I maintain that tongues are archaic and are not to be pursued in this age. Same goes with miraculous healing.

The faithful Theist knows (or at least presumes) that he's being watched AND held accountable for ALL his or her actions whether he is "alone" or not. When the Atheist is "alone" they understandably expect that no one is watching, and therefore (understandably) are more tempted to do that which they otherwise wouldn't.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
I'm beginning to think, Google is pro-islam and homosexuals!

Jim Lincoln wrote:
For a little more factual look at the causes, see, [URL=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meltdown/view/]]]PBS -- Inside the Meltdown[/URL]

Jim Lincoln wrote:
In some parts of the country there wasn't that much fall in prices, and in some areas such as California property prices are beginning to rebound.[/URL]

Outlying areas and areas like mine where many of the homes are/were so-called "investment homes" saw many of them sold-off short, which really clobbered the value of our house, just being NEXT to these that were dumped by their owners.

me myself and I wrote:
The original order of Letters is
"LGBT"
that has a "truth in
advertising" pronounciation
THEN
changed to "LGqBT"
which made it even easier to pronounce
in a way that stigmatized these
abominations.
Lately, the letter order has been
revised to cover up the mocking and
truthful stigma.
I'd still order the letters LGBT-
the president has done so lately in
lauding sodomites...
-
most google searches categorizes these
perversions this way.

I did notice that the letter-order had also been revised but didn't know why.

Scott McMahan wrote:
The current situation is bad for some people, but it's also a great time for a young person to buy affordable houses at historically low interest rates.

It's funny (sad, actually) but I remember hoping that something like this would happen back in the early 1980s when I wanted a house but couldn't even begin to be able to afford one. I FINALLY get enough money to enter the "lucrative" CA real estate market back in 2004 only to get burned by having the financial "ground" melt under me after 2008.

Proverbs 23:5 immediately came to mind once I realized what was happening.

Wharton wrote:
"Gut Think" yourself to salvation???
This is Roman Catholic religion isn't it?

Can thinking undermine religious faith?

Mike wrote:
Jim may be right except for the part where he brings up capitalism to call it "nonsense." And he may be right except for the irrelevant, but typical knee-jerk anti-Bush comment. And he may be right except for the irrlevant point of no money being used in the Federation of Star Trek fame. The quatloo was the monetary unit of Triskelion. It was used to bet on combat outcomes, of which Kirk was an involuntary participant. Unless I am in error, Triskelion was not a member of the so-called non-capitalist Federation. So Jim will have to come up with more imaginative ramblings than this.
SJ, I guess I'm not reformed in this area, either.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Why, Mike, You were the one who brought up the Star Trek series. Capitalism was nonexistent in their own little universe.

As a reformed Trekkie I do remember a particular episode where Capt. Kirk "negotiated" a 33-percent tax (!) up front on one of the planets they were trying to get to join their "Federation". I believe it was the episode where everyone was dressed-up as 1920's machine-gun-toting gangsters.

This Federation, as they called it, probably still had some form of capitalism (using more of a "credit"-based currency system). Just less of it, and a LOT more central control--centered in more or less of a United-Nations-like "Federation Council"--than our present republic (if it can still be accurately called that!).

Jim Lincoln wrote:
My, my throwing money to the wind should be old news, the Germans had even WWII to learn from, or the idiot son of the elder Mr. Bush should have pointed out:
exerpt from the "Art of War" Well, perhaps the Germans might learn to keep their money at home?

Barry from KY wrote:
I think that we have already reached a breaking point between those that work and pay and those that don't.
I wish we could figure out how to feed the kids without feeding the adults that have them. In our state there are many on foodstamps, that have children, and sell their food stamps to buy drugs...
So the government is suppling their drug habit while their children are still going hungry.

As different and diverse as Paul is, he himself doesn't scare me nearly as much as the inevitable and likely very-bumpy transition from where we are and have been going for some time to where he wants to lead us. Once there, I think things will be very good, but getting there could be rough.

Mike wrote:
quatloos