air bag injuries due to propellant chemicals

You're not hurting anything or anyone, that I've seen.

Though an outside observer might guess otherwise, I harbour no particular
ill will towards Bill himself. He's only behaving as he's been taught to
behave.

The ill will I harbor is towards a willfully-stupid human race that cannot
see the intrinsic ridiculousness in civilly or belligerently codifying and
enforcing upon others any particular provisions of an individual's own
chosen religion, given the existence of countless religions each claiming
to be the one and only true, real, genuine and valid way of life.

DS

 

you are truly an exceptional person Daniel... absolutely a wonderful
find in a human being. i am proud to have had this opportunitiy to get
to know you a bit... thank you for that opportunity..... and thank you
for being genuine, real, honest, and most of all nice....

linda

 

tired of being mean to nice people... people with different opinions
than mine should not be subjected to my stupidity.. so i am gone....

if anyone wants to correspond through regular email, i would enjoy it...

thanks for the fun and the arguments!!!! i had fun!

linda

 

Given that her mission in life is to find fault, I'm hardly surprised.


Matt

 

People do it all the time. They choose be to murders, alcoholics, etc.
I've looked and there is no evidence of anything other than a choice.
I realise that today's society is looking to blame every ill on
genetics, be it obesity, alcoholism, whatever. It is a lot easier than
taking personal responsibility. Funny how people blame Christians for
relying on the Bible as a crutch, yet they rely on genetics or some
other excuse.


Matt

 

You are one clueless woman. Plonk.

Matt

 

You've conveniently left out one other factor that absolutely trumps our
opinions (mine and yours) and experiences (mine and yours). And I know
you don't like to hear that. And that's OK. Either one of us can "win"
a verbal discussion/argument, but ultimately it's reality that wins
regardless of who "bested" the other. We both make our choices and
"live" with the consequences - good and bad - whatever they may be.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
adddress with the letter 'x')

 

There is very little objective reality in the world, Bill. You're
perceptive enough to know that, even if you choose not to believe it. But
y'know, the fact we're even having this debate is an excellent sign.
Gandhi, who was very knowledgeable in such matters, enumerated the stages
of social-change issues thus: "First they ignore you, then they ridicule
and denounce you, then they debate you, then you win."

 

There's much more than you realize (that's my reality).

So who's Gandhi in this discussion - me or you? (rhetorical question)

Time for a group hug. 8^)

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
adddress with the letter 'x')

 

Oh yes - let's pity poor brainless Bill who only repeats what somone
else tells him! You know me better than that. It's that kind of
pseudo-intellectual elitist attitude that explains why the DNC is in
absolute disarray right now - thanks to Michael Moore, George Soros,
Terry McAuliffe, James Carville... the list is so long.

Well we can agree on that. Ultimately there will be a resolution to all
of it. When it's all over with, it will be obvious that the answers
were in front of us the whole time. We willingly chose to not see them.
The problem that the human race has is that it assumes that the lack
of *immediate* consequences indicates *no* consequences. "Hey - if God
disapproved so much with what I'm doing, I'd be dead by now, so it must
be OK." "Hey - I put my hand on that red hot burner, and it didn't hurt
me - those bastards - they lied to me!"

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
adddress with the letter 'x')

 

ROFL. You guys should really have a get-together. I mean, seriously...

Ulf

 

041105 1631 - linda posted:

No apologies necessary. These NewGroups mostly have one thing in common:
They usually start out with a simple, innocent query, or some information,
then diffuse into a myriad of subjects which the viewer can either accept or
reject. One must learn to separate the wheat from the chaff.

 

041105 1936 - linda posted:

If you believe that it is God that loves everyone, you are mistaken. It was
Jesus who preached this particular gospel.

 

But you're dead before you know who won.


Matt

 

Your response illustrates my point perfectly -- thank you.

-DS

 

I can only know you through your words here, so that's what I'm going on.

What you consider the answers in front of us all along are different from
what others conside the answers in front of us all along. That's the whole
problem.

DS

 

Actually it predates him (or "Him" if you prefer).

DAS

 

It seems to me that enough gas has been generated by this part of the thread
to fill hundreds of air bags (big US size).

DAS

 

Glad to oblige. However, once more: God's reality is all that will
matter in the end.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
adddress with the letter 'x')

 

I can accept that. I don't expect God to change reality to agree with
any errors I have made.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
adddress with the letter 'x')