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To: ArGee
Self Sacrifice is very unpopular these days, and not just among homosexuals.

Commitment lasts until someone more interesting steps into view. I often chuckle when someone suggests that a certain concept is new. They must not have read Ecclesiastes.

Ecclesiastes
Chapter 1
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1 The words of David's son, Qoheleth, king in Jerusalem:
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2 Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!
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3 What profit has man from all the labor which he toils at under the sun?
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One generation passes and another comes, but the world forever stays.
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The sun rises and the sun goes down; then it presses on to the place where it rises.
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Blowing now toward the south, then toward the north, the wind turns again and again, resuming its rounds.
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All rivers go to the sea, yet never does the sea become full. To the place where they go, the rivers keep on going.
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4 All speech is labored; there is nothing man can say. The eye is not satisfied with seeing nor is the ear filled with hearing.
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What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun.
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Even the thing of which we say, "See, this is new!" has already existed in the ages that preceded us.

13 posted on 06/25/2006 6:04:33 AM PDT by NYer (Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
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To: NYer
Commitment lasts until someone more interesting steps into view.

Indeed - Barna has determined that this is even true for Christians. It seems we have forgotten what G-d called us to when He called us to marry.

A marriage license isn't a license to have sex with someone.

Shalom.

30 posted on 06/25/2006 7:26:43 AM PDT by ArGee (The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
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