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- Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:57 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussions
- Topic: What is Predestination to God?
- Replies: 67
- Views: 10152
What is Predestination to God?
<t>Mickiel;984861 wrote: Well you must excuse me, I am not the kind of man that people wish to address, for various reasons. They choose to read, but not to speak.<br/> <br/> I have grown accoustomed to it. A few break the mold, but not many. I think they sense that I don't crave conversation with o...
- Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:39 pm
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: The Is it me, or is the world really up sh*t creek this time? thread.
- Replies: 57
- Views: 4856
The Is it me, or is the world really up sh*t creek this time? thread.
<t>Hi, Galbally!<br/> <br/> Whenever someone says, "Is it me?" I am keenly tempted to say, "Yes, it is you. Stop it!" (As in "Is it me, or is it hot in here?", to which I reply, "Yes it is you, and stop it because you're making me hot too.")<br/> <br/> I think it is useful to observe that the world ...
- Wed Jul 11, 2007 11:46 am
- Forum: Pub Nutters Inn
- Topic: What makes someone drink?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 59356
What makes someone drink?
<t>JacksDad;658190 wrote: I thought the Earl Canova pet thing was rather odd so I googled Earl Canova.<br/> <br/> Up came Telaquapacky on Forum Garden talking about his friend from Miami, Earl Canova.<br/> <br/> Sounds like a job for Fibonacci!<br/> <br/> Pass the scotch will ya?Don't believe everyt...
- Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:42 am
- Forum: Pub Nutters Inn
- Topic: What makes someone drink?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 59356
What makes someone drink?
JacksDad;655798 wrote: Telaquapacky!...And how do you know me?
- Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:35 am
- Forum: General Religious Discussions
- Topic: I gave up God today
- Replies: 97
- Views: 5898
I gave up God today
<t>spot;577178 wrote: What The Book of Job concludes is that God's reasons are unfathomable and, for my part, while that may be true or not true it's not good enough. The moment you accept any notion of God as the "supreme being" who's "everywhere", completely powerful and interested in creation, th...
- Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:13 pm
- Forum: Pub Nutters Inn
- Topic: What makes someone drink?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 59356
What makes someone drink?
The Temperature helps- though a beer has more effect when it's hot outside.
- Mon Jul 09, 2007 2:06 pm
- Forum: Pub Nutters Inn
- Topic: What makes someone drink?
- Replies: 128
- Views: 59356
What makes someone drink?
JacksDad;655798 wrote: Telaquapacky!Dad,I'll have a really strong one- Water! It holds up battleships!
- Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:14 pm
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<t>charles_r51 wrote: many places are actually located, however the descriptions of events at those places are often not supported by archeological evidence. for example, the walls of jericho fell. the bible claims it was miraculous. in fact a simple earthquake in the area (a highly earthquake prone...
- Wed Sep 06, 2006 9:12 am
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<t>Ted wrote: The unmatched and supreme authority is the God that we see manifest in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. He is the word made flesh. The "Word of God" as a title belongs to him alone and none other and certainly not a book.I agree wholeheartedly, and if the "edit" button had not disappea...
- Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:11 am
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<t>Ted.<br/> <br/> I'm glad you accepted my message in the spirit it was intended. I don't have anything more to say on that subject. I don't mind that you chose to answer without quoting me, but to the onlookers you present one side of a telephone conversation and I'm sure it makes them wonder what...
- Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:17 pm
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Question: Should I change my Tombstone name?
- Replies: 49
- Views: 2978
Question: Should I change my Tombstone name?
Tombstone is cool. Makes me think of an old west town.
- Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:02 am
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<t>Thank you, Ted, for some good observations about interpreting Scripture and some interesting points to discuss. I wanted to address a statement you made to Charles:<br/> <br/> Ted wrote: <br/> <br/> The question to be be asked of the stories in the Bible is not "Did it really happen this way"? bu...
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:26 pm
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<r>charles_r51 wrote: <E>:)</E> are you, as pope john paul 2, then condemning all who are not believers as you to hell? how self-centered and hypocritical. who said judge not, lest ye be judged, for with the same RIGHTEOUS judgement, so shall ye be judged? some idiot who didn't know anything? a mode...
- Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:05 pm
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<r>Thank you, OpenMind for your thoughtful reply. You have brought up some good points to discuss.<br/> <br/> OpenMind wrote: I am not familiar with Ellen White's works. Since Jesus himself stated that there would be no more prophets after himself, then I find it hard to consider Ellen White as a pr...
- Sun Aug 27, 2006 5:55 am
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<t>Openmind,<br/> <br/> You weren't clear when you asked for "empirical evidence." I think what you really want is "where I got it," because there would be no empirical evidence for the matter in question.<br/> <br/> Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, Vol 1, page 250:<br/> <br/> The sons of God...
- Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:03 pm
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<t>OpenMind wrote: Telequapacky. I'd be interested to know where you get your information from. I'd be interested in the empirical evidence used.<br/> <br/> I get my information from the Bible. Empirical evidence? Here's one. This happened about 27 years ago in Malibu. I fell from the top of that bl...
- Sat Aug 26, 2006 5:32 pm
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<t>Thank you, Openmind for such a fascinating and meaningful question!<br/> <br/> Angels can’t bear offspring with human beings. They are another order of life. Bible writers used the term, “Sons of God,†to mean not only angels, but believers also.<br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> Matthew 5:9 Blessed a...
- Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:30 pm
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<t>charles_r51 wrote: :guitarist telequapacky<br/> <br/> god made no mistakes, though he did make some rather funny creations,the spirits he made in his image, that is, us, made many along the path he set us on. only a true understanding of the reason eden was lost to his children will allow us to r...
- Fri Aug 25, 2006 3:49 pm
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<t>Ted wrote: It is an interpretation that says God didn't do it right the first time, at creation, and messed up again the second time with the advent of Jesus so now we think that God himself is going to come doen and do it right this time. That is somewhat shoddy theology.<br/> <br/> Theologians ...
- Fri Aug 25, 2006 12:27 pm
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<t>To Christians posting on this thread, I have a question for you: Where did you get your understanding of the second coming of Christ? Did you get it mainly from books by authors like Hal Lindsay or Tim LaHaye? Did you get it from books by some obscure Christian author? Did you get it from the off...
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:44 pm
- Forum: General Music
- Topic: My new vox amp just died!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6043
My new vox amp just died!
Yes, Cat- I admit an electric bass is more cool than a tuba. I guess I was being a little posessive.
- Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:41 pm
- Forum: General Music
- Topic: My new vox amp just died!
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6043
My new vox amp just died!
<t>My first amp was a Vox Kensington bass amp (about 35 years ago). It was the bottom-of-the-line, and probably had only one 12 or 15 inch speaker. All solid state- the electronic guts inside were about the size of a desktop calculator. It sounded pretty decent at 5 or below.<br/> <br/> You wouldn't...
- Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:27 pm
- Forum: Members' News
- Topic: BRs mom asked me to do this..
- Replies: 1417
- Views: 106880
BRs mom asked me to do this..
My wife and I are praying. Have been following this since Monday.
Criss, God bless and mend you. Peace to the family and to Bullet too.
Criss, God bless and mend you. Peace to the family and to Bullet too.
- Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:59 pm
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: And Bush speaketh!!!
- Replies: 99
- Views: 10915
And Bush speaketh!!!
<t>Bryn Mawr wrote: Might I ask when the book of Genesis was written? Certainly not before Judaism.<br/> <br/> I'd also ask for a lineage linking the current day Arabs to Ishmael if I thought I'd get an answer I could verify.My belief is that the first five books of the Bible (called the Pentateuch)...
- Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:56 am
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<t>Ted, I'm surprised. I wasn't talking about you at all. I wasn't even talking about any human intelligentsia- in the "deceiver" clause I was talking about Satan. Anyone else who applies the "most intelligent created being" to themselves has a very high opinion of themselves.<br/> <br/> But the sta...
- Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:58 am
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<r>charles_r51 wrote: while i see certain developments and say they are the fulfilling of the prophesied events, they are my interpretations and only i can decide if i'm right. maybe i am, and maybe i'm not. i don't worry about whether i'm either, i just watch, wait, and wonder if i am seeing it com...
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:29 pm
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: And Bush speaketh!!!
- Replies: 99
- Views: 10915
And Bush speaketh!!!
<t>Scrat wrote: Doesn't that belong in another thread? Another section?I don't think so. The point I was trying to make is that there is a background of conflict that goes back to the Book of Genesis, to a time before Islam, Judaism or Christianity, before the Western nations arose, or the white man...
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:10 pm
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Second Coming
- Replies: 348
- Views: 23335
The Second Coming
<t>Look at Christ's first coming. The Jews, who were the main spokespeople for YHVH at the time, had completely wrong ideas regarding the nature and purpose of Christ's coming. They expected the Messiah would expel the Romans from Palestine and make Israel the greatest economic and spiritual nation ...
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:46 pm
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: And Bush speaketh!!!
- Replies: 99
- Views: 10915
And Bush speaketh!!!
<t>Genesis 16:11,12 <br/> <br/> The angel of the LORD also said to her: "You are now with child and you will have a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery. 12 He will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he ...
- Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:23 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: Russian refuses math's highest honor
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1058
Russian refuses math's highest honor
Hey! Isn't that Grigori Rasputin?
- Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:38 pm
- Forum: Prophecies and Prophets
- Topic: end time prophecy and the middle east today
- Replies: 60
- Views: 12488
end time prophecy and the middle east today
<t>Diuretic wrote: But religion is a more subtle tool to use for oppressive purposes. While pure political oppression is a mailed fist in a steel glove, religion provides a velvet covering.Speaking of "subtle," and "velvet covering," it is so subtle that religious oppressors often aren't aware that ...
- Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:21 pm
- Forum: Current Political Events
- Topic: And Bush speaketh!!!
- Replies: 99
- Views: 10915
And Bush speaketh!!!
<t>woppy71 wrote: I havn't been following the situation closely in Iraq, but if the coallitian has achieved what it set out to do, isn't it about time we got out?The big objection some of us had to going into Iraq to begin with was that once we were in and got rid of Sadaam, we would create a power ...
- Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:51 pm
- Forum: Philosophy
- Topic: Subjective Judgments
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2441
Subjective Judgments
<t>I'm not talking about Physics per se, but I thought "judgment" was always subjective by definition.<br/> <br/> In my specialty, objective data are observable or measurable. Instrument readings are considered objective. No judgment is required (unless you get several different readings and have to...
- Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:00 pm
- Forum: Prophecies and Prophets
- Topic: end time prophecy and the middle east today
- Replies: 60
- Views: 12488
end time prophecy and the middle east today
Diuretic wrote: My faint memory of the texts indicates you're probably right. But I'm repeating myself I suppose. Religion is a useful tool for oppresion.Or, oppression is a useful tool for religion, as the case may be!
- Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:47 pm
- Forum: Prophecies and Prophets
- Topic: end time prophecy and the middle east today
- Replies: 60
- Views: 12488
end time prophecy and the middle east today
Diuretic wrote: Sounds like mediaeval Christian Europe. Religion has always been useful in keeping the privileged in the manner to which they have become accustomed.Indeed! Although the faith of the One who had no place to lay His head was obviously never intended to be used that way.
- Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:24 pm
- Forum: Prophecies and Prophets
- Topic: end time prophecy and the middle east today
- Replies: 60
- Views: 12488
end time prophecy and the middle east today
<t>There's a good article in a recent news mag I read, an interview with a prominent Egyptian ( the magazine is not within reach now, but I'll give the reference when I can).<br/> <br/> One of the things this man said that I thought was most insightful and intriguing, was that while the west is tryi...
- Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:27 pm
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: What would your EPITAPH say about you
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2356
What would your EPITAPH say about you
If I ever need an epitaph, it oughta say,
"Just catching a few winks 'til my Ride gets here (John 14:3)."
"Just catching a few winks 'til my Ride gets here (John 14:3)."
- Fri May 12, 2006 6:05 pm
- Forum: Crimes Trials
- Topic: Poor guy.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3956
Poor guy.
A lot of inmates study law intensely while in prison, building up small legal libraries in their cells. Many inmates spend their entire time in one appeal after another.
- Wed May 10, 2006 1:13 pm
- Forum: Warfare Military
- Topic: WW3 - New World Order - Pole Shift - Age of Peace (2006-2012)
- Replies: 2105
- Views: 2631124
WW3 - New World Order - Pole Shift - Age of Peace (2006-2012)
<t>Truthbringer wrote: At this point, we need to ask ourselves: Is America worth fighting for? And I don't mean against some cave-dwelling psychopaths in Afghanistan. I mean for the true, essential soul of our country -- the America we've come to know and love.To stand against as powerful and organi...
- Wed May 10, 2006 1:06 pm
- Forum: Wall Street to Main Street
- Topic: Internal Auditor
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1334
Internal Auditor
BabyRider wrote: Hi dws!! I don't even know what an internal auditor is, but welcome to FG anyway!! :yh_peaceThat's a doc who listens to your innards.
- Wed May 10, 2006 12:58 pm
- Forum: Poetry Writing Forum
- Topic: Geneticide - A new short story by Jives
- Replies: 10
- Views: 574
Geneticide - A new short story by Jives
I enjoyed reading that! You have a winner there, Jives. Romance for the girls, science fiction and a big explosion for the boys.
- Wed May 10, 2006 11:05 am
- Forum: General Religious Discussions
- Topic: God Hates Fags
- Replies: 60
- Views: 4634
God Hates Fags
<t>lux77 wrote: telaquapacky.............that was a good one.... LOL<br/> <br/> Back to the topic Personally now this is my opinion..... I believe homosexuality may be a psychological and emotional disorder . This being so it should be treated as such by the church as do all other medical disorders....
- Tue May 09, 2006 9:14 pm
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Dammit, it happened AGAIN!!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1527
Dammit, it happened AGAIN!!
Richard Bell wrote: There's an optometrist in our town named Dr. Weido. I always read it as Dr. Weirdo.
R.B.Ha ha. What a coincidence.:yh_glasse
R.B.Ha ha. What a coincidence.:yh_glasse
- Tue May 09, 2006 6:15 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussions
- Topic: God Hates Fags
- Replies: 60
- Views: 4634
God Hates Fags
I thought it said, "God hates FAQ's" (frequently asked questions)
I hate FAQ's because they never answer the questions I ask.
I hate FAQ's because they never answer the questions I ask.
- Tue May 09, 2006 2:54 pm
- Forum: Just For The Fun Of It
- Topic: Bush joke
- Replies: 6
- Views: 687
Bush joke
:yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl
- Tue May 09, 2006 7:28 am
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Dammit, it happened AGAIN!!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1527
Dammit, it happened AGAIN!!
Accountable wrote: I agree with the weirdo. :rolleyes:That's Professor Weirdo to you!
- Mon May 08, 2006 12:54 pm
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: Wine or Grape Juice?
- Replies: 96
- Views: 11646
Wine or Grape Juice?
<t>I think the wine Jesus made at Cana was probably fermented. It is traditional to take fermented wine at parties. I think Jesus occasionally drank fermented wine because there is much Scriptural evidence for it and because this was His way of being with people. In Middle Eastern culture at the tim...
- Mon May 08, 2006 11:57 am
- Forum: Travel Vacation
- Topic: What do we need to move to USA?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 6757
What do we need to move to USA?
<t>Pinky wrote: Me and Si have been thinking about this for a while, but don`t know where to start. Any suggestions?Not everywhere in the USA is so expensive that you can't buy a house if you both are professionals. Some places are quite affordable, even in California.<br/> <br/> The first thing I w...
- Sun May 07, 2006 10:31 am
- Forum: Christianity
- Topic: The Gospel in the O.T. Sanctuary
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6546
The Gospel in the O.T. Sanctuary
<t>Ted wrote: I feel I must also comment on a world view. According to Genesis God saw all that he created and declared it very good. We move to John 3:16 and we read that "God so loved the world." Too many look at the second half of that verse and stess it to the detriment of the first part. In fac...
- Sat May 06, 2006 2:23 pm
- Forum: General Chit Chat
- Topic: Dammit, it happened AGAIN!!
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1527
Dammit, it happened AGAIN!!
SnoozeControl wrote: I think you need to sniff before you drink something. Call me a weirdo, but I smell everything.:-2Yeppers. That's why God put your nose above your mouth, so you wouldn't eat or drink things that smell bad.