Posted on 10/06/2010 7:56:37 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
It runs in the family. My father was born accidentally in the bathtub because his mom thought she had a tummyache and a nice hot bath would help. It did help, but not the way she expected . . . .
Never assisted at a lambing but have at several foalings and a buncha dogs and cats. The occasional prima donna, but most seem to have very little if any difficulty. There was a mare who wanted me to hold her head in my lap, rub her ears, and murmur, "There, there" but she was a spoiled brat.
Short answer: because he makes way more sense (and knows way more Bible) than a lot of the other side does.
You guys don't argue from scripture because you can't...You argue from your human reasoning and your catechism...
See? Look at that: High School, at the very best -- at the most mature. It's a waste of time even to attempt to deal with this kind of thing.
Your last paragraph may be what our approach looks like to you, but it is not what our approach looks like to me, either in the little that I know of the development of Catholic thought or in my own personal turning away from the Sola Scriptura and Mostly Calvin view to Catholicism.
So if your discourse is going to be limited to remarks of that kind, I would suggest hanging out with people who share your view, and you can all snicker at and shake your heads about us. I used to walk by people like that on my way to the shops. They sneer, make catcalls, and laugh; I ignore. Everybody's happy.
But when the approach to discourse appears to me to be "Find some outrageous thing to say, and say it as offensively as you can," AND when the standard by which success is measured is not truth but the ability to make coarse and insulting statements, well, I have no interest in engaging. It just doesn't appeal to me, and I can see no duty to do this. So I won't.
We’ve never had a pet give birth, except for a couple of lizards who laid an egg, having conceived before we bought them. Anoreth and Bill tried to raise the babies, but it’s very hard when they’re out of their natural habitat, poor little things.
We haven’t bred any of our other lizards, partly because we’d have a hard time dealing with the natural “wastage.” A mother chameleon or dragon might not care if 15 out of 30 babies die, but I’d have a tizzy over each one. And then, if you sell the survivors, owners can’t keep half of them alive.
I suspect that mother lizards don’t name their babies after heavy metal guitarists. Once you give the stupid reptile a name, you’re emotionally involved until the end.
Thanks for that info.
It's bad enough having to deal with the fact that you occasionally lose a kitten and you almost always lose a puppy out of any given litter. Arguably the best Lab breeder in the U.S. lost two pups out of my Ruby-dog's litter of 8.
Feeling sorry for lizards and snakes would have me a basket case!! :-D
Ahem. I thought we was FRiends ... *sniffle*.
You’re a classist! Reptilia are as cuddly as the majority of mammalia.
Speaking of which, DP just found one of our tropical anoles looking rather peaked. At first, he accused Bill and Tom of not feeding them enough, but then he noticed that the other two were looking fat and frisky. This third one wasn’t getting to the crickets quickly enough!
He put it in the cage with the chameleon, who gets lots of crickets and doesn’t move very fast.
O, I’m worse than that; I’m a speciesist!
Who gave you the heresy that I was excluding you from the voices of sanity chorus?
LOL.
You remain beloved.
Thank you! - just checking. I’m going through a needy phase, so people have to tell me I’m important ;-).
A good Catholic Joke
The Pope and Nancy Pelosi are on the same stage in Yankee Stadium in front of a huge crowd.
The Pope leans towards Mrs. Pelosi and said, "Do you know that with one little wave of my hand I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy? This joy will not be a momentary display, but will go deep into their hearts and they'll forever speak of this day and rejoice!"
Pelosi replied, "I seriously doubt that with one little wave of your hand? Show me!"
So the Pope backhanded the b..tch!
AND THE CROWD ROARED & CHEERED WILDLY! Kind of brings a tear to your eyes, doesn't it?
LOL! (Well, to be honest, a big smile ;-).
I figure we’re all entitled to be needy now and then.
However, with tons of loveable family about . . . Goodness! I’d think you’d be drowning in affection and attention!
Regardless, you are respected and cared for by this Pentecostal . . . no matter what the other Proddys think. LOL.
Love it.
LOL.
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