*** OUR GATHERING PLACE *** Fellowship and Laughter - Welcome to RF!

[Meriweather]

I am, I can catch the scores tomorrow.

Sleep well and pleasant dreams.

[RayMan]

What about your CIDekick?


He's from Alabama. Boring is his birthright. He just fights it. So he won't fight for a while.

[meggers49]

Why certainly Ray.

Vir, we've got a lovely parting gift for you today.

A life sized portrait of our current Speaker of the House.

that's just flat out evil.

lol

[meggers49]

I don't know.



Where are Bill and Ted when you really need them to settle a question which can only be answered through time travel!?


CID,
You wouldn't happen to have a Way-Back Machine handy would you?

has Mr. Peabody brought it back yet??

[Hadassah]

:confused:

[smyrna]

I do understand that compared to God, I am zilch. I don't understand how that makes me undeserving of love.

We had guests last night and I had to go.

The wages of sin are death. We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God. We deserve death...I am preaching to the choir, I know. This I believe is what Vir and CID were saying also. We have accepted Christ and our debt is paid. You don't deserve love from God but our given it by his grace. That is the heavenly concept, from an earthly one...we are to love one another and yes...now you deserve love from your fellow man.

[smyrna]

me

ding, ding, ding, ding, ding...we have a winner.:clap::mrgreen:

[smyrna]

Good morning everyone. I trust all had a grand evening. My wife and I had guests and they rec'd a spanking in Euchre. That's a fun game.

Have a super saturday.

[Meriweather]

We had guests last night and I had to go.

The wages of sin are death. We have all sinned and come short of the glory of God. We deserve death...I am preaching to the choir, I know. This I believe is what Vir and CID were saying also. We have accepted Christ and our debt is paid. You don't deserve love from God but our given it by his grace. That is the heavenly concept, from an earthly one...we are to love one another and yes...now you deserve love from your fellow man.

In my years of teaching, I've only run into one, perhaps two, students who seemed to exude evil. Other than speaking to them quietly, or stepping between them and other students, I left them alone.

From these experiences I understand the concept, "The wages of sin is death." One cannot love the dead.

By contrast, the love of God has such purity and is so uplifting, there is no taint of being undeserving--there is just awe, and a pure wish back that I could love like that--because everyone is deserving of that kind of love. We are a special people, we children of God.

It seems we may be using 'deserved' in two different ways. Vir spoke of doing work and therefore deserving pay. That's not how I would use the word 'deserving.' If I do work for an agreed upon wage, then I am owed. If I did a very fine job, I may be deserving of praise--but that does not mean I am owed praise. I can be deserving of something and yet never receive an ounce of it.

I know others are finding this discussion with me very frustrating, and I definitely do not mean to be frustrating. I am having an interesting time with it; I'm having fun.

And yes, I know, People. Isn't that just like me to be having all the fun while driving the rest of you nuts. If we ever get together, I picture a long line of people standing in line, waiting to throttle me. I'd probably have fun with that, too--but then, in that instance, so would all of you. :mrgreen:

[Meriweather]

ding, ding, ding, ding, ding...we have a winner.:clap::mrgreen:

That's right. CID! Another prize for Vir, please, and make it better than the last one. Thank you. It's appreciated.

[Meriweather]

Good morning, Religion Forum!


I hope everyone has a wonderful Saturday.

[meggers49]

Good morning everyone. I trust all had a grand evening. My wife and I had guests and they rec'd a spanking in Euchre. That's a fun game.

Have a super saturday.

We used to play with out best friends (who have moved to Louisville :( we miss them a lot), we'd play wives against husbands and beat them soundly most of the time.....

it is a fun game and a fun time when you're with friends.

[meggers49]

snip

I know others are finding this discussion with me very frustrating, and I definitely do not mean to be frustrating. I am having an interesting time with it; I'm having fun.

And yes, I know, People. Isn't that just like me to be having all the fun while driving the rest of you nuts. If we ever get together, I picture a long line of people standing in line, waiting to throttle me. I'd probably have fun with that, too--but then, in that instance, so would all of you. :mrgreen:

So in other words, you are being obdurate. Is this to spur discussion or just for the sake of being so?

[Hadassah]

:dance: :dance: :dance:

[Dancer]

In my years of teaching, I've only run into one, perhaps two, students who seemed to exude evil. Other than speaking to them quietly, or stepping between them and other students, I left them alone.

From these experiences I understand the concept, "The wages of sin is death." One cannot love the dead.

By contrast, the love of God has such purity and is so uplifting, there is no taint of being undeserving--there is just awe, and a pure wish back that I could love like that--because everyone is deserving of that kind of love. We are a special people, we children of God.

It seems we may be using 'deserved' in two different ways. Vir spoke of doing work and therefore deserving pay. That's not how I would use the word 'deserving.' If I do work for an agreed upon wage, then I am owed. If I did a very fine job, I may be deserving of praise--but that does not mean I am owed praise. I can be deserving of something and yet never receive an ounce of it.

I know others are finding this discussion with me very frustrating, and I definitely do not mean to be frustrating. I am having an interesting time with it; I'm having fun.

And yes, I know, People. Isn't that just like me to be having all the fun while driving the rest of you nuts. If we ever get together, I picture a long line of people standing in line, waiting to throttle me. I'd probably have fun with that, too--but then, in that instance, so would all of you. :mrgreen:

Eh, I am not going to read through what everyone has already said, I'll just put forth my thoughts.

If God set rules in black and white and said, "Stray from these rules and you shall die" then, if you broke the rules, what happens?

You die!

So, let's say God did that, and I broke a rule. God loves me and doesn't want me to die. He knows I didn't INTEND to break the rule, so even though I deserve (as in: That is the standard punishment) death, he knows I am sorry, so he gives me grace. He does NOT give me what I DESERVE (punishment), he suspends my sentence because he knows that I learned from what I did wrong and don't plan to do it again.

For those not getting Meri's point (hopefully I'm getting it right):

God loves me. He made promises to me and as long as I am making every effort to follow him, he will keep his promises. He gives me what I deserve (from his promises) in the cup that overflows.

[Meriweather]

So in other words, you are being obdurate. Is this to spur discussion or just for the sake of being so?

In fact, I am not being obdurate. What I am doing is having a fun, interesting, thoughtful, and mystifying time trying to see what others are describing. However, it seems to me others are just finding it frustrating.

For me, it is finding the second view in the same picture--the same kind of perceptual illusion I love finding in this picture. What do you see most easily? The young woman or the old crone?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/137/343275375_ea1b82bc46_o.jpg

[Meriweather]

Eh, I am not going to read through what everyone has already said, I'll just put forth my thoughts.

If God set rules in black and white and said, "Stray from these rules and you shall die" then, if you broke the rules, what happens?

You die!

So, let's say God did that, and I broke a rule. God loves me and doesn't want me to die. He knows I didn't INTEND to break the rule, so even though I deserve (as in: That is the standard punishment) death, he knows I am sorry, so he gives me grace. He does NOT give me what I DESERVE (punishment), he suspends my sentence because he knows that I learned from what I did wrong and don't plan to do it again.

For those not getting Meri's point (hopefully I'm getting it right):

God loves me. He made promises to me and as long as I am making every effort to follow him, he will keep his promises. He gives me what I deserve (from his promises) in the cup that overflows.


Where people are having trouble with me is that I am saying people, intrinsically, deserve/are worthy of love.

Perhaps what has not been said is that in my mind it follows that people are working hard at being the best they can be, and at striving to be perfect even as our Father is perfect.

I am not saying we deserve love even though we are sinners. I am saying there is something at the core of each person that makes us deserving/worthy of love. The core that is us, with sin removed.

[RayMan]

Hi there sluggards. I have got all the morning chores out of the way have been planting coleus and getting ready to stick a couple tomato plants into hanging bags that are supposed to be fab for them.

Then it is time to finish researching my History of Western Civilization Mid-Term and write up an award winning paper on the Glories of Ancient Greece. (Quit preening Constantine.)

I like it when I have energy to get up and do stuff on Saturday morning.

[Dancer]

Where people are having trouble with me is that I am saying people, intrinsically, deserve/are worthy of love.

Perhaps what has not been said is that in my mind it follows that people are working hard at being the best they can be, and at striving to be perfect even as our Father is perfect.

I am not saying we deserve love even though we are sinners. I am saying there is something at the core of each person that makes us deserving/worthy of love. The core that is us, with sin removed.I think you are going to have difficulty with that because I don't know anyone who deep down inside believes they are WORTHY of love. We all know the worst of ourselves, the darkest parts that no one else sees and we all know that they are there and they exist within us.

It was something that my husband and I had to work very hard to overcome in our marriage, that basic knowledge of "You love me even though I am NOT worthy...that is why the love is UNconditional."

If you are saying, "God created us without sin. What God creates is good. Good things are godly and thus, we are worthy of love (outside of our sin) because God created us." That I get. I think it is our sin that we are aware of within us that gets in the way of the idea that we ARE worthy of love BECAUSE God created us to be (outside of our sin).

[Dancer]

Hi there sluggards. I have got all the morning chores out of the way have been planting coleus and getting ready to stick a couple tomato plants into hanging bags that are supposed to be fab for them.

Then it is time to finish researching my History of Western Civilization Mid-Term and write up an award winning paper on the Glories of Ancient Greece. (Quit preening Constantine.)

I like it when I have energy to get up and do stuff on Saturday morning.I wish I had energy. I am sick in bed. Coughing, sore throat, achy body, stuff head and generally miserable feeling. :( I got up at 9 and already feel like going back to sleep. :(

[terri910]

I wish I had energy. I am sick in bed. Coughing, sore throat, achy body, stuff head and generally miserable feeling. :( I got up at 9 and already feel like going back to sleep. :(
Then, go back to sleep, Dancer. The one thing I discovered earlier this month, when I got that crud....was that trying to "do" when my body wasn't ready to "do" anything, just made it worse!

[terri910]

Good morning everyone. I trust all had a grand evening. My wife and I had guests and they rec'd a spanking in Euchre. That's a fun game.

I am so glad you explained that Euchre is a game. I thought it was a place.....and I was beginning to wonder what you and the Mrs. were doing with your guests! :eek:

[terri910]

I know others are finding this discussion with me very frustrating, and I definitely do not mean to be frustrating. I am having an interesting time with it; I'm having fun.

Reminds me of a line from "Jerry Maguire"....where Tidwell says
"That's the difference between you and me, Jerry. You think we're fighting, and I think we're finally talking!"

[Meriweather]

I think you are going to have difficulty with that because I don't know anyone who deep down inside believes they are WORTHY of love. We all know the worst of ourselves, the darkest parts that no one else sees and we all know that they are there and they exist within us.

It was something that my husband and I had to work very hard to overcome in our marriage, that basic knowledge of "You love me even though I am NOT worthy...that is why the love is UNconditional."

If you are saying, "God created us without sin. What God creates is good. Good things are godly and thus, we are worthy of love (outside of our sin) because God created us." That I get. I think it is our sin that we are aware of within us that gets in the way of the idea that we ARE worthy of love BECAUSE God created us to be (outside of our sin).

I think I am coming somewhat closer in understanding.

Because we are God's creation, I see people as being worthy of love even though they are not perfect. I see us being able to grow in ways of perfection--and that the love of others nurtures this growth. Definitely, God's love nurtures us.

[terri910]

Hi there sluggards. I have got all the morning chores out of the way have been planting coleus and getting ready to stick a couple tomato plants into hanging bags that are supposed to be fab for them.

Then it is time to finish researching my History of Western Civilization Mid-Term and write up an award winning paper on the Glories of Ancient Greece. (Quit preening Constantine.)

I like it when I have energy to get up and do stuff on Saturday morning.
Very nice guilt trip, RayMan....:mad:

[Meriweather]

I wish I had energy. I am sick in bed. Coughing, sore throat, achy body, stuff head and generally miserable feeling. :( I got up at 9 and already feel like going back to sleep. :(

Listen to your body, then. Sleep. Be well. I'm sorry to hear you are feeling poorly today.

[Meriweather]

Reminds me of a line from "Jerry Maguire"....where Tidwell says
"That's the difference between you and me, Jerry. You think we're fighting, and I think we're finally talking!"

Yes. That sums it up very well. Thank you.

[Meriweather]

Morning Devotional


The God of all comfort. (2 Corinthians 1:3 )


God Will Bring You Through


God can bring you through situations you think you won't survive, or feel you'll be stuck in forever. He can make you comfortable in the most uncomfortable places, and give you peace in the midst of trauma. Before your life is over you'll live, love, and experience loss. Losing some things will actually help you to appreciate the things you still have. It's the taste of failure that makes success sweet. You'll live each day not knowing what tomorrow holds, but confident that God has your tomorrows all planned out. They're not in the hands of your boss or your banker or your mate or anybody else. Nor are they in your own hands to manipulate and control. No, all your tomorrows are in God's hands.

Just because you don't recognize the path you're on doesn't mean that God's not leading you. He promises, "I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things I will do for them, and not forsake them" (Isa 42:16 NKJV). So get to know God - you'll need Him. And He'll be there for you. He'll be there when everybody and everything else has failed you. He'll be there for you in the dark places. "Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning" (Ps 30:5 NKJV). However long the night, morning always comes, and with it His joy. As you look back you'll realize that His grace protected you, provided for you, secured you, calmed you, comforted you and brought you through. Times and seasons change, but not God. He's always "the God of all comfort."


waio.org

[RayMan]

I wish I had energy. I am sick in bed. Coughing, sore throat, achy body, stuff head and generally miserable feeling. :( I got up at 9 and already feel like going back to sleep. :(



Mesa sorry for yousa.

http://www.google.com/images?q=tbn:1iHIan1x1EO2eM::idology.files.wordpre ss.com/2009/01/jar-jar_binks3.jpg

[vir doctus]

Where people are having trouble with me is that I am saying people, intrinsically, deserve/are worthy of love.


The trouble is your insisting that deserve means something other than it does. :rolleyes:

[vir doctus]

So in other words, you are being obdurate. Is this to spur discussion or just for the sake of being so?

'Bout sums it up.

[terri910]

So....I had to look "obdurate" up....

It seems a rather harsh judgment. On the other hand, it seems as though it could be used to describe most people in this forum.

[Hadassah]

So....I had to look "obdurate" up....

It seems a rather harsh judgment. On the other hand, it seems as though it could be used to describe most people in this forum.

Obdurate describes me pretty well. :razz:

[terri910]

Obdurate describes me pretty well. :razz:
I was thinking more in terms of myself...*LOL*

I'd like to say I get my stubborness from my father. But in reality, it is all mine.

[Meriweather]

The trouble is your insisting that deserve means something other than it does. :rolleyes:


I'm using the definitions straight out of Webster's. Would any of these synonyms of deserve suit better?

merit
worthy
earn
warrant
justify

[Meriweather]

So....I had to look "obdurate" up....

It seems a rather harsh judgment. On the other hand, it seems as though it could be used to describe most people in this forum.

I don't think of it in terms of people being stubborn. I see it as people working to get their points understood and working to understand others.

I can be tenacious, yes, but on this topic it was just me working to present what I was seeing and working to see what others see.

[terri910]

I don't think of it in terms of people being stubborn. I see it as people working to get their points understood and working to understand others.

I can be tenacious, yes, but on this topic it was just me working to present what I was seeing and working to see what others see.

Well, I'm just stubborn. :razz:

[Meriweather]

Well, I'm just stubborn. :razz:

Or, certain in your beliefs?

[terri910]

Or, certain in your beliefs?
Mostly...*s*

Other times (not as much in here as at home) just stubborn.

[RayMan]

Well, I'm just stubborn. :razz:

I'll second that emotion.

[Meriweather]

Mostly...*s*

Other times (not as much in here as at home) just stubborn.

Do you actually feel stubborn?

I once had an interesting conversation with my sister about being stubborn. You've got to take this with a grain of salt because she claims before she was born her wish was to be the most stubborn person in the world. Someone, she says, misunderstood, and thought she said wanted to live with the most stubborn person in the world--and that's how we became sisters.

We were doing something together, and I thought she was being a little grouchy was all. Finally she said, "You didn't even notice I was being stubborn, did you?"

Me: "Huh?"

Her: "Were you being stubborn?"

Me: "No."

Her: "You didn't feel it, did you? You didn't feel yourself being stubborn."

Me: "What are you talking about?"

Her: "You are so stubborn you don't even have to work at it, you don't even notice it. I can feel when I'm being stubborn."


So, Terri, can you feel yourself being stubborn? I tried to tell my sister since I couldn't feel it, it must mean I am not at all stubborn, but she walked off in a huff.

[RayMan]

You'd better beat it. You can leave in a taxi. If you can't get a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff.
Groucho Marx

[Hadassah]

I think Im gonna get flowers while Im at work tonight. :dance: :mrgreen:

[Meriweather]

I think Im gonna get flowers while Im at work tonight. :dance: :mrgreen:


So tell us! What's this all about?

[terri910]

Do you actually feel stubborn?

I once had an interesting conversation with my sister about being stubborn. You've got to take this with a grain of salt because she claims before she was born her wish was to be the most stubborn person in the world. Someone, she says, misunderstood, and thought she said wanted to live with the most stubborn person in the world--and that's how we became sisters.

We were doing something together, and I thought she was being a little grouchy was all. Finally she said, "You didn't even notice I was being stubborn, did you?"

Me: "Huh?"

Her: "Were you being stubborn?"

Me: "No."

Her: "You didn't feel it, did you? You didn't feel yourself being stubborn."

Me: "What are you talking about?"

Her: "You are so stubborn you don't even have to work at it, you don't even notice it. I can feel when I'm being stubborn."


So, Terri, can you feel yourself being stubborn? I tried to tell my sister since I couldn't feel it, it must mean I am not at all stubborn, but she walked off in a huff.
Oh, I am absolutely aware of when I'm being stubborn...*LOL*

And I think your sister's explanation of how she wound up being your sister suddenly explained how I wound up with my husband!!!! :)):)):))

[terri910]

I think Im gonna get flowers while Im at work tonight. :dance: :mrgreen:
I got flowers at work once. So cool.

My son sent them when I found out I'd gotten the job working for the movie star. I thought that was the sweetest thing....

[Meriweather]

Religion Forum Post of the Week




It is rather boring to be around folk all the time who never entertain a new idea and never put the status quo to the test.


--Semi-Sweet--




<Link> (http://forums.hannity.com/showpost.php?p=54716161&postcount=32)

[CID_0687]

Greetings forumites.

[Meriweather]

Greetings forumites.

And a very good afternoon to you, CID. How are you, the wife, the twins, and the pup today?

[terri910]

How is it decided how members or participants of a group will be identified? I've always wondered if there are rules to that.

Forumites or forumers? Is it just the way they sound? It certainly sounds better to call residents of my hometown "Santa Paulans" rather than "Santa Paulites." But are residents of Washington called "Washingtonians" or "Washingtoners" or "Washingtonites"? Are there Tallahassans or Tallahassians or Tallahaseers?

[CID_0687]

And a very good afternoon to you, CID. How are you, the wife, the twins, and the pup today?
We're good. We got invited to a Celebrate Recovery BBQ today, just got back. Plenty of BBQ Chicken and hotdogs...sweet tea and lemonade...no beer, since we were in mixed company (translate Baptists)...games and stuff for the kids, folks sitting around picking guitar<<this is where I was. :)

Would have stayed longer but Emily decided it would be fun to play in an ant bed, so we had to come on home and doctor her.

How's your Saturday?

[CID_0687]

How is it decided how members or participants of a group will be identified? I've always wondered if there are rules to that.

Forumites or forumers? Is it just the way they sound? It certainly sounds better to call residents of my hometown "Santa Paulans" rather than "Santa Paulites." But are residents of Washington called "Washingtonians" or "Washingtoners" or "Washingtonites"? Are there Tallahassans or Tallahassians or Tallahaseers?
Interesting topic of discussion, I would imagine it's all in how it sounds. My town is Anniston, we're Annistonians, while there are several Annistoners it kind of looks bad on the rest of us. ;)

[free2B]

forumeez

[terri910]

forumeez
Sounds like an OTC drug for people that spend too much time here...*LOL* I'll take the economy size, please!

[Meriweather]

We're good. We got invited to a Celebrate Recovery BBQ today, just got back. Plenty of BBQ Chicken and hotdogs...sweet tea and lemonade...no beer, since we were in mixed company (translate Baptists)...games and stuff for the kids, folks sitting around picking guitar<<this is where I was. :)

Would have stayed longer but Emily decided it would be fun to play in an ant bed, so we had to come on home and doctor her.

How's your Saturday?

Playing beauty salon with the daughters. Both decided they needed haircuts. I'm also working on a P.E. award--I may need to go resupply the printer with ink. Next stocked up on scrub brushes and cleaning supplies. This house still needs a lot of scrubbing to make up for the licks and promises I've been giving it all school year.

Boy, can I commisserate with Emily. Those ants can be on you fast. Does she have a lot of itchy bites?

[CID_0687]

Playing beauty salon with the daughters. Both decided they needed haircuts. I'm also working on a P.E. award--I may need to go resupply the printer with ink. Next stocked up on scrub brushes and cleaning supplies. This house still needs a lot of scrubbing to make up for the licks and promises I've been giving it all school year.

Boy, can I commisserate with Emily. Those ants can be on you fast. Does she have a lot of itchy bites?
Yeah, we found three on her right foot, two on her leg, one on her back and several more on her arms...

Fire ants...savages.

[Meriweather]

Yeah, we found three on her right foot, two on her leg, one on her back and several more on her arms...

Fire ants...savages.

Agreed. Fire ants are the worst. It's also kind of scary how quickly they can clean up a sidewalk flooded with worms.

[CID_0687]

Agreed. Fire ants are the worst. It's also kind of scary how quickly they can clean up a sidewalk flooded with worms.
I've never witnessed that...but I've seen what they do to a Little Debbie cake. :eek:

[smyrna]

I am so glad you explained that Euchre is a game. I thought it was a place.....and I was beginning to wonder what you and the Mrs. were doing with your guests! :eek:

:think::naughty::snooty::angel::mrgreen:

[smyrna]

I've never witnessed that...but I've seen what they do to a Little Debbie cake. :eek:

I give fireants credit for the low quail population now. What do you think of that theory CID?

[Mimiheart]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic

Mary Poppins... the untold version. Comments warning. :eek:

[Meriweather]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic

Mary Poppins... the untold version. Comments warning. :eek:

:))

I loved "Stay awake, don't close your eyes," playing in the background.

[vir doctus]

I'm using the definitions straight out of Webster's. Would any of these synonyms of deserve suit better?

merit
worthy
earn
warrant
justify

None. God's love toward us is just because, there is nothing good in us to explain it. Welcome to real love.

[Meriweather]

None. God's love toward us is just because, there is nothing good in us to explain it. Welcome to real love.

Yet we are told in Genesis, that after God created man, He looked at everything He had made and found it very good. We are told our sins are forgiven. We are told we are the salt of the Earth, and the light of the light of the world.

Note, I am not saying we make ourselves good. I am saying God made us good, He forgives us, He redeems us. We work at becoming perfect as our Father is perfect.

Yes, God is real love, there is no question of that.

[RayMan]

Very nice guilt trip, RayMan....:mad:

Thank you!


My work here is done. :mrgreen:


Everybody back on the couch. STAT!!

[Meriweather]

Thank you!


My work here is done. :mrgreen:


Everybody back on the couch. STAT!!


Yes, but how is your snarkiness level? Have I depleted it yet?

[CID_0687]

Just got back from the store. Got the stuff for the Bacon Explosion. :dance:

[terri910]

Just got back from the store. Got the stuff for the Bacon Explosion. :dance:
The only food I can think of that should be exploding is popcorn...

[CID_0687]

The only food I can think of that should be exploding is popcorn...
http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/


:drool:

[Fire Watch]

Just got back from the store. Got the stuff for the Bacon Explosion. :dance:
I did the same thing today!

[Meriweather]

Anyone else thinking we should review our CPR training?

[CID_0687]

I did the same thing today!
Great minds, great pork infested minds...

[CID_0687]

Anyone else thinking we should review our CPR training?
If it takes me out I'll go happy.

[Meriweather]

If it takes me out I'll go happy.

Yes, but if it takes you, I'll be sad. I may even have to hold a grudge.

[CID_0687]

Yes, but if it takes you, I'll be sad. I may even have to hold a grudge.
At least then I'd win.

[Meriweather]

At least then I'd win.

If I could hang onto that grudge. I think in that case, I'd try, because in that circumstance I would want you to win. However, holding a grudge against CID forever? :((

[meggers49]

Yet we are told in Genesis, that after God created man, He looked at everything He had made and found it very good. We are told our sins are forgiven. We are told we are the salt of the Earth, and the light of the light of the world.

Note, I am not saying we make ourselves good. I am saying God made us good, He forgives us, He redeems us. We work at becoming perfect as our Father is perfect.

Yes, God is real love, there is no question of that.

And then Adam sinned and that was the end of that.

[CID_0687]

If I could hang onto that grudge. I think in that case, I'd try, because in that circumstance I would want you to win. However, holding a grudge against CID forever? :((
You wouldn't be the first to do so...trust me on this.

[Meriweather]

And then Adam sinned and that was the end of that.


Except God decided the end should not be sin, but redemption.

[Meriweather]

You wouldn't be the first to do so...trust me on this.

Are the others crying, too?

[terri910]

Grudges weigh an awful lot. I've never been able to carry the same one for very long.

Mind you, I keep seeming to find another to pick up....

[vir doctus]

Except God decided the end should not be sin, but redemption.

Not. Because. You. Deserve. It. :wall:

[vir doctus]

Grudges weigh an awful lot. I've never been able to carry the same one for very long.

Mind you, I keep seeming to find another to pick up....

Carrying a grudge only gets you in shape to carry bigger grudges...

[Meriweather]

Grudges weigh an awful lot. I've never been able to carry the same one for very long.

Mind you, I keep seeming to find another to pick up....

RayMan and I were talking about this earlier in a PM. Not being able to hold a grudge is not necessarily always a positive thing. The same attitude (or whatever it is) that prevents me from holding a grudge is most likely the same thing that prevents me from holding people as accountable as I probably should.

Maybe you have the right balance, Terri. You hold the grudge just long enough for someone to be held accountable, and then you let go of it?

[terri910]

Carrying a grudge only gets you in shape to carry bigger grudges...
I figured it must be making SOMEthing stronger....wasn't so sure I wanted to find out what, though!

[terri910]

RayMan and I were talking about this earlier in a PM. Not being able to hold a grudge is not necessarily always a positive thing. The same attitude (or whatever it is) that prevents me from holding a grudge is most likely the same thing that prevents me from holding people as accountable as I probably should.

Maybe you have the right balance, Terri. You hold the grudge just long enough for someone to be held accountable, and then you let go of it?
More often, I think, I drop grudges when I realize they are changing nothing. I don't like to waste that much energy. Ask vir! *LOL*

[Meriweather]

Not. Because. You. Deserve. It. :wall:

Are we His?

[CID_0687]

Are the others crying, too?
Tears of joy.

[Meriweather]

Tears of joy.


I don't know, CID. I find it hard to believe anyone can hold a long-term grudge against you--and then find happiness in it. If they are angry, isn't there something you can do about it? However, if they're happy, then I guess all is well?

[Meriweather]

More often, I think, I drop grudges when I realize they are changing nothing. I don't like to waste that much energy. Ask vir! *LOL*


Vir, Terri doesn't like to waste that much energy?

[CID_0687]

I don't know, CID. I find it hard to believe anyone can hold a long-term grudge against you--and then find happiness in it. If they are angry, isn't there something you can do about it? However, if they're happy, then I guess all is well?
No worries, the feelings between me and these people are mutual...I've been called a Grudgemaster.

[Meriweather]

No worries, the feelings between me and these people are mutual...I've been called a Grudgemaster.

You're holding grudges? Or, are you holding people accountable for something?

[CID_0687]

You're holding grudges? Or, are you holding people accountable for something?
Grudgery is in the eye of the beholder...but yeah, I'm holding people accountable.

CID has low tolerance for ignorance.

[CID_0687]

mmm....Homemade cider...wee bit on the hard cider...it's very nice.

[Mimiheart]

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m315/mimiheart/cat-pushing-watermelon.jpg

[vir doctus]

Vir, Terri doesn't like to waste that much energy?

Fair Terri has yet to discover that expending energy creates more energy.

I still have hope for our beautiful Anglophile.

[Meriweather]

Grudgery is in the eye of the beholder...but yeah, I'm holding people accountable.

CID has low tolerance for ignorance.

Isn't ignorance an opportunity to teach?

[CID_0687]

Fair Terri has yet to discover that expending energy creates more energy.

I still have hope for our beautiful Anglophile.
Is Anglophilia still legal? I get confused.

[vir doctus]

CID has low tolerance for ignorance.

Honourable CID shares my weakness.

[CID_0687]

Isn't ignorance an opportunity to teach?
You can only teach the teachable, and help the helpable...I don't care if it isn't a word, it should be.

[vir doctus]

Isn't ignorance an opportunity to teach?

Some people are willful in their ignorance.

[CID_0687]

Honourable CID shares my weakness.
I would assume that Lady Vir doesn't have many liberal friends either.

[terri910]

Fair Terri has yet to discover that expending energy creates more energy.

I still have hope for our beautiful Anglophile.
Your reply actually reminded me of something, Vir....

On my most recent trip to England, I went with a friend. Now, this friend looks EXACTLY the same as she did in high school (okay, so her skin has a few more wrinkles)...She is still very trim and slim. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to keep up with her.

Believe it or not, I discovered I was in better shape. We would be walking all around London (or Liverpool) and I'd still be going and she would say, "Okay, I have to rest for a few minutes!" I sat and rested more on this trip than any of my other trips! *L*

[vir doctus]

I would assume that Lady Vir doesn't have many liberal friends either.

Is an ACORN leader liberal enough? :))

God must be growing me for something important. :scream:

[terri910]

Is Anglophilia still legal? I get confused.
Terri to England: if loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right! :mrgreen:

[vir doctus]

Your reply actually reminded me of something, Vir....

On my most recent trip to England, I went with a friend. Now, this friend looks EXACTLY the same as she did in high school (okay, so her skin has a few more wrinkles)...She is still very trim and slim. I was afraid I wouldn't be able to keep up with her.

Believe it or not, I discovered I was in better shape. We would be walking all around London (or Liverpool) and I'd still be going and she would say, "Okay, I have to rest for a few minutes!" I sat and rested more on this trip than any of my other trips! *L*

Studies show that active is healthier than thin.

[Meriweather]

Some people are willful in their ignorance.

Why is that whenever you use words like 'willful' and 'defiant' I get this faint impression you may be referring to me?

[CID_0687]

Why is that whenever you use words like 'willful' and 'defiant' I get this faint impression you may be referring to me?
You think the shoes came in your size?

[Meriweather]

You think the shoes came in your size?

More like someone is trying to shoehorn them onto me. ;)

[vir doctus]

Why is that whenever you use words like 'willful' and 'defiant' I get this faint impression you may be referring to me?

While willful ignorance is, in my experience, the overpriced real estate of women, you are not one whom I would place in that category.

[Meriweather]

While willful ignorance is, in my experience, the overpriced real estate of women, you are not one whom I would place in that category.


Thank you.

[vir doctus]

You think the shoes came in your size?

Or, someone is tired of being a spoke...

[Meriweather]

Or, someone is tired of being a spoke...


I'm not a spoke, either, and never have been.

[terri910]

I don't know what it means to be a spoke....but I think I've been a cog before...

[CID_0687]

I've been called a lug nut before.

[Meriweather]

I don't know what it means to be a spoke....but I think I've been a cog before...

More than a cog, I expect.

[Meriweather]

I've been called a lug nut before.

Affectionately?

[CID_0687]

Affectionately?
Can't say with certainty.

[vir doctus]

I'm not a spoke, either, and never have been.

You imagine yourself always the axis?

Your issues are deeper than I imagined. :think:

[Hadassah]

Agreed. Fire ants are the worst. It's also kind of scary how quickly they can clean up a sidewalk flooded with worms.

ewww, gross. :eek:

[Meriweather]

You imagine yourself always the axis?

Your issues are deeper than I imagined. :think:

No. Not a spoke and definitely not the axis. Probably not any part of the wheel at all, unless, perhaps, the grain of sand adhering to some grease.

[Meriweather]

Can't say with certainty.

Most likely affectionately, then. However, we will have to come up with a better term for you.

[Meriweather]

ewww, gross. :eek:

Kind of interesting how after a Texas flood, so many worms bought it, yet how the waters never seemed to affect the number of fire ants. I suppose many fire ants didn't survive, but you wouldn't know it from their activity afterwards.

[RayMan]

OK. Just emailed Mid-term to professor. What'd I miss around here today?

[Meriweather]

OK. Just emailed Mid-term to professor. What'd I miss around here today?


The gay marriage thread was having a great discussion; it hit a little bump that was quickly straightened out.

Quite a few of us were intent on teaching CMike about 1 Corinthians 10; Dancer came in to keep us from over doing it.

At the moment, we seem to be discussing Hannah Montana and the Trinity--although not in the same threads.

[CID_0687]

I'm not discussing Hannah Montana...just grammatical errors.

[Meriweather]

I'm not discussing Hannah Montana...just grammatical errors.

Thus far, probably the only thing worth discussing. Cypress. :))

[Meriweather]

By the way, has anyone heard from Noelle?

[CID_0687]

Thus far, probably the only thing worth discussing. Cypress. :))
That's the big one...and then "life's" as opposed to "lives"

First paragraph.

[terri910]

I wondered about the "more than 90%" statistic.

[Meriweather]

I wondered about the "more than 90%" statistic.


He hasn't been back with a credible source for that yet?

[Mimiheart]

I'm not discussing Hannah Montana...just grammatical errors.
And bacon. :wall:

[Meriweather]

And bacon. :wall:

Hi, Mimi. How are you and the kids? And rehearsals?

[terri910]

He hasn't been back with a credible source for that yet?
No. I'm beginning to think I shouldn't have said I wanted to see where he pulled that statistic from.

Could be some place I don't really want to see....

[CID_0687]

And bacon. :wall:
:(

I really am sorry...I at times get lost in the splendor of that which is bacon...I know it offends some here in RF due to their beliefs...I'll try to tone it down.

But if you're interested beef bacon is an awesome substitute and I believe it would be Kosher.

Forgive me? :hug:

[Mimiheart]

Hi, Mimi. How are you and the kids? And rehearsals?
Boychild got sent home from school the other day for threatening to break some kindergartners' necks. :eek: (He wasn't serious. Just hysterical--we need to work on his temper a bit. He just had to sign a sheet of paper and was allowed back after missing a whopping hour of school.) He hadn't been in trouble all year. Not even from his teacher... when he messes up he messes up big. His sister has had a note home at least once a month for not listening.

The girls are fine.

Rehearsals are fun. The cast is really great. Sondheim is a PITA.

[Meriweather]

No. I'm beginning to think I shouldn't have said I wanted to see where he pulled that statistic from.

Could be some place I don't really want to see....

Like off the top of his head? ;)

[RayMan]

And bacon. :wall:


You got a point in there somewhere Shortstuff or you just like pounding your wall against the wall cuz it feels so good when you stop?

[Mimiheart]

:(

I really am sorry...I at times get lost in the splendor of that which is bacon...I know it offends some here in RF due to their beliefs...I'll try to tone it down.

But if you're interested beef bacon is an awesome substitute and I believe it would be Kosher.

Forgive me? :hug:I don't keep kosher. And it would have to be made with kosher beef to be kosher. (I've had turkey bacon, it's okay.) It's not a religious thing for me. I just don't like it.

In the thread, though, I don't understand how people can justify things on the one hand with, "It says this here!!!" and ignore it saying similar things about things they like elsewhere.

[RayMan]

Boychild got sent home from school the other day for threatening to break some kindergartners' necks. :eek: (He wasn't serious. Just hysterical--we need to work on his temper a bit. He just had to sign a sheet of paper and was allowed back after missing a whopping hour of school.) He hadn't been in trouble all year. Not even from his teacher... when he messes up he messes up big. His sister has had a note home at least once a month for not listening.

The girls are fine.

Rehearsals are fun. The cast is really great. Sondheim is a PITA.

Sondheim is a piece of Mediterranean bread? I did not know that.

[Meriweather]

Boychild got sent home from school the other day for threatening to break some kindergartners' necks. :eek: (He wasn't serious. Just hysterical--we need to work on his temper a bit. He just had to sign a sheet of paper and was allowed back after missing a whopping hour of school.) He hadn't been in trouble all year. Not even from his teacher... when he messes up he messes up big. His sister has had a note home at least once a month for not listening.

The girls are fine.

Rehearsals are fun. The cast is really great. Sondheim is a PITA.

I take it the kindergartners had some part to play, also, being your son was that upset?

[Mimiheart]

Sondheim is a piece of Mediterranean bread? I did not know that.Pain In The Ass.

[Mimiheart]

I take it the kindergartners had some part to play, also, being your son was that upset?
They were playing with the kickballs on the playground instead of the field. The teacher told my son to tell them to play on the field. They didn't listen to him, (Why would they? He's in first grade.) and it escalated from there.

[CID_0687]

I don't keep kosher. And it would have to be made with kosher beef to be kosher. (I've had turkey bacon, it's okay.) It's not a religious thing for me. I just don't like it.

In the thread, though, I don't understand how people can justify things on the one hand with, "It says this here!!!" and ignore it saying similar things about things they like elsewhere.
I see what you're saying...Can't condemn one sin without condemning others, makes sense...

[CID_0687]

Pain In The Ass.
Cut Ray some slack, he's trying to work on that. ;)

[RayMan]

Pain In The Ass.

Kinda harsh considering all I did was call you Shortstuff.

Sheesh. :rolleyes::rolleyes:















I thought about googling PITA but I figured you would tell me if I bugged you about it. :mrgreen:

[Mimiheart]

Okay, I'm going to bed now. My head is killing me and my husband FINALLY decided that it was time to get up, now that all the kids are in bed. I may have to smack him upside the head.

[RayMan]

Cut Ray some slack, he's trying to work on that. ;)

Somedays I just can't win for losing. (And other assorted Country Western lyric cliches.)

[Meriweather]

Okay, I'm going to bed now. My head is killing me and my husband FINALLY decided that it was time to get up, now that all the kids are in bed. I may have to smack him upside the head.

Goodnight, Mimi. Sleep well. I hope your head is better when you awake.

[CID_0687]

Goodnight Mimi.

[CID_0687]

Somedays I just can't win for losing. (And other assorted Country Western lyric cliches.)
I know the feeling.

Speaking of which, I'm working on one right now...gonna record it to the laptop when I'm done...I'll email it.

[RayMan]

Okay, I'm going to bed now. My head is killing me and my husband FINALLY decided that it was time to get up, now that all the kids are in bed. I may have to smack him upside the head.

Sounds like a plan.

[RayMan]

I know the feeling.

Speaking of which, I'm working on one right now...gonna record it to the laptop when I'm done...I'll email it.

Cool. Something about crying in your cider I presume.

[RayMan]

Best Country Western song ever?

Dead Flowers by the Rolling Stones. Especially the version featuring Keith Richards, Willie Nelson, and Hank Williams the Third.

[CID_0687]

Cool. Something about crying in your cider I presume.
Nah, I was drinking whiskey when I started writing it. ;)

[CID_0687]

Best Country Western song ever?

Dead Flowers by the Rolling Stones. Especially the version featuring Keith Richards, Willie Nelson, and Hank Williams the Third.
I haven't heard that version, I'll have to check youtube...I do like that song though.

[Fire Watch]

I need caffeine.

[CID_0687]

Caffeine can be helpful...I suggest the Mt. Dew Throwback...good stuff.

[Fire Watch]

I gots Dew Drew

[CID_0687]

:)

Glad I could help you pick Rick.

[RayMan]

I haven't heard that version, I'll have to check youtube...I do like that song though.


Check it out.


Dead Flowers (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&oi=video_result&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0oj XKbYFnus&ei=O94YSuv2I9G9twfZ2oGBDQ&usg=AFQjCNGGMaWx6JEQXp8EdrDLhui7fOQoPA&sig2=6n8Pm9iISHv-Dpu2POvoMA)

Typical YouTube warning.

[RayMan]

I gots Dew Drew

Hey FW,
Workin' tonight?

[Fire Watch]

Yep. Working hard.

[RayMan]

Yep. Working hard.

Keeping Mississippi safe.

Read a story on Yahoo about an hour ago about a guy somewhere down south who got burned on a drug deal to the tune of $12k.

They called the cops to report the guys who had stolen their drug money.

:mrgreen:

[RayMan]

Yo Rick!

Have a great Memorial Day and many thanks for your service in uniform. God bless you hermano.

[CID_0687]

Check it out.


Dead Flowers (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&oi=video_result&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0oj XKbYFnus&ei=O94YSuv2I9G9twfZ2oGBDQ&usg=AFQjCNGGMaWx6JEQXp8EdrDLhui7fOQoPA&sig2=6n8Pm9iISHv-Dpu2POvoMA)

Typical YouTube warning.
Purdy good...I'm not a big Hank III fan, but that was a pretty good rendition.

[CID_0687]

Yo Rick!

Have a great Memorial Day and many thanks for your service in uniform. God bless you hermano.
I second that.

[Fire Watch]

Keeping Mississippi safe.

Read a story on Yahoo about an hour ago about a guy somewhere down south who got burned on a drug deal to the tune of $12k.

They called the cops to report the guys who had stolen their drug money.

:mrgreen:
:))

[Fire Watch]

Thanks friends.

[RayMan]

Purdy good...I'm not a big Hank III fan, but that was a pretty good rendition.

The part I love is Keith grinning throughout the entire song. You can tell he digs playing with Willie, Hank and Bryan and just loves it that all the C&W folks love a Rolling Stones tune.

[CID_0687]

The part I love is Keith grinning throughout the entire song. You can tell he digs playing with Willie, Hank and Bryan and just loves it that all the C&W folks love a Rolling Stones tune.
You know, I was listening to the Stones the other day, and you can hear the Country influence in several of their songs.

[Hadassah]

Good morning everyone. :mrgreen: :hug:

[blazer]

Good morning! :hug:

[Hadassah]

I don't know what it means to be a spoke....but I think I've been a cog before...

Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug. :mrgreen:

[vir doctus]

Best Country Western song ever?


Dude. Johnny Cash

Folsom Prison Blues
Man in Black
Ragged Old Flag
Personal Jesus
Ring of Fire
Redemption
Why Me Lord
Boy Named Sue

[Meriweather]

Morning Devotional


Let patience have its perfect work. (James 1:3)



Be Open to Change - and Pursue It!


A letter was returned to the Post Office. Handwritten on the envelope were the words, "He's dead." Through an oversight the letter was inadvertently sent to the same address again. Again it was returned to the Post Office with yet another message: "He's still dead!" Let's be honest; most of us resist change. We desire improvement, but we don't want to pay the price for it. And that's a problem, because we will never become what God intends us to be by remaining what we are. It's not enough to be open to change, we need to pursue it.

If you're serious about changing your life, Dr. John Maxwell says: "Don't just change enough to get away from your problems - change enough to solve them. Don't change your circumstances to improve your life - change yourself to improve your circumstances. Don't do the same old things expecting different results - get different results by doing something new. Don't see change as something hurtful that must be done - see it as something helpful that can be done. Don't avoid paying the immediate price tag of change - if you do, you will pay the ultimate price of never improving."

James writes: "When your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow, for when your endurance is fully developed, you will be perfect and complete, needing nothing" (Jas 1:3-4).

Character building is a slow process; it happens day-by-day. Whenever we try to escape life's difficulties we short-circuit the process, delay our growth, and end up with a worse kind of pain - the worthless type that accompanies denial and avoidance. So, be open to change - and pursue it!




waio.org

[meggers49]

Some people are willful in their ignorance.

My mother's ethics book from nursing school in the 50's (Catholic hospital version) calls it, "Invincible ignorance". I love that term. In essence, fact can be presented and despite fact, the individual continues to believe errantly.

[meggers49]

Is an ACORN leader liberal enough? :))

God must be growing me for something important. :scream:

i bet you spend a lot of time chasing your eyeballs around trying to catch them as they roll out of your head....and bandaging your tongue as you bite it....

i have learned with some it's just easier to not respond.

[meggers49]

snip Sondheim is a PITA.

old director of mine said, "i love Sondheim but he has no hummable tunes."

tis true. odd music from an odd man.

[meggers49]

Keeping Mississippi safe.

Read a story on Yahoo about an hour ago about a guy somewhere down south who got burned on a drug deal to the tune of $12k.

They called the cops to report the guys who had stolen their drug money.

:mrgreen:

I often say, "thank God breathing is a natural reflex or some people would be too stupid to inhale", to which my husband said, "no, that's wrong, you shouldn't want that because if they were too stupid that whole natural selection thing would happen and we'd be a lot better off". Can't argue with that.

Unfortunately, you can't charge someone for being a moron. Otherwise, Felony Stupid would be a 1A felony, shootable on sight. LOL.

[meggers49]

OK peoples....off to church... around the house for some of the day then working a split shift tonight... we have so many different shifts in that place it's hard to keep track.

see ya later, have a wonderful Sunday.

[smyrna]

OK peoples....off to church... around the house for some of the day then working a split shift tonight... we have so many different shifts in that place it's hard to keep track.

see ya later, have a wonderful Sunday.

You too meggers and everyone, have a super, duper Lord's Day.

Originally Posted by RayMan http://forums.hannity.com/firestorm/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?p=54926941#post54926941)
Best Country Western song ever?

Amorillo By Morning
Two Dozen Roses:clap:

There are tons to choose from but these are top notch...

[RayMan]

You too meggers and everyone, have a super, duper Lord's Day.

Originally Posted by RayMan http://forums.hannity.com/firestorm/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?p=54926941#post54926941)
Best Country Western song ever?

Amorillo By Morning
Two Dozen Roses:clap:

There are tons to choose from but these are top notch...



I wasn't asking. I was pontificating. That is my job after all.

[terri910]

You know, I was listening to the Stones the other day, and you can hear the Country influence in several of their songs.
Absolutely.

"Well, I used to love her...but it's all over now...."

[Meriweather]

This Day in History...

1726 People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax
1818 General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola FL
1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb" is written
1844 Samual Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph message)
1866 Berkeley CA named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)
1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur & Governor Cleveland
1902 Cleveland's Bill Bradley is First in American League to hit a homerun in four consecutive games--not duplicated until Babe Ruth does it June 25, 1918
1918 Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning
1929 Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings
1964 Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan


I didn't know Mary Had a Little Lamb was a nursery rhyme with an American origin. It was written after Mary Sawyer, at the suggestion of her brother, took her pet lamb to school.

[Mimiheart]

Avatar change... and off to work.

[terri910]

Avatar change... and off to work.
At least you have your priorities rights!


Cute avatar....any significance?

[blazer]

I remember the ones who stood brave and tall.
The ones who are willing to give their all.
The ones who fight so we can be free.
The ones who take the place of you and me.
The ones who are proud of our flag.
They do what they do and never brag.
They leave their children and their husbands and wives.
To fight for us, to risk their lives.
May they always be blessed in all they do.
Standing in the gap for me and you.
I love our flag.
Long may she wave.
Over the land
of the free and the brave!
© D.B.

[Hadassah]

Absolutely.

"Well, I used to love her...but it's all over now...."

It's better than "I used to love her, but I had to kill her".



(Yes, that is part of a real song.)

[Meriweather]

I remember the ones who stood brave and tall.
The ones who are willing to give their all.
The ones who fight so we can be free.
The ones who take the place of you and me.
The ones who are proud of our flag.
They do what they do and never brag.
They leave their children and their husbands and wives.
To fight for us, to risk their lives.
May they always be blessed in all they do.
Standing in the gap for me and you.
I love our flag.
Long may she wave.
Over the land
of the free and the brave!
© D.B.


Thanks, blazer. :hug:

[Meriweather]

It's better than "I used to love her, but I had to kill her".



(Yes, that is part of a real song.)

How did it end?

[Fire Watch]

It's a G-n-R song about his dog.

[Hadassah]

How did it end?

Oh he said he had to "put her six feet under and I can still hear her complain."

[terri910]

It's a G-n-R song about his dog.
Assuming Axel Rose sang it, no wonder I've never heard of it. The man's voice grates on my nerves.

[Hadassah]

It's a G-n-R song about his dog.

It still ends the same way. He buried her in the backyard. :whistle:

[Meriweather]

Oh he said he had to "put her six feet under and I can still hear her complain."

Ah. Delusional.

[Meriweather]

It's a G-n-R song about his dog.

New signature. Gives the impression you are watching.

[terri910]

New signature. Gives the impression you are watching.
I like it. I just think it's an interesting photo!

[Meriweather]

I like it. I just think it's an interesting photo!

I'll decide whether or not I like it in a day or two. I have to think about these things.

[terri910]

I'll decide whether or not I like it in a day or two. I have to think about these things.
*LOL*

Once you've found out if it really IS him watching us? I've been told he has special secret super powers!!

[Meriweather]

*LOL*

Once you've found out if it really IS him watching us? I've been told he has special secret super powers!!


When I'm feeling mischievous, I go with the odds. He can't watch everything, so he may not be watching. Or, if he is watching, he's decided to ignore. This puts the odds in my favor. Every so often I get it wrong, but usually it works out great. (Let's see if it does this time.)

[blazer]

Thanks, blazer. :hug:

Welcome Meri! How r u? :hug:

[CID_0687]

Couldn't wait. Bacon Explosion today. We'll have burgers tomorrow.

The suspense is killing me.

[RayMan]

It's a G-n-R song about his dog.

Alright, who cried when Old Yeller died?

[Meriweather]

Welcome Meri! How r u? :hug:


I am doing very well, thank you. One of the parakeets is having a hard time today, however. I don't think it's too serious, at least not yet. When it gets serious, the rest of the flock gets attentive and protective. The other birds seem unconcerned, a good sign.

[RayMan]

Couldn't wait. Bacon Explosion today. We'll have burgers tomorrow.

The suspense is killing me.

"If the thunder don't getcha then the lightning will."



Alternator swap was done with a minimum of fussin' and cussin'.

[Meriweather]

Couldn't wait. Bacon Explosion today. We'll have burgers tomorrow.

The suspense is killing me.

Be sure and come back with a report. Don't just get all contented and lazy.

[Meriweather]

Alright, who cried when Old Yeller died?

Not me. Did you?

[CID_0687]

"If the thunder don't getcha then the lightning will."



Alternator swap was done with a minimum of fussin' and cussin'.
Good deal.

Now which will better accentuate my bacon masterpiece; beer, hard cider or bourbon?

[CID_0687]

Not me. Did you?
Thats un-American.

[Meriweather]

Thats un-American.


I can't carry grudges, cry at movies, or cry over books. The closest I came was when Gandalf took the fall in the book. But even then, I couldn't.

[terri910]

I can't carry grudges, cry at movies, or cry over books. The closest I came was when Gandalf took the fall in the book. But even then, I couldn't.
:eek:

Don't anyone fall asleep around Meriweather! :shifty:

[Hadassah]

I can't carry grudges, cry at movies, or cry over books. The closest I came was when Gandalf took the fall in the book. But even then, I couldn't.


I cried when Anakin Skywalker turned evil. And when he found out that Padme had died.

[terri910]

So, Haddie....did you get flowers at work?

[Mimiheart]

At least you have your priorities rights!


Cute avatar....any significance?It's a bug... and it's waving.

[RayMan]

Good deal.

Now which will better accentuate my bacon masterpiece; beer, hard cider or bourbon?

Definitely not bourbon. You want something you can guzzle with each bite of bacony goodness.

Grillin up some salmon out here. Effete Californians, I know.

Wife is watching Yankees home game. It is Unbrella Day at Yankee Stadium. And it is raining. It's practically June and it's raining.

[Hadassah]

So, Haddie....did you get flowers at work?

No. Apparently every place was either closed or very, very busy.

[Meriweather]

:eek:

Don't anyone fall asleep around Meriweather! :shifty:

:))

No, it's nothing sinister. I was very small when we went to see Bambi. I had the Little Golden Book at home, so I knew how it was all going to play out. I had already discovered the great thing about stories is that they could all start over again where everyone was still alive. When I was a little older, if I didn't like the ending, I'd simply write out one that I did like. I'm the eternal optimist.

[RayMan]

:))

No, it's nothing sinister. I was very small when we went to see Bambi. I had the Little Golden Book at home, so I knew how it was all going to play out. I had already discovered the great thing about stories is that they could all start over again where everyone was still alive. When I was a little older, if I didn't like the ending, I'd simply write out one that I did like. I'm the eternal optimist.

Ever see the episode of Friends where Phoebe didn't know that Bambi's mom or Old Yeller had died?

It was because her mom would always shut off the TV before the death part and tell her they all lived happily ever after.

Meri's kind of like that. Yeah, she is.

[RayMan]

No. Apparently every place was either closed or very, very busy.

This is why the song Dead Flowers is so apropo.

[RayMan]

Couldn't wait. Bacon Explosion today. We'll have burgers tomorrow.

The suspense is killing me.

Remember, without photos it never happened.

[Meriweather]

Ever see the episode of Friends where Phoebe didn't know that Bambi's mom or Old Yeller had died?

It was because her mom would always shut off the TV before the death part and tell her they all lived happily ever after.

Meri's kind of like that. Yeah, she is.


Kind of. I knew what a story was. It was make believe. If the story was make believe, then the death was make believe--which made everything all right. However, the ending had to fit the story. Ever read a story that ended in death just because the author was too lazy to write a proper ending? Those were the endings I used to rewrite, until the death did make sense, or the story ended better another way.

[CID_0687]

Remember, without photos it never happened.
I will give you photos of the finished product, is on the grill now.

[terri910]

Ever read a story that ended in death just because the author was too lazy to write a proper ending?
Or ones that didn't end with ANYthing? Like the Sopranos?

[Meriweather]

Or ones that didn't end with ANYthing? Like the Sopranos?

Although I'm not familiar with the Sopranos, I agree--no ending is even worse than a bad one.

[Meriweather]

I will give you photos of the finished product, is on the grill now.

Excellent. Will they be oversized photos?

[meggers49]

I wasn't asking. I was pontificating. That is my job after all.

quite the task to be the Pentecostal Pontiff, but you handle the task well.

[meggers49]

I'll decide whether or not I like it in a day or two. I have to think about these things.

better than Hannibal.

[meggers49]

Alright peoples, getting ready for work, see you all later. Have a lovely evening.

[CID_0687]

Excellent. Will they be oversized photos?
No, but I may be after I'm done devouring the wholesome goodness.

[Meriweather]

Alright peoples, getting ready for work, see you all later. Have a lovely evening.


Hope work goes well for you, Meggers, and it's an easy night.

[blazer]

I am doing very well, thank you. One of the parakeets is having a hard time today, however. I don't think it's too serious, at least not yet. When it gets serious, the rest of the flock gets attentive and protective. The other birds seem unconcerned, a good sign.

aww :)

[Meriweather]

No, but I may be after I'm done devouring the wholesome goodness.

The pix won't be attachments then? I got a giggle picturing you trying to attach your bacon-stuffed self to a post.

[CID_0687]

As promised

[CID_0687]

Teh true man meal

[Meriweather]

Teh true man meal

And was it as tasty as it looked?

[CID_0687]

And was it as tasty as it looked?
Words cannot describe....

[Meriweather]

Words cannot describe....

A success then!

:clap: :dance: :clap:

[RayMan]

quite the task to be the Pentecostal Pontiff, but you handle the task well.

I love my job.

[Hadassah]

Gee, all I had for dinner was chicken, mashed potatoes, and gravy. :))

[RayMan]

As promised

Sweet.

[RayMan]

Teh true man meal

Aww. Sweet Baby Ray next to a Stella.

[RayMan]

Gee, all I had for dinner was chicken, mashed potatoes, and gravy. :))


Popeye's or KFC?

[Hadassah]

Popeye's or KFC?



I put alot of effort into my dinner and you ask me if I went to Popeye's or KFC?!?! :snooty:




:))

[CID_0687]

Aww. Sweet Baby Ray next to a Stella.
They're destined to be together forever.

[Mimiheart]

Gee, all I had for dinner was chicken, mashed potatoes, and gravy. :))
That's what we're having.

[vir doctus]

I can't carry grudges, cry at movies, or cry over books. The closest I came was when Gandalf took the fall in the book. But even then, I couldn't.

Prove it. Read Les Miserables (unabridged :rolleyes: ) and get back to me.

[RayMan]

I put alot of effort into my dinner and you ask me if I went to Popeye's or KFC?!?! :snooty:


:))


So which was it?

[RayMan]

They're destined to be together forever.


"Get in ma belly..."

[Meriweather]

Prove it. Read Les Miserables (unabridged :rolleyes: ) and get back to me.


Ah, Vir, do you cry over books and movies?

I remember once reading a Forward to a Stephen King book where he said something to the effect if someone could read a horror story, at night, while all alone, and then sleep easily, they had no imagination. I could do all of that easily because my imagination could find solutions to the horror his imagination conjured up.