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How long does a righteous G-d forgive?

He is slow to anger. Good thing I am not he, and I always hasten to add that I am compassionate towards people in unplanned/unwanted pregnancies, just think killing the child is the wrong answer to the multiple-choice question on the final exam. If years mean anything, biblically we are coming up to 2012 as the 40-year-mark. Doesn't 40 have biblical significance, or do we have to suffer along to 70? I won't be here then (maybe if embryonic stem cells turn back my biological clock, no thanks), but my children and grandchildren may well be.

Interesting comment about college BTW. Coming from a family that has always practically deified education, I'm taking a new look at that. It is true if you aspire to be a professional something, college is essential, but at what price?

I read that Erlich book in my prime childbearing years and was influenced by it, I won't deny, but not to the point of not having yet one more child. Before I saw it bandied about here, I concluded later that it was a lot of bunk. My ex and I could have easily sacrificed some and had 10 children (good thing I didn't maybe), but food wasn't that expensive, they can share rooms, he got regular raises, we could have found a way, thrift shops, discount stores, all things I now do anyway even if I don't have to . . .I could have been a stay-at-home mom, too, we could take the bus, school was close, etc.

So many professions I would constantly be faced with temptation to moral compromise, especially but not limited to the health fields.

No, I'm no theologian by any means, and don't presume to know what everything in the bible means, good thing.

I see Oprah now has a church going now, high priestess of what? Afternoon nirvana? It was a euphemism in an AP article I'm sure, but she really does have one of sorts and quite a following, certainly an odd way to introduce an article about her backing Obama.