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It is very hard to raise children. My 20 years old was raised in church, went to all youth retreats. She is not close to the Lord now but also is not living a life of drugs, sex and drinking. She tells me that from all her friends she is the only one that is not sexually active.She also tells me that she agrees with what she learned in youth group in retreats that she should wait for marriage. On the other hand my 16 years old is under my feet and being tested for marijuana every month, since he tested positive once. He tells me that he is not sexually active, I don't believe him much. I did not made him go to church as long as I made my daughter go , maybe I should have.

Like I said before, I do not intent to change peoples opinions. By the end we do have to answer to God, even our interpretation of the scriptures, That is why he gave us the Holly Spirit to help us understand the word. I believe we are all mature christians and we do know what is right and wrong. I wish I new more about the Bible but I am happy I at least know the basics.

I do not live in the old testament. "You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' But I tell you, don't resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also. If anyone sues you to take away your coat, let him have your cloak also. Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks you, and don't turn away him who desires to borrow from you. Matthew 5:38-42 Of course in mine not perfect heart I am please that OBL is not in the world anymore. I am from NY and had suffered very closely the consequences and the pain of 9/11.

LadyC I agree with you 100% regarding OBL pictures. Regarding death penalty in my opinion it is barbaric. I am not one to "hijack" a tread to try to convince anyone to agree with my beliefs. I just express my opinion and I do respect yours.

only barbarics would want to see this kind of picture or people that still believe that death penalty is ok.

My 2 children had friends that commited suicide. It was horrible. I wonder what we as parents and society can do differently than what we are doing now. It is an age when most of the kids don't want to hear about God.My children friends do come over our house but if I try to have a real talk with them my kids get angry.I do re-member been sad and angry as a teenager, maybe because suicide was not in the news it never crossed my mind.Maybe it is just too much talk about it.

are you kidding me? it looks like you believe she is not good enough for him. He is 23, old enough to make his own decisions. You are right he should be looking for a job 24/7 or at ways to better himself to get a job.

Thank you for the advice. I did call her to my place yesterday and told her to keep it down. She told me that she will not see him anymore, so it had a good outcome. You guys are right, she is not my daughter. Just will make sure I get the quiet that I need. Lori

It is a 2 family house, her apartment is independent of mine. The walls are thin, I will ask her to keep it down. I do work hard and don't want to wake up at all ours of the night with fights . Also her "s..." noises are very loud.

I have a tenant, 22 years old black american. She is going to college, I believe she has only one class to finish. Has a good job, nice girl. No debts. Is making it by herself. I always had and have a lot of respect for her. For some months she has a boy friend, the fights are constant, she tells him to live at all ours of the night and then cryes for hours. I am not sure if he is hitting her. I believe he is a looser and would hate to see her staying with him or even worst, marrying him. I am not her friend, just her landlady, should I talk to her? And advise her to let him go? or just take care of my own bussines.

Do you actually understand what end of life care entails? Maybe I should burn my RN license and forget about my 20 years of experience.

Maybe because I am a registered nurse, with 20 years of experience and saw enough of the "quality" that those people have. When I go to see a new patient in their home the first thing I do is explain DNR.

I think is a wonderful idea, you will be surprised to know how many people don't know that they have the right do die in peace, don't know what DNR means. Why not put the options out there by a doctor that they know and trust instead of the ER doctor?

every nursing home has an ombudsperson, they are appoint. by the state to look into the patienst interresses find out who he is and talk to him. Also you may contact the adult protective services or department of health.

I work in a emergency room, was told that some days ago the mother of a 2years old brought him in because he was drunk. Apparently the father put a mix of apple juice and vodka in the baby's bottle. It was an honest mistake. The father did not know that vodka was mixed with the juice. The other nurses were telling me how funny it was to see the baby stumbling. Thank God the baby otherwise was OK.

What is plain stupid?? the fact that they would be able to impeach Obama

plain stupid

when I was superviser and collector wouldl call any employee, I used to tell them that if they continue to call the person would loose the job and never pay them. It worked.

Well when it comes to my faith I am a very simple soul. I believe that the Bible is the word of God and do not understand how some people will even question it

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Michael Coogan: Bible seen as unassailable divine authority, but it was written by men, not God Written over course of 1,000 years, each writer reflecting values of his day, he writes Much in Bible rejected: Slavery, women as property, pork as abomination, Coogan says Coogan: Bible's true timeless message is equal, even loving, treatment of all people Editor's note: Michael Coogan is a lecturer on Hebrew Bible-Old Testament at Harvard Divinity School, professor of religious studies at Stonehill College, and director of publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum. Editor of "The New Oxford Annotated Bible," his most recent book is "God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says" (Twelve). (CNN) -- When talking about so-called family values, pastors, popes, and politicians routinely quote the Bible as if it were an unassailable divine authority -- after all, they assume, God wrote the Bible, and therefore it is absolutely and literally true. But that is a misconception. As the Bible itself makes clear, its authors were human beings, many of whom are named: David, Isaiah, Luke, and Paul. These human writers wrote over the course of more than a thousand years, and their writings reflect their own views and the values they shared with their contemporaries. So it's not surprising that inconsistencies are frequent in the Bible, both trivial and profound. Although Jews and Christians, individually and collectively, have for the last 2,000 years accepted the Bible as authoritative in principle, in practice many of its values have been rejected. On issues such as slavery, no one today would maintain that slavery is acceptable, even though, according to the Bible, it was a divinely sanctioned institution. In the debates about slavery in the 19th century those opposed to its abolition cited the Bible in support of their position, but despite such biblical warrant, their views were renounced. According to biblical law, a father could sell his daughter as a slave, and the last of the Ten Commandments lists as off-limits a neighbor's possessions -- his house, wife, slaves, and livestock. But the majority of modern Jews and Christians no longer accept the biblical view of women as men's property and hence subordinate to them, as they have also abandoned the biblical practice of polygamy. According to biblical law, a father could sell his daughter as a slave. --Michael Coogan RELATED TOPICS Religion Social Issues Family Jesus Christ In current debates about family values, most of which have to do with sex, opponents of abortion and advocates of a woman's right to choose both cite the Bible in support of their conflicting views, even though the Bible in fact says nothing specifically about the issue. And with regard to same-sex marriage, although the few biblical writers who mention same-sex relationships, especially between men, were unequivocally opposed to them, many contemporary believers would argue that, as with slavery and the status of women, it is time to recognize that the values of the biblical writers are no longer necessarily our own. Opponents of same-sex marriage cite Leviticus, which says that when a man sleeps with a man as with a woman it is an abomination. They're right: It does say that. But it later calls for the death penalty for such activity, which only the most rabid opponents would insist on. The Bible also calls eating pork and a woman wearing a man's clothes abominations, yet many would no longer enforce such prohibitions. Individual biblical texts should not be appealed to selectively: Such cherry-picking is all too easy because of the nature of the Bible as a multi-authored book. Rather, as with another formative text, the Constitution, one needs first to understand it historically -- what did its words mean when they were written -- and then attempt to determine what its underlying values are, not just what it says in a specific passage. Only in this sense can the Bible be considered to have timeless relevance that transcends the historical particularities of its authors. What are those underlying values? I would argue that they are rooted in love of neighbor, which Jewish and Christian commentators over the ages have identified as the essential and enduring message of the Bible. Here are three of them. The great Rabbi Hillel, who when asked what the basic principle of the Torah was, replied: "What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor: That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary." His words are echoed both by his near-contemporary, another rabbi, Jesus of Nazareth, who put it this way: "Whatever you wish people to do to you, so you should do to them: for this is the Law and the Prophets," and by an early leader in the movement that Jesus started, the rabbinically trained Paul, who pronounced that "Love is the fulfilling of the law." So, I suggest, the essence of the Bible -- its ultimate authority -- is not in its individual pronouncements, but in its underlying message: equal, even loving, treatment of all persons, regardless of their age, gender, socio-economic status, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. The opinions in this commentary are solely those of Michael