Originally posted by Ghost of a Dukenoisy and difficult to control.
Obstreperous?
Googlefudge; definition if you please.
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Originally posted by moonbusChristmas has become a secular holiday. It's all about the gift giving, and of course, the gift buying. It has very little to do with the birth of Jesus, unless you count the Christmas carols you hear in the stores as you shop. It's all Santa this and Santa that, with nary a peep about Jesus.
There should also be only secular holidays in America (Presidents' Day, Labor Day, Armistice Day etc.). America doesn't officially celebrate Easter, but does Christmas. So America is hypocritical. What's new?
I guess Easter isn't celebrated as heavily because it's a bit harder to commercialize Easter. Sure, there's the Easter Bunny, but there's no real gift giving, and of course gift buying, involved.
Originally posted by SuzianneHowever, there seems to be some candy that seems to be sold in stores only around Easter, like the Cadbury egg and the chocolate Easter bunny.
Christmas has become a secular holiday. It's all about the gift giving, and of course, the gift buying. It has very little to do with the birth of Jesus, unless you count the Christmas carols you hear in the stores as you shop. It's all Santa this and Santa that, with nary a peep about Jesus.
I guess Easter isn't celebrated as heavily because it's a b ...[text shortened]... there's the Easter Bunny, but there's no real gift giving, and of course gift buying, involved.
Originally posted by googlefudgeSurprised that you too, googlefudge, prefer to coddle rather than eradicate the blind spot hovering like a grey cloud within your otherwise highly intelligent frontal lobes. It's my hope that you'll come home to your senses by changing your mind about the grace gift option of salvation and eternal life Christ purchased with His own substitutionary spiritual death with you and the rest of mankind in mind. -Bob
Everything is about control and authority with you.
You never give a strait answer to anything, and seldom answer anything at all.
Thus there is little point in talking to you.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyIt's not that we don't like your answers.
Does receiving an answer different from the one hoped for constitute reason for dismissing it as a non-answer? If so, best to give the Word of God and its applications a wide berth near the shoreline of your soul lest the at times acid authoritative truths anchor there.
It's that you never actually answer the questions you have been asked, or do so in riddles or gibberish.
Thinking otherwise is a mistake on your part.
Originally posted by googlefudgeOkay. I appreciate your succinct calm reply. Let's begin again for the first time.
It's not that we don't like your answers.
It's that you never actually answer the questions you have been asked, or do so in riddles or gibberish.
Thinking otherwise is a mistake on your part.
Please ask any spirituality related topic; I'll answer directly later today.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyOk. Do you think that the things a person believes effect how they think and influences their actions and choices?
Okay. I appreciate your succinct calm reply. Let's begin again for the first time.
Please ask any spirituality related topic; I'll answer directly later today.
Originally posted by googlefudgeYes. Our material beings [our bodies] are comprised of what we eat and drink; our immaterial beings [minds, vocabulary, knowledge, memories] are comprised of what we think and believe which influences and informs our conscience, moral standards, priorities, volitional choices and actions. Sometimes there are a narrow range of choices and other times a wide range of choices whether in a chess game, at a restaurant, in a library, in romance, as parents, in choosing a career path or hobbies or vacation destinations, etc., none of which would be possible as infants with tabula rasa 'minds, vocabulary, knowledge and memories'. Hypothetical illustration: If I believed the population of Sweden should be eradicated from the face of the earth, I might be motivated to organize an international terrorist group to wreak havoc and destruction on the inhabitants of my own ancestral home,
Ok. Do you think that the things a person believes effect how they think and influences their actions and choices?
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyIf you think you came from a monkey, then you are going to believe you have the right to act like a monkey. 😏
Yes. Our material beings [our bodies] are comprised of what we eat and drink; our immaterial beings [minds, vocabulary, knowledge, memories] are comprised of what we think and believe which influences and informs our conscience, moral standards, priorities, volitional choices and actions. Sometimes there are a narrow range of choices and other times a w ...[text shortened]... onal terrorist group to wreak havoc and destruction on the inhabitants of my own ancestral home,
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyReset for googlefudge.
Yes. Our material beings [our bodies] are comprised of what we eat and drink; our immaterial beings [minds, vocabulary, knowledge, memories] are comprised of what we think and believe which influences and informs our conscience, moral standards, priorities, volitional choices and actions. Sometimes there are a narrow range of choices and other times a wide ...[text shortened]... national terrorist group to wreak havoc and destruction on the inhabitants of my own ancestral home,