Posted on 11/26/2010 7:19:22 PM PST by LorgoInsuranceguy
I am starting a project and want to know if someone would like to help me do it. Once started we can develop a reset button for this economic structure.
Good Photos!
I especially like the series where trying get ONE shot of everyone looking at the camera is darn near impossible!
:-)
Good Photos!
I especially like the series where trying get ONE shot of everyone looking at the camera is darn near impossible!
:-)
I’m almost ready for bed. The noise and odors have taken their tolls.
Rain for tomorrow...
"I'm not sure, but I think we've been insulted." -- Captain Kirk
(Laconically) "I'm sure." -- Doctor McCoy
;o]
Thanks! Usually I delete all the failed attempts, but this batch was just so typical of us.
Hmmmm.
I know what you mean!
And..those are the fun pictures to look at later~
I have one from our wedding that is absolutely horrible...and fantastic!
:-)
I know what you mean!
And..those are the fun pictures to look at later~
I have one from our wedding that is absolutely horrible...and fantastic!
:-)
Sometime back you asked, “I’d like to know why evil continues to flourish.”
Evil flourishes because most ungodly folks actually hate being bored.
Sadly, evil often goes uncontested because there are too many godly folks living like godliness IS boring.
Well, there’s nothing at all boring about The Almighty. Thinking otherwise is just evidence of a lack of information.
First off, did you ever give consideration to the thought that God’s an alien being? I mean look, He ain’t from anywhere around here, is He? He ain’t from this planet. Well, that makes Him an alien; whether you want to think of Him as being from outer space or from another dimension, He’s an alien all the same.
And here’s another one to chew on: Do you know The Almighty’s got a spaceship that makes our Flying Castle look like a barnacle on a supertanker? You go read it in Revelation 21; the thing’s a cube 1,500 miles on a side with walls over 200ft thick!
If that’s not enough; He plans to bring it down here and — well, I’d say He’s going to land the thing, but where; Iran? Too small. The Arabian Peninsula? Still too small. Oy VEY! Where to find a 2.25 MILLION square mile parking space. And YOU think taking the SUV to WAL-MART is tough.
1,500 miles is almost 19% of the diameter of the Earth. Cube that, and you’ve got a ship that displaces about 1.3% of the Earth’s volume. Just bringing something that size into orbit around the Earth makes for an amazing feat. [OK. Just HAVING something that size to fly around in makes for an amazing feat, but just because He’s God doesn’t mean physics gets a holiday.]
And can you just IMAGINE what all of those old sci-fi writers — Heinlein, Clarke, Asimov — would think if they had lived to see this happen? All of their greatest ideas about space travel arriving courtesy of — GOD.
“Hey there, guys! Good to see ya. I’ve read all your books. Did you read mine? But — hey — you like my ship? Yeah, she’s a beauty, alright. I’d LOVE to take you on board and show you around. You know, I spared no expense to try and get you in, but you didn’t RSVP to my invitation. Sorry.”
WHAT MIND-BENDING IRONY!
There’s all kinds of stuff like that hidden in that crusty old King James of yours (and a Happy 400th Birthday to it, BTW). I think if people even knew half of what’s in there they’d realize that godliness offers the only real long-term upside potential. And I mean WAY UP.
No.
We are His "children". How alien can He be?
God has no need for a space ship. Nor will we once separated from our mortal flesh.
I could answer that, but don't want the antis trashing the thread.
Without pursuing any points of disagreement, I’d like to address HK’s main point, which is that a life with God is not boring now, and will not be boring as Eternity moves along to the parts that will be totally novel. We were created to learn, imagine, develop, discover, adventure, and co-create all sorts of thrilling things.
A good life is interesting, because the world is interesting and the people in it - like all of you - are interesting. You could spend a whole life (and many have) on the Greek classics, or discovering new fungi, or attempting to raise a giant squid in captivity.
Evil people are, in a manner of speaking, retarded. They have so little inside themselves that they have to torture stray cats, or kill millions of Jews, in order to keep from facing their own lack of interior resources. Theodore Dalrymple, the British writer, has observed that the criminals and welfare mothers he treats seem to have nothing inside. They have no education worth mentioning, no interests, no activities that are upbuilding to themselves or others ... just boredom, which they attempt to fill with criminal activity, drink and drugs, abusive relationships, and television.
Well said.
Wind up to 40 mph today, and maybe snow here by morning. I don’t even want to go outside, but I may have to at some point.
All the walkways to the mailboxes are either dug up, drying cement, or fenced off. And the latest I heard about the laundry room, it will only be open from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM, which I feel is discriminatory to those of us who may not have the stamina to wait till after 7:00 AM.
The good thing is that I’m finally on the transfer list for a one bedroom. The bad thing is, I don’t know where it will be or when. *sigh*
Hmmm... 12000 furlongs on a side, the wall 144 cubits as of the measure of the angel. Yikes!
Good point on the publication of the KJV, though; I'd not noted we're coming up on 400 years (our 1928 Book of Common Prayer has another issue -- its calendar runs out in 2013).
It's funny; I've been looking for a KJV app for my phone, but none seem to have the Apocrypha. (KJV is mandated for reading in our services.) A good read, BTW, is God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicloson
Snowy morning here, but it's a fast-falling snow which indicates it won't stay long.
Have you tried the Rheims-Douay (sp?) Catholic Bible? I believe the Apocrypha is in there. I need to get one for myself...
Uh oh. Fast-falling snow is falling more slowly, with puffy flakes. This could stay a while.
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