Posted on 10/17/2001 9:25:21 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
It gets a little thin at times.
We will just have to see if things do get better. Right now, things are pretty screwed up.
The rules are for our Joy. The Designer knows how we are made and how we are best thrilled.
Thanks for taking the time to post. There are so many things which seem to be paradoxes that are simply conflictsbetween our natural (physical) inclinations and spiritual truths. Many are amazed, once they experience them, of the subtlety and sophistication hidden in the "Thou Shalt Not"s in the Bible. They are guides to joy, not prohibitions of it.
Play Rutgers.
Or Minnesota. Since my 1-4 Golden Gophers don't appear to be bowl-bound this year, we'd probably be happy to accommodate Joe if only we were on the PSU schedule.
THANKS for your kind comments.
There is nothing quite as wonderful as money! There is nothing like the newly minted pound! All the world must hanker for the butchness of a banker. It's accountancy that makes the world go 'round. - Monty Python.
One of the fastest and easiest ways to get rich is to get into the sex trade. And if you question anything about it you are in for trouble. If I didn't have principles I'd be rich today.
A few years back I picked up a Wired magazine to flip through. The cover story was on the Internet sex trade - specifically camera enabled chat systems. Part of the article discussed how the workers who displayed themselves had to be stoned all the time to do their jobs. The author of the article couldn't even condemn the fact that the jobs turned the workers into junkies. Everything must be OK and nothing can be questioned.
Oh, yeah. The article also talked about how much money the owners made and how little it cost them to start and keep their businesses. Making money - good. Destroying people's lives - well, we don't talk about that.
Shalom.
Outstanding post.
One of the best movies I have ever seen is "Bedazzled." I'm talking about the original Dudley Moore and Peter Cooke film. I haven't seen the remake with Elizabeth Hurley and I don't plan to. The premise of the original was that Dudley Moore sold his soul to the devil (Peter Cooke) for seven wishes. The point of the movie was that each wish would be slightly skewed by Satan so that it never brought the fulfillment that was promised. It always ended in frustration and pain.
That's what sin is about. It looks like life, but it is really death. It looks sweet, but it is really sour. As a very wise man said once, "There is a way that seems righ to a man, but the end thereof is death."
Shalom.
And our arrogance is that we can out bargain, out negotiate, out fox and if necessary out run the fellow who attempted to take God's place.
THANKS for your kind comments.
Not to defy your stunning "logic" Achille, but can you tell me why the prisons are full of MEN? Must be they have too little freedom, by your reasoning.
Seriously, are you married? Are you just totally frustrated from lack of female attention? You hate women so much (except the "good" ones who shut up, sit down and give up their rights). How come, honey? Inquiring minds want to know. I can't chase you around every day, I have a job (I know, I know, another faux pas).
Play Rutgers
Just in: Northwestern 35, PSU 38!! Hello, Bear.
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