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Noo Yawk Nooooooo Yawkkkkkkkkkkk in Misc JoeUser Forums

I'm leaving on a jetplane... And headed to New York for seven days and seven nights, before flying back to Richmond on Sunday. The days I'm going to be spending on the Seventh Floor of the Empire State Building, attending an AutoCAD 2006 bootcamp, and every night but the last I'm probably going to spend at the hotel. If I was going as a tourist that would be

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I know I'm not supposed to let this 'drop'.. but how many variations on 'wow that sucked...' are there? I have sympathy for you all though - these jobs are hideous . I didn't realise how good my life has been till I wrote thead. };->

Reply to On conversion, and why I did it twice...or was it once? in Religion JoeUser Forums

To: Satan's Advocate (like he needs one...) Your apology is accepted. It was a minor point (but what's life without minors or points?) and you responded with a modicum of grace - which I appreciate. I guess you only care about Jesus and John the Baptist when it suits your own purposes.

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To KFC: Possessed is an intersting term you used. It's not a "God thing." I don't think you've made a huge leap from one group to another as much as you think you did. Same thing...different name. This is an example of what I referred to as the terrors that overtake Christians who are unsur

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To Satan's Advocate (like he needs one...) I have to admit though I was wrong when I said that KFC wouldn't beat you in a Bible-quoting match (and I hope to clarify that I did not mean that in an insulting way because I'm sure you would beat me in a Bible-quoting match because I don't have as much of the Bible memorized

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To: all who have so far responded, and those who might respond - "Time to move on", I said. Well that's what you get for writing comments after cutting grass (I can't call what we have here 'a lawn') in almost 100 degree heat - an addled brain. I find that after all I'm not yet done with the intransigence of Jesus's pet idiot, nor her new-found buddy: so I recant (how's that for dramatic? Right up there with Galilleo...) my last comm

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To KFC: As always, EOIC...I enjoy chatting with you...but wish you'd leave some of the drama behind. You're at liberty to wish for anything that takes your fancy. But as I've said before, this is my blog and no one here has to follow your rules. And I'm done exposing your utter folly t

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To KFC: While Peter yet spoke these words the Holy Spirit fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished as many as came with Peter because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost, for they heard them speak with the gift of tongues and magn

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To KFC: Judas was a zealot also. Look what happened to him. I am no longer a zealot (save when it comes to chastising unmitigated ignorance, overweening vanity and bloated ego on the part of self-proclaimed 'Christians who don't know the most basic principles of the faith they profess) - so the

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To KFC: First of all. Are you telling me that Jesus was not filled with the spirit before this? Hmmmm? Do you remember when he was still in the womb and John the Baptist lept in his mother's womb? What was that all about? This was the testimony of John's spirit concerning the presence of t

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To I'mJustMe: I now have to wonder if I'm ever going to have an enlightening experience with what could be 'my God' (who/that has eluded me thus far in life). The more you want such an experience the less likely you are to receive it. The effect is called the 'lust for results'. Simply put, des

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To KFC: Well, I begin to understand you at last. You are wilfully , deliberately obtuse - you make the most blatant errors, simply in the hope that you will eventually wear out anyone whom you cannot out argue; or whom you can't browbeat with scriptures you yourself don't understand; or whom you can'y bully into believing you are some sort of theological superstar. For instance your response to a set of scriptures that qu

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(lw here, too lazy to sign in) I try to avoid those words, even IF I have been through a similar experience because people 'feel' things differently. One of the most tedious things I had to deal with after my brother's death in 2001 was listening to countless tales about other people's losses, about how awful it was when cousin billy joe jujube got hit by a train while out frog-giggin' back in '72 or how poor old great aunt thelma passed away

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To KFC: Water Baptism saves no one. John the Baptist did not say that his baptism saves anyone. In all honesty, you appear to me to be some sort of bizarre theological masochist... Have you not yet had enough of being beaten about the head and shoulders with the same rod you use to belabor oth

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To Dr. Guy: It is too late to "subjugate" insurgent areas. When is it ever to late to kill your enemies? The institution of one miserable puppet can always be replaced by the institution of another miserable puppet - which is exactly what Nouri al Maliki is. It's rather late in the day to start doing what should have been done from the b

Reply to Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, , and Pfc. Thomas L. Tucker in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

To BakerStreet: We should not be patrolling insurgent areas, we should be subjugating them, and crushing the life out of their will to attack us further. Amen. In order to 'build democracy' in Iraq (or anywhere else) it's first necessary to do in Iraq what was done in Germany and Japan in WW2:

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To island_gurl12: I'd like to suggest that you don't place too much faith in the works of Aleister Crowley. He fell too deeply in love with a myth of himself, which he himself had created, for him to be a reliable guide. Instead, consult the book and author my wife told you of. That has been to me a constantly reliable guide in these things and a source of inspiration. I disagree with the author's moralising tone, but he's undoubtedly exceptio

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To KFC: none of what you mentioned here are instrumental to one's salvation. Not one. You are talking man made traditions. Jesus had alot to say about traditions. I think you'll find that everyone from John the Baptist on has asserted that Baptism is necessary for salvation. Or is that som

Reply to The Three Worst Jobs Ever... What are yours? in Misc JoeUser Forums

I think I should re-title this 'All my jobs, relatively speaking, have been OK. But all yours really suck....'

Reply to On conversion, and why I did it twice...or was it once? in Religion JoeUser Forums

To little-whip: That's always been among my favorite poems of yours born of virgins, born of wind, the Bornless One reborn again,the possibilities astound.....and this stinking world goes round and round. And those my favourite lines within it. And thank you for the congratulations.</f

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To KFC: I think for one it was the love of God and the other it was so simple in comparisons to all the other religions or practices out there. No X,Y & Z but only "Believe and follow me." That's it. No X, Y & Z hmm? Presumably, then, you are unaware of catechism, the learning of the Nicene

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To KFC: no I'm not doubting at all. You are going outside of inerrant infallible scripture to make your point. I want you to make your point using just the canonical scripture. Oh I'm sure you do. But I see no reason to limit myself to the turgid and self-serving arguments of 'Christians' s

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To island_gurl12: Out of it all I know we wont convince each other. Like I wont ever be able to prove you that I'm right, and you'll never be able to prove me that you are right either. Guess we'll have to wait til we die to find out, lol. In the meantime I hang on to my faith. But i dont want to die stupid, so am very m

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To island_gurl12: Grrr. My last post to you was incomplete, I hit submit by accident. You ask if being a Ritual Magickian is like being a witch. That very much depends on what you mean by witch. To a large degree (though with some major deviations) I follow the Ritual practices of Thelema, an occult organization that developed and extended Ritual practice first devised in ancient Egypt. Thelemic Magick involves the High Gods of Egypt (whom tho