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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2015 11:50:12 GMT -5
In fact....
if I would spend more time listening to God than Taylor Swift...
would life be better?
If the Lord rejoices in a smile...and of happiness...
then he might tell me to actually listen ...more.
Notice the word on her keyboard at the end...cool!
Can you believe it?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2015 12:01:41 GMT -5
My inhaler and some caffeine fixed me right up. I'm good to go again. This song was written about the US Civil War...on a country music album of civil war songs released a few years ago. I'm including it here because I think it speaks truth when he sings "both sides read his Holy word and believed it in their hearts but the common ground he blessed them with had now been torn apart". Since we're watching large parts of the world in escalating wars over religion, I think it's a good thing to remember our own past and history. That's something we do in Sunday school. When we study the Bible, we try and understand the whole cultural context of the passages we're reading and studying so we see the people in the Bible in all their complexities, as humans with many things and many cultural influences going on. So here's Josh singing his song "Tears of God"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2015 16:48:24 GMT -5
Michael,
I copied this part of your post because I have too many thoughts, I need to break things down into parts. : )
Here's what you posted:
"A couple of questions...maybe we should give land to the Israelites...Canada has a lot of room.
Are we to watch WW3 break out with out doing something...isn't good the will of God?
I believe the Jews got the short end of the stick when it came to Wars...poor people."
I'll start with...a whole lot of the Jews living in Israel today were Americans. Today, the world's Jewish population is concentrated in only two countries...Israel and the United States. There are an estimated 13-14 million Jews in the world...over 6 million in Israel and 5.5 million in the U.S.
Jews in the US have long voted Democrat because they've believed that Democrats support minorities. While there's always some controversy in all politics, I'm not convinced that Democrats are on the cusp of abandoning one of their most dependable voting blocs.
Moving on to isn't "good the will of God". God loves us ...one and all. "Good" is subjective and interpreted in so very many different ways. Especially in modern culture, "good" has an ever changing face and lives on increasingly shifting sand.
I'll backtrack to the US Civil War for a minute here for clarity. Which side was the "good" side in that conflict? Was it the South who believed they were fighting for freedom from an over aggressive federal government? A government which they believed took away power from the state that the framer's of the Constitution had given expressly for the purpose of balance and freedom? Or was it the North, which only added slavery into the mix AFTER the war began. Abe Lincoln said he would gladly move past the issue of slavery if it meant there would be no war...no fighting.
Or was the "good" side, John Brown and his people in Kansas who were at the heart of bringing the issue of slavery into the Civil War? What about the bloody mess that was happening in both Kansas and Missouri before the Civil War, where civilians were slaughtered over the question of slavery?
"Good" is subjective and God loves us all. Each and every one.
If your question is more direct....should we allow the 6 million Jews in Israel to be nuked by Iran....I don't believe we should.
Do I believe the hatred of Jews would stop if the 6 million Jews in Israel ceased to exist as a country? No, I don't. There's no historical validity to that belief.
Do I believe that the hatred of Jews would be shifted to the Jews in the US if Israel ceased to exist as a country as it is now? Yes. Hatred doesn't respect boundaries or borders. We'd be next to be attacked.
There is no safe position here Michael. The US and Israel are linked. The US isn't going to expel 5.5 million Jews to a world which wants to kill them. That goes against everything we believe in as a country.
That's where we are.
Edited to add:....Do I believe that the hatred would end if there were no more Jews? No, I don't. They throw gays off of buildings in the Middle East Michael. Not just gays...the list of people the hate would follow for is endless. It would start on the Progressive side of US politics and work it's way across the board. Like I said, hate has no boundaries or borders.
Which is why people like Bill Maher are speaking out to the political left in the US these days. He always has but now he's saying, pay attention, pay attention now.
It's why libertarians are speaking out in support for Religious Freedom Laws. In support of the minority. In support of freedom.
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Post by jeff2k6 on Apr 11, 2015 0:36:41 GMT -5
Not to be rude and change the subject on anyone, but I knew you guys would LOVE to see this! Guess who randomly found my page this morning Seriously?!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2015 0:37:04 GMT -5
Thank you Jo for explaning this to me...I will disect it over time.
Seems that the devil works in strange yet simple ways.
Does evil keep me so busy that I don't have time to even think about the lord.
Thats how it feels...it is probably how it works.
He is a tricky lil red feller...made me buy a Cadillac Devil...errrr.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2015 0:38:33 GMT -5
Not to be rude and change the subject on anyone, but I knew you guys would LOVE to see this! Guess who randomly found my page this morning Seriously?! View AttachmentJeffery my man I was just going to post this...you don't know how happy I am for you!!! This must mean you are on the radar or something! Need to search for a song!!!!!!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2015 0:44:20 GMT -5
Hope you have your sea legs!!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2015 1:14:27 GMT -5
Not to be rude and change the subject on anyone, but I knew you guys would LOVE to see this! Guess who randomly found my page this morning Seriously?! View AttachmentJeff, That is awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome, awesome.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 11, 2015 1:23:06 GMT -5
Michael, There's such good news for Jeff that we should all be celebrating. : ) I'll leave the other with this one link you can read later, or not at all en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_WhitneyI'm not really much of a fire and brimstone and devil kind of girl. Mostly I see the world as people making their way. I do wonder, if things had been different. If Eli Whitney hadn't invented the cotton gin when he did, slavery would likely have become extinct in the US because it would no longer have been profitable. If Eli hadn't invented and supplied muskets for the US government, the tools of war would have been different ...or maybe not nearly as available. If, if, if....the world is a mysterious place and people make their way in it.
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Post by jeff2k6 on Apr 11, 2015 22:06:59 GMT -5
Thank you both so much! I absolutely couldn't believe it at all.. totally shocked haha she definitely made my day.. to say the least! =]
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2015 8:13:03 GMT -5
Thank you both so much! I absolutely couldn't believe it at all.. totally shocked haha she definitely made my day.. to say the least! =] Jeffery...this thread is liable to go anywhere but able to snap back in an instant! My three favorite people...starting with a J...Jeffery...Jesus...and Jo! In alphetabeticle order of coarse!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2015 8:21:01 GMT -5
Michael, There's such good news for Jeff that we should all be celebrating. : ) I'll leave the other with this one link you can read later, or not at all en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_WhitneyI'm not really much of a fire and brimstone and devil kind of girl. Mostly I see the world as people making their way. I do wonder, if things had been different. If Eli Whitney hadn't invented the cotton gin when he did, slavery would likely have become extinct in the US because it would no longer have been profitable. If Eli hadn't invented and supplied muskets for the US government, the tools of war would have been different ...or maybe not nearly as available. If, if, if....the world is a mysterious place and people make their way in it. I knew that Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and other things. For some reason he just hasn't gotten the publicity as say Ben Franklin... In a way I believe that we are all slaves to some degree. To the folks om the government roll who think that they are beating the system by drawing a check and not working..even if they could. these folks are in for the shock of their lives someday...they will become helpless and .too dependent to ever survive. Blessed is the hard workers who toil away for pennies...for they know the true value of life.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2015 8:29:34 GMT -5
I believe that it is time to celebrate...
Lots of things...the Sun...the Spring...the Swift!
Right now I am envisioning Taylor Swift planting a smacker on Jeffs cheek.
A picture in a frame of kisses on cheeks!
Some things that are free means the very most to some?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2015 8:36:51 GMT -5
The celebration continues!!!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2015 8:58:56 GMT -5
Here is a video that captures her spirit.
BTW... I made this one...and posted it!
She likes Cowboy hats and flowers...I suppose!
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