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In Steve's original thread, I was dismissive because (1) the issue was mute, in that the Patriots blew the Colts out of the water in the second half with properly inflated footballs, and (2) professional sports don't interest or concern me, except for traffic jams in Kenmore Square. So yes, the Brady mess contributes its own toxin to our moral culture. I respectfully suggest that exldsdudinslc
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I give up. You're right. Nothing's on the level. I'm going back to professional wrestling for my sports entertainment.
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torturednevermo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's unclear if she is an active member or not, but > confessing a sin (or alluding to a sin that never > even happened, really … a lie sort of) casts her > in a negative light and disparages her reputation. They shared an oddly, very superficial "intimate" moment. I think this young m
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Hooray for the NFL! Finally a scandal that does not involve domestic violence, a murder, maiming of opposing players, gambling, abuse of animals... I have fun asking coworkers if they can name the Red Sox' starting rotation. They can usually get at least a few of the pitchers, maybe all. Then I ask them who their state representative is. *deer in the headlights* look!
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With deflated balls, 1st Half: Patriots score 17, Colts score 7 With inflated balls, 2nd Half: Patriots score 28, Colts score nada The Colts lost because they were the inferior team. But if people want to rant, hey, go for it!
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Cultic religion provokes intense, often hostile, feelings, statements, opinions, and actions, on BOTH sides of the divide.
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Cinco de Mayo is to Mexicans what Kwanza is to American Blacks: a thoroughly contrived holiday designed by people who don't know anything to celebrate their ethnicity. Blacks don't celebrate Kwanza. Mexicans don't celebrate "Cinco de Quattro," as one currently prominent politician mis-spoke it.
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When the Iranian Ayatollah Khomeni issued the fatwa of death upon Salman Rushdie, somebody in the establishment media wanted to find a "good Moslem" to show that Khomeni is not representative of Islam. So they looked up Yosuf Islam, the former balladeer Cat Stevens to show that not all Moslems wanted Rusdie dead. Islam said (paraphrase), "He blasphemed the prophet. He must die.&
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I have long held the opinion that men's war stories are like boy's high school sex stories. Those who talk a lot probably have little actual experience, and those who have the authentic experience don't talk about it that much. Perhaps this bit of wisdom is worth sharing with your husband, Patsy.
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I was in Parris Island then. But my first operation (August 1968) was into the DMZ. I was airvac' d out around March 30 1969. Although a P.f.C., being a bit more educated than the average grunt,I tended to hang out with the officers. I made friends with an LDS USN LT/jg. We talked about religion a lot. As he explained the nature and background of LDS, I noticed the similarities it had with C
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Should business or pleasure bring you back to Beantown, ask the admins to connect us up! I'd love to treat you to a scrod dinner. We can compare our CULT-ured pasts!
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My hunch (and who knows for sure?) is that he is embellishing his Vietnam experience, and doing it deliberately. A poster above said, "Maybe he's reliving his youth the way he wished he had actually lived it." Overall, I think your husband's behavior is dangerous, and indicative of other possibly serious issues. At our age, we look back and assess, and may find ourselves lacking. Has
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May e just right for the Super-Uber-Double-Diamond Distributor.
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Semper Fi, sister. (0311,Delta Co, 1st Batallion 4th Marines, I-Corps 1968-69)
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The crime scene officer who drew the chalk lines around the jihadists' bodies.
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Beth, you just went from black & white to technicolor in my sight. Regarding ElderDog, I always salute a fellow old f*rt. Heck, I'm so old, I can remember when Garrison Keillor was actually funny!
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I wondered what old folks did in bed. Now I know!
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Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working." (ESV) Now I've never been a Mormon, but if I were, I would go into the bishop's office, and say, "Let's confess our sins--you to me, and me to you. Since you are the man with the higher priesthood authority, I think you shou
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We need to do more about these dangerous, radical Amish. Start by making them register their buggy whips. A person can get a nasty welt from one of those things!
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What's happening here is typical cultic public relations. On the one hand, a cult likes to appear "normal" and "orthodox" -- "Hey, we're just a regular church like the rest of you folks!" On the other hand, cults have distinctive, often weird doctrines, practices, and history, which they cannot easily disavow. (1) They would have to admit they were wrong on thi
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SuperDell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As if you know. Your mormonism is showing. Bet > your still wear your CTR ring. (choose the > republican) Nope. I've been posting on this board (for various reasons) and have been very forthright in identifying myself as an ex-Christian Scientist, and now a born-again Baptist. But I made that remark
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The appeal was granted because of an inadequate defense. And an internet statement, "I know the killer" is just the sort of thing that pops up...on the internet. You don't know the killer. (It was Batboy!) But I think he'll be reconvicted and sent back to the Big House. We shall see.
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When I was a kid in the 1950s, the huge basilica "Mother Church" was packed, with large overflow facilities required. Hotels were booked full a year in advance for the yearly pilgrimage. Now only a handful come to the "Annual Meeting" in June. No more throngs of Christian Scientists swarming Boston's Back Bay. They telecast it on the web, so those few Christian Scientists w
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But it is ironic that LDS chose a liberal Protestant group to get cozy with for an ecumenical group hug--not Fundamentalist or (American-style) Evangelical, who regard them as a heretical cult. They want to pass as "Christian," so they pose as as "Evangelistic" (to coin a term), especially on social issues, salvation-by-grace, women's ordination, and displaying the once-abho
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...a very liberal wing of the Lutheran church. "Evangelical" here is quite the misnomer, as Evangelicals hold to Biblical inerrency, the divinity of Christ, and traditional salvation-by-Grace-alone theology. The "Evangelical Lutheran Church" is rather slippery on these matters, and is religiously more liberal like United Methodists, the United Church in Christ, and most of the
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ificouldhietokolob Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Unless the person giving the "testimony" were > there in person to "testify," they would not be > allowed -- they're hearsay. may "Hearsay" may be admissible, but is weak and has to be corroborated by evidence and authentic testimony. An example is a prisoner who tell
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"Groomsmaid?" The term is a bit awkward. I suggest "honor attendant." (source: Judith Martin, a.k.a. "Miss Manners)
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The Clinton Foundation is getting a lot of flack right now. By one account, only 10% of their intake goes to actual charitable activity.
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