Tired_Old_Man

20 years from now, you will realize what a great move you are making.

She has more balls than most Republican men do. Maybe she is a transvestite.:croc:

What is wrong with the Terminator? It got Arnold elected "Governator of California"!!

That is a question like "Have you stopped beating your wife". It is a question that makes assumptions. It assumes (and tricks you into admitting whether you answer "yes" or "no") that you were beating your wife. The question from the posted article pretends to ask if you believe the documentary that they have found the bones of Jesus, but really asks if you believe that it disproves the resurrection of Jesus. Why must finding the bones and the resurrection be mutually exclusive? As I stated in the opening post of this thread: If it was a spirit type image of Jesus rather than a corporeal body leaving the tomb, then there could be a resurrection and a box with the bones of Jesus. If (and this is a big "IF") they can prove that those are the bones of Jesus Christ, our Saviour, it will not shock nor reduce my faith in Jesus. I hope all Christians can say the same thing.

You are human and you made a mistake. I bet you son still loves you more than anyone else in the world. He will heal. Children are very resilient.:clap2:

As an airline mechanic for 35 years, I worked on many planes besides the ones owned by the company that I worked for. The seats are pretty standard and if someone weighs less than 300 pounds, they can normally fit (very tightly) in a coach seat. As you go above that figure, you will first need a seat-belt extension (free-provided by airline) and then as the weight increases a ticket for two seats (at your expense). I can not give exact numbers for weights because different height/weight combinations change the details. Obviously a 5'2" 300 pounder and a 6' 300 pounder would be very different. I didn't see any weight numbers in you sig, except for your loss of 29 pounds. Keep up the good work.:clap2: Keep losing and the airplane seat problem will become smaller as you become smaller.:clap2:

It might be that the geeks now have the money to be "Rebels", while the rebels are fighting to survive because they blew their money (and education way back when) being rebels.

Soon you will disappear, and when you do, go back to that store, and although no one will recognize you, you can look around and have a big laugh about yesterday.

But I was "the easy going type". Well, at least near the end of my 35 years, I was. I was "Hell on Wheels" at the beginning, but nothing sobers a man up than working on planes that crash right after you work on them. It happened to me 3 times, and though nothing I did was related to the crashes, the FAA breathing down your neck, takes a lot of the playful spirit out of you. Tina says that she is lucky. I kept my good traits and changed most of my bad traits. Of course I still talk too much, but...

Wheetsin, have you seen a Chiropractor? I had continual back problems that medical doctors could do nothing about, except keep me in a stupor with drugs. After 4 or 5 visits to a Chiropractor, I was able to function normally. A visit every few weeks after that, kept me "straight". Right now, I have the best of both worlds; my GP (Family MD) was a Chiropractor, and when no one is looking (he works for a large medical institute), he will give me an "adjustment".

I resent that.

Many people have stopped, because burglars target homes of people at funerals. I found them to be just as prevalent when I lived in Brooklyn NY.

I've been thinking of becoming an Illegal Black Muslim Immigrant.:frusty:

Amen, sister!!

A stranger was seated next to little Tommy on the plane when the stranger turned to the little boy and said "Let's talk. I heard that flights will go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passengers." Little Tommy, who had just opened his book, closed it slowly and said to the stranger "What would you like to discuss?" Oh, I don't know. said the stranger, and then thinking he would have some fun at Tommy's expense said, "How about the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear power?" "OK," said Tommy, "that could be an interesting topic, but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same grass yet the deer excretes little pellets, while the cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?" Jeez," said the stranger. "I have no idea."! "Well then," said little Tommy, "How is it that you feel qualified to discuss nuclear power when you don't know shit?"

Keep the shrines in your heart, not on the road.

I am always baffled as to how any straight person can think that being Gay is a choice. I am going to speak graphically here, so anyone who is prudish, please stop reading now. When I was 11 years old, I was talking to the prettiest girl in my class and all of a sudden, I realized that my penis was rubbing the inside of my pants and trying to push its way through. No one had ever told me about that physical reaction. This was 1956. This was before video tapes. We had only had TV for a few years in my home and the shows were not realistic (sexually) and movies were all "goodie-2 shoes" types. I had no idea what was going on. I never had the choice to be Gay. Ask any straight person when he decided to be straight. If he (or she) is honest, they will have to admit that they never did. It just happened to them, just as it just happens to Gay people.

You make good points, but there is one more side to this story, and that is that hate, when cleverly disguised as the word of scripture, can be spread to unsuspecting people. I feel that the large group of members of many different backgrounds and various religious leanings, especially the devout Christians, stopped the spread of evil ideas, by never letting anything go unchallenged. While there may not have been much of an interchange of ideas between the competing forces (which is usually bad), there was also no interchange of ideas between the "person in question" and onlookers who might otherwise have been influenced (and that was good). Would Elmer Gantry have been held up to the light of day, the disinfectant of sunshine if it had not been for Sinclair Lewis?

I don't consider the posts on the threads about religion to be wasted. Many people learned a lot about religion and many learned a lot about human nature and some learned to "sit back and watch".

The site has been intermittent today. I have had the same problems using three different computers; an iMac, a WinXP PC and a PC running Linux. It hasn't been 95% of the time, but it has happened at random. Whenever it happens, I try a second time and if still NG, I try a different site to make sure my DSL and router are both OK. It has been the LBT site.

Churches have become too active in politics IMHO, but the Catholic church has not been the ardent backer of the present administration as many other denominations have. I hope you don't mind that I consider the Catholic church to be one of the Christian denominations. I know some people consider the main religious groups as Christian, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim, but I think of it as Christian (including Catholic), Jewish and Muslim. Anyway, The Catholic church has been one of the few to oppose the Iraq war and also has opposed some of the hideous weapons systems the USA has produced over the years. I am not happy with many of the group's oppinions on most of the social issues, but that is what makes free will so interesting.

As fat people, we should all support Al Gore.:faint:

It is not only religious organizations that forget their calling. As an aircraft mechanic, I was a member of the IAMAW union. The IAMAW is headquartered in Washington DC, where it has a large complex of offices and many clerical workers. The clerical workers were not unionized and eventually signed cards, and voted to form a union local. The IAMAW refused to bargain with the clerical workers for an initial contract. A photograph of the clerical workers was published in the national newspapers showing the clerical workers picketing IAMAW headquarters with picket signs reading "IAMAW Unfair to Union Employees".

Carlo Ponti just died a few weeks. Who is Carlo Ponti? An old balding fat man. Why is he in the news? Because he married Sophia Loren, one of the most beautiful actresses in the world, in the 1950's. While Hollywood hunks marry Hollywood hunks constantly in "Tinsel Town" with marriages that have an average life span of a year or two, this couple stayed together for 2.5 times your life-time. Physical attraction may be a hindrance to your happiness.

The article I posted was in response to your request for a reference to my post: I never said anything about the Pope trying to run the USA, and in fact said. "it did not come from the Vatican".