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sheya joie

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  1. I wanted to take the main characters of Wuthering Heights and shake them and shake them to shake some sense into them. Stupid, stupid people! (But I loved To Kill a Mockingbird.)
  2. You have to take Wikipedia with a grain of salt. Anyone can write or change anything with in there, and there is nothing to keep truth monitored. Hence my unanswered question. What you regard as a weakness of Wikipedia, I regard as a strength. I trust many internet sources like Wikipedia far more than I trust, say, the BBC, or major newspapers. I don't see how you can put that much trust in a user-edited source that can anyone can alter and skew facts and fill it with misleading and inaccurate information. There is no monitor for accuracy. How you can paint that as a strength is mindboggling. Wikipedia is a very unreliable and weak source. That is not to say I hold the BBC in high regard or much of the mainstream media for that matter, but to act like Wikipedia is a reliable source for information is just beyond the pale of reality. Going OT here, but this reminds me of the time I used Wikipedia to look up Thomas Nast, a famous editorial cartoonist from the late 1800's, the originator of the symbols of the elephant for the Republican party and the donkey for the Democratic party. And from Wikipedia I learned... ... that Nast died of a round-house kick to the face from Chuck Norris.
  3. It's also called showbread. Curiously, I did a concordance search for shewbread, and the Scriptures don't really give a lot of information about how it was made or used for. Twelve loaves of shewbread would be set out on the golden table inside the tabernacle/temple, and at the end of a week, new loaves would be baked and laid out on the table, and the old loaves would be eaten by the priests. Wikipedia has this to say.
  4. I would cautious about thinking someone was not saved on the grounds that they do not speak in tongues. Scripture states: 1Co 12:28 And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. 29 Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles? 30 Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret? And the answer to each question in verses 29 and 30 is obviously, 'No, all do not.' Therefore the fact that a particular person does not speak in tongues (or heal, or teach, or prophesy, etc) cannot be used to 'prove' that person is not saved.
  5. A friend of mine has the original news paper clipping of Reds pledge of Allegiance I can remember way back when, shortly after that aired, my brother and I got kids' meals - at Burger King, I'm pretty sure - that each included a square white cardboard phonographic copy of dear ol' Red Skelton's remarks. (Wonder if those recordings might still be our parents' house?)
  6. I hate it too, Jadey. I can't find a link on it for obituaries anymore, or Today in History. Oh, hey, try this: in the address bar, between the // and the word news, type in old. That should give you: http://old.news.yahoo.com/ And it should be what you're looking for.
  7. I'm a big Doctor Who fan too. Back about 30 years ago, I was a big fan of the show Magnum, PI - mainly because I had a huge crush on the character of Higgins, played by John Hillerman. It got to the point that my life revolved around getting to watch the show each week - and one day, I felt impressed that the LORD wanted me to stop watching the show; it had become an idol to me. And so I stopped watching. I still lived at home, so when the show came on, my parents would watch it - and I would stay in my bedroom so I wouldn't even hear it. That was my experience. Now, what should YOU do? Pray and seek the Lord about it, whether He wants you to give it up - and then obey what you know He is telling you.
  8. Imagining little tiny green peas as pets...
  9. I wanna be the infamous "second cousin twice removed." (Every family seems to have one of those mentioned in there somewhere....) And some of those cousins never seem to get a clue, and keep getting removed over and over and over... (Naw, I know the real meaning of 'removed' there - it means of a different generation. So twice removed would be of two generations difference. I just couldn't resist. )
  10. A bit more about the Culhanes - they always stared straight forward at the camera as they talked to each other. Also, they were all cousins and addressed each other as 'Cousin ______' - and the best part of that was that they all called the old dude 'Cousin Grandpa'...
  11. Fez, the folks in the picture are from a recurring skit on 'Hee Haw' called 'The Culhanes of Cornfield County' played by Gordie Tapp, Junior Samples, Grandpa Jones, and Lulu Roman. Gotta love Lulu's hairbow and knee highs! Once upon a time, many moons ago, my parents decided to take a family photo - so we all dressed up in our best clothes and sat on the sofa in the living room while my dad set up his camera on the tripod and set the timer. And we posed... *click*! Had to send the film off for processing... and when we got the photo back at long last, my mom took one look at it, groaned, and said we looked like the Culhanes of Cornfield County. So much for that photo!
  12. I personally know families where the parents had that 'I'm always the parent' attitude; when the kids grew up, they moved severally hundred miles away from their parents to escape being under their parent's thumbs.
  13. Not a violent person, but I think I would have decked the TSA person who laid a hand on my kid like that...
  14. Welllllll... I'm a loving mom, and when my oldest announced that she would be returning home, I told her she was not going to live here. And when she sent me a text last week saying she was on the bus heading our way, I called her while she was still on the bus and told her again she was not going to live here and that she needed to start right away finding somewhere to live because it wasn't going to be with us. And when she sent a text at 4 am (waking me up) saying she would need me to pick her up from her motel at noon (check-out time) to look for a cheaper motel, I went back to sleep - then called her about 8 am after I got the younger kids up and off to school, and while my youngest boy whom I homeschool was having his breakfast - and woke her up, and let her know her brother and I would be having school at noon and I would not be showing up to take her driving about looking for a cheaper motel, and did she even have any idea where this cheaper motel might be? We saw her over the weekend - took her bike to her for her to have a bit of mobility. She is staying with a friend from high school who is interesting in getting an apartment together and is helping her look for work. So she's not out on the street and she is moving forward with being an adult. BTW, she is 22 and worked for a carnival this past year. Oh, and I'm a widow too. My condolences.
  15. Please show me in scripture where the devil and fallen ones rule in hell. My bible says: Revelation 20 10 And the Devil who deceived them was cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet were . And he will be tormented day and night forever and ever. 11
  16. The other evening one of the girls reached into her book bag and found, to her surprise, there was a praying mantis inside! So one of the kids carefully picked up the insect, brought it to show me, then released it somewhere outside where it would be able to find its food. We like stick bugs too. But not stink bugs.
  17. Is this it, mizzdy? Isa 3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
  18. Hey! My girls and I all have insect nicknames: one is the Ladybug, one a Butterfly, one a Bumblebee... and I'm the praying mantis. So
  19. Just to let you know... As I was reading through the New Content just now, this thread and the thread immediately following it were: This Place Needs... Spiders Invading
  20. Being just a plain ol' non-scientist kicking around out here, I would say that you've pretty much nailed what we tend to take away from our mandatory elementary/high school science classes. Putting it all even more succinctly: First there was nothing - then it went boomies and there was everything. Then everything we see just happened, but it took a long time.
  21. Every year before the Kentucky Derby, the crowd rises to sing the Kentucky state song. They start out good and loud at first: The sun shines bright on My Old Kentucky Home! Tis summer... And it's mumbling from there on.
  22. I would be very surprised if someone who truly knows Jesus as Lord and Savior would speak like this - and would be wary of trusting anything that person is saying! Sounds more like the 'dreamer of dreams' referenced here: Deut 13:1 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder, 2 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them; 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him. 5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
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