Posted on 07/30/2002 8:41:31 AM PDT by TLBSHOW
Breakdown of the family? My two wonderful children are the direct result of some wild, crazy, kinky, and by some definitions, pornographic sexual encounters with a beautiful, sensual, and erotic woman.
Wow, attacks all around is it? Drama queen? That's the best you can do? The Republic by definition of the Founders IS for lack of a better term dead or dying. Popular election of all the leaders has done that. Or perhaps you missed the 17th Amendment? I know you statists who think as long as your gas tank is full and the house is still standing the world's all perfect. But if you compare this nation to what it was 200 years ago to today, it is a shell if not a memory of it's former self. So if all you can do is call names why don't you go over in the corner and stare at the wall?
Thanks for sparing us the part where you consumated the marriage by swan-diving, then doing a 360 from a chandelier head-first into...um...whereever....
Had you filmed it; Americans would have bought it, and more often than Disney Films. That's the world we live in.
Victorian ideals? Do you even know what you're speaking of? Since apparently you have no idea what in the hell you're talking about let's look into Victorian England and what it meant to the elite
Eminent Victorians, including many of the most powerful and influential, accepted without question that they were bound by biblical teachings. Indeed many considered themselves as having a special rapport with the Old Testament Prophets. A tour of the old Victorian towns in the Industrial Midlands and North will reveal chapels of Bethel and Shiloh, Tabernacles, attended and endowed by Noah Smiths Elijah Hardacres, and Malachi Higginbothams -- men of new wealth, but biblical outlook and a living testament to faith in their God and his prophets.
Overview of religion in England
Surely sir, one such as 'learned' as you would dare not wish us to return to Victorian ideals, now would you? 'Rapid Biblethumpers' I would imagine? 'Borne of religious zeal' even? These men were quite the religious group and I gather quite close minded as well
If women were allowed to vote for the same groups as men, yes. But Senators and the POTUS were elected internally by the legislative bodies we put into place. It adds a buffer zone, so certain leaders would be about the business of the nation as the Founders suggested. I'd go one step better and push for Franklin's suggestion of not paying these men. They would do it as a service and you wouldn't have political lifers. Campaign finance reform would fix itself quite quickly I imagine
America will continue to get better AND worse at the same pace, cancelling out the extreme on either side. From your perspective, why not consider Porn as the price one pays for having the Internet?
I'm not saying the technology is bad. What I am saying and being attacked for quite freely (and I thought conservative meant socially as well as fiscally, silly me) is that the laxation of moral STATES laws that were in place up until this century prevented the growth of any of these industries in the first place!! But with more 'freedom' we have only entrapped ourselves into a spiralling trap. The more 'free' we become, the more the next step has to be taken to excite us, thrill us.
It's the same principle of driving a car. You want to be thrilled? Drive 100 MPH. It's fun, and I imagine for a few months you would be excited at that level. Sooner or later though, you are going to want to go 120, 130 even. At what point do you stop? You will reach a point that even you in your expertise cannot control and will slam into a wall. IF you're lucky and blessed, you'll live through it. If not, well game over you're dead. So how do you prevent it? Human nature is inherently always greedy wanting more. Just as governors are on cars from the manufacturers, the separate and equal states established morality laws, that thank God are still in effect in places in the South and do even sometimes work, to prevent such an action. Not at the general government level, but at the state level, just as some states had established clauses in their constitutions REQUIRING that elected officials believe in God Almighty and of good moral standards. But as this Constitution morphed more and more has been excepted until we are at the point we are today
You sir are a victim of porn if I ever heard one. ;-)
Unfortunately, SpamBouncer is not an option for most people because the typical user doesn't operate their own server.
Apple is about to introduce a new mail filtering system built into Mac OS X that will help users of that operating system block the junk. It is also a lexical analysis system, and it will work for all Mac OS X users.
Windows is a spam/virus/porn magnet, so for people who want to receive that sort of stuff, Windows is the preferred OS.
The only way Porn will be harmful is if your stack of Hustler magazines falls on you.
Here is where the whole Freedom thing becomes dangerous for some. I think you are having a hard time with the notion that the idea of Freedom, means the ability to disagree. That disagreement can be regarding someone's personal morality, and to some that is an unacceptable conclusion.
Morality means different things to different people. Why not simply adhere to your OWN personal morality, and allow other theirs?
In your example of driving, I would think that we all decide to accept the consequence of our driving, knowing that every time we do, we take our lives in our hands.
When you use the Internet, you do the same with respect to Pornography. Porn on the Internet is a fact of life, and it is up to each of us to swim in that lake, or walk around it.
Dictating morality for all, rather than one's self, is a dangerous game.
Use your headlights! ;^)
How about using "The Light of the World"? John 8:12
Two questions beg - did she ever make it out of that lifestyle - and is she still alive ?
Do you have a first name for a prayer?
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