soul searcher

wild guess: In the Pines

Interesting...I get the same bad feeling if I criticize or ridicule Way practices. I can joke along with you guys but I didn't go through any of it, so I feel like an idiot joking about it. I hope everyone forgives me.

that's rock and roll, man

It sho 'nuff has. Honky Tonk Woman. It's one of my favorite songs of all time. "I know your name is Rita"

Thanks, geisha. Nice post. Not at all. I do not have to understand someone to in order to like, or even love them. I like complicated people. Here's my problem -- and we've talked about this before -- I pray all the time but I never know if God is listening because he doesn't seem to respond. At least not directly. As far as I can tell, either God has never spoken to me, or he is talking to me all the time and I just don't get it. I love those verses. It makes me wonder about all holy men and supposed "men of God". I mean, how do you know a real MOG when you see one? The DNA of Jesus. What a concept.

So -- let me understand -- you have to be "spiritually mature" to understand a threesome? :biglaugh: Oh that's a good one! To paraphrase Willard in the movie "Apocalypse Now": the bull.... was piling up so fast in that place you must have needed wings to stay above it.

Thank you, Mark. That was a nice compliment. We read a short story in high school called "By the Waters of Babylon", which was set in a post-apocalytic world. (Read it here.) The last sentence was "We must build again", which I had always found to be hopeful and optimistic. * * * I heard yesterday that tar balls are washing up on the shores of Louisiana. Lovely. :(

I agree with you completely, but I still like to speculate on stuff. And it would seem to bear on some discusions I've read in other forums on whether Jesus was a man (human) or God. Because if he was, indeed, a human being then his body would be subject to the same physiological principles that ours are; i.e., his body would have been comprised of cells (which undergo cell division), and tissues and organs. If his body was not subject to the same physical and biolgical laws that we are then he wouldn't have been a human but a human-like supreme being. (I don't actually know what the heck I'm talking about -- I'm just "thinking out loud.") But Jesus preached love, and he bled, and he died on the cross. So I have to believe that he was a human like the rest of us.

I went back and read Matthew 1 and it seems that Joseph was told in a dream by the Lord's angel that he should go ahead and take Mary as his wife because she was, indeed, a virgin (even though she was with child). And "he had no union with her until she gave birth to a son." (v. 25) So it would seem that half of Jesus Christ's chromosomes came from God -- unless there was some other divine process going on (i.e., all of Christ's genes came from God) that we don't know about. Maybe Jesus didn't have chromosomes like we do?

Interesting post, Roy. It got me thinking... You said, I think that is so true. For example, I can't comprehend the universe. And God created the universe. So how can I possibly comprehend the creator of something I can't comprehend? You started me thinking about the (somewhat ridiculous) prospect of examining Jesus Christ's DNA profile. Jesus called himself the "son of man" and a son of man must be a man. Since Jesus was a man, and Mary was his mother, half of his chromosomes had to come from Mary. Did God supply the other half, or did Joseph?

Why leave? It seems to me that you have lots to share. Hang out and talk to us.

You mean I could have learned to SIT in just 12 three-hour sessions?!?

Hey, Gen-2 welcome back. I was wondering what happened to you. (Now that I think about it, Mister P-mosh has been missing for while, too.) It occurs to me that if someone gets hit by a bus, none of their online friends would ever know about it. I've always been a worrier. I got it from my mother.

Jeff, I don't know if it was intentional or not but you had me cracking up! Dehydrated skin? Rusty scabs? Emaciated flesh? LOL

I was going to guess Silhouettes, too.

Why is somebody always "minusing" Shellon? I don't get it.

When Paw is stumped it's time to give it up. My post was the opening lines of the second verse of the Allman Brothers' "Whipping Post". It was a bad clue. FREE POST!

Skyrider, that is a terribly sad scene you described there. Very poetic writing. Good job.

Well, I ain't interested in reading no book(s). I was just wondering what topics were covered and in what order. I have a good idea already -- I was just wondering if anyone had an actual course outline. Or, if it is a book, the table of contents would do. Also, how long was the PFAL class and how often did it meet? No, I'm not going to sign a green card, I'm just curious. :)

That's what I thought. :) Incidentally, is there an outline of the PFAL class available anywhere? I'm curious about it.

Do you mean PFAL? (Just making sure this wasn't another class.)

Your post got me wondering...does anyone ever grow old and live out their life as a happily tithing member of TWI? One would think, by reading this forum, that everyone leaves after a while -- be it 10, 20 or 30 years.

No, and it occurs to me that those words have probably been used in many songs. I'll give it another day or so.

My friends tell me that I've been such a fool