Aristotle

Amen. ;-)

LOL... is that the problem?! Haha...

Hi, prisonchaplain... Please refer to the topic I started on America in the Gospel Discussion Board. If that doesn't answer all of your questions, please let me know and I'll do some more research on the subject if you'd like. - Mrs. A

The Prince's "warning" sounds like more elite snobbery to me...and insensitive to the many Americans suffering with anorexia and bulimia.

You're so patriotic, Jason! I love the red, white, and blue.

TEXT FROM AMERICAN HISTORY: George Washington's Private Prayers That President George Washington was a devout believer in Jesus Christ and had accepted Him as his Lord and Savior is easily demonstrated by a reading of his personal prayer book (written in his own handwriting), which was discovered in 1891 among a collection of his papers. To date, no historian has questioned its authenticity. It consists of twenty-four pages of his morning and evening prayers, revealing many of his theological beliefs about God, Jesus Christ, sin, salvation, eternal life, and himself as a humble servant of Christ. Monday Morning O Eternal and everlasting God, I presume to present myself this morning before Thy Divine Majesty, beseeching Thee to accept of my humble and hearty thanks...Daily frame me more and more to live into the likeness of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, that living in Thy fear, and dying in Thy favor, I may in Thy appointed time attain the resurrection of the just unto eternal life. Bless my family, friends, and kindred, and unite us all in praising and glorifying Thee in all our works. (Faith of Our Founding Fathers)

I submit that the name of this topic be changed to: "Americans Warned Not To Get As Fat A Head As Prince"

"If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks." - Steve Pavlina, How to Win an Argument, 08-31-05

Is there a point to yours? LOL

"The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself." - Garth Brooks, Country Music

Edited by Aristotle

"Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable." ~ Joseph Addison, Women and Liberty English essayist, poet, & politician (1672 - 1719) :)

Then I am one step ahead of you. LOL

I would highly recommend following suit. ;-) P.S. Please have the courtesy to refer to me as my registered name. At least one other member has recently changed his name and you have extended him that courtesy. (i.e., Unorthodox)

Hi, prisonchaplain... LDS believe in the Second Coming. America was established as a Christian nation by our Founding Fathers, in preparation for the Lord's return. - Mrs. A To each his own. ;-)

Sorry, but I've not changed my mind on any issue! I just found it futile arguing with closed-minded people. - Mrs. A

(I received this in an email) It was 1987! At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news video of Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan Administration. There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning! He was being drilled by a senator; "Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?" Ollie replied, "Yes, I did, Sir." The senator continued, trying to get a laugh out of the audience, "Isn't that just a little excessive?" "No, sir," continued Ollie. "No? And why not?" the senator asked. "Because the lives of my family and I were threatened, sir." "Threatened? By whom?" the senator questioned. "By a terrorist, sir" Ollie answered. "Terrorist? What terrorist could possibly scare you that much?" "His name is Osama bin Laden, sir" Ollie replied. At this point the senator tried to repeat the name, but couldn't pronounce it, which most people back then probably couldn't. A couple of people laughed at the attempt. Then the senator continued. Why are you so afraid of this man?" the senator asked. "Because, sir, he is the most evil person alive that I know of", Ollie answered. "And what do you recommend we do about him?" asked the senator. "Well, sir, if it was up to me, I would recommend that an assassin team be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth." The senator disagreed with this approach, and that was all that was shown of the clip. By the way, that senator was Al Gore! Also: Terrorist pilot Mohammad Atta blew up a bus in Israel in 1986. The Israelis captured, tried and imprisoned him. As part of the Oslo agreement with the Palestinians in 1993, Israel had to agree to release so-called "political prisoners." However, the Israelis would not release any with blood on their hands, The American President at the time, Bill Clinton, and his Secretary of State, Warren Christopher, "insisted" that all prisoners be released. Thus Mohammad Atta was freed and eventually thanked the US by flying an airplane into Tower One of the World Trade Center. This was reported by many of the American TV networks at the time that the terrorists were first identified. It was censored in the US from all later reports.

Actually, I understand liberalism quite perfectly! "We should get out of the U.N. and get the U.N. out of the United States." (An Enemy Hath Done This, Ezra Taft Benson) "Well-informed constitutionalist Americans know that the United Nations Charter is a multi-nation treaty which, if obeyed by all parties to it, would require member nations to cooperate in socializing their national economics and then to merge into a unified world-wide socialist system. Creation of a world socialist system is the objective of communism. Thus, as created, the United Nations and all its specialized agencies are designed to serve the cause of communism. In many specific ways, the United Nations has promoted the interests of the Soviet Union." (The Dan Smoot Report, 4/8/63) "The United Nations is not a Christian organization. It is unashamedly Godless. Christian principles have no guiding influence on the majority of the nations whose representatives in the United Nations now sit in judgment...One cannot be precise, but probably the majority of the members of the United Nations are dictatorships having no idea of justice as understood by the Christian nations. Only a civilization which has lost confidence in the Christian code upon which it was built would submit to the moral authority of such a body as the United Nations...Man has created a Godless power to govern the world. Can human folly reach greater depths." (George Winder, Christian Economics, Aug. 6, 1963)

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

Aristotle's Score: 1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (100%) 2. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (84%) 3. Jehovah's Witness (81%) 4. Orthodox Judaism (70%) 5. Islam (63%) 6. Bahá'í Faith (61%) 7. Eastern Orthodox (61%) 8. Roman Catholic (61%) 9. Orthodox Quaker (60%) 10. Seventh Day Adventist (59%) 11. Sikhism (53%) 12. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (50%) 13. Jainism (40%) 14. Reform Judaism (38%) 15. Liberal Quakers (35%) 16. Hinduism (33%) 17. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (33%) 18. Mahayana Buddhism (29%) 19. Theravada Buddhism (29%) 20. Unitarian Universalism (27%) 21. Neo-Pagan (24%) 22. Nontheist (21%) 23. Scientology (16%) 24. Taoism (16%) 25. New Age (16%) 26. New Thought (16%) 27. Secular Humanism (14%)

Rigging a shotgun is a bit much, I agree. A video camera would work better. LOL I think the man could have gotten away with it if he had posted a no trespassing sign on his property: "Trespassers Will Be Shot On Sight". But without a sign, and an innocent victim being shot, methinks the man is in trouble. Had he shot the perpetrator...different story. But then again, try proving this was the same thief who had been robbing him each time. As per arming myself...no problem! I would, and I do.

What a brave lady you are! I would have totally freaked.

For The Record... Of the fifty-five men who wrote and signed the U.S. Constitution of 1787, all but three were orthodox members of one of the established Christian communions: approximately twenty-nine Anglicans, sixteen to eighteen Calvinists, two Methodists, two Lutherans, two Roman Catholics, one lapsed Quaker, and sometime Anglican, and one open Deist--Dr. Franklin who attended every kind of Christian worship, called for public prayer, and contributed to all denominations. (re: Faith of Our Founding Fathers)

Hi, Lindy! Did you know "Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute."? (Josh Billings, US Humorist, 1818-1885). LOL

Such is the inconsistency in the law! There used to be an old saying...if you shoot someone who's trying to break in, make sure you shoot them inside your house. In other words, drag their bloody body inside. Ridiculous, huh? In my opinon, no, the man who owns the house does not deserve to go to prison. He is protected by the Second Amendment. Unfortunately, many do not understand the Constitution [i.e., Life, Liberty, Property--Article XIV].