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Sahid
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Posted 6/30/2004 3:10 PM (GMT -6)

So I been on the board a while, and I really enjoy it. But every once in a while comments are taken personally, and it sounds like feelings are hurt. A thin skin toward others is good, but taking offense at everything is not. If we know (through experience?) that Jesus loves us, then we should be pretty secure. Therefore I propose everyone get it out of your system here. Make fun of yourself here. I'll start:

Zach, your name is Zach. Not Sahid. Get over it. You're not from Saudi Arabia. You're not from Egypt. You're from Kansas. And the libertarian phase you're going through is just that, a phase. Just because you didn't like your bedtime as a child, it doesn't mean that all rules are bad.

If you can't make fun of yourself, make fun of me. I'm very hard to offend. There's too much to be happy about.

Watch me fly. Freedom like wings and I will use them. Freedom like wings and I will spread them wide. - Stavesacre

1Heart
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Posted 6/30/2004 3:14 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Sahid

So I been on the board a while, and I really enjoy it. But every once in a while comments are taken personally, and it sounds like feelings are hurt. A thin skin toward others is good, but taking offense at everything is not. If we know (through experience?) that Jesus loves us, then we should be pretty secure. Therefore I propose everyone get it out of your system here. Make fun of yourself here. I'll start:

Zach, your name is Zach. Not Sahid. Get over it. You're not from Saudi Arabia. You're not from Egypt. You're from Kansas. And the libertarian phase you're going through is just that, a phase. Just because you didn't like your bedtime as a child, it doesn't mean that all rules are bad.

If you can't make fun of yourself, make fun of me. I'm very hard to offend. Ther's too much to be happy about.

Thinking...give me time!

"Sometimes all we can do is go back to the character of God, and drop anchor there."

Sisters of Cain
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Posted 6/30/2004 3:15 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Sahid

So I been on the board a while, and I really enjoy it. But every once in a while comments are taken personally, and it sounds like feelings are hurt. A thin skin toward others is good, but taking offense at everything is not. If we know (through experience?) that Jesus loves us, then we should be pretty secure. Therefore I propose everyone get it out of your system here. Make fun of yourself here. I'll start:

Zach, your name is Zach. Not Sahid. Get over it. You're not from Saudi Arabia. You're not from Egypt. You're from Kansas. And the libertarian phase you're going through is just that, a phase. Just because you didn't like your bedtime as a child, it doesn't mean that all rules are bad.

If you can't make fun of yourself, make fun of me. I'm very hard to offend. Ther's too much to be happy about.

Zach, I had a shirt like that, once. Then my dad got a job.

BJS
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Posted 6/30/2004 7:03 PM (GMT -6)

Ha! Zach, that's great! Thanks for making me smile. Big Smile

Brett

"Siste viator et memento mori."

quest for truth
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Posted 6/30/2004 7:44 PM (GMT -6)

Here's a few Zach.

I'll make fun of myself by sharing a few things about myself. Eyebrow

Everytime I hear the dirty word "exercise" I immediately wash my mouth out with chocolate.

My quest in life is for truth. I TRY to live my life in such a way that when I die the preacher won't have to tell lies at my funeral. Big Smile

I am proud of myself in that I am not a snob, I am just better than "those other folks" Tongue

I'm just joking around. I read these are some of the popular sayings on t-shirts. Clown

Thanks for lightening things up, Zach! Smile

DLW
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Posted 7/1/2004 6:14 AM (GMT -6)

I believe God has put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind I will never die.

dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

quest for truth
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Posted 7/1/2004 6:18 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
I believe God has put me on earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now, I am so far behind I will never die.

DLW, that was great! I laughed so much at that. Big Smile

I'll have to remember that one. Clown

Sahid
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Posted 7/1/2004 10:08 PM (GMT -6)

Dear Sahid (if that is your real name),
I've noticed that every time you post on the discussion board you make sure to be the last one to have posted on just about every category before you leave. You should see a shrink. I'll be praying for you, weirdo.

Watch me fly. Freedom like wings and I will use them. Freedom like wings and I will spread them wide. - Stavesacre

quest for truth
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Posted 7/1/2004 11:27 PM (GMT -6)

Dear QuestforTruth,
I've noticed that you have even more severe problems than Sahid because you can't let well enough alone. You feel left out if you don't get a personal letter too. I'll be praying for you even more, you extreme weirdo. I think you have serious probs and definitely should see a shrink!

DLW
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Posted 7/2/2004 4:08 AM (GMT -6)

Dear dlw,

I highly recommend for you not to see the movie, Spiderman II, since having gone through some recent difficult personal travails, you might get it into your head that you are spiderman. And as much as Pow may resemble Doc Ock at times, you do not want to try swinging from building to building while wearing spandex.

Truth Aficionado
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Posted 7/2/2004 4:57 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by DLW

Dear dlw,

I highly recommend for you not to see the movie, Spiderman II, since having gone through some recent difficult personal travails, you might get it into your head that you are spiderman. And as much as Pow may resemble Doc Ock at times, you do not want to try swinging from building to building while wearing spandex.

By all means keep the spandex on, otherwise... Blush

, you could get thrown in jail! Not to even mention, scarring the children.

SwanLake
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Posted 7/2/2004 5:15 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by sparknheart
By all means keep the spandex on, otherwise... , you could get thrown in jail! Not to even mention, scarring the children.

Scarring AND scaring the children.

"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients.
But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces,
and this is what annoys me." -- Jack Handey

DLW
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Posted 7/2/2004 5:19 AM (GMT -6)

Dear dlw,

Being nearly killed by a car at age 7, does not grant you super-powers! And from an open-view-theist perspective it may or may not have been fore-ordained by God, but you can rest assure that God does have plans for you, but there are much, much bigger things for you than endless exchanges with Pow or BemaBound so get going with the rest of your life!

And, don't forget to tuck your shirt in. Otherwise, people might see your costume underneath as you start to run down a deserted ally or what-not.

Truth Aficionado
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Posted 7/2/2004 5:25 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by SwanLake

quote:
Originally posted by sparknheart
By all means keep the spandex on, otherwise... , you could get thrown in jail! Not to even mention, scarring the children.

Scarring AND scaring the children.

Yes, and they would be in need of an anti-event to heal from such a deeply scarred and scary experience.

DLW
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Posted 7/2/2004 5:42 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by SwanLake

quote:
Originally posted by sparknheart
By all means keep the spandex on, otherwise... , you could get thrown in jail! Not to even mention, scarring the children.

Scarring AND scaring the children.

You've never seen me in spandex!

Judge not lest ye be judged.

dlw

SwanLake
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Posted 7/2/2004 6:10 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by sparknheart
Yes, and they would be in need of an anti-event to heal from such a deeply scarred and scary experience.

Got a corpse?

"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients.
But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces,
and this is what annoys me." -- Jack Handey

Truth Aficionado
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Posted 7/2/2004 10:16 AM (GMT -6)

Soul SparknHeart????......hmmmmmmmm,
I thought that came with the brain.

1Heart
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Posted 7/2/2004 8:04 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Sahid

Dear Sahid (if that is your real name),
I've noticed that every time you post on the discussion board you make sure to be the last one to have posted on just about every category before you leave. You should see a shrink. I'll be praying for you, weirdo.

Too funny! Now that I can relate to! Eyebrow

There was one night that I was up posting, and noticed that I had posted on every category (but the last - ethics - so, I started a thread on Ethics, then made some stupid comment about winning at Bingo because I had a straight line (that's the problem when everyone else is hours ahead of you, and you're left sitting at your keyboard late enough).

Maybe we should see the same shrink!

Bandit

Jo-Anne

"Sometimes all we can do is go back to the character of God, and drop anchor there."

1Heart
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Posted 7/2/2004 8:08 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by DLW

Dear dlw,

I highly recommend for you not to see the movie, Spiderman II, since having gone through some recent difficult personal travails, you might get it into your head that you are spiderman. And as much as Pow may resemble Doc Ock at times, you do not want to try swinging from building to building while wearing spandex.

Dear moon_river_j,

Who are YOU laughing at? You know you secretly wanted to be either CAT WOMAN or THE FLYING NUN (quite the contrasting character eh?)

(I also wanted to be a mermaid).

Jo-Anne

"Sometimes all we can do is go back to the character of God, and drop anchor there."

DLW
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Posted 7/3/2004 6:38 AM (GMT -6)

I really liked the scene in Shrek 2 where as the wave comes in, Shrek finds himself kissing a red-haired mermaid and so his wife takes her and throws her out into the ocean where we see some pretty big sharks jump at the bait, right away.

dlw

1Heart
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Posted 7/3/2004 9:54 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by DLW

I really liked the scene in Shrek 2 where as the wave comes in, Shrek finds himself kissing a red-haired mermaid and so his wife takes her and throws her out into the ocean where we see some pretty big sharks jump at the bait, right away.

dlw

What's even funnier - is the "Oh well, dear (sheepish) look that Shrek gives her - the "I thought it was you, what can I say look!"

(As if!) Big Smile

"Sometimes all we can do is go back to the character of God, and drop anchor there."

Sahid
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Posted 7/5/2004 5:56 AM (GMT -6)

I've been writing these posts about God being able to tell certain things about the future by seeing the present, and they are pathetic. Basically I've been rephrasing the other side's arguement in the most unfair manner. It's mostly just me setting up a strawman for others to tear down. The crazy thing is no one from the other side has had anything to say, at least nothing substantitive. So I urge you, if you have not affiliated yourself with the open view, hurry and tear down my strawman. Show how it does not represent your views. Quickly! Before I start thinking I'm right. My behavior should not be enocouraged. Set me straight.

Watch me fly. Freedom like wings and I will use them. Freedom like wings and I will spread them wide. - Stavesacre

Sahid
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Posted 7/5/2004 10:48 PM (GMT -6)

My name looks like Salid which reminds me of salad. I don't even really like Salid, I mean salad. Oh yeah, I've been meaning to tell you something BowlUponSpinner, you stay up way too late. Dudemanseriously. Go to bed. You old people should be setting a better example. Oh. I just checked your profile. You're on Chicago time. Is that two or three hours ahead of Waco time? Do you go to Canada sometimes? Do you know what a Canuck is? Do you know how to spell Canuck? I don't. I've also decided that all cookies are to be dunked until the bubbles stop and the fingers are numb. Yes, yes. Let it be written; let it be so. My work here is done.

Watch me fly. Freedom like wings and I will use them. Freedom like wings and I will spread them wide. - Stavesacre

quest for truth
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Posted 7/6/2004 12:08 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
My name looks like Salid which reminds me of salad

I hear ya! QuestForTruth = QFT reminds me of BLT (sandwiches). I like them but not too often. Big Smile

quest for truth
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Posted 7/6/2004 7:21 AM (GMT -6)

Sahid, I LOVE humor! I appreciate you starting this thread. BTW, your humor is great Big Smile

Here are some fun bulletin announcements I thought you and others might enjoy -- I just received them from a friend. Clown

Subject: Church Bulletins
(Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services)

1. Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa, will be speaking tonight at Calvary Methodist. Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.

2. Announcement in a church bulletin for a national PRAYER & FASTING
Conference: "The cost for attending the Fasting & Prayer Conference
includes meals."

3. The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water." The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus."

4. "Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Don't forget your
husbands.

5. The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict.

6. Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our community. Smile at someone who is hard to love. Say "Hell" to someone who doesn't care much about you.

7. Don't let worry kill you off - let the Church help.

8. Miss Mason sang "I will not pass this way again," giving
obvious pleasure to the congregation.

9. For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

10. A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow.

11. The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.

12. Ladies Bible Study will be held Thursday morning at 10 AM. All ladies are invited to lunch in the Fellowship Hall after the B.S. is done.

13. Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.

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