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You know what, I have no idea, and looking back, I'm kind of like "God, Beka, just shut up, you were having a bad day!" @Fez huh? I mean there's only two people who I'd tell just about everything to, I consider them my siblings, and then there's a 3rd who I love spending time with, a 4th has become more bareable since she's got a boyfriend because previous to that she only wanted to talk about boys no matter how much I tried to steer the conversation to something less...exhausted. Other than that, the people who spend time with me are all bat **** crazy and I can't get them to take a hint that I kind of don't feel like dealing with them behaving as disgracefully as they do.

Is it horrible that I don't actually give a ****? I mean until the verdict I knew next to nothing of the Casey Anthony trial except that it's been going on for what feels like 4 years now. I still don't know anything about it except that a bunch of people thing the wrong decision was reached. 12 Angry Men much? As with most things besides the Iraq war, the more the TV covered it the less I cared. It didn't affect my every day life, she didn't supposedly kill my sister, why does it matter? To be truthful, it's crime drama's fault, we always see the one we believe to be guilty go away. It's people who watch to much tv passing thier own judgement while people who have studied law and such (and teens who took criminal law classes) who look at it and go "They never actually said she was innocent, just 'not guilty'," That was like the first lesson in Criminal Justice, not guilty does not mean innocent. edited to delete inappropriate word by Mizzdy

There aren't many good paying jobs for someone without a high school deploma let alone a collage degree, besides it doesn't bode well for my dreams of being a history teacher if I can't even pay for collage. Besides, all the friends I would want to live with/can stand for more than 3 hours are either sophmores, juniors, or going to collage as well Thank you ~Beka

It's not so much the lack of boundries, I'm actually fine with all the boundries they set for me, I wish they had set them for my sister. My problem is, and I thought of this after I had hit 'add reply' is that my parents are always going on (to me) about how I'm their 'good child' and how they 'never had any problems with me'. Yeah, you didn't have any problems with me because you gave me boundries, I knew how far I could pull the line. I also never had to deal with bullying, why? Because I could let a comment roll off my shoulders, my sister can't let the smallest comment roll off her shoulders, she has to fight everything. I'm not bitter, I love my life, I'm happy with how I lived it, I'm annoyed that 180 differeces were used in raising my sister and I and the same outcome is expected of both of us, I'd agree with some differences, I'm not athletic, my sister is. I have ADD, she doesn't, I like history, she hates it, reading is a punishment for her, it's not for me, keeping her inside is a punishment for her, unless we're at the beach I'd rather be inside. So differences are important, but 180 differences with the same results expected, then complaining because you're younger daughter has so many problems with her behavior is not...acceptable in any way. To be honest, I'm 18 yeah, but I'm way more mature than my classmates, the other week I said how parents shouldn't give in to their child's every demand and everyone except the teacher jumped down my throat and said "But the child doesn't have money and can't buy things they want on their own" So? So just because I throw a fit in the middle of a store I should get the Barbi doll I want? They were all like "Yeah" and I was like "No, that makes you a spoild rotten brat because then you throw a fit and expect your way all the time and if you do that in the work force you get fired." I have the same views on disiplen, I mentioned once how if my child deserved it (and obviously not to teach not hitting) I would spank my children, I was spanked, my parents were spanked, my classmates looked at me in absolute horror. Oh come on, I'm not going to abuse the kids!

Not only are you not being selfish, but here's another question, do you want to deal with a pair of sisters? I mean trust me, they'll play nice for the first week, the first month if your lucky, but one will do something and the other will retaliate and a fight will follow. It doesn't matter how they were raised, I know a pair of sisters who were raised always going to church, always praying, always taught to follow God, both are going to be nuns now. Anyway, I thought, 'oh that's so great, they must never fight.' just because it's not loud, doesn't mean it's not a fight. Sarah will talk in strained tones and Rachel will sound like she's trying to be reasonable. Eventually because she was taught to follow her elders and that her sister is her elder, Rachel will follow what Sarah says whether she agrees or not. So yeah, that's something else you've got to think about, do you always want to be a ref?

I would like to take a moment of your valuebal time for a pathetic rant from a whiney 18 year old with unfair parents, especially concerning how they raised her little sister. Like I said, I'm 18, my lil sis is four years younger than me, her school starts at 9:00 in the morning so she stays up till 10 frequently and doesn't wake up until 7:30 at the earliest. When I was her age, first of all, we lived in a different house where we were picked up by the bus at 8 in the morning, but God forbid I was up until 9:00 at night, and God forbid I wanted to watch anything other than Disney, Nickelodian, or Cartoon Network, any show other than those shown on those channels were just plain inapropriatre for children my age, 8th grade. I also had to pay for half of my video camera (which was a birthday presant, which I understand and agree with) and all of my iPod when my original MP3 player broke (from innocent causes, it fell a few times, when my dad reallly started using his and dropped it even less times than I had, his broke too). My lil sis still woke up around 7:30 and since I was always in bed before her I never knew what time she went to bed. The next year we moved into a new house, my sister and I went back to sharing a bathroom, here's something that happens from time to time: 10:00 at night my little sister comes barging into my room, demanding I go over and flush the toilet since I accidentally forgot. Here's something that frequently happens: I go to the bathroom at 6:00 am, SHE forgot to flush, but she get's on my case if I go into her room to get a hair tie in the morning (oh but she doesn't do it till dinner). Do you know how much trouble I'd get in if I woke her up at 6 to flush the toilet when she can just barge into my room at 10 at night and demand I do the same? She's also been watching Bones for about a year now, a show I wasn't allowed to watch at her age because I couldn't see dead bodies, blood, or sex when I was her age (granted I didn't even know the show existed back then, but if I did I wouldn't be allowed to watch it). I'm not allowed to go into her room without her permission, but she frequently barges into my room (especially when my door is shut) then comlains when she walks in on me changing. If I walk up the stairs behind her, she'll dilberatly stop mid-staircase and won't move until I try and dodge around her then do the exact same thing at the top of the stairs, and when I try and get around her, she goes for my room to block the doorway, possibly enter and lock it. Again, do you know how much trouble I'd get in for pulling a stunt like that? If she doesn't get her way she'll grab my arm and squeeze really hard or pretend to hit me so I flinch and laughs at me. The few times I've retaliated I've gotten punished. She also exploits my fear of flying projectiles, but if I would throw stuff at her I'd be punished. She gets away with saying mean things about me, but I can't do the same. My parents paid for not one, but 2 iTouches for her, both password protected and they don't even know the password, one she's had since 6th grade. If I had passoword protected anything (other than the obvious online accounts,) when I was her age my parents would have killed me (metaphoricly speaking) then 'asked' to know the password, they don't know the password to her iTouches. They also never take her phone and search her messages while they took mine several times between freshman year and sophmore year to see who I was texting and what I was saying. (I think it's cause they didn't think I could possibly have friends, I had this core group from 4th grade to 8th grade and most of them ditched me when we reached high school, then in high school I formed a new group that's shifted every year and I got a boyfriend freshman year.) Some facts about us: 8th grade my parents made me go to counciling because they thought I was anti-social, during that time I was diagnosed with ADD, I'm also a bit OCD (new developmet after freshman year) and a smidge of a smidge of a smidge of a smidge dyslexic. I was medicated for my ADD for two years, but the medicine didn't do anything and I hate taking any form of medicine so I stopped. There is nothing wrong with my sister. I guess I'm just mad that I have a billion and one boundries, none of them relaiting to my ADD (I don't think my parents notice the other stuff, the only people who have are the ones who notice me eating M&Ms, Skittles, Smarties, gummies and various Cereals) and she has none. I'm also not anti-social because I have friends and a bunch of people like me, it's just my friends and I don't really hang out after school (and neither do my sister and her friends except for one who she's been friends with since Kindergarden). ~Beka

I agree with Isaiah - please don't base your judgment against Charismatics on what you see through the media. But I have to ask, do I creep you out? No, but most people on the internet don't, which is prolly really bad. Anyway, I'm just saying that's the vibe I get when I hear the word, my gut instinct says it's creepy and my gut instinct is hard to change, especially when it's been right so many times.

Why do Charismatics seem wrong to you? Are you Catholic? I know of some Charismatic Catholics. I was ministered to by one of them many years ago. If by "Faith Tradition" you mean the tradition of the Catholic Church, would not that be all Protestants and interdenominationals and such, not just Charismatics? I couldn't properly articulate why it feels wrong, it just does, like the creeper janitor at my school and our creeper neighbors who ended up being drug dealers. It also severly reminds me of an episode of Supernatural where Dean has a heart attack because of crazy amounts of electricity flowing through him and Sam takes him to this healer guy who's basicly running his own church and whose wife is controling a reaper (grim reaper). She kills someone else, someone she believes is leading a sinful life, whether it's being gay, having an affair, anything the news covers and she disagrees with, to save the person being healed. Yes I'm Catholic, no, not all other denominations of Christianity feels squelchy to me, just Charismatics. Peace and out ~Beka

Personal opinion, all of that just pr.oves that God is real, how could all of those prime conditions occure by chance, if we asked Charlie Epps from NUMB3RS the odds have to be ASTRONOMICAL, and yet they occured, they coincided perfectly, someone had to have His hand in that. Personal opinion 2.0 - science has continually confirmed my belief in God, never once denyed it, we are only understanding things now that God has created for us from the begining.

I don't know if this applys but what about charismatic groups? Maybe it's just me but don't they sound a little, to borrow my best friend's term, squelchy. I mean the only thing I know about charismatic groups is what I learned from news coverage a few years ago and it seemed like the Catholic Church was unaffected, then I find out this year that my church has a charismatic group and they held a healing service at my church like a week or two ago. Again maybe it's just me but charismatic just seems wrong, to me it feels like they're going to compleatly break away from Faith Tradition which is a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad (repeat until you have to take a breath then repeat that 3 times) thing. Thoughts? Peace out, Beka

Dear child, there is nothing wrong with you, you have been dealt a bad hand. You are inferior to no one! *offers a virtual hand since she cannot offer her real one* come here I give you my biggest squeezing hug (they're super special hugs in my family) and I hope you feel better someday! I will be here for you with a virtual hug whenever you need one! ~Peace out Beka

Oh Angie! You are not alone! I too strugle with a dark side! It has been a year since I last drew lines and words on my arm with a screwdriver (hard enough to cause pain, soft enough to never bleed) I consider myself a recovering cutter, but my friend whom I confided this in tells me that I am not a recovering cutter, that I had to use a blade to be a cutter. I'm not so sure this is true. Anyway, slightly off topic. The point is, much like with you, that hole that lead me to the screwdriver is still there, it has scabbed, the scab has been ripped off, and is begining to scab once again. I have healed through my father, through confronting him on the things he has done to cause me pain (writing on facebook the truth of his father's health, but never sitting my sister and I down to tell us that.) We have made peace with eachother, and that has helped me heal. I've also forgiven my mother for something I've hated her for since I was little and her father died, she prayed that he would not suffer, that if he had to pass he would do so quickly, without pain. Now, knowing my other grandfather is sick, and being so much more mature I understand, while I selfishly want my grandfather to be at my wedding, I also wish that he would not suffer, and if that means death, then so be it. I suppose my whole point is that you are not alone and I am always willing to talk with you. You have taken the first step in telling us, we have risen to meet you, now let us walk together and support eachother. Peace out ~Beka

I always think that videos of the aurora always look like the camera man/woman is moving, it's always beautiful though!!!!!!!!!!

Stepping in with the RC view point. Jesus said, no, no divorce, he said it's adultry to marry a divorced woman, and it's adultry to marry again after divorcing your wife. That's not the RC view point yet, that's what the bible says, don't ask me where. This is the RC view point, if you're going to get a divorce then get an annullment, an annullment means that the love was not there from the begining. From what I understand, it's really hard to get an anullment, and there's books and books on the situation. I know one example, if the guy or the girl says "oh this marriage will only last two months" if it doesn't work out, even a couple of years later, that phrase is grounds for an annullment because the parter was never committed for more then two months. Peace out ~Beka

So I make a point of combineing weird things, it's joked that they can be worse then any pregnant woman can come up with. I put clementines on a hot dog roll, not that weird but still my family looked at me strange. My favorite had to be my either Star Wars or LOTR combo, I forget what I was watching when I first made it, anyway it's Root Beer, Grape Kool Aid, and Chocolate Syrup. This was created when my family was going through a phase when we mixed Grape Kool Aid into all our sodas. Oh My Goodgollygosh, it is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So it's got an after taste, and in my opinion the after taste is that of a tootsie roll. On the flip side, I would never recomend A&W, or Mug Root Beer to drink with Fetuchine Alfrado, the tastes do not mix, if you want to drink Root Beer with Fetuchine Alfrado, I'd recomend going with some of the better made stuff, like what the sell at like Olive Garden, you know when you order it they deliver it in a glass bottle that looks like a real bottle. I actually scare people with that because I don't like ice in my drinks so I don't pour it into the glass they provide. ANYWAY off topic there, sorry, the other root beer I'd recomend, I can't recall the title off the top of my head, but when you buy it it's got the silver label, starts with a B I think and it's got a barrel on it. Peace Out ~Beka <3 <3 <3 P.S. I've had issues with chronic nose bleeds so I'v also "eaten" my own blood.

First of all, I don't think the pope is an anti-christ, because that role was set up by christ himself so get him off the list now add stalin to the list, this is actually a discussion we had at lunch yesterday, apperantly Stalin was worse to his prizoners then Hitler was to his.

VEGGIE TALES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *glomp!* LOVE Veggie Tales!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So it's on TV still and the only episode I've seen recently is the story of the Good Samaratin, you know, with people throwing shoes and pots at eachother. Highly amusing. Right now my dad is randomly saying "Buzzsaw Louie" and I'm saying "I want a Buzzsaw Louie...I want 10 Buzzsaw Louies!" which is from one of the Christmas movies, I've also seen the Christmas movie with star of Cristmas and the turtle of something...you know where Bob's theater and Larry's theater are putting on the exact same Christmas pagent and compeating for the prince to come to their's and in the end they combine the shows because Bob's theater caught on fire. I've also seen Johna, like 20 times, I watched last year on New Years Eve. I also have An Easter Carol which is supposed to be the Easter-ized version of A Christmas Carol, but we've never watched it, serisously we've had it for like 5 years now and we've never watched it. Peace out ~Beka

Thanks for the advice, I'm not putting my life on hold for him, and I would never ruin my life for a guy, trust me, been there done that (probably not in the way you are thinking). Anyway, I'm only a teenager, I figure I won't find my future husband until I'm like 20 or so, and God's not going to gently touch my shoulder He's gonna slap me upside the head and scream "HERE'S YOUR HUSBAND!!!!!" 'cause He knows I can be kinda thick sometimes. I also know long distance relationships usually don't work, actually if he likes me too and IF we go to the same collage maybe we could date then. But those are big ifs, giant ifs, EPIC ifs, unless, of course, God shrinks them. Peace out ~Beka

Hey guys, Ok, so there's this guy who I sorta kinda think I like, problem is I don't know if I do, I've only met him once at a youth rally that my best friend's youth group went to. However I broke down sobbing during Adoration at the youth rally and he was sitting next to me and he rubbed my back and said "It's okay, Jesus loves you." It was a very touching moment, I'm tearing up as I tell you about it. Anyway, there's like two or three problems, 1) supposedly he has a crush on my best friend (the one in his youth group), I say supposedly because this was the observation of my youth leader and she can be pretty off about these things, 2) I don't know him at all, we're friends on facebook, but that's not much, maybe if I knew him better I wouldn't be crushing on him, maybe I would even more, I don't know. Problem 3) He lives 3-3 1/2 hours away. Even if he is crushing on my friend, she's A) not allowed to date until she's in collage and B) I'm pretty sure she's not interested anyway. So, my question, how do I get to know him over facebook? It's hard for me to get to know people online once I've met them in person, with my friend it's easy because we send each other these giant e-mails with updates on our lives, with everyone else it's just kind of awkward. With the guy, I've only met him once and I know the bare minimum, his name, where he lives, and (I'm only assuming this from the amount of flair) he swims. So again, how do I get to know him better, I keep wanting to e-mail him via Facebook, but I'm shy and I don't know what to say. Peace out ~Beka

I agree, and actually, "throw a football" reminds me of the song "Big House", we sing it a lot at youth group functions, the refrain is "Come and go with me to my Father's house/ Come and go with me to my Father's house/ It's a big big house/ With lots and lots of room/ It's a big big table/ With lots and lots of food/ It's a big big yard/ Where we can play football/ It's a big big house/ It's my Father's house!" LOVE THAT SONG!!!!!!! Anna, what station are you listening to, again, The Pulse is usually pretty ok, and Daughtry is always AWESOME!!!!!!! Nickleback has some bad songs and some good songs, the ones I like are usually the good ones, my dad and I like "Rockstar" because it makes fun of being a Rockstar, but that's one of their worse songs. In my opinion so called Pop music (it's not what i would think of as pop, but on the radio it's classified as both pop and soft rock) has probably really turned around, there was a point, no more then three years ago where I could not listen to the radio at all except during Christmas time. The music was bad, and the Christian stations were too preachy, I wanted to listen to good quality Christian music, not half-rate preaching about going to hell. This was a period of two years, I avoided radios like the plague, it actually made me anti-social because anytime I was in the car I'd end up listening to my ipod instead of talking to my parents, and when I was at home I was writing stories, so I never talked to them at home. You could actually look at it one way and say that Satan actually I wanna say perverted my desire for good music and used it against me. buy using it to separate me from my family, as Luna Lovegood said in HP 5 "I think he wants you to feel alone, because alone you're not that much of a challenge." Peace out, ~Beka

Ok, music is not now, nor has it ever been a sin, it is always the contents of the song that determin whether or not it is bad or good. For good secular music, I tend to listen to what is probably considered pop, if you have sirius radio it's The Pulse, and I guess since they merged with XM radio it's now there too. Dad and I will sing along, but sometimes we just stop and listen to the lyrics, usually it's pretty good, Pink never is, but I'm not expecting much on that end anyway. Daughtry is actually probably the best out there in terms of secular bands, I used to have a problem with it because it looked a lot like adultry, but then I researched the band and found out it was the lead singer's last name. Anyway, their song "What about Now?" is apperantly like at least 50% taken from scripture, but you would never guess that by listening to it. It has like the exact same message as Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dieing" both are about this being your last day...actually so is Nickleback's "If Today Was Your Last Day". Jesse McCartney's first cd "Beautiful Soul" has an amazing message prettty much all through it, "Without U" doesn't but his song "Beautiful Soul" is about wanting a girl because she's beautiful on the inside, "She's No You" is about girls flaunting their physical beauty and how they hold nothing to the girl he's singing to, because he likes her, and he wants her. "Take Your Sweet Time" is about the girl wanting space, probably because of something bad, and the boy saying "ok, I'll give you all the time and space, but if you ever need someone, I'm here." "That Was Then" is about the guy being a jerk, and finally respecting his girlfriend. "Because You Live" is about being saved from dark thoughts (suicide from the sound of it). I kinda just realized that it's like listening to Skillet, but a compleatly different tone to the music. Peace out ~Beka

What version are you using? NKJV - And having come in, the angel said to her, "Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!" NASB - And coming in, he said to her, "Greetings, favored one! The Lord is with you." KJV - And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. The fruit of her womb was Jesus. Elizabeth did not say, "the mother of God." She said, "The mother of my Lord." There is a difference. Hardly, "the mother of my Lord" and "the mother of God" seem to be interchangeable. And I think you proved Leo's point, with all your other bible quoting, throw some of those in a spin art machine and you'll end up with the Hail Mary all over again. Peace out ~Beka

Yeah, do you know a lot of what you just described is purely Catholic? True fact, check out mass sometime. Peace out ~Beka

A lot of what I'm about to say has already been said but I'm throwing it out there again. There were mentions of a great flood and a family surviving it in several different cultures. Hebrew time frame was a lot different then ours, actually, if I remember correctly from a book I read, they only counted months, so 950 years, and I think it was closer to 950 years, would probably actually been 950 months. I don't think people really started to count years the way we know them until the Greeks or the Mayans. Peace out ~Beka

I know you've apologized for the negativity already, but here's something to point out, we're on a forum with thousands of Christians, and only a hand full of Catholics, in this thread specificly we've got only two Catholics who cannot answer each post as it appears and twenty to thirty Christians all posting close togeather, I can only get on for 30 min. every day, I would have been vastly overwhelmed if Leo hadn't stepped in and helped. All I'm saying is, cut us some slack, if we could find more Catholics to help we'd resolve this issue to a degree. Now, I forget where this is in scriptue, but it's definantly in one of the letters, and it's a saying that's used all over the place, Faith without works is nothing The saying: Sitting in your garage does not make you a car. Peace out ~Beka