Sure wish my folks had done this with me. There were PLENTY of other kids my age at our local church and neighborhood to fulfill any so-called "socialization needs" public school advocates have so often criticized homes-schools for supposedly lacking.
Well...we're giving radical Islam yet another reason to hate us, and providing yet another reason for people like me to be increasingly ashamed of their own country.
The other day I heard a liberal on TV give a list of 7 or 8 items supported by Islam that were supposed to be "bad". 3 of those items were actually NOT bad but GOOD, from an orthodox Christian and original-traditional American perspective. Such is the deteriorating condition of national and cultural unity in this once great nation.
I would think that your typical dictator would be more than happy to "send" a smart-aleck like this back to where he claimed his residence supposedly is; and then let him choose between firing squad, gallows, guillotine, etc.
We don't know how incredibly good we have it here in the modern USA compared to what (as Neil just pointed out below) our ancient counterparts were subject to.
Jodi wrote: Wwell well well not much to say other than this is no surprise. Considering they wanna put a limit on how many children families can have . Soon to come forced sterelization coming to a city near you.
What I find most fascinating about Ron Paul (and I'm not a supporter of his at this time) is that he appears to have by far the most diverse base of any candidate running today. I don't think he's going to win but if he did he'd probably be a pretty good president overall.
David1960 wrote: Interesting observation. When I first saw it,I thought it looked like people in a pit reaching out for help.
That's probably closer to the intended meaning, but my own vehement bias against homosexuality--and especially any attempted justification thereof--no doubt prevented me from seeing it as being a positive image.
Prior to WWII, swastikas were relatively unknown esoteric ancient symbols but are now almost universally associated with hate and evil...unless one is a white supremicist or similar.
Getting back to the logo, is it just me or does it look like people are ascending out of a manhole/sewer? Looks to me like the proponents of this emerging immoral situation are communicating more than they realize!
Mike wrote: Thanks for the poll results, but I couldn't help notice it was a NY Times/CBS News poll, (both ever in Obama's corner,) that supports government run healthcare. Please don't insult like that. The poll results are no surprise at all, when the source is factored in. I mentioned earlier about independents thinking outside the insular world of the mainstream media box. Still good advice.
Good catch, Mike.
It's not at all uncommon for agenda-driven people to shape and use polls to try to "validate" something that they already believe in while ignoring all evidence to the contrary.
Well, I guess this is what you get when parents stop worshiping God and start worshiping their kids, which has been going on in our culture for quite a while now.
Some innovative Christian should take that logo, turn it sideways, and draw a picture of Lot's house/front door, with all the little multicolored hands trying to reach it.
People are probably "burned-out" from watching R-rated movies since so many have been produced for so many years now. I'm old enough to remember when R-rated movies were "new", "exciting", and even "scandalous". Now they're old hat, and I suspect many people are now waxing nostalgic for the days when G-rated fare dominated the box offices. Also, (as NYP said below) fewer G-rated movies now means that each one gets a greater concentration of ticket-sales generated by our more traditional-minded folk who tend to eschew the so-called "mature-themed" movies.
Technology is greatly enabling the authorities to do more stuff like this.
I continue to be amazed at the proliferation of security cameras these days. It seems that everywhere I go I can look up see one of those shiny dome-shaped camera ports sticking out of the ceiling panels or protruding from a street light pole.
Not you pope wrote: You pay God's cash-money for all that dreck? Oy vey. Surely there's a good book to read instead...
You're right. I should read more. We do have the more limited cable package at our house, but this still leaves lots to be avoided. Time spent in my workshop doesn't involve much reading but it is arguably more healthy than most modern TV shows.
Neil wrote: Odd thing is, many (Amish) grow tobacco & use cellphones, at least where I visited. So even their cultural wall is permeable.
That's interesting.
I suspect their cellphones looked decidedly non-foppish and "plane-looking". Perhaps they had a hand-sewn cover on them rather than a painted one to make them more acceptable.
I try to remind the old-earth Christians I know that the Bible is written from the frame of reference of a person standing on the Earth, which is the only place in the universe one can experience a true terrestrial "morning and evening" (or is it "evening-morning"), and that it is THIS reference frame from which the true creation time was measured in seven literal days. If they want to get hung up on how much faster or slower time (in a physical reletivistic sense or miraculous sense) may have been passing during those seven days from a reference frame in a different part of the universe, I leave that to them. I don't care. I only care what the Bible tells me.
Yet another reason I gave up watching network TV many years ago.
I prefer channels like DSC and The History Channel most of the time. Even their "reality" shows are better (American Pickers, Ice Road Truckers, etc.), although there is plenty of swearing in these shows as well it's almost always bleeped-out.
Mike wrote: Tricksters in conservative clothing are so because their trick is pretending conservatism. Liberals on the other hand are professional liars, and much better at it.
Very true.
Most liberals I've known tend to be obsessed with outcomes. Such people by nature tend to believe that the ends justify the means--and sometimes "the means" include lying.
Don Randolph wrote: It isn't a "bigger" sin, but it is still a sin and still enough to send you to hell.
Sins of the mind tend to produce less collateral damage than the same sins when they are physically committed but, you're right. Sin is sin, and all it takes is one to validate a person's condemnation by God.
Lack of desire for regular Christian fellowship and corporate worship IS a problem if it lingers. It could be an indication that he's not really saved yet.
Failing to avail oneself of the so-called "means of grace" seldom if ever means they are not needed, but rather unwanted.
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