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You're right, ChattyKathy. Anti-ASM forces are everywhere. <_< I had a Tetra a few years ago, looked perfectly normal. He he he. Like he didn't think I didn't know, y'know, what he was really up to? Always hanging around the pump at odd hours. Then one night I saw what appeared to be a tiny antennae popping up around the southeastern side of the tank. Heee hee. He was a good source of information for awhile, until the other Tetra's uh, made him an offer he couldn't refuse. He he.

It's the Sea Monkeys! jardinero! They bring love with them! This just in - "Britney Spears" name was a typo on her first press release! A long-time OLM and ASM follower, she had actually chosen "Briney Spears", a dedication to our saltwater friends! Her next release is rumored to be a detailed and highly personal series of musical statements as to what the Amazing Sea Monkeys! have meant to her over the years and all they've done for her!!!! I'm not making this up, it's strange but true!!! I love you too!

Class instructor gets pulled over, doing Tape 3 in a No-Tape Zone... "License and registration, please." (shows wallet and 100.00 bill...) "Sure, Officer. Say, y'know, maybe we can just, y'know...take care of that now, right here." (Officer, takes wallet, "drops" it, hands it back...) "Sir, welcome to town and you have a nice day..."

That's an incredible picture ChattyKathy! love it! Where'd you find that? It's an incredible insight into ASM activity! Thanks!!! Jonny, those Stones ARE hard after it! This may be why Richards looks the way he does! He looks to be about 105, but in "Sea Monkey" years he's really 505 years! He really looks much younger than his age! It's amazing!

Today, I buy a tuner pedal. I'm getting the KORG DT-10, decided. It's not a guitar but it will do. Either locally or online, local if I can get it for the prince I want. Aaaah. Relief is on the way! I have a couple smaller tuners, but need the floor type. I need it. I want it. Speaking of things parallel, there's a car out that will parallel park for you. Yikes! But can it modulate to the Key of F while doing it?

I'd forgotten all about that board! I think it would help, Paw. A lot. Like on the thread where someone says something about having a cup of coffee and a person responds that may not be inappropriate. (I think that is what they actually wrote). The Board Boss showed up and did a homie-like get-down and approved the topic for future discussion, thus allowing free, approved discussion to take place. That kind of action would do a lot of good here. When difficult controversial topics come up, like having a cup of coffee, other posters can circle and wait for your Approval Stamp. Once stamped, everyone can proceed. If Unstamped, everyone will know to tell the person to stop and if they don't, to go away and find a board that allows such things to be discussed. The funnniest part of that board is when the moderator implies some level of comptency in biblical research as a means of qualifying what they're taught and then has to admit that what she meant was that she knows how to open a Concordance and find a word alphabetically to see if it matches with what the Way's taught. Seriously, I think they've stated why they have the board and who it's for. Give 'em a break. It's a perfect place to go whenever you wonder if you're better off "OUT" VS "IN".

I wanted to add, you may want to visit the "Amazing Sea Monkeys!" thread and get caught up on some of the important events of the last couple years. "OLM's" (Older Leadership Monkeys) are available to assist with any questions you might have. The vibrations of love that come from even a few minutes exposure to the Amazing Sea Monkeys! have been known to release powerful antitoxidants into the body that can encourage the natural healing abilities of the human body, clear the mind, and restore balance and purpose. It's true! I know it sounds crazy but it's true! And it's amazing!

What's the joke - "the light at the end of the tunnel has been temporarily shut off"? something like that? When the light dims, seems like maybe it was a mirage all along, you just have to get through it. One step, one day. Boy, that day sucked. Then again. Sucked again. And again. It'll get better, it always does. Or, it'll get worse, maybe before it gets better. Depends on the situation. But things will change, they have to. Nothing stays the same, ever. Just as events and stuff can go sour, they can go sweet. And they will. You just have to get through it and let time be the road - you know, - "you never know what's up around the next bend". And we don't. That's when life can bring it's most disappointment, when something goes against plan, what we expect doesn't pan out, our efforts turn up empty. Or seem to. I believe effort is effort. Measure now - nothing, nada, zip. Measure again in a week, you may need a bigger ruler. How about family? In a storm any port will do. Use whatever means you have (this is one) to talk it out. "Good is where you find it". Good is waiting to happen, whenever and wherever it shows it's curly little head. It may come in unexpected ways. I'll tell you who will be always happy to see you and where you'll find some of the most intersting people, is your local volunteer services, like a United Way or other organization like that. Look them up in the phone book and give them a call, and show up somewhere, there's always things where you can go and find other people to share an hour or two, a day, with. Like a local Food Bank, if you have one in your city. Spending an hour or two packing boxes, unloading a truck, dropping deliveries, this stuff goes on all the time day after day at Food Banks. Food is cool, people gotta eat. You will absolutely feel better about life having done something so basic and so simple to help someone else, and in a way that really helps and has no strings attached. You'll meet other people - a guy told me years ago he was the Vice President of his company and here he was loading a truck with boxes on a Saturday. It's just a great way to get in, do some good, meet some other cool people and know you've made a difference that wouldn't have been made if you hadn't shown up. There's also the holidays coming up and organizations are gearing up right now to do all kinds of stuff. There might be an arm of one of or more of these organizations where you work. Check them out. Volunteer stuff is a great way to meet people who usually have more than two brain cells working and a reasonably caring heart pumping. And you'll be one more, y'know? :)

Awesome Brother Lingo! A Quickening?!?!! Sean Connery (noted OLM) spoke of it in the movie "The Highlander", but it was way overblown, typical Hollywood treatment. There could be a connection though as Sea Monkeys and their earliest messages have been found in some of the symbols discovered in Scottish ruins. It's true and it's really amazing! Connery - same deal. You can't tell me he doesn't know. He knows.

Glad u liked it Chatty! NASA ROCKS! It's got a lot of stuff up there. And Mars figures heavily into the documentation. I've heard through second hand sources that there may be an ASM demonstration at the next Republican and Democrat Conventions. Rumor? Has anyone else heard of this? Supposedly they'll be incognito, but active. Interesting possibility.

a sighting? Really? Scant few these last months, although the recent news that the Mars mission rovers are still tickin' after all these months and months is obvious proof that ASM's are providing support. This recent photograph proves it - to the far right, you can see the small circular collection of stones that is characteristic of an ASM marking. It's so plain. I'm glad NASA is finally putting this kind of proof up, for those with eyes to see. NASA knows, always have. They know.

Ha! Chet might have tried it once or twice though Chatty! I will read that. You're making me think, I've always held Chet Atkins in high regard and loved his music. The hokey stuff, "Mr. Sandman", the novelty tunes, the "Chet Plays the Beatles", all of it. I just like that sound, that way of playing with a melody. Of course he was the Guy on fingerstyle bass/melody picking but he also did so many other things along the way, not even to mention his work as a producer and all the artists he worked with in Nashville, etc. etc. etc. I posted once on his use of sweep picking arpeggios in his version of "Copper Kettle", which is sung by a Lawrence Welk style mens chorus. He ends his solo with a couple of sweeps that are perfect, and then ends the solo. He never went too far or over did something. That little part's worn down on my vinyl record because I had to hear it again and again and again. That's style to me, tuna that tastes good and has good taste too. Point - I was telling a friend about Chet at one point, he'd been playingo for awhile and he said he'd never heard of him. :blink: How's anyone who plays guitar with any degree of seriousness not know who Chet Atkins is? So I started describing some of his music, thinking I'm doing this guy the favor of his life and the more I say about him the more this guy looks at me like I'm crazy. Then I say, Chet defined the early "Nashville" pop sound, etc. etc. At that point the guy says "well now I REALLY don't like him". I was astounded at this incredibly short sighted and uneducated opinion! Forget the violins, look at the development of the music man! Are you MAD! Finally he says "well, who's he played with?" Okay, who HASn't he played with??? I say this guy that guy, Mark Knopfler.... His eyes light up. Cool!!! ReallY? what did they do? And so another fan was brought wiggling and wet from the womb of enlightnment. Spank that baby on the butt, Doc, he's ready to rock!! Anyway.... Glad you're actually here Chatty!

What??? Where - who - what???? I like the videos, U tube is truly a wonderful... What???????? Chattykathy, wazzat? I've passed over many an instrument over the years, and probably should have picked up half of them. I think there's still deals out there, but there may not be too many on the really older guitars. But, there's other brands and models opening up - Rickenbackers are gaining a lot of press, and Gretsch's have always had a good vibe going, and some great guitars. Whaaaaat????????

Thanks Invisible Dan! Your pen or mine? Leash? That don't sound right.

Could be Belle. I struggle with trying to see the world from any other vantage point than my own, the one I know and live in. That's normal I think. Events can intersect that world and cause me to see it differently, ideas can be introduced that are new, different. Still, I've built my ideas of morality based on what I know, believe. Polygamy isn't something that seems natural to me, from where I sit. My opinion in regard to the whole topic of "polygamy" isn't a very informed one, there's a lof of information I haven't really cracked the books on myself I'll admit. But, in general, I think the responsibility of a male within an extended family could and should take into account taking care of those who need it. In certain times and societies that responsibility would be completely up to the family, as no one else would be there to have any reason to assist. Which isn't "polygamy" of course. I'm not so sure David, Samson, Abraham, etc. all had the same situations they were dealing with, comparing them to each other, but somewhere the concept of a man (or I guess it could be woman by definition) having many wives being acceptable came into practice. Maybe the reasons were the same as you cite, Templelady. Then There's This Guy. This is the leader of that rogue "FLDS" group. By all accounts a sick puppy. Plus, when he was arrested they found "wigs" in his car. Put a wig on that guy's head and what d'ya get? It ain't pretty thats for sure. I'd think the quickest way for him to get stopped would be for him to put on a wig. Maybe that's what he really wanted, his own inner child was screaming to be brought in and arranged to be married to a big beefy cell mate. Dunno. Do we laugh or cry? "Arranged" marriages between middle aged men and 13 year old girls? Uh....

Chatty, I wish I had! Right now I'm in - what're they called? An intervention. Bathroom break. Gotta get back, they're really sweatin' me. It'll be okay, Chas, soon as this is over I can get back to surfin' for DEALS. :) Thanks for the clips, A la!

This was a good read, thank you Templelady. I actually do feel like some vague assumptions I've had about LDS have been cleared up. I've never felt drawn, even back in the Way days when Mormons received moderate praise for their tithing system and perceived relative prosperity. (Telling that the one component worth getting some shine off for the Way involved money). That and the witnessing committment of the young people. I dated a Mormon girl in high school for a short while. Guess she liked me, at least a little at the time. Her last name was Smith, go figure right? Pigs would be ice skating in hell before her family would have ever accepted a non-Mormon into the household, they were very strict, but I'd been raised Catholic so I was very familiar with that end of it. Guess it must have felt "dangerous" for us, dunno, hard to recall. Kids, right? I'd assumed for many years that the polygamy stuff was drawn from the OT and David, and their custom of having mulitple wives, or concubines. That topic's interesting, I wonder if there was a practical reason for it way back when, at some point. Conditions in the ancient world may have meant that for a period of time there were simply more women than men, maybe it was a matter of survival. I like the current system of one man, one woman. I'm happy. :)

Must......resist...brain....being - nngggh....stolen! Led away...to....to.....?! Made it. Whew! Close call.

I agree, more! They're like the Leave it to Beaver gang - gone WOW! I've never seen these rascals or if I did it was burned from my memory by too many WOW burgers! Tom Strange will surely be interested in your language faux pas hiway............ or was it? Deeply innate and waiting to spring forth life is the knowledge that these little critters, chilling though they be - are really trying to give you..... GILLS????????!!!!!!!! Oh yeah....that's the stuff

Uh huh. Ya got me. I don't know what gets into me, but I need to limit my input to x amount of paragraphs. Thank God for the Delete key! Guitars .... guitars .... need......must have......

Tonto. :) Thanks. I understand waysider, no disrespect is taken, at all. I mostly meant to direct my post to your question YIdon'tgotochurch, was anyone reproved for NOT doing a dedication. It would be an insult, IMO, to ever do such a thing to a parent - it would cross over into their personal responsibilities and concerns for their own children and place the ceremony above the hearts and intents of the parents. That be bad. As a ritual performed amongst a community it has a significance, one of personal decision by the parents to do so. For a lot of churches it's different than a baptism, which I don't feel accomplishes anything more, but some churches do. In the Way there weren't any baptisms of course and I actually don't feel that what the Way did was meant to be baptism "by another name" or a way to placate Way members with something like it. If baptism is intended to sanctify the child in a specific way by the ritual itself, and they Way didn't believe that baptism accomplished that, there would be no purpose in offering an alternative by a different name. My own training in Baby Dedications was along the lines of - here's something that parents may want to do and it's a fine thing to do. We do it as a way to join together with parents and their children. BUT (and here's the big but) while we're not in the business of Baby Dedications, it's not perfunctory or compulsory AND it will likely be something we'll be called upon to do more as families grow. So do it if you can and do it for the parents. That was it in a nutshell. There was nothing demeaning about it, at all. It's something that should be done carefully, and with the overall understanding that it's being done by these parents, with their child, for their reasons and supported cheerfully by others in the church they're a part of. If it's done as a ritual that's expected of all parents in order for them to be "good parents" or members in good standing in the church, it loses it's significance for the parents who choose to do it. Which isn't another way of saying "....and every parent SHOULD choose to do it". Because as you stated Yidont, a parent makes their decisions for raising their children on their own, over a lifetime. That matters more in the child's life than anything else, of course. Usually it would be done privately or with immediate friends and family. In a larger fellowship environment there's inherent difficulties. :) But if a family requested it be done before the congregation or fellowship, that would possible, as long as it was done with that personal focus so everyone else could support it without feeling less or more for it. With both my children though, and with my son specifically, The Mom and I prayed together before all of that, on our own, for a healthy happy child for us. I made committments that day I still owe on and will forever. For me, God answered that prayer. There's a great section in the gospels I think of in relation to how we view children, in Luke: 18:15. And they brought unto him also infants, that he might touch them. Which when the disciples saw, they rebuked them. 18:16. But Jesus, calling them together, said: Suffer children to come to me and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. 18:17. Amen, I say to you: Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a child shall not enter into it. Baby D's have a way of inspiring people in the same way a wedding does. It can remind everyone of how simple and pure life can be, could be, was. Is, for this child. People often look at children as distractions - get 'em outta here. But a society without children is looking at a short jump off a short pier. This little record shows Jesus as a person who respected these parents who wanted to bring their children to Him. God knows - maybe then as now, we need all the help we can get and (maybe then as now) real help can be hard to come by. Reproving a parent for not dedicating their child - that would fall on the "no help" side.

We be here! hwah!

I love it! "It's not like we'll never see another hot dog!" "We can sure give it a try!" This is funny. Thanks! I don't know who did it, sprry!

:) I'm glad. Yah. Yup. Nope. Yah. Ok! I've only seen it in whole a couple times. It was on this weekend, we watched most of it. There's some nice fiddle work on it in the score, very effective at setting the undertone of the mood of what's actually going on in the movie, most of which isn't good. But it's hilarious, especially the TV version and all the froozin', fruggin', fruitin, funny dubs that are used. A la, those lines are mines, I'm messing around with them in a song, but haven't finished them yet. The come and go, come and go... Fargo - the Jose Feliciano segment in the club - is classic.