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Well being that my Windows files got deleted and I had to start over, I can say I don't back up enough. i didn't realize how much i update stuff during a two week span. I know, I know windows!

If you can fix one more thing, I had 2000 post until the glitch. Can you fix that for me while you're at it?

Well as Fallguy stated it is againsr the rules of the forum.

very nice!

how presumptious and arrogant to assume everyone is wrong except you in your open minded wisdom who has solved the mystery in 30 something years? how can this logic have any sense of stability? its like operating on personel perceptionn ignoring behind the lines intel.

You really have to stop using facts and economic understanding in your arguments. You need more emotion and feelings!

It is tuckable and easy on off.

It doesn't really matter how long it would take. The fact we aare drilling would drive OPEC and the rest of the world into a "make it cheaper to buy than drill" mode. Suppply and demand.

I would agree, except I doubt big brother is that slick. BTW we get the majority of our oil domestically anyway. The only problem is we have to pay Canada, Mexico, and Venezuela for it. they are pumping a lot of the sam eoil we could tap and selling it to us. That alone would force OPEC into competition mode and seriously suck the profits out of it for them.

Just found this on TOPGUN. It's the .40 and it's $585. Not too bad IMO. http://www.topgunsupply.com/Springfield-Armory-XDM-.40S-W-Fixed-Sights-4.5-BLACK-pr-1524.html

are you serious? "we the people" have control through consumer demand and making sure government stays out of our lives and let us go after what we need, ala ANWAR. Any other control is called communism.

Look at these, very expensive! don't know anything about them though. http://www.gunsinternational.com/results.cfm?cid=10

97% Yes and 72000+ votes!

Nice! BTW where's the other thread? I was kinda hoping for a little more Rabbi rap.

I think that the same lack of sex was the joke! BTW after looking at your avatar, I might see a correlation.

Aw dang! You mods are taking all the good threads! Now how will I gratuitously bump my post count? PS - so there's no confusion I am joking...... sort of!

Haha!

PM Sent.

Just got down reading a lot of the threads. Mainly on THR.com Doesn't look good. Sad he is a nice guy IMO.

I too didn't think anything was out of line or mean spirited on those particular issues. shoot i got more grief about my opinion on people calling cops "pigs" than I saw else where. I don't take offense from anyone over my opinions and I'm sorry that others have on other topics. To say that more important things need to be discussed than ones beliefs seem a little contradictory to me, as that is the nature of this forum. To pick and choose which beliefs are relevant seems awkward at best. All my beliefs are intertwined. No gripe though. You did what you thought was best and so shall it be. I really enjoy every discussion that I've been involved in.

Try the Bible. It is pretty straight forward. "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the father but through me.", "If you confess with you're mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.", "for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord, shall be saved." And as far a drinking and smoking, I've searched and can't find those scriptures about their damnation. In fact Paul told the Corinthians they needed to start drinking and having sex (marriage). So there you go and tell them a Preacher told you that! I think this has turned into the bump your post count here thread!

It's the old Arminiast vs. Calvinist debate. I tend to fall in the middle. God is in control and man has free will. I've never seen this argument "won", but it is interesting and since it's been going on for over 400 hundred years.... me thinks it will continue.

This is a great idea! It can't fail! This is about as bad as Arlen Spector crying foul over "Spygate".

"Religion" is inherently by it's nature judgmental. That's not a bad thing. It sets standards and doesn't equivocate.The question is what is your basis? Personal interpretation or God's truth? I think to often when folks aren't sure they guess and lock in....usually this is a bad base line. As i often say, most Christians know just enough Bible to be dangerous. And I don't mean that in a good way!

Not to be nit picky but you're mixing Bilbe with tradition. God is indeed three in one and yes Satan can go into heaven (not as a resident) as he is in dominion over this earth. He is not bound in "hell" or ghenna yet. That is why in Revelation God destroys both Heaven and Earth and creates a new Heaven and Earth. I know this is very simplistic and thin, but i don't have 10 pages to dedicate to the topic. Musicman it is indeed tough to wrestle with these things. As a pastor I think everyone needs to wrestle with these things in order to allow God to lead them through to the truth. Jacob had to wrestle with the angel before he got the blessing. Wrestling/debating is a good thing if you are truly seeking truth. I lost my 2nd child in a similar way and it was indeed very difficult. but what I had to come to is the realization is that perception is not always reality. Maybe my child would have been healthy, more than likely not and that is why it didn't not live. As i wrestled with it through that Friday night and Saturday, I couldn't get many answers. Sunday rolled around I found myself waiting to preach when the thought cam to me that the first time I would see that child would be in eternity. I had thought that life in this world was the best but God knew that child needed to start life with him. Why do bad things happen to good people? The theoretical answer is that according to the scriptures, as born sinners we "deserve" nothing good. Only death. So anything good that happens to us is God's grace. With that in mind do experience more of God's goodness or more of his justice? I think if we look objectively we would say we are blessed far more than we are "punished". does that make it easier when it happens, probably not, but such is life. I can't make people believe as I do and don't believe I have to. I will simply tell and let truth fall where it may. As far as you're friends, just be there and let them grieve. Paul prayed three times for God to remove his "thorn" and gods answered, "I won't remove the "thorn", but i will give you the grace to endure." May your friends be granted the grace to endure.