Are the banks in your neck of the woods lending money to unemployed people who have never started or run a business on their own?

Starting your own business doesn't resolve the issues discussed here.. Ibli its a strawman argument.

I never excluded any one I just said stay on topic and do not razz people. That is forum rule. If FSM is the intelligence that designed this universe then why would it need 2/3 of classroom time?

I agree that there is a Hell and some of the people there have STD's but beer is too nasty to be in my Heaven.

I believe in the God of the Bible.

Believe what you want, but how about a little respect as the OP asked.

I've been reading through all these posts and noticed something kind of odd. The original question was "Does 1 always equal 1". Nobody has disproved that yet. All of the math in here keeps showing that other things can ALSO equal 1, but there has not been an instance that shows that 1 does not equal one.

Why have we assumed that the laws of science/nature are permanent when we live in an evolving Universe? Science basis it’s existence on “Evolution” and yet it fights and
and defends to remain “Fixed & Static” with it’s own theories and formula’s???

Well gee, thanks for the complement, but I do crave something with some substance. It would be nice if the guy put something in the tagline that cited something from the interest section or the profile and reference that in his message.

Do any women agree?
Do men understand this?

Anyways, this chic doesn't even offer to pay!!

Why didn’t President Bush do some thing or why ain’t President Obama doing some thing, hmmmm thinking about it maybe the question should be why ain’t I doing some thing about it????

Looks like a DEAD CAT BOUNCE to me. What do you all think? Anyone still convinced Obama-conony is going to work? Anyone still buying that it was because "he inherited this mess from Bush"? Inviting you to please state some substantiated facts to back up your opinions.

When you go worship the FSM in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or you donate all your money to the Pastafarians, then I'll believe the FSM is your god. Till then, I think you're just taking the p*ss. But poorly, because your words imply that you really don't believe a word of what you say. That makes your comments entirely off-topic.

hi.. OP, my main point is to say that I love studying the bible and I feel confident to say that your post is full of biblical errors.... Jesus is in both lines, birth mother and Joseph....

meets all requirements of the Messiah, right down to "none of His Bones would be broken"

anyway, every one has to study it for themself .. I do not have one speck of doubt that any diligent bible student will see that Jesus is indeed the Son of God sent to Redeem mankind... blessings

If anything, more people seem to be moving in more of a libertarian direction from what I've seen. Which, personally, I see as only being a good thing.

The crux of the debate is, from what I know, whether it says you can have guns, period, or whether, because a militia is sometimes necessary, ownership of guns by individuals is also necessary. The latter interpretation would turn on what one means by "militia."

BTW, I don't call McVeigh a "Christian terrorist" because he seems not to have been very religious. I DO however call fundamentalists who bomb abortion clinics and murder doctors "Christian terrorists." I'm not going to label Hasan in this way until I know more, but it won't surprise me if we find out he saw himself as committing an act of jihad. (It also won't surprise me if we find out that he's just a guy who finally snapped).

I noticed something pretty strange in my time on these forums, mainly men calling women gold diggers for demanding that a man have a job and/or a car. Since when did looking for something other than street bums start to mean that these women are gold diggers.

I'd advise against it. There is a Ray Bradbury story that comes to mind. I believe it's called "The Scythe". Quite a sickening story, but incredibly compelling. It really made me realise that having the power to prevent death does not automatically lead to a very pleasant existence. There are other Sci-Fi stories of a similar nature, that all ask the same questions, what if you could prevent all death, what if you could make all people perfectly healthy. They always seem to end in a very horrible way.

God is more Holy and Loving than man so if you have compassion God Has More... God Has that persons Greater Good in Hand, maybe that persons prayers will be realized in Heaven and Eternity, I doubt they will be angry at God for His Perfect Timing... how often have we witnessed the people with the most afflictions be the happiest and strongest, a light in a dark world like Terry Fox... if you think that you have the answers and are more loving than God remember Gods Word says that any good in us comes from God so pls remember to thank God for the compassion that you show.... blessings

My bad, I thought the topic of this thread was about gun control not general violent crimes that may not even have a gun involved.

Speaking of misleading, did you even bother to read to the end of the article you posted?

James 4:3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
NIV

The forums are often short-staffed with Mods as it is, I honestly don't think there is the man-power to police any race forums, or the stomach to risk the upset and ill-will that would likely be generated.

What's the big deal about not having kids at 23? I've met and seen plenty of people who don't have kids at 23. 23 is young and you should be single without kids. It's not weird and it's not a big deal. I'd venture to say that it's even 'normal' for the young women on POF not to have kids.

"Polls" can be made to say anything that the pollster wants to hear.

Yeah, HR 3962 is change alright. Pay a fine and/or go to jail, if you don't buy health insurance. Pelosi speaker of the House or chairwoman of the Politburo??

Gun control leads to higher crime in the same way crimes against murder causes murder. That's just stupid.

Current numbers. . .

http://www.gun-control-network.org/GCN02.htm

hes affectionate in public if hes drunk...

I'm just curious why many men I have met ask me if I have children, and I say no. Their response is "weird, why not?".

Why am I the odd one for practicing safe sex and being responsible?

Because it is easier to stop a train wreck when you limit how far the train can travel.

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Does He/She like me?
How do I get a date?
Do I look fat in this?
My Co-worker is hot, what should I do?

Wrong. See above paragraph and see the 9th Amendment, which the founding fathers are saying in essence, 'even if we forgot to put it in, if the people demand it, they get it'.

The USSC found in one case involving the legalization of marijuana in California that the Commerce Clause was impuned because marijuana in California might cross state lines. Thus, Congress had the right to regulate it under the Commerce Clause.

Link?. . . or it didn't happen.

All the stats are per capita. You're setting up impossible criteria.

We have strict gun control laws and similar population diversity. We have much lower PER CAPITA rates of violence. In fact, our biggest problem is sharing a border with a nation that has no real gun control laws.

This tells me that I am to pray Gods will and not that of my own. David wanted his own desires to be the same as the desires of God. If I pray a fleshly prayer for cash or a new car, I dont think God hears these. Jesus on many occasions asked for Gods will and not his own. It is prayers such as these that are heard.

What I've discovered is that most criticisms of religion are usually founded in ignorance of religion, because most people are truly ignorant of religion.

But again, I ask the question - how come the murder rate is so much lower in countries that have gun control than in the U.S. that doesn't have gun control?

Or you could look at it another way, and simply heavily penalize those who hire them? They come because there is a market for their labor. How about attacking the problem at its source??

Prove it. Period.

While I'm not enough of a constitutional scholar to really address this (and I suspect that neither are you), I wonder at this from an admitted secessionist. Hmmmm.... I can just imagine the "states rights" uproar if Washington began REALLY assaulting state privilege when it comes to internal matters such as this.

Income taxes were actually a temporary method in the beginning to help with the Civil War expenses. Over the years it kept coming back as a way to help with government expenses, and then in the early 1900s it became a permanent fixture of our American way of life.

But, if you can provide Ugarit inscriptions that clearly state that one of the names of the goddess Asherah was Chavah (not Hawwah, as that is only one form of pronunication of semitic languages and therefore unreliable), then you would be really helping me out.

In Hebrew, the word simply means a tree that is worshipped as an idol. Any divine connotation comes from the context of its usage. However, the general usage of the word in the Bible is that it is non-referential, and so there is no reference to any divinity called Asherah at all.

I get very worried when you call Canaanite beliefs "a cult". The only times I've heard anyone refer to a cult, was things that everyone believed were complete BS, and that represented a factious minority that brainwashed its members.

That suggests to me that you don't have any belief that the claims about Asherah are even valid, and that the polemic is not only justified, but based in reality. That's inconsistent with your views. Did you mean to say religion?

In Hebrew, the word simply means "strong being". Any divine connotation comes from the context of its usage.

I keep pointing out that if you've never really read the Bible in the English, or skimmed a bit of it once in Hebrew, and then read it, it sounds very plausible, because it reads as if someone really made a huge effort.

Very few people have that level of expertise with the Bible, and still hold by the DH. But there are hundreds of thousands who do have that expertise, an don't think the DH is plausible.