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NEVER, and I do mean NEVER ask this question about ANYTHING. It is tempting Fate, and she is a capricious wench.

If that's the case, T, then they weren't true friends, now were they?

Thank you, Radar.

I'd be willing to listen to your version then, SB.

You are correct, PB. I will add that to the definition for future reference.

For some comic relief HERE! There are some of the infamous 'seven dirty words'. Therefore, if you don't want to hear them, PLEASE do NOT click on the link.

In response to the thread title, I believe it would be more accurate to say, "They have delusions of adequacy".

Here's part of the entry for Lucifer in Wikipedia. Do with it what you will. In the Vulgate, an early-5th-century translation of the Bible into Latin by Jerome, Lucifer occurs in Isaiah 14:12-14 as a translation of the Greek word heosphorus ("dawn-bearer"), an epithet of Venus. The original Hebrew text of this verse was הילל בן שחר (heilel ben-schahar), meaning "Helel son of Shahar." Helel was a Babylonian / Canaanite god who was the son of another Babylonian / Canaanite god named Shahar. Hope this helps.

My guess is, it generally refers to either police officers or National Guardsman when finding out they had to go to the Middle East, didn't want to go.

Being one of the resident agnostics, I will supply MY answer. This is not to be construed as speaking for anyone else but moi`. Imnsho, agnostics are a little more comfortable with doubt than 'believers'. Believers seem to be of the mind set, God just HAS to be in control, if He isn't, the world doesn't make any sense. This probably is a reversion to childhood, where your parents 'were as God'. Your parents supplied everything you needed, and perhaps, a lot of the things you wanted. When you get older, a strange thing happens. You find out your parents didn't always tell you the truth. Maybe it was your mother telling you the dog next door was really a robot dog (way before they actually showed up on the market). In any event, this tends to lead to a search for a 'parent' who will always tell us the truth. It is a bitter pill to swallow, the people who supposedly love you most, will lie to you. Then, you find a group which tells you they have the 'truth'. However long it takes, eventually, you find out the people who supposedly love you most (I think a lot of people here, at least at one time, would have trusted their lives to total strangers as long as they had their piffle name tag on, me being one of them) will lie to you also. Not only will they lie to you, but will also threaten your physical safety. This is the series of events leading me down the path of the agnostic. I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread.

I nominate Wes Craven.

So, I guess she paid the vet's "duck bill'? (ducking)

No, it's vuja de. The feeling you've been through it before and hope this s*** NEVER happens again.

Dunno, Dooj. I was referring to the Bill Cosby bit about Noah and the Ark.

If he can't get something done without my 'hands', then is 'He' omnipotent?

removed for not having read 'what is written'.

There is no such thing, Shell.

voobah voobah voobah, DING.

'The Way' (ahem) I figure it, if God is omnipotent, he doesn't really need my help. Ditto on the "staying away from you" line.

This is the Joisey difference between a friend and an acquaintance. An acquaintance is someone who will help you move. A friend is someone who will help you move a dead body.

Uh, who is this referring to, Chatola?

To paraphrase "The Soup Nazi" on Seinfeld, "NO CHURCH FOR YOU!!!"

Showing up here in both places, Chatola. Isn't that what's meant by women who say they have to "put on their face?"