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hammertime
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I believe in the Tooth Fairy because when you get really old you get to lose all your teeth all over again and this time my prices have gone up.
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| Jul 8 @ 2:36 PM |
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ServantOfChrist2
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Thanks Katt.
I thought perhaps that is what happened also. 
There's nothing there either.
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| Jul 8 @ 2:48 PM |
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sail_dancer
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SOC,
I just resent the reply as another email. Check and see if you received this one.
Peace
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| Jul 8 @ 3:40 PM |
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ServantOfChrist2
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No. Still nothing there. It's still empty.
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| Jul 8 @ 4:09 PM |
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hammertime
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Looks like a failure to communicate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnO9Jyz82Ps
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| Jul 9 @ 9:52 AM |
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hammertime
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I think its important to consider what a person believes, why they say they believe it and their personal psychological profile. We need to look at a person's personal character, integrity and paradigm. People can believe in the same things but for different reasons. People can agree on a belief but not why. How they choose, make choices are from what their own internal moral and intellectual compass tells them. A bright person will have a more sophisticated answer for their choices whereas a dimwit is just might be following the crowd. Someone who is compassionate will make certain choices, someone who has inferiority complexes will make choices related to their own world view and self image. After a while we will see patterns emerge as to why a persons believes something, their reasons and their own personal history.
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| Jul 22 @ 5:38 PM |
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chicagohowell23
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I myself am not christian. I am a pagan! As for why i do it i have always felt a calling, a sense of myself contected to the planet and all that live in it even though my mother tried to raise me christian. In a sense you could call it a connection to the life forces that connects everybeing in this world. As for the names and myths of old god or goddesses, some of these are based off real people but spun over thousands of years to teach morals and lessons, similar to tall tales. And those outraged by some of the "Incest" such as Isis and Osiris or greek gods one should really study ancient languages before understanding that they are not blood related. Long before language became dinamic the general word for a person of the same generation or level in society was my brother or my sister as a person older was father/mother, some times the same words that did nto distinguish sex,usually the same tribe, but even after a man was married to his wifes tribe those in it are called my brother or sister but not that for the wife realy unless the other tribe was related from a distant female relation. Oh yes people lets not forget that societys just starting and even through roman times was mostly matriarch and not patriarch, men were considered as a consuler, anyway long story short a lot of the stories and religions have been taken out of context and misunderstood from each generation and so forth, as i'm sure that the christian religion is also misunderstood by it's own believers. well gotta end this check back latr
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| Jul 22 @ 5:52 PM |
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sail_dancer
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Greetings Chicago! 
We need a pagan's viewpoint and input in this forum.
Peace
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| Jul 22 @ 6:02 PM |
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uab_5
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Hi Chicago!
You have beautiful eyes.
God bless.
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| Jul 22 @ 7:25 PM |
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j_goose
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I just found this. Thought it kind of summed up my "non-Belief" pretty well...
You're an atheist too, you know? You only believe in one god out of the thousands that have been invented. Once you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours as well. (Paraphrased from someone, I don't remember)
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| Jul 22 @ 10:51 PM |
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chicagohowell23
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Thanks Uab, anyway.... 
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| Jul 23 @ 2:32 PM |
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yashaenka
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Hi Chi something you left out is that it was not until the last few centuries that a woman defined under the term marriage contract was just proof that a man owned her as property, a woman had no rights of her own.
A woman was simply given to a man and she had no voice or choice in the matter, even in biblical times....
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Why do you believe what you do? Personally for me it was by a series of elimination of all belief systems available after a long series of investigation as to the root sources.
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| Jul 23 @ 10:44 PM |
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chicagohowell23
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Umm actually she belonged to her side of the family still in other cultures, now the jewish culture no she did belong to her husbands but only if there were brothers to marry, otherwise she was free to return home. Not to mention they considered you only jewish if your mother was jewish, Ie the book of ruth. Then the matter of inheritance in grek and eyptian cultures not to mention other tribes. Everything was passed on to the women except property in roman times, unless her brother was not alive, and in her death it went back to her side of the family but to a female. In order for a man to rule it was passed on from his mother. Caesars and pharaohs sons did not rule, their nephews did, unless an untimely death occurred and no male from the female lineage other than their sons survived, it was not until women gave men more control that eventually patriarch took over. Christianity in the hands of Romans intensified the burden of women. I e the inquisition. women in powerful roles as medicine women were a threat to the catholic church. In order to rule a group of people the church or a form of government ruled by men had to convert pagans to christianity. Women who influenced the small tribes had to be removed. As well as include a few of the traditions that they grew up with making the transition esier, Easter eggs, three candles, the madonna (Isis and Horus), beads that where originally the knot cord,(u make a knot at each prayer in wicca), Now I know a lot of men still think the idea of selling a woman off but in truth it was giving a daughter hence the dowry system, to ease the suffering of the husband for taking on a woman with out property. Anyway way earlier than that men in some tribes did ot even sleep or eat in the wifes home, he farmed on her land and came late at night, but anything that was his returned to his mother or her tribe, the wife had her own land and home, it was hers using sons to help govern and protect was a start to patriarch control.
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| Jul 23 @ 10:52 PM |
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| Jul 23 @ 10:55 PM |
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chicagohowell23
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As for religion and why i believe what i believe, it is what i feel. You can not explain how you see the world you see even with every audible word possible. We could both look at the color red, perhaps it's really blue but we still both call it red. The same with a feeling a connection or calling your spirit feels. I can no more prove a god than i can prove my soul. It is what faith is, and how you connect to a higher power or calling. Who is to say whether one belief about how to worship is right or wrong, we do not all live the same life, are skin does not feel the same way, we do not see or hear the same way. Our experiences and paths are all different, a way to balance nature and continue life. Our languages are different, as well as the way the words connect. It is the reason to celibrate these differences, not hate them. Our actions and history of actions is what dis-credits a religion, the way we use our religion to influence or harm others. I believe we all worship the same higher power, we just have a different way to connect to them.Just because your raised a certain way doesn't mean you are connected to that religion or your being, it just means your following your programing, and condeming others for there beliefs is a way of denying that it's possible you feel threatned because perhaps you really don't believe.
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| Jul 23 @ 10:59 PM |
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uab_5
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Your bright and well spoken. Teach some of that to Hammer, will ya!
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| Jul 23 @ 11:01 PM |
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chicagohowell23
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Well well spoken is not exactly, but educated perhaps. I could perhaps refine my thoughts and mechanical errors but this is a post blog, and not for work or school
But thank you
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| Jul 23 @ 11:02 PM |
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chicagohowell23
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Hey does anyone know what the chilli pepper means and how it gets there???
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| Jul 23 @ 11:06 PM |
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uab_5
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Seriously, my lil' bro is a PhD and he's not as well spoken in religion as you are (his religion is mathematics).
Seriously, try showing up here when the fur is flying.
You state your beliefs very well without being rude.
Bravo Zulu!
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| Jul 23 @ 11:08 PM |
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uab_5
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FYI the chili pepper means "hot topic" or a topic that's been read frequently.
MD won't let the algorithm out of the bag on how the chili is determined as to keep poster from intentionally influencing its appearance.
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