Posted on 08/20/2012 6:14:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 08/20/2012 6:23:21 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Keep in mind that God has perfect knowledge; our bigot FReepers do not. Therefore, when hatred comes from their being, it’s from PRIDE, not omniscience.
I have challenged them to PROVE their religion is true. I do not see their proving their case, just attacking others. It’s sad.
FRIGGING heretic!
Jim; BAN this person!!!
--ABO_to_the_MAX(We'll deal with Romney later...)
Psalm 91:4
He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler
People are too scared to worry about their spiritual health, and its a dead topic to most anyways. Oprah won, American “Christianity” is now a liberal pursuit.
Don’t want anyone to get upset, so all faiths lead to God now ya know
They are all right...
Now hug and sing Kymbaya
(and folks wonder why we are in the shape we are in...)
Spoken like a TRUE believer!!
You'd sure like that; wouldn't you!!??
Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.
....... The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further. The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary. Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify. In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building. As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames. What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead. In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs. There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed. And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence. |
LOL. A very well known definition of neo-conservative is a "Liberal who has been mugged by reality" at least in conservative circles. I'm kinda wondering why you did not know that.
I just re-read what Jim posted at the start of this thread.
I failed to find that his opinion about MORMONism had changed.
Me, me, ME!!!
How does a sadist hurt a masocist?
By not whipping him.
Resistance WAS futile; wasn't it...
FRIGGING heretic!
Jim; BAN this person!!!
One could always run in from the playground to the Grief Counselers office.
And miss all of this FUN???
I respect you for holding out as long as you did. Backed into a corner, we are.
I like my neighbor Rick a lot; he is pretty sharp and would make a good President. Maybe I will vote for him. I could probably get a couple others on my block to also vote for him.
That would really show Obama.
I tend to agree. We were a nation blessed by God’s providence, lead by Godly men with a respect for liberty and freedom, who were willing to allow all faiths into the land and give them all the freedom and security they need, protected by a government that respected faith but was not run by it, and were comfortable in the fact that above all Christian virtue would win out across the land.
Little did the realize what would happen to Christianity in the latter half of the twentieth century.
And in turn to those ideals...
We can WHIRL???
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