Coreece

Yes...you will still fail....just not as often. If I knew someone was about to be murdered and there was nothing I could do about it...I hope I would still try. That's just a very basic concept in life that can be applied to many situations. It's called character and plays a large role for sucess in life. Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

This reminds me of one of the most profound statements I've heard on SC...It went something along the lines of..."...but in real life, you'd probably have more common sense." guess who said that!? (and no...it wasn't me) Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

I actualy thought that you and Jakee had a better working knowledge of the basic concepts of the Bible that would give credibility in a debate on the subject. The following comments (and I'll just list 2) prove to me that you still have yet to understand those basic concepts: Yes, it's called money. We have seen many examples lately of how this form of idolatry has negatively affected society and those that practice such idolatry. They risk their whole lives and the lives of others because of it. Many people think that worshiping idols involves a bunch of people walking in circles around a statue chanting hunga bunga. In most cases it is not that obvious and takes place within a persons heart...they put material possessions above all else, including the lives of others... Again, if you read the context, murder encompasses hatred. In some form or another, hatred is the cause of murder among other ills of society. Ulimately, It is pride that's the catalyst for all behavior that is detrimental to society. Pride can only be countered with humility. As I said, the commandments were designed to humble us...to show us that we clearly have a problem. The obvious had to be stated because eventhough we know these things...we still have the balls to deny our guilt....Pride is most deceptive and we need everything we can to counter it and control it....not deny it and let it run it's course. If we break the law just once....you are not perfect. That must be dealt with before it escalates out of control. We are all familiar with this concept. the first lie is never usually the last. I listen to you guys alot and I don't understand why I thought you had a better understanding of the basic concepts of the Bible...It is clear to me now that you might only be rejecting it because you don't understand it...this actual encourages me and gives me hope. However, I must admit that I'm felling a little like good ole Dick Dawkins in one of his interviews....He assumed the interviewer had a better understanding of the basic concepts of evolution, but than their ignorance on the subject surfaces when they ask questions like "can you give an expample of a genetic or evolutionary process that can be seen to increase the information in the genome?" or ignorant statements like I don't believe in evolution cause the big bang is a bunch of BS. (edited for clarity) Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

apparently you didn't get the memo....keep reading. Yeah...It's pretty sad when you gotta state the obvious to adults that should know better. btw.... which one are you. "Not Guilty" or "I'm not as bad as that guy" Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

Seems like the only option if you don't have affordable health insurance... Unfortunate indeed. Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

I don't know...the world would be a very different place indeed if nobody had the need to tell us what not to do... It's our fault. We treat God as our enemy...very foolish...I should know. Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

The whole point of not coveting is to be happy and thankful with what you DO have.... The whole point of the commandments is to show us that we cannot stick to basic concepts that most all of us feel we should. Concepts that we all know benefit society. We can all see the benefit in not lying(especially in court), cheating, stealing and murdering.....yet we just can't control ourselves. Our Inteligence sets us apart from everything else and we have to choose wether or not to use that inteligence responsibly and live in harmony with the natural world or to just let it destroy us...unfortunately, it appears that we are going in the wrong direction....but we can't help our selves....and we know it....and we will continue to hurt everyone around us through all of our lies, cheating, stealing, hatred and most of all, pride that causes it all....then we will continue to say that "I'm not guilty" or "Well, I'm not as bad as that guy." The commandments are there to humble us. Thats why we don't like them...IMO. Who wants to be humble...that's a weakness. EDIT I believe that whoever is responsible for all this wanted it to be known to us...to acknowledge it and realize how great it is. To live and enjoy it....to explore it's vastness....to make what we will of it...to appreciate it. In order to do that, they gave us their intelect, but we are too weak to control it...and instead we use it for our own selfish desires, and the consequences that follow just come naturally when this gift of knowledge is used irresponsibly. I believe the Bible is the tool that helps explain all this in a way that all humans could understand over a long period of time including those without all the knowledge we are so priveleged to have today. The Bible is not a science book...what would be the point if we had all the answers...we would have no science. NO SCIENCE!....that would suck. Besides...the Bible is long enough as it is anyway...and I think the primitive minds of humans back than wouldn't have been able to grasp it...hell we can't even grasp it until we at least try an experiment ourselves to actually see. Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

There's still always the NR directors cut...just gotta pay a lil more... sob....now i'm gonna have to read it...thanks. btw...angels n demons should be out soon...expect the worst....but hope for the best...I don't think Rome will like it. Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

Valentines Dream Come True! (btw...that was Good Burn!) Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

How polocks take pictures. Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

yup...actions speak louder than words. People can bitch all they want...changes nothing. Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

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Them Black Gold Texas Tea Baggin' Basturds! Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

So, I was sitting on my upper porch (bout 12ft. up) and I hear someone walking right below me on the sidewalk in front of my house...The footsteps are rather loud and alarming, as they crunch the ice, snow, and salt.....The only problem was that I didn't see ANYBODY,....no one was there....I pause and thinks this is impossible...so I looks around and still NOTHING....so now, I'm really freaking .... --The footsteps are still comming! wtf! I couldn't accept that I was crazy and then there across the street a man comes walking in between the houses....PHEW!!!! (what a relief) The sound musta bounced off my house and against my car below that was also in front of me... Thought I'd just share that...it really tripped me out. I usually like to size up whoever is approaching my space man, and it is just nerve racking when you can't see them. I guess you'd have to be there.... ....anyway I've attached a picture of what the seen would have looked from my perspective, if this happened in the Summer..... ....we have converter water craft in the warmer months....that is my Monte Carboat that the sound would have bounced off. Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

I hope you feel better Chris... I understand that long post can be difficult to reply to, and apparently italicizing quotes does't seem to make it any easier to read. If you wanna just keep the reply short/general, I should be able get your point...I also have many sources to help me understand if needed, so don't feel obligated to write a novel....or anything at all. Peace

You forgot the apocrypha which by definition means writings of doubtful authorship or authenticity. The following is just of one of many Catholic teachings that are not Biblical and are in fact anti-thetical to it. The Mass: According to the Council of Trent, the Mass is the same sacrafice as Jesus' Crucifixtion except that this time it's not bloody. Doctrina de ss. Missae sacrificio, c. 2, quoted in Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1367: The victim is one and the same: the same now offers through the ministry of priests, who then offered himself on the cross; only the manner of offering is different. And since in this divine sacrifice which is celebrated in the Mass, the same Christ who offered himself once in a bloody manner on the altar of the cross is contained and offered in an unbloody manner... this sacrifice is truly propitiatory" This basically means that Christ is being sacraficed again...over and over and over and over at thousands of altars around the world constantly. They are saying that If you don't believe that the priest summons Jesus down to the altar and that the bread and wine are literally change into the the same actual blood and body of Jesus you are anathema/damned Council of trent 1551: Cannon 1 if anyone denies that in the sacrament of the most Holy Eucharist are contained truly, really and substantially the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and consequently the whole Christ, but says that He is in it only as in a sign, or figure or force, let him be anathema. Here are a list of 24 other detailed and specific damnations w/r/t the denial of the Mass set forth by that same council: http://www.catholicliturgy.com/index.cfm/FuseAction/DocumentContents/DocumentIndex/502 If you belive what the Bible says, the Catholic Church considers you anathema. The following Scripture shows clearly that this repeated sacrafice during the Mass is antithetical to the Bible... Hebrews 9:24-28 For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins o many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him. Hebrews 7:26-28 For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself. For the law appoints men in their weakness as high priests, but the word of the oath, which came later than the law, appoints a Son who has been made perfect forever. Hebrews 9:11-12 But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation) he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption. Hebrews 10:10-17 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified. And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying, "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord:I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds," then he adds, "I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more." This Mass just seems to be some sort of neo-quasi/non-Jewish form of the Levitical priesthood, a priesthood that is obsolete and the Temple destroyed after the true and final sacrafice. I like how one of my former teachers Dr. John MacArthur puts it: All the Old Testament sacrifices did was portray and develop almost a passionate longing for the final sacrifice which would truly take away sin. The Old Testament had a priesthood, an altar, and sacrifices which were only shadows anticipatory of the final sacrifice that would come with Christ. He came, He offered that sacrifice and God punctuated that one sacrifice by destroying the temple using the Romans to do it in 70 A.D., by destroying the altars, thus smashing the entire sacrificial system of the Old Testament, and all the records of all the genealogies of all those in the priestly line, thus ending permanently the priesthood. There are no more sacrifices. There are no more altars. And there are no more priests as a special order to offer sacrifices. It all came to an end at the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Any sacrifices being made today are unbiblical and unable to accomplish anything.....There is no more temple in which God dwells, no more tabernacle and there is no more priesthood. It is therefore a false sacrifice on a false altar in a false temple by a false priest. Then why does it's leaders through its dogma judge others by saying that you are anathema if you don't believe in the Mass. Why do they oppress nuns? Why do they forbid Marriage? The Bible warns us of this stuff even before it was an issue...That is in part what the Bible is for: 1 Timothy 4:1-5 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer. Here's another warning...and though it is in regard to the scribes, I find it rather interesting. Mark 12:38-40 And in his teaching he said, "Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes and like greetings in the marketplaces and have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. I just gave an example of why it is broken and there are plenty more...The Catholic Church thinks it is it's own athority above and beyond the Bible....The Pope answers to nobody and believes he is infallible regardless if his teachings contradict Scripture. It is practices like this that give people dangerous authority to justify acts like the inquisition, the crusades, opressing women and forbiding marriage. It is sickening how some nuns are treated, especially in other countries, and there are numerous books written about the horror these women went through...There are even more severe consequences in forbiding marriage, like the molestation of children for example. It has already been done....many times. Their teachings are the biggest load of bollocks ever...and it is mainly because of them that Christianity has a bad name... The Catholic Church is attempting to corrupt the Trinity everytime it labels Mary as sinless (which she was NOT) then worship and pray to her so that she may intercede for us. We have only one mediator and that is Christ alone...The worship of Mary is your typical Roman pagan goddess worship. The Bible says nothing about Mary interceding for us in terms of salvation...The most she could do was convince Jesus to make a little wine for a wedding party....not to save us. Again, I'm not attacking the people in the Catholic Church...many are ignorant of it's teachings. (which is a good thing) As I said earlier, it is the system and it's leaders who are the problem. Sources: Is Roman Catholicism Biblical? Article Explaining the Heresy of the Catholic Mass, Part 1: -Sermon Transcript -Sermon Audio Explaining the Heresy of the Catholic Mass, Part 2: -Sermon Transcript -Sermon Audio Scandal of the Catholic Priesthood: -Sermon Transcript -Sermon Audio Various Writings of Emmett McLaughlin, a converted Roman Catholic priest. http://www48.homepage.villanova.edu/emmet.mclaughlin/ http://histories.cambridge.org/credited_person?id=McLaughlinR Parkes, Henry Banford. A History of Mexico. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

I to was raised Catholic - Altar server, same Catholic school for 13 years...very close knit...our teachers taught our parents. There are some very positive aspects of the Catholic Church, no doubt...most catholics are not the Boondock Saint/Italian Mafia type catholics.... ...sigh....but, where do these techings of the Catholic Church Come from, because many of them sure as hell ain't comming from the Bible... When you stray from the basic MESSAGE of the Bible (LOVE) It becomes preverted and man thinks that they are God....and in their ignorant overzealosness they judge, opress and kill. It is the system and it's leaders who are corrupted with power who are the problem. Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

I agree...I found this somewhat interesting: Megan McArdle, Deirdre McCloskey, and Mark Perry all make statements about their concern with getting the money out to slowly: Megan McArdle: A good stimulus package should be designed to move money out the door rapidly, then stop. This program is designed to move money out the door slowly, and keep going. Deirdre McCloskey: It's not targeted, not temporary, not timely. Especially the last. Too slow, too slow, alas. Mark Perry: like all fiscal stimulus packages in the past, the current one will not impact the economy at the right time for the intended stimulus effect, due to the inevitable problems of long lags. It seems like they would prefer burning through the money as fast as possible, where as the stimuls plan calls for dispensing the money over an extended time table...That to me seems to be more responsible/cautious. Let's say the stimulas improves the situation, or (as it has been suggested) it just naturally recovers in a short period of time and confindence/strength stabilizes. It would seem to me that some of the stimulas funds which would still need to be allocated, could either be redirected for a more practical purpose, or dare I say even "returned?" It would be similar to Bush allocating a small percentage of the bank executive splurge fund, to a more practical use like the auto loan that was more serving to the country, even without the country's approval! ...but then agan, like Lewis Black, my economics class was aslo in the morning: Lewis Black - Economics Class Lewis Black - How To Stimulate the Economy Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

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The officer could just be weak and dumb and did what he thought was best... He shoulda just dragged the guy away and be done with it instead of engaging in all the drama...besides, tasers generally knock people down...as I said...this officer is either dumb, or weak.(mentally, physically, and perhaps even verbally) Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

I wouldn't say it was excessive force....He's just a pussy. Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

That's a nice horse you got there....giddy up! ....make sure you've got your rig incase you fall off! Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

You didn't...I'm sorry if I was unclear. I wasn't saying you didn't "believe" in evolution...I was saying you "believed" in both, thus giving credibility to the notion stated earlier that educated people "believe" in Evolution simply because they're educated in it... I think we're actually in agreement. I'm just probably a little more indifferent about evloution than you are...for me, it's just another thing to know. Knowledge that I personally really don't have much of a use for...so I'll just leave it to the scientists...I got enough to do, and finding the missing link ain't one of them. peace Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...

It's SO BIG! It would take like a million years to obtain globalization/globalisation! Your secrets are the true reflection of who you really are...