yeah and keep on praying about that niv you got there.    

Wow if only some people could use proper punctuation, grammar and this amazing thing called paragraphs.  I don't even know how you all can read some of these posts.  I can't bare through more than one or two.

Gary reminds me of another interesting poster from a while ago.  All sorts of different ideas and very difficult to read post and lofty tales.

Nice, I'm waiting for the price to go down first.  I already have an MX510.  The wire part doesn't bother me much.  I do like the look and ego design of it.

Also, on thw whole subject of commercialised Christian music. I am against that for the most part. I'm totally against copyright on worship songs. Totally against it. If the songs were given by God, as the artists claim they are.. then surely the ownership is God's? Not theirs to be copyrighted.

Just so you know all the hymns and such that I see are all copywritten.  That's just the way it is.  Heck the only bible you can reproduce without royalties is the KJV.  

I think that it comes down to this though.  Although the hymns are copywritten they have given permission for others to use it.

I don't really like opera.  It had too many issues for me and I'm not interested in ads in my browser that take up valuable space.

I think the ring idea sounds pretty cool but obviously all one would have to do is steal the ring. Also you would need one for every gun you own.  Some people would look really silly with all those rings.    Also what happens when they forget which ring is which.

It all just sounds like the gun manufactuers way of trying to appease anti-gun people.  It has nothing to do with the mark.  Honestly I don't know why people get so worked up over it all the time.  They usually start to lose sight of what we are supposed to be doing for the LORD.  The bible tells us that we will know and that we can not be fooled by the devil and his "wonders".  If anything it should spur people to get to work and be prepared for the LORD's return.  "Packing your bags" for the trip would be going about spreading the word and and living for the LORD.  That's all we should be doing and worrying about.

mmmm sushi I should pick some up.  Sushi's good stuff.  Wasbi mmmmm its good to cry when you eat.  

I don't feel that birth control is wrong really.  Not if you are married and have children already.  There comes a point where one needs to be responsible.  Not all children are the same.  I couldn't imagine having 10 or 20 of my son around.  Someone no, someone'S would be hurting big time.  I couldn't afford to have so many children either and take care of them all either.  It really comes down to the individuals I think.  Now if you are trying to avoid having any children at all that would seem wrong to me.  Also your idea of preventing pregnancy.

"The pill" as we know it is not abortive.  Why do I get the feeling way too many people don't even know what it is.  It's just a dose of estrogen (except for a few days where it's a sugar tablet) which makes the body believe it is pregnant really.  So all that happens is the uteran wall won't allow an egg to "stick" to it which is what allows "the seed" if you will to find it.  When a woman is already pregnant the same thing happens for health and safety of the mother.  You wouldn't want to get pregnant after you were already going along.  If you think that's anything like an abortion than every time your "time of the month" comes around you are doing the same thing.  NFP is simply an attempt to "guess" when the woman is most fertile and avoiding sexual activities during that time.

I don't go to a church that says Jesus will make your life materially good.  I do go to a church that preaches you will have a joy unending when you live for Jesus.  That joy is the joy of knowing one is saved and that ultimately we have won.  The LORD does not put us through what we can not handle.  If the LORD allowed satan to torment Job like he did how much will he let us go through?

Not it's not all peaches and cream from a worldly stand point but God blesses as He sees fit.  Live first for Christ and these thing will be added unto you.  God ALWAYS gives us what we need.  Anything else is just icing on the cake.

I also feel there is a HUGE difference between causing and allowing.  If you are sick and I have the cure and hold it back from you, I am ALLOWING you to saty sick but I surely did not cause it.  More often than not we cause our own sorrows and ails but most do not want to hear this.

I looooove pooollitcal spiiiiiiinn!    


As per usual if you want the real answer you need to look into it yourself.

I don't see why someone of high income and didn't really "do" anything to be a vet has a right to complain.  My sister makes a rather meager salary (she choose to go into the social work feild her fault) and can afford health care.  She has to pay it "all" out of pocket because she is technically a contractor.  Contractors don't get group benifits because work is not guaranteed.  Contractors often though not always get a higher pay because of this.  I know plenty of IT people who choose to be contractors over corp employees because the pay is better.  Sometimes they decide not to get health ins.  Whose fault is that?

America was built on Christian principles. Her great Universities were all started by the Christian Church. 76.5% (159 million) of Americans identify themselves as Christian.

This is a very two edged sword and you know it.  While we like to use this number because it seems to help our cause we know that that same number is shaky.  I have heard people that wouldn't know as much about Jesus as they do about buddah and call themselves christian.  The number works when we want to claim the majority but those same people work against when they support the episcopal church and a gay bishop.  So while we like to claim the gay supporting episcopal church members as christians they go against the very grain of the word.  Then we say they aren't christians or don't etc etc.  

The other thing to remember is we are not really a democracy but a republic.  This is so we keep mob rule out of the picture.  The whole reason we have the electoral college in place is to make things "fair".  Otherwise you wouldn't have elections where the president didn't have the popular vote as in Bill Clintons second run he only had about 42% of the popular vote but enough electoral college votes to win the race.  42% is obviously WAY under half or even more than half the country voting for him.

We are a republic so that we have checks and balances on everyone.  Granted they seem to be really skewed latley but WE have ALL let this happen.  It wasn't just the ACLU that put us where we are.  Those  same 76% of claiming christians didn't vote against these things or put people in power to do as we felt.  They didn't stand up against the whole PC and liberal crowd.  They didn't instill God fearing good biblical moral principles to their children.  MOST of the people I meet that claim to champion christianity have not a clue what God has to say or what He wants either.

You stand on quite rickety soapbox bronze.  I love you as a brother and appreciate your vigor but you are missing much.  God's plan WILL NEVER be foiled.  It will go as planned and we have choice to have God work with us or around us.  It seems this last time the people have spoken to work with God.  If we keep that up things will change.  We are lucky enough to be allowed to vote and change things in our country but regardless of where the govn't sways we are still to obide by those laws because the word commands it.

The problem with the U.S. is that we were founded on unchristian principles.  We felt we had a right to fight against the "powers that be" because we didn't like how much they taxed us.  It showed little faith in the Christians of that time as we are told to obey our masters and Give unto Ceasar what is Ceaser's and unto God what is God's.  

These heroes will even fight their battles on the backs of children! and to what end? A lot of children will no longer be associated with an organization which teaches principles, values, respect, and responsibility to our children, while having a great time, and gaining life experiences through camping trips and outings.

 Well done ACLU! How many of these children will be left with nothing to do but hang out in the streets for entertainment, without any moral guidance?

I must have missed the part where it said the BSA had to disband and give up its rules and beliefs.  It just can't have them and get federal funding.  I was a boy scout and far from christian as well.  I even went to the national Jamboree when I was in 6th grade.  Wow was that an experience only 12 and I was in another state with people I didn't know.  My mom still questions her judgment on that one.  I certianly didn't believe in God because of the boy scouts and the things actual boy scouts do are ummm yeah.....

So the BSA will not disappear as a whole or anything so where are you coming from.  We had "dues" when I was there so.

Let me in on it Joel, what are you trying to say?

I'm saying that the KJV itself proves that it is not the Only translation we should use as Christians.  

And I don't believe the KJV is even the best.  The Textus Receptus is simply not as accurate (partially because at the time it was compiled, there were not as many manuscripts available from which to translate as there are today) as the Critical Text.  

I would agree that some modern "translations" should be avoided.  But that doesn't mean they all should.  Some are better than the KJV in many ways.  And trying to stick to the old English words in a world where no one speaks like that doesn't make sense.  

Joel

I don't feel like arguing over this too much however.... The "newer" texts found are iffy and found in undesirable places as well.  I'm not interested in texts found and used by the unsaved.  Text that are little or barley "used" (as in though they are old they have not been "used").  As we all should know any good bible believing person wears out his bible from much use.  As my Pastor likes to say often "Dirty bible = clean heart, Clean bible = dirty heart".  So ancient unused texts are shady at best to me.  There are many arguments on both sides about the texus receptus verses the modern texts in both how they were written and preserved etc.

And trying to stick to the old English words in a world where no one speaks like that doesn't make sense.

The old english of the KJV is when english was really at it's best and most defined.  By that I mean that I mean things were not as all inclusive as the language is now which makes it quite easy to play the ambiguous card on meaning and hence "interpretation" which is the biggest excuse for shaky and unknowledgable or even worse man pleasing "christians".

If taking time to learn the LORD's word and the english of the KJV is silly well.... that's your opinion.  I find it worth my time to learn it and in fact it's not very difficult for some of the lower levels of readers.  The LORD's word is worth my time to study and read and taking that little extra to understand superior english is worth it as well.  As I've said many times before I had to study even older english than the KJV in school and children have used it for centuries.  Stop being lazy.

The KJV is simply the best.  

Boy, isn't that it.  And you have to be so careful.  Some of their fuses are pretty short.

Actually they ended up fearing me and my fuse.  Actually I noticed that "people 'round town" knew that I was not to be "messed" with.  this became especially prevalent when the "shop" next door to my fathers kept using our space as free parking regardless of my asking several times that they not do it.  One morning when I had come in for the third time in a row and not had a place to park on my paid property I just parked right behind their vans so they couldn't get out.  I ended up "blowing a fuse" on them when they still tried to back out with my car there.  I waited for them to knock on the door and ask first.  Then I "let em have it".  This later lead to a fight with the "owner" of the business next door when he said I was "overreacting".  Now mind you they had tried this garbage with my father when he was alive and he was none to happy about it.  I had even asked the owner and told the drivers several times not to park there.  They didn't listen and so I was quite perturbed to say the least.  After that I actually just put the dumpster and other trash cans in the driveway so they couldn't use it when I wasn't there.  Though they didn't mind throwing their trash in our dumpsters (to which were a high commodity when you are trying to clear out a 20 year old business.  That's actually what lead to the fight with the owner.  I threw his trash back on their property.  They had a dumpster but were too lazy to walk over to it.)

Maybe in lieu of a will, just put specified people on as joint owners?  That way that particular asset would pass to them automatically, upon death?  No need for a will?(but for cost basis tax purposes, a joint owner loses the stepped-up cost benefit; i.e., he has to assign the decedent's original cost basis if he's a joint owner).

Bad idea actually because then the "co-owner" becomes responsible for a lot of things.  Actually had my parents still been married or he married to his GF then either one of them would have been left with his 10's of thousands of dollars of debt.  It was better this way.  I actually got his 68 RoadRunner without issue because of this.  He said it was so insignificant it wouldn't matter (the motor blew and so it was listed as a non functional 68 Plymouth)  The lawyer in my case was a decent guy and worked for us to get what we could out of it.  His attitude was to stick it to the debt collectors because they have insurance and don't really lose out too much.  I'm just glad he I did as much as I did or else it would have cost a fortune.  My dad's estate was an odd case.  These were the lawyers words.  He said he had never had a case like this before.  

Yes the laws stink and everyone gets to take your money for things THEY require you to do.  For instance you can't do anything with the estate until someone is declared the administrator (this means my siblings had to agree and sign off on it).  This is called putting the estate in probate (now you can start to take care of things) To do this and get this lovely piece of paper and 7 copies that are "legal" cost us $325.  You need these papers so you can close accounts transfer car titles (to which the state wanted one per car) and such.  Every one of these papers that say nothing more than the state declares me the executor or administrator  with a fancy imprinted stamp cost $10 a pop and everyone tries to claim they want one.  Lucky for me the local post office just made a copy of it and all I was doing was having his mail forwarded to my house.  

I found out from the lawyer that not everyone is entitled to one of these though they try and ask.  The other thing you need is a death certificate and this costs $4 a pop and EVERYONE wants one of these and are entitled to them.  Lucky for me I faxed a lot of them so I didn't need as many but still.  you also have to pay a fee to advertise the estate (so people can come out of the wood work and claim you owe them).  you have to do it in a local newspaper and the legal journal twice.  That cost about $300.  You have to pay a fee to submit your information to the court for review and then another fee to finalize it.  So all these legal things need to be done just so you can do the things you are required to do by law.  How nice.

Lawyers are expensive and I'm sure they are worse in more affluent places.  I was "cut a deal" and the lawyer only charged me $200 an hour instead of $250.  Mind you, when ever you call them for anything (including reminding them to do their job) the bill by the minute.    They have timers on their phone.  The key is to know exactly what you want to ask, ask it and say good bye.  Another trick is that every lawyer gives you a free 30 minute "consultation" before actually receiving their services.  So call around and keep getting more answers before you commit to one.    This goes for anything you need to do with lawyers so keep that in mind.

Am I wrong or were you the music major, or studying music?  This would all seem so far out of your interests, too.  Maybe I recall incorrectly.

hehe no you would be correct.  My initial idea for a career was in the music business though I had decided against strictly studying music and learning the recording end of it.  This fell through as God did not have that one lined up for me, though I take responsibility for not getting there.  Now I work with computers and stuff.  I am quite the computer geek now.  Not that anyone (including myself) thought that would ever happen.

So maybe the talk of peace in the middle east is here afterall.  Though we know that the peace will not be a true one but a sign of other things to come.  

Though I agree the American Communist Loser Union is anti Christian and I am not in favor of them I can't say the ruling goes against the law.

The government isn't allowed to give money to churches either and churches that file for tax exempt status aren't allowed to back political canidates.  It just means the boyscouts have to go about business differently and money needs to be given in some other way.

It's unfortunate that our constitution and its ideas were written by lawyers who never thought that all sorts of other religions (non judeao-christian) would flood this country or that God would slowly be pushed out.  This is how it is though and we need to fight back when it is within the confines of the "law of the land".

Give unto Ceasar what is Ceaser's and unto God waht is God's.