JoeUser ForumsThe beauty of Simon is this, He sincerely means every word. Awwwwwww.... V^^^^^^^^V bites you
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To: lulapilgrim In France, non-citizen Jews and Catholics can wear their repsective cap and Crucifix, right? As I keep telling you, no one in France, citizen or not, may express either by word or sign, a religious sensibility in any aspect of the French Public Sphere. The girl wasn't coerced (and if she was, more power to the French authorities for doing so) she was simply required to obey the law, like everyone else. The passions of re
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but what is more comical is how this conversation from the religious right ended up on the same old cliches...abortion, gay marriage and the french. ya'll need a new batttle cry, lol. Little wit and less sense, in both the article itself and the response. Why not address an issue or two, rather than merely parrotting the same tired opinions. We all know you like it from the Left (what passes for it, here). And?
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lw posting on emps account in error.
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Hmmm, very interesting. I wonder how does the French government treat Muslim women and girls? Are they allowed to wear the full head scarfs to school which is very much a part of their relgious expression of Islam? No French student, whether at High School (or its French equivalent) or at College can wear openly a religious symbol. No, they can't. Catholics can't wear crucifixes, Jews can't wear the Star o
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America is not remotely 'secular'. Religion pervades everything from vanity license plates to presidential elections. The provisions of the Constitution dealing with religion ensure two things - 1) that the individual is at liberty to pursue his religious convictions free from the tyrrany of religiously-inclined States; and 2) that government is free to pursue its essential work without paying attention to the rantings of Mullahs of all descriptions and all faiths. You have no right to
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To: Texas Wahine Your words to Sabrina make me envious. You've no need to be envious. If I understand anything of men, I understand why you had the difficulties you have had in your marriage. Many men are afraid of their wives. Some men are in awe of them. I think this is so in the case of your
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To: foreverserenity Unfortunately the influence of outside factors, namely friends, and everything else around that lets people negate who they are because of how they look or do not look has been a much bigger influence than I realised. In a way I was much like her when younger, shy, unsure of self...she has to discover
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You may be a 'monster' but You're MY monster. I'm only a wannabe monster, a monster in theory as it were. But you're right as to whose monster I am.
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Of course, none of the foregoing, whether correct in its analyses or not, denies the existential need for love to which we're all subject. It's just that the need for love is not the same thing as love itself - and the commonest mistake we all make is to equate the intensity of our desire to be loved with love itself.
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I make no claims for this article beforehand. I don't claim that it's coherent or consistent, or that it's particularly well thought out. Given the chaotic nature of my thoughts on love, there's no reason why it should have any of the above-mentioned qualities. C'est la vie c'est la guerre. What is love? How do you love others? Can you, and shoul
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Thank you all, and especially Sabrina. I've been at work, and too tired to do anything at all with this at the end of the day. There isn't anything to be done about those already here. They can't all be rounded up and sent back, and there's no adequate incentive for them to come forward voluntarily to be sent back. So make them legal - at a cost. They all can all pay treble taxation for the rest of their lives, and Granny and Grandpa and Cousi
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To: SSG I knew it was expensive to go through the proces of becoming a legal resident, but $10K? That is completely insane! Whenever, in the natural course of a conversation, my status as an immigrant becomes a topic I make it a point to mention the cost. Not because I resent paying it but beca
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It's two days after our latest trip to Norfolk and the Immigration and Naturalization Office there. It's a day after finally being able to renew my driver's license - despite a couple of (to me) heart-stopping moments in which the DMV clerk wandered vacantly away, carrying my passport and its latest endorsement - the one that says I'm legal for another year.
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To: stillkoontz Something I've noticed in both your posts (which are the first to tempt me out of my most recent retirement from JU, both of which I thought were well written, well informed and cogently argued - though from flawed premises). You assume that God is good. Why not assume that God is beyond any human understanding of good and evil?Why not assume, as a first principle, that any such understanding, even if it derives in its first instance from the Imago dei , is necessa
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God wants us to love him and follow him on our own? It's cruel to laugh at the simple. So excuse me a minute while I choke a little on my own laughter. Why does God want us to love 'him'? Want implies deficiency, and God cannot be deficient. So God does not 'want' us to love It (him, if you must). Perhaps God wants us to love him so that he can be in relationship with us? That's rather like a grain of sand saying to a mountain that there must be a relationship between them: something la
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(above post by LW....and Gene, if you're reading this thread and still need a better computer, email me @ little_whip_@ hotmail. Gideon has something for ya.
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I for one like the fact that blacklisting doesn't work on articles posted to the forums, and I've never thought that an article posted to the public forum should be accepted with commenting disabled. If you neither want nor can handle comments, the article has no business on the forums in the first place. For too many years a small handful of asshats have abused the blacklist feature, throwing stones at those who could not reply. This did mo
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Oh Fuck Me Buffy with a length of yard hose. At some point I'll remember to sign in before posting a comment. The above was posted by myself, not little-whip.
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^ that was LW, of course ^
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I think that having kids pay for their own stuff is good, anyway Yup. I'd have done something similar, and was thinking along those lines before I scrolled down to see your own solution. Whether he damaged it through neglect or the thing was defective (and out of warranty) he'll learn the valu
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My first wife used to say (and for all I know still says) that other people's children were the best contraceptive she knew of. And nothing I've heard, or seen in shopping malls, or anywhere where there are kids, has ever convinced me that she was wrong. I quite like children. But they have to be thinly sliced and fried in good olive oil. And try as I might, I've never been able to eat a whole one. Baby back ribs, anyone?
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Today is my seventh day of gainful employment with T. And as a Company, T continues to impress. It's apparent that there's a policy to employ young, talented, energetic people as project managers. It's becoming apparent that it's also policy for these young, energetic, talented people to provide ongoing support to the operators working on the actual projects. I spent a very interesting forty minutes with Jf this afternoon, being introduced to the intri
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