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!!!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Did you sneeze?

Huh?

[rzeznikj at stout]

Howdy!!

[rzeznikj at stout]

Howdy!

[Monkey Face]

Hello!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Howya!!

[Tax-chick]

I agree with all your points. The Charismatic Renewal would not be allowed to continue in the Catholic Church if it were not Scriptural, and in keeping with historic Christianity.

I think we "rediscover" parts of the message of Christ as we go through history. Each time, it seems new to many people, whether it's the message of healing, of sharing the glory of God, or of Divine Mercy. Obviously it's our human nature to just not GET IT :-).

G.K. Chesterton, I think, said that the Christian religion proves that man did not "invent God," because if we had, we would NOT have invented a god like the one revealed in the Judeo-Christian faith. We would have invented a god like us, not one who is everything we, in our fallen nature, are not!

We get things so wrong, when we think God is like us, and He even reminds us of that specifically, in the prophecies, "My ways are not your ways, and My thoughts are not your thoughts." I was reading a book recently that discussed the Jews at the time of the Crucifixion, and how they said, "His blood be upon us, and upon our children!"

It's been common to interpret that as being a condemnation of the Jews, from that time forward, but this writer said that God answered that prayer: Christ's Blood is upon the Jews, and upon their children, and it redeems them from eternal death, just as it does you and me. Everyone is washed by the Blood of Christ, or they're not freed from sin at all.

[fanfan]

It means you need a disclaimer on your home page that says, "FEMALE!"

Hmmm.

I kinda like that people don't know.

I have a very strange (for a woman) first name, and I've found it to be a benefit in my life.

First, in my general life I can always tell if someone really knows me if they ask for mr. fan fan.

Second, people have to take me for me for my words alone on FR before they know. LOL! I have been accused of being a woman hating, knuckle-dragging Neanderthal, dead beat dad more than a few times in four years.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

:Grabs rzeznikj at stout's hand and begins shaking it:

"Now there's an interesting word -- "howdy". Is it from "How are you?", or maybe "How ya doing?" "Howdy"'s one of those strange words that really HAS no origin. I like saying, "How do" more than "Howdy" -- more formal, I think -- not too flowery. "

[rzeznikj at stout]

Howdy!

[rzeznikj at stout]

Not too bad. Yourself?

[rzeznikj at stout]

Nah, Howdy! seems about right for these threads...;)

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I have been accused of being a woman hating, knuckle-dragging Neanderthal...

That bikini thread you posted would have confused some!! :)

[Monkey Face]

I used to have a book of word and phrase origins. I think Igor must have gotten custody of it...:o|

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Doing fine!!

[Monkey Face]

Wow. We're actually here at the same time. Odd, that...

[fanfan]

I'm often assumed to be woman AND an Unionist - both because of the "Thatcherite" bit!!

I know I thought so. It comes from the 'ite' part.

It's strange, you do have feminine screenname - how many men are fans of fans?

Fans, motors, engineering....you thought it was feminine?

BTW, I keep telling you not to give away my screen name.
I don't want people to know that I am Celine Dion, running my own fan club. Shhh!

What does that mean? Which?

I can't do Canada.
Someone looking in from the outside has to do it.

[Tax-chick]

Now I'm confused! It's possible that I look exactly like Catherine Zeta-Jones, but I can't tell which of you would really be interested in that fact ...

[fanfan]

It's not us you have you have to worry about!!!

It's all the nut cases from weird places!


Now you're gonna have trouble, Catherine!

;-D

[HKMk23]

I've never read Holt. It sounds, though, as if his humor is to the opera what Douglas Adams' humor was to reality; tweaking things with which we have familiarity "just so", so that they strike us from a new and uproariously funny direction.

[Das Outsider]

G.K. Chesterton, I think, said that the Christian religion proves that man did not "invent God," because if we had, we would NOT have invented a god like the one revealed in the Judeo-Christian faith. We would have invented a god like us, not one who is everything we, in our fallen nature, are not!

I don't recall that in Chesterton, but it might have been him. If it was, G.K. was probably combatting Freud's terribly simple claims about God. Namely, that man invented God to deal with life's uncertainties. A good Jewish boy with an absent father should have known better than that.

I see the manmade idol of God everyday in people who find it unfair that he should send anyone to Hell; in those who overlook sin, since "God" only cares about the big stuff; and in the truly insipid idea that all roads eventually lead to "God" so long as one, on the whole, does what they and others around them consider good.

Thank God for God.