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'Jesus Appeared on My Nintendo,' Maryland Woman Claims
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| September 28, 2011
| Luiza Oleszczuk
Posted on 10/03/2011 7:37:47 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
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To: dsc; Religion Moderator
Thank you dcs. That’s one of the best posts I’ve ever seen on the Religion Forum. Its sums up the silliness so well, I’ve copied and pasted it to my profile page for posterity.
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posted on
10/03/2011 3:04:00 PM PDT
by
Brian Kopp DPM
("Verbal engineering always precedes social engineering.")
To: dsc
Thank you, dsc.
Very good and thoughtful post.
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posted on
10/03/2011 3:23:33 PM PDT
by
OpusatFR
To: Alex Murphy
Now, back to the SUBJECT of your thread, Alex.
"In July, a couple from South Carolina reported seeing the face of Jesus Christ on a Walmart receipt."
I just love a good "miracles, signs, wonders, and visions" story. Have you ever been to the People of Walmart website? I think that's what it's called. Full of potential "visions of Jesus on my chicken biscuit" people.
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posted on
10/03/2011 3:32:36 PM PDT
by
smvoice
(The Cross was NOT God's Plan B.)
To: dsc
64
posted on
10/03/2011 5:04:10 PM PDT
by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: dsc
Some peopleno one here on FR, of coursemight go so far as to think, mistakenly and maliciously, that the level of the posts and the intelligence of the posters have declined markedly over the past ten years (What kind of loon would think that, eh?), and mightastounding as it may be, and remember that no one here on FR would think such a thingthink that the completely hypothetical and fictional style of moderating not described above was a major factor in that completely imaginary flight of those who make the totally unreasonable request of intellectual honesty in moderation. And don't let the imaginary door hit them on their hypothetical way out.
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posted on
10/03/2011 5:34:34 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2703506/posts?page=518#518)
To: Alex Murphy
66
posted on
10/03/2011 6:16:42 PM PDT
by
Brian Kopp DPM
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2787101/posts?page=58#58)
To: dsc
67
posted on
10/03/2011 9:34:48 PM PDT
by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: montyspython
btw, a Mormon would answer as post 51. Remember that to them there was no Resurrection.
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posted on
10/03/2011 10:41:03 PM PDT
by
Cronos
To: dsc; Cronos; smvoice; Religion Moderator
FWIW I view the problem differently. One purpose of rules is, so to speak, to keep bloodshed down to a minimum.
Rules cannot always inculcate or ensure virtue any more than the rules of football can make people gentle and ensure a pain-free game.
And it is part of our fallenness that when we see rules we tend to test their limits. How many of us, seeing a “55 MPH” sign, think it means, “Keep it under 60 MPH.”
So the rules of the forum will not be used as encouragements to charity and gentleness but as outer limits to permissible verbal cruelty. If we don’t like the way our antagonists express themselves, even when they comply with the rules, we can appeal to them and to our Lord. But I don’t see how we can expect of anyone who says “simul justus et peccator” that he stop being a sinner.
We Catholics have a burden not shared by Protestants, to bear all things,to endure all things, and when we see gross injustice from our antagonists to remember that we also are unjust.
This is not some treacly piety and I make absolutely no claim whatsoever to any success in following my own opinion.
Yeah, they’re sinners. So are we. Yeah, they sometimes seem to set out to cause pain. Even if one day with a straight face I could claim to be innocent of that sin, I still hope I would remember the pains of St. Francis and the pains of our Lord and TRY to accept this as part of the gentle yoke which I pretend to shoulder willingly.
So, yeah, it’s irritating. Were we ever told that it would be otherwise?
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posted on
10/04/2011 4:26:45 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(Jesus, I trust in you.)
To: dsc
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posted on
10/04/2011 4:35:17 AM PDT
by
bronxville
(Sarah will be the first American female president.)
To: Alex Murphy
I guess I don’t get the issue. Why shouldn’t Jesus appear on a Nintendo? He appeared as a human. After that could anything be more humiliating, unworthy, or inappropriate of the Son of God?
As to recognizing such an apparition or vision, as to Peter at Caesaria Philippi so also to us: to recognize the Lord is an operation of the Holy Spirit.
And if this event, whatever it is, leads this person to increased piety and devotion, then what’s the problem?
Just as no one is required to believe that this is meaningful so also no one is required to scoff. I certainly am not going to tell my Lord to whom and how he may appear.
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posted on
10/04/2011 4:40:33 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawg
(Jesus, I trust in you.)
To: Mad Dawg
I guess I dont get the issue. Why shouldnt Jesus appear on a Nintendo?....Just as no one is required to believe that this is meaningful so also no one is required to scoff. I certainly am not going to tell my Lord to whom and how he may appear. Who said there was an issue? Who made it a requirement to react one way or another? Not I. Maybe Catholics should be posting these apparitions as "Devotional" threads, if they're so concerned about them being disrespected.
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posted on
10/04/2011 5:47:58 AM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2703506/posts?page=518#518)
To: Mad Dawg
Sometimes the problem isn’t “the rules,” its their erratic pattern of application. Hypothetically speaking, of course.
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posted on
10/04/2011 5:54:53 AM PDT
by
Brian Kopp DPM
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2787101/posts?page=58#58)
To: Alex Murphy
Who said there was an issue? Who made it a requirement to react one way or another? Not I.LOL!
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posted on
10/04/2011 6:08:46 AM PDT
by
D-fendr
(Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
To: dsc; Religion Moderator; Amityschild; firebrand; GiovannaNicoletta; Lera; marbren; navygal; ...
THANKS THANKS THANKS.
When RC folks post things that are absolutely contrarian nonsense, 180 degrees from the truth, spirit and heart of a matter . . .
it helps us Proddys understand better how Roman Catholics can become so addicted to the Maryolatry stuff.
The current Rel Mod brought sanity and massively greater civility and plain WORKABLENESS to the Rel Forum with his categories, policies and definitions of what was kosher and what was not.
PRAISE GOD FOR SUCH ANOINTED WISDOM--IT WAS LONG NEEDED.
Of course we realize that such ANOINTED WISDOM on the part of the Rel Mod
does NOT prevent some RC's from their !!!CONTROL!!! freak full court press efforts to !FORCE! FR into becoming an arm of the Vatican directly controlled from a cubicle in the Pope's offices--strictly complying with all their petty sensibilities and thin-skinned preferences. Perhaps it's long overdue for the lot of them to stay off the open threads.
It does, however, make such efforts a bit more absurd and laughable.
However, if some RC is now proclaiming himself/herself to be the new Solomon for the planet--or perhaps merely bucking for the Rel Mod position--by all means, let JimRob know. Perhaps he'll be impressed enough to bow and scrape before such loftiness.
/sarc
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posted on
10/04/2011 7:25:37 AM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: Cronos; smvoice
Have you seen any black helicopters lately?
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posted on
10/04/2011 7:28:16 AM PDT
by
metmom
(For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
To: Mad Dawg
AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!
!ABSOLUTELY INDEED!
PRAISE GOD!
A wonderfully Biblical,
ACCURATE,
and anointed
Roman Catholic response!
THANKS, BRO.
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posted on
10/04/2011 7:35:04 AM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: Mad Dawg; smvoice
We Catholics have a burden not shared by Protestants, to bear all things,to endure all things, and when we see gross injustice from our antagonists to remember that we also are unjust. And you're sure of this how?
That's quite an assumption to make about others. Your basis for it is....______________?
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posted on
10/04/2011 7:36:28 AM PDT
by
metmom
(For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
To: metmom
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posted on
10/04/2011 7:41:19 AM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
To: smvoice
Absolutely INDEED.
Very well put.
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posted on
10/04/2011 7:42:38 AM PDT
by
Quix
(Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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