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You might appreciate this, Rick. HERE! (Btw, pay attention to one of the character's t-shirt)

Memory's a bit fuzzy, but what I'm getting is something along the lines of Senor Wences?

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While I don't pretend to speak for George (though, he and I will probably be selling air conditioners to the people who THOUGHT they were going to heaven), I'd like to take a crack at this for myself. Actually, I think the funnier situation is how YOU'RE going to feel if I'm welcomed into the kingdom of heaven. Here, you've spent your whole life trying so hard to be 'good'. A rank agnostic does what he thinks is ok, just waltzes through the Pearly Gates (or maybe, we'll have to come in the back way). Somehow, I suspect the reaction is going to be similar to the brothers in the Prodigal son story. The only reasonable explanation I can come up with is, the agnostics/atheists will have served their 'Godly' purpose by keeping youse religious people on your toes and honest.

******OOOPS POSTED BY ABIGAIL************* Nice, Pond. Though obviously I was wrong - lol. Well your coloring is good, but you'd be tall for my family! HA Short, yuppers. Sushi says I need to carry a balloon when we shop together so he can find me, even if I am walking right next to him. Personally I find walkie talkies less embarassing. Bonde? hmmmm I haven't tried that color yet. :) My hair changes color with the seasons. Reddish brown as a child, got darker as I got older, but I color it back to the reddish brown. Medium frame, I like to think, athletic lol lol lol :) Polar Bear, your name just sums it right up doesn't it? You have to be tall and burly and nordic looking with white blond curls and a bushy beard and mustache. ;)

You're only as old as you feel. Since Abi's eight years younger than I am......................

Moses, Paul and Jesus Christ were out playing golf one day. On the sixteenth hole, Moses and Paul barely made par. However, JC skipped the ball off a water hazard for a hole in one. On the seventeenth hole, again, Moses and Paul make par. But on this hole, JC ricochets it off a tree and makes yet another hole in one. The eighteenth hole was the straw that broke the camel's back. As usual, Moses and Paul struggle to make par. This time, JC skips the ball off a water hazard, ricochets it off a tree, hits a bird and the ball rolls into the hole. Moses and Paul trudge back to the clubhouse, but JC had other things to attend to. While they were talking, Paul said to Moses, "Who does JC think he is, GOD?" Moses replied, "No, Jack Nicklaus" (there are some here who probably "golden bear" to repeat that joke............. )

Yes, one of the many great things about my lovely bride is, she always gives great ................................................................................ ......................................................... ................................................................................ ................................................................ 'audience'. But, for now, this joke. A priest, a rabbi and a chicken walk into a bar. Bartender says, "What is this, some kind of joke?"

Really? NEVER? Are you certain? Odd, because I heard it straight from the horses foot himself, the bad Rev. LCM. And speaking of ignorant, bossy, dim bulbs who like to offer opinions about something they apparently know nothing about. . . .

Uh, babe, it's grammAr. (ducking)

Maybe God knew there would be a lot of people who couldn't make a living other than interpreting "His Word". It's not unlike having to have a lawyer when you go to court because you don't know all the ins and outs of the legal system (though, I suspect, lawyers do a smidgen more good). Thus endeth the sermon.

Someone else said (I wish I knew who), "Christianity is the greatest religion no one's ever practiced". I consider myself an agnostic (surprise, surprise). I really wish I could believe there is an all knowing, all powerful being even mildly interested in my well being. However, given all the things happening in the world, I find it difficult to swallow. Some say you can't know. Maybe. I don't know if one CAN know. Maybe. (How's that for fence sitting? )

POSTED BY ABIGAIL and EYES said: I can tell you why it was for me. 1. There was a ton of repitition, so when you read the Bible you tended to "see" what you had heard over and over again, instead of seeing anything else. 2. By 4 years or so into my time with TWI we were all to be "tapped into the root" and we were to "obey leadership" If you didn't obey leadership you were off the word, sinning, outside god's hedge of protection. You weren't really allowed to question what was taught, lest you get a face melting. 3. We were taught if we didn't understand something we were to "hold it in abeyance" until the understanding came. But we were expected to act on what we didn't understand while we were holding it in abeyance. The result was bascially that you were to practice it regardless of what you believed. 4. Often times when I saw something in the Bible that contradicted what TWI taught, I assumed it was an "error in my understanding" not an error in their teaching.

For more on a religious theme...........

At the risk of permanently killing yet another thread, I post this at the request of my lovely bride. (Again, there is the use of 'adult' language, so be ye forewarned)

Guess I'll just go sit in the corner with my dunce cap on.

At the request of my lovely bride, I post this. :wub: HERE! (Wow, I don't have to put the usual language disclaimer on this one. Mr. Black actually goes a whole SIX minutes without swearing ) p.p.s. I would still appreciate a lesson on how to embed.

Love to help you out, YID, but I no longer live in the Garden State. Rockaway is a nice little town in North Central New Jersey, right off of Route 46.

I think I will ask my hubby and son to look at these and see if they can help me understand. My husband has done some reading and studying on quantum physics - which seems to mixed in with what you are saying. My son (the 10 year old) is very very good with math (for his age) and has some of his own interesting theories on the number zero and the concept of infinity. :) *****OOPS, posted by Abigail from my husband's computer********* W, meet Sushi. :D

Sorry, but that simply does not make sense to me. Oh, the first part sort of does, the part about things that involve more than one person, because obviously there is a lack of love if you go about pleasing yourself at someone else's expense all the time. But if the notion that their is neither male nor female rules, then why bother stating the husband is the head of the wife? Why bother saying wives should remain silent in the church - which even Jewish law does not teach? If there is no punishment for disobedience then why are the wages of sin death? why are there writings regarding marking and avoiding? Why did Annanias die for lying? ***Darn, this is Abigail posting, btw, not Sushi***

It is symbolic of purity - starting the sabbath pure, washing away the impurities of the previous week. **********oops, this is Abi posting***********

Abigail here - I don't know what is central geographically, but I can tell you Greasespot has a large number of Michigan posters so I vote we have one here in Michigan. Rascal and I were talking about trying to organize something in the Upper Penninsula.

Century 21 is the one with the gold jackets.

Not a silly saying really, but apropos. "The easiest day was yesterday." Navy Seal Motto (one of many, I suspect)