Why I Support President Bush and the ZOT!

[thousand dollar hamburger]

I think he has a sincere desire to help everyone. he has even gone out of his way to embrace people like Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy. He does not hold grudges as shown by his willingness to bend over backwards to allow terrorist supporting nations to operate our ports. We need this type of benevolent leader.

Our President is not a cheapskate, as he has opened up our budget to give to anyone who might need anything.

Aliens from all nations are welcomed into our great country without having to deal with mundane bureaucratic State approval. Cutting government red tape -- that's the Bush way!

Yes, our Prseident even realizes that occupying as many countries around the world as possible is the best way to spread American ideals.

We are truly lucky to have this great man. I suggest that at 10:00 AM EST, we all stand up in unison and shout -- HOORAY FOR BUSH!!!

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

D'oh!

Well, it's done.

Anyway, Happy Easter, Irish!

:)

-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)

P.S. No, that's never happened, believe it or not. Although I just found out that there's some lurker who has the same name that I use on another website.

It's a small world after all.

[Das Outsider]

We had a pastor once who said, "People should meet you in the grocery store, and think, 'I want the life he has!' People should see our congregation, and be beating down the door to our services, saying, 'I want to be a part of what they have!' If they're not, it's because we aren't 'in Christ' the way we should be."

That's an important thing to keep in mind. God's Word condemns, and we are to speak that Word, but we have no authority to personally condemn anyone for being a sinner, lest we begin to consider ourselves gods.

I am in full agreement with what you have said, now that we're clear. What you are talking about is basically meeting people where they are at. Saint Paul wrote of "becoming all things to all men." That doesn't mean that he participated in pagan rituals or denied Christ or didn't proclaim the Word of God, depending on the audience.

Remember the scene at the Areopagus in Athens. Amid all of the shrines dedicated to this god or that god there was a shrine to "the Unknown God." The polytheistic Athenians wanted to cover all their bases so that no gods would be offended. Paul used this shrine as an opportunity to tell them about YHWH and his redeeming work in Christ. He didn't just come out and say, "This is what I've been told!"

There is a tendency in some churches to de-emphasize traditional evangelism. They say, "Your life is your witness." That is true, but not the whole story. The Lord's Great Commission does not exhort Christians to merely be people magnets without speaking the Word to them. That is accidental evangelism.

I once had friends who thought that letting people know that they attend church could replace real evangelism. In all likelihood, they might have been afraid of offending people--though Scripture says in no uncertain terms that the Gospel is offensive--as they were from a liberal church body.

Now I'm just rambling.

[NicknamedBob]

Good Night, Irish!

I know it was a long day for you, because I've been chatting with you for most of it!

[rzeznikj at stout]

Howdy Everybody & a good Easter Sunday!!

What a long day it has been

[NicknamedBob]

Even longer if you try to catch up on the posts.

[NicknamedBob]

You do know that the apellation All doesn't actually ping anybody, don't you?

[tuliptree76]

The Peeps were good.

[rzeznikj at stout]

Yes, I'm well aware, and I deliberately chose it precisely because...;)

That, and I just don't want to have to ping everybody. People that stop by and read the posts can find me (just like you did<

Heck, I've even used it two different ways. More often than not, I use it to address everybody without actually having to ping everybody. Basically, a shortcut or a "lazy man's ping" ;)

Although on the tech threads, I've occasionally used All to address a petulant resident troll--which works for my purposes...

[rzeznikj at stout]

I skimmed about three

Often, I have to do this on other threads, so I can quickly read them--the ones I do reply to I stop.

Otherwise, I just tend to jump in right where everyone is and then go from there...;)

[rzeznikj at stout]

Oops! Make that first sentence:

I skimmed about three hundred or so posts today...

[NicknamedBob]

Not bad. There were only five hundred.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5034210

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Glad to hear it!

:-)

[rzeznikj at stout]

I was here for a while this morning and early afternoon. So that made it a little more manageable ;)

[King Prout]

puerile. pathetic. a conversation I would expect in a basement filled with 13 year old boys.

[NicknamedBob]

It's rather amazing that you don't see more Deific interventions occurring, don't you think?

I mean, the power to Zot! and everything, and He puts up with that incessant cacacacophony?

[King Prout]

"cacacacophony"

brilliant

[rzeznikj at stout]

Unfortunately, this is a classic example of DU stench that emanates throughout the entire Internet...;)

One word describes it fully: vile.

[NicknamedBob]

"Your search - cacacacophony - did not match any documents."


Hmmm. Whooda Thunkit?

My other invented word, "inumberate," which I intended to mean "the gradual darkening of something," gets a response as a misspelling of enumerate, innumerate, or as some musical title.

[King Prout]

try "inumbrate" - it is more etymologically correct.