Yeah, I used to have an mp3 player with a few audiobooks and some music on it. It allowed me no Internet access whatsoever…(not to mention that you can’t type with it, so the Internet would be useless on it anyway).
There’s Hard Rock, Punk Rock, Rock ‘N’ Roll, Soft Rock, Pop Rock, Country Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative… Rock is a bit of an umbrella term.
Maybe they aren’t rock? 😛
Indeed. We don’t get as much snow as the east, but it just keeps coming at us.
I love how the typo somehow got repeated near the bottom of the sign, and it still didn’t get caught.
I spent 45 minutes shovelling the driveway this morning, and now it’s snowing again, with snow forecasted for four different days next week. Gotta love Canada.
If you ever want to talk about the whole God/religion thing, shoot me a PM. I also went through a period of extreme doubt, including a few months of (secretly) identifying as agnostic. During that time I really dug into the meatier questions, which eventually convinced me to become fully Catholic again.
I wish I could give you a quick run-down in one forum post, but I’m afraid there’s too much to talk about for that to really help…
Let’s laugh and move on, shall we.
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Agreed, but please try to follow that advice whenever you feel that people are having fun at your expense (or even when they’re not having fun). We aren’t all out to get you.
I most certainly “have” been trying yet I am only as human as the rest of you. I know all of you aren’t but there are some that don’t always paint a positive picture of the whole.
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Wait, you’re only as human as the rest of us–but the rest of us aren’t human. Things are finally starting to make sense… 😉
Let’s laugh and move on, shall we.
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Agreed, but please try to follow that advice whenever you feel that people are having fun at your expense (or even when they’re not having fun). We aren’t all out to get you.
I’m starting the “quit smoking” process today. Anyone here gone through it want to share your thoughts on your challenge? I would think that knowing what others went through could be very helpful to me on all fronts.
Thanks.
I gave up cold turkey and put on so much weight I became practically spherical.
But cold turkey is so good! Especially in a turkey-stuffing sandwich. Mmm…
^This is a good example of one of your positive personality traits. Thank you for taking my comments the right way.
Fo, I think the only possible response to most of your posts is Warbler’s famous line.
If you’re feeling that everyone’s antagonistic towards you and doesn’t like your behaviour, there’s a pretty good chance the source of the problem lies with you and not us.
You mean the same warbler that resides here? The one that has been the subject of attack and been the attacker himself? You’re saying he never was a problem? The same warbler that just made the gas-light post above this one?
I just want to understand your statement because it would seem your implying that warbler’s advice you suggest I take was said by him because he’s a positive forum member all the time and was never a burden to anyone elses discussion here.
You’re saying nobody on this forum was EVER a problem in any way, shape, or form, ever?
Of course I’m not saying that. You’ve been a bit of a problem lately (as in the last year or so). Of course there have been others, but few as persistent as you.
You have your good moments, but constently playing the victim got old real fast. If you stop acting like everyone’s out to get you, we’ll all get along a lot more nicely.
Fo, I think the only possible response to most of your posts is Warbler’s famous line.
If you’re feeling that everyone’s antagonistic towards you and doesn’t like your behaviour, there’s a pretty good chance the source of the problem lies with you and not us.
The fact that it was suicide makes it even sadder. 😦 It’s upsetting to think that there are people out there who feel they can’t share their feelings/illnesses and never get the help they need.
It seems like I’ve been getting music faster than I can listen to it all (it’s not your fault, I keep buying stuff!)… I still don’t know your newer songs well enough to comment on them individually. :-\
It could be a running gag. Leia could yell at him to “put that thing away” everytime he tries to plug into something.
JEDIT: And maybe a “Look at the size of that thing!” at some point. ;P
I only just added your last CD to my digital library today…I can’t keep up! I’m looking forward to it, even though I still have over 2000 songs on my computer that I haven’t even listened to yet…
That’s super sad. 😦
^Black Adder and Fawlty Towers are funnier than MST3K too.
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Never seen Fawlty Towers, but agreed on Black Adder–it’s definitely one of my favourite shows, some of the lewd humour aside. MST3K is pretty good though, I just don’t get as many of the references… 😛 Black Adder references Shakespeare and history and stuff, which I do actually know something about…
That was gold. I was impressed with how seamless the editing was.
Added head explosions?
Poe, I’m not an advorcat of the AA at all as a few parsecs ago my car just stobbed in a snow blizzard, the battery chose not to give me any more power …hang on. My bad, wrong AA.
Your car runs on AA batteries? 😛
Haha, I’ve only listened to the whole thing once due to the general business of life, but I did in fact enjoy it quite a bit. 😃
Well, I thank you for the info will spare you further questions for tonight. GET BACK TO THE HOMEWORK!!
Haha, if I must! 😉
How do you and the Church handle the Popes who were blatantly corrupt and clearly cared more about political gain than religion? (Alexander VI for example.)
There are a few points that could be made about this:
God can do good through imperfect, and even downright reprehensible people. We are all human and imperfect to varying degrees, and no one is too evil for God to use. (Whether this applies really has to be decided on a case-by-case basis, as it is undeniable that some popes did cause net harm to the Church.) To use Alexander VI as an example, he brought a lot of order to Rome and protected Spanish Jews, among other things. It wasn’t as if he was wholly bad.
The pope is not infallible in his personal actions. Thus, Church teaching is in no way undermined by bad popes.
The fact that none of the so-called “bad popes” actually changed doctrine can be said to be strong evidence of the guidance of the Holy Spirit rather than the election of the bad pope in the first place being seen as the lack of divine guidance. (Anything you might think is a counterexample of this is best discussed in isolation, as each case is unique.)
Tying in with point #1, sometimes the political actions of bad popes benefited the Church in some ways. For instance, Pope John XII was responsible for crowing Otto I as Holy Roman Emperor which, along with resulting in a more peaceful situation in Europe, eventually resulted in the pope’s own family losing their negative influence in Rome.
It can be equally harmful to have a pope who is deeply religious, but a terrible administrator/diplomat. While it is ideal to have a pope who excels in both areas, and holiness is probably the most important criterion, bad popes seem to have been pretty good on the political field, which was necessary in the environment of Medieval and Renaissance Europe, where religion and politics were dangerously intertwined.
There is probably more that could be said, but I’ll leave you with that for now!