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Hook it up nigga! |
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+1 Must be some kind of scam artist. |
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Really? Why is it the only one he didn't identify as a parable? "There was a beggar...." (Is it illegal to hijack a thread about an airliner?) |
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His wife, for example Oh, as for her..... Tag it and bag it...... Hit it and then kick it to the curb... |
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This thread went rapidly downhill once I realized they were still on the ground.
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+1. That's no parable..... |
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This thread is DRT. |
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Are you likening Jesus to a communist? |
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The only way out of communism is to flee or fight the tyranny. You can always convert right where you are. |
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In a sense, yes.
Communism WOULD be the perfect society if man were not corrupt. Unfortunately, man IS corrupt so communism will never work here on earth. |
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Justify it now. How is communism perfect if some people want to actually be rewarded for working harder and longer than others? Is that corruption? Communism can only work when in conjunction with institutionalized mass murder, and talk about what COULD/WOULD/SHOULD be is just mental masturbation. You need to think things through before you post. Really. |
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I just love Olsteen's hair. It is a cross between 80's Michael Bolton, Richard Simmons, and Madeline Albright's bush.
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now that there was funny |
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Actually, he's still correct. What is ambition? A desire to have MORE, or a desire to have MORE THAN THE NEXT GUY? The former comaptible with communism. The latter is not. |
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They were not arrested and searched (or rather, doubletapped and bodybagged) because they are rich and famous. This is the way it works. |
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Stand by for the lock and ban |
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The news said she was upset over something spilled on her seat or the fold up tray at her seat and she (Osteen) wanted it cleaned up. When an attendant do not do it either right away or the way Osteen wanted it done, the pissing contest was on. The passengers reportedly were pissed because once the Osteens were booted from the plane for the Mrs. not following flight attendent instructions, it took two hours for Continental to get their luggage off.
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This thread was highly misleading. I was hoping to read about a pastor's wife being thrown from an airplane currently in the frickin' AIR.
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I grew up down the street from the original Lakewood church in Houston in the 80's back when this guys dad was the head honcho. It was a big warehouse looking building out in the woods. My mom always used to point out that the only fancy cars in the parking lot were those in the spaces reserved for the employees...
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Isn't she a former stripper? Mega churches are a fucking joke.
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No, you and he are both wrong. If I want more, that is not compatible with communism: "From each according to their abilities; to each according to their NEEDS." Does that sound familiar? It's a basic tenet of Marxism. It leaves no room for ambition. Regardless of what a man wants, or what he is entitled to, communism only PROFESSES to give what he needs. Wants, desires, entitlements and hard work don't enter into it. |
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Guys, set me up as the next mega televangelist and I'll share my ill-gotten loot with you. It'll be like Frontsight except we actually build the buildings, with less wacky scientology shit. In fact, I will publically attack Scientology on every opportunity. You can buy an "attack sermon" on anything from gun control to liberal colleges for a low price of 59.95!
C'mon, I'll even do the combover thing! |
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There's no use explaining what you're incapable of grasping. But I'll try: If people's hearts were pure, totally devoid of greed and corruption, a communistic system would work perfectly. the problem is your inability to grasp the implications of 'pure, totally devoid of greed and corruption'. Christians - those who know Jesus - can grasp that. Others simply cannot. if that offends you, remember it the next time you try to tell someone they're wrong - it *may* be that they just understand something a lot better than you do. |
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I can grasp anything you can express with logic. Your inability to deal with reality is not my problem, or my concern.
Unless the world was populated entirely by Jesus clones, that's not possible. I know: why not deal with reality?? Communism doesn't allow for ambition. That's a fact. Are Christians not ambitious? Would they be less so if they were 'devoid of greed and corruption'?
You understand nothing. You believe, and derive a vast sense of superiority --even in the face of biblical injunctions to the contrary-- over your fellow man. You profess to be a Christian, and yet you act like every other petty, judgemental asshole on the face of the earth. Are you truly representative of Christians, or is there something special about you? We were hijacking this thread to talk about communism and humanity here, before you jumped in with all of your purity and grasping what others cannot. |
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Part of our problem here is that I'm dealing with 'if', whereas you insist on dealing with reality. The original poster dealt with 'if'. You could have left it at that, but instead, you had to shoehorn your own views - which don't tolerate 'if' for the sake of discussion - into his post. Having said that, let's just agree to disagree here. There's no use in either of us wastingour time hijacking this thread any further. Have a nice day. |
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The ONLY thing I dont miss from Houston are all of these "Jesus Krispies"
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Shouldn't there be nekkid pictures?????
Seriously, I can't speak for Joel O'Steen, but his father John was legit. Joel took over the ministry after his father died, and for some reason it just exploded into the mega church that it is now. |
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One would think. |
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I just want to add I personally am not a big fan of television ministers, this Joel Osteen character included.
I hate to say it, but I think it's a big scam to get people to contribute money. You're a pastor, but you have a million dollar house? Something doesn't add up somewhere. I happen to know where my church's money goes(FWIW I am a member of the United Church of Christ): If you donate to the general fund it goes to the fund that keeps the church running. If you donate to the mission fund it goes to the fund where we support various missions the church undertakes. |
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When you stop being a Church and turn into a Profit center you lose touch with the day to day life of the little people it seems.
Most Church's seem to be more profit centers these days. |
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