Happy Wednesday!

[BlackAdderess]

Most people are nice, some people are evil, controlling, horrible. For the most part the evil, controlling, horrible are good at just that, causing the nice people to periodically take their show on the road to get away from people who spend all their time innovating on the evil, controlling, horrible front and thereby forcing them to start employing their time more productively :)

We need to explore space.

[Lazamataz]

We need to explore space.

Nope. There is a *reason* that the Galactic Confederation of Planets won't let us leave Earth.

[Lazamataz]

Free will means that there is the freedom to be a turd, or to be great. The vast majority of humans are not outstanding either way. A small number is a disgrace, like the subhuman in Charleston. A smaller number is truly great and a credit to the race.

I submit that God is what we need.

[BlackAdderess]

You silly goose, it isn’t the Galactic Federation of Planets, it’s a bunch of guys in makeup who are terrified that they will have to learn to cook and various other tasks they consider beneath their dignity.

[BlackAdderess]

And yes most certainly God is what we need:)

[Old Sarge]

Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike!

[don-o]

I have had two moments in my life when I had a strong feeling that America's path to destruction just might be averted, at least detoured for a time.

First was in Atlanta, 1988, when Operation Rescue descended en mass in conjunction with the Democrat convention. Thousands arrested for peacefully blocking access to the baby murder camps. With a few rare exceptions, leadership of faith communities, even who I thought to be good men, headed for the tall grass. Feds came at us with actual and threatened RICO. End of story.

Second was in the aftermath of 9/11 when we all recall the massive wave of solidarity that inundated the nation. But, it quickly degenerated into anger and a desire for vengeance. The missing piece was and still is repentance.

Odd as it seems today, Presidents have indeed called the nation to repentance, and that in very specific terms, not the namby pamby language prevalent today.

It's gonna take another massive hit for us as a nation to even get into a place to repent.

“Men Have Forgotten God” – The Templeon Address

[Lazamataz]

I believe I am one of the only people on FR who could write that original article and have it stay up.

That is because most here, including mods, know that if I write something like this, I am leading the reader to another point.

In this case, the point is that we need God, or we are so screwed.

(Hell, even dead got fooled and he and I have been buds forever)

[LostInBayport]

Most humans yearn for freedom and to be left alone, but others want to control and censor and manipulate and rule over us.

That's a profound statement. Even I, a little nobody from nowhere, have found it to be true. I have wondered why it is, and can only deduce that there are a lot of people who are manifestly insecure about themselves and scared spitless by that. They have never found God (or in the case of liberals have openly rejected Him) and do not know the inner security that relationship can bring. It doesn't mean success or even happiness in life, but it means the confidence to try and keep on keeping on, knowing He has your back and it will be okay in the end.

Those who don't know this find the only answer is to pull down, harm and control others who do. Can't let that crab escape the bucket! He must stay here and suffer as we do! So they create a new god to do that: government.

[exit82]

I tell the people who worry about overpopulation to just off themselves, and help save the earth.

[keat]

Very nicely done, thought it was the Pope again for a second.

[Lazamataz]

If you didn’t cheat, and you didn’t read downthread, then you really have your Devo hat on right! :)

[Lazamataz]

Very nicely done, thought it was the Pope again for a second.

Curiously, my phone just rang. It was the Vatican asking if they could use portions of my missive.

[Ransomed]

“We are an incredibly-flawed species, filled with lust and avarice and anger and greed, given to revenge and gossip and violence and hate.”

We have exactly one example of a sapient species: us. Just because our intellect allows us to perceive that humans could and should be much better than they are doesn’t mean we have any idea where we fall on a good-bad spectrum compared to any other hypothetical sapient species.

Certainly we could be the vilest of the vile. “They slay their own unborn young, we will isolate and shun them.’ Or saintly. “They waste resources healing sick loved ones when they should just eat them. Ignore these rubes.”

Freegards

[Lazamataz]

One hour of pure hump-day joy!

[Lazamataz]

You didn't get to where I was kinda nudging you: God.

Without God we are so screwed.

[M Kehoe]

Curiously, my phone just rang. It was the Vatican asking if they could use portions of my missive.

LOL.

5.56mm

[TADSLOS]

Kill me now. Wrap me in the Stars and Bars with a black gun in one hand and a 32 oz. Big Gulp of soda in the other, then set me ablaze and adrift far away from these lunatic shores. These humans are crazy.

[Liberty Valance]

bttt - The Gods Must Be Crazy

[Lazamataz]

Kill me now. Wrap me in the Stars and Bars with a black gun in one hand and a 32 oz. Big Gulp of soda in the other, then set me ablaze and adrift far away from these lunatic shores. These humans are crazy.

Don't forget to smoke a cigarette and run your air conditioning on high.