when your other half is out of town, or you just have the luxury of being alone, what is your favourite way of passing the time?
The first thing my other half does is discard his pants when he gets home - but I am wondering whether by no pants we mean as they do England - Commando? or just American - no trousers?!
commando?! heck no! chafing is one of my main concerns.
as far as that age old question, boxers or briefs...i'm not sayin
Does your lady find you objectionable without pants?
well...she hasn't left me yet. she just stands there smiling. i don't know if that's a good thing or not. i try not to think about it.
when your other half is out of town, or you just have the luxury of being alone, what is your favourite way of passing the time?
videogames and beer...and no pants.
everything is better without pants.
at the 'big house' you go either one of two ways, company man or apostate.
i think for many that went, it demystified the whole organization and you saw firsthand that there wasn't holy spirit influencing anything - only the muses of sheltered, out-of-touch old men and political bureaucrats.
i work in the corporate world and i saw just as much if not more politics in bethel.
We would drink like crazy, go on the roof for 4th of July and New Years and drink like crazy.
Ha! i probably took 10 to 15 years off of my liver's life in my 2 years at bethel. good times, good times...
at the 'big house' you go either one of two ways, company man or apostate.
i think for many that went, it demystified the whole organization and you saw firsthand that there wasn't holy spirit influencing anything - only the muses of sheltered, out-of-touch old men and political bureaucrats.
i work in the corporate world and i saw just as much if not more politics in bethel.
when i was out there i read Dante's Inferno for the first time. they had it in the library (i've been told they've removed it since then). i would've been scolded for reading something like that back home, so the fact that bethel (apparently) encouraged reading it was cool for me. to me, it seemed like i was freer to expand my horizons and look into things that i hadn't been allowed to before. that was what started the whole process for me.
oh, and i never had any problem with music or homeoverseers. i got to the point where i was probably too brazen with my stuff (listening to sublime and bad religion while at the gym or leaving open bottles in the closet [i was underage]) but i still was never talked to. i just figured it was the law of averages. there were way too many people for them to investigate properly (i was at the farm and it was mostly young guys that needed policing rather than actual police), so i just kept my mouth shut and did my job, not giving them any reason to look my way.
i got away with a LOT. i had a buddy that got kicked out after a particularly interesting trip to brazil. my equally interesting trip to cancun went unnoticed.
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so many times we second guess god or our conception of him and we discuss why this or that does not make sense or could not be, or is not fair.. then how would you if you were god (with unlimited power) handle rebellion?
hmm...i'd make sure that it hurts like hell whenever my sinful female creatures made new creatures.
i assume your question was serious though, so i'll give a more serious answer. IMO, if you bestow 'free will' upon your creation, then there is no such thing as 'rebellion'. if, however, i set rules for how my creation could and could not behave and then they broke the rules, i would kill them. i would not allow them to continue living and bring forth more creatures. i would simply kill them and make no erroneous claims that they ever had 'free will' because they didn't. they disobeyed and rebelled.
warning-potential depression ahead!.
this is without a doubt, the most depressing article i've ever read.
yeah, i make a great saleman, huh?
FairMind:
...and just as i was starting to calm down from that other article. jeez... the link you provided lost me a bit towards the end, but much of it appears so credible that it's hard to completely disregard. i guess if these articles are correct, we'll know within the next 5 years or so. if nothing happens by then, we'll know they don't know what they're talking about. that reference to Marion Hubbert's Peak (or whatever it was called) was pretty frightening. i'll have to look into him some more.
this is the scariest thing i've ever read about. shoot...maybe it's time to start working on that bomb shelter after all.
ok, it?s taken me longer to get my thoughts together on this than i expected, but here is the reason that i have come to have doubts in the divine nature of the bible; its failure to show that the god it describes is abiding by "his" own standards.. for example, according to 2 peter 1:20, the entire bible is inspired of god.
the main attributes of "god" are that "he" is love (1 john 4:8), "he" is just (deuteronomy 32:4), and "he" has all of the power (revelation 7:12).. with that in mind, my first problem with the bibles authenticity is that this ?loving god?
murdered the entire world of men at one point in history by drowning them.
perhaps it's the fundamentalist mentality that was implanted in me, but in my eyes for the bible to be considered divinely inspired, the WHOLE thing has to be inspired. if it contains errors, then it is not what it claims to be and should be viewed as simply a man-made book of man-made hopes, dreams and myths. it was this that caused the whole bible to crumble in my hands.
there's so much that can be torn apart in the old testament (for instance, according to bible chronology, the incident at the tower of babel happened 144 years after the flood. this is not possible. either the bible writer was lying or the event was sensationalized. either way, NOT divinely inspired), that many people feel pretty comfortable viewing that as tribal mythology. i agree, but for me that kind of leaves jesus hanging out to dry.
the way i see it, the messiah jesus depends on the garden of eden and the flood (he apparently believed it to be a real event), among other OT traditions. for me, the fact that these 2 things (eden and the flood) have been demonstrably proven false (to me, at least), left jesus hanging by an amazingly thin thread. it was then that i felt comfortable letting the bible go.
warning-potential depression ahead!.
this is without a doubt, the most depressing article i've ever read.
yeah, i make a great saleman, huh?
S:
Reading about titan, find it hilarious how a scientist can suddenly explain the whole creation of methane from rocks and water process
yeah, well...who's gonna prove him wrong?
i know it's not the lightest of topics but the current news coverage of the pope's final hours made me wonder if i'd face things as calmly as he is reported to be doing.
i don't have his faith, or any faith anymore, but i can see how for a true believer that would be a source of strength.. the thing is, a lot of us thought we'd never die.
do you really comprehend what a truly massive mind-fuck that is?
my-journey:
The line about "[God might let us] sort of "check in" on them", to me sounds so under-thought through and fuelled by what would be "nice". It almost sounds like someone saying: "maybe there is no devil...maybe there are no sins...maybe ..etc" - like, you just thought it through enough to bring you comfort, but not thoroughly enough to see if it could be a possibility.
maybe i'm the only one, but i was slightly offended by your comments to moanzy. what is "under-thought through" to you could be a deeply held conviction to another (whether or not you agree is beside the point). in any case, i fail to see how it's your place to determine the TRUE motivation for her comments anyway. any thoughts of death are pure speculation because (unless i'm unaware of some recent break-through) there is no proof of anything after death. so what's the difference to you if others think about what might be "nice" to experience after death?
warning-potential depression ahead!.
this is without a doubt, the most depressing article i've ever read.
yeah, i make a great saleman, huh?
satanus-
i hadn't heard of abiotic fuels of serpentinization before today. thanks for the info. i was under the impression that the oil we're drilling is ONLY super-compressed/decomposed biological matter and nothing else. is that not entirely true? or have we yet to gain the ability to tap abiotic fuels? wait...i re-read the first part of your post...nevermind
yet another thing i need to read more about (i'll never catch up with this friggin book list. being content in my ignorance is starting to look pretty darn good.)
