Posted on 01/11/2005 6:18:33 PM PST by malakhi
No wonder you left.
How have things been? And where do you stand now?
That's the dilemma. The doctrine says "none are good" yet some of the writings seem to require obedience to some kind of a moral standard. And we know its not the "law" sinced its abrogated. :-)
That's the impression I get. You and Jimmy Carter right? :-)
How have things been? And where do you stand now?
Going well. Except for the Broncos. How are you? I'm still in the process of converting to Judaism. I stand on the Hebrew writings where believe it or not forgiveness and repentence were granted long before Jesus came. :-)
Good point! Root for the Colts and Jets, then.
Saw an NFL Films show on the Ice Bowl the other day. That was insane. The band members got injured when their horns stuck to their lips.
SD
Afraid? I can see having respect, but not fear. They've got no defense. And you've got home-field and the cold. The Pats should do well, then come here for the big revenge game.
SD
Godiva
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I waited for the train at Coventry; I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge, To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped The city's ancient legend into this:
Not only we, the latest seed of Time, New men, that in the flying of a wheel Cry down the past, not only we, that prate Of rights and wrongs, have loved the people well, And loathed to see them overtax'd; but she Did more, and underwent, and overcame, The woman of a thousand summers back, Godiva, wife to that grim Earl, who ruled In Coventry: for when he laid a tax Upon his town, and all the mothers brought Their children, clamoring, "If we pay, we starve!" She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode About the hall, among his dogs, alone, His beard a foot before him and his hair A yard behind. She told him of their tears, And pray'd him, "If they pay this tax, they starve." Whereat he stared, replying, half-amazed, "You would not let your little finger ache For such as these?" -- "But I would die," said she. He laugh'd, and swore by Peter and by Paul; Then fillip'd at the diamond in her ear; "Oh ay, ay, ay, you talk!" -- "Alas!" she said, "But prove me what I would not do." And from a heart as rough as Esau's hand, He answer'd, "Ride you naked thro' the town, And I repeal it;" and nodding, as in scorn, He parted, with great strides among his dogs.
So left alone, the passions of her mind, As winds from all the compass shift and blow, Made war upon each other for an hour, Till pity won. She sent a herald forth, And bade him cry, with sound of trumpet, all The hard condition; but that she would loose The people: therefore, as they loved her well, From then till noon no foot should pace the street, No eye look down, she passing; but that all Should keep within, door shut, and window barr'd.
Then fled she to her inmost bower, and there Unclasp'd the wedded eagles of her belt, The grim Earl's gift; but ever at a breath She linger'd, looking like a summer moon Half-dipt in cloud: anon she shook her head, And shower'd the rippled ringlets to her knee; Unclad herself in haste; adown the stair Stole on; and, like a creeping sunbeam, slid From pillar unto pillar, until she reach'd The Gateway, there she found her palfrey trapt In purple blazon'd with armorial gold.
Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity: The deep air listen'd round her as she rode, And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear. The little wide-mouth'd heads upon the spout Had cunning eyes to see: the barking cur Made her cheek flame; her palfrey's foot-fall shot Light horrors thro' her pulses; the blind walls Were full of chinks and holes; and overhead Fantastic gables, crowding, stared: but she Not less thro' all bore up, till, last, she saw The white-flower'd elder-thicket from the field, Gleam thro' the Gothic archway in the wall.
Then she rode back, clothed on with chastity; And one low churl, compact of thankless earth, The fatal byword of all years to come, Boring a little auger-hole in fear, Peep'd -- but his eyes, before they had their will, Were shrivel'd into darkness in his head, And dropt before him. So the Powers, who wait On noble deeds, cancell'd a sense misused; And she, that knew not, pass'd: and all at once, With twelve great shocks of sound, the shameless noon Was clash'd and hammer'd from a hundred towers, One after one: but even then she gain'd Her bower; whence reissuing, robed and crown'd, To meet her lord, she took the tax away And built herself an everlasting name.
What I am apprehensive of is the defensive weakness of the Patriots plays right into the strength of the Colts.
The NFL visited the Patriots yesterday and, coincidentally, the field was covered for the first time. Hah! I'll betcha it is a little messy for the game.
You had better hope against hope that the Colts beat the Patriots. You don't have a chance against the Pat's.
If he doesn't want that one, I was thinking of , who was it, Davy Crockett, regarding unconstitutional spending by congress.:')
Outside of a three story building is still too high for me:')
Ouch!
THE classic game of all time! :o)
Ty Law is out, and the rest of the Patriots secondary is being held together by duct tape. And they have to face Peyton Manning.
The best edge the Patriots have for this game is Coach Belichick. He seems to have a way of getting in Manning's head. Should be a most interesting matchup.
All the pundits make a big deal of Manning's record against the Pat's. They ignore that most of those victories were by 4 points or less and/or came down to the very last play. Odds are that it will go his way one of these days.
Oh well if worse comes to worse I'm prepared to root for the Colts vs the Jets. 
Actually it was about as exciting as a Russian Novel. Historic maybe, but dull, dull, dull.
Art Rooney II reported yesterday that the turf at Heniz Field is in good shape. That with the warm weather we've been having there had even been some grass growth. I hope no one has to get fired for this situation.
SD
Next to the Immaculate Reception and Super Bowl XIII.
SD
I can't speak for Vince, but I've only ever seen it in the half-hour NFL Films version. That was exciting enough.
SD
Lol. Big deal it was cold outside. Maybe in another 20 years they'll get over this game.
Don't think I didn't see you dissing the Packers on a recent thread. ;o)
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