Wait...isn't that Dusy behind the snakes? The Lizard with the lizards... Haaaaahaaaahaaaaaa..... <img src=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=1943146>
So it is a possibility The creator has no intention of you being perfect in your temporary stay in this material world. By the way, I have never said you had to worship a creator, only that it is possibile there is a higher power that science has yet to develop the proper tools to prove existence of such as the case was with the atom. http://www.ainglkiss.com/bibst/job.html
Since ahteist are skeptics of everything, I would be willing to bet very few would donate to a relief cause unless they first see scientific proof of where and how their donation will be distributed. Surely they are not going to donate on just faith that the money will end up helping others.
Me: Non-responsive. V00: >So it is a possibility LOL ... so, Sync asks a question, you give a non-responsive 'answer', I identify it as such, and your conclusion from that exchange is "So it is a possibility". ROFLAO! Talk about a classic non sequitur. JB
V00: The "Chinese Care for Growth Society " needs your money to help the Chinese people. No need whatsoever to check with the BBB or InterAction.org, and for certain, don't go here: http://blogs.consumerreports.org/money/2008/05/charity_scams.html Just give to the "Chinese Care for Growth Society", and please be very, very generous. Thank you. JB
Maybe we need to say these few pledges more often. To the Bible: I pledge allegiance to the Bible, God's holy word, I will make it a lamp unto my feet, A light unto my path, And will hide it's words in my heart, That I might not sin against God. To the Christian Flag: I pledge allegiance to the Christian Flag, And to the Saviour for whose Kingdom it stands, One Saviour, crucified, risen and come again, With like and liberty for all who believe. To the American Flag: I pledge Allegiance to the Flag, Of the United States of America, And to the Republic for which it stands, One nation under God, invisible With Liberty and Justice for all
Maybe "we" should stop messing around with stuff like the Pledge of Alligence. Maybe "we" should be a little more American. A little more inclusive, a little less sectarian and a little less of a discriminatory christian bore. The 1923 Pledge will do just fine. "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
The world is basically mind, divorced from spirit, pledging it's allegience to the concept of body, arising out of it's own machinations. Mind then goes to work on securing the concept of bodily freedom. First of all, this is an impossibility, since the body is a limited concept. Second, it takes vast expenditures of effort, ingenuity, problem solving...essentially distracting the mind from the truth about itself. In this way it begins to express weakness, powerlessness, and confusion. For this reason, the concept of the united states of bodies is inherently unworkable. True union is made impossible by the bodies imposition, so any collective is going to be symbolic. Assuming it is weak, the body-mind paradigm gives the mind's power away to external saviors, as for example, to a large national defense system. Jesus
Have you ever wondered what happened to those men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from the wounds or the hardship of the Revolutionary War. What kind of men were they? Twenty four were attorneys and jurist. Eleven were merchants; nine were farmers and large plantation owners, men of means and well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death, if they were captured. They signed, and they pledged their lives, their fortunes and sacred honor. These were not wild eyed, rabble rousing ruffians; they were soft spoken men of means and educated. They had security but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight and unwavering, they pledged; "For the support of this declaration with the firm reliance on the protection of the Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives our fortunes and our sacred honor." They gave us an Independent America! The question is can we keep it? More and more of our freedoms are being eroded everyday and we are fed other news to blind us what our government is doing; most fall into one of the two categories; to dumb to realize or just don't care.