General Discussion, Sunday, January 3, 2016

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Stella

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68 Responses to General Discussion, Sunday, January 3, 2016

  1. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    January 3, 2016 at 12:02 am

    On the 10th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…something between THIS:

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  2. MaryfromMarin's avatar MaryfromMarin says:
    January 3, 2016 at 12:03 am

    …and THIS:

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  3. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    January 3, 2016 at 12:56 am

    The tenth day of Christmas, my true love forced upon me…

    and ….

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    • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
      January 3, 2016 at 12:08 pm

      Nye, Morning! You do remember “LSMFT”, I’ll stop here, we have children reading here! I heard the real meaning of those letters, from my Platoon Sergeant (PSG) when I was 18. Yes, he smoked Lucky Strikes, and snap his Zippo’s lighter!

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  4. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    January 3, 2016 at 1:07 am

    Beautiful Sunday folks 🙂

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  6. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    January 3, 2016 at 6:39 am

    Everyone e safe if you’ve got to travel today. Coffee’s up y’all. Enjoy as I’m off to ABQ in a bit. 🙂

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  7. texan59's avatar texan59 says:
    January 3, 2016 at 6:48 am

    Our dear friend Clarice takes another swing at BillnHill and connects. 😆

    http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/12/trumping_hillary.html

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  8. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 3, 2016 at 9:36 am

    Good morning! Have to fill my mug from Tex’s coffee pot this morning – I need the caffeine.

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  9. Stella's avatar stella says:
    January 3, 2016 at 9:58 am

    How about a laugh to start the day?

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  10. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    January 3, 2016 at 10:10 am

    Mornin’ all! Sunday breakfast!

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  11. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    January 3, 2016 at 11:23 am

    An old nun who was living in a convent next to a construction site noticed the coarse language of the workers and decided to spend some time with them to correct their ways.

    She decided she would take her lunch and sit with them, so she put her sandwich in a brown bag and walked over to the spot where the men were eating.

    Sporting a big smile, she walked up to the group and asked: “Any of you men know Jesus Christ?”

    They shook their heads and looked at each other, very confused. Then one of the workers looked up into the steelworks and yelled out, “Anybody up there know Jesus Christ?”

    One of the steelworkers yelled back down, “Why?”

    The worker yelled back, “’Cause his mum’s here with his lunch.”

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  12. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    January 3, 2016 at 12:41 pm

    We watched “In the Heart of the Sea”. There is an odd philosophical exchange between the first mate and the captain on the deserted island while they get ready to leave in the repaired longboats.
    The first mate’s position is that we are insignificant motes of dust and blah, blah.
    The captain’s is that we were put here on earth by the creator to rule over the lesser creations.

    The first mate’s position is from the Age of Enlightenment and is incomplete. It was the argument for religions all being fake and there is no God.

    The “attempts to deceive men, in order to insure their happiness,” can only be those by which we are made to think too highly of ourselves. “Inhabitants of this pepper-corn, we think ourselves the peculiar favorites of Heaven, nay, the chief objects of care to a Being, the Maker of all; and then we imagine that, after this life, we are to be happy or miserable, according as we accede or not to this subjugation to opinions which enslave us. But truth and justice have broken these bonds.”–But where is the force of the argument which entitles this perfecter of the Newtonian philosophy to exult so much? It all rests on this, That this earth is but as a grain of mustard-seed. Man would be more worth attention had he inhabited Jupiter or the Sun. Thus may a Frenchman look down on the noble creatures who inhabit Orolong or Pelew. But whence arises the absurdity of the intellectual inhabitants of this pepper-corn being a proper object of attention? it is because our shallow comprehensions cannot, at the same glance, see an extensive scene, and perceive its most minute detail.

    The captain’s position is most likely from Psalms.

    David, a King, and a soldier had some notions of this kind. The heavens, it is true, pointed out to him a Maker and Ruler, which is more than they seem to have done to the Gallic philosopher; but David was afraid that he would be forgotten in the crowd, and cries out, “Lord! what is man, that thou art mindful of him?” But David gets rid of his fears, not by becoming a philosopher, and discovering all this to be absurd–he would still be forgotten–he at once thinks of what he is–a noble creature–high in the scale of nature. “But,” says he, “I had forgotten myself. Thou hast made man but a little lower than the angels–thou hast crowned him with glory and honor–thou hast put all things under his feet.” Here are exalted sentiments, fit for the creature whose ken pierces through the immensity of the visible universe, and who sees his relation to the universe, being nearly allied to its Sovereign, and capable of rising continually in his rank, by cultivating those talents which distinguish and adorn it.

    I would like to point out that the captain is not a well liked character in the film.

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