Posted on 01/09/2002 7:29:19 AM PST by truthandlife
Yes. And God takes a very dim view of much of what appears in modern-day pornography.
It might be interesting to fast forward your life and see what becomes of your marriage in say, 10 more years, but that would only make a point for your particular case. The larger picture is
Of course you would volunteer your daughter on your altar now wouldn't you ?
It's only software, substantially different
Is slavery relevant anymore ?
Yes I have and have studied it in detail and usually the person who is offended about what the true message of the Bible is or does not believe in the Bible and not a Christian uses this tired old argument "hard core pornography could not ever hope to hold a candle to the sexual, political, religious, real life, historical soap opera we call the Old Testament of the Holy Bible."
It is ridiculous to compare the Old Testament to pornography on the internet.
She told me when we married she wouldn't put up with "none of that stuff", so when a scantily clad woman crosses the screen she covers my eyes and we joke about it. When I was younger I thought she was nuts, but as I aged I saw the wisdom in her actions. I take it as a compliment...that my love and fidelity are so important to her after 30 years.
Personally, porn is something I can take or leave. I delete all the porn spam I get immediately without opening it. That's the way to handle porn - ignore it, and DON'T MESS WITH AMENDMENT I.
Yea right. That's what you want us to think, but if that was true, then God would have sunk Hollywood into the ocean over 20 years ago.
Why don't you control freaks quit using the Holy Bible to push your elitist views on the rest of us.
It is not working anymore because we know better than to believe you.
I picked the handle "Gerbil" back in the days when I was posting messages on various BBS and FIDOnet groups. I wanted something other than what seemed to be the typical choice of tough-sounding nicknames like "Doom Bringer", "World Destroyer", "Flaming Dragon", etc.
So I picked the name of a small furry desert rodent that many people keep as pets in a cage at home.
Little did I know then that I would be forever being asked if I was gay. Took me a while to figure it out...
The Screaming_Gerbil handle is because the image I had in mind was this cute furry little rodent screaming at the top of his little lungs...
Not that he's screaming because he's being inserted into some place dark and foreboding...
Bwaaahaahahahahhhaaaaa!!!! LOL. You may be right about never hearing about it, but it DOES happen. If you have an AOL email address your mail will be flooded with porn mail pretty quickly. Even quicker if you have a user "profile" or go into chat rooms. If you use a free email service such as Juno, you will also recieve unsolicited porn mail (I guess they sell their member lists).
I have NEVER visited a porn site, signed up to be a member of one or asked to be emailed information on one and have deleted thousands of porn solicitations in the 7 yrs I've had an email address.
Ah yes, the ever popular blanket statement based on nothing. Sure, some people don't smut responsibly, much like some people don't drink responsibly, others don't read responsibly (twice Patton had to take medical because his constant reading in poor lighting caused his eyes to swell shut). Any of these (or the infinite other things that people can obsess on) can ruin a person's life or marriage. But you can't apply it universally. Some people can partake of porn and move on.
Full disclosure: my wife got me my first subscriptions to Penthouse and Playboy as wedding presents. I let the PH one lapse, never really dug PH that much. I intend to keep the PB subscription as long as I keep the wife. Watching PB take up more and more bookshelf space (much as my marriage takes up more and more personal history space) is cool because of the linkage. See some folks can make it work and others can't.
Really? Would you mind quoting chapter and verse please? And then be prepared to defend what you say, for what you say is out of the mouth of one who has never read the Bible, old or new, and is ignorant of the Word of God as well as the word of God.
Alas
I'm just stating that real life (the Holy Bible) is than stranger and more twisted than fiction (porn).
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