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Verses about salvation: Ezekiel 18 23"(A)Do I have any pleasure in the death of the wicked," declares the Lord GOD, "rather than that he should (B)turn from his ways and live? Ezekiel 18 31"(A)Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a (B)new heart and a new spirit! For why will you die, O house of Israel?  32"For I have (A)no pleasure in the death of anyone who dies," declares the Lord GOD. "Therefore, repent and live."  30"Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his conduct," declares the Lord GOD. "(A)Repent...

We know better than others that every attribute of their character fits them for dependence and servitude. By nature the most affectionate and loyal of all races beneath the sun, they are also the most helpless; and no calamity can befall them greater than the loss of that protection they enjoy under this patriarchal system. Indeed, the experiment has been grandly tried of precipitating them upon freedom which they know not how to enjoy; and the dismal results are before us in statistics that astonish the world. With the fairest portions of the earth in their possession and with the...

Spurgeon held that literal interpretation was the manner in which the Scripture was to be interpreted. He told his students that, "The first sense of the passage must never be drowned in the outflow of your imagination; it must be distinctly declared and allowed to hold the first rank; your accommodation of it must never thrust out the original and native meaning, or even push it into the background.[50] Spurgeon, while not known as an "expositional preacher" and one who never attended college, nevertheless was an exacting exegete. One visitor to Spurgeon's study commented:I was at first surprised to find...

Meanwhile, the majority of the economists The Wall Street Journal surveyed during the past few days said the recession that began in December 2007 is now over.

Useless Eaters[being a parody on the song "Short People" by Randy Newman]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NvgLkuEtkA[To be sung by President Barack Hussein Obama, backed by a chorus of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Ted Kennedy,etc.] Short people Short people got no reasonShort people got no reasonShort people got no reasonTo live They got little handsLittle eyesThey walk aroundTellin great big liesThey got little nosesAnd tiny little teethThey wear platform shoesOn their nasty little feet Well, I dont want no short peopleDont want no short peopleDont want no short people`round here Short people are just the sameAs you and i(a fool such as I)All men are...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUy9ePyo6Q The Sound Of Silence Hello darkness, my old friend, Ive come to talk with you again, Because a vision softly creeping, Left its seeds while I was sleeping,And the vision that was planted in my brainStill remains Within the sound of silence. In restless dreams I walked aloneNarrow streets of cobblestone, neath the halo of a street lamp, I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon lightThat split the night And touched the sound of silence. And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe...

Lady Madonna Author: Paul McCartney; Lead vocal: Paul McCartneyLady Madonna, children at your feet. Wonder how you manage to make ends meet. Who finds the money? When you pay the rent? Did you think that money was heaven sent? Friday night arrives without a suitcase. Sunday morning creep in like a nun. Monday's child has learned to tie his bootlace. See how they run. Lady Madonna, baby at your breast. Wonder how you manage to feed the rest. See how they run. Lady Madonna, lying on the bed, Listen to the music playing in your head. Tuesday afternoon is never...

PORCULUS PIE Porculus pie, porculus pie, porculus pie,scamulus soup, a double scoop please.Maybe we can, maybe we can, maybe we will --stuff it with ACORNS and sleaze. Ah, but porculus pie, porculus pie, porculus pie,the sheep don't know what it means.They won't know that its strange. Or how many$billions that we sent to the "Greens!" Ah, but porculus pie, porculus pie, porculus pie,its Saul Alinsky's dream.Socialized med... socialized med... socialized med...icine.Let the right wingers scream... (a parody on): Porcupine Pie Words and Music by Neil DiamondPorcupine pie, porcupine pie, porcupine pie, Vanilla soup, a double scoop please. No, maybe I...

A Modest Proposal – for a “NO cost” bailout: ASSUMPTIONS: This proposal is based on the assumption that the following accurately describe the problem we are trying to solve: That banks (some “commercial” banks, and most “investment” banks) are failing and/or will be unable to make loans due to large holdings of “toxic” debt instruments. That these “toxic” instruments are unsaleable because they include, in various proportions, Sub-prime mortgages., Because these instruments are not pure bundles of mortgages, but instead are Derivatives of such mortgage “bundles,” it is difficult, if not impossible, to accurately determine whether the underlying mortgages are...

Requiem for the Republic [With apologies to Al Stewart]http://www.alstewart.com/lyrics/yearofthecat.htm On the morning after Super Tuesday, in a party running out of timeWe've been run over by the Straight Talk Express,and it feels like a crime.He came out of the sun, on a strafing run(the maver-icky John McCain).Don't bother asking for explanations he'll just tell you that he came... In the year of the Rat He doesn't have to answer questions, he only says “You didn't serve.”The Straight Talk Express (no one seems to notice) is beginning to swerve!While the Ex-press stalls and The Market falls, and the pundits are all...

Barbarians at the Gates!A Parable for Our TimesCivilizations rise, and civilizations fall.They rise when all of the varied forces, actions, and influences which move a culture toward a more civilized state are more powerful than those forces, actions, and influences move a culture away from that more civilized state. When that balance changes to favor the “anti-civilization” forces, that civilization will begin to fall.The Myths of The Magic Latinos1MYTH 1: They are NOT “illegals.”Part 3 (to read part 1, go here):http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1841785/posts(to read part 2, go here):http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1849240/posts The presently debated Simpson-Mazzoli Grande must necessarily violate the 14th amendment:nor shall any State...

Barbarians at the Gates!A Parable for Our TimesCivilizations rise, and civilizations fall.They rise when all of the varied forces, actions, and influences which move a culture toward a more civilized state are more powerful than those forces, actions, and influences move a culture away from that more civilized state. When that balance changes to favor the “anti-civilization” forces, that civilization will begin to fall.The Myths of The Magic Latinos1MYTH 1: They are NOT “illegals.” Part 2 (to read part 1, go here):http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1841785/posts The reason, the cause, of Latino illegal immigration; and why the way we deal with it (this time)...

Barbarians at the Gates!A Parable for Our TimesCivilizations rise, and civilizations fall.They rise when all of the varied forces, actions, and influences which move a culture toward a more civilized state are more powerful than those forces, actions, and influences move a culture away from that more civilized state. When that balance changes to favor the “anti-civilization” forces, that civilization will begin to fall.When a civilization falls, (from all of the various factors which damaged and weakened it) the end of that civilization is typically characterized by an invasion by a nearby non-civilized, but more robust culture. Over the...

Why do YOU hate George W. Bush? The current furor over the UAE “owning” some of our ports has showcased a disturbing aspect of FR. Perhaps you can help me understand this situation better. Granted, the “ports” transaction story, on its face, seems so antithetical to the security interests of our great country, and such a political gaffe, that one wonders at the motivation behind it. My first thought was, “How could anybody be that stupid.” That was my first thought. Then, I read some of the anti-Bush comments here. Those comments seem to express certain common beliefs: “Bush is...

Let's Take John Kerry at His WordI understand that "Nightline" sent a crew over to Vietnam, and miraculously found ex-VC from the squad which ambushed Kerry's Swift Boat, in the incident for which he was given the Silver Star medal. Also miraculously, they remembered the incident, and confirmed the write-up for Kerry's medal. From the citation for Kerry's Silver Star. (The version found in "Tour of Duty.")  ...the boats were again taken under fire from a heavily foliated area and B-40 rocket exploded close aboard PCF 94; with utter disregard for his own safety and the enemy rockets, he again...

 [This is the 10 USC 1163 and 1162, cited on Kerry's "Discharge." It is no longer in force, and probably slightly different, in wording, in 1978.] -CITE- 10 USC Sec. 1163-EXPCITE- TITLE 10 Subtitle A PART II CHAPTER 59 -HEAD- Sec. 1163. Reserve components: members; limitations on separation -STATUTE- (a) An officer of a reserve component who has at least three years of service as a commissioned officer may not be separated from that component without his consent except under an approved recommendation of a board of officers convened by an authority designated by the Secretary concerned, or by the approved...

Brahman, Atman, Karma and GunasThe breadth of Hindu religion accommodates a large variety of religious concepts. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan called it 'Hindu hospitality'. As a result we see varied forms of practice of Hinduism. From the surface it may even appear like different religions with no common thread or goal. Shankaracharya (788-820 C.E.) was responsible for the 'synthesis' of Hindu religion. But for the effort of Shankara, the chaotic and disorganized practices of many factions of Hinduism probably would have resulted in many splintered groups of religions. Shankara brilliantly unified the different practices into one religion that we call Hinduism...

Are there any people who are righteous? That is, specifically, righteous prior to the sacrifice of Yeshua (Jesus) and thus, not possessing His righteousness.The following four passages are often used, to show that there neither was, is, nor can ever be, someone who is righteous, except those regenerated by Yeshua:[all verses taken from the New American Standard Bible] Romans 3 10 as it is written, "THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NOT EVEN ONE; 11 THERE IS NONE WHO UNDERSTANDS, THERE IS NONE WHO SEEKS FOR GOD; 12 ALL HAVE TURNED ASIDE, TOGETHER THEY HAVE BECOME USELESS; THERE IS NONE WHO DOES GOOD,...

Is drudge down for anybody else? This line is all I get: drudgereport.comÀº ÆÄÅ· ¶Ç´Â Æ÷¿öµù ¼­ºñ½º¿¡ µî·ÏµÇÁö¾ÊÀº µµ¸ÞÀÎÀÔ´Ï´Ù. It may be chinese. An hour or so, ago, FR went down, with the 404 message from a Chinese server: http://www.rgnames.com/RGNames_PopUp3.html Is this just ME, or locally, or have others had the same problem?? DG

  The Gnostic Mytho-Logos The Gnostic Idea or Notion was not informed by a philosophical world-view or procedure; rather, the Gnostic vision of the world was based upon the intuition of a radical and seemingly irreparable rupture between the realm of experience (pathos) and the realm of true Being, i.e., existence in its positive, creative, or authentic aspect. The problem faced by the Gnostics was how to explain such a radical, pre-philosophical intuition. This intuition is 'pre-philosophical' because the brute experience of existing in a world that is alien to humankind's aspirations may submit itself to a variety of interpretations; and the attempt at an interpretation may take on...