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In your first post, you said that Sister Regina Marie wouldn't allow you to become an alter boy. Do you think she knew something and was trying to protect you, or was it that she didn't want your talent to go to waste?

And where were you in Indiana? I grew up in southside Indianapolis.

I really like Escher. I never heard anything particularly negative about his work while in TWI, but then I might not have been paying attention.

I had a tendency to zone out when somebody got off on something really stupid. Maybe that was possesion...the adversary was putting me to sleep.

Ron, you are too funny!

And thanks HAPe, for the link. I'm off to retemorize the names of his work.

I love Escher! My favorite is the one where the birds turn into fish. The one where he's holding a mirrored ball is cool too. In fact, I don't think I ever saw an Escher print that I didn't like. I just wish I knew the titles of his work.

But seriously, did the ministry think you could get possesed from looking at his art? Was anything safe?

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I'm glad you were playing Army. Its much better to pretend to shoot people than to pretend to shoot animals!

JUST KIDDING!!!

You sure were a cutie!

Yes, yes lets ask questions out loud and not worried what others might say or think about us. Questions are a way to receive answers about things that we many wonder about.

I'd like to ask a question! Is your avatar a picture of you when you were a little boy? Are you holding a gun? I hope your shooting tin cans off of a fence post and not shooting animals!

Either way, I think you're great!

It sounds like Robin was a beautiful person. I sure her corner of the world is better for her having passed through, even for such a short time.

Love to you, and your family.

Ohio has passed a law that allows sex offenders to be identified and tracked, even if they've never been charged with a crime.

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a...8290360/-1/NEWS

Alleged victims can start the proceedings.

Child abuse is horrible, and sex offenders should receive the harshest punishment, but man! The possibity for misuse of this law scares me. Someone offends someone, and bam! The false accusations go flying.

Ah Drty, once again you are too smart for words. At least my words. I do think you need your brainy avatar up again. Smart men are so hot.

I don't remember posting a smiley face. Do you think I have an alter ego, or do I sleepwalk?

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Drty Dzn, I agree with what you say. I don't think it was the big controversy it is today. I think they (people in Biblical times) were more concerned with coveting their neighbor's ox. Or wearing clothes with mixed fibers.

Hey, what happened to your brainy avatar?

Now, I am no Hebrew scholar, but isn't the word depart "yatsa" as opposed to "shakol"(Hosea 9:14)? So, couldn't her fruit depart, and still be alive?

Johniam: I know VP taught mischief was the death of the woman, but I could never make that teaching "my own" as he use to say. Why couldn't the mischief mean the child? A woman's fruit (baby) could depart and live, thus the no mischief. And if the child died, mischief ensued.

And as far as the husband laying upon him, my uneducated guess was always what the husband wanted the other to pay in monetary damages. But I never thought about the husband being able to beat him up!

Pond: Yeah, I was always taught that the men ruled the roost in Moses' time. So, if I was taught correctly, maybe the key to what God says about abortion is directed in how a man rules his house?

What I don't understand is what is meant by "mischief" in Exodus 21:22 and 23. No mischief means payment, but mischief means life for life. What is mischief? Does it mean death? And who's death? The mother? The child?

But really, these verses are talking about men striving, and a woman getting hurt. Can anyone use these verses to say if a woman who chooses to end her pregnancy is right or wrong?