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spendius
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 11:48 am
Lion-

I ought to warn you that I have been rooting through my library and have some eminently respectable opinions at the ready to back up my earlier claims.It helps pass the time during the less exciting periods of play in the sporting events I watch on the television appliance.From what I have seen these periods seem to be longer and more frequent in American games than they are here which,once again,is mainly to do with money.I have been told that in North America they actually require the sportsmen to stop the play in order to show rhetorical pleadings on behalf of soap powders and other such domestic conveniences.
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Arella Mae
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 01:18 pm
Ok, one more time.

I started making sure I put IMO, I believe, etc., because I was berated for the way I posted. I was told it was using a wide brush and making it sound like I believed I was the only one with the truth, etc.

I apologize when I believe I am wrong. I don't tell anyone else they are wrong because I DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS.

What is it with some of you? You attack how someone talks about something? If you don't like what I post, then don't read it. You obviously do read it otherwise you wouldn't be pointing out so many perceived errors in my discussion skills.

I believe what I believe. I am open to other things. I have had conversations with some on here and I have accepted things they have said. I have said I could live with certain things if they were changed a certain way.

So, I'm going to continue on in my trying to explain how I feel and believe and discuss with others. Take what you like, leave the rest, etc. Do me a favor? When the complete list of rules of how I should post is finished, will you let me know? Then maybe some of you won't find it necessary to make comments on how I say things instead of what I say.
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LionTamerX
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 01:47 pm
spendius wrote:
Lion-

I ought to warn you that I have been rooting through my library and have some eminently respectable opinions at the ready to back up my earlier claims.It helps pass the time during the less exciting periods of play in the sporting events I watch on the television appliance.From what I have seen these periods seem to be longer and more frequent in American games than they are here which,once again,is mainly to do with money.I have been told that in North America they actually require the sportsmen to stop the play in order to show rhetorical pleadings on behalf of soap powders and other such domestic conveniences.


Spendius,
It's much worse on this continent than you suspect. Our sportsmen are sometimes halted in their endeavors by advertisements for a substance known as "Bud Light", soap powders would be an enormous improvement.

p.s. In your library, I don't suppose you have a copy of Mahan's work on sea power that I could borrow, do you ?
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spendius
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 02:55 pm
Lion-

No.He was a military strategist I think so you must be interested in naval warfare.I haven't read much on that subject.A couple of books on Nelson and one,maybe two,on Drake.The Real Story of The Bounty I found more interesting.I have all those.
You can order anything from a library here for-er,er 30c.I once ordered The Romantic Agony by Mario Praz and it took 6 months but it looked like there's only one copy in the system.Do your libraries do that?

We also have book search people and I've used them with 100% success a good few times.But that's for buying the book.
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neologist
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 05:24 pm
Momma Angel wrote:
. . . When the complete list of rules of how I should post is finished, will you let me know?
MA, I don't think any one here wants to dictate your posting style. But you must remember that if you post an unsubstantiated opinion, even if you disclaim it with IMHO, someone is bound to call you to task on it. That's what the forum is all about.
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Intrepid
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 05:43 pm
Even more than that, MA. Some posters think that they have all of the answers and consider themselves better than others and more educated. These are the ones who prey on what someone says. They overlook what is being said and pick out the little things that may not be written in the manner that they expect. Perhaps their expectations are too high and they should get in tune with the real world.

If you say I believe, someone will call you on it. If you say I know, someone will call you on it. If you say I don't know, someone will call you on it. If you say I think, someone will call you on it.

People all have their idiosyncracies. i.e. There is a poster who always uses an avatar with large breasts. There are those who take the opposite side regardless of what is written. There are those who ask for proof on something that they do not know about.

Don't sweat the small things and overlook the big ones. Live up to your Christian values and don't let others force you into being something that you are not.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 05:49 pm
I had previously ovelooked this lovely little thread. Someone clue me in on how it's going, please?
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Arella Mae
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 05:51 pm
Intrepid,

Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate that post. You are so right. Some will always have something to say about what anyone says or doesn't say or how they do or don't say it.

Love the hat!
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neologist
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 05:54 pm
edgarblythe wrote:
I had previously ovelooked this lovely little thread. Someone clue me in on how it's going, please?
I dunno
'cuz Mzpoe
Hadda go.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 06:07 pm
All right. What did you guys do to scare him off? Tsk tsk.
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neologist
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 08:24 pm
I was good. http://web4.ehost-services.com/el2ton1/outta.gif
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John Creasy
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 10:12 pm
kickycan wrote:

Hey Mzpoe, this separation that you don't think we need...it's part of the constitution.

Nonsense.

What religion does "In God We Trust" endorse??? Christianity, Judaism, Islam, paganism???? Which one? The constitution forbids any one religion from being imposed on the people. It says nothing about forbidding the concept of God from the public square. On the contrary, God has always been at the heart of this country's principles. Why do you think he is mentioned in the first and last paragraph of the Declaration of Independence?? Why do you think "In God We Trust" was put on our money in the first place???
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rosborne979
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 11:00 pm
John Creasy wrote:
kickycan wrote:

Hey Mzpoe, this separation that you don't think we need...it's part of the constitution.

Nonsense.

What religion does "In God We Trust" endorse??? Christianity, Judaism, Islam, paganism????


Godism.
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Arella Mae
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 11:04 pm
If the word God is in the constitution, I think that kind of kicks that argument of "it's unconstituional" squarely in the butt, doesn't it?

BTW, John Creasy, can you tell me exactly where in the constitution it does mention God? I am doing some research. Thank you.
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 11:12 pm
Er... Where, exactly, is the word "God" in the Constitution?

Oh, sorry, you already asked that question. I Googled the Constitution, put "God" in the search window and came up dry....
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husker
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 11:14 pm
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:frzb-kSesO0J:www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298911/posts+god+in+the+constitution&hl=en
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husker
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 11:15 pm
oops try it like this
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=god+in+the+constitution
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 11:15 pm
JC, there, stated it's in the Declaration of Independence, not the Constitution. Slight difference betwen those two documents.
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roger
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 11:16 pm
It does, however, occur in the first sentence of the Declaration of Independenc. ". . . The Laws of Nature and Nature's God". And what if it does?
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rosborne979
 
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Reply Sat 3 Dec, 2005 11:18 pm
The word "God" is not in the constitution. It's also not in the Bill of Rights.

But it *is* in the Declaration of Independence, which is what J.Creasy said (above).

It's right at the beginning. Not that it matters of course, because Article I of the Bill of Rights says what matters.

Intro to the Bil of Rights:

Quote:
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.


Interesting that they chose the phrase "Laws of Nature and Nature's God".
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