has been told to you? There is really no excuse, in this day and age you can read roughly anything you like in any language you like.

Do you want to hear a truth about human nature? People always make time for what they want to do. So why don't you figure it out?
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Old 11-23-2010, 07:39 AM
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While reading your respective text it might be a good time to reflect that it was written by humans and not fax'd down by the respective dieties.
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Old 11-23-2010, 06:36 PM
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Perhaps, but it is uncanny how most of them say roughly the same thing. You could make the argument that it is in the best interest of social order, so make that argument, and lets see the response. The atheist's argument awaits, sorry that one takes quite a few more words: science is my real strong point, and making cookies, sugar cookies tonight.
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Old 11-24-2010, 07:15 AM
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I always did like Rabbi Hilllel's take on it;

"That which is distastefull to you do not do unto others, that is all the law, the rest is mere commentary."
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