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I NEVER feared my kids....got beat up a few times, but then they got transferred over to one of your adult facilities.

Shipping them to the big house, is usually what happened when they assaulted people. I hope they didn't hurt you much. I got assaulted twice, but never enough to require medical help. They tried to teach us to communicate with the inmates. Our talk got us out of lots of trouble. California is weird. We had inmates from all over the world. I met Chinese, Vietnamese, Laotian, Koreans, Burmese, Thais, Filipinos, central and South Americans. One young Jew from Israel and even one Air Force Academy graduate, and a retired Air Force E-9. We had em all. BGF, ABs, Crips, bloods, Surenos, Nortenos, bull dogs, border brothers, MS 13 and others I had not even heard of. It was a prescription for disaster, but staff injuries, did not happen as much as people might think. I had my fill of it though.

Be very careful when leading peopple away from Christ...He isn't real happy with Luther and He certainly won't be happy with the loss of anyones soul....be VEEEEEEEEEEERY careful.

Ya pays ya money, ya takes ya chances. I guess I will just have to take my chances 😄😇

Yeah, just try swimming the Tiber and we’ll have to come down there and deal with you ourselves.

LOL, no doubt a fate worse than death. 😄

"just fulfilling an obligation" and they can't wait to get in their cars and go home.

That is how it was when I was a catholic. I don't know if ANYONE really wanted to be at mass. I sure didn't. I woukd have rather have watched a football game. You are right, there was no joy, no socializing, no fellowship. It was about as lively as a cemetery.

Those same years spent in a serious Juvenile system (and the kids are It was my job to keep the kids from becoming your customers and actually doing them some good

You must not have done a very good job then, because I had plenty of customers. I never let criminals call me. If you did, that tells me a lot about you. Now, I have some catholics to go preach to. They need to hear the truth. 😇

I'm NOT touching that one.......

Eat your heart out.....

LOL. What else needs to be said?

LOL, I love it GC. Great pic. There is not much danger you will ever have to use it, but keep it handy, just in case. 😄😇

Yeah, there is and there is a major difference. You dealt with adults....big time losers and your main job was to keep them comfined and keep them from killing you or one another....a thankless job at best.

We both had a job to do. I am sure yours seems thankless at times too. My last 11 years, was spent in the nut ward. We spent a lot of time trying to straighten out those nut cases. One day, they brought a guy in who was going ballistic. 8 hours later, after getting shot up with meds, he was fine, and told me that he hoped he didn't hurt anybody. I assured him he did not. I have seen everything in the nut ward.

I was throwing life preservers to people in the middle of the Tiber, if you catch my drift 🆒😇

LOL, I am going to do it again tomorrow, but I have to go buy more life preservers. In fact, never a day goes by, that I don't try to lead others from the cults to the truth. It is a blessing to see people leave the cults. They rather like it too. 🆒. I always tell the truth. I love it, and I love getting away with all kinds of things that you can't. I noticed you had no response to my revelation to you, that I got more experiences behind the walls than you do. I spent a ton of time on death row at San Quentin. Have you ever done that?

Live and learn I guess!!

Learn? I think not. Otherwise you would left that false, man made religion like me and others have done. Don't be so scared of your own church. There is life after the RCC. Think of all the things that they can't tell you to do, like go to mass and all those other false dead works. It is truly emancipating. Try it, you will like it. The worst thing that can happen, is you might gain Heaven as you lose a religion. How about it folks? Care to start a ping list, ex catholics for Christ, like ex Mormons for Christ? 😄😇🆒😃

I was, of course, tossing a harmless dig at Mark17 and I indicated it as such....don't take everything so seriously....:) :) :) :)

Don't worry about it bro. I get my share of digs in too. I am not, however, planning to swim the Tiber, because if I do, Gamecock is going to do GBI to me 😄😇😀

Thanks for the memories.

Roger that. I had heard of the Blackeood Brothers. If you ever heard of Nancy Honeytree, I met her once, while she was singing gospel music. I met Nicky Cruz, of cross and switchblade fame too. 😄😄😊 He was preaching the gospel in Del Rio by golly, Texas. Keep up the good work. 🆒

God bless you. You saw the light. Do you know that song, “I Saw the Light”

Affrimative Mama, and now I've got a mansion, just over the hilltop, in that bright land where we'll never grow old. Sound familiar? 😇

You know what one eats at them the most? It's the *Don't have to go to church* one.

Yep, it really gets their goat. I love it. Last night we were out preaching the gospel to those of a certain religious persuasion. It is exciting 😇🆒😃

LOL, there you go again. So you are a correctional officer at some so called maximum security juvie joint, if there even is such a thing. You can't pull the wool over my eyes, like you try to do when talking about the RC. I KNOW about corrections. I was a California correctional officer for 25 years, with stops at San Quentin, Duel Vocational Institute, Mule Creek, CMF and Solano. Go ahead, try to tell me what corrections is like. I've been behind the walls, walking the toughest beat in the state, and guess what bro, I survived. Now, to the other issue. I am proud and happy as all get out, that I left that false religious system, for the glorious Kingdom of God. I love to miss mass and never confess to a guy that was a worse dinner than me. I love not praying the rosary, or praying to the holy saints. I love it, and I get away with it, everyday. 🆒 I am not swimming the Tiber anytime soon.

AMEN! I know for a fact that God has used me to bring others to him and it is an absolutely blessing to me! I just LOVE being used by God for his Glory.

Same here mama. It is nice to lead others to the glorious truth, not found in false, man made pernicious cults. GC, last night we were out preaching the word. I was throwing life preservers to people in the middle of the Tiber, if you catch my drift 🆒😇

Hey, but they're good. Just a few trips around the rosary and a few more extra years in purgatory, and they're all good.

I heard a rumor, for each thousand posts on these threads, that someone gets a thousand years off their purgatory sentence. Do you hear that too?

I've actually heard Catholic joking about sinning and doing extra penance so they'll be OK. I'm sure you have too

Not only have I heard it, I practiced it. I was a reprobate in my younger years when I was a catholic. I enjoyed sinning at that time. Now that I have regenerated, I can not possibly enjoy sin the way I did when I was a catholic. Of course you know some of the things I can now get away with. I do not go to mass, and I get away with it. I do not confess to a priest, and I get away with it. I do not use holy water. I do not pray the rosary. I do not pray to the holy saints. I do not make the sign of the cross. I do not accept the sacraments. I believe Mary was blessed among women, then after Jesus was born, she gave birth to a bunch of kids. All these things I get away with. Can you think of anything else that I now get away with, that I couldn't get away with before? 😄😇🆒

Well yes, I am sure you are both right. The rats are still in control. Dang them all to heck.

No comment.

😄🆒Rogrr on the no comment. 💥

Ping, is the sound that a shaved head, from a basic trainee in boot camp makes, as his hair grows back in. P P P P Ping

I could recommend that you get used to the heat....but that wouldn't be prudent, would it..?????:):)

It wouldn't be true either. 😇 I intend to have an air conditioned suite for many moons. I am betting my eternity on someone different, and I also would never be imprudent and say get used to the heat. 😇 I would never say that. 🆒 I will take my chances. I am comfortable with that. 🎆

The really big bucks would say 2,015 years of history and truth beats about 60 years of what's happening now....

LOL, things that make you go hmmmmm. Go ahead, bet your eternity on it. Maybe when we all reach the pearly gates, you and St Pete can have mercy on all of us poor souls, and let us in 🆒😇🔔👸

The really big bucks would say 2,015 years of history and truth beats about 60 years of what's happening now....

LOL. Go ahead, bet eternity on it. Maybe at the pearly gates, if you and St. Peter have mercy on me, you might have the power to let me in. 😇🆒

The really big bucks would say 2,015 years of history and truth beats about 60 years of what's happening now....

LOL. Go ahead, bet eternity on it. Maybe at the pearly gates, if you and St. Peter have mercy on me, you might have the power to let me in. 😇🆒

The really big bucks would say 2,015 years of history and truth beats about 60 years of what's happening now....

LOL. Go ahead, bet eternity on it. Maybe at the pearly gates, if you and St. Peter have mercy on me, you might have the power to let me in. 😇🆒

I wish everyone would make it, but I believe it will be on an individual basis. Remember Jesus said there is rejoicing in Heaven over one sinner who repents. May we both experience His mercy. Have a nice day, it is now 12 noon where I am, and it's hot, like near 90. 🆒

Are the lousy government officials in all three branches going to have their lavish retirements cut?

Not a chance. Maybe they want to cut the GIs benefits, so they can increase their own. I did 20 years. Under today's circumstances, I would not do it again, without some substantial changes. I remember around 1975, they talked about similar cuts. It went no where. I hope this doesn't either.

I wonder if the rats will take over again in a few years?

Kindly show me in Scripture where true believers received Jesus' Soul and Divinity through the Eucharist? I have NEVER heard that before! That's simply an outrageous claim.

Deserves repeating 🔊

You still don’t understand the words of Jesus about His Body and Blood that is for our salvation contrasted against the old mosaic law about eating blood and meat of sacrificed animals to idols.

I understand it perfectly sir. I just do not agree with your interpretation. I used to believe that unscriptural thing about transubstanciation, or whatever you call it, but I don't now. You think Jesus was being literal and physical about this so called Eucharist thing, I take Him figuratively. I always interpret or deal with difficult to understand verses, as you SHOULD too, in light of the clear teaching of verses that are so clear, no one can mess them up. It appears you do the opposite. You seem to ignore the clear teaching, in favor of the difficult verses. That is your privelege, I don't agree with it. Besides, I thought you are not allowed to interpret scripture without a priest, and yet you are trying to tell me what it says. That is interpreting, and you are not allowed to do that. 🎯. You can think whatever you like. I just don't agree with you. Maybe we can settle it at the pearly gates. 😇

LOL, there you go again. See you at the pearly gates, I hope. 😇

Hey mom, we got us a live one here. I love to get away with stuff that catholics can't, such as, I get away with not going to mass, not going to confession to a sinner, not participating in worthless rites and rituals. I LOVE to get away with those kinds of things. I LOVE it. Sorry you can't get away with those things, but I couldn't be happier. See you at the pearly gates, again. 😇🆒

>>They can bet their lives that this is not a reference to what is written in their catechism...<<

They have bet their lives on it.

They have bet their eternity on it.

I know, I’ve had conversations with muzzies who think Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp are “christian”. And you should see the look on their faces when I resoundingly tell them that they are NOT.

I heard someone say his definition of a Christian, is someone who is not a Jew and lives in the USA. Some warped ideas out there.

If I were grading them, they would get an F.

😄😇🎯

All things that changed with social pressures. Mormons are about to do another flip-flop, right before our very eyes!

It looks like the Mormons are getting ready to swim. Better get that shovel ready. 😄😇

Amen and Amen!!

I thought you might like that. 😇

Apparently, belief can be selective, and one can ignore the words of Jesus that they don’t agree with.

It looks like you disagree with many of the words of Jesus. Don't eat blood. We are not discussing brain surgery here. Either God meant don't eat blood or He didn't. MamaB, do they care what is written.

**back off with that shovel**

Just want to help!

LOL😄 well, you can keep it in the garage, so it is close enough, in case it looks like I might be developing a desire to swim 😇

Do you have rivers of water flowing from your belly also?

Oh, that really cuts to the chase doesn't it?

I always thought Mattew Henry was pretty sharp. 🎯

Actually life is wonderful - more Joyful than I ever could have imagined! There are quite a few ex’s in my church. We all feel the same way. Having a very PERSONAL relationship with Jesus is awesome.

Awesome 🎆😇🆒

Burning in the bosom?

Is Joe Smith anywhere near? BTW, I still haven't had any desire to swim the Tiber, so back off with that shovel

:-)

And yet neither of those points have anything to do with salvation...

Affirmative sir. Salvation is the only thing that matters. If they don't get that right, it doesn't matter if they have anything else right.

or that she did not remain a virgin after the birth of Christ.

Do you think they might be cringing that Mary was getting away with something?

:-)

Actually, as a former Catholic, it is because of what the Catholic Church teaches that I now attend a Bible Based Church. I'd rather follow God's written word and receive his Grace than follow man's legalism which leads to death in the Lord. (Romans 3:21-24)

There are a few of us around. Praise the Lord. No more bondage. I was never much into bondage anyway, so it suits me just fine. Ain't life grand?

:-)

Yeah but from another mother. :-)

Yep, brothers from other mothers. I knew one of you would come up with that, but, we have the same Eternal Father, now and forever.

:-)

Am I on a roll?

If you are; I hope you're named Carmel Icing!

(Cause our Catholic friends already think you're NUTS!!!!)

Yep Elsie, but I can't possibly be nuts. After all, I left the RCC, the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me. Now, free from the bondage of Romanism, I can get away with all kinds of thing they can't, like I don't have to go to mass, I don't have to confess my sins to another sinner to get them forgiven. I can pray directly to God, I don't have to go through a bunch of other people to get to Him. I can get away with the peaceful feeling of knowing I won't go to Hell, and won't have to worry about purgatory. Mom, Els, is there anything else I can get away with now that I am out of it? I love getting away with things. It does my heart good.

:-) :-) :-)

Nothing but LIES out of the great kahuna and his minions.

In other words, SNAFU. Is there any doubt the Obungler will interfere with this? In fact, I would say he already has. Wasn't the report finished months ago? Where is it? Have the Obungler's minions buried it? Will it ever see the light of day?

God bless you as you bring the Gospel of The Hope to those who are dying of thirst for The Truth, and otherwise have no hope.

Born again Christian ping 😄 Keep up the good work folks. There are many lost, spiritually thirsty people out there, just waitng to hear the truth. Keep preaching the gospel. We are only silent, when we are dead. Then, it won't matter, because to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord. 🎆😇🔊

We are preaching the Gospel here, several days a week, and more. Most are of different religious persuasions 😄 I have found, if you pray to the Lord, asking for people to preach the gospel to, you will absolutely, positively get an answer to your prayer. You WILL get people to preach to.

Personally, I am not too concerned about being on the receiving end of personal slurs, because I know who I am, but these behaviors can cloud the issues.

Hang in there bro. We know who we are, so don't sweat the small stuff. Just remember, Jesus also took a lot of personal slurs too, and said if they dislike you, they disliked Him first. Keep preaching the gospel. The truth isn't always popular, but don't worry about it. 😄 We will be out preaching this week too. 🎆