Posted on 12/08/2006 8:31:16 PM PST by rakovskii
That's not hypocrisy, that's "playing God".
OK, but I say that, to be consistant with the arguments relayed here, that God erred by allowing free will, because that allows sin, doesn't it?
And God, being perfect, shouldn't be creating something imperfect (sin), because it makes him imperfect.
Now I understand.
"I perfer to think..."
Couldn't argue with that. Later...
Hey!!!! LOL
Good night.
con·ser·va·tive Pronunciation (kn-sûrv-tv)
adj.
1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.
2. Traditional or restrained in style: a conservative dark suit.
3. Moderate; cautious: a conservative estimate.
No not your fault, if I die, that's just life isn't it.
BTW, I love asparagus, but don't eat beef.
Thanks for the arguments. Good night.
Never, NOT EVER, has homosexuality/homosexuals been connected to the Arbuckle case! I don't care WHAT you imagine you heard, you didn't. I've seen every single show about this case, read several books about it, and know this subject well. It is completely irrelevant to the thread's topic!
"I prefer to think that, as a society, we are moving forward."
History shows that technology advances and human character remains constant with all sorts of trends that go in cycles.
Today there are plenty of beaches where women are covered from head to toe. Check out some of the Middle East beaches. Go back in time to say, the Don River in 1600 and you would have seen women coming out of the water completely naked and running back to their abodes. Source: Massie PETER THE GREAT
If you are talking about welfare - welfare has become unpopular. If you are talking about something else - what is it?
Look, we limit personal behaviors across the board based on societal concerns.
Personal behavioral limits hopefully have to do with consciously harming others - assault, theft, fraud etc. There is no freedom to consciously harm. However - we are still the freest nation on the planet and I don't see any movement toward less freedom and more social engineering.
People do not want the government or other people telling them how to live their lives.
Yes because you didn't give me flowers first!!!! Always remember the flowers and even the dinner you made me gag over will not be your fault. :)
Children brought into the world are innocent and pure, but once they get immersed into society and absorb all the rotgut into society, they have opened themselves up to temptation and sin.
Jesus, The Perfect One, was tempted in the garden by Satan, but He rejected it, and since He rejected Satan and his temptations, He remained The Perfect One.
Well I guess according to my definition "hypocrisy" means saying one thing and then doing the opposite.
I'm reminded again of a quote I have often cited:
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, selfishness is wanting others to live as one wishes to live"
Oscar Wilde
regards,
djf
I agree, I also agree that I alone am the arbiter of whether I call myself Conservative or not. We had a bill in AZ that failed, they wanted to define what marriage is, and they made the mistake of discriminating against couples living together. Marriage is a concept based on a (historically) church based piece of paper.
Fine. That is not a reason to accept deviate or destructive changes that are not the norm just because a few voiciferous ones want it.
Should I turn it around and ask for "proof" that homosexual adoption or lifestyle "is the norm"? As the cultural destroyer would say, "define norm, prove it".
OTOH, you are swiftly becoming a poster child for the stereotypical caricature of a right winger.
Right. For example, Ted Haggard is a hypocrite for denouncing the gay lifestyle at the altar, while practicing it in his free time.
Quite a sentence, that. Myself, I will just parse life as I see it, and as the creditable data reveals it. Cultures by way, have a host of different mores, and have had. It has been a veritable pluralistic feast, at least in the public square as the societal norm of good behavior. What goes on behind the scenes, probably has been less variegated. I might as well bring in the heavy artillery now, on this one. Do you have an opinion on anything that has been said on this thread antiguv?
Guess what Kozak? I don't live by your or anyone else's litmus test regarding what a conservative is.
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