Jamie123
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All my jokes are all thoroughly indefensible. My brother and my wife will both vouch for that!While not defending the joke...
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"There's only one proper way to bring up children...and I've no idea what it is." (Basil Brush)
Which gives me an idea for another one: (By the way, don't read this if you're easily grossed out.)
"The best way to bring up children is to stick your fingers down your throat" (Caleb the Cannibal)
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Man goes to the doctor. He says "I feel terrible. I think I'm suffering from Alice."
"Alice?" says the doctor, surprised. "I've been a medical man for 20 years and I've never heard any disease called Alice!"
"Oh really?" says the man. "Well, Christopher Robin went down with it!"
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Awwww....and I was about to call the missionaries about having myself baptised! Now I'm disillusioned....I'm making all of this stuff up.
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Don't you know it's not nice to make fun of people for their nationality? And *please* don't put us in the same category as those narsty froggy French!!No. It's part of our No-Limeys/No Froggies policy.
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We'll since everyone else is quoting their favorites I'll say I've always like this quote from The Alchemist.
"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night.
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."
Here's another great classic quotation on courage:
"Courage isn't just a matter of not being frightened, you know. It's being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway."
Doctor Who in Planet of the Daleks
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It's also often said that Einstein was an academic failure, which is also not really true. He did get his degree (though admittedly he wasn't top of his class) and held down a graduate-level job as a patents examiner. This is not very impressive compared to what he later did, but it hardly qualifies him as a failure either.Being a bit pedantic I know, but a lot of those statements are exaggerated and/or assumptions. We have a similar common belief in the UK that Winston Churchhill left school with no qualifications but ended up being the prime minister. This isn't actually true at all - he was very qualified. Had to point that out. sorry
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There are some interesting definitions of "foing" on urbandictionary:
foing: To be cool or to look awesome. e.g. That show was pretty foing.
The others are funnier but a little too "adult" to be posted here.
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I think you oversimplify things Hemi. I often find your sentences rather difficult to untangle, but I get the impression you're condemning the fearful on the grounds that fear creates problems. This is quite true of course, but not tremendously helpful: You might as well ask an agoraphobic where we would all be if everyone was afraid of going outside. The answer of course is "nowhere", but coming from a person who is not agoraphobic this would be both arrogant and hypocritical.Agh no! Imagine if people thought like this when it comes to the fields of electronics, automobiles, or even the airplane. Where do you think we would be by now if most of have the fear of others without giving forth some effort?
Many people have fears which we don't understand. Sometimes it stems from childhood abuse, and if we have not suffered in the same way, then there is no way we will understand it. But we have no right to brush it aside simply because we have never felt that way ourselves. We all have our own individual demons to fight.
My own fears of failure are (in the grand scheme of things) a fairly minor matter. Like I say, I usually fight through them, but I often feel they hold me back from achieving what I'm capable of. I was just interested to know if other people felt the same way.
On the subject of courage, I've always liked what the North Wind said to Diamond:
"To try to be brave is to be brave. The coward who tries to be brave is before the man who is brave because he is made so, and never had to try."
George MacDonald At the Back of the North Wind
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Sounds totally stupid I know, but I sometimes get an almost debilitating fear of trying ideas out in case they don't work, even when there's absolutely nothing to lose. Usually I fight through the fear, but the mental struggle takes all the energy out of me.
I suppose it could be the kind of fear Shakespeare expressed in Hamlet, when he couldn't make up his mind to avenge his father. Perhaps an untested plan retains the hope of success, which is lost when it is tested and fails.
Not sure how to explain it any better than this. Does anyone else understand what I'm talking about?
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Or being bitten by a squirrel makes you a nut.Remember, Just going to Church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than standing in your garage makes you a car.
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I have tried hard to get over my irritation with common mispronunciations, misspellings, and various malapropisms. But what really, really, REALLY gets my goat is when people insist on referring to sexual activity as something intrinsically bad or wicked.
For example, I'll read an article where someone talks about "doing the nasty". HUH?! What sort of twisted, perverted sicko WANTS to think of sex as something debasing or nasty?
- A person treating another person in a despicable manner: Nasty.
- An especially messy, odoriferous, and old baby diaper: Mildly nasty.
- A booger hanging out of the nose of an unsuspecting person: Perhaps borderline nasty, if you're super-sensitive to that sort of thing.
- Puppies, merry children, beautiful flowers, and (non-perverted, non-sicko) sex: Not nasty.
I sometimes like to use "marital unpleasantness" as a facetious euphemism for sex
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Just thought of another one:
When people ask "Do you want to...[insert request]?" instead of "Will you please...[insert request]?"
Example: When your spouse asks you "Do you want to go down to the store and get me some chips and a soda?" the truthful answer is "No thank you, I'm very comfortable sitting here on the warm couch and I do not want to get up and go out in the rain/hail/snow, drive down to the store and buy you chips, soda, or anything else for that matter. I might be induced to do so, but no, I do not want to."
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don't know if this was mentioned earlier.......but here in the south i hear some people wanting to "conversate" with others.......and "conversating".
It's a perfectly cromulant word! Maybe you should embiggen your vocabulary
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Yes I fuly agre! I coudn't have put it beter myself Funcy. It drivs me rite up the wal to! If only peple'd us there words prop'ly, we'd al understand ech other a lot beter!Mine is people who repeatedly refuse to type a word in its proper form, even when corrected: Barak instead of Barack, 'Is this to much?' instead of 'Is this too much?', Satin instead of Satan.
It drives me insane. Words are supposed to have meaning. When you're lazy about them, I just can't try to read what you're trying to say.
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Good old Jerry Falwell!!
ARMINIAN TRUTH FOREVER!!!!
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When people say "can't" when they really mean "shouldn't".
Examples:
You can't legalize sin. (Yes you can. There are plenty of perfectly legal things which are at least to some degree sinful.)
You can't sail on the lake when the red flag is flying. (Yes you can. You'll just get into trouble for it.)
You can't park on a double yellow line. (Yes you can - you'll just have to watch out for traffic wardens.)
You can't drink serve red wine with the fish course. (Yes you can - you can serve anything with anything, so long as it's available.)
I can't tell her that! (Yes you can - you'll just open up a can of worms!)
P.S. Having thought about it for a minute, I'm sure I use "can't" wrongly myself. But that's different. I always find this sort of thing is only annoying in other people!
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When people quote Romans 3:23 in a tone which suggests that you've fallen a lot further short of God's glory than they have.
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Just thought of another one...when people use the phrase "begs the question" incorrectly (though I dare say I've done this myself a few times).
Correct use: "You say he's guilty because he shows no remorse? That begs the question!"
Incorrect use: "You say you saw him commit the crime? That begs the question, what were you doing there yourself?"
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?????? That's the only way I've ever heard it pronounced. How do you pronounce it over there at Hogwarts?
"Router" rhymes with "scooter". Whenever I'm at a conference, forced to listen to "foreigners" pronounce it "rawter", I get an urge to skewers through my brain.
Another thing that used to drive me mad was "donut" instead of "doughnut", but I've learned to live with that one.
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"Big deal" - don't know why this bugs me. I think it's because of a kid I knew at school who used it a lot.
Pluralization of the word "money" - "monies" always makes me cringe.
"Router" - when pronounced so as to rhyme with "doubter". I'm talking about the Internet kind of router. The woodworking tool you you can pronounce however you wish.
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Both of which were Jewish.
There were other sects that rejected Him as well. All people, even those that believed in a coming Messiah, rejected Him if they did not get baptized and follow Him. There were not many ways to follow Him... just one. It doesn't matter if they claimed to believe in Him or not. The true followers of Christ attended His sermons or those of His appointed servants. They didn't recognize people as members of His church (or Kingdom as Traveler points out) that attended other meetings, even if they claimed to believe in a Messiah. They were just different.
It really baffles me how Christians can think it doesn't matter where you attend church and it doesn't matter what doctrine you teach as long as you believe in Christ. Churches that teach different doctrine cannot be one body of Christ. For example, the Catholic Church, Baptist Church, and LDS Church cannot all be the Church of Christ just because they all teach and believe in Christ. Either one is right and the others are wrong, or all are wrong. They can't all be right if they teach different things.
It's like saying McDonalds, 7-11, and Krispy Kreme are the same. Yes, they all make and sell food, but they are not the same. Many people seem to think just because they sell food they are the same. I'm hungry so I'll just pull in anywhere and get some food. But, if you want a hot, fresh Krispy Kreme donut, you can't go somewhere else to get it. You may be able to get donuts at the other places, but they are not the same.
Why don't those 3 companies just merge and all have the same name? It would be impossible to tell what's inside, or what you can buy, by the name on the outside. The name suggests what's on the inside. You pull into McKrispy-9 and you don't have any idea if you're getting burgers, slurpees, or donuts.
I had a little fun with my example, but the princile I'm trying to get across is there.
I think especially in early NT times, the primitive Church would have been recognizable as a single denomination (as we currently understand that word). However, those days are gone; history has muddied the waters, and many denominations now exist. Contrary to what many people believe, denominational differences do not always correspond to theological differences, and many denominations have internal theological divides. For example, both Methodists and Baptists are (and have always been) divided internally on the question of predestination. A core belief in salvation through Jesus Christ alone (not just "a coming/already-come Messiah") holds them together, and holds groups of churches together in common fellowship.
LDS members will challenge this, but I believe that the original Church of Jesus Christ still exists. It just doesn't exist as a single visible denomination. It exists rather as the body of all true believers - the "Communion of Saints" or "Holy Catholic Church". This is why the McDonalds/Krispy Kreme analogy doesn't really work: Firstly different restaurant chains may sell different foods, but they are all fit (hopefully!) for human consumption and may even be made from ingredients from the same suppliers. Secondly people who eat at McDonalds are not "McDonalds Members" who think people who eat at Krispy Kreme are apostates.
Denominations are all man-made structures, but that doesn't stop God's Spirit working within them.
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It's difficult to see where you can really go with this argument. Isn't "stopping talking to mankind" exactly what God did between the "Great Apostasy" and the early 19th Century? The fact that before Joseph Smith the statements "nothing can be added to the Bible" and "all the prophets died long ago" were valid remains equally true from both LDS and non-LDS standpoints. From the nonmember's point of view this situation (which we all must agree was valid in its time) is still the status quo. The potential convert needs to be persuaded not that God "can" talk to mankind, but that improbable as it may sound, He actually does!...why then does he think God stopped talking to mankind in the same way He always had (He is afterall unchanging - right?)
(Clarification: Of course by "nonmember" I mean non-LDS Christian of one of the mainstream denominations. Not an unbeliever in Christ.)
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Andy Murray is through to the semi finals in Wimbledon. If he wins he'll be the first Briton to reach the finals since 1938.
(Oh..and Congrats, Funkytown:))
In need of some clean humor!
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She was only a whiskey-maker's daughter...but he loved her still!