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 Author Thread: ADHD and ADD the real thing or a cop out?
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 471 (view)
 
ADHD and ADD the real thing or a cop out?
Posted: 9/28/2006 12:15:20 PM
[ But I just wonder if something else could have been done at that early age he wouldn't be going threw the things he is now. I might also add his step father who was on these type of pills all of his school career has also been diagnosed with bipolar and manic depression.
What do you guys think? Do you think it is a cop out either by the drs or even us as parents?]
Yeah, like in almost everything involving humanity...there are examples of what you are asking ...bad parenting skills are like most social ordering thought/action processes we engage in ; i.e. ; they can be learned and well, or learned and hardly at all....
You point out that the child in question has a father (biological??) who is also bi-polar, and also went medicated for a good deal of his life... This is not a thing to pass off as being the "fault" of medication...but instead should be looked into for biological/ genetic markers that predispose this line to these maladies....
Sadly, there are Dr.'s who have overperscribed ADD/ ADHD type of medications...and that could have caused problms for those kids...And possibly it has...
But I wonder what is the real root cause of so many people being recognized as having a syndrome,..a condition that is clearly a result of the person in question developing inadequate levels of brain chemistry necessary to thrive in our culture...
Is it the hormones in the chicken and beef?? Pesticides?? Plastics in every home silently giving off trace amounts of hydrocarbon esters??
See...? It is all chemical and then biologically related...going up the backsides of parents and Physcians is too easy also..........
At least...that is how it looks to me; a man with severe asthma, AADD, and two sons with similar problems...but two daughters that do not...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 126 (view)
 
Kissing The Ears
Posted: 9/19/2006 10:16:47 PM
Kissing the ..."___" body part of your choice...
If done with attention...with sincerity,...with all the tender,lustful, ....Everything that the moment can hold...
Oh hell yes...done slowly, done carefully, and done till muscle spasms ensue and screams are released...it is the quintessential art of love making...
Why do you suppose that kissing is witheld by so many prostitutes in so many cultures??? Simple,...because Women everywhere know how powerful kissing can be...
At least that is my experience....
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 227 (view)
 
Anyone from Texas HERE ??? If so introduce yourself
Posted: 6/27/2006 9:57:46 AM
Living here all my life, south, west, north and east....outside the DFW metroplex right now...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 28 (view)
 
How do you 'see' your God(s)?
Posted: 2/26/2006 10:35:59 PM
Feral...I read it that it was his "pet" theory...so I guess he wanted to quote some scripture to show that he was not the only person with the same "pet"...
But I could be wrong...I am after all a fairly defective half zombie letover/ half cyborg running a z80 chip as a CPU....but to be fair to me it is overclocked all the way up to 10Mhz....
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 21 (view)
 
How do you 'see' your God(s)?
Posted: 2/26/2006 3:38:36 PM
I wanna be admired Lady...please,please,pleaseeee.... Oh wouja pleeezeee.....:) :D
Seriously,...If by Gods you would also include a life directing precept...then I would have to say my "God" is either you, or the OT, or me, Or even Lord Dave and his alternate point of view...
I dont actually believe in any "god(s)" tho..I think the the universe we know is essentially random and chaotic in nature, and simply one universe in an uncountable number of unverses...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 16 (view)
 
Funky Stuff!!
Posted: 2/22/2006 5:51:39 PM
Yes I could easily read it...what misspelling???
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 56 (view)
 
female stalkers
Posted: 2/21/2006 5:57:21 PM

if she has boiled your pet rabbit .... you may want to call the police.

Down where I live we had a similar thing happen where a guy used a small sword to kill a beloved dog of woman he had been ...ummm close to for only one night... Left her dog stabbed thru the head on her lawn , pinned there with his sword ...because she would'nt call him...
Soo, I dunno about "calling"...but that was pretty effing psycho...And I have heard more guys talk like that... "She is Mine"...we were "together"...freakin nutso testerone overload cases...
But I have heard women use the nearly same thing talking to each other,"Oh you better not date him, he's Amber's ,sister's Ex"... and I never got that either,,,...So IMO we are both guilty, just guys seem able and willing to cross that line of "violence" more quiclky and completely compared to the ladies...soo whdda ya gonna do???
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 25 (view)
 
female stalkers
Posted: 2/21/2006 3:16:15 PM
Ive had two of those...Once while I was in the service....A girl who was staying at my apartment and sleeping on my couch waiting for her friend who was sleeping with my roomate...I asked into my bed and the next day, it was all like we were married or something....She followed me around for a couple of months.. and once when I was just out of the service...I was managing a bar and I picked up a girl who swore she knew me but wouldnt say from where or when....the next day she did the same thing as the previous girl...but she also began assualting female patrons who spoke to or hit on me...that went on for a almost two months...
Luckily..I was never harmed by either..but I could have been...did it change how I act toward women??? Not really...I am not a callous ***hole at any time...but neither do I put an idea into a womans head I have just met that I want to spend the rest of my life with "her" and "her" alone...
Sometimes there are individuals that just assume the wrong things in spite of being told repeatedly that there is nothing serious going on...
Men are probably more guilty of this than women...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 53 (view)
 
If You were made Pope...
Posted: 2/20/2006 4:06:37 PM
Kevin....who are you talking to???and about what???
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 16 (view)
 
SECRETS .... good or bad
Posted: 2/12/2006 8:51:08 AM
ummm moto...secrets are bad ....mmmmK??? And if you are keeping a secret in a relationship it would be bad also....mmmmk? So,iffn you are thinking about something bad and know something bad...you should immediately tell your partner all about it ,....mmmmK??? And if they were keeping a secret as well,...well then,...I guess you are both bad....mmmmmK???
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 87 (view)
 
Archaeology and the Bible!
Posted: 2/12/2006 8:46:39 AM
I think your thesis is a few generalizations..enclosed in a couple of suppositions and generally not even a thing that could, ...(in the way you frame it).. be discussed... I have no problem with historical accuracy and certainly not in the area (geographically) that you are pointing to...It is important to understand the past in that area now more than ever...witness the latest global spread of fanatical rioting and protests and all over a cartoon... I would say that if you are Really interested in the history of all of us and not just in re-enforcing what you already believe...then you should look to history without any thought to whether or not that history does or does not validate the accounts you are refeering to...just my two cents...and now Ill go...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 37 (view)
 
Anyone ever had an enlightenment experience?
Posted: 1/24/2006 7:57:43 AM
This has happened to me twice in my adult life...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 34 (view)
 
Why Is The King James Version...
Posted: 1/22/2006 12:07:32 PM

A greek interlinear is probably a good way to go. But then we are still left with a compilation of the early texts and partials and fragments. Someone still has to go to the trouble of producing a compiled greek text..
.
..yeah that is the direction I was coming from...The "Recived Texts"...the history on this subject is long and sometimes muddy,...but the "TEXTUS RECEPTUS…THE Received Text"...it was from this compilation that the KJV scholars were working...
And Won Long Pong , it was in the proces of that very study(for me personally) that question arose about certain things (I only remember the generalities) and when my questions were dismissed , and / or answered ina "boilerplate" fashion...I simply asked more questions...
Eventually I was Ordered to stop Questioning ...I didnt and this only made trouble...anyway,...I know it seems like I am picking on the KJV...I am not...I am trying to point out that the book we know and recognize today as the Bible,...is a big hodpoge and some of the podge was not necessarily done by men who very gifted translators...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 52 (view)
 
Can someone PLEASE tell me why Bush can't keep his dirty hands out of other peoples buisness
Posted: 1/22/2006 11:35:17 AM

[how does he find out who he DOESN'T want to spy on?]
,...
OMG ,..seriously?? Easy to answer,...It a retard sinple (designed that way on purpose,..really :))
drop method...he picks up the list and drops it on the desk of the person who will actually do Lil'Gerogs thinking for him...Then later they will drop on his desk,.. a single sheet of paper, with one sentence,.."no one left for today"... and there is the answer to your question...LilGeorge finds out when his interoffice mail runs...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 18 (view)
 
Religion Rears it's Ugly Head.
Posted: 1/21/2006 11:04:05 PM

Anyone ever have a relationship go kerflooey because your partner tried to convert you


I am more than a little ashamed to say that in the past when I was a fundamentalist minister , it was common practice in our church to "order" folks to quit seeing each other...tell folks that "If" their spouse did not make a serious conversion in front of us as witness, then they should break it off with that person...
And even sadder still that we were sucessful most of the time...I left under circumstances very similar ,, a girl, a demon, me being "completely unable to discern the will of the Lord anymore"...and never mind that I had been good enough of a minister before I dug in my heels so to speak that I was called 'Prophet" as a mark of a mantle of authority under Gods Rule...
I balked and became rather recalcitrant....It was only then , as I became an outsider that I was able to see the "how" of the unjust treatment that we had been so blithely meteing out...
I suppose that qualifies me as both an instigator and a victim...such is the way of things in any strictly adhered to or "fundamental" type of belief system...eventually the "human" factor creeps in and gains control of events and opinions...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 22 (view)
 
If you can choose a time for Jesus to return, when would it be?
Posted: 1/21/2006 5:37:32 PM

If you can choose a time for Jesus to return, when would it be?


I am not sure I even would do something like that...wouldnt that in itself give me godlike power?? I dont want that...It would be impossible to get my huge head in the door of my excellently godly house...
Nah,..I wouldnt do it...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 20 (view)
 
Why Is The King James Version...
Posted: 1/21/2006 5:32:11 PM
hahaha ....I thought that was Country and Western....but no matter...'

Cmon guys do none of you think that it at least bears looking into that a worldwide religion is undergoing a shift toward more fundamentalist thinking and the rationale for that shift is being touted as the "Original"..the "Most Accurate"...etc,...and it just happens to be a book compiled upon the order of a man who ( though admittedly brilliant for his time) nevertheless had a huge bone to pick with the Catholic Church nearly four hundred years ago...so, My point is Why all the complacency that his version is the right one and ..."most accurate"...????
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 20 (view)
 
If you can choose a time for Jesus to return, when would it be?
Posted: 1/21/2006 4:26:52 PM

I beleive we all need to find our own religious paths..

That is what the majority of people in the world think ...it seems reasonable, is non-threatening, doesnt contend with another person's "reasons" that their ideas are better for Everyone,..regardless of ethnic background, prominent religion where the person grew up and consequently got at least some measure of " local indoctrination"...and so is right for the individual...Good one Treat....
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 42 (view)
 
Can someone PLEASE tell me why Bush can't keep his dirty hands out of other peoples buisness
Posted: 1/21/2006 12:35:28 PM
I think it was Eleanor Roosevelt that actually got the ball rolling ...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 40 (view)
 
Can someone PLEASE tell me why Bush can't keep his dirty hands out of other peoples buisness
Posted: 1/21/2006 12:29:05 PM
Un really never gives a rip about third world countries in the past they didnt care really about mass killings. the un foreign soldiers raping women and problems with in there own walls on sexually harrassing women?? The united states did and they went in. They have paid when other countries promise to pay them back. That happens with every country.


I think there is some relative truth to the UN not caring... And as far as the United States ..well which "went -in" are you refeering to??
The pay back thing ,....yeah...But there is a very good explanation for that habit of smaller countries to appear to "never" pay back... On one hand,..The US has historically bargined with the money "as a loan" but forgiven it all or in aprt or modified it in exchange for land use.."Bases"...
On the other hand the terms involved in most of the structured "Loans" to third world countries is very nearly criminal in the exhorbitant rate and hidden clauses...causing in effect to keep that country in debt"to the US" in perputuity...except that they arent paying that money back to the US GOV..they are paying it back to US Banks and some International Banking concerns...The US GOV is getting some Vig out of the deal to be sure and political capital can sometimes be better than cash...So that is one explanation for that...
The UN not giving a flying fkk? Well ther is a reason for that and believe it or not it has as much to do with the US Gov as it does with the foreign Governments...
I tlooks to me to be very much dependent on which political party is actually in power...like now ther is no question who is in charge...It has been squarely the Republicans baby for more than five years now...no body else... (It good to know how to cast fradulent votes)...
And these people are classical " they're coming for us "folks...gotta have an enemy and if one aint handy...thats no problem..that guy over ther is looking at us kinda angry like...bet hes a BAD GUY...lets get him!!!
HEHEH...yeah thats just about every Republican I know... Afraid to be at peace..and convinced that there is a vast right wing conspiracy to give the world to KimIl Jong and Uncle Fidel Castro...and by golly,they are gonna stop it!!
Democats are not a whole lot better..but they are better...they at least wouldnt have gone into Iraq in the fashion that the Republicans have...If they took us there at all...



They have helped other countries out aka millions/billions and get slapped in the face. Now with north korea all the united states talks at the table is nuclear they are wiping out there own citizens in jails there. From babies to whole familes with bio technology basically the same things the nazis did to the jews just using advanced technology. We learned this over a scientist escaped and went to south korea. I remember him saying he felt sorry for them after he watched a whole family being gased and the father putting his own mouth on his daughters lips to give her one more breath of air. There are some dirty things at work in this world. And its really funny i was also remembering clinton gave away a lot of nuclear secrets and technology to other countries while in.
President Clinton got a blow Job in the White House...that is not giving away Nuclear Secrets...And seriously that is a remark that is way above the pale...and besides the Clinton Presidency IS OVER...has been since Albert Gore was elected President ..only to have activists Justices take it away and give it to King George... Gotta return favors after all... Its only polite...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 92 (view)
 
Where would Jesus shop?
Posted: 1/21/2006 10:54:30 AM
I think if that statement was true..America wouldn't be viewed as "The best place to live in the world"

Treat ,...hahah...the rest of the world Does see and think of America as The Best Place to Live.....They just want to live here without all the &*(% Americans
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 77 (view)
 
Oral sex un-Christian or just another form of masturbation?
Posted: 1/20/2006 6:39:49 PM

if your prepared to throw, u best be prepared to catch.


But,...but,...butt....Im a Top.. What do you mean ,.."catch??"
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 75 (view)
 
Oral sex un-Christian or just another form of masturbation?
Posted: 1/20/2006 6:06:43 PM

listen old man times are changing.


What was that??? Hey Im old too...I wanna be included in the silly......
But you really shouldnt call fokls names...you be one someday...and then you will just wish you could get some oral sex...whether it was Un-Christian or not....
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 52 (view)
 
What do you think Reality is..?????
Posted: 1/20/2006 6:04:05 PM
Point of Clarification....

Not sure what you mean by "perceptions of specific phenomena" though... could you illustrate that for me?


We are by nature ...group living animals.. as a group...think of that painting from the middle ages (Brittany I think,..or german village..) where the painter represented a number of townspeople looking at the sky as a number of "things" crossed the sky...
Townspeople say to town leader, burgher, mayor..whatever,.."What was that in God's Holy Name??" ...or words to that effect... Head man confers with local Priest, or Holy Man , Or Medicine Man...whatever...," Do you have Any Idea WTF?"....
Holy Man,.."It was God Throwing More of the Fallen To Perdition"...or words to that effect...
Words get duly repeated..Repetition Gets Repeated...Everyone says,"Yup, I heard that too"...and before you can say zippity-doo-dah..One Mans poor and illogical and superstitious explanation of an completely natural phenomena.....is now "God's Retribution" in action for a "FACT"...
ie..General concensus of specific phenomena.....
As I write this it occurs to me there was another such event in the middle ages where a pretty large meteor apparently struck the moon and was witnessed here as the moon turning blood red in the space of minutes...this was certainly seen as the work of the Devil ...
Hope this helps...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 28 (view)
 
At the Pearly Gates who will be held responsible?
Posted: 1/20/2006 12:55:42 PM

Pastors will be held more accountable than anyone


Much as that idea holds a good amount of appeal for me personally...I cannot agree that it is going to be the case...and the reason why is simple..."Pastors",."Ministers",."Apostles", "Popes"..are so far as any earthly evidence can provide...All Human...just like everyone else... No Different..Just as fallible...just as easily led astray themselves... (sure some of them wont admit it , but its true)...and because of that very Human quality...they arent any more or less Responsible for getting on the "Right" bus, train, rocket-ship to heaven...no more than any of us..
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 72 (view)
 
Oral sex un-Christian or just another form of masturbation?
Posted: 1/20/2006 12:46:46 PM

I'm so-o-o-o-o confused. I thought this was about oral sex or other forms of masturbation. It's all about sinning and to what degree?! A hijacking has occurred here!!!!!


Hehe,...no hijacking except that the question was
Oral sex un-Christian or just another form of masturbation?
and thereby it extends into whether or not it is sinning...See?
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 68 (view)
 
Oral sex un-Christian or just another form of masturbation?
Posted: 1/20/2006 12:12:17 PM
Again..that means nothing. I've known some "seasoned christians" that "sinned" more than myself, who is not a christian. Don't place christians on some pedistal that they just don't belong on.

Heheh...Sinned more often than myself",...heheh Treat you arent a Christian!!! You cannot have sinned!!! You arent a follower of that ethic and pathology,...your ethic is much less "problematic" and therefore less prone to and so-called "sinning"...
But your point about the "Dealers Being the Feelers" ..so-to-speak...is quite valid... I too have seen the "Godliest" of the "Godly" get caught with hookers and little boys, and drugs and hookers,
and little girls in their own flock and ...(gasp) "Married Women" members of their own congregation...And as far as the assertation that God doesnt care if you sin once or a million times goes,...well then why worry about whether or not playing with yourself and having someone orally pleasure you is either right or wrong???
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 89 (view)
 
Where would Jesus shop?
Posted: 1/20/2006 12:00:31 PM
Won Long Pon...

This is endemic to the US not the world of "modern" christianity as whole. This is the provincial thinking I was addressing.. As a frigging Canadian, I am tired of the US thinking that assumes that the rest of the world thinks the US way.


True enough I did not travel to Japan while I was still a Minister..But I did travel to central Mexico.., and I did deal personally with brothers and sisters from the Great Frozen North (canada) in our summer camps in Iowa..every year,..and I can tell you for certain that as far as Fundamentalist Charismatic, Non-Denominational Christians go (and this is My Personal Experience) they are Exactly as I described them... I did point out on another thread that I have no direct experience with "European" style Christian Churches....but that does'nt mean they are radically different...I will admit that they certainly Could be ,..But I doubt it...
And as far as Fundamentalist Christian Chariamatic Non-Denominational groups in Japan go ...they were (while I was there) just what I'd left...no different except for language and ethnic groups..

But you raise an extremely excellent point and one which you will find I am am ardent supporter of...It is true that Americans do have a tendency to assume that "Everything" is either just like what they want or will at the very least be able to accomadate their wants,needs, demands...regardless of where they go...and I will go a step further in pointing out that these very people are where the "ugly American" mythos springts from... Anyone that has had some world travel can see the fallacy in what Americans see and hear daily on their Televisions, and Radios...
Nature of the Animal in question I think...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 45 (view)
 
What do you think Reality is..?????
Posted: 1/20/2006 11:45:15 AM
[qoute]tim, no one has the right to tell you what reality is, thus it is your perception. That's not to say we don't have laws to abide by. Does that sound fair?

Point of Clarification...Sky I think you meant no one has the ability to force a different form of reality on you and enforce it if it differs from your personal preception??? Perhaps???
I ask because many people have the "right" to tell you what reality is, and that is borne out in your caveat about laws... Which we "jointly" agree upon as needing to be in existence and therefore enforced due to consenus based preceptions of specific phenomena as "real"...right?

Is this not approximately where you were tossing notes to us from???
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 16 (view)
 
Why Is The King James Version...
Posted: 1/20/2006 11:37:17 AM

Yes. The KJV is the version Jesus carried.

Funny side story about the KJV and it being the version Jesus carried....
Texas has the distinction of being the First State (I know but its true) to elect a Woman Governor...
Back in the 1920's ...folks in Wyoming might disagree but their lady gov was succeding her late hubby...
So,..."Ma" Ferguson as she was know.. was asked at some point in her term ,"Do we need Bi-Lingual" school books for the immigrant school children we are educating in Texas schools...?""
Her response was a very firm (while holding up a KJV ),"If the english language was good enough for Jesus- then it will be good enough for these kids I suppose!!"...
I dont know if she was being serious but I suspect it was exactly what she meant...heheh
So, even back then the KJV was considered to be the "Rule" and every other is a copy, adaptation, interpretation,..etc...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 59 (view)
 
Oral sex un-Christian or just another form of masturbation?
Posted: 1/20/2006 11:27:24 AM

you wouldnt like to shake the hand of a masterbator, (knowing he just masterbated), how would u feel if u just kissed your mother, after knowingly, she just went down on your father?


Did I see this alleged master-bator and not allow him/her to wash their hand?? (wait I am not living with these people am I???) because if I did see that and not allow them to clean up isnt that voyerism as well???
And as far as my mom going down on my dad...ewww..he has been dead for thirty seven years...I wouldnt want my mom doing that no, ...and wouldnt that be a whole other set of old testament laws being mis-interpreted that she would be breaking???

Treat is right about those two examples...you need something a little less,"shock-valuey.." and a little more plausible...
But Im still gonna keep doing it.....
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 58 (view)
 
Oral sex un-Christian or just another form of masturbation?
Posted: 1/20/2006 11:19:59 AM

Dose phone sex count as Oral sex?


WOW Bright,..I never thought of like that,...but in those terms, I suppose you are commiting adultery, and masturbating at the Same Time...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 16 (view)
 
Oral sex un-Christian or just another form of masturbation?
Posted: 1/19/2006 8:32:33 PM
Wouldnt that verse be in "Levlickticuss" ???
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 25 (view)
 
At the Pearly Gates who will be held responsible?
Posted: 1/19/2006 7:59:10 PM
And I totally agree with your point Seriously Funny Lady,...I do...I still contend that Whatever your belief...it is not your responsibility to know it is correct,...you cannot do that ,...it is a belief.
So, If you are told in the END that you were wrong ,...that is Not Your Fault...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 31 (view)
 
Can someone PLEASE tell me why Bush can't keep his dirty hands out of other peoples buisness
Posted: 1/19/2006 7:54:38 PM

To hear from some Americans on this topic would be great.

soo...what can I tell you about LilGeorge - King of America???
That he is a dry drunk, drug addict, semi-psychotic, insulated from the world surrounded by yes men sociopath??? Okay he's all of that...
I hate the man.. I dont know Anyone who doesnt... My telling you this is most likely being recorded and placed in a file about me,...and there will be a report...'cause these people are vindictive and long memoried...
I have no idea how to put a stop to their shenanigans worldwide..nobody I know does...They have stolen Our country... Our Supreme Court said it was Okay...Case Closed...All we can do is stay as lawful as possible and hope to regain control in the next electoral cycle...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 8 (view)
 
Wilson Picket is gone: Heart Attack
Posted: 1/19/2006 7:44:09 PM
I cried a bit....Then I was just sad...Still am...I was unaware that he was so young....
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 13 (view)
 
Oral sex un-Christian or just another form of masturbation?
Posted: 1/19/2006 7:40:37 PM
ITs dirty ,dirty, dirty....un-christian as ol'nicks own privates and I agree with the undercover lady...there's No Way I would give it up...And as for bashing the bishop...same thing...
I am quite sure that it is considered "sinful" ,...that ,like women not being allowed to be priests is a thing that Modern Day christianity should be glad to re-visit (no pun) and reconsider...
Like the other poster said, we wouldnt be able to do those thing with ourselves and share them with others If we were not supposed to...
I just know Im gonna get flamed for sayin it but there it is...nothing wrong or sinful with either activity...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 12 (view)
 
Why Is The King James Version...
Posted: 1/19/2006 6:57:50 PM
Name sounds familiar,..I would have to pull out books and sermons packed away for twenty years to look it up ...not gonna...heheh...
Are you telling us the the KJV is the Most Accurate???
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 17 (view)
 
great taoism
Posted: 1/19/2006 6:55:13 PM
Intelligent people know others.
Enlightened people know themselves.

You can conquer others with power,
But it takes true strength to conquer yourself.

yeah,...I knew I had heard that somewhere...smart fella that Lao...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 14 (view)
 
great taoism
Posted: 1/19/2006 5:45:52 PM
happens to the best of us...me more often than others...It is my TAO
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 12 (view)
 
great taoism
Posted: 1/19/2006 5:18:55 PM
not at all just put the "r" back...heheh
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
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great taoism
Posted: 1/19/2006 4:39:01 PM

i'm legless!

Such is the Way of the Tao of Midgets...legless...no,wait...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
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Why Is The King James Version...
Posted: 1/19/2006 4:31:18 PM
I cant tell you the number of lay-people,..or Ordained Ministers that confer with the KJV whenever there is a question...I couldnt begin to tell you the numbers of folks both here in the States and Mexico...not to mention Japan...that consider it to be the actual.factual, completely definitive .."last word" type of publication...
Sure there are numerous "versions " available ...but they are all of them "translations" of the KJV...
Adaptations, re-interpretations...whatever...still KJV...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
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great taoism
Posted: 1/19/2006 4:22:03 PM
thus it is with the Tao of midgets...quick trip up 'n'all
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 302 (view)
 
Do women prefer men with long hair or short?
Posted: 1/19/2006 4:18:34 PM
Aww go on shave yerr head....
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
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Where would Jesus shop?
Posted: 1/19/2006 8:58:55 AM

It never ceases to amaze me the things that get taken literally on here....., everything except the Bible...

To me (and I think I did understand your original post) it would be as appropriate to ask If The Was a Jesus Here Today, would He even Tolerate Christianity and Christians....
I totally agree about the GOP support. but that is I think only a symptom of a much larger issue that is endemic to Modern Christianity...
I hope that helps...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
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Why Is The King James Version...
Posted: 1/18/2006 10:19:50 PM

Um, not trying to be sarcastic Essaress, but weren't you supposed to learn all that when you were a Minister?


Oh.... you're Not Trying to be sarcastic???? So it just happens???
I am unsure of what your specific question is supposed to be here...
Please feel free to Enlighten Me...I am here to learn...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
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At the Pearly Gates who will be held responsible?
Posted: 1/18/2006 6:30:45 PM
Funny Lady....what has always bothered me in regards to your original question ,"Who is Responsible?"...is that If there Is a GOD, ...and GOD created us all,..And GOD is perfect, why are we not each and everyone of us aware of GOD??? Always...Where is the ,"I MADE THIS" stamp on every thing and person???
And if it is not there (and it aint) Why is that,,....????
What good is a religion where you demand total faith of your believers and threaten them with unimaginable torments "Forever", if they do not perform up your "Perfect" specifications...
How Can GOD be Perfect and produce imperfection???
If there is an afterlife,...I for one will be immensely angry at all the senseless death and suffering over the thousands of years of "civilized" mankind,..not to mention cavemen..and not one sign across the sky in universal language, not one "from birth" impression of the "Divine"...
Instead,..we are forced to listen to other imperfect creatures such as ourselves and "Choose"...choose to believe what he says...or him...or her...but CHOOSE...
So,,....
At the Pearly Gates who will be held responsible?
???????
Well That Would Be GOD...
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
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Why Is The King James Version...
Posted: 1/18/2006 6:18:22 PM
A book compiled in the 1600's thought to be "The Word of God" as opposed to other books that may or may not have been examined and rejected for inclusion ....???
Who,(besides the King) had final editing and exclusion authority over the publication??/
And what did the King know that makes his judgement then to be considered today to be the WORD OF GOD???
I understand that he was extremely educated..I understand that he was very devout (but not Catholic) ...I understand all that....
What I dont understand is how this State Sponsored effort in an era 400 years removed from modern times and thought is still held up as definitive, and generally purported to be the only accurate rendition of the "Holy Texts"...
What I am pointing to here is the obvious...it was a work comissioned by a man, and the actual work performed by men, and the final ,"Thats The Final Product" stamp of approval was given by a man...
So where is the Word Of God, Inspired by God , but written by man part????
 essaress
Joined: 11/17/2005
Msg: 75 (view)
 
Where would Jesus shop?
Posted: 1/18/2006 5:20:55 PM

Where would Jesus shop?


Abercrombie and Fitch...I think definetly that is where Jesus would shop...
 
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