Misshalfway

lol.... now tell us the real truth! :::staring at you over my glasses:::::

One upper.

I can't choose. I want both!!!!!! And a sexy man to take me!!! Ahhh.....A girl can dream can't she? When you are sick: run to the doctor or stay home and nurse yourself?

How does it feel? How does it feel? To be on you own ...like a rolling stone? (Bachman Cummings, Jukebox album)

Italian men

I don't know if I can take you down to funky town, but you can come to our house in the middle of our street. There's always something happening and its usually quite loud. :)

I believe in magic! What else could explain why my keys keep disappearing!!!

Well, I like that list. But sometimes I think lists are deceptive. I think we fool ourselves into thinking that if we find this guy or girl who matches the list then we will be happy. Lists don't take into account flaws and life changing events. Lists usually reflect the values of the moment or values of youth. Sometimes they turn into unrealistic requirements that turn into stumbling blocks. Anyway, would you want your date to be evaluating you against some list?

Amen Funky! Out of the ball park!

Welcome to the salad bowl! Lots of fun flavors around this place!

chef

Ouch.

I dream about famous people all the time. Like the other night, I was on a cruise ship made to look all pirate-ish and there was Ted Kennedy all stooped over at the buffet. Now somehow, I feel very close to Ted.

Well now!!! This is somethin' else!!!!

Welcome.

Well, I am not sure what you mean. I don't think anyone's worth is diminished. The worth of souls is great.....even ones who make immoral choices. But I think choices definitely do invite darkness and badness in and do shape ones character, and environment which eventually affects society. If you think I am naive or that I don't think humans do bad things.....I think you prolly haven't read very many of my posts. Btw. Thanks for talking down to me. I appreciated that.

Hmmmm.... you have convinced me..... at least on the points of your above post! :)

I guess I am confused, because I do believe in God. So I am trying to see this from another view point. If I didn't believe in God, I would have no reason to believe that man is good. I would view man as just another animal....evolved and intelligent maybe.....but inherently amoral --neither good nor bad. I would only see a variety of human behaviors and evaluated such on their pro-social merits. I don't know if I would be able to explain why humans seem to all instinctually know right from wrong. I don't know if right and wrong would even matter. It would be more about what works and what doesn't. Which IMO blurs the lines of right and wrong even more. It would be much easier for me to not care so much about the welfare of others. Just a bunch of individuals and their ability to survive or prosper themselves. I think I would act in a much more self interested fashion, rather than for the betterment of the whole.....unless I saw the personal gain from promoting such a cause. It would also make parenting more complicated. I am not sure I would be able to raise morally centered children. I think I could raise pro-social ones, but I think that without religion, I wouldn't be able help them reach their highest moral potentials and moral balance. Too many forces and flatterings and tag lines to confuse things.

That is perhaps why we don't legislate every little jot and tiddle. Agreeing to disagree, with me anyway, goes without saying. :)

You got a nice mix of truth and some other stuff........ We all fell! Not just the darker skinned. Please! And our skin doesn't become whiter with sanctification, our souls do. Goodness sake. Let's make sure we are teaching correct doctrine here. No wonder non-members get confused.

I think it speaks to the moral code that is written inside of each of us. And not only the code, but the super cool undercover agent code ring as well :) We each have the inherent ability, or degree of ability, to determine truth vs. error.....or flat out lie as the case may be. It is like a muscle, the more you use it and are true to it, the better it works. If there is not right and no wrong, then are societies amoral? Are behaviors that we label right and wrong really just civic expressions? Or obeyed simply because of social pressures? (not saying that doesn't happen, just that I believe there is more to it than this. Because I personally like the idea of trust the goodness in people. And if there is not universal inner code, then my trust is certainly misplaced.

LOL! He hits back with a left....and then a right! Soooo on the same page with you with regards to culture and how it effects moral behaviors and norms. So the question is, where does that general inner consensus come from? If Jose in Texas and Betty Chen in China can both know inherently that certain things are right and certain things are wrong, can science and evolution and biological process really explain such a phenom? Does it come from God as part of our spiritual creation or does it come because man is inherently good or does it come as you suggest, from organic human trial and error? I just can't believe that mankind got it right all by themselves. That would be a tremendous expression of luck. And if we are just evolved creatures, why did we evolve this way and not like the rest of terrestrial creation? If right and wrong are just "notion" that someone thought up one day, how is it that each person seems to know that it sucks to be lied to?

Raspberries!!! corn on the cob or by the kernal?

hammock.....except not the ones you can't get out of. HA! Sitting at church: pews or folding chairs in the back?......or the foyer? hahahah