Posted on 10/19/2010 10:14:57 AM PDT by decimon
It's been 100 years since Mark Twain died, after declaring, "If I cannot swear in heaven I shall not stay there."
Wherever he is, a century later, the words and stories he left behind live on . . .
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...President Theodore Roosevelt is "one of the most impulsive men in existence" . . . the American soldiers Roosevelt sent to the Philippines Twain called "uniformed assassins" . . . and then there's his Italian landlady, who's "excitable, malicious, malignant, vengeful, unforgiving, selfish, stingy, avaricious, coarse, vulgar, profane, and obscene" . . . and that's just for starters.
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...our Christianity which we have always been so proud of - not to say so vain of - is now nothing but a shell, a sham, a hypocrisy; that we have lost our ancient sympathy with oppressed peoples struggling for life and liberty; that when we are not coldly indifferent to such things we sneer at them, and that the sneer is about the only expression the newspapers and the nation deal in with regard to such things...
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The Jew has always been benevolent. Suffering can always move a Jew's heart and tax his pocket to the limit.
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Nothing. I just wondered why they would have rules in heaven?
I don’t know. Consult the Book about it.
Not necessary, as I don’t believe there are rules in heaven. That’s why I asked you about it, to see what made you believe there are. Now that I know, could you tell me where, so I can look it up myself?
Stuart, this is a rabbit hole. There are clear rules, for Christians for getting in and they are simple. Do you want me to preach the Gospel to you here and now? Have you really never heard it?
I’m sure there are rules for getting into heaven, I was wondering about rules once one is in heaven. Sorry for any confusion. I just haven’t ever heard much about what happens in heaven after one gets there, so I was asking where in the bible this is described.
By the time of his later years, I think most Americans had adopted some of what we now call socialist ideas. Maybe this new material will add insight into what were his views.
The Bible is pretty quiet on that, so I can’t help you. I thought he sounded as if he thought he was in charge once he got there. I don’t think he will be. Of course, I think we are all going to be surprised, but who knows?
If FR leads to heaven then the rule is to drive to the right.
LOL I am afraid sometimes that FR puts me in danger!
I agree on no man being in charge and some surprises.
That would mean no one gets to heaven without internet access?
And you probably need a Macbook. ;)
That’s why Wilson jailed Eugene V. Debs — he was cutting into Wilson’s support at the ballot box.
Unrepentant but closet commie Ernest Hemingway said a couple of things about it — “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” Also, “there was nothing much before. No one has written anything better since.”
If I cannot surf FR in heaven I shall not stay there.
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