Posted on 06/13/2009 9:38:29 AM PDT by Ottofire
Your response to me was very loving. Others were not so. I saw another religion thread which warned about dissent. Any open thread should have that included.
Ephesians 4:14-16 (New American Standard Bible)
14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming;
15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,
16 from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.
Here it is. It is the first post included in the next thread right after this one under religion. :)
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I really get tired of personal attacks from some flack that thinks he is “saved”.
Leave the thread.
MORMONs are not cursed: they are DECEIVED.
JS is CURSED!
I DO??
Please; point some out for me!
Old Mountain man;
Leave the thread.
OUCH!
I did.
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To: Ottofire
“It’s no accident that Mormon steeples, temples and necks are free of Christian crosses.
14 posted on Saturday, June 13, 2009 9:15:32 PM by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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Sometimes I say things and later I regret them. Perhpas that might apply here. Just a thought.
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Your post is in this company.
Communications similar to yours was a contributor to the culture that directly led to the slaughter of million.
Although the Nazi government was not Christian, the German people as a whole were. Repeated exposure to vile communication like your example desensitized them until they became willing participants in the murder of people different than themselves.
If you would have had Jewish neighbors, and lived in Germany in 1935, what would you have done to them?
What would you do if they come to murder your Mormon neighbors?
Seriously, ask yourself.
From this post it makes me wonder.
26 posted on Sunday, June 14, 2009 2:49:36 AM by GreyMountainReagan (Liberals do not view the book 1984 as a warning but as a textbook.)
But...
Have you been compared to LETTERMAN?
HMMmmm...
The table wrapped up the responses ok in PREVIEW...
Sorry, I misunderstood.
I thought when your picture showed a vampire you meant similar to a vampire.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Blood letting....
He is no longer on this thread. Your post and his at 21 will be removed.
LOL! (I think)
Well, no - not at any time in the last 28 years.
I have pondered (this last week) how much I would enjoy punching David Letterman solidly on his nose, and telling him to shut his ugly mouth the next time he thinks of including a 14 year old girl as the objectified subject of a crude sexually oriented “joke”...
Does that count for anything?
A.A.C.
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....... The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.
The Ministsry 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 unconsicious, 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. |
; ^ )
Yes!
It shows you to be a HATEFUL Bigot who stalks COMEDIANS and fail to laugh at them!
--AndyKaufmanWannabe(I might still be alive)
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