Posted on 07/05/2007 3:00:33 AM PDT by Gamecock
It’s been a tough 13 months. Thanks for your condolences.
My first wife died from cervical cancer 4 1/2 years ago and I remarried 3 1/2 years ago. I had three children with the first and two with the second, ranging from nearly 14 years to a 6-week old. Oh, they’re all boys!
I yakked on so long yesterday because I couldn’t get any work done - the wife was exhausted and let me take care of the baby in the office. Having a fussy, crying baby really puts one out of the mood to work.
Now, I’m behind schedule and watching the Harry Potter movie only made things worse ... Still I had a good time with the family.
Thanks for the advice. I take Off with me whenever I go camping or up to our cabin...
My co-worker's idea of camping is staying at a Motel 6. LOL.
Not cool - I do not condemn you as an “antichrist” just because we believe differently and do not appreciate such name calling.
As for Matt 13:36, read it carefully - it is a REPRESENTATION and is not taken literally. Why? Are you literally a seed that is planted in the soil?
Stop it.
Discuss the issues all you want, but do NOT make it personal.
So true. You can see His hand in everything around you. We were down at Bryce Canyon last week. It is a world class area to star gaze. I went to a star-gazing party one night there and the stars were magnificent, even more so through the telescope. I even learned some of the stars (Orion's belt, Cassiopeia, and Corona Borealis.) I can always find the Big and Little Dipper, and the Milky Way and the North star, but that's about it. I've also seen the Southern Cross in Australia. One of these years I'd like to go to Finland in June for the White Nights....
Great picture. Looks just like our campground. And nothing tastes better than food cooked over a fire in the out of doors.
On our way home from Bryce last week, my brother wanted to stop at La Casita in Springville for dinner. None of us had showered since Monday night. I guess our money overcame the smell and the hat hair and the dirty clothes...
My sister and her family are on a 3 week trip with their camper. It is a cross between one of those soft sided pop-up campers and a hard-sided one. They have a 15 passenger van, her husband drives 47 miles an hour (because that way you get the best gas mileage.) My sister does not drive 47 miles an hour, she's like our dad, has a leadfoot.
Dutch oven potatoes Au Gratin mmmmm!
37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.
40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.
41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;
42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.
Oh, great, you again. Didn’t we have an exchange on this exact issue here five or so years ago?
We sit “in” the table
We sit “at” the table
Do these phrases mean the same thing? No. “At” signifies something close to or adjacent. Bethlehem is adjacent to Jerusalem. When people ask me where I’m from I tell them I live at “Vancouver, Canada” despite I actually live in Burnaby, which is adjacent to Vancouver since it won’t be possible for them to be familiar with the micro geography of my region.
Am I lying? No, I am merely giving them a frame of reference or geographic designator.
Regardless, if you knew your history, like the Amarna Letters, you would’ve known Bethlehem was described as located in the “land of Jerusalem.”
“Land of Jerusalem,” not “city of Jerusalem.”
Besides, I find it ludicrous anti-Mormons claim Alma 7:10 is an error when any child in 19th century America would’ve known the Christmas carols and popular biblical teachings of
Jesus being born in Bethlehem. Could Joseph Smith have made such a basic error? Not likely.
Dutch oven anything. Mountain Man breakfast (my arteries harden just thinking about it.) It is hash browns, scrambled eggs, cheese, sausage, bacon, onions, and green peppers. Yum. Upside-down Pineapple cake. Roast and vegetables. Now I’m hungry. :)
Gripping my heart in pain. Oh the price that must be paid to enjoy really tasty food.
What did Jesus say when He gave the literal translation of His parable of the sower and the seed?
Good, I’m glad you’re examining my posting history - I’m not ashamed of what I write or the positions I’ve taken.
I approach life using my head instead of blindly believing things either from childhood, in my church, or in school. I’ve changed my position several times upon reflection.
I have many beliefs, some conservative, some libertarian, some liberal - someone will surely have something to vehemently disagree with me, but that’s life.
Let me give some examples:
1. Yes, I supported Michael Schiavo against Terri’s family and the autopsy irrefutably proved his position was right.
2. I also support the legalization of all drugs, prostitution, and gay marriage DESPITE believing all these things are IMMORAL because I do not believe the state has the right to legislate morality.
I find it hypocritical people who can legally smoke or drink have the nerve to demand people who smoke pot be imprisoned and fined. Why should their addictive, harmful substances that kills millions every year be legal while pot with its zero deaths be illegal? If I, a person who hasn’t smoked, drank alcoholic beverages, partaken of harmful drugs, or even coffee and tea in 22 years, don’t demand the government punish drug users; what gives others the right?
Why is prostitution illegal but pornography legal when both have people getting paid for sex? The only difference is one has sex in front of a camera making the participants “actors”?
I’ve never cheated on either of my wives, but find it insane the government can fine and imprison a man and destroy his life for “solicitation” if he picks up a prostitute but it’s perfectly legal for wealthier men to hire “escorts” where sex is inevitable. Sure, one pays for “sex” while the other pays more for “companionship that includes sex”; but there’s still “money for sex” at the heart of both transactions.
While a missionary, I met a Catholic woman who was later abandoned by her husband with four young children to feed and clothe. Since she was always a housewife and had no work experience and no relatives willing to help; she resorted to prostitution to feed her children. Should she deserve to go to prison?
As for gay marriage, I frankly have no problem if gays want to marry as long as the government doesn’t force churches to perform the rites or recognize the unions if it is against their doctrines.
I simply reject the notion the government has the right to punish adults for what they put into their own bodies as long as they don’t harm others and similarly reject the notion it can punish consenting adults for what they do in the bedroom.
3. I believe any law-abiding citizen has the right to carry arms, and even concealed weapons, anywhere, including churches, schools, and shopping malls. An armed society is a polite society.
4. I believe doctors who perform late-term abortions where the fetus is viable outside the womb are murderers and should be executed.
5. I believe the media should be fair and balanced and their owners, editors, and writers should be imprisoned with lengthy sentences when they harm national security or endanger the troops.
6. I believe politics should be absent from the classroom. Any professor who shoves his political views down his students’ throats should lose their tenure and be fired.
7. I believe Islam the greatest threat to the West’s freedom, peace, and prosperity.
8. I believe “man-made Global Warming” is a myth and is just sheer hysteria. All man-made carbon dioxide and other emissions in history account for just .3 of 1% of “greenhouse gases.” IOW, 99.7% of all greenhouse gases are natural, not man-made. If you want a culprit for any rise in temperature, look upward to the sun.
9. I support the war in Iraq. The US and other nations did the right thing in removing a mass murderer’s terror regime.
10. I believe President Bush should resign or be impeached because of his refusal to secure America’s borders and for his immigration reform bill.
11. I believe tap water is better than bottled water.
12. I believe recycling is a water of money and resources - we’re not running out of trees, we’re not running out of landfills, we’re not running out of resources.
13. I believe in eating meat and in hunting.
14. I believe the government does not have the right to seize someone’s property citing eminent domain just because they want to build a development project.
15. I believe people have the right to access water and any minerals under their land.
16. I believe in genetically modified foods and that they are beneficial.
17. I believe there’s nothing wrong with DDT.
18. I believe we in the West are dying demographically and culturally and anyone wishing to preserve our way of life should have at least four children.
19. I believe multiculturalism, moral relativity, and liberalism are cancers that are destroying our society.
20. I believe the opposite of whatever Jimmy Carter says.
And a lot more.
Flame away!
You really need to re-think this declaration of belief. It is ill-conceived on many levels. Morality is defined by Merriam Webster Dictionary as:
1 a : a moral discourse, statement, or lesson b : a literary or other imaginative work teaching a moral lesson 2 a : a doctrine or system of moral conduct b plural : particular moral principles or rules of conduct 3 : conformity to ideals of right human conduct
Definitions 2 and 3 particularly apply as it relates to the enactment of legislation intended to enforce "a system of moral conduct" in society.
If your position were adopted, laws prohibiting theft, fraud, murder, bribery, perjury, embezzlement, forgery, domestic abuse, indecent exposure, and a myriad of other morally based crimes would be repealed because they are based on "a system of moral conduct."
Is that really what you want? I hope not. Your unstated assumption that drug usage and prostitution are "victimless" activities is also erroneous.
You state you have no objection to gay marriage as long as the government doesn’t require religious institutions to peform such marriages.
The First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued The Family: A Proclamation to the World. It contains the following statements:
“We further declare that God has commanded that the sacred powers of procreation are to be employed only between man and woman, lawfully wedded as husband and wife.”
“We call upon responsible citizens and officers of government everywhere to promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society.”
How do you reconcile your position on gay marriage with the LDS Church’s Proclamation that “responsible citizens” should “promote those measures designed to maintain and strengthen the family?” Is the Proclamation the “truth” you embrace? Do you really think that allowing gay marriage is a measure designed to maintain and strengthen the family as the fundamental unit of society?
You might want to re-think this declaration of belief.
Mine can CERTAINLY sympathize with yours!
My fix of Red Rocks and sand has been 2 years in the coming, and the first 2 weeks of September will find her on yet another Death March (Her term; not mine!) thru God's country!
(I'm hunting (like Ahab for Moby) a downed rocket in Hatch Canyon that I read about in a guide book.)
Hey!
That's one of the stops 2 years ago!
My first time down on the trail - BEAUTIFUL!
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