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Life's Little Luxuries Posted: 11/23/2009 12:34:19 AM
being an eBay junkie, it seems whenever I need something I always look there and on Amazon first. I've gone thru phases of collection-building mania fueled sprees. after my mom died and I got a few glassware/dinnerware pieces that I always loved, I researched and built up quite a collection that lead to other styles, etc.. as I tell my sons, they can sell it when I'm gone. I stopped long ago, but gemstoned jewelry took it's place with 99% set in gold. again, I've stopped long ago and my sons can sell it or whatever, but I plan to give most of it away to my sis and nieces, and down the line when I'm done playing with them....that may take some time though. on a more "practical" side cough I've indulged my love of eyeglasses. since I do coordinate my jewelry with my clothes or mood (blush), and since I need some kind of vision correctors, I've had fun with "collecting" glasses. I love my cell and it's perks. I love my Sansa Fuze. I love my digital cameras. my favorite luxury is getting my spawn+ gf together for dinner out and watching them animatedly interact. that always makes for a great evening.

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Oct 5th entry in My Utmost for His Highest....defining sin Posted: 11/22/2009 3:03:51 PM
as I respect your choices. really, it's all good and never was any disrespect meant. I think you know that by now. I like to jump in now and then to ask, learn, debate, nothing more. never have I tried to "convert" any one to the dark side...lol

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Hey Socal lets DISCO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Posted: 11/22/2009 11:29:45 AM
sticking that cookie, well, you know what happens....that's the way the cookie crumbles.

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Oct 5th entry in My Utmost for His Highest....defining sin Posted: 11/22/2009 11:12:28 AM
gg... "they" (humankind) "got it" from within. hence my reference and yes assumption that moral behavior is an ingrain human trait pre-AD or according to your god. shoot me if I'm wrong, but no one can 100% establish that humankind did not innately evolve to a species with moral traits ingrained, just as many of you here swear by the written word (bibles, testaments, or any holy book (ask golfcoast his preference), isn't there just a wee possibility that humans have evolved prior to and past the time that your god was starting to send emails out to alert the masses that he had arrived? think about it

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Oct 5th entry in My Utmost for His Highest....defining sin Posted: 11/22/2009 5:50:34 AM
where did the first model for moral behavior come from if not from God? although I wasn't born till shortly after the Homo-Sapien Neandertalensis period, I can imagine that early man had a sense of moral conduct, but didn't share your god. I believe they turned to other symbols of worship: the sun, the moon, the stars, the trees, the waters, etc., even more recent aboriginals worshiped other symbols. that's why I say that moral behavior is ingrain, although not always practiced by humankind. just a thought.

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Oct 5th entry in My Utmost for His Highest....defining sin Posted: 11/21/2009 3:00:05 PM
imbettaoff, just don't reveal your religious bent on here unless it's the "right one"...whatever that is, but I believe Catholicism is in the lead. I'm running late and just found out that Fidel is joining Joseph and I at the Olive Garden for lunch. now I'm debating if I should wear the cute black sweater I just bought from Nordstroms or the pink one that Fidel just loves on me....decisions, decisions..... I can quote, too: Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? ~Epicurus

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Oct 5th entry in My Utmost for His Highest....defining sin Posted: 11/21/2009 1:47:53 PM
04, if I'm understanding your question correctly I'd say that you answered your own question: "it's pretty universal that there are generally accepted "goods and bads" which can and often do equate to negative 'feelings' or possibly I'd argue, inate understandings of sin then. " goods and bads. behavior. human nature. does there have to be a label (sin) for humankind's ingrain need for order and peace? lol...sorta like the path this thread has gone. just what the hell happened? gotta run, Stalin and I have a lunch date. ta ta!

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Oct 5th entry in My Utmost for His Highest....defining sin Posted: 11/21/2009 11:55:52 AM
sure, clear as mud. I still don't see the where and why of your rant, but I'll agree anyway. any other issues that "I" personally should shoulder because of my nationality, sex, hair color, body type, etc.

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Oct 5th entry in My Utmost for His Highest....defining sin Posted: 11/21/2009 10:37:05 AM
Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot had a religion, rejected their religions and proceeded to kill 100 million of their own people. REJECTED THEN KILLED. GET IT? Your case would have merit if you found an atheist who converted and committed mass murder. WHOSE CASE? GET WHAT??? as the only atheist who openly responded on this thread, again I have to ask, are you directing your post to me? am I to "absorb" your wrath for the actions of the Hitlers, Stalins, Castros of our world? the "book" as you keep referring to (the bible??) as the magic cure-all is amusing at best. as a believer, it's YOUR responsibility in insuring that every religious person act as you want them to. fair enough? I'll police all "atheists" and you will be accountable for all believers. let's shake on it!

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Oct 5th entry in My Utmost for His Highest....defining sin Posted: 11/21/2009 4:04:47 AM
rococco, I did research that just to see if any of those mad men had a history of religious doctrine at any time of their lives and was blown away at what I did find as fact. imo, theirs is an exception in point of a mad and radical mind in a position of power over a populace. I was baptized and raised Catholic by parents that weren't exactly "practicing" Catholics but felt compelled to go through the motions by sending us to catechism classes, etc. and church on Sundays without them. a "telling" foundation, don't you think? BUT, I never instilled or steered my non-beliefs on my 2 sons, they were and still are free to seek their own solace. surprisingly, around 5-6 years ago something came up and my oldest revealed his own self-proclaimed atheism. I was like WOW!!! so, I asked my youngest his religious slant and even to this day and according to his Face Book info is--and I quote: Agnostic Deist/Philosophical Daoist. that's my boy.....lol I hope I didn't veer off topic, but I think I illustrated just how easy it is to pigeon-hole people while ignoring what might lie behind the foundation of their madness, as in the case of any Stalin, Hitler, Castro or Mao. lol! did I just attribute my own sons choices to MY foundation of a perceived madness??

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Three pictures of members above my favourites list Posted: 11/20/2009 6:54:49 PM
# users that stalk your profile numerous times per day, i.e. repeated views of 50 or more times per day ... ^^^I like that answer, I like giving back to the community and giving stalkers a way to occupy their time. months ago I too asked this question, one man I know only from this site, the other I hadn't seen in ages anywhere on the forums as is where I remember seeing him, but never had contact. now, there aren't any. unless I'm mz taken (pun), slowly but surely, the site is dropping this and that feature. I must have slept through that class and didn't notice till now. lol

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Woman and Drama Posted: 11/20/2009 5:48:34 PM
and yet............ it was a MAN that resurrected this ancient thread!!!!! watzup wit dat Dave????? is life so (drama)free and easy for stoking up this fire?

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Oct 5th entry in My Utmost for His Highest....defining sin Posted: 11/20/2009 5:41:40 PM
All I need is an existence proof of a secular state where these wonderful things occur. When measures of happiness in America are performed, the happy, well adjusted are usually religious at the core. perhaps I'm being presumptuous in assuming your reference here is directed at my mention of atheism? I didn't read any opinions on here touting atheism or secularism, quite the contrary, an atheist has no bible to thump and again, only speaking for myself, many do not care what others choose to believe...and for what ever reason they chose to. btw, Stalin, Mao, and Castro all grew up practicing one religion or another, Hitler was a Catholic altar boy fer chrissakes!!! lol

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Oct 5th entry in My Utmost for His Highest....defining sin Posted: 11/20/2009 4:36:11 PM
assorted understandings of "a god." that sums up my thought exactly, lol, it even lends itself to me- your old atheist friend here. we as a species of thought processing animals I think we really do have a common goal of humanity, decency, living a moral lifestyle and yet so many have died violently because of ones choice to believe in whatever deity they choose, or if they choose not to believe in one at all. I can understand that demographics can steer ones beliefs, but really, just how many deities does it take to screw in a lightbulb? (sorry, couldn't resist) imo, a god gives some people a source and symbol of hope, love, guidance, one that would espouse altruism, leading (hopefully) to living a life of acceptance and tolerance of all those assorted understandings of a god. why is that so complicated?

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Oct 5th entry in My Utmost for His Highest....defining sin Posted: 11/20/2009 12:17:13 PM
Jack, at the risk of sounding like a cliché and showing bias (is that a sin?) I couldn't agree with you more about the chatter that this thread has generated. holy cow. a good percentage of this thread has to be guilty of one sin or another: lust in a sociologically compulsive way. gluttony as in the over-indulgence of quoting "sources" to prove ones self right, which could also tie into greed for the same reason. wrath. no need to explain that one. and even prideful sin: "I'm right and you're wrong. there is no other way but MY way". wouldn't all this displease a god, that is if all could agree upon "a" god that it would displease?

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Why do men want to see revealing pics right away? Posted: 11/20/2009 6:35:26 AM
after seeing how the responses have ricocheted to all points of the compass - literally, my pov is: 1. if you have to ask "Why do men want to see revealing pics right away?", then you are either extremely naive and lived your entire life tucked away in a cloistered nunnery or... 2. you are doing a good job of trolling and "broadcasting/billboarding" for more profile views of your revealing pics. period. nothing wrong with your pics, btw, flaunting is not against nature or pof rules lol, but a few of your choices seem to contradict ( ) your "dilemma" of being asked "for more revealing pics right away", but since you added those revealing new pics post 11/08, it seems to be that you've decided to no longer keep men from wondering about "seeing revealing pics right away ". sing it Aretha....

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Captivating qualities? Posted: 11/8/2009 12:01:41 AM
^^as do I, Match...as do I.

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Captivating qualities? Posted: 11/7/2009 11:27:39 PM
on him..........of course. that's what makes him "captivating"....or is that captivated?

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Captivating qualities? Posted: 11/7/2009 8:53:00 PM
I forgot to mention handcuffs.

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You can quote me on that ... Posted: 11/3/2009 5:44:04 AM
I like them French fried potaters. ~Karl Childers

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Captivating qualities? Posted: 11/2/2009 7:12:58 PM
"captivating" is subjective, imo. I'm just going to call it at it's basest-- chemistry, time stopping, zing, "it", heart pounding, knee buckling, naughty thoughts flashing, lust-inducing, making me feel all funny inside! like the flu. isn't it really a matter of being at the right moment with the right person that captivates our every nerve ending? kinda hard to label that feeling and why we feel it.

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You can quote me on that ... Posted: 11/2/2009 6:51:42 PM
“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.” ~Chuck Palahniuk “I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.” ~Adam Savage

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Why people stick with their own Posted: 11/1/2009 11:50:01 PM
many of us may feel out-of-place no matter the setting. sucks to be "many of us". I must have major esteem issues or something, as I often feel like a fish out of water when I go out with my caucasian dates (which is basically 99.9%), and even with those closer to my own ethnicity (the 1%). I can and do hold my own in conversation, but there are times when I just don't feel like I blend in. anywhere. wtf? lol anyone know a good shrink?

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Sitting solo on a scary Saturday (Halloween) Posted: 11/1/2009 1:31:32 AM
being one of the few adults that dresses up every year at the elementary school I work at, I had my fun Friday all decked out as a pirate wench. I live on a cul-de-sac and I didn't hear a single trickster come down my way, so, perhaps Halloween forgot our street this year, and I live in a busy Los Angeles city! for some reason, all holidays or days of significance of any kind that I spend alone seem to haunt me into feeling melancholy. I must be getting old.

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Oct 5th entry in My Utmost for His Highest....defining sin Posted: 10/29/2009 7:05:18 PM
it seems that kats do indeed have 9 lives...or can resurrect, perhaps reincarnate?

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Robot lovers - yes or no? Posted: 10/28/2009 5:24:00 AM
just let me know what kind of batteries it takes. I wonder if the robot would come with detachable adapters and if they work well with b.o.b.. hopefully they are rechargeable...actually, perhaps they're "green" and have solar panels?? wow. so many options! oh, and if one is getting hand cramps, ones technique needs reviewing.

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Oct 5th entry in My Utmost for His Highest....defining sin Posted: 10/27/2009 10:55:46 PM
as we veer into the hazy world of drugs and god.... funny that the likes of a naturally growing plant such as Peyote, psilocybe, cannabis and others, have been used in their true pure form for centuries to get closer to one's god. just sayin'............

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Robot lovers - yes or no? Posted: 10/27/2009 5:41:30 AM
your perfect mate - from personal quirks (maybe she's got an adorable giggle or his eyes wrinkle when he smiles) to facial features, body type - everything down to the last detail. Of course, this also includes personality, sexuality, interests, hobbies - the perfect partner you just answered your own question ( second half of question A & B) that most would answer with the option of taking the robot: the "robot" would fill our needs to our particular bent...the perfect partner. heart or no, we'd still make them fit, wouldn't we? why would we choose less than what we might consider the perfect exterior and demeanor? damn...it's mighty early.

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CA, DST, and POF...OH MY! Posted: 10/27/2009 3:53:30 AM
a country blowfish...is that like Country Joe and Fish?? just askin'...

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Panty-sniffing Posted: 10/27/2009 3:20:18 AM
^^^ah, come on match!! handling panties, one doesn't want to use Purel....hence snif........ oh never mind.

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what is with the phone number Posted: 10/25/2009 6:19:12 PM
I used to be so leery and guarded. you get the "instant phone number email" without any prior convos and I used to think "yuh?", does this person not ever worry about giving it to a psycho stalker? lol now, I give mine in return more readily if he intrigues me and has urged me to call, but it's funny how often they don't use it!!! I let it go and write it off to another one that I'm probably better off not knowing. hearing their voice and nuances in that first call reveals much to me.

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CA, DST, and POF...OH MY! Posted: 10/25/2009 5:00:12 PM
LOL thanks you two!!!! I do have the tendency to jump before I leap, resulting in the exposure of my dull-crayon status. I wear the dull-crayon crown at a rakish angle, I might add.......

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CA, DST, and POF...OH MY! Posted: 10/25/2009 4:15:05 PM
ok, as this seems to be on it's way to being voted off the island... here in California, we change our clocks on November 1, not today as was the usual in the past. in the past Daylight Savings Time was on a 6-6 month calendar (changing the clocks forward and backward every 6 months), since 2005 we've been on a 8-4 calendar. the time on my cell, keyboard, computer, atomic clock, etc. are all different. according to this: 2005 April 3 October 30 2006 April 2 October 29 2007 March 11 November 4 2008 March 9 November 2 2009 March 8 November 1 2010 March 14 November 7 2011 March 13 November 6 what time is it really???? I am assuming that some of my clocks made the change prematurely and that POF is still on the right time. .................nevermind. vote this blond moment off into the ozone.

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CA, DST, and POF...OH MY! Posted: 10/25/2009 2:55:07 PM
has anyone else noticed that POF (being Canadian admin??) is now running on DST? I thought something was screwy when I saw postings that were in the future and checked my coffee for "additives" that I might have missed on the label...

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Name one good thing about yourself. Posted: 10/24/2009 9:28:50 PM
gg I agree, sometimes we trust too readily and end up regretting we ever did.

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LET'S GET SCARY Posted: 10/24/2009 8:38:07 PM
POF's denizens are indeed scary in these spooky haunted forum forests, lot's of scary dark creatures that peek, lurk and watch from the shadowed depths...waiting to pounce on the innocent red-hooded wanderer that dares to walk along the pine needle cushioned paths. shivers

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LET'S GET SCARY Posted: 10/24/2009 4:01:05 AM
She thought somehow that Catholics could support abortions and seemed amazed that the Pope disagreed with her. She is proof that Hell is full and demons are walking the halls of Congress. yes, let's decide for women what's their decision to make. damn them and hell for being full and the Catholics that want to decide for them....?

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What is/was your dream? Posted: 10/23/2009 6:46:17 PM
I'm riding on Molly's coat tails with a big DITTO, DITTO, DITTO!

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POF Halloween party Posted: 10/23/2009 12:49:57 AM
Molly, look out for those parties in the corn fields....those children of the corn can throw killer parties!

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Name one good thing about yourself. Posted: 10/21/2009 5:40:09 AM
one good thing about me is that when I fvck up I really do it good! no half-ass fvck up with me, no siree Bob! I strive for giving it my all 100%. but. I do own my FU "accomplishments". it's a very humbling experience.

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Women & Tattoos Posted: 10/20/2009 7:14:21 PM
^^^odd man out? odd, perhaps but there are lots of men as well as women don't fancy ink on anyone at all. I'd have to say that there is a high percentage of men that don't like ink on women in particular. I also think that the over-40 set especially don't like it on women.

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Women & Tattoos Posted: 10/20/2009 5:33:10 AM
^^^match, personal taste aside, if you met someone and didn't bed them first date out, and everything is clicking deliciously and you haven't yet seen her body au naturale, and after a period of time you both come (pun intended) to the pinnacle of passion and strip down to the bare facts, so to speak, and you discover that she had some ink that just wasn't visible, nor did she feel the need to tell you that she did sport some...whew, what a long run-on sentence... would you stop mid-stream (oops. punage) and leave her without any hesitation? would you ask every woman you meet or hope to meet if they had ink right from the get-go as a filter? just askin'...

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Why would you lie about your age? Posted: 10/20/2009 4:56:26 AM
Probably 75% of the men I have met from internet dating sites have lied about their age, a few by double digits.About two thirds lied about their weight, some by over 50 pounds. It is discouraging and I find it hardly worth the bother any more. and if I had a dollar for every man that lists his body type as "athletic"..... "lying" is hardly gender-specific.

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POF Halloween party Posted: 10/16/2009 6:36:59 PM
yeah, my old eyes read "strap on"!!! now I'm trying hard not to crack a joke about Molly having a bird. oops, I just did, didn't I? with a straight face I say that Molly has a nice bird, actually it's a beautiful one. oh crap!!!

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Can you be TOO honest? Posted: 10/16/2009 6:22:22 PM
but the question remains ... are we being TOO honest?!!! honestly, I don't know!

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Did you settle? Posted: 10/16/2009 6:13:10 PM
Dee, my "rigidity" comment was an innuendo, this being a dating site my mind tends to wander and think about the menfolk....and stuff

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Did you settle? Posted: 10/16/2009 5:52:50 AM
^^ I'm in love...MARRY ME!!! I have 2 concerns here: a. I don't give out on the first replying post, geeeesh I don't know you! b. I'm not ready for an exclusive relationship, can I get back to you on the proposal? and to the above post ^^, imo, "rigidity" has it's place

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Did you settle? Posted: 10/16/2009 12:50:51 AM
I absolutely abhor the term "settling". period. how can one know ahead of time that they indeed settled? when first we meet and date a potential, generally we go in with the sense of hope and excitement and perhaps expectations. if over time things go south and we just don't mesh after all, why label this as "settling"? example: "we met and it was fireworks! 3 months later I find that I don't like that he does _____(fill in the blank) and I've broken it off, therefore, why did I settle for this person???" NO ONE is perfectly suited for another, unless you were manufactured as a Stepford model citizen, made-to-order. we all have faults (yes everyone), so why insist that our mate be perfect--whatever that means. are you perfect? ***IMO, the term "settling" is a cop-out for labeling why things went south. nothing more. sometimes we just don't mesh after all.

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Imprisoning nonviolent pot dealers -- a useless expense? Posted: 10/16/2009 12:17:16 AM
^^^Robert Crumb!!! honestly, an icon of his time. his style still delights me, although, he is a strange duck. eons ago, I fully explored the mouse park while under one "influence" or another several times, of course in those days it didn't cost much to visit the mouse empire like now, so we did often...and with much vigor! same with it's neighbor Knotts, which used to be free then to just roam.....and trip. Space Mountain was one of the BEST rides back then. keep on truckin'.....

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Name one good thing about yourself. Posted: 10/15/2009 11:55:21 PM
Match, you have the gift of "tenaciousness". one only has to read all your posts where politics are being dissected on a daily basis.

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