“I remember when Jimmy Swaggart made a profund comment” –BW
A profound comment? Bob, wipe that smile off of your face. You had me going there for a minute until I remembered that you generally “consider the source” before you believe anything.
Swaggart makes Christian-hunting a barrel-shoot.
One good twist of logic deserves another I guess.
— SysOp
ME:
Note to Scimitar, OF COURSE I expect you to put BUGS as a link on your site! Also national salvation.
I don’t use SysOp’s comments much up here because they are not MINE. When someone says what I would say better than I do, I make them a part of my commentary UP HERE.
But SysOp is a thoughtful alternative to my stuff, using our kind of thought from a different point of view. COMMENTS are part of the blog. READ THE COMMENTS!
Swaggert made a profound comment in the same way children do. He certainly didn’t understand what he had just said, as the child doesn’t. He did not realize he was contradicting his own money-raising appeals to pro-lifers. If Hell is life, and everbody is going to Heaven or Hell anyway, why is preserving THIS life so precious?
If one just means “life” is a heart pumping, I am not pro-life. I am pro-LIVING. I am for Christ against Christianity and for living against pro-life. Extending misery is not pro-living, but it beats the hell out of tryng to THINK.
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” is SIMPLE, but it is not EASY.
#1 by Scimitar on 07/10/2007 - 2:03 pm
Sure thing. I will add links to both sites.
#2 by Al Parker on 07/11/2007 - 3:50 pm
Of course it isn’t easy. But it can be learned, and I think learned only with persistent effort like the way a second language is learned. For example, when you hear someone say something you don’t like it’s easy to get mad and say something that makes you look silly, but it is harder (especially in a limited time frame) to ask the question, “Why did this person say anything at all?” and to proceed from there in thought and formulate a response.
#3 by Hardric on 07/11/2007 - 6:48 pm
Sometimes it is easy. For example, I don’t want others to give me a whole bunch of useless gifts which I neither need or want, and I always demonstrate this by example. 🙂
#4 by shari on 07/13/2007 - 11:50 am
We saw a very good example of “pro-life” versus pro-living not too long ago, with the Terri Schavio circus. There was a site called, Traditional Catholic, where they really went to town on her “judas goat” husband, for finally getting “permision” to have her feeding tube removed.
Doing unto others as you would have them do unto you, has been MADE excessively difficult because of the sea of lies we live in. It shouldn’t be THAT hard.